June 21. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the accession of William IV., some objection was, we 

 believe, made to the admission of the Lord Mayor into 

 the Council Chamber, which was, however, abandoned 

 on an intimation that if the I-ord Mayor was not ad- 

 mitted, he would retire, accompanied by his officers and 

 the aldermen who were present.] 



Alter his Orhis Papa. — In tlie Bishop of Exeter's 

 celebrated Pastoral Letter, p. 44., the Archbishop 

 of Canterbury is styled — 



" The second spiritual chief of Christendom, alterius 

 orbis Papa." 



In conversation a few days suice I heard these 

 expressions objected to, when a gentleman present 

 observed that the title "Alterius orbis Papa" was 

 conferred by the Bishop of Rome, or Bope of 

 Christendom, on his confrere of Canterbury, at a 

 very early period. His memory did not furnish 

 him with the precise date, but he was convinced 

 that such was the fact as reported in Collier's 

 Ecclesiastiail History, and seemed inclined to refer 

 it to a period not long subsequent to the mission 

 of Augustine. 



Is such the fact ? or, if not, to whom may the 

 words be ascribed ? A. B. 



Redland, June 5. 



[Carwithen, in his History of the Church of England, 

 vol. i. p. 40., speaking of Wolsey's attempt to gain the 

 popedom, says, " His aim was the chair of St. Peter, 

 and to the attainment of liis wishes he rendered subser- 

 vient both the alliances and the enmities of his own 

 country. At home, even the papacy could confer on 

 him no accession of power : he was indeed paj>a nlterius 

 orbis. "] 



Mrs. Elstoh. — j\Irs. Elstob, the Anglo-Saxon 

 scholar, is stated by a recent reviewer to have 

 passed the period of her seclusion in a village in 

 Wiltshire, until taken notice of by a neighbouring 

 clergyman. What village was this, and who was 

 the clergyman ? for other authorities place her at 

 Evesham in Worcestershire. J. AV. 



[We are inclined to think that Wiltshire must be a 

 misprint for JForeesters/i ire in the Review, as the notices 

 of Miss Elstob in Kippis' Biograpltia Uritanuicn, and 

 Nichols' Anecdotes of Boivijer, only speak of her retire- 

 ment in distressed circumstances to JEvesham, where 

 she attracted the notice of IMr. Ballard, author of 

 Memoirs of British Ladies, and of Mrs. Capon, wife 

 of the Ilev. Mr. Capon, of Stanton, in Gloucester- 

 shire. ] 



Cardinal Bellarmin. — I find the following pas- 

 sage in D'lsraeli's Curiosities of Lilei-atare : — 



" Hellarmin was made a Cardinal for his efforts and' 

 devotion to the Pajjul cause, and maintaining this 

 monstrous i)aradox. — that if the Pope forbid the ex- 

 ercise of virtue and command that of vice, the Roman 

 Church, under pain of sin, was obliged to abandon 

 virtue for vice, if it would not sin against conscience," 



Can any of your readers favour me with the 



text in Bell.armin, which contains this " monstrous 

 paradox?" Henry H. Bkeen. 



St. Lucia, May, 1851. 



[The passage will be found in Dispntationum Roberti 

 BeUarmini,de Controversiis Christiance Fidei : De Sunimo 

 Pontijice, lib. iv. cap. v. sect. 8.: Pragae, 1721, fob, 

 vol. i. p. 456. : 



" 8. Secundo, quia tunc necessario erraret, etiam' 

 circa fidem. Nam fides Catholica docet, omnem vir- 

 tutem esse bonam, omne vitium esse malum : si autetn 

 Papa erraret przecipiendo vitia, vel prohibendo virtutes, 

 tcneretur Ecclesia credere, vitia esse bona, et virtutes- 

 malas, nisi vellet contra conscientiam peccare. Tenetur 

 enim in rebus dubiis Ecclesia acquiescere judicio summi 

 Pontificis, et facere quod . ille praicipit ; non facere, 

 quod ille prohibet ; ac ne forte contra conscientiam 

 agat, tenetur credere bonum esse, quod ille pra;cipit : 

 malum, quod ille prohibet."] 



shakspeare's use oe "captious" and " inte- 



NIBLE." shakspeare's " SMALL LATIN." 



(Vol. ii., p. 354. ; VoL iii., p. 65.) 



This is another discussion in which Shakspeare's 

 love of antithesis has not been sulTiciently recog- 

 nised. 



The contrast in this case is in the ideas — ever 

 receiving, never retaining : an allusion to the 

 hopeless punishment of the Danaides, so beauti- 

 fully appropriate, so unmistakeably apparent, and 

 so well supported in the context, that I should 

 think it unnecessary to offer a comment upon it 

 had the question be^n raised by a critic less dis- 

 tinguished than Mr. Singer ; or if I did not fancy 

 that I perceive the origin of what I believe to be 

 his mistake, in the misreading of another line, the- 

 last in his quotation. 



The hopelessness of Helena's love is cheerfully 

 endui-ed ; she glories in it : 



" I know I love in vain — strive against hope — 

 Yet still outpour the waters of ray love, 

 And lack not to lose still." 

 This last line Mr. Singer reads, "and fail not to 

 lose still ;" but surely that is not Helena's meaning? 

 She me.ans that her spring of love is inexhaustible; 

 tliat, notwithstanding the constant, hopeless waste, 

 there lacks not (a supply) " to lose still! " 



Johnson was one of those commentators enu- 

 merated by Mk. Singer, of whom he observes, 

 as a matter of surprise, " that none of them should 

 have remarked that the sense of the Latin ' cap- 

 tiosus,' and of its congeners in Italian and French, 

 is deceitful, fallacious;" "and," he adds, "Bacon 

 uses the word for ' insidious,' ' ensnaring.' " But 

 surely Johnston the commentator was no other 

 than Johnson the lexicographer ; and yet, for 

 these precise definitions of " captious," which 

 J. S. W. thinks " too i-efmed and recondite " for 

 Shakspeare's " small Latin," we need apply to na 



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