[Footnote 4: I have sought in vain among the records of the Order at this island to find any mention made of those English knights, whom Sutherland thus mentions as having fled to Malta at the time of this persecution in their native land.]
_Anticipatory Worship of the Cross_ (Vol. vii., p. 548.).--A correspondent wishes for farther information on the anticipatory worship of the cross in Mexico and at Alexandria. At the present moment I am unable to refer to the works on which I grounded the statement which he quotes. He will, however, find the details respecting Mexico in Stephens's _Travels in Yucatan_; and those respecting Alexandria in the commentators on Sozomen (_H. E._, vii. 15.), and Socrates (_H. E._, v. 16.). A similar instance is the worship of the _Cross Fylfotte_ in Thibet.
THE WRITER OF "COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE UNSEEN WORLD."
"Cleland (voc. 165.) has, with his usual sagacity, and with a great deal of trouble, as he himself acknowledges, traced out the true meaning and derivation of this word: for after he had long despaired of discovering the origin of it, mere chance, he says, offered to him what he took to be the genuine one: 'In an old French book I met,' says he, 'with a passage where the author, speaking of a company that had sat up late, makes use of this expression, "l'ennuit les avoit gagnés," by the context of which it was plain he meant, that the common influence of _the night_, in bringing on _heaviness_ and _yawning_, had come upon them. The proper sense is totally antiquated, but the figurative remains in full currency to this day."--Lemon's _Etymological Dictionary_.
The true synonym of _ennui_ seem to be _tædium_, which appears to have the same relation to _tædo_, a torch, as _ennui_ to _nuit_.
_"Qui facit per alium, facit per se," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 488.).--This maxim is found in the following form in the _Regulæ Juris_, subjoined to the 6th Book of the Decretals, Reg. lxxii.: "Qui facit per alium, est perinde ac si faciat per seipsum."
_Vincent Family_ (Vol. vii., pp. 501. 586.).--The _Memoir of Augustine Vincent_, referred to by MR. MARTIN, was written by the late Sir N. Harris Nicolas, and published by Pickering in 1827, crown 8vo. Shortly after its publication, a few pages of _Addenda_ were printed in consequence of some information communicated by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, respecting the descendants of Augustine Vincent. At that time Francis Offley Edmunds, Esq., of Westborough, was his representative.