"_Hebrun_, _heburn_, are also synonymes. "_Averie_, live-stock, as including horses, cattle, &c. "'Calculation of what money, &c. will sustain their Majesties' house and _averie_'--_Keith's Hist._ "'_Averia_, _averii_, 'equi, boves, jumenta, oves, ceteraque animalia quæ agriculturæ inserviunt.'"--Ducange. Skene traces this word to the low Latin, _averia_, "quhilk signifies ane beast." According to Spelman, the Northumbrians call a horse _aver_ or _afer_. See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson. EMDEE. _Mowbray Coheirs_ (No. 14. p. 213.).--Your correspondent "G." may obtain a clue to his researches on reference to the _private_ act of parliament of the 19th Henry VII., No. 7., intituled, "An Act for Confirmation of a Partition of Lands made between _William_ Marquis Barkley and Thomas Earl of Surrey."--Vide _Statutes at Large_. W.H. LAMMIN. _Spurious Letter of Sir R. Walpole_ (No. 19. p. 304.)--"P.C.S.S." (No. 20. p. 321.) and "LORD BRAYBROOKE" (No. 21. p. 336.) will find their opinion of the letter being spurious confirmed by the appendix to _Lord Hervey's Memoirs_, (vol. ii. p. 582.), and the editor's note, which proves the inaccuracy of the circumstances on which the inventor of the letter founded his fabrication. In addition to Lord Braybrooke's proofs that Sir Robert was not disabled by the stone, for some days previous to the 24th, from waiting on the king, let me add also, from Horace Walpole's authority, two conclusive facts; the first is, that it was not till _Sunday night_, the 31st _January_ (_a week after_ the date of the letter) that Sir Robert made up his mind to resign; and, secondly, that he had at least two personal interviews with the king on that subject. C. _Line quoted by De Quincey_.--"S.P.S." (No. 22. p. 351.) is informed that "With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars"... is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of "Cloudland" by Wordsworth, which occurs near the end of the second book of the Excursion. The opium-eater gives a long extract, as "S.P.S." probably remembers. A.G. Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850. _Quem Jupiter vult perdere priùs dementat_.--Malone, in a note in _Boswell's Johnson_ (p. 718., Croker's last edition), says, that a gentleman of Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition of Euripides (not named) as a translation of an iambic. "[Greek: On Theos Delei hapolesai, pr_ot' hapophrenoi.]" The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in Barnes; but where is the _Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to be found? It is much nearer to the Latin. C. _Bernicia_.--In answer to the inquiry of "GOMER" (No. 21. p. 335.), "P.C.S.S." begs leave to refer him to Camden's _Britannia_ (Philemon Holland's translation, Lond. fol. 1637), where he will find, at p. 797., the following passage:--