April 28. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



331 



Senegal and Gambia, in Guinea," and therefore 

 seems a likely person to have written the discourse 

 in question, Conf. Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq. 

 (Cauiden Society), Introd. p. ix. J. Sansom. 



See the Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq., from a 

 MS. in the possession of Mr. George lloberts, who 

 edited it in the publications of the Camden 

 Society. John Yonge lived at Colyton, and Ax- 

 minster, near Lyme, was connected with the first 

 trading on the coast of Africa, the Guernsey 

 trade, &c. lie was a magistrate, and doubtless a 

 brave man. He served against the Spanish Ar- 

 mada in the " Bear " of 140 tons, sixty men, which 

 had for its captain John Yonge, gent. There was 

 a coaster served against the Armada named the 

 " John Yonge," Reynold Veazey, Master. 



George Roberts. 

 Lyme Regis, Dorset. 



LUCIFER S tAWSUIT. 



(Vol. xi., p. 86.) 



Your correspondent L. asks for information 

 concerning The Lawsuit of Lucifer against Chi'ist, 

 referred to by Niebuhr. It seems to me most 

 probable, that he speaks of a work written by 

 Giacomo Palladino, born in 1349, at Teramo; 

 whence he is commonly known as Jacobus de 

 Teramo. He was successively Archbishop of 

 Tarento, Florence, and Spoleto ; and, as he states 

 at the end of the work in question, wrote it in 

 the year 1382. It has appeared under different 

 names; but the following, which is the fullest, 

 and appears to include the others, is the title 

 of an early folio edition without name of place or 

 date : 



" R. P. Dom. Jacobi de Teramo compendium perbreve, 

 Consolatio Peccatorum nuncupatum ; et apud nonnullos 

 -BeZj'a/ vocitatum, ad papam Urbanum VI. conscriptum, i.e. 

 Processus Luciferi principis daemoniorum nee non totius 

 Infernalis Congregationis quorum procurator Belial, contra 

 Jhesum, Creatorem, Redemptorem ac Salvatorem nos- 

 trum, cujus procurator Moj'ses, de spolio animarum qute 

 in Lymbo erant cum descendit ad Inferna . . . coram 

 judice Salomone." 



Marchand, who mentions the above particulars, 

 speaks of eight other editions with which he was 

 acquainted: — !. Without date. 2. Augsburg, 

 1472, folio. 3. Conde, 1481, folio. 4. 1482; 5. 

 1484 ; both these without name of place. 6. Augs- 

 burg, 1487, folio. 7. Strasburg, 1488, folio. 8. 

 Vicenza, 1506, folio. It was also given, together 

 with other similar pieces, in a collection entitled : 



"Processus Juris Joco-serius . . . lectu festivus et 

 jucundus . . . Hanoviffi, 1611, 8vo." 



It has also been translated into most European 

 languages, and frequently printed. 



Marchand gives a very brief analysis of the 

 book, and condemns the style in which it was 

 written ; adding, that such a work appearing in a 

 more enlightened age, might have been regarded 

 as a criminal disguise for the propagation of in- 

 fidelity. As an example, he instances that Moses 

 cannot defend his cause without getting into a 

 passion and railing at Belial ; whilst the latter is 

 represented as quietly stating his reasons, and at 

 times urging upon Moses the propriety of being 

 civil and temperate, e. g. : 



" Et tunc ait Moyses ad Belial : Belial, die mihi ne- 

 quissime. Ait Belial : Moyses esto sapiens et die quod vis 

 et coram judice nou loquaris vituperose ; quia patienter 

 audiam." 



L. will find more particulars in Prosper Mar- 

 chand, Diet. Historique, Hague, 17.'58, tom. ii. 

 p. 117. ; in the Bibliotheque Sacree of the Domi- 

 nicans, Richard and Giraud (edit. 1824), tom. xviii. 

 p. 445. ; and in Chalmers' JBiog. Diet., vol. xxiv. 

 p. 49., in which he will find a reference to Dibdin's 

 Bibliotheca Spenceriana, vol. iii. p. 181. E. 



Malta. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Steaming syruped Collodion Plates. — On this subject I 

 can add very little to the details I have already given in 

 *' N. & Q.," and in the Photographic Journal. Since I have 

 adopted the method of steaming, I have taken upwards of 

 forty views, mostly on 10x8 plates, consecutively, with 

 only one failure, and that was from an accident of light ; 

 I therefore hope that Mr. Lyte will again test the mode 

 of manipulating I have given, being confident that he will 

 obtain the same success that I do. 



The only causes of failure that I can imagine may pro- 

 ceed either from the steam not rising freely, from not suf- 

 ficientlj' washing off the softened syrup remaining on the 

 plate after steaming, or from not watching the plate du- 

 ring the steaming, and keeping the parts that are disposed 

 to dry (generally the edges and corners) wet. Instead of 

 merely causing the fluid on the plate to run over those 

 spots,'it is better to pour water over the whole surface, 

 and again continue the steaming. 



I have had wooden frames made, with a bar at the back 

 to fix the plate firmly, to hold it while steaming ; this 

 protects it from injury, and is very convenient. 



Thos. L. Mansell. 



Guernsey. 



[Dr. Mansell's communication was accompanied by 

 a photographic small lane scene of great interest, as 

 showing the softness and delicacy of which collodion is 

 susceptible. — Ed. " X. & Q."] 



Mr. Merritt's and Mr. Lyte's Cameras. — But for ab- 

 sence from home I should earlier have written to make 

 the request I now do, wiiich is, that you will permit me 

 to offer my thanks to Mr. Lytk for the very frank man- 

 ner in which he has conceded to my son priority in the 

 invention of the camera. It will be but just to Mr. Lyte 

 at the same time to say, that, from his antecedents, I 

 expected he would thus acquit himself. I may, on my 

 son's part, say that he can but feel pleased to have pro- 

 duced so similar a camera to one recommended by that 

 gentleman, who must be so thoroughly aware of what is 

 desired for practice out of doors. T. L. MEUKi'rr. 



