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the Honour of Wallingford, were still in 1316 an administrative whole, and known as the Hundreds of Chiltern.

Later on the Patent Kolls for 1 Edward IV., 1461, tell us the same, for they contain an entry of the grant for life to John, Duke of Suffolk, and Elizabeth his wife, of the office of Constable of Wallingford Castle, with the Stewardship of the Honours of Wallingford and St. Waldric, and the four and a half hundreds of Chilterne, they receiving 40/. yearly for themselves and 401. yearly for their lieutenant at the hands of the receiver of Walyngford, in the same manner as William, late Duke of Suffolk, father of the said John, had.

This subject of the Chiltern Hundreds, and how the Buckinghamshire hundreds of Stoke, Burnham, and Desborough became so de- signated, may be worth discussion in 'N. & Q.' by some of your correspondents, who may be able to supply information.

T. W. SHORE. 157, Bedford Hill, S.W.

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.'

(See 9 th S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441 ; xii. 2, 62, 162,

301, 362, 442 ; 10 th S. i. 42, 163, '203, 282 ; ii. 124, 223.)

Vol. I. (Shilleto), p. 11, 1. 26; p. 1, 1. 27, ed. 6, "and some others." Among them Nicholas Hill. See vol. ii. p. 63 ; pp. 254-5 (II. ii. 3), and'D.N.B.'

P. 12, 13-15 ; 2, 8-10, * Mercurius Gallo- belgicus.' The title of the historical com- pilation published at Cologne, the first volumes of which appeared in the last decade of the sixteenth century. It was written by Michael von Isselt (" M. Jansonius ") and others. See p. 62, n. 6; p. 32, n. t. An English translation of part of this work was printed at London in 1614.


 * Mercurius Britannicus.' The author of
 * Mundus alter et idem ' (Bishop Joseph Hall).

of ' Le Democrite Chrestien ; c'est a dire, le mespris et mocquerie des vanites du monde,' by Pierre de Besse, the Petrus Besseus of Burton's margin. In Shilleto's edition the reference is wrongly placed.
 * Democritus Chris tianus.' A Latin version

P. 12, 1. 23 and n. 8 ; 2, 17 and n. 1, "cosevus

with Socrates Floruit Olympiade 80, 700

annis post Troiam." See Diog. Laert., ix. 7, 9, 41-2. D. L. says that Democritus gives the date of the composition of his Mi/epos SiaKooyxo? as seven hundred and thirty years after the taking of Troy, and he gives Apollo- dorus as the authority for placing the philo- sopher's birth in the eightieth Olympiad, while according to Thrasylus he was born

several years earlier, being Socrates's senior by a year (470 B.C. -469 B.C.).

P. 13, 1. 24 ; 2, 47, " as long almost as Xenoc rates in Athens." X. was head of the Academy for twenty-five years (D. L., iv. 2, 11). Burton had been a Student of Christ Church for over twenty-one years when he published the * Anatomy.'

P. 17, 1. 23 ; 5, 18, " Anthonie Zara Pap.Episc., his Anatomie of wit." Z. was bishop of, Pedena (Biben) in Illyria, and author of ' Anatomia Ingeniorum et Scientiarum,' Venice, 1615. See vol. i. 456, 1. 31 ; 189, 28 (I. iii. 1, 3).

P. 18, 1. 19 and n. 15 ; 5, 40 and n. c, " vel ut lenirem animum scribendo." Cf. the

dedication of ' Querela Pacis,' "ut queri-

moniam scriberem, quo justissimum

animi raei dolorem vel ulciscerer, vel lenirem."

P. 19, n. 2 ; 6, n. g, " M. Joh. Rous, our Protobib. Oxon." John Rouse was Bodley's Librarian, 1620-52. By his friendship with both authors he forms a link between Burton, and Milton.

Ib., "M. Hopper." Thomas Hopper (1592- 1624), a member of New College, licensed to- practise medicine 22 June, 1602 ; of Holy well', Oxon. See Foster, 'Alumni Ox.'

P. 20, n. 5 ; 6, n. s, " Buchananus." See- 'Rer. Scot. Hist.,' i. 5. Buchanan's verb is converrunt. Cf. p. 33, 1. 36 ; 14, 39, " had I written ad ostentationem only."

P. 20, 1. 28; 7, 4, "As Apothecaries "

Burton's indebtedness to J. V. Andrea was pointed out ante, p. 124. Andrea would seem to have taken a hint from Erasmus, 4 Ep. ad P. Volsiura,' at beginning of the ' Enchiridion Militis Christiani,' about a sixth through the epistle :

" Quis Summulariorum modus aut numerus, alind* 1 ex alio miscentium ac remiscentium, & pharma- copolarum ritu, ex novis vetera, ex veteribus nova, e pluribus unum, ex uno plura aubinde fingentium ac refingentium ?"

P. 24, 1. 30 ; 9. 24, " Laudare se vani, vitu- perare stulti." Val. Max., yii. 2, ext. 11 r " Idem Aristoteles de semet ipsos in neutram partem loqui debere prsedicabat, quoniam< laudare se vani, vituperare stulti esset." Shilleto's translation is wrong.

P. 25, 1. 4; 9, 30, "stylus virum arguit." Neither Biichmann ('Gefliigelte Worte,' twentieth ed.) nor Mr. King (' Classical and 1 Foreign Quotations,', third ed.) refers to this when discussing the famous alleged mot of 1 ' Buffon.

P. 29, 1. 24; 12, 7, "Alexander the phy- sician." See Alexander Trallianus, 'De Arte Medica,' Lat. trans, by Johan. Guinterius*