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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 112. 



Trittemius, and styles lilra "liomodiligentiaB plane 

 maxima, necminoris lectionis." Bolton Coeney. 



" Jolm Trytheme was a German Benedictine, and 

 Abbot of Hirsauge, a.d. 1484. He was the author of 

 A Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers, several Letters, 

 Treatises of Piety, of Doctrine, and Morality, other 

 historical works, and The C/irnnicle uf Hirsauge." — (See 

 Diifresnoy's Chronological Tables.) 



It would appear that the work Trithemii Col- 

 lectanea de Scriptoribus JEcclesiasticis has gone 

 through several editions ; and Walcli tells us that 

 " inter onines ea eminet, quani Jo. Alberto Fabricio 

 debemus." The following remarks also respecting 

 Trithemius appear in AValch's Bibliotheca (torn. iii. 

 p. 389 ) : 



" Incipit Trithemius a Clemente Romano; recenset 

 scriptores 970; ac testatur, se in opere hoc conlicieiido 

 per septem fere annorum spatium elaborasse. Posse- 

 vinus, Labbeus, atque alii, varios ejus errores chrono- 

 loglcos ac historicos notarunt. Quodsl autein rationem 

 temporis reputamus, quo Tritliemius vixit scripsitque, 

 causa omiiino est, cur eum oh errata non reprehen- 

 damus, sed excusemus atque industriam illius lau- 

 deTuus." 



Cave, also, in his Historia Literaria (part ii. 

 p. 569.), gives us a brief account of Trithemius, 

 and of his literary productions. 



E. C. Harrington. 



Tiie Close, Exeter. 



The work of John Trittenheim, De Scriptoribus 

 Ecclesiasticis, is held in high and deserved repute. 

 (See Fabricius, Biblioth. Latin. Med. ^tat., iv. 

 451.) lie died abbot of WUrtzburtr, in 1518. 

 The copy of A. W. II. is the first edition, which 

 was published at INIainz (Moguntia) in 1494, 



C. H. 



Sir William Herschel (Vol. ii., p. 391.). — Your 

 correspondent gives the quotation about the star 

 observed in Virgo, which he supposes identical 

 with Neptune, quite cori-ectly, e.\cept in one very 

 material point — the observer's name. The pas- 

 sage in question will be found in Captain W. II. 

 Smyth's Cycle of Celestial Objects, vol. ii. p. 264., 

 and is extracted from a letter addressed to him by 

 M. Cacciatore of Palermo, in 1835, many years 

 after the death of Sir William. H. C. K. is not 

 the first person who has suggested the identity of 

 the objects ; but, ns pointed out by Captain Smyth 

 in a ])aper on Neptune, in the United Service 

 Journal for 1847, Part II., Neptune must, in 1835, 

 have been fully 120'"' from the position assigned by 

 Cacciatore to the star observed by him. 



J. S. Warden. 



Balica, Oct. 1851. 



Dr. Wm. Wall (Vol. iv., p. 347.). — Your de- 

 cision to exclude any further contributions upon 

 the question of the " Marriage of Ecclesiastics" is 

 most judicious. But ought the portion of JMr. 



Henrt Walter's reply respecting Dr. Wall to 

 pass unnoticed ? Had the writer referred to any 

 of the biographical dictionaries in ordinary use, 

 he would have discovered that the "well-known 

 Mr. Wall who wrote on baptism " had conferred 

 on him by the University of O.xford the degree of 

 D.D., to testify tlieir high opinion of his writings. 



In addition to the Doctor's works on the bap- 

 tismal controversy, two books, which are not often 

 met with now, were published after his death, 

 bearing the following titles : — ■ 



" Brief Critical Notes, especially on the various 

 readings of the New Testament Books. With a 

 Preface concerning the Texts cited therein from the 

 Old restament, as also concerning the Use of the 

 SeptuHgint Tianslation. By W. Wall, S.T. P., author 

 of the History of Infant Baptism, London, 1730." 

 8vo., pp. Ixiv. 415. 



" Critical Notes on the Old Testament, wherein the 

 present Hebrew Text is explained, and in many places 

 ameiulod, from the ancient Versions, more particularly 

 from that of the LXXII. Drawn up in the order the 

 several Books were written, or may most conveniently 

 be read. To which is prefixed a large Introduction, 

 adjusting the Authority of the Masoretic Bible, and 

 vindicating it from the objections of Mr. Whistou, and 

 the Author of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian 

 Religion. By the late learned William Wall, D. D., 

 Author of the History of Infant Baptism. Now first 

 published from his Ori'jrinal Manuscript. London, 

 1734." 2 vols. Svo. pp. Ixi. 0,01. 354. v. 



These are valuable works, explaining many 

 difficult expressions. John I. Dredge. 



Parish Registers (Vol. iv., p. 232.). — J. B. is 

 referred for the acts of jiarlianient relating to 

 " Parish Registers," to Burn's History of Parish 

 Registers, 1829. This work has been out of print 

 fifteen or si.xteen years, but may be seen in many 

 public libraries. J. S. B. 



Compositions during the P7-otectorate (Vol. iv., 

 p. 406.). — AV. H. L. will probably find what he 

 wants in a small volume, easily met with, entitled 

 A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen 

 that have compounded for their Estates, London, 

 1655, 12mo. ; or another edition, eidarsred, Chester, 

 1733, Svo. (See Lowndes, vol. i. p. 363.) H. F. 



General Moyle (Vol. iv., p. 443.). — IMajor General 

 John Moyle, who died in 1738, and was buried at 

 Rushbrooke, near Bury St. Edmund's, was the son 

 of the Rev. .lohn IMoyle, of Wimborne JMinster, co. 

 Dorset, by Mary his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir 

 {/ilcs Eyre, Kt., one of the Judges of the Common 

 Pleas. General Moyle, by his wife, who w:is Isa- 

 bella daughter of Sir Robert Davers, of Rush- 

 brooke, Bart., had a family of five sons and one 

 daughter; the latter married Samuel Horsey, Bath 

 king-at-arms. G. A. C. 



Descendants of John of Gaunt (Vol.iv., p. 343.). 

 — A. B. may be right as to there being "some 



