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granted to the Kingmaker's grandfather, Ralph, Lord Nevill of Raby and Earl of Westmorland, and was inherited by the Earl of Warwick. Here his father, the Earl of Salisbury, lodged with 500 horse- men in 1458, when the " Congress of Barons " assembled in London. The varying fortunes of the Beauchamps and Nevills, two powerful families that greatly influenced history in the time of the later Plantagenets, could nowhere be better illustrated than in the district bordering the Thames between the Fleet and the Walbrook. It affords a promising field for an intelligent teacher with some know- ledge of history and a gift of exposition.

Another distinguished resident of Warwick Lane, who is not, I think, mentioned by topographical writers, was Nicholas Wotton (ob. 1567), Dean of Canterbury and York, and Ambassador to Charles V. (Hist. MSS. Comm., Rep. 9, p. 9 b). His career also affords interesting points for treatment.

W. F. PRIDEATJX.

QUOTATIONS IN JEREMY TAYLOR. (See 11 S. i. 466 ; ii. 65.)

A SCHOLAR of distinction who died recently, being once asked what he thought was the chief hindrance to the development of the particular branch of study in which he was engaged, named a learned, elaborate, and generally received textbook, on the ground that its treatment of the subject produced an erroneous impression that, certainty having now been attained, no field was open for further research. In the s&me way there is sometimes a danger that the standard edition of an English author may be too readily regarded by publishers and the public as exhaustive and final, and the student, in consequence, discouraged irom making further investigations.

The edition of Jeremy Taylor in ten volumes (1847-54) by the Rev. Charles Page Eden, Fellow of Oriel College, deservedly figures in booksellers' catalogues as the industry was shown by Eden in identifying his author's numerous citations, in which part of his task he received considerable help from the Rev. Alex. Taylor and the Rev. Edward Marshall, the latter a contributor for many years to ' N. & Q.' But it may not be generally recognized that in many cases their attempts to trace Taylor's sources proved unsuccessful. The following are some of the passages in vol. iv., " ENIAYTO2. A Course of Sermons for all
 * ' best edition." In especial, very great

the Sundays of the Year," where the notes of this edition can be supplemented. I have used the indexes of 1854, which take into account some corrections introduced in the latest issue of these volumes.

P. ^52. prj KaQapy yap KaQapov e<a7TTO-#cu /x?7 ov QtfjLiTov y. These words are certainly to be found, as Eden points out, in Hierocles's commentary on the ' Carmina Pythagorica,* but it is a singular omission not to mention that they occur originally in Plato, ' Phsedo,* 67 B.

P. 190. " Furorem illnm conviviorum, et foedissimum patrimoniorum exitium culi- nam." See Seneca, ' De Beneficiis,' lib. i. 10, 2 : " nunc conviviorum vigebit furor et foedissimum patrimoniorum exitium, culina."

P. 195. " They are like the tigers of Brazil, which when they are empty are bold and swift and full of sagacity ; but being full, sneak away from the barking of a village dog." See ' Purchas his Pilgrimage,' Part I. (1617), p. 1026, in the account of " Brasil" : " the Tygre, which being hungry, is verie hurtfull ; being full, T\ill flee from a Dogge."

P. 200. "Neither will.... the Cisalpine suckets [" tucets " in 1st ed., according to Eden's marginal note] or gobbets of condited bull's-flesh, minister such delicate spirits to the thinking man." It is surprising that the reading of the first edition should have failed to put Eden on the track of this. The " tucets " are obviously the " tuceta crassa " of Persius, Sat. ii. 42, included in the extract from Persius on p. 189 of this volume. The problem is thus a simple one, and it is easy to unearth Taylor's source in the Scholiast on that passage : " Tuceta apud Galloa Cisalpinos bubula dicitur, condimentis qni- busdam crassis oblita, ac macerata " (I quote from Casaubon's ed. of Persius, 1605, where " tucceta " is spelt with one c).

P. 222. " Marcus Aurelius said, that ' a wise man ought often to admonish his wife, to reprove her seldom, but never to lay his hands upon her.' " See Antonio Guevara's ' Marco Aurelio con el Relox de Principes,' Book II. chapter 21. "The sixteenth century knew no more popular book, no more potent influence, than ' The Diall of Princes,' translated from Guevara by Thomas North (1557)." C. Whibley in" ' Camb. Hist, of Eng. Lit.,' vol. iv. p. 9.

P. 258. " I remember that in the apologues of Phaedrus it is told concerning an ill- natured fellow. . . ." For this curious story see ' Gesta Romanorum,' No. 157 ; and Oester ley's edition for a long list of places where it occurs in one shape or another.