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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nov. 17. 1855. 



into the accommodation afforded to the prisonex', 

 and other items of interest — in fact, the propor- 

 tion of the bread to the sack — must remain mat- 

 ter of conjecture till the account itself shall be 

 discovered ; which, as it would only contain par- 

 ticulars, and not affect a claim for money, may 

 not have been preserved. J. Bt. 



fSRutXitH. 



MANUSCRIPT OP BASIt, KENNETT. 



I have in my possession a small quarto MS. (ap- 

 parently auton;raph) of about forty leaves, entitled 

 Verses on Religious and Moral Subjects, translated 

 from some of the chief Italian Poets. On the leaf 

 preceding the title is the following dedication : " To 

 Mrs. Howe, with the humble respects and affection- 

 ate good wishes of Basil Kennett." There is no date. 

 The paper is thin and of fine quality. Water-marks, 

 on some of the sheets, a shield (within olive- 

 branches) bearing a lion rampant, in chief three 

 Jieur-de-lis ; on others the letters " B. G." sur- 

 mounted by a crown. The writing seems as old 

 as quite the early part of the eighteenth century. 

 There are twenty short poems. The fust consists 

 of twenty-two lines, and is called " The Invoca- 

 tion, from Celio Magno : O di somma bontate 

 ardente sole ! " &c. It begins : 



" good supreme ! O beauty not to fade ! 

 Of whom a thousand suns are but the shade ! " 



T^he other verses are from -Petrai'c, Tasso, Delia 

 Casa, Simon Ran e Requesen, Carlo Maria Maggi, 

 Frosini, Filicaia, and Borghini. EnglisJi titles. 

 The Traveller, The Adventurer, The Pilgrim, 

 The Counsellor, The Monitor, The Philosopher, 

 The Convert, The Penitent, The Example, Heroic 

 Virtue, The Sufferer, Mount Tabor and Mount 

 Calvary, Humility Exalted, Divine Love, Divine 

 Providence, The Grand Alliance, Time, The Re- 

 treat, The Watch. 



Have these translations been published ? If so, 



when and where ? I have not access to Kennett's 



works. Who was " Mrs. Hov/e " ? What is the 



explanation of the water-marks ? S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



" CURIA," " COMITIA CURIATA." 



Am I wrong in thinking the first of these un 

 Alban word ? Alba was at the head of a confede- 

 racy of thirty curias, corporate towns possessing a 

 curia or deliberating body. The comitia curiata 

 then was the general assembly for the members of 

 the different curise. It is essentially a popular 

 assembly. In process of time, when Rome, the 

 colony of Alba, had so far increased in power 

 as not only to throw off all dependence on, 

 but even to overthrow llic mother city Alba, 



No. 316.] 



when again the Curiatii are Albans, she na- 

 turally took the lead in the confederacy of the 

 tliirty curiae. Some of these corporate towns, 

 however, it is probable were destroyed in the 

 different wars of which we read ; but, at any rate, 

 as foreigners settled in them who had not the 

 franchise, the comitia curiata gradually became, 

 from a popular and representative, a patrician 

 assembly ; and thus the change introduced into 

 the constitution by Servius TuUius was similar 

 to that effected by Cleisthenes at Athens. He 

 did not alter the number thirty ; but instead of 

 taking for the basis of his government an extinct 

 confederacy of curia, he divided the whole people 

 into thirty tribes ; in four of which the citizens of 

 Rome herself, in the other twenty-six the inha- 

 bitants of the outlying towns in the Roman state, 

 enrolled themselves. Thus a really popular and 

 representative assembly was organized in the comi- 

 tia tributa. AVhether the patricians proper, the 

 members of the comitia curiata, took much part 

 in the ncAV assembly, is of little consequence ; 

 more particularly as they were duly enrolled ac- 

 coi'ding to their property in the comitia ceniuriata, 

 a military organisation similar in some respects to 

 that introduced by Lycurgus at Sparta. It does 

 not appear improbable that, before the thirty 

 curias were made up from the three nations, the 

 Rhamnes, Titles, and Luceres, the party of Ro- 

 mulus, the Sabines and the Etruscans, the 

 Rhamnes and Titles had each fifteen curia3. A 

 difficulty has been raised as to the mode of pro- 

 cedure when the curiae were equally divided on a 

 question ; is it not probable, that in such a case 

 th^ king had a casting vote, which would be a 

 reason for the choice of kings alternately from the 

 Sabine and Roman stock ? That the curia, in early 

 times, was very small, it is reasonable to believe ; 

 especially as it probably meant at first ten families, 

 which in process of time became ten clans (gentes) 

 under a curio. Three of the names of curiae, 

 which have come down to us — Calabra, Veliensis, 

 and Tifata — seem to be not only local, but to 

 make out a case for the wide extent of Alban rule. 



R. J. Allen. 



Was Anne Boleyn buried at Salle ? — Salle 

 Church, Norfolk, is mentioned by Miss Strick- 

 land as the burial-place of Anne Boleyn, and I 

 have elsewhere read an account of her body 

 (which had been previously burled in the Tower) 

 being carried off by Sir Thomas Wyatt and a 

 party of faithful friends for more honourable in- 

 terment. 



Some time ago I made a pilgrimage thither for 

 the purpose of seeing the spot, but found the 

 story was not credited by the intelligent inhabit- 



