Aug. 9. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



103 



my possession a copy bearing date 1694, seeming to 

 be one of a farther impression of the first edition, 

 as it gives no edition, but simply has in the title 

 page :. 



" This irnpressioii is corrected and amended with 

 many additions throughout the whole." 



" London : Printed hy J. R. for T. P., and are to 

 1)3 sold by John Back, at the Black Boy on London 

 Bridge, ]'694." 



Perhaps you can give me some information on 

 the edition, if yon think it a fit subject for your 

 valuable publication. E. K. Jutt. 



Frome, Somerset. 



[Mr. De Morgan, in his Arithmetical Boohs, says that 

 the earliest edition he ever possessed is that of 16S5 : 

 and what edition was not stated. The fourth edition 

 was of 1682, the twentieth of 1700. The matters cited 

 by our correspondent, which we have omitted, are in 

 all, or nearly all, editions. We have heard of three 

 copies of the ^rs< edition : one sold in Mr. Halliwell's 

 sale, one in the library of the Roman Catholic College 

 at Oscott, and one sold by Puttlck and Simpson, as 

 above, in April last : but we cannot say that these are 

 three different copies, though we suspect it. Our cor- 

 respondent's edition is not mentioned by any one. The 

 Ji/ti/ -second eiihion, by Geo. Fisher, appeared in 1748, 

 aecordmg to the Catalogue of the Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Newcastle.] 



Samkrit Elcmentanj Books. — "Will some one 

 of your correspondents kindly inform me what 

 are the elementary works necessary for gaining a 

 knowledge of Sanskrit ? Delta. 



[Wilson's Sanskrit Grammar (the 2nd edition), and 

 the Hitopadesa, edited by Johnson, are the best ele- 

 mentary works.] 



Toimiley MSS., SfC. — I request the favour to 

 be informed where are the Townley MSS. ? They 

 are quoted by Sir H. Nicolas in Scrope and Gros- 

 venor Rolls. Also where are the MSS. formerly 

 penes Earl of Egmont, often quoted in the History 

 j of the House of Yoery ? And a folio of Pedigrees 

 by Camden Russet ? S. S. 



[The Townley Heraldic Collections are in the 

 British Museum, among the Additional MSS., Nos. 

 14,829 — 14,832. 14,834. In the same collection, No. 

 6,226. p. 100., are Bishop Clayton's Letters to Sir John 

 Perceval, first Earl of Et/mont.] 



" Man is horn to trouble" Sj^c. — In an edition 

 of The Holy Bible, with twenty thousand emen- 

 dations : London, 1841, I read as follows, at 

 Job V. 7. : " For man is not born to trouble as the 

 sparks fly upwards." Query 1. Is there any 

 authority from MSS., &c. for the insertion of the 

 word "not"? 2. Is this insertion occasioned by 

 the oversight of the printer or of the editor? N. 



[Tliere is no authority for the insertion of the word 

 "not," that we can (iiid, eitlier in MS.S. or commenta- 

 tors. As to the oversight of the printer or editor we 

 cannot speak : but are rather inclined to attribute that 



and other emendations to the second-sight of one of 

 the parties concerned. Our correspondent will find 

 Dr. Conquest's emendated Bible ably criticised by one of 

 the best Hebrew scholars of the day in the Jewish 

 Intelliyencer, vol. i.x. p. 84.] 



SKcjpIie^. 



BELIiARMIN's MONSTROUS PARADOX. 

 (Vol. iv., p. 43.) 



The defence of Cardinal Bellarmin set up by 

 your correspondent J. W. Ct. is not new, and is 

 exceedingly plausible at first sight. Allow me, 

 however, to direct the attention of your readers to 

 the following reply to a similar defence, which I 

 take from the Sequel to Letters to M. Gondon, 

 by Dr. Wordsworth, Canon of Westminster, pp. 10. 

 11.: 



" I would first beg leave to observe that my three 

 reviewers, in their zeal to speak for Cardinal Bel- 

 larmine, have not allowed him to speak for liimself. 

 Tliey seem not to have remembered that this very 

 passage was severely censured in his life-time, and 

 that in the Review which he wrote of his own works, by 

 way of explanation, he endeavoured to set up a defence 

 for it, which is wholli/ at variance with their apologies for 

 him. He says, ' When I affirmed that, if the Pope 

 commanded a vice or forbad a virtue, the church would 

 be bound to believe virtue to be evil and vice good, I 

 was speaking concerning douhlful acts of virtue or 

 vice ; for if he ordered a manifest vice, or forbad a 

 manifest virtue, it would be necessary to say with St. 

 Peter, We must obey God rather than man.' Re- 

 cognitlo Librorum omnium Roberti Bellarmini ah 

 ipso edita, Ingolstad, 1608, p. 19. ' Ubi diximus quod 

 si Papa pra;ciperet vitium aut prohiberet virtutem, 

 Ecclesia teneretur credere virtutem esse malam et 

 vitium esse bonum, locuti sumus de actibus dtchiis vir- 

 tutum aut vitiorum; nam si praxiiperet manifestum 

 vitium aut prohiberet manifcstam virtutem, dicendum 

 esset oimi Petro obedire oportet mar/is Deo quam ho- 

 minibus.' 



This is his own defence ; let it be received for what 

 it is worth : it differs entirely from that which the re- 

 viewers make for him." 



It would occupy too much of your valuable 

 space to insert the whole of Ur. Wordsworth's 

 observations, which, however, every one who is 

 desirous of thoroughly investigating the siibject, 

 ought to read and consider. "" 



Dublin. 



Tyro. 



THE GOOKINS OF KENT. 



(Vol. i., pp. 383. 492.) 

 In the 1st volume of tlie Neic England Historical 

 and Genealogical Register, pp. 345., &c., and in 

 subsc([ucnt volumes, an interesting account, by 

 J. W. Thornton, Esq., of Boston, may be found 

 of the " Gookins of America," who are descendants 



