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NOTES AND QUERIES; 



[No. 263. 



If you think the above worthy, perhaps you 

 may find a nook for it in " N. & Q." 



J. Allingham, Jun. 

 Dublin. 



Queen Anne's Farthing. — I may perhaps be 

 allowed to store in " N. & Q." the substance of a 

 letter on this subject from Mr. H. G. Fothergile, 

 Rector, I presume, of Belton, to the Illustrated 

 London News of Oct. 7. That gentleman states 

 that th?'ee only were struck from the original die, 

 on account of a flaw being discovered near the 

 bridge of the nose in the figure. One of these, he 

 adds, is at present in the possession of Major 

 Fothergile, the other two being in the British 

 Museum. P. J. F. Gantillon. 



National Character illustrated by Proverbs. — As 

 English and French fleets and armies are now 

 paired, it may be permitted to send out a pair of 

 proverbs, one of each nation, to raise the laugh 

 against both : 



English. " Civility costs nothing." 

 French. " On attrape plus de mouches avec du miel 

 qu'avec du vinaigre." 



The Englishman, in three words, half tells you he 

 wants something for nothing. The Frenchman, in 

 twelve, tells you he means to take you in. Russ. 



Biographical Error. — Geo. Abbott the Puritan, 

 author of the Paraphrase on the Books of Job and 

 Psalms, is described in Aikin's, Watkins's, Maun- 

 der's, and other biographical dictionaries, as the 

 son of Sir Maurice Abbott, Knt., Lord Mayor of 

 London, and brother to the archbishop ; whereas, 

 after much research, I cannot discover that the 

 said Geo. Abbott was in any manner related to 

 the archbishop's family, but was either the son or 

 grandson of a Sir Thos. Abbott, Knt., of Easington, 

 Yorkshire, who intermarried with the ancient 

 family of Pickering. (See Proceedings in Chan- 

 cery, temp. Elizabeth.) 



There is an interesting account in Dugdale's 

 Warwickshire of the above Geo. Abbott ; he mar- 

 ried a daughter of Col. Purefoy, and bravely 

 defended his father-in-law's manor-house at Calde- 

 cote, Warwickshire, against the — 



" Fierce and furious attack of Prince Rupert and Maurice 

 with eighteen troops of horse and dragoners, having only 

 eight men, beside his mother and her maids, for his gar- 

 rison. Prince Rupert behaved most honourably in the 

 matter." 



He was M. P. during the Long Parliament for 

 Tamworth ; he died in 1648, and was buried in 

 Caldecote Church, where there is a handsome 

 monument to his memory : arms thereon, Abbott, 

 the chev. ermine, quartering Pickering. 



The real Geo. Abbott, son of Sir Maurice, was 

 of Merton College, Oxford, B.C. L., and was also 

 a member of the Long Piirliament, hxxt for Guild- 

 ford. He married Mary, daughter and co-heiress 



to Sir John Windham, and died at Salamanca in 

 1645. 



Any information about the above Sir Thomas 

 Abbott will be acceptable. John Thos. Abbott. 



Darlington. 



^xxtxiti. 



PALEAKIO S TREATISE. 



As I am engaged in reprinting, in perfect fac- 

 simile, the Italian edition of Paleario's treatise on ' 

 The Benefits of Christ, Venet. 1543, together with 

 an ancient French version, 1552, and an unedited 

 English version, 1548, all of which are contained 

 in Cambridge libraries, although Mr. Macaulay 

 imagined that the book was " as hopelessly lost as 

 the second decade of Livy " (Edinb. Rev., Oct. 

 1840), I may perhaps venture to ask for informa- 

 tion on one or two points, respecting which I have 

 not obtained that certainty or exactitude which I 

 could desire. 



I hope to prove against Eanke that Aonio Pa- 

 leario is the author of the treatise, by a comparison 

 of it with the well-known passage in his Oration, 

 in his own defence, to the Senators of Sienna, 

 which seems to me tolerably conclusive ; although > 

 I should be very glad to be informed if any other 

 ancient evidence, tending to show that he is the 

 author, is in existence. (Little stress can be laid 

 on his final examination before the inquisitors.) 

 There is, however, one very material point about 

 which I am a little doubtful, and that is the date 

 of the first edition of Paleario, and that of the 

 Oration to the Senators ; for if it can be shown 

 conclusively that the treatise and the oration 

 belong to different years, it is certain that Paleario 

 is not the author of the treatise : conversely, if it 

 can be demonstrated that they belong to the same 

 year, there arises a very strong presumption, 

 almost amounting to certainty (other considera- . 

 tions being taken into account), that it belongs to 

 no other person than Paleario. 



Ranke says that " About the year 1540 a little 

 book. On the Benefits bestowed by Christ, was put 

 in circulation." {Hist, of the Popes, book ii.) If' 

 any more close approximation can be obtained, I 

 should be very glad to be informed of it. The . 

 copy of the Italian in the library of St. John's is 

 dated 1543 ; so is that mentioned by Riederer ; 

 and I am not aware that there is a spark of ancient 

 evidence for an earlier date ; but if it be anterior 

 to 1542, Paleario is not the author. 



The Oration of Paleario to the Senators of 

 Sienna alludes to the exile of Bernardino Ochino, 

 and is therefore posterior to it ; and from the 

 manner in which it is alluded to, any one would 

 naturally suppose that it had taken place not long 

 before. But the date of the flight of Ochino may 

 be considered certain, and is to be placed in 1542, 



