Sept. 28. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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" Modiim promissionis." — Will any of your 

 readers help to interpret the following expression 

 in a niediaBval author : — 



" (Ut vnlgo loquitur) modum promissionis ostendit ? " 



I have reason to think that modum pi-omissionis 

 means "a provisional arrangement :" but by whom, 

 and in what common parlance, was this expression 

 used ? C. W. B. 



Roman Catholic Theology. — Is there any work 

 containing a list of Raman Catholic theological 

 works published in the English language from the 

 year 1558 to 1700? M. Y. A. H. 



Wife of Edward the Outlaiv. — Can any of your 

 correspondents inform me who was the wife of 

 Edward the Outlaw, and consequently mother of 

 Margaret of Scotland, and ancestress of the kings 

 of England ? 



The account adopted by most historians is that 

 Canute, in 1017, sent the two sons of Edmund 

 Ironside to the king of Denmark, whence they 

 were transferred to Solomon, king of Hungary, 

 who gave his sister to the eldest ; and, on his death 

 without issue, married the second Edward to 

 Agatha, daughter of the Emperor Henry IT. (or, 

 in some accounts, Henry IH., or even, in Graf- 

 ton's Chronicles, called Henry IV.), and sister to 

 Lis own queen. 



That Edward the Outlaw returned to England 

 lu 1057, having had five children, of whom three 

 survived : Edgar; Margaret, who in 1067 married 

 Kinjj Malcolm of Scotland ; and another dauichter. 



Now this account is niunifestly incorrect. The 

 Emperor Henry II. died chiMless : when on his 

 death-bed he restored his wife to her parents, de- 

 claring that both he and she had kept their vows 

 of chastity. 



Solomon did not ascend the throne of Hungary 

 until 1063, in wliich year he had also married 

 S()|)hia, daughter of the Emperor Henry III. ; but 

 this monarch (who was born in October, 1017, 

 married his first wife in 1036, who died, leaving 

 one child, in 1038 ; and his second wife in Novem- 

 ber 1043) could not be the grandfather of the 

 five children of Edward the Outlaw, born prior 

 to 1057. 



The Saxon Chronicle say.s, that Edward married 

 Agatha the emperor's cousin. E. H. Y. 



Condes ^'' Arabs in Spain." — In Profes.'jor de Ve- 

 ricour'n Historical Aiuilysis of Christian Civilisation, 

 just published, it is stated (p. 4i>y.) that Conde's 

 Arabs in Spain has been translated into English. 

 I jjave never met witli a translation, and fancy that 

 the Professor has made a mistake. Can any of 

 your correspondents deciile ? 1 know that a year 

 or two agi), Messrs. W'liittaker announced that a 

 translation would form part of their Popular Li- 

 brary; but ibr BOiue reiisoti (probably insufficient 



support) it never appeared. Query, Might not 

 Mr. Bohn with advantage include this work in his 

 Standard Library ? Iota. 



i^CpIl'C^. 



cave's HISTORIA LITEKAEIA. 



I do not know whether the notices respecting 

 Cave's Historia Literaria (Vol. ii., pp 230. 255.) 

 hold out any prospect of a new edition. It is 

 much to be desired ; and as it may be done at some 

 time or other, you will perhaps allow me to make 

 a Note of a circumstance which accidentally came 

 to my knowledge, and should be known to any 

 future editor. It is simply this : in the second 

 volume of the Oxford edition of 1740, after the 

 three dissertations, &c., there are fifteen pages, 

 with a fresh pagination of theu" own, entitled, 

 " Notae ]MSS. et Accessiones Anonymi ail Cavei 

 Historian! Literariam, Codicis Margin! adscriptse, 

 in Bibliotheca Lambethana. Manus est plane 

 Reverendiss. Thoma Tenison, Cantuariensis Ar- 

 chiepiscopi." Not to occupy more of jour valu- 

 able space than is necessary, I will merely observe 

 that the "Anonymus" was not Archbishop Tenison, 

 but Henry AVharton. There can be no doubt in 

 the mind of any person acquainted with the hand- 

 writing of the parties ; and to those to whom 

 such a notice is likely to be of any use at all, it is 

 unnecessary to say that the difference is important. 

 I need scarcely add, that if ever a new edition is 

 undertaken, Wharton's books and papers, and 

 other things in the Lambeth collection of MSS., 

 should be examined. S. R. Maitland. 



Cave's Historia Literaria (Vol ii., p. 2.30.). — • 



1. London, 1688 — 1698, 2 vols, folio. This was 

 the first edition. A curious letter from Cave to 

 Abp. Tenison respecting the assistance which 

 H. Wharton furnished to this work is printed in 

 Chalmers' Biog. Diet , vol. xxxi. p. 343. 



2. Geneva;, 1693, folio. 



3. , 1694, folio. 



4. , 1705, folio. 



5. Colonic AUobrogum, 1720, fidio. 



6. Oxon. 1740-43, 2 vols, folio. Dr. Water- 

 land rendered important aid in bringing out this 

 edition, which Bp. Marsh pronounces " the best." 

 It seems from some letters of Waterland's to John 

 Loveday, Esq. (works by Van !Mildert, 1843, 

 vol. vi. p. 423 — 436.), that Chapman, a petty 

 canon of Winilsor, was the editor. 



7. Basil, 1741-5, 2 vols, folio. This is said to 

 be an e.xact reprint from the 0.\ford ciliiion. 



Watt and Dr. Clarke mention an edition, 1749, 

 2 vols, folio; but 1 cannot trace any copy of such 

 edition. John I. Dbedgu. 



