Mar. 30. 1850.] 
minister of my parish invariably says in his sermon, 
“Such an one,” which, I confess, to my ear is 
grating enough. I conclude he would defend 
himself by the rule that where the succeeding 
word, as “one,” begins with a vowel, “ An,” and 
net “ A,” should be used; but this appears to me 
not altogether satisfactory, as, though “one” is 
spelt as beginning with a vowel, it is pronounced as 
if beginning with a consonant thus, “ won.” ‘The 
ule of adding or omitting the final “x,” according 
as the following word commences with a vowel or 
a consonant, was meant, I conceive, entirely for 
elegance in speaking, to avoid the jar on the ear 
which would otherwise be occasioned, and has no 
reference to writing, or the appearance on paper 
of the words. I consider, therefore, that an ex- 
ception must be made to the rule of using “ An” 
before words beginning with a vowel in cases 
where the words are pronounced as if beginning 
with a consonant, as “one,” “use,” and its de- 
rivatives, ‘“ ubiquity,” ‘“ unanimity,’ and some 
others which will no doubt occur to your readers. 
Ishould be glad to be informed if my opinion is cor- 
rest ; and I will only further observe, that the same 
remarks are applicable towards words beginning 
with “h.” An horse sounds as bad as a hour; and 
it is obvious that in these cases the employment 
of “ A” or “ An” is dictated by the consideration 
whether the aspirate is sounded or is quiescent, 
and has no reference to the spelling of the word. 
PRISCIAN. 
The Lucky have whole Days. —I, like your cor- 
respondent “ P.S.” (No. 15. p.231.), am anxious 
to ascertain the authorship of the lines to which 
he refers. 
They stand in my Common-place Book as fol- 
lows, which I consider to be a more correct 
version than that given by “P.S.”:— 
« Fate’s dark reeesses we can never find, 
But Fortune, at some hours, to all is kind: 
The lucky have whole days, which still they choose ; 
The unlucky have but hours, and those they lose.” 
H. H. 
Line quoted by De Quincey. —“S.P.8.” i 
in- 
quires who is the author of the following line, 
uoted by De Quincey in the Confessions of an 
nglish Opium-eater : — 
“ Battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars.” 
Bishop Jewel's Papers. —It is generally under- 
stood that the papers left by Bishop Jewel were 
bequeathed to his friend Dr. Garbrand, who pub- 
lished some of them. ‘The rest, it has been 
stated, passed from Dr. G. into the possession of 
New College, Oxford. Are any of these still pre- 
served in the library of that college? or, if not, 
can any trace be found of the persons into whose 
hands they subsequently came, or of the circum- 
stances under which they were lost to New 
College ? A. H. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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Allusion in Friar Brackley’s Sermon. — In 
Fenn’s Paston Letters, XCVIL. (vol. iii. p. 393., 
or vol. i. p. 113. Bohn), entitled “An ancient 
Whitsunday Sermon, preached by Friar Brackley 
(whose hand it is). At the Friers Minors Church 
in Norwich” occurs the following : — 
“ Semiplenum gaudium est quando quis in presenti 
gaudet et tune cogitans de futuris dolet; ut in quodam 
libro Greco, &e.” 
* Quidam Rex Gracie, &c.; here ye may see but 
half a joy; who should joy in this world if he remem- 
bered him of the pains of the other world?” 
What is the Greek Book, and who is the king 
of Greece alluded to ? N.E. BR. 
Selden’s Titles of Honour. — Does any gentle- 
man possess a MS. Index to Selden’s Titles of 
Honour? Such, if printed, would be a boon; 
for it is a dreadful book to wade through for what 
one wants to find. B. 
Colonel Hyde Seymour.—In a book dated 1720, 
is written ‘“ Borrow the Book of Col. Hyde Sey- 
mour.” I am anxious to know who the said 
Colonel was, his birth, &e.? B. 
Quem Deus vult perdere, §c.— Prescot, in his 
History of the Conquest of Peru (vol. ii. p. 404. 
8vo. ed.), says, while remarking on the conduct 
of Gonzalo Pisarro, that it may be accounted for 
by “the insanity,” as the Roman, or rather 
Grecian, proverb calls it, “with which the gods 
afflict men when they design to ruin them.” He 
quotes the Greek proverb from a fragment of 
Euripides, in his note : — 
“ “Oray 5 Aaluwy avdp) ropoiyn kaka, 
Top vovv €BaAae mparov.” 
I wish to know whether the Roman proverb, 
Quem vult perdere Deus prius dementat, is merely 
a translation of this, or whether it is to be found 
in a Latin author? If the latter, in what author? 
Is it in Seneca? Epwarp S. Jackson. 
Southwells Supplication.— Can any one inform 
me where I can see a copy of Robert Southwell’s 
Supplication to Queen Elizabeth, which was printed, 
according to Watts, in 1593? or can any one, who 
has seen it, inform me what is the style and cha- 
racter of it? J.S8. 
Gesta Grayorum. —In Nichol’s Progresses of 
Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii. p. 262., a tract is inserted, 
entitled “*Gesta Grayorum; or, History of the 
High and Mighty Prince Henry, Prince of Pur- 
poole, &e., who lived and died a.p. 1594.” ‘The 
original is said to have been printed in 1688, by 
Mr. Henry Keepe. Is any copy of it to be had or 
seen ? J.S. 
Snow of Chicksand Priory. —“ A. J.S.P.” de- 
sires information respecting the immediate de- 
scendants of R. Snow, Esq., to whom the site of 
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