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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 294. 



con and Milton might have been expected, but 

 not Thomas Burnet, Antony Collins, Boyle, Cum- 

 berland, or Toland. He cites them in English, 

 and bis criticisms do not look second-hand. He 

 places Bacon (p. 76.) " al dissopra di tutta I'anti- 

 chita ed alia testa di cultissimi tempi nostri," — an 

 adyance<l opinion for the Procurator- General of 

 the Celestine Order at Rome. The sonnet on 

 Erasmus is, — 



" Diviso io vedi in parte opposte il Mondo 



Qualor (V Erasmo il simulacro io chero, 



Quinci sostiene il letterato impero ; 



E quindi urtato cade giii nel fondo. 

 Or sobrio e puro, ed or briaco ed immundo 



livedo; or schernitore, ed or severo ; 



Or nimico, or compagno di Lutero ; 



Or tutto piiime, or tutto nerbo e pondo. 

 Or degno e dell' alloro, ed or del fuoco ; 



Or distrugge la Feile, or la difende ; 



Talor sa tutto, e talor nulla o poco. 

 Quindi involta in oppositi colori 



L' immagin di Costui dubbiosa pende 



Tra gran virtuti, e vizj assai maggiori." — P. 200. 



Mr. D'Israeli, in his notice of " Quadrio's Ac- 

 count of English Poetry" (^Curiosities of Litera- 

 ture, vol. v. p. 382.), says : 



"I have been much mortified in looking over this 

 voluminous compiler, to discover, although he wrote so 

 late as about 1750, how little the history of English 

 poetry was known to foreigners." 



I do not think he could have seen the Ritratti, or 

 he would have mentioned Buonafede as an honour- 

 able exception. 



The common-place quotations from Burton and 

 Horn would be hardly worth verifying if the title 

 of the work and page were given. Home is a very 

 common name, Horn is not. The Post-Office 

 Directory has nineteen of the former and only 

 three of the latter. One of these mentions Eras- 

 mus unjustly, but so cleverly that, having found 

 the passage in looking for a reply, I am induced 

 to transcribe it : 



" Erasmus gehort zu der Gattung von Schriftstellern, 

 welche dem lieben Gotte gar gem eine vortretBiche Kirche 

 bauen mochten, den Teufel aber auch nicht kranken 

 wollen, weshalb ihra eine kleine artige Capelle daneben 

 errichtet wird, wo man ihm gele^entlich ein wenig op- 

 fern, und eine stille Hans-Andacht fiir ihn treiben kann." 

 — Die Poesie und Beredsamkeit der Deutschen, von F. 

 Horn, b. i. p. 35., Berlin, 1822. 



Hyacinthe is not the French painter, but M. de 

 St. Hyacinthe, author of Le Chef-cTCEuvre dun 

 Inconnu, and Matanasiana. A well-executed en- 

 graving opposite to the Memoire touchant Erasme, 

 at Matanasiana, vol. ii. p. 336., represents Faith 

 and Fame exhibiting, and two angels or Cupids 

 supporting, a half-length portrait of Erasmus in 

 an oval frame. Below are a monk and a harpy 

 trying to reach him with their claws ; and in the 

 distant back-ground is the city of Rotterdam 

 {F. Bleiswyk del. et fecit). H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



CHAUNTET OF THE IRISH EXCHEQUER. 

 (Vol. Xl., p. 147.) 



In a recent Number of " N". & Q." a contributor 

 expresses his wish that some account would be 

 given in that publication of the ancient custom 

 which is still observed in the Irish Exchequer, of 

 singing an anthem and repeating several prayers 

 by the choristers and one of the ministers of Christ 

 Church, Dublin. 



The records of that cathedral would in all pro- 

 bability throw much light upon the subject, but to 

 me these records are unknown ; as some notices, 

 however, of this tenure by divine service are to be 

 found upon the records of the Chancery and Ex- 

 chequer, I have gathered them together, and now 

 transmit them, in the hope that they may prove 

 interesting to those who consider these memorials 

 of the past to be worthy of preservation. 



The Rotulus Exituum of the thirtieth year of 

 Edward I. contains the entry of a payment made — 



"Duobus capellanis celebrantibus divina in capellis 

 castri et Scaecarij Dublin quorum quilibet capit pro feodo 

 suo 50'. per annum et pro cera 2'. per annum ad quam- 

 libet capellam." 



On the 16th of June, in the ninth year of his 

 reign, Edward III. granted the chauntry of the 

 said Exchequer to the prior and friars of the 

 order of Carmelites of Dublin, in order that they 

 might celebrate divine things therein, upon pay- 

 ment being made to them out of the Exchequer 

 of 100 shillings a year. 



Richard II., by letters patent dated the 10th of 

 January, in the eighteenth year of his reign, re- 

 citing that — 



" Dominus E. nuper Rex Angliae avus noster de gratia 

 sua speciali et pro animabus progenitorum suorum quon- 

 dam Regum Angliae sextodecimo die Junij anno regni sui 

 Angliae nono concesserat Priori et fratribus ordinis beataa 

 Mariae de Monte Carmeli de Dublin Cantariam Scaecarij 

 ipsius avi nostri de Dublin ad divina in eodem Scaccario 

 per unum de confratribus suis continue celebrandum." 



And farther reciting that — 



" Ijdemque Prior et fratres cantariam illam et serricia 

 divina in Scaccario predicto tam in civitate predicta quam 

 alibi infra marchiis ubi dictum Scaccarium pro tempore 

 assessum extiterat absque defectu aliquo continuaverint 

 et impleverint." 



And also reciting that the said prior and friars 

 had been accustomed, since the time of the said 

 grant, to receive at the said Exchequer 100 

 shillings yearly for that chauntry; the King by this 

 his grant, for the souls of Edward III. his father, 

 and of Anne, Queen of England, his consort, and 

 others his progenitors, confirms the said patent 

 of Edward III. (Memoranda Roll of the Irish 

 Exchequer, 18 and 19 Ric. II., membrane 13.) 



On the 8th day of August, in the second year 

 of his reign, Henry IV., by letters patent, wit- 

 nessed by himself at Westminster (reciting the 



