The amusement was, I presume, in vogue during the 16th and 17th centuries; and the assignations made, and the intrugues carried on, within the walls of the amphitheatre would have supplied many an amusing, moralising penitent, male and female, to the shades below--the "fabulæ manes" with whom Quevedo held converse. As my copy of the _Visions_ is an anonymous translation, and evidently far from being a first-rate one, I shall not be surprised if I receive as an answer,--"_Mistaken as to your fact, read a better translation_:" but as in spite of its manifold, glaring defects, I have no reason to suspect that the text is _garbled_, I think I may venture to send the query. In "Vision 7." I find Nero accusing Seneca of having had the insolence to use the words, "I and my king." I have often heard of Henry VIII., Wolsey, and "Ego et rex meus;" but as I never heard Quevedo quoted as an illustration, I look upon this as one of the suspicious passages in my copy of his work. C. FORBES. Temple. * * * * * MINOR QUERIES. _Gilbert Browne_.--"G.C.B." is desirous of information respecting the family from which was descended Gilbert Browne of the Inner Temple, who died about a century ago, and was buried in North Mymms Church, Herts, where there is a monument to him (vide Clutterbuck's _History_); also as to the arms, crest, and motto, as borne by him, and whether he was in any way related to Michael Browne of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, who married Elizabeth Philippa, daughter of Lord Coningsby, as stated in Collins's _Peerage_. He also desires information as to any enrolment of arms previous to the Visitations, by which the bearings of families who had grants of land from the Conqueror may be ascertained; as, for instance, a family who began to decay about the end of the 14th century, having previously been of great rank and position. _The Badger_.--Can any body point out to me any allusion, earlier than that in Sir T. Browne's _Vulgar Errors_, to the popular idea that the legs of the badger were shorter on one side than on the other, whence Mr. Macaulay says, "I think that Titus Oates was as uneven as a badger?" W.R.F. _Ecclesiastical Year_.--_Note_ in an old parish register, A.D. 1706. "Annus Domini Secundum Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Supputationem incipit 25to Mensis Martij." _Query_ the _authority_ for this? the _reason_ seems easy to define. NATHAN. _Sir William Coventry_.--Pepys mentions in his _Diary_, that Sir William Conventry kept a journal of public events. Is anything known of this journal? It is not known of at Longleat, where are several papers of Sir William Conventry's. A MS. letter from Lord Weymouth to Sir Robert Southwell, giving an account of Sir W. Conventry's death, was sold at the sale of Lord de Clifford's papers in 1834. Can any of your readers inform me where this letter now is? C.