f gloves."

Y. S.

_Sir Thomas Phillipps's Manuscripts._--Many inquiries are made in your
useful publication after books and authors, which may easily be answered by
the querist referring to the Catalogue of Sir Thomas Phillipps's
Manuscripts in the British Museum, the Society of Antiquaries, the
_Athenaeum_, or the Bodleian Library.

T.

_Translation from Owen, &c._--I do not remember seeing in a subsequent
number of "NOTES AND QUERIES" any version of Owen's epigram, quoted by DR.
MAITLAND in No. 17. I had hoped RUFUS would have tried his hand upon it;
but as he has not, I send you a translation by an old friend of the
Doctor's, which has at least the merit of being a close one, and catching,
perhaps, not a little of the spirit of the original.

"_Owen de Libro suo._

"Oxoniae salsus (juvenis tum) more vetusto
Wintoniaeque (puer tum) piperatus eram.
Si quid inest nostro piperisve salisve libello,
Oxoniense sal est, Wintoniense piper."

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"_Owen on his Book._

"When fresh at Oxon I a salting got;
At Winton I'd been pepper'd piping hot;
If aught herein you find that's sharp and nice,
'Tis Oxon's seasoning, and Winton's spice."

I subjoin also an epitaph[1] from the chapel of Our Ladye in Gloucester
Cathedral, translated by the same hand.

"_Elizabetha loquitur._

"Conjugis effigiem sculpsisti in marmore conjux
Sic me immortalem te statuisse putas;
Sed Christus fuerat viventi spesque fidesque
Sic me mortalem non sinit esse Deus."

"Say, didst thou think within this sculptured stone
Thy faithful partner should immortal be?
Fix'd was her faith and hope on Christ alone,
And thus God gave her immortality."

F. T. J. B.

Deanery of Gloucester.

_Epigram on the late Bull_.--Pray preserve the following admirable epigram,
written, it is said, by one of the most accomplished scholars of the
university of Oxford:--

"Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras:
Impius heu Sapiens, desipiensque Pius."

Thus translated:

"The wise man and the Pius have laid us under bann;
Oh Pious man unwise! oh impious Wise-man!"

S. M. H.

_Bailie Nicol Jarvie_ (Vol. ii., p. 421.).--When we spoke recently of
Charles Mackay, the inimitable Bailie Nicol Jarvie of one of the
Terryfications (though not by Terry) of Scott's _Rob Roy_ having made a
formal affidavit that he was a real "Edinburgh Gutter Bluid," we suspect
some of our readers themse