As to his usage of the word _triple_, that it is "fairly traced to Shakspeare's own reading" might not unreasonably be disputed. We may, however, concede, if A. E. B. wishes, that it was derived from his own reading, _as no trace of its being borrowed is to be found_. But I am not sure that if other writers had taken pains to establish this use of the word in our tongue, its establishment would have been much of a "convenient acquisition." Had any man who has three sisters, closely conjoined in bonds of amity, the privilege of calling any one of them a _triple sister_, I do not consider that he or his language would be much benefited. Ovid, I fear, employed _triplex_ "improperly," as Warburton says that Shakspeare employed _triple_, when he spoke of the Fates spinning _triplici pollice_. I cannot find that any writer has imitated him. To call the Fates _triplices deæ_ (_Met._ viii. 481.), or _triplices sorores_ (_Met._ viii. 453.), was justifiable; but to term any one of them _triplex dea_, or to speak of her as spinning _triplici fuso_ or _triplici pollice_, was apparently to go beyond what the Latin language warranted. A. E. B. rightly observes that _triple_ must be explained as signifying "belonging to three conjoined;" but the use of it in such a sense is not to be supported either by custom or reason, whether in reference to the Latin language or to our own. MR. SINGER, in his observations on "captious," has a very unlucky remark, which A. E. B. unluckily repeats--"We, no doubt, all know," says MR. SINGER, "by intuition as it were, what Shakspeare meant." If we all know Shakspeare's meaning by intuition, how is it that the "true worshippers of Shakspeare" dispute about his meaning? J. S. W. Stockwell, June 27. 1851. Replies to Minor Queries. _Family of Etty, the Artist_ (Vol. iii., p. 496.).--"Mr. Etty, Sen., the architect," mentioned in the passage quoted by your correspondent from Thoresby's _Diary_, was John Etty, who died Jan. 28th, 1709, at the age of seventy-five. Drake calls him "an ingenious architect," and quotes these lines from his epitaph in the church of All Saints, North Street, in York (_Eboracum_, p. 277.):-- "His art was great, his industry no less, What one projected, t'other brought to pass."