Aug. 3. 1850.] 



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159 



be glad to hear that a copy exists in the British 

 Museum. Its title is as follows: — 



" A Sparing Discoverie of ovr English lesuits, and 

 of Fa. Parson's proceedings vnder pretence of promoting 

 the Cathollck Faith in England : for a caueat to all 

 true Catholicks, ovr very louing brethren and friends, 

 how they embrace such very uncatholike, though 

 lesuiticall deseignments. Eccles. 4. Vidi caluinnias 

 qu(E sub sole geruntur, et lachrymas innocent'mm, el neini- 

 nem consolatorem, — Newly imprinted, 1601." 



At the end of thePreflioe are the initials W. AV., 

 making it clear that AVatson, the author of 

 Important Considerations and the Quodlibets, was 

 the writer, and accounting for the connection 

 which seemed to exist between the Discursus and 

 the Quodlibets. 



The two passages quoted by Bishop Andrewes 

 (Resp. ad Apol. pp.7. 117.) are to be found in 

 p. 13. But the question now aiises, from what 

 earlier book the quotations are taken, as they both 

 appear in the Sparing Discovery in Latin, and not 

 in English ? Did the Jesuits publish a work con- 

 taining such statements ? or are we to accept them 

 as their opinions only on the authority of so bitter 

 an opponent as Watson ? James Bliss. 



" Eapido contrarius orbi" (Vol. ii., p. 120.) is in 

 one of the finest passages in Ovid : — 



" Nitor in adversura nee me qui ca?tera vincit 

 Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi." 



C.B. 



"Isabel" and " Elizabeth."— At pages 439. and 

 488. of Vol. i., " Notes and Queries," are ques- 

 tions and answers on the names of "Isabel" and 

 "Elizabeth." 



The following, from the Epigrammaton Joannis 

 Dunbari, Lond. 1G16, may amuse some of your 

 readers : — 



" AD. FREDERICUM PRINCIPEM PALATIN. RH. 



Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam : 

 Vere Electoris nomine dignus erat." 



" AD ELISHABETHAM EIUS SFONSAM. 



" EI Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat : 

 Hinc merito Elisal)eth nobile nomen habct. 

 Scilicet ilia Deo est niotore, et Principe primo, 

 Principis una sui lausque, quiesque viri." 



SCOTUS. 



Hanap (Vol. i., p. 477.). — "A cup raised on a 

 stem, either with or without a cover." {Ai-cli. 

 Journ., vol. ii. 1846, p. 2G3., where may be found 

 an interesting account of old drinking vessels, &c., 

 many of them curiously named.) Jakltzbebg. 



Cold Harbour (Vol. ii., p. 60.). — There is a place 

 bearing that designation atGosport, running along 

 side of Portsmouth harbour, between the town of 

 Gosport and the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard. 

 I am at present aware of none other. J. II. Fox. 



notes on books, sales, catalogues, etc. 



The " Percy Society " lias just issued The Anglo- 

 Saxon Passion of St. George, from a manuscript in the 

 Cambridge University Library. It is a work highly 

 creditable to the Society; and in the interesting Intro- 

 duction prefixed to it by the Editor, the Rev. C. Hard- 

 wick, M.A., Fellow of St. Catharine's Hall, he has 

 gratified our national prejudices by showing the favour 

 which the Saint from whom we take 



" Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George" 

 enjoyed in England before the Norman Conquest. 

 Mr. Hardwick's brief notice of the Anglo-Saxon allu- 

 sions to Saint George is complete and most satisfactory. 



Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, 

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