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NOTES AND QUERIES. L2°'' S. VI. 142., Sept. is. '58. 



pr.-cdixit, que nostris diebus implevi vidimus. Coniplevit 

 sum opus An" D' \lin°- Dum Jo. Cicestrius Londiui 

 prelor esset. 



" Halens. Cent, 6. 5. 37. 



" 2. Mention is made of Pcerce Plowghman's Creede, 

 ill Chawcers tale oflF the Plowman. 



" 3. I deeme Chawcer to be the author. I thinke hit not 

 to be on and the same r' made both : for that the reader 

 shall fynde divers maner of Englishinge on sentence; as, 

 namelie, Quid consjderas festucam in oculo fratris tui, 

 trabem autem in oculo tuo et 5. 



" 4. And speciallie, for y' I fynde Water Brute named 

 in this Creede : Avho was manye yeeres after y author oflT 

 y' Vision. 



" G. Chawcerus vivit 1402. Ead. temp, et Gowerus. 



"Jo. Lydgate claruit sexagenarius, 1440, 



" Druncklewc, a dronckerd. 



" Huske, speede or hastey. 



"Tyme, in w'^'' th' author of the vision lyved, An" D' 

 1350, passu 13°. 



" 1577. August xxij." 



SiLVERSTONE. 



" Marianne " and a Passage in Blackwood's 

 Magazine. — Tlie resemblance of the following 

 passage in Blackwood's Magazine for August to a 

 passage in Alarivau.x's Marianne seems to me 

 worth a note in " N. & Q." The writer is speak- 

 ing of the low publications of the present day : — 



"If any one supposes that here, in this special branch 

 of literature provided for the multitude, anything about 

 the said multitude is to be found, a more entire mistake 



could not be imagined An Alton Locke may find 



.1 countess to fall in love with him, but is no hero for the 

 sempstress, who makes her romance out of quite different 

 materials; and whereas we can please ourselves with 

 Mary Barton, our poor neighbours share no such humble 

 taste, but luxuriate in ineffable splendours of architecture 

 and upholstery, and love to concern themselves with the 

 romantic fortunes of a Gerard de Brent and a Gerald St. 

 Maur." — Blachwnod's Map. for August, 1858 ; Art. " The 

 Byways of Literature." 



Marivaux says : — 



" II v a des gens dont la vanite se mele de tout ce qu'ils 

 font, liicme de leurs lectures. Donnez leur I'histoire du 

 coeur humain dans les grandes conditions, ce devient-lk 

 pour eux un objet important: mais, ne leur parlez pas 

 des etats me'diocres; ils ne veulent voir agir que des 

 Seigneurs, des Princes, des Rois, ou du moins des per- 

 sonnes qui ayent fait une grande figure. II n'y a que 

 cela qui existe pour la noblesse de leur gout." — Mari- 

 anne, seconde partie, 1736, p. 2. 



R. H. S. 



(Sucrt'eS. 



THE DUBLIN LETTER. 



The Dublin Letter, or, The Papists' Doctrine of 

 Transuhstantiation not agreeable to the PrimMve 

 Fathers : — 



I shall be much obliged if you, or any of your 

 correspondents, will kindly solve the difficulty ex- 

 pressed in the following communication which I 

 have received from a learned friend, in reference 

 to No. 66. of Peck's Complete Catalogue of all the 

 Discourses written, both for and against Popery, in 



the Time of King James II., 4to., London, 1735, 

 viz. "Transuhstantiation no Doctrine of the Pri- 

 mitive Fathers ; being a Defence of The Dublin 

 Letter herein against the Papist Mismpresented 

 and Represented," Part ir. cap. 3. [Anon.], by 

 John Patrick, M.A., Preacher at the Charter- 

 house [Lond.], 1687, 4to., pp. 72. 



" I cannot find any copy of The Dublin Letter, 

 or who was its author. Dr. Wake (Contin. 

 p. 22.) says : ' The next that gave occasion to the 

 revival of this controversy ' [i. e. the next after 

 the author of a Discoui'se cf Transubstanliation 

 (Tillotson), 1685, see No. 125.] 'was the author 

 of the Dublin Letter, who, being answered by the 

 Representer in his second part, cap. 3., a learned 

 man of our Communion made good his party in 

 an excellent discourse.' The Representer (loc. 

 cit.) quotes what these authors call The Dublin 

 Letter, under the title of The Papists' Doctrine of 

 Transubstanliation not agreeable to the Primitive 

 Fathers. But I can find no title answering to 

 this title in the Catalogue of the Dublin Univer. 

 or of the Bodl. Libraries." It is not mentioned 

 in Reading's Catnlogus Dibliothecw Sionensis, nor 

 in Home's Catalogue of Queen's College Library, 

 Cambridge ; and I am informed it is not to be 

 found in Abp. Marsh's library, Dublin. 



BiBLIOTHECAR. ChETHAM. 



" rushworth'3 dialogues." 



In Hallam's Literature of Europe (vol. ii. p. 

 325. n. 2nd ed.) occurs the following citation : — 



" If there were anything unwritten which had come down 

 tu us with as full and universal a tradition as the unques- 

 tioned books of Canonical Scripture, that thing should I 

 believe as well as the Scripture ; but I have long sought 

 for some such thing, and j'et I am to seek ; nay, I am 

 confident no one point in controversy between Papists 

 and Protestants can go in upon half so fair cards, for to 

 gain the esteem of an Apostolic tradition, as those things 

 which are now decried on all hands ; I me.an the opinion 

 of the Chiliasts and the communicating infants." 



The reference given is " chap. iii. § 82." 



This is intended, I suppose, to refer to § 82 of 

 Chillingworth's Answer to Knott's 3rd "Chap- 

 ter." The quotation is, however, not to be dis- 

 covered there, nor have I found it elsewhere in 

 the Religion of Protestants. 



But at the end of Chillingworth's Works there 

 are printed certain " Additional Discourses," and 

 among them " An Answer to some Passages in 

 Rushworth's Dialogues, beginning at the Third 

 Dialogue, § xii. p. 181., ed. Paris, 1654, about 

 Traditions." 



In this treatise, and in that part of it which 

 appears to be an extract from Rushworth, Mr. 

 Hallam's quotation occurs. Rushworth, or Rich- 

 worth, is a pseudonym of Thomas White, an 

 English Roman Catholic Priest, with whom Chil- 



