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.