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86 NOTES AND QUERIES, no* s. iv. JOLV 29,1905. one of Stuart's old antagonists who remained at variance with him when he contemplated the publication of his apologia. The Douglas Cause is discussed in the following pages of 'N. ifeQ.': 2'"1 S. iv. 69, 110, 158, 209, 285; v. 445 ; vi. 130 ; xii. 222 ; 3rd S. iv. 48, 522; 5th S. v. 35. HORACE BLEACKLEY. Fox Oak, Walton-on-Thames. THOMAS (vere JOHN) WRIGHT.—As I pointed out incidentally at 10th S. ii. 135, a document printed in the 'Douay Diaries,' pp. 288-96, contains, at p. 290, the name of Thomas Wright. Similarly Dodd in his ' Church History ' (firsted., vol. ii. at p. 91) gives an ac- count of Thomas Wright, which Mr. Thompson Copper has followed in the ' D.N.B.,' Ixiii. 128. It is clear, however, from the' Dpuay Diaries' themselves, as well as from Morris's ' Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers' (third series, pp. 301-2), that Wright's true Christian name was John. He first comes into prominence at the foundation of the English College, Douay, 1569. In 1573 he took the degree of S.T.B. at Douay. On 20 November, 1576, he left for England, vid Paris, but was back again 9 February, 1577. On 23 May, 1577, he took the degree of S.T.L. at Douay. On 2 December, 1577, he left again for England. In Lent, 1578, he was arrested at Borough- bridge, and lodged in Ousebank Kidcote, York. Thence he was removed, probably •early in August of the same year, to Hull Blockhouse, whence he was exiled in 1585. As in a document of 1579 (printed Strype, 'Ann.,' II. ii. 660) he is described as aged forty, it is improbable that he was a Queen Mary priest. He became Dean of Courtrai before 1599. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. ASTRONOMY IN 'GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.'— Has the following curious anticipation of astronomical discovery been yet pointed out in 'N. & Q.'? In the voyage to Laputa, Gulliver writes of the local astronomers that they have discovered two satellites of Mars, and proceeds to describe their movements and periodical times. Swift published the first edition of 'Gulliver' iu 1726. The two satellites of Mars (now known as Deimos and Phobos) were not discovered until 1877. I can find no evidence that the existence of satellites of Mars had ever been suggested by astronomers of earlier times. Such a verifica- tion by science of what must have been the merest fancy on Swift's part is very curious and interesting. ALEX. LEEPER. Trinity College, University of Melbourne. [This successful guess is, we believe, well known to literary men.] "Lx DANGER " = IMPENDING.—Writing on 29 October, 1819, to Mr.' Hoppner, British' Consul-General at Venice, Byron says, "So Madame Albrizzi's death is in danger—poor woman !" See Moore's ' Life and Letters of Lord Byron,' ch. xxxvi. There seems to be a shade of difference between this phrase and what would be indicated by saying that the life 'is in danger. Byron's expression would appear to imply that life in the case under consideration is practically over, and only the great change may be looked for, while there is still hope of recovery as long as it can be said that the citadel is seriously threatened', but manages to hold out. Pro- bably the 'N.E.D.'fully discusses the subject, but at the moment it is not available. THOMAS BAYNE. [Among the illustrative quotations for in danger in the ' N.E.D.' is this from L,ady Chaworth, c. 1676:1 " Lord Mohun was four days in dangerof lyfe."J "WHEN DOCTORS DIFFER." — During the hearing of an action lately .brought against Dr. Spenser, head master of' University College School, Gower Street, the defendant said he -doubted the dona .fides of a letter he had received. To quote a'newspaper para- graph :— "He called it 'bonna fiddes.' 'Your classical education seems to have been neglected,' Mr. Bowen commented loftily. '1 think it. is rather your pro- nunciation that is at fault,' the master retorted, mildly. 'Your quantities are all wrong.' The K.C. protested that he was at Winchester School, artd there they did not agree with people who called Cicero ' Kikero," and pronounced' Veni, vidi, vici,' ' Weyni, weedee, weekee ' "— a speech which, howe_ver amusing and [chest]- nutty, was quite beside the ftiark. In his ' Personal Recollections' Mr. Suther- land Edwards records :— " The only Englishman at Tatra Fared when I first went there was a very illustrious one—Dean Stanley He had already inscribed his name in the visitors' book, and had written after his signa- ture a brief note on the entry made by a silly pre- decessor. 'Tempora mutantur et nos mutant ur in illis ' could not but offend his eye, his ear, hi* memory. He expressed his disgust by putting a short mark over the first lir thus, and adding, ' Evi- dently no Latin scholar.' "—Pp. 200, .201. In .relation to this it was interesting to find the following passage in The Spectator's notice j(29 April, p. 642) of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff's ' Notes from a Diary, 1896-1901': " There is a curious «tory, A propo* of quotations, of how.oiie of the: law officers of a Conservative government quoted the line ' tempo ra mutantur et nos mutaraur in illis,' and that Disraeli said to one of his colleagues, ' Tell that man never to open his mouth again !' It was, he thought, a' case of false ' prosody, the • ' and> nos having to be transposed. But Disraeli was wrong and the lawyer right. The