Dec. 6. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



441 



led hy Jugler, whom he is there reporting ; Jug- 

 ler, as quoted in the note, seeming to have been 

 led into it by Zobelius. 



The peculiarity which has tlius led Mr. MenJ- 

 haui, and before him Zobelius and Jugler, into 

 error, does not appear in Clement's title. It 

 runs : 



" Indicis Librorum Expurgandorum in Studiosorum 

 gratiam coufecti, Tomus Primus. In quo Quinqua- 

 giuta Auotorum Libri prae c.-eteris desideiati einendaii- 

 tur. Per Fr. Jo. Mariam Brasichellen. Sacri Palatli 

 Apostoiici JMagistrum in unum corpus redactus, et 

 publica; commoditati Eeditus. Romas, ex Typographia 

 K. Cam. Apost. M. DC. VII. Superiorum Permi;su." 



Both the peculiarities pointed out in Jlendha.n's 

 copy are wanting in this ; and a tliird difference 

 is, that where Mondliaui, after " emendantur," has 

 a comma, this lias a full-stop. All these differences 

 are corrections, and tlierefore more likely to be 

 found in a reprint, than the reverse. 



My copy agrees with ilendham in the two pe- 

 culiarities first remarked ; but with Clement in 

 the last. It has, beside, another peculiarity which 

 neither lias retained, but resembling those of 

 Mendham's copy. After the word " auctoruni " 

 there is a full-stop, breaking the grammatical 

 construction just as that after " confecti" does. 



These circumstances lead me to think my copy 

 one of the genuine edition, and to suppose that 

 ilendham's was of the same ; in which case, Cle- 

 ment must have either carelessly given the title of 

 the counterfeit, wliile he had the genuine at hand 

 (as he says) ; or, still more carelessly, miscopied 

 the genuine ; or deceived himself with the belief 

 that he had the genuine, while he had only a 

 counterfeit. 



It is singular that there is room for a similar 

 doubt about the Bergomi edition of this work. 

 Of that, too, I have what purports to be a copy ; 

 but am led by Clement's description of the Altorif 

 edition to have misgivings that it may have been 

 made as studiously a C(mnterfeit of the Bergomi 

 edition, as its predecessor of Ratisbon had been of 

 tliat of Rome. In all the particulars of which 

 Clement says, " Ceux qui auront I'edition de 

 Bergame, pourront juger sur ce detail, si la copie 

 d'Altorff" la represente exactemtint ou iion," my 

 copy does agree with his descri[)tion ; and it may 

 be that some of the Altorff copies bear a false title, 

 witii Bergomi as the imprint. 



The genuineness of this book is of no ordinary 

 interest. It is one of the most damaging witnesses 

 against Rome, to convict her of conscious fraud. 

 liow much its evidence is dreaded, is proved by 

 the industrious suppression that has made it of so 

 great rarity. 



May I not hope, therefore, that some of your 

 readers who have access to the Jiodlciun will in- 

 form Mie, through your columns — 



i. Whether any copy there, purporting to be of 



the Roman edition, can be identified as having 

 been in the library before 1723 ? 



2. Whether the title of such copy (if there be 

 any) .agree with ^Ir. Mendham's, or Clement's, or 

 mine ? 



3. Whether there is in that library (or else- 

 where in England) an undoubted copy of the 

 Bergomi edition ? 



A copy of the titles of the Ratisbon and Altorff 

 editions would also be desirable ; and (if they 

 could be identified) any distinguishing note of the 

 Ratisbon counterfeit, e.g. the signature marks of 

 its preliminary sheet. U. U. 



Baltimore, U. S. A. 



:flr[tiiDr caucric^. 



.313. " The Ikm" a Poem. — This is an old work 

 illustrative of the local antiquities, ancient families, 

 castles, &c., on the banks of the Don, in Aberdeen- 

 shire. It is said to have been written during the 

 usurpation of Oliver Cromwell by a Mr. Forljes of 

 Brux, in the immediate neighbourhood. One of 

 the ablest of our local antiquaries states, that he 

 has never been able to satisfy himself of the exist- 

 ence of any edition of that poem earlier than that 

 of tlie quarto one of 174'2, which seems to have 

 been reprinted from an edition of the year 1655; 

 but is so thoroughly redolent of the spirit of a 

 later age, that it is not possible to believe it to 

 have been written in the seventeenth century. 

 All subsequent editions (and they have been 

 numerous) have reference to an edition of 1655. 

 In 1635, it is said to have been originally written 

 by a Mr. Forbes of Brux, as before stated, and 

 published the same year, with a few historical 

 notes, and reprinted in 1674; and again in 1742, 

 with little or no alteration, and continued in that 

 state until 1796; when Mr. Charles Dawson, 

 sclioolmaster of Kemnay, added a few more notes, 

 and offered it to the public as liis own composition 

 in a small r2mo. pamphlet!!! price 4c?.; which 

 met with such encouragement, that a second edi- 

 tion appeared in 1798, with more copious notes, 

 price 6d. An enlarged edition in 8vo, was pub- 

 lished in Edinburgh in 1814. In 1819, Mr. Peter 

 Buchan of Peterhead, the editor o( Scottish Ballads, 

 Gleanings of Scarce Old Ballads, &c. &c , pub- 

 lished an edition, price 6(/., which sold well; and 

 in 1849, another edition was printed at the Hat- 

 tonian Pi-ess, Fintray, Aberdeenshire, by John 

 Cun>ming. I should be glad to hear if any of 

 your correspondents have seen an edition of 1655 

 or 1674? Stonehaven. 



314. John Lord Frescheville. — It is stated in 

 the printed notices of this individual, with whom 

 expired, in 1682, the barony of Frescheville of 

 Staveley, co. Derb., that lie was engaged, on the 

 side of the king, ut the battle of Edge Hill. I have 



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