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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«>a S. NO 77., June 20. '57. 



on these " rare books," everything from his pen 

 on the subject being valuable. From observations 

 I have seen on the works of both Anderson and 

 Wilson, and from what is stated in ^' N. & Q." 

 1" S. V. 154., let us hope he may be induced to 

 change his mind. J- Gibson. 



Maidstone. 



Reference imnted. — Can any of your readers 

 oblige me by telling me where in Livy I shall 

 find the following : " Barbaris ex fortuna pendet 

 fides" ? D. F. 



lienor <h\xtnzi luftl) ^n^\atx&, 



S. Ellyiv, or Elnu. — What is known of S. Eluu ? 

 The church of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, is dedi- 

 cated to her ; likewise does the town take its 

 name from the saint. Llan meaning town, and 



Eluu. NOTSA. 



[According to Jones's Breconshire this saint, wliose 

 name is not mentioned in any of the lists, was a grand- 

 daughter of Brjxhan. With her may have originated 

 the establishment of Llanelly, Caermarthenshire. The 

 church of Llanelieu, Breconshire, is called after her ; and 

 she is also the patron of Llanell}', subject to Llangattock 

 Crickhowel in the same county, where her wake is held 

 on the Sunday next before the 1st of August (0. S.), and 

 renders it probable that her name is only an abbreviation 

 of Elined. If so, she would be the Almedha of Giraldus 

 Cambrensis. The church historian, Cressy, says of her : — 

 " This devout Virgin, rejecting the proposals of an earthly 

 prince, who sought her in marriage, and espousing her- 

 self to the Eternal King, consummated her life by a 

 triumphant martyrdom. The day of her solemnity is 

 celebrated every year on the Ist day of August." She 

 suffered on a hill called Penginger, near Brecon, in the 

 fifth century. See Rees's Welsh Saints, pp. 149. 156.] 



Antigropelos. — What is the derivation of this 

 classical-looking appellation ? A. A. D. 



[The following conjectural derivation has been sug- 

 gested for this apparently coined word : avri, contra ; 

 ypdoi, comedo ; jtijAos, limus ; i. e. mud-counteractors.] 



Dr. Bundle, Bishop of Derry. — In Johnson's 

 Life of Thomson it is mentioned, that the publica- 

 tion of his Winter, obtained for the poet the 

 favour of Dr. Rundle, " a man afterwards unfor- 

 tunately famous" Are you able to state in what 

 respect the divine referred to acquired an " unfor- 

 tunate" eminence of repute ? He is celebrated by 

 Pope as a bishop who "had a heart ;" and it may 

 be added, that such of his letters as are included 

 in the "elegant" and once popular compilation 

 of Dr. Vicesimus Knox, are by no means un- 

 worthy of the place assigtied to them, being cha- 

 racterised by no ordinary jrracefulness of style, 

 and, saving perhaps a few levities not altogether 

 clerical, by good sense and elevated feeling. It 

 seems strange that more labour of explanatory 

 annotation snould be bestowed on the superficial 



"correspondence" of forgotten politicians, than 

 on the sterling works of the great masters of our 

 literature. The recent edition of the Lives of the 

 Poets very inadequately supplies the deficiency, 



A. L. 



[On the death of Dr. Sydall, bishop of Gloucester, in 

 1733, the Lord Chancellor Talbot, the friend and patron 

 of Dr. Rundle, solicited the vacant see for the latter. In 

 filling up vacancies in the English episcopate at that 

 time, Bishop Gibson's influence was most powerful ; and 

 he refused to sanction the appointment of Dr. Bundle, 

 founded on his foi'mer connection with Whiston, noto- 

 rious for his heterodox opinions. Consequentlj' Dr. Benson 

 was appointed to the see of Gloucester ; but shortly after- 

 wards (Feb. 1734-5) Rundle was promoted to the more 

 lucrative bishopric of Derry. It is not, therefore, a cause 

 of wonder that the appointment became "unfortunately 

 famous." " What do you say," demands Mr. Pulteney of 

 Dean Swift, in a letter of March 11, 1735, " to the bustle 

 made here to prevent the man from being an English 

 bishop, and afterwards allowing him to ,be good Chris- 

 tian enough for an Irish one? Surely the opposition, or 

 the acquiescence, must have been abominably scandalous." 

 In Ireland, the appointment was naturally regarded with 

 disfavour. Dean Swift, however, satirised the bishops 

 with severity, as if dissatisfection was occasioned solely 

 by the superior qualities of their new brother: — 



" Rundle a bishop ! Well he may — 

 He's still a Christian more than they! 

 I know the subject of their quarrels — 

 The man has learning, sense, and morals." 



On personal acquaintance, Dr. Rundle acquired, by his 

 amiable manners, the goodwill of his brethren ; and in 

 the language of Swift, was generally " esteemed as a per- 

 son of learning, and conversation, and hunianitj', and be- 

 loved by all people." The bishop died in Dublin, April 

 14, 1743, in his sixtieth year.] 



*'■ Rervm Anglicarum" 8j-c. — What is the date 

 of the earliest printed edition of Rcrum Angli- 

 carvm lih'i quinqiie, auctore Gvlielmo Nevbri- 

 gensi ? I have before me the 12mo. edition 

 printed at Antwerp, 1567. Is it at all scarce ? 

 What is the general opinion of the author as an 

 historian ? J. N. 



[This is the first edition of William of Newbury's 

 Chronicle, and no doubt is very rare. Bishop Nicolson, 

 Hearne, and Dr. Henry, commend the style and matter of 

 this historian ; and the Benedictine editors of the cele- 

 brated Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France, 

 vol. xiii. pref. p. xiii., call him " a judicious writer, more 

 attentive to relate the principal events than minute de- 

 tails. His impartiality in the matter of Becket and 

 Henry II., when everybody took part with the former, 

 and abused the latter, is worthy of notice and commen- 

 dation." Fuller {Worthies, iii. 424., edit. 1840) states, 

 that his severe castigation of the legends of Geoffrey of 

 Monmouth was owing to " David Prince of Wales having 

 denied him to succeed Geffrey in the see of St. Asaph, 

 and therefore fell he so foul on the whole Welsh nation."] 



Peacocks destructive to Adders. — I have been 

 assured that large flocks of peacocks are kept 

 in Westmoreland for the purpose of destroying 

 adders, which are numerous there. My informant, 

 I am quite sure, believed what he stated to be the 

 truth ; but I have some doubts on the subject. 



