_Parse_ (Vol. ii., p. 430.).--Your correspondent J.W.H. is far from correct in supposing that this word was not known in 1611, for he will find it used by Roger Ascham, in a passage quoted by Richardson in his _Dictionary_ sub voce. In Brinsley's curious _Ludus Literarius_, 1612, reprinted 1627, 4to., the word is frequently used. At page 69. he recommends the "continual practice of _parsing_." At p. 319., enumerating the contents of chap. vi., we have "The Questions of the Accidence, called the _Poasing_ of the English Parts;" and chap. ix. is "Of _Parsing_ and the kinds thereof, &c." At the end of a kind of introduction there is an "Advertisement by the Printer," intimating that the author's book, "The _Poasing_ of the Accidence," is likely to come forth. From all this, it seems as if the two words were used indifferently. F.R.A. _The Meaning of "Version"_ (Vol. ii., p. 466.).--T. appears to apply a peculiar meaning of his own to the word "version," which it would have been quite as well if he had explained in a glossarial note. He thinks A.E.B. was _mistaken_ in using that phrase in reference to Lord Bacon's translation into Latin of his own English original work, and he proceeds to compare (to what end does not very clearly appear) a sentence from Lord Bacon's English text, with the same sentence as re-translated back again from Lord Bacon's Latin by Wats. Finally, T. concludes with this very singular remark: "Wats' version is the more exact of the two!" Does T. mean to call Lord Bacon's English text a _version_ of his Latin, by anticipation of eighteen years? The only other authority for such meaning of the word would seem to be the facetious Dr. Prout, who accused Tom Moore of a similar _version_ of his celebrated papers. A.E.B. _First Paper-mill in England_ (Vol. ii., p. 473).--The birthplace of the "High Germaine Spilman" (_Spielmann_), celebrated by Churchyard, your English readers may not easily discover by his description as quoted by DR. RIMBAULT. "Lyndoam Bodenze" is _Lindau am Boden-see_, on the Lake of Constance (in German, _Bodensee_), once a free imperial city, called, from its site on three islets in the lake, "the Swabian Venice," now a pretty little town belonging to the kingdom of _Bavaria_. V. "_Torn by Horses_" (Vol. ii., p. 480.).--This cruel death was suffered by _Ravaillac_, who accomplished what Jean Chatel failed in doing.