"Neapoli, 1537." It is not, I believe, the work which suggested to Milton
his greater songs, though it is a pretty complete outline of the _Paradise
Lost_ and _Regained_/ What is known about the author, or any other works of
his?

J.W.H.

_The Word "after" in the Rubric--Canons of 1604._--

1. Can any of your correspondents who may have in their possession any old
Greek, or Latin, or other versions, of the Book of Common Prayer, kindly
inform me how the word _after_ is rendered in the rubrics of the General
Confession, the Lord's Prayer in the Post Communion, and the last prayer of
the Commination Service? Is it in the sense of _post_ or _secundum_?

2. Where can any account of the translation of the Canons of 1604 into
English be found? It is apprehended the question is one more difficult to
answer than might be supposed.

T.Y.

_Hard by._--Is not _hard by_ a corruption of the German _hierbei_? I know
no other similar instance of the word _hard_, that is to say, as signifying
_proximity_, without the conjoint idea of _pressure_ or _pursuit._

K.

_Thomas Rogers of Horninger._--Can any of the readers of your valuable
publication give me, or put me in the way of obtaining, any information
about one Thomas Rogers, who was in some way connected with the village of