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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ndS. No 89., Sept. 12. '67. 



ladies to be learned ; at court you are all so to the emu- 

 lation one of another.' 



" lAxdy. ' It would be fine indeed if our sex should come 

 to be ministers of state.' 



" Gent. ' Why not, Madam? If the world, like the sea, 

 do nothing but ebb and flow : if according to the doctrine 

 of the philosophers (your favourites) the earth turns round, 

 instead of the heavens : why should there not be as great 

 revolutions among persons as things ? ' 



Let us rejoice that the day of fine ladies and 

 fine crentlemen is over. M. 



SIB EOGEK TWYSDEN ON THE HISTORY OI" THE 

 COUNCIL OF TRENT. 



(2»o S. iv. 121.) 



I am in possession of the copy of the Historia 

 del Concilio Tridentino which formerly belonged 

 to Sir Roger Twysden. As attention is called in 

 " N. & Q." by Mr. Larking, to the part taken by 

 Sir Roger in matters relating to that History and 

 its author, perhaps a transcript of one or two no- 

 tices in the handwriting of Sir Roger, at the be- 

 ginning of the copy, may not be unacceptable. 



On the top corner of the title-page is inscribed 

 " Roger Twysden, 1627." Numerals are written 

 over the letters of the anagram of the author's 

 name, showing the order in which they should be 

 taken ; and in the margin the anagram is inter- 

 preted accordingly, thus : 



" Paolo Sarpio Veneto. Cujus nomen in libris edit. 

 Venet. 1660 sic scriptum reperitur. Padre Maestro 

 Paulo da Venetia, del Ordine de Servi. Nat. Venet. 

 1552, 14° die Augusti. Obiit Venet. 1623, Januarii, ^tat. 

 71." 



On the blank page opposite to the title are the 

 following : 



"Editio prima, authoritate Regia publicata, reliquis 

 omnibus anteponenda. Licet insunt hac nonnulla Errata 

 quas in Genevensi anno 1629 edita corriguntur, quare ideo 

 Fratri meo [viz. Georgio Twysden] aifirmavit P. Ful- 

 gentio. An. 1632. Addebatq3 R. Paulo in mente Res 

 gestas Pontificum ad nostra tempora continuasse." 



"Atq3 eundemPaulumfuisseAuthorem hujus Historiae 

 mihi saipe affirmavit Nat. Brent, Legum Doctor et Eques 

 auratus, seq5 Venetiis jussu Regis ab Archiepiscopo Can- 

 tuarensi missum, ut Exemplar transcriberet et in Angliam 

 mitteret. Quod fecit, ab ipso Authore exemplaris ei copifl 

 fact& : non tamen ante plenam Inquisitionem ab ipso 

 Paulo factam, qualis erat iste Brentius, cujus Fidei com- 

 mitteret; quem etiam Phrasis et Modus loquendi Au- 

 thorem fnisse prodeunt. Verum hie apponam Curiae 

 Roraanaj de hac Historia judicium, vid'J La Narratione e 

 vera ma le consequenze sono cattive. Hoc communicatum 

 D. Cordes Parisensi, ab Episcopo quodam Romse agente, 

 cum primum edita fuit, et qui banc esse Curiae Opinio- 

 nem probe novit, mihi inde rescriptum erat Literis Doct. 

 Paris. 27 Apr. Stylo novo 1632. Roger Twysden. 



"Idem affirmavit Mons'' de Puys. Nota,'Ambo erant 

 Romani Catholici, Viriq3 doctissimi." 



" Author hujus Libri videtur esse R. P. Paulus Venetus, 

 cui Sarpio cognomen Gentile fuit. Hjec Gul. Bedellus, 

 Epistola Dedicatoria Historiae Interdicti Veneti ad Caro- 



lum Regem. Elogium Authoris Lege lib. 13. Thuani 

 Hist. Tom. 5. Nee non eadem Epistola Bedelli, qui P. 

 Paulum familiariter Venetiis cognovit. Reipublicte erat 

 Theologus et magni inter Venetos nominis. Qui eum non 

 solum viventem, sed etiam post mortem prosequuti sunf. 

 Reipublicae Causam contra Interdictum Pauli 5, 1606, 

 optime et tamen modeste defendebat, cujus Interdicti 

 particularem Historiam (editam tamen non ante Authoris 

 Mortem) conscripsit, ex Italica per Gul. Bedellum in La- 

 tinam conversum." 



Throughout the volume the margin is enriched 

 by the MS. notes of Sir Roger, partly in Italian, 

 partly in Latin, containing references to other 

 writers, as Thuanus, Baronius, &c. &c., and cor- 

 rections of this London edition from that of Ge- 

 neva, noticed above. S. D. 



THE FIRST SEA-GOING STEAMER. 



(2°<> S. iv. 155.) 



I think your gallant correspondent Lieut. 

 Phillips, R.N., hardly does justice to his prede- 

 cessor in steam-traversing the sea, the enterprising 

 Capt. Dod. It is true that this first adventurer 

 on the ocean in a steam-vessel did not journey in 

 a sea-going vessel, and that his voyage was a hap- 

 hazard one. If his ship was not seaworthy, the 

 captain's daring was only the more conspicuous > 

 and as to the voyage being " hap-hazard," as 

 much may be said of every first experimental at- 

 tempt. Columbus's ship was not a first-rate, and 

 his voyage of discovery was something of a hap- 

 hazard one, but something came of it nevertheless. 

 Lord Anson went after the Spanish galleons in 

 leaky tubs, and got back in such hap-hazard style, 

 that if he was not snapped up by the French,^ it 

 was only because he passed through their entire 

 fleet in a fog. I have some notes of the captain's 

 interesting voyage, but I am too far from them to 

 make them available at present. _ The voyage 

 achieved, and the sailor by whom it was accom- 

 plished, seem to me (albeit an ignorant landsman) 

 worthy of being named with more respect than is 

 awarded them by your gallant correspondent, 

 whose communication concerning himself is, never- 

 theless, one of interest. Let me notice here the 

 claims of Henry Bell, the mechanic, stonemason, 

 shipwright, and ultimately, innkeeper at Helens- 

 burgh, who projected and successfully completed 

 the first steamer that ever paddled along the 

 Clyde. This was the " Comet," of thirty tons 

 burthen, and four horse power. She commenced 

 her career in 1812, and went merrily on till 1825, 

 when she was wrecked in the Firth of Clyde, on a 

 return trip from the Western Highlands ; on which 

 occasion very many of her passengers were 

 drowned. When Bell became almost as great a 

 wreck as his vessel, the Clyde Trustees, out of 

 common gratitude, settled on him an annuity of 

 100^., which he enjoyed till he died in 1830. His 



