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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No, 240. 



of St. Augustine, houses and streets began to be built 

 there; Marsh Street terminated with a chapel, dedi- 

 cated to St. Clement, and a gate; and Back Street, 

 with a gate also, and a chapel near it, dedicated to 

 St. John, and belonging to St. Nicholas ; the church 

 of St. Stephen and its dependent parish, and the build- 

 ings between the Back and the quay, seem to have 

 taken their rise at this period, and were all enclosed 

 with a strong embattled wall, externa or secunda mcenia 

 urbis, extending from the quay to the Back, where 

 King Street has since been built."] 



Broom at Mast-head. — Whence did the custom 

 originate of a broom being fastened to the mast- 

 head of boats and small craft, to indicate their 

 being for sale ? J» *• G-. 



Dublin. 



[It originated from the old custom of putting up 

 boughs upon anything which was intended for sale ; 

 and " this is the reason," says Brande, " why an old 

 besom (which is a sort of dried bush) is put up at 

 the top-mast-head of a ship or boat when she is to be 

 sold."] 



THE ADVICE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO 

 JULIUS III. 



(Vol. viii., p. 54. ; Vol. ix. passim.) 



Your correspondent Novus has very judiciously 

 warned controversialists on the use of a document 

 as emanating from the papal court, which, to 

 every one who reads it through (if a shorter exa- 

 mination will not be satisfactory), must carry 

 evidence of its not being papal authority, but 

 intended as a satire r on Rome. A writer in 

 the Christian Remembrancer, vol. xii., attaches 

 undue importance to the signatures, in the ab- 

 sence of which, he admits, " we should conclude 

 that this was the production of some enemy in 

 disguise." 



In a 4to. volume of Tracts now before me is a 

 copy of the genuine document — 



" Consilium delectorum cardinalium et aliorum 

 praelatorum, de emendanda ecclesia. S. D. N. Papa 

 Paulo III. ipso jubente conscriptum et exhibitum 

 anno 1538 ;" 



two copies of the supposititious 



"Consilium quorundam episcoporum Bononiae con- 

 gregatorum quod de ratione stabiliendae Romanae ec- 

 clesiaj Julio III. Pont. Max. datum est. Quo artes 

 et astutia? Romanensium et arcana imperii papalis 

 non pauca propalantur. Ex bibliotheca W. Crashauii. 

 Londini, 1613;" 



and several other tracts, so rare that an enumer- 

 ation of them, and a few extracts, will perhaps be 



acceptable to many of the readers of " 1ST. & Q." 

 Fourth in order : 



" Marcus Antonius de Dominis archiepiscopus Spa- 

 latensis, sua? profectionis consilium exponit. Londini, 

 1616." 



" Bellum Papale, sive concordia discors Sixti Quinti 

 et dementis Octavi, circa Hieronymianam editionem, 

 etc. Auctore Thoma Jamesio. Londini, 1600." 



" [Ejusdem] Bellum Gregorianum, sive corrup- 

 tion'^ Romanoe in operibus D. Gregorii M. jussu 

 pontificum Rom. recognitis atque editis, etc. Oxoniae, 

 1610." 



" Supima actorum Facultatis Theologiae Parisiensis 

 contra librum inscriptum, Controversia Anglicana de 

 potestate regis et pontificis, etc. Auctore Martino Be- 

 cano. Londini, 1613." 



" Antitortobellarminus, sive refutatio calumniarum, 

 mendaciorum, et imposturarum laico-cardinalis Bellar- 

 mini, contra jura omnium regum et sinceram illiba- 

 tamque famam Serenissimi, potentissimi piissimique 



Principis Jacobi fidei catholicae defensoris et 



propugnatoris : per Joan. Gordonium. Londini, 1610."' 



" Tu super hoc cepha fingis Christum ore loquutum 

 Fundamen caulae nidificabo meas : 

 Vernac'lo at Christus Solymis sermone loquutus, 



Separat articulis mascula fcemineis ; 

 Petre, ait, hie cepha es, sanctae fundamina caulae, 

 Et super hac cepha ponere dico meae : 



Quod tu sic audes Christi pervertere verba 

 Et pro fcemineo subdere masculeum, 



Nil mirum ; Papis solenne est cardineisque 

 Sic pro fcemineo subdere masculeum." 



" Epilogus ad quatuor colloquia D" 1 D ris Wrighti pro 

 mala fide habita ; et a Jacobo Nixon non bona fide 

 relata; et Guilielmo Stanleio nullius fidei perduelli 

 dicata : pro amico et gentili suo D no Thoma Roe equite 

 editus. Authore Guilielmo Roe. Londini, 1615." 



" D n0 D ri Wright Anglo, malae causae client! : et 

 Jacobo Nixon Hiberno, advocato pejori : et Guilielmo 

 Stanleio, patrono pessimo ; religionis et patriae hosti- 

 bus : poenam seram et pcenitentiam seriam Guilielmus 

 Roe exoptat." 



This is the opening of the epilogus Colloquii Spa- 

 dani, a copy of which rare tract is in the exten- 

 sive collection of the President of the Chetham 

 Society. The epilogue contains an unmeasured 

 invective against these three "vassal slaves of 

 servile Rome."* Wright's panegyric on Stanley 

 is thus introduced and distorted : 



" Egregia facinora tua vidit Hihernia, experta est 

 Hollandia, agnoscit Hispania, praedicat Gallia, fatetur 

 Flandria, neque potest negare Anglia. Ergo curn. 

 bona frontis tuae serenitate sustiuebis, si elogii tui 

 vocem ad assensum nostrum repercussam, instar Ec- 

 chus remittamus, et Stanleium hominem egregie faci- 

 norosum dixerimus, quod in Hispanis consilio suo 

 immissis vidit Hibernia, in Daventria? proditione ex- 



* " Valete tria animalia Religionis serva;, et in ser- 

 vitutem nata." 



