Chapter II: Part 2

A reference to Dr. Guggenbuehl's _Letter to Lord Ashley on Cretinism_, and to the reviews of the subject, of which I can name two in the _Athenaeum_, one in 1848, p. 1077., and another on June 21, 1851, will, I think, show that there are no "races of Cretins," though the disease--for it is nothing but a disease--will sometimes largely affect even families. One of the principal characteristics of the disease is a disgusting goitre, enlarging the neck to such a size, that a part of it becomes pendulous to the length of upwards of a foot, and can even be flung over the shoulder, and is, indeed, often carried there. It is very commonly accompanied by idiocy; and, in fact, the Cretin is one of the most distressing objects that can be seen. The disease is very common in some parts of Switzerland, especially, I believe, the Valais; some attribute it to the water: and probably climatic influences, in conjunction with the deleterious elements contained in the water, and the frequent intermarriage of the villagers, and deficient or unwholesome diet, are the chief sources to which it must be traced. It is curable; at the institution on the Abendberg the treatment is very successful. The disease never appears above a certain level, and disappears when, under favourable circumstances, the patient is raised to that level. Cases have been found in Lancashire, and at Chiselborough in Somersetshire, and at other places which present predisposing causes resembling those of Switzerland.

I do not think that AJAX'S suggestion "credentes" as the derivation of Cretin can be substantiated. Is it a term at all connected with diversity of religious opinion and consequent persecution? In the Alps, Cretinism is regarded with pity and kindness, as RUSTICUS truly remarks. The term _cagot_ is current in the French with the meaning of an impostor, a hypocrite; "celui qui a une devotion fausse ou mal-entendue," is the meaning in the _Dictionnaire de l'Academie_; also a bigot.

It is altogether a religious term. May I suggest that they are a relique of the old population of the mountain vallies imperfectly Christianised, therefore despised by the more enlightened population of the neighbourhood,--half-civilised, perhaps, and physically degraded by the same causes which have given the goitre and the idiocy of the Cretin to the inhabitants of the Valais. If so, they may be Iberian, or what is commonly called Celtiberian, a term which I think there is reason for abandoning. I shall be glad to hear more of these _Cagots_; about the Cretins a good deal is known, and with much certainty, but nothing, as far as I can learn, that tends to identify them historically with any religious sect.

I am able to add further information concerning the _Cagots_. They are a miserable race, mostly beggars, or employed only about the meanest and filthiest work, abounding in leprosy and other cutaneous diseases, and in the most loathsome vermin; houseless, half-clad, inhabiting stables, barns, or any casual place of shelter, generally mutilated and lame, outcasts from society, reputed to lead infamous lives, indulging in the most horrible practices, even of cannibalism, and worse offences than that. Their brand used to be an eggshell on their clothes, and the custom was to pierce their feet with an iron. Scaliger derived their name from "Canis Gottus," and their origin has been assigned to some one of the northern nations which penetrated into the south of France and north of Spain in the third and fourth centuries before our era.

On this may I be allowed to forward a Query or two? What is their language? What are their own traditions concerning their origin? I am confirmed in my opinion that they are no way analogous to the Cretins; the latter being diseased, and Cretins because they are diseased; the _Cagot_ being diseased and filthy, and despised because he is a _Cagot_, an individual of a degraded and outcast race of men.

THEOPHYLACT.

TEXTS BEFORE SERMONS.

(Vol. iv., p. 344.)

In the early church the sermon was delivered immediately after the reading of the Scriptures (_Const. Apost._ lib. viii. c. 5.), and sometimes preached without any text; at other times, upon more texts than one; but most commonly the text was taken out of some paragraph of the Psalms or Lessons, as they were read. Origen expressly calls Sermons, _explanations of the Lessons_ (Orig. _cont. Cels._, lib. iii.). The Fathers sometimes so ordered the matter, as to preach upon the Psalm, the Epistle, and the Gospel all together, when they happened to be on the same subject. Thus St. Augustine (_Serm._ x. t. x. p. 112.) preached upon the subject of praise and thanksgiving, out of the Epistle, the Psalm, and the Gospel together, because they each had something relating to his subject. (_Bingham_, book xiv. ch. iv. [Section] 17.) This may have given rise to the present plan of textual preaching. During the middle ages we frequently meet with the terms _postilla_, _postillae_, _postillare_, and the like (from _post illa verba Scripturae sacrae_), denoting sometimes merely expositions of Scripture, and sometimes popular discourses founded upon a passage just before read.

In England, about the year 957, Elfric, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, required the priest in each parish to explain the Gospel of the day, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer, on Sundays and holydays. (Canon XXIII. AElfrica, Wilkins, _Concil._ tom. i. p. 253.) The same person afterwards compiled Homilies in the Anglo-Saxon language, which for some time continued to be read in the English Church. (Cave, _Historia Literaria_, tom. ii.)

During the reign of King John, A.D. 1204, the custom of preaching from a text appears to have originated with Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, and adopted by some of the divines of the University of Oxford. The practice, however, met with some opposition by the sages and seniors of that seat of learning, as related by the author [Sir John Peshall] of _The History of the University of Oxford, from the Death of William the Conqueror to the Demise of Queen Elizabeth_, 4to. 1773, p. 7.:--

"The ancient practice of explaining considerable portions of
Scripture first showed itself openly in this University. This was
to name a thesis or text from the Scripture, and make divisions
upon it; which method is said to have been adopted by Stephen
Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, who therefore divided the
Scriptures into chapters. The people at their religious assemblies
much approved of this way, in preference to the raw discourses of
young and ignorant preachers. Yet others, rejecting new customs
and innovations, chose to follow their old way, which was that of
the Saints Austin, Jerome, Barnard, &c.; and Robert Grostest, D.D.
(whose word was a law with the university), was among the
opposers. This was _postillando_, i.e. by expounding the words of
Scripture as they stood in order, by inferences drawn from them.
They took no text, but began in this manner: 'I intend, by the
grace of God, in my following discourse, to treat of certain
matters; and in these matters I intend to draw certain and true
conclusions, for I intend now to speak of the fear of God. First,
concerning fear,' &c. And so far down as the fifteenth century
this kind of preaching continued: for so Vascanius, doctor and
chancellor of the university, relates of himself: 'Anno 1450, in
the octaves of St. John the Evangelist, on the Lord's Day, I
showed in my sermon, preached at Oxford, in St. Martin's Church at
Carfax, that Dr. Augustine preached four hundred sermons to the
clergy and people without any thesis, and without taking a text at
the beginning of his discourse. And so I (says he) preached the
day and year above mentioned, in Oxford, by taking no theme or
text; but I administered to the people profitable matters, without
repeating of any text, but only words pertinent to matters
proposed or declared.'"

The ancient practice of explaining considerable portions of Scripture to the people was revived by our reformers. Before them Colet had employed many years in publicly expounding all the Epistles of St. Paul. Archbishop Cranmer expounded Hebrews; as Bishops Hooper, Latimer, and Jewel, did Jonah, the Lord's Prayer, many of the Epistles, and all the Epistles and Gospels on Sundays and holydays.

"From the practice of Ambrose, Origen, Chrysostom, and Austin,
among the ancients, and of our reformers, and more modern divines,
we may safely affirm (says Mr. Shepherd in his _Elucidation of the
Morning and Evening Prayer_) that explaining and applying portions
of Scripture read in the Lessons, is a very beneficial mode of
preaching to ordinary congregations."

J. Y.

Hoxton.

THE REV. ---- GAY.

(Vol. iii., pp. 424. 508.)

Through the kindness of a friend, who takes an interest in the pedigree of the _Gay_ family, I am enabled to offer the following information to MR. TAGART.

In Paley's Life of Law, prefixed to the _Theory of Religion_, mention is made of Gay's dissertation; and the author is there stated to be of "Sidney College." Inquiry was accordingly made in that quarter, and the following answer was returned:--

"I find there have been four persons of the name of Gay educated
at Sidney College; three of them _certainly_--and in _all
probability_ the fourth--members of the same family. As I shall
have occasion to refer to them subsequently, I will give you their
several entries in the College Register:

"'1. _Johannes_, fil. Jacobi _Gay_, clerici, natus apud Meath in
com. Devon. lit. gram. instit. per quinquennium apud Torrington
sub M'ro Reynolds, deinde per biennium sub M'ro Rayner, apud
Tiverton in com. praedicto. Adm. est Pens. min. anno aet. 18'mo sub
tut. M'ro Nath. Popple, S.T.B., et M'ro Laur. Jackson, M.A., 7'mo
Nov. 1717.'

"'2. _Nicholas_, fil Jacobi _Gay_, clerici, natus apud Meath in
com. Devon. lit. gram. instit. per quinquennium apud Torrington
sub M'ro Reynolds, deinde per triennium sub M'ro Rayner apud
Tiverton, in com. praedicto. Adm. est Sizator 20'mo Oct. 1718, anno
aet. 17'mo, Tut. Laurentio Jackson, A.M.'

"'3. _Jacobus_, fil. natu max. Rev'di Joannis _Gay_, hujus
Coll'ii quondam Socii, postea Vicarii de Wilshamstead, natus apud
Wilshamstead, in com. Bedf. lit. gr. instructus apud Bampton in
com. Devon. sub M'ro Wood. Adm. est Sizator 24'to Aug. 1752, annum
agens 17'mo, Tut. J. Lawson et J. Cranwell.'

"'4. _Johannes_, fil. natu max. Nicolai _Gay_, de Newton St. Cyres
in com. Devon. Vicarii, ibidem natus, lit. vero gram. inst. apud
South-Molton per sexennium, et apud Ottery St. Mary per triennium
sub viro rev'do Joanne Colridge. Adm. est Sizator 15'to Junii
1762, annum agens 19'mo, Tut. Gul. Elliston, M'ro C'i et Joh.
Hey.'

"Gay (1.) was a scholar of Peter Blundell's foundation, and in
1724 succeeded to a fellowship on the same foundation. This
fellowship, of which there are two at this college, is tenable for
ten years; and all our fellows are compelled to proceed regularly
to the degree of B.D. (seven years after they have taken that of
M.A.). Mr. Gay was M.A. in 1725, and might have proceeded to B.D.
in 1732: but he never took any higher degree than M.A. He must
therefore have vacated his fellowship before 1732. I find no
mention of his name in our College Office-book later than 7th May,
1730. He was probably presented during that year to the vicarage
of Wilshamstead (which of course would render void his
fellowship), and subsequently entered upon another kind of
fellowship, one of the results of which was Gay (3.).

"Of Gay (2.) I find it recorded that he was appointed Chapel Clerk
in 1719; that he was B.A. 1722, and M.A. 1731. As far as dates are
concerned, it might be questioned which of the brothers (1. or 2.)
was the author of the 'Preliminary Dissertation.' In our
University Library I can find only two editions of Law's
translation of Archbishop King's work, viz. the 2nd edit., 1732,
which contains the 'Preliminary Dissertation,' but no mention of
its author; and the 4th edit., Camb. 1758, at the end of the
Preface to which are these words: 'The following Dissertation was
composed chiefly by the _late_ Rev. Mr. Gay.' The author of the
Dissertation must therefore have died in or before 1758. But in
the entry of Gay (4.) 1762 (who was without doubt nephew of 1.), I
do not find 'defuncti' attached to his father's name, which it has
always been usual to add, in the case of the father being
deceased.

"I am convinced in my own mind that the Mr. Gay of Sidney College,
mentioned by Paley in his life of Bishop Law, was Gay (1.). There
would be no difficulty, I should think, in ascertaining the time
of Mr. John Gay's decease. The present vicar of Wilshamstead could
no doubt readily inform you. If it should be found that Mr. John
Gay died before 1758, then there can be no question but that he is
Bishop Law's _late_ Mr. Gay.

"Fellow of Sidney College."

VERMIN, PAYMENTS FOR DESTRUCTION OF, AND ANCIENT NAMES.

(Vol. iv., p. 208.)

The 8 Eliz. c. 15. and 14 Eliz. c. 11. provide that in every parish the churchwardens with six other parishioners shall yearly on one of the holydays in Easter week, and at every other time when needful, tax and assess every land and tithe-owner within the parish to pay such sums of money as they shall think meet according to the quantity of such their lands or tithes, and on nonpayment thereof within fourteen days after demand to forfeit five shillings, which, together with the sum assessed shall be levied by distress on the goods and chattels of such land or tithe-owner; and as well the said sums as penalties shall be delivered to two honest and substantial persons of the parish eligible by the churchwardens, to be named "The distribution of the provisions for the destruction of noisome fowl and vermin." Such is the authority required by J. B. (Manchester), by which churchwardens in old times paid sums of money for the destruction of vermin in the several parishes of England. It will, however, be observed that their authority was not confined to "vermin," but extended to the "fowls of the air;" and the "old volumes of churchwardens' accounts," to which your correspondent has access, amply testify to the fact that those churchwardens were fully alive to their duty, powers, and authority, under the above-named statutes; inasmuch as two, at least, of the _ancient names_ belong to the _feathered tribe_; _glead_ being identical with _kite_, and _ringteal_ or _ringtail_ (_subbuteo_) with a species of _hawk_, in some districts more commonly called the _hobby_. _Greas' head_ I must leave to some other _head_ to determine, unless indeed is meant the _great-shrike_ or _butcher-bird_ belonging to the same order (_accipitres_) as the _kite_ and _ringtail_ or _hobby_. Notwithstanding J. B.'s diffidence, I am much inclined to adopt his surmise, that the worthy churchwarden really intended _badger_ when he wrote _baggar_.

FRANCISCUS.

It is hardly so impossible to identify the animals mentioned by your correspondent J. B. as he supposes. _Glead_ is the A.-S. _glida_ or _kite_, though, in our version of Deut. xiv. 13., both _glede_ and _kite_ are mentioned. _Ringteal_ or _ringtail_ is the female of the _Circus cyaneus_ or hen-harrier, another species of falcon. _Greas' head_ and _baggar_ refer to the same animal (the badger), for there is no wonder that a scribe who writes _greas' head_ for _gray's head_ should write also _baggar_ for _badger_. This latter animal has a variety of names by which he is known in one and the same district, e.g. _gray_ or _graye_, _bawson_ or _bowson_, _brock_ and _badger_, and in _our_ churchwardens' accounts these names occur indiscriminately. I hope some one will be able to point out the origin of paying for the destruction of these animals out of the parochial funds; I have frequently searched without success such authorities as I have access to. The earliest entry of the kind in the books of this parish (which date from 1520) is in 1583.

I subjoin a few extracts, which afford a curious instance of the respective prices put upon the heads of these animals at a time when such entries occur; as,

"1587 for ij dyverse p'achers for iij sermones iijs iiijd.

1583 It[=m] for iiij fox heads xvjd
1586 -- ij fox heads ijs
1589 -- catte heades iiijd
1590 -- xij bulspyncke (bulfinch) heades. vjd
" -- vj crowe heades jd
" -- an urchen (hedghog) heade ijd
1596 -- a grayes head vjd
1620 -- a bawson head xijd
1621 -- tow fox cub heads xijd
" -- vij hedghoge heads xiiijd
1626 -- a wylde catt head ijd
1736 -- an otter head xijd
1741 -- a fulmart's head iiijd
" -- a ffoomard's head iiijd
1744 -- 3 marts heads is"

These entries are very numerous in our books with every variety of spelling, though the prices remain very much the same. I have found no entries of the kind after 1744, but that may be owing to the accounts being not entered fully in every case after that period; but I cannot agree with J. B. in his assertion that these animals are now considered innocuous; witness the vulgar error with regard to the hedgehog's sucking the teats of cows, an error which no process of reasoning can induce the farmers about here to renounce; moreover, I know for a fact that not more than a dozen years ago the farmers near Wakefield used to give a halfpenny per head for every unlucky sparrow (fledged or unfledged) that was brought to them by any bird-nesting youngster.

J. EASTWOOD.

Ecclesfield, Sheffield.

THE CLAIMS OF LITERATURE.

(Vol. iv., p. 337.)

There is the more pressing need, in our day, of an _Order of Victoria_, or _of Civil Merit_--such as you justly and feelingly contend for and describe in the "NOTES AND QUERIES"--from the great and increasing numbers of our literary and scientific men, who are acutely sensible of the undeserved stigma and ban under which they lie, by being often excluded from the intellectual society so congenial to them, owing to their not possessing some recognised badge of honour and passport in life, equivalent to the degrees or distinctions so justly conferred upon those who have studied at our Universities, or are awarded to men who have won eminence in the Naval, Military, or Civil Service of the Crown. An honourable title, proceeding from the Sovereign herself, and bestowed alike on _both sexes_ (for who would think--certainly not our beloved Queen--of wounding the delicate female mind by excluding a Somerville, a Hannah More, a Joanna Baillie, or a Felicia Hemans--the three latter not needing now our poor applause--from the cheering honours due to their genius, their talents, and their virtues?) would be a fitting tribute from a British, a Christian Monarch to that intellectual superiority and moral worth which are the immortal distinctions of our race. At present many individuals who have raised themselves by their native force of mind and acquirements to a position of honour and respectability as literary and scientific men, are yet looked upon and treated as pariahs by those who are the bestowers and guardians of national distinctions. The just pride and self-respect of such men will forbid their courting, by any unworthy advances, an introduction to society, from which, by their position, they stand excluded; and it would be a truly royal exercise of her sovereign rights, for Queen Victoria to extend, beyond the present line of demarcation, the barriers that now prevent those from meeting together, who, if they were better acquainted, would learn to value and esteem each other: while society at large would be an immense gainer in all its relations--scientific, literary, and artistic--by the honours and distinctions thus conferred upon a most worthy, but most contemned and neglected portion of the educated community.

A CONTRIBUTOR TO "NOTES AND QUERIES."

Replies to Minor Queries.

_Arbor Lowe_--_Stanton Moor_--_Ayre Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--In Rhodes's _Peak Scenery_, p. 228, it is said:

"Near Middleton, by Youlgrave, we found the celebrated Druidical
monument of Arbor Low, one of the most striking remains of
antiquity in any part of Derbyshire. This circle includes an area
of from forty to fifty yards diameter, formed by a series of large
unhewn stones, not standing upright, but all laid on the ground,
with an inclination towards the centre; round these the remains of
a ditch, circumscribed by a high embankment, may be traced. Near
the south entrance into this circle there is a mound, or
burial-place, in which some fragments of an urn, some half-burnt
bones, and the horns of a stag, were found."

In the same work, at pages 236, 237., is an account of the Druidical remains at Stanton Moor. And at page 224. are the following remarks:--

"The Eyres is one of the oldest families in Derbyshire, where they
have continued to reside through the long lapse of more than seven
hundred years, as appears from the following curious extract from
an old pedigree which is preserved at Hassop. 'The first of the
Eyres came in with King William the Conqueror, and his name was
Truelove; but in the battle of Hastings (14 Oct. 1066) this
Truelove, seeing the king unhorsed, and his helmet beat so close
that he could not breathe, pulled off his helmet and horsed him
again. The king said, Thou shalt hereafter from Truelove be called
_Air_ or _Eyre_, because thou hast given me the air I breathe.
After the battle the king called for him, and being found with his
thigh cut off, he ordered him to be taken care of; and being
recovered, he gave him lands in the county of Derby, in reward for
his services, and the seat he lived at he called Hope, because he
had hope in the greatest extremity; and the king gave the leg and
thigh cut off in armour for his crest, and which is still the
crest of all the Eyres in England.'"

A descendant of this person is the present Earl of Newburgh, of Hassop Hall.

At page 240. is an account of the village of Birchover, and also of the Rowter Rocks, but no mention is made of the family of the Ayres, or of the ruins of any house formerly belonging to them.

JOHN ALGOR.

Sheffield.

_The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books_ (Vol. iv., p. 3.).--The paragraph quoted by SIR F. MADDEN out of _Prayers after the confession of sins, and the sense of pardon obtained_, and well called by him "striking," is a _verbatim_ copy of a passage in "A Guide for the Penitent," published at the end of Jeremy Taylor's _Golden Grove_.

The short preface, by a nameless hand, which precedes this division of the _Golden Grove_, would lead one to suppose that "A Guide for the Penitent" was a posthumous work of Jeremy Taylor; but this is not exactly stated. The prayers, however, have the same spirit and grandeur of piety which characterise those which are the acknowledged compositions of Bishop Taylor. Monmouth was beheaded eighteen years after Taylor died. It would be interesting to identify the author of "A Guide for the Penitent" (should there be any doubt on the subject): also, to ascertain how far Monmouth _quoted_, in his "prayers," from Taylor or any other divine.

MARGARET GATTY.

Ecclesfield.

_Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tov Taam._"--Your correspondent T. T., in reply to my Query respecting this work, says (Vol. iv., p. 328.) that it "was printed in Venice, 1538, in 4to." This is impossible: for the elder Buxtorf was born in 1564; and it would be singular if he had translated R. Elias' work, and printed it at Venice, twenty-six years before he was born.

T. T. seems not to have observed that my inquiry related to Buxtorf's _translation_, not to the original work of Elias Levita, which, although now rare, is sufficiently well known to Rabbinical scholars. I must therefore renew my inquiry (Vol. iv., p. 272.): has Buxtorf's _translation_ ever been printed, or does it now exist in MS.?

JAMES H. TODD.

Trin. Coll. Dub.

_Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"_ (Vol. iii., p. 493.).--Idomeneus awaiting the attack of AEneas could hardly be compared with Junius attacking every body in his way. Burke more probably borrowed his boar from even a greater poet than Homer. See Psalm lxxx. verses 8 to 13 (Common Prayer Version), and the context before and following, which contains perhaps the most picturesque and beautiful, as well as practical, allegory in the compass even of sacred literature. "The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up, and the wild beasts of the field devour it."

J.M.G.

Hallamshire.

"_Son of the Morning_" (Vol. iv., pp. 209. 330.).--I have always understood Byron's apostrophe "Son of the morning, rise! approach you here!" to be merely an appeal to one of the _Orientals_ who then ruled in that region. And this appears to me to be confirmed by the suggestion which follows that the creed of Mahomet shall pass away as that of Jove has done. The words "Come--but molest not yon defenceless urn," did not appear to me to have any reference to the iconoclastic propensities of the person addressed. But this notice of your correspondent is ingenious.

W.W.

Cambridge.

"_Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love_" (Vol. iv., p. 72.).--This quotation, the author of which was inquired for,--

"When first I attempted your pity to move," &c.

is from a comedy in three acts called the _Panel_, altered from Bickerstaff's comedy _'Tis well it's no worse_.

M.W.B.

Burges, Sept. 26. 1851.

_Anecdote of Curran_ (Vol. iv., p. 173.).--This anecdote, I beg to observe, is incorrectly represented; and surely presents to the reader no adequate provocation for the sharp retort on him attributed to the hostess, on his offering her a glass of wine. But the fact is, that the circumstance occurred, not at a small country inn, but in the city of Galway; nor solely in company with a brother advocate, as stated by M.W.B., but at the general bar-mess. The Connaught circuit was not Curran's, who had been called there _specially_, and who, having heard of the barmaid's ready wit, was determined to test it. Her name, I well recollect, was Honor Slaven; and her quick repartee to the not very delicate jokes constantly practised on her by the gentlemen (?) of the bar, had spread her fame beyond the province. Curran, however, was far superior to those whom she had foiled in these too often unseemly combats, and was expected to prove that superiority in this contest. Among the customary toasts of that time was a succession of three alliterative ones, of which the last was of flagrant indecency; and this Curran resolved should fall to Honor's turn to give in due rotation. Making her take a seat, with one interposed between them, he began with the first:--"Honor (directing himself to _her_) and Honesty," followed by "Love and Loyalty" from his next neighbour; when, ordering a bumper, he said, "Come Honor, you know the next toast; be not squeamish, and let us have it." "No, Sir," replied she, with an arch smile, "but I will pledge you in your own toast--'Honor and Honesty, or, _your absent friends_.'" These last words were uttered with special emphasis, and, in their provoked application, well sustained the barmaid's reported character; as, indeed, promptly acknowledged by Curran himself. I have more than once heard similar retorts from her when thus assailed.

J. R.

Cork.

_Sibi_ (Vol. iv., p. 327.).--The erroneous use of the reflective pronoun, of which MR. FORBES gives an example in a quotation from the _Legenda Aurea_, is common in monkish writings. I have an instance before me, in a charter of Cnut (Kemble's _Codex Dipl. Anglo-Sax._, vol. iv. p. 28.):

"Eius (_i.e._ Christi) quippe largiflua bonitate regia dignitate
subtronizatus, ego Knu[d] rex Angligenae nationis, pro nauciscendo
eius immensitatis misericordiae dono, concedo _sibi_ de suo proprio
quae mihi gratuito concessit, villam," &c.

C. W. G.

_Cassek Gwenwyn_ (Vol. iv., p. 269.).--I learn from the dictionaries of Walters and Owen, that _casec gwanwyn_, mare of spring, means a woodpecker. And the more curious part of the name is confirmed by Llwyd, who calls a woodpecker _casec drychin_, mare of storms. But here I read that _casec gwenwyn_, mare of poison, means a screech-owl. Of this I have not elsewhere found anything. Therefore I ask for more information; to save me from the heresy of thinking that that woman was turned into a woodpecker. In what country and language does _mara_ mean a screech-owl?

A. N.

_The Monumental Inscriptions of the Bourchier Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--Your inquirer L. M. M. will most probably meet with the information he desires in the county of Essex, of which portion of the kingdom they were Earls, and held immense possessions from the early part of the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. Their principal estates were in the parishes of Moreton, Tollesbury, Chingford, Little Laver, Greensted, Ramsden, South Church, Wakering, Maldon, North Farnbridge, Lachingdon, Mayland, Langford, Great Totham, Bentley, Wickes, Tendring, Great Holland, Beaumont, Ramsey, Bromfield, Rivenhall, Halsted, Hanningfield, Chicknall, Ulting, Messing, Hedingham Sibil, Ballington, Foxearth, Belchamp, Toppesfield, Braintree, Little Easton, Chickney; Broxted, Roding Aythorp, Little Hallingbury, Walden, and Farnham. In all these parishes they held manors, with the advowsons of several of the churches. Many of the manors are called after the family, _Bourchier's Hall_; some members of the family were buried in Bilegh Abbey, which stood in the west part of the town of Maldon. In Halsted they founded a chantry for a master and eight priests; and adjoining Little Easton church still remains a fine chapel, known as Bourchier's chapel, where there are tombs to some of the family in fine preservation. By a visit to the churches of the parishes above enumerated, much information may probably be obtained, for there can be little doubt but so powerful a family were great benefactors to the churches of the several parishes where their estates and mansions were situated; and most probably many members of the family were interred in them, and had tombs to their memory.

J. R. J.

_Test of the Strength of a Bow_ (Vol. iv., p. 56.).--TOXOPHILUS will find all his Queries well answered in Hansard's _Book of Archery_. The modern method of proving a bow is very different from that quoted by PHILOSOPHUS from Ascham, p. 211. A bow is now, I believe, tested by placing the bow across a piece of stout timber made for the purpose, and hanging weights to the string till it reaches about twenty-seven or twenty-eight inches. The weight necessary to do this determines the power of the bow.

H. N. E.

Bitton Vicarage, Oct. 1851.

_Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--Is it worth while, in reference to SIGMA'S inquiry as to the name of the author of one of the Bishop of Worcester's works, to tell you a droll mistake on that point, which I have before my eyes? I have the work in a fine old binding, which in the gilt _lettering_ on the back, states it to be by _Ed. Wigorn_. This reminds me of another similar _naivete_. When the late Bishop Prettyman, then Bishop of Winchester, wrote to propose to Mr. Murray to publish his life of Pitt, Mr. Murray, following the signature too literally, addressed his answer to _George Winton, Esq._

C.

_Yankee Doodle_ (Vol. iv., p. 344.).--During the attacks upon the French outposts in 1755 in America, Governor Shirley and General Jackson led the force directed against the enemy lying at Niagara and Frontenac. In the early part of June, whilst these troops were stationed on the banks of the Hudson, near Albany, the descendants of the "Pilgrim fathers" flocked in from the eastern provinces; never was seen such a motley regiment as took up its position on the left wing of the British army. The band played music some two centuries of age, officers and privates had adopted regimentals each man after his own fashion; one wore a flowing wig, while his neighbour rejoiced in hair cropped closely to the head; this one had a coat with wonderful long skirts, his fellow marched without his upper garment; various as the colours of the rainbow were the clothes worn by the gallant band. It so happened that there was a certain Dr. Shuckburgh, wit, musician, and surgeon, and one evening after mess he produced a tune, which he earnestly commended as a well-known piece of military music, to the officers of the militia. The joke succeeded, and Yankee Doodle was hailed by acclamation "their own march." During the unhappy war between the American colonies and the mother country, that quaint merry tune animated the soldiers of Washington; it is now the national air of the United States.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

_General Wolfe_ (Vol. iv., pp. 271. 323.).--Some of the inquiries made at p. 271. respecting General Wolfe have been subsequently answered, I find, in p. 323., but no mention appears of his family beyond his father and mother; a deficiency which I can in some degree supply by ascending to his great-grandfather, Captain George Wo_u_lfe (sic), of whom we are told by Ferrar, in his _History of Limerick_, there printed by A. Watson, in 1787,--

"That on the capitulation of the city of Limerick in October,
1651, to the Parliamentarian general Ireton, twenty of the most
distinguished of its defenders were excepted from pardon, and
reserved for execution. Amongst them were two brothers, George and
Francis Woulfe: the former, a military officer; the latter, a
friar, who was hanged,--but the captain made his escape. He fled,"
says Ferrar (p. 350.), "to the north of England, where he settled;
and his grandson, General Edward Woulfe, was appointed colonel of
the 8th regiment of foot in the year 1745. He transmitted his
virtues with additional lustre to his son Major-General James
Woulfe, whose memory will be for ever dear to his country, and
whose name will be immortalised in history."

Captain Woulfe married, and changed his religion; to which his brother the friar fell a martyr, exhibiting on the scaffold, it is related, far more intrepidity than many of his fellow sufferers of military rank. Ireton, however, finally pardoned several of those originally excepted from the capitulation. Woulfe's family was at that period one of the most eminent in the county of Clare, where it still retains a respectable rank; and one of its members was the late Chief Baron, Stephen Woulfe, a gentleman equally beloved in society as respected on the bench. Another was a chemist of some eminence in London, at the close of the past century. They retained the _u_ in the name, which most others, like the captain's descendants, laid aside; as Bonaparte did during his triumphant campaign in Italy, in order to un-Italianise and Frenchify his patronymic B_u_onaparte. The Chief Justice Wolfe, who was so barbarously murdered in Dublin at the outbreak of young Emmet's rebellion in 1803, was of a different branch. Edward, the general's father, had distinguished himself under Marlborough, as did the son in 1747, at the battle of Lawfelst on the continent. My own family, I may add, has been brought into close connexion with that of the subsisting Irish branch of the general's stock by intermarriage.

J. R. (Cork.)

_The Violin_ (Vol. iv., p. 101.).--This article reminds me of a distich said to have been inscribed on the violin of Palestrina, the "Musicae Princeps" of the sixteenth century:--

"Viva fui in sylvis; sum dura occisa securi;
Dum vixi tacui; mortua dulce sona."

Thus translated into French:

"La hache m'arracha mourant du ford des bois;
Vivant, j'etais muet; mort, on vante ma voix."

Palestrina's violin was made by a great musical instrument maker at Bologna, who had the same lines graven on his lutes, bass-viols, &c.

J. R. (Cork.)

_Earwig_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--The allusion to the word "Earwig" induces me to repeat a _charade_ on it, not without merit, though the last lines appear more responsive to the rhyme than to the fact:--

"My _first_, if lost, is a disgrace,
Unless misfortunes bear the blame;
My _second_, though it can't efface,
The dreadful loss, yet hides the shame.

"My _whole_ has life, and breathes the air,
Delights in softness and repose;
Oft, when unseen, attends the fair,
And lives on honey, and the rose."

J. R. (Cork.)

_Prophecies of Nostradamus_ (Vol. iv., pp. 86. 140. 258. 329.).--In answer to MR. DE ST. CROIX'S fair inquiry of the source whence I derived my assertion of the existence of the first edition of Nostradamus (at p. 329.), I have to say, that it was from the very intelligent bibliographer, A. A. Renouard. I had known him in Paris at his dwelling in the _Rue de Tournon_ (where my friend, the celebrated Arthur O'Connor, with his wife, the daughter of Condorcat, had apartments), and I afterwards had some interviews with him in London at my own house; when, on observing in his _Catalogue d'un Amateur_ the Elzevir edition of 1668, we entered into some conversation on the subject; and, in reference to the original edition, not much valued indeed as very imperfect, he said, that though now rare, because long, as not worth preserving, neglected, it still may, and must be, in the Royal Library; "il doit necessairement s'y trouver, et non-seulement la, mais ailleurs." I too certainly thought that the great national repository must contain it, but I made no inquiry; and as MR. DE ST. CROIX so diligently pursued the search without discovering it, I conclude, of course, that it is not there; but if he authorises M. Renouard's son, who resides in the _Rue Garanciere_, or any respectable bookseller, to provide the little volume for him, I feel confident of his success. Nor do I apprehend that the price will correspond with its rarity, like the works of so many other writers; such even as the prophecies of Merlin, as stated in the article referred to by MR. DE ST. CROIX, without recurring to our Shakspeare's early editions, or to those of Ariosto, Cervantes, Boccacio, Moliere, Froissart, Le Roman de la Rose, Amadis de Gaule, the _Romances of Chivalry_ in various languages, and the editiones principes of the classics, &c. &c., a comparison of the value of which two centuries or less ago, as we find them in old catalogues, with their present cost, so strikes the reader. Numerous books, on the other hand, have experienced a proportionally equal depreciation:

"Sic volvenda aetas commutat tempora rerum;
Quod fuit in pretio, fit nullo denique honore," &c.

_Lucretius_, lib. v. 1276.

J. R. (Cork.)

_Expressions in Milton_ (Vol. iii., p. 241.).--If this Query has already met with an answer, my apology for troubling you with this must be, that it has escaped my notice.

R. is undoubtedly right in supposing that a "toothed sleck stone" means a toothed or jagged whetstone; the word _sleck_ preserving a greater resemblance to its Danish cousin _slecht_ than the modern _slick_.

For "bullish," Milton shall be his own interpreter. "I affirm it to be a _bull, taking away the essence of that which it calls itself_."

The phrase "bid you the base" is apparently taken from the old game of Prisoner's Base, for which, if necessary, reference may be made to the _Boy's Own Book_. I am inclined to think that the very phrase was, in my school days, used in the game; but if wrong in any remembrance, I may still be right in my conjecture, and then the phrase would be equivalent to, "I challenge you to follow me," as one boy follows another in Prisoner's Base; and we should then have a curious illustration of the antiquity of the game.

PHILIP HEDGELAND.

_The Termination "-ship"_ (Vol. iv., p. 153.).--A. W. H. is referred to Dr. Latham's _English Language_, [Section] 294. p. 372., ed. 2. The Dutch termination _-schap_, e.g. _vriendschap_, may be added.

CHARLES THIRIOLD.

"_A little Bird told me_" (Vol. iv. p. 232.).--The following are merely a few rough notes made from time to time on this saying. I have tried to put them into some kind of order but they are too trivial, and too easily verified by reference, to deserve more space in print than they have hitherto had in writing:--

1. Last lines of _King Henry IV._ Part II., and Steevens's note.

2. The "pious lie" of Mahomet's pigeon. See Gibbon, _Decline and Fall_, chap. 1. Marg. lemma--"His character," the note beginning--"The Christians, rashly enough," &c. And--"Life of Mahomet" [_Library of Useful Knowledge_] note on p. 19. For line from--_Dunciad_--[a slovenly reference] see book iv. 358.

3. From the Greek? See Potter's _Gr. Antiquities_, book ii. chap. xv.--or Robinson's _Antiq. Greece_, book iii. chap. xv. _ad init._ as both refer to _Aristoph. Aves._ [600. 601. Bekker.]

4. _Ecclesiastes_, chap. x. 20.

To these I may add the origin assigned to the saying by Mr. Bellenden Ker, in his _Essay on the Archaeology of our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes_, 1837, vol. i. p. 63., viz.:--

"A LITTLE BIRD.

"A good humoured way of replying to, _who told you this story?_
And imparting you don't mean to inform him, that you have a good
reason for not letting him know. _Er lij t'el baerd_; q. e. _by so
doing_ [telling] _I should betray_ [do wrong to] _another_," &c.

C. FORBES.

_Mark of Reference in Bible_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--May not this originate in the Hebrew Keri, used for the same purpose, and of nearly the same shape?

F. J.

Bradford.

For the purpose of expounding the law in the Jewish assemblies, the Pentateuch was divided into fifty-four sections (on account of the intercalary year), that the whole might be read over once annually. The sections were distinguished, as they still continue to be, in the Hebrew copies, by the letter _Pe_, or _Phe_, the initial of _Pharasha_, which signifies separation or division. This probably was the original reason for adopting the inverted black P [P] which is retained in our translation of the Bible to mark paragraphs or transitions. The division of the Old and New Testament into chapters is a modern practice, and the subdivision of chapters into verses still more modern. See Shepherd on the _Morning and Evening Prayer_.

J. Y.

_King Charles II. and Written Sermons_ (Vol. iv., p. 9.).--The document inserted at this place is quoted with some variations, and the omission of the part referring to periwigs by the late Mr. Grimshawe, in his _Life of the Rev. Leigh Richmond_, p. 157. 4th edit. There is added the date, "Oct. 8, 1674;" and the following foot-note is appended, "See _Statute Book of the University of Cambridge_, p. 301." Car. II., Rex. Mr. Grimshawe's version is printed without any break or asterisks, as if entire.

W. S. T.

_Walpole and Junius_ (Vol. iv., p. 161.).--CLERICUS quotes some paragraphs from the letters of Horace Walpole, dated 1764, wherein Walpole threatens vengeance for the dismissal of Conway; and CLERICUS concludes by asking, "If these extracts do not _prove_ Horace Walpole to be Junius, &c., &c., _what can_ he allude to?" Why, to the pamphlet which he was then writing, and which he immediately published, entitled _A Counter Address to the Public, on the late Dismission of a General Officer_.

W. J.

_Fermilodum_ (Vol. iv., p. 345).--I suspect H. E. has not read his seal quite correctly. I surmise it is _Fermelioduni_. However, no doubt Dunferline is meant; and the literal translation of the legend is, "Seal of the city of Dunferline." This place was a royal burgh, with a palace; and the word _civitas_ was not then confined to towns which were Bishop's sees.

W. S. W.

Middle Temple.

_Finger Stocks_ (Vol. iv., p. 315.).--In Littlecote Hall, the fine old seat of the Pophams, in Wiltshire, one of these machines was preserved, and I doubt not but that it is still to be seen there.

It is of oak, and stands upon a pillar and base like those of a small round table. I always understood that it was employed as an instrument of domestic punishment.

W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.

Temple.

_Lord Hungerford_ (Vol. iv., p. 345.).--The story of the device of a toad having been introduced into the armorial bearings of the Hungerfords, in memory of the degradation of some member of the family, is, in every way, nonsensical. "Argent, three toads sable" is certainly one of their old quarterings; as may be seen upon one of the monuments in the chapel at Farleigh Castle near Bath. But it was borne by the Hungerfords for a very different reason. Robert, the second Lord, who died A.D. 1459, had married the wealthy heiress of the Cornish family of _Botreaux_: and this has one of the shields used by _her_ family, being in fact nothing more than an allusion, not uncommon in heraldry, to the name. This was spelled variously, _Botreaux_ or _Boterelles_: and the device was probably assumed from the similarity of the name of the old French word _Botterol_, a toad: (see Cotgrave) or the old Latin word _Botterella_. The marriage with the Botreaux heiress and the assumption of her arms, having taken place _many years before_ any member of the Hungerford family was attainted or executed (as some of them afterwards were), Defoe's story falls to the ground.

I take this opportunity of adding, that, having been for many years a collector of materials for a more methodical and accurate account of the Hungerford family and their property, than has hitherto appeared, and having completed the arrangement of what I have been able to collect, if any of your readers or correspondents should have it in his power to refer me to any sources of illustration, or to inform me of the existence of anything that might throw light on the subject--such as old deeds, seals, wills, entries in parish registers, family portraits, or the like--they would be rendering a kind service.

J. E. JACKSON.

Rectory, Leigh-Delamere, Chippenham.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

The _Salisbury Volume_ of the Archaeological Institute, which has just been issued, contains some extremely interesting communications, among which we must particularise for its agreeable character Mr. Hunter's Reminiscences of the _Topographical Gatherings at Stourhead_,--for its learning and originality, Mr. Guest's Memoir on the _Early English Settlements in South Britain_.[7] Mr. Smirke contributes a valuable notice of the _Custumal of Bleadon_,--Mr. Newton, _Notes on the Sculptures at Wilton_,--Mr. Hawkins on _The Mints of Wiltshire_; and not the least interesting portion of the volume consists of notices respecting _Silbury and Avebury_, by the late excellent and lamented Dean of Hereford. The volume contains many other instructive memoirs, and is well calculated to advance archaeological knowledge.

[Footnote 7: Mr. Guest's suggestion (p. 30.), that _Grimsditch_
means a boundary, deserves the attention of our correspondents.]

The new volume of Bohn's _Standard Library_ is the fourth of Mrs. Foster's excellent translations of _Vasari's Lives of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects_. It contains no fewer than nineteen lives, including, among many whose names are less familiar to English amateurs, those of Sebastian del Piombo, and that admirable scholar of Raphael, whom Shakespeare has helped to immortalise by designating him that "rare Italian master Giulio Romano." All lovers of art are under great obligations to the publisher for placing this translation within their reach.--Mr. Cyrus Redding's _History and Description of Modern Wines_ is the new volume of Bohn's _Illustrated Library_; and, as the author describes "the art of taking wine" as "the science of exciting agreeable conversation and eliciting brilliant thoughts," and discourses learnedly upon the subject, his book may well find friends.--_Lucretius on the Nature of Things, literally translated into English Prose_, by the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., _to which is added the Poetical Version_, by J. M. Good, is another volume of Bohn's _Classical Library_; and the scholarship of Mr. Watson affords a sufficient justification for his prefatory remark, "that he who wishes to know what is in Lucretius without perusing the original, will learn it from this volume with greater certainty than from any other previously offered to the English reader." Every page bears evidence of the pains and ability displayed by Mr. Watson in his endeavour to clothe Lucretius in an English garb.

There is no Query so frequently put and so rarely answered to the satisfaction of the Querist as _What is the fare?_ Walker's _Cab Fare and Guide Map of London_, in which all the leading streets and thoroughfares are marked off in half-miles, being so small that it may be carried in a pocket-book, yet so distinct as to admit of no doubt, will however put an end to the very unpleasant state of uncertainty and dispute in which all who ride in cabs are apt to find themselves involved.

CATALOGUES RECEIVED.--W. Waller & Son's (188. Fleet Street) Catalogue of Choice, Useful, and Interesting Books; W. Heath's (497. New Oxford Street) Catalogue No. 6. for 1851 of Valuable Second-hand Books; G. Honnor's (304. Strand) List No. 7. of Cheap Second-hand Books; J. Chapman's (142. Strand) Catalogue Part XIV. of Old and New Books in all Departments of Literature; G. Bumstead's (205. High Holborn) Catalogue Part LIII. of Interesting and Curious Books; J. Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part CXXVIII., No. 9. for 1851, of Old and New Books; Williams & Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street) Catalogue No. 4. of Foreign Second-hand Books.

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

CHRISTIAN PIETY FREED FROM THE DELUSIONS OF MODERN ENTHUSIASTS. A.D. 1756 or 1757.

AN ANSWER TO FATHER HUDDLESTONE'S SHORT AND PLAIN WAY TO THE FAITH AND CHURCH. By Samuel Grascombe. London, 1703, 8vo.

REASONS FOR ABROGATING THE TEST IMPOSED UPON ALL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. By Samuel Parker, Lord Bishop of Oxon, 1688, 4to.

LEWIS'S LIFE OF CAXTON. 8vo. 1737.

CATALOGUE OF JOSEPH AMES'S LIBRARY. 8vo. 1760.

TRAPP'S COMMENTARY. Folio. Vol. I.

WHITLAY'S PARAPHRASE ON THE NEW TESTAMENT. Folio. Vol. I. 1706.

LONG'S ASTRONOMY. 4to. 1742.

MAD. D'ARBLAY'S DIARY. Vol. II. 1842.

ADAM'S MORAL TALES.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DR. JOHNSON. 1805.

WILLIS'S ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (10_s._ 6_d._ will be paid for a copy in good condition.)

CARPENTER'S DEPUTY DIVINITY; a Discourse of Conscience. 12mo. 1657.

A TRUE AND LIVELY REPRESENTATION OF POPERY, SHEWING THAT POPERY IS ONLY NEW MODELLED PAGANISM, &c., 1679. 4to.

ROBERT WILSON'S SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF HAWICK. Small 8vo. Printed in 1825.

JAMES WILSON'S ANNALS OF HAWICK. Small 8vo. Printed in 1850.

BARRINGTON'S SKETCHES OF HIS OWN TIME. Vol. III. London, 1830.

BRITISH POETS (Chalmers', Vol. X.) London, 1810.

CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SON. Vol. III. London, 1774.

CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY. Vol. LXXV.

ERSKINE'S SPEECHES. Vol. II. London, 1810.

HARE'S MISSION OF THE COMFORTER. Vol. I. London, 1846.

HOPE'S ESSAY ON ARCHITECTURE. Vol. I. London, 1835. 2nd Edition.

MULLER'S HISTORY OF GREECE. Vol. II. (Library of Useful Knowledge, Vol. XVII.)

ROMILLY'S (SIR SAMUEL) MEMOIRS. Vol. II. London, 1840.

SCOTT'S (SIR W.) LIFE OF NAPOLEON. Vol. I. Edinburgh, 1837. 9 Vol. Edition.

SCOTT'S NOVELS. Vol. XXXVI. (Redgauntlet, II); Vols. XLIV, XLV. (Ann of Grerstein, I. & II.) 48 Vol. Edition.

SMOLLETT'S WORKS. Vols. II. & IV. Edinburgh, 1800. 2nd Edition.

SOUTHEY'S POETICAL WORKS. Vol. III. London, 1837.

CRABBE'S WORKS. Vol. V. London, 1834.

Four letters on several subjects to persons of quality, the fourth being an answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's book, entitled POPERY, &c., by Peter Walsh. 1686. 8vo.

A CONFUTATION OF THE CHIEF DOCTRINES OF POPERY. A Sermon preached before the King, 1678, by William Lloyd, D.D. 1679. 4to.

A SERMON PREACHED AT ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 29, 1685, by W. Sherlock, D.D. 4to. London, 1685.

POPE'S LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE. Vol. III. Curll. 1735.

ALMANACS, any for the year 1752.

MATTHIAS' OBSERVATIONS ON GRAY. 8vo. 1815.

SHAKSPEARE, JOHNSON, AND STEVENS, WITH REED'S ADDITIONS. 3rd
Edition, 1785. Vol. V.

SWIFT'S WORKS, Faulkner's Edition. 8 Vols. 12mo. Dublin, 1747.
Vol. III.

SOUTHEY'S PENINSULAR WAR. Vols. V. VI. 8vo.

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Notices to Correspondents.

_Although we have this week again enlarged our paper to 24 pages, we have to request the indulgence of our friends for postponing until next Number many important papers which are in type. We hope shortly to make arrangements for the more prompt insertion of all communications._

_A Copy of Smith's_ History of Virginia, _folio, has been reported. Will the correspondent who wished for it send his name to the Publisher?_

J. N. C. _shall have our early attention._

K. G. K. _is referred to our_ 1st Vol. pp. 234. 419. _for the "locus" of_ "Tempora mutantur," &c.

K. _Crest and Arms of Sir William Norris Young, of Marlow Park, Bucks._

F. A. B. _We have at present no means of ascertaining the places of death and burial of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke. They might probably be found in the_ Secret History of the House of Hanover, _published a few years since, but we have not an opportunity of consulting that work._

OXONIENSIS _will find the information he desires respecting the saying_--

"Quem Deus vult perdere," &c.

_in our_ 1st Vol. pp. 347. 351. 421. 476.

_The letter of_ "ANOTHER SUBSCRIBER TO THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC LIBRARY" _reached us at too late a period for insertion in this week's Number. It shall, of course, appear in our next._

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