Passage in Juvenal (Vol. vii., p. 165.).—The Delphin edition of Juvenal, in a note on Sat. x. v. 365., says: "Sunt qui legunt, Nullum numen abest." It would be very easy, in carelessly copying a MS., to substitute either word for the other. When Mr. J. S. Warden has ascertained which is the true reading, he may fairly call the other an "alteration."
R. Y. Th—b.
Tennyson (Vol. vii., p. 84.).—The first Query of H. J. J. having been already answered (p. 189.), in reply to his second inquiry, I beg to inform him that he will find the custom referred to in the passage of the "Princess," of which he desires to know the meaning, fully explained in the Gentleman's Magazine for October 1848, p. 379.
W. L. N.
Capital Punishment (Vol. vii., p. 181.).—Your correspondent S. Y. may find the date of the last instance of capital punishment for exercising the Roman Catholic religion in Bishop Challoner's very interesting Memoirs of Missionary Priests: Keating, 1836. Every reader of Fox's Book of Martyrs should, in fairness, consult the above work. There is another earlier work, Théâtre des Cruautés des Hérectiques de nostre temps, Anvers, 1588; but it is unfortunately very scarce.
W. L. N.