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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1903.

CONTENTS. -No. 803.

NOTES : Adam "the Carthusian Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' 301 Dr. Scattergood's Bible, 303 Book- sellers' Catalogues Latimer Family Chinese Ghosts, ' 305 The "Ship" at Greenwich ' Serjeant Bell and his Karee Show,' 306.

QUERIES : Sir Henry Sidney's Heart Paint-brush " Cut the painter," 307 "Mais on revient toujours" Payne Emmet and De Pontenay Letters Duchess of Marl- borough Overstrand Church St. William of Aquitaine -ASwedenborgian Druggist Samuel Daniel, 308 "Parting .of the ways "Courts of Requests, Wards, and Augmen- ' tations French Quotation Maxim " Red rag to a bull " 'The Dunces of Norfolk ' Robin Hood's Mill John South-G. Gahagan Peg Woffington's Sister, 309.

REPLIES : Mannings and Tawell, 310 Memory Miss Charlotte Walpole, 311" Tabby all over "Charles Reade "Prior to," 312 Salop Nodus Herculis Lewis "Cater": " Lethes " Roscommon and Pope English as tti Universal Language Witchcraft in Essex. 313 Mar- riage in a Sheet Hatbands Rebellion of 1745 Shake- speares at Romford, 314 Latin Quotation Glastonbury Walnut -Basilicas Owl, 315 History of Bookselling- Orange Blossoms English Accentuation M8. Journal of a London Citizen, 316 Fees for searching Parish Registers, 317.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider, and

the other Beef ' Calverley's ' Fly Leaves ' The

Reliquary '-' The Burlington Magazine ''The English

' Dialect Dictionary ' Vandalism at Norwich Pedigrees

of Sykes and Skikelthorpe Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondent!.

ADAM THE CARTHUSIAN.

(See ante, p. 184.)

IN supplement to the note regarding the author of /The Twelve Profits of Tribu- lation,' which is attributed to Adam the Carthusian, it may be worth while to record here what Steevens in his continuation of Dugdale's 'Monasticon' says about him. He says he was

find in John Mplanus and Theodore Petreius, in his 'Carthusian Library,' that he was a man of holy and religious life and considerable learning, con- versing little among men, and entirely devoted himself to Divine contemplation day and night, to a decrepit old age. However, he writ not only for himself, but for the benefit of Posterity, 'The Ladder to ascend to Heaven,' 'Of Receiving the Holy Eucharist,' 'Of Suffering Tribulation,' 'The Life of 18. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln,' and flourished
 * 'a Carthusian, and Doctor of Divinity, of whom I

There is a copy of the ' Liber de Duodecim Utilitatibus Tribulationis ' in the Bodleian Library (MS. Laud, Miscel. 210, fols. 99-114). In Coxe's 'Catalogue' it is put down as the work of Adam the Carthusian, "sive cujus- cunque sit."

Another work attributed to " Master Adam the Carthusian" is ' Aromata que emit Maria

Magdalene.' (See 'Cat. Harl. MS&,' 1706, art. 19, fol. 54b).

He must not, however, be confused with Brother Adam who wrote the ' Magna Vita ' of St. Hugh, the Carthusian Bishop of Lincoln (1186-1200), with whom he was con- temporary. This Brother Adam was not a Carthusian. It is, however, possible that the Widemann from a MS. in the library of the Gemnicensis Chartreuse in Austria, printed by Pezius in 1733 at Ratisbon, may have been compiled by Master Adam the Carthu- sian. It is described as " rather a selection than an abridgment" of the 'Magna Vita,' and is therefore of later date than that life. (See Dimock's preface to the * Magna Vita,' p. xii.) This would explain Tanner attributing to him 'Vita Hugonis Lincoln.,' lib. i.
 * Life of St. Hugh ' translated by Leopold

There was in the twelfth century another Carthusian also named Adam, and sometimes called Master Adam the Scot, or the Prsemon- strant, owing to his having been Abbot of the Prsemonstratensian Abbey of Dryburgh in Scotland before he entered the Carthusian Priory of Witham in Somersetshire. He was a contemporary of St. Hugh, and knew him well, discussing theological subjects with the latter on his annual visits to Witham Priory, of which, before his election as bishop, he had been prior. This Adam also wrote a number of works, some particulars of which are given in Miss E. Margaret Thompson's 'Somerset Carthusians' (1895), pp. 71-5.

It may be added that there appears to be some confusion in the 'D.N.B.' as to the various persons who bore the name Adam. Adam of Evesham or Eynsham, who is con- sidered to have been the author of the 'Magua Vita,' and therefore if so is the same individual as Brother Adam above mentioned, according to the 'D.N.B.' (vol. i. p. 78), died in 1191, which is clearly incorrect. The Adam who wrote the 'Magna Vita' entered the house- hold of Bishop Hugh in 1197, and he appears to have been alive in 1232 (Dimock's pref., pp. xxxvi and xii). H. W. UNDEKDOWN.

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. (See 9* h S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441 ; xii. 2, 62, 162.)

I CANNOT find it in my heart to bestow on the reader all my tediousness or the whole of Shilleto's mistranslations. The following examples will be enough to show that con- sistent accuracy must not be claimed for the English renderings offered in this edition

Vol. i. p. 26, 1. 6 (' D. to the R.' ; p. 10, 1. 9, in 6th edit.): "Facilia sic putant omnes