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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 279. 



(■who on inquiry is not able to give me the in- 

 formation I seek) seven "Decreta" issued by the 

 Congregation of the Index, each specifying sundry 

 books as prohibited : 



" Itaque nemo cujuscumque gradus et conditionis prse- 

 dicta Opera damnata atque proscripta, quocumque loco, 

 et quocumque idiomate, aut in posterum edere, aut edita 

 legere, vel retinere audeat sed locorum Ordinariis, aut 

 liaereticae pravitatis Inquisitoribus ea tradere teneatur, sub 

 poenis in Indice librorum vetitorum indictis." 



These Decrees are octavo size, each Decree oc- 

 cupying with the works specified two and a half 

 pages, printed at Rome: Ex Typographia Rev. 

 Cam. Apost. The dates of those I possess are : 

 April 26, 1853; July 24, 1853; September 5, 

 1853; December 10, 1853; February 13, 1854; 

 April 6, 1854; September 5, 1854. Now my 

 Queries on these are : 



1. How can I obtain these regularly as issued ? 



2. Where could I get an accurate list of the 

 dates of those issued since the publication of the 

 last Index at Rome. (Query 1835 ; I have its 

 Mechlin reprint of 1843.) 



3. Are these Decrees published in any collected 

 official form ? and where ? 



4. Are similar decrees issued in Spain ? and if 

 so, how can they be procured ? Enivri. 



Cushendall, co. Antrim. 



New Moon. — Will any correspondent favour 

 me with an accurate rule for finding the time of 

 new moon? The rules I have met with are hardly 

 intelligible to an unastronomical capacity. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Numismatic. — I have in my possesslor. . small 

 bronze coin which I found in the neighbourhood of 

 Trasimene. On the obverse is a head of a negro, 

 the reverse has an elephant, both beautifully de- 

 signed. This coin has no inscription. I should 

 be very much obliged to any one who could give 

 me any particulars on its origin. 



F. DE Bernhardt. 



34. Dover Street, Piccadilly. 



Colonel Norman buried in Guernsey. — It is 

 said that this gentleman, or some one bearing the 

 name of Norman, whether a military man or a 

 civilian, is buried in a churchyard distant a very 

 few miles (a morning drive) from Peter le Port, 

 Guernsey; and that the tombstone records that 

 he was the son of a Norman of Bleadon, or Bridge- 

 water, in Somerset. A copy of the inscription, 

 together with any particulars relating to this 

 ■Norman, or his family, would not only gratify the 

 curiosity, but perhaps prove greatly to the benefit 

 of A Descendant. 



House of Cohirg. — The present Queen will, 

 I presume, be the last sovereign of the Brunswick 

 line. The Prince of Wales, when he comes to the 

 throne, will be the first of a new dynasty. We 



have had in succession the Plantagenets, the 

 Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Guelphs. Will some 

 one of your correspondents supply the surname of 

 the Coburg family ? E. H. A. 



" Yeiv Tree Aoenue " at Tytherley, Hants. — 

 When and by whom made ? A. W. 



^^ Leigh Hunt's Journal." — I should feel very 

 grateful to any of your readers who would favour 

 me with information of the quantity of numbers 

 issued of this work, and where I could procure 

 one or more copies. Geo. Newbold. 



Campions '■'■ Decern Rationes." — In 1581, Father 

 Campion printed, at a private press at Stonor, an 

 edition of his famous Decern Rationes, four hun- 

 dred copies of which were secretly distributed at 

 Oxford before the great University Meeting. 

 There is no copy of this edition in the British 

 Museum or the Bodleian, Can one be pointed 

 out in any public or private library ? C. D. R. 



De Caut Family. — Could any of your corre- 

 spondents furnish me with the genealogy of the 

 fiimily of De Caut, who it is supposed fled to the 

 eastern coast of England at the time of the revo- 

 cation of the Edict of Nantes ? And whether any 

 of their descendants are known now to exist in 

 the mother country (France) ? W. H. Tillett. 



Wycklyffe, and the Doctrine of Dominion founded 

 in Grace. — In the Advertisement to Dr. Todd's 

 edition of WycklyfTe's Three Treatises, the fol- 

 lowing passage occurs : 



" They [the doctrines of the ' Treatise on the Church'] 

 differ, in fact, but little from the dangerous and anti- 

 social principles afterwards put forward by the extreme 

 Puritans of a subsequent age, who maintained that Do- 

 minion was founded in Grace," &c. 



Inquirer would feel much obliged if any of the 

 contributors to " N. & Q." would point out the 

 paragraph in the " Treatise on the Church," which 

 appears to show that Wycklyffe maintained the 

 Doctrine of Dominion being founded in Grace? 



The careful and erudite manner in which the 

 above work has been edited. Is felt by Inquirer 

 not only as an obligation to himself as a reader of 

 Church history, but renders him a little doubtful 

 as to the propriety of querying anything asserted 

 by the editor in connexion with it. He writes, 

 however, solely for information, after having care- 

 fully examined the work referred to himself. 



Latimer or Latymer. — Sir John Latimer, second 

 son of William, first Lord Latimer of Danby, who 

 died in 1305, married Joan, daughter and heiress 

 of Sir William de Gouis, Knt. (Burke's Extinct 

 Peerage.^ Could this have been the same person 

 who, in Harl. MS. 1451. Is called Robert Laty- 

 mer (died 1336), who married Joan, daughter of 

 William Goude (died 1311) ? And which spelling 



