Feb. 17. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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1639 ; Lavington, Exeter, 1747; Harris, Llandaff, 

 1729; Burgess, Sarum, 1825; Batson, Clonfert, 

 1804 ; Maltby, Dunelm. ; Mant, Down and Con- 

 nor ; Lipscomb, Jamaica. Also any particulars 

 of the life of Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. 

 David's ? Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



" Adolescentia similis est" Sre.-—" Adolescentia 

 similis est serto rosEe senectus serto urticae." I find 

 this comparison called a proverb. An authority 

 for the assertion, and an early instance of its use, 

 would oblige A. Challsteth. 



" Actis cevum implet" SfC. — 



" Actis aevum iniplet,*non segnibus annis." 



The above epigraph is continually ascribed by 

 some to Ovid, and by others to Publius Syrus. 

 But I can neither find it in one nor the other. 

 Would any of your correspondents obligingly 

 indicate its author or origin? M. (1) 



GarricKs Portrait in the Character of Satan. — 

 In a note on The Sisters, a novel by Dr. Dodd, so 

 injudiciously written as almost to encourage the 

 vice it professed to expose, it is stated that Gar- 

 rick was requested by the artist, who illustrated 

 Dr. Newton's edition of Milton, to give him the 

 benefit of his wonderful powers of expression to 

 assist him in the conception of an illustration for 

 book iv. of Paradise Lost, — that the scowl of 

 malignant envy, with which Satan is represented 

 as regarding the happy innocence of our first 

 parents in that print, is therefore to be taken as 

 Garrick's conception of the character. Can this 

 be substantiated from other authorities ? 



Balliolensis. 



Chaloner Family. — Mr. Corner will be very 

 thankful for any information respecting the two 

 Sir Thomas Chaloners, from temp. Henry VIII. 

 to James I., their ancestors or descendants, be- 

 yond what is contained in the memoirs in the 

 Biographia Britannica and Anthony k Wood's 

 Athence Oxon., and the works there referred to ; 

 and Mr. Corner is desirous of learning if there 

 •were any, and, if any, what connexion between 

 that family and the Chaloners of Sussex and 

 Surrey ? 



3. Paragon, New Kent Eoad. 



George MiUer, D.D. — In the Records of the 

 Particulars of the Consecrations of the Irish Bishops 

 since the Restoration, of which a part is appended 

 to the last (February) number of the Irish Church 

 Journal, it is stated that Dr. Miller preached the 

 sermon on the consecration of Bishop Saurin in 

 the cathedral of Armagh, Dec. 19, 1819. The 

 author of Modern History Philosophically Illus- 

 trated was well known ; and I have many, if not 

 the whole, of his publications. Did the sermon 

 in question ever appear in print ? Abhba. 



Bibliographical Queries. — Can you oblige me 

 with the names of the respective authors of the 

 following pamphlets ? 



1. " Remarks occasioned by some Passages in Doctor 

 Milner's Tour in Ireland : Dublin, 1808." 



2. " A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present, 

 Fifth Edit. : Dublin, 1810." * 



3. " A Commentary on the Proceedings of the Catholics 

 of Ireland: Dublin, 1812." 



4. " An Address to the Public on behalf of the Poor : 

 Dublin, 1815." 



5. " An Inquiry into the Abuses of the Chartered 

 Schools in Ireland. Second Edit. : London, 1818." 



6. " One Year of the Administration of the Marquis 

 of VYellesley in Ireland. Fourth Edit. : London, 1823." 



Abhba. 



Passage in St. Augustine. —Where, in the writ- 

 ings of St. Augustine, can the following words be 

 found : " Unus erat, ne desperes ; unus tantum, 



ne praesumas 



E. D. K. 



Sir Thomas Bodleys Life. — I have in my pos- 

 session a LIS. autobiography of Sir Thomas 

 Bodley, with a copy of his will, &c. (pp. 1 10, 8vo.), 

 and apparently in the handwriting of the early 

 part of the seventeenth century. Can you give 

 me any information respecting this interesting 

 memoir of one to whom scholars are so deeply 

 indebted, besides what has been recorded by 

 Lowndes ? Abhba. 



Letters of James I. — It is mentioned in Sir 

 P. Francis's Historical Questions, that letters from 

 King James were printed by Lord Kaimes from 

 MSS. in the Advocates' library, Edinburgh ; but 

 immediately suppressed for reasons there given, 

 and not worth quoting. Is this true, and are the 

 letters still in the Advocates' library ? L. J. I. 



Reading in Darkness. — Joseph Justus Scaliger 

 said that he was able during darkness to read 

 without the aid of artificial light ; and moreover 

 adds, that the same power was possessed by Jerome 

 Cardan and his father. This statement of Sca- 

 liger is alluded to, and seemingly believed, by the 

 writer of an article on Cardinal Mezzofanti in the 

 January number of the Edinburgh Review. Do 

 any of Scaliger's cotemporaries mention this 

 faculty ? Is such a power of vision physically 

 possible ? Edward Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton-in-Lindsey. 



Prayers and Sermon by Bishop Symon Patrick. — 

 1. In the year 1689, Dr. Patrick published A 

 Prayer for perfecting our late Deliverance, and in 

 1690 A Prayer for the King's Success in Ireland: 



[* By John Wilson Croker, Esq. On a fly-leaf of a 

 copy of the eighth edition before us is the following MS. 

 note : " First published in 1808 ; the seventh edition in 

 1816. Being too even-handed, it pleased no party-men 

 of any faction, but all admired it as an excellent, if not 

 the verj' best imitation of Tacitus."] 



