Chapter C: Forbes

October 11.

_Miching Mallecho._--The Writer of the review of _Urquhart's Travels_ in the _Quart. Rev._ for March 1850, who is, in all probability, identical with the author of the _Handbook of Spain_, felicitously suggests that _Miching Mallecho_ is a mere misprint for the Spanish words _Mucho Malhecho_, _much mischief_: _Hamlet_, iii. 2. Imagining that I had seen this ingenious conjecture somewhere in print before, I referred to, and was disappointed when I found it not in Knight's _Shakspeare_ (library ed.). Recently, in looking over Dr. Maginn's admirable dissections of _Dr. Farmer's Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare_, I discovered what I was in search of, and beg to present it to the notice of your readers.

"That the text is corrupt, I am sure; and I think Dr. Farmer's
substitution of _mimicking malhecco_, a most unlucky attempt at
emendation. In the old copies it is _munching malicho_, in which we
find traces of the true reading, _mucho malhecho_, much mischief.

"'Marry, _mucho malhécho_--it means mischief.'"--_Fraser's Magazine_,
Dec. 1839, p. 654.

J. M. B.

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Queries.

THE INQUISITION--THE BOHEMIAN PERSECUTION.

My query as to the authorship of _The Adventures of Gaudentio di Lucca_ has drawn so satisfactory a reply from your correspondents (whom I beg to thank most heartily for the information they have communicated), that I am induced to ask you to aid me in ascertaining the authorships of the following works of which I have copies:--

"Histoire de l'Inquisition et son Origine. A Cologne, chez Pierre
Marteau, M.DC.XCIII." 1 vol. 12mo.

Is this the same work as that mentioned in Watt's _Bib. Brit._ as--

"The History of the Inquisition and its Origin, by James Marsollier,
1693." 12mo.?

I have often searched for a copy of this work in English, but have never found it. Was it ever translated into English?

"L'INQUISIZIONE PROCESSATA OPERA STORICA E CURIOSA, Divisa in due Tomi.
IN COLONIA APPRESSO PAULO DELLA TENAGLIA, M.DC.LXXXI."

I should like to know something of the authorship of these volumes, and of the circumstances under which they were published.

"The Slaughter-House, or a brief description of the Spanish
Inquisition, &c., gathered together by the pains and study of James
Salgado." N.D.

The biographical dictionaries within my reach give no account of Salgado. Who was he?

"Historia Persecutionium Ecclesiæ Bohemicæ jam inde à primordiis
Conversionis suæ ad Christianismum hoc est, 894, ad annum usque 1632,
Ferdinando Secundo Austriaco regnante, &c., anno Domini M D CXLVIII." 1
vol. 32mo.

I have an English translation of this small work, published in 1650. Can any of your readers inform me who were the authors? (The preface concludes, "In our banishment in the year 1632. N. N. N., &c.")

IOTA.

Liverpool, October, 1850.

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Minor Queries.

_Osnaburg Bishopric._--Can any of your correspondents inform me who succeeded the late Duke of York as Bishop of Osnaburg? how the Duke of York attained it? and whether there were any ecclesiastical duties attached to it? or whether the appointment was a lay one?

B. M.

_Meaning of "Farlief"._--May I ask for a definition of the word "farlief", used in Devonshire to designate some service or payment to the lord of the manor by his copyholders, apparently analogous to the old feudal "relief"?