II. The separation between the two lines of Parr and Kendal.--Sir Thomas Parr, father of Queen Katherine, died 1518, and his _Inq. p. m._ states him to have held manors, messuages, lands, woods, and rents, in Parr, Wigan, and Sutton. Ten years afterwards, 1528, Bryan Parr was found by _Inq. p. m._ to have held the manor, messauges, woods, lands, &c. of Parr. How was Bryan related to Sir Thomas? III. The descendant in the fourth degree of Bryan was Henry Parr, of Parr, who was, according to a MS. in the college, aged twenty in 1621. Had he any descendants? If no positive information can be afforded, yet a clue to where it might be sought for would oblige. GENEALOGICUS LANCASTRIENSIS. _Skort._-- "Or wily Cyppus that can wink and snort, While his wife dallies on Mæcenas' skort."--Hall, _Satires_, Book iv. Sat. 1. (Whittingham's edition, 1824.) Of course the general meaning of these two verses is obvious enough. But how is the latter to be read? Are we to read "dallies on," as one word, _i.e._ keeps dallying, and "skort" (as a mere abbreviation of the Latin "scortum") as nominative in apposition with "wife?" If so, the verse is intelligible, though harsh enough even for Hall. If not, the word "skort" must have some other meaning which I am unacquainted with. I cannot find it at all in Halliwell, the only authority I have at hand to refer to. K. I. P. B. T. {303} _Religious Teaching in the German Universities._--Will any of your numerous readers direct me to any book or books containing information on the _present state_ of religion and religious teaching in the German Universities? ROVERT. _Epigram by Dunbar--Endymion Porter._--Can any of your correspondents supply the deficient verses in the following epigram, addressed by Thomas Dunbar, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum from 1815 to 1822, to Miss Charlotte Ness, who required him to explain what was meant by the terms _abstract_ and _concrete?_ "Say what is _abstract_, what _concrete_, Their difference define? They both in one fair person meet, And that fair form is thine. * * * * * * * * For when I lovely Charlotte view, I then view loveli_ness_." Can any one substantiate the local tradition the Endymion Porter was born at the manor-house of Aston Subedge, in Gloucestershire; or furnish any particulars of his life before he became gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince Charles? BALLIOLENSIS. _Sathaniel._--Can any of your correspondents inform me in what book, play, poem, or novel, a character named Sathaniel appears? There is a rather common picture bearing that title; it represents a dark young lady, in Eastern dishabille, with a turban on her head, reclining on a many-cushioned divan, and holding up a jewel in one hand. I have seen the picture so often, that my curiosity as to the origin of the subject has been completely aroused; and I have never yet found any one able to satisfy it. F. T. C.