Bishop Jewel’s Papers.—­It is generally understood that the papers left by Bishop Jewel were bequeathed to his friend Dr. Garbrand, who published some of them.  The rest, it has been stated, passed from Dr. G. into the possession of New College, Oxford.  Are any of these still preserved in the library of that college? or, if not, can any trace be found of the persons into whose hands they subsequently came, or of the circumstances under which they were lost to New College?

A.H.

Allusion in Friar Brackley’s Sermon.—­In Fenn’s Paston Letters, XCVIII. (vol. iii., p. 393., or vol. i., p. 113.  Bohn), entitled “An ancient Whitsunday Sermon, preached by Friar Brackley (whose hand it is).  At the Friers Minors Church in Norwich” occurs the following:—­

    “Semiplenum gaudium est quando quis in praesenti gaudet et tunc
    cogitans de futuris dolet; ut in quodam libro Graeco, &c.”

    “Quidam Rex Graeciae, &c.; here ye may see but half a joy; who
    should joy in this world if he remembered him of the pains of
    the other world?”

What is the Greek Book, and who is the king of Greece alluded to?

N.E.R.

Selden’s Titles of Honour.—­Does any gentleman possess a MS. Index to Selden’s Titles of Honour?  Such, if printed, would be a boon; for it is a dreadful book to wade through for what one wants to find.

B.

Colonel Hyde Seymour.—­In a book dated 1720, is written “Borrow the Book of Col.  Hyde Seymour.”  I am anxious to know who the said Colonel was, his birth, &c.?

B.

Quem Deus vult perdere, &c.—­Prescot, in his History of the Conquest of Peru (vol. ii., p. 404., 8vo. ed.), says, while remarking on the conduct of Gonzalo Pisaro, that it may be accounted for by “the insanity,” as the Roman, or rather Grecian proverb calls it, “with which the gods afflict men when they design to ruin them.”  He quotes the Greek proverb from a fragment of Euripides, in his note:—­

  “[Greek:  Otan de Daimon andri parsunei kaka
  Ton noun eblapse proton.]”

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?