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suspicion, was arrested in 1798, and examined 

 several times before the privy council. A twelve- 

 month later the government again arrested him, 

 and kept him in the Tower for two years. In his 

 autobiography, amongst some sketches of his visits 

 to France and Italy, he thus speaks of the last of 

 the Stuarts : 



" Amongst the prominent members of Roman society in 

 those days was the last of the Stuarts, Cardinal York, 

 with whom I became somewhat of a favourite, probably 

 by virtue of addressing him as ' Majesty,' and thus going 

 a step farther than the Dulie of Sussex, who was on 

 familiar terms with him, and always applied to him the 



Style of Royal Highness Upon the occasion of 



my visit to Frascati, I presented the cardinal with a tele- 

 scope, which he seemed to fancy, and received from him 

 in return the large medal struck in honour of his acces- 

 sion to his unsubstantial throne. Upon one side of this 

 medal was the royal bust, with the cardinal's hat, and the 

 words ' Henricus nonus Dei gratia rex ; ' and upon the 

 other the arms of England, with the motto on the exergue, 

 * Haud desideriis hominum, sed voluntate Dei.' " — Personal 

 Recollections of the Life and Times, §*c. of Lord Cloncurry : 

 Dublin, McGiashan. 



Cetrep. 



Druid's Circle (Vol. x., p. 524.). — In Rhodes's 

 Peak Scenery it is said : 



"Near Middleton-by-Youlgrave we found the cele- 

 brated Druidical monument of Arber-Low, one of the most 

 striking remains of antiquity in any part of Derbyshire. 

 This circle includes an area of from forty to fifty yards 

 diameter, formed by a series of large unhewn stones, not 

 standing upright, but all laid on the ground, with an 

 inclination towards the centre : round these, the remains 

 of a ditch, circumscribed by a high embankment, may be 

 traced. Near the south entrance into this circle, there is 

 a mount or burial-place ; in which some fragments of an 

 urn, some half-burnt bones, and the horns of a stag were 

 found." 



Your correspondent L. M. M. R. will observe 

 the name is Arber-Low, not Arbelon, as stated in 

 the Query. John Algor. 



Bishop Andrewes' Puns (Vol. ix., p. 350.). — 

 The play upon words, so frequent in the sermons 

 of that holy man, was the vice of the age. A few 

 instances will, probably, suffice your correspon- 

 dent: 



_ " Their anointing may dry up, or be wiped off ; and so 

 kings be unchristed, cease to be Christi Domini." — 

 Serm. III. on Gowrie's Conspiracy, p. 56. 



" The train ready, and the match ; they stayed but for 

 the con, for the time, till all were con ; that is, simul 

 sumpti, and then consumpti should have straight come 

 upon all." — /6. Sermon IV. p. 266. 



Some curious particulars might be collected 

 respecting quaint texts and sermons, such as that 

 of the Dean of St. Stephen's, when Vienna was 

 relieved by King John Sobieski of Poland (St. 

 John i. 6.) ; and that of Dr. South before the 

 Merchant Taylors' Company : " A remnant shall 

 be saved," Romans ix, 27. ; and Dr. Gardiner's 

 Sermon on Derbyshire. (Select, from Gent. Mag., 

 vol. iii. p. 420.) Mackenzie WAiiCOTT, M.A. 



BolingbroJie's Advice to Swift (Vol. x., p. 346.). — 



" Nourrisser bien votre corps ; ne le fatiguer jamais ; 

 laisser rouiller I'esprit, meuble inutil, votre outil dan- 

 gereux ; laisser souper nos cloches le matin pour eveiller 

 les chanoines, et pour faire dormir le doyen d'un sommeil 

 doux et profond, qui lui procure de beaux songes ; levez- 

 vous tard," &c. 



The mistakes in this quotation are all reducible 

 to misprints. The verbs " nourrisser," " fatiguer," 

 " laisser " (the imperative mood being intended) 

 should terminate in z instead of r ; inutil should 

 be inutile, and nos is a misprint for vos, unless 

 it can be supposed that Bolingbroke meant to 

 describe himself as one of the canons of St. 

 Patrick's. The only difficulty is the word souper, 

 where Bolingbroke is made to recommend that the 

 bells should be allowed to have their supper, and 

 that too in the morning. Mr. Ingleby suggests 

 soupir, or, as better still, s'assoupir : but, in my 

 opinion, neither is admissible. Laisser soupir is ob- 

 viously incorrect : soupir is a noun, and laisser 

 requires after it a verb in the infinitive mood. 

 Soupirer (which was probably what Mr. Ingleby 

 intended) would give us the bells performing the 

 functions of " breathing " or " sighing." Again, as 

 regards s'assoupir, to say laisser s'assoupir nos 

 cloches would be to recommend that the bells 

 should be kept motionless ; and in that state how 

 could they eveiller les chanoines ? 



I have no doubt the word used by Bolingbroke 

 was sonner, both because the variation from that 

 word to souper is little more than the lengthening 

 of the first stroke of the second n ; and also be- 

 cause it is the only expression which will give us 

 the effiict of awaking the canons : 



" Let your bells be rung in the morning, to awake the 

 canons, and induce in the dean a sweet and profound sleep, 

 accompanied by pleasing dreams ; rise late," &c. 



Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



Old Almanacs (Vol. x., p. 522.). — Contemptu- 

 ously as old almanacs have been spoken of, they 

 are really most valuable helps to history, and a 

 regular series of them is so rare, that I have never 

 met with one of any early origin. The Museum, 

 I think, does not possess even a tolerable one, and 

 I hope that the Scotch series mentioned by your 

 correspondent may be looked after and acquired 

 for that national treasury. I myself have the 

 good fortune to have completed a regular series of 

 the French Almanachs Royaux, Nationaux, Jmpe- 

 riaux, and Royaux, Nationaux, and Imperianx 

 again, from 1700 ! inclusive to the present year, 

 in all the various and very significant bindings of 

 their respective times. I have heard that the late 

 Duke of Angouleme had a similar collection com- 

 plete to 1830, but that it was plundered and dis- 

 persed at that revolution. I suppose, therefore, 

 that my set is almost unique in private hands, at 

 least in England. C. 



