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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



|;2ud s. N« 33., Aug. 16. '56. 



Why these very curious anecdotes are denied a place in 

 our prelate's remarkable histor}', I cannot assign the 

 cause; but this I know, that he himself had inserted 

 them. The late Archdeacon Echard assured nic, that he 

 had read them in his Lordship's manuscript; and as I 

 have obtained exact copies of them, I think myself 

 obliged, both in justice to the bishop's memory, as well as 

 the republic of letters, to preserve them for the iuforma- 

 tion and benefit, not only of the present, but of all suc- 

 ceeding times." The original, in Burnet's handwriting, 

 was copied at Ham in 1680, with the Duke of Lauder- 

 dale's permission, by Paterson, Archbishop of Glasgow, 

 testified under his episcopal seal, it being then in the 

 Duke's possession. 



Unfortunately for the bishop, his troublesome opponent, 

 Dr. Hickes, had been favoured with a sight of these Trea- 

 tises, and notices them in his work. Some Discourses upon 

 Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson, 4to., 1695, p. 20., which 

 elicited from Burnet the following explanation ; — 



" He charges me with a Paper, stating the Lawfulness 

 of Divorce in case of Barrenness, with relation to King 

 Charles the Second's Marriage ; which he says was a Pro- 

 ject of the Earl of Shaftsbury's, and his Party, to put by 

 the Duke of York. I cannot reflect on this Author's way 

 of writing, without remembring an Italian Proverb, that 

 has indeed more of Sense than of Religion in it; God 

 preserve me from my Friends, I will preserve myself from 

 my Enemies. What the Earl of Shaftsbury's Designs in 

 that matter were, I do not know ; for he never once 

 spoke of them to me. But I remember Avell that the 

 Duke (then Earl of) Lauderdale moved it to me. He was 

 the first that ever discovered to me the Secret of King 

 James's Religion ; and when he saw me struck with 

 great apprehensions upon it, he fell upon the Head of 

 Divorce, and told me many Particulars that I think fit 

 to suppress. I afterwards knew that the Matter of Fact 

 was falsely stated to me. I was then but Seven and 

 twenty, and was pretty full of the Civil Law ; which had 

 been my first Study. So I told him several things out of 

 the Digests, Code, and Novels, upon that Head ; and in 

 a great variety of Discourse we went through many parts 

 of it : He seemed surprized at many things that I told 

 him ; and he desired me to state the matter in Paper. I 

 very frankly did it ; yet I told him I spoke of the sudden ; 

 but when I went home among my Books, I would con- 

 sider it more severely. The following Winter I writ to 

 him, and retracted that whole Paper; I answered the 

 most material Things in it ; and I put a Confutation of 

 my first and looser Thoughts, in a Book that I writ that 

 Winter, which I can shew to any that desires it. The 

 Duke of Lauderdale was too wise to publish any thing 

 of this kind, tho in his passion he might have shewed it 

 to this Author, He knew that he had pressed me to talk 

 upon this Subject to the King himself; which I had re- 

 fused to do. A great deal more belongs to this Matter, 

 which I think fit to suppress : None but such a Person as 

 this Author is, would have published so much." — Reflec- 

 tions upon a Pamphlet, entitled " Some Discourses irnon 

 Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson," 8vo., 1696, pp. 76-78.] 



Commentary on " Proverbs," — Who is the au- 

 thor of A Commentarie upon the whole Booke of 

 the Proverhes of Solomon, London, 1596. In an 

 appendix to this book, consisting of " An Expo- 

 sition of certain choyse and excellent Proverbes 

 set downe scatteringly here and there in the 

 Scriptures," the following rendering is given of 

 Jeremiah, ch. xiii. v. 23. : " Can the blackamoore 

 chaunge his skinne, or leopard his blew spots." 



Does any version of the English Bible contain this 

 translation ? Whence the idea that the spots of 

 the leopard were blue ? W. G. L. 



Westbourne Grove. 



[This work is by Peter Muffet, and was first printed in 

 1592, by Richard Field for R. Dexter, 8vo.. and dedicated 

 to Edward Earle of Bedford. P. Muffet was also author 

 of " The Excellencie of the Mistery of Christ Jesus de- 

 clared in an Exposition vpon 1 Tim. iii. 16.," 1590. See 

 Herbert's Ames, pp. 1236. 1254. 1358.] 



Author of " A Remedy against Superstition.'''' — 

 Who was the author of A Remedy against Super- 

 stition, or a Pastor's Furewel to a beloved Flock, 

 privately printed in the year 1667. The epistle 

 dedicatory is addressed " To his truly honoured 

 friends of the county of Devon." A copy in my 

 possession contains an addendum in MS. for which 

 it is hard to account, unless it be from the pen of 

 the author, as there is no list of errata in the 

 book. W. G. L. 



Westbourne Grove. 



[This work is hy William Crompton, minister of Col- 

 luinpton in Devonshire, but ejected at the Restoration for 

 nonconformity. " He lived at CoUumpton and sometimes 

 at Exeter," says Wood, " carrying on at those places and 

 elsewhere a constant course (if not hindred) of preaching 

 in conventicles, especially in 1678-9, when the popish 

 plot broke out, and the faction endeavoured to obtain 

 their designs by it, when then he preached in despight of 

 authority, as also when king James II. and William III. 

 reigned." See Wood's Athenw, by Bliss, vol. iv. 626., 

 for a list of his works. In a copy of his Remedy against 

 Siiperstition before us, the Errata is printed on a separate 

 slip, and pasted on the last leaf,] 



Duntoiis *' Summer Ramble.'" — Dunton, in his 

 Dublin Scuffle, frequently alludes to his intended 

 publication, which he calls his Summer Ramble [in 

 Ireland]. Query, was it ever published, and if 

 so, in what year ? James Graves, Clerk. 



Kilkenny. 



[This Ramble, so frequently referred to in Dunton's 

 Conversation in Ireland, and The Dublin Scuffle, was pre- 

 pared for the press, but has never yet been printed. The 

 MS. is in the Rawlinson Collection in the Bodleian, 

 No. 71.] 



The Minerva of Sanctius. — Sir William Ha- 

 milton says in a note, in his Discussions on Philo- 

 sophy — 



" To master the Minerva of Sanctius and his commen- 

 tators is a far more profitable exercise of mind than to 

 conquer the Principia of Newton." 



Who is the Minerva of Sanctius ? who are his 

 commentators ? where is it to be got ? and what 

 is it about ? Enquirer. 



[Francisco Sanchez (Lat. Sanctius Brocensis), was an 

 eminent Spanish grammarian, born in 1523, and died in 

 1601. The work which gained him most reputation was 

 his Minerva, sen de Causis Linguaj Latinee Commentarius, 

 Salamanca, 1587, 8vo. This was often reprinted during 

 the sixteenth century, and in more modern times at Am- 

 sterdam, 1754, 1761, 8vo., with remarks by Scioppius, 



