"_The Man in the Almanack._"--Will some kind correspondent favour me with an elucidation of the phrase "Man in the Almanack," which occurs in the following quotation from the epilogue to Nat. Lee's _Gloriana, or the Court of Augustus Cæsar_? "The ladies, too, neglecting every grace, Mob'd up in night cloaths, came with lace to face, The Towre upon the forehead all turn'd back, And stuck with pins like th' Man i' th' Almanack." Has this any reference to the practice of "pricking for fortunes?" HENRY CAMPKIN. _Arkwright._--What is the origin of this name? It might have been the family name of the patriarch Noah, but I suppose it hardly goes so far back. M. _Burial, Law respecting._--Is there in existence any law rendering burial in consecrated ground compulsory? Most people have a strong desire to receive such interment; but some few might prefer to have their mortal remains deposited in some loved spot, far away from other graves,--in a scene where many happy hours had been passed. It would be a very unusual thing; but supposing such a desire to exist, could its execution be prevented? It is recorded that Manasseh, King of Judah, "slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the gardens of Uzza."--2 Kings xxi. 18. SAMPSON ANRAMENII. _Mr. Borrow's Muggletonians._--If this gentleman correctly states (in his _Lavengro_) that a minister of the Antinomians, with whom he was formerly acquainted, was otherwise called a Muggletonian, the inconceivable fact of that wretched maniac of the seventeenth century (whose portrait indicates the most hopeless fatuity) still having believers, must be a fact. But I marvel how Antinomianism should arise out of the teaching of an Unitarian, as Muggleton was. Can Mr. B. have confounded Muggleton with Huntington? A. N. _Puritan Antipathy to Custard._--Can any of your readers inform me why "custard" was held in such abomination by the Puritans?--See _Ken's Life_, by W. L. Bowles, vol. i. p. 143. W. N. _"Corruptio Optimi," &c._--To what source is the well-known saying, "Corruptio optimi fit pessima," to be traced? Hs. _Miss Fanshawe's Enigma._--The enigma of Miss Catherine Fanshawe on the letter "H" is so good, as to make me wish much to see the other by the same lady, to which E. H. Y. refers in your Number of Vol. v., p. 258. If E. H. Y. could procure a copy, and send it to you for publication, he would probably oblige many besides E. S. S. W. Winton. _Mary Ambree._--Is there any good account (not scattered notices) of Mary Ambree? "That _Mary Ambree_ Who marched so free To the siege of Gaunt, And death could not daunt, As the ballad doth vaunt?" EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. Minor Queries Answered.