Books on Bells (Vol. ix., p. 240.).—Add to Mr. Ellacombe's curious list of books on bells the following:
"Duo Vota consultiva, unum de Campanis, alterum de Cœmeteriis. In quibus de utriusque antiquitate, consecratione, usu et effectibus plenè agitur, pluraque scitu dignissima ad propositi casus, aliorumque in praxi, hac de re occurrentium decisionem, non injucunde adducuntur. Auctore D. Augustino Barbosa, Protonotario Apostolico, Eminentissimorum DD. Cardinalium Sacræ Congregationis Indicis Consultore, Abbate de Mentrestido, ac insignis Ecclesiæ Vimarensis Thesaurario majore." [4to., no place nor date.]
I have here given the full title of a pamphlet of 112 pages, exclusive of title, which I purchased about twenty years since of Rodd, the honourable and intelligent bookseller of Great Newport Street. It came from the library of Professor J. F. Vandevelde of Louvaine. Some former possessor has written before the title, "Quamvis tantum libellus tamen rarissimus," and it is, perhaps, the only copy in this country. It is not in the Bodleian catalogue, nor was it in Mr. Douce's library.
P. B.
Medal in Honour of Chevalier St. George (Vol. ix., p. 105).—A. S. inquires about a medal supposed to have been struck in honour of Prince James (Chevalier St. George); but his account of it is so vague, that I am unable to answer his question. If he will describe the medal, or state the grounds upon which he supposes such a medal to have existed, I will endeavour to solve his doubts.
H.
Dean Swift's Suspension (Vol. ix., p. 244).—I am surprised that Abhba should express a belief that the circumstances of Swift's college punishment have not been noticed by any of his biographers, when every syllable of his communication is detailed (with original documentary proofs) in Dr. Barrett's Early Life of Swift, and is in substance repeated in Sir Walter Scott's Life, prefixed to Swift's works.
C.
"Vanitatem observare" (Vol. ix., p. 247).—I am sorry to have given your correspondent F. C. H. a wrong reference, and I am not quite sure about the right one; but I think it is to a Latin translation of the Council of Laodicea, A.D. 366, c. 36.
R. H. G.