Σιγμα.
[This work is by Bishop Stillingfleet; the first edition was published in 1696, and Part II. in 1700, the year following the Bishop's death.]
Lord Clifford.
—Is the present Lord Clifford lineally descended from the Lord Clifford who was Lord High Treasurer temp. Charles II., or whether he derives through any collateral branch?
CLERICUS.
[The present Lord Clifford, the eighth baron, is lineally descended from Thomas first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who was so created 22nd April, 1672.]
Latin Translation of Sarpi's Council of Trent.
—Can any one inform me who translated this into Latin? I have a copy of an early edition, without printer's name or place of publication, and with the fictitious name Petri Suavis Polani; an anagram, though not an accurate one, of Pauli, Sarpis, Veneti. The date is 1622, and over it is the device of a man under a tree, round which a vine twines, with "non solus" on a scroll. At the foot of the title-page is a MS. note in the handwriting of Rev. Francis Boult, who was a dissenting minister in Shrewsbury about a hundred years ago. It would enable those who have access to public libraries (which I have not) to answer the question above proposed. Si scire cupias quis interpres hanc historiam ex Italico in Latinum sermonem verterit, consula opusculum Degorii Wheare, Relectiones Hyamales vocatum pag. 219 et 220.
E. H. D. D.
[This is the first edition of the very inaccurate Latin translation of Sarpi's Council of Trent. The first two chapters were translated by Sir Adam Newton, and the last two by William Bedell, afterwards Bishop of Kilmore.]