3. Juan de Nicholas y Sacharles was another Spanish Protestant, who came to this country in 1618. He translated the _Bouclier de la Foi_, by P. Moulin, into Spanish; he presented it, I conjecture in MS., to Prince Charles about the year 1620. Is such a MS. known to exist in any of our libraries?
4. The recent _History of Spanish Literature_, by George Ticknor, has made us generally acquainted, that the author of the clever "Dialogo de las Lenguas," printed in _Origines de la Lengua Española_ by Gregorio Mayans y Siscar, was Juan de Valdes, to whom Italy and Spain herself owed the dawning light of the religious reformation which those countries received. Spaniards well informed in their own literature have of course been long aware of the authorship of the "Dialogo de las Lenguas." But few even of them are aware that Mayans y Siscar could not, even at so late a period, venture to reprint the work, as it was written by Juan de Valdes. He suppressed various passages, for the Inquisition was in his day too jealous and powerful for him to risk offence. Notwithstanding, and as _una cosa de España_, he printed a few copies privately, entire. Expurgated books are always unsatisfactory mutilations. Does any _Manuscript_ of the "Dialogo de las Lenguas" exist in this country, in any public or private library?
CARTER'S DRAWINGS OF YORK CATHEDRAL.--MEDAL OF STUKELEY.
I shall be glad to ascertain, if possible, through the medium of your columns, who is now the possessor of a volume of elaborate _Drawings of York Cathedral_, which were made by the late John Carter, F. S. A., for Sir Mark M. Sykes, Bart. Mr. Carter was paid a large sum on account of these drawings during the progress of his task, but after the death of the baronet, he demanded such an extravagant price that the executors declined to take the volume. At the sale of the artist's effects it was sold to Sir Gregory Page Turner, Bart., for 315_l._ It again came to the hammer, and was purchased by John Broadley, Esq., at whose sale it was disposed of for 100_l._ I cannot ascertain the purchaser on the last occasion, and am very desirous to learn where the drawings are now to be found.
The same artist also prepared a series of drawings illustrative of English costume from the earliest period. This volume was executed for Thomas Lister Parker, Esq., but, like the former, has passed into the custody of other persons, and I am now ignorant of its possessor.