2nd S. No 85., Aug. 15. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



123 



Paolo v., _page 420. : both whicli bookes were 

 printed at Venice, 1606, by Ruberto Meietti. 



" By this w*^*" hath beene sayde, it appeares 

 Spalato* was not the sole cause of y* bookes f 

 inipressyon. I will adde one thing more w'^'^ S"" 

 Nathanyel Brent gave once to me a little notice 

 of, and Mr. Bill, y" printer of y" booke, the full 

 story of. — King James having an intent to have 

 this booke printed, bid Spalato to send it to y® 

 presse, which Bill, fearing y^sale of it in England, 

 was unwilling to doe in Italyan, and Spalato mak- 

 ing relatyon of that to y" King, Bill was sent for 

 to his Ma*'®, and, after speech w* y*^ King, who 

 promised he should have y® book both in Latine 

 and English (by w^"" he might gayn, if he lost by 

 y" Italyan), he undertook y® worke, and beegun 

 some sheetes, w'^'' Spalato sent him ; but w"' words 

 in divers places put in and put out, so as he could 

 hardly read it to print. Now, y'' Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, whose indeed y" Italyan Copy was, 

 and had (as Bill told me) lent it to Spalato, heer- 

 ing y* there was such a book in y' presse, sent to 

 Bill to come to him, and asked him by what au- 

 thoryty he printed y* booke ; who aunswered, ' y*^ 

 King's,' and y* he had y® Copy from Spalato, w''*' 

 was so defaced he could hardly read it ; y® Arch- 

 bishop heering that, byd him desist from farther 

 printing till himself could speak w"^ y" King, to 

 whom he would give satisfaction, and take order 

 for y® printing, as he did, having all y* was donne 

 to bee cast away, and y" printer to beegin anewe, 

 and print it, not according to y* Spalato had sub- 

 stituted in, but to print those words he had put 

 out, and leave the rest, so y* wee have now a true 

 copy, just as it came from Venice. This Bill told 

 me anno 1627. S"" Nathanyell Brent told me one 

 alteratyon (w'^'' seemes not materyall) was, where 

 the author beginns, ' II proponimento mio e,' 

 Spalato altered it to ' ho deliberato,' as beeing 

 better Italian." 



[Out of a letter from my brother Will, dated 

 at Geneva, July y" 25*'', 1632, stilo veteri, there 

 is this passage following.] 



" M'' Deodaty heere hath promysed to let me see 

 a letter he had from Padre Paolo, touching y'' 

 leaving out y® Epistle beefore y* Council of Trent, 

 as allso y* W Depuis told me at Paris, that M'^ 

 de Thou never wrote more of his story then is 

 printed at Geneva, and y' to make an end of that, 

 he wrote somewhat in his deathbed, not above 

 3 dayes beefore he dyed. 



" That M"^ Depuis, as by other letters from him, 

 I understood was M"^ de Thou's kinsman, to whose 

 care y'' custody of his library was committed by 

 him, as appeeres likewise by M'^ de Thou's will 

 prefixed beefore his first booke of his story." 



B.L. 



I.e. Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato. — L. 



t " The History of y« Council of Trent." 



[Out of another letter from my sayd brother 

 Will, dated at Venice, November 26, stilo novo, 

 1632.] 



" I have now spake w**" P. Fulgentio, but find 

 y* those things w'^'^ you wrote to me to aske him 

 are things now much out of his head by reason of 

 other buysynesse, and therefore not fitte to aske 

 him. 



" He told me the Geneva edition of y« Counsel 

 of Trent is y* best, — but that there were some 

 faults in it, though he had not had leasure to 

 reade it over, and therefore had not observed 

 them. I shewed, him some of them you wrote to 

 me of, w"'' he acknowledged to bee faults : he told 

 me y* Padre Paolo had an intentyon to have con- 

 tynwed the story unto our times towching the 

 actyons of y" Popes, and divers other things that 

 I shall write of heereafter, as I come to know 

 them, that doe make his losse inestymable." 



" In y® History of y^ Council of U'rent, y® Ital. 

 edition printed at London, 1619, page 538., § II 

 di 11. Agosto, y^ Ital. edit, of Geneva, prynted 

 1629, § Addi undici Agosto, lib. 6., speaking 

 of Laynes, y® generall of y'' Jesuites, arryving at 

 Trent, and hys place in Councell, he sayth, bee- 

 cause of y® difference of y' precedence w*" other 

 Generalls, he was not named in y® Catalogues of 

 those who were there present. Now in all y® Cata- 

 logues I have yet seene, he is eyther the last 

 amongst y® Generalls or y*" last but one ; but of 

 this, see what Mons'' de Cordes, a lerned French 

 gentleman, hath writ to my brother Will, whom 

 I shewed it to, and writ to about it, — y" passage 

 foUoweth, dated : 



"'De Paris ce 6 Fevrier 1635, selon nostre 

 Stil. 



" ' Pource que quand vous esties icy vous me 

 dictes que vous trouvies estranger qu'en I'histoire 

 du Concile on eust escrit que dans le Catalogue 

 de ceux qui avoient assiste au Concile le General 

 des Jesuites ny avoit este mis, a cause de la pre- 

 seance, et neantmoins il se trouvoit dans les Cata- 

 logues impriraez. Surquoy je vous diray que 

 dans un vieil Catalogue que j'ay, imprime a Paris 

 I'an 1563, qui fut le mesme que le Concile finit, il 

 n'y est poinct, et pource que ce Catalogue est le 

 plus ancien que j'aye veu, I'autheur de I'histoire du 

 Concil a eu quelque raison de parler ainsi qu'il a 

 faict, et quand j'eus rencontre ce Catalogue je fus 

 en vostre logis pour le vous dire, mais vous estes 

 dejia parti le mesme jour, de quoy j'ay bien voulu 

 vous en donner advis," &c., &c. [of another 

 matter.] 



" ' Subscribed ' vre tres humble seryiteur, 



" ' Jeh. de Cokdes.' " 



[Copied out of y*^ originall 

 by me Roger Twysden.] 



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