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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 252. 



Bibliographical Queries. — I will feel obliged to 

 any brother bibliophile who can give me informa- 

 tion about the following works, none of which I 

 have been able to meet with, though I made many 

 fruitless inquiries about some of them : 



1. Maria Patrona. F. Lezana. 



2. Instructio pro Carmelitis. V. Bev. Theodor Strazio. 



3. Speculum Carmelitarum. "Daniel of the Virgin 



Mary." 



4. Corona Stellarum Duodecim. F. Isidore of St. 



Egidius. 



5. Anno memorabile del Carmelitani. Rev. Dr. Joseph 



Maria Fornari. 



6. Documenti Spiritula. Same author. 



7. Bullarium Carmelitanum. Rev. Dr. Eliseus Mon- 



signani. 



with the names of any other works of note on the 

 same subject (The confraternity of the Holy 

 Scapular). Enivbi. 



Monkstown, Dublin. 



The troublesome '' Baronet. — Can any of your 

 well-informed readers produce authority for de- 

 termining who the troublesome baronet was that 

 would take no denial to his impertinent intrusions 

 at the house of some great personage, about the 

 middle of the eighteenth century ? As this ques- 

 tion is not one of mere idle curiosity, but connected 

 with the degree of credit to be given to the 

 veracity of one of our biographical writers, it may 

 deserve a place among your Queries. The anec- 

 dote is well known, and need not be repeated in 

 extenso. The porter had strict orders to deny 

 the baronet admittance; so that when he next 

 called, the functionary anticipated his customary 

 string of excuses for gaining admission by saying 

 (keeping the door half-closed), " My lord is not 

 at home — the monkey is dead — the clock has 

 stopped, and the fire is out," then slammed the 

 door in the baronet's face. We have seen this 

 story applied to Long Sir Thomas Robinson and 

 the Duke of Newcastle; and we have now before 

 us another version, which states that a certain — 



that is to say, an uncertain — Sir Francis used 



thus to plague Lord N . There may be other 



variations of the anecdote in print, none of which 

 may be correct as regards the identity of the parties, 

 for it is the vice of anecdote retailers to vary their 

 dramatis personcB, either through carelessness or to 

 give novelty to repetition. The chance of arriving 

 at the truth of this story is through some of the 

 numerous volumes of published or unpublished 

 correspondence about the time of Horace Walpole. 

 The fact that the lady kept a monkey (if such fact 

 can be ascertained) would go far to verify the 

 party, at least, whom the baronet used to annoy. 

 We never heard that the old Duchess of Newcastle 

 had a penchant for monkeys. William Cramp. 



Sir Richard Ratcliffe. — Of what branch of 

 the " Ratclififes " was Sir Richard, K. G., so his- 



torically known to us as the intimate associate of 

 Richard III., and finally slain with him at Bos- 

 worth, I have not observed his line of descent in 

 any pedigree of " Radcliffe," but it appears that 

 his daughter Joane married Henry Grubb, Esq , 

 of North Mimras, Herts, and was heiress to her 

 brother, Sir John Ratcliffe. 



A Constant Reader. 



Heraldic. — Wanted, the coat armour of the 

 following Sussex families, viz. : 



Challenor, of Chiltington. 



NichoUs, of East Grinstead. Qu. sab., three 

 pheons arg. ? 



Aylwyn, of Preston in Binderton, and of West 

 Dean ; also of Lewes. 1662. 



Plomer, of the Haddowne ; also of Southover, 

 near Lewes. 



Brooke, of Barkham. 



Arnold, of West Grinstead. 

 Also of the following : 



BrockhuU, of AUington, co. Kent. 



Burton, of Westerham, co. Kent. 



Milles, of Sussex? 



Bragge, of Sussex, or Kent ? 



Harper, alderman of Stockport, co. Cheshire, 

 c. 1670. H. T. G. 



Kaleidoscope. — I had always supposed that the 

 kaleidoscope was the inventi<m of Sir D. Brewster, 

 but having met with the following passage In the 

 Arcana Coelestia of Swedenborg, I am led to think 

 that that instrument was an anterior invention : 

 this is quite possible, although the fact might be 

 unknown to Sir David. To myself It appears, 

 that by tlie optical cylinder alluded to In the fol- 

 lowing extract, nothing else can be intended biit 

 the kaleidoscope. I give the passage as It occurs 

 In the English translation, but possibly a reference 

 to the original Latin would enable us better to 

 decide the question. 



Swedenborg' Is describing the difference be- 

 tween the literal and internal senses of the word, 

 showing that In the literal sense, particularly of 

 the prophetical parts of the Old Testament, 

 "scarcely anything appears but a somewhat Irre- 

 gular and without order;" whereas its spiritual 

 or internal sense, wiien perceived by the angels 

 and enlightened mortals, appears most beautiful 

 and delightful ; and he proceeds to illustrate the 

 difference thus : 



" Some idea of it may be conceived by those who have 

 seen optical cylinders in the museums of the curious, in 

 whicli are represented beautiful images from monstrous 

 projections of objects placed around them; for although 

 these projections appear destitute of form or order, like 

 accidental marks or scratches, still, when they are con- 

 centrated in the cylinder, they represent there a neat and 

 handsome picture." — Arcana Ccelestia, 1871. 



Perhaps some of your readers may be able to 

 throw farther light on this subject. .^ther. 



