"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. Syllab. 36.; and it might have been justly added, that he borrowed from Petronius. See the references I have made on the last leaf. Janus Dousa, in his _Notes on Petronius_, had called John of Salisbury "Cornicula;" but Thomasius, in p. 240 of his work, _De Plagio Literario_, vindicates him satisfactorily. See _Lipp. ad. Tacit. Annal XII_. (pezzi di _porpora_), not noticed by any editor of Petronius. Has various readings. See my old edition. Lacrimas commodabat. ---- commendabat. Saris. better. Itaque cruciarii unius parentes ---- cruciati ---- ----. Saris. The above is from Zanetti's _Collection of Ialian Novels_, 4 vol. 8vo. Venet. 1754. Mezeray, the French historian, translated this work 1640, 4to; and there is an old French translation of it in 1360 by Denis Soulechat. The article pasted on the inside of the cover (viz. the following extract) "_Surisberiensis (J.) Policraticus, &c., 8vo. L. Bat. 1595; very scarce, vellum 6s. This book is of great curiosity; it is stated in the preface that the author, J. of Salibury, was present at the murther of Thomas a Becket, whose intimate friend he was; and that 'dum pius Thomas ab impio milite cedetur in capite, Johannis hujus brachium fere simul percisum est_,'" is from Lilly's Catalogue, and the passage relating to Becket was copied from that of Payne, to whom I communicated it, and which is found in the first edition only, being perhaps purposely omitted in all the others. F.D. [We believe the majority of the books in Mr. Douce's valuable library, now deposited in the Bodleian, contain memoranda, like those in his _John of Salisbury_; and any of our Oxford friends could not do us a greater service than by communicating other specimens of the _Book-noting_ of this able and zealous antiquary.] * * * * * LIBER SENTENTIARUM.--INQUISITION OF THOULOUSE.