1626,
by _Robert Synthorpe_, Doctor of Divinity, Vicar of Brackley,
and I doe approve it as a sermon learnedly and discreetly
preached, and agreeable to the _ancient Doctrine_ of the
_Primitive Church_, both for _Faith_ and _good manners_, and to
the _Doctrine established_ in the _Church of England_, and,
therefore, under my hand I give authority for the printing of
it, May 8. 1627."

GEO. LONDON.

It was therefore Bishop _Mountague_, and not _Laud_, who licensed the
sermon.

JOHN. J. DREDGE.

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POPE AND PETRONIUS.

I have read "Mr. RICH'S" letter with great interest, and I willingly
allow that he has combated my charge of plagiarism against Pope, and
discussed the subject generally with equal fairness and ability. "But
yet," I think that he wanders a little from the point when he says, "the
surmise of the plagiarism originates in a misconception of the terms
employed by the Latin author, especially _corcillum_." Now the question,
in my opinion, turns not so much on what _Petronius said_, as on what
_Pope read_; i.e. not on the meaning that _Petronius gave_ to the word
(_corcillum_), but on that which _Pope attributed_ to it. I cannot,
without further proof, give him credit for having read the words as
critically and correctly as "Mr. R." has done. I believe that he looked
on it merely as a simple derivative of _cor_, and therefore rendered it
"worth," i.e. a _moral_, not a _mental_ quality.

C. FORBES.

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QUERIES.

QUERIES RESPECTING PURVEY ON THE APOCALYPSE, AND BONNER ON THE SEVEN
SACRAMENTS.

I beg leave to make the two following Queries:--

1. In Bayle's very useful work, _Scriptorum Illustrium Majoris Brytanniae
Catalogus_, fol. Bas. 1559, among the writings ascribed to John Purvey,
one of Wycliffe's followers, and (as Walden styles him) _Glossator_, is
mentioned _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_, beginning "Apocalypsis, quasi
diceret;" and Bayle adds:--

"Praedictus in Apocalypsin Commentarius ex magistri Wielevi
lectionibus publicis per Joannem Purvaeum collectus, et nunc per
Martinum Lutherum, _Ante centum annos_ intitularus, anno Domini
1528, sine authoris nomine, Witembergae fuit excusus. Fuit et
ipse Author in carcere, ac cathenis insuper chalybeis, cum ea
Commentaria scripsit, ut ex decimo et undecimo ejus scripti
capite apparet. Scripsit autem Purvae