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Finally, when the rumour of Coryate's
drowning proved to be false, he wrote ' The
Eighth Wonder ' :
But since true newes is come, he scap'd that
danger
And through hot sun-burnt Asia is a ranger, His raising from the dead I thought to write To please my selfe and give my friends delight.
G. C. MOOBE SMITH.
A FIFTEENTH - CENTURY INVENTORY. Amongst the inventories of the Probate Court of the Vice -Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Cambridge, now preserved at Peterborough, is one concerning Symond Byrlyngham, carpenter, of London. His goods and chattels were
" praysed by Willyam Mayner, and Richard Sough, citizens of London and praysers with the most reverend father in God, John Cardinall Archbishop of Canterbury, the xv th day of Decem- ber the yere of our lorde Miiij c iiij M xix."
The next earliest inventory of this Court bears the date 1520. What connexion Byrlingham had with the University of Cambridge I cannot say ; his name does not appear in the Index to Willis and Clark's
- Architectural History.' The document
is a roll 12 ft. long and 6 in. broad, and is full of interesting details. The carpenter had houses in " Woodestrete," " Bisshoppes- gate strete," and at " Shene." The first was the chief residence. Here he had two tablecloths of diaper work, six yards long and four yards wide. His clothes were worth 37s., his silver plate 4Z. 13s. In his hall were " a jacke, a gorgett of mayle, 2 pair of olde bryganders, 2 saletts, a battell axe, a byll & a cleyve," the whole of which were valued at 6s. 8d. The furniture of the " prentyse chamber " was worth only a quarter of a mark. At " Shene " were a pair of prickers of ivory and a pair of prickers with "hastys" bound with silver, and other tools. He had timber at Barnet and Deptford, "elmers" at " Waltham- stowe." and the following items :
" Item, ther shulde be in tymberat Staplehurst that was bought of John Horsshet cxxx tonne, and all paid for salve x.
" Item, xij acres of grove that lieth in the p'isshe of Halsted, and yet stondeth, bought of the pryour of Canterbury for the wyche paid ix u .
" Item, 1 elmers bought of Wyllyam Petham of Fremmynhamfor xl a iiij d the wyche paid in hand vij 8 iiijd wyche elmers yett stondeth."
The money owing to him amounted to 316?. 2s. 5d: Amongst his many debtors was the King : " Item, the Kings Grace owethfor diverse stuff boughte xxxij 11 xv s ." The " mraystur " of Lincoln's Inn, the Wardens of All Hallow the More, St. Albons,
St. Margaret Patent (sic), Bow and St. James,
the vintners and the leather merchants, owed
sums from 51. to 551. each. " Sir John Shaa
in full payment for the gatts at Olde Forde,
xl 8 ; for making of a mill vj h ."
The sum of his goods, ready money, and good debts was 3851. 6s. 9%d.
He himself owed about 170Z., the items being set out in detail, such as ' funeral expenses 9f. 18s. 3d., physician 13*. 4d., to the church box of his brotherhedde 14s. 6d., to a milkwife 16s., to the brotherhedde of 60 priests for money received of them in his life 51., for beer 33s. Id."
This inventory is well worth more ex- tended treatment. The University inven- tories are also of great interest, and have recently been arranged and made accessible by Mr. W. Boyer, one of the clerks of the Probate Court at Peterborough.
W. M. PALMER.
Linton, Canibs.
LATIN QUOTATIONS. (See 10 S. i. 188, 297, 437 ; ii. 110, 276 ; ix. 37; 11 S. i. 211 j v. 107.) No. 13, " Cibus hi mihi & potus sunt," ' Pedantius,' Act II. sc. i. 1. 731, ed. G. C. Moore Smith; p. 41, ed. 1631. The source for this appears to have been His cibus et potus simul est : nam sanguinem
equinum
Et lac concretum per barbara -guttura sorbent. Rufius Festus Avienus,
' Descriptio Orbis Terrse,' 921.
The words in ' Pedantius ' are imme- diately preceded by " Hos ego mea irretitos amicitia devoro prorsus et ahsorbeo."
No. 32, " Quis nisi mentis inops oblatum respuat aurum ? '" This line is given by Prof. Moore Smith in his note on ' Pe- dantius,' 1. 1677, Act III. sc. vi. (p. 95, ed. 1631), to illustrate Te vero mentis inopem, qufe oblatum hoe respuis
aurum.
He notes its quotation in Lily's ' An Intro- duction of the Eyght Partesof Speche,' 1542, and, with respuit for respuat, in Lodge's 'Rosalind.' I have lately found its source in reading Philippus Gualterus's ' Alexandreis.' See Lib. IV. 570. It is in Alexander's harangue to his troops before the battle of Arbela. Though F. A. W. Miildener's text, Leipzig, 1863, for which several MSS. and early editions were used, reads respuat, yet the first edition (? 1487) has respuit.
It is from the next book of this same mediaeval epic, 1. 301, that we get the familiar
Incidis* in Scyllani cupiens vitare Charybdin,
- curris in ed. 1.
