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bishop's means they procured a Council at Soissons, in the 

 year 1121 ; and without suffering Abelard to make any 

 defence, ordered his book to be burnt by his own hands, 

 and himself to be confined in the convent of St. Medard. 

 This sentence gave him such grief, that he says himself 

 the unhappy fate of his writings touched him more sen- 

 sibly than the misfortune he had sutfered through Ful- 

 bert's means," &c. — Abelard and Heloise: Glasgow, R. & 

 A. Foulis, 1751, p. 19. 



" A message was sent by the Lords to the Commons on 

 the 6th (Nov. 1745), desiring a conference with them 

 next day, at three o'clock, in the Painted Chamber, touch- 

 ing certain treasonable declarations and printed papers 

 published and dispersed about the kingdom by the Pre- 

 tender and his eldest son ; and accordingly, the next day, 

 the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in par- 

 liament assembled, came to the following resolution, viz. 



" * 1. That the two printed papers respectively signed 

 James E., and dated at Rome, Dec. 23, 1743, and the four 

 printed papers signed Charles P. R., dated respectively 

 May 16, Aug. 22, and Oct. 9th and 10th, 1745, are false, 

 scandalous, and traitorous libels, intended to poison the 

 minds of his Majesty's subjects,' &c. &c. 



" ' 2. That in abhorrence and detestation of such vile 

 and treasonable practices, the said several printed papers 

 be burnt by the hands of the common hangman at the 

 Royal Exchange, in London, on Tuesday the 12th day of 

 this instant November, at one of the clock in the after- 

 noon; and that the Sheriffs of London do then attend, 

 and cause the same to be burnt there accordingly.' 



" The papers were burnt agreeably to this resolution, 

 amidst the repeated acclamations of a prodigious number 

 of people." — Scots Magazine for Xov. 1745, vol. vii. 

 p. 636. 



G.K 



Phosphoric Light (Vol. X., p. 147.)- — It is not 

 on the surface that phosphoric light appears ex- 

 clusively : it may often be seen in Loch Fyne, 

 illuminating the whole of a herring-net several 

 fathoms under water. J. P. O. 



Mantel-piece (Vol. x., p. 153.). — Nothing is 

 more common in France, than to see a sort of 

 curtain or valance (which might well be called a 

 mantle) hung from the shelf of the chimney-piece ; 

 and I have seen the same in an English drawing- 

 room made of velvet, and adorned with fringes 

 and embroidery. May not this be the real origin 

 of the name ? J. P. O. 



Precedency of the Peers of Ireland in England 

 (Vol. X., p. 129.). — In Hardy's Memoirs of the 

 Earl of Charlemojit, vol. i. pp. 123-4., which I 

 have been reading lately, some interesting par- 

 ticulars are given respecting the Earl of Egmont, 

 whose " heraldic knowledge was singularly minute 

 and circumstantial ;" so much so, that — 



" On points of precedence, or adjusting the slow and solemn 

 steps of exalted personages, at public ceremonials, neither 

 Mowbray nor Lancaster heralds, Blue Mantle nor Rouge 

 Dragon,' could venture to approach his lordship." 



Abuba. 



Fashion in Brittany (Vol. x., p. 146.). — Is it 

 not probable that this may mean what Is called a 



"Welsh uncle," i. e. the first cousin of the father or 

 mother ? The close connexion of origin between 

 Welsh and Bretons Is well known ; and that their 

 speech is, to this day, sufficiently similar for a 

 Welshman to make himself understood in Brittany. 



J. P. O. 

 Fitchetfs '' King Alfred" (Vol. x., p. 102.).— 

 John FItchett, the author of this more than Her- 

 culean labour, was a lawyer residing at Warring- 

 ton. While being initiated into the mysteries of 

 his profession, his attention was directed to the 

 groundwork of our laws and constitution as 

 framed by our Saxon ancestors. This, of course, 

 brought him In contact with the history of Alfred, 

 and this led him to the projection of an epic poem 

 on the adventures of that monarch. This project 

 he never gave up, but for forty years pursued it 

 with unremitting ardour ; and when he died in 

 the autumn of 1838, his mighty undertaking was 

 still unfinished. His papers then came Into the 

 hands of Robert Eoscoe, who had been his confi- 

 dential clerk, who revised and finished the work 

 which was published In 1841. It contains an 

 enormous amount of Information, but considered 

 as a poem little can be said in Its favour. The 

 plot is most defective, and the language is 

 generally an Imitation of Milton's (!), with a strong 

 relish of "mine ancient." This is Roscoe's own 

 account of the undertaking. E. West. 



Saint Tellant (Vol. x., p. 265.). —I beg to sug- 

 gest that the "Tellant" on the Rhosllll bell Is 

 synonymous with St. Tallan, commemorated at 

 Talland, In Cornwall (vide Calendar of the Angli' 

 can Church, published by Parker, Oxford, 1851, 

 p. 288.). Talland is a parish In West Lore Hun- 

 dred, Cornwall : a promontory on Its southern 

 extremity Is termed, in Norden's map, Tallant 

 Point. I cannot refer to Davles Gilbert's Corn- 

 wall, where possibly more may be said on the 

 subject. Carew's Survey of Cornwall merely 

 gives the name J. M. T. 



If the legend Is Sancta Tellant I can furnish 

 no answer to the Query, " Who was Saint Tel- 

 lant ?" But if It Is Sancte, I believe the saint In- 

 tended is St. Telean, bishop and martyr. He was 

 the second Bishop of Llandaff, nobly born and 

 brought up under St. Dubritius, together with 

 St. David. He was martyred by Gueddan, a. 

 Welsh nobleman, about the year 626. He was 

 burled in the cathedral of Llandafi", which bears 

 his name. F. C. H. 



7'he Collier's Creed (Vol. x., p. 143.).— It is 

 amusing to find the supposition that this " ridicu- 

 lous salvo" derived its title from the name of an 

 individual. The "Collier's Creed" Is, doubtless, 

 nothing more nor less than the interpretation in 

 English of the Fides Carbonaria, or Foi du Char- 

 bonnier, explanations of which terms, together 



