the rebels. It is now in a state of ruin, but is in part occupied as a
farm-house. I am at a loss for _Wyrwast_, and should doubt the reading
of the MS.

S.S.S.


_Sir William Skipwyth_ (Vol. i., p. 23.).--Mr. Foss will find some
notices of Will. Skipwyth in pp. 83, 84, 85, of _Rotulorum Pat. &
Claus. Cancellariæ Hib. Calendarium_, printed in 1828.

R.B.

Trim, May 13. 1850.


_Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton_ (Vol. i., p. 481.).--Mr. Markland is
probably right in his conjecture that Johnson had Warton's lines
in his memory; but the original source of the allusion to _Peru_ is
Boileau:

"De tous les animaux
De Paris au _Pérou_, du Japon jusqu'à Rome,
Le plus sot animal, à mon avis, c'est l'homme."

Warton's Poems appeared in March, 1748. Johnson's _Vanity of Human
Wishes_ was published the 9th January, 1749, and was written probably
in December or November preceding.

C.