These inquiries have reference to the contents of the chests kept in, or in connection with, parochial churches and chapels, and not to those in the custody of the modern "Registrar." I need scarcely add, that my concern is with the strictly legal rights of search, and demand of fees; and not as to what courtesy may concede, or usage sanction.
D.
Rotherfield.
345. Bacon a Poet.
—In Boswell's Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides he quotes the subjoined couplet, premising, "As Bacon says—
"Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust."
Is not Bacon here a slip of the pen or press? Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Bacon, and Bacon the sculptor, are the only conspicuous men of the name, and none of them that I know wrote verses.
R. CS.