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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"<i S. IX. Mae. 31. '00. 



and which she so highly valued, was supposed to be the 

 original painted by T." Sadler, mentioned by Walpole 

 in his Anecdotes of Painting in England, vol. iii. p. 140., 

 Strawberry Hill, 1765. I had an accurate copy of it painted 

 by her permission, but am not aware of what became of 

 the original on her decease. It was copied, in mezzotint, 

 by J. Spilsbury, the original being then in possession of 

 Henry Steinson, Gent. It was also copied by R. Hous- 

 ton for Bowles & Carver, St. Paul's Cliuroh3'ard. "Very 

 numerous copies have been engraved from Spilsbury and 

 Houston's for editions of the Pilgrim. It was for a long 

 period supposed to be the best likeness, until the original 

 drawing by R. White was discovered in the British Mu- 

 seum. The best monument to Bunyan would be the de- 

 sign of Mr. Papworth, to be erected in Trafalgar Square, 

 should the public patronise its erection. It is a disgrace 

 to the country that no national monument has been yet 

 erected to the immortal dreamer — England and the world's 

 benefactor." — Geokge Offor.] 



Rev. Thomas Goff. — In the Life of the Rev. 

 Thomas Goff, in the Biographia Dramatica, I find 

 the following : — 



' " He published a sermon entitled Deliverance from the 

 Grave, preached at St. Mary's Spital in Easter week, 

 March 28, 1627; on the title-page of a copy of which it 

 is asserted, in a contemporary hand in MS., that he was 

 revolted to Popery ; and on this fact there are large 

 reflections in Lcgenda Lignea, §•<*. 8vo. 1653." 



Can you give me any information as to the cor- 

 rectness of the above assertion ? Who was the 

 author of Legenda Lignea. The truth of this 

 statement regarding Mr. GofF's religion would 

 seem (to say the least of it) very doubtful. Mr. 

 GofF, who died in July, 1629, was buried at his 

 own parish church, East Clandon in Surrey. 



R. Inglis. 



[The statement in the Biographia Dramatica is incor- 

 rect. The individual who " revolted to Popery " was Dr. 

 Stephen Goffe, of Merton College, Oxford, B.A. 1623; 

 M.A. 1627. He seems to have been a man of unsettled 

 principles, and whilst in the Low Countries became 

 preacher in Lord Vere's regiment. On his return to 

 England he was created D.D., and made one of the king's 

 chaplains. In 1641 he joined the Roman church, and was 

 taken into the Society of the Oratorians at Paris ; and 

 subsequently became father-confessor to Maria de Me- 

 dicis, widow of Henry IV. of France. He died on Christ- 

 mas Day, 1681. The notice of him in Legenda Lignea, 

 pp. 144-152., is not very flattering. Consult also Wood's 

 Fasti, i. 494 ; Evelyn's Diary, i. 19., edit. 1850. Several 

 of Goffe's letters are contained in Addit. MS. 6394., Brit. 

 Museum.] 



Excommunication. — The impending excom- 

 munication by bell, book, and candle, of the King 

 of Sardinia by the Pope, renders it an interesting 

 question whether the strong language used in the 

 formula of such documents is identical with that 

 quoted in Tristram Shandy (p. 200.), CadelPs 

 edition of 1819, "writ by Ernulphus, the Bishop 

 of Rochester:" "for the copy of which Mr. 

 Shandy returns thanks to the Chapter Clerk of 

 the Dean and Chapter" of that diocese. B. 



[The Form of Excommunication given in Tristram 

 Shandy is almost verbatim with the one printed in The 

 Harjeian Miscellany (vi. 533. edit. 1810), as " Taken out 



of the Leger-Book of the Church of Rochester, now in the 

 custody of the Dean and Chapter there: writ by Ernulfus, 

 the Bishop." Of course, however, it will not be sup- 

 posed that the tremendous form of excommunication 

 " writ by Ernulphus," was used indiscriminately in all 

 cases. See, for instance, a comparatively tame form em- 

 ployed by Pope Alex. III. "in turbatores pacis," An. 

 1177 (Baronius, xix. 469.). We refer particularly to this 

 example, because the extinction of candles formed part of 

 the ceremon}'. We extract from The Times of Tuesday 

 last the following note: — " The Union explains in the 

 following terms the nature of excommunication from the 

 Church of Rome: — 'Theologians generally define ex 

 communication as "an ecclesiastical sentence by which a 

 person is excluded from the number of the members of 

 the Church." Such are Bergier's terms. The Abbe 

 Lequeux is more explicit : — " Excommunication," saj's 

 he, " is an ecclesiastical censure which deprives a person, 

 wholly or partially, of the claims he has on the common 

 benefits of the Church, to punish him for disobedience in 

 some grave matter. There are several degrees of excom- 

 munication ; the major excommunication is attended 

 with very serious consequences ; for instance, it deprives 

 a person of all participation in the public prayers which 

 the Church makes for the faithful ; of the right of ad- 

 ministering or receiving the sacraments; of the right of 

 attending Divine service, &c. Such is, in brief, the eccle- 

 siastical meaning of the word ' excommunication.' "] 



Replies. 



WITTY CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS. 

 (2 nd S. ix. 116.) 



J. O. B.'s most interesting paper starts with an 

 excellent suggestion. As a small contribution to 

 " a Collection of Witty Quotations from Greek 

 and Latin Writers," I would cite Lord North's 

 very happy adaptation of Horace, applied to his 

 son, who could not aflbrd to keep his favourite 

 mare — 



" jEquam memento rebus in arduis 

 Servare." 



See Cumberland's Memoirs, ii. 353. 



Swift's two classic puns, as recorded by Scott, 

 deserve reproduction. In his life of the Dean 

 {Collected Works, i. p. 461.), Sir Walter says, 

 " Perhaps the application of the line of Virgil to 

 the lady who threw down with her mantua a Cre- 

 mona fiddle, is the best ever was made : — 



' Mantua, vse miserre nimium vicina Cremonas! ' " 



The comfort which he gave an elderly gentle- 

 man who had lost his spectacles, was more grotes- 

 que : " If this rain continues all night, you will 

 certainly recover them in the morning betimes: — 

 'Nocte pluit tota — redcunt spectacula mane.'" 



Charles Lamb, in his Popular Fallacies, remarks 

 on these puns of Swift. . R. F. Sketchley. 



The translation of "Splendide mendax" "lying 

 in state," which is well known to your Cambridge 

 readers, may perhaps come under this head. Also 

 the following adaptation which occurred in a 



