ions (viz.
the Duke of York, Lord Clarendon, and Locke), it is singular that no
mention of him should be discoverable in any English book.

The error, that the work in question was written by Algernon Sidney,
appears to have arisen from a confusion with the name of Captain Siden, the
imaginary traveller. Fabricius (_Bibliograph. Antiq._, c. xiv. s.16. p.
491.) mentions Sidney and Vairasse as the two most probable claimants to
the authorship.

Hume, in his _Essay on Polygamy and Divorces_, refers to the _History of
the Sevarambians_, and calls it an "agreeable romance."

L.

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WAS THERE AN "OUTER TEMPLE" IN THE POSSESSION OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS OR
KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN?--(Vol. iii., p. 325.)

I have great pleasure in complying with the very proper request of MR.
FOSS, and give my authority at once for stating in the _Hand-book for
London_ that the so-called "Outer Temple" was a part of the Fleet Street
possession of the Knights Templars or Knights of St. John, or was in any
manner comprehended within the New Temple property of Fleet Street and
Temple Bar. My authority is Sir George Buc, whose minute and valuable
account of the universities of England is dedicated to Sir Edward Coke.
Buc's words are these:--

"After this suppression and condemnation of the Templers, their house
here in Fleete Street came to the handes and occupation of diuers
Lordes. For our Antiquaries and Chronologers say, that after this
suppression Sir Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster (and Cousin to the
King then raigning) had it, but beeing after attainted of treason, hee
enjoyed it but a short time.

"Then next Hugh Spencer Earle of Glocester got into it, but he also was
soone after attainted, and executed for Treason. After him Andomare de
Valence, a nobleman of the great house of Lusignan, and Earle of
Pembrooke, was lodged in it for a while. But this house was '_Equus
Seianus_' to them all: and (as here it appeareth) was ordayned by God
for other better uses, and whereunto now it serueth. After all these
noble tenants and occupants were thus exturbed, dead, and gone, then
certaine of the reuerend, ancient professours of the Lawes, in the
raign of King Edward the Third, obtained a very large or (as I might
say) a perpetuall Lease of this Temple, or (as it must bee understood)
of two parts thereof distinguished by the names of the