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enemy, Boniface VIII., to whom he was accordingly sent. That Pontiff pardoned him, although he disapproved of his book, and made him his physician : a matter not forgotten by King Philip when later on he brought charges of heresy against Boniface. Nevertheless the Pope and the patronage of the house of Aragon preserved Arnaldo's life. Details of his embassies to the courts of Paris and Avignon will be found ably related by my illustrious acquaintance Mr. Henry Charles Lea in vol. iii. of his ' History of the Inquisition.' His name appears attached to the last codicil of the will of Peter III. of Aragon in 1283 ; while in 1309 we find him at Avignon once more, ambassador to Clement V. from James II. of Aragon, as the fearless advocate of the persecuted spiritual Fran- ciscans.

He is believed to have perished during yet another journey by sea to Avignon. This was before February, 1311,

"for Clement mourned his loss, and issued a bull announcing that Arnaldo had been his physician, and had promised him a most useful book which he had written [possibly ' De Regimine Sanitatis ' ?*]. He had died without fulfilling his intention, and now Clement summoned any one possessing the precious volume to deliver it to him.'

The friendship of Robert the Wise," as Count of Provence, of the royal family of Aragon, and of Clement V., at any rate availed to safeguard Arnaldo's life on land. After Clement's decease in 1314 the Domini- cans, under Bernardo de Puycerda, burned Arnaldo's spiritualistic writings as well as several of his friends and converts, a task which was naturally encouraged by John XXII., in spite of his friend and patron King Robert. In the voluminous correspondence, still unpublished, between the Court of that Pontiff and the King of Naples, I have come upon another and later Arnaldo de Vilanova, who may have been a son of the philo- sophic theologian, or, otherwise, Joachitic heretic.

In conclusion, at however low an estimate we may value the numerous extant tracts and treatises of Arnaldo, we may respectfully pause in forming our judgment of a man bold enough, as he was, to tell his master, James II. of Aragon, that the inquisitors were a diabolical pest trafficking in offices, and abandoned to lust and avarice, whom no one dared to con- demn.t ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

R. S. cum expositione Magistri Arnaldi de Villa Nova. Venice, 1480.

1879,
 * C*. 'A. di Villanova,' by M. Pelayo, Madrid,

M.P.s IN THE ' DICT. NAT. BIOG.'

THE following small corrections and addi- tions may be made to notices in vols. 1. to Iii.

Sir Edward Sackville, fourth Earl of Dorset, did not represent co. Sussex in 1G14, but in 1621-2 only.

Sir Richard Sackville (d. 1566). His Parliamentary honours are not given quite accurately. He sat for Arundel, 1529-36 ; Chichester, 1547-52 ; Portsmouth, April-May, 1554 ; was returned by both Kent and Sussex in 1559, but preferred Sussex, which he also represented from 1563 till death.

Sir Ralph Sadler, the diplomatist, was M.P. co. Hertford, 1542-4 ; Preston, 1545-7 ; co. Hertford, March, 1553, 1559, 1563-7, 1571, 1572-83, 1584-5, and 1586-7.

Francis St. John, eldest son of Chief Justice Oliver St. John, was M.P. for Tewkesbury, 1654-5 ; Peterborough, 1656-8, 1659, 1660 till void, 1678-9, 1679-81, and 1681.

George St. Lo, Commissioner of the Navy, represented Weymouth and Melcombe Regis 1701-2 and 1702-5.

Sir Thomas Salisbury, the poet, was not "M.P. for Denbighshire from 25 March, 1640, until his death," but only in the Short Parlia- ment of April-May, 1640.

Sir Edward Saunders, Chief Justice, did not sit for Lostwithiel in 1547, but only for Coventry, 1542-4, and Saltash in March, 1553.

Richard Savage, fourth Earl Rivers. Besides representing Wigan in 1681, he sat for Liverpool in 1689 and 1690, until his succession to the peerage.

Sir William Saville, third Baronet of Thorn- hill, was M.P. for Old Sarum in the Long Parliament from February, 1641, until dis- abled in September, 1642.

Sir Henry Saville, the scholar, represented Bossiney in 1588-9, and Dunwich in 1593.

Sir John Saville, afterwards first Baron Saville of Pontefract. In addition to the Parliamentary honours assigned to him, he was returned for Yorkshire to the Parliament 1604-11.

John, second Viscount Scudamore, was M.P. for Hereford, 1673-8, and co. Hereford, 1678-9, 1679-81, and 1681.

Thomas Seckford, senior, was M.P. for Orford (not Oxford) in 1554-5, 1555, 1558, 1559 ; Ipswich, 1563-7 ; Suffolk, 1571 ; and Bridgnorth, 1572, till his decease in 1575. The Thomas Seckford who represented Ipswich in 1572-83 is expressly styled "Junior," and would therefore be the son, this being apparently his sole return to Parliament.

Sir John Seymour, father to the first Duke of Somerset, represented Heytesbury 1529-36.