Whence?

F.Q.

_"Pair of Twises."_--What was the article, carried by gentlemen, and called
by Boyle (R.B.), in his _Occasional Reflections_ (edit. 1669, p. 180.), "a
pair of _twises_," out of which he drew a little penknife?

P.H.F.

_Countermarks on Roman Coin._--Several coins in my cabinet of Tiberius,
Trajan, &c. bear the stamp NCAPR; others have an open hand, &c. I should be
glad to know the reason of this practice, and what they denote.

E.S.T.

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REPLIES.

GAUDENTIO DI LUCCA.

(Vol. ii., p. 247. 298.)

The _Memoirs of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca_ have very generally been ascribed
to Bishop Berkeley. In Moser's _Diary_, written at the close of the last
century (MS. penes me), the writer says,--

"I have been reading Berkeley's amusing account of _Sig. Gaudentio_.
What an excellent system of patriarchal government is there developed!"