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tant in 1072, and now surviving only in tradition, 

 and in "records" of ships wrecked on its "sub- 

 merged ruins," does not sink into the ocean with- 

 out exciting wonder and pity. I knew of the tra- 

 dition, and presumed there was some probability 

 of the existence of a legend (legendum, something 

 to be read) describing a catastrophe that must 

 have been widely heard of when it happened. 



This I conjectured might be found in Adam of 

 Bremen ; to whose mention of Julin Dr. Bell 

 referred. But it seems that in his time the city 

 was still existing and flourishing ("urbs locuples"). 



The " excidium civitatis," if the Veneta of Hel- 

 mold were Julin, must have taken place, there- 

 fore, between 1072 and 1184, when the latter 

 account was written. If Veneta was Julin, and 

 " a^uarum asstu absorpta," there must, I suppose, 

 be some account of this great calamity : and as I 

 have seen in modern German works allusions to 

 the drowning of the great city, and to the ruins 

 still visible at times under water, I hoped to find 

 out the where of its site, and the when of its de- 

 struction — as great cities do not often sink into 

 the waves, like exhalations, without some report of 

 their fate. V. 



Btlgiavia. 



Dodslnys Poems (Vol. ii., pp. 264. 343). — The 

 Hermit of Holypobt is informed that the first 

 edition of Dodsley's Collection of Poems, by several 

 Hands, was published in 1748, 3 vols. 12mo. A 

 fourth volume was added in 1749, containing 

 pieces by Collins, Garrick, Lyttelton, Pope, Tickell, 

 Thomson, &c. Those by Garrick and Lyttelton 

 are anonymous. The four volumes were reprinted 

 uniforndy in 1755. The fifth and sixth were 

 added in 1758. Amicus Curi^. 



Shunamitis Poema (Vol. ii., p. 326.).— The title- 

 page to tlie volume of poems inquired after by 

 E. D. is as follows : 



" I^atin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of 

 Trinity College, Oxford. " 



' Nee lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.' 



HOR. 



Ivondon: printed for L. Bathurst over against 

 St. Dunstan's Church, in Fli.et Street, MnccxLi." 



I know not the author; but I suspect either that 

 the title of an Oxford man was assumed by a Can- 

 tab, who might fairly wish not to be susjiected as 

 the author of several of the poems ; or that the 

 author, having been rusticated at Cambridge, vide 

 at p. 84. the ode " Ad Thomam G." (whom I take 

 to be Thomas Gilbert of Peterhouse), transferred 

 himself and his somewhat licentious muse to Ox- 

 ford. Coll. IIotal Soc. 



Jeremy Taylors Worhs (Vol. ii., p. 271.). — It 

 seems desirable that an advance should occasion- 

 ally be made in editing, beyond the mere verifica- 



tion of authorities, in seeing, that is, whether the 

 passages cited are applicable to the point in hand, and 

 properly apprehended. Bp. Taylor, in his Liberty 

 of Prophecying, sect, vi., for instance, seems incor- 

 rect in stating that Leo I., bishop of Rome, rejected 

 the Council of Chalcedon; whereas his reproofs 

 are directed against Anatolias, bishop of Con- 

 stantinople, an unwelcome aspirant to ecclesiastical 

 supremacy. (See Concilia Studio Labbei, tom. iv., 

 col. 844, &c.) 



A passage from Jerome's Epistle to Evangelus 

 is often quoted in works on church government, 

 as equalising, or nearly so, the office of bishop and 

 presbyter ; but the drift of the argument seems to 

 be, to show that the site of a bishop's see, be it great 

 or small, important or otherwise, does not afiTect 

 the episcopal office. Some readers will perhaps 

 offer an opinion on these two questions. 



Nevus. 



Diictor Dubitantium. — The Judge alluded to by 

 Jeremy Taylor in the passage quoted by A. T. 

 (Vol. ii., p. 325.), was Chief-Justice Richardson ; 

 but the place where the outrage was committed 

 was not Ludlow, as stated by the eloquent divine, 

 but Salisbury, as appears from the following 

 marginal note in Dyer's Reports, p. 1886 — a 

 curious specimen of the legal phraseology of the 

 period : — 



" Richardson, C. J. de C. B. at Assizes at Salisbury 

 in Summer 1631 fuit assault per Prisoner la condemne 

 pur Felony ; que puis son condemnation ject un 

 Brickbat a le dit Justice, que narrowly mist. Et pur 

 ceo immediately fuit Indictment drawn pur Noy en- 

 vers le Prisoner, et son dexter manus ampute et fixe al 

 Gibbet, sur que luy mesme immediatement hange in 

 presence de Court." 



Edward Foss. 



Aerostation (Vol. ii., p. 317.). — The account 

 published by Lunardi of his aerial voyage, alluded 

 to by M., is, in the copy I have seen, entitled 



" An Account of the First Aiirial Voyage "in Britain, 

 in a series of letters to his guardian, the Chevalier 

 Gherardo Conipagni, written under the impressions of 

 the various events that affected the undertaking, by 

 Vincent Lunardi, Esq., Secretary to the Neapolitan 

 Ambassador. ' A non esse nee fuisse non datur argu- 

 mentum ad non posse.' Second edition, London : 

 printed for the Author, and sold at the Panther; also 

 by the Publisher J. Bell, at the British Library, Strand, 

 and at Mr. Molinl's, Woodstock Street, mdcclxxxiv." 



The book contains printed copies of the depo- 

 sitions of witnesses who beheld Lunardi's descent ; 

 and Mr. Baker, who, as a magistrate, took those de- 

 positions on oath, to establish what he thought so 

 wonderful a tact, erected on the spot where the 

 balloon descended, in a field near Colliers End, in 

 the parish of Standon, Herts, on the left of the high 

 road from London to Cambridge, a stone with the 

 following inscription on a copper plate. It is still 



