God's Marks (Vol. vii., p. 134.).—In the register-book of St. Margaret's, Westminster, occurs this entry, under the year 1556:
"Junii vijo die. Item, Elizabeth Helhe, of the ague with Godd's marks."
Shakspeare adopts the saying,
"They have the plague ...
For the Lord's tokens on you do I see."
Love's Labour's Lost, Act V. Sc. 2.
quoted in Memorials of Westminster, ch. iv. p. 152. They were the first spots which showed that the infection had been caught.
M. W.
Segantiorum Portus (Vol. vii., p. 180.).—I know not what Prestoniensis means by Ptolemy's History of Britain, but there can be little doubt as to the whereabouts of what is called, in the Palatine MS., Segantiorum Portus, or Setantiorum Portus in Berthius's great edition of Ptolemy's Geography, ch. iii., tit. Albion, tab. 1.
It is curious that the place immediately preceding in Ptolemy's Catalogue that inquired about, affords, in the vast multitude enumerated in that work, the closest approach to identity between the ancient and modern names, viz. Μορικαμβη Ἐισχύσις,