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SHIRLEY FAMILY AND "THE RECORDS OF a note on In the fifth volume of Father Henry Foley's Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (Lond., 1879, 8vo.) there is at pp. 475-7 The Shirley Family of Derbyshire," taken principally from my own work, Stemmata Shirleiana (second edit., 1873, 4to.), but containing some curious additional information derived from the records of Roman Catholic colleges. On two points I desire to make a few observations. The first relates to Henry, undoubtedly the eldest son of Sir Thomas Shirley the antiquary, who lived in the reign of Charles I. The passage is as follows: "We learn from the English College Diary, Rome, that Henry Shirley, after making his humanity studies, passed on to the English College, Rome, for his philosophy, and was admitted as a convictor in the assumed name of Henry Pelham of Huntington, aged eighteen, on November 17, 1640. He left the college for Parma, November 5, 1644, and there entered the family of Prince Francis, brother to his Serene Highness the Duke of Parma. He was, says the Diary, of an easy disposition, but little inclined for study. On entering the English College he states: 'My true name is Henry Shirley; I am son of Sir Thomas Shirley, Knt., and his wife Mary Harper. I was born in arce Calydoniensi, Warwickshire, Ettington, the original seat of the family, from whence I now write; but there is no doubt that the Diary is right, and that Caloughton or Callowdon, an ancient house of the Berkeleys, near Coventry, is intended. It was at the latter end of the sixteenth century one of the seats of Henry, Lord Berkeley, grandfather of Sir Henry and Sir Thomas Shirley, whose mother was the second daughter of Lord Berkeley by Catherine, daughter of Henry, Earl of Surrey. Callowdon is often mentioned in that most interesting work on the manners of our ancestors, Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys. Henry, Lord Berkeley, died there in 1613. The other point relates to Elizabeth, daughter of John Shirley and sister of Sir George, the first baronet, who was a nun at Louvain, and died there in 1641. But in the account of her now given she is said "to have been brought up an earnest Protestant, and so continued until she was twenty years of age." This I think is a mistake, it having been always believed in my family that all our ancestors were Roman Catholics till after the match of Sir Henry Shirley with Lady Dorothy Devereux in 1615. This account, communicated from the records of St. Scholastica's Abbey, Teignmouth, cannot, I think, be depended on. It states that "Miss Shirley" being brought up a Protestant, her brother George was desirous that she should come to keep house for him, which she did till he married. Then follows the story of a beggar woman, who is said to have been the means of converting her. This person was a weaver of incle, or tape, and "Miss Shirley," being in want of some, would have her remain with her that it might be made in the manner she desired. There being no room long enough in the house they both went to the church, which stood right in front of the house, and was large and long enough to warp the tape. Then followed some talk of the monuments in the church, which had not been much defaced because the lord of the manor was a Catholic, &c. Now, in the first place, no young lady in the sixteenth "Madam." Secondly, or seventeenth century would be called "Miss," she would be "Mistress" or the residence of Sir George Shirley was either at Staunton Harold, in Leicestershire, or Astwell, in Northamptonshire, and at neither place was there a church" right in front of the house," and, consequently, no monuments whereon to discourse. The parish church of Bredon, where the Shirley monuments are, is fully two miles from Staunton (see p. 610) and its "Table des Matières" extends from p. 587 to p. 610, both inclusive. The catchword is wanting at the end of sheet 17, but it occurs both at p. viii and at p. xxiv, where the sheet b ends. Harold, and Wappenham, the parish church of Astwell, a very considerable distance from that place. To be sure there was Ettington, where there was a large church "right in front of the house" and many monuments, but although it belonged to Sir George Shirley, he never had possession of My copy had remained uncut for nearly seventy it or lived there during the whole of his life, it years, and indeed until I cut it. The work itself being leased away to the Underhill family and not deserves examination, were it only on account of recovered till the year 1641. On the whole I the fulness of its indexes and the special facilities cannot but reject this story of the supposed con- afforded (see p. xxiij) for testing its claims. I shall, version of Elizabeth Shirley as apocryphal, if not however, at present confine myself to the historical, of modern fabrication, and regret that such doubt-bibliographical, and personal matter contained in ful legends should be mixed up with much which is authentic and really valuable in these records of the Society of Jesus. Ev. PH. SHIRLEY. MATHEMATICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.* It was only yesterday (i.e. July 3, 1879) that, through the kindness of my brother, Dr. John Cockle, I became the owner of a work whereof I subjoin, in the form used by De Morgan, the following description : Paris, eighteen-ten. J.-B.-E. DU BOURGUET. 'Traités Élémentaires de Calcul Différentiel et de Calcul Intégral, Indépendans de toutes notions de quantités infinitésimales et de limites; Ouvrage mis à la portée des Commençans, et où se trouvent plusieurs nouvelles théories et méthodes fort simplifiées d'intégrations, avec des applications utiles aux progrès des Sciences exactes; Par J.-B.-E. du Bourguet, Ancien Officier de Marine, Docteur en la Faculté des Sciences, Officier de l'Université, et Professeur de Mathématiques spéciales au Lycée Impérial. Tome Premier.' Octavo. The title-pages from which the foregoing descriptions were severally taken are, however, each preceded by a fly-leaf containing the words "Traités Elémentaires de Calcul Differentiel et de Calcul Intégral," with the respective additions "Tome I." and "Tome II." Tome I. contains xxiv+499 pages, but its paging commences with the fly-leaf. The "Discours Préliminaire" extends from p. v to p. xxi, both inclusive, and the "Avertissement" from p. xxii to p. xxiv, both inclusive. There is a "Table des Matières" which occupies from p. 478 to p. 499, both inclusive. To the errata, which appear at p. 500, or rather on the back of p. 499, may be added the misprint of "vj" for xvj in the course of the paging. Tome II. consists of 610 pages, preceded by a fly-leaf and also by a titlepage and succeeded by a leaf on one page of which is a Supplement to the errata of the first volume, while on its second page are the errata of the second volume. The second is also the last volume [See "N. & Q.," 1" S. x. 3, 47, 190; xi. 370, 516; 2nd S. iii. 384; viii. 465; ix. 339, 449; x. 162, 218, 232, 309; xi. 81, 345, 503; xii. 164,363, 517; 3rd S. i. 64, 167, 306; ii. 443; xi. 514; 4th S. ii. 316; 5th S. iv. 401.] its preliminary portion. At the beginning (p. v) of the Discours we have a foot-note which I translate as follows: "Leibnitz published his discovery of the differential calculus in the Leipsic Acts for the month of October, 1684, and Newton published in 1686 his book of the Principia, which proves that this great mathematician possessed already in a high degree [of perfection] the method of fluxions or differential calculus, although this analysis is therein disguised under the form of a complicated synthesis, which was not [fully] understood until after the calculus, differential and integral, had made great advances." After mentioning or criticizing Leibnitz (pp. v, vj, viij) Newton (pp. v, viij) the Bernoulli brothers (P. vj), the Newtonians and the Leibnitzians (p. viij) and lastly d'Alembert (p. ix) du Bourguet says (p. xiij) that Lagrange has "lifted the veil across which mathematicians did not perceive, except confusedly and diversely, the truth." But (p. xiv) he thinks the course followed in the Leçons rather long for initiatory teaching, and that (pp. xiv, xv), by availing himself of Lagrange's idea and uniting with it ideas of his own, he has brought the principles of the calculus back to those of simple Algebra and elementary Geometry. I translate the following from pp. xvij—xxi :— "If like some authors, otherwise very estimable for their talents, I had nothing else to do than compile certain theories which are to be found in the excellent Lhopital, and Bougainville, Euler, Lacroix, Bossut, and Treatises on the calculus, differential and integral, of de in the Calcul des Fonctions. by Lagrange, ali for the sole pleasure of styling myself the author of a work on the loftiest part of pure Mathematics, I can give the assurance that, wishing to employ my time better, I should have resisted the temptation to which several these compilations, demonstrations, much less clear than persons have yielded; for very often I have found, in in the original works, of certain theories over which inventive genius has, in my opinion, shed a lustre which is tarnished a little in its passage through hands strange to the subject, and less dexterous than those which created it." The Discours, as I translate, concludes thus :the authors of which I have already named, a great "Although I have drawn from the excellent works, number of the materials which compose the present one; nevertheless it will be felt that, in order to fulfil the purpose which I intended and which is stated above, it has been necessary to find many new demonstrations, and entirely to rehandle certain theories which rested upon principles different from those which serve as a |