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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
L274 §. No 18, May 8, ’56. 
existed no original copy of the rare work, De 
Beneficio Christi, reprinted in 1847; and some 
even went so far as to entirely doubt its au- 
thenticity. Lately a copy has been found in 
St. John’s College, Cambridge. But it became 
also known, that twenty years after the first 
Tialian edition, the Slavian printing office of Hans 
Ungnad, of Souneg, in Carinthia, the well-known 
promoter of Protestantism amongst the South 
Slavian tribes, had issued, at Stuttgardt, a trans- 
lation of the Beneficium Christi in the Chorwat 
(Croat) language, with Glagalitic letters. Re- 
searches being duly directed, a copy of this work 
(1563) was found in the great library at Stutt- 
gardt. Besides, another Italian copy, different 
from that of Cambridge, was also discovered. The 
title of this work (printed in the smallest 18mo, 
size) runs thus: 
“Trattato utilissimo del Beneficio di Gieusu Christo 
Crocifisso, verso i Christiani. Venetijs apad Philippam 
Stagninum. Anno D° mpxtvt.” 
From the work of Schnurrer, Slavischer Biich- 
erdruck in Wirtenberg im 16" Jahrhundurt, we 
gather an additional proof that the great Dansla- 
vian Era was only temporarily suppressed then 
by our rulers. D. J. Lorsxy, Danslave. 
Bacon as a Reward of Connubial Felicity. —I 
forward a paragraph quoted in The Atheneum’s 
review of Ewbank’s Life in Brazil, which seems 
worth transferring to the columns of “ N. & Q.:” 
“A word on ‘heavenly bacon,” toucinho do ceo—a 
species of light pudding, composed of almond-paste, eggs, 
sugar, butter, and a spoonful or two of flour — because its 
name reminds one of olden times. The glorification of 
bacon is of very ancient date, and arose partly from pre- 
vailing enmity to Jews, but oftener from the estima- 
tionin which it was held. The most popular and esteemed 
of carneous aliments, it was given as rewards for rural, 
and particularly for connubial virtues. i tocino del 
Paraiso el casado no anepiso— Bacon of Paradise for the 
married who repent not — is a medizval proverb.” 
The antiquary who would investigate the origin 
of the Dunmow Flitch will find in this medieval 
proverb a hint worth working out. M.N.S. 
Queries. 
COWPER’S LADY AUSTEN. 
Will any of your readers tell me anything of 
this lady beyond what is to be found in Hayley’s 
and Southey’s Lives of the poet ? 
Hayley tells us that the reason of her leaving 
Olney was her disappointment that Cowper did 
not marry her, and says that he derived this in- 
formation from Lady Austen herself. Southey 
(vol. ii. p. 62. edition 1835) endeavours entirely 
to do away with this idea, and, in its place, only 
tells us that “Lady Austen exacted attentions 
which it became inconvenient or irksome (to Cow- 
per) to pay.” 
. This is in speaking of the second and final 
rupture which severed the connection between 
them. 
In a note to page 313 of volume i., Southey 
quotes the following sentence from Hayley : 
“On this principle I haye declined to print some letters, 
which entered more than I think the public ought to 
enter into the history of a trifling feminine discord, that 
disturbed the perfect harmony of the happy trio at Olney 
when Lady Austen and Mrs, Unwin were the united in- 
spirers of the poet.” 
Southey adds that the rule which Hayley has 
here laid down was applicable only during the 
life of Lady Austen. 
Are these letters in existence? They would 
surely tell us the real state of the case; but, 
in their absence, we may be allowed to indulge 
the romance which Hayley’s Life bequeathed to 
us —a romance which has certainly sufficient 
foundation in the great personal beauty of Lady 
Austen —in the evidently great attraction which 
existed almost at first sight between herself and 
the poet—in the quarrel between the two Jadies, 
the sudden rupture of the so great intimacy, and 
in Lady Austen’s avowal of the cause of the rup- 
ture to Hayley. S. SmincLeton. 
Greenwich. 
Minor Queries. 
Nicholas Breakspeare. — Looking casually 
through a back volume of “N. & Q,,” I cast my 
eyes on a passage relative to Adrian IV., the 
solitary English pope, which reminded me that I 
had often intended to ask a small space in your 
valuable periodical for the following account of 
a namesake of the pope’s. When I was a lad, 
some fifty years since, my mother had a servant 
who was a native of Brill-on-the-Hill, in Buck- 
inghamshire, the reputed birthplace of Nicholas 
Breakspeare, afterwards known as Adrian IV. 
She was married to a man of the name of Nicholas 
Breakspeare, also a native of Brill. Now I con- 
sider it a rather singular circumstance that parties 
of the same name as the pope should be residents 
of the same place after sucha lapse of time. Pro- 
bably some of the readers of “ N. &. Q.” may be 
acquainted with the locality, and if so, I should 
be glad to learn if any of the name are still living 
at Brill. agli SN 
Mending cracked Bells. —In an article on 
“ Bells” in the Quarterly, for (I think) Dec. 1854, 
it was said a Frenchman had discovered a method 
of mending cracked bells without re-casting them. 
Who is the Frenchman, and has the art been at- 
tempted in England, and what is it? Ihave a 
beautiful Burmese bell that was cracked at the 
