Bibliothecar. Chetham.
Odour from the Rainbow (Vol. iii. pp. 224. 310.).—This idea has been traced to Bacon's Sylva, Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, Snow's Miscellaneous Poems, and to a Greek writer referred to by Coleridge. Georgius de Rhodes, in his Peripatetic Philosophy, mentions the same effect of the rainbow, and quotes Pliny:
"Dico sexto, iridis effectus duos præcipue numerari. Primus est, quod plantas, arbores, frutices, quibus incubuerit, efficit odorationes. Tradunt, inquit Plinius lib. xii. c. 24., in quocunque frutice incurvetur cœlestis arcus, eandem quæ sit aspalato suavitatem odoris existere; aspalato autem inenarrabilem quandam. Terra etiam ipsa suavius halare dicitur."
In the annotations on Pliny, in loco, Aristotle is referred to in Problem. Quæst. xii.
Bibliothecar. Chetham.
Judges styled Reverend (Vol. iv., pp. 151. 198).—The following is an extract from the title of a small octavo volume, printed for the assignees of John More, Esq., London, 1635, which lately came into my hands:—La novel Natura Brevium du Juge Tresreverend Monsieur Anthony Fitzherbert; with a new table by William Rastall. The preface is headed as follows:—"La Preface sur cest lieuz compose per le Reverend Justice Anthony Fitzherbert."
Anthony Fitzherbert was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1523, and died in 30 Hen. VIII. William Rastall was appointed Serjeant-at-law in 1554, and one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in 1558: it would seem, therefore, that as Rastall is not styled "Serjeant-at-law" in the title-page of the book when he made a new table to its contents, that the complimentary style of Reverend, as applicable to the judges, was used at least as late as the middle of the sixteenth century.
Thomas W. King, York Herald.
College of Arms.
Jacob Bobart (Vol. viii., p. 37.).—I beg to supply the following additional particulars relating to the Bobart family. In the Correspondence of Dr. Richardson, edited by Mr. Dawson Turner, will be found a letter from Bobart junior to the Doctor, with a reference to two other letters. In pages 9, 10, and 11, a copious note respecting the Bobart family, by the editor, is given. A short notice of Bobart jun. also appears in the Memoirs of John Martyn, Professor of Botany at Cambridge. The following epitaph on Bobart jun. is in Amherst's Terræ Filius, 1726: