364.
In Dr. Harwood's edition of Erdeswick, 8vo., 1844, the same statements
are repeated, but no authority is adduced. Could any of your
correspondents obligingly furnish me with the original {310} sources of
information to which Erdeswick had access, and also with any
biographical notices of Bishop Durdent besides those which are recorded
in Godwin and Shaw? The bishop had the privilege of coining money. (See
Shaw's _Staffordshire_, pp. 233. 265.) Are any of his coins known to
numismatists?
F.R.R.
_Pope and Bishop Burgess._--To what passage in Pope's writings does the
conclusion of the following extract refer?[1]
"Digammaticae doctrinae idem accidit. In his _Popius_ eam in
ludibrium vertit, &c. Sed eximius Poeta neque in veteribus suae
ipsius linguae, nedum Graecae monumentis versatus, tantum scilicet
de antiqua illa litera vidit, quantum _de Shakespearii_
SAGITTARIO."
W.W.
[Footnote 1: 3d ed. of Dawes's _Mis. Critic_, p. xviii, note x.]
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