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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 58. 



to convey or invoke a blessing, and not nn exhort- 

 ation to bless. Peter Corona. 



The Church Histori/ Society. — As one who feels 

 greatly interested in the scheme for the establish- 

 ment of The Cuukch History Society, given in 

 your number for the 2iid November last, and 

 which you projierly describe as " a proposal cal- 

 culated to advance one of the most important 

 branches of historical learning," will you permit 

 me to inquire, thi-ough the medium of "Notes 

 AND Queries," whether Dr. Maitland's scheme 

 has met with so much encouragement as to justify 

 the expectation, and I will add the hope, that it 

 may ever be fully carried out ? Laicus. 



Pope Ganganelli. — There was a Life of Pope 

 Clement XIV. (Ganganelli) published in I.ondcm 

 in 1785. It was a distinct work from that by 

 Caraccioli. Can any of your readers inform me 

 of the author's name ; or is there any one who 

 has seen the book, or can tell where a copy may 

 be found ? Cephas. 



Sir George Downing. — I should be glad to ob- 

 tain any information respecting Sir George Down- 

 ing, of East Halley, Cambridgeshire, and Gamlin- 

 gay Park, or his family. He was ambassador from 

 Cromwell and Charles II. to the States-General 

 of Holland, secretary to the Treasury, and the 

 statesman who caused the " Appropriation Act" 

 to be passed, the 17th of Charles II. The family 

 is of most ancient origin in Devonshire, and I have 

 heard that a portrait of him is possessed by some 

 person in that county. Alpha. 



Solemnization of Matrimony . — In the service of 

 the Church for this occasion, on the ring being 

 placed upon the woman's finger, the man is pre- 

 scribed to say : " With this ring I thee wed, with 

 my body I thee worship, and loith all my worldly 

 goods I thee endow" &c. How is this last sentence 

 to be reconciled with the law ? or is the vow to be 

 considered revocable ? A. A. 



Abridge. 



Passage in Bishop Butler. — In Bishop Butler's 

 sermon " Upon the Government of the Tongue" 

 occurs the following passage : 



" There is in some such a disposition to be talking, 

 that an offence ot the slightest kind, and such as would 

 not raise any other resentment, yet raises, if I may so 

 speak, the resentment of the tongue, puts it inti a 

 flame, into the most ungoveinahle motions. T/iis 

 oiitriiffc, ivhen tlic persnti it respects is present, ive dislin- 

 ffulsli in ilie lower rank of people by a peculiar term." 



Now I shoidd be glail if any one could offer a 

 conjecture as to tlie Bishop's meaning in this last 

 sentence ? I have shown it to several people, but 

 no one has been able to think of this " peculiar 

 term." R. 



The Duke of Wharton s Poetical Works. — Rit- 

 son prepared an etlition of this nobleman's poetical 



works for the press. It contained nearly as nmch 

 again as the printed edition of 1732. What has 

 become of the MS. ? Edward F. Rimbault. 



Titus Oates. — Can any of your correspondents 

 refer me to an autograph of Titus Oates ? 



Edward E. Rimbault. 



Erasnms" Colloquies — Apuleius' Golden Ass, 

 Translations of. — AVill any of your readers be kind 

 enough to enlighten a provincisd ignoramus by 

 answering the following Queries : — 



1. Which is the best and most complete En- 

 glish translation of Erasmus' Colloquies ? 



2. Is there an English translation of Apuleius' 

 Golden Ass? 



3. Is the French translation of the latter work 

 considered a good one ? G. P. I. 



The Molten Sea. — In 1835, Captain J. B. Jervis, 

 of the Bombay Engineers, publishetl at Calcutta 

 an essay, entitled Records of Ancient Science, in 

 which he endeavours to reconcile the discrepancy 

 between the 1 Kings, vii. 23. 26. and the 2 

 Cliron. iv. 2. 5. by proving that a vessel of oblate 

 spheroidal form — of ."iO cubits in the periphery,.ind 

 10 cubits in the major axis — would (according 

 to the acknowledged relation of the bath to the 

 cubit) hold exactly 2,000 baths liquid measure, 

 and 3,000 baths when filled and heaped up coni- 

 cally with wheat (as specified in Ezekiel, xlv. 



I do not possess any means of criticising this 

 explanation of the diiliculty, and having searched 

 in various modern connnentaries for a notice of it 

 without success, I venture to submit it in your 

 columns to the attention of others. 



Tyro-Ettmologicus. 



" Sedem Animts" §-c. — Will any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me where the following quota- 

 tion is taken from : — 



" Sedem animse in extremis digitis habent." 



It will be found in Burton's Anatomy of Melan- 

 choly., folio edition (7th), p. 55., and in the Svo. 

 edition of 1837, vol. iv. p. 80. Burton cites it as 

 from Sallust, but the verbal index of that author 

 has been consulted in vain for it. W. S. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



Old St. Pancras Chnrch.—OU St. Pancras 

 has always been a noted burial-place for Rimian 

 Catholics that reside in or near London ; and it has 

 been assigned as a reason for that being their 

 mausoleum and cemetery, that prayers and mass 

 are said daily in a church dedicated to the same 

 saint, in the south of France, for the repose of the 

 souls of the faithful whose bodies are deposited in 

 the church of St. Pancras near London (Eng- 

 land), where crosses and Requiescat in Pace, or the 

 initial of those words, R.I. P., are found on the se- 

 pulchral monuments. It is said prayer and mass 



