_Sir John Perrot_ (Vol. ii., p. 217.).--This Query surprises me. Sir John Perrot was not governor of Ireland _in the reign of Henry VIII._, and your correspondent E.N.W. is mistaken in his belief that Sir John was _beheaded_ in the reign of Elizabeth. He was convicted of treason 16th June, 1592, and died in the Tower in September following. In the _British Plutarch_, 3rd edit., 1791, vol. i. p. 121., is _The Life of Sir John Perrot_. The authorities given are Cox's _History of Ireland; Life of Sir John Perrot_, 8vo., 1728; _Biographia Britannica_; Salmon's _Chronological History_; to which I may add the following references:-- Howell's _State Trials_, i. 1315; Camden's _Annals_; Naunton's _Fragmenta Regalia_; Lloyd's _State Worthies_; Nash's _Worcestershire_; Strype's _Ecclesiastical Memorials_, iii. 297.; Strype's _Annals_, iii. 337, 398-404.; _Stradling Letters_, 48-50.; Nare's _Life of Lord Burghley_, iii. 407.; _Fourth Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records_, Appendix, ii. 281. Dean Swift, in his _Introduction to Polite Conversation_, says,-- "Sir John Perrot was the first man of quality whom I find upon the record to have sworn by _God's wounds_. He lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was supposed to be a natural son of Henry VIII., who might also have been his instructor." C.H. COOPER Cambridge, August 31. 1850. _Coins of Constantius II._--The coins of this prince are, from their titles being identical with those of his cousin, very difficult to be distinguished. _My_ only guide is the portrait. Gallus died at twenty-nine; and we may suppose that his coins would present a more youthful portrait than Constantius II. The face of Constantius is long and thin, and is distinguished by the royal diadem. The youthful head resembling Constantius the Great with the laurel crown, _Rev_. Two military figures standing, with spears and bucklers, between them two standards, _Ex._ S M N B., I have arranged in my cabinet, how far rightly I know not, as that of Gallus. E.S.T. "_She ne'er with treacherous Kiss_" (Vol. ii., p. 136.).--C.A.H. will find the lines,-- "She ne'er with trait'rous kiss," &c. in a poem named "Woman," 2nd ed. p. 34., by Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq., published in 1818, by Henry Colburn, Conduit street. E.D.B. _California_ (Vol. ii, p. 132.).--Your correspondent E.N.W. will find earlier anticipations of "the golden harvest now gathering in California," in vol. iii. of _Hakluyt's Voyages_, p. 440-442, where an account is given of Sir F. Drake's taking possession of Nova Albion. "There is no part of earth here to bee taken up, wherein there is not speciall likelihood of gold or silver." In Callendar's _Voyages_, vol. i. p. 303., and other collections containing Sir F. Drake's voyage to Magellanica, there is the same notice. The earth of the country seemed to promise very rich veins of gold and silver, there being hardly any digging without throwing up some of the ores of them. T.J.