_Elizabeth and Isabel._--"A.C." inquires whether these names are not
varied forms of the same name, and if so, what is the common origin of
the two? Camden, in his _Remains_, has--
"ELIZABETH, _Heb._ Peace of the Lord, or quiet rest of the Lord,
the which England has found verified in the most honoured name
of our late sovereign. Mantuan, playing with it maketh it
Eliza-bella; and of Isabel he says 'The same with Elizabeth, if
the Spaniards do not mistake, which always translate Elizabeth
into Isabel, and the French into Isabeau.'" {440}
_Howard, Earl of Surrey._--Dr. Percy is said, in Watt's _Bibliotheca
Britannica_, to have prepared an edition of the poems of the Earl of
Surrey, the whole impression of which was consumed in the fire which
took place in Mr. Nicholl's premises in 1808. Can any of your readers
say whether Dr. Percy had a copy of the sheets, and whether he had
prefixed thereto any life of the Earl of Surrey? or did Sir Egerton
Brydges ever print any account of Surrey amongst his numerous issues
from the Lee or other presses?