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andra, overum nouveaux mélanges de littérature macaronique,’ London, 1862, sm. 4to (250 copies reprinted from vol. vii. of the ‘Miscellanies’ of the Philobiblon Society; vol. ii. contains a paper by him on the same subject of which a few copies were reprinted in 1856).
46. ‘Les anciens peintres flamands, leur vie et leurs œuvres, par J. A. Crowe et G. B. Cavalcaselle, traduit de l'Anglais par O. D., annoté et augmenté par A. Pinchart et Ch. Ruelens,’ Brussels, 1862–5, 2 vols. 8vo.
47. ‘Choix d'opuscules philosophiques, historiques, politiques et littéraires de Sylvain Van de Weyer, précédés d'avant-propos, sér. i.–iv.,’ London, 1863–76, 4 vols. sm. 8vo.
48. * ‘Machine intéressante à mouvement rotatoire, par M. Forsey,’ Lusarte, 1864, 8vo (facétie).
49. ‘Historical Doubts and contested Events,’ London, 1868, 8vo (reprinted from ‘Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society,’ the ‘St. James's Magazine,’ &c., with bibliographical index).
50. ‘Revue analytique des ouvrages écrits en centon depuis les temps anciens jusqu' au XIXe siècle,’ London, 1868, sm. 4to (reprinted from vols. x. and xi. of the Philobiblon Society).
51. ‘La Parodie chez les Grecs, chez les Romains et chez les modernes,’ London, 1870, sm. 4to (from vol. xii. of the Philobiblon Society).
52. ‘Essai historique et bibliographique sur les Rébus,’ London, 1870, 8vo (with woodcuts of old French and Italian rebuses, and bibliography).
53. ‘Supercheries littéraires, pastiches, suppositions d'auteur, dans les lettres et dans les arts,’ London, 1872, sm. 4to.
54. ‘Tableau de la litérature du centon, chez les anciens et chez les modernes,’ London, 1874–5, 2 vols. sm. 4to (enlarged edition of No. 50).
55. ‘L'Enfer, essai philosophique et historique sur les légendes de la vie future,’ London, 1876, sm. 8vo (enlarged edition of ‘L'Enfer décrit par ceux qui l'ont vu’ in Philobiblon Society, vols. viii. and ix., with bibliography; some copies have four photographs). He also contributed to the ‘Annales de la Société d'Emulation de Bruges’ (1839–43), ‘Messager des Sciences Historiques’ (1833–79), ‘Le Bibliophile Belge’ (1845–65), ‘St. James's Magazine,’ &c. He left several works in manuscript.

[J. O. Delepierre, In Memoriam, for friends only (by N. Trübner, 1880), sm. 4to, extended from Trübner's Record, 1879, pp. 113–15, with a bibliography and portrait; G. Brunet in Le Livre, January 1880; Polybiblion, 2me sér. t. x. 1879, p. 275; Techener's Bulletin du Bibliophile, November 1879, p. 453; Athenæum, 30 Aug. 1879, p. 272; Academy, 30 Aug. 1879, p. 159; Times, 19 and 26 Aug. 1879; see also Notes and Queries, 5th ser. xii. 180; Dr. R. Blakey's Memoirs, 1879, pp. 208–12, 230, 239; Catena librorum tacendorum, by Pisanus Fraxi, 1885, 4to pp.]

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DE LISLE, AMBROSE LISLE MARCH PHILLIPPS (1809–1878), catholic writer, eldest son of Charles March Phillipps, esq., of Garendon Park, Leicestershire, by Harriet, youngest daughter of John Ducarel, esq., of Walford, Somersetshire, Marquis de Chateaunuy, and Vicomte de Bonnemar in France, was born at Garendon on 17 March 1809. At nine years of age he was sent to a school at South Croxton, kept by the Rev. W. Wilkinson, and about two years later he was transferred to another school kept by the Rev. George Hodson at Maisemore Court, near Gloucester. He was in the habit of spending his Sundays with his uncle, Dr. Ryder, bishop of Gloucester. When that prelate was translated to Lichfield in 1824, he conferred the archdeaconry of Stafford on Mr. Hodson, who thereupon removed his school to Edgbaston, near Birmingham. In 1824 Phillipps was received into the Roman catholic church by the Rev. Thomas Macdonell of St. Peter's, Birmingham, and was in consequence dismissed from the school and sent back to Garendon, where he resumed his studies under the tutorship of another Anglican clergyman.

In 1826 he was placed at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he contracted a close friendship with Kenelm Digby [q. v.], author of the ‘Broadstone of Honour,’ who was, like himself, a recent convert to catholicism. During the two years they were at college together they used to ride over every Sunday to attend mass at St. Edmund's College, near Ware, a distance of twenty-five miles. Illness obliged Phillipps to leave the university in the spring of 1828, and in the autumn he visited Italy. In 1835 he went to reside at Gracedieu, where he had built a small Tudor manor-house, and in the course of that year he gave 230 acres of land on Charnwood Forest (of which only forty were cultivated) for the re-establishment of the Cistercian order, exactly three centuries after its suppression. At first the monks occupied a cottage, but through the munificence of the catholic public, and especially of John, earl of Shrewsbury, who contributed 2,000l., a stately monastery was afterwards built. About 1837 Phillipps made the acquaintance of the Rev. Mr. Bloxam, and from that period he maintained for many years a constant correspondence with the leaders of the high church party at Oxford. During a visit to Rome in 1837 he received the habit of the Third Order of St. Dominic from the hands of the general of the order, Father Javalow. Proceeding to Paris shortly afterwards, he was introduced to Archbishop de Quelen, and all the principal priests and communities, and it was then that the ‘Society for Prayers for the Conversion of England’