Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 | Page 7

sentence speaks of "suppling and suaging wounds," I am inclined to suspect that "paster" might be an old way of spelling, "plaster." Can any of your correspondents supply me with any instance in which "plaster" or "plaister" is spelt "paster" by any old English writer?
In return for troubling you with this question, you may inform Mr. Sansom, in answer to Query, Vol. ii., p. 41., that Hallam says, "Not less than fifty gentlemen were sold for slaves at Barbadoes, under Cromwell's government." (_Constit. Hist._, ch. x. note to p. 128., 4to. edit.) And though Walker exaggerated matters when he spoke "a project to sell some of the most eminent masters of colleges, &c., to the Turks for slaves," Whitelock's Memorials will inform him, under date of Sept. 21, 1648, that the English Parliament directed one of its committees "to take care for transporting the Scotch prisoners, in the first place to supply the plantations, and to send the rest to Venice."
To another, O.P.Q. (Vol. ii., p. 9.), you may state that the members for Calais in the time of Edw. VI., and in the first four parliaments of Mary, may be seen in Willis' _Notitia Parliamentaria_, where their names are placed next to the members for the Cinque Ports. Willis states that the return for Calais for the last parliament of Henry VIII is lost. Their names indicate that they were English,--such as Fowler, Massingberd, &c.
As to umbrellas, there are Oriental scholars who can inform your inquirers that the word "satrap" is traceable to words whose purport is, the bearer of an umbrella.
Another of your latest Querists may find the epigrams on George II.'s (not, as he imagines, Charles I.'s) different treatment of the two English universities in Knox's Elegent Extracts. The lines he has cited are both from the same epigram, and, I think, from the first of the two. They were occasioned by George. II's purchasing the library of Dr. Moore, Bishop of Ely, and giving it to the university of Cambridge.
The admirer of another epigram has not given it exactly as I can remember it in a little book of emblems more than fifty years ago:--
"'Tis an excellent world that we live in, To lend, to spend, or to give in; But to borrow or beg, or get a man's own, 'Tis just the worst world that ever was known."
H. WALTER.
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LETTERS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AND PHILIP II. OF SPAIN.
Perhaps some of your readers may be able to inform me whether any of the following letters between Queen Elizabeth and Philip II. of Spain, extracted from the archives of Simancas, have yet appeared in print:--
1. Queen Elizabeth to Philip II., January 9, 1562-3.
2. Answer, April 2, 1563.
3. Philip II.'s reply to the English ambassador in the case of Bishop Cuadra, April, 1563.
4. Charges made in England against the Bishop of Aquila, Philip's ambassador, and the answers.
5. Queen Elizabeth to Philip II., January 18, 1569.
6. Philip to Elizabeth, May 9, 1569.
7. Elizabeth to Philip, March 20, 1571.
8. Answer, June 4, 1571.
9. Declaration of the Council to the Spanish ambassador Don Gueran de Espes, Dec. 14, 1571.
10. The ambassador's answer.
11. Elizabeth to Philip, Dec. 16, 1571.
12. Bermandino de Mendoza to Philip II., in cypher, London, January 26, 1584.
13. Philip to Elizabeth, July, 16, 1568.
14. Duke of Alva to Philip II., January 14, 1572.
15. Minutes of a letter from Philip II. to Don Gueran de Espes, February 24, 1572.
A.M.
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MINOR QUERIES.
_The New Temple._--As your correspondent L.B.L. states (Vol. ii., p. 75.) that he has transcribed a MS. survey of the Hospitallers' lands in England, taken in 1338, he will do me a great kindness if he will extract so much of it as contains a description of the New Temple in London, of which they became possessed just before that date. It will probably state whether it was then in the occupation of themselves or others: and, even if it does not throw any light on the tradition that the lawyers were then established there, or explain the division into the Inner and Middle Temple, it will at least give some idea of the boundaries, and perhaps determine whether the site of Essex House, which, in an ancient record is called the Outer Temple, was then comprehended within them.
EDWARD FOSS.
"_Junius Identified._"--The name of "John Taylor" is affixed to the Preface, and there can be little doubt, I presume, that Mr. John Taylor was literally the writer of this work. It has, however, already become a question of some interest, to what extent he was assisted by Mr. Dubois. The late Mr. George Woodfall always spoke of the pamphlet as the work of Dubois. Lord Campbell, in his _Lives of the Chancellors_, published a statement by Lady Francis in respect to Sir Philip's claim