In witnesse whereof we, the said hinges and hereauldes of arms, have caused these letters to be made patentes, and set herevnto our common seale of corporation, given at the office of arms in London, the twelvethe of December, and in the tenthe yeare of the reigne of our sovereign {429} ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c. H.T. ELLACOMBE. Clyst St George, Nov. 4. 1850. _Cradock_--I should like to know whether the MSS. of Randle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still accessible? Nichols refers to them as his authority for Cradock's pedigree, as laid down in his _Leicestershire_ (vol. iv. part ii. p. 807.). H.T.E. * * * * * REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. REPLIES BY GEORGE STEPHENS. I beg to encloze ethe following scraps, purposely written on slips, ethat ethe one may be destroyed and not ethe oether if you should žink fit so to do, and for eaze ov printing. Pleaze to respect my oržography--a _beginning_ to a better system--if you can and will. Ethe types required will only be ethe Eth, eth, and Ž, ž, ov our noble Anglo-Saxon moether-tongue, letterz in common use almost down to ethe time ov _Shakspeare_! If you _will_ not be charmed, ov course you are at liberty to change it. I have a large work in ethe press (translationz from ethe A.-Saxon) printed entirely in ethis oržography. GEORGE STEPHENS. Stockholm. [Even our respect for Mr. Stephens' well-known scholarship, fails to remove our prejudices in favour of the ordinary system of orthography.] _On a Passage in "The Tempest"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).--Will you allow me to suggest that the reading of the original edition is perfectly correct as it stands, as will be seen by simply italicising the emphatic words:-- "_Most_ busie _least_, when I doe it." The construction is thus merely an instance of a common ellipsis (here of the word _busy_), and requires the comma after _least_. This is another proof of the advantage of being slow to abandon primitive texts. GEORGE STEPHENS. _Saint, Legend of a_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267.).--The circumstance alluded to is perhaps that in the legend of _St. Patrick_. It was included by Voragine in his life of that saint. See the "Golden Legend" in init. GEORGE STEPHENS. _Cupid and Psyche_ (Vol. ii., pp. 247.).--This is probably an old _Folk-tale_, originally perhaps an antique philosophical temple-allegory. Apuleius appears only to have dressed it up in a new shape. The tale is still current, but in a form _not_ derived from him, among the _Swedes_, _Norwegians_, _Danes_, _Scots_, _Germans_, _French_, _Wallachians_, _Italians_, and _Hindoos_. See _Svenska Folk-sagor och Afventyr, efter muntlig Ofverlemning samlade och utgifna of G.O.H. Cavallius och G. Stephens_, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844-9), p. 323. GEORGE STEPHENS.