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ANTONIO DE GUEVARA, BISHOP OF MON- DONEDO (11 S. xii. 461). 'Monte Calvario ' is by the famous Antonio de Guevara, the " elegant Spaniard " of Sir Thomas Browne, the " empoisonneur public et seducteur " of Pierre Bayle. One is almost tempted to say that there is hardly any well-read seventeenth-century author who does not show some acquaintance with Guevara's ' Relox de Principes,' which was translated into Latin and the chief modern European languages. It is to this sham life and letters of Marcus Aurelius that one may trace references to non-existent facts of Roman history which have puzzled the editors of Burton and Jeremy Taylor.

The note in the bookseller's catalogue quoted by MB. WAINEWBIGHT seems to have mixed up Guevara in the most extraordinary manner with an entirely different personage, the notorious Marc' Antonio de Dominis, Archbishop of Spalato " Spalatensis," as he is called in Bishop Bedell's life by his son. The story of De Dominis' s differences with the Roman authorities, of his coming to England in 1616 and obtaining preferments in the English Church, of his dissatisfaction and return, of how he died in prison and how his body was burnt after his death, has been told many times. Long accounts can be read in Fuller's ' Church History,' bk. x., and in Racket's ' Life of Archbishop Williams.' This is how Hacket describes De Dominis' s attempt to be made Archbishop of York :

" About the middle of Autumn, Ann. 1621, Ant. de Dominis besought the King to confer the Arch-Bishoprick of York upon him. A hasty Suitor, for the Place was not void. The Error came about thus : the Arch-Bishcp then in being (called familiarly Toby Matthew) was ever pleasant, and full of becoming Merriment ; and knowing that his* Death had been long expected, was wont every year, once, or ottner, to cause Rumours to be raised that he was deceased. And when he had put this Dodgery strongly upon those at London, that gap'd fcr the Vacancy to succeed him, it was a Feast of Laughter to him, to hear what Running and Riding there was to fill up his Room, whojear'd them behind the Lattuce. No wonder if Spalat. a Stranger, were catch t in this Trap ; but he had worse Luck than to be derided for his Forwardness, for the King bade him sit quiet, and seek no further. It was not now as in Lanfrancke and Anselm's Days, to make a Stranger a Metropolitan of England." Pp. 98, 99.

EDWARD BENSLY.

THE GOSPEL FOR THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION (11 S. xii. 380). Durandus, in his ' Rationale Divinorum Officiorum,' lib. i. cap. xxiv. 6, 7, while acknowledging that this Gospel does not seem at first sight to be

appropriate, justifies its selection by the- allegorical meaning :

" Intrauit enhn lesus in quoddam castellum, id est, in beatam Virginem, quae dicitur castellum,. quae est terribilis daomcnibus & bone se muniuit contra diabolum, & vitia. Piminutiue autem dicitur castellum, propter humilitatem. Et dici- tur quoddam, propter singularitatcm ; quia nee primam similem visa est, nee habere sequentem : & Martha, id est, actiua vita recipit euir. Dili- gentissime enim nutriuit puerum suum, & tulit in Aegyptum, & prius se probauit in actiua vita, eundo acl Elizabeth, & seruiendo ei, & sicut ipsa fuifc Martha in actiua vita : it a & fuit Maria Magdalena in contemplatiua. Vnde in alio Euan- gelio habetur : Maria conseruabat verba omnia, haec conferens in corde suo. Hae autem duae sorores significant vitam actixiam & vitam con- temp la tiuam, quae plene fuerunt in beata vir- gine Maria, per quas ipsa sublimiter, honora- biliter atque delectabiliter in seipsa recepit Christum."

EDWARD BENSLY.

THE SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL IN- FORMATION (11 S. xii. 462). There is some information about this society and its earlier members in my ' Story of the English Jacobins' (London, 1881). MR. BLEACKLEY may find fuller particulars in Major Cartwright's ' Life.' Also, there must be some pamphlet or prospectus of the society in the British Museum Catalogue. If your correspondent can wade through the volu- minous Place MSS. he might be rewarded ? but really life is too short for devotion to- that indefatigable scissor s-and-paste man. EDWARD SMITH.

Wandsworth.

[G. F. R. B. thanked for reply.]

J. B. BRAITHWAITE (US. xii. 463). There was a barrister of this name, who was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 27 Jan., 1843. See Foster's ' Men at the Bar,' and Allibone's 'Diet, of English Literature/ Supplement, vol. i. G. F. R. B.

CAROL WANTED (11 S. xii. 461). The carol entitled ' The Sinners' Redemption ' is included in Cecil J. Sharp's collection of ' English Folk Carols,' published by Novello & Co., London, 1911, and I herewith subjoin a copy of the eight stanzas. Mr. Sharp gives the tune in his book as sung by Mrs- Phillips of Tysoe at Birmingham, and adds the following note :

" Mrs. Phillips could remember no more than? the first stanza ; the remaining stanzas have been copied from a broadside. Under the title ' All you that are to mirth inclined ' the carol is printed, words and tune, by Bramley and Stainer, R. R. Chope, and Uavies Gilbert ; words only, by Sandys- and many broadside printers. The tune, which is- often used by carol singers (see Folk-Song Society 1 *