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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 33. 



Charles and the Infanta. At his instance, 

 Tereda translated the English Liturgy into Span- 

 ish (1623), and was repaid by presentation to a 

 prebend at Hereford. On the death of Jaines, in 

 1625, he left, as he says, the Court, before the 

 Court left him, and retired to Hereford. Here he 

 adds : " I composed a large volume De Manachatii, 

 in Latin ; another De Contradictionihis DoctrincB 

 Ecclesia Bomaiue, in the same language ; and a 

 third, entitled Carrascon, also in Latin." In 1631-2 

 he vacated his prebend, and went, I conjecture, to 

 Holland, where he printed Carrascon in Spanish 

 (1633), being a selection from the Latin. In the 

 preface to this, which recently had been reprinted, 

 he proposed to print the other works which he had 

 prepared, if the Spanish Carrascon brought him 

 " good news." Do his Latin works exist either in 

 print or in manuscript ? 



3. Juan de Nicholas y Sacharles was another 

 Spanish Protestant, who came to this country in 

 1618. He translated the Boucher de la Foi, by 

 P. Moulin, into Spanish ; he presented it, I conjec- 

 ture in MS., to Prince Charles about the year 

 1620. Is such a MS. known to exist in any of our 

 libraries ? 



4. The recent History of Spanish Literature, by 

 George Ticknor, has made us generally acquainted, 

 that the author of the clever "Dialogo de las Len- 

 guas," printed in Origines de la Lengiia Espahola 

 by Gregorio Mayans y Siscar, was Juan de Valdes, 

 to whom Italy and Spain herself owed the 

 dawning light of the religious reformation which 

 those countries received. Spaniards well informed 

 in their own literature have of course been long 

 aware of the authorship of the " Dialogo de las 

 Lenguas." But fe-w even of them are aware that 

 Mayans y Siscar could not, even at so late a period, 

 venture to reprint the work, as it was written by 

 Juan de Valdes. He suppressed various passages, 

 for the Inquisition was in his day too jealous and 

 powerful for him to risk offence. Notwithstanding, 

 and as wia cosa de Espaiia, he printed a few copies 

 privately, entire. Expurgated books are always 

 unsatisfactory mutilations. Does anv Manuscript 

 of the "Dialogo de las Lenguas" exist in this 

 country, in any public or private library ? Wn. 



to take the volume. At the sale of the artist's 

 effects it was sold to Sir Gregory Page Turner, 

 Bart., for 3151. It again came to the hammer, 

 and was purchased by John Broadley, Esq., at 

 whose sale it was disposed of for lOOl. 1 cannot 

 ascertain the purchaser on the last occasion, and 

 am very desirous to learn where the drawings are 

 now to be found. 



The same artist also prepared a series of draw- 

 ings illustrative of English costume from the 

 earliest period. This volume was executed for 

 Thomas Lister Parker, Esq., but, like the former, 

 has passed into the custody of other persons, and 

 I am now ignorant of its possessor. 



I have not yet received any reply to my inquiry 

 in Vol. i. p. 122., respecting a large bronze medal 

 of Dr. Stukeley, with a view of Stonehenge on the 

 reverse, evidently executed soon after his decease. 

 I believe it to be unique, but should be glad to 

 know- if dies were ever engraved from this design. 



J. Britton. 



Burton Street, June 1. 1850. 



CAKTEKS DRAWINGS OF YORK CATHEDRAX. 



MEDAL OF STUKELEr. 



I shall be glad to ascertain, if possible, through 

 the medium of your columns, who is now the 

 possessor of a volume of elaborate Drawings of 

 York Cathedral, which were made by the late John 

 Carter, F. S. A., for Sir Mark M. Sykes, Bart. 

 Mr. Carter was paid a large sum on account of 

 these drawings during the progress of his task, but 

 after the death of the baronet, he demanded such 

 an extravagant price that the executors declined 



" Lnpresf" and " Debenture." — When a person 

 fulfilling any employment under any of the Govern- 

 ment Boards has occasion to draw " money on 

 account," an " imprest," addressed to the pay- 

 master under that Board, is issued for the required 

 sum ; but when the final payment is made upon 

 the "closing of the account," the "debenture" 

 takes the place of the " imprest." Out of what 

 verbal raw material are these words manufactured? 

 I know of no other use of the word " imprest" as 

 a substantive ; and though we see " debenture " 

 often enough in railway reports, I cannot perceive 

 the analogy between its meanings in the two cases. 



D. V. S. 



Home, May 17. 



Cosin's MSS. — Basire, in his 'Brief of the Life, 

 ^•c. of Bishop Cosin, appended to his Funeral 

 Sermon (Lond. 167C, p. 69.), after noticing 

 several MS. works of Cosin's, some of which have 

 not yet seen the light, adds, " These remains are 

 earnestly recommended to his pious executor's 

 care for publication." 



Can any of your correspondents kindly inform 

 me, who are the lineal representatives of Cosin's 

 pious executor ? Basire mentions three " imper- 

 fect" works of Bishop Cosin's in manuscript : viz. 

 Annales Eccles., Historia Conciliorum, Chrono- 

 logia Sacra. Is it known what has become of 

 them ? They appear to have fallen, with other 

 MSS., into the hands of his executor. J. Sansom. 



Barclay's Argenis. — What are the latest editions 

 of this romance — the best, in Cowper's opinion, 

 ever written, which Coleridge laments as being so 



