their writings any record of the indignation sup-
posed to have been expressed by Jonson and
Dennis at the favour shown by majesty to their
less worthy rivals. P- C. S. S.
Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.
There is a passage in Longinus (ch. xxii.), familiar
perhaps to some of the readers of the " NOTES AND
QUERIES," which indicates that the fact of the
circulation of the blood was well established in the
days of Plato. The father of critics, to exemplify,
and illustrate the use and value of trope m
writing, has garbled from the Timaeus, a number
of sentences descriptive of the anatomy of the
human body, where the circulation of the blood is
pointed at in terms singularly graphic. The exact
extent of professional knowledge arrived at in the
time of the great philosopher is by no means
clearly defined : he speaks of the fact, however,
not with a view to prove what was contested or
chimerical, but avails himself of it to figure out
the surpassing wisdom of the gods in constructing
the human frame. Perhaps some of the readers of
the " NOTES," who are more thoroughly conversant
with the subject, may think it worth while to
inquire how much was known on that subject
before Harvey wrote his Exercitationes Anatomica.
The Procemium of that author seems hardly suffi-
cient to satisfy the desire of every reader, who has
looked with some care to the passage in Longinus
to which I have taken the liberty of calling public
attention. A. W.
Brighton.
The Meaning of " Pallace" A lease granted
by the corporation of Totness in Devon, in the
year 1703, demises premises by this description :
" All that cellar and the chambers over the same,
and the little pallace and landing-place adjoining
to the river Dart." Can your readers give an
explanation of the term " pallace ? " J. R. ROGERS.
Did Oliver Cromwell write " The New Star of
the North f" Perhaps some of your numerous
correspondents, who have perused a curious letter
of Count de Tessins, in Clements' BiUiotheque
Curieuse, tome ix. p. 331., can inform me what
credit, or if any, is due to the Count's conjecture,
that Oliver Cromwell was the author of the book
entitled The New Star of the North, shining upon
the victorious King of Sweden, &c. 4to. London,
1632. J. M
Oxford.
Meaning of Savegard and Russells. In the
will of Elizabeth Coddington, lady of the manor
of Ixworth, 1571, mention is made of "the rec
russells quilt," of " a felde bed," and of " my cloke
and saoegard offreseadon" 1 shall be obliged by
any description of the garment known as the save-
gurd, and of the russells quilt. BURIENSIS
Pandoxare. Having met with an old volume
containing the entire household expenses, as well
as in some degree a diary, kept by a country gen-
tleman during the reigns of James II., William
and Mary, and Anne, I observed that he has made
use of a species of hieroglyphics, to facilitate his
reference to his book, as it contained all the entries
of all kinds, in chronological order. For instance,
where mention is made of money spent on behalf
of one person in his house, he puts at the side of
the page a clay pipe, rudely drawn ; an entrjr of
the payment of wages to another servant has a jug
of ale ; another a quill pen ; another a couple of
brooms, as the housemaid ; a fiddle for the dancing
master for his daughter ; payment made to the
sexton or parish-clerk has a representation of the
village church by its side, and the window-tax a
small lattice-window ; and on the days that they
brewed, a small barrel is drawn by the side of the
date. And the chief object of my letter is with
respect to this last ; a barrel is often drawn, and
by its side the words, primb relinitus, and the date,
naturally meaning the day it was tapped; and
then shortly after comes another barrel, and to
it is written the word Pandox., or sometimes in
full Pandoxavimus ; in some places at the end of
the year there is a list to this effect :
" (1705.)
Memoranda.
29. Mar. Pandox 6 .
. Apr. relinit.
28. Apr. relinit.
. May. Pandox 6 .
17. May. relinit.
31. May. relinit.
. lun. Pandox 6 .
and at the top of the list the figure of a barrel.
should be glad if any of the readers of your
paper could tell me the meaning of the word Pan- doxare? Whatever it was, it took place about once a month. H. B. [Ducange explains Pandoxare " Cauponam exercere, agere ; cerevisiam venum exponere atque adeo confi- cere."] Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms. In old Izaak Walton's Life of George Herbert, I find the following passage : " He (i. e. Lord Bacon) thought him so worthy o f his friendship, that having translated many of the Prophet David's Psalms into English verse, he made George Herbert his patron, by a public dedication of them to him, as the best judge of divine poetry." Can any one of your numerous readers inform me if these " Metricals" are known ? if so, it will greatly oblige A CORNISHMAN. Festival of St. Michael and All Angels. Can any of your readers inform me why double second