the Apostolic Palace, Sixtus Fabri, and were edited, under the sanction
of Pope Gregory XIII., in the year 1580; and from this authentic
impression the impious panegyric has not been withdrawn. The marginal
abridgment has, in compliance with Manriq's direction, been
exterminated; and this additional note has been appended as a
palliative:--

"Hæc verba sano modo sunt accipienda: prolata enim sunt ad
ostendendum amplissimam esse Romani Pontificis
potestatem."--Col. 4. ed. Paris, 1585.

R.G.

_Poeta Anglicus_ (Vol ii., p. 167).--I cannot answer J.B.'s Queries; but
I have fallen upon a _cross scent_, which perchance may lead to their
discovery.

1. Ioannes Pitseus, _de Scriptor. ad ann._ 1250, (_Relat. Histor. de
Rebus Anglicis_, ed. Par. 1619, p. 322.), gives the following account
"de Michaele Blaunpaino:"--

"Michael Blaunpainus, vulgo _Magister_ cognominatus, natione
Anglus, patria Cornubiensis, ... missus Oxonium, deinde
Parisios, ... præ cæteris se dedidit elegantiæ linguæ Latinæ,
fuitque inter præcipuos sui temporis _poetus_ per Angliam
potissimum et Galliam numeratus. Hunc subinde citat Textor in
Cornucopia sub nomine Michaelis _Anglici_.... In lucem emisit:
Historiarum Normanniæ, librum unum: Contra Henricum Abrincensem
versu. librum unum. Archipoeta vide, quod non sit. (_MS. in
Bibliotheca Lunleiana._) Epistolarum et carminum, librum unum.