Anatolias, bishop of Constantinople, an unwelcome aspirant to
ecclesiastical supremacy. (See _Concilia Studio Labbei_, tom. iv., col.
844, &c.)
A passage frown Jerome's _Epistle to Evangelus_ is often quoted in works
on church government, as equalising, or nearly so, the office of bishop
and presbyter; but the drift of the argument seems to be, to show that
the _site_ of a bishop's see, be it great or small, important or
otherwise, does not affect the episcopal _office_. Some readers will
perhaps offer an opinion on these two questions.
NOVUS.
_Ductor Dubitantium_.--The Judge alluded to by Jeremy Taylor in the
passage quoted by A.T. (Vol. ii., p. 325.), was Chief-Justice
Richardson; but the place where the outrage was committed was not
Ludlow, as stated by the eloquent divine, but Salisbury, as appears from
the following marginal note in Dyer's _Reports_, p. 1886--a curious
specimen of the legal phraseology of the period:--
"Richardson, C.J. de C.B. at Assizes at Salisbury in Summer 1631
fuit assault per Prisoner la condemne pur Felony; que puis son
condemnation ject un Brickbat a le dit Justice, que narrowly
mist. Et pur ceo immediately fuit Indictment drawn pur Noy
envers le Prisoner, et son dexter manus ampute et fixe al
Gibbet, sur que luy mesme immediatement hange in presence de
Court."
EDWARD FOSS.
_Aerostation_ (Vol. ii., p. 317.).--The account published by Lunardi of
his aerial voyage, alluded to by M., is, in the copy I have seen,
entitled
"An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in Britain, in a series
of letters to his guardian, the Chevalier Gherardo Compagni,
written under the impressions of the various events that
affected the undertaking, by Vicent Lunardi, Esq., Secretary to
the Neapolitan Ambassador. 'A non esse nec fuisse non datur
argumentum ad non posse.' Second edition, London: printed for
the Author, and sold at the Panther; also by the Publisher J.
Bell, at the British Library, Strand, and at Mr. Molini's,
Woodstock Street, MDCCLXXXIV."
The book contains printed copies of the depositions of witnesses who
beheld Lunardi's descent; and Mr. Baker, who, as a magistrate, took
those depositions on oath, to establish what he thought so wonderful a
fact, erected on the spot where the balloon descended, in a field near
Colliers End, in the parish of Standon, Herts, on the left of the high
road from London to Cambridge, a
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