_"Nullis Fraus tuta latebris."_--Can any of your correspondents favour me with a reference to the above motto?
_Voltaire, where situated?_--The "_terre_," hamlet, or other _property_ of _Voltaire_, from which the French poet took the addition to his paternal name of Arouet,--where situated? That there is, or at least was, in Voltaire's time, such an estate, Condorcet's statement (_vide_ Voltaire) makes apparent. But the locality is not pointed out. Can any of your correspondents help me to it?
_Table of Prohibited Degrees, 1563._--By the 99th canon of the Church of England the "table of prohibited degrees" set forth by authority in 1563 is ordered to "be in every church publicly set up and fixed at the charge of the parish." Is this usually done now? and if not, why is it omitted to be done?
What is the authority for the insertion of the Canons, or the Articles, or the table of the { 330} prohibited degrees found in the Book of Common Prayer?
_Launcelot Lyttleton._--I shall be greatly obliged to any genealogist who can tell me who was that Launcelot Lyttleton, a Lichfield gentleman, whose eldest laughter, Mary, married the Hon. Francis Roper, and became the mother of the fourteenth Lord Teynham. Was this Launcelot a descendant of Sir Edward Lyttleton, temp. Eliz., who married a daughter of Sir William Devereux?
I could answer my own question by an inspection of the "Roper Roll;" but unfortunately that is in Ireland, and I may not soon discover the address of its possessor.
_The Antediluvians._--Can you or any of your learned correspondents inform me of any work likely to assist me in my researches into the antediluvian history of our race? The curious treatise of Reimmanus, and the erudite essay of J. Joachimus Maderus, I have now before me; but it occurs to me that, besides these and the more patent sources of information, such as Bruckerus and Josephus, there must be other, and perhaps more modern, works which may be more practically useful. Perhaps the author of the elegant essay on the subject in _Eruvin_ may be able to refer to such a a work.
_Wither's Haleluiah._--Mr. R. A. Willmott, in his _Lives of Sacred Poets_, has done himself credit by doing justice to George Wither, and vindicating his claims as poet, whom it has long been the fashion to underrate, but who Southey said "had the heart and soul of a poet in him."--(_Life_, iii. 126.)