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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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| these pillaged brasses in the hands of “ collectors,” 
and your admirable publication will have effected a 
great public good, if it shall have been instru- 
mental in promoting their restoration. 
Cambridge, Jan 1. 13350. E. Ventnis. 
Ancient Motto. — In reference to a query (No. 6. 
p- 93.), and a reply (No.7. p 104.), permit me to 
remark, that St. Augustine, the celebrated Bishop 
of Hippo, was the person who caused to be en- 
graved on his table the distich against detractors. 
Possidius, in his Life of that Father (S. Augustini, 
Opera Omnia, Paris, 1690, vol. x. part ii. p.272.), 
gives the verses —no doubt an adaptation of 
Horace — thus : — 
“ Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam 
Hance mensam indignam noverit esse sibi.” 
The Benedictine editors subjoin two readings 
of the pentameter : — 
«« Hae mensa indignam noverit esse suam.” 
«“ Hane mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi.” 
LieweE.yn St. GEORGE. 
Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford. — At p.157. 
of the “ Nores anp_Querigs,” your correspondent 
“B.” inquires about a pamphlet relating to the 
marriage, many years ago, of Mr. Cresswell and 
Miss Warneford. ‘“P.C.S.S.” cannot give the 
precise tithe of the pamphlet in question ; but he 
is enabled to state, on the authority of Watts 
(Biblioth. Brit.), and on that of his old friend 
Sylvanus Urban (Gent. Mag. vol. xvii. p. 543.), 
that it was published in London, towards the end 
of the year 1747, and that the very remarkable 
and very disgraceful transactions to which it refers 
were afterwards (in 1749) made the subject of a 
novel, called Dalinda, or The Double Murriage. 
Lond. 12mo. Price threepence. 
The gentleman who was the hero of this scan- 
dalous affair was Mr. Thomas Estcourt Cresswell, 
of Pinkney Park, Wilts, M.P. for Wootton Bassett. 
He married Anne, the sole and very wealthy | 
heiress of Edward Warneford, Esq. As it cannot 
be the object of the “ Notes anp Querigs” to 
revive a tale of antiquated scandal, “ P.C.S.S.” 
will not place upon its pages the details of this 
pol affair — the cruel injury inflicted upon 
[iss Scrope (the lady to whom Mr. Cresswell 
was said to have been secretly married before his 
union with Miss Warneford) — and the base and 
unmanly contrivance by which, it was stated, that 
he endeavoured to keep possession of both wives 
at the same time. Miss Scrope appears to have 
retained, for a considerable time, a deep sense of 
her injuries; for in 1749 she published a pamphlet, | 
in her own name, called Miss Scrope’s Answer to 
Mr.Cresswell’s Narrative. (Lond. Baldwin. Price 
2s. 6d. 
If “B.” should be desirous of further informa- 
tion, he is referred, by “‘P.C.S.S.,” to the General 
Evening Post of Oct. 3. and 31. 1747, to the Gen- 
tleman’s Mugazine for that month and year, and to 
the same work, vol. xix. pp. 192. 288. P.C.S.S. 
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 
Little as public attention has of late years been 
devoted to commentating upon Pope, his writings 
and literary history, there are no doubt many able 
and zealous illustrators of them among lovers of 
literature for its own sake; and many a curious 
note upon the Bard of Twickenham and his works 
will probably be evoked by the announcement, 
that now is the moment when they may be pro- 
duced with most advantage, when Mr. Murray is 
about to bring forth a new edition of Pope, under 
the able and experienced editorship of Mr. Croker. 
Besides numerous original inedited letters, Mr. 
Croker’s edition will have the advantage of some 
curious books bought at the Brockley Hall sale, in- 
cluding four volumes of Libels upon Pope, and a 
copy of Ruffhead’s Life of him, with Warburton’s 
manuscript notes. 
No one has rendered better service to the study 
of Gothic architecture in this country than Mr. 
J. H. Parker, of Oxford. ‘The value of his ad- 
mirable Glossary of Terms used in Architecture, is 
attested by the fact, that it has already reached a 
fourth edition, and that another will soon be called 
for. But we doubt whether he has done any 
thing better calculated to promote this interesting 
branch of Archeology than by the production of | 
his Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture, 
which — originally written as part of a series of 
elementary lectures recommended by the Com- 
| mittee of the Oxford Architectural Society to be 
delivered to the junior members, and considered 
useful and interesting by those who heard them — 
is now published at the request of the Society. A 
more interesting volume on the subject, or one 
better calculated to give such a knowledge of it, as 
is essential to any thing like a just appreciation of 
the peculiar characteristics of our church archi- 
tecture, could scarcely have been produced, while 
its compact size and numerous illustrations fit it 
to become a tourist’s travelling companion. 
We have great pleasure in directing attention 
to the advertisement inserted in another column 
respecting some improvements about to be intro- 
duced into the Gentireman’s Macazine. This 
venerable periodical has maintained its station un- 
interruptedly in our literature from the year 1731. 
From the times of Johnson and Cowper it has been 
the medium by which many men of the greatest 
eminence have communicated with the public. At 
all times it has been the sole depository of much 
valuable information of a great variety of kinds. 
We are confident that under the new management 
