But in Wright and Halliwell's _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_, {264} p. 287., from a
manuscript of the time of Henry VII., is given--

"Tu dixisti de corpore Christi, crede et habes
De palefrido sic tibi scribo, crede et habes."

M.


_Grant to the Earl of Sussex of Leave to be covered in the Royal
Presence._--In editing Heylyn's _History of the Reformation_, I had to
remark of the grant made by Queen Mary to the Earl of Sussex, that it
was the only one of Heylyn's documents which I had been unable to trace
elsewhere (ii. 90.). Allow me to state in your columns, that I have
since found it in Weever's _Funeral Monuments_ (pp. 635, 636).

J.C. ROBERTSON.

Bekesbourne.


_The first Woman formed from a Rib_ (Vol. ii., p. 213.).--As you have
given insertion to an extract of a sermon on the subject of the creation
of Eve, I trust you will allow me to refer your correspondent
BALLIOLENSIS to Matthew Henry's commentary on the second chapter of
Genesis, from which I extract the following beautiful explanation of the
reason why the _rib_ was selected as the material whereof the woman
should be created:--