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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 283. 



Pearmonger. — What Is the meaning of tills 

 word, which occurs la the proverb now under 

 discussion In the columns of " N. & Q.," " Peart 

 as a pearmonger ? " H. 



Erasmus, and Allusions to Mm. — Selections 

 from the Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, ivith 

 a Memoir of the Author, by E,. J. Bruce, Boston, 

 1827, contains some obscurities which perhaps you 

 can clear up. 



The translation does not look new, and Jortin 

 is closely followed In the Memoir, though the only 

 notice taken of him is, " his life has been written 

 by Bayle, Jortin, .and others." Mr. Bruce differs 

 from them, quoting writers by name only, never 

 by page or chapter. 

 " Faba, in one of his sonnets, saj's : 



" Or degno h dell' alloro ed or del faoco. 

 Or distrugge la Fede, or la difFende, 

 Falor sa tutto, e talor nulla o poco." — P. 14. 



" Burton speaks of Erasmus as ' the purest writer in an 

 impure age ; ' Horn calls him ' a sound divine, and a good 

 practical Christian.' " — P. 15. 



" Hyacinthe, after the manner of Rubens, paints Eras- 

 mus in heaven, with Faith at his head, Fame at his side, 

 and Cupid at his feet." — P. 19. 



. These are among the few passages which I can- 

 not trace to Jortin ; probably they are taken from 

 the " others." 



I shall be obliged If any of your correspondents 

 can tell me who Faba, Burton, and Horn are, or 

 give the remainder of the sonnet. Hyacinthe is a 

 French painter, but I do not know the allegorical 

 picture above mentioned. F. 



Royal Family of Sardinia. — Would somebody 

 kindly inform me how Charles Albert, the late 

 King of Sardinia, was related to his predecessor 

 on the throne ? Where did the family of Cariji- 

 nan branch off from the main stem ? Is the 

 present king a descendant of Henrietta, Duchess 

 of Orleans, the daughter of Charles I. of England ? 



E. H.A. 



Homography. — 



" Homography is the name of an art just discovered in 

 France, by which it is said any typographical work, litho- 

 graph, or engraving may be reproduced instantaneously, 

 cheaply, without damaging the original, and so exactly, 

 that the most practised eye cannot tell the difference. 

 The copies may be multiplied indefinitely." 



Any Information respecting this discovery, given 

 -through the columns of " N. & Q.," will be most 

 acceptable. W. W. 



Malta. 



Baronetages of the United Kingdom. — Can 

 any of your correspondents furnish me with the 

 name of a Baronetage of the United Kingdom after 

 the Union ? I can find the genealogies of peers in 

 Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, and in an English 

 Peerage of the same date (by whom I do not at 

 this moment remember), and those of private 



gentlemen In Douglas's Baronage of Scotland, 

 and In Burke's Landed Gentnj ; but what I wish 

 for the name of is a Baronetage published between 

 the years 1816 and 1826. H. Fitzhugh. 



iHt'nor Outvies Juiti) ^n^iatv^. 



The Great Charter, and that of the Forest, 

 9 Henry III. : Judge Blachstone' s Remarks upon 

 the Character and Authenticity of Dean Lyttelton^s 

 Copy. — In Clitherow's " lafe of Sir William 

 Blackstone," prefixed to the edition of his Com- 

 mentaries In 1813 (4 vols. 12mo.), It Is stated that 

 Dr. Ljttelton, Dean of Exeter, and afterwards 

 Bishop of Carlisle, possessed a curious Roll con- 

 taining these Charters, which he showed to Judge 

 Blackstone, the editor of the printed copy of them ; 

 but he, not deeming It to be original, did not 

 adopt or use the various readings of that IloU. 

 The Dean vindicated their authenticity In a paper 

 read before the Society of Antiquaries in 1761, 

 and Blackstone delivered an answer thereto, dated 

 May 28, 1762, which was read before the Society, 

 and contained much antiquarian criticism, but had 

 never then (1781) been made public. 



The IMS. was some years since remaining in 

 the library of the Society of Antiquaries, and I 

 am informed was examined with a view to being 

 published, but that it was discovered to be at that 

 time In print, though ray informant forgets luhere. 

 The entry on the minutes of the Society, it seems, 

 contains nearly a verbatim transcript ; but can any 

 of your readers Inform me where the remarks of 

 Blackstone upon the subject are to be found al- 

 ready In print ? G. 



[Both Dean Lyttelton's "Memoir concerning the au- 

 thenticity of his Magna Carta," and Mr. Blackstone's 

 " Memoir in Answer to the late Dean of Exeter, now 

 Bishop of Carlisle, May 29, 1762," will be found in Gutch's 

 Collectanea Curiosa, vol. ii. pp. 354. 357.] 



William Wogan. — I have never seen any bio- 

 graphical notice of that excellent layman William 

 VVogan, the pious and learned author of that ad- 

 mirable commentary upon the Proper Lessons 

 which, with great humility, he has entitled an 

 Essay, not wishing to Intrude beyond his proper 

 sphere as a layman, or set his book in competition 

 with any work of a similar design from the pen of 

 a professed theologian and divine which might 

 afterwards be published. No such work, how- 

 ever, so far as I am aware, has yet appeared to 

 supersede Mr. Wogan's Essay, which proves him 

 to have been a man of extraordinary learning and 

 research, abounding as it does In Illustrations de- 

 rived from classical, patristic, and oriental sources, 

 as well as from the literature of his own country 

 and writers of a more recent date. We gather 

 from his own statements, that his work was the 



