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at Boonds-hill in Holmsdayle, in Sussex."
Should we not read "Borde-hill?" That place belonged to the family of Borde for many generations. It is in Cuckfield parish. The house may be seen from the Ouse-Valley Viaduct.
J.F.M.
Order of Minerva
"We are informed that his Majesty is about to institute a new order of knighthood, called _The Order of Minerva_, for the encouragement of literature, the fine arts, and learned professions. The new order is to consist of twenty-four knights and the Sovereign; and is to be next in dignity to the military Order of the Bath. The knights are to wear a silver star with nine points, and a straw-coloured riband from the right shoulder to the left. A figure of Minerva is to be embroidered in the centre of the star, with this motto, 'Omnia posthabita Scientiæ.' Many men eminent in literature, in the fine arts, and in physic, and law, are already thought of to fill the Order, which, it is said, will be instituted before the meeting of parliament."--_Perth Magazine_, July, 1772.
SCOTUS.
Flaws of Wind
The parish church of Dun-Nechtan, now Dunnichen, was dedicated to St. Causlan, whose festival was held in March. Snow showers in March are locally called "St. Causlan's flaws."
SCOTUS.
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QUERIES ANSWERED.
DORNE THE BOOKSELLER AND HENNO RUSTICUS.
Sir,--Circumstances imperatively oblige me to do that from which I should willingly be excused--reply to the observations of J.I., inserted in page 75. of the last Saturday's Number of the "NOTES AND QUERIES."
The subject of these are three questions proposed by me in your first number to the following effect:--1. Whether any thing was known, especially from the writings of Erasmus, of a bookseller and publisher of the Low Countries named Dorne, who lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century? Or, 2ndly, of a little work of early date callled _Henno Rusticus_? Or, 3dly, of another, called _Of the Sige (Signe) of the End_?
To these no