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timony of which was afterwards sent to Oxford, and 

 fastened on the Dial in St. Mary's Churchyard by Nich. 

 Kiatzer, the maker and contriver thereof; and his [Lu- 

 ther's] books also burnt both here and at Cambridge." 



We learn from Wood also, that Nicholas Krat- 

 zer, a Bavarian, was B. A. of Cologne and Wit- 

 tenburgh ; that he was incorporated at Oxford, 

 and proceeded M.A. there in 1522. He was one 

 of the original Fellows, or Scholars, appointed by 

 Bishop Fox in his new college of Corpus Christi. 



The figure of this cylinder is preserved to us by 

 Loggan, in his Oxonia Illustrata, plate xi. It ap- 

 pears to have been about six or seven feet in 

 height, and was placed upon the churchyard wall. 

 The lower part was round, the upper part had 

 four square faces, on which were dials ; it ter- 

 minated in a pyramid, surmounted by a ball and 

 cross. 



Peshall, in his History of the City of Oxford, 

 p. 55., takes notice of it : 



"In the churchyard [viz. St. Mary's] on the south side 

 was a most curious Horoscope, made by Nicholas Kratzer 

 alias Cratcher, a Bavarian and famous Mathematician, 

 and sometime Fellow of C. C C, anno 1517, at the com- 

 mand of King Henry Vlll. But this went off with the 

 churchyard wall, as before." 



The wall of which Peshall speaks was partially 

 removed in 1744. - But 1 think that there still 

 remains a mark, on a pilaster near the eastern ex- 

 tremity of it, where the column had stood, front- 

 ing the High Street. Possibly the fact of its con- 

 taining a condemnation of Luther's doctrine may 

 have been the cause of its removal a century ago. 

 Nothing is said as to its subsequent fate. But I 

 should not be much surprised if a judicious and 

 thorough search should yet discover it, lying 

 hidden in some one of those dark holes and corners 

 which are attached to St. Mary's Church. 



The beautiful astronomical column which adorns 

 the quadrangle of Corpus Christi College is a 

 monument of the same kind, but more elaborate ; 

 it is also more recent, having been greeted in 

 1605. 1 believe that the College library contains 

 a curious account of the erection of that column, 

 which has not been published, and probably would 

 interest many readers.* Henry Cotton. 



Thurles, Ireland. 



[* This curious cylindrical dial was constructed in 

 16U5, by Charles Turnbull, M.A., and is described in a 

 MS. on Dialling preserved in the library of C. C. C, 

 No. xl. Codex chartaceus, in 4to., written by Robert 

 Hegge, which is thus noticed by Antony a Wood : " In 

 which book is the picture of the dial in the said college 

 garden made by Nich. Kratzer, with a short discourse 

 upon it. In like manner there is the picture of that fair 

 cylinder standing on a pedestal in the middle of the said 

 college quadrangle, made by Charles Turnbull, 1605, with 

 a short discourse on it, which he entitles, " Horologium 

 Sciotericum in gratiam speciosissimi Horoscopii in area 

 quadrata, C. C. C" — Athen. Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 457.] 



TARAPHEASB OF THE " TE DEUM," 



I enclose you another paraphrase of the Te 

 Deum, of similar character to the one mentioned 

 above (2"** S. ii. 370.) It was transcribed by me 

 from the fly-leaf of an old manuscript formerly 

 belonging to Glastonbury Abbey, and now in the 

 possession of the Marquis of Aylesbury, 



" Te matrem laudamus, te dominam confitemur, 

 Te aeterni patiis, stella maris, splendor illuminat, 

 Tibi omnes angeli, tibi coeli et universas potestates 

 Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim bumili voce proclamant 

 Ave, ave, ave, Domina, Virgo Maria. 

 Pleni sunt coeli et terra majestatis filii tui. 

 Te gloriosam Apostoli prasdicant ; 

 Te gratiosam Prophetae pronunciant, 

 Te pretiosam martyres floribus circumdant, 

 Te per orbem terrarum sancta confitetur Ecclesia ; 

 Matrem immensaj majestatis, 

 Venerandam Dei sponsain, maritique nesciam, 

 Sanctam quoque, solam gravidam Spiritu. 

 Tu regina es coeli, 

 Tu Domina es totius mundi, 

 Tu ad liberandum hominem perditum came vestisti al- 



tissimum tilium 

 Tu vincendo mortis aculeum pertulisti clarissimo vitam 



ex utero. * 



Tu ad dexteram nati sedens dignitate matris. 

 Judex qui creditur esse venturus. 

 Te ergo, quagsumus, tuis famulis subveni pretioso tui 



ventris germine redeniptis, 

 iEtema fac cum Sanctis tuis gloria munerari. 

 Salvum fac populum tuum, domina, per te factum 



heredem de vita, 

 Et rege eos, et extolle eos usque in setemum. 

 Per singulos dies benedicimus te, 

 Et laudamus nomen tecum altissimi, qui te fecit altissi- 



mam, 

 Dignare, domina laude dignissima, a nobis indignis 



laudari. 

 Miserere nostri, domina mater misericordise, 

 Fiat misericordia tilii tui, domina, super nos ope tua, 



qui clamamus illi. 

 In te, domine, speravi ; non confundar in £eternum. 



Explicit Te Deum ex conversione venerahilis dompni Jo' 

 hannis Bracy Mochelnie Abbatis in horwrem Sancta: Marite." 



J.B. 



EDWARD GIBBON. 



I some time since (P' S. ix. 54.) sent you an 

 unpublished letter of Gibbon's. I have now stum- 

 bled both on an anecdote and a letter, published, 

 indeed, about 1799, but not likely to be known to 

 your readers, in a local miscellany called the 

 Hampshire Repository. I think them both worth 

 preserving in "N. & Q." Here, without more 

 preface, is the anecdote : 



"A person who keeps a public-house by the sea-side, 

 not far from Portsmouth, told me the other day that he 

 lived seven years with the late Mr. Gibbon's father at 

 Buriton ; that the son once flogged him severely for beat- 

 ing his dog ; that he was always fond of reading, and 

 seldom seen without a book in his hand ; he did not culti- 

 vate an acquaintance with the young people in his neigh- 

 bourhood, nor even afford his father or mother much of 



