the years 1402,
1408, and 1420. He was also one of the Platonic Academy that Ficino
assembled around him. In this Diary of Sanuto will be found many minute
and interesting details respecting Savonarola, and the relation of the
tragical death of Francisco Valor, who had also been several times
Gontaloniere, and whom Savonarola, in his confession, said it was his
intention to have made perpetual Dictator.

I would have given a specimen of this very interesting diary, but that I
scrupled to occupy space which your correspondents enable you to fill so
effectively, for I fully subscribe to the dictum of the
_Ragguagliatore_, "Il Sanuto si presenta come la Scott degli Storiei,
compincendosi come Sir Walter delle giostre, delle feste, e delle
narrazioni piacevole e di dolce pieta.

S.W.S.

Mickleham, Nov. 23, 1849.

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MSS. OF ROGER TWYSDEN.

Sir,--An answer to the following "Query" would be most interesting to
myself, and, perhaps, not altogether without its value to the literary
world.

Among Sir Roger Twysden's MSS. I have a letter from him to his son at
Oxford, requesting his intercession with the University for the loan of
the MS. of Walter Mapes "_de nugis curialium_," in order that he might
prepare it for publication. He instances the liberality of the
Archbishop of Canterbury in having lent him from Lambeth the _Epistles
of Amselm and Becket_; and adds, that, by being permitted to retain
these MSS. in his hands for some years, he had now prepared them for the
press.

I cannot learn that they were ever printed, and among the voluminous MS.
remains of Sir Roger now in my hands, I cannot find the smallest trace
of them. Can any one your readers inform me what became of this
collection, which, by Sir Roger's statement, was finished and completely
ready for the press?

To this "Query" I may as well add a "Note," which may be interesting to
some of your readers.

In Sir Roger's MS. Journal of his persecutions by the Parliament, he
states:

"It is sayd King Charles subscribed the byll for taking away the
votes of Bishops, in y't very house where Christian religion was
first preached,--viz. St. Augustines by Canterbury."

LAMBERT B. LARKING.

Ryarsh Vicarage, Nov. 17.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Honnore Pelle_.

Who was "Honnore Pell, 1684"? My reason for asking this is, I have a
marble bust of Charles II. of