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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
107 
English. 
“For Richard the Duke of Glo’ster, by nature their 
uncle, by office their Protector, to their father beholden, 
to themselves by oath and allegiance bounden, all the 
bands broken that bind man and man together, without 
any respect of God or the world, unnaturally contrived 
to bereave them, not only their dignity, but also their 
lives.” 
A comparison of these and other passages might, 
I think, impress one with the notion that the Latin 
treatise was the original of this History, even if 
there were no other evidence. 
Lastly, 1 may be allowed to remark that the 
inferiority of the Latinity might alone have served 
to cast a doubt upon the authorship of the Latin 
History. One editor was struck with its great 
inferiority as a composition to More’s other Latin 
productions, and supposed that the author had 
not taken the trouble to revise it.* 
The conclusions, then, to which all this evidence 
points are, first, that the Latin History was not 
the work of More ; and second, that the English 
was translated from the Latin. The translation 
probably was executed by Sir Thomas; Rastell 
found it in his handwriting; but the unfairness 
and inaccuracies of its statements are not to be 
attributed to him. 
But if the original work was not More’s, there 
can be no doubt whose it really was. The old 
opinion that it was Morton’s, as Sir John Har- 
rington had heard, and Buck confidently believed, 
bears every mark of probability. Cardinal 
Morton might very well have written the Latin 
History. His politics and his prejudides fit the 
work exactly. The historian is an evident Lan- 
castrian, but a friend to Edward IV.; he is also 
bitterly opposed to Richard III., and an evident 
adherent of the Woodville party. All this was 
Cardinal Morton; and the reason why his MS. 
should have got into More’s custody is not far to 
seek ; for More, it is well known, was, when a 
young man, a member of the cardinal’s household. 
JAMES GAIRDNER. 
DOUCEANA. 
{The following are further specimens of the valuable 
Notes which this accomplished antiquary was accustomed 
to jot down on the fly-leaves of his curious library. ] 
ELEPHANTs. 
Douce’s notes in his copy of Elephantographia 
Curiosa, seu Elephanti descriptio juxta methodum 
et leges Imp. Academia, authore D. Georgio 
Christoph. Petri, 4to. Erfordia, 1715. 
Elephants provoked to fight by the juice of 
grapes and mulberries. 1 Macc. vi. 34.; see 
also 3 Mace. v. 2. 
* See the note prefixed to it in the Louvain edition of 
More’s Latin Works, 1566, 
Skeletons of elephants found. on the banks of 
the Oby in Asia. Cuper’s Letters, §c., pp. 25. 
89. 
Hunting of elephants. Gastius de Mor. Gent. 
ad fin. de Virg. custodia, p. 307. 
See Schott’s Physica Curicsa, p. 865.; Index 
in Mus. Reg. Danic., sig. F. 
See Science des Médailles, i. 198. 
Gisbertus de Elephantis. 
Hunting of elephants described at large in Cor- 
disier’s Ceylon; and see it in Edinb. Rev., Apr., 
1808. See likewise the mode of hunting ele- 
phants in Ceylon, in Monthly Mag., 1802, p. 117. 
In the year 802, the King of Persia sent an 
elephant to the Greek emperor at Constantinople ; 
the elephant’s name was Abulabuz; Reuber. 
Script. Germ., 33. 
They have elephants in China, as appears from 
a book in Sir G. Staunton’s possession, of a Chi- 
nese coronation; but they seem to be used as a 
matter of state magnificence. Those I saw in this 
book only carried a sort of throne or ornament, 
but no men. 
See particularly Gesner and Aldrovandus. 
The elephant on one of Philip’s secular coins is 
faithfully drawn. The guide holds the same kind 
of rod as used at present in India. It is not pro- 
perly delineated in the coin in the inside of the 
cover of this book. 
Sagacity of an elephant in Jesse’s Gleanings, 
p- 19. 
The young elephant sucks with the mouth, and 
not with the trunk, as many have asserted. 
Jesse, p. 255. 
In Dulau’s Catal., 1812, was the following ar- 
ticle, ‘‘ Prezac, Histoire des Eléphants, 16mo., fig. 
mor., bleu, doublé de tabis, 1650, Paris; volume 
recherché et peu commune.” 
Gisbert Cuper wrote a dissertation on elephants, 
printed in Sallengre, Thesaur. Antig. Romanarum, 
tom. ill. 
Lipsius wrote “Laus Elephantis.” See it in 
Dissertationum Ludicrarum Scriptores, 1638, 18mo. 
In 1818, a fire of consequence happening at 
Constantinople, the silly populace conceived that 
the unlucky elephants, that happened to be in the 
city, were the cause of it, and the government 
was obliged to send them away. 
M. Cuvier has proved that the African and 
Asiatic elephants are of distinct races. 
See the singular story of an elephant in Vossius 
de Idololatria, p. 496. 
See Jacobeus, Mus. Reg. Dan., Index, part i. 
sig. E2., and part il. sig. F. 
[Note inserted at p.22.] The man who rides 
on the elephant on the middle brass coins of 
Philip, holds in his hand an instrument of these 
forms, {f- On my denarius of Philip it is a simple 
goad, /.” 
[Inside the covers, in addition to the woodcut 
