June 16. 1855.] 



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return thanks to the government for their deliverance, and 

 to the people for their charity, and that they should not 

 pursue the practices to which sailors are too much ad- 

 dicted, viz. cursing and swearing. They are to appear 

 to-morrow morning at the Navy Office, in order to be en- 

 tertained in her Majesty's service." On March 12, an- 

 other sermon was preached at Bow Church, before the 

 slaves lately redeemed from Barbary. On Dec. 4, 1721, 

 another body of redeemed captives from Mequinez re- 

 turned thanks to Almighty God at St. Paul's, when a 

 sermon was preached by Mr. Berryman, Chaplain to the 

 Bishop of London.] 



" The English Physician Enlarged." — When 

 was a work with this title published, and what is 

 the title in full ? A fragment of a copy was in 

 my possession some years ago, sufficient to show 

 that it was a very curious work. The various me- 

 dicinal plants were described alphabetically, their 

 virtues set forth, and a description given of the 

 planetary influences that were supposed to affect 

 them. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. ' 



[The following seems to be the work alluded to : " Bo- 

 tanolagia ; the British Physician, or the Nature and Vertues 

 of English Plants. By Robert Turner." The engraving 

 prefixed is entitled, " The British or English Physician." 

 8vo. 1684, 1687. Turner was also the author of The 

 Woman's Counsellor, or the Feminine Physician Enlarged, 

 8vo. 1686.] 



Buff. — What is the origin of this term, now 

 usually employed to designate a colour ? Is that 

 its original or derivative meaning ? I suspect the 

 latter, and that the original sense has some con- 

 nexion with skin ; as we say of one in a state of 

 nudity, " he is in huff." And buff coats worn in 

 war, either under or ultimately as substitutes for 

 steel armour, were of prepared skins. Is the 

 famous regiment, the Bufis, so designated from the 

 colour of their facings, or from their having worn 

 the buff coat down to a period later than the 

 general use of it in the service ? Y. B. N. J. 



[" Buff," says Minshew, " is so called because it hath 

 some likeness with the buffle," or buffalo. Buff-skin is a 

 leather prepared from the skin of the buffalo, of which buff 

 is a contraction. The third regiment of foot, formerly 

 designated the Holland regiment, obtained a title from 

 the colour of their clothing. The men's coats were lined 

 and faced with buff; they also wore buff waistcoats, buff 

 breeches, and buff stockings, and were emphatically styled 

 " The Buffs." This being the eldest corps thus clothed, 

 they were sometimes styled " The Old Buffs ; " the 31st 

 regiment, which wa-s raised in 1702, being also distin- 

 guished by buff waistcoats, breeches, and stockings, was 

 for many j'ears styled " The Young Buffs," but has since 

 laid aside that title. See Cannon's Historical Becords of 

 the British Army.J 



Seraphims and Cherubims. — " Seraphims know 

 the most, and cherubims love the most." Whence 

 is this saying ? I think Macaulay uses it. 



Bagna Cavallo. 



[Addison, in Tlie Spectator, No. 600., says : " Some of 

 the Rabbins tell us that the cherubims are a set of angels 

 who know most, and the seraphims a set of angels who 



love most. Whether this distinction be not altogether 

 imaginary, I shall not here examine ; but it is highly 

 probable that, among the spirits of good men, there may 

 be some who will be more pleased with the employment 

 of one faculty than of another ; and this, perhaps, accord- 

 ing to those innocent and virtuous habits or inclinations 

 which have here taken the deepest root."] 



Peace of Aix-la- Chapelle. — Where am I likely 

 to find a detailed and cotemporaneous account of 

 the festivities which took place in the Green Park 

 on the occasion of the Peace of Aix-la- Chapelle in 

 1749, when " a magnificent firework was exhibited^ 

 and the corps of artillery was then reviewed for 

 the first time by the king." K,. A. 



[Consult the London Magazine for April, 1749; Gen~ 

 tleman^s Magazine, vol. xix. p. 186. ; and Daily Advertiser 

 of April 29, 1749. In the British Museum is a pamphlet^ 

 entitled " A Description of the Machine for the Fireworks^ 

 with all its Ornaments ; and a Detail of the manner ia 

 which thev are to be exhibited in the Green Park oa 

 April 27, 1749."] 



" Tactometrid." — Who was the author of a. 

 mathematical work, published in London in 1650, 

 entitled Tactometria, seu Tetagmenometria ; or,, 

 the Geometry of Regulars practically proposed, 8fc.y 

 by J. W. ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



[John Wybard, M.D., sometimes spelt Wyberd. For 

 a notice of him see Wood's Athence (Bliss), vol. iii, 

 col. 388. Professor De Morgan, in his Arithmetical Books^ 

 calls this " An excellent book of mensuration of solids^ 

 full of remarkable information on the subject of Weights 

 and Measures,"] 



EBASMUS AKD ALLUSIONS TO HIM. 



(Vol. xi., p. 244.) 



Faha. — Hitratti Poetici, Storici, e Critict, di 

 varii moderni Uomini di Letter e, di Appio Anneo 

 de Faba, Cromaziano, Napoli, 1775, 8vo., pp. 511. 

 Appio Anneo de Faba is the anagram of Appiano- 

 Buonafede, a Celestine monk born at Comacchio ia 

 1714, died at Rome in 1793. Notices of him ar& 

 to be found in Gorton, Rose, and the Biographie 

 Universelle. The latter says of the liitratti, " C'est 

 la meilleure de ses productions poetiques," which^ 

 if correct, says little for the rest, as it is a volume 

 of sonnets written, like the text of Bayle, as pegs 

 to hang notes upon. The first edition was printed 

 at Naples in 1745, the second at Venice in 1759, 

 the third at Naples, 1766 ; that before me is the 

 fourth. I do not know any later. It has become 

 scarce, and there is not a copy in the British 

 Museum.* The notes show great reading, and, 

 what is extraordinary in an Italian monk of the 

 last century, knowledge of English authors. Ba- 



[* See the new MS. Catalogue, art. Buonafede, 

 press-mark 11431. e.] 



