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I wish to know whether the Roman proverb, _Quem vult perdere Deus
prius dementat_, is merely a translation of this, or whether it is to
be found in a Latin author? If the latter, in what author? Is it in
Seneca?
EDWARD S. JACKSON.
_Southwell's Supplication_.--Can any one inform me where I can see a
copy of _Robert Southwell's Supplication to Queen Elizabeth_, which
was printed, according to Watts, in 1593? or can any one, who has seen
it, inform me what is the style and character of it?
J.S.
_Gesta Grayorum_.--In Nichol's _Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_, vol.
iii., p. 262., a tract is inserted, entitled "Gesta Grayorum; or,
History of the High and Mighty Prince Henry, Prince of Purpoole, &c.,
who lived and died in A.D. 1594." The original is said to have been
printed in 1688, by Mr. Henry Keepe. Is any copy of it to be had or
seen?
J.S.
_Snow of Chicksand Priory_.--"A.J.S.P." desires information respecting
the immediate descendants of R. Snow, Esq., to whom the site of {352}
Chicksand Priory, Bedfordshire, was granted, 1539: it was alienated
by his family, about 1600, to Sir John Osborn, Knt.
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