Page:Notes and Queries - Series 1 - Volume 1.djvu/22

12 In vol. 61. of the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum occurs the following remarkable letter from the Bishop of London (John Aylmer) to Lord Burghley. I wish to be informed to what "foolish rhime," which had been printed in Oxford and London, it applies? It is a question of some literary importance to me at the present moment, and I am glad to have the opportunity of putting it by means of your new hebdomadal undertaking. I hope to meet with a reply in your "" of next week.

If the above refer to any production in verse upon the defeat of the Armada, Lord Burghley (who had probably made inquiries of the Bishop) seems to have been actuated by some extraordinary and uncalled-for delicacy towards the King of Spain. Waiting an explanation, I am your

I cannot find that Aylmer's letter has ever been noticed by any of our literary antiquaries.

Mr. Editor,—Can any of your readers direct me to the different authors who have treated of the asserted expedition of Madoc to America; or to any Papers upon that subject which have appeared in any Periodicals, or Transactions of learned societies.

Mr. Editor,—The following is an extract from Lord Brougham's Character of Chatham, vol. i. p. 27.

Can any of your readers inform me where these "" of this "celebrated speech" are to be found? D.

Sir,—I gladly avail myself of the "," to request information on the following points:—

I. Is any thing known, and especially from the writings of Erasmus, of a bookseller and publisher of the Low Countries named Dorne, who lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century?

II. Is any thing known of a little work of early date, called Henno rusticus?

III. Or of another, called Of the sige (signe?) of the end?

Trusting that some of your readers will be enabled to throw light upon one or other of these points, I remain, &c. W.

. 8vo. Trevecka, 1779.

4to. Rome. 1681.

The Fourth Volume of Edition, in 7 vols. 24mo. Chiswick. 1814.