"In some colophons of the prose romances the names of real persons are assigned as the writers; but the same romance is equally ascribed to different persons, and works are given as translations which in fact are originals. Amid this prevailing confusion, and these contradictory statements, we must agree with the editor of Warton, that we cannot with any confidence name the author of any of these prose romances. Ritson has aptly treated these pseudonymous translators as 'men of straw.' We may say of them all, as the antiquary Douce, in the agony of his baffled researches after one of their favourite authorities, a Will o' the Wisp named LOLLIUS, exclaimed, somewhat gravely,--'Of Lollius it will become every one to speak with diffidence.'" Perhaps this "scrap" of information may lead to something more extensive. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. _Henry Ryder, Bishop of Killaloe_ (No. 24. p. 383).--Henry Ryder, D.D., a native of Paris, and Bishop of Killaloe, after whose paternity "W.D.R." inquires, was advanced to that see by patent dated June 5. 1693 (not 1692), and consecrated on the Sunday following in the church of Dunboyne, in the co. Meath. See Archdeacon Cotton's _Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ_, vol. i. p. 404., who gives an account of his family. W.(I.) _Brown Study_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--Surely a corruption of brow-study, brow being derived from to old German, _braun_, in its compound form _ang-braun_, an eyebrow. (Vide Wachter, _Gloss. Germ._) HENNES _Seven Champions of Christendom._--Who was the author of _The Seven Champions of Christendom_? R.F. JOHNSON. [_The Seven Champions of Christendom_, which Ritson describes as "containing all the lies of Christendom in one lie," was written by the well-known Richard Johnson. Our correspondent will find many curious particulars of his various works in the Introduction which Mr. Chappell has prefixed to one of them, viz. _The Crown Garland of Golden Roses_, edited by him from the edition of 1612 for the Percy Society.] {419} "_Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis_."--"E.V." (p. 215.) is referred to Cicero _De Officiis_, lib. i. cap. 10., and Ovid, _Met_. lib. xv. 165. et seqq. "_Vox Præterea nihil_."--"C.W.G." (p. 247.) is also referred to Ovid, _Met_. lib. iii. 397., and Lactantius, lib. iii. Fab. v. These are the nearest approximations I know. A.W. _Vox Populi Vox Dei._--The words "Populi vox, vox Dei," stand as No. 97. among the "Aphorismi Politici ex Ph. Cominoeo," in a small volume in my possession, entitled,-- "Aphorismi Politici et Militares, etc. par Lambertum Danæum collecti. Lugduni Batavorum. CID IDC XXX IX."