_Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office_ (Vol. iii., pp. 186. 266.).--In a MS. on parchment, now {309} before me, are contained entries of the dates of the various letters patent and grants connected with the post-office, to the latter end of the reign of Charles I., and the names of the persons to whom the grants were made. The earliest date is the 37th of Henry VIII., and the last the 13th of Charles I. If an extract from the MS., which gives a similar index to the appointments in the Courts of Law, the Customs, the Forests, and a great variety of other offices, will assist your correspondent, I shall be happy to supply it. I may notice, what seems to have been overlooked by your two correspondents who have replied to the inquiry, that some account of Prideaux is given by Wood (Vid. _Fast._ vol. i. p. 424., edit. Bliss), from which it appears that he was M.A. of Cambridge, Member of the Inner Temple, Member of Parliament for Lyme in Dorsetshire, and Recorder of Exeter; and that his death took place on the 19th Aug., 1659 (misprinted 1569 in this edit.), and that-- "From his employments gaining a vast estate, he left at the time of his death an incredible mass of gold (as the credible report then went), besides lands of very great demesnes." JAS. CROSSLEY. _Small Words and "Low" Words_ (Vol. ii., pp. 305. 349. 377.).--Apropos to Pope's use of "low words," in the sense of _short_ words, conf. Boileau, satire iv. 97. 8. [Illustration] "Lui faisant voir ses vers et sans force et sans graces, Montés sur deux grands mots, comme sur deux échasses." On which one of his commentators makes the following note: "Boileau, pour se moquer des mots gigantesques, citoit ordinairement ce vers de Chapelain: 'De ce sourcilleux roc l'inébranlable cime.' Et il disposoit ce vers comme il est ici à côté. Dans cette disposition il semble que le mot 'roc' soit monté sur deux échasses.' I commend to [Phi].'s attention this instance of a "low" word supported on two "high" ones. K. I. P. B. T. _Lord Howard of Effingham_ (Vol. iii., pp. 185. 244.).--It has been supposed that the Earl of Nottingham was a Catholic, and having held office in the reign of Queen Mary, he probably was so at that time; but he certainly was a Protestant during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and in the beginning of James I. was at the head of a commission to discover and expel all Catholic priests. (Vide _Memorials of the Howard Family_.) R. R. M.