—Can any of your readers inform me why "custard" was held in such abomination by the Puritans?—See Ken's Life, by W. L. Bowles, vol. i. p. 143.
W. N.
"Corruptio Optimi," &c.
—To what source is the well-known saying, "Corruptio optimi fit pessima," to be traced?
Hs.
Miss Fanshawe's Enigma.
—The enigma of Miss Catherine Fanshawe on the letter "H" is so good, as to make me wish much to see the other by the same lady, to which E. H. Y. refers in your Number of Vol. v., p. 258. If E. H. Y. could procure a copy, and send it to you for publication, he would probably oblige many besides
E. S. S. W.
Winton.