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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, YII. Feb. 12. '59. 



from Treves at tbe time of the exposition of this 

 sacred relic in 1 844, and touched by it, the ho) y 

 tunic is coloured lijjht brown. It is, I believe, 

 generally supposed that it was originally red, but 

 age may have changed the colour, as I have por- 

 tions of vestments taken from bodies of eccle- 

 siastics long buried, which had been red, but are 

 now of the same brown colour as the holy tunic. 



F. C. H. 



Quotation tmnted (2"^ S. vli. 29.) — 



" The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church." 



This is derived from the expression of Tertul- 



lian : " Semen est sanguis Christlanorum," which 



occurs at the conclusion of his " Apologeticus ad- 



versus Gentes." F. C. H. 



Supposed Quotation from Swift (2"'» S. vi. 188.) 

 — Your correspondent desires to know where in 

 Swift's Works he can find the following opinion : 



" I as little fear that God will damn a man that has 

 Charity, as I hope any Priest can save one who has not." 



I have not, after considerable search, found such 

 a sentence in Swift's Works; but if your corre- 

 spondent will turn to Pope's Works (vol. ix. p. 15., 

 edit. 1754), he will find, in a letter to Edward 

 Blount, Esq., dated 10th Feb. IT-ff, Pope makes 

 use exactly of the above expression. *. 



Life of De Lolme (2"<i S. vii. 89.) — A short 

 Life of De Lolme is given in the preface of an 

 8vo. edition of The Constitution of England^ pub- 

 lished in 1816. He is there stated to have been 

 born at Geneva in 1745. He received a liberal 

 education, and embraced the profession of the 

 law. His first work was written in English, and 

 appeared in 1772 with the following title : — 



" A Parallel between the English Constitution and the 

 former Government of Sweden : containing some Obser- 

 vations on the late Revolution in that Kingdom, and an 

 Examination of the Causes that Secure us against both 

 Aristocracy and Absolute Monarchy." 



Jle soon after commenced The Constitution of 

 England ; it was written originally in French and 

 published in Holland. The first English edition 

 appeared in June, 1775. He also wrote The 

 History of Flagellants, or Memorials of Human 

 Superstition, 1783, 4to.* In 1787 he published a 

 judicious essay intended as an introduction to De 

 Foe's History of the Union betiveen England and 

 Scotland. And in 1789, when the question of the 

 Regency was agitated, he wrote Observations upon 

 the National Embarrassment, and the Proceedings 

 in Parliament relative to the same. In this pam- 

 phlet he advocates Mr. Pitt's view of the case. 

 His circumstances were much reduced towards 

 the end of his life ; and he is said to have received 

 aid from the Literary Fund. He died in Switzer- 



[* This was a reissue with a new title of Tlie History 

 of the Flagellants, or the Advantages of Discipline, 4to., 

 1777, and 8vo., 1778.— Ed.] 



land in the spring of 1807. There is a short 

 notice of him in H. J. Rose's Biographical Die- 

 tionary. Alfred T. Lee. 



Composition during Sleep (2"'' S. vii. 85.) — To 

 the instances adduced by Exul, I may add that 

 besides some verses occasionally made in sleep, it 

 once occurred to me to dream that I was playing 

 with three others at an entirely new game of 

 cards, which was so well remembered in the 

 morning that I wrote it down, and have often 

 played it, and taught it to others, who have been 

 much amused by it. F. C. H. 



A curious instance related by Bede {Hist. 

 Eccles., iv. 24.) has not yet been mentioned, that 

 of Caedmon, to whom a person appeared in his 

 sleep, and after some conversation said : — 



" Sing the beginning of created beings ; whereupon he 

 presently began to sing verses to the praise of God, which 

 he had never heard, the purport whereof was thus : ' We 

 are now to praise the Maker of the heavenlj' kingdom, 

 the power of the Creator and His counsel, the deeds of 

 the Father of glorj'. How He, being the eternal God, 

 became the author of all miracles, who first, as the Al- 

 mighty Preserver of the human race, created heaven for 

 the sons of men, as the roof of the house, and next the 

 earth.' This is the sense, but not the words in order as 

 he sang them in his sleep ; for verses, though never so 

 well composed, cannot be literally translated of one lan- 

 guage into another, without losing much of their beaut}' 

 and loftiness. Awaking from his sleep, he remembered 

 all that he had sung in his dream, and soon added much 

 more to the same effect in verse worthy of the Deity." — 

 Translated by Giles. Bohn's Antiq. Lihrary. 



E. m. 



An additional instance occurs in the Life of Sir 

 Simonds D'Ewes, where he tells us, — 



" And j'et sometimes the soul showeth admirable effects 

 of its power in many dreams, when men conceive set ora- 

 tions and speeches, read in their imaginations difficult 

 authors, and propound sublime and diflScult questions to 

 some other they fancy to be present, who answers them 

 and resolves the doubts, when it is but one and the same 

 soul which doth all this ; which in each particular of it I 

 have myself found true by experience; conceiving some- 

 times long discourses in so lofty and elegant a Latin style, 

 and with so exact a method, as I am persuaded I never 

 could have framed the same waking, with long and much 

 studv." 



M. 



Bishop Hurd (2"'^ S. vi. 245.)— Watkins's Life 

 of the Duke of Yo7-k, pp. 38, 39., details the causes 

 of his appointment as tutor to the royal princes. 



Madame D'Arblay's Diary, iii. 248. &c., 263. 

 271.; iv. 9. 226. 315.; v. 10, 11. 14. 81.; various 

 allusions, &c. 



Letters of Horace Walpole to Mason, i. 271.279. 

 310.; ii. 161. 167. 176. 220. 297. 349. 395.; various 

 allusions. 



Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon, i. 

 18., anecdote of, and a poor man. 



Rev. W. Romaine's Works, vii. 249., refers to a 

 sermon by the Bishop, " A Christian Bishop," at 

 Bow Church, and quotes an expression he used. 



