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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2iid s. No 34., Ara. 23. '56. 



3. Clark on The Sanative Influence of Climate, 

 Srded., 1841; 4th ed., 1846. 



4. Cresy's Report to the General Boai'd of 

 Health, 1850. 



5. Mackness on Hastings considered as a Resort 

 for Invalids, 1st ed. 1842, 2nd ed. 1850. 



M. D. 



Gillet, alias Candler or Chandler. — A fa- 

 mily of these names is described in Burke's Ar- 

 moury as of Ipswich, co. Suffolk. I believe that 

 one of them was head master of Woodbridge 

 Grammar School in the latter part of the seven- 

 teenth century ; and another, the Rev. Philip 

 Candler, according to Blomefield's History of 

 Norfolk, was Rector of Blofield, Norfolk, in 1735. 

 Any information respecting them, or communica- 

 tion from their descendants, if any, would oblige 



E. G. R. 



Dover Castle. — I have lately heard a story 

 that the road up the hill to Dover Castle was 

 made in the space of two hours by four thousand 

 men. Can any of your readers confirm or refute 

 this statement ? M. D. 



Pagan Philosopher: Author of Sir Simon League : 

 Rabiger. — The following passages are from An 

 Enquiry into the Influence of Art upon Religion, 

 Brussels, 1834, pp. 164. : 



" A more elevated tone is perceptible in the last of the 

 pagan philosophers, who asks: ' Why should man, him- 

 self the maker of idols, trust to them who are lifeless, and 

 whose harmony is external only? Perishable things, 

 too, and of short duration. Is truth and reality in them ? 

 Nothing absolutely pure and true can spring from human 

 art." — P. 29. 



" I went over the cathedral at Upsale with my gifted 

 friend the author of Sir Simon League, who fully shared 

 my opinion that though here, as at Utrecht, much had 

 been done to give to these vast edifices the air of Pro- 

 testant churches, the spirit of Eome pervaded the walls, 

 influencing the worship, and even the music. These re- 

 sults in Protestant Germany are fully shown by Rabiger." 

 — P. 102. 



On this I beg to ask, who is the pagan philo- 

 sopher, and where is the original of the above 

 passage ? Who are " the author of Sir Simon 

 League " and Rabiger ? E. J. 



Paris. 



'■^ Dyalogues of Creatures Moralyzed." — I shall 

 be much obliged if any one will tell me the author 

 in Latin, the translator into English, the publisher, 

 and the date, of the following work: the title- 

 page of which stands thus — 



" The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed. Applyably 

 and edificatyfly to euery mery and iocounde mater, of late 

 traslated out of Latyn into our Englj-sshe tonge, right 

 profitable to the gouernauuce of man. ^And they be to 

 sell, vp5 Powlys churche yarde," 



The remainder of the title-page is filled up 

 with a rude woodcut of two monsters — a male 

 and a female — half man, half ox. 



The volume is quite perfect and whole, but it 

 gives none of the usual information on any of the 

 points I have specified above. It is in very clear 

 type, similar to that used by Caxton in his later 

 works, and is profusely illustrated with a great 

 number of rude woodcuts. 



I shall also be glad to be informed whether or 

 not it has ever been reprinted, wholly or in part ; 

 or much quoted from ? 



I have looked through Dibdin, but if he men- 

 tions it, I have missed it. In the printed cata- 

 logue of the Bodleian, there is this entry — 



" Creaturae — Dyalogus creaturarum optima morali- 

 zatus, omni materie morali jocondo modo applicabilis, 

 fol. Goudcb, per Gerarduin Leeu, 1482, title wanting" — 



and "in English, 4to." In Watt's Bibliotheca, 

 there is — 



" Creature — 1481, Dialogus Creaturarum Moralizatus; 

 cum figuris, Paris, fol. A most uncommonly scarce 

 work." 



The copy now before me has the title-page. 

 Gerard Leeu was a printer at Antwerp, circa 

 1490. Any information about this volume will 

 much oblige Henry Kensington. 



[ The Dialogues of Creatures has been frequently pub- 

 lished in other languages. In the Latin and Dutch alone 

 there were not less than fifteen editions before 1511. It 

 was first published under the title oi Dyalogus Creaturarum 

 Moralizatus, by Gerard Leeu, Gouda, fol., 1480. In 1511, 

 under the title of Destructorium Vitiorum ex similitudinum 

 Creaturarum exemplorum appropriatione per modum Dia- 

 logi, &c., by Claude Nourry, at Lyons, small fol. The 

 edition printed in English, without date, was probably 

 produced at a foreign press. Herbert, in a manuscript 

 note, says, " Although mention is made that this book is 

 to be sold in St. Paul's Church-yavd, both in the title and 

 colophon, yet I am inclined to think it was printed in 

 France, by the type and blooming letters; the former 

 being much like Thelman Kerver's, and of the latter 

 some are very uncommon." In 1816, a beautiful reprint, 

 edited by Joseph Haslewood, was published by Robert 

 Triphook in 4to., of which ninety-eight copies were 

 printed, all of which, excepting forty-two, were de- 

 stroj'ed by fire. This edition contains a valuable biblio- 

 graphical account of the work. Mr. Haslewood states, 

 that " all particulars of the author and of the origin of 

 the work have hitherto escaped research: no ancient 

 manuscript of it is known, and it is doubtful if there is a 

 quotation from it in any old authority."] 



Lord Chancellor Cowper and Mr. Justice Spencer 

 Cowper. — Sir Walter Scott, in a note to his edi- 

 tion of the Works of Swift, says : 



" Lord Chancellor Cowper was branded with bigamy, 

 because he had written a work on the plurality of wives, 

 and had, adds Voltaire, actually two Ladies Cowper in his 

 domestic regime. His brother the judge had previously 

 been tried for the murder of a young woman, one Sarah 

 Stout, rvhom he had deluded by a feigned marriage while he 

 had a wife alive," &c. 



Is there any authority for thQ assertion, that 



