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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 49. 



placed first in the volume, and bearing for its title, 

 ^'A View of F. P.'s Answer to the First Paper." 



This is dated from S. Germains, Jidy 25, 1645 ; 

 and would appear to be Cosin's last letter. But, 

 if it be really so, Basire must, I think, be in error, 

 when he says, " Our Doctor .... could never get 

 from the Prior any reply to his last answer." For 

 at p. 81. of the MS. there is a reply to the above 

 " Review of a Letter sent by F. R. to a Lady," 

 &c. ; which, though copied without either date or 

 signature, was evidently written by the Prior, 

 whilst it professes to be a reply to a treatise closely 

 answering to Cosin's letter of July 25, but whicli 

 letter the writer did not receive (as he states) 

 before the 26th of September^ 



I wish yet further to take notice, that Dr. Tho. 

 Smith, in his Vitce (Lond. 1707, prasf. pp. vii, viii.), 

 refers to these manuscripts in the following satis- 

 factory manner : — 



" Cum, post mortem D. Cosinl, de pretio et valore 

 schedarum, quas reliqiiit, liaredibus non satis constaret, 



auspicitto tandem deveiiit, ut favore, beneficio, 



et perquam insigni humanitate reverend! et doctissimi 

 viri, D. Joannis Smith, SacrEe Theologi^ Professoris 

 Ecclesia? Dunelmensis PriEbeiidarii, quorum frequens 

 liac de re commercium lite'rarum, occasione data, (op- 

 portune interoedente pra?iiobili et reverendo D. Georgio 

 Whelero, equite aurato, et Eeclesite Anglicana; Pres- 

 bytero, ejusdem quoque Ecclesia; Catbedralis Preben- 

 dario), habui, duos libellos (lanquam prstiosas tabulas 

 ab istboc infami naufragio servatas) a D. Cosino, dum 

 in Gallia exularet, Anglice conscriptos jam possideam: 

 quorum unus VIndicias Ordinationvm Ecclesim Afgli- 

 cartcc contra exceptiones et cavillationes cujusdem Ponti- 

 ficii sacerdotis e gente nostra, alter Reapimsionem ad 

 Epistohim nobili foeminae Anglas ab alio sacerdote pro 

 defensione communionis sub imicd specie administranda 

 inscriptam, complectitur," &c. 



I should still be glad to add to this long note 

 the following Queries: — 



\. Can any of your readers kindly inform me 

 whether Cosin's two letters to Dr. Geo. Morley are 

 still in existence, either in MS. ov in print ? 



2. Whether there be any fuller or more au- 

 thentic account of this controversy than that in 

 these ]\IS. preserved by the care of Dr. Smith ? 



3. Whether Cosin wrote any letter to the Prior 

 later than that of July 25 ? 



4. Who was the lady the Prior wished to seduce 

 to the Roman party ? 



5. Is there any other account of the contro- 



J. Ransom. 



versy ? 



ENGELMAN S BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CI-ASSI- 

 CORUM. 



A little while ago, I ordered Engelman's Bihlio- 

 tlicca Scriptomm Clnssicormn, puiporting to con- 

 tain all such works published liom 1700"to 1846. 

 It was furnished to my bookseller by a foreign 



bookseller in London, with an English title, having 

 his oivn name on it as publisher, and an invitation 

 to purchase the books described in it from him. 

 As the paper and type were German, I objected; 

 and received in consecpience a new English title, 

 with the same name upon it, and a sho7'ter invita- 

 tion to purchase from him. I was captious enough 

 to object even to this ; and I then received a 

 Leipzig title in German. But there still remains 

 a difficulty : for this German title has also the 

 name of a Parisian bookseller upon it, a ki maison 

 duquel on pent s'adresser, &c. Now, as Engelman 

 is a bookseller, and would probably not object to 

 an order out of his own catalogue, of which he is 

 both author and publisher, the ])receding circum- 

 stances naturally raise the following Queries : 

 L What is the real title-page of Engelman's Cata- 

 logue ? 2. Is the Parisian house accredited by 

 Engelman^ or has the former served th* latter as 

 the London house has served both ? 3. Is it not 

 desirable that literary men should set their faces 

 very decidedly against all and every the slightest 

 alteration in the genuine description of a book ? 

 4. Would it not be desirable that every such al- 

 teration should forthwith be communicated to 

 your paper? 



The English title-page omits the important fact, 

 that the Catalogue begins at 1700, and describes it 

 as containing all editions, &c., up to 1846- 



A. Di: Morgan. 



September 24. 1850. 



Minor «a«criciS. 



Portrait of Sir P. Sidney, by Paul Veronese. — 

 In the letters of Sir P. Sidney which I found at 

 Hamburgh, and which were published by Picker- 

 ing, 1845, it is stated that a portrait of Sidney 

 was painted by Paul Veronese, at Venice, for 

 Hubert Languet. It would be very interesting to 

 discover the existence of this picture. 



Languet had it with him at Prague, framed, as 

 he asserts, and hung up in his room, in the year 

 1575. He remarks upon it, in one place, that it 

 represented Sidney as too young (he was nineteen 

 when it was taken) ; in another place he says that 

 it has given him too sad an expression. I should 

 add, that on Languet's death, his property passed 

 into the hands of his friend Du Plessis. 



I am led to write to you on this subject, by 

 having observed, a few days since, in the collection 

 at Blenheim, two portraits by Paul Veronese, of 

 persons unknown. There may be many such, and 

 that of Sir Philip Sidney may yet be identified. 



Steuart a. Pejvrs. 



Harrow, Sept. 16. 



Confession. — You woidd much oblige if you 

 could discover the name of a Catholic priest, in 



