_Birthplace of King Edward V._--Can you give me any information as to the exact birthplace of this monarch?
Hume (vol. ii. p. 430.) merely says that he was born while his mother was in sanctuary in London, and his father was a fugitive from the victorious Earl of Warwick.
Commynes (book iii. chap. 5.) also says that she took refuge "es franchises qui sont à Londres," and "y accoucha d'ung filz en grant povreté."
Chastellain, at p. 486. of his _Chronique_, says: "Elle alla à Saincte-Catherine, une abbeye, disoient aucuns: aucuns autres disoient à Vasemonstre (Westminster), lieu de franchise, qui oncques n'avoit esté corrompu."
I should be glad to have some more definite information on this point, if any of your readers can supply it.
_Name of Infants._--In Scotland there is a superstition that it is unlucky to tell the name of infants before they are christened. Can this be explained?
_Geometrical Curiosity._--Take half a sheet of note-paper; fold and crease it so that two opposite corners exactly meet; then fold and crease it so that the remaining two opposite corners exactly meet. Armed with a fine pair of scissors, proceed now to repeat both these folds alternately without cessation, taking care to cut off quite flush and clear all the overlappings on both sides after each fold. When these overlappings become too small to be cut off, _the paper is in the shape of a circle_, _i. e._ the ultimate intersection of an infinite series of tangents. Perhaps PROFESSOR DE MORGAN will give the _rationale_ of this procedure.
_Denison Family._--Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." inform me how the Denisons of Denbies, near Dorking, in Surrey, and the Denisons of Ossington, in Nottinghamshire, were related? Who was Mr. Robert Denison of Nottingham, who took a very active part in politics at the commencement of the French Revolution? His wife had a handsome legacy from a rich old lady, one Mrs. Williams, of whom I would much like to know something farther.
_"Came."_--In Pegge's _Anecdotes of the English Language_, p. 189., we read:
"The real preterit of the Saxon verb _coman_, is _com_. _Came_ is therefore a violent infringement, though it is impossible to detect the innovator, or any of his accomplices."