The knights are to wear a silver star with
nine points, and a straw-coloured riband from the right shoulder
to the left. A figure of Minerva is to be embroidered in the
centre of the star, with this motto, 'Omnia posthabita
Scientiae.' Many men eminent in literature, in the fine arts, and
in physic, and law, are already thought of to fill the Order,
which, it is said, will be instituted before the meeting of
parliament."--_Perth Magazine_, July, 1772.
SCOTUS.
Flaws of Wind
The parish church of Dun-Nechtan, now Dunnichen, was dedicated to St.
Causlan, whose festival was held in March. Snow showers in March are
locally called "St. Causlan's flaws."
SCOTUS.
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QUERIES ANSWERED.
DORNE THE BOOKSELLER AND HENNO RUSTICUS.
Sir,--Circumstances imperatively oblige me to do that from which I
should willingly be excused--reply to the observations of J.I., inserted
in page 75. of the last Saturday's Number of the "NOTES AND QUERIES."
The subject of these are three questions proposed by me in your first
number to the following effect:--1. Whether any thing was known,
especially from the writings of Erasmus, of a bookseller and publisher
of the Low Countries named Dorne, who lived at the beginning of the
sixteenth century? Or, 2ndly, of a little work of early date callled
_Henno Rusticus_? Or, 3dly, of another, called _Of the Sige (Signe) of
the End_?
To these no answer has yet been given, although the promised researches
of a gentleman of this University, to whom literary inquirers in Oxford
have ever reason to be grateful, would seem to promise one soon, if it
can be made.
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