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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«»i S. No 100., Not. 28. '57. 



ton's certificate, dated Sept. 10, 1685, on the 

 strength of which in later editions the tables are 

 called Newton's. (NeiotovUs Correspondence, ed. 

 Edleston, xxix. Ivi.) 



I have the following pamphlets : — 



" Reasons for altering: the Method used at present in 

 letting Church and College Leases. Addressed to a 

 Member of Parliament by the Senior Fellow of a College 

 in Cambridge. Cambridge, 8vo. 1739, pp. 178." 



" Church Leases. Report and Summary of the Evi- 

 dence and other Information appended to the Report of 

 the Select Committee appointed to enquire into the Man- 

 agement of Ecclesiastical Property in England and Wales. 

 Drawn up for Central Committee of Church Lessees by 

 John Power, Secretary to the Committee. London, 8vo. 

 1832, pp. 204." 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Conturhdbantur Constantinopolitani (1" S. ix. 

 576.; xi. 235., &c.) — On looking through that 

 extremely curious book, Las Bigarrnres et Touches 

 du Seigneur des Accords (Paris, 1614), I was sur- 

 prised to find that the lines supposed by every 

 schoolboy to have been addressed from Eton to 

 Westminster (or vice versa) were sent to Julius 

 Scaliger by one of his learned contemporaries, and 

 that he replied in a single hexameter composed 

 entirely of monosyllables : 



" Si mi lis nex est, trux, pax quid sit sub id aut quo." 



The author then gives six lines in Greek by 

 Joseph Scaliger, composed mostly of two words 

 each, but not entirely ; and then two Latin lines 

 of his own on a printer and bookseller in Bur- 

 gundy named des Planches, whom he describes as 

 "gaillard et jovial." 



" Multibellivoro Desplanctybibliopol8B 

 Praesentargento vendisatisfaciat." 



Poets' Corner. 



A. A. 



MS. Note in Locke (2"* S. iv. 189. 277.) — The 

 note is a condensed translation from Aristotle's 

 Metaphysics, b. iv. c. 4. : 



" Elcrl Se rtces oi, Ka.9a.irep eiirojuev, avTol re ei'Se'xeo'ffat if>a,iTi 

 TO avTO elvai icaV/oir) elvai, Kal VTroKafj-^dveiv outw?. Xpuivrai Se 

 T(f \6yco TOVTw noKKol koX ruiv irepl (^ucreus. 'H/aeis Si vvv elKrim 

 ^a|i;i6i' ws ccSwdrov oiros iiixa elf ai Kal /xri elvai., Koi Sia, tovtov 

 eSei^afjiev oti fiePaiOTdTt) avTrj tS)V dp)^ii>v Tratrwi'. 'Afioi)<rai 5r) 

 Kai TOVTO CLTj-oSeiKiruvai, Tii/es Si aTraiSev(Tiav' lim ydp awaiSevi- 

 <7ta TO fxr) yiyvuxTKeLv Tiviav Set ^rjTelv diroSei^iv Kal riviav ov Set, 

 'OAfDS nev yap awavTiav dSvvarov anoSei^iv eXvai' els ajreipov yap 

 av fiaSi^oi, iixne /xrjS' oiiTioy elvai inoSeiiiy," — Ed. Du Val, 1619, 

 ii. 873. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Chief Justice Sir Oliver Leader (2"'* S, iv.410.) 

 — If V. S. D. has not pei'petrated a hoax on you, 

 he will no doubt be considerate enough to give 

 you some additional particulars : viz. from what 

 source he obtained the alleged fact that a Chief 

 Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, named Sir 

 Oliver Leader, was buried at Great Stoughton, 

 Hunts. ; whether from the parish register, or from 



a monument, and if from either, will send you an 

 extract from the former, or a copy of the inscrip- 

 tion on the latter ; with information as to the will 

 from which he gives the various spellings of the 

 name, and where he discovered it. 



Not only (as you say) is there no such name 

 in Foss's Judges of England, but having carefully 

 searched that work through all the reigns desig- 

 nated by V. S. D., I can add that there is not even 

 a barrister of that name, nor any judge who ap- 

 pears to have been buried at Great Stoughton. I 

 have referred also to Smyth's Law Officers of Ire- 

 land, and find no such judge there. A. Z. 



Payment of M. P.'s (2°« S. iv. 188. &c.)— Ac- 

 cording to Hals, the Cornish historian, the failure 

 of payment was sufficient to cause the disfranchise- 

 ment of a borough. 



" The town of Milbrook, as I am informed, amongst 

 others, was once privileged with the jurisdiction of send- 

 ing two members to sit in the Lower House of Parliament, 

 but was devested of that privilege propter paupertatem, 

 tempore Henry VIII., for that the town was not able to 

 pay their burgesses' salary of 4s. per diem, whilst they sat 

 in Parliament." — Gilberts Paroch. Hist, of Corn., iii. 105. 



T. Q. C. 



Bodmin. 



St. Michaels Cave, Gibraltar (2°* S. iv. 389.)— . 

 I would refer Delta for particulars of his inquiry 

 to the Analysis of the Mediterranean, by Rev. G. 

 N. Wright ; but not possessing the work, I cannot 

 point out specially in what part. From the note 

 appended to Delta's article, it appears it is a 

 cavity in the rock filled up with large quantities 

 of stalactites : and I am induced to give an ac- 

 count of a still more curious natural cavern, of a 

 similar description. In July, 1834, I went by the 

 steamer from Venice to Trieste, on my way to 

 Vienna, and being informed of a grotto at Adels- 

 berg, which was discovered in 1819, about a mile 

 to the left of my road, I determined to visit it. 

 It is an amazingly large cave, with fine specimens 

 of stalactite, some of which are beautifully trans- 

 parent, and are sonorous when struck. There is 

 one which represents the drapery of a handsome 

 drawingroom curtain, with a red border, and is 

 very elegant. There are also several masses of 

 stalactitic formation, to which they give several 

 whimsical appellations, either from their resem- 

 blance, or a fancied resemblance, to other things. 

 The only inhabitant of these dark regions is the 

 Proteus Eel *, of which there are a few ; and 

 they told me it was so rare that no other speci- 

 mens could be found in Europe. This cave is 

 very cold and extremely damp, which those who 

 visit it would do well to guard against ; and it is 



* Proteus anguinus, or HypoclUon anguinus. This fish 

 (as I suppose it may be denominated) is described bj' 

 Dr. Schreibers, Philosophical Transactions, 1801, p. 241., 

 and I rather think also in the Penny Cyclopcedia. 



