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[No. 8. 
as flesh meat. And who can marvel that this should 
be so? When our first parent was made of mud, can 
we be surprised that a bird should be born of a tree?” 
The notion of the darnacle being considered a 
fish is, | am aware, one that still prevails on the 
western coast of Ireland; for I remember a friend 
of mine, who had spent a few weeks in Kerry, 
telling me of the astonishment he experienced upon 
seeing pious Roman Catholics eating barnacles on 
Fridays, and being assured that they were nothing 
else than fishes! My friend added that they had 
certainly a most “fish-like flavour,” and were, 
therefore, very nasty birds. W. B. MacCasz. 
DORNE THE BOOKSELLER, 
Mr. Editor, —I beg to add my protest to your 
own, respecting the conclusion drawn by your 
valuable correspondent W. as to his competency 
to his arduous task, which no person could doubt 
who knows him. My remarks had reference to 
the supposed seribe of the catalogue, whose brains, 
according to W., were in some degree of confusion 
at times. His name is still in obscuro, it seems. 
“ Henno Rusticus” is clear. W., I trust, will 
accept my apology. I say with Brutus, verbis 
paulo mutatis — 
“ By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, 
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to plunt 
In the hind bosom of a friend a thorn, 
By any indirection.” 
JI. 
REY. WM. STEPHENS’ SERMONS. 
Sir, — Amongst the books wanted in your sixth 
number is “a Tract or Sermon” of the Rev. Wm. 
Stephens. It is a sermon, and one of four, all of 
which are far above the ordinary run of sermons, 
and deserving of a place in every clergyman’s 
library. They are rarely met with together, though 
separately they turn up now and then upon book 
stalls amongst miscellaneous sermons; it is a pity 
they are not better known, and much is every day 
republished less deserving of preservation. The 
author’s widow published her husband’s sermons 
in two volumes; but, strange to say, these, which 
are worth all the rest, are not included in the 
collection. ‘The titles of the four sermons are — 
“ The Personality and Divinity of the Holy Ghost 
proved from Scripture, and the Anti-Nicene Fathers.” 
Preached before the University of Oxford, St. Matthias’ 
Day, 1716-17. Third Edition, 1725. 
“The Catholic Doctrine concerning the Union of 
the Two Natures in the One Person of Christ stated 
and vindicated.” Preached at the visitation of the 
Bishop of Oxford, 1719. Second Edition, 1722. 
« The Divine Persons One God by an Unity of 
Nature: or, That Our Saviour is One God with His 
Father, by an Eternal Generation from His Substance, 
asserted from Scripture and the Anti-Nicene Fathers.” 
Preached before the University of Oxford, 1722. 
Second Edition, 1723. 
“ The Several Heterodox Hypotheses, concerning 
both the Persons and the Attributes of the Godhead, 
justly chargeable with more Inconsistencies and Ab- 
surdities than those which have been groundlessly 
imputed to the Catholic System.” Preached at the 
visitation of the Bishop of Exeter, 1724. 
Ishall be glad to learn from any of your readers 
whether the author published any other sermons 
or tracts which are not included in the two 
volumes of his sermons. Wm. Denton. 
Shoreditch, Dee. 11. 1849. 
ROGER DE COVERLEY. 
Sir, —In No. 4. of your “ Nores anp QuE- 
Rins” it is asked, if any notice of the tune called 
Roger de Coverley is to be met with earlier than 
1695, when it was printed by H. Playford, in his 
Dancing Master? I am happy in being able to 
inform your correspondent that the tune in ques- 
tion may be found in a rare little volume in my 
possession, entitled “The Division-Violin, con- 
taining a Choice Collection of Divisions to aGround 
for the Treble-Violin. Being the first Musick of 
this kind ever published. London, Printed by 
J.P. and are sold by John Playford, near the 
Temple-Church, 1685, small oblong.” 
Ihave every reason to believe, from consider- 
able researches, that no ‘earlier copy can be found 
in print. Epwarp FI’. Rimpavrr. 
MINOR NOTES. 
Omission of the Words Dex Gratta from the new 
Florin. 
Ruding, in his Annals of the Coinage, iv. 9., fur- 
nishes a precedent for the omission of the words 
Derr Grartia from the coinage, in the case of the 
Trish half-pence and farthings coined at the Tower 
in 1736-7. And he supplies, also, a precedent 
for the dissatisfaction with which their omission 
from the new florin has been received, in the shape 
of two epigrams written at that time, for which he is 
indebted (as what writer upon any point of English 
literature and history is not) to Sylvanus Urban. 
The first (from the Gentleman's Magazine for 
June, 1837) is as follows: — 
“ No Christian kings that I can find, 
Howeyer mateh’d or odd, 
Excepting ours, have ever coin’d 
Without the grace of God. 
“ By this acknowledgment they show 
The mighty King of Kings, 
As him from whom their riches flow, 
From whom their grandeur springs. 
