"Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita," &c. R. M. W. _Sir George Downing_ (Vol. iii., p. 69.).--The following extract of a letter in Cartes' _Letters_, ii. 319., confirms the accuracy of the memorandum as to Sir G. Downing's parentage, sent you by J. P. C. The letter is from T. Howard to Charles II., written April 5, 1660, on the eve of the Restoration. Downing had offered to Howard to serve the King,-- "alleging to be engaged in a contrary party by his father, who was banished into New England, where he was brought up, and had sucked in principles that since his reason had made him see were erroneous." CH. _Miching malicho_ (Vol. iii., p. 3.).--Your correspondent MR. COLLIER is probably not aware that his suggestion respecting the meaning of _Malicho_ had been anticipated upwards of twenty years since. In the unpretending edition of Shakspeare by another of your correspondents, MR. SINGER, printed in 1825, I find the following note:-- "_Miching malicho_ is lurking mischief, or evil doing. _To mich_, for to skulk, to lurk, was an old English verb in common use in Shakspeare's time; and _Malicho_, or _Malhecho_, misdeed, he has borrowed from the Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian were then affectedly used in common conversation, as we have seen French used in more recent times. The Quarto spell the word _Mallicho_. Our ancestors were not particular in orthography, and often spelt according to the ear." I have since looked at MR. COLLIER'S note to which he refers, and find that he interprets _miching_ by _stealing_, which will not suit the context; and abundant examples may be adduced that to _mich_ was to _skulk_, to _lurk_, as MR. SINGER has very properly explained it. Thus Minsheu:-- "To MICHE, or secretly hide himself out of the way, as TRUANTS doe from Schoole, vi. _to hide_, to cover." and again-- "A _micher_, vi. _Truant_." MR. COLLIER'S text, too, is not satisfactory, for he has abandoned the old word _Malicho_, and given _Mallecho_, which is as far from the true form of the Spanish word as the old reading, which he should either have preserved or printed _Malhecho_, as Minsheu gives it. I am glad to see from your pages that MR. SINGER has not entirely abandoned Shakspearian illustration, for in my difficulties I have rarely consulted his edition in vain; and, in my humble opinion, it is as yet the most practically useful and readable edition we have. FIAT JUSTITIA. _Cor Linguae, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The lines quoted by J. Bs. occur in the poem "De Palpone et Assentatore," printed in the volume of _Latin Poems_, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, edited by Mr. T. Wright for the Camden Society, 1841, at p. 112., with a slight variation in expression, as follows:--