Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various

Archæus.

Dusseldorf, March 6.

Denarius Philosophorum (Vol. iii., p. 168.).—Bishop Thornborough may have been thus styled from his attachment to alchemy and chemistry. One of his publications is thus entitled:

"Nihil, Aliquid, Omnia, in Gratiam eorum qui Artem Auriferam Physico-chymicè et pie, profitentur." Oxon. 1621.

Another part of his monumental inscription is singular. On the north side are, or were, these words and figures—"In uno, 2^o 3^a 4^r 10—non spirans spero."

"He was," says Wood, "a great encourager of Bushall in his searches after mines and minerals:"

and Richardson speaks of this prelate as—

"Rerum politicarum potius quam Theologicarum et artis Chemicæ peritia Clarus."

J. H. M.

On a Passage in the Tempest (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337. 429. 499.).—If you will allow me to offer a conjecture on a subject, which you may think has already been sufficiently discussed in your pages, I shall be glad to submit the following to the consideration of your readers.