Oct. 11. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



275 



Latin Translation of Sarpis Council of Trent 

 — Can any one inform me wlio translated tliis 

 into Latin? I have a copy of an early edition, 

 without printer's name or place of publication, 

 and with the fictitious name Petri Sitavis Polani ; 

 an anagram, thousih not an accurate one, of Puuli, 

 Sai-pis, Veneti. The date is 1622, and over it is 

 the device of a man under a tree, round which a 

 vine twines, with " non solus " on a scroll. At 

 the foot of the title-page is a MS. note in the 

 handwriting of Eev. Francis Boult, who was a 

 dissenting minister in Shrewsbury about a hundred 

 years ago. It would enable those who have access 

 to public libraries (which I have not) to answer 

 the question above proposed. Si scire capias quis 

 intei-pres hanc historian ex Italico in Latinum ser- 

 monem verterit, consula opusculum Degorii Wheare, 

 lielectiones Huamales vocatum pag. 219 e< 220. 



E.H.D.D. 



[This is the first edition of the very inaccurate 

 Latin translation of Sarpi's Council of Trent. The 

 first two chapters were translated by Sir Adam Newton, 

 and the last two by William Bedell, afterwards Bishop 

 of Kilmore.] 



Livery Stables. — What is the meaning oilivery 

 stables, and when were they first so called ? 



J. C. W. 



\_Livery, i.e. delivery, from the French livrer, to de- 

 liver. To the origin of this word (says Junius) these 

 words of Cl)aiicer allude, " that is the conisance of my 

 lirery, to all my servants delivered." Richardson also 

 gives tlie following quotation from Spenser explanatory 

 of it: — " What linery is, wee by common use in Eng- 

 land know well enough, namely, that it is allowance 

 of hnrse-meate, as they commonly use the word in 

 stabling, as to keepe horses at livery : — the which word, 

 I guesse, is derived o? livering or delivering forth their 

 nightly foode. So in great houses the livery is said to be 

 served up for all night, that is, their evening's allowance 

 for drinke. And livery is also called the upper weede 

 which a serving man weareth, so called (as I suppose) 

 for that it was delivered and taken from him at plea- 

 sure." — Spenser on Ireland.^ 



iUjpUc^. 



MABILLON S CHARGE AGAINST THE SPANISH CLERGY. 

 CAMPANELLA AND ADAMI. WILKES MSS. 



It )nay seem a little too late to notice a criticism 

 nearly two years old; but, though I had casually 

 looked at " Notes and Queries," it is but lately 

 that I have, with very great pleasure, read through 

 the volumes which have appeared. I was there- 

 fore ignorant of some remarks relating to myself, 

 which from time (o time have been made. Greatly 

 as 1 am open to the charge of too fi-ctjuent inac- 

 curacy in what I have published, I can defend my- 

 8flf from some strictures of your correspondents. 



The first of these is contained in a letter sijrned 



Cantab (Vol. i., p. 51.), and relates to a passage 

 in my History of the Middle Ages, where I have 

 said, on the authority of Mabillon, "Not one 

 priest in a thousand in Spain, about the age of 

 Charlemagne, could address a common letter of 

 salutation to another." Ca>-tab produces the jias- 

 sage in ]\Iabillon, which contains exactly what I 

 have said ; but assigns as a reason for it, that the 

 CbristiaHs, that is, the clergy, had wholly devoted 

 themselves to the study of Arabic and Hebrew 

 books. And this excuse Cantab accepts. "They 

 were devoting all their energies to Arabic and 

 Chaldean science, and in their pursuit of it neglected 

 other literature. A similar remark might be 

 made respecting many distinguished members of 

 the university to which I belong." In order to 

 make this a parallel case, it should be asserted, 

 not that many senior wranglers would be at a loss 

 in a Greek chorus, but that they cannot write a 

 good English letter. Cantab seems to forget, 

 that in the age of Charlemagne, all that was ne- 

 cessary towards writing a Latin letter in Spain 

 was to substitute regular grammar for the corrupt 

 patois, the lingua Romana riistica, which was soon 

 to become Castilian. The truth is, that the reason 

 assigned by Mabillon's authorit}', whoever it might 

 be, is wholly incredible. I am not convinced that 

 it was more than a sarcasm on the ignorance 

 which it aifects to excuse. Does Cantab believe 

 that the whole body of the Spanish clergy relin- 

 quished at once, not other literature, but the 

 most elementary knowledge, for the sake of study- 

 ing Arabic and Chaldee books ? And this is not 

 alleged to have been for the purpose of convert- 

 ing Moors and Jewe, but as a literary pastime. 

 They are expressly said to have neglected the 

 Scriptures. The object that I had in view was to 

 show the general ignorance of vaiious nations in 

 those ages ; and this charge of ignorance, as to 

 what lay most open to the Spanish clergy, would 

 hardly be alleviated, even if it were true, that 

 some of them had taken to the study of Arabic. 



Another criticism in Vol. i., p. 435., relating to 

 what I have said in Hist, of Literature, vol. iii. 

 p. 149. (1st edition), concerning Campanella and 

 Adami, is better founded, though your correspon- 

 dent C. is himself not wholly accurate. 1 have 

 said of Tobias Adami, that he "dedicated to the 

 philosophers of Germany his own Prodromus Phi- 

 losophic Instaurandm (Instauraiio is, of course, an 

 error of the ))ress), prefixed to his edition of 

 Campanella's Compendium de Rerum Naturd, pub- 

 lished at Frankfort in 1617." C. says, "This 

 Prodromus is a treatise of Campanella's, not, as 

 Mr. llalhim s.ays, of Adami. Adami published the 

 Prodromus for Campanella, who was in ])rison ; 

 and he wrote a preface, in which he gives a list of 

 other writings of Campanella, which he pro]X)ses 

 to publish afterwards. \Vhat Mr. Hallam calls an 

 edition, was the first publication." 



