"Populus vult decipi."—
| "Populus | } | { | ||
| Mundus | } | vult decipi | { | et decipiatur, |
| Vulgus | } | { | decipiatur ergo." | |
Who was the author of the maxim? which is its correct form? and where is it to be found? It seems to present another curious instance of our ignorance of things with which we are familiar. I have put the question to a dozen scholars, fellows of colleges, barristers, &c. &c., and none has been able to give me an answer. One only thinks it was a dictum of some Pope.
Harry Leroy Temple.
Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire.—Where can any list of the sheriffs for these counties be found, previous to the list given by Fuller from the time of Henry VIII.?
D.
Harris.—The Rev. William Harris, B.A., was presented, by Thomas Pindar, Esq., to the vicarage of Luddington, Lincolnshire, on the 7th August, 1722. Mr. Harris died here in June, 1748, aged eighty-two. On his tomb is inscribed,—
"Illi satis licuit
Nunc veterum libris, nunc
Somno, et inertibus horis