ft # Of this beautiful production it is hardly probable that a specimen will ever fairly come before the public eye in the way of sale. The edition is so remarkably good, the copies are so lamentably scarce, and the size is so luxuriously handy, that, combined, they produce a fascinating attraction, altogether irresistible. In the process of my own short career from auction to auction, and from shop to shop, [materially assisted as I was for more than 20 years by my late indefatigable ferret, jackal, and friend, Dr. Isaac Gossett,] I have never seen more than four perfect copies of which two, ruled throughout, are still in my possession; one is the property of a D. D. of the University of Cambridge; and the fourth and last was borne away from my grasp in triumph by the late venerable Dr. Dampier, of Ely, in was the year 1793. I remember well that the said long-contested rarity was splendidly bound in red morocco, and bought by the learned Doctor for a very few pounds and some odd shillings: I cannot accurately recollect the sum, but we all deemed it excessive, as literary stock then stood. Your Chelsea Correspondent, whose signature I presume is enigmatical, pays no slight honour to the quotation made by me from Sebastian Brant, and expatiates with much allowable self-congratulation on the importance of his two editions of that sensible writer's performance. My editions of STULTIFERA NAVIS are, 1. that whence I made my quotation, aud II. that of 1497, in laudatissimå Germaniæ urbe Basiliensi nuper operâ et promotione Johannis de Olpe. This last is seldom to be found perfect, and is sure to be bought dear, aye, au poids de l'or. My copy has one hundred and eighteen plates, and consists of one hundred and fortyfive leaves of letter-press, with a copious Registrum, ending thus, 1497, Nihil sine causa. Olpe. Of Barclay's translation, at least two editions were printed. L-BARCLAY'S (ALEXANDER) SHYP OF FOLYS OF THE WORLD, translated out of Laten, French, and Doche. Imprynted in London by Richarde Pynson, 1509. folio. A fine copy of the above is in the possession of Messrs. Longman & Co. II.-STULTIFERA NAVIS, quâ omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum utilis et necessaria ab omnibus ad suam 207 salutem perlegenda, è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, et jam diligenter impressa. An. Do. 1570. THE SHIP OF FOOLES, wherein is shewed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adjoyned unto for all men. Translated out of Latin the same, very profitable and fruitfull Priest. folio. into Englishe by Alexander Barclay, This edition contains one hundred and seventeen plates, and two hundred and seventy-four leaves, or five hundred and forty-eight pages: it is printed by John Cawood. The original translation was completed in 1508, at which time Barclay was Chaplain "in the Colledge of St. Mary Otery, in the countie of Devon." He dedicated the result of his labours to Dr. Thomas Cornish, in a wellwritten Latin Address. Of the latter edition Mr. Barlace has a very good copy for sale: so, also, has the intelligent Mr. Triphook. For the gratification of your English readers, I subjoin a correct tran script of Barclay's Paraphrase of Brant's admirable satire, quoted by me in your Magazine for November 1816, p. 420. & am, Æs. Es. S$. parayle. I am the first foole of all the whole navie, To keepe the pompe, the helme, and eke the sayle; [have I, For this is my minde, this one pleasure Of bookes to have great plentie and ap[avayle, Nor them perceave not, and then I them I take no wisedome by them, nor yet Thus am 1 a foole, and all that sue that despise ; [guise. THAT in this SHIP the chiefe place I go verne, By this wide sea with fooles wandring, The cause is plaine and easy to discerne, Still am I busy, bookes assembling, For to have plentie it is a pleasaunt In my conceyt, and to have them ay in thing [hande: But what they meane do I not understande. But yet I have them in great reverence, And honoure, saving them from filth and ordure, By often brushing and much diligence, Full goodly bounde in pleasaunt coverture, Of damas, sattin, or els of velvet pure I keepe them sure, fearing least they should be lost, For in them is the cunning wherein I me [boast. But if it fortune that any learned men Within my house fall to disputation, I drawe the curtaynes to shewe my bokes then, sought, Done was his commaundement anone : These bokes he had, and in his studie brought, [he thought, Which passed all earthly treasure as But neverthelesse he did him not apply Unto their doctrine, but lived unhappily. Lo in likewise of bookes I have store, But fewe I reade, and fewer understande, I folowe not their doctrine nor their lore, It is enough to beare a booke in hande: It were to muche to be in suche a bande For to be bound to loke within the booke, I am content on the fayre covering to looke. Also I may set another in my place *, Which may for me my bookes exercise, Or els I shall ensue the common guise, And say concedo to every argument, Least by much speeche my Latin should be spent. I am like other clerkes which so frowardly them gyde, [promotion: That after they are once come unto They geve them to pleasure, their study [votion: Their avarice covering with fained deYet dayly they preache, and have great [vetise, Against the rude lay men, and all for co set aside. derision * To wit: The ingenious author of "THE LINCOLNE NOSEGAY." . E. S. Mr. URBAN, Feb. 14. FIND in Messrs. Longman and Co's Catalogue for the past year (art. 4395) a Work entitled "Dugdale's Calendar of the Years of our Lord God, and those of the Kings of Eng. laud.—London, 1685." But am at a loss to know why the said work is classed as Dugdale's; for, on reference to a copy of this "Chronica Juridicialia," the Author (who is nameless) speaking of Dugdale, says, "To the careful industry of this great person am I chiefly obliged for most of this Chronological Table." Who was the Compiler of the Work in question? D. M.Y. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Shaftesbury, Feb. 1. H AVING obtained permission proprietor of the site of the late Ab bey of Shaftesbury, to make any searches I might think proper, I employed a workman to dig there, and at the depth of about six feet from the surface, came to the floor (as I apprehend) of the Conventual Church. It is composed of what is called Roman tile, having gryphons, dragons, greyhounds, and other animals, burnt in the bricks or tiles, interspersed with the arms of Stourton and Bonham in painted shields, similarly burnt in, surrounded in each case with a border. The bricks or tiles are about four inches square, and I send you a Drawing of one (See Plate fl, fig. 1.), baving the arms of Bonham, done, as suppose, when the Abbess Bonham presided her Abhacy commenced in 1462; she succeeded the Abbess Stourton. I met in the search with many mutilated Monuments, chiefly of Purbeck marble a Drawing also of one of these I send you (See Fig. 2.) It seems as Worcestershire, of the Inscription on seal, which a facsimile is annexed to magnifying glass; they are in Gothie letters, which shew them to be of the fourteenth century. The inscription on the smaller seal, fig. 4. is: S'I. DE TIROKEMERTOR. i.e. Sigillum Johannis de Throkemertor. Ou Fig. 5. HEMERIT. VA'DER MANDERT. The arms of this person are in the center of the seal. Fig. 4 appears to have been a seal of the Throckmortons, a family mentioned by Tindal, in his History of Evesham, as having lived near Evesham at the time of the dissolution of the monastery. This inscription shews the orthogra phy of the name at that period. Perhaps some of your Correspondents conversant in antiquities may be able to communicate some information respecting the other seal. E. R. Mr. URBAN, Newton Abbot, July13. inclosed impression (See Fig. if those into whose hands the Abbey) is from a gem found by a materials fell were anxious that the names of the dead should be concealed, as the face of the figure is destroyed, as well as the legend which once surrounded it. I have met with several other Monuments, but not a single one with an inscription. Remains of the billety mouldings of massive pillars, of the Purbeck slender marble shafts, every where dispersed under-ground, convince me, that this once grand pile of buildings was composed of Saxon, Norman, and the modern architecture or pointed arch. CH. BOWLES. * husbandman in the vicinity of Rumsey; it is a very fine and highly polished garnet, the under surface bollowed out. It was set in fine gold, the back quite plain, the rim very neatly chased, in the upper part of which chasing were three small holes probably to suspend it by a gold chain or thread. It was in the possession of Mr. Sweeper, a Silversmith at Rumsey, who had taken out the stone for the convenience of weighing the gold, who was about to make it into a broche until I dissuaded him from the design, and urged him to remount it as when found. The Inscription is submitted to the Antiquary for explanation, as well as the purpose for which the gem was intended. Mr. URBAN, H. Feb. 7. WITH this You will receive a representation of a Bronze Medallion of the unfortunate King Charles 1. (See Fig. 7.) The original (of the exact size of the Engraving) is now in the possession of Mr. James Lawrence of Axbridge. It was found not long since at a place called Broadfield |