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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 189. 



Q. 24. What are the benefits, &c. 



"Jam recense paucis quinam fructus dignam Eu- 

 charistJE sumptionem sequantur? 



Principio quidem virtute esca; hujus confirmamiir 

 in fide, munimur adversus peccata, ad bonorum 

 operiim studium excitamur, et ad charitatem inflam- 

 mamur. Hinc vero per earn uicorporamur adjun- 

 gimurque capiti nostro Christo, ut unum cum ipso 

 constituatnus corpus," &c. 



Q. 25. What is required, &c. 



" Quonam pacto digne sumitur Eucharistia? 

 Digna suraptio, omnium primum requirit, ut 

 homo peccata sua agnoscat ex animo ob ea vere 

 doleat — ac firmum etiam animo concipiat amplius 

 non peccandi propositum. Deinde exigit etiam digna 

 sumptio, ut communicaturus simultatem omnem 

 odiumque animo eximat : reconcilietur laeso, et clia- 

 ritatis contra viscera induat. Postremo vero et fides 

 cum primis in sumente requiritur . . . . ut credat 

 corpus Christi pro se esse traditum mortem, et san- 

 guinem ejus in remissionem peccatorum suorum vere 

 effusum," &c. 



I fear the unavoidable length of the previous 

 extracts will be against the insertion of the full 

 title of the book, and one remark. The title is, — 

 " Catechismus brevis et Catholicus in gratiam Juven- 

 tutis conscriptus, Autore lacobo Schceppero, Ecclesi- 

 asta Tremoniano. Cui accessit Pium diurnarum precum 

 Enchiridion, ex quo pueri toto die cum Deo colloqui 

 discant. Antverpiae, apud loan. Bellerum ad insigne 

 Falconis, 1555." 



My remark is, that some of the coincidences 

 above enumerated are at least singular, though 

 they do not perhaps prove that the compiler of 

 the Church Catechism, in the places referred to, 

 had them before him. B. H. C. 



JACOB BOBART, ETC. 



(Vol. vii., p. 428.) 



Of old Jacob Bobart, who originally came from 

 Brunswick, Granger (Biog. Hist., vol. v. p. 287., 

 edit. 1824) gives us the following account : 



" Jacob Bobart, a German, whom Plot styles ' an 

 excellent gardener and botanist,' was, by the Earl of 

 Danby, founder of the physic-garden at Oxford, ap- 

 pointed the first keeper of it. He was author of Cata- 

 logus Plantfirum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, soil. Latino- 

 Anglicus et Anglico- Latinus : Oxon. 1648, 8vo. One 

 singularity I have heard of him from a gentleman of un- 

 questionable veracity, that on rejoicing days he used to 

 have his beard tagged with silver. The same gentle- 

 man Informed me, that there is a portrait of him in the 

 possession of one of the corporation at Woodstock. He 

 died the 4th of February, 1679, in the eighty-first year 

 of his age. He had two sons, Tillemant and Jacob, 

 who both belonged to the physic-garden. It appears 

 that the latter succeeded him in his office." 



There is a very fine print of the elder Bobart, 

 now extremely scarce, " D. Loggan del., M. Bur- 



ghers, sculp." it is a quarto of the largest size. 

 Beneath the head, which is dated 1675, is this 

 distich : 



" Thou German prince of plants, each year to thee 

 Thousands of subjects grant a subsidy." 



In John Evelyn's Diary, under the date Oct. 24, 

 1664, is the following entry : 



" Next to Wadhara, and the physic garden, where 

 were two large locust-trees, and as many platani (plane- 

 trees), and some rare plants under the culture of old 

 Bobart." 



The editor of the last edition, after repeating 

 part of Granger's note, and mentioning the por- 

 trait, adds : 



" There is a small whole-length in the frontispiece 

 of Vertumnus, a poem on that garden. In this he is 

 dressed in a long vest, with a beard. One of his 

 family was bred up at college in Oxford ; but quitted 

 his studies for the profession of the whip, driving one 

 of the Oxford coaches (his own property) for many 

 years with great credit. In 1813 he broke his leg by • 

 an accident; and in 1814, from the respect he had ac- 

 quired by his good conduct, he was appointed by the 

 University to the place of one of the Esquire Beadles." 



Vertumnus, the poem mentioned in the above 

 note, was addressed to Mr. Jacob Bobart, in 1713, 

 by Dr. Evans. It is a laudatory epistle on the 

 botanical knowledge of the Bobarts ; and we learn 

 from it that Jacob, the younger, collected a Hortus 

 Siccus (a collection of plants pasted upon paper, 

 and kept dry in a book) in twenty volumes. 



" Thy Hortus Siccus 



In tomes twice ten, that work immense ! 

 By thee compiled at vast expense." 



The broadsides about which H. T. Bobart in- 

 quires are of the greatest possible rarity. They 

 were the production of Edmund Gay ton, the author 

 of Festivious Notes on Don Quixote, &c. Copies 

 may be seen in the Ashmolean Library, under the 

 press-marks Nos. 423. and 438., but I think not in 

 any other repository of a like nature. 



Among the Ashmolean MSS. (No. 36, art. 296.) 

 is a poem of 110 lines "Upon the most hopeful 

 and ever-flourishing Sprouts of Valour, the inde- 

 fatigable Centrys of the Physick- Garden." This, 

 I apprehend, is a MS. copy of the first broadside 

 mentioned by your correspondent. 



I shall merely add, the Bobarts, father and son, 

 were personal friends of Ashmole and Ray, and 

 that, in all probability, among their correspondence 

 much curious and minute information might be 

 obtained. Edward F. RimbauiiT. 



(Vol. vii., p. 510.) 

 I was somewhat surprised to find, in No. 186. of 

 " N. & Q.," two instances quoted of the use of the 



