S.S.S.
Sir William Skipwyth (Vol. i., p. 23.).—Mr. Foss will find some notices of Will. Skipwyth in pp. 83, 84, 85, of Rotulorum Pat. & Claus. Cancellariæ Hib. Calendarium, printed in 1828.
R.B.
Trim, May 13. 1850.
Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton (Vol. i., p. 481.).—Mr. Markland is probably right in his conjecture that Johnson had Warton's lines in his memory; but the original source of the allusion to Peru is Boileau:
"De tous les animaux
De Paris au _Pérou_, du Japon jusqu'à Rome,
Le plus sot animal, à mon avis, c'est l'homme."
Warton's Poems appeared in March, 1748. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes was published the 9th January, 1749, and was written probably in December or November preceding.
C.