"Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut sciant: et turpis curiositas est. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut scientiam suam vendant, verbi causa pro pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis quæstus est. Sed sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut ædificentur: et prudentia est."--S. Bernardi _In Cantica Serm._ xxxvi. Sect 3. _Opp._, vol. i. p. 1404. Parisiis, 1719, fol.
It is no mean eulogy upon Lord Brooke's poem just referred to, to say that it stood high in the estimation of the late Rev. Hugh James Rose, and was quoted approvingly by him in his lectures before the Durham University. My acquaintance with it was first derived from that source, and I am confident that many others of your readers sympathise with the wishes of MR. CROSSLEY, for "a collected edition of the works of the two noble Grevilles" ("N. & Q.," Vol. iv., p. 139.). The facts upon which the tragedy of _Mustapha_ is founded are graphically summed up by Knolles in his _Historie of the Turkes_, pp. 757-65.: London, 1633, fol.
_St. Munoki's Day._--Professor Craik, in his _Romance of the Peerage_, vol. ii. p. 337., with reference to the date of the death of Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland, gives two authorities, namely, 24th November, 1541, from the _Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents_, and _St. Munoki's_ Day, from the _Chronicle of Perth_, and then says: "I find no saint with a name resembling _Munok_ in the common lists." Now this Note of mine has originated in the belief that I _have found_ such a name in the _Calendar of Saints_, or at any rate one very closely resembling it, if not the identical _Munok_. "St. Marnok, B. patron of Killmarnock in Scotland, honoured on the 25th October in the Scots Calendar." Now "Marnok" is most probably _Munok_, the latter, perhaps, misspelt by a careless scribe in the _Chronicle of Perth_. There is a discrepancy of a month certainly in these two dates, 25th October and 24th November; but that is not very wonderful, as a doubt of the exact day of Queen Margaret's decease evidently exists among historians, for Pinkerton (vol. ii. p. 371.) conjectures June. The above extract regarding St. Marnok is from a { 63} curious old work in my possession, published in 1761 in London, and entitled _A Memorial of Ancient British Piety, or a British Martyrology_. It gives also the names of St. Moroc, C., Nov. 8; St. Munnu, Ab., Oct. 21, both saints in the Scottish calendar.