406 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 264. 



■duties; cap. 18., Marriages; cap. 20., Paj' of the navy; 

 -cap. 26., Exchequer bills ; cap. 27., General lighting and 

 -watching ; cap. 29., Militia ballot ; cap. 30., Population.] 



"0/ Ceremonies" S^c. — Prefixed to tlie Prayer- 

 Book is an article headed " Of Ceremonies, why 

 some be abolished," &c, AVhen, and by what au- 

 thority, was this written ? D. 



[This portion of the preface was first printed in the 

 First Book of Common Prayer, published in the reign of 

 Edward VI. by Whitchurch, on the 4th of Maj-, IG-ig, 

 and was placed at the end of the book. The list of the 

 commissioners is given by Fuller, Burnet, Collier, and 

 Strype. Of the separate parts furnished by each com- 

 missioner, no evidence has descended to us. The book 

 was probably compiled by only a few of them, but dis- 

 cussed and assented to by others. Besides Cranmer, per- 

 haps Ridley and Goodrich -were the principal compilers. 

 :See Gloucester Kidley's Life of Bis Ji op Ridley, p. 223.] 



AOMO PALEARIO. 



(Vol. X., p. 384.) 



In the year 1849 I purchased out of a book- 

 seller's catalogue a little volume of controversial 

 Italian tracts, written by Ambrosius Catharinus, 

 which thoroughly established the identity of the 

 lost original On the Benefits of Christ — usually 

 attributed to Aonio Paleario — with the treatise, of 

 which Mr. Ayre republished an old English trans- 

 lation. 



The literary history of this celebrated treatise 

 is so deeply interesting, that it may be worth 

 while to transfer to your pages the substance of a 

 letter I then wrote to the Eco di Savonarola upon 

 the subject ; especially as my tracts appear to be 

 exceedingly rare, and a little light may perhaps 

 be thrown upon Mb. Babington's inquiry by 

 inviting attention to them. I subjoin, then, a 

 translation of my letter : 



" Every one knows the translation of the Treatise of 

 Aonio Paleario i-ecently discovered, and republished by 

 the care of the Rev. John Ayre in London. There could 

 be hardly any doubt whatever that this very interesting 

 little book is a translation of the lost work of Aonio 

 Paleario ; but still it was not possible to establish posi- 

 tively the certainty of such a supposition. According to 

 Mr. Ayre, this could only be proved by the description, 

 which Aonio himself gave of his book before the senate 

 of Sienna ; and also by the testimony of Riederer, who 

 had apparentlj- seen the original. 



"A certain cotemporaneous document has recently 

 fallen into my hands, written by Friar ' Ambrosio Catha"- 

 rino Polito, Senese, dell 'Ordinedei Predicatori,' published 

 at Rome in 1543, the year after the publication of Aonio's 

 book, which is entitled ; * A Compendium of the Lutheran 

 Errors and Deceptions contained in a Little Book without 

 a Name, entitled A most useful Treatise on the Benefit of 

 Christ Crucified.' 



" Every page of this book establishes the undoubted 

 identity of the translation. The author alleges error 



(that is to say, in his opinion) in order to confute them, 

 or rather to contradict them. 



" A s'ingle example, taken at random, will suffice to 

 assure your readers this; at least those who have the 

 translation before them : 



" Errors tnlten from the Third Chapter. — He errs afc 

 the outset, when he says, by way of exhortation, ' And 

 since we know, that under heaven there is no other name 

 given to men, whereby we may be saved, except the 

 name of Jesus Christ, let us run with the steps of true 

 faith to him,' &c. And he errs, when he says, that 

 ' without us, or any occasion of ours, the righteousness of 

 Christ is come to us, and eternal life by Christ,' &c. &c, 



" Thus almost every positive opinion of Aonio is repro- 

 duced in the confutation." 



Now, the discovery of the original Italian trea- 

 tise in St. John's College Library, Cambridge, 

 thoroughly settles this matter ; but it now becomes 

 necessary to describe this critique of Ambrosius 

 Catharinus, in order to obtain from it, if possible, 

 any ray of light as to the date and the author- 

 ship of the ti'eatise it denounces. 



Of the critique we have the date, not only of 

 the year, but of the month, in which it was pub- 

 lished, viz. March, 1544 : a very probable period, 

 as it seems to me, for an alert controversialist, 

 such as Catharinus undoubtedly was, to send forth, 

 a reply to a book published in 1543. It would 

 seem evident, too, from the tone of his observ- 

 ations, that he is attacking a recent publication. 

 As to the name of his antagonist, he is clearly 

 ignorant of it ; though he twits him with calling 

 himself, in his Proemium, " a man of authority" 

 (Jiuomo d'autoritu) ; a description which, how- 

 ever vague, would certainly not exclude Aonio. 



Let me add, for Mr. Babington's information, 

 that a copy of the English translation, of an earlier 

 date than that reprinted by Mr. Ayre, is in the 

 possession of the Rev. John Horner, of Mells Park, 

 Somerset, who would doubtless permit him to 

 examine it. C. W. Bingham. 



Bingham's Melcombe, Dorchester. 



THE BUKNIHG OF THE JESUITICAL BOOKS. 

 (Vol. X., p. 323.) 



" BusEsiBAUM. — La Moelle d'Abelli condamnee aux 

 flammes par le Parlement de Toulouse en 1757 ; par le 

 Parlement de Paris en 1761. — La Medulla brule par le 

 Parlement de Toulouse le 9 Septembre, 1757. Le P. 

 Zuccaria d'ltalie ayant fait ensuite son Apologie, elle fut 

 condamnee au feu par le Parlement de Paris, le 10 Mars, 

 1758." 



" Molina. — Son traits De Justitia et Jure, avec quan- 

 tite d'autres livres jesuitiques, fut condamne h etre lac^re 

 et brule par arret du Parlement du G Aout, 1762 : executS 

 le 17 Aout mime anniie." 



The above extracts are from MS. notes on 

 Junius. The particulars were obtained for me 

 more than tliirty years ago by a gentleman who, 

 if not a Jesuit, was very intimate with several very 

 learned members of that Order. I have always 



