[Ralph Winterton, in 1632, translated the _Considerations of
Drexelius upon Eternity_, in the Preface to which he says, "I left
the temple of Hippocrates and the Muses, and betook myself into
the sanctuary, to learn of David divine arithmetic, which
consisteth in the due numbering of the days of this short life, by
comparing them with the years of eternity; and so I fell upon
translating this book of eternity. And this I found, by daily
experience, to be the best hypnoticon that ever I used; for it
brought me to my rest better than if had taken diacodion." In 1634
he was nominated Professor of Physic in the University of
Cambridge; and in 1635 published an edition of the minor Greek
poets. The first edition of his translation of Gerard's
_Meditations and Prayers_ was published in 1631, and in 1640 he
translated Gerard's _Summe of Christian Doctrine_, 8vo. There is a
Latin distich by Winterton among the Additional MSS. in the
British Museum, No. 5955.]
_Emblems of a Saint._--At the sale of the late Mr. Cottingham's Museum
of medieval art was sold on the seventh day "a corbel with a figure of a
saint with a basket of birds in one hand, in the other a staff." Will
you allow me to inquire, through your valuable columns, the name of this
saint?