April 22. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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et correctionem spectans? Et qui remedia contra hos 

 morbos qucerunt, eos vos ea ecclesia ejiciendos putatis, 

 et condemnatis ha;reseos, qui restituere pristinam puri- 

 tatem religioni conantur ; eos illam tollere, qui cere- 

 monias purgare, eos perflegare qui auctoritatem eccle- 

 siasticam recuperare atque confirmare, eos imminuere 

 et labefactare clamatis." — D. 4. 



Charles Hardwick. 



Had Mr. Woodward's remarks come sooner 

 under notice, they should have received, as well 

 deserving, a quicker reply. It is in one sense 

 rather annoying that he should have mistaken so 

 widely the publication under question, and spent 

 so much time in confirming what few, if any, now 

 doubt of, the Papal origin of the Consilium De- 

 lectorum Cardinalium. (See Gibbings' Preface to 

 his Reprint of the Roman Index Expurgatorius, 

 p. xx.) The title of the tract (so to speak) com- 

 monly attributed to the same quarter, but the 

 justice of which is questioned, is, Consilium quo- 

 rundam Episcoporum Bononice congregatorum, 

 quod de ratione stabiliendce Romance Ecclesia 

 Julio III. P.M. datum est. This is the Consilium 

 to which Mr. Woodward's attention should have 

 been confined ; and which he will find in the same 

 volume of Brown's Fasciculus, to which he has 

 referred me on the real Consilium, pp. 644-650. It 

 appears in English also, translated by Dr. Clagett, 

 in Bishop Gibson's Preservative, vol. i. p. 170. 

 edit. 8vo. ; and is also included (a point to be 

 noticed) in the single volume published of Ver- 

 gerio's Works, Tubingen, 1563.* 



Mr. Woodward has no doubt frequently met, 

 in Protestant authors, with . the quotation from 

 this supposed Bologna Council (Consilium being 

 taken for Concilium), recommending that as little 

 as possible of the Scriptures should be suffered to 

 come abroad among the vulgar, that having proved 

 the grand source of the present calamities. Now 

 the very air of this passage, and of course of many 

 others rather less disguised, is of itself sufficient 

 to prove that this Bologna Council is a piece of 

 banter ; the workmanship, in fact, of Peter Paul 

 Vergerio. Would any real adherent of Rome so 

 express himself? "N. & Q." (Vol. ix., p. 111.) 

 supplies a ready answer, in the communication 

 from F. C. H. on the so-called Catholic Bible 

 Society. 



Would a real adherent of the Papal Church 

 again express himself in the following unimpas- 

 sioned manner ? 



" Nam Apostolorum temporibus (ut verum tibi 

 fateamur, sed silentio opus est) vel aliquot annis post 

 ipsos Apostolos, nulla vel Papatus, vel Cardinalatus 

 mentio erat, nee amplissimos illos reditus Episcopatuum 

 et Sacerdotiorum t'uisse constat, nee templa tantis 

 sumptibus extruebantur, &c. : aestimet ergo tua sanc- 



* See an account of him in M'Crie's Hist, of the 

 Reformation in Italy, pp. 77. 1 15. &c» 



titas quam male nobiscum ageretur, si nostro aliquo 

 fato in pristinam paupertatem humilitatem et miseram 

 illam servitutem ac potestatem alienam redigendi 

 essemus !" 



Again : 



" Deinde ubi Episcopi Sacerdotum palmas tantum 

 inungunt, jube illos internam atque externam manum, 

 ad hasc caput ipsum et simul totam faciem perungere. 

 Nam si tantulum illud oleum sanctificandi vim habet, 

 major certe olei quantitas majorem quoque sanctifi- 

 candi vim obtinebit." 



To be sure ! Who can doubt it ? 



Mr. Woodward will, I apprehend, readily agree 

 that these sentences come from no one connected 

 with the Roman Church. And they are quoted 

 in the hope that Protestants will cease to cite this 

 supposed Bologna Council as any valid or genuine 

 testimony to Romish proceedings and sentiments. 



Novus. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Mounting Positives. — If the print and the mounting 

 paper, or Bristol board, are both made equally damp, 

 and the back of the picture covered with thin paste, 

 they adhere without any unevenness ; and if the print 

 is on the fine Canson's paper, the appearance is that of 

 an India proof. They should remain until perfectly 

 dry in a press. H. W. Diamond. 



Mounting of Photographs, and Difficulties in the 

 Wax-paper Process. — May I request a little addi- 

 tional information from your correspondent Seleucus, 

 Vol. ix., p. 310., respecting the mounting of photo- 

 graphs ? Does he mean merely the painting the 

 edges, or the smearing of the photograph all over its 

 back with the Indian-rubber glue, prior to sticking the 

 proof on the cardboard ? If the former, which I ap- 

 prehend he does, Seleucus will necessarily have the 

 unsightly appearance of the picture's buckling up in 

 the middle on the board being bent forward and back- 

 ward in different directions ? May I take the liberty 

 of asking him in what respect the plan proposed is su- 

 perior to that of painting over the edges with mucilage 

 of gum arabic, containing a little brown sugar to pre- 

 vent its cracking, allowing it to dry, and prior to the 

 placing it on the card, slightly moistening it ; a plan 

 superior to that of putting it on the board at first, as 

 all risk of a portion of the gum oozing out at the edges 

 is thereby avoided. 



I have long been in the habit of mounting prints 

 and photographs in a way which prevents their buck- 

 ling, keeps the paper underneath quite smooth, and in 

 other respects is so perfect, that it positively defies the 

 distinguishing of the picture from the paper on which 

 it is mounted. I am not certain that my plan is appli- 

 cable to the mounting on card-board, as it cannot be 

 wetted and stretched, thinking it useless to make use 

 of such a costly material when a tolerably thick draw- 

 ing-paper will more than serve the same purpose at a 

 very considerably less expense, seeing that the photo- 

 graph thus mounted bears a much closer resemblance 



