"Transacta denique duarum _Herarum_ intercapedine, mirabilibusque incrementis augmentata profusus Ricardo Infante, coepit Dux Willelmus de Regni commodo salubriter tractare." It is also remarkable that we find it in use only in those places under the domination of the Goths, as in the southern provinces of France,--the Council of Arles, for instance.--_V. Mansi Collect. Concil._, t. xiv. col. 57. The earliest inscription in which it has been found was at Lebrija, in the kingdom of Seville, and the date corresponds with that of the year 465 from the birth of Christ. It runs thus: ALEXANDRA . CLARISSIMA . FEMINA VIXIT . ANNOS . PLVS . MINVS . XXV RECESSIT . IN . PACE. X . KAL . IANVAR ERA . DIII . PROBVS . FILIVS . VIXIT ANNOS . DVOS . MENSEM . VNVM. It is possible there may be some error even here, for no other inscription yet recorded is so early by eighty years. Had it been in use at an earlier period, the Spaniard, Paulus Orosius, whose _History_ ends with A.D. 417, would doubtless have used it; whereas we find that he makes use of the _Anno Mundi_, of the Olympiads, and of the _A.U.C._ of the Romans. All circumstances, therefore, considered, we may safely conclude that in the Spanish _Era_ we have nothing more than the adoption of the _jera_ of Ulfilas, by whom it is used for ἔτος and χρόνος. The Gothic word being written with the consonant _j_ {j} will account for the form in which, to mark the aspiration, _Era_ is often found with the initial _H_. Whoever may desire to trace the etymology further will do well to consult Dieffenbach's very valuable _Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Gothischen Sprache_. S. W. SINGER. LADY ARABELLA STUART. (Vol. i., pp. 10. 274.) It may be interesting to some of the readers of "N. & Q." to peruse the following observations made by the Venetian ambassador resident in England in 1606, respecting that "child of woe" the Lady Arabella Stuart, whose romantic history forms one of the most pleasing of D'Israeli's _Curiosities of Literature_. The extract I send you is taken from a little French work, which professes to be a translation from the manuscript "Italian Relation of England" by Marc-Antonio Correr, the Venetian ambassador, and was printed at Montbéliard in 1668. The Lady Arabella is here spoken of as _Madame Isabelle_.