2 nd S. IX. Jan. 21. '60.] 



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the v and u is abundantly exemplified in its pages. 

 The "Prologue" states the work to be "entituled 

 the Mount of Calvary, compiled by the Reuerend 

 Father, Lord Antonie de Gueuara, Bishop of Mon- 

 donneda, preacher and chronicles vnto the Em- 

 perour Charles the fift." Is this work scarce ? 



S. S. S. 

 [This work is entitled " The Mount of Caluarie, com- 

 piled by the Reverend Father in God, Lord Anthonie de 

 Gueuara, Bishop of Mondonnedo, Preacher, Chronicler, 

 and Councellor, vnto Charles the fift, Emperour. Where- 

 in are handled all the Mysteries of the Mount of Cal- 

 uarie, from the time that Christ was condemned by Pilat, 

 vntill hee was put into the Sepulcher, by Ioseph and 

 Nichodemus. At London, printed by Edw. All -de' for 

 Iohn Grismond, and are to be sold at his shop, at the 

 little North dore of Paules, at the signe of the Gunne, 

 1618." Antonio Guevara, a Spanish prelate, was born in 

 the province of Alava, and became a Franciscan monk. 

 He was nominated to the bishopric of Guadire, in the 

 kingdom of Granada, and afterwards to that of Mondon- 

 nedo in Galicia. He died in 1544. He is the author of 

 several other works. The well-known saying, that " Hell 

 i3 paved with good intentions " has been attributed to 

 him.] 



Post-Office in Ireland. — When was the 

 post-office first regularly established in Ireland ? 

 And where may information upon the subject be 

 found ? Abhba. 



[Our correspondent will have to consult the Parlia- 

 mentary History of the United Kingdom for the inform- 

 ation he requires. A proclamation of Charles I., 1G35, 

 commands his Postmaster of England and Foreign Parts 

 to open a regular communication by running posts be- 

 tween the metropolis and Edinburgh, West Chester, Holy- 

 head, Ireland, &c. But the most complete step in the 

 establishment of a post-office was taken in 1656, when an 

 Act was passed " to settle the postage of England, Scot- 

 land, and Ireland." Additional chief letter offices were 

 established by 9 Anna? in Edinburgh and Dublin. In 

 1784, the Irish post-office was established independent of 

 that of England ; but the offices of Postmasters-general 

 of England and Ireland were united into one by 1 Will. 

 IV. cap. 8., 1831. By 2 Will. IV. cap. 15. 1832, the Post- 

 master-general is empowered to establish a penny-post 

 office in any city, town, or village, in Ireland. The new 

 post-office of Dublin was opened Jan. 6, 1818.] 



Anthony Stafford. — What is known of An- 

 thony Stafford's history ? The date of his birth 

 and death, or any other particulars? Did he 

 publish any, and what, works besides The Femall 

 Glory ? and is there any modern edition of this 

 work known ? The date of the first edition is 

 1633. G. J. M. 



[Anthony Stafford, descended from a noble family, was 

 born in Northamptonshire, and educated at Oriel College, 

 Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A. in 1623. He 

 died in 1641. See Lowndes and Watt for a list of his 

 works. There is no modern edition of his Femall Glory; 

 but in 1656 it was republished, and entitled The Prece- 

 dent of Female Perfection. A curious account of this 

 work will be found in Wood's Athena; O.von., iii. 33.] 



Anonymous Author. — Who was the trans- 

 lator of " The Contempte of the World, and the 

 vanitic thereof, written by the reuerend P. Diego 



de Stella, of the order of S. Fr. of late translated 

 out of the Italian into Enslishe." A° D nl 1582. 

 No place of publication, 16 mo . ? The dedication 



is — 



" To my deare and lovinge Countrywomen, and Sisters 

 in Christ assembled together to serue God vnder the 

 holie order of S. Briget in the towne of Bfone in Fraunce." 

 It concludes — 



"From the prison, Aprilis 7. Anno domini. 1584. nost. 

 capt. 7. Tour faythfull well wilier, and true frende in 

 Christ Jesu. G. C." 



It will be seen the date of the title is two years 

 earlier than that of the dedication. The writer is 

 evidently a Roman Catholic suffering imprison- 

 ment ; probably a prisoner of state detained for 

 participation in some of the numerous conspira- 

 cies of the reign of Elizabeth. Perhaps some of 

 your readers can supply his name. 



G. W. W. Minns. 



[We have before us the third English edition, trans- 

 lated from the Spatiish, of Diego's Contempt of the World, 

 "at S. Omers, for John Heigham. Anno 1622." 18mo. 

 The Dedication commences " To the Vertvovs Religious 

 sisters of the holie Order of S. Briget, my deare and lou- 

 ing countrie women in our Lord Iesus Christi, increase of 

 grace and euerlasting happines." The sentence " From 

 the prison," &c. is omitted ; but concludes with the words 

 " your faithful wel wilier, and true frende in Christ Iesu. 

 G. C." The " Approbatio " at the end of the book is 

 dated " Decembris, 1603," and signed " Georgius Coluene- 

 sius, S. Theol. Licent. et Professor, librorum in Academia 

 Duacensi Visitator." At first we were inclined to attri- 

 bute the initials to Gabriel Chappuys, the editor of the 

 French translation ; but the earliest edition we find by 

 him in Niceron, xxxix. 109., is that of 1587.] 



Orrery. — Can the etymology of the word 

 orrery be ascertained ? Has it anything to do 

 with the Latin horarium? Curiosus. 



[About the year 1700, Mr. George Graham first in- 

 vented a movement for exhibiting the motion of the earth 

 about the sun at the same time that the moon revolved 

 round the earth. This machine came into the hands of 

 a Mr. Rowley, an instrument maker, to be forwarded to 

 Prince Eugene. Mr. Rowle3 r 's curiosity tempted him to 

 take it to pieces ; but to his mortification he found he 

 could not put it together again without having recourse 

 to Mr. Graham. From this circumstance, Mr. Rowley 

 was enabled to copy the various parts of the machine ; 

 and not long after, with the addition of some simple 

 movements, constructed his first planetarium for Charles 

 Earl of Orrery. Sir Richard Steele (Spectator, No. 552., 

 and Guardian, No. 1.), thinking to do justice to the first 

 encourager, as well as to the inventor, of such a curious 

 instrument, called it an Orrery, and gave to Mr. J. Row- 

 ley the praise due to Mr. Graham. (Desaguliers's Course 

 of Experimental Philosophy, i. 431., 4to., and Gent. Mag. 

 June, 1818, p. 504.) Webster and other lexicographers 

 agree in this etymology; yet, supposing it to be correct, 

 there may still have been some allusive reference to the 

 Latin Itorarium.] 



Sir Henry Rowswell. — Who was Sir Henry 

 llosewell of Ford Abbey in Devonshire? of what 

 family ? and on what occasion was he knighted ? 

 Grey has noticed him in the preface to his edition 

 of lludibras, and has shown that not he, but Sir 



