If it is not already known that Oldys obtained the appointment of Norroy through the intercession of Sir Peter Thompson, to whom the above autobiographic sketch was addressed, I think I can confidently assert such was the fact. I am collecting materials for biographical notices of the King's Heralds and Pursuivants-at-Arms. Will you permit me, through the medium of "N. & Q.," to make known to your correspondents that I have such a work in hand; and that I should be obliged for any unpublished particulars, either relative to Oldys, or any other members of the College of Arms.
ON COSIN'S "HISTORY OF POPISH TRANSUBSTANTIATION," EDITED BY THE REV. J. S. BREWER.
As every work of value, and likely to live, should be made as correct as possible, I beg insertion in "N. & Q." of some remarks on a note in Mr. Brewer's very satisfactory edition of so important a volume as that of Cosin on the papal doctrine of transubstantiation. The note occurs in p. 130., and is as follows:--
"++ _Index Expurg. Hispan. D. Gasp. Quirogæ Card. et Inquisit. generalis in fine._
"There is a copy of one edition of this Index in the British Museum, but I cannot find the passage to which Bp. Cosin refers. The other Index to which he refers is not to be found in the British Museum, Bishop Tenison's library, or Sion College."
The disappointment of Mr. Brewer may not improbably be ascribed to the unfortunate fact, that in the _English_ translation of Cosin's book, which is given by Mr. Brewer in the forecited extract, after the word _fine_ are omitted the words _Lit. O._, which are found in the _Latin_ original. This additional direction would have led to the passage which the editor was desirous of verifying. For, in the first edition of the _Index_ referred to, that of 1584, the particular index at the end, under O, gives the fol. 182, 183 (_falso 171_), where the passage is found exactly as extant in the Latin of Cosin. The particular _Expurgatory Index_ under view was printed in 1601 and 1611. In the first of the two, _that_ printed at Saumur, the passage is found fol. 149. _verso_. I dare say it is so in the other entitled _Duo Testes, &c._, but that is of no moment. Bp. Cosin does not, as the note expresses, refer to any "other index." The British Museum is comparatively scanty in this class of books, but they are all to be found in the Bodleian Library. { 532}