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NOTES AND QUERIE% 



[2'xi S. VIII. Aug. 27. '5?. 



expresses himself without hesitation on the subject 

 of S. Dominic, and the fact of his having held and 

 exercised the office not only of a missionary, but of 

 an inquisitor. The second chapter of the work 

 treats expressly " De primo Inquisitore Generali ;" 

 and amongst the headings of this chapter are the 

 following: "1. Beatus Dominicus primus Inqui- 

 sitor Generalis fuit;" and "5. Beatus Dominicus 

 severe hcereticos punit." 



A question, indeed, is raised respecting the date 

 of S. Dominic's appointment, which another Spa- 

 nish writer. Doctor J. L. de Salcedo, believed to 

 have been as early as the year 1200, but which L. 

 H Paramo makes 1216. " E.x his apparet sanctum 

 Dominicum anno 1216 fuisse Inquisitorem crea- 

 tum," p. 95. (B. 1170, D. 1221.) 



A question has also been raised, whether the 

 inquisition began with S. Dominic, or existed pre- 

 viously. Of this difficulty the following appears 

 to be the true solution. There was the " delegata 

 ■ Inquisitio," which, coming direct from the Pope, 

 was also called " Apostolica ;" and which, accord- 

 ing to Paramus, S. Dominic was the first to 

 receive; but there were also ^^regidares Inqui- 

 sitiones" which were of much older date, and 

 belonged to the Bishops ex officio : " Est enim hsec 

 potestas inquirendi Episcopali dignitati annexa," 

 p. 89. It was found, however, that the official or 

 regular inquisition was by no means sufficiently 

 brisk ; it therefore became necessary for the Pope 

 to appoint his own delegates. " Tamen quibus- 

 dam Episcopis negligentibus, tam salutiferum hoc 

 officium exercere, quibusdam autem ob diversa 

 alia negotia impeditis, Summi Pontifices matura 

 deliberatione decreverunt viros doctos et Catho- 

 licos eligi, qui tanquam Apostolicse sedis delegati, 

 hoc tam sanctum munus exercerent," p. 89. — And 

 of these delegates, S. Dominic was the first : — 

 " Hoc autem officium delegates Inquisitionis primus 

 Generalis Inquisitor Apostolica autoritate exercuit 

 Beatus Pater Dominicus ordinis Prasdicatorum 

 djgnissimus institutor," p. 95. Search all autho- 

 rities, says Paramus; but you will find that S. 

 Dominic was the first. " NuUam tamen de Apos- 

 tolico Inquisitore, nuUam de sancto officio fieri 

 mentionem ante S. Dominici tempus reperietur," 

 p. 96. Thomas Boys. 



John Lord Cutis (2"* S. vlii. 132.) A large 



number of letters from this brave and distin- 

 guished officer to the second Duke of Ormonde 

 arepreserved amongst the Ormonde Manuscripts 

 in the Muniment Room of Kilkenny Castle. 



James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



" The Young Travellers, or a Visit to Oxford" 

 (2"^ S. viii. 130.) — I know a copy of this work in 

 which there are many more plates than two, of 

 well-known Oxford characters. I cannot say at 

 present whether the volume alluded to ever ap- 



peared ; but shall be able to find out in a few 

 weeks' time, when the library in which I have met 

 with the above-mentioned work is re-arranged, 

 when I will take an opportunity of giving ray 

 friend Cuthbert Bede the information he re- 

 quires. P. J. W. 



Bacon on Conversation (2"^ S. viii. 108.)— The 

 word conversation has a very extended meaning as 

 used by Bacon. He says: "Thus have I con- 

 cluded this portion of learning touching civil 

 knowledge ; and with civil knowledge have con- 

 cluded human philosophy ; and with human phi- 

 losophy, philosophy in general" {De Augmentis, 

 viii. c. 3.) This is written as a summary of the 

 three chapters in the Eighth Book on Civil Know- 

 ledge, or the Ethics of Statesmanship, divided into 

 (ch. i.) the Doctrine of Conversation, (ch. ii.) the 

 Doctrine of Negociation or Business, and (ch. iii.) 

 the Doctrine of Government. Bacon was himself 

 a great master of rhetoric ; and there have been 

 preserved to our times splendid examples and ad- 

 mirable treatises of Greece and Rome in this art, 

 accessible to Bacon ; and to which, I conceive, he 

 referred when, on the survey of what arts and 

 sciences had been well or ill treated, he pro- 

 nounced that the doctrine of conversation had 

 " been elegantly handled, and therefore he could 

 not report it for deficient." He must have had in 

 his mind Demosthenes, Aristotle, and Cicero (vi. 

 3.) * ; and could not have excluded oratory from 

 what he terms " the ethics of statesmanship," and 

 as preliminary and ancillary to negociation and 

 government. (Compare vi. c. 2.) 



The equivalent to conversation, in its usual 

 modern sense, is in Bacon " talk, discourse, speech 

 of conversation," and "speech of interlocution" 

 {Essays, xxxii. Discourse.) T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Bibliographical Queries (2"^ S. viii. 128.) — An 

 inquirer, J. C. G. L., wishes to know where he 

 can find a list of the works of St. Bonaventure. 

 The following account is given by Alban Butler 

 in a note to nis Life of that great saint, who so 

 well merited the title of the " Seraphic Doctor,'* 

 and whom even Luther styled " praestantissimus 

 vir." His works fill eight volumes in folio. The 

 first two contain his Commentaries on the Holy 

 Scriptures ; the third, his sermons and panegyrics ; 

 the fourth and fifth, his comments on the Master 

 of the Sentences ; and the last three his lesser 

 treatises, of which some are doctrinal, others re- 

 gard the duties of a religious state, others general 

 subjects of piety, especially the mysteries of 

 Christ and the Blessed Virgin. Some of his trea- 

 tises are the following : Pharetra, a collection of 

 devout sentiments from the Holy Fathers ; an 



* He names Xenophon, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, and 

 Plato, as having adorned philosophy with elocution {De 

 Avg. i.). 



