April 14. 185.5.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



291 



Passage in JEuripides (Vol. xi., p. 226). — Pos- 

 sibly 



" Xwpt; TO, t' elvat, xal to firj vofii'feTai." 



Alcestes, 1. 527. 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



Kirhstall Albey (Vol. xi., p. 186.). — The sur- 

 render of Kirkstall Abbey to the king bears date 

 Nov. 20, 1540. The site and demesnes were 

 granted by Edward VI. to Thomas Cranraer, 

 Arclibishop of Canterbury, and by him settled 

 upon his younger son. Whitaker (Loidis and 

 Elmete, p. 120.) has not learnt at what precise 

 period this estate was purchased by the Saviles of 

 Howley. From this family it passed in marriage 

 on the death of James Savile, second Earl of 

 Sussex, who died without issue in 1671, having 

 devised his estates to his only sister Frances, the 

 ■wife of Francis Lord Brudenel, eldest son of 

 Robert, second Earl of Cardigan. In this Car- 

 digan family the Kirkstall estate is at present 

 vested. See also Saville of Howley, in Burke's 

 JExtinct and Dormant Peerage. John Book£b. 



Prestwich. 



Early Disappearance of Publications (Vol. xi., 

 p. 144.). — Your correspondent's note involves a 

 question of great interest. Where, except in the 

 omnivorous cabinet of some eccentric bibliopole, 

 do we now see a copy of the — but a few years 

 ago — far-famed Almanac of Murphy ? Where 

 a specimen of the Postage Envelope with an alle- 

 gorical device, bearing the name of Mulready, but 

 currently reported to be a design of no less a 

 personage than Her Most Gracious Majesty ? 



I believe I may in a very short time add, a 

 copy of the Official Guide-book to the Grand Ex- 

 hibition of 1851. Every one had these things; I 

 had, and would fain have again, such mementoes 

 of the past ; but, like Stylites, I find them (except 

 perhaps the last) unattainable and almost for- 

 gotten, and T have no doubt that even others with 

 greater facilities would find the difficulty of pro- 

 curing them greater than they perhaps expect. 



E. S. Tatlok. 



*'Ze Platonisme Devoile" (Vol. xi., p. 216.). — 

 The author of Le Platonisme Devoile was M. 

 Souverain, a native of Languedoc, minister of a 

 Calvinistic church at Poitou, from which he was 

 ejected in consequence of his heretical opinions. 

 He retired to Holland, but refusing to sign the 

 Confession of Dort, he found no resting-place 

 there ; and passing over to England, he joined the 

 church of French Protestants of the Presbyterian 

 denomination at Canterbury. Several of the 

 members of that church having embraced Uni- 

 tarian sentiments, and being threatened with ex- 

 communication by the synod, seceded, and made 

 an outward profession of conformity with the 



Church of England. M. Souverain and another 

 of these went so far as to sign the Thirty-nine 

 Articles, considering them merely as articles of 

 peace, and were beneficed by the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury ; but finding themselves in danger of 

 censure from the Archbishop, they renounced 

 Episcopacy, appeared before the magistrates on 

 the 9th of September, 1697, declared themselves 

 Dissenters, and took refuge under the Act of 

 Toleration. It is not known when M. Souverain 

 arrived in England, but without doubt he had 

 sufficient time and opportunity to make himself 

 familiar with the works of English divines to 

 which H. B. C. alludes. 



An English translation of Le Platonisme De- 

 voile, under the title of Platonism Unveiled, and 

 of the same date as the original, may be found in 

 a fourth volume of Unitarian Tracts, of the exist- 

 ence of which H. B. C. seems not to be aware. 

 That volume is indeed very scarce. 



See Nouveau Dictionnaire Historique, art. " Sou- 

 verain ; " Wallace's Antitrinitarian Biography, 

 vol. i. p. 375. ; Monthly Repository of Theology and 

 General Literature, vol. v. p. 241., vol. viii. p. 445. 



S.D. 



Intensify (Vol. xi., p. 187.). — I cannot find this 

 word either in Johnson's or Richardson's Dic- 

 tionaries; but Webster (ed. 1852) gives it thus : 



" Intensify. To render more intense {Bacon)." 



On his authority, therefore, it is used by Lord 

 Bacon. F. 



JFjishermen's Superstition (Vol. xi., pp. 142. 228.). 

 — Is your valued correspondent H. T. Ella- 

 combe right when he states that the custom of 

 the fishermen of Clovelly " could not of course 

 have ever had the sanction of authority ? " If he 

 is right, would it not follow as a direct inference 

 that the clergyman who officiated at the service 

 he describes would render himself liable to eccle- 

 siastical censure? But is it quite impossible that, 

 in years gone by, the ordinary for the time being 

 may have sanctioned such a service by his au- 

 thority ? 



I am aware that the fees that would be de- 

 manded by those about the bishop, render such 

 authority unlikely, but I trust not absolutely im- 

 possible. 



Perhaps some correspondent at Clovelly may 

 kindly inform us whether this old custom, praise- 

 worthy as it is, is still kept up. I ask not the 

 minister " by what authority doest thou these 

 things?" Geo. E. Freke. 



" Children in the Wood" (Vol. ix., p. 305.). — 

 I always thought that this song referred to the 

 two young princes murdered in the Tower. I feel 

 quite certain that Miss Halstead says a great deal 

 about it in her Life and Times of Richard III. 



