April I. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



313 



ninety-three. The labour of writing the name of 

 his benefice does not seem to have shortened his 

 days. 



The following are the names of two employes. m 

 the finance department at Madrid : — Don Epifanio 

 Mirurzururdund.ua y Zengotita ; Don Juan Nepo- 

 •muceno de Burionagonatotorecagogeazcoecha. 



There was, until 1851, a major in the British 

 army named Teyoninhokarawen (one single name). 



G. L. S. 



Elizabeth Seymour (Vol. ix., p. 174.). — Ac- 

 cording to Collins, — 



" Sir E. Seymour, first baronet, married Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir Arthur Champeirion, of Dartington, 

 co. Devon, by whom he had, besides other issue, a 

 daughter Elizabeth, who married George Cary, of 

 Cockington, co. Devon. Sir Edward Seymour, third 

 baronet, married Anne, daughter of Sir William Port- 

 man, and left, besides sons, a daughter, also named 

 Elizabeth, who married Sir Joseph Tredenham, of 

 Tregony in Cornwall, Knight." 

 These two ladies, whose similarity of name pro- 

 bably caused the confusion, must have lived at 

 least half a century apart. A. B. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Those who share the well-grounded opinion of Mr. 

 Petit, that we cannot fully enter into the character of 

 English architecture unless we give some attention also 

 to French, German, and Italian, will gladly turn to 

 the very profusely and handsomely-illustrated-volume 

 which he has just issued, under the modest title of 

 Architectural Studies in France, by the Rev. J. L. Petit, 

 M.A., F. S. A., with Illustrations from Drawings by the 

 Author and P. H. Delamotte. It is of course impos- 

 sible, within the limits of our brief notice, to enter into 

 any examination of Mr. Petit's views upon the subject 

 of Gothic architecture, the principles of which he be- 

 lieves to have been more completely developed at an 

 early period in England than anywhere else ; and we 

 must therefore content ourselves with directing atten- 

 tion to the book itself, which will in no small degree 

 supply to the architectural student desirous of study- 

 ing French buildings, the opportunity of doing so ; 

 jmd that too under the guidance of one well qualified 

 to direct his steps. Mr. Petit has long been known to 

 the antiquarian world as one of our greatest authori- 

 ties on the subject of Gothic architecture ; and his 

 various papers, illustrated by his own bold yet effective 

 sketches in the Archaeological Journal, may have pre- 

 pared some of our readers for a volume of great im- 

 portance ; yet we think even they will be surprised at 

 the interest and beauty of the present book. Mr. Petit, 

 who has had on this occasion the assistance of Mr. De- 

 lamotte as a draughtsman, expresses his hope that at 

 some future time he may avail himself of that gentle- 

 man's skill as a photographer. 



There Is, perhaps, no man of letters, no man of 

 science, of whom the world possesses so unsatisfactory 



an account as Jerome Cardan. The author of Palissy 

 the Potter has therefore done good service, and exe- 

 cuted a task worthy of himself, by The Life of Girolamo 

 Cardano, of Milan, Physician. In two small readable 

 volumes, rich in all the characteristics of his own pe- 

 culiar mode of treatment, Mr. Morley has given us not 

 only a clear view of the life and character of Cardan, 

 based on a diligent and careful examination of his vo- 

 luminous writings — for Cardan reckoned that he had 

 published one hundred and thirty-one books, and left 

 in MS. nearly as many — but also a striking picture 

 of the age in which he lived ; and the work, which is 

 one of great interest to the general reader, is made still 

 more valuable to the literary .antiquary by the accuracy 

 with which Mr. Morley quotes his authorities. 



Some interesting manuscripts were sold by Messrs. 

 Plittick and Simpson on Wednesday, the 22nd ultimo, 

 including original letters by Blake, Penn, Monk, Nel- 

 son, and other of our most renowned admirals ; and of 

 Charles I. and Charles II., Oliver and Richard Crom- 

 well, Desborough ; and numerous autographs of Com- 

 monwealth celebrities. The chief lot was a letter from 

 Cromwell to Pastor Cotton, in New England, written 

 shortly after the battle of Worcester, in which he al- 

 ludes to the difficulties he has experienced in treating 

 with some of the Scotch party. Mr. Carlyle had not 

 seen the original, but used the copy among the Arun- 

 del MSS. It was knocked down to Mr. Stevens, the 

 American agent, for 361. A printed broadsheet of the 

 Peace of Breda sold for 3/. 7s. A letter of Richard 

 Cromwell brought 41. An autograph of Queen Bess 

 brought 21. ; and one of Edward VI. brought 21. 8s. 

 Autographs of Mary are less common : one in this col- 

 lection realised 31. 7s. One of Nelson's letters to Lady 

 Hamilton brought 21. 2s. Altogether, the prices re- 

 alised were good. 



Books Received. — Lives of the Queens of England, 

 by Agnes Strickland, Vol. III. This new volume of 

 the cheaper edition of Miss Strickland's popular regal 

 biographies comprises the Lives of Jane Seymour, 

 Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, Katherine Parr, 

 and Mary. — The Works of the Jit. Hon. Joseph Ad- 

 dison, with Notes by Bishop Hurd, Vol. II., is the new 

 volume of Bohn's British Classics, and comprises Ad- 

 dison's contributions to the Taller and Spectator. — 

 In the same publisher's Standard Library, we have the 

 third volume of his edition of Southey's Works and 

 Correspondence of Cowper, which embraces his Letters 

 between the years 17S3 and 1788. — Cyclopaedia Bib- 

 liographica, Part XVIII., which extends from Shepherd 

 (Rev. E. J.) to Surtees (Rev. Scott F.). — Whitaker's 

 Educational Register, 1854. The work, which has 

 undergone some modifications, is now confined alto- 

 gether to Educational Statistics, of which it is a most 

 valuable compendium. — Remains of Pagan Snxondom, 

 by J. Y. Ackerman, Parts VIII. and IX. The con- 

 tents of these numbers are: — Fragments from a Tu- 

 mulus at Caenby, Lincolnshire ; Fibula from Ingarsby, 

 Leicestershire; Glass Drinking-vessels from Ceme- 

 teries in Kent ; Fibulas from Rugby, Warwickshire. 

 The great peculiarity of this Series is, that the objects 

 are drawn of the size of the originals ; thus affording 

 great facilities for comparing them with remains of 

 similar character. 



