_The Tradescants_ (Vol. iii., p. 469.).--It is to be hoped that the discovery by C. C. R. of Dr. Ducarel's note may yet lead to the obtaining further information concerning the elder Tradescant. It may go for something to prove beyond doubt that he was nearly connected with the county of Kent, which has not been proved yet. Parkinson says that "he sometimes belonged to ... Salisbury.... And then unto the Right Honorable the Lord Wotton at Canterbury in Kent." See Parkinson's _Paradisus Terrestris_, p. 152. (This must be the same with DR. RIMBAULT'S Lord Weston, p. 353., which should have been "Wotton.") We may therefore, in the words of Dr. Ducarel's note, "consult (with certainty of finding information concerning the Tradescants) the registers of ----apham, Kent." I should give the preference to any place near Canterbury approaching that name. It is worth noticing that the deed of gift of John Tradescant (2) to Elias Ashmole was dated in true astrological form, being "December 16, 1657, 5 hor. 30 minutes post merid." See Ashmole's _Diary_, p. 36. BLOWEN. _Monumental Inscription, English Version_ (Vol. iv., p. 88.).--I have a Note on this very epitaph, made several years since, from whence extracted I know not; but there is an English version attached, which may prove interesting to some readers, as it exactly imitates the style of the Latin: cur- f- w- d- dis- and p- "A -sed -iend -rought -eath ease -ain." bles- fr- b- br- and ag- E. S. TAYLOR. _Lady Petre's Monument_ (Vol. iv., p. 22.).--Will the following passage, from Murray's _Handbook to Southern Germany_, throw any light on the meaning of the initials at the foot of Lady Petre's monument, as alluded to in your Number of July 12, 1851? "At the extremity of the right-hand aisle of the cathedral of St. Stephen, is the marble monument of the Emperor Frederick III., ornamented with 240 figures and 40 coats of arms, carved by a sculptor of Strasburg, Nicholas Lerch. On a scroll twisted around the sceptre in the hand of the effigy, is seen Frederick's device or motto, the letters A. E. I. O. U., supposed to be the initials of the words Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan; or, in Latin, Austriæ Est Imperare Orbis Universi."--Murray's _Handbook to Southern Germany_, pp. 135, 136. C. M. G. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.