2''<i S. VII. June 25. '69.1 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



511 



hand, are eight verses, of which I can only de- 

 cipher the first and last. These are as follows : — 



(i.) " Primus cum sexto fa sol la semper habito." 

 (viii.) " Septimus et septem dat et octavus tibi quin- 

 que." 



Can any one give me a clue to the remaining 

 six lines, or to the missing word before "gau- 

 deret?" 



Lying loose in the same book is a leaf of parch- 

 ment, torn and discoloured, containing what ap- 

 pears to be part of a dictionary or glossary in 

 verse. It is arranged alphabetically. The writing 

 is, I think, of rather an earlier date than that in 

 the fly-leaf. Here are one or two verses which I 

 have made out : — 



" Falce puto vineta meto date (?) tondeo prata." 



" Fallo falsificans et fallo decipiendo." 



Can any one tell me of what work this is likely 

 to have formed a part ? Selbach. 



The following from an old Bible : — 



" The examination of John hirset of Loadswell, given 



before me William Bastarde and me toe of his 



Majisties justises of the peace for the county of deven- 

 shear, of thirsday January the sevente, 1685, who de- 

 clareth upon othe, that tuseday before neuearse day, as he 

 was walking in his grounde neare Loadswell about halfe 

 and houre before night, he heard a raine over his heed, 

 and lookeing by, he sawe something like A goose; It 

 had A face Aboute the bigenesse of a childs of three eare 

 olde ; It pished doune in A place Befor him And said to 

 him feare not for I am sent to thee not from idolse, but 

 from the god of haven ; thar hath been of late wars in 

 England, thar shall be grater, but short and smarte, and 

 then the strongeste shall not prevaill ; then you shall see 

 wKose right it is. And see that thou doste declare this, 

 this John arest (^sic) of Loadswell, neare Kingsbrighe, 

 reported to be a vearey honste man amongst all those I 

 know him — 



« So i do." 



w. s. 



Baconi Sermones. — In a copy of Baconi Ser- 

 mones, Lugd. Bat. 1644, there is the following 

 entry on the fly-leaf: — 



" N B_9d " (I don't understand this*). " This Latin 

 Translaton was made by Ben Jonson and John Hackett, 

 D.D. (aff' Bp. of Lichd and Cov"-y)." 



Underneath this, in a similar hand, but paler ink, 

 as if written at a different time, "A. Wood." 

 Can this be the great Antony Wood ? At the fly- 

 leaf at the end of the book is the name in old 

 handwriting, "William Ravenscroft." There is 

 no notice of this edition in Watt. 



O. L. Chambers. 



Archbishop Francis Marsh. 

 copy of 



In a large-paper 



" Ludovici Cappelli, S. Theologia; olim in Academia 

 Salmuriensi Professoris, Coramentarii et Notae Criticae in 

 Vetus Testamentura. Accessere Jacobi Cappelli, Lud. 

 Frat. in Academia Sedanensi S. Theologiae olim Profes- 

 soris, Observationes in eosdem Libros. Item, Ludovici 



t* M., the price he gave for the book.] 



Cappelli Arcanum Punctationis auctius et emendatius, 

 ejusque Vindicije hactenus ineditse. Editionem procu- 

 ravit Jacobus Cappellus, Lud. Fil, Hebraicse Linguae in 

 Academia Salmuriensi nuper Professor. Amstelod. P. et 

 J. Blaeu, 1689," — 



now in my possession, there is written on the re- 

 verse of the title, in a fine round hand, the follow- 

 ing inscription : — 



" Reverendissimo 

 In Christo Patri ac Domino, * 



Francisco Archiepiscopo Dublinensi, 

 Quem Christi causa Exulem 

 Animus a Superstitione, et Impotenti Doniinatu Aversus, 

 Fluxorumque Huius Vitse Commodorum Contemptor, 

 Aliaeque Virtutes et Eruditio, 

 Summopere Commandant, 

 Hunc Parentis sui, Patruique, Librura 

 Venerationis significandae Gratia ofFert 

 Jacobus Cappellus. 

 Londini, nonis Juniis 

 Anno MDCLXxxix." 



The " exile" spoken of is explained in D'Alton's 

 History of the Archbishops of Dublin (p. 287. ss.), 

 and better illustrated by what Bishop Mant tells 

 us of Bp. Narcissus Marsh's experience, Hist, of 

 the Church of Ireland, ii. 7. s. 



The volume thus offered to Abp. Marsh, is de- 

 dicated in a well-turned inscription to William 

 [Sancroft] Archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops 

 of both provinces, and the whole clergy of Eng- 

 land. W. 



Baltimore. U. S. A. 



Book Inscriptions. — The following is written 

 in an old hand at the end of Measure for Measure, 

 in my copy of the second folio Shakspeare : — 



" Thy virtuous goodness which alone has Charms 

 To make thee worthy of a monarch's arms, 

 A monarch who his Peoples hearts w<i try. 

 And shrewdly turn'd a priest to turn a spy. 

 For Empire then he Quitts the Lower Plain, 

 Resumes the Septre, and gives laws again : 

 On sure Foundations learns to Fra * decrees 

 Like the Supreme by judging what he sees. 

 Finis." 

 I wish to learn who was the author ? and who 

 were the subjects — the lady and the monarch? 

 The fourth line is familiar to my ear. J. D. C. 

 Glasgow. 



THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON S C0EBE8P0N- 

 DENCE. 



In the month of December last I observed an 

 advertisement in some of the Irish newspapers 

 from the Duke of Wellington, offering a con- 

 siderable reward for the discovery of an im- 

 portant portion of the late Duke's correspondence 

 which had accumulated prior to his acceptance of 

 the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1807. 

 The present Duke tells us that it was his late 



* I presume a contraction for " frame." 



