1.  Did the following critical remarks on Shakspere, by Edward Phillips, appear verbatim in the Thesaurus of J. Buchlerus, 1669?

The Bodleian library has the London edition of 1636; and the British Museum that of 1652.  Wood cites an edition of 1669.  I transcribe from that of 1679.

“Hoc seculo [sc. temporibus Elizabetha reginae et Jacobi regis] floruerunt—­Gulielmus Shacsperus, qui praeter opera dramatica, duo poematia Lucretiae stuprum a Tarquinio, et Amores Veneris in Adonidem, lyrica carmina nonnulla composuit; videtur fuisse, siquis alius, re vera poeta natus.  Samuel Daniel non obseurus hujus aetatis poeta, etc....

Ex eis qui dramatice scripserunt, primas sibi vendicant Shacsperus, Jonsonus et Fletcherus, quorum hic facunda et polita quadam familiaritate sermonis, ille erudito judicio et usu veterum authorum, alter nativa quadam et poetica sublimitate ingenii excelluisse videntur.  Ante hos in hoc genere poeseos apud nos eminuit nemo.  Pauci quidem antea scripserunt, at parum foeliciter; hos autem tanquam duces itineris plurimi saltem aemulati sunt, inter quos praeter Sherleium, proximum a supra memorato triumviratu.  Suclingium, Randolphium, Davenantium et Carturitium—­enumerandi veniunt Ric.  Bromeus, Tho.  Heivodus,” etc.

2.  What are the contents of a work entitled, [Old German script:  Schaubune Englischer und Franssofischer Comaedianten], printed before 1671?

This work is recorded, but without a date, in the Historia literaria of Simon Paulli, which was printed at Strasbourg in 1671.  A statement of its contents would be very acceptable to myself, and to other admirers of our early dramatic literature.

3.  Who is the fortunate possessor of the Lives and characters of the English dramatick poets with the marginal marks of Garrick?

The copy in question was sold with the unreserved books of Garrick in 1823, No. 1269.  It contained this note: 

    “All the plays marked thus * in this catalogue, I bought of
    Dodsley.  Those marked thus O, I have added to the collection
    since.  D.G.”

Each of the above queries would have admitted further remarks, but I wish to set an example of obedience to the recent editorial injunction on brevity.

BOLTON CORNEY.

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MINOR QUERIES.

Elizabeth and Isabel.—­“A.C.” inquires whether these names are not varied forms of the same name, and if so, what is the common origin of the two?  Camden, in his Remains, has—­