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NOTES AND QUERIES.

S. NO 26., JUNE 28. '56.

Translated out of Latine into English by Thomas Tymme, Minister. Scene and allou-ed. Imprinted at London by Henrie Binneman, for Humphrey Toy. Anno 1576."

An Address of " The Translatour to the Header" commences thus :

" The increasing of newe troubles and warres in Fraunce hath also increased the matter, and giuen larger occasion of the publishing of this fourth part of the Commentaries, the whiche contayneth (as the other three partes do) three bookes : the first of the three in the Latin Coppy reckoned the tenth. But bycause we haue to our third part already a tenthe Booke annexed contayning the suinme of those things whiche are written in the first Booke of the fourth volume, I have thought good not to translate the same in order as it lieth, but only to gleaye out those principals matters which are different from the other," &c. &c.

I shall feel much obliged if I can obtain a his- tory of the above work. Who was the author of it "in Latine?" When, and where, were "the other three partes " published ? And where am I likely to see a copy of them now ? In this " fourth parte" there is a very quaint, and rather long and particular, account, not merely of the siege of Sanserre, but of the methods which the famished inhabitants resorted to in order to render pala- table (?) the rats, moles, and offal they were forced to live upon. I wish particularly to know if this especial account of the siege has been re- printed P or if it has been quoted in any modern book ? HENRY KENSINGTON.

[The first three parts have each a separate title-page, and entitled " The Three fortes of Commentaries, contain' ing the whole and perfect Discourse of the Ciuil IFarres of Fraunce. With an Addition of the Cruell Murther of the Admirall Chastilion, and diuers other Nobles, com- mitted the 24 daye of August, Anno 1572. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by Thomas Tymme, Minister, London, by Francis Coldock, 1573-4." *4to. The work has been attributed, but we think erroneously, to Peter Kamus, the celebrated French mathematician, as what is called " the tenth book " contains an account of his assas- sination on St. Bartholomew's Day, 1572. By some the authorship has been attributed to John de Serres, and by others to Francis Hotoman. The Bodleian has a copy of Part I., 1573 ; but the British Museum does not con- tain any portion of the work.]

Patriotic Sentiment attributed to Queen Mary. I have a recollection of a noble and patriotic senti- ment attributed to her whom we are unhappily obliged to associate with other feelings, Queen Mary, which I think I met with some years ago in Blackstone's Commentaries, showing great respect for the rights and liberties of her subjects. Not being able to recall it, or to find it, I shall feel obliged to any friend who will point it out to me.

W. K. B.

[It had long been complained, that in suits, to which the Crown was a party, the subject, whatever were his right, had no probability of a favourable decision, on ac- count of the superior advantages claimed and enjoyed by the counsel for the sovereign. When Mary appointed Morgan chief justice of the court of Common Pleas, she

took the opportunity to express her disapprobation of this grievance, which is probably the patriotic sentiment desired by our correspondent. It occurs in the State Trials, vol. i. p. 72. : " I charge you, Sir," said the queen, " to minister the law and justice indifferently, without respect of per- son; and, notwithstanding the old error among you, which will not admit any witness to speak, or other mat- ter to be heard, in favour of the adversary, the crown being a party, it is my pleasure, that whatever can be brought in favour of the subject may be admitted and heard. You are to sit there, not as advocates for me, but as indifferent judges between me and my people."]

Strobo on Ireland. A writer in an Irish pro- vincial paper quotes from a work of which he gives the title as follows :

"Geography Anatomised ; an enquiry into the doctrine of the philosophers of all nations concerning the original of the world ; being a collection made from the ancient writers, whose works are preserved in the Libraries of Dresden and Gottengen, by the learned M. Schellinger, now done into English by Mr. A. Edwards printed for I. Stone, London, 1701."

I give the quotation :

" At page 174. is the passage under the head Juverna (' Ireland') ' Strabo asserts the coasts, more especially the south and south-east, were inhabited by traders and shipmen; whereunto the rivers are favourable, being deep and rapid. The land is woody and mountains high and large. The towers are round and high, like unto those of Persia.'"' \_Note to this passage in the original: " See his account of Ireland and Persia, in four books in the Library at Dresden."]

Wanted, the original passage from Strabo.

JAMES GRAVES.

Kilkenny.

[We question whether such a work was ever published for the following reasons : 1. It is not to be found in any of the standard bibliographical dictionaries, English or foreign. 2. We cannot iind the name of M. Schellinger in any biographical work. 3. The publisher, I. Stone, is unknown. 4. Strabo designates Ireland as "lerna."]

SARDINIAN MOTTO (l tl S. Xli. 509.) AND LEGENDS ON THE EDGES OF COINS.

Of the two versions of the letters " F. E. K. T." given by MR. CHADWICK, the first, viz. Fortitndo Ejus Jlhodum Tenuit is certainly felicitous :

" Se non e vero, e ben trovato : " but true it cannot be, if the motto, as stated, were in use prior to the time of Amadeus VIII. : and, however appropriate it might be on the collar of the order of the Annunciada (2 nd S. i. 442.), it would be equally inappropriate on the edge of the Sardinian coins, where it still retains its place. The other version Foadere Et Religione Tenemur being found on the golden doublon of Victor Amadeus I., some two or three centuries later, is not at all conclusive that the letters are to be so understood, and appears far too vague : the prefer-