The crest and arms of the Hardwicks may be found in Edmondson. They only quartered Pynchbeke. I am not aware of any motto. {284} Miss Costello, and other biographers of the Countess of Shrewsbury, have quite overlooked all the descendants of her sisters. Possibly, should these lines meet the eye of the Duke of Devonshire, who possesses the estates and papers of the Hardwicks, it may lead to more particulars concerning the family being made public. ERMINE. Torquay. _Quotations in Bishop Andrewes_ (Vol. ii., p. 245.).-- "Minutuli et patellares Dei." is from Plautus: "Di me omnes magni minutique et patellarii." _Cistell._ II. 1. 46. and "Sed quæ de septem totum circumspicit orbem Collibus, imperii Roma Deumque locus." is from Ovid (_Trist_. I. 5. 69.). J.E.B MAYOR. Marlborough College. _The Sun Feminine in English_ (Vol. ii., p. 21).--MR. COX may perhaps be pleased to learn _why_ the northern nations made the sun feminine. The ancient Germans and Saxons-- "When they discovered how the sun by his heat and influence excited venereal love in creatures subserviant to his dominion, they then varied his sex, and painted him like a woman, because in them that passion is most impotent, and yet impetuous; on her head they placed a myrtle crown or garland to denote her dominion, and that love should be alwaies verdant as the myrtle; in one hand she supported the world, and in the other three golden apples, to represent that the world and its wealth are both sustained by love. The three golden apples signified the threefold beauty of the sun, exemplified in the morning, meridian, and evening; on her breast was lodged a burning torch, to insinuate to us the violence of the flame of love which scorches humane hearts."--_Philipot's Brief and Historical Discourse of the Original and Growth of Heraldry_, pp. 12, 13. London, 1672. T.H. KERSLEY King William's College, Isle of Man. _Carpatio_ (Vol. ii., p. 247.).--Your Querist must be little versed in early Italian art, not to know that Vittore Carpaccio (such is the correct spelling) was one of the morning stars of the Venetian school; and his search must have been somewhat careless, as Carpaccio and his works are fully described in Kugler's _Handbook_, p. 149., and in Lanzi. Some exquisite figures of his, of which Mrs. Jameson has given a St. Stephen in her _Legendary Art_, exist in the Brera at Milan. He is a painter not sufficiently known in England, but one whom it may be hoped the Arundel Society will introduce by their engravings. I cannot assist J.G.N. in explaining the subject of his engraving. May _Cornubioe_ be by error for _Cordubioe_? CLERICUS.