If there is not, there ought to be, some collection of the nomenclature and mythological history of the heavens, with a familiar treatise on astrology ancient and modern.  The Chaldeans, Egyptians, Grecians, Arabs, Celts, and Norsemen, must have had names and stories, whose relation (both in itself and to one another) would make a very pretty volume either of poetry or prose.  Perhaps some of your readers may be able to inform me of such a work, or where detached masses of the information I want could be found.

G.I.C.

Sword of William the Conqueror.—­Can any one inform me where is the sword of William the Conqueror?  It was kept in Battle Abbey till the dissolution, and then taken to Sir John Gage’s house at Firle, as it is said.

P.

Neville Family.—­Will any of your correspondents inform me what family of the Nevilles were connected by marriage with the Fleetwoods or Cromwells?

In a collateral note in my family pedigree, I find it stated, that Sarah Neville (who married Thomas Burkitt, in 1683) was cousin to General Charles Fleetwood, who married Bridget Cromwell, daughter of the Protector; and, on the cover of a book, I find written—­

    “My Cozen Fleetwood he gave me this book.—­Sarah Burkitt, 1684.”

I have also traditional testimony in possessing a valuable cabinet, known us “the Fleetwood;” and a portrait of the above Bridget Cromwell; both of which have been preserved in the family for more than a century and a half, and supposed to have passed into their possession by the marriage of Sarah Neville.

A.H.B.

Clapham, Jan 1. 1851.

Difformis, Signification of.—­Can any of your classical readers refer me to a competent source of information with regard to the signification of the word difformis, which is repeatedly to be met with in the writings of Linnaeus, and which I cannot find recorded in Ducange, Facciolati, or any of our ordinary Latin dictionaries?

TYRO.

Dublin.

Lynch Law.—­What is the origin of this American phrase?

J.C.R.

Prior’s Posthumous Works.—­Among the curiosities collected by the Duchess of Portland, was a volume containing some prose treatises in MS. of the poet Prior.  Forbes, in his Life of Beattie (Vol. ii. p. 160.), speaking of this interesting volume, says:—­

“Her Grace was so good as to let me read them, and I read them with great pleasure.  One of them, a dialogue between Locke and Montaigne, is all admirable piece of ridicule on the subject of Locke’s philosophy.”

Have these treatises since been printed?  And where now is Prior’s original
MS.?

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Suppressed Chantries.—­Does there exist (and if so, where is it to be found) a list of the 2374 chantries suppressed by 37 Henry VIII. and 1 Edward VI.?