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Smith, in His _Vitæ_
(Lond. 1707, præf. pp. vii, viii.), refers to these manuscripts in the
following satisfactory manner:--
"Cum, post mortem D. Cosini, de pretio et valore schedarum, quas
reliquit, hæredibus non satis constaret, ... auspieatò tandem devenit, ut
favore, beneficio, et perquam insigni humanitate reverendi et doctissimi
viri, D. Joannis Smith, Sacræ Theologiæ Professoris Ecclesiæ
Dunelmensis Præbendarii, quorum frequens hac de re commercium
literarum, occasione data, (opportunè intercedente prænobili et
reverendo, D. Georgio Whelero, equite aurato, et Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ
Presbytero, ejusdem quoque Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Prebendario), habui,
duos libellos (tanquam prætiosas tabulas ab isthoc infami naufragio
servatas) a D. Cosino, dum in Galliâ exularet, Anglieè conscriptos jam
possidieam: quarum unus _Vindicias Ordinatianum Ecclesieæ
Anglicanæ_ contra exceptiones et cavillationes cujusdem Pontificii
sacerdotis e gente nostra, alter Responsionem ad Epistolam nobili
fæminæ Anglæ ab alio saccrdote _pro defensione communionis sub
unicâ specie administrandæ_ inscriptam, complectitur," &c.
I should still be glad to add to this long note the followng Queries:--
1. Can any of your readers kindly inform me whether Cosin's two
letters to Dr. Geo. Morley are still in existence, either in MS. or in
print?
2. Whether there be any fuller or more authentic account of the
controversy than that in these MS. preserved by the care of Dr. Smith?

3. Whether Cosin wrote any letter to the Prior later than that of July
25?
4. Who was the lady the Prior wished to seduce to the Roman party?
5. Is there any other account of the controversy?
J. SANSOM.
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ENGELMAN'S BIBILIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM.
A little while ago, I ordered Engelman's _Bibliotheca Scriptoram
Classicorum_, purporting to contain all such works published from
1700 to 1846. It was furnished to my bookseller by a foreign bookseller
in London with an English title, having his own name on it as publisher,
and an invitation to purchase the books described in it from him. As the
paper and type were German, I objected and received in consequence a
new English title, with the same name upon it, and a shorter invitation
to purchase from him. I was captious enough to object even to this; and
I then received a Leipzig title in German. But there still remains a
difficulty: for this German title has also the name of a Parisian
bookseller upon it, _a la maison duquel on peut s'adresser, &c._ Now,
as Engelman is a bookseller, and would probably not object to an order
out of his own catalogue, of which he is both author and publisher, the
preceding, circumstances naturally raise the following Queries:
1. What is the real title-page of Engelman's Catalogue 2. Is the Parisian
house accredited by Engelman; or has the former served the latter as
the London house has Served both? 3. Is it not desirable that literary
men should set their faces very decidedly against all and every the
slightest alteration in the genuine description of a book? 4. Would it not
be desirable that every such alteration should forthwith be
communicate to your paper?
The English title-page omits the important fact, that the Catalogue
begins at 1700, and describes it as containing all editions, &c., up to

1846.
A. DE MORGAN.
September 24. 1850.
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MINOR QUERIES.
_Portrait of Sir P. Sidney, by Paul Veronese._--In the letters of Sir P.
Sidney which I found at Hamburg, and which were published by
Pickering, 1845, it is stated that a portrait of Sidney was painted by
Paul Veronese, at Venice, for Herbert Languet. It would be very
interesting to discover the existence of this picture.
Languet had it with him at Prague, _framed_, as he asserts, and hung
up in his room, in the year 1575. He remarks upon it, in one place, that
it represented Sidney as too young (he was nineteen when it was taken);
in another place he says that it has given him too sad an expression. I
should add, that on Languet's death, his property passed into the hands
of his friend Du Plessis.
I am led to write to you on this subject, by having observed, a few days
since, in the collection at Blenheim, two portraits by Paul Veronese, of
persons unknown. There may be many such, and that of Sir Philip
Sidney may yet be identified.
STEUART A. PEARS.
Harrow, Sept. 6.
_Confession._--You would much oblige if you could discover the name
of a Catholic priest, in {297} German history, who submitted to die
rather than reveal a secret committed to him in confession?
U.J.B.
_Scotch Prisoners at Worcester._--In Mr. Walcott's _History of St.

Margaret's Church, Westminster_, I find the following extract from
church wardens' accounts:--
"1652. P'd to Thos. Wright for 67 loads of soyle laid on the graves in
Tothill Fields, wherein 1200 Scotch prisoners, taken at the fight at