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fly-leaves of their books memoranda, sometimes critical, sometimes
bibliographical, the result of their own knowledge or research. The
following are specimens of the kind of Notes to which we allude; and the
possessors of volumes enriched by the Notes and memoranda of men of
learning to whom they formerly belonged, will render us and our readers
a most acceptable service by forwarding to us copies of them for
insertion.

_Douce on John of Salisbury_. MS. Note in a copy of Policraticus, Lug.
Bat. 1639.

"This extraordinary man flourished in the reign of Henry II., and
was, therefore, of Old Salisbury, not of New Salisbury, which was
not founded till the reign of Henry III. Having had the best
education of the time, and being not only a genius, but intimate
with the most eminent men, in particular with Pope Hadrian (who was
himself an Englishman), he became at length a bishop, and died in
1182. He had perused and studies most of the Latin classics, and
appears to have decorated every part of his work with splendid
fragments extracted out of them."--_Harris's Philosophical
Arrangements_, p. 457.

See more relating to John of Salisbury in Fabricii, _Bib. Med. AEtatis_,
iv. 380.; in Tanner, _Biblioth. Britannico Hibernica_; in Baillet's
_Jugemens des Savans_, ii. 204. See Senebier, _Catalogue des Manuscrits
de Geneve_, p. 226.

"Johannes Sarisb. multa ex Apuleio desumpsit," Almclooven, Plagiaror.