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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 275. 



" EOCCHA DE CAMPANIS. 

 (Vol. xi., p. 33.) 



Thanks are due to an Irish correspondent for a 

 Note from a bookseller's catalogue (would he had 

 given the date), showing the value (five pounds !) 

 set upon a book on bells. He will see the work 

 enumerated in my first list, Vol. x., p. 240. 



I have before alluded to the same work as one 

 full of information on the subject (Vol. vi., 

 p. 610.) ; but to give such an account of it as is 

 asked for, would be to abridge the whole work, 

 and would take up too many pages of " N. 

 & Q." However, I will copy the title-page, and 

 all that I find in the volume about Irish bells. 

 For a fuller account of the good old bishop (who 

 was a very voluminous writer), I would refer 

 Enivri to biographical dictionaries. Should he 

 wish to possess the work, I shall be happy to re- 

 ceive the value set upon it by John O'Daly, and 

 to devote it to the fund for the restoration of this 

 church, in which I am engaged ; or if he will 

 favour me with a direct communication, dropping 

 his assumed (I presume) name, I shall be ready to 

 lend it to him should he wish to read it ; it is a 

 thin 4to. of 166 pages besides an index, with 

 plates. The title-page (nicely ornamented) runs 

 thus : 



"de 



campanis 



commentarivs 



a. fr. angelo roccha 



EPISCOPO TAGASTENSI, 



ET APOSTOLICI SACRARII PR^FECTO 



ELUCUBRATUS, 



AD SAXCTAM ECCLESIAM 



CATHOLICAM 



DIRECTVS. 



" In quo multa non minus admiratione, ac scitu digna, 



quam lectu jucunda, in Ecclesia Dei reperiri narratur. 



"Juxta diversa Quaesita, quae in pagina quinta videre 



licet. 



ROM^ 



APUD GULLIELMUM FACCIOTTUM. 



SUPERIORUM PERMISSU 



ANNO DOMINI 



M.DC.XII." 



" Cap. VII. Admiranda de Campanis consecratis. 



"Silentio prictermittenda non censentur admiranda 

 ilia, et scitu quidem dignissima, quae de Campanis con- 

 secratis narrantur, prajsertim vero juramentum in primis 

 illud in Hibernia, Scotia, et alibi super Campanas prsestari 

 consuetum, ob magnam reverentiam, quae ipsis adhibetur 

 dictis in locis. Si qui enim super Campanas pejerare, hoc 

 est falso, et animo fallendi jurare audeant, plerumque 

 tacite, ut ita dicam, vel cselitus puniuntur. Si qui vero 

 tales convicti ab homine pejerasse inveniantur, graviter in 

 €03 animadverti solet, ut colligitur ex eo, quod in Topo- 

 graphia Hiberniaj scriptum reliquit Silvester Giraldus in 

 haec verba. 



" ' Hoc etiam non praetereundum puto, quod Campanas 

 baiulas, baculosque Sanctorum in superiori parte recurvos, 

 auro et argento, vel aere contextos, sive contectos, in 

 magna reverentia tam Hiberniae, et ScotiaB, quam Guual- 



liae, vel Uualliae Populus, et Clerus habere solent ; ita ut 

 Sacramenta (hoc est juramenta), super haec longe magis, 

 quam super Evangelia, et praestare vereantur, et pejerare. 

 Ex vi enim quadam occulta, et lis quasi divinitusinsita, 

 necnon et vindicta (eujus praicipue Sancti illi appetibiles 

 esse videntur) plerumque puniuntur contemptores, et 

 graviter animadvertitur in transgressores.' 



'I Haec de juramento super Campanas prjestari memo- 

 ratis in locis consueto, narrat Giraldus." 



From which, methinks, a Scotch or a AVelsh 

 bookseller might as well claim the author for a 

 countryman, as John O'Daly of Dublin fancies he 

 must have been an Irishman ! 



H. T. Ellacombe. 

 Rectory, Ch'st St. George. 



photographic cobeespondence. 



Collodioiiized Glass Plates, 8^c. — As I should be very 

 sorry to make my old friend " N. & Q." the medium of 

 any personal discussion between Mr. Shadbolt and my- 

 self, I will be contented with merely acquitting myself of 

 the various allegations contained in his letter (Vol. xi.^ 

 p. 34.), and leaving the case as it stands to the opinion of 

 the public. I am not a little surprised that my letter on 

 the subject of preserving collodion plates should so have 

 disturbed Mr. Shadbolt, and at the same time I am 

 rather at a loss to find out wfiat I have done to merit his 

 statements concerning me. 



In my reply I must divide his statement into two 

 parts. 



First, he says I accuse him of plagiarism. Secondly, 

 he states that I have plagiarised on his process. 



Now, as to the first point. I must repeat what I said, 

 which was nearly as follows : That it was singular Mr. 

 Shadbolt and myself should have been experimenting 

 in the same line at nearly the same time, as his process 

 seemed only to differ from mine in the fact that he left a 

 slight excess of nitrate on the plate, whereas I kept the 

 excess in the sj'rup. I then stated that I felt Mr. Shad- 

 bolt to be a perfectly independent discoverer, but claimed 

 for myself the priority of publication. Then I gave an- 

 other method of preparing the plate for Iceeping it ; and, 

 having some delicac}- as to even taking that part of his 

 process, I said that I adopted his plan of washing the 

 plate with a weaker nitrate bath. I might add, that in 

 his first publication of his process, Mr. Shadolt never 

 even alluded to my previous publication, although my 

 process was published on the 17th of June, and his not 

 till the 20th of the following month. He can surely, 

 therefore, have nothing to say on this head? I do then 

 most distinctly claim being the first to apply the honey 

 or grape sugar to the collodion plate. Next, I do claim 

 having also applied the same substances to preserving the 

 plate sensitive, as may be seen in four instantaneous views 

 which will appear in the Exhibition before the end of this 

 month, in one of which the plate was kept for twenty -four 

 hours, and the other three were carried two miles in a 

 hot summer sun, and kept five hours. These were shown 

 at the Royal Institution before the publication of my 

 process. 



In my first publication I said that the stability of the 

 process was greatly increased by my method. And again, 

 in another place, that by my method the plates would 

 keep for four hours at least. 



The combination of nitrate of silver with the grape 

 sugar I still hold to be quite essential, as without it I find 

 that not only are the half-tones not so perfect in the deep 



