_Earl of Oxford's Patent_ (Vol. ii., PP. 194. 235.).--LORD BRAYBROOKE no
doubt knows, that the preamble to the patent was written by Dean Swift.
(See _Journal to Stella_.) I would add, in reply to O.P.Q., that there
is no doubt that _assassin_ and _assassinate_ are properly used even
when death does not ensue. Not so _murder_ and _murderer_, which are
strict terms of _law_ to which _death_ is indispensable.

C.


_Cave's Historia Litteraria_ (Vol. ii., p. 230.).--Part I. appeared at
London, 1688. An Appendix, by Wharton, followed, 1689. These were
reprinted, Geneva, 1693. Part II., Lond., 1698; repr. Genev., 1699. The
whole was reprinted, Genev., 1708 and 1720. After the author's death a
new and improved edition appeared, Oxon., 1740-43; rep. Basil, 1741-45.
I give the date 1708, not 1705, to the second Geneva impression, on the
authority of Walch.

J.E.B. MAYOR.

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