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t2tt'» S. V. 122., May 1. '58. 



expense, brought out a considerable collection of 

 the antiquarian buildings of the city, now or for- 

 merly existing, in large-sized lithographic coloured 

 plates, which may yet be had through purchase, 

 though scarce. I possess two very faithful water- 

 coloured drawings, on a good scale, by a deceased 

 excellent artist, Andrew Donaldson, of the Cathe- 

 dral, Fir Park, and ancient "Drygate" Street 

 adjoining, taken in 1820 ; and I believe that be- 

 fore the "Archbishop's Castle," near the Cathedral, 

 was entirely removed in 1792, to make room for 

 the present Royal Infirmary, sketches were made 

 of that renowned fortress, and are still preserved 

 there, but I have not seen them. G. N. 



Sajiscrit MSS. (2»'J S. v. 236.) — The MSS. 

 mentioned by E. H. A. are : — 



1. The Adhyatma Ramayana (as it ought to be 

 written) ; a poem on the adventures of Rama 

 (one of the incarnations of Vishnu), attributed to 

 Vyasa Deva — a different work from the larger 

 and more celebrated one of Valmiki. 



2. The Parva (section), entitled " Sabha" of 

 the M. The second of the eighteen sections or 

 cantos, of which the Giant Epic of the Hindus, the 

 Mahabharat, consists. This poem contains over 

 100,000 slokas, or stanzas, and has been printed at 

 Calcutta in four mighty quartos. 



The value of these MSS. would depend upon 

 various considerations, which could not so well be 

 settled without seeing them, such as age, condi- 

 tion, and writing, &c., but as MSS. independently, 

 both together under 51. probably. A. B. 



The Missal in Latin and English (2""* S. v. 323.) 

 — I made a Note many years ago that the first 

 translation of the Missal into English was made 

 by the Rev. Chas. Cordell ; but whence I derived 

 the information I cannot now recollect. It was 

 probably from the late Rev. Dr. Kirk, whose 

 knowledge and accuracy in such matters is well 

 known. But that Mr. Cordell published The 

 Divine Office for the use of the Laity, in 2 vols. 

 12mo., privately printed in 1780, there can be no 

 doubt. For the Declaration of the author, at the 

 end of each volume, submitting his work to the 

 judgment of the Church, is signed with these ini- 

 tials, " C. C. C. A. D. A.," which must, I think, 

 stand for Carolus Cordell Catholica Academice 

 Duacensis Alumnus. Mr. Cordell was the mis- 

 sioner at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and died there 

 January 26, 1791. This makes it probable that 

 his work was printed at Newcastle. I may here 

 note that I have a subsequent edition of the same 

 work, but " with corrections and additions " by 

 Rev. B. Rayment, printed at Manchester by Hay- 

 dock in 1806, in 2 vols. 12mo. 



Now as to the variations which Mb. Gborgb 

 Offor states that he found both in the English 

 and Latin, the Roman Missal does not confine the 

 selections from Scripture for Introits, Offertories, 



and so forth, or even occasionally Lessons, as in 

 some of the Ember Saturdays, to the exact words 

 of the sacred text, but frequently omits sentences 

 or portions of sentences, as in the instance ad- 

 duced from the Introit for the 3rd Sunday of 

 Advent, which will be found with the same words 

 omitted in all Roman Missals, and also in the old 

 Sarum Missal. As to variations in the English 

 version, they are common enough in our earlier 

 Prayer and Service Books, though uniformity is 

 most desirable. 



The expression in the Preface (not the Prayer) 

 for Passion Sunday, " ut qui in ligno vincebat, in 

 ligno quoque vinceretur," evidently means that 

 Satan having conquered by means of a tree, that 

 is, by persuading Eve to eat the fruit of the tree, 

 should himself be conquered by the true tree of 

 life, the holy cross of our divine Redeemer. 



On comparing the Missal of 1737 with the 

 Divine Office of 1781, they certainly do not cor- 

 respond either in translations or titles ; but are 

 different works, and not likely to have proceeded 

 from the same author. Wbo first translated the 

 Missal into English is. therefore, a question still 

 to be answered. F. C. H. 



JEmett's Family (2°'» S. iv. 233.) — S. N. R. 

 states that " in the will of Christopher Emett, 

 dated April 30, 1743, he mentions his wife Re- 

 becca, his sons Thomas and Robert, his nephew 

 Christopher Emett, son of his brother William, 

 his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Temple, of Dublin;" 

 and it is asked who this Elizabeth Temple was, 

 and how she was sister-in-law to Christopher 

 Emett ? As S. N. R. does not speak positively, 

 but merely presumes that Robert Emett, M.D., 

 the father of the patriot, was the second son of 

 the testator Christopher Emett and Rebecca his 

 wife, I would, by way of inducing farther inquiry, 

 merely suggest that the testator set down his 

 sister-in-law's maiden name when he called her 

 Elizabeth Temple, and that she was the wife of 

 his brother William : that Robert Emett, M.D., 

 was the son of William Emett and Elizabeth 

 Temple his wife, which would account for and fall 

 in with the eldest son of Robert Emett, M.D. being 

 named Christopher Temple Emett after his grand- 

 mother, and would also chime in with what an 

 old lady from Ireland, now dead, stated to me 

 some years back, viz. that Robert Emett's (the 

 patriot) grandmother was a Temple whose family 

 had come from the north of England to Ireland, 

 and asking me if he was not so a relation of my 

 own. R' G. T. 



Return of Sight, or Second Sight (2°^ S. iv. 225. ; 

 v. 324.) — I hope, for the credit of " Mr. Patrick 

 Wian," that he did not really give the account of 

 himself quoted by G. N. If he did so, I fear we 

 must consign the "Minister of Lesbury" to that 

 class, — so numerous, alas ! in all ages of the world 



