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herself, it was stated by Sanders that Iier mother, 

 Anne Boleyn, was Flenry VIII.'s own daugliter; 

 and that lie intrigued, not only witli Anne's mother, 

 but with her sister. P. T. will find these ]ioints, 

 and others which are hardly suited for ])ublic dis- 

 cussion, noticed in the article on Elizabeth in 

 Bayle's Dictionary. Cudyn Gwyn. 



Church of St. Saviour, Canterbury (Vol. ii., 

 p. 478.)- — I would submit to Sir Henry Ellis, that 

 the church at Canterbury which is mentioned in 

 the charter from which he quotes, is termed Muter 

 et Domina, not on account of its greater antiquity, 

 but by reason of its superior dignity ; and that the 

 church referred to is clearly tlie cathe<iral church. 

 The charter is one of confirmation of privileges : 

 it proceeded upon the " admonition of the most 

 pious Archbishop Liuingus," and " upon consi- 

 deration of the liberties of the monasteries situated 

 within Kent." It granted that the church of the 

 Saviour (ecclesia Salvatoris), situated in Canter- 

 bury, the motlier and lady of all the churches in 

 the kingdom of England, should be free, and that 

 no one should have any right therein save the arch- 

 bishop and the monks there serving Ood. Tlie 

 whole tenor of the charter, and more particularly 

 the words last referred to, " archiepiscopum et 

 monachos ibidem deo famuLmtes," seem to me to 

 indicate the cathedral church, and no other. If it 

 be inquireil. How then came it to pass that the 

 cathedral, which is dedicated to Christ, should be 

 described as ecclesia Salvatoris ? some persons may 

 answer, that this apparent blunder is an indication 

 that the charter is not genuine. But that is not 

 my opinion. The charter is printeil from the 

 register of the cathedral, and if it had been forged 

 by the moid<s, they would scarcely have made a 

 mistake upon such a point as the dedication of 

 their own church. Coming out of such custody, 

 the unusual designation, as we now esteem it, 

 seems clear proof that the charter is genuine. I 

 would suggest, either that the cathedral, or a part 

 of it, was really dedicated to the Saviour ; or that 

 the words are to be understood not as indicating 

 the church of St. Saviour, but the church of the 

 Saviour, that is, Christ. John Bruce. 



Pope Ganganclli (Vol. ii., p. 464.). — In reply to 

 the inquiry of Cephas, I give you the following 

 anecdote, in the words of the Rev. Dr. Kiik, of 

 Lichlield, who still survives (and long may he yet 

 survive !) to bear testimony to its correctness : — 



" Charles Plowden travelled with Mr. Middleton ; 

 and when at Rome, he called with Mr. Thorpe to see 

 me at the Eiijjlish college. We w.TlUed together for 

 some time in St. GeorL;e's Hall, and he quite scanda- 

 lised me with the manner in wliicli he spoke of Ganga- 

 nelli. Tliere is no doubt that Mr. I'lowden had a 

 principal hand in the Life of Ganganelli, wliich was 

 published in London in 1785. Father Thorpe sup- 

 plied the materinls (J. T. is subscribed to the letters 

 printed), and Mr. Plowden arranged them. I brought 



a packet of letters from Mr. Thorpe to Mr. C. Plowden, 

 and one or two other packets were brought from him 

 to Mr. Plowden by other students. ' The contents 

 were so scandalous,' said Bishop Milner. in my hearing, 

 at Oscott, ' that Mr. Weld, with whom Mr. C. Plowden 

 lived, insisted on the work being suppressed.' The 

 copies were all Ijonght up, and I have never seen or 

 heard of a copy since I saw it in Coghlan's shop in 

 1785. Mr. Cordell, of Newcastle, wrote some observa- 

 tions upon it. Mr. Conolly, S. J., told me at O.xford, 

 October 17, 1814, that he 'once saw in a corner of 

 Mr. C. Plowden's room, a heap of papers, some torn, 

 and put there apparently to be burnt. I took up one 

 of them,' he said, ' which was torn in two.' It contained 

 anecdotes and observations against Ganganelli.' " 



It was doubtless from this collection that Mr. 

 Keon was supplied with those papers, which he 

 published in Dolman's Magazine in 1846, con- 

 cerning " Tiie Preservation of the Society of Jesus 

 in the Empire of Russia." M. A. Tieeney. 



Arundel. 



Pope Ganganelli (Vol. ii., p. 464.). — The Rev. 

 Charles Cordell, a priest of the Roman Catholic 

 Church, who was stationed at Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne about the date mentioned by your corre- 

 spondent Cephas (he was there in 1787), was the 

 translator of the letters of Pope Clement XIV. 

 (Ganganelli) ; but as I have not the book, I do not 

 know whether it containeil also a life of that pontiff. 

 Mr. Cordell was editor of other works. 



W. S. G. 



Nicholas Ferrars Digest (Vol. ii., p. 446.). — 

 One of the copies of the Gidding Digest of the 

 History (f our Saviours Life, inquired after by 

 J. H. M. (a most beuiitiful book), is in the library 

 of the Marquis of Salisbury. I believe it to be 

 the copy presented to Charles I. W. H. C. 



Ferrar, Nicholas. — Tiie following extract from 

 a very interesting paper on " Illustrated Books" in 

 the Quarterly Review, vol. Ixxiv. p. 173., will aid 

 J.H.M. in his researches after the curious volumes 

 arranged by the members of the Ferrar family : 



" King Charles's statues, pictures, jewels, and curi- 

 osities, were sold and dispersed by the repicide powers; 

 from this fate, hapi)ily, the royal collection of manu- 

 scripts and books was jjreserved ; neither was it, like 

 the archiepiscojial library at Lambeth, doled out piece- 

 meal to Hugh Peters and his brother fanatics. This 

 good service was mainly owing to Bulstrode White- 

 locke. When the British Museum was founded, King 

 George IL presented to it the whole of the royal 

 library ; and Ferrar 's Cnncordatice, with another simi- 

 larly illustrated c(>in))ilation by him, is there preserved 

 in safety. The Rev. Thomas Bowdler of Sydenham, 

 the representative of the last baronet of the Cotton 

 family, the founders of the Cottonian Libraiy, pos- 

 ses.ses another of the F'errar volumes. Of those which 

 were presented by Ferrar to George Herbert and Dr. 

 Jackson, no record remains." 



John' I. Dredge. 



