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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Translated out of Latine into English by Thomas Tymme, 
Minister. Seene and allowed. Imprinted at London by 
Henrie Binneman, for Humphrey Toy. Anno 1576.” 
An Address of “The Translatour to the 
Reader” commences thus : 
“ The increasing of newe troubles and warres in Frawnce 
hath also increased the matter, and giuen larger occasion 
of the publishing of this fourth part of the Commentaries, 
the whiche contayneth (as the other three partes do) 
three bookes: the first of the three in the Latin Coppy 
reckoned the tenth. But bycause we haue to our third 
part already a tenthe Booke annexed contayning the 
summe of those things whiche are written in the first 
Booke of the fourth volume, I have thought good not to 
translate the same in order as it lieth, but only to gleane 
out those principale matters which are different from the 
other,” &e. &c. 
T shall feel much obliged if I can obtain a his- 
tory of the above work. Who was the author of 
it “in Latine?” When, and where, were “ the 
other three partes” published ? And where am I 
likely to see a copy of them now ? In this “fourth 
parte” there is a very quaint, and rather long 
and particular, account, not merely of the siege of 
Sanserre, but of the methods which the famished 
inhabitants resorted to in order to render pala- 
table (?) the rats, moles, and offal they were 
forced to liye upon. I wish particularly to know 
if this especial account of the siege has been re- 
printed ? or if it. has been quoted in any modern 
book ? Henry Kensrnaton. 
[The first three parts have each a separate title-page, 
and entitled * The Three Partes of Commentaries, contain- 
ing the whole and perfect Discourse of the Ciuil Warres 
of Fraunce. With an Addition of the Cruell Murther of 
the Admirall Chastilion, and diuers other Nobles, com- 
mitted the 24 daye of August, Anno 1572. Translated 
out of Latine into Englishe by Thomas Tymme, Minister, 
London, by Francis Coldock, 1573-4.” 4to, The work 
has been attributed, but we think erroneously, to Peter 
Ramus, the celebrated French mathematician, as what is 
called “the tenth book” contains an account of his assas- 
sination on St. Bartholomew’s Day, 1572. By some the 
authorship has been attributed to John de Serres, and 
by others to Francis Hotoman. The Bodleian has a copy 
of Part I., 1573; but the British Museum does not con- 
tain any portion of the work.] 
Patriotic Sentiment attributed to Queen Mary. — 
I haye a recollection of a noble and patriotic senti- 
ment attributed to her whom we are unhappily 
obliged to associate with other feelings, Queen 
Mary, which I think I met with some years ago in 
Blackstone’s Commentaries, showing great respect 
for the rights and liberties of her subjects. Not 
being able to recall it, or to find it, I shall feel 
obliged to any friend who will point it out to me. 
W, R. B. 
{It had long been complained, that in suits, to which 
the Crown was a party, the subject, whatever were his 
right, had no probability of a favourable decision, on ac- 
count of the superior advantages claimed and enjoyed by 
the counsel for the sovereign. When Mary appointed 
Morgan chief justice of the coyrt of Common ae she 
took the opportunity to express her disapprobation of this 
grievance, which is probably the patriotic sentiment desired 
by our correspondent. It occurs in the State Trials, vol. i. 
p- 72.: I charge you, Sir,” said the queen, “to minister 
the law and justice indifferently, without respect of per- 
son; and, notwithstanding the old error among you, 
which will not admit any witness to speak, or other mat- 
ter to be heard, in fayour of the adversary, the crown 
being a party, it is my pleasure, that whatever can be 
brought in favour of the subject may be admitted and 
heard. You are to sit there, not as advocates for me, but 
as indifferent judges between me and my people.”] — 
Strabo on freland,— A writer in an Trish pro- 
vincial paper quotes from a work of which he 
gives the title as follows: 
“Geography Anatomised; an enquiry into the doctrine 
of the philosophers of all nations concerning the original 
of the world; being a collection made from the ancient 
writers, whose works are preserved in the Libraries of 
Dresden and Gottengen, by the learned M. Schellinger, 
now done into English by Mr. A. Edwards—printed for 
J. Stone, London, 1701.” 
I give the quotation : — 
“ At page 174. is the passage under the head Juverna 
(‘Ireland’) ‘Strabo asserts the coasts, more especially the 
south and south-east, were inhabited by traders and 
shipmen; whereunto the rivers are favourable, being 
deep and rapid. ‘he land is woody and mountains high 
and large. The towers are round and high, like unto those 
of Persia.”” [Note to this passage in the original: — 
See his account of Ireland and Persia, in four books in 
the Library at Dresden.” ] 
Wanted, the original passage from Strabo. 
Jamus GRAVES. 
Kilkenny. 
[ We question whether such a work was ever published 
for the following reasons: 1.. It is not to be found in any 
of the standard bibliographical dictionaries, English or 
foreign, 2. We cannot find the name of M, Schellinger 
in any biographical work. 3. The publisher, I. Stone, is 
unknown. 4. Strabo designates Ireland as “ Jerna.”] 
Replies. 
SARDINIAN MOTTO (1* S. xii. 509.) ‘AND LEGENDS 
ON THE EDGES OF COINS, 
Of the two versions of the letters “ F. E. R. T.” 
eiven by Mr. Cuapwickx, the first, viz. Fortitudo 
Ejus Rhodum Tenuit is certainly felicitous : 
“Se non é vero, é ben trovato: ” 
but true it cannot be, if the motto, as stated, were 
in use prior to the time of Amadeus VIIL.: and, 
however appropriate it might be on the collar of 
the order of the Annunciada (2°°S, i, 442.), it 
would be equally inappropriate on the edge of the 
Sardinian coins, where it still retains its place. 
The other version Feedere Et Religione Tenemur 
being found on the golden doublon of Victor 
Amadeus I., some two or three centuries later, is 
not at all conclusive that the letters are to be so 
understood, and appears far too vague: the prefer- 
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