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proves, however, that the statement is incorrect. 
At the back of the title is as follows :— 
“IT have read over this sermon upon Rom, xiii. 7., 
preached at Northampton, at the assises for the county, 
Feb, 22. 1626, by Robert Sybthorpe, Doctor of Divinity, 
Vicar of Brackley, and I doe approve it as a sermon 
learnedly and discreetly preached, and agreeable to the 
ancient Doctrine of the Primitive Church, both for Faith 
and good manners, and to the Doctrine established in the 
Church of England, and, therefore, under my hand I 
give authority for the printing of it, May 8. 1627.” 
Gro. Lonpon. 
It was therefore Bishop Mountague, and not 
Laud, who licensed the sermon. 
Joun J. DREpGeE. 
POPE AND PETRONIUS. 
I have read “ Mr. Ricn’s” letter with great in- 
terest, and I willingly allow that he has combated 
my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and dis- 
cussed the subject generally with equal fairness 
and ability. ‘“ But yet,” I think that he wanders 
a little from the point when he says, “the sur- 
mise of the plagiarism originates in a misconcep- 
tion of the terms employed by the Latin author, 
especially corcillum.” Now the question, in my 
opinion, turns not so much on what Petronius said, 
as on what Pope read; i.e. not on the meaning 
that Petronius gave to the word (corcillum), but 
on that which Pope attributed to it. I cannot, 
without further proof, give him credit for having 
read the word as critically and correctly as “ Mr. 
R.” has done. I believe that he looked on it 
merely as a simple derivative of cor, and therefore 
rendered it “worth,” i.e. a moral, not a mental 
quality. C. Forzgs. 
QUERIES. 
QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, 
AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS. 
I beg leave to make the two following Queries : — 
1. In Bayle’s very useful work, Seriptorum Il- 
lustrium Majoris Brytannie Cuatalogus, fol. Bas. 
1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey, 
one of Wycliffe’s followers, and (as Walden styles 
him) Glossator, is mentioned Commentarius in 
Apocalypsin, beginning “ Apocalypsis, quasi dice- 
ret ;” and Bayle adds :— 
*« Przedictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex ma- 
gistri Wiclevi lectionibus publicis per Joannem Pur- 
veum collectus, et nune per Martinum Lutherum, 
Ante centum annos intitulatus, anno Domini 1528, sine 
authoris nomine, Witemberge fuit excusus. Fuit et 
ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, 
cum ea Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et unde- 
cimo ejus seripti eapite apparet. Scripsit autem Pur- 
veus hune librum anno Domini 1390, ut ex decimo 
tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet.” 
-NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 28. 
This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, how- 
ever, about the title of the work) is confirmed by 
Panzer ; who, in his Annales, vol. ix. p. 87. enters 
the volume thus, ‘‘ Commentarius in Apocalypsin 
ante Centum Annos editus, cum Prefatione Mar- 
tint Lutheri. Wittembergz, 1528. 8vo.” Can any 
of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in 
a public library, or in private hands ? 
2. In Lewis's History of the Translations of the 
Bible, edit. 1818. p.25., he quotes a work of 
Bishop Bonner, “ Of the Seven Sacraments, 1555,” 
in which a manuscript English Bible is cited by 
the Bishop, as then in his possession, “ translated 
out of Latyne in tyme of heresye almost eight- 
score years before that tyme, z.e. about 1395, 
fayre and truly written in parchment.” Lewis 
proceeds to conjecture, that this MS. was the same 
which is preserved in the Bodleian Library under 
the mark Fairfax, 2. And in this erroneous 
supposition he has been followed by later writers. 
The copy in question, which belonged to Bonner, 
is actually in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lam- 
beth, No. 25., and contains the Pentateuch in the 
earlier Wycliffite version (made, no doubt, by 
Nicholas Hereford), whilst the rest of the Old and 
New Testament is in the later or revised transla- 
tion by Purvey and his coadjutors. What I now 
wish to inquire about, is, where I can meet with 
a copy of Bonner’s work, De Septem Sacramentis, 
in which the passages occur referred to by Lewis? 
They are not in A Profitable and Necessarye Doc- 
tryne, with certayne Homelies adjoyned, printed in 
1555 by John Carood, although one of these homi- 
lies is on the subject of the seven sacraments. 
F. Mappen. 
MINOR QUERIES. 
Monastery, Arrangement of One.— Any infor- 
mation and particulars respecting the extent, 
arrangement, and uses of the various buildings for 
an establishment of fifty Cistercian or Benedictine 
Monks would be useful to and gratefully received 
by A. P. H. 
{Has our Querist consulted Professor Willis, ‘‘ De- 
scription of the Ancient Plan of the Monastery of St. 
Gall in the Ninth Century,” accompanying a copy of 
the plan, and which he will find in the Archeological 
Journal, vol. v. p. 85. ?] 
Constantine the Artist.— Who was “ M. Con- 
stantine, an Italian architect to our late Prince 
Henry,” employed in the masque at the Earl of 
Somerset’s marriage in 1613? and was he the same 
Constantine de Servi to whom the Prince assigned 
a yearly pension of 2002. in July 1612? If so, 
where can more be found respecting him? He is 
not mentioned in Walpole’s Anecdotes. J.G.N. 
Josias Ibach Stada.— Who was the artist whose 
name occurs inscribed on the hoof of the horse of 
King Charles the Second’s equestrian statue at 
