The Willingham Boy.—Abredonensis will find full information on all the points he appears from your Notices to Correspondents (Vol. viii., p. 66.) to have inquired after in—
"Prodigium Willinghamense, or Authentic Memoirs of the Life of a Boy born at Willingham, near Cambridge, with some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius, and Knowledge, by Thos. Dawkes, Surgeon."
W. P.
Unlucky Days (Vol. vii., p. 232.).—The Latin verses contained in the old Spanish breviary, adverted to by W. Pinkerton, bear a close resemblance to those which are to be found in the Red Book of the Irish Exchequer. The latter form part of a calendar which is supposed to have been written either during the reign of John or Henry III. A similar calendar, with like verses, has been printed by the Archæological Society, Dublin. As the lines in the Red Book vary in some respects from those which have appeared in "N. & Q.," I have taken the liberty of inclosing a transcript of them.
"January. Prima dies mensis, et septima truncat ut ensis.
February. Quarta subit mortem, prosternit tertia fortem.
March. Primus mandantem, dirumpit quarta bibentem.
April. Denus et undenus, est mortis vulnere plenus.
May. Tertius occidit, et septimus hora relidit.
June. Denus pallescit, quindenus federa nescit.