Sir,—I shall be greatly obliged if you will permit me to propound the following queries in your "Current Notes:"
1. Is any endeavour being made to complete that vast work, the "Acta Sanctorum," the last volume of which was published at Brussels in 1845?
2. Where can I see a list of the persons on whom it was proposed by Charles the Second to confer the Order of the Royal Oak?
3. Is there any English translation of the "Aurea Legenda" besides the one by Caxton, and has that translation ever been reprinted?
E. P.
Autographic Biography.
March 6, 1852.
Sir,—I have taken some little pains to find out S. S.'s quere ("Current Notes," Feb. p. 15), without further success than to presume (in the absence of a facsimile) that the "Orford" must be the Earl created 1742, there being a "Kendal" title then in existence: extinct 1743. Your correspondent can, without great difficulty, compare it with those mutilated documents, I should say, that have been so frequently dispersed at the various sales from the stock of Messrs. Upcott, Cole & Co., originally in the Exchequer State Paper Office, from whence no doubt it came.
Yours,
"Magog."