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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



379 



" Hither the sly little fellow got crony Becket to 

 send his satirical trumpery ;" 

 ■which is further explained in the following note : 



" Becket's back door is in an alley close to his house; 

 here have I often seen little M*tli**s jog in and sit 

 upon thorns for fear of being seen, in the back-parlour, 

 chattering matters over with old NumscuU. After 

 passing through many hands, the proof sheets at last 

 very sUly reached little M*th**s that he might revise 

 the learned lumber." 



After alluding to several pieces published by 

 Mathias, our unmerciful critic adds in another 

 note : 



" It is very remarkable how strongly the character- 

 istic features of identity of authorship are marked in 

 these several pieces; the little man had not even the 

 wit to print them in a different manner, yet strange to 

 tell, few, very few, could smell the he-goat I 



" Who reads thy hazy xoeaiher but must swear, 

 'Tis Thomas James M*th**s to a hair ! " 



Mercurh. 



Dutch Books (Vol. iii., p. 326.). — Martinus is 

 probablj aware that the library of the Fagel fa- 

 mily is now a part of the University Library of 

 Dublin, and that it contains a very fine collection 

 of Dutch literature, in which it is very possible 

 some of the books of which he is in search may be 

 found. 



The auction catalogue prepared In 1800, when 

 the library was to have been sold by auction, had 

 it not been purchased by the University of Dub- 

 lin, is printed, and a copy of it is at his service, if 

 he will inform me through you how to send it to 

 LIm. 



This library contains many rare tracts and 

 documents well worthy of Mr. Macaulay's atten- 

 tion, if he is about to continue his history of the 

 Revolution ; but I have not heard whether he has 

 made any inquiry after them, or whether he is 

 aware of their existence. There is a curious MS. 

 catalogue of them in the possession of the Univer- 

 sity, which was too voluminous to be printed, when 

 the library was about to be sold. IIibernicos. 



Engilbert, Archbishop of Treves (Vol. i., 

 p. 214). — .There can be no doubt that the bishop's 

 reference is incorrect, and the suggestion of T. J. 

 (Vol. iii., p. 291.) to consult the reprint of 1840 

 affords no aid In setting it right ; for there we 

 find (p. 178.) a note as follows : 



" Tliere was no Engilhert, Archbishop of Treves, 

 nor is there any work in this name in Goldasti." 



I have, however, consulted Mr. Bowden's Life 

 and Pontificate of Gregory VII., in order, if pos- 

 sible, to find a clue ; and In a note in vol. li. p. 24G. 

 of that work is a statement of the hesitation of 

 the Pope on the doctrine of the eucharist, with a 

 reference as follows : 



" Vid. Kyilhcrli a.Tch\cp. Trevir. cpist. adv. Greg. VI I., 

 in Eccardi Corp. historic. Medii JE\i. t. ii. p. 170." 



This reference I have verified, and found in the 

 epistle of Egilbertus the passage which, no doubt, 

 Bishop Cosin refers to, and which Mr. Bowden 

 cites : 



" En verus pontifex et sacerdos, qui dubitat si illud 

 quod sumatur in dominica mensa sit verum corpus et 

 sanguis Christi I " 



So much for that part of the difficulty, but 

 another still remains. Was there ever an Egil- 

 bertus, or Engilbertus, Archbishop of Treves ? 

 To solve this question I consulted a list of the 

 Archbishops of Treves in the Bihliothique Sacree 

 of KIch.ard et Giraud, and I there find the follow- 

 ing statement : 



" Engelbert, grand-prevot de Passau, fut intrus par 

 la faveur de I'empereur Henri IV., et sacre par des 

 eveques schismatiques. 11 mourut en 1101." i 



Tyro. 

 Dublin. 



Charles Lamb's 'Epitaph (Vol. ill., p. 322.). — 

 According to Mr. Thorne (Rambles by Rivers, 

 1st series, p. 190.) the inscription in the church- 

 yard at Edmonton, to the memory of Charles 

 Lamb, was written " by his friend. Dr. Carey, the 

 translator of ' Dante"' Mr. Thorne gives an 

 anecdote concerning this inscription which I 

 venture to transcribe, in the expectation that it 

 may interest your correspondent Maria S., and 

 others of your numerous readers. 



" We heard a piece of criticism on this inscription 

 that Lamb would have enjoyed. As we were copying 

 it, a cou|)le of canal excavators came across the church- 

 yard, and read it over with great deliberation ; when 

 they had finished, one of them said, ' A very fair bit of 

 poetry that;' ' Yes,' replied his companion, ' I'm blest 

 if it isn't as good a bit as any in the churchyard; rather 

 too ling, though.' " 



By " Dr. Carey," of course, is meant the Rev. 

 Henry Francis Carj', M. A., Vicar of Bromley 

 Abbots, Staffordshire, and Assistant Librarian in 

 the British Museum, as he was the translator of 

 " Dante," and an intimate friend of Charles 

 Lamb. C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, April 28. 1851. 



Charles II. in Wales (Vol. iii., p. 263.). — In 

 answer to Davtdd Gam's Query, it may be 

 observed that I have nyver heard of the tra- 

 dition in question, nor have I met with any 

 evidence to show that Charles IL was in any 

 part of Wales at this period. In " The true 

 I^arrative and Relation of his most sacred Ma- 

 jesty's Escape from Worcester," Selection from 

 the Harleian Miscellany, 4to., p. 380., it is 

 stated that the king meditated the scheme of 

 crossing into Wales from White Ladies, the 

 house of the Penderells, but that " the design 

 was crossed." One of the " Boscobel Tracts," at 

 p. 137., treating of (he same period, and com- 

 piled by the king himself in 1680, mentions his 



