As the regulation on that head speaks of "children under twelve years of age," this conscientious Brazilian's demand could not be countenanced.
His wife's age was under eleven years and a half, and (credat Judæus) she was a mother!
A. L.
Queries.
FURTHER QUERIES RESPECTING BISHOP KEN.
(Continued from Vol. vii., p. 380.)
In a Collection of Poems, in six volumes, by several Hands (Dodsley, 5th edition, 1758), and in vol. iii. p. 75., is found "An Epistle from Florence to T. A., Esq., Tutor to the Earl of P——. Written in the year 1740. By the Honourable ——." Can any one explain an allusion contained in these three lines of the epistle?
"Or with wise Ken judiciously define,
When Pius marks the honorary coin