Sir,--An answer to the following "Query" would be most interesting to
myself, and, perhaps, not altogether without its value to the literary
world.
Among Sir Roger Twysden's MSS. I have a letter from him to his son at
Oxford, requesting his intercession with the University for the loan of
the MS. of Walter Mapes "_de nugis curialium_," in order that he might
prepare it for publication. He instances the liberality of the
Archbishop of Canterbury in having lent him from Lambeth the _Epistles
of Amselm and Becket_; and adds, that, by being permitted to retain
these MSS. in his hands for some years, he had now prepared them for the
press.
I cannot learn that they were ever printed, and among the voluminous MS.
remains of Sir Roger now in my hands, I cannot find the smallest trace
of them. Can any one your readers inform me what became of this
collection, which, by Sir Roger's statement, was finished and completely
ready for the press?
To this "Query" I may as well add a "Note," which may be interesting to
some of your readers.
In Sir Roger's MS. Journal of his persecutions by the Parliament, he
states:
"It is sayd King Charles subscribed the byll for taking away the
votes of Bishops, in y't very house where Christian religion was
first preached,--viz. St. Augustines by Canterbury."