Fides Carbonarii (Vol. iv., pp. 233. 283.; Vol. v., p. 523.).—The Collier's Confession of Faith did not originate with Dr. Milner, but is at least three hundred years old. Cardinal Hosius commends it highly (De auctor. sacræ Script.: Opp. fol. 263.: Antverp. 1556), and so does Staphylus likewise (Apologia, fol. 83.: Colon. 1562). Bellarmin gives another version of the narrative, which he has taken from Petrus Barocius (De arte bene moriendi, lib. ii. cap. ix. pp. 200-203.: Antverp. 1620). Your correspondents should not have forgotten the concluding question and answer in what Crakenthorp has styled "The Colliar's Catechisme" (Vigilius Dormitans, p. 187.: Lond. 1631). The entire of the conversation may be represented thus:
"What do you believe?"
"I believe what the Church believes."
"And what does the Church believe?"
"The Church believes what I believe."
"And what do you both believe?"
"The same thing."
R. G.
Line on Franklin (Vol. iv., p. 443.; Vol. v., pp. 17. 549.).—
"Eripuit Jovi fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis."
I do not exactly see the object of Mr. Warden's inquiry (if it indeed be one), as your correspondent R. D. H. had already traced it from Cardinal Polignac to Manilius; but, as perhaps Mr. Warden means to inquire where he may have read it, I beg leave to inform him that line was first published as anonymous in the Correspondence de Grimm et de Diderto, April, 1778, and was lately reproduced in the Quarterly Review for June, 1850, with the addition that it was from the pen of Turgot, as the authority, I presume, of the Life, art. Turgot, in the Biographie Universelle.
C.
Meaning of Royd as an Addition to Yorkshire Names (Vol. v., p. 489.).—The glossary to Hulton's Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey at once gives it thus:
"Roda, an assart, or clearing. Rode land is used in this sense in modern German, in which the verb roden means to clear. The combination of the syllable rod, rode, or royd, with some other term, or with the name of an original settler, has, no doubt, given to particular localities such designations as Huntroyd, Ormerod, &c., &c."
See also Lower On Surnames (3rd edit. i. 85.), and an elaborate note in Dr. Whitaker's Whalley, referred to in his account of Ormerod (3rd edit. p. 364.).