y subscription at Manchester; printed for the author by R.
Whitworth, in the year 1733? It is an 8vo. of 138 pages; has on the
title-page a line from Ovid:

"Jure, tibi grates, candide lector, ago,"

and begins with an "Address to all my Subscribers;" after which follow
several pages of subscribers' names, which consist chiefly of Staffordshire
and Cheshire gentry. My copy (for the possession of which I am indebted to
the kindness of Dr. Bliss, the Principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford) was
formerly in the library of Mr. Heber, who has thus noted its purchase on
the fly-leaf, "Feb. 1811, Ford, Manchester, 7s. 6d." Dr. Bliss has added,
on the same fly-leaf, "Heber's fourth sale, No. 1908, not in the Bodleian
Catalogue." The first poem in the book is "A Pastoral to the Memory of Sir
Thomas Delves, Baronet." It is probably a scarce book; but possibly some of
your book-learned correspondents may help me to the author's name.

W. SNEYD.

Denton.

_Handel's Dettingen Te Deum._--Any information as to the circumstances
under which Handel composed this celebrated _Te Deum_, and the place {389}
and occasion of its first public performance, will be welcome to

PHILO-HANDEL.

_Edmund Spenser and Sir Hans Sloane, Bart._--As I believe myself (morally
speaking) to be _lineally_ descended from the former of these celebrated
men, and _collaterally_ from the latter, may I request that information may
be forwarded me, either through your columns or by correspondence,
regarding the descendants of the great poet and his ancestry; and also
whether, among the many thousand volumes bequeathed by Sir Hans to the
nation, some record does not exist tending to prove his genealogical
descent? At present I know of no other pedigree than that Mr. Burke has
given of him in his _Extinct Baronetage_. I shall feel exceedingly
gratified if any assistance can be given me relating to these two families.

W. SLOANE SLOANE-EVANS.

Cornworthy Vicarage, Totnes.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_The Ligurian Sage._--In Gifford's _Maeviad_, lines 313-316, I read,--

"Together we explored the stoic page
Of the Ligurian, stern tho' beardless sage!
Or trac'd the Aquinian thro' the Latin road,
And trembled at the lashes he bestow'd."

The Aquinian is of course Juvenal; but I must confess me at fault with
respect to the Ligurian.

W. T. M.

[The Ligurian sage is no doubt Aulus Persius Flaccus,