Sir Charles Ingleby, or Ingilby, who wore the ermine not longer than four months, was the third son of John Ingleby (died 28 November, 1648), of Lawkland Hall, Yorkshire, by his second wife Mary (died 19 November, 1667), daughter of Sir Thomas Lake, of Canons, Middlesex, Secretary of State to James I. He was born at Lawkland, 20 February, 1644, and was buried there 5 August, 1718. His seat was at Austwick Hall, Yorkshire. By his marriage to Alathea (died September, 1715), daughter and heiress of Richard Eyston, of Saxton, in the county, he had issue a son, Thomas (born 1684, died 1729), Serjeant-at-Law, and four daughters: Dorothea (born 1681); Mary (born 1683), married William Hesketh, Esq.; Alathea (born 1685), a nun at the English monastery at Liège; and Anne (born 1688), married Mr. Fell, an apothecary in London. These facts will be found set forth in Mr. Joseph Foster's Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, a source of information unaccountably overlooked by the writer in the 'D.N.B.' GORDON GOODWIN.

FATHER PAUL SARPI IN EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE.

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IN my communication on Bishop Hacket's "Life of Archbishop Williams' (9th S. x. 401, 423; xi. 103) I quoted from that very remark. able biography a number of appreciative passages relating to Father Paul. These, of course, need not be here repeated.. Before, however, passing on to the immediate purpose of this note, I should like to record the opinion of one great modern writer, I mean Lord Macaulay. The following passages are taken from his 'Life and Letters' (2 vols., 1876):

"I have adopted an opinion about the Italian historians......I place Fra Paolo decidedly at the head of them."-Vol. i. p. 450.

"On my return home I took Fra Paolo into the garden. Admirable writer!"-Vol. ii. p. 282.

"I read part of the Life of Fra Paolo prefixed to his history. A wonderful man."-Vol. ií. p. 283.

To have written the History of the Council of Trent, and the tracts on the Venetian Dispute with Rome, is enough for one man's fame."-Vol. ii. p. 284. "Fra Paolo is my favourite modern historian. His subject did not admit of vivid painting: but what he did, he did better than anybody."-Vol. ii. p. 284.

I am almost certain that our great historian took the key-note of his historical style from Father Paul. For the sake of comparison,

"My purpose is to write the History of the Council of Trent. For though many famous Historians of our Age have made mention in their Writings of some particular accidents that happened therein," &c.

The personal note throughout is characteristic of both writers.

And here I may be permitted to call attention to two splendid articles on Fra Paolo Sarpi by Mr. Andrew D. White, at one time American Ambassador to both Russia and Germany, in The Atlantic Monthly for January and February, 1904. The second concludes with these glowing and inspiring words :

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"At last, under the new Italian monarchy, the patriotic movement became irresistible, and the Giordano Bruno on the Piazza dei Fiori at Rome, same impulse which erected the splendid statue to on the very spot where he was burned,-and which adorned it with the medallions of eight other martyrs to ecclesiastical hatred, erected in 1892, two hundred and seventy years after it had been decreed, a statue, hardly less imposing, to Paolo Sarpi, on the Piazza Santa Fosca at Venice, where he had been left for dead by the Vatican assassins. There it stands, noble and serene,-a monument of patriotism and right reason, a worthy tribute to one who, among intellectual prostitutes and solemnly constituted impostors, stood forth as a true man, the greatest of his time,-one of the greatest of all times, an honor to Venice, to Italy, and to humanity.'

The first extract I shall give is from the pen of that curious writer Tom Coriat, of Odcombian fame (Coryats Crudities,' 1611, p. 247):

"In this street [called St Hieronimo] also doth famous Frier Paul dwell which is of the order of difference betwixt the Signiory of Venice and the Serui. I mention him because in the time of the Pope, he did in some sort oppose himselfe against the Pope, especially concerning his supremacy in ciuill matters, and as wel with his tongue as his pen inueighed not a little against him. So that for his bouldnesse with the Popes Holynesse he was like to be slaine by some of the Papists in Venice, whereof one did very dangerously wound him. It is thought that he doth dissent in many points from the Papisticall doctrine, and inclineth to the Protestants religion, by reason that some learned Protestants haue by their conuersation with him in his Conuent something diuerted him from Popery. Wherefore notice being taken by many great men of the City [Venice] that he beginneth to swarue from the Romish religion, he was lately restrained (as I heard in Venice) from all conference with Protestants."

has these passages (I quote from the text Walton, in his 'Life of Sir Henry Wotton,' printed in the 'Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,' 1685):

advised with Father Paul, a Holy and Learned "Matters thus heightned, the State [of Venice] Frier (the Author of the History of the Council of Trent') whose advice was, Neither to provoke the

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Pope, nor lose their own Right': he declaring publickly in Print, in the name of the State, That the Pope was trusted to keep two Keys; one of Prudence, and the other of Power: And that if they were not both used together, Power alone is not effectual in an Excommunication.'" "These Contests were the occasion of Padre Paulo's knowledge and interest with King James, for whose sake principally Padre Paulo compiled that eminent History of the remarkable Council of Trent; which History was, as fast as it was written, sent in several sheets in Letters by Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Bedel, and others, unto King James, and the then Bishop of Canterbury, into England, and there first made publick, both in English and in the universal Language."

A very notable feature in Sir Henry Wotton's 'Reliquiae Wottonian,' 1685, is a letter dated 17 Jan., 1637, addressed "To the Right Worthy Provost and Professor Regius of Divinity [Collings] in Cambridge." From his long residence as British Ambassador to the State of Venice, Wotton became intimately acquainted with Father Paul, and the personal details he has preserved of that illustrious man are in the highest degree interesting. The letter is too long to quote entire, but the following extract is worth reproducing here:

"And now, Sir, having a fit Messenger, and not long after the time when Love-tokens use to pass between Friends, let me be bold to send you for a New-Years-gift a certain Memorial, not altogether unworthy of some entertainment under your roof; namely, a true Picture of Padre Paolo the Servita, which was first taken by a Painter whom I sent unto him from my House then neighbouring his Monastery. I have newly added thereunto a Title of mine own Conception, Concilii Tridentini Eviscerator; and had sent the Frame withal, if it were portable, which is but of plain Deal, coloured Black like the Habit of his Order. You have a luminous Parlour, which I have good cause to remember, not only by delicate Fare and Freedom (the Prince of Dishes) but above all, by your own Learned Discourse; for to dine with you, is to dine with many good Authors: In that Room I beseech you to allow it a favourable place for my sake. And that you may have somewhat to tell of him more than a bare Image, if any shall ask, as in the Table of Cebes [a Greek quotation omitted]; I am desirous to characterize a little unto you such part of his Nature, Customs, and Abilities as I had occasion to know by sight or by enquiry. He was one of the humblest things that could be seen within the bounds of Humanity; the very Pattern of that Precept, Quanto doctior Tanto submissior. And enough alone to demonstrate, That Knowledge well-digested non inflat. Excel lent in Positive, excellent in Scholastical and Polemical Divinity. A rare Mathematician, even in the most abstruse parts thereof, as in Algebra and the Theoriques; and yet withal so expert in the History of Plants, as if he had never perused any Book but Nature. Lastly, a great Canonist, which was the title of his ordinary service with the State: And certainly in the time of the Pope's Interdict, they had their principal light from him. When he was either reading or writing alone, his manner was to sit fenced with a Castle of Paper about his Chair,

and over head: for he was of our Lord of St. Alban's opinion, That all Air is predatory; and especially hurtful when the spirits are most employed. You will find a Scar in his Face, that was from a Roman Assassinate, that would have killed him as he was turned to a wall near to his Covent: And if there were not a greater Providence about us, it might often have been easily done, especially upon such a weak and wearyish Body. He was of a quiet and settled Temper, which made him prompt in his Counsels and Answers; and the same in Consultation which Themistocles was in Action."

I should say that this letter was included, for the first time, in the edition of 1685 of the 'Reliquiæ.' Burnet prints it also in his 'Life of Bishop Bedell,' published in the same year (p. 253).

(To be continued.)

A. S.

BOOKS OF LADY DILKE. The South Kensington Art Library has been the reci pient of a splendid gift, the fine collection of the late Lady Dilke having been presented to it by Sir Charles Dilke, who has added some valuable books from his own collection. Lady Dilke's library was largely made up of rarities, including incunabula and works from the Aldine and Elzevir presses, mostly in choice morocco bindings. It is to be hoped, for the convenience of bibliophiles, that a special catalogue will be issued.

H. T.

first time for a great number of years, there THE LYCEUM THEATRE.-Now that, for the is no longer a Lyceum amongst the London playhouses, a few of its memories, so dear to all old lovers of the drama, may be worth recording in the pages of N. &Q. Few of our London theatres have had a more chequered career than the Lyceum, in spite of the many successes achieved on its boards. Built somewhere about 1765, it passed from theatre to picture gallery, lecture hall, panorama, and a host of other entertainments, and then back again to theatre, till its destruction by fire in 1829. It arose, however, phoenix-like, from its ashes five years afterwards, and was renamed "The English Opera-House." Beazley was the architect, and it was one of the costliest theatres erected in London up to that date. Its greatest successes were Weber's opera 'Der Freyschütz,' which was first given in English there, and a number of German operas which followed one another for some considerable time. From an opera-house it once more became a theatre, and then followed a long period when it served as a place of extremely miscellaneous entertainment, at one time even affording shelter to Madame Tussaud's waxworks. In 1840 it once again reverted to the drama, but its most interest

EXTRAORDINARY TIDE IN THE THAMES. I hope you will find room in your valuable paper for the subjoined paragraph from The Times of 9 January, in which is recorded the phenomenal tide in the Thames on Saturday, the 7th inst. :

An extraordinary tide was seen in the Thames on Saturday afternoon. It should not have been high water at Putney Bridge until about a quarter to four, but the river bed was full at midday. Moreover, although there was a partial ebb and flow twice, there was practically no diminution of the quantity of water up to the usual time for the ebb according to the tide table. This is an occurrence which has not previously happened in living memory above London Bridge, although there is a record of a multiple ebb and flow at Wapping Old Stairs. At half past one the tide was a foot higher than any spring tide in recent years. Shortly after this the water began to recede towards the sea, and flowed in that direction for about half an hour. Then the tide again turned, and it was feared that the water would overflow the banks of the river. The tide rose slightly higher, but at a quarter past three the ebb set in, and the water rapidly went eastward. Though at one time grave apprehension was felt lest the banks should be submerged, the water fortunately lowered about the usual hour, and no damage appears to have been done."

W. J. M.

ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.-At 9th S. xii. 364 I was allowed to insert a short note concerning Bloomfield's grave and certain portraits of the poet which were sold after his death. I am able now to report the erection of a memorial tablet on the house at Shefford, Bedfordshire, in which Bloomfield died. It was unveiled by the donor, Miss Constance Isherwood, daughter of the Rev. Richard Isherwood, rector of Meppershall, on 4 May, 1904, and a full account of the proceedings appeared in The Bedfordshire Times of 6 May. The tablet bears the following inscription:"Robert Bloomfield, Pastoral Poet, died here August 19, 1823. Erected by Constance Isherwood, Meppershall Rectory, 1904.

The tablet was placed on the house by permission of the present owner, Mr. A. Barker.

It appears that a contemporary portrait of Bloomfield is located at Shefford. From the descriptive report of the unveiling of the memorial tablet in The Bedfordshire Times I copy the following paragraph:

"Before the ceremony begins we have time to stroll about the wide clean street of this quaint yet

smart little town, and attention is soon arrested by a portrait of Bloomfield in the shop window Without more ado we wait upon Mr. Inskip, and of Mr. Alfred Thomas Inskip, the watchmaker. learn from him that his grandfather was on very friendly terms with the poet. Indeed, their intimacy continues, for they lie side by side in the churchyard. The portrait is a mezzotint, and on the back of it are these words, in the writing of Thomas Inskip the grandfather: 'Mr. Bloomfield him ever painted was done by Peele & Son to the himself told me that the most correct likeness of proprietor of The Mammoth. He painted it whilst resident in England and took it away with him to America, after promising it to the author. It is now hanging in the museum at Philadelphia.' Whether we are to infer that this mezzotint is a

copy of the painting is an open question, but it has the appearance of being a good portrait." JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"GUTTA CAVAT LAPIDEM NON VI SED SÆPE CADENDO."-In 'Polydori Vergilii Adagiorum Opus,' Basileæ, 1550, p. 369, No. 464, is the following:

Lapides excavant aquæ.

Job. cap. xiiii. proverbiali figura dicit, Lapides excavant aquæ. Res mira, ut durities lapidis emolliatur aqua: id tamen gutta facit, non bis, sed sæpe cadendo.

It would appear that Polydore Vergil had the proverb in his mind when he wrote the above; but "non bis" in place of "non vi" is interesting. It is, perhaps, only an accident that the words "durities " to "cadendo" read somewhat like a pentameter and a hexameter, although, if so taken, there would be several false quantities. Concerning the proverb see 5th S. viii. 513, where are early examples, illustrations, and many references to former notes. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

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MARVELL'S POEMS AND SATIRES.-A new edition of these has recently appeared, which is said to contain "some long passages and many important new readings from manuscripts acquired by the British Museum" there is nothing whatever to indicate where in the volume these are to be found, though my object in writing this note is not to complain of this omission, but to protest against the perpetuation of a stupid emendation in the lines on 'Paradise Lost,' which is said to be due to Capel Lofft. Marvell, it will be remembered, has been decrying the allurements of " tinkling rhyme," and continues :I too, transported by the mode, offend, And while I meant to praise thee, must commend. One would have supposed that the meaning of those lines was sufficiently clear, but, for some inscrutable reason, Lofft, who has been followed by Mr. Aitken (in the first issue only of his volumes) and the editor of this