"A Critical and Historical Account of all the celebrated Libraries in Foreign Countries, as well ancient as modern, with general Reflections on the choice of Books," &c.... "A work of great use to all men of letters. By a Gentleman of the Temple. London, printed for J. Jolliffe, in St James's Street, MDCCXXXIX."
In the preface to which work the author says:
"It will be highly useful to such noblemen and gentlemen as visit foreign countries, by instructing them in the manner of perusing whatever is curious in the Vatican and other famous libraries."
And in which he promises that—
"If it should meet with the approbation of the public, he (the author) will proceed with the libraries of these kingdoms," &c.
F. Seymour Haden.
Chelsea.
The Arms of Richard, King of the Romans (Vol. viii., pp. 265. 454.). With every respect for such heraldic authorities as Mr. Gough and Mr. Lover, I think the question as to whether the so-called bezants in the arms of Richard, King of the Romans, referred to his earldom of Poictou or of Cornwall, inclines in favour of the former: for instance, in 1253 he granted to the
monks of Okebury a release of suit and service within his manor of Wallingford, which charter has a seal appended bearing an impress of the earl armed on horseback, with a lion rampant crowned on his surcoat, inscribed "Sigillum Richardi Comitis Cornubiæ." Now this inscription seems to identify the lion as pertaining to the earldom of Cornwall; surely, if the bezants represented this earldom, they would not have been omitted on his seal as Comes Cornubiæ.
Again, a very high heraldic authority, one of deep research, Mr. J. R. Planché, gives this opinion on the subject: