Can any of your correspondents inform me to what tax the above lists applied, and what were the acts of parliament under which this tax (or pole-money) was payable. T.N.I. Wakefield. _Welsh Money._--I have never seen in any work on coins the slightest allusion to the money of the native princes of Wales before the subjugation of their country by Edward I. Is any such in existence? and, if not, how is its disappearance to be accounted for? I read that Athelstan imposed on the Welsh an annual tribute _in money_, which was paid for many years. Query, In what sort of coin? J.C. Witton. _A skeleton in every House._--Can you or any of your correspondents explain the origin of that most significant saying "There is a skeleton in every house?" Does it originate in some ghastly legend? Mors. [Our correspondent is right in his conjecture. The saying is derived from an Italian story, which is translated in the _Italian Tales of Humour, Gallantry, and Romance_, published some few years ago, with illustrations by Cruikshank.] _Whetstone of Reproof._--Can any of your readers inform me who was the author of the book with the following title? "The Whetstone of Reproofe, or a Reproving Censvre of the misintitled Safe Way: declaring it by Discourie of the Authors fraudulent Proceeding, and captious Cauilling, to be a miere By-way, drawing pore Trauellers out of the royalle and common Streete, and leading them deceitfully into a Path of Perdition. With a Postscript of Advertisements, especially touching the Homilie and Epistles attributed to Alfric: and a compendious Retortiue Discussion of the misapplyed By-way. Avthor T.T. Sacristan and Catholike Romanist.--Catvapoli, apud viduam Marci Wyonis. Anno MDCXXXII." Sm. 8vo. pp. xvi. 570. 198. It is an answer to Sir Humphrey Lynd's _Via Tuta_ and _Via Devia_. In Wood's _Ath. Oxon._, edit. Bliss, fol. ii. col. 602, two answers to the _Via Tuta_ are mentioned; but this is not noticed. From the author stating in the preface, "I confesse, Sir Humfrey, I am Tom Teltruth, who cannot flatter or dissemble," I suppose the initials T.T. to be fictitious. John I. Dredge. _Morganatic Marriages.--Morganatique._--What is the derivation of this word, and what its _actual signification_? In the _Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française_ (ed. 4to., 1835), the word does not appear. In Boister's _Dictionnaire Universel_ (Bruxelles, 1835) it is thus given:-- "Morganatique, _adj. 2 g._, nocturne, mystérieux, entrainée par séduction; (mariage) mariage secret des princes d'Allemagne avec une personne d'un rang inférieur." And the same definition is given by Landais (Paris, 4to., 1842), but this does not give the derivation or literal signification of the word "_morganatic_." It is not in Johnson's _Dictionary_; but in Smart's _Dictionary Epitomized_ (Longman and Co., 1840) it is thus given:--