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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



331 



certain conditions of mixture. Besides this word, 

 the French dictionaries give science, savoir, etude, 

 littej'citurc, belles lettres, not one of which even ap- 

 proximates. 



If it were not that his own quotation would 

 prevent it, I should suppose that your corre- 

 spondent had mistaken a German for a French- 

 . man. How otherwise could Clavius be turned 

 into De Claves ? Christopher Schliissel of Bam- 

 berg became Clavius in Latin : De Claves would 

 probably have been Clavesius, as Des Cartes be- 

 came Cartesius, and Forbes Forbesiics, Joseph 

 Scaliger himself would have Insisted on Clave- 

 saniLs. The termination ius was so commonly 

 added to the name that Clavius would probably 

 be Clave, if anything of the kind. Huet protests 

 against this termination, and asks why Palmer Is 

 Palmerius, and" not Palmerus. He apologises for 

 his own Latin name, Huetius, by saying that others 

 gave it him when he began to write, and that he 

 could not withstand usage. 



Scaliger attacked the geometers because the 

 geometers would not admit his quadrature'of the 

 circle ; Clavius was one of his refuters. Before 

 this, however, Scaliger had attacked the reformed 

 calendar, and Clavius had, shortly after his refu- 

 tation of the quadrature, successfully defended his 

 own work. Given a man who cannot take one 

 beating with good humour, how will he take two ? 

 This was the problem which Clavius proposed to 

 Scaliger, who solved it and illustrated It by an 

 example. A. De Mokgan. 



"NOUVEAU TESTAMENT PAR LES THEOLO- 

 GIENS DE LOUVAIN," ETC. 



(2"0 S. Ix. 307. 513.) 



In addition to the notes which have already ap- 

 peared on this very rare volume, may I be allowed 

 to add the following. In the hope that through 

 the medium of " N. & Q." an accurate list, at least 

 of those in the public libraries of the kingdom, 

 may be registered : — 



On the 8 th of May, 1833, and following days, 

 Charles Sharpe sold at his sale room in Anglesea 

 Street, Dublin, the duplicates from the public 

 library founded by Primate Marsh In that city : 

 a priced catalogue of the sale is now before me — 

 and at No. 268. occurs a copy of this rare volume, 

 which was sold for 32Z. 10*., but I do not know 

 who was the buyer, as the catalogue Is onhj priced. 



The late Rev. Joseph Mendham, In his Literary 

 Policy, §fc., referring to this curious volume, states 

 (Appendix, pp. 357-8.) : — 



" It will be recollected that at the end of 1685, the 

 Edict of Nantes was revoked ; and the immediately sub- 

 sequent period was diligently employed in various methods 

 for the reunion of the pretended reformed. And among 

 these, with no neglect of the rest, a much esteemed one 

 was a duly prepared version of the New Testament. Mr. 



Butler, by way of contradicting the charge against his 

 church as averse to the dissemination of the Scriptures, 

 in his Book of the Roman Catholic Church, pp. 183-4, re- 

 minds his readers on the authority of Bausset in his Life 

 of Bossuet, that at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 

 fifty thousand copies of a French translation of the New 

 Testament were at the recommendation q/" Bossuet distri- 

 buted among the converted Protestants, by Order of Louis 

 XI V. They were, his original informs us, the translation 

 of Pfere Amelotte." 



In a Supplement to the Literary Policy dated 

 six years later (London, 1836,) at p. 34. the au- 

 thor adds after the words " Pere Amelotte " of 

 the above quotation : — 



"I greatly doubt the fact. I believe the Bourdeaux 

 Testament to have been made and used for such distribu- 

 tion, although the others may have been added or substi- 

 tuted when detection ■ had produced shame. Serges, a 

 highly respectable refugee, in his Popery an Enemy to 

 Scripture, represents one as given to himself, and adds a 

 Jesuit attempted to get it from him. There is no way of 

 accounting for the copies which have found their way 

 into England (and more continue to appear) than by the 

 supposition that they were brought by the French Re- 

 fugees." 



Grler, in his Answer to Ward's Ei-rata, pp. xxx. 

 xxxi., mentions the existence of a copy of this 

 Testament as then In the possession of the Bishop 

 of Ely, and supplies In a note the title as under : — 



" Le Nouveau Testament de Notre Seigneur J. C. tra- 

 duit de Latin en Francois par lesTheologiens de Lou vain ; 

 imprim^ a Bourdeaux chez Jacques Mong^ron. Millan- 

 ges, Imprimeur du Roi et du College, 1686, avec appro- 

 bation et permission." 



Before closing these Notes, I would wish to ask 

 whether there are in any of the copies preserved 

 in the public libraries of either England or Ire- 

 land any MS. notes on the fly-leaves, which 

 would enable us to trace their former possessors ? 

 If so, a favour would be conferred on those who 

 feel an interest in the subject, by their transfer to 

 the pages of " N. & Q." 



Any references to works illustrative of the late 

 Rev. Joseph Mendham's opinion, that the edition 

 was drawn up on the revocation of the Edict of 

 Nantes and distributed among " the pretended 

 reformed," would confer a favour on 



A. Ikvine, Clerk. 



Fivemiletown. 



BISHOP HENSHAW. 

 (2»'>S.x. 161.) 



Allow me to add a few particulars to Mb. 

 Mayor's valuable account, and to ask one or two 

 questions relative to the Bishop's family. 



Dallaway {History of West Essey:, il. p. 381.) 

 gives a short pedigree of Bishop Henshaw, and 

 states that he was descended from the family of 

 Henshaw of Henshaw Hall, In the co. of Chester ; 

 that his grandfather was William Henshaw of 

 Worth, in the co. of Sussex, and refers for the 



