May 11. 1850.] 
Lowndes and Dr. Nott. The latter is indeed very 
inaccurate, omitting many well-known productions 
of the author, and assigning others to him for 
which he is not answerable. Whilst upon the 
subject of Dekker, I cannot resist mentioning a 
fraud upon his memory which has, I believe, 
escaped the notice of bibliographers. In 1697 was 
published a small volume, entitled, The Young 
Gallan’s Academy, or Directions how he should 
behave himself in an Ordinary, in a Playhouse, in a 
Tavern, &c., with the Character of a Town- Huff, 
by Samuel Vincent. This is nothing more than a 
reprint of Dekker’s Gull’s Horn-book, with some 
slight alterations to adapt it to the times. 
Nash’s Terrors of the Night, or a Discourse 
of Apparitions, was printed by John Danter for 
William Jones, 1594. It is a very interesting 
tract, and contains many personal allusions to its 
unfortunate author. A copy was sold in Heber’s 
sale (Part IV. No. 1592.) for 57. 18s. A note in 
the handwriting of that distinguished collector 
gives us the following information :— 
“ Only two other copies are known to exist, one in 
the Ashbridge Library at Cleveland House, the other, 
not so fine as the present, bought by Malone at 
Brand’s, since James Boswell’s, and now (1825) penes 
me, R. H.” 
All things considered, I think your correspond- 
ent “J. E.” (p. 400.) may congratulate himself on 
having “ met with a prize.” 
Epwarp F. Rimeactr. 
Nash's Terrors of the Night. — Excessively rare. 
Boswell had a copy, and another is in the library 
of the Earl of Ellesmere, described in Mr. Collier’s 
Bridgewater Catalogue as one of the worst of 
Nash’s tracts. L. 
Tureen (No. 25. p. 407.).—The valuable refer- 
ence to Knox proves the etymology from the Latin. 
Terrene, as an adjective, occurs in old English. 
See quotation in Halliwell, p. 859. LE 
English Translations of Erasmus’ Encomium 
Moria (No. 24. p. 385.).— Sir Thomas Challoner’s 
translation of Erasmus’ Praise of Folly was first 
printed, I believe, in 1540. Subsequent im- 
Sle are dated 1549, 1569, 1577. In 1566, 
illiam Pickering had a license “ for pryntinge of 
a mery and pleasaunt history, donne in tymes paste 
by Erasmus Roterdamus,” which possibly might 
be an impression of the Praise of Folly. (See Col- 
lier’s Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers’ 
Company, vol. i. p. 125.) ‘This popular work was 
again translated in the latter part of the following 
century, by White Kennet. It was printed at 
Oxford in 1683, under the title of Wit against 
Wisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly, This is in 
all probability the intermediate translation in- 
quired afver by your correspondent. 
Wiekup F. Rimpavrr. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
455 
In answer to “ JaruzpereG,” I beg to inform 
him of the following translation of Erasmus’ 
Praise of Folly : — 
“ Moriz Encomium, or the Praise of Folly, made 
English from the Latin of Erasmus by W. Kennet, 
of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon, now Lord Bishop of Peter- 
borough. Adorn’d with 46 copper plates, and the 
effigies of Erasmus and Sir ‘Thos. More, all neatly en- 
graved from the designs of the celebrated Hans Hol- 
beine. 4th edition, 1724.” 
Kennett, however, in his preface, dated 1683, 
alludes to two other translations, and to Sir 
Thomas Challoner’s as the first. He does not men- 
tion the name of the second translator, but alludes 
to him as “the modern translator,” and as having 
lost a good deal of the wit of the book by having 
“tied himself so strictly to a literal observance of 
the Latin.” This is his excuse for offering to the 
public a third translation, in which he professes to 
have allowed himself such ‘ elbow-room of expres- 
sion as the humoursomeness of the subject and 
the idiom of the language did invite.” Hermes. 
The intermediate translation of the Morie En- 
comium of Erasmus, to which your correspondent 
refers, is that by John Wilson, 8vo. London 1661, 
of which there is a copy in the Bodleian. M. 
Oxford. 
Court of Wards. —I cannot tell “J.B.” (No. 
11. p. 173.) anything about Mr. D’Israeli’s re- 
searches into the Court of Wards; but “J.B.” 
may be glad to know that there is among the 
MSS. in the British Museum a treatise on the 
Court of Wards. I remember seeing it, but have 
not read it. I dare say it might be usefully pub- 
lished, for we know little in detail about the 
Court of Wards. C. H. 
Scala Celi (No. 23. p. 366.).—In Foxe’s Acts 
and Mon., vol. v. p. 364., Lond. 1838, your Querist 
may see a copy of a grant from Pope Clement VII. 
in 1526, to the brethren of a Boston guild, assuring 
them that any member thereof who should enter 
the Lady Chape! in St. Botolph’s Church, Boston, 
once a quarter, and say there ‘‘a Paternoster, Ave 
Maria, and Creed, shall have the full remission 
due to them that visit the Chapel of Scala Sceeli.” 
H.W. 
Twm Shawn Cattie (No. 24. p. 383.).— The fol- 
lowing extract from Cliffe’s Book of South Wales, 
furnishes a reply to this Query. 
In describing the beautiful mountain scenery 
between Llandovery and ‘Tregaron, he says : — 
“High in the rock above the fall yawns a hole, 
hardly a cavern, where once lurked a famous freebooter 
of Wales, ‘Twm Sion Catti: the entrance to this cave 
is through a narrow aperture, formed of two immense 
slate rocks, which face each other, and the space be- 
tween them is narrower at the bottom than the top, so 
