It was therefore Bishop Mountague, and not Laud, who licensed the sermon.

JOHN.  J. DREDGE.

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POPE AND PETRONIUS.

I have read “Mr. RICH’S” letter with great interest, and I willingly allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and discussed the subject generally with equal fairness and ability.  “But yet,” I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, “the surmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms employed by the Latin author, especially corcillum.”  Now the question, in my opinion, turns not so much on what Petronius said, as on what Pope read; i.e. not on the meaning that Petronius gave to the word (corcillum), but on that which Pope attributed to it.  I cannot, without further proof, give him credit for having read the words as critically and correctly as “Mr. R.” has done.  I believe that he looked on it merely as a simple derivative of cor, and therefore rendered it “worth,” i.e. a moral, not a mental quality.

C. FORBES.

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QUERIES.

QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS.

I beg leave to make the two following Queries:—­

1.  In Bayle’s very useful work, Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniae Catalogus, fol.  Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey, one of Wycliffe’s followers, and (as Walden styles him) Glossator, is mentioned Commentarius in Apocalypsin, beginning “Apocalypsis, quasi diceret;” and Bayle adds:—­

“Praedictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvaeum collectus, et nunc per Martinum Lutherum, Ante centum annos intitularus, anno Domini 1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergae fuit excusus.  Fuit et ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum ea Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti capite apparet.  Scripsit autem Purvaeus hunc librum anno Domini 1390, ut ex decimo tertio capite et principio vigesimi apparet.”

This account of Bayle (who is mistaken, however, about the title of the work) is confirmed by Panzer; who, in his Annales, vol. ix. p. 87. enters the volume thus, “Commentarius in Apolcalypsin ante Centum Annos aeditus, cum Praefatione Maritini Lutheri.  Wittembergae, 1528. 8vo.”  Can any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library, or in private hands?