_Scandal against Queen Elizabeth_ (Vol. ii., p. 393.; Vol. iii., pp. 11. 151. 197. 225.).--Your correspondents seem to have overlooked the celebrated {308} letter of Queen Mary of Scotland, printed in the _State Trials_, and lately reprinted by Lord Campbell in his _Lives of the Chancellors_, tit. Sir C. Hatton. I may as well add (though I do not believe the fact) that my grandmother (herself a Devereux) repeated to me the tradition of a son of Queen Elizabeth's having been sent to Ireland. C. _The Tanthony_ (Vol. III., pp. 105. 229.).--I am obliged to A. for the trouble he has taken in reference to my Query; but perhaps I may be correct in my suggestion, for on looking into the second volume of the _Archæological Journal_ the other day, I accidentally found an account of the discovery of a figure of St. Anthony at Merthyr, near Truro, in which it is mentioned that "Under the left arm appears to have passed a staff, and the pig, with _a large bell_ attached to its neck, appears in front of the figure."--P. 202. I shall be much obliged to anybody who will settle the point satisfactorily. The fair held on old St. Andrew's Day is always called in Kimbolton and the neighbourhood "Tandrew" fair, so why not "Tanthony" for "Saint Anthony?" ARUN. _The Hippopotamus_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your correspondent MR. E. S. TAYLOR will find in Vol. ii, p. 458, an example of the word [Greek: hippopotamos] cited from Lucian, a writer anterior both to Horapollo and Damascius. In the same page is a reference to the story of the wickedness of the hippopotamus in Plutarch; so that Horapollo and Damascius, doubtless, borrowed from a common source, or repeated a current fable, to be found in many writings then extant. L. _Tu Autem_ (Vol. iii., p. 265).--The words "Tu autem, Domine, miserere nostri," "But Thou, O Lord! have mercy upon us," were originally a form of prayer used by the preacher at the end of his discourse, as a supplication for pardon for any sinful pride or vainglory, into which he might have been betrayed in addressing his congregation. Hence the words "tu autem," as Pegge properly says, came to denote a hint to the reader to leave off. The custom is still in constant use among the members of the cathedral church of Durham. At the public dinners given by the canons, in what is there called "hospitality residence," one of the choristers comes in after dinner, dressed in his official costume, and, taking his station behind the canon in residence, reads, in the manner which is now well known as _intoning_, eight verses of the 119th Psalm, first saying, "Here beginneth the ---- part of the 119th Psalm." When the eight verses are concluded, the canon turns round to the chorister, saying "tu autem," giving him a shilling; to which the chorister replies, "Domine miserere nostri," and retires. The explanation of the words, as originally employed, is given by Rupertus _De Divinis Officiis_, lib. i. c. xiv.: DE "TU AUTEM DOMINE."