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triumph, a print of himself at full length, standing at the bar with Coke's Institutes in his hand, the work he made use of to prove that flattering doctrine, which he applied with singular address to the jury, that in them alone was inherent the judicial power of the law, as well as fact. In the same print, over his head, appear the two faces of a medal, upon one of which were inscribed the names of thejurv, and on the other these words, "John Lilburne saved by the power of the Lord, and the integrity of his jury, who are judges of law as well as fact, Oct. 26, 1649." London : 4to., pp. 168. Another edition in. 8vo. London, 1710, with portrait.]

Handel s " Harmonious Blacksmith" Why did Handel give the title of " Harmonious Black- smith " to his celebrated piece ? J.

[Handel did not call "his celebrated piece " the Har- monious Blacksmith, nor was " the piece " so called in Handel's life-time. Marot, who versified the Psalms in Paris before Sternhold in England, published some vo- lumes of Chansons with the melodies, and amongst these melodies is the tune which Handel has used in his Harpsi- chord Sonatas. The tune became a court favourite in Paris and passed northward, for it appears in a Swedish collection of much earlier date than Handel's time. It travelled also into Italy. Handel might have met with it in Germany, or in Italy ; it might have been given him by some one in the English court, or it might have been a favourite at Cannons with the Duke of Chandos.

Mr. Richard Clark has endeavoured to show that Handel heard this air for the first time from Wm. Powell, a blacksmith, of Edgware, who, it is alleged, was singing it when at work, as Handel, overtaken by the rain, took shelter in his shop. The hypothesis has no evidence for its support, and as the air was not associated to English words before Handel's use of it, it is most improbable that a village blacksmith should have known anything what- ever about it. In Mr. Clark's account there is a serious error. It was not James, the first Duke of Chandos, that taught the ostler's wife, but Henry, the second duke, and the marriage did not take place in 1736, but in 1744. The chorus " Triumph Hymen " was not written so early as 1736.

The variations on the air were liked and became a favourite of the fair sex, and then the teaching lesson in schools. About the commencement of the present century some professor at Bath the city of dowagers issued it with the title of " The Harmonious Blacksmith." Wagenseil published some variations upon the tune, and we believe many other musicians have tried their skill upon it, but none with the spirit and elegance of Handel. Fesch, in 1725, published it with Italian words, under the title " Venni Amore."]

Daniel De Foe. Mr. Forster, in his essay on De Foe, and all the notices of him I have access to, state he died April 24, 1731 ; but the Gentle- man's Magazine, vol. i. for 1731, p. 174., has in its April obituary : " 26th, Mr. Daniel De Foe, Sen., eminent for his many writings."

Is Sylvanus Urban in error or not ? H. G. D.

[According to Walter Wilson (Life of De Foe, vol. iii. p. 609.), Mr. Forster's date is the correct one. Wilson says, " The author of the ' Life of De Foe,' in the Bio- graphia Britannica places his death upon the 26th of April, as does the Gentleman's Magazine for 1731. The Historical Register for 1731 states it more correctly as follows : "April 24, Dy'd Mr. Daniel Pe Foe, well known for his various writings."]

Alteration of the Lord's Prayer. Who altered the Lord's Prayer by omitting the word "and?" In my Prayer-Book, printed in 1768, the ending of the prayer runs, " For thine is the kingdom. and the power," &c., which is correct according to the Greek. If corrections are allowed, why not say, " For thine are the kingdom?" &c. OSSIAN.

[The word "and" In the doxology of the Lord's Prayer, as well as the word " may " in the General Thanksgiving, are both struck out with a pen in a copy of the Sealed Book at Oxford. British Magazine, vol. xix. p. 80.]

" Tumulo sine cade" 8fc, Where are the fol- lowing lines to be found ?

" / . . tumulo sipe csede et sanguine pauci

Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni." Do you know any Latin dictionary which notices this meaning of the word siccus, viz. "natural," as opposed to " bloody ? " OSSIAN.

[The passage occurs in Juvenal, Sat. x. H2, 113., and the correct reading is as follows :

" . . . . sine caede et vulnere pauci

Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni." The epithet sicca, which puzzles OSSIAN, is thus com- mented upon by the old scholiast: "Morte sicca, vet. Schol. recte : incruenta, ac per hoc naturali," i. e. by a bloodless, and therefore a natural, death. See notes to Bibliotheca Classica Latino, aLemaire, vol. xxxiv. p. 95-3

Reference to S. Ambrose wanted. In the Ca- techism of the Council of Trent (Catechismi ad Parochos, Pars I., Caput x., Qusestio xi.) the fol- lowing passage occurs respecting the Papal Su- premacy :

"Postremo vero sanctus Ambrosius ait: Si quis ob- jiciat, ecclesiam uno capite et sponso Jesu Christo con- tentam, prseterea nullum requirere ; in promptu responsio est. Ut enim Christum Dominum singulorum sacra- mentorum non solum auctorem, sed intimum etiam prasbi- torem habemus (nam ipseest qui baptizat, et qui absolvit, et tamen is homines sacramentorum externos ministros instituit); sic ecclesice, quam ipse intimo spiritu regit, hominem suse potestatis vicarium et ministrum prsefecit. Nam quum visibilis ecclesia visibili capite egeat, ita Sal- vator noster Petrum universi fidelium generis caput et pastorem constituit, quum illi oves suas pascendas verbis amplissimis commendavit, ut qui ei successisset, eandem plane totius Ecclesise regendse et gubernandse potestatem habere voluerit."

No reference is given to S. Ambrose's works, and no clue as to how much of all this is quotation, how much comment ; yet all the other extracts from the Fathers in the section are duly authen- ticated by references. Can any correspondent kindly inform me where this apparently most im- portant passage is to be found in the writings of the great Bishop of Milan.

I quote from Tauchnitz's edition, Lips. 1851.

A. A. D.

[The passage quoted by A. A. D. is not from St. Am- brose, but is the text of the Council, in answer to the question, " Quomodo praeter Christum Ecclesia uno capite visibili indigeat." In the editions of Tauchnitz and L'abbe Doney (& Dijon, 1840), as well as in that of