Is there in the British Museum or elsewhere a list of incumbents of church livings in Kent (with name and birthplace) from 1600 to 1660?
BRANBRIDGES.
York Buildings Company.—This company existed about the middle of the last century. I shall be glad to be informed where the papers connected with it are to be met with, and may be referred to.
WDN.
Saying ascribed to Montaigne.—The saying, "I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them," is usually ascribed to Montaigne. In what part of his works are these words to be found? I heard doubts expressed of their genuineness some years ago by a reader of the Essays; and my own search for them has also proved hitherto unsuccessful.
C. FORBES.
"Modum promissionis."—Will any of your readers help to interpret the following expression in a mediæval author:—
"(Ut vulgò loquitur) modum promissionis ostendit?"
I have reason to think that modum promissionis means "a provisional arrangement:" but by whom, and in what common parlance, was this expression used?