Cross-legged Monumental Figures.—Are any instances of the cross-legged figures, so common in England, to be seen in the churches of France, Italy, or Spain? and if so, where may engravings of them be found?
J. Y.
Muffins and Crumpets.—Can any of your readers tell me the origin of the names "muffins and crumpets," and by whom and when introduced at the English breakfast-table?
Old Fogie.
Athenæum.
Minor Queries with Answers.
"Behemoth."—Does any one know a book called Behemoth, an Epitome of the Civil Wars from 1640 to 1660?
C. W. B.
[This was the last work written by the celebrated Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. "This history is in dialogue," remarks Bishop Warburton, "and full of paradoxes, like all Hobbes' other writings. More philosophical, political—or anything rather than historical; yet full of shrewd observations." The editions are, 1679, 8vo.; 1680, 12mo.; 1682, 8vo.]