[The REV. MACKENZIE WALCOTT has also kindly informed us that the original lines and the rejoinder are to be found in Brayley's _Londiniana_, vol. iv. pp. 216-7.] _Sewell, Meaning of_ (Vol. iii., pp. 391. 482.).--H. C. K. makes an error in supposing that "formido," as used by Virgil in the passage quoted, and "sewell," are convertible terms. If there is any word in that passage which could be considered coextensive in meaning with the word "sewell," it would undoubtedly be "penna." Nor is "sewell" a _modern_ term, as he supposes; in proof of which I add an extract from a letter written by Dr. Layton, one of the commissioners for the suppression of monasteries, to Thomas Cromwell, dated 1535, in which the word "sewel" occurs: "We have sett Dunce (Duns Scotus) in Bocardo, and have utterly banisshede hym Oxforde for ever, with all his blinde glosses, and is nowe made a comon servant to evere man, faste nailede up upon postes in all comon houses of easement: _id quod oculis meis vidi_. And the second tyme we came to New Colege, affter we hade declarede your injunctions, we fownde all the gret quadrant court full of the leiffes of Dunce, the wynde blowing them into evere corner. And there we fownde one Mr. Grenefelde, a gentilman of Buckinghamshire, getheryng up part of the said bowke leiffes (as he saide) therewith to make hym _sewelles_ or _blawnsherres_ to kepe the dere within the woode, thereby to have the better cry with his howndes." H. C. K. wishes to know the origin of the word "sewell." Can any of your readers explain the derivation of the term "blawnsherres?" Can it be connected with the French _blanche_, from white parchment, &c. having been used in making them? E. A. H. L. _Lambert Simnel_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--Though I cannot throw any light upon the question of T., _Was this his real name?_ I may mention, as a Worcestershire man, that it is a custom among the pastrycooks of Worcester to make, at the beginning of Lent, a rich sort of cake; consisting of a thick crust of saffron-bread filled with currants, citron, and all the usual ingredients of wedding-cake, which is called a "simnel." I cannot say how long this custom has existed, but I have every reason to believe it is one of great antiquity. From Johnson's explanation of the term, I conclude, that this practice of making "simnels" must in former times have been more general than it is at present. E. A. H. L. _Tennyson's "In Memoriam"_ (Vol. iii., pp. 142. 227. 458.).--I submit that the "crimson-circled star" may be named without calling on the poet to explain. The planet Venus, when she is to the east of the sun, is our _evening star_ (and as such used to be termed Hesperus by the ancients).