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to prison, and died Nov. 20, 1605 ; and Coke found 

 this in seaixliing his chambers a fortnight after. 

 The title originally stood thus : — 



" A Treatise of Equivocation, wherein is Carpel)/ 

 discussed the question, whether a Catholicke or any other 

 person before a Magistrate being demaunded uppon his 

 oath whetlier a Prieste were in such a place, may (not- 

 withstandmg his perfect knowledge to the contrary), 

 w*''out Perjury, and securely in conscience answere, 

 No : w"" this secreat meaning reserved in his minde. 

 That he was not there so that any man is bound to 

 detect it." 



The words in small capitals and Italics occupy- 

 ing the first two lines are crossed out, and "whe-," 

 the first syllable of whether, re-written at the be- 

 ginning of line 3. At the end of this title, inter- 

 lined by another hand, follow the words " neuiy, 

 overseer .... ignorants ;" but these words are also 

 struck through and re-written on the preceding 

 leaf, on which, written by the same hand by 

 which the interlineation was made (Garnet's, as it 

 would seem), the title stands, — 



" A Treatise of against Lying and fraudulent Dis- 

 simulation. Newly overseen by the Authour, and 

 published for the defence of Iniiocency and for the In- 

 struction of Ignorants." 



The " of" in Italics, is struck out. The MS. 

 has other corrections throughout in the same 

 (Garnet's) hand ; and was evidently prepared for 

 the press, as Blackwell's imprimatur implies. 



I have to apologise for some incorrect dates in 

 my last communication, J. B. 



BOETHIUS CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY. 



The celebrated treatise De Consolatione Phi- 

 loiophifB, was translited into English verse by 

 John Walton, otherwise called Johannes Capel- 

 lanus, in the year 1410 A beautiful manuscript 

 on parchment, of this translation, is preserved in 

 the British Museum {Hurl. MS. 43.). Other 

 copies are amongst the archives of Lincoln Ca- 

 thedral, Baliol College, &c. It was printed in the 

 Monastery of Tavestok in 1525, a cojiy of which 

 impression is of the utmost rarity. There is an 

 English prose translation by " George Colvil, alias 

 Coldewell," printed by John Cawood, 4to. 1556. 

 And a<^iun, Boet/mix' Five Boohes of PhilosopMcull 

 Comfort, translated by J. T., and printed at London 

 in I2mo., 1G09. 



Viscount Preston's translation was first printed 

 in 8vo., Iti'Jo. The edition of 1712, mentioned by 

 your correspondent, was the second. Boethius was 

 again translated by W. Causton in 1730, and with 

 notes and illustrations, by the Rev. 1'. Rid()ath, 

 8vo., 1785. The latter is, I believe, an excellent 

 translation ; it is accompanied by a Life of Boethius, 

 drawn up with great care and accuracy. Iti 1789 

 a translation iiy Jt. Duncan aj)peared at Edin- 



burgh; and in 1792, an anonymous translation 

 was printed in London. The latter is said to be 

 a miserable performance. 



King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version, with an 

 English translation and notes, by J. S. Cardale, 

 was printed at London, in 8vo., 1829. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Queen Elizabeth's Translation of Boethius (Vol. 

 ii., p. 56.). — One of Jarltzberg's inquiries is, 

 " Has Queen Elizabeth's work (which she ex- 

 ecuted during her captivity before she ascended 

 the throne) been printed ? " Certainly not : if it 

 had been, it would have been well known. May 

 we venture to anticipate an affirmative reply to 

 another parallel question — Does Queen Eliza- 

 beth's translation of Boethius exist in manu- 

 script ? But where did Jarltzberg learn that it 

 was " executed during her captivity before she 

 ascended the throne ? " We know that she made 

 such a translation when she was sixty years of 

 age, that is, in October and November, 1593, (see 

 Js'ichols's Progresses, ^-c., of Queen Elizabeth, 

 vol. iii. p. 564., and the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 February last, p. 143.), and it is a very interesting 

 proof of the continuance of her learned studies at 

 that advanced period of her life ; and, as the 

 curious document which records this fact is un- 

 noticed in the last edition of Royal and Noble 

 Authors by INlr. Park, it is probably a misappre- 

 hension that the same task had engaged some of 

 the hours of her captivity ; or rather is it not one 

 of those dove-tailing conjectures in which some of 

 our most popular lady-biograplters have recently 

 exhibited such extravagant and misplaced in- 

 genuity ? John Gough Nichols. 



Boethius^ Consolations of Philosophy (Vol. ii., 

 p. 56.). — Jarltzberg is wrong in supposing that 

 Richard Viscount Preston's translation appeared 

 first in 1712. I have now before me an edition in 

 8vo. " London: printed by J. D. for Awnsham and 

 John Churchill, at the Black Swan, in Paternoster 

 row; and Francis Hildyard, bookseller in York, 

 MDCxcv." Horace Walpole, in his Royal and 

 Noble Authors, states that the publication in 1712 

 was the ^'■second edition corrected;" and ]\lr. Park 

 says in a note, that the first edition was in 1695, 

 8vo. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, June S4. 1850. 



ETYMOLOGICAL QUERIES ANSWERED. 



J, Mn. (Vol. ii., p. 153.) has propounded a dozen 

 of most recondite and puzzling archaisms, upon 

 which I have to oiler a lew notes. 



" Rykelot, a magpie ?" — The popular and pro- 

 vincial names ol' animals deserve more careful 

 notice than they have received from glossarists. 

 I need scarcely observe how ire<]uently personal 

 names were derived I'rom those of birds. In the 



