[As this Query of AMERICUS contains some new illustration of the
history of this phrase, we have given it insertion, although the
subject has already been discussed in our columns. The writer will,
however, find that the earliest known instances of the use of the
sayings are, by William of Malmesbury, who, speaking of Odo yielding
his consent to be Archbishop of Canterbury, A.D. 920, says: "Recogitans
illud Proverbium, _Vox Populi Vox Dei_;" and by Walter Reynolds,
Archbishop of Canterbury, who, as we learn from Walsingham, took it as
his text for the sermon which he preached when Edward III. was called
to the throne, from which the people had pulled down Edward II.
AMERICUS is farther referred to Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis' _Essay on the
Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion_ (pp. 172, 173., and the
accompanying notes) for some interesting remarks upon it. See farther,
"N. & Q.," Vol. i., pp. 370. 419. 492.; Vol. iii., pp. 288. 381.]
_"Lanquettes Cronicles."_--Of what date is the earliest printed copy of
these Chronicles? The oldest I am acquainted with is 1560, in quarto
(continued up to 1540 by Bishop Cooper). Is this edition rare?