Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 | Page 9

fully
carried out?
LAICUS.
Pope Ganganelli.--There was a Life of Pope Clement XIV. (Ganganelli)
published in London in 1785. It was a distinct work from that by
Caraccioli. Can any of your readers inform me of the author's name; or
is there any one who has seen the book, or can tell where a copy may
be found?

CEPHAS.
Sir George Downing.--I should be glad to obtain any information
respecting Sir George Downing, of East Halley, Cambridgeshire, and
Gamlingay Park, or his family. He was ambassador from Cromwell and
Charles II. to the States-General of Holland, secretary to the Treasury,
and the statesman who caused the "Appropriation Act" to be passed,
the 17th of Charles II. The family is of most ancient origin in
Devonshire, and I have heard that a portrait of him is possessed by
some person in that county.
ALPHA.
Solemnization of Matrimony.--In the service of the Church for this
occasion, on the ring being placed upon the woman's finger, the man is
prescribed to say: "With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee
worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow," &c. How is this
last sentence to be reconciled with the law? or is the vow to be
considered revocable?
A. A.
Abridge.
Passage in Bishop Butler.--In Bishop Butler's sermon "Upon the
Government of the Tongue" occurs the following passage:
"There is in some such a disposition to be talking, that an offence of the
slightest kind, and such as would not raise any other resentment, yet
raises, if I may so speak, the resentment of the tongue, puts it into a
flame, into the most ungovernable motions. This outrage, when the
person it respects is present, we distinguish in the lower rank of people
by a peculiar term."
Now I should be glad if any one could offer a conjecture as to the
Bishop's meaning in this last sentence? I have shown it to several
people, but no one has been able to think of this "peculiar term."

R.
The Duke of Wharton's Poetical Works.--Ritson prepared an edition of
this nobleman's poetical works for the press. It contained nearly as
much again as the printed edition of 1732. What has become of the
MS.?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
Titus Oates.--Can any of your correspondents refer me to an autograph
of Titus Oates?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
Erasmus' Colloquies--Apuleius' Golden Ass, Translations of.--Will any
of your readers be kind enough to enlighten a provincial ignoramus by
answering the following Queries:--
1. Which is the best and most complete English translation of Erasmus'
Colloquies?
2. Is there an English translation of Apuleius' Golden Ass?
3. Is the French translation of the latter work considered a good one?
G. P. I.
The Molten Sea.--In 1835, Captain J. B. Jervis, of the Bombay
Engineers, published at Calcutta an essay, entitled Records of Ancient
Science, in which he endeavours to reconcile the discrepancy between
the 1 Kings, vii. 23. 26. and the 2 Chron. iv. 2. 5. by proving that a
vessel of oblate spheroidal form--of 30 cubits in the periphery, and 10
cubits in the major axis--would (according to the acknowledged
relation of the bath to the cubit) hold exactly 2,000 baths liquid
measure, and 3,000 baths when filled and heaped up conically with
wheat (as specified in Ezekiel, xlv. 11.).
I do not possess any means of criticising this explanation of the
difficulty, and having searched in various modern commentaries for a

notice of it without success, I venture to submit it in your columns to
the attention of others.
TYRO-ETYMOLOGICUS.
"Sedem Animæ", &c.--Will any of your correspondents inform me
where the following quotation is taken from:--
"Sedem animæ in extremis digitis habent."
It will be found in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, folio edition (7th),
p. 55., and in the 8vo. edition of 1837, vol. iv. p. 80. Burton cites it as
from Sallust, but the verbal index of that author has been consulted in
vain for it.
W. S.
Richmond, Surrey.
Old St. Pancras Church.--Old St. Pancras has always been a noted
burial-place for Roman Catholics that reside in or near London; and it
has been assigned as a reason for that being their mausoleum and
cemetery, that prayers and mass are said daily in a church dedicated to
the same saint, in the south of France, for the repose of the souls of the
faithful whose bodies are deposited in the church of St. Pancras near
London (England), where crosses and Requiescat in Pace, or the initial
of those words, R.I.P., are found on the sepulchral monuments. It is
said prayer and mass {465} are said at St. Peter at Rome, also for the
same purpose.
Can any of your readers inform me where that church is in the south of
France; and when such