•i^-<i S. X. Sept, 1. '60.] 



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tude for this providential deliverance, and to 

 commemorate it yearly, Hercules Clay, by his 

 will, gave 200/. to the corporation, in trust to pay 

 the interest of one-half to the vicar, for an annual 

 sermon to be preached on the 11th of Marcli, and 

 with the proceeds of the other to distribute bread 

 to the poor on the same day. The sermon is al- 

 ways preached in the parish church, and a penny 

 loaf given away to everybody who goes for it, so 

 that once a-year at the least it is an advantage to 

 the poor inhabitants to have large families. The 

 dole of bread will most likely be abolished, as it 

 is thought a better use may be made of the alder- 

 man's money. In the church is a brass to the 

 memory of Clay and his wife, with a Latin in- 

 scription referring to the marvellous story. 



The tradition is that the bomb was meant for 

 the governor's house, which stood opposite to 

 Clay's (and is still there) ; and that a spy, blind- 

 fold and bearing a flag of truce, came from the 

 Parliament army on the hill to the governor, and 

 was able, on his return, so accurately to describe 

 the situation of his residence as to make the shot 

 all but successful. K. F. Sketchley. 



Dedications to the Deity (2°* S. ix. 180. 266. 

 350.) — To Dr. Joseph Beaumont's Psyche : or 

 Loves Mysterie in XX. Cantos : Displaying the In- 

 tercourse betwixt Christ and the Soule, is prefixed 

 the following very striking dedication : — 

 " Into 

 the most sacred 

 Treasurie 

 of the 

 Praise and Glorie 



of 



Incarnate GOD, 



The Worid's most MercifuU 



REDEEMER, 



THE 



Un worthiest of His Majestie's 

 Creatures, in all possible Prostrate 



VENERATION 



Seggs Leave to Cast TTiis 



His DEDICATED 



MITE. 

 The copy I possess was pj^blished in London in 

 1648, and is in folio. According to Lowndes 

 (see Bohn's revised reprint of the Bibliographer's 

 Manual) an edition, also in folio, was issued from 

 the press at Cambridge in the same year ; probably 

 the one I quote from, but with a different title- 

 page. T. C. S. 



Greek Penmanship (2"* S. x. 128.) — Mr. 

 Watling, writing-master at the Cheltenham Col- 

 lege, has published some very neatly engraved 

 Greek copy slips, which may be had from his 

 publishers, Williams & Norgate, Henrietta Street, 

 Covent Garden, for a shilling. Q. 



Greek copy slips may be obtained at Messrs. 

 Relfe Brothers, 150. Aldeysgate Street, London, 

 E.G. Edw. Faulkner. 



Burning of the Jesuitical Books (P' S. x. 

 323.; 2"<»^ S. ix. 488. 509.) — All the authority 

 adduced in the article in the Cornhill Magazine 

 for its writer's allegation, that "the burning of 

 the books, so accurately described by Bifrons, 

 took place beyond a doubt ... on Aug. the 7th,. 

 1761," was "a MS. note at the foot of the arret'' 



I called that authority in question (ix. 488.) : 

 and then (ix. 509.) the author of the article cited, 

 in addition, the Journal de Barbier, vol.^iv. 407., a 

 work lately published, and which I have not seen, 

 as his " best authority." He adds, however, that 

 he " should really be glad to know on what evi- 

 dence the notion of jwstponement was founded." 

 I beg to refer him — not to my Note in " N. & Q." 

 P' S. X. 323., which he certainly has seen, — but 

 to the extract from Mr. Griffin's Junius Dis- 

 covered, subjoined to that note, which he has ap- 

 parently overlooked, where he will find it distinctly 

 stated, that " by the king's letters patent of the 

 same date [as the arret, 7 Aug. 1761], the execu- 

 tion of this arret was suspended for one year ; and 

 on the last day of that year, namely, on the 6th of 

 August, 1762, another Ari-et du Parlement de 

 Paris concernani les Jesnites was passed, which . . . 

 confirmed the arret of the 6th of August in the 

 preceding year, and commanded its execution." 



The authority of these letters patent and sub- 

 sequent a7'ret must, I think, be held to over-ride 

 the authority, as well of the "MS. note," as of 

 " the careful and curious eye-witness of Parisian 

 life," the diarist of the Journal de Barbier. 



The arret and letters patent of 6th Aug. 1761, 

 and the arret of 6th Aug. 1762, are Nos. 814. p. 

 312. ; 815. p. 320. ; and 833. p. 328. of vol. xxij. 

 of Isambert's Recueil General des Anciennes Lois 

 de France, A.I). 420—1789, Paris, Svo. 



The last-mentioned aj-ret occupies no less than 

 fifty pages, — is supported, in foot-notes, by ex- 

 tracts from, and references to, the condemned and 

 other books, and is a document of very high in- 

 terest. It is generally spoken of as the one which 

 suppressed the order of Jesuits in France ; but it 

 did so only in effect. The absolute suppression, 

 eo nomine, was reserved for an Edit po7-tant Sup- 

 pression de la Societe des Jesuites, issued at Ver- 

 sailles in November, and registered on the 1st 

 December, 1764, which will also be found in the 

 above-cited volume of the Recueil, at p. 424. The 

 mildness and brevity of the suppressing clause of 

 this Edit is remarkable : — 



"A" ces causes, etc., voulons et nous plait qu'a I'avenir 

 la Societe des Jesuites n'ait plus lieu dans not re royaume, 

 pays, terres et seigneuries de notre ob^issance." 



Eric. 



Villa-Marie, Canada. 



Legendary Painting (2°* S. x. 47. 97. 138.) 

 — As I expected, I am now able to inform Senex 

 of the saint represented in his old painting. It is 

 intended for Saint William of Monte Verglne, a 



