Hither the sly little fellow got crony Becket to his satirical trumpery;"

ch is further explained in the following note: Becket's back door is in an alley close to his house; have I often seen little M*th**s jog in and sit a thorns for fear of being seen, in the back-parlour, tering matters over with old Numscull. After ing through many hands, the proof sheets at last sily reached little M*th**s that he might revise learned lumber."

fter alluding to several pieces published by hias, our unmerciful critic adds in another

MERCURII.

Dutch Books (Vol. iii., p. 326.). — MARTINUS is bably aware that the library of the Fagel fay is now a part of the University Library of blin, and that it contains a very fine collection Dutch literature, in which it is very possible e of the books of which he is in search may be ad.

he auction catalogue prepared in 1800, when library was to have been sold by auction, had ot been purchased by the University of Dubis printed, and a copy of it is at his service, if vill inform me through you how to send it to

his library contains many rare tracts and uments well worthy of Mr. Macaulay's atten, if he is about to continue his history of the volution; but I have not heard whether he has le any inquiry after them, or whether he is re of their existence. There is a curious MS. alogue of them in the possession of the Univer7, which was too voluminous to be printed, when library was about to be sold. HIBERNICUS. Engilbert, Archbishop of Treves (Vol. i., 14.).There can be no doubt that the bishop's erence is incorrect, and the suggestion of T. J. ol. iii., p. 291.) to consult the reprint of 1840 ords no aid in setting it right; for there we d (p. 178.) a note as follows:

There was no Engilbert, Archbishop of Treves, is there any work in this name in Goldasti." I have, however, consulted Mr. Bowden's Life d Pontificate of Gregory VII., in order, if posle, to find a clue; and in a note in vol. ii. p. 246. that work is a statement of the hesitation of e Pope on the doctrine of the eucharist, with a erence as follows:

Vid. Egilberti archiep. Trevir. epist. adv. Greg. VII., Eccardi Corp. historic. Medii Ævi. t. ii. p. 170."

This reference I have verified, and found in the epistle of Egilbertus the passage which, no doubt, Bishop Cosin refers to, and which Mr. Bowden cites:

"En verus pontifex et sacerdos, qui dubitat si illud quod sumatur in dominicâ mensâ sit verum corpus et sanguis Christi !"

So much for that part of the difficulty, but another still remains. Was there ever an EgilTo solve this question I consulted a list of the bertus, or Engilbertus, Archbishop of Treves? Archbishops of Treves in the Bibliothèque Sacrée of Richard et Giraud, and I there find the following statement:

Charles Lamb's Epitaph (Vol. iii., p. 322.).— According to Mr. Thorne (Rambles by Rivers, 1st series, p. 190.) the inscription in the churchyard at Edmonton, to the memory of Charles Lamb, was written " by his friend, Dr. Carey, the translator of Dante.' Mr. Thorne gives an anecdote concerning this inscription which I venture to transcribe, in the expectation that it may interest your correspondent MARIA S., and others of your numerous readers.

"We heard a piece of criticism on this inscription that Lamb would have enjoyed. As we were copying it, a couple of canal excavators came across the churchyard, and read it over with great deliberation; when they had finished, one of them said, 'A very fair bit of poetry that;'Yes,' replied his companion, I'm blest if it isn't as good a bit as any in the churchyard; rather too long, though.""

By" Dr. Carey," of course, is meant the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., Vicar of Bromley Abbots, Staffordshire, and Assistant Librarian in the British Museum, as he was the translator of "Dante," and an intimate friend of Charles Lamb. C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge, April 28. 1851.

Charles II. in Wales (Vol. iii., p. 263.). - In answer to DAVYDD GAM's Query, it may be observed that I have never heard of the tradition in question, nor have I met with any evidence to show that Charles II. was in any part of Wales at this period. In "The true

Narrative and Relation of his most sacred Majesty's Escape from Worcester," Selection from the Harleian Miscellany, 4to., p. 380., it is stated that the king meditated the scheme of crossing into Wales from White Ladies, the house of the Penderells, but that "the design was crossed." One of the "Boscobel Tracts," at p. 137., treating of the same period, and compiled by the king himself in 1680, mentions his

P.S. When was the name of Poet's Corner first ached to the south transept of Westminster bey?

Jermyn Street.

Abbot Eustacius, of whom J. L. (Vol. iii., p. 141.) s, was the Abbot of Flay, and came over from ormandy to England, and preached all through s kingdom with much effect in the beginning of in's reign, A. D. 1200, as Roger Hovedene tells Annal., ed. Savile, London, 1596, fos. 457. b, i. b. Wendover (iii. 151.) and Matt. Paris in 10, mention him. D. Rock.

Vor Populi Vox Dei (Vol. iii., p. 288.) is, I d, a much older proverb in England than Edrd III's reign, for whose coronation sermon was chosen the text, not by Simon Mepham, but alter Reynolds, as your correspondent ST. JOHNS htly says. Speaking of the way in which St. Odo lded his consent to be Abp. of Canterbury, 3. A. D. 920, William of Malmesbury writes: Lecogitans illud proverbium, Vox populi vox Dei.” -De Gestis Pont., L. i. fo. 114., ed. Savile.

D.Rock.

Francis Moore and his Almanack (Vol. iii., 263.).—Mr. Knight, in his London, vol. iii. 246., throws a little light on this subject:

The renowned Francis Moore seems to have made first appearance about the end of the seventeenth tury. He published a Kalendarium Ecclesiasticum 1699, and his earliest Vor Stellarum or Almanac, as as we can discover, came out in 1701," &c.

A. A.

But Mr. Knight is not sure that "Francis ore" was not a nom de guerre, although at 241. he gives the portrait of the "Physician" man anonymous print, published in 1657. Abridge. There is an Irish edition published in Drogheda, l for threepence, and embellished with a portrait Francis Moore. Can Ireland claim this worthy? any farmers and others rely much on the weather phecies of this almanack. A tenant of mine ays announces to me triumphantly that "Moore ight:" but his triumphs come at very long rvals.

K.

can answer part of H. P. W.'s Query. Francis ore's celebrated Almanack first appeared in 8. We have this date upon his own confession. ore his Almanach for 1771 is a letter which ins thus:

Kind Reader,

"This being the 73rd year since my Almanack appeared to the world, and having for several is presented you with observations that have come ss to the admiration of many, I have likewise preed you with several hieroglyphics," &c.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

That such a personage really did exist there can be little doubt. Bromley (in Engraved Portraits, &c.) gives 1657 as the date of his birth, and says that there was a portrait of him by Drapentier ad vivum. Lysons mentions him as one of the remarkable men who, at different periods, resided at Lambeth, and says that his house was in Calcott's Alley, High Street, then called Back Lane, where he seems to have enlightened his generation in the threefold capacity of astrologer, physician, and schoolmaster.

Miscellaneous.

J. C. B.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. Professor De Morgan has just furnished a new contribution to L'Art de vérifier les Dates, in the shape of a small but most useful and practical book, entitled The Book of Almanacks, with an Index of Reference, by which the Almanack may be found for every year, whether in the Old Style or New, from any Epoch Ancient or Modern up to A. D. 2000 With means of finding the Day of any New or Full Moon from B. c. 2000 to a. n. 2000. An example will show, better even than this ample title-page, the great utility of this work to the historical enquirer. Walter Scott, speaking of the battle of Bannockburn, which was fought on the day of St. John the Baptist, June 24, 1314, says, "It was a night of lovely June,

High rose in cloudless blue the moon." Now, should the reader be desirous of testing the accuracy of this statement, (and how many statements have ere this been tested by the fact of the moon's age!), he turns to Professor De Morgan's Index, which at 1514 gives Epact 3., Dominical Letter F., Number of Almanack 17. Turning to this almanack, he finds that the 24th June was on a Monday; from the Introduction (p. xiii.) and a very easy calculation, he learns that the full moon of June, 1314, would be on the 27th, or within a day, and from a more exact method (at p. xiv. ), that the full moon was within two hours of nine A. M., on the 28th. So that Sir Walter was correct, there being more than half moon on the night of which he was speaking. Such an instance as the one cited will show how valuable the Book of Almanacks must prove to all historical students, and what a ready test it furnishes as to accuracy of dates, &c. It must take its place on every shelf beside Sir H. Nicolas' Chronology of History.

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