2'»dS. VIII. July 9. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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reprinted that original edition ; and besides other 

 deviations from it, I can show where he some- 

 times agrees with the second edition, in a typo- 

 graphical or literal error, from which the first 

 edition was free. Thus vol. vi. p. 348., line 3., 

 " ex vita S. Albani" which exactly agrees with 

 the text of the London edition of 1687, p. 414., 

 but is certainly wrong, while in the edition of 

 1639, it is " ex vita S. Albani" which is right, 

 the passage cited being from the Life of St. Ab- 

 ban, an Irish abbot, who lived some centuries 

 later than the English proto-martyr St. Alban. 

 The Life itself, here used by Ussher, was after- 

 wards published by the learned and zealous 

 Franciscan Father John Colgan (^AA. SS. Hi- 

 bern. Lovan. 1645, ad diem xvi Martii), with 

 whose publications an editor of Ussher should 

 not be unacquainted. In the old MS. version of 

 Ussher, which I have already described (2°^ S. 

 vii. 121.), this passage is thus rendered : — "To 

 which wee may adde this out of the Life of S. 

 Abban, The holy Bishop Ibar inhabited more in 

 his famous monastery called Beck-erin than in 

 any other place." From this and other circum- 

 stances, I am convinced that this inedited version 

 was made from the edition of 1639, and probably 

 about the time that Stillingfleet's Origines Bri-' 

 tannicce appeared (Lond. 1685), which being in 

 English may have suggested the idea of trans- 

 lating Ussher's work on the same subject. 



Vol. vi. p. 478., lines 10. and 11., Laeogarii, as 

 in the London edition, p. 473., while in the Dub- 

 lin edition, p. 913 , it is in each place Laogarii. 



Vol. vi. p. 272. note" N''D1ptJ>X, which differs 

 from the reading of both the preceding editions. 

 The first (p. 727.) has what is manifestly wrong, 

 N''21p5i'X ; the second (p. 380.), what is more pro- 

 bably right, N^D1|X'K. But Dr. Elrington's read- 

 ing agrees witb what Gagnier, in his Latin version 

 (Oxon. 1706, p. 293.), cites from the Hebrew 

 text of Josippon, but disagrees with what he has 

 in another place (p. 371.) which tends to confirm 

 the London edition of 1687, which is described 

 as being "Autoris manu passim aucta etnusquam 

 non emendata," a statement confirmed by the 

 learned Dr. Thomas Smith in his Life of Usshe?'. 



Dr. Elrington has not given any index to this 

 work, although at least one of Subjects, and an- 

 other of Authors quoted, may be regarded as 

 indispensable. Neither has he supplied any in- 

 formation as to authors cited by Ussher from 

 MSS. which since his time have been published. 

 Thus (vol. vi. p. 275.), where Ussher cites the Irish 

 geographer Dicuil, who is said to have flourished 

 under the younger Theodosius, in the fifth cen- 

 tury, a note might have informed the reader that 

 nearly two centuries after Ussher's so writing, the 

 text of that old author had been published, and 

 subsequently made the subject of a diffuse com- 

 mentary. But for this, and all other pertinent 



and requisite illustration, the student will search 

 in vain through Dr. Elrington's edition. 



In the editions of 1639 and 1687, the Preface is 

 immediately followed by a copious Table of Con- 

 tents, entitled Conspectus Capitum totius Operis; 

 but in Dr. Elrington's this, divided into two por- 

 tions, is placed just after the 1639 title, and is 

 headed Contents of the Fifth Volume., and Con- 

 tents of the Sixth Volume, which is clearly awk- 

 ward and inappropriate. It would have been 

 sufficient to have stated that the fifth volume 

 contained the first thirteen chapters of the Bri- 

 tannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates, and that the 

 sixth contained the remainder of that work. The 

 distinct enumeration of the contents In the Con- 

 spectus Capitum was an Integral part of the ori- 

 ginal work, and should not have been so placed 

 and headed that it might be readily mistaken for 

 the editor's. 



If It be objected that these are merely trivial 

 matters, I reply that It is only by such careful 

 examination that the accuracy of a reprint can 

 be estimated. The ostentatious parade of the 

 1639 title at the beginning of Dr. Elrington's two 

 volumes leads the reader to expect an exact re- 

 print of that edition, which, if he proceeds to col- 

 late, he finds he has not received. The latest 

 edition Is thus shown to fall short even of the 

 merit of a faithful reprint, which Is the utmost 

 that I thought It could have attained. Arterds. 



Dublin. 



KNIGHTS CREATED BY OLIVER CROMWELL. 



(2°^ S. vii. 476. 518.) 



Dr. Doran, quoting the substance of a passage 

 In his own book, Knights and their Days, says that 

 the Protector created one peer, Viscount Howard 

 of Morpeth, and ten baronets and knights, but 

 that he cannot lay his hand on a reference to the 

 authority which he found at the British Museum. 

 In a small 8vo. vol. in my possession, entitled The 

 Perfect Politician, or a Full View of the Life and 

 Actions {Military and Civil) of O. Cromwel, the 

 2nd edit., Lond. 1680 (the 1st edit, was In 12mo., 

 1660), there is a catalogue given of all the honours 

 conferred by him during the time of his govern- 

 ment, comprising — 



" His Privy Councill. 



" The Members of the other House, alias House of 

 Lords (sixty-two in number, nine only being peers, viz. 

 the Earls of Warwick, Mulgrave, and "Manchester; Vis- 

 counts Say and Seal, Lisle, and Howard ; and the Lords 

 Wharton, Faulconbridge, and Evers). 



" Commissioners of the Great Seal and their officers. 



" Judges of both Benches. 



" His Barons of the Exchequer. 



" Sergeants at Law, called bj' him to the Bar. 



"Viscounts. Charles Howard of Glisland in Cumber- 

 land, created Baron Glisland ; and Lord Viscount Howard 

 of Morpeth, the 20th of July, 1657. 



