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 154 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. AUG. 19,1905. I LETTER OF EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL TO POPE JULIAN II. (10th S. iv. 10).—Senhor Annibal Fernandas Thomaz, the well-known •archaeologist of Una das Lamas 14, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, has shown me in his library a plaquette of four folios in roman letter, with the following title on the frontispice •(not frontispiece, if you please):— " Epistola serenissimi Regis Portugalie ad Juliuni Japam Secu'- | dum de victoria eo'tra infideleg abita. Venundantur Parrhysjis i' Palatio Regio a Guil- | lermo Eustace sub tertio Pilari." In the middle of the title is the device of Guillaume Eustace, showing two centaurs, the one armed with a thick stick, the other with a bow and arrows, engaged in hanging with their empty hands a shield bearing the monogram Q. E. upon the trunk of a fruit- tree. The last words in the text of the letter give its date, viz. : "Ex oppido | Abrantes. xxv. Septambris. M.D.VII." The same " Official da Ordem de S. Thiago" possesses a copy of the "Epistola | Potentissimi : ac Inuictissimi j Emanuelis Regis Portugallie I k Algarbiorum &'c. De Victoriis | nuper in Affrica habitis. Ad S. I in x'po patrem & d'nm nostrum | d'nm Leonem. X. Pont. Max." The arms of Portugal fill up the lower part of the frontispice. This is also a plaquette of four leaves in roraan letter, ending with the words, " Dat | in Vrbe | nostra Vlyxbo'n. PridieKale'n. Octobris. Anno | d'ni.M.D.xin.," which shows that the word date (i.e., given) refers not (as has been said) only to the time, but also to the place of writing a document. Senhor Thomaz also possesses a copy of ton,' by Donald Ferguson, presented to him by the author. E. S. DODGSON. Figueira da Foz. REFERENCES WANTED (9th S. x. 67, 110).— 3. General ruin and decay. For the source of the two quotations given, in an incomplete and incorrect form, under this heading, see Petrarch's ' Africa,'lib. ii. 431 and 464, p. 1282, col. 2, in the 1554 (Basel) ed. of his 'Opera quse extant omnia':— Mox ruet & bustum, titulusque in marmore sectus Occidet, hinc mortem patieris nate secundam. . . . • libris null-in morientibus, ipse •Occumbes etiam : sic mors tibi tertia restat. These two passages are quoted by Petrarch himself in the ' De Contemptu Mundi,' dial. iii. He puts them, with a compliment to the author, in the mouth of his inter- locutor St. Augustine (six-sevenths through the dialogue, p. 413 in ed. 1554, where a different set of misprints are made from those that deface the lines in the 'Africa'). "General ruin and decay" is an error of the querist. Petrarch is speaking of the vanity of Fame. The lines do not appear under ' Quotations' in the index to the volume nor in that to the Series, the query being indexed under 'References \anted.' EDWARD BENSLY. 23, Park Parade, Cambridge. WILLIAM WAYNFLETE (10th S. iii. 461: iv. 36).—MR. WAINEWRIGHT, at the second re- ference, states correctly the reason why I omitted at the first to mention Mr. Leach's suggestion, in his ' History of Winchester College,' that Waynflete might be identified with " Willelmus Pattney, He eadem, Sar. Dioc.," a boy who became scholar at Win- chester circa 1403, left the school circa 1406, and apparently did not proceed to New College, Oxford. It appears that Mr. Leach was misled by a statement in Richard Chandler's 'Life of Waynflete' (1811) into supposing that Thomas Chandler, Warden of Winchester (1450), and of New College, Oxford (1453), who had been a scholar at Winchester during Waynflete's head-master- ship there, had described Waynflete as a man " who sprang from Wykeham's foun- dation." Upon the supposition that Kichard Chandler's statement was true, Mr. Leach suggested that the above-mentioned Pattney might be Waynflete, and it was perhaps the best suggestion of that kind which could be made in the circumstances. Afterwards, as he explained in the ' Victoria History of Hampshire,' ii. 285, Mr. Leach discovered that Kichard Chandler's statement* was in- correct, and that the passage in Thomas Chandler's manuscript really relates not to Waynflete, but to William Say, Dean of St. Paul's. This discovery certainly robbed the suggestion that Pattney might be Wayn- flete of much of its force. The need for any such suggestion to explain the supposed words of Waynflete's pupil had vanished. The view now generally accepted, the correctness of which there seems no reason to doubt, is that Waynflete was ordained an acolyte at Spalding on Easter Sunday. 1420. See the ' D.N.B.,' Ix. 85. But of his doings before 1420 research has not yet revealed one single fact. The date of Pattney's admission at Winchester scarcely favours the sugges- tion that he might be Waynflete, ana (as Mr. WAINEWRIGHT has already pointed out) there is nothing known of Waynflete to Budden. See Budden's ' Life of Waynflete,' printed in William Bates's 'ViUe Selectorum aliquot Virorum ' (1681), at p. 56.
 * Letters from Portuguese Captives in Can-
 * Richard Chandler had probably relied on John