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9, 1007.

The crown piece struck in 1847, engraved fay Wyon, usually known as " the Gothic crown," was not put into general circulation Its legend was " Tueatur unitur Deus,' and on the edge " Decus et tutamen."

It is a curious circumstance that the title Defender of the Faith, conferred on Henry VIII. by Pope Leo X. in 1521 in recognition of his treatise ' Assertio Septem Sacra- mentorum,' was not recorded on English oins until the reign of George I., when F.D. ('"Fidei Defensor") appeared for the first time.

Though foreign to the subject of legends, I may mention that the first sovereign of twenty shillings was struck by Henry VII. in 1489, and that the shilling of that reign was the first coin on which the head of the king may be considered as a portrait. The portraits of Philip of Spain and Mary Tudor (1554-8) recall the lines from ' Hudibras,' Part III. canto i. 11. 687-8 :

Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

The denomination, weight, and fineness of silver coins have remained unchanged from the days of Elizabeth ; but the pound sterling and its relation to the silver coinage were not fixed until 1717, and gold was not adopted as our legal standard of value until 1816. JAMES WATSON.

Folkestone.

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.'

(See 9 S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441 ; xii.

2, 62, 162, 301, 362, 442 ; 10 S. i. 42, 163,

203, 282 ; ii. 124, 223, 442 ; iii. 203 ; iv.

25, 523 ; v. 146 ; vi. 143 ; vii. 103.)

THE following are further additions to earlier notes :

P. 45, 20; 21, 43 (10 S. vi. 144), for " sanctuarium sapientae " read sanctuarium sapientice.

P. 46, 5 ; 22, 11, " asini bipedes " (10 S. i. 43). Palingenius's phrase may be traced back to Juvenal's " bipedem. . . .asellum " (ix. 92). Cf. " revertimur ad nostros bipedes asellos," Hieron., Ep. 27, 3 (Migne, vol. xxii. col. 432).

P. 90, n. 2 and 11. 3-8; 48, n. g. and 11. 21-5, " the people. . . .melancholy " (10 S. i. 282). The passage to which Burton refers is as follows :

"I will therefore knit vp this little Treatise of this great Duchie [cf. ' Merchant of Venice,' I. ii. 1, "My little body is a- weary of this great world"], with this abrupt period, namely : That this People liues much discontented, as appeareth by their daily

and great, (but Priuate) complainings : hauiug fresh in their mindes their former libertie, and heauie on their backes their present yoake. That this State is like a body which hath lately taken Phisick, whose humours are not yet well setled, or as a stomack weakned so much by i (urging, as there is now nothing left but melancholy. Concluding of this people, as of a person that liues alwayes vnder the hands of a Phisition, Qi *nh Mnli'ii* rinit. misers riuit."P. 66.

Dallington's name is not on the title-page, but on A2 recto is a letter from Edw. Blount " To my worshipfull good friend Maister Robert Dalington," beginning " Sir : Being well assured that this your worke," &c.

P. 135, 9 ; 75, 6, " Anticyrse ccelo huic est opus aut dolabra," and n. 4 ; n. h., " Tarreus Hebus, epig. 102, 1. 8 " (9 S. xi. 181 ; 10 S. vi. 144). All the editions of the ' Anatomy ' from the first onwards are at fault with regard to Earth's pseudonym, which was Tarrseus Hebius. The numerical reference is also wrong ; it should be 102 of lib. 2. Finally, Burton seems to have failed in his understanding or recollection of the original epigram, which runs : Stoicus, vt purget cerebrum, non supplicet vlli Anticyrai. Coelo huic est opus, aut dolabra.

Lib. II. ep. 102 of " Tarraei Hebl | Nobilis a Speriga* Scioppius Excellens. In laudem eius & sociorum, I pro I Josepho Scaligero j & omnibus probis. Epigram- matum I Libri III. | Ex triginta totls hinc inde collecti " (Hanau, 1612). It will be

seen that in Earth's distich Anticyrje is not constructed with " coelo," and that the latter here means a chisel. The epigram is found again (with only a comma after Anticyrse) as xiii. 77 in Tarraeus Hebius's ' Amphi- theatrum Seriorum Jocorum ' (containing the 30 books, 1613).

P. 266, 4; 77 (second pagination), 15, I. n. 11. iii. " In Westphaling," &c. (9 S. xi. 263). The^ modernizing process at work .n Shilleto's edition has changed this to Westphalia (for Westphaling cf. the name Df the Bishop of Hereford who died in 1602), [n the same way " Ausborrow " (7, 3, ed. (i. [. i. ii. ; "Ausburrow" in ed. 5) becomes Augs- burg (i. 157, 29) ; " Bristow " (56, n. t. D. io the R.) becomes Bristol (i. 103, 11. 5 it ms already changed in ed. 7) ; " Bruxels "

61, 14: "Bruxells" in ed. 1) becomes

Brussels (i. 110, 33); "Gaunt" (55 23) is

turned into Ghent (i. 101, 14). Must

time-honour'd Lancaster " by this rulo

36 John of Ghent? Again, "Mordochy"

355, 1, II. iii. vii. : " Mordocheus " in ed. 1, 423, n. h.) appears as Mordecai (ii. 226, 29


 * Thus on the title-page. It should be Sperga.