_Amyclæ._--What special ordinance of taciturnity had the burghers of Amyclæ? MORTIMER COLLINS. _Cynthia's Dragon Yoke._-- "While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustom'd oak." Can any of your correspondents inform me to what classical writer, or to what source, Milton is indebted for Cynthia's "dragon yoke?" H. T. P. Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A. _London Genealogical Society._--Will you, or one of your correspondents, oblige a subscriber with information as to the above society? Is it in existence, and has it published any of its works, and how obtainable? W. P. A. _The Article "An."_--It is asserted that the article _an_ is prefixed before six words only that begin with the letter _h_. Is _hospital_ one of them? The others are, I believe, _heir_, _honest_, _honour_, _hotel_, _humble_. NIL NEMINI. Tunbridge Wells. "_Black Gowns and Red Coats._"--Can any of your readers give me any information about a poem called "Black Gowns and Red Coats?" It is a satire on Oxford, which was published in 1834, at the time of the Duke of Wellington's installation as Chancellor; but the satire was so severe, that it was at once suppressed. The author is said to be dead; I should like to know something of the circumstances of its publication, for I had once seen it, and it bore the marks of very great genius. If any one has a copy to dispose of, I would gladly buy it. S. F. C. Oxford. _Coleridge's "Friend."_--Who is the person alluded to in the following note in Coleridge's _Friend_, 1st edition, No. 8. Oct. 5, 1809, p. 124.? "He is gone, my friend, my munificent co-patron, and not less the benefactor of my intellect! he who, beyond all other men known to me, added a fine and ever-wakeful sense of Beauty to the most patient accuracy in Experimental Philosophy and the profounder researches of Metaphysical Science," &c. J. M. _Wycherley's Verses on Plowden and Lady Sunderland._--In Phillips and Herbert's _History of Shrewsbury_, pages from 263 to 266, vol. ii. 4to. 1837, giving an account of the ancient family of the Plowdens, and their claim to the barony of Dudley, allusion is made to a passage in Baker's _History of Northamptonshire_ respecting some comic verses of the poet Wycherley on Plowden, of Plowden Hall, and the Countess of Sunderland. I cannot find these verses in Wycherley's _Works_ in the British Museum. Can any of your readers inform me where they are to be found? Baker seems to allude to them as being well known in his time. ALBION. Minor Queries Answered.