I am persuaded that this assertion is incorrect, and that the crucifix was used in much earlier times. Will some one kindly inform me where the first mention of it is to be found, and what is the date of the earliest examples now known? DRYASDUST. MASTER OF THE BUCKHOUNDS. In reading the _Topographer_ for January 1791 (a work which was published under the editorship of my uncle, Sir Egerton Brydges), I was surprised to find, in an account of the family of Brocas, of Beaurepaire, in the county of Hampshire, that the post of Master of the Buckhounds had been sold in the reign of James I. Mr. Gough (_Sepulchral Monuments_, pp. 160, 161.) appears to be the authority quoted who describes the monument of Sir Bernard Brocas, Kt., as existing at Westminster, and having on it an inscription in which is the following sentence: "Sir Bernard succeeded to the paternal inheritance both in England and France, and having married Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Roche, had a large estate with her, and the hereditary post of Master of the Buckhounds; which was confirmed to him by King Edward the Third, and held by the family, till sold in James the First's reign." I have no means of ascertaining at the present time whether this monument is still in existence or not; nor indeed has that much to do with the object of my writing, which is to suggest the following Queries, in the hope that some of your correspondents may be able to send satisfactory answers. 1. By whom was the post of Master of the Buckhounds first instituted, and who was the first Master? 2. Is there any list of persons holding this office; and if so, where may it be seen? 3. Is there any instance of an unmarried lady having held it: for in the case before us we see that a lady was able to convey it by inheritance to her husband? 4. By whom was it sold? Was it by the last hereditary possessor; and if so, what was his name? Or was it by the king, on the death of one of the possessors, for the purpose of enriching himself? 5. Is it known whether there is any other instance of its having been sold: and when did it come to be, as now, a ministerial office? JOHN BRANFILL HARRISON. Maidstone. Minor Queries. 300. "_No Cross no Crown._"--Where did Penn get the title of his well-known work? St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, in allusion to the custom of crowning crosses, has these lines:-- "Cerne coronatam Domini super _atria Christi_, Stare crucem, duro spondentem celsa labori Præmia: _tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam_." "See how the cross of Christ a crown entwines: High o'er God's temple it refulgent shines; Pledging bright guerdon for each passing pain: Take up the cross, if thou the crown would'st gain." Vide Dr. Rock's _Hierurgia_. Quarles says, in his _Esther_: "The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown." MARICONDA. 301. _Dido and Æneas._--