C. R. M.
The Cross-bill.—Is "The Legend of the Cross-bill," translated from Julius Mosen by Longfellow, a genuine early tradition, or only a fiction of the poet?
2. Is the Cross-bill considered in any country as a sacred bird? and was it ever so used in architectural decoration, illumination, or any other works of sacred art?
3. What is the earliest record on evidence of the Cross-bill being known in England?
H. G. T.
Launceston.
Iovanni Volpe.—Can any of your readers supply a notice of Iovanni Volpe, mentioned in a MS. nearly cotemporary to have been
"An Italian doctor, famous in Queen Elizabeth's time, who went with George Earl of Cumberland most of his sea voyages, and was with him at the taking of Portorico?"
Another MS., apparently of the date of James I., describes him as "physician to Queen Elizabeth."
He had a daughter, Frances, widow of Richard Evers, Esq. ("of the family of Evers of Coventry"), who married, 2d November, 1601, Richard Hughes, Esq., then a younger son, but eventually representative, of the ancient house of Gwerclas and Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, in Merionethshire, and died 29th June, 1636.