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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 58. 



ANTIQUITAS S^CULI JUVENTUS MUNDI. 



(Vol. ii., pp. 218. 3 JO. 293.). 



The apliorism, " Antiquit.as siccvill juveiitus 

 mundi,'' which occurs in the Treatise de Aiigm. 

 Scient., vol. viii. p. 39., and in the Admncement 

 of Learning, vol. ii. p. 46., cd. JMontajjue, may be 

 safely attributed to Lord Bacon liiniself, though 

 it is printed in botli p;issages in the form of quo- 

 tation, between inverted commas. 



In the Novum Orgamim, lib. i. aph. 83 , the 

 thought appears in this I'orm : 



" Dc anti(|uitato aiitcm, opinio qiiam homines di 

 ipsa fovent. negligens omnino est, et vix verbo ipsi 

 congrua. M'lndi enim tcnium et grajirlaivitas pro anti- 

 quitate vere haheiida stmt ; qua; temporibus nostris tii- 

 bui (lebeut, non jiiniori a^tati mundi, qualis apud 

 antiques fuit. Ilia enim a;tas, resjiectu nostrl, an- 

 tiqua et major; respectu mundi ipsius, nova et minor 

 fuit." 



The pointed and aphoristic form of the tliought 

 is due to Bacon ; the thought itself has, however, 

 been traced by Dr. Whewell to Giordano Bruno. 



" It is worthy of remark, tbat a thought which is 

 often quoted from Francis 15acon, occurs in Bruno's 

 Ccnn di Ctnere, published in 1584 ; I mean tlic notion, 

 that the later times arc more aged than the earlier. In 

 the course of the dialogue, the Pedant, who is one of 

 the interloculors, says, ' In antiquity is wisdom ;' to 

 which the philosophical character rtplies, ' If you knew 

 what you were talking about, you would see that your 

 principle leads to the opposite result of that which you 

 wisli to infer ; I mean, that we are older and have 

 lived longer than our predecessors.' He then proceeds 

 to apply this, by tracing the course of astronomy 

 through the earlier astronomers up to Copernicus." — 

 Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, vol. ii. p. STl. 



The Advancement of Learning was publislied in 

 1605, twenty-one years after the Treatise of 

 Bruno. Jlr. Ilallam (History of Europe, vol. iv. 

 p. 92.) treats the thought as the original property 

 of Bacon ; and although the first trace of it is to 

 be ibund in Bruno, there is no improbability in 

 supposing that it occurred independently to Bacon 

 about the same time. B. 



JBacojis Advancement in Lcat-ning (Vol. ii., 

 p. 396.). — The Avriter in " Notks and Queries " 

 Speaks of the English text as being original, and 

 the Latin a version of Lord Bacon's Instauratio 

 Magna; is he not mistaken? In reality there 

 were two originals of that work, as wo learn from 

 INIallet's account prefi.fcd to the folio edition of 

 Bacon's works in 4 vols. London, 1740, p. xvii. 

 et seq. (vol. first). The first edition was in En- 

 glish, London, 1605, and is to bo found in the 

 Bodleian. The Latin, published in 1G23, is said 

 by Mallet to be the work of Bacon himself, with 

 the assistance of some friends, after he had en- 

 larged and corrected the original ; it is from this 

 that ^^'ats' version is made, which is very exact 

 and faithful to its original. The title-page is 



engraved on copper by Marshall, with this inscrip- 

 tion : 



" INSTAVR. MAG. P. \. of the ADVANCE- 

 MENT AND PIIOFICIENCE of LEARNING 

 or the PARTITIONS OF SCIENCES, IX Bookes, 

 Written in Latin by the 3lost Eminent, Illustrious, 

 and Famous LOUD FRANCIS B/VCON, Baron of 

 Verulam, Vicont St. Alban, Counsilour of Estate, and 

 Lord Chancellor of England, Interpreted by Gu.bekt 

 Wats, OXFORD; Printed by Leon. 'Lichfield, 

 Printer to the Vniversity, for Rob. Young and Ed. 

 Forrell, ciaiocxi,." 



The passage referred to is at p. 36. : 



" Indeed, to speak truly, Anticjuttas stculi juveiitus 

 mundi, certainly our times are the ancient times, when 

 the world is now ancient, and not those which we 

 coimt ancient, ordine retrogrado, by a compulation 

 backward from our own times.'' 



Now this agrees exactly with Bacon's original 

 Latin in INIallet's edition, vol. i. p. 43., except that 

 ordine retrogrado is not in Italics ; but in Bacon's 

 English text (Mallet's edition, vol. ii. p. 431.), the 

 coincidence in all respects is complete : 



" And to speak truly, Antiquitas saceuli, (sic) 

 juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times 

 when the world is ancient, and not those which we 

 account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation 

 backward from ourselves." 



Wats' version is the more exact of tlie two. 



T. 



ALBEMARLE, TITLE OF. 



(Vol. ii., p. 442.). 



In reply to the question of J., I send you some 

 particulars about Aunierle or Albemaile. 



The first Earl of this place, which is the name 

 of a small town or territory in Normandy, was 

 Otho, descended from the Earls of Champagne, 

 and nearly related to William the Conqueror, to 

 whom he tied for protection, having killed a great 

 person in that country, and obtained this earldom 

 and the Isle cf Ilohlerness, in Yorkshire, for his 

 maintenance. The title remained in tlie heirs of 

 Otho till the death of William, eighth Earl of 

 Albemai-le, 44t]i Henry III., when it reverted to 

 the Crown, with the lordship of Holderness, and 

 in the 9th of Richard II. he granted them to 

 Thomas of "Woodstock, summoned to parliament as 

 " Thomas, Duke of Albemarle, the king's loving 

 uncle." 



AVithout enumerating the different persons upon 

 whom our kings subsequently conferred tliis title 

 as often as it became extinct or vacant, it will be 

 suflicient for our purpose to show, that at the 

 Restoration the dukedimi of Albemarle was given 

 to General Monk, who, according to Banks 

 (D. and E. Peerage, vol. iii. p. 37.), had a cer- 

 tain degree of hereditary pretension to the name 



