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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 258. 



Books published since the Eeformation. The Calendar of 

 the Anglican Church (p. 81., published in 1851), states that 

 " six churches are named in his honour in England." 

 See " N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 136.] 



Artificial Ice. — Can any of your readers give 

 me the composition of the artificial ice, which was 

 some years ago exhibited for skating purposes in 

 London ? It was then the subject of a patent, 

 but that has no doubt long ago expired. J. P. O. 



Loch Gilp Head. 



[Ice was produced in summer by means of chemical 

 mixtures, prepared by Mr. Walker and others in 1782. 

 The Srd and 4th volumes of the Philosophical Magazine 

 and Annals of Philosophy for 1828, contain two commu- 

 nications from Mr. Walker, about forty years after the 

 appearance of his first paper in the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions. The papers in the Philosophical Magazine contain 

 a description of very useful apparatus for experiments 

 with frigorific mixtures. Leslie froze water under the 

 receiver of an air-pump, by placing under it a vessel full 

 of oil of vitriol. One part of sal-ammoniac and two of 

 common salt, with five of snow, produce a degree of cold 

 12" below the zero of Fahrenheit. Five parts of muriate 

 of lime and four of snow freeze mercury ; and mercury can 

 be solidified by preparations of sulphuric acid, so as to 

 bear the stroke of a hammer. See the articles Feeezi:sq 

 and Heat in the Penny Cyclopadia.'] 



Milton s Watch. — Having, some years since, 

 seen a newspaper paragraph stating that a watch, 

 which formerly belonged to the poet Milton when 

 a youth, had been accidentally discovered, and 

 was intended to be placed in the British Museum, 

 may I inquire through your pages if the state- 

 ment named was well founded ? and, if so, whether 

 the relic in question ever found its way into our 

 great national repository, or is preserved else* 

 where ? Curiosus. 



[Milton's watch is not in the British Museum ; one 

 supposed to have been Cromwell's is. Sir Charles Fel- 

 lowes or Mr. Octavius Morgan may have the former, as 

 they have the finest collections of watches in England.] 



^t^liti* 



" wALSi:sG ham's manual." 



(Vol.vi., pp.56. 375.) 



Your correspondent A, B.^E.. at the latter re- 

 ference says, " I once bought a little book under 

 the name of Walsingharn's Manual, of which the 

 proper title is Arcana Aulica, published in 1655, 

 under the impression that it might be a work of 

 Sir Francis Walsingharn's ; but though a rare and 

 very curious volume, it is not his." I have never 

 seen the original edition of Walsingharn's Manual, 

 but I have before me a thin 12mo., pp. 186., en- 

 titled A?'ca7ia Aulica, or Walsingharn's Manual of 

 Prudential Maxims for the Statesman and the 

 Courtier. London, printed by T. C. 1655; London, 

 reprinted for "W. S., and sold by G. and W. Ni- 

 coll, Pall Mall ; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 



Paternoster Row ; and J. W. Richardson, Corn- 

 hill, 1810 : price four shillings. 



The work consists of a series of chapters on 

 court statesmanship, and A. B. R. is wrong when 

 he says that the proper title of it is Arcana Aulica, 

 and that it (^Arcana Aidica) was published in 1655. 

 That title and that date were merely the date and 

 title of a translation into English from a Latin 

 version, which I have now before me, of a French 

 original. The title of this Latin version is, Au- 

 licus incidpatus ex Gallico auctoris anonymi tra- 

 ductus, a Joach. Pastorio, !Med. D. Amsterodami, 

 apud Lud. Elzerium, 1649: 18mo., pp.204. In 

 the " Prefatio ad Lectorem " the translator says, 

 after confessing his ignorance of the author, — 



"Nescio tamen qua ex causa ille nomine hunc suo 

 gaudere noluit," &c. 



and the English translator (anonymous) says : 



" Of what birth it is I can give no certain account ; all 

 that I can assure you of is this, that having perused it 

 through, some very knowing persons have affirmed that 

 our language is yet enriched with nothing upon the sub- 

 ject equal to it. . . . It was directed as a present to 

 Ormond, the titular Viceroy of Ireland, from one Wal- 

 singham." 



And then quoting, or affecting to quote, from the 

 letter from this " one Walsingham " to Ormond, 

 accompanying the present, he makes the same 

 " one Walsingham " say, — 



" It is some years since I first met with it in MS., and 

 in a foreign language. ... I have since seen it pub- 

 lished in Latin, but still as nameless as at our first ac- 

 quaintance." 



J.K. 



[An edition of Walsingham^ s 3fanual was published in 

 1728, under the following title, " Walsingharn's Mamial; 

 or Prudential Maxims for Statesmen and Courtiers, with. 

 Instructions for Youth, Gentlemen, and Noblemen. By 

 Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Treasurer Burleigh, and Car- 

 dinal Sermonetta. The Second Edition. London : printed 

 for W. Mears, F. Clay, and D. Bro^ni, without Temple 

 Bar, MD.xxviii., (price 2s. 6d)." The volume, which is 

 a large 12mo., contains : 



I. " Sir Walter Ealeigh's Instructions to his Son and 

 to Posterity ; " 



which extends from pp. 9. to 42. 



II. " The Lord Treasurer Burleigh's Advice to his Son ; " 

 which occupies pp. 45. to 65. 



III. " The Instructions of Cardinal Sermonetta to his 

 Cousin Petro Caetano, at his first going into Flanders to 

 the Duke of Parma to serve Philip, King of Spain;" 



which occupies pp. 59. to 99. And — 



IV. " Walsingham's Manual of Prudential Maxims for 

 Statesmen and Courtiers ; " 



which fills the greater portion of the volume, extending 

 as it does from pp. 103. to 328. 



The editor of this edition, in his address to the reader, 

 gives us the following account of the work in question : 



"The fourth (tract) is Walsingham's Manual, v,-hich 

 crowns all, and is thought to be the performance of some 

 unfortunate Spanish minister in his retirement ; and we 

 are indebted to Mr. Walsingham (whose name it bears) 



