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NOTES AND QUERIES.

. NO 15., APRIL 12. '56.

2. " Dr. [George] Walker's Invisible Champion Foj'- lecl London. 1690. 4to."

[By John Mackenzie, chaplain to a regiment at Deny during the Siege.]

3. " Histoire de la Revolution d'Irelande arrive'e sous Guillaume III. Amstl. 1691. 12mo."

4. " History and Wars of the Kingdom of Ireland. London. 1692. 8vo."

5. " An Answer to a Book intituled ' The State of the Protestants in Ireland.' London. 1692. 4to."

6. "Relation de la Compagne d'Irlande, 1691, sous le Commandement de M. le Gen. de Gingel. Amstl. 1693. 8vo."

7. " History of the Dependency of Ireland. London. 1698. 8vo."

8. " Some Account of the Family of the Butlers. Lon- don. 1716. 8vo."

9. " The Life of St. Patrick. Dublin. 1743. 12mo."

10. " The Life of Betty Ireland, with some Account of her Elder Sister Blanch of Britain. London. 1753. 8vo."

11. " Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. London. 1754. 8vo."

12. " A Letter to Deane Swift, Esq., on the Essay upon the Life, &c., of Dr. Jonathan Swift. London. 1755. 8vo."

13. " An Essay on the Ancient and Modern State of Ireland. Dublin. 1759. 8vo."

14. " The Ancient and Present State of the County of Down. Dublin. 1774. 8vo." (Walter Harris ?)

[By Charles Smith.]

15. " History of the Political Connection between England and Ireland, from the Reign of Henry II. to the present Time. London. 1780. 4to."

[By William Barron, Professor of Logic and Belles Lettres in the University of St. Andrews.]

16. " A Month's Tour in North Wales, Dublin, and its Environs, with Observations upon their Manners and Police, in 1780. London. 1781. 12mo."

17. "A Review of some Interesting Periods of Irish History. London. 1786. 8vo."

18. " Reflections on the State of Ireland in the Nine- teenth Century. London. 1822. 8vo."

19. " Letters upon English Elections, and on the Situa- tion of Ireland. London. 1827. 8vo."

20. " Sketches in Ireland, descriptive of interesting and hitherto unnoticed Districts in the North and South. London. 1827. 8vo."

ABHBA.

DECISION OF THE GALLIC AN CHURCH UPON THE VALIDITY OF ENGLISH ORDERS.

In a very interesting little work, very recently published, A Glance behind the Grilles, I find the following passage on the subject of the Apostolic succession in the Church of England, as viewed by the Galilean clergy :

" However, it seems, even among themselves, there is a great division of opinion on the point ; for he went on to say, that not long since, the matter was brought under ecclesiastical consideration in Paris. A grand Conference was held on the occasion, and it was decided that all accounts of the event should be collected and compared. Accordingly, all the libraries were searched, all opinions were canvassed, all authorities were consulted ; and on an appointed day, the theologians once more assembled,

the question was discussed, and finally put to the vote, when the Ayes and Noes were found to be equal. Here was an awkward fix, as brother Jonathan would say : so, to save trouble, then, and on subsequent occasions, it was thought most prudent to decide against us; and from that moment England was denied all participation in the Apostolical succession." P. 176.

What other information may be obtained respecting this curiously arrived at decision ? Perhaps some of your readers of the Gallican Church can supply some additional particulars. I may mention as a matter of fact, and not in a polemical point of view that the theologians of the Church of Rome differ much upon this ques- tion. In a clever controversial work, by the Rev. W. Waterworth, S. J., lately published by Burns, The Origin and Developments of Anglicanism, the writer, arguing against the mission of the English clergy, says :

" I speak not about their character ; I ask not about their Orders, but I ask about their mission," &c. P. 170.

And in another page :

" For these ends they were sent forth as missionaries ; but when they apostatized, did this mission last? Orders were indeed perpetuated for the sacramental character of the priesthood is indelible but the mission on which they .were sent, did that endure? Obviously not." P. 172.

I presume the view of such controversialists to be, that the Orders of the Church of England are irregular, but not invalid ; and this distinction must apply still more in the case of the Orders of the Church of Ireland, where not a doubt has ever been thrown upon the fact of the Apostolic suc- cession. I shall be glad to be enlightened upon these points, strictly as matters of fact.

WILLIAM FRASER, B.C.L.

Alton, Staffordshire.

ACTION SURPRISING DIANA.

Some time since I purchased (receiving a gua- rantee of authorship which has since been proved to be erroneous) a picture, 25 in. x 21 in., " Ac- taaon surprising Diana and her Nymphs." Diana, nude, seated on a bank of greensward by a marble fountain, holds at arm's length, assisted by a negress in a striped robe, a white drapery she is about to throw over her person. A kneeling nymph is drying the limbs of the goddess with a white handkerchief. Four other nude nymphs, in various attitudes around the font, gaze with alarm at the intruder, Actseon, a robust, brown-* skinned individual, clad in a hunting-shirt of skin. He has just drawn aside the crimson curtain which closed an archway leading to the fountain. His dogs are at his heel, and a tiny cur belonging to Diana snarls at their intrusion. Trophies of the chase are suspended from the arch and trunks of trees, and in the distance is a