ted. Neither can the circumstances related be at all reconciled with
the particulars given by Clarendon and subsequent writers, who have
professed to correct the statements of that historian by authority.

J. D. S.

_Antiquitas Saeculi Juventus Mundi_ (Vol. ii., p. 218.; Vol. iii., p.
125.).--Permit me again to express my opinion, with due deference to the
eminent authorities cited in your pages, that the comprehensive words of
Lord Bacon, "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi," were not borrowed from any
author, ancient or modern. But it would be a compliment which that great
genius would have been the first to ridicule, were we to affirm that no
anterior writer had adopted analogous language in expressing the benefits
of "the philosophy of time." On the contrary, he would have called our
attention to the expressions of the Egyptian priest addressed to Solon,
(see a few pages beyond the one referred to in his _Advancement of
Learning_):

"Ye Grecians are ever children, ye have no knowledge of antiquity nor
antiquity of knowledge."

The words of Bacon to me appear to be a condensation of the well-known
dialogue in Plato's _Timaeus_, above quoted, as will, I hope, appear in the
following paraphrase:

"Apud vos propter inundationes ineunte modo saeculo nihil scientiarum
est augmentationis. Quoad nos _juventus mundi_ ac terrae Aegyptiacae, qua
nulla hominum exitia fuerunt, progrediente tempore, _antiquitas_ fit
_saeculi_, et antiquissimarum rerum apud nos momumenta servantur."

T. J.

_Lady Bingham_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--Lady Bingham, whose daughter,
afterwards Lady Crewe, was unsuccessfully courted by Sir Symonds D'Ewes
(for which see his autobiography), was Sarah, the daughter of John Heigham,
Esq., of Gifford's Hall in Urekham Brook, Suffolk, of the same family with
Sir Clement Heigham, Knt., of Barrow, Suffolk, Speaker of the House of
Commons. She was married by banns at St. Olave's, Hart Street, Jan. 11,
1588, to Sir Richard Bingham, Knt., of co. Dorset. She married, secondly,
Edward Waldegrave, Esq., of Lawford, Essex, to whom she was second wife,
and by him had Jemima, afterwards Lady Crewe. Edward Waldegrave, married to
his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew Averell, of
Southminster, Essex, had by her an only daughter, Anne, who married Drew,
afterwards Sir Drew Drury, Bart., of Riddlesworth, Norfolk. He, Edward
Waldegrave, was descended from a younger branch of the family of