ines he has
cited are both from the same epigram, and, I think, from the first of
the two. They were occasioned by George. II's purchasing the library of
Dr. Moore, Bishop of Ely, and giving it to the university of Cambridge.

The admirer of another epigram has not given it exactly as I can
remember it in a little book of emblems more than fifty years ago:--

"'Tis an excellent world that we live in,
To lend, to spend, or to give in;
But to borrow or beg, or get a man's own,
'Tis just the worst world that ever was known."

H. WALTER.

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LETTERS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AND PHILIP II. OF SPAIN.

Perhaps some of your readers may be able to inform me whether any of the
following letters between Queen Elizabeth and Philip II. of Spain,
extracted from the archives of Simancas, have yet appeared in print:--

1. Queen Elizabeth to Philip II., January 9, 1562-3.

2. Answer, April 2, 1563.

3. Philip II.'s reply to the English ambassador in the case of Bishop
Cuadra, April, 1563.

4. Charges made in England against the Bishop of Aquila, Philip's
ambassador, and the answers.

5. Queen Elizabeth to Philip II., January 18, 1569.

6. Philip to Elizabeth, May 9, 1569.

7. Elizabeth to Philip, March 20, 1571.

8. Answer, June 4, 1571.

9. Declaration of the Council to the Spanish ambassador Don Gueran de
Espes, Dec. 14, 1571.

10. The ambassador's answer.

11. Elizabeth to Philip, Dec. 16, 1571.

12. Bermandino de Mendoza to Philip II., in cypher, London, January 26,
1584.

13. Philip to Elizabeth, July, 16, 1568.

14. Duke of Alva to Philip II., January 14, 1572.

15. Minutes of a letter from Philip II. to Don Gueran de Espes, February
24, 1572.

A.M.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_The New Temple._--As your correspondent L.B.L. states (Vol. ii., p.
75.) that he has transcribed a MS. survey of the Hospitallers' lands in
England, taken in 1338, he will do me a great kindness if he will
extract so much of it as contains a description of the New Temple in
London, of which they became possessed just before that date. It will
probably state whether it was then in the occupation of themselves or
others: and, even if it does not throw any light on the tradition that
the lawyers were then established there, or explain the division into
the Inner and Middle Temple, it will at least give some idea of the
boundaries, and perhaps deter