Oct. 4. 1851.] 



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London, and particularly of the arms, crest, and 

 motto (if any) which are on it. 



I wish to know also the correct blazon of the 

 following coats of arms : Thos. Davies, a fess inter 

 three elephants' heads crazed ; and Davis of Lon- 

 don, on a bend cotissed inter six battle-axes three 

 daggers : there is some mention of these arms in 

 the Har. MSS., but I wish to know the connect 

 colours of the shields and their charges ? 



Llaw Gyfpes. 



J3Jli'nflr cattnrtc^ ^lirsincrclf. 



Poet referred to hy Bacon. — To what poet 

 does Bacon refer in the following passage of the 

 Advancement of Learning ? — 



" The invention of one of the late poets is proper, 

 and doth well enrich the ancient fiction : for he feign- | 

 eth that at the end of the thread or veb of every man's 

 life there was a little medal containinp; the person's 

 name, and that Time waited upon the shears ; and as 

 soon as the thread was cut, caught the medals, and 

 carried them to the river of Lethe ; and about the 

 bank, there were many birds tlying up and down that 

 would get the medals, and carry them in their beak a 

 little while, and then let them fall into the river," &c. — 

 Vol. ii. p. 112. in B. Montagu's edition of Eacon. 



E. 



[We are inclined to think that Bacon's reference was 

 to the Mirror for Magistrates, and will probably be 

 found in connexion with the following lines : 

 " A little wren in beake with laurell greene that flew, 



Foreshew'd my dolefuU death, as after all men knew."] 



The Violin. — Which is the best work hitherto 

 published on the history and construction of the 

 violin ? Musicus. 



[Certainly the best work on the history of this 

 favourite instrument is the amusing little volume pub- 

 lished l)y Mr. George Dubourg, in 1836, under the 

 title of T/ie Violin, being an Account of that leading 

 Instrument, and its most eminent Professors, from its 

 earliest Date to tite present Time : including Hints to 

 Amateurs, §'c.] 



Sir I'homas Malory, Knt. — I should feel obliged 

 if any of your correspondents could give me any 

 information relative to Sir Thomas Malory, Knt., 

 who translated into English The most Ancient and 

 Famous History of the renotvned Prince Arthur, 

 King of Dritainn f Also any particulars relative 

 to the original author of that work ? M. P. S. 



Inverness. 



[Consult Herbert's edition of AmcVs Typographical 

 Antiquities, vol. i. pp. .59 — 61. 134.; Dilidin's Typo- 

 graphieal Aiitir/uilies, vol. i. pp. 'ill — '235.; and Whar- 

 ton's History of English Poelry.'j 



Archf/ishop of Spahtlro. — In a note to the 

 account of Chelsea College, in Lysons' Eitvirons 



of London, which contains a list of the first fellows 

 of the college, called by Archbishop Laud " Con- 

 troversy College," of which Dr. Sutcliffe was 

 founder and provost, I read — 



" Many vacancies having occurred by the promotion 

 of some of the fellows above-mentioned to bishoprics, 

 and by the death of others. King James, by his letters 

 patent, Nov. 14, 16'22, substituted others in their room, 

 among whom was the celebrated Archbishop of SjAaluto, 

 then Dean of Windsor." 



I wish to ask who this archbishop was? and 

 should be glad to learn any further particulars 

 respecting him, especially as to whether he ever 

 acted as a bishop in England ? Splalato is, I pre- 

 sume, an error of the press for Spalatro. 



W. Fkazek. 



[Mark Antony de Dominis, born about 1561, was 

 educated among the Jesuits, and was Bishop of Segni, 

 and afterwards Archbishop of Spalatro. Bishop Bedell 

 met with him at Venice, and corrected, previous to 

 publication, his celebrated work De JRepuhlica Eccle- 

 siastica. When Bedell returned to England, Dominis 

 came over with him. Here he preached and wrote 

 against the Romanists, and the king gave him the 

 Deanery of Windsor, the Mastership of the Savoy, and 

 tlie rich living of West Ildcsley in Berkshire. De 

 Dominis's wish seems to have been to re-unite the 

 llomish and English churches. He returned to Rome 

 in 16-"J, where he abjured his errors; but on the dis- 

 covery of a correspondence which he held with some 

 Protestants, he was thrown into prison, where he died 

 in 1625. He was a man of great abilities and learn- 

 ing, although remarkable for a fickleness in religious 

 matters. He was author of a work entitled De Radiis 

 Visus et Lxicis in Vitris Perspectivis ct Iride Tractalus, 

 and was the first person, according to Sir Isaac Newton, 

 who had explained the phenomena of the colours of the 

 rainbow. We are also indebted to him for Father 

 Paul's History of the Council of Trent, the manuscript 

 of which he procured for Archbishop Abbot, — See 

 Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, s. v. Dominis.] 



Play of " The Spaniards in Peru." — John 

 Heyicood. — Who was the author of The Cruelty of 

 the Spaniards in Peru, expresst by Instrumentall 

 and Vocall Miisick, and hy Art of Perspective in 

 Scenes, &c., said to have been represented in the 

 Cock Pit, in Drury Lane, at three in the after- 

 noon punctually, 1658? Thus it stands in Jacob, 

 but is not mentioned by Langbaine. The author 

 of the British Theatre, however, mentions a re- 

 markable circumstance in regai'd to it, which is, 

 that Oliver Cromwell, who had prohibited all 

 theatrical representations, not only allowed this 

 piece to be performed, but even himself actually 

 read and npjiroved of it. 



Also, what are the exact dates of the birth and 

 death of John Iley wood, in Henry VIII.'s time ? 



James F. IIaskins. 



[Sir William Davenant was the author of The 

 Spaniards in Pern, which was subsequently incorpo- 



