THE Publishers of the LIVES OF THE SAINTS, having now completed that Work, cannot take leave of their Subscribers, without again offering them their sincere thanks, as well for the liberal encouragement with which they have been favoured, as far the generous indulgence so frequently extended to them in the course of the Undertaking Various causes, unnecessary to be here detailed, have prevented the completion of the Additions annexed to the last Volume, to a period so late as to excite suspicions in the minds of some, that these Additions were to be altogether withheld: These insinuations have given the Publishers much uneasiness : -But they can assure their Subscribers, that the above delay has been equally prejudicial to their interest, as foreign from their intentions; and that it has arisen from causes which they could neither foresee nor prevent. The last Volume is now presented to the Public, containing all the promised Additions. The Life of Mr Butler will be found to contain most of the important articles of information that are narrated in the original Life. The Index is much fuller than was at first intended; and the Centenery Table it is presumed, will be admitted to be as complete as the nature of the Work could admit of. Another Centenery Table, or rather Chronological Index, is nearly completed, and was intended to accompany Vol. 12th; but it has been found impossible to get it ready in time. This Table contains, The Names of all the Popes ;-Principal Heretics;-Roman Emperors;-Emperots of the East and West; -Kings of England and of France;-Martyrs, Holy Fathers, and other Ecclesiastical Writers ;-Saints of England, Scotland, Ireland, and of other Countries ;-who are mentioned in Mr Bntler's LIVES OF THE SAINTS, or who have existed since the commencement of the Christian Era to the present_time :--The General Councils ;-Principal Events, Persecutions, &c. that have taken place during the above period;-including also the Doctrine and Discipline;-Religious Institutes, and other Miscellaneous Subjects which occur in the history of each Age; and will, as formerly proposed, be sold at 1 s. 6 d. by the Booksellers for this Work. Although the Subscribers are net bound to take this Table, it is hoped that there are very few who will not eagerly embrace this opportunity of purchasing so useful an accompanyment to a Work of so great merit ; nor to OF THE REV. ALBAN BUTLER. June 16th 1800. A VOLUME of TRAVELS, by the Auther of the LIVES OF THE SAINTS, published under the immediate inspection of . CHARLES BUTLER, Esq. Barrister at Law, (Nephew to the immortal ALBAN) is ready for publication, and will be put to Press as soon as sufficient encouragement is held forth by the Public. It will be printed in a style similar to that of the Lives of the Saints, and will be sold by the Gentlemen who took in Subscriptions for that Work, at 5 s. in boards, finest wove Demy. As every circumstance that relates to our amiable and erudite Author, will ever interest the Public-as all who have attentively read the Lives of the Saints, must be equally astonished and delighted at Mr Butler's transcendent powers of mind, his universal acquaintance with every department of hu man science, and his masterly delineations of the motives and passions that actuate the human heart; so it will be readily acknowledged, that the Reflections which must have been excited in the mind of this great Master, by a residence amongst the various nations of civilized Europe,- cannot fail to prove eminently interesting and edifying :-And the Editor flatters himself, that the publication of these Travels will be received by the Public as no mean nor unacceptable service. N. B. Those who intend to patronize this Publication, are requested to give in their names as carly as possible to their Booksellers, in order that the amount of the impression may be ascertained. I place of the account given of SS. SABINIANTS and SULPICIUS, in p. 447. the Reade is requested to substitute the following. St SABINIANUS of Troyes in Champagne, M. The early veneration paid to this saint in the church, is the chief circumstance we know of him. It appears that he suffered martyrdom in the third century. His relicks are preserved in the cathedral of Troyes (a). The Roman martyrology, following that of Usuard, mentions him as suffering on the 29th of January; but his feștival is kept in Troyes on the 24th. The memory of St Sabina or Savina, is joined with that of our saint, whose sister she is supposed to have been. There is a church under her invocation in the suburbs of Troyes, and her body is deposited in the abbey of Moutier-la Celle near that city. She is commemorated in the Roman martyrology and in that of Usuard on the 28th of August. See Bolland. 29 Jan. p. 927, seq. and Tillemont, Hist. des Emp. T. 3. p. 541, seq. St SULPICIUS, surnamed Severus, Bishop of Bourges. He was decended from an illustrious family of Aquitain, succeeded Remigius in the episcopal see of Bourges, and displayed his pastoral zeal in the government of his diocese by an exact observance of discipline, and his successful endeavours for the advancement of piety and virtue. He assisted at the second council of Mâcon, in which St Priscus of Lyons presided, (b) and died in 591, the seventh year of his episcopacy. He was interred in the church of St Julian of Bourges, from which his relicks were translated to that of St Ursinus, first bishop of that city. He is named in the Roman martyrology on the 29th of January, the same on which he is honoured at Bourges. See St Gregory of Tours, Hist. Franc. 1. 6. c. 39. Gall. Christ. and Bened. XIV. Diss. seu. Præf. in Martyr Rom. (a) They were translated thither about the year 640, from the village of St Syra on the Seine, which anciently bore the name of St Savinianus. (b) St Priscus is called Patriarch, in the acts of this council. The cuftom began then to be introduced of giving this title to metropolitans of the first rank. ERRATA. PAGE xiii Line 3, 4, før an a-tural read a natural 103 ro, from bott note, (g) får discovered read transformed 114, note, (9) for 1507 read 570 4. for Equulus read Equuleus 7, note, for Pencherans read Percherans 8, from bott, for 47 read 49 3, for pasture read pastor 6, for world read Lord 14, for it was called read was called 18, from bott. note, for April 21 read April 22 4, for Lucea read Lucca 7, from bott. note, (a) for Columna Antoniniani read Columna Antoniniana 13, from bott. for Conisius read Canisius 104 → 22, for Resuccur read Rusuccur 1065, for they levelled read the Puritans levelled 128 ex 160 188 201 233 265 - 19, for voer read over 2, from bott, note, (14) for p. 902 read p. 904 ult, note, read paberr 3, from bott. note, for p. 19 read p. 16 2, from bott. for was or read was of -10, for idolatrous read idolaters 266 ------- 11, (vouchers for S. Babylas) for rapportea read rapporte ib. 278 294 •not, (6) read Baoaviswv 4, for Ignat t. 2 p. 597 read Ignatius T. 2. 381 - 14, før p. 676 read p. 656 384 -24, for Sisterton read Sisteron 394 5. from bott. read Twustwr 39117, from bott, read aravanais 447 ib. ib. (vouchers for S. Bathildes) Jan. 30. for Sec. 4. Ben. p. 457 read Sæc 4 Ben p. 447 ib. for Debois read Dubois ib. Date for A. D. 1680 read A. D. 680 449 19 after S. Bathildes, read " than our Lady's. Two rich silver shrines are placed over the iron rails of the chancel, in one of which rest the sacred remains of St Ba thildes," &c. |