April 1. 1854.] 



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consecratione, usu et effectibus plene agitur, pluraque 

 scitu dignissima ad propositi casus, aliorumque in praxi, 

 hac de re occurrentium decisionem, non injucunde ad- 

 ducuntur. Auctore D. Augustino Barbosa, Proto- 

 notario Apostolico, Eminentissimorum DD. Cardina- 

 lium Sacrae Congregationis Indicis Consul tore, Abbate 

 de Mentrestido, ac insignis Ecclesia; Vimarensis The- 

 saurario majore." [4to., no place nor date.] 



I have here given the full title of a pamphlet of 

 112 pages, exclusive of title, which I purchased 

 about twenty years since of Rodd, the honour- 

 able and intelligent bookseller of Great Newport 

 Street. It came from the library of Professor 

 J. F. Vandevelde of Louvaine. Some former pos- 

 sessor has written before the title, " Quamvis tan- 

 tum libellus tamen rarissimus," and it is, perhaps, 

 the only copy in this country. It is not in the 

 Bodleian catalogue, nor was it in Mr. Douce's 

 library. P. B. 



Medal in Honour of Chevalier St. George 

 (Vol. ix., p. 105.). — A. S. inquires about a medal 

 supposed to have been struck in honour of Prince 

 James (Chevalier St. George) ; but his account of 

 it is so vague, that I am unable to answer his 

 question. If he will describe the medal, or state 

 the grounds upon which he supposes such a medal 

 to have existed, I will endeavour to solve his 

 doubts. H. 



Dean Swift's Suspension (Vol. ix., p. 244.). — 

 I am surprised that Abhba should express a 

 belief that the circumstances of Swift's college 

 punishment have not been noticed by any of his 

 biographers, when every syllable of his commu- 

 nication is detailed (with original documentary 

 proofs) in Dr. Barrett's Early Life of Swift, and 

 is in substance repeated in Sir Walter Scott's 

 Life, prefixed to Swift's works. C. 



" Vanitatem observare" (Vol. ix., p. 247.). — -I 

 am sorry to have given your correspondent F. C. H. 

 a wrong reference, and I am not quite sure about 

 the right one ; but I think it is to a Latin trans- 

 lation of the Council of Laodicea, a.d. 366, c. 36. 



R. H. G. 



Ballina Castle, Mayo (Vol. viii., p. 411.) I 



have no idea to what place O. L. R. G. can allude 

 as Ballina Castle; there is no place, ancient or 

 modern, about that town, that has that name ; and 

 the only place with the title of castle in the neigh- 

 bourhood, is a gentleman's modern residence of 

 no great pretensions either as to size or beauty. 

 He perhaps alludes to Belleck Abbey, which is a 

 fine building ; but, notwithstanding its title, is of 

 still more modern date than the so-called castle. 

 I am not aware of any recent historical or descrip- 

 tive work on the county generally. Cgesar Otway, 

 Maxwell, and the Saxon in Ireland, have confined 

 their descriptions to the "Wild West;" and the 



crowd of tourists appear to follow in their track, 

 leaving the far finer central and eastern districts 

 untouched. The first-named tourist appears to 

 have projected another work on the county, but 

 never published it. J. S. Wardex. 



Dorset (Vol. ix., p. 247.). — Nares gives various 

 spellings, as douset, dowset, doulcet, but in all 

 equally derived from dulcet, "sweet;" and Halli- 

 well has " doucet drinkes ;" so that the great 

 Manchester philosopher had probably been in- 

 dulging in a too copious libation of some sweet 

 wine, which he styles " foolish Dorset." F. R. R. 



Dorchester beer had acquired a very great 

 name, and was sent about England. Out of the 

 shire it was called " Dorset Beer," or " Dorset." 

 That town has lost its fame for brewing beer. 



G. R. L. 



Judicial Rank hereditary (Vol. viii , p. 384.). — 

 Such a list as your correspondent gives is not 

 easily paralleled, it is true, in the judicial annals 

 of England or Ireland ; but in Scotland he might 

 have found cases in considerable number to equal 

 or surpass those which he mentions : for instance, 

 in the family of Dundas of Arniston, respecting 

 which I find the following note in the Quarterly 

 Review, vol. lvii. p. 462. : 



" The series is so remarkable, that we subjoin the 

 details: — Sir James Dundas, judge of the Court of 

 Session, 1662; Robert Dundas, son of Sir James, 

 judge of the Court of Session from 1689 to 1727; 

 Robert Dundas, son of the last, successively Solicitor- 

 General and Lord Advocate, M. P. for the county of 

 Edinburgh, judge of the Court of Session 1737, Lord 

 President 1748, died in 1 753 (father of Henry, Viscount 

 Melville) ; Robert Dundas, son of the last, successively 

 Solicitor- General and Lord Advocate, and member for 

 the county, Lord President from 1760 to 1787 ; Robert 

 Dundas, son of the last, successively Solicitor- General 

 and Lord Advocate, Lord Chief Baron from 1801 to 

 1819; all these judges, except the Chief Baron, had 

 been known in Scotland by the title of Lord Arniston. 

 They were, we need hardly add, all men of talents, but 

 the two Lords President Arniston were of superior 

 eminence in legal and constitutional learning." 



The Hope family, and some other Scottish ones, 

 present as numerous a display of legal dignitaries 

 as the above ; but the hereditary succession from 

 father to son is perhaps not equalled, certainly not 

 excelled, in any age or country. In fact, let the 

 opponents of hereditary honours say what they 

 will, there is no description of talent except the 

 poetical that has not frequently remained in the 

 same family for several generations unabated. 



J. S. Wardet*. 



Tolling the Bell on leaving Church (Vol. ix., 

 p. 125.). — In reply to J. H. M.'s Query, I beg to 

 state that the chief reason for tolling the bell 

 while the congregation is leaving church, is to 



