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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 25. 
Paul’s Cathedral as a Synagogue. It is stated, on 
the authority of a letter in the Thurloe State 
Papers, that this proposition was actually dis- 
cussed. The larger sum of 800,000/. was de- 
manded; but, being refused, the negotiation was 
broken off. This proposition is said to have been 
made shortly before the elevation of Cromwell to 
the Protectorate. The subject is an interesting 
one in these days, when Jewish disabilities are 
under discussion. 
I wish to offer two queries:—1. Is this story 
confirmed by any contemporary writer? 2. Is it 
conceivable that the Jews would have consented 
to worship in a cruciform church, such as was old 
St. Paul's, which was standing at the time this 
offer is supposed to have been made ? 
H. M. Ausren. 
St. Peter’s, Thanet. 
The Complutensian MS.S.— Has not there been 
an account of these MSS. published in London in 
1821? My authority for this Query is to be 
found in a work of Dr. D. Antonio Puigblanch:— 
“ En el afio 1821 per encargo que hice desde Madrid 
se imprimio mio aca en Londres, de que es falso este 
rumor*, pues en la biblioteca de la Universidad de 
Aleala quedaban pocos meses antes en que estune en 
ella siete manuscritos biblicos en aquellas dos lenguas f, 
que son sin duda los mismos siete de que hace mencion 
en la Vida del Cardenal Cisneros, Alfonso de Castro, 
doctor téologo de la misma Universidad, i escritor con- 
temporaneo o de poco tiempo después, parte de los 
cuales manuscritos, es a saber, los caldéos, son de letra 
de Alfonso de Zamora, que es uno de los tres judios 
conyersos editores de la Complutense.” — Opusculos 
Gramatico- Satiricos del Dr. D. Antonio Puigblanch, 
Londres, [1532] p. 365. 
If the Chaldee and Hebrew MSS. of the Com- 
plutensian Polyglot were at Alcala in 1821, when 
were they removed to Madrid, and in what library 
at Madrid are they now? ‘The Greek MSS. are 
supposed to have been returned to the Vatican 
Library. If the Chaldee MSS. are in the hand- 
writing of one of the editors, as stated by Puig- 
blanch, they cannot be of much value or autho- 
rity. I shall add another Query:— Are they paper 
or parchment ? E. M. B. 
Latin Names of Towns. — A correspondent who 
answered the Query as to the “ Latin Names of 
Towns” in titles, referred your readers to the Sup- 
plement of Lempriére. Iam much obliged to him 
for the hint, and have obtained the work in con- 
sequence; but it is right your readers should 
know that the information therein given must only 
be taken as suggestive, and sometimes as dismis- 
sible upon reference to the commonest gazetteer. 
I opened at the letter N ; and found, that of three 
* That the MSS. were destroyed. 
+ Hebrew and Chaldee. 
entries, the first my eye lighted upon, two were 
palpably wrong. The first informs us that “ Nzo- 
stadium in Palatinatu’” is in “ France;” the third 
that “ Nellore” is in “* Ceylon.” I am bound to 
say that I do not find errors so thickly scattered 
throughout, and that the list will be useful to me. 
But, Query, is there any thing extensive of which 
the accuracy can be depended upon ? M. 
Kilkenny. 
REPLIES. 
SCALA CLI. 
I incline to think that the testator whose will is 
referred to in No. 23. p.336., by ‘Scala Ceeli,” 
meant King Henry the Seventh’s Chapel at West- 
minster. 
Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby, 
mother to King Henry VIL., in the indenture for 
founding Chantry Monks in the Abbey of West- 
minster, dated 2. March, 21 Hen. VII. (1506-6), 
states that she had obtained papal bulls of in- 
dulgence, that all persons saying and hearing 
her chantry masses should have as full remission 
from sin as in the place called Scala Celi beside 
Rome, “to the great comfort and relief of the 
said Monasterie, and all Cristen people resorting 
thereto” (MS. Lansd. 444.). 
Henry Lord Marney, by his will, dated 22d 
Dee., 15 Hen. VIII. (1523), directs a trental of 
masses to be said “first at Seala Ceeli, in West- 
minster” (T'estamenta Vetusta, 609.). 
Blomefield (Hist. of Norfolk, 8vo. edit., iv. 60.), 
speaking of the Church of the Augustine Friars at 
Norwich, observes, — 
“That which brought most profit to the convent, 
was the chapel of Our Lady in this church, called Seala 
Celi, to which people were continually coming in pil- 
grimage, and offering at the altar there; most folks 
desiring to have masses sung for them here, or to be 
buried in the cloister of Scala Celi, that they might be 
partakers of the many pardons and indulgences granted 
by the Popes to this place; this being the only chapel 
(except that of the same name at Westminster, and that 
of Our Lady in St. Buttolph’s church at Boston,) that I 
find to have the same privileges and indulgences as the 
chapel of Scala Celi at Rome; which were so great as 
made all the three places aforesaid so much frequented ; 
it being easier to pay their devotions here, than go so 
long a journey; all which indulgences and pardons 
may be seen in Fox’s Acts and Monuments, fo. 1075.” 
In Bishop Bale’s singular play of Kynge Johan, 
published by the Camden Society, the King 
charges the clergy with extorting money 
“ For legacyes, trentalls with scalacely messys 
Wherby ye have made the people very assys.” 
(p.17.) 
And Simon of Swineshead, after drinking the poi- 
son, says, — 
