204 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 148. 



of Worcester, 4to., 1736, Part IT. pp. 209-10. 

 Wood's Ath. Oxon.^ vol. ii. c. 794. Le Neve's 

 Fasti, p. 299. 



10. Nicholas Heath, Arclibisliop of York, died 

 at Cobhani, in Sui-rey, 1579. Nichols' Progresses 

 of Queen Elizabeth, 4to., 1823, vol. i. p. 250. Le 

 Neve's Fasti, p. 310. Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii. 

 c. 817. 



11. Gilbert Bonrne, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 

 died at Silverton, in Devonshire, Sept. 10, 1569. 

 Cassan's Bishops of Bath and Wells, Bvo., 1829, 

 Part I. pp. 462—467. Le Neve's Fasti, p. 33. 



12. David Pole, Bishop of Peterborough, died 

 in 1568. Le Neve's Fasti, p. 239. Wood's Ath. 

 Oxon., vol. ii. c. 801. 



13. Thomas Watson, Bishop of Lincoln, is said 

 in Chalmers's Biog. Diet, to have died in 1582. 

 This however is unsupported by his authorities, 

 unless Dodd's Church Hist., to which I am unable 

 to refer, gives this date. According to the follow- 

 ing authorities, he died at Wisbeach Castle, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, in 1584 ; and was privately buried in 

 the church of that town, Sept. 27. Philpot's 

 Examination and Writings, edited for the Parker 

 Society, 8vo., 1842, p. 168. Hutchinson's Dur- 

 ham, 4to., 1787, p. 141. Wood's Fasti, vol. i. 

 c. 145. 



English Bishops deprived, Feb. 1, 1691 : 



1. Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, died 

 at Longleat, March 19, 1710-11, aged seventy- 

 three ; and was buried at Frome Selwood, Somer- 

 setshire, March 21. Cassan's Bishops of Bath and 

 Wells, Part 11. pp. 83— 101. Lathbury's History 

 of the Nonjurors, 8vo., 1845, p. 225. 



2. Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely, died Nov. 2, 

 1700 ; and was buried in the church of Therfield, 

 Herts. Chalmers's Biog. Diet. Lathbui-y's Non- 

 jurors, p. 183. 



3. Robert Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester, died 

 in 1708, aged eighty-six ; and was buried pri- 

 vately at Standish, in Gloucestershire. Lathbury, 

 p. 203. 



4. William Lloyd, Bishop of Norwich, died at 

 Hammersmith, where he had lived privately for 

 twenty years, Jan. 1, 1709-10 ; and was interred 

 in the belfry of the chapel. Britten's Cathedral 

 Antiquities of Norwich, p. 74. 



5. lliomas White, Bishop of Peterborough, died 

 1698 ; and was buried in St. Gregory's church- 

 yard, or vault, at St. Paul's, June 5th. Lathbury, 

 p. 179. Evelyn, vol. iii. p. 364. 



John I. Dredge. 



STRADA S SYMPATHETIC MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. 



(Vol. vi., p. 93.) 



Addison has repeated his account of Strada's 

 sympathetic magnetic telegraph in No. 119. of 

 The Guardian, in which work he has three papers 



on the " Prolusiones Academical "; in the first of 

 which he says, — 



" Strada's Prolusion on the style of the most famous 

 among the ancient Latin poets who are extant, and 

 liave written in Epic verse, is one of the most entertain- 

 ing as well as the most just pieces of criticism that I 

 have ever read." 



The Prolusions were first printed at Borne in 

 1617, in a handsome volume in small 4to. ; but 

 that edition is very rare, and Chalmers and others 

 have erroneously stated it to have been first printed 

 at Cologne in 1617, 8vo. 



The verses containing the relation are a happy 

 imitation of the style of Lucretius, and are thus 

 inscribed : "Eationem expeditissimamabsentes ad- 

 monendi nullis eo missis tabellis, nullis tabellariis." 

 He concludes thus with the " Commoda hujus iu- 

 venti" : 



" O utinam haec ratio scribendi prodeat usu ! 

 Cautior, et citior properaret epistola, nullas 

 Latronum verita insidias, fluviosque morantcs. 

 Ipse suis Priiiceps manibus sibi conficeret rem : 

 Nos soboles scribarum emersi ex ajquore nigro, 



CoXSECRAREMVS CALAMVM, MAGNETIS AD ORAS." 



How fiir from dreaming that it could be ever so 

 nearly realised, as it is in the electric telegraph, 

 must the poet have been when concluding his in- 

 genious fiction with these lines ! 



The Prolusions have been frequently reprinted, 

 and were long a favourite . academical book. In 

 the same chapter we have the well-known " con- 

 tention between the nightingale and the musician," 

 written in imitation of the style of Claudian. 



In a pleasing miscellany, published periodically 

 in 1750, entitled The Student, or the Oxford and 

 Cambridge Miscellany, is given the following ver- 

 sion, which, as the book is not common, may be 

 worthy of transposition into your pages : 



THE SYJirATHETIC LOADSTONE. 



(^From Strada; "Magnesi genus est lapidls mirahile," Sj-c.) 



" With magic virtues fraught, of sov'reign use, 

 Magnesia's mines a wondrous stone produce : 

 To this applying slender bars of steel, 

 Sudden new motion and new life they feel ; 

 Nor to the Bear alone, whose splendours burn 

 Around the freezing pole, instinctive turn ; 

 But each fond needle mutual motion proves, 

 Each to the rest in sure direction moves. 

 Thus, if at Rome thy hand the steel applies, 

 Tho' seas may roll between or mountains rise, 

 To this some sister needle will incline, 

 Such Nature's mystic pow'r and dark design ! 



Thus, to thy distant friend, if fate denies 

 To breathe in missive intercourse thy sighs. 

 Mindful, a flat and spacious orb provide, 

 And let thy ready pencil on the side 

 Th' expressive elements of childhood trace, 

 And in due rank each order'd letter place. 

 In the mid orb thy needle next be shown ; 

 Strong with magnetic force, and virtue not its own. 



