ion of life, by bringing to every man's house those little
necessaries which it was very inconvenient to want, and very
troublesome to fetch. I have formerly read, without much reflection, of
the multitude of Scotchmen that travelled with their wares in Poland;
and that their numbers were not small, the success of this negociation
gives sufficient evidence."

The title of Denham's poem is "On my Lord Crofts' and my journey into
Poland, from whence we brought 10,000l. for his Majesty by the decimation
of his Scottish subjects there."

PETER CUNNINGHAM.

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BISHOP JUXON AND WALTON'S POLYGLOTT BIBLE.

In the library at this island, which formerly belonged to the Knights of
Malta, there is an edition of Walton's Polyglott Bible, which was published
in London in 1657. This work is in a most perfect state of preservation.

On the title-page of the first of the eleven volumes, there is written, in
a bold and perfectly legible manner, the following words:

"Liber Coll. Di Joannis Bapt^a Oxon Ex dono Reverendiss. in Xt^o Patris
Gvil^i Jvxon Archiep. Cantvariensis. A^o D^{ni} 1663."

Just below, but on the right of the above, there is written in a clear hand
as follows:

"Ex Libris domus Abbatialis S. Antonij Viennensis, Catalogo Inscript
an. 1740. No. 11."

That the question which I shall ask at the end of this Note may be the more
easily answered, it will perhaps be necessary for me to state, that in the
year 1777, Rohan, the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, succeeded in
annexing the property belonging to the Order of St. Antonio de Vienna to
that of Malta. In accepting of these estates, which were situated in France
and Savoy, Rohan bound himself to pay the many mortgages and debts with
which they were encumbered; and so large an amount had to be thus defrayed,
that for a hundred years the convent would not be reimbursed for its
advances, and receive the 120,000 livres, at which sum their annual rental
would then be valued. Of the foundation of this Order a recent writer
(Thornton) thus remarks:

"In 1095 some nobles of Dauphiny united for the relief of sufferers
from a kind of leprosy called St. Anthony's fire, which society, in
1218, was erected into a religious body of Hospitallers, having a
grand master for chief. This order, after many changes in its
constitution, having been left the option between extinction