Chapter C: Mansfield Ingleby

Birmingham.

_English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth, 1559_ (Vol. vii., p. 260.).--I have endeavoured to procure some information for A. S. A. on those points which MR. DREDGE left unnoticed, but find that, after his diligent search, very little indeed is to be gleaned. _Bishop Payne_ died in January, 1559/60 (Strype's _Annals_, anno 1559). Dod, in vol. i. p. 507. of his _Church History_, mentions a letter of _Bishop Goldwell's_, or, as he calls him, _Godwell's_, to Dr. Allen, dated anno 1581:

"This letter," he says, "seems to be written not long before Bishop
Godwell's death, for I meet with no farther mention of him. Here the
reader may take notice of a mistake in Dr. Heylin, who tells us he died
prisoner in Wisbich Castle, which is to be understood of Bishop
Watson."

Of _Bishop Pate_ he says:

"He was alive in 1562, but how long after I do not find."--Vol. i. p.
488.

_Bishop Pole_, according to the same authority, died a prisoner at large about the latter end of May, 1568. _Bishop Frampton_ died May 25, 1708 (Calamy's _Own Times_, vol. ii. p. 119.). I cannot ascertain the day of _Bishop White's_ death, but he was buried, according to Evelyn (vol. iii. p. 364.), June 5, 1698.

TYRO.

Dublin.

_Borrowed Thoughts_ (Vol. vii., p. 203.).--The thought which ERICA shows has been used by Butler and Macaulay is a grain from an often-pillaged granary; a tag of yarn from a piece of cloth used ever since its make for darning and patching; a drop of honey from a hive round which robber-bees and predatory wasps have never ceased to wander,--the _Anatomy of Melancholy_:

"Though there were giants of old in physic and philosophy, yet I say
with Didacus Stella[2], 'a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant
may see farther than a giant himself.' I may likely add, alter, and see
farther than my predecessors; and it is no greater prejudice for me to
indite after others, than for Ælianus Montaltus, that famous physician,
to write _De Morbis Capitis_, after Jason Pratensis," &c.

The pagination (that of Tegg's edition, 1849) will not guide those who with Elia sicken at the profanity of "unearthing the bones of that fantastic old great man," and know not a "sight more heartless" than the reprint of his _Opus_.

SIGMA.

Sunderland.

[Footnote 2: In _Luc._ 10. tom. ii.: "Pigmi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident."--_Preface_, p. 8.]

_Dr. South_ v. _Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c._ (Vol. vi., p. 575. Vol. vii., p. 311.).--One authority has been overlooked by MR. BREEN, which seems as likely as any to have given currency to the saying, viz. Dean Swift. In _Gulliver's Travels_ (1727), Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, the hero gives the king some information respecting British ministers of state, which I apprehend in Swift's day was no exaggeration. The minister, Gulliver says, "applies his words to all uses except to the indication of his mind." It must be confessed, however, that this authority is some seven years after Dr. South.