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Gregory the Great.—Lady Morgan, in her letter to Cardinal Wiseman, speaks of “the pious and magnificent Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, the ally of Gregory the Great, and the foundress of his power through her wealth and munificence.” By Gregory the Great it is evident that Lady Morgan means Hildebrand, or Gregory VII. May ask, through the medium of your pages, whether any authority can be found for terming Gregory VII. the Great, an epithet which I had previously considered to be confined to Gregory I.?
EGENHART.
John Hill’s Penny Post, in 1659.—I noted a few years back, from a bookseller’s catalogue, the title of a work—
“Hill (John), a Penny-Post;
or a vindication of the liberty of every
Englishman in carrying Merchants’
and other Men’s letters against any
restraints of farmers of such
employments. 4to. 1659.”
Can any of your correspondents give an account of this work?
E.M.B.
Andrea Ferrara.—Will any kind friend inform me where any history is to be found of “Andrea Ferrara,” the sword cutler?
V.E.L.
Imputed Letters of Sallustius.—Can any of your correspondents inform me whether a MS. of the Epistles of Sallustius to Caesar on Statesmanship is deposited in any one of our public libraries?
KENNETH R.H. MACKENZIE.
January 18. 1851.
Thomas Rogers of Horninger (Vol. ii., pp. 424. 521.).—I am obliged to Mr. Kersley for his reference to Rose’s Biographical Dictionary; but he might have supposed that all such ordinary sources of information would naturally be consulted before your valuable journal be troubled with a query. Having reason to believe that Rogers took an active part in the stirring events of his time, I shall be much obliged to any of your correspondents who will refer me to any incidental notices of him in cotemporary or other writers: to diffuse which kind of information your paper seems to me to have been instituted.
S.G.