_Romagnasi's Works._--In a "Life of G.D. Romagnasi," in vol. xviii. _Law Mag._, p. 340., after enumerating several of his works, it is added, "All these are comprised in a single volume, Florentine edit. of 1835." I have in vain endeavoured to procure the work, and have recently received an answer from the first book establishment in Florence, to the effect that no such edition ever appeared either at Florence or elsewhere. This is strange after the explicit statement in the _Law Mag._, and I shall be obliged to receive through the medium of your useful pages any information regarding the work in question. F.R.H. _Christopher Barker's Device._--I have often been puzzled to understand the precise meaning of the inscription on Christopher Barker's device. Whether this arises from my own ignorance, or from any essential difficulty in it, I cannot tell; but I should be glad of an explanation. I copy from a folio edition of the Geneva Bible, "imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queene's Majesty, 1578." The device consists of a boar's head rising from a mural crown, with a scroll proceeding from its mouth, and embracing a lamb in the lowest fold. The inscription on this scroll is as follows:-- "Tigre . Reo. Animale . Del. Adam . Vecchio. Figliuolo . Merce. L'Evangelio . Fatto. N'Estat . Agnello." I venture my own solution:--The tiger, the wicked animal, of the old Adam, being made, thanks to the Gospel, a son, is hence become a lamb." I presume _N'Estat_ to be an abbreviation of "ne e stato." Any correction or illustration of this will oblige. C.W. BINGHAM. Bingham's Melcombe, Blandford. * * * * * REPLIES. LICENSING OF BOOKS. (Vol. ii., p.359.) On the 12th November, 5 & 6 Philip and Mary, 1558, a bill "That no man shall print any book or ballad, &c., unless he be authorized thereunto by the king and queen's majesties licence, under the Great Seal of Englande," was read for the first time in the House of Lords, where it was read again a second time on the 14th. On the 16th it was read for the third time, but it did not pass, and probably never reached the Commons; for Queen Mary died on the following day, and thereby the Parliament was dissolved. (_Lords' Journal_, i. 539, 540.) Queen Elizabeth, however did by her high prerogative what her sister had sought to effect by legislative sanction. In the first year of her reign, 1559, she issued injunctions concerning both the clergy and the laity: the 51st Injunction was in the following terms:--