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Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + +A FEW WORDS TO OUR FRIENDS. + +In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching +to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform. We stated +that "we would rather give a specimen than a description." We are now in +like manner unwilling to point as exultingly, as we think we might, to +the position which we have already taken. But there is a vast difference +between vain boasting and the expression of an honest satisfaction; and +it would be worse than an affectation of humility--it would be a mean +hypocrisy--if we did not express heartily and unreservedly the gratitude +we owe and feel to those who have encouraged us by their friendly advice +and able pens. We have opened a Literary Exchange, and we have had the +gratification to see that men whose learning and talents the public +recognise--leaders in their several branches of inquiry--have at once +taken advantage of it. They have proved the necessity for some such +medium of communication, as well as their good-will to the one now +offered to them, by a gathering in its behalf which the public will +respect, and of which we may well feel proud. + +Some whose good opinion we most value, and who have spoken most warmly +in favour of our plan, have proved the sincerity of their praise by +suggestions of improvement in its detail, and hints for its further +extension. They may feel assured that such hints and such suggestions +shall not be lost sight of. For instance, one respected correspondent +hints that as we have very properly adopted Dr. Maitland's suggestion +with regard to Herbert's edition of Ame's _Typographical Antiquities_, +namely, that of "offering a receptacle for illustrations, additions, and +corrections," and invited "our readers to take advantage of our columns +to carry out Dr. Maitland's suggestions," we should open our columns +with equal readiness to the correction and illustration of more modern +and more popular works. We entirely concur with him; but in reference to +this subject there is a distinction which must be borne in mind. Our own +literature, like that of every other country, consists of two classes of +books. We have the books of pretenders to knowledge, the hasty, crude, +imperfect, but often for the time attractive and popular volumes of the +Ned Purdons of the day. These books have a use--such as it is--and thus +answer their purpose; but it would be for the credit of our literature, +and save a world of trouble, if they were forgotten as soon as they had +done so. To illustrate such books, to add to their information or +correct their blunders, would be useless and almost ridiculous. They +should be left to die of mere powerlessness and exhaustion, or to wither +under the wholesome influence of a just and manly criticism. + +But there are books of another kind--books {18} which our worthy +bibliopoles designate as "standard works." These are the books of +competent workmen--books which are the result of honest labour and +research, and which from the moment of their publication assume a +permanent station in our national literature. Even in such books there +are many things incomplete, many things erroneous. But it is the +interest of every man that such books should be rendered as complete as +possible; and whatever tends to illustrate or correct works of that +class will be sure of insertion in our columns. + +We would point to Macaulay's _England_, and Hallam's _Introduction to +the Literary History of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries_, his _Middle +Ages_, and his _Constitutional History_, and we may add, as +illustrations of a different kind, _The Annals of the Stage_ of our +excellent friend Mr. Collier, and _The Handbook of London_ of our valued +contributor Mr. Peter Cunningham, as examples of the sort of +publications to which we allude. Such were the books we had in our mind, +when we spoke in our Prospectus of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" becoming, +through the inter-communication of our literary friends, "a most useful +supplement to works already in existence--a treasury towards enriching +future editions of them." + +Another correspondent--a bibliographical friend--suggests that, for +various reasons, which bibliographers will appreciate, our Prospectus +should have a place in the body of our work. We believe that many of our +readers concur in a wish for its preservation, and it will therefore be +found in the Number now before them. + +One suggestion again urges us to look carefully to Foreign Literature, +and another points out the propriety of our making our paper as British +as possible, so that our topographical facts should, as far as +practicable, be restricted to the illustration of British counties, and +our biographical ones to such as should contribute towards a Biographia +Brittanica. + +All these, and many other expressions of sympathy and promises of +support, poured in upon us within a few hours after our birth. No one of +them shall be forgotten; and if for a time our pages seem to indicate +that we have made a QUERY as to the adoption of any suggestion, let our +kind contributors be assured that there is no hint which reaches us, +whether _at present_ practicable or not, that we do not seriously and +thankfully "make a NOTE of." + + * * * * * + +BISHOP AYLMER'S LETTER, AND THE POEM ON THE ARMADA. + +As I am in a condition to answer the inquiry of your "Hearty +Well-wisher," on p. 12 of your last Number of "NOTES AND QUERIES," I +proceed to give him the information he asks. I shall be happy if what +follows is of any use to your correspondent, taking it for granted that +he is as zealous for your success as his signature indicates. + +The "foolish rhyme," to which the attention of the Bishop of London had +been directed by Lord Burghley, has the subsequent doggrel title:-- + + "A Skeltonicall Salvtation, + Or condigne gratvlation, + And iust vexation + Of the Spanishe nation, + That in a bravado + Spent many a crvsado, + In setting forth an armado + England to invado." + +This is as the title stands in the Oxford impression (of which I never +saw more than one copy, because, we may presume, it was suppressed by +the authorities of the University), and the following is the imprint at +the bottom of it:--"Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee +sold in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Tygres head, 1589." + +There exists several exemplars of the London edition--"Imprinted at +London for Toby Cooke, 1589,"--the title-page of which, as well as the +rest of the poem, differs only literally from that of Oxford, excepting +that to the latter is appended a Latin version, also in rhyme, and in +close imitation of the English. I subjoin a brief specimen of it:-- {19} + + "Qui regis Hispanos, + Superbos et vanos, + Crudeles et insanos, + Multùm aberrasti, + Cùm tuos animasti, + Et bellum inchoasti + Contra Anglos animosos, + Fortes et bellicosos, + Nobiles et generosos. + Qui te excitavit + Proculdubio deliravit + Et te fascinavit," &c. + +The whole production consists only of ten leaves, 4to., and the Latin +portion, which has the subsequent separate title-page, occupies four of +them:-- + + "AD REGEM + HISPANVM. + Cum tua non fuerint heroica facta, Philippe, + Risu digna cano carmine ridiculo." + +I shall not here introduce any part of the English version, because one +or two long quotations will be found in the introductory portion of the +Rev. A. Dyce's excellent edition of Skelton's Works (2 vols. 8vo. 1843). +Respecting the Latin portion I have been more particular, because the +learned editor was not aware that the production had come from the press +of Barnes of Oxford, nor that a Latin version was appended to it. + +I may take the liberty of adding here a mention of Skelton which escaped +notice, and which is from one of the tracts against Thomas Nash, +produced by Gabriel Harvey, the friend of Spenser. He couples Skelton +and Scoggin together, in no very respectful manner, and completes the +triumvirate by Nash, whom he here calls Signor Capriccio:--"And what +riott so pestiferous as that which in sugred baites presenteth most +poisonous hookes? Sir Skelton and Master Scoggin were but innocents to +Signior Capricio." + +This quotation is the more noticeable, because it recognises the sacred +character of Skelton (however unworthy of the gown) in the prefix "Sir," +which, as most people are aware, was then generally given to clergymen: +Scoggin, on the other hand, is only styled "Master Scoggin." + +J. PAYNE COLLIER. + +[The preceding communication was already in type when we received the +following from Mr. Bolton Corney, which we gladly print, inasmuch as it +illustrates some points not touched upon by Mr. Collier.] + + * * * * * + +QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 1. + +It is not without some slight reluctance that I notice anonymous +communications, but shall endeavour to repress such feelings with regard +to the modest students who may choose to announce their desiderata +through the convenient channel of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." A _hearty +well wisher_ to so commendable an enterprise, shall have my first +responsive scrap. + +The inquiry affords no scope for ingenuity of conjecture! The _foolish +rime_ to which bishop Aylmer refers, is undoubtedly the pamphlet thus +entitled:-- + + "A Skeltonicall salutation, + Or condigne gratulation, + And iust vexation + Of the Spanish nation, + That in a bravado + Spent many a crusado, + In setting forth an armado + England to invado." + Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1589. 4to. + "A Skeltonicall salutation," &c. + Imprinted at London for Toby Cook, 1589. 4to. + +The Oxford edition is recorded by Ames, and there is a copy of the +London edition in the British Museum. Strype, in his account of bishop +Aylmer, gives the substance of the letter as his _own_ narrative, almost +_verbatim_--but fails to identify the pamphlet in question. Park briefly +describes it in _Censura Literaria_, 1815, ii. 18.; and there is a +specimen of it in _The Poetical Works of John Skelton_, as edited by the +Reverend Alexander Dyce, 1843. + +While _queries_ evince a sharp mental appetite, _answers_ help to +satisfy it; and so, by their united influence, a brisk circulation of +ideas may be produced--which, as master Burton assures us, wards off +melancholy. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON "NOTES, NO. 1." + +Sir,--I take the liberty to send you one or two Notes on your first +Number, just as they occur to me in looking it over. I will not trespass +on you by preface or apology. + +The "_bibliographic project_" I shall rejoice {20} to see carried out; and +though neither an unemployed aspirant nor a fortunate collector (of +which class I hope many will be stimulated by the proposition), yet, as +I once took some trouble in the matter, I should be happy to contribute +some Notes then made whenever the plan is matured and the proposed +appeal is made--provided (I must add, and to _you_ I may add) I can find +them. + +The _Liber Sententiarum_ was printed by Limborch, at Amsterdam, in 1692. +It forms the greater part, as, indeed, it was the occasion, of his folio +volume, entitled "_Historia Inquisitionis cui subjungitur Liber +Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanæ ab anno Christi Cl[*C]CCCVI ad annum +Cl[*C]CCCXXIII._" Gibbon, in a note on his fifty-fourth chapter, observes +that the book "deserved a more learned and critical editor;" and, if +your correspondent will only place the _Book of Sentences_ before the +public in a readable form, with a map, and (by all means) a few _notes_, +he will be doing a great service to all persons who take an interest in +ecclesiastical history, or, indeed, in history of any kind. In the year +1731 Chandler published a translation of the _History of the +Inquisition_, with a long Introduction of his own, but did not meddle +with the _Book of Sentences_, except so far as to introduce into the +text of the _History_ some passages from it, which Limborch (as he +appended the whole book) did not think it necessary to quote. I remember +seeing the MS. in the British Museum within these ten or twelve years, +and, according to my recollection, it was accompanied by papers which +would furnish an interesting literary history of the volume. I hope your +correspondent will give us farther information. + +N.B. + +[Mr. Brooke, of Ufford, has also kindly replied to the Query of +INQUISITORIUS, by referring him to Limborch.] + + * * * * * + +QUERY AS TO REFERENCES. + +Sir,--May I be permitted to suggest one way in which you may be of great +service to many literary men, and indeed to the cause of literature in +general; and this, too, without much trouble to yourself? Would you be +willing to receive "Queries" respecting _references_? They frequently +puzzle those who are engaged in literary works, and indeed those who are +merely readers, and who have not access to public libraries or the +manuscript treasures of the metropolis and the universities. If, for +instance, a clergyman or squire, interested in the history of his +parish, should find in the county historian something which his own +local or genealogical knowledge leads him to think erroneous, vouched +for by a reference to the _Cotton_ or _Harleian MSS._, might he apply to +you? It may be supposed that you are not very far from some one of the +great fountains of information, and have easy access to all; and it is +probable that you might not only do a personal favour to the inquirer, +but confer a benefit on the public, by correcting an erroneous +statement. Of course you would subject yourself to unreasonable +requests, but the remedy would always be in your own hands. + +Yours, &c. + +A. G. C. + +[The Editor inserts this letter because he is sure that it comes from a +friendly quarter, and he knows that something like what it suggests is +very much wanted. He would feel great diffidence as to his powers of +fulfilling all that might be expected if he were simply to reply in the +affirmative: but he is quite willing to make the trial, and he thinks +that (though sometimes perhaps with a little delay) he could in general +obtain any information of this kind which could be reasonably sought.] + + * * * * * + +LINES IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING. + +Mr. Editor,--The following lines are written in pencil on sheet 61. of +the _Notes of the Debates in the Long Parliament_, taken down in the +House of Commons by Sir Ralph Verney. The _Notes of Debates_, but not +these lines, were published by the Camden Society in 1845. For any thing +that appears to the contrary, these lines may have been written in the +House as well as the _Notes of Debates_. The sheet 61. refers to debates +which took place in March 1641-2. I am not aware that the lines have +been published, nor can I assign them to their author. If any of your +readers can tell me anything about them, I shall esteem it a favour. + + Wert thou yet fairer than thou art, + Which lies not in the power of art; + Or hadst thou, in thine eyes, more darts + Than Cupid ever shot at hearts; + Yet, if they were not thrown at me, + I could not cast one thought at thee. {21} + + I'd rather marry a disease + Than court the thing I cannot please; + She that will cherish my desires, + Must feed my flames with equal fires. + What pleasure is there in a kiss, + To him that doubts the heart's not his? + + I love thee, not 'cause thou art fair, + Smoother than down, softer than air, + Nor for those Cupids that do lie + In either corner of thine eye; + Will you then know what it may be? + 'Tis--I love you 'cause you love me. + +J. BRUCE. + +24th Oct. 1849 + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON ANCIENT LIBRARIES. + +A knowledge of the intellectual acquirements of the middle ages must be +mainly formed upon a consideration of the writings which directed them, +or emanated from them. Unfortunately such materials are very imperfect, +our knowledge of the existence of works often resting only upon their +place in some loosely-entered catalogue--and of the catalogues +themselves, the proportion still remaining must be small indeed. Under +these circumstances the following documents, which are now for the first +time printed, or even noticed, will be found to be of considerable +interest. The first is, in modern language, a Power of Attorney, +executed by the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, appointing two of +the monks of his church to be his procurators for the purpose of +receiving from the convent of Anglesey, in Cambridgeshire[1], a book +which had been lent to the late Rector of Terrington. Its precise date +is uncertain, but it must be of about the middle of the thirteenth +century (1244-1254), as Nicholas Sandwich, the Prior of Christ Church, +was the second of four priors who presided between the years 1234 and +1274. + + "N. Prior Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis discretis viris et + religiosis Domino Priori de Anglesheya et ejusdem loci sacro + conventui salutem in Domino. Cum sincera semper caritate + noverit faternitas vestra nos constiuisse fratres Gauterum de + Hatdfeld et Nicolaum de Grantebrigiense Ecclesiæ nostræ monachos + latores precencium procuratores nostros ad exigendum et + recipiendum librum qui intitulatur. Johannes Crisestomus de + laude Apostoli. In quo etiam volumine continentur Hystoria vetus + Britonum quæ Brutus appellatur et tractatus Roberti Episcopi + Herfordiæ de compoto. Quæ quondam accommodavimus Magistro + Laurentio de Sancto Nicholao tunc Rectori ecclesiæ de Tyrenton. + Qui post decessum præfati Magistri L. penes vos morabatur et + actenus moratur. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras patentes + nostro sigillo signatas vobis transmittimus." + +The contents of the book which is the subject of this special embassy +are of the character usually found to have formed the staple of monastic +libraries, though the particular treatises included in it are not +common. + +In the Reverend Joseph Hunter's valuable treatise upon _English Monastic +Libraries_[2] occurs a notice of an indenture executed in A.D. 1343, +whereby the priory of Henton lent no less than twenty books to another +monastic establishment. The deed is described, but not printed. It will +be seen that the instrument we have given above is nearly a century +earlier; and the minute description of the book given in this document +supplies some very curious facts illustrative of the mode of putting +together ancient books, which have not hitherto been remarked, for the +simple reasons that no opportunity for comparison like that presented by +the present case has yet been noticed. Among the Cottonian MSS. (Galba +E. iv.) is a perfect specimen of an ancient Library Catalogue, which, +although not altogether unnoticed, deserves a more careful examination +than it has yet received. It relates to the magnificent monastic +foundation from which emanated the deed we have printed above, and is +headed "Tituli librorum de libraria Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis et +contenta in eisdem libris tempore H. Prioris." It is written in that +bold hand which prevails so extensively in ecclesiastical MSS., with but +little variation, from the middle of the fourteenth century, to the end +of the fifteenth,--a hand which is not always clearly written, and which +therefore, in itself, does not materially assist in the distinction of a +date. Now having first assigned the credit of this noble {22} Catalogue--in +which are entered about 600 volumes, in nearly every one of which, +besides the substantive (or initial?) work, are particularised numerous +detached writings, varying from two or three to five-and-forty distinct +"tracts"--to Prior Henry Chichely (1413--1443), the founder of All +Souls' and St. John's Colleges, Oxford, and who, "built the library of +the church, and furnished it with books," we will see whether the book +"qui intitulatur Johannes Crisestomus," &c. was returned to Canterbury, +and had a place in the list;--and this, we think, is satisfactorily +shown by the following entry:-- + + "Johannes Crisostomus de laude Apostoli. + In hoc volumine continentur + Idem de laude Redemptoris. + Brutus latine. + Nomina Regum Britanniæ sicut in ordine successerunt. + Nomina Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensis sicut in ordine successerunt. + Tabula et questiones Bede de ratione temporum. + Tabula ejusdem et expositio super tabulam de lunationibus. + Descriptio Britanniæ Insulæ. + Expositio super Merlinum, imperfecta." + +It may perhaps be supposed that this proves too much, as, besides the +direct title of the volume, _eight_ "tracts" are here entered, while in +the Power of Attorney only _two_ are noticed. But we would maintain, +nevertheless, that it is the identical book, and explain this variation +in the description by the circumstance that the library having, in the +space of nearly two centuries, been materially enriched, numerous works, +consisting in many cases only of a single "quaternion," were inserted in +the volumes already existing. An examination of the structure of books +of this period would confirm this view, and show that their apparent +clumsiness is to be explained by the facility it was then the custom to +afford for the interpolation or extraction of "sheets," by a contrivance +somewhat resembling that of the present day for temporarily fixing loose +papers in a cover, and known as the "patent leaf-holder." + +The second document is a list of certain books, belonging to the +monastery of Anglesey, early in the fourteenth century, allotted out to +the canons of the house for the purpose of custody, or, perhaps, of study +or devotion. + + "Isti libri liberati sunt canonicis die ... anno regni Regis Edwardi + septimo"[3] (7 Edw. II. A.D. 1314.) + Penes Dominum Priorem; Parabelæ Salomonis; Psalterium cum ... + Penes Dominum J. de Bodek.; Epistolæ Pauli...; Quædam notulæ super + psalter et liber miraculorum ... Mariæ cum miraculis sanctorum. + Penes Sub-priorem; Liber vitæ Sancti Thomæ Martiris. + Penes E. de Ely; Quartus liber sententiarum cum sermo...; Liber + Reymundi; Liber de vitiis et virtutibus et pastorale. + Penes R. Pichard; Liber Alquini; Liber Johannis de Tyrington cum + Catone et aliis. + Penes Henrici Muchet; Liber de vita Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ et + remediarum (?) + Penes Walteri de Yilwilden; Liber S ... ligatus in panno ymnaro + glosatus cum constitutionibus; Belet ligatus et vita sanctorum. + Penes Ricardi de Queye; Omeliæ Gregorii (?) super Evangelistos ligatæ + in nigro corio. + In commune biblia; Decreta; Decretales; Prima pars moralium Job; Liber + de abusionibus. + Liber justitiæ; penes Magistrum Adam de Wilburham. + Penes Walteri de Wyth; Liber Innocentii super sacramenta cum Belet et + introductione in uno volumine. + Item penes Sup-priorem; Psalterium glosatum duod fuit in custodia + Magistri Henrice de Melreth. + Item aliud psalterium glosatum inpignoratum penes Isabellam Siccadona. + +Several of these descriptions are highly curious; particularly the last +item, which describes one of the "glossed" psalters as being "_in +pawn_," a fact which, in itself, tells a history of the then condition +of the house. + +The first document, taken in connection with that referred to by Mr. +Hunter would seem to establish the existence of a system of +interchanging the literary wealth of monastic establishments, and +thereby greatly extending the advantages of their otherwise scanty +stores. Both are executed with all the legal forms used in the most +important transactions, which would support the opinion of their not {23} +being special instances: but they are, in either case, curious and +satisfactory evidence of the care and caution exercised by the monks in +cases where their books were concerned; and one cannot but regret that +when the time came that the monasterias were destined to be dissolved, +and their books torn and scattered to the winds, no attention was paid +to Bale's advice for the formation of "one solemne library in every +shire of England." + +JOSEPH BURTT + + [1] The information given of this house by Dugdale is very + scanty. It could surely be added to considerably. + + [2] London, 1831. quarto. See also a Paper by Mr. Halliwell in + the _Archæologia_, xxvii. p. 455., and Sir Francis Palgrave's + Introduction to _Documents and Records illustrating the History + of Scotland_, pp. xcvi.--cxvi., for extracts from the + historical chronicles preserved in the monasteries, &c. + + [3] The formula of this date, "anno R.R.E. septimo," would at + first sight be considered to refer to the preceding reign; but + the list is merely a memorandum on the dorse of a completely + executed instrument dated A.D. 1300, which it is highly + improbable that it preceded. The style of Edward II. is often + found as above, though not usually so. + + * * * * * + +PEDLAR'S SONG ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKSPERE, AND TRADITION CONNECTED WITH +SHAKSPERE'S "HAMLET." + +The following verses, which would form a very appropriate song for +Autolycus, were arranged as a glee for three voices by Dr. Wilson about +the year 1667. They are published in Playford's _Musical Companion_ in +1673; in Warren's _Collection of Glees and Catches_; and in S. Webbe's +_Conveto Harmonico_. The words were, I believe, first ascribed to +Shakspere by Clark, in 1824, in his _Words of Glees, Madrigals, &c._; +but he has not given his authority for so doing. It has been stated that +they have since been discovered in a common-place book written about +Shakspere's time, with his name attached to them, and with this indirect +evidence in favour of their being written by him, that the other pieces +in the collection are attributed to their proper writers. The late Mr. +Douce, who was inclined to believe the song to have been written by +Shakspere, once saw a copy of it with a fourth verse which was shown to +him by the then organist of Chichester. The poem is not included in Mr. +Collier's edition of Shakspere, nor in the Aldine edition of Shakspere's +Poems, edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Perhaps if you will be good enough to +insert the song and the present communication in the "NOTES AND +QUERIES," some of your readers may be enabled to fix the authorship and +to furnish the additional stanza to which I have referred. + + +PEDLAR'S SONG. + + From the far Lavinian shore, + I your markets come to store; + Muse not, though so far I dwell, + And my wares come here to sell; + Such is the sacred hunger for gold. + Then come to my pack, + While I cry + "What d'ye lack, + What d'ye buy? + For here it is to be sold." + + I have beauty, honour, grace, + Fortune, favour, time, and place, + And what else thou would'st request, + E'en the thing thou likest best; + First, let me have but a touch of your gold. + Then, come to me, lad, + Thou shalt have + What thy dad + Never gave; + For here it is to be sold. + + Madam, come, see what you lack, + I've complexions in my pack; + White and red you may have in this place, + To hide your old and wrinkled face. + First, let me have but a touch of your gold, + Then you shall seem + Like a girl of fifteen, + Although you be threescore and ten years old. + +While on this subject, perhaps I may be permitted to ask whether any +reader of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" can throw light on the following +questionable statement made by a correspondent of the _Morning Herald_, +of the 16th September, 1822. + + "Looking over and old volume the other day, printed in 1771, + I find it remarked that it was known as a tradition, that + Shakspeare shut himself up all night in Westminster Abbey when + he wrote the ghost scene in Hamlet." + +I do not find in Wilson's _Shakspeariana_ the title of a single "old" +book printed in 1771, on the subject of Shakspere. + +T. + + * * * * * + +SIR WILLIAM SKIPWYTH, KING'S JUSTICE IN IRELAND. + +Mr. Editor,--I am encouraged by the eminent names which illustrate the +first Number of your new experiment--a most happy thought--to inquire +whether they, or any other correspondent, can inform me who was the +William de Skypwith, the patent of whose appointment as Chief Justice of +the King's Bench in Ireland, dated February 15. 1370, 44 Edward III., is +to be found in the _New Fædera_ vol. iii. p.877.? In the entry on the +Issue Roll of that year, p. 458., of the payment of "his expences and +equipment" in going there, he is called "Sir William Skipwyth, Knight, +and the King's Justice in Ireland." {24} + +There was a Sir William Skipwyth, who was appointed a Judge of the +Common Pleas in 33 Edward III., and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 36 +Edward III.; and, were it not that Collins, in his _Baronetage_, +followed by Burke, says that he remained Chief Baron till 40 Edward +III., _in which year he died_, I should have had no doubt that the Irish +Chief Justice was the same with the English Chief Baron. + +The same authority adds that Sir William Skipwyth who was made a Justice +of the King's Bench [it should have been of the Common Pleas] in 50 +Edward III., and who resigned his office in 11 Richard II., was the +eldest son of the Chief Baron. But that authority does not make the +slightest allusion to the appointment of the Chief Justice of Ireland. + +A suspicion that this last Justice of the Common Pleas is not only the +same person as the Chief Justice of Ireland, but also as the Chief Baron +of the Exchequer, has arisen in my mind for the following among other +reasons. + +1. Collins and Burke are wrong in saying that he remained Chief Baron +till 40 Edward III. His successor in that office was appointed on +October 29. 1365, 39 Edward III. + +2. They are further wrong, I imagine, in saying that he continued Chief +Baron till his death: for Joshua Barnes, in his _History of Edward +III._, p. 667., says that Skipwyth and Sir Henry Green, the Chief +Justice of the King's Bench, were in 1365 arrested and imprisoned on +account of many enormities which the King understood they had committed +against law and justice; and this relation is corroborated by the fact +that Green's successor as Chief Justice was appointed on the same day as +Skipwyth's successor as Chief Baron. + +3. No proof whatever is given of the Chief Baron's death in 40 Edward +III. + +I will not trouble you with other grounds of identification which occur +to me: but as an answer to my question might "make these odds all even," +I sent the "Query" to the "Lost and Found Office" you have established, +in the hope that some stray "Note," as yet unappropriated, may assist in +solving the difficulty. + +EDWARD FOSS. + +November 5. 1849. + + * * * * * + +THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND. + +Mr. Editor,--May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in an +early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the +emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but +as yet found nothing definite enough. + +R. L. + +Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849. + + * * * * * + +CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. + +Mr. Editor,--Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your +Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which +Monmouth was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the +property of the Earl of Shaftesbury. + +I shall be happy at some future day, if it suits your purpose, to +collect and send you such particulars as may be gained on the spot +respecting it, and the incidents of the capture. + +We have still in the Town Hall here the chain in which it is said +Jefferies sat at the Bloody Assize. + +A. D. M. + +Dorcester, 3d Nov. 1849. + +[We shall gladly receive the particulars which our Correspondent +proposed to collect and forward.] + + * * * * * + +SERPENTS' EGGS AND STRAW NECKLACES. + +[Mr. Thoms' Query in this case should have been limited to the _straw +necklaces_, as Mr. Nichols has already explained the _serpents' eggs_; +but our Correspondent's letter is so satisfactory on both points that we +insert it entire.] + +The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to +be rendered "and with a string of serpents' eggs on your arm." The +meaning is equally apparent on recalling the manner in which snakes' +eggs are found, viz., hanging together in a row. Erasmus intends +Menedemus to utter a joke at the _rosary of beads_ hanging over the +pilgrim's arm, which he professes to mistake for serpents' eggs. + +I am not aware what particular propriety the "collar or chaplet" (for it +may mean either) of _straw_ may have, as worn by a pilgrim from +Compostella; or whether there may not lurk under this description, as +beneath {25} the other, a jocular sense. The readiest way of determining +this point would be to consult some of the accounts of Compostella and +of its relics, which are to be found in a class of books formerly +abundant in the north-western towns of Spain. + +V. + + * * * * * + +MADOC--HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA. + +"A Student" may consult the _Proceedings of the Royal Society of +Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen_, Mr. Geogehan's _Ireland_, +O'Flaherty's _Ogygia_, Magnusen and Rafn _On the Historical Monuments of +Greenland and America_, and some of the _Sagas_. + +SCOTUS. + +Brechin, Nov. 5. 1849. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON COFFEE. + +The earliest account we have of coffee is said to be taken from an +Arabian MS. in the Bibliothèque du Roi in Paris. + +Schehabeddin Ben, an Arabian author of the ninth century of the Hegira, +or fifteenth of the Christians, attributes to Gemaleddin, Mufti of Aden, +a city of Arabia Felix, who was nearly his contemporary, the first +introduction into that country, of drinking coffee. He tells us, that +Gemaleddin, having occasion to travel into Persia, during his abode +there saw some of his countrymen drinking coffee, which at that time he +did not much attend to; but, on his return to Aden, finding himself +indisposed, and remembering that he had seen his countrymen drinking +coffee in Persia, in hopes of receiving some benefit from it, he +determined to try it on himself; and, after making the experiment, not +only recovered his health, but perceived other useful qualities in that +liquor; such as relieving the headach, enlivening the spirits, and, +without prejudice to the constitution, preventing drowsiness. This last +quality he resolved to turn to the advantage of his profession; he took +it himself, and recommended it to the Dervises, or religious Mahometans, +to enable them to pass the night in prayer, and other exercises of their +religion, with greater zeal and attention. The example and authority of +the mufti gave reputation to coffee. Soon men of letters, and persons +belonging to the law, adopted the use of it. These were followed by the +tradesmen and artisans that were under the necessity of working in the +night, and such as were obliged to travel late after sunset. At length +the custom became general in Aden; and it was not only drunk in the +night by those who were desirous of being kept awake, but in the day for +the sake of its other agreeable qualities. + +Before this time coffee was scarce known in Persia, and very little used +in Arabia, where the tree grew. But, according to Schehabeddin, it had +been drunk in Æthiopia from time immemorial. + +Coffee being thus received at Aden, where it has continued in use ever +since without interruption, passed by degrees to many neighbouring +towns; and not long after reached Mecca, where it was introduced as at +Aden, by the Dervises, and for the same purposes of religion. + +The inhabitants of Mecca were at last so fond of this liquor, that, +without regarding the intention of the religious, and other studious +persons, they at length drank it publicly in coffee-houses, where they +assembled in crowds to pass the time agreeably, making that the +pretense. From hence the custom extended itself to many other towns of +Arabia, particularly to Medina, and then to Grand Cairo in Egypt, where +the Dervises of Yemen, who lived in a district by themselves, drank +coffee on the nights they intended to spend in devotion. + +Coffee continued its progress through Syria, and was received at +Damascus and Aleppo without opposition; and in the year 1554, under the +reign of Solyman, one hundred years after its introduction by the Mufti +of Aden, became known to the inhabitants of Constantinople, when two +private persons of the names of Schems and Hekin, the one coming from +Damascus, and the other from Aleppo, opened coffee-houses. + +"It is not easy," says Ellis, "to determine at what time, or upon what +occasion, the use of coffee passed from Constantinople to the western +parts of Europe. It is, however, likely that the Venetians, upon account +of the proximity of their dominions, and their great trade to the +Levant, were the first acquainted with it; which appears from part of a +letter wrote by Peter della Valle, a Venetian, in 1615, from +Constantinople; in which he tells his friend, that, upon his return he +should {26} bring with him some coffee, which he believed was a thing +unknown in his country." + +Mr. Garland tells us he was informed by M. de la Croix, the King's +interpreter, that M. Thevenot, who had travelled through the East, at +his return in 1657, brought with him to Paris some coffee for his own +use, and often treated his friends with it. + +It was known some years sooner at Marseilles; for, in 1644, some +gentlemen who accompanied M. de la Haye to Constantinople, brought back +with them on their return, not only some coffee, but the proper vessels +and apparatus for making it. However, until 1660, coffee was drunk only +by such as had been accustomed to it in the Levant, and their friends; +but that year some bales were imported from Egypt, which gave a great +number of persons an opportunity of trying it, and contributed very much +to bringing it into general use; and in 1661, a coffee-house was opened +at Marseilles in the neighbourhood of the Exchange. + +Before 1669, coffee had not been seen at Paris, except at M. Thevenot's, +and some of his friends'; nor scarce heard of but from the account of +travellers. In that year, Soliman Aga, ambassador from the Sultan +Mahomet the Fourth, arrived, who, with his retinue, brought a +considerable quantity of coffee with them, and made presents of it to +persons both of the court and city, and it is supposed to have +established the custom of drinking it. + +Two years afterwards, an Armenian of the name of Pascal, set up a +coffee-house, but meeting with little encouragement, left Paris and came +to London. + +From Anderson's _Chronological History of Commerce_, it appears that the +use of coffee was introduced into London some years earlier than into +Paris. For in 1652 one Mr. Edwards, a Turkey merchant, brought home with +him a Greek servant, whose name was Pasqua, who understood the roasting +and making of coffee, till then unknown in England. This servant was the +first who sold coffee, and kept a house for that purpose in George Yard +Lombard Street. + +The first mention of coffee in our statute books is anno 1660 (12 Car. +II. c. 24), when a duty of 4d. was laid upon every gallon of coffee made +and sold, to be paid by the maker. + +The statute 15 Car. II. c. 11. § 15. an. 1663, directs that all +coffee-houses should be licensed at the general quarter sessions of the +peace for the county within which they are to be kept. + +In 1675 King Charles II. issued a proclamation to shut up the +coffee-houses, but in a few days suspended the proclamation by a second. +They were charged with being seminaries of sedition. + +The first European author who has made any mention of coffee is +Rauwolfus, who was in the Levant in 1573. + + * * * * * + +DR. DRYASDUST. + +Sir,--Do you or any of your readers know anything of the family of that +celebrated antiquary, and do you think it probable that he was descended +from, or connected with, the author of a work which I met with some time +ago, intituled "Wit Revived, or A new and excellent way of +Divertisement, digested into most ingenious Questions and Answers. By +ASDRYASDUST TOSSOFFACAN. London: Printed for T. E. and are to be sold by +most Booksellers. MDCLXXIV." 12mo. I do not know anything of the +author's character, but he appears to have been a right-minded man, in +so far as he (like yourself) expected to find "wit revived" by its +digestion into "most ingenious questions and answers;" though his notion +that asking and answering questions was a _new_ way of divertisement, +seems to indicate an imperfect knowledge of the nature and history of +mankind; but my query is simply genealogical. + +H. F. W. + + * * * * * + +MACAULAY'S "YOUNG LEVITE." + +Sir,--The following passage from the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, published +1651, struck me as a curious corroboration of the passage in Mr. +Macaulay's _History_ which describes the "young Levite's" position in +society during the seventeenth century; and as chance lately threw in my +way the work from which Burton took his illustration, I take the liberty +of submitting Notes of both for your examination. + + "If he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman's house (as it befel + Euphormio), after some seven years' service he may perchance have + a living to {27} the halves, or some small rectory, with the + mother of the maids at length, a poor kinswoman, or a crackt + chambermaid, to have and to hold during the time of his + life."--Burton, _Anat. of Mel._ part i. sect. 2. mem. 3. subsect 15. + +Burton is here referrng to the _Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon_, +published anno 1617. It professes to be a satire, or rather A FURIOUS +INVECTIVE, on the corrupt manners of the times, and is in four parts: +the 1st is dedicated to King James I.; the 2nd to Robert Cecil; the 3rd +to Charles Emmanuel of Savoy; the 4th to Louis XIII., King of France. + +The use that Burton makes of the name of Euphormio is any thing but +happy. He was not a "_trencher chaplain_" but the slave of a rich +debauchée, Callion, sent in company with another slave, Percas, to carry +some all-potent nostrum to Fibullius, a friend of Callion, who was +suffering from an attack of stone. Euphormio cures Fibullius, not by the +drug with which he was armed, but by a herb, which he sought for and +found on a mountain. Fibullius, to reward his benefactor, offers him as +a wife a most beautiful girl, whom he introduces to him privately while +in his sick room. Euphormio looks with no little suspicion on the offer; +but, after a few excuses, which are overruled by Fibullius, accepts the +lady as his betrothed, "seals the bargain with a holy kiss," and walks +out of the room (to use his own words) "et sponsus, et quod +nesciebam--Pater," page 100. The next mention of this lady [evidently +the prototype of the "crackt chambermaid,"] is in page 138. Callion had +paid his sick friend Fibullius a visit, and, on the eve of his +departure, had ordered Euphormio to ride post before him, and prepare +the inhabitants of the districts through which he was to pass for his +arrival. While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the act of mounting his +steed, a rustic brings him a letter from Fibullius, and in conversation +gives him such an account of his bride as forces upon him the +reflection, that even the grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, +to so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, as the _protegée_ of +Fibullius would be likely to prove. But, as these _notes_ have, in spite +of all my attempts at condensation, already grown to a most formidable +size, I will not indulge in any moral reflections; but conclude by +_querying_ you, or any of your readers, to inform me whether the +personages mentioned in the _Euphorm. Lus. Satyricon_, such as Callion, +Pereas, Fibullius, &c., are real characters or not? as, in the former +case, I am inclined to think that the work might throw some interesting +lights on the private manners and characters of some of the courtiers of +the day. "No scandal against any of the maids of honour"--of course. The +phrase "_To the halves_" (in the quotation from Burton) means, +inadequate, insufficient; we still talk of "half and half" measures. +Montanus inveighs against such "perturbations, that purge _to the +halves_, tire nature, and molest the body to no purpose."--Burton, +_Anat. of Mel._, part. ii. sect. 2. mem. 4. subsect. 6. + +MELANION. + +[The work referred to by our correspondent was written by Barclay, +better known as the author of the _Argenis_. The First Part of the +_Satyricon_, dedicated to James the First, was published, London, 12mo. +1603; and with the addition of the 2nd Part, Paris, 1605. The best +edition of the work (which, really in two parts, is made, by the +addition of the _Apologia Euphormionis_, &c. sometimes into five) is +said to be the Elzevir 12mo., 1637. There are two editions of it _cum +notis variorum_, Leyden, 1667 and 1669, 8vo., in two volumes. Of some of +the editions (as that of 1623, 12mo.) it is said, "adjecta Clavi sive +obscurorum et quasi ænigmaticorum nominum, in hoc Opere passim +occurrentium, dilucida explicatione." The _Satyricon_ was twice +translated into French; and its literary history, and that of the +_Censura Euphormionis_, and other tracts, which it called forth, might +furnish a curious and amusing paper.] + + * * * * * + +SERMONES SANCTI CAROLI BORROMÆI. + +Sir,--I have been wanting to get a sight of the following work, +"Sermones Sancti Caroli Borromæi, Archiepisc. Mediol. Edidit. J.A. +Saxius. 5 Tom. Mediol. 1747." Can I learn through your columns whether +the work is any where accessible in London? I sought for it in vain at +the British Museum a twelvemonth ago; nor, though then placed in their +list of _Libri desiderati_, has it yet been procured. + +C. F. SECRETAN. + + * * * * * + +LUTHER AND ERASMUS. + +Mr. Editor,--The following lines, written in a hand of the early part of +the seventeenth century, occur on the fly-leaf of a copy of the {28} +_Translation of Luther on the Galatians_, edit. London, 4to. 1577. Can +any of your readers oblige me by informing me who was their author? + + "Parum Lutherus ac Erasmus differunt + Serpens uterque est, plenus atro toxico; + Sed ille mordet ut cerastes in via, + Hic fraudulentus mordet in silentio." + +Your obedient servant, + +ROTERODAMUS. + + * * * * * + +TOWER ROYAL--CONSTITUTION HILL--COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S +LETTER--TENNISON'S FUNERAL SERMON ON NELL GWYNNE. + +Sir,--I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the following +Queries:-- + +1. What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London +locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to +inhabit it? + +2. When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why? + +3. Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have +been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph +Williamson? It first appeared in _The World_. + +4. Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop +Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne? + +PETER CUNNINGHAM. + + * * * * * + +GROG--BISHOP BARNABY. + +Mr. Editor,--I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies. + +Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"--And why do the people in Suffolk +call a ladybird "Bishop Barnaby?" + +If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel +encouraged to try again. + +Yours, &c. + +LEGOUR. + + * * * * * + +NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. II. + +DR. FARMER ON DRAYTON'S WORKS. + +The following bibliographical memoranda, in the well-known hand of Dr. +Farmer, occur in a copy of the edition of Drayton's _Poems_ published in +1619, in small folio, by John Smethwick, which contains "The Barons' +Wars; England's Heroical Epistles; Idea; Odes; The Legends of Robert +Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and Great Cromwell; The +Owle; and Pastorals, containing Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone." + +They may be of use to some future editor of Drayton, an author now +undeservedly neglected, whose _Nymphidia_ alone might tempt the tasteful +publisher of the "Aldine Poets" to include a selection, at least, of his +poems in that beautiful series:-- + + "The works of Michael Drayton, Esq., were reprinted in folio, + 1748. The title-page 'promises all the writings of that + _celebrated author_,' but his Pastorals (p.433. &c., first + published imperfectly in 4to. 1593) and many other of his most + considerable compositions (Odes, the Owle, &c., see the Appendix), + are not so much as spoken of. See his article in the _Biog. + Brit._ by Mr. Oldys, curiously and accurately written. + + "Another edition (which is called the _best_) was printed in 4 + vols. 8vo. 1753. Robson, 1765. + + "A Poem Triumphant, composed for the Society of the Goldsmiths of + London, by _M. Drayton_. 4to. 1604. _Harl. Cat._ v.3. p. 357. + + "Charles Coffey was the editor of the folio edit. 1748, he had a + large subscription for it, but died before the publication; and + it was afterward printed for the benefit of his widow. See + Mottley, p. 201. + + "The print of Drayton at the back of the title-page, is marked in + Thane's Catalogue, 1774, 7s. 6d. + + "N.B. The copy of the _Baron's Warres_ in this edition differs in + almost every line from that in the 8vo. edit. 1610. + + "It was printed under the title of Mortimeriados, in 7 line + stanzaes. + + "Matilda was first printed 1594, 4to., by Val. Simmes. Gaveston + appears by the Pref. to have been publish't before. Almost every + line in the old 4to. of Matilda differs from the copy in this + edit. A stanza celebrating Shakespeare's Lucrece is omitted in the + later edition. + + "Idea. The Shepherd's Garland. Fashion'd in 9 Eglogs. Rowland's + sacrifice to the 9 Muses, 4to. 1593. But they are printed in this + Edition very different from the present Pastorals. + + "A sonnet of Drayton's prefixed to the 2nd Part of _Munday's + Primaleon of Greece_, B.L. 4to. 1619." + +[The stanza in _Matilda_, celebrating Shakespeare's _Lucrece_, to which +Dr. Farmer alludes, is thus quoted by Mr. Collier in his edition of +Shakespeare (viii. p. 411.):-- + + "Lucrece, of whom proud Rome hath boasted long, + Lately revived to live another age, + And here arrived to tell of Tarquin's wrong, + Her chaste denial, and the tyrant's rage, {29} + Acting her passions on our stately stage: + She is remember'd, all forgetting me, + Yet I as fair and chaste as e'er was she;"-- + +who remarks upon it as follows:-- + + "A difficulty here may arise out of the fifth line, as if + Drayton was referring to a play upon the story of Lucrece, and + it is very possible that one was then in existence. Thomas + Heywood's tragedy, _The Rape of Lucrece,_ did not appear in print + until 1608, and he could hardly have been old enough to have been + the author of such a drama in 1594; he may, nevertheless, have + availed himself of an elder play, and, according to the practice + of the time, he may have felt warranted in publishing it as his + own. It is likely, however, that Drayton's expressions are not to + be taken literally; and that his meaning merely was, that the + story of Lucrece had lately been revived, and brought upon the + stage of the world: if this opinion be correct, the stanza we have + quoted above contains a clear allusion to Shakespeare's _Lucrece_; + and a question then presents itself, why Drayton entirely omitted + it in the after-impression of his _Matilda_. He was a poet who, as + we have shown in the Introduction to _Julius Cæsar_ (vol. viii. + p. 4.), was in the habit of making extensive alterations in his + productions, as they were severally reprinted, and the suppression + of this stanza may have proceeded from many other causes than + repentance of the praise he had bestowed upon a rival."] + + * * * * * + +BODENHAM, OR LING'S POLITEUPHUIA. + +Sir,--The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for sale, +issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:-- + + "Bodenham? (Ling?), Politeuphuia. Wits commonwealth, _original + wrapper, vellum_. VERY RARE. + + "80 fr. 8vo. London, for Nicholas Ling, 1597. + + "This book, 'being a methodical collection of the most choice + and select admonitions and sentences, compendiously drawn from + infinite varietie,' is quoted by Lowndes under Bodenham, as first + printed in 1598; the Epistle dedicatory however of the present + copy is signed: 'N. Ling', and addressed 'to his very good friend + Maister I.B.,' so that Ling appears to have been the author, and + this an edition unknown to Lowndes or any other bibliographer." + +This seems to settle one point, perhaps a not very important one, in our +literary history; and as such may deserve a place among your "NOTES." + +BOOKWORM. + + * * * * * + +COLLEY CIBBER'S APOLOGY. + +Mr. Editor,--No doubt most of your readers are well acquainted with +Colley Cibber's _Apology for his Life_, &c., first printed, I believe, +in 1740, 4to, with a portrait of himself, painted by Vanloo, and +engraved by Vandergucht. Chapters IV. and V. contain the celebrated +characters he drew of the principal performers, male and female, in, and +just before, his time, viz. Betterton, Montfort, Kynaston, &c. Upon +these characters I have two questions to put, which I hope some of your +contributors may be able to answer. The first is, "Were these characters +of actors reprinted in the same words, and without additions, in the +subsequent impressions of Cibber's _Apology_ in 8vo?" Secondly, "Had +they ever appeared in any shape before they were inserted in the copy of +Cibber's _Apology_ now before me, in 1740, 4to?" To this may be added, +if convenient, some account of the work in which these fine criticisms +originally appeared, supposing they did not first come out in the +_Apology_. I am especially interested in the history of the Stage about +the period when the publication of these characters formed an epoch. + +I am, Mr. Editor, yours, + +DRAMATICUS. + + * * * * * + +A MAIDEN ASSIZE--WHITE GLOVES. + +Mr. Editor.--I forward for insertion in your new publication the +following "Note," taken from the _Times_ of the 20th of August, 1847:-- + +"A Fortunate County.--In consequence of there being no prisoners, nor +business of any kind to transact at the last assizes for the county of +Radnor, the high sheriff, Mr. Henry Miles, had to present the judge, Mr. +Justice Cresswell, with a pair of white kid gloves, embroidered in gold, +and which have been forwarded to his lordship; a similar event has not +taken place for a considerable number of years in that county. His +lordship remarked that it was the first time it had occurred to him +since he had been on the Bench." + +And I beg to append it as a "Query," which I shall gladly see answered +by any of your correspondents, or my professional brethren,--"What is +the origin of this singular custom, and what is the earliest instance of +it on record?" + +A LIMB OF THE LAW. {30} + + * * * * * + +BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE + +JONES (EDMUND) GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND RELIGIOUS ACCOUNT OF +ABERYSTWITH. 8VO. Trevecka, 1779. + +CARTARI.--LA ROSA D'ORO PONTIFICIA, ETC. 4to. Rome. 1681. + +SHAKSPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS.--The _Fourth_ Volume of WHITTINGHAM'S +Edition, in 7 vols, 24mo. Chiswick. 1814. + +M. C. H. BROEMEL, FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN. Jena, 1705. + +*** Letters stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be +sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. 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Stamped Edition + 4d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + + <h2>A FEW WORDS TO OUR FRIENDS.</h2> + + <p>In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching + to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform. We stated + that "we would rather give a specimen than a description." We are now in + like manner unwilling to point as exultingly, as we think we might, to the + position which we have already taken. But there is a vast difference between + vain boasting and the expression of an honest satisfaction; and it would be + worse than an affectation of humility—it would be a mean + hypocrisy—if we did not express heartily and unreservedly the + gratitude we owe and feel to those who have encouraged us by their friendly + advice and able pens. We have opened a Literary Exchange, and we have had + the gratification to see that men whose learning and talents the public + recognise—leaders in their several branches of inquiry—have at + once taken advantage of it. They have proved the necessity for some such + medium of communication, as well as their good-will to the one now offered + to them, by a gathering in its behalf which the public will respect, and of + which we may well feel proud.</p> + + <p>Some whose good opinion we most value, and who have spoken most warmly in + favour of our plan, have proved the sincerity of their praise by suggestions + of improvement in its detail, and hints for its further extension. They may + feel assured that such hints and such suggestions shall not be lost sight + of. For instance, one respected correspondent hints that as we have very + properly adopted Dr. Maitland's suggestion with regard to Herbert's edition + of Ame's <i>Typographical Antiquities</i>, namely, that of "offering a + receptacle for illustrations, additions, and corrections," and invited "our + readers to take advantage of our columns to carry out Dr. Maitland's + suggestions," we should open our columns with equal readiness to the + correction and illustration of more modern and more popular works. We + entirely concur with him; but in reference to this subject there is a + distinction which must be borne in mind. Our own literature, like that of + every other country, consists of two classes of books. We have the books of + pretenders to knowledge, the hasty, crude, imperfect, but often for the time + attractive and popular volumes of the Ned Purdons of the day. These books + have a use—such as it is—and thus answer their purpose; but it + would be for the credit of our literature, and save a world of trouble, if + they were forgotten as soon as they had done so. To illustrate such books, + to add to their information or correct their blunders, would be useless and + almost ridiculous. They should be left to die of mere powerlessness and + exhaustion, or to wither under the wholesome influence of a just and manly + criticism.</p> + + <p>But there are books of another kind—books <span class= + "pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>{18}</span> which our worthy + bibliopoles designate as "standard works." These are the books of competent + workmen—books which are the result of honest labour and research, and + which from the moment of their publication assume a permanent station in our + national literature. Even in such books there are many things incomplete, + many things erroneous. But it is the interest of every man that such books + should be rendered as complete as possible; and whatever tends to illustrate + or correct works of that class will be sure of insertion in our columns.</p> + + <p>We would point to Macaulay's <i>England</i>, and Hallam's <i>Introduction + to the Literary History of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries</i>, his + <i>Middle Ages</i>, and his <i>Constitutional History</i>, and we may add, + as illustrations of a different kind, <i>The Annals of the Stage</i> of our + excellent friend Mr. Collier, and <i>The Handbook of London</i> of our + valued contributor Mr. Peter Cunningham, as examples of the sort of + publications to which we allude. Such were the books we had in our mind, + when we spoke in our Prospectus of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" becoming, through + the inter-communication of our literary friends, "a most useful supplement + to works already in existence—a treasury towards enriching future + editions of them."</p> + + <p>Another correspondent—a bibliographical friend—suggests that, + for various reasons, which bibliographers will appreciate, our Prospectus + should have a place in the body of our work. We believe that many of our + readers concur in a wish for its preservation, and it will therefore be + found in the Number now before them.</p> + + <p>One suggestion again urges us to look carefully to Foreign Literature, + and another points out the propriety of our making our paper as British as + possible, so that our topographical facts should, as far as practicable, be + restricted to the illustration of British counties, and our biographical + ones to such as should contribute towards a Biographia Brittanica.</p> + + <p>All these, and many other expressions of sympathy and promises of + support, poured in upon us within a few hours after our birth. No one of + them shall be forgotten; and if for a time our pages seem to indicate that + we have made a QUERY as to the adoption of any suggestion, let our kind + contributors be assured that there is no hint which reaches us, whether + <i>at present</i> practicable or not, that we do not seriously and + thankfully "make a NOTE of."</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>BISHOP AYLMER'S LETTER, AND THE POEM ON THE ARMADA.</h2> + + <p>As I am in a condition to answer the inquiry of your "Hearty + Well-wisher," on p. 12 of your last Number of "NOTES AND QUERIES," I proceed + to give him the information he asks. I shall be happy if what follows is of + any use to your correspondent, taking it for granted that he is as zealous + for your success as his signature indicates.</p> + + <p>The "foolish rhyme," to which the attention of the Bishop of London had + been directed by Lord Burghley, has the subsequent doggrel title:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"A Skeltonicall Salvtation,</p> + + <p>Or condigne gratvlation,</p> + + <p>And iust vexation</p> + + <p>Of the Spanishe nation,</p> + + <p>That in a bravado</p> + + <p>Spent many a crvsado,</p> + + <p>In setting forth an armado</p> + + <p>England to invado."</p> + </div> + + <p>This is as the title stands in the Oxford impression (of which I never + saw more than one copy, because, we may presume, it was suppressed by the + authorities of the University), and the following is the imprint at the + bottom of it:—"Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee sold + in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Tygres head, 1589."</p> + + <p>There exists several exemplars of the London edition—"Imprinted at + London for Toby Cooke, 1589,"—the title-page of which, as well as the + rest of the poem, differs only literally from that of Oxford, excepting that + to the latter is appended a Latin version, also in rhyme, and in close + imitation of the English. I subjoin a brief specimen of it:— + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>{19}</span></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Qui regis Hispanos,</p> + + <p>Superbos et vanos,</p> + + <p>Crudeles et insanos,</p> + + <p>Multùm aberrasti,</p> + + <p>Cùm tuos animasti,</p> + + <p>Et bellum inchoasti</p> + + <p>Contra Anglos animosos,</p> + + <p>Fortes et bellicosos,</p> + + <p>Nobiles et generosos.</p> + + <p>Qui te excitavit</p> + + <p>Proculdubio deliravit</p> + + <p>Et te fascinavit," &c.</p> + </div> + + <p>The whole production consists only of ten leaves, 4to., and the Latin + portion, which has the subsequent separate title-page, occupies four of + them:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p class="i6">"AD REGEM</p> + + <p class="i6">HISPANVM.</p> + + <p>Cum tua non fuerint heroica facta, Philippe,</p> + + <p>Risu digna cano carmine ridiculo."</p> + </div> + + <p>I shall not here introduce any part of the English version, because one + or two long quotations will be found in the introductory portion of the Rev. + A. Dyce's excellent edition of Skelton's Works (2 vols. 8vo. 1843). + Respecting the Latin portion I have been more particular, because the + learned editor was not aware that the production had come from the press of + Barnes of Oxford, nor that a Latin version was appended to it.</p> + + <p>I may take the liberty of adding here a mention of Skelton which escaped + notice, and which is from one of the tracts against Thomas Nash, produced by + Gabriel Harvey, the friend of Spenser. He couples Skelton and Scoggin + together, in no very respectful manner, and completes the triumvirate by + Nash, whom he here calls Signor Capriccio:—"And what riott so + pestiferous as that which in sugred baites presenteth most poisonous hookes? + Sir Skelton and Master Scoggin were but innocents to Signior Capricio."</p> + + <p>This quotation is the more noticeable, because it recognises the sacred + character of Skelton (however unworthy of the gown) in the prefix "Sir," + which, as most people are aware, was then generally given to clergymen: + Scoggin, on the other hand, is only styled "Master Scoggin."</p> + + <p class="author">J. PAYNE COLLIER.</p> + + <p class="note">[The preceding communication was already in type when we + received the following from Mr. Bolton Corney, which we gladly print, + inasmuch as it illustrates some points not touched upon by Mr. Collier.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 1.</h2> + + <p>It is not without some slight reluctance that I notice anonymous + communications, but shall endeavour to repress such feelings with regard to + the modest students who may choose to announce their desiderata through the + convenient channel of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." A <i>hearty well wisher</i> + to so commendable an enterprise, shall have my first responsive scrap.</p> + + <p>The inquiry affords no scope for ingenuity of conjecture! The <i>foolish + rime</i> to which bishop Aylmer refers, is undoubtedly the pamphlet thus + entitled:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"A Skeltonicall salutation,</p> + + <p>Or condigne gratulation,</p> + + <p>And iust vexation</p> + + <p>Of the Spanish nation,</p> + + <p>That in a bravado</p> + + <p>Spent many a crusado,</p> + + <p>In setting forth an armado</p> + + <p>England to invado."</p> + + <p class="i2">Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1589. 4to.</p> + + <p>"A Skeltonicall salutation," &c.</p> + + <p class="i2">Imprinted at London for Toby Cook, 1589. 4to.</p> + </div> + + <p>The Oxford edition is recorded by Ames, and there is a copy of the London + edition in the British Museum. Strype, in his account of bishop Aylmer, + gives the substance of the letter as his <i>own</i> narrative, almost + <i>verbatim</i>—but fails to identify the pamphlet in question. Park + briefly describes it in <i>Censura Literaria</i>, 1815, ii. 18.; and there + is a specimen of it in <i>The Poetical Works of John Skelton</i>, as edited + by the Reverend Alexander Dyce, 1843.</p> + + <p>While <i>queries</i> evince a sharp mental appetite, <i>answers</i> help + to satisfy it; and so, by their united influence, a brisk circulation of + ideas may be produced—which, as master Burton assures us, wards off + melancholy.</p> + + <p class="author">BOLTON CORNEY.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES UPON "NOTES, NO. 1."</h2> + + <p>Sir,—I take the liberty to send you one or two Notes on your first + Number, just as they occur to me in looking it over. I will not trespass on + you by preface or apology.</p> + + <p>The "<i>bibliographic project</i>" I shall rejoice <span class= + "pagenum"><a id="page20" name="page20"></a>{20}</span> to see carried out; + and though neither an unemployed aspirant nor a fortunate collector (of + which class I hope many will be stimulated by the proposition), yet, as I + once took some trouble in the matter, I should be happy to contribute some + Notes then made whenever the plan is matured and the proposed appeal is + made—provided (I must add, and to <i>you</i> I may add) I can find + them.</p> + + <p>The <i>Liber Sententiarum</i> was printed by Limborch, at Amsterdam, in + 1692. It forms the greater part, as, indeed, it was the occasion, of his + folio volume, entitled "<i>Historia Inquisitionis cui subjungitur Liber + Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanæ ab anno Christi Cl[*C]CCCVI ad annum + Cl[*C]CCCXXIII.</i>" Gibbon, in a note on his fifty-fourth chapter, observes + that the book "deserved a more learned and critical editor;" and, if your + correspondent will only place the <i>Book of Sentences</i> before the public + in a readable form, with a map, and (by all means) a few <i>notes</i>, he + will be doing a great service to all persons who take an interest in + ecclesiastical history, or, indeed, in history of any kind. In the year 1731 + Chandler published a translation of the <i>History of the Inquisition</i>, + with a long Introduction of his own, but did not meddle with the <i>Book of + Sentences</i>, except so far as to introduce into the text of the + <i>History</i> some passages from it, which Limborch (as he appended the + whole book) did not think it necessary to quote. I remember seeing the MS. + in the British Museum within these ten or twelve years, and, according to my + recollection, it was accompanied by papers which would furnish an + interesting literary history of the volume. I hope your correspondent will + give us farther information.</p> + + <p class="author">N.B.</p> + + <p class="note">[Mr. Brooke, of Ufford, has also kindly replied to the Query + of INQUISITORIUS, by referring him to Limborch.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>QUERY AS TO REFERENCES.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—May I be permitted to suggest one way in which you may be of + great service to many literary men, and indeed to the cause of literature in + general; and this, too, without much trouble to yourself? Would you be + willing to receive "Queries" respecting <i>references</i>? They frequently + puzzle those who are engaged in literary works, and indeed those who are + merely readers, and who have not access to public libraries or the + manuscript treasures of the metropolis and the universities. If, for + instance, a clergyman or squire, interested in the history of his parish, + should find in the county historian something which his own local or + genealogical knowledge leads him to think erroneous, vouched for by a + reference to the <i>Cotton</i> or <i>Harleian MSS.</i>, might he apply to + you? It may be supposed that you are not very far from some one of the great + fountains of information, and have easy access to all; and it is probable + that you might not only do a personal favour to the inquirer, but confer a + benefit on the public, by correcting an erroneous statement. Of course you + would subject yourself to unreasonable requests, but the remedy would always + be in your own hands.</p> + + <p>Yours, &c.</p> + + <p class="author">A. G. C.</p> + + <p class="note">[The Editor inserts this letter because he is sure that it + comes from a friendly quarter, and he knows that something like what it + suggests is very much wanted. He would feel great diffidence as to his + powers of fulfilling all that might be expected if he were simply to reply + in the affirmative: but he is quite willing to make the trial, and he thinks + that (though sometimes perhaps with a little delay) he could in general + obtain any information of this kind which could be reasonably sought.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>LINES IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—The following lines are written in pencil on sheet 61. + of the <i>Notes of the Debates in the Long Parliament</i>, taken down in the + House of Commons by Sir Ralph Verney. The <i>Notes of Debates</i>, but not + these lines, were published by the Camden Society in 1845. For any thing + that appears to the contrary, these lines may have been written in the House + as well as the <i>Notes of Debates</i>. The sheet 61. refers to debates + which took place in March 1641-2. I am not aware that the lines have been + published, nor can I assign them to their author. If any of your readers can + tell me anything about them, I shall esteem it a favour.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Wert thou yet fairer than thou art,</p> + + <p class="i2">Which lies not in the power of art;</p> + + <p>Or hadst thou, in thine eyes, more darts</p> + + <p class="i2">Than Cupid ever shot at hearts;</p> + + <p>Yet, if they were not thrown at me,</p> + + <p class="i2">I could not cast one thought at thee.</p> + </div><span class="pagenum"><a id="page21" name="page21"></a>{21}</span> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I'd rather marry a disease</p> + + <p class="i2">Than court the thing I cannot please;</p> + + <p>She that will cherish my desires,</p> + + <p class="i2">Must feed my flames with equal fires.</p> + + <p>What pleasure is there in a kiss,</p> + + <p class="i2">To him that doubts the heart's not his?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I love thee, not 'cause thou art fair,</p> + + <p class="i2">Smoother than down, softer than air,</p> + + <p>Nor for those Cupids that do lie</p> + + <p class="i2">In either corner of thine eye;</p> + + <p>Will you then know what it may be?</p> + + <p class="i2">'Tis—I love you 'cause you love me.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">J. BRUCE.</p> + + <p>24th Oct. 1849</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES UPON ANCIENT LIBRARIES.</h2> + + <p>A knowledge of the intellectual acquirements of the middle ages must be + mainly formed upon a consideration of the writings which directed them, or + emanated from them. Unfortunately such materials are very imperfect, our + knowledge of the existence of works often resting only upon their place in + some loosely-entered catalogue—and of the catalogues themselves, the + proportion still remaining must be small indeed. Under these circumstances + the following documents, which are now for the first time printed, or even + noticed, will be found to be of considerable interest. The first is, in + modern language, a Power of Attorney, executed by the Prior of Christ + Church, Canterbury, appointing two of the monks of his church to be his + procurators for the purpose of receiving from the convent of Anglesey, in + Cambridgeshire<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href= + "#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>, a book which had been lent to the late Rector + of Terrington. Its precise date is uncertain, but it must be of about the + middle of the thirteenth century (1244-1254), as Nicholas Sandwich, the + Prior of Christ Church, was the second of four priors who presided between + the years 1234 and 1274.</p> + + <blockquote> + "N. Prior Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis discretis viris et religiosis + Domino Priori de Anglesheya et ejusdem loci sacro conventui salutem in + Domino. Cum sincera semper caritate noverit faternitas vestra nos + constiuisse fratres Gauterum de Hatdfeld et Nicolaum de Grantebrigiense + Ecclesiæ nostræ monachos latores precencium procuratores nostros ad + exigendum et recipiendum librum qui intitulatur. Johannes Crisestomus de + laude Apostoli. In quo etiam volumine continentur Hystoria vetus Britonum + quæ Brutus appellatur et tractatus Roberti Episcopi Herfordiæ de compoto. + Quæ quondam accommodavimus Magistro Laurentio de Sancto Nicholao tunc + Rectori ecclesiæ de Tyrenton. Qui post decessum præfati Magistri L. penes + vos morabatur et actenus moratur. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras + patentes nostro sigillo signatas vobis transmittimus." + </blockquote> + + <p>The contents of the book which is the subject of this special embassy are + of the character usually found to have formed the staple of monastic + libraries, though the particular treatises included in it are not + common.</p> + + <p>In the Reverend Joseph Hunter's valuable treatise upon <i>English + Monastic Libraries</i><a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href= + "#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> occurs a notice of an indenture executed in + A.D. 1343, whereby the priory of Henton lent no less than twenty books to + another monastic establishment. The deed is described, but not printed. It + will be seen that the instrument we have given above is nearly a century + earlier; and the minute description of the book given in this document + supplies some very curious facts illustrative of the mode of putting + together ancient books, which have not hitherto been remarked, for the + simple reasons that no opportunity for comparison like that presented by the + present case has yet been noticed. Among the Cottonian MSS. (Galba E. iv.) + is a perfect specimen of an ancient Library Catalogue, which, although not + altogether unnoticed, deserves a more careful examination than it has yet + received. It relates to the magnificent monastic foundation from which + emanated the deed we have printed above, and is headed "Tituli librorum de + libraria Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis et contenta in eisdem libris tempore + H. Prioris." It is written in that bold hand which prevails so extensively + in ecclesiastical MSS., with but little variation, from the middle of the + fourteenth century, to the end of the fifteenth,—a hand which is not + always clearly written, and which therefore, in itself, does not materially + assist in the distinction of a date. Now having first assigned the credit of + this noble <span class="pagenum"><a id="page22" name= + "page22"></a>{22}</span> Catalogue—in which are entered about 600 + volumes, in nearly every one of which, besides the substantive (or initial?) + work, are particularised numerous detached writings, varying from two or + three to five-and-forty distinct "tracts"—to Prior Henry Chichely + (1413—1443), the founder of All Souls' and St. John's Colleges, + Oxford, and who, "built the library of the church, and furnished it with + books," we will see whether the book "qui intitulatur Johannes Crisestomus," + &c. was returned to Canterbury, and had a place in the list;—and + this, we think, is satisfactorily shown by the following entry:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Johannes Crisostomus de laude Apostoli.</p> + + <p class="i2">In hoc volumine continentur</p> + + <p>Idem de laude Redemptoris.</p> + + <p>Brutus latine.</p> + + <p>Nomina Regum Britanniæ sicut in ordine successerunt.</p> + + <p>Nomina Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensis sicut in ordine successerunt.</p> + + <p>Tabula et questiones Bede de ratione temporum.</p> + + <p>Tabula ejusdem et expositio super tabulam de lunationibus.</p> + + <p>Descriptio Britanniæ Insulæ.</p> + + <p>Expositio super Merlinum, imperfecta."</p> + </div> + + <p>It may perhaps be supposed that this proves too much, as, besides the + direct title of the volume, <i>eight</i> "tracts" are here entered, while in + the Power of Attorney only <i>two</i> are noticed. But we would maintain, + nevertheless, that it is the identical book, and explain this variation in + the description by the circumstance that the library having, in the space of + nearly two centuries, been materially enriched, numerous works, consisting + in many cases only of a single "quaternion," were inserted in the volumes + already existing. An examination of the structure of books of this period + would confirm this view, and show that their apparent clumsiness is to be + explained by the facility it was then the custom to afford for the + interpolation or extraction of "sheets," by a contrivance somewhat + resembling that of the present day for temporarily fixing loose papers in a + cover, and known as the "patent leaf-holder."</p> + + <p>The second document is a list of certain books, belonging to the + monastery of Anglesey, early in the fourteenth century, allotted out to the + canons of the house for the purpose of custody, or, perhaps, of study or + devotion.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Isti libri liberati sunt canonicis die ... anno regni Regis Edwardi + septimo"<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href= + "#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> (7 Edw. II. A.D. 1314.)</p> + + <p>Penes Dominum Priorem; Parabelæ Salomonis; Psalterium cum ...</p> + + <p>Penes Dominum J. de Bodek.; Epistolæ Pauli...; Quædam notulæ super + psalter et liber miraculorum ... Mariæ cum miraculis sanctorum.</p> + + <p>Penes Sub-priorem; Liber vitæ Sancti Thomæ Martiris.</p> + + <p>Penes E. de Ely; Quartus liber sententiarum cum sermo...; Liber + Reymundi; Liber de vitiis et virtutibus et pastorale.</p> + + <p>Penes R. Pichard; Liber Alquini; Liber Johannis de Tyrington cum Catone + et aliis.</p> + + <p>Penes Henrici Muchet; Liber de vita Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ et + remediarum (?)</p> + + <p>Penes Walteri de Yilwilden; Liber S ... ligatus in panno ymnaro + glosatus cum constitutionibus; Belet ligatus et vita sanctorum.</p> + + <p>Penes Ricardi de Queye; Omeliæ Gregorii (?) super Evangelistos ligatæ + in nigro corio.</p> + + <p>In commune biblia; Decreta; Decretales; Prima pars moralium Job; Liber + de abusionibus.</p> + + <p>Liber justitiæ; penes Magistrum Adam de Wilburham.</p> + + <p>Penes Walteri de Wyth; Liber Innocentii super sacramenta cum Belet et + introductione in uno volumine.</p> + + <p>Item penes Sup-priorem; Psalterium glosatum duod fuit in custodia + Magistri Henrice de Melreth.</p> + + <p>Item aliud psalterium glosatum inpignoratum penes Isabellam + Siccadona.</p> + </div> + + <p>Several of these descriptions are highly curious; particularly the last + item, which describes one of the "glossed" psalters as being "<i>in + pawn</i>," a fact which, in itself, tells a history of the then condition of + the house.</p> + + <p>The first document, taken in connection with that referred to by Mr. + Hunter would seem to establish the existence of a system of interchanging + the literary wealth of monastic establishments, and thereby greatly + extending the advantages of their otherwise scanty stores. Both are executed + with all the legal forms used in the most important transactions, which + would support the opinion of their not <span class="pagenum"><a id="page23" + name="page23"></a>{23}</span> being special instances: but they are, in + either case, curious and satisfactory evidence of the care and caution + exercised by the monks in cases where their books were concerned; and one + cannot but regret that when the time came that the monasterias were destined + to be dissolved, and their books torn and scattered to the winds, no + attention was paid to Bale's advice for the formation of "one solemne + library in every shire of England."</p> + + <p class="author">JOSEPH BURTT</p> + + <blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href= + "#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + + <p>The information given of this house by Dugdale is very scanty. It could + surely be added to considerably.</p> + </blockquote> + + <blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href= + "#footnotetag2">(return)</a> + + <p>London, 1831. quarto. See also a Paper by Mr. Halliwell in>the + <i>Archæologia</i>, xxvii. p. 455., and Sir Francis Palgrave's + Introduction to <i>Documents and Records illustrating the History of + Scotland</i>, pp. xcvi.—cxvi., for extracts from the historical + chronicles preserved in the monasteries, &c.</p> + </blockquote> + + <blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href= + "#footnotetag3">(return)</a> + + <p>The formula of this date, "anno R.R.E. septimo," would at first sight + be considered to refer to the preceding reign; but the list is merely a + memorandum on the dorse of a completely executed instrument dated A.D. + 1300, which it is highly improbable that it preceded. The style of Edward + II. is often found as above, though not usually so.</p> + </blockquote> + <hr /> + + <h2>PEDLAR'S SONG ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKSPERE, AND TRADITION CONNECTED WITH + SHAKSPERE'S "HAMLET."</h2> + + <p>The following verses, which would form a very appropriate song for + Autolycus, were arranged as a glee for three voices by Dr. Wilson about the + year 1667. They are published in Playford's <i>Musical Companion</i> in + 1673; in Warren's <i>Collection of Glees and Catches</i>; and in S. Webbe's + <i>Conveto Harmonico</i>. The words were, I believe, first ascribed to + Shakspere by Clark, in 1824, in his <i>Words of Glees, Madrigals, + &c.</i>; but he has not given his authority for so doing. It has been + stated that they have since been discovered in a common-place book written + about Shakspere's time, with his name attached to them, and with this + indirect evidence in favour of their being written by him, that the other + pieces in the collection are attributed to their proper writers. The late + Mr. Douce, who was inclined to believe the song to have been written by + Shakspere, once saw a copy of it with a fourth verse which was shown to him + by the then organist of Chichester. The poem is not included in Mr. + Collier's edition of Shakspere, nor in the Aldine edition of Shakspere's + Poems, edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Perhaps if you will be good enough to + insert the song and the present communication in the "NOTES AND QUERIES," + some of your readers may be enabled to fix the authorship and to furnish the + additional stanza to which I have referred.</p> + + <h3>PEDLAR'S SONG.</h3> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>From the far Lavinian shore,</p> + + <p>I your markets come to store;</p> + + <p>Muse not, though so far I dwell,</p> + + <p>And my wares come here to sell;</p> + + <p>Such is the sacred hunger for gold.</p> + + <p class="i4">Then come to my pack,</p> + + <p class="i6">While I cry</p> + + <p class="i4">"What d'ye lack,</p> + + <p class="i6">What d'ye buy?</p> + + <p>For here it is to be sold."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I have beauty, honour, grace,</p> + + <p>Fortune, favour, time, and place,</p> + + <p>And what else thou would'st request,</p> + + <p>E'en the thing thou likest best;</p> + + <p>First, let me have but a touch of your gold.</p> + + <p class="i4">Then, come to me, lad,</p> + + <p class="i6">Thou shalt have</p> + + <p class="i4">What thy dad</p> + + <p class="i6">Never gave;</p> + + <p>For here it is to be sold.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Madam, come, see what you lack,</p> + + <p>I've complexions in my pack;</p> + + <p>White and red you may have in this place,</p> + + <p>To hide your old and wrinkled face.</p> + + <p>First, let me have but a touch of your gold,</p> + + <p class="i4">Then you shall seem</p> + + <p class="i4">Like a girl of fifteen,</p> + + <p>Although you be threescore and ten years old.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>While on this subject, perhaps I may be permitted to ask whether any + reader of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" can throw light on the following + questionable statement made by a correspondent of the <i>Morning Herald</i>, + of the 16th September, 1822.</p> + + <blockquote> + "Looking over an old volume the other day, printed in 1771, I find it + remarked that it was known as a tradition, that Shakspeare shut himself up + all night in Westminster Abbey when he wrote the ghost scene in Hamlet." + </blockquote> + + <p>I do not find in Wilson's <i>Shakspeariana</i> the title of a single + "old" book printed in 1771, on the subject of Shakspere.</p> + + <p class="author">T.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>SIR WILLIAM SKIPWYTH, KING'S JUSTICE IN IRELAND.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—I am encouraged by the eminent names which illustrate + the first Number of your new experiment—a most happy thought—to + inquire whether they, or any other correspondent, can inform me who was the + William de Skypwith, the patent of whose appointment as Chief Justice of the + King's Bench in Ireland, dated February 15. 1370, 44 Edward III., is to be + found in the <i>New Fædera</i> vol. iii. p.877.? In the entry on the Issue + Roll of that year, p. 458., of the payment of "his expences and equipment" + in going there, he is called "Sir William Skipwyth, Knight, and the King's + Justice in Ireland." <span class="pagenum"><a id="page24" name= + "page24"></a>{24}</span></p> + + <p>There was a Sir William Skipwyth, who was appointed a Judge of the Common + Pleas in 33 Edward III., and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 36 Edward III.; + and, were it not that Collins, in his <i>Baronetage</i>, followed by Burke, + says that he remained Chief Baron till 40 Edward III., <i>in which year he + died</i>, I should have had no doubt that the Irish Chief Justice was the + same with the English Chief Baron.</p> + + <p>The same authority adds that Sir William Skipwyth who was made a Justice + of the King's Bench [it should have been of the Common Pleas] in 50 Edward + III., and who resigned his office in 11 Richard II., was the eldest son of + the Chief Baron. But that authority does not make the slightest allusion to + the appointment of the Chief Justice of Ireland.</p> + + <p>A suspicion that this last Justice of the Common Pleas is not only the + same person as the Chief Justice of Ireland, but also as the Chief Baron of + the Exchequer, has arisen in my mind for the following among other + reasons.</p> + + <p>1. Collins and Burke are wrong in saying that he remained Chief Baron + till 40 Edward III. His successor in that office was appointed on October + 29. 1365, 39 Edward III.</p> + + <p>2. They are further wrong, I imagine, in saying that he continued Chief + Baron till his death: for Joshua Barnes, in his <i>History of Edward + III.</i>, p. 667., says that Skipwyth and Sir Henry Green, the Chief Justice + of the King's Bench, were in 1365 arrested and imprisoned on account of many + enormities which the King understood they had committed against law and + justice; and this relation is corroborated by the fact that Green's + successor as Chief Justice was appointed on the same day as Skipwyth's + successor as Chief Baron.</p> + + <p>3. No proof whatever is given of the Chief Baron's death in 40 Edward + III.</p> + + <p>I will not trouble you with other grounds of identification which occur + to me: but as an answer to my question might "make these odds all even," I + sent the "Query" to the "Lost and Found Office" you have established, in the + hope that some stray "Note," as yet unappropriated, may assist in solving + the difficulty.</p> + + <p class="author">EDWARD FOSS.</p> + + <p>November 5. 1849.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in + an early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the + emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but as + yet found nothing definite enough.</p> + + <p class="author">R. L.</p> + + <p>Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your + Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which Monmouth + was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the property of the + Earl of Shaftesbury.</p> + + <p>I shall be happy at some future day, if it suits your purpose, to collect + and send you such particulars as may be gained on the spot respecting it, + and the incidents of the capture.</p> + + <p>We have still in the Town Hall here the chain in which it is said + Jefferies sat at the Bloody Assize.</p> + + <p class="author">A. D. M.</p> + + <p>Dorcester, 3d Nov. 1849.</p> + + <p class="note">[We shall gladly receive the particulars which our + Correspondent proposed to collect and forward.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>SERPENTS' EGGS AND STRAW NECKLACES.</h2> + + <p class="note">[Mr. Thoms' Query in this case should have been limited to + the <i>straw necklaces</i>, as Mr. Nichols has already explained the + <i>serpents' eggs</i>; but our Correspondent's letter is so satisfactory on + both points that we insert it entire.]</p> + + <p>The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to + be rendered "and with a string of serpents' eggs on your arm." The meaning + is equally apparent on recalling the manner in which snakes' eggs are found, + viz., hanging together in a row. Erasmus intends Menedemus to utter a joke + at the <i>rosary of beads</i> hanging over the pilgrim's arm, which he + professes to mistake for serpents' eggs.</p> + + <p>I am not aware what particular propriety the "collar or chaplet" (for it + may mean either) of <i>straw</i> may have, as worn by a pilgrim from + Compostella; or whether there may not lurk under this description, as + beneath <span class="pagenum"><a id="page25" name="page25"></a>{25}</span> + the other, a jocular sense. The readiest way of determining this point would + be to consult some of the accounts of Compostella and of its relics, which + are to be found in a class of books formerly abundant in the north-western + towns of Spain.</p> + + <p class="author">V.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>MADOC—HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA.</h2> + + <p>"A Student" may consult the <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of + Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen</i>, Mr. Geogehan's <i>Ireland</i>, + O'Flaherty's <i>Ogygia</i>, Magnusen and Rafn <i>On the Historical Monuments + of Greenland and America</i>, and some of the <i>Sagas</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">SCOTUS.</p> + + <p>Brechin, Nov. 5. 1849.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES ON COFFEE.</h2> + + <p>The earliest account we have of coffee is said to be taken from an + Arabian MS. in the Bibliothèque du Roi in Paris.</p> + + <p>Schehabeddin Ben, an Arabian author of the ninth century of the Hegira, + or fifteenth of the Christians, attributes to Gemaleddin, Mufti of Aden, a + city of Arabia Felix, who was nearly his contemporary, the first + introduction into that country, of drinking coffee. He tells us, that + Gemaleddin, having occasion to travel into Persia, during his abode there + saw some of his countrymen drinking coffee, which at that time he did not + much attend to; but, on his return to Aden, finding himself indisposed, and + remembering that he had seen his countrymen drinking coffee in Persia, in + hopes of receiving some benefit from it, he determined to try it on himself; + and, after making the experiment, not only recovered his health, but + perceived other useful qualities in that liquor; such as relieving the + headach, enlivening the spirits, and, without prejudice to the constitution, + preventing drowsiness. This last quality he resolved to turn to the + advantage of his profession; he took it himself, and recommended it to the + Dervises, or religious Mahometans, to enable them to pass the night in + prayer, and other exercises of their religion, with greater zeal and + attention. The example and authority of the mufti gave reputation to coffee. + Soon men of letters, and persons belonging to the law, adopted the use of + it. These were followed by the tradesmen and artisans that were under the + necessity of working in the night, and such as were obliged to travel late + after sunset. At length the custom became general in Aden; and it was not + only drunk in the night by those who were desirous of being kept awake, but + in the day for the sake of its other agreeable qualities.</p> + + <p>Before this time coffee was scarce known in Persia, and very little used + in Arabia, where the tree grew. But, according to Schehabeddin, it had been + drunk in Æthiopia from time immemorial.</p> + + <p>Coffee being thus received at Aden, where it has continued in use ever + since without interruption, passed by degrees to many neighbouring towns; + and not long after reached Mecca, where it was introduced as at Aden, by the + Dervises, and for the same purposes of religion.</p> + + <p>The inhabitants of Mecca were at last so fond of this liquor, that, + without regarding the intention of the religious, and other studious + persons, they at length drank it publicly in coffee-houses, where they + assembled in crowds to pass the time agreeably, making that the pretense. + From hence the custom extended itself to many other towns of Arabia, + particularly to Medina, and then to Grand Cairo in Egypt, where the Dervises + of Yemen, who lived in a district by themselves, drank coffee on the nights + they intended to spend in devotion.</p> + + <p>Coffee continued its progress through Syria, and was received at Damascus + and Aleppo without opposition; and in the year 1554, under the reign of + Solyman, one hundred years after its introduction by the Mufti of Aden, + became known to the inhabitants of Constantinople, when two private persons + of the names of Schems and Hekin, the one coming from Damascus, and the + other from Aleppo, opened coffee-houses.</p> + + <p>"It is not easy," says Ellis, "to determine at what time, or upon what + occasion, the use of coffee passed from Constantinople to the western parts + of Europe. It is, however, likely that the Venetians, upon account of the + proximity of their dominions, and their great trade to the Levant, were the + first acquainted with it; which appears from part of a letter wrote by Peter + della Valle, a Venetian, in 1615, from Constantinople; in which he tells his + friend, that, upon his return he should <span class="pagenum"><a id="page26" + name="page26"></a>{26}</span> bring with him some coffee, which he believed + was a thing unknown in his country."</p> + + <p>Mr. Garland tells us he was informed by M. de la Croix, the King's + interpreter, that M. Thevenot, who had travelled through the East, at his + return in 1657, brought with him to Paris some coffee for his own use, and + often treated his friends with it.</p> + + <p>It was known some years sooner at Marseilles; for, in 1644, some + gentlemen who accompanied M. de la Haye to Constantinople, brought back with + them on their return, not only some coffee, but the proper vessels and + apparatus for making it. However, until 1660, coffee was drunk only by such + as had been accustomed to it in the Levant, and their friends; but that year + some bales were imported from Egypt, which gave a great number of persons an + opportunity of trying it, and contributed very much to bringing it into + general use; and in 1661, a coffee-house was opened at Marseilles in the + neighbourhood of the Exchange.</p> + + <p>Before 1669, coffee had not been seen at Paris, except at M. Thevenot's, + and some of his friends'; nor scarce heard of but from the account of + travellers. In that year, Soliman Aga, ambassador from the Sultan Mahomet + the Fourth, arrived, who, with his retinue, brought a considerable quantity + of coffee with them, and made presents of it to persons both of the court + and city, and it is supposed to have established the custom of drinking + it.</p> + + <p>Two years afterwards, an Armenian of the name of Pascal, set up a + coffee-house, but meeting with little encouragement, left Paris and came to + London.</p> + + <p>From Anderson's <i>Chronological History of Commerce</i>, it appears that + the use of coffee was introduced into London some years earlier than into + Paris. For in 1652 one Mr. Edwards, a Turkey merchant, brought home with him + a Greek servant, whose name was Pasqua, who understood the roasting and + making of coffee, till then unknown in England. This servant was the first + who sold coffee, and kept a house for that purpose in George Yard Lombard + Street.</p> + + <p>The first mention of coffee in our statute books is anno 1660 (12 Car. + II. c. 24), when a duty of 4d. was laid upon every gallon of coffee made and + sold, to be paid by the maker.</p> + + <p>The statute 15 Car. II. c. 11. § 15. an. 1663, directs that all + coffee-houses should be licensed at the general quarter sessions of the + peace for the county within which they are to be kept.</p> + + <p>In 1675 King Charles II. issued a proclamation to shut up the + coffee-houses, but in a few days suspended the proclamation by a second. + They were charged with being seminaries of sedition.</p> + + <p>The first European author who has made any mention of coffee is + Rauwolfus, who was in the Levant in 1573.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>DR. DRYASDUST.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—Do you or any of your readers know anything of the family of + that celebrated antiquary, and do you think it probable that he was + descended from, or connected with, the author of a work which I met with + some time ago, intituled "Wit Revived, or A new and excellent way of + Divertisement, digested into most ingenious Questions and Answers. By + ASDRYASDUST TOSSOFFACAN. London: Printed for T. E. and are to be sold by + most Booksellers. MDCLXXIV." 12mo. I do not know anything of the author's + character, but he appears to have been a right-minded man, in so far as he + (like yourself) expected to find "wit revived" by its digestion into "most + ingenious questions and answers;" though his notion that asking and + answering questions was a <i>new</i> way of divertisement, seems to indicate + an imperfect knowledge of the nature and history of mankind; but my query is + simply genealogical.</p> + + <p class="author">H. F. W.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>MACAULAY'S "YOUNG LEVITE."</h2> + + <p>Sir,—The following passage from the <i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i>, + published 1651, struck me as a curious corroboration of the passage in Mr. + Macaulay's <i>History</i> which describes the "young Levite's" position in + society during the seventeenth century; and as chance lately threw in my way + the work from which Burton took his illustration, I take the liberty of + submitting Notes of both for your examination.</p> + + <blockquote> + "If he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman's house (as it befel + Euphormio), after some seven years' service he may perchance have a living + to <span class="pagenum"><a id="page27" name="page27"></a>{27}</span> the + halves, or some small rectory, with the mother of the maids at length, a + poor kinswoman, or a crackt chambermaid, to have and to hold during the + time of his life."—Burton, <i>Anat. of Mel.</i> part i. sect. 2. + mem. 3. subsect 15. + </blockquote> + + <p>Burton is here referrng to the <i>Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon</i>, + published anno 1617. It professes to be a satire, or rather A FURIOUS + INVECTIVE, on the corrupt manners of the times, and is in four parts: the + 1st is dedicated to King James I.; the 2nd to Robert Cecil; the 3rd to + Charles Emmanuel of Savoy; the 4th to Louis XIII., King of France.</p> + + <p>The use that Burton makes of the name of Euphormio is any thing but + happy. He was not a "<i>trencher chaplain</i>" but the slave of a rich + debauchée, Callion, sent in company with another slave, Percas, to carry + some all-potent nostrum to Fibullius, a friend of Callion, who was suffering + from an attack of stone. Euphormio cures Fibullius, not by the drug with + which he was armed, but by a herb, which he sought for and found on a + mountain. Fibullius, to reward his benefactor, offers him as a wife a most + beautiful girl, whom he introduces to him privately while in his sick room. + Euphormio looks with no little suspicion on the offer; but, after a few + excuses, which are overruled by Fibullius, accepts the lady as his + betrothed, "seals the bargain with a holy kiss," and walks out of the room + (to use his own words) "et sponsus, et quod nesciebam—Pater," page + 100. The next mention of this lady [evidently the prototype of the "crackt + chambermaid,"] is in page 138. Callion had paid his sick friend Fibullius a + visit, and, on the eve of his departure, had ordered Euphormio to ride post + before him, and prepare the inhabitants of the districts through which he + was to pass for his arrival. While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the act + of mounting his steed, a rustic brings him a letter from Fibullius, and in + conversation gives him such an account of his bride as forces upon him the + reflection, that even the grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, to + so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, as the <i>protegée</i> of + Fibullius would be likely to prove. But, as these <i>notes</i> have, in + spite of all my attempts at condensation, already grown to a most formidable + size, I will not indulge in any moral reflections; but conclude by + <i>querying</i> you, or any of your readers, to inform me whether the + personages mentioned in the <i>Euphorm. Lus. Satyricon</i>, such as Callion, + Pereas, Fibullius, &c., are real characters or not? as, in the former + case, I am inclined to think that the work might throw some interesting + lights on the private manners and characters of some of the courtiers of the + day. "No scandal against any of the maids of honour"—of course. The + phrase "<i>To the halves</i>" (in the quotation from Burton) means, + inadequate, insufficient; we still talk of "half and half" measures. + Montanus inveighs against such "perturbations, that purge <i>to the + halves</i>, tire nature, and molest the body to no purpose."—Burton, + <i>Anat. of Mel.</i>, part. ii. sect. 2. mem. 4. subsect. 6.</p> + + <p class="author">MELANION.</p> + + <p class="note">[The work referred to by our correspondent was written by + Barclay, better known as the author of the <i>Argenis</i>. The First Part of + the <i>Satyricon</i>, dedicated to James the First, was published, London, + 12mo. 1603; and with the addition of the 2nd Part, Paris, 1605. The best + edition of the work (which, really in two parts, is made, by the addition of + the <i>Apologia Euphormionis</i>, &c. sometimes into five) is said to be + the Elzevir 12mo., 1637. There are two editions of it <i>cum notis + variorum</i>, Leyden, 1667 and 1669, 8vo., in two volumes. Of some of the + editions (as that of 1623, 12mo.) it is said, "adjecta Clavi sive obscurorum + et quasi ænigmaticorum nominum, in hoc Opere passim occurrentium, dilucida + explicatione." The <i>Satyricon</i> was twice translated into French; and + its literary history, and that of the <i>Censura Euphormionis</i>, and other + tracts, which it called forth, might furnish a curious and amusing + paper.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>SERMONES SANCTI CAROLI BORROMÆI.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—I have been wanting to get a sight of the following work, + "Sermones Sancti Caroli Borromæi, Archiepisc. Mediol. Edidit. J.A. Saxius. 5 + Tom. Mediol. 1747." Can I learn through your columns whether the work is any + where accessible in London? I sought for it in vain at the British Museum a + twelvemonth ago; nor, though then placed in their list of <i>Libri + desiderati</i>, has it yet been procured.</p> + + <p class="author">C. F. SECRETAN.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>LUTHER AND ERASMUS.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—The following lines, written in a hand of the early + part of the seventeenth century, occur on the fly-leaf of a copy of the + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page28" name="page28"></a>{28}</span> + <i>Translation of Luther on the Galatians</i>, edit. London, 4to. 1577. Can + any of your readers oblige me by informing me who was their author?</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Parum Lutherus ac Erasmus differunt</p> + + <p>Serpens uterque est, plenus atro toxico;</p> + + <p>Sed ille mordet ut cerastes in via,</p> + + <p>Hic fraudulentus mordet in silentio."</p> + </div> + + <p>Your obedient servant,</p> + + <p class="author">ROTERODAMUS.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>TOWER ROYAL—CONSTITUTION HILL—COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S + LETTER—TENNISON'S FUNERAL SERMON ON NELL GWYNNE.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the + following Queries:—</p> + + <p>1. What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London + locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to + inhabit it?</p> + + <p>2. When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why?</p> + + <p>3. Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have + been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph + Williamson? It first appeared in <i>The World</i>.</p> + + <p>4. Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop + Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne?</p> + + <p class="author">PETER CUNNINGHAM.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>GROG—BISHOP BARNABY.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies.</p> + + <p>Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"—And why do the people in + Suffolk call a ladybird "Bishop Barnaby?"</p> + + <p>If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel + encouraged to try again.</p> + + <p>Yours, &c.</p> + + <p class="author">LEGOUR.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. II.</h2> + + <h3>DR. FARMER ON DRAYTON'S WORKS.</h3> + + <p>The following bibliographical memoranda, in the well-known hand of Dr. + Farmer, occur in a copy of the edition of Drayton's <i>Poems</i> published + in 1619, in small folio, by John Smethwick, which contains "The Barons' + Wars; England's Heroical Epistles; Idea; Odes; The Legends of Robert Duke of + Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and Great Cromwell; The Owle; and + Pastorals, containing Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone."</p> + + <p>They may be of use to some future editor of Drayton, an author now + undeservedly neglected, whose <i>Nymphidia</i> alone might tempt the + tasteful publisher of the "Aldine Poets" to include a selection, at least, + of his poems in that beautiful series:—</p> + + <blockquote> + <p>"The works of Michael Drayton, Esq., were reprinted in folio, 1748. The + title-page 'promises all the writings of that <i>celebrated author</i>,' + but his Pastorals (p.433. &c., first published imperfectly in 4to. + 1593) and many other of his most considerable compositions (Odes, the + Owle, &c., see the Appendix), are not so much as spoken of. See his + article in the <i>Biog. Brit.</i> by Mr. Oldys, curiously and accurately + written.</p> + + <p>"Another edition (which is called the <i>best</i>) was printed in 4 + vols. 8vo. 1753. Robson, 1765.</p> + + <p>"A Poem Triumphant, composed for the Society of the Goldsmiths of + London, by <i>M. Drayton</i>. 4to. 1604. <i>Harl. Cat.</i> v.3. p. + 357.</p> + + <p>"Charles Coffey was the editor of the folio edit. 1748, he had a + large< + subscription for it, but died before the publication; and it was afterward + printed for the benefit of his widow. See Mottley, p. 201.</p> + + <p>"The print of Drayton at the back of the title-page, is marked in + Thane's Catalogue, 1774, 7s. 6d.</p> + + <p>"N.B. The copy of the <i>Baron's Warres</i> in this edition differs in + almost every line from that in the 8vo. edit. 1610.</p> + + <p>"It was printed under the title of Mortimeriados, in 7 line + stanzaes.</p> + + <p>"Matilda was first printed 1594, 4to., by Val. Simmes. Gaveston appears + by the Pref. to have been publish't before. Almost every line in the old + 4to. of Matilda differs from the copy in this edit. A stanza celebrating + Shakespeare's Lucrece is omitted in the later edition.</p> + + <p>"Idea. The Shepherd's Garland. Fashion'd in 9 Eglogs. Rowland's + sacrifice to the 9 Muses, 4to. 1593. But they are printed in this Edition + very different from the present Pastorals.</p> + + <p>"A sonnet of Drayton's prefixed to the 2nd Part of <i>Munday's + Primaleon of Greece</i>, B.L. 4to. 1619."</p> + </blockquote> + + <div class="note"> + <p>[The stanza in <i>Matilda</i>, celebrating Shakespeare's + <i>Lucrece</i>, to which Dr. Farmer alludes, is thus quoted by Mr. Collier + in his edition of Shakespeare (viii. p. 411.):—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Lucrece, of whom proud Rome hath boasted long,</p> + + <p class="i2">Lately revived to live another age,</p> + + <p>And here arrived to tell of Tarquin's wrong,</p> + + <p class="i2">Her chaste denial, and the tyrant's rage,</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page29" name="page29"></a>{29}</span> + <p>Acting her passions on our stately stage:</p> + + <p class="i2">She is remember'd, all forgetting me,</p> + + <p class="i2">Yet I as fair and chaste as e'er was she;"—</p> + </div> + + <p>who remarks upon it as follows:—</p> + + <blockquote> + "A difficulty here may arise out of the fifth line, as if Drayton was + referring to a play upon the story of Lucrece, and it is very possible + that one was then in existence. Thomas Heywood's tragedy, <i>The Rape of + Lucrece,</i> did not appear in print until 1608, and he could hardly + have been old enough to have been the author of such a drama in 1594; he + may, nevertheless, have availed himself of an elder play, and, according + to the practice of the time, he may have felt warranted in publishing it + as his own. It is likely, however, that Drayton's expressions are not to + be taken literally; and that his meaning merely was, that the story of + Lucrece had lately been revived, and brought upon the stage of the + world: if this opinion be correct, the stanza we have quoted above + contains a clear allusion to Shakespeare's <i>Lucrece</i>; and a + question then presents itself, why Drayton entirely omitted it in the + after-impression of his <i>Matilda</i>. He was a poet who, as we have + shown in the Introduction to <i>Julius Cæsar</i> (vol. viii. p. 4.), was + in the habit of making extensive alterations in his productions, as they + were severally reprinted, and the suppression of this stanza may have + proceeded from many other causes than repentance of the praise he had + bestowed upon a rival."] + </blockquote> + </div> + <hr /> + + <h2>BODENHAM, OR LING'S POLITEUPHUIA.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for + sale, issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:—</p> + + <blockquote> + <p>"Bodenham? (Ling?), Politeuphuia. Wits commonwealth, <i>original + wrapper, vellum</i>. VERY RARE.</p> + + <p>"80 fr. 8vo. London, for Nicholas Ling, 1597.</p> + + <p>"This book, 'being a methodical collection of the most choice and + select admonitions and sentences, compendiously drawn from infinite + varietie,' is quoted by Lowndes under Bodenham, as first printed in 1598; + the Epistle dedicatory however of the present copy is signed: 'N. Ling', + and addressed 'to his very good friend Maister I.B.,' so that Ling appears + to have been the author, and this an edition unknown to Lowndes or any + other bibliographer."</p> + </blockquote> + + <p>This seems to settle one point, perhaps a not very important one, in our + literary history; and as such may deserve a place among your "NOTES."</p> + + <p class="author">BOOKWORM.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>COLLEY CIBBER'S APOLOGY.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—No doubt most of your readers are well acquainted with + Colley Cibber's <i>Apology for his Life</i>, &c., first printed, I + believe, in 1740, 4to, with a portrait of himself, painted by Vanloo, and + engraved by Vandergucht. Chapters IV. and V. contain the celebrated + characters he drew of the principal performers, male and female, in, and + just before, his time, viz. Betterton, Montfort, Kynaston, &c. Upon + these characters I have two questions to put, which I hope some of your + contributors may be able to answer. The first is, "Were these characters of + actors reprinted in the same words, and without additions, in the subsequent + impressions of Cibber's <i>Apology</i> in 8vo?" Secondly, "Had they ever + appeared in any shape before they were inserted in the copy of Cibber's + <i>Apology</i> now before me, in 1740, 4to?" To this may be added, if + convenient, some account of the work in which these fine criticisms + originally appeared, supposing they did not first come out in the + <i>Apology</i>. I am especially interested in the history of the Stage about + the period when the publication of these characters formed an epoch.</p> + + <p>I am, Mr. Editor, yours,</p> + + <p class="author">DRAMATICUS.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>A MAIDEN ASSIZE—WHITE GLOVES.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor.—I forward for insertion in your new publication the + following "Note," taken from the <i>Times</i> of the 20th of August, + 1847:—</p> + + <p>"A Fortunate County.—In consequence of there being no prisoners, + nor business of any kind to transact at the last assizes for the county of + Radnor, the high sheriff, Mr. Henry Miles, had to present the judge, Mr. + Justice Cresswell, with a pair of white kid gloves, embroidered in gold, and + which have been forwarded to his lordship; a similar event has not taken + place for a considerable number of years in that county. His lordship + remarked that it was the first time it had occurred to him since he had been + on the Bench."</p> + + <p>And I beg to append it as a "Query," which I shall gladly see answered by + any of your correspondents, or my professional brethren,—"What is the + origin of this singular custom, and what is the earliest instance of it on + record?"</p> + + <p class="author">A LIMB OF THE LAW. <span class="pagenum"><a id="page30" + name="page30"></a>{30}</span></p> + <hr class="full" /> + + <h2>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE</h2> + + <p>JONES (EDMUND) GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND RELIGIOUS ACCOUNT OF + ABERYSTWITH. 8VO. Trevecka, 1779.</p> + + <p>CARTARI.—LA ROSA D'ORO PONTIFICIA, ETC. 4to. Rome. 1681.</p> + + <p>SHAKSPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS.—The <i>Fourth</i> Volume of + WHITTINGHAM'S Edition, in 7 vols, 24mo. Chiswick. 1814.</p> + + <p>M. C. H. BROEMEL, FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN. 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Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + +A FEW WORDS TO OUR FRIENDS. + +In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching +to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform. We stated +that "we would rather give a specimen than a description." We are now in +like manner unwilling to point as exultingly, as we think we might, to +the position which we have already taken. But there is a vast difference +between vain boasting and the expression of an honest satisfaction; and +it would be worse than an affectation of humility--it would be a mean +hypocrisy--if we did not express heartily and unreservedly the gratitude +we owe and feel to those who have encouraged us by their friendly advice +and able pens. We have opened a Literary Exchange, and we have had the +gratification to see that men whose learning and talents the public +recognise--leaders in their several branches of inquiry--have at once +taken advantage of it. They have proved the necessity for some such +medium of communication, as well as their good-will to the one now +offered to them, by a gathering in its behalf which the public will +respect, and of which we may well feel proud. + +Some whose good opinion we most value, and who have spoken most warmly +in favour of our plan, have proved the sincerity of their praise by +suggestions of improvement in its detail, and hints for its further +extension. They may feel assured that such hints and such suggestions +shall not be lost sight of. For instance, one respected correspondent +hints that as we have very properly adopted Dr. Maitland's suggestion +with regard to Herbert's edition of Ame's _Typographical Antiquities_, +namely, that of "offering a receptacle for illustrations, additions, and +corrections," and invited "our readers to take advantage of our columns +to carry out Dr. Maitland's suggestions," we should open our columns +with equal readiness to the correction and illustration of more modern +and more popular works. We entirely concur with him; but in reference to +this subject there is a distinction which must be borne in mind. Our own +literature, like that of every other country, consists of two classes of +books. We have the books of pretenders to knowledge, the hasty, crude, +imperfect, but often for the time attractive and popular volumes of the +Ned Purdons of the day. These books have a use--such as it is--and thus +answer their purpose; but it would be for the credit of our literature, +and save a world of trouble, if they were forgotten as soon as they had +done so. To illustrate such books, to add to their information or +correct their blunders, would be useless and almost ridiculous. They +should be left to die of mere powerlessness and exhaustion, or to wither +under the wholesome influence of a just and manly criticism. + +But there are books of another kind--books {18} which our worthy +bibliopoles designate as "standard works." These are the books of +competent workmen--books which are the result of honest labour and +research, and which from the moment of their publication assume a +permanent station in our national literature. Even in such books there +are many things incomplete, many things erroneous. But it is the +interest of every man that such books should be rendered as complete as +possible; and whatever tends to illustrate or correct works of that +class will be sure of insertion in our columns. + +We would point to Macaulay's _England_, and Hallam's _Introduction to +the Literary History of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries_, his _Middle +Ages_, and his _Constitutional History_, and we may add, as +illustrations of a different kind, _The Annals of the Stage_ of our +excellent friend Mr. Collier, and _The Handbook of London_ of our valued +contributor Mr. Peter Cunningham, as examples of the sort of +publications to which we allude. Such were the books we had in our mind, +when we spoke in our Prospectus of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" becoming, +through the inter-communication of our literary friends, "a most useful +supplement to works already in existence--a treasury towards enriching +future editions of them." + +Another correspondent--a bibliographical friend--suggests that, for +various reasons, which bibliographers will appreciate, our Prospectus +should have a place in the body of our work. We believe that many of our +readers concur in a wish for its preservation, and it will therefore be +found in the Number now before them. + +One suggestion again urges us to look carefully to Foreign Literature, +and another points out the propriety of our making our paper as British +as possible, so that our topographical facts should, as far as +practicable, be restricted to the illustration of British counties, and +our biographical ones to such as should contribute towards a Biographia +Brittanica. + +All these, and many other expressions of sympathy and promises of +support, poured in upon us within a few hours after our birth. No one of +them shall be forgotten; and if for a time our pages seem to indicate +that we have made a QUERY as to the adoption of any suggestion, let our +kind contributors be assured that there is no hint which reaches us, +whether _at present_ practicable or not, that we do not seriously and +thankfully "make a NOTE of." + + * * * * * + +BISHOP AYLMER'S LETTER, AND THE POEM ON THE ARMADA. + +As I am in a condition to answer the inquiry of your "Hearty +Well-wisher," on p. 12 of your last Number of "NOTES AND QUERIES," I +proceed to give him the information he asks. I shall be happy if what +follows is of any use to your correspondent, taking it for granted that +he is as zealous for your success as his signature indicates. + +The "foolish rhyme," to which the attention of the Bishop of London had +been directed by Lord Burghley, has the subsequent doggrel title:-- + + "A Skeltonicall Salvtation, + Or condigne gratvlation, + And iust vexation + Of the Spanishe nation, + That in a bravado + Spent many a crvsado, + In setting forth an armado + England to invado." + +This is as the title stands in the Oxford impression (of which I never +saw more than one copy, because, we may presume, it was suppressed by +the authorities of the University), and the following is the imprint at +the bottom of it:--"Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee +sold in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Tygres head, 1589." + +There exists several exemplars of the London edition--"Imprinted at +London for Toby Cooke, 1589,"--the title-page of which, as well as the +rest of the poem, differs only literally from that of Oxford, excepting +that to the latter is appended a Latin version, also in rhyme, and in +close imitation of the English. I subjoin a brief specimen of it:-- {19} + + "Qui regis Hispanos, + Superbos et vanos, + Crudeles et insanos, + Multùm aberrasti, + Cùm tuos animasti, + Et bellum inchoasti + Contra Anglos animosos, + Fortes et bellicosos, + Nobiles et generosos. + Qui te excitavit + Proculdubio deliravit + Et te fascinavit," &c. + +The whole production consists only of ten leaves, 4to., and the Latin +portion, which has the subsequent separate title-page, occupies four of +them:-- + + "AD REGEM + HISPANVM. + Cum tua non fuerint heroica facta, Philippe, + Risu digna cano carmine ridiculo." + +I shall not here introduce any part of the English version, because one +or two long quotations will be found in the introductory portion of the +Rev. A. Dyce's excellent edition of Skelton's Works (2 vols. 8vo. 1843). +Respecting the Latin portion I have been more particular, because the +learned editor was not aware that the production had come from the press +of Barnes of Oxford, nor that a Latin version was appended to it. + +I may take the liberty of adding here a mention of Skelton which escaped +notice, and which is from one of the tracts against Thomas Nash, +produced by Gabriel Harvey, the friend of Spenser. He couples Skelton +and Scoggin together, in no very respectful manner, and completes the +triumvirate by Nash, whom he here calls Signor Capriccio:--"And what +riott so pestiferous as that which in sugred baites presenteth most +poisonous hookes? Sir Skelton and Master Scoggin were but innocents to +Signior Capricio." + +This quotation is the more noticeable, because it recognises the sacred +character of Skelton (however unworthy of the gown) in the prefix "Sir," +which, as most people are aware, was then generally given to clergymen: +Scoggin, on the other hand, is only styled "Master Scoggin." + +J. PAYNE COLLIER. + +[The preceding communication was already in type when we received the +following from Mr. Bolton Corney, which we gladly print, inasmuch as it +illustrates some points not touched upon by Mr. Collier.] + + * * * * * + +QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 1. + +It is not without some slight reluctance that I notice anonymous +communications, but shall endeavour to repress such feelings with regard +to the modest students who may choose to announce their desiderata +through the convenient channel of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." A _hearty +well wisher_ to so commendable an enterprise, shall have my first +responsive scrap. + +The inquiry affords no scope for ingenuity of conjecture! The _foolish +rime_ to which bishop Aylmer refers, is undoubtedly the pamphlet thus +entitled:-- + + "A Skeltonicall salutation, + Or condigne gratulation, + And iust vexation + Of the Spanish nation, + That in a bravado + Spent many a crusado, + In setting forth an armado + England to invado." + Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1589. 4to. + "A Skeltonicall salutation," &c. + Imprinted at London for Toby Cook, 1589. 4to. + +The Oxford edition is recorded by Ames, and there is a copy of the +London edition in the British Museum. Strype, in his account of bishop +Aylmer, gives the substance of the letter as his _own_ narrative, almost +_verbatim_--but fails to identify the pamphlet in question. Park briefly +describes it in _Censura Literaria_, 1815, ii. 18.; and there is a +specimen of it in _The Poetical Works of John Skelton_, as edited by the +Reverend Alexander Dyce, 1843. + +While _queries_ evince a sharp mental appetite, _answers_ help to +satisfy it; and so, by their united influence, a brisk circulation of +ideas may be produced--which, as master Burton assures us, wards off +melancholy. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON "NOTES, NO. 1." + +Sir,--I take the liberty to send you one or two Notes on your first +Number, just as they occur to me in looking it over. I will not trespass +on you by preface or apology. + +The "_bibliographic project_" I shall rejoice {20} to see carried out; and +though neither an unemployed aspirant nor a fortunate collector (of +which class I hope many will be stimulated by the proposition), yet, as +I once took some trouble in the matter, I should be happy to contribute +some Notes then made whenever the plan is matured and the proposed +appeal is made--provided (I must add, and to _you_ I may add) I can find +them. + +The _Liber Sententiarum_ was printed by Limborch, at Amsterdam, in 1692. +It forms the greater part, as, indeed, it was the occasion, of his folio +volume, entitled "_Historia Inquisitionis cui subjungitur Liber +Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanæ ab anno Christi Cl[*C]CCCVI ad annum +Cl[*C]CCCXXIII._" Gibbon, in a note on his fifty-fourth chapter, observes +that the book "deserved a more learned and critical editor;" and, if +your correspondent will only place the _Book of Sentences_ before the +public in a readable form, with a map, and (by all means) a few _notes_, +he will be doing a great service to all persons who take an interest in +ecclesiastical history, or, indeed, in history of any kind. In the year +1731 Chandler published a translation of the _History of the +Inquisition_, with a long Introduction of his own, but did not meddle +with the _Book of Sentences_, except so far as to introduce into the +text of the _History_ some passages from it, which Limborch (as he +appended the whole book) did not think it necessary to quote. I remember +seeing the MS. in the British Museum within these ten or twelve years, +and, according to my recollection, it was accompanied by papers which +would furnish an interesting literary history of the volume. I hope your +correspondent will give us farther information. + +N.B. + +[Mr. Brooke, of Ufford, has also kindly replied to the Query of +INQUISITORIUS, by referring him to Limborch.] + + * * * * * + +QUERY AS TO REFERENCES. + +Sir,--May I be permitted to suggest one way in which you may be of great +service to many literary men, and indeed to the cause of literature in +general; and this, too, without much trouble to yourself? Would you be +willing to receive "Queries" respecting _references_? They frequently +puzzle those who are engaged in literary works, and indeed those who are +merely readers, and who have not access to public libraries or the +manuscript treasures of the metropolis and the universities. If, for +instance, a clergyman or squire, interested in the history of his +parish, should find in the county historian something which his own +local or genealogical knowledge leads him to think erroneous, vouched +for by a reference to the _Cotton_ or _Harleian MSS._, might he apply to +you? It may be supposed that you are not very far from some one of the +great fountains of information, and have easy access to all; and it is +probable that you might not only do a personal favour to the inquirer, +but confer a benefit on the public, by correcting an erroneous +statement. Of course you would subject yourself to unreasonable +requests, but the remedy would always be in your own hands. + +Yours, &c. + +A. G. C. + +[The Editor inserts this letter because he is sure that it comes from a +friendly quarter, and he knows that something like what it suggests is +very much wanted. He would feel great diffidence as to his powers of +fulfilling all that might be expected if he were simply to reply in the +affirmative: but he is quite willing to make the trial, and he thinks +that (though sometimes perhaps with a little delay) he could in general +obtain any information of this kind which could be reasonably sought.] + + * * * * * + +LINES IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING. + +Mr. Editor,--The following lines are written in pencil on sheet 61. of +the _Notes of the Debates in the Long Parliament_, taken down in the +House of Commons by Sir Ralph Verney. The _Notes of Debates_, but not +these lines, were published by the Camden Society in 1845. For any thing +that appears to the contrary, these lines may have been written in the +House as well as the _Notes of Debates_. The sheet 61. refers to debates +which took place in March 1641-2. I am not aware that the lines have +been published, nor can I assign them to their author. If any of your +readers can tell me anything about them, I shall esteem it a favour. + + Wert thou yet fairer than thou art, + Which lies not in the power of art; + Or hadst thou, in thine eyes, more darts + Than Cupid ever shot at hearts; + Yet, if they were not thrown at me, + I could not cast one thought at thee. {21} + + I'd rather marry a disease + Than court the thing I cannot please; + She that will cherish my desires, + Must feed my flames with equal fires. + What pleasure is there in a kiss, + To him that doubts the heart's not his? + + I love thee, not 'cause thou art fair, + Smoother than down, softer than air, + Nor for those Cupids that do lie + In either corner of thine eye; + Will you then know what it may be? + 'Tis--I love you 'cause you love me. + +J. BRUCE. + +24th Oct. 1849 + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON ANCIENT LIBRARIES. + +A knowledge of the intellectual acquirements of the middle ages must be +mainly formed upon a consideration of the writings which directed them, +or emanated from them. Unfortunately such materials are very imperfect, +our knowledge of the existence of works often resting only upon their +place in some loosely-entered catalogue--and of the catalogues +themselves, the proportion still remaining must be small indeed. Under +these circumstances the following documents, which are now for the first +time printed, or even noticed, will be found to be of considerable +interest. The first is, in modern language, a Power of Attorney, +executed by the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, appointing two of +the monks of his church to be his procurators for the purpose of +receiving from the convent of Anglesey, in Cambridgeshire[1], a book +which had been lent to the late Rector of Terrington. Its precise date +is uncertain, but it must be of about the middle of the thirteenth +century (1244-1254), as Nicholas Sandwich, the Prior of Christ Church, +was the second of four priors who presided between the years 1234 and +1274. + + "N. Prior Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis discretis viris et + religiosis Domino Priori de Anglesheya et ejusdem loci sacro + conventui salutem in Domino. Cum sincera semper caritate + noverit faternitas vestra nos constiuisse fratres Gauterum de + Hatdfeld et Nicolaum de Grantebrigiense Ecclesiæ nostræ monachos + latores precencium procuratores nostros ad exigendum et + recipiendum librum qui intitulatur. Johannes Crisestomus de + laude Apostoli. In quo etiam volumine continentur Hystoria vetus + Britonum quæ Brutus appellatur et tractatus Roberti Episcopi + Herfordiæ de compoto. Quæ quondam accommodavimus Magistro + Laurentio de Sancto Nicholao tunc Rectori ecclesiæ de Tyrenton. + Qui post decessum præfati Magistri L. penes vos morabatur et + actenus moratur. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras patentes + nostro sigillo signatas vobis transmittimus." + +The contents of the book which is the subject of this special embassy +are of the character usually found to have formed the staple of monastic +libraries, though the particular treatises included in it are not +common. + +In the Reverend Joseph Hunter's valuable treatise upon _English Monastic +Libraries_[2] occurs a notice of an indenture executed in A.D. 1343, +whereby the priory of Henton lent no less than twenty books to another +monastic establishment. The deed is described, but not printed. It will +be seen that the instrument we have given above is nearly a century +earlier; and the minute description of the book given in this document +supplies some very curious facts illustrative of the mode of putting +together ancient books, which have not hitherto been remarked, for the +simple reasons that no opportunity for comparison like that presented by +the present case has yet been noticed. Among the Cottonian MSS. (Galba +E. iv.) is a perfect specimen of an ancient Library Catalogue, which, +although not altogether unnoticed, deserves a more careful examination +than it has yet received. It relates to the magnificent monastic +foundation from which emanated the deed we have printed above, and is +headed "Tituli librorum de libraria Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis et +contenta in eisdem libris tempore H. Prioris." It is written in that +bold hand which prevails so extensively in ecclesiastical MSS., with but +little variation, from the middle of the fourteenth century, to the end +of the fifteenth,--a hand which is not always clearly written, and which +therefore, in itself, does not materially assist in the distinction of a +date. Now having first assigned the credit of this noble {22} Catalogue--in +which are entered about 600 volumes, in nearly every one of which, +besides the substantive (or initial?) work, are particularised numerous +detached writings, varying from two or three to five-and-forty distinct +"tracts"--to Prior Henry Chichely (1413--1443), the founder of All +Souls' and St. John's Colleges, Oxford, and who, "built the library of +the church, and furnished it with books," we will see whether the book +"qui intitulatur Johannes Crisestomus," &c. was returned to Canterbury, +and had a place in the list;--and this, we think, is satisfactorily +shown by the following entry:-- + + "Johannes Crisostomus de laude Apostoli. + In hoc volumine continentur + Idem de laude Redemptoris. + Brutus latine. + Nomina Regum Britanniæ sicut in ordine successerunt. + Nomina Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensis sicut in ordine successerunt. + Tabula et questiones Bede de ratione temporum. + Tabula ejusdem et expositio super tabulam de lunationibus. + Descriptio Britanniæ Insulæ. + Expositio super Merlinum, imperfecta." + +It may perhaps be supposed that this proves too much, as, besides the +direct title of the volume, _eight_ "tracts" are here entered, while in +the Power of Attorney only _two_ are noticed. But we would maintain, +nevertheless, that it is the identical book, and explain this variation +in the description by the circumstance that the library having, in the +space of nearly two centuries, been materially enriched, numerous works, +consisting in many cases only of a single "quaternion," were inserted in +the volumes already existing. An examination of the structure of books +of this period would confirm this view, and show that their apparent +clumsiness is to be explained by the facility it was then the custom to +afford for the interpolation or extraction of "sheets," by a contrivance +somewhat resembling that of the present day for temporarily fixing loose +papers in a cover, and known as the "patent leaf-holder." + +The second document is a list of certain books, belonging to the +monastery of Anglesey, early in the fourteenth century, allotted out to +the canons of the house for the purpose of custody, or, perhaps, of study +or devotion. + + "Isti libri liberati sunt canonicis die ... anno regni Regis Edwardi + septimo"[3] (7 Edw. II. A.D. 1314.) + Penes Dominum Priorem; Parabelæ Salomonis; Psalterium cum ... + Penes Dominum J. de Bodek.; Epistolæ Pauli...; Quædam notulæ super + psalter et liber miraculorum ... Mariæ cum miraculis sanctorum. + Penes Sub-priorem; Liber vitæ Sancti Thomæ Martiris. + Penes E. de Ely; Quartus liber sententiarum cum sermo...; Liber + Reymundi; Liber de vitiis et virtutibus et pastorale. + Penes R. Pichard; Liber Alquini; Liber Johannis de Tyrington cum + Catone et aliis. + Penes Henrici Muchet; Liber de vita Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ et + remediarum (?) + Penes Walteri de Yilwilden; Liber S ... ligatus in panno ymnaro + glosatus cum constitutionibus; Belet ligatus et vita sanctorum. + Penes Ricardi de Queye; Omeliæ Gregorii (?) super Evangelistos ligatæ + in nigro corio. + In commune biblia; Decreta; Decretales; Prima pars moralium Job; Liber + de abusionibus. + Liber justitiæ; penes Magistrum Adam de Wilburham. + Penes Walteri de Wyth; Liber Innocentii super sacramenta cum Belet et + introductione in uno volumine. + Item penes Sup-priorem; Psalterium glosatum duod fuit in custodia + Magistri Henrice de Melreth. + Item aliud psalterium glosatum inpignoratum penes Isabellam Siccadona. + +Several of these descriptions are highly curious; particularly the last +item, which describes one of the "glossed" psalters as being "_in +pawn_," a fact which, in itself, tells a history of the then condition +of the house. + +The first document, taken in connection with that referred to by Mr. +Hunter would seem to establish the existence of a system of +interchanging the literary wealth of monastic establishments, and +thereby greatly extending the advantages of their otherwise scanty +stores. Both are executed with all the legal forms used in the most +important transactions, which would support the opinion of their not {23} +being special instances: but they are, in either case, curious and +satisfactory evidence of the care and caution exercised by the monks in +cases where their books were concerned; and one cannot but regret that +when the time came that the monasterias were destined to be dissolved, +and their books torn and scattered to the winds, no attention was paid +to Bale's advice for the formation of "one solemne library in every +shire of England." + +JOSEPH BURTT + + [1] The information given of this house by Dugdale is very + scanty. It could surely be added to considerably. + + [2] London, 1831. quarto. See also a Paper by Mr. Halliwell in + the _Archæologia_, xxvii. p. 455., and Sir Francis Palgrave's + Introduction to _Documents and Records illustrating the History + of Scotland_, pp. xcvi.--cxvi., for extracts from the + historical chronicles preserved in the monasteries, &c. + + [3] The formula of this date, "anno R.R.E. septimo," would at + first sight be considered to refer to the preceding reign; but + the list is merely a memorandum on the dorse of a completely + executed instrument dated A.D. 1300, which it is highly + improbable that it preceded. The style of Edward II. is often + found as above, though not usually so. + + * * * * * + +PEDLAR'S SONG ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKSPERE, AND TRADITION CONNECTED WITH +SHAKSPERE'S "HAMLET." + +The following verses, which would form a very appropriate song for +Autolycus, were arranged as a glee for three voices by Dr. Wilson about +the year 1667. They are published in Playford's _Musical Companion_ in +1673; in Warren's _Collection of Glees and Catches_; and in S. Webbe's +_Conveto Harmonico_. The words were, I believe, first ascribed to +Shakspere by Clark, in 1824, in his _Words of Glees, Madrigals, &c._; +but he has not given his authority for so doing. It has been stated that +they have since been discovered in a common-place book written about +Shakspere's time, with his name attached to them, and with this indirect +evidence in favour of their being written by him, that the other pieces +in the collection are attributed to their proper writers. The late Mr. +Douce, who was inclined to believe the song to have been written by +Shakspere, once saw a copy of it with a fourth verse which was shown to +him by the then organist of Chichester. The poem is not included in Mr. +Collier's edition of Shakspere, nor in the Aldine edition of Shakspere's +Poems, edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Perhaps if you will be good enough to +insert the song and the present communication in the "NOTES AND +QUERIES," some of your readers may be enabled to fix the authorship and +to furnish the additional stanza to which I have referred. + + +PEDLAR'S SONG. + + From the far Lavinian shore, + I your markets come to store; + Muse not, though so far I dwell, + And my wares come here to sell; + Such is the sacred hunger for gold. + Then come to my pack, + While I cry + "What d'ye lack, + What d'ye buy? + For here it is to be sold." + + I have beauty, honour, grace, + Fortune, favour, time, and place, + And what else thou would'st request, + E'en the thing thou likest best; + First, let me have but a touch of your gold. + Then, come to me, lad, + Thou shalt have + What thy dad + Never gave; + For here it is to be sold. + + Madam, come, see what you lack, + I've complexions in my pack; + White and red you may have in this place, + To hide your old and wrinkled face. + First, let me have but a touch of your gold, + Then you shall seem + Like a girl of fifteen, + Although you be threescore and ten years old. + +While on this subject, perhaps I may be permitted to ask whether any +reader of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" can throw light on the following +questionable statement made by a correspondent of the _Morning Herald_, +of the 16th September, 1822. + + "Looking over and old volume the other day, printed in 1771, + I find it remarked that it was known as a tradition, that + Shakspeare shut himself up all night in Westminster Abbey when + he wrote the ghost scene in Hamlet." + +I do not find in Wilson's _Shakspeariana_ the title of a single "old" +book printed in 1771, on the subject of Shakspere. + +T. + + * * * * * + +SIR WILLIAM SKIPWYTH, KING'S JUSTICE IN IRELAND. + +Mr. Editor,--I am encouraged by the eminent names which illustrate the +first Number of your new experiment--a most happy thought--to inquire +whether they, or any other correspondent, can inform me who was the +William de Skypwith, the patent of whose appointment as Chief Justice of +the King's Bench in Ireland, dated February 15. 1370, 44 Edward III., is +to be found in the _New Fædera_ vol. iii. p.877.? In the entry on the +Issue Roll of that year, p. 458., of the payment of "his expences and +equipment" in going there, he is called "Sir William Skipwyth, Knight, +and the King's Justice in Ireland." {24} + +There was a Sir William Skipwyth, who was appointed a Judge of the +Common Pleas in 33 Edward III., and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 36 +Edward III.; and, were it not that Collins, in his _Baronetage_, +followed by Burke, says that he remained Chief Baron till 40 Edward +III., _in which year he died_, I should have had no doubt that the Irish +Chief Justice was the same with the English Chief Baron. + +The same authority adds that Sir William Skipwyth who was made a Justice +of the King's Bench [it should have been of the Common Pleas] in 50 +Edward III., and who resigned his office in 11 Richard II., was the +eldest son of the Chief Baron. But that authority does not make the +slightest allusion to the appointment of the Chief Justice of Ireland. + +A suspicion that this last Justice of the Common Pleas is not only the +same person as the Chief Justice of Ireland, but also as the Chief Baron +of the Exchequer, has arisen in my mind for the following among other +reasons. + +1. Collins and Burke are wrong in saying that he remained Chief Baron +till 40 Edward III. His successor in that office was appointed on +October 29. 1365, 39 Edward III. + +2. They are further wrong, I imagine, in saying that he continued Chief +Baron till his death: for Joshua Barnes, in his _History of Edward +III._, p. 667., says that Skipwyth and Sir Henry Green, the Chief +Justice of the King's Bench, were in 1365 arrested and imprisoned on +account of many enormities which the King understood they had committed +against law and justice; and this relation is corroborated by the fact +that Green's successor as Chief Justice was appointed on the same day as +Skipwyth's successor as Chief Baron. + +3. No proof whatever is given of the Chief Baron's death in 40 Edward +III. + +I will not trouble you with other grounds of identification which occur +to me: but as an answer to my question might "make these odds all even," +I sent the "Query" to the "Lost and Found Office" you have established, +in the hope that some stray "Note," as yet unappropriated, may assist in +solving the difficulty. + +EDWARD FOSS. + +November 5. 1849. + + * * * * * + +THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND. + +Mr. Editor,--May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in an +early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the +emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but +as yet found nothing definite enough. + +R. L. + +Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849. + + * * * * * + +CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. + +Mr. Editor,--Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your +Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which +Monmouth was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the +property of the Earl of Shaftesbury. + +I shall be happy at some future day, if it suits your purpose, to +collect and send you such particulars as may be gained on the spot +respecting it, and the incidents of the capture. + +We have still in the Town Hall here the chain in which it is said +Jefferies sat at the Bloody Assize. + +A. D. M. + +Dorcester, 3d Nov. 1849. + +[We shall gladly receive the particulars which our Correspondent +proposed to collect and forward.] + + * * * * * + +SERPENTS' EGGS AND STRAW NECKLACES. + +[Mr. Thoms' Query in this case should have been limited to the _straw +necklaces_, as Mr. Nichols has already explained the _serpents' eggs_; +but our Correspondent's letter is so satisfactory on both points that we +insert it entire.] + +The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to +be rendered "and with a string of serpents' eggs on your arm." The +meaning is equally apparent on recalling the manner in which snakes' +eggs are found, viz., hanging together in a row. Erasmus intends +Menedemus to utter a joke at the _rosary of beads_ hanging over the +pilgrim's arm, which he professes to mistake for serpents' eggs. + +I am not aware what particular propriety the "collar or chaplet" (for it +may mean either) of _straw_ may have, as worn by a pilgrim from +Compostella; or whether there may not lurk under this description, as +beneath {25} the other, a jocular sense. The readiest way of determining +this point would be to consult some of the accounts of Compostella and +of its relics, which are to be found in a class of books formerly +abundant in the north-western towns of Spain. + +V. + + * * * * * + +MADOC--HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA. + +"A Student" may consult the _Proceedings of the Royal Society of +Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen_, Mr. Geogehan's _Ireland_, +O'Flaherty's _Ogygia_, Magnusen and Rafn _On the Historical Monuments of +Greenland and America_, and some of the _Sagas_. + +SCOTUS. + +Brechin, Nov. 5. 1849. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON COFFEE. + +The earliest account we have of coffee is said to be taken from an +Arabian MS. in the Bibliothèque du Roi in Paris. + +Schehabeddin Ben, an Arabian author of the ninth century of the Hegira, +or fifteenth of the Christians, attributes to Gemaleddin, Mufti of Aden, +a city of Arabia Felix, who was nearly his contemporary, the first +introduction into that country, of drinking coffee. He tells us, that +Gemaleddin, having occasion to travel into Persia, during his abode +there saw some of his countrymen drinking coffee, which at that time he +did not much attend to; but, on his return to Aden, finding himself +indisposed, and remembering that he had seen his countrymen drinking +coffee in Persia, in hopes of receiving some benefit from it, he +determined to try it on himself; and, after making the experiment, not +only recovered his health, but perceived other useful qualities in that +liquor; such as relieving the headach, enlivening the spirits, and, +without prejudice to the constitution, preventing drowsiness. This last +quality he resolved to turn to the advantage of his profession; he took +it himself, and recommended it to the Dervises, or religious Mahometans, +to enable them to pass the night in prayer, and other exercises of their +religion, with greater zeal and attention. The example and authority of +the mufti gave reputation to coffee. Soon men of letters, and persons +belonging to the law, adopted the use of it. These were followed by the +tradesmen and artisans that were under the necessity of working in the +night, and such as were obliged to travel late after sunset. At length +the custom became general in Aden; and it was not only drunk in the +night by those who were desirous of being kept awake, but in the day for +the sake of its other agreeable qualities. + +Before this time coffee was scarce known in Persia, and very little used +in Arabia, where the tree grew. But, according to Schehabeddin, it had +been drunk in Æthiopia from time immemorial. + +Coffee being thus received at Aden, where it has continued in use ever +since without interruption, passed by degrees to many neighbouring +towns; and not long after reached Mecca, where it was introduced as at +Aden, by the Dervises, and for the same purposes of religion. + +The inhabitants of Mecca were at last so fond of this liquor, that, +without regarding the intention of the religious, and other studious +persons, they at length drank it publicly in coffee-houses, where they +assembled in crowds to pass the time agreeably, making that the +pretense. From hence the custom extended itself to many other towns of +Arabia, particularly to Medina, and then to Grand Cairo in Egypt, where +the Dervises of Yemen, who lived in a district by themselves, drank +coffee on the nights they intended to spend in devotion. + +Coffee continued its progress through Syria, and was received at +Damascus and Aleppo without opposition; and in the year 1554, under the +reign of Solyman, one hundred years after its introduction by the Mufti +of Aden, became known to the inhabitants of Constantinople, when two +private persons of the names of Schems and Hekin, the one coming from +Damascus, and the other from Aleppo, opened coffee-houses. + +"It is not easy," says Ellis, "to determine at what time, or upon what +occasion, the use of coffee passed from Constantinople to the western +parts of Europe. It is, however, likely that the Venetians, upon account +of the proximity of their dominions, and their great trade to the +Levant, were the first acquainted with it; which appears from part of a +letter wrote by Peter della Valle, a Venetian, in 1615, from +Constantinople; in which he tells his friend, that, upon his return he +should {26} bring with him some coffee, which he believed was a thing +unknown in his country." + +Mr. Garland tells us he was informed by M. de la Croix, the King's +interpreter, that M. Thevenot, who had travelled through the East, at +his return in 1657, brought with him to Paris some coffee for his own +use, and often treated his friends with it. + +It was known some years sooner at Marseilles; for, in 1644, some +gentlemen who accompanied M. de la Haye to Constantinople, brought back +with them on their return, not only some coffee, but the proper vessels +and apparatus for making it. However, until 1660, coffee was drunk only +by such as had been accustomed to it in the Levant, and their friends; +but that year some bales were imported from Egypt, which gave a great +number of persons an opportunity of trying it, and contributed very much +to bringing it into general use; and in 1661, a coffee-house was opened +at Marseilles in the neighbourhood of the Exchange. + +Before 1669, coffee had not been seen at Paris, except at M. Thevenot's, +and some of his friends'; nor scarce heard of but from the account of +travellers. In that year, Soliman Aga, ambassador from the Sultan +Mahomet the Fourth, arrived, who, with his retinue, brought a +considerable quantity of coffee with them, and made presents of it to +persons both of the court and city, and it is supposed to have +established the custom of drinking it. + +Two years afterwards, an Armenian of the name of Pascal, set up a +coffee-house, but meeting with little encouragement, left Paris and came +to London. + +From Anderson's _Chronological History of Commerce_, it appears that the +use of coffee was introduced into London some years earlier than into +Paris. For in 1652 one Mr. Edwards, a Turkey merchant, brought home with +him a Greek servant, whose name was Pasqua, who understood the roasting +and making of coffee, till then unknown in England. This servant was the +first who sold coffee, and kept a house for that purpose in George Yard +Lombard Street. + +The first mention of coffee in our statute books is anno 1660 (12 Car. +II. c. 24), when a duty of 4d. was laid upon every gallon of coffee made +and sold, to be paid by the maker. + +The statute 15 Car. II. c. 11. § 15. an. 1663, directs that all +coffee-houses should be licensed at the general quarter sessions of the +peace for the county within which they are to be kept. + +In 1675 King Charles II. issued a proclamation to shut up the +coffee-houses, but in a few days suspended the proclamation by a second. +They were charged with being seminaries of sedition. + +The first European author who has made any mention of coffee is +Rauwolfus, who was in the Levant in 1573. + + * * * * * + +DR. DRYASDUST. + +Sir,--Do you or any of your readers know anything of the family of that +celebrated antiquary, and do you think it probable that he was descended +from, or connected with, the author of a work which I met with some time +ago, intituled "Wit Revived, or A new and excellent way of +Divertisement, digested into most ingenious Questions and Answers. By +ASDRYASDUST TOSSOFFACAN. London: Printed for T. E. and are to be sold by +most Booksellers. MDCLXXIV." 12mo. I do not know anything of the +author's character, but he appears to have been a right-minded man, in +so far as he (like yourself) expected to find "wit revived" by its +digestion into "most ingenious questions and answers;" though his notion +that asking and answering questions was a _new_ way of divertisement, +seems to indicate an imperfect knowledge of the nature and history of +mankind; but my query is simply genealogical. + +H. F. W. + + * * * * * + +MACAULAY'S "YOUNG LEVITE." + +Sir,--The following passage from the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, published +1651, struck me as a curious corroboration of the passage in Mr. +Macaulay's _History_ which describes the "young Levite's" position in +society during the seventeenth century; and as chance lately threw in my +way the work from which Burton took his illustration, I take the liberty +of submitting Notes of both for your examination. + + "If he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman's house (as it befel + Euphormio), after some seven years' service he may perchance have + a living to {27} the halves, or some small rectory, with the + mother of the maids at length, a poor kinswoman, or a crackt + chambermaid, to have and to hold during the time of his + life."--Burton, _Anat. of Mel._ part i. sect. 2. mem. 3. subsect 15. + +Burton is here referrng to the _Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon_, +published anno 1617. It professes to be a satire, or rather A FURIOUS +INVECTIVE, on the corrupt manners of the times, and is in four parts: +the 1st is dedicated to King James I.; the 2nd to Robert Cecil; the 3rd +to Charles Emmanuel of Savoy; the 4th to Louis XIII., King of France. + +The use that Burton makes of the name of Euphormio is any thing but +happy. He was not a "_trencher chaplain_" but the slave of a rich +debauchée, Callion, sent in company with another slave, Percas, to carry +some all-potent nostrum to Fibullius, a friend of Callion, who was +suffering from an attack of stone. Euphormio cures Fibullius, not by the +drug with which he was armed, but by a herb, which he sought for and +found on a mountain. Fibullius, to reward his benefactor, offers him as +a wife a most beautiful girl, whom he introduces to him privately while +in his sick room. Euphormio looks with no little suspicion on the offer; +but, after a few excuses, which are overruled by Fibullius, accepts the +lady as his betrothed, "seals the bargain with a holy kiss," and walks +out of the room (to use his own words) "et sponsus, et quod +nesciebam--Pater," page 100. The next mention of this lady [evidently +the prototype of the "crackt chambermaid,"] is in page 138. Callion had +paid his sick friend Fibullius a visit, and, on the eve of his +departure, had ordered Euphormio to ride post before him, and prepare +the inhabitants of the districts through which he was to pass for his +arrival. While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the act of mounting his +steed, a rustic brings him a letter from Fibullius, and in conversation +gives him such an account of his bride as forces upon him the +reflection, that even the grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, +to so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, as the _protegée_ of +Fibullius would be likely to prove. But, as these _notes_ have, in spite +of all my attempts at condensation, already grown to a most formidable +size, I will not indulge in any moral reflections; but conclude by +_querying_ you, or any of your readers, to inform me whether the +personages mentioned in the _Euphorm. Lus. Satyricon_, such as Callion, +Pereas, Fibullius, &c., are real characters or not? as, in the former +case, I am inclined to think that the work might throw some interesting +lights on the private manners and characters of some of the courtiers of +the day. "No scandal against any of the maids of honour"--of course. The +phrase "_To the halves_" (in the quotation from Burton) means, +inadequate, insufficient; we still talk of "half and half" measures. +Montanus inveighs against such "perturbations, that purge _to the +halves_, tire nature, and molest the body to no purpose."--Burton, +_Anat. of Mel._, part. ii. sect. 2. mem. 4. subsect. 6. + +MELANION. + +[The work referred to by our correspondent was written by Barclay, +better known as the author of the _Argenis_. The First Part of the +_Satyricon_, dedicated to James the First, was published, London, 12mo. +1603; and with the addition of the 2nd Part, Paris, 1605. The best +edition of the work (which, really in two parts, is made, by the +addition of the _Apologia Euphormionis_, &c. sometimes into five) is +said to be the Elzevir 12mo., 1637. There are two editions of it _cum +notis variorum_, Leyden, 1667 and 1669, 8vo., in two volumes. Of some of +the editions (as that of 1623, 12mo.) it is said, "adjecta Clavi sive +obscurorum et quasi ænigmaticorum nominum, in hoc Opere passim +occurrentium, dilucida explicatione." The _Satyricon_ was twice +translated into French; and its literary history, and that of the +_Censura Euphormionis_, and other tracts, which it called forth, might +furnish a curious and amusing paper.] + + * * * * * + +SERMONES SANCTI CAROLI BORROMÆI. + +Sir,--I have been wanting to get a sight of the following work, +"Sermones Sancti Caroli Borromæi, Archiepisc. Mediol. Edidit. J.A. +Saxius. 5 Tom. Mediol. 1747." Can I learn through your columns whether +the work is any where accessible in London? I sought for it in vain at +the British Museum a twelvemonth ago; nor, though then placed in their +list of _Libri desiderati_, has it yet been procured. + +C. F. SECRETAN. + + * * * * * + +LUTHER AND ERASMUS. + +Mr. Editor,--The following lines, written in a hand of the early part of +the seventeenth century, occur on the fly-leaf of a copy of the {28} +_Translation of Luther on the Galatians_, edit. London, 4to. 1577. Can +any of your readers oblige me by informing me who was their author? + + "Parum Lutherus ac Erasmus differunt + Serpens uterque est, plenus atro toxico; + Sed ille mordet ut cerastes in via, + Hic fraudulentus mordet in silentio." + +Your obedient servant, + +ROTERODAMUS. + + * * * * * + +TOWER ROYAL--CONSTITUTION HILL--COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S +LETTER--TENNISON'S FUNERAL SERMON ON NELL GWYNNE. + +Sir,--I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the following +Queries:-- + +1. What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London +locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to +inhabit it? + +2. When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why? + +3. Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have +been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph +Williamson? It first appeared in _The World_. + +4. Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop +Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne? + +PETER CUNNINGHAM. + + * * * * * + +GROG--BISHOP BARNABY. + +Mr. Editor,--I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies. + +Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"--And why do the people in Suffolk +call a ladybird "Bishop Barnaby?" + +If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel +encouraged to try again. + +Yours, &c. + +LEGOUR. + + * * * * * + +NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. II. + +DR. FARMER ON DRAYTON'S WORKS. + +The following bibliographical memoranda, in the well-known hand of Dr. +Farmer, occur in a copy of the edition of Drayton's _Poems_ published in +1619, in small folio, by John Smethwick, which contains "The Barons' +Wars; England's Heroical Epistles; Idea; Odes; The Legends of Robert +Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and Great Cromwell; The +Owle; and Pastorals, containing Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone." + +They may be of use to some future editor of Drayton, an author now +undeservedly neglected, whose _Nymphidia_ alone might tempt the tasteful +publisher of the "Aldine Poets" to include a selection, at least, of his +poems in that beautiful series:-- + + "The works of Michael Drayton, Esq., were reprinted in folio, + 1748. The title-page 'promises all the writings of that + _celebrated author_,' but his Pastorals (p.433. &c., first + published imperfectly in 4to. 1593) and many other of his most + considerable compositions (Odes, the Owle, &c., see the Appendix), + are not so much as spoken of. See his article in the _Biog. + Brit._ by Mr. Oldys, curiously and accurately written. + + "Another edition (which is called the _best_) was printed in 4 + vols. 8vo. 1753. Robson, 1765. + + "A Poem Triumphant, composed for the Society of the Goldsmiths of + London, by _M. Drayton_. 4to. 1604. _Harl. Cat._ v.3. p. 357. + + "Charles Coffey was the editor of the folio edit. 1748, he had a + large subscription for it, but died before the publication; and + it was afterward printed for the benefit of his widow. See + Mottley, p. 201. + + "The print of Drayton at the back of the title-page, is marked in + Thane's Catalogue, 1774, 7s. 6d. + + "N.B. The copy of the _Baron's Warres_ in this edition differs in + almost every line from that in the 8vo. edit. 1610. + + "It was printed under the title of Mortimeriados, in 7 line + stanzaes. + + "Matilda was first printed 1594, 4to., by Val. Simmes. Gaveston + appears by the Pref. to have been publish't before. Almost every + line in the old 4to. of Matilda differs from the copy in this + edit. A stanza celebrating Shakespeare's Lucrece is omitted in the + later edition. + + "Idea. The Shepherd's Garland. Fashion'd in 9 Eglogs. Rowland's + sacrifice to the 9 Muses, 4to. 1593. But they are printed in this + Edition very different from the present Pastorals. + + "A sonnet of Drayton's prefixed to the 2nd Part of _Munday's + Primaleon of Greece_, B.L. 4to. 1619." + +[The stanza in _Matilda_, celebrating Shakespeare's _Lucrece_, to which +Dr. Farmer alludes, is thus quoted by Mr. Collier in his edition of +Shakespeare (viii. p. 411.):-- + + "Lucrece, of whom proud Rome hath boasted long, + Lately revived to live another age, + And here arrived to tell of Tarquin's wrong, + Her chaste denial, and the tyrant's rage, {29} + Acting her passions on our stately stage: + She is remember'd, all forgetting me, + Yet I as fair and chaste as e'er was she;"-- + +who remarks upon it as follows:-- + + "A difficulty here may arise out of the fifth line, as if + Drayton was referring to a play upon the story of Lucrece, and + it is very possible that one was then in existence. Thomas + Heywood's tragedy, _The Rape of Lucrece,_ did not appear in print + until 1608, and he could hardly have been old enough to have been + the author of such a drama in 1594; he may, nevertheless, have + availed himself of an elder play, and, according to the practice + of the time, he may have felt warranted in publishing it as his + own. It is likely, however, that Drayton's expressions are not to + be taken literally; and that his meaning merely was, that the + story of Lucrece had lately been revived, and brought upon the + stage of the world: if this opinion be correct, the stanza we have + quoted above contains a clear allusion to Shakespeare's _Lucrece_; + and a question then presents itself, why Drayton entirely omitted + it in the after-impression of his _Matilda_. He was a poet who, as + we have shown in the Introduction to _Julius Cæsar_ (vol. viii. + p. 4.), was in the habit of making extensive alterations in his + productions, as they were severally reprinted, and the suppression + of this stanza may have proceeded from many other causes than + repentance of the praise he had bestowed upon a rival."] + + * * * * * + +BODENHAM, OR LING'S POLITEUPHUIA. + +Sir,--The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for sale, +issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:-- + + "Bodenham? (Ling?), Politeuphuia. Wits commonwealth, _original + wrapper, vellum_. VERY RARE. + + "80 fr. 8vo. London, for Nicholas Ling, 1597. + + "This book, 'being a methodical collection of the most choice + and select admonitions and sentences, compendiously drawn from + infinite varietie,' is quoted by Lowndes under Bodenham, as first + printed in 1598; the Epistle dedicatory however of the present + copy is signed: 'N. Ling', and addressed 'to his very good friend + Maister I.B.,' so that Ling appears to have been the author, and + this an edition unknown to Lowndes or any other bibliographer." + +This seems to settle one point, perhaps a not very important one, in our +literary history; and as such may deserve a place among your "NOTES." + +BOOKWORM. + + * * * * * + +COLLEY CIBBER'S APOLOGY. + +Mr. Editor,--No doubt most of your readers are well acquainted with +Colley Cibber's _Apology for his Life_, &c., first printed, I believe, +in 1740, 4to, with a portrait of himself, painted by Vanloo, and +engraved by Vandergucht. Chapters IV. and V. contain the celebrated +characters he drew of the principal performers, male and female, in, and +just before, his time, viz. Betterton, Montfort, Kynaston, &c. Upon +these characters I have two questions to put, which I hope some of your +contributors may be able to answer. The first is, "Were these characters +of actors reprinted in the same words, and without additions, in the +subsequent impressions of Cibber's _Apology_ in 8vo?" Secondly, "Had +they ever appeared in any shape before they were inserted in the copy of +Cibber's _Apology_ now before me, in 1740, 4to?" To this may be added, +if convenient, some account of the work in which these fine criticisms +originally appeared, supposing they did not first come out in the +_Apology_. I am especially interested in the history of the Stage about +the period when the publication of these characters formed an epoch. + +I am, Mr. Editor, yours, + +DRAMATICUS. + + * * * * * + +A MAIDEN ASSIZE--WHITE GLOVES. + +Mr. Editor.--I forward for insertion in your new publication the +following "Note," taken from the _Times_ of the 20th of August, 1847:-- + +"A Fortunate County.--In consequence of there being no prisoners, nor +business of any kind to transact at the last assizes for the county of +Radnor, the high sheriff, Mr. Henry Miles, had to present the judge, Mr. +Justice Cresswell, with a pair of white kid gloves, embroidered in gold, +and which have been forwarded to his lordship; a similar event has not +taken place for a considerable number of years in that county. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, No. 2, November 10 1849 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11265] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NO. 2 *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + +</pre> + + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page17" name="page17"></a>{17}</span> + + <h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1> + + <h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, + GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2> + <hr /> + + <h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.</h3> + <hr class="full" /> + + <table width="100%"> + <tr> + <td align="left" width="25%"><b>No. 2.</b></td> + + <td align="center" width="50%"><b>SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1849.</b></td> + + <td align="right" width="25%"><b>Price Threepence. Stamped Edition + 4d.</b></td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr class="full" /> + + <h2>A FEW WORDS TO OUR FRIENDS.</h2> + + <p>In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching + to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform. We stated + that "we would rather give a specimen than a description." We are now in + like manner unwilling to point as exultingly, as we think we might, to the + position which we have already taken. But there is a vast difference between + vain boasting and the expression of an honest satisfaction; and it would be + worse than an affectation of humility—it would be a mean + hypocrisy—if we did not express heartily and unreservedly the + gratitude we owe and feel to those who have encouraged us by their friendly + advice and able pens. We have opened a Literary Exchange, and we have had + the gratification to see that men whose learning and talents the public + recognise—leaders in their several branches of inquiry—have at + once taken advantage of it. They have proved the necessity for some such + medium of communication, as well as their good-will to the one now offered + to them, by a gathering in its behalf which the public will respect, and of + which we may well feel proud.</p> + + <p>Some whose good opinion we most value, and who have spoken most warmly in + favour of our plan, have proved the sincerity of their praise by suggestions + of improvement in its detail, and hints for its further extension. They may + feel assured that such hints and such suggestions shall not be lost sight + of. For instance, one respected correspondent hints that as we have very + properly adopted Dr. Maitland's suggestion with regard to Herbert's edition + of Ame's <i>Typographical Antiquities</i>, namely, that of "offering a + receptacle for illustrations, additions, and corrections," and invited "our + readers to take advantage of our columns to carry out Dr. Maitland's + suggestions," we should open our columns with equal readiness to the + correction and illustration of more modern and more popular works. We + entirely concur with him; but in reference to this subject there is a + distinction which must be borne in mind. Our own literature, like that of + every other country, consists of two classes of books. We have the books of + pretenders to knowledge, the hasty, crude, imperfect, but often for the time + attractive and popular volumes of the Ned Purdons of the day. These books + have a use—such as it is—and thus answer their purpose; but it + would be for the credit of our literature, and save a world of trouble, if + they were forgotten as soon as they had done so. To illustrate such books, + to add to their information or correct their blunders, would be useless and + almost ridiculous. They should be left to die of mere powerlessness and + exhaustion, or to wither under the wholesome influence of a just and manly + criticism.</p> + + <p>But there are books of another kind—books <span class= + "pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>{18}</span> which our worthy + bibliopoles designate as "standard works." These are the books of competent + workmen—books which are the result of honest labour and research, and + which from the moment of their publication assume a permanent station in our + national literature. Even in such books there are many things incomplete, + many things erroneous. But it is the interest of every man that such books + should be rendered as complete as possible; and whatever tends to illustrate + or correct works of that class will be sure of insertion in our columns.</p> + + <p>We would point to Macaulay's <i>England</i>, and Hallam's <i>Introduction + to the Literary History of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries</i>, his + <i>Middle Ages</i>, and his <i>Constitutional History</i>, and we may add, + as illustrations of a different kind, <i>The Annals of the Stage</i> of our + excellent friend Mr. Collier, and <i>The Handbook of London</i> of our + valued contributor Mr. Peter Cunningham, as examples of the sort of + publications to which we allude. Such were the books we had in our mind, + when we spoke in our Prospectus of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" becoming, through + the inter-communication of our literary friends, "a most useful supplement + to works already in existence—a treasury towards enriching future + editions of them."</p> + + <p>Another correspondent—a bibliographical friend—suggests that, + for various reasons, which bibliographers will appreciate, our Prospectus + should have a place in the body of our work. We believe that many of our + readers concur in a wish for its preservation, and it will therefore be + found in the Number now before them.</p> + + <p>One suggestion again urges us to look carefully to Foreign Literature, + and another points out the propriety of our making our paper as British as + possible, so that our topographical facts should, as far as practicable, be + restricted to the illustration of British counties, and our biographical + ones to such as should contribute towards a Biographia Brittanica.</p> + + <p>All these, and many other expressions of sympathy and promises of + support, poured in upon us within a few hours after our birth. No one of + them shall be forgotten; and if for a time our pages seem to indicate that + we have made a QUERY as to the adoption of any suggestion, let our kind + contributors be assured that there is no hint which reaches us, whether + <i>at present</i> practicable or not, that we do not seriously and + thankfully "make a NOTE of."</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>BISHOP AYLMER'S LETTER, AND THE POEM ON THE ARMADA.</h2> + + <p>As I am in a condition to answer the inquiry of your "Hearty + Well-wisher," on p. 12 of your last Number of "NOTES AND QUERIES," I proceed + to give him the information he asks. I shall be happy if what follows is of + any use to your correspondent, taking it for granted that he is as zealous + for your success as his signature indicates.</p> + + <p>The "foolish rhyme," to which the attention of the Bishop of London had + been directed by Lord Burghley, has the subsequent doggrel title:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"A Skeltonicall Salvtation,</p> + + <p>Or condigne gratvlation,</p> + + <p>And iust vexation</p> + + <p>Of the Spanishe nation,</p> + + <p>That in a bravado</p> + + <p>Spent many a crvsado,</p> + + <p>In setting forth an armado</p> + + <p>England to invado."</p> + </div> + + <p>This is as the title stands in the Oxford impression (of which I never + saw more than one copy, because, we may presume, it was suppressed by the + authorities of the University), and the following is the imprint at the + bottom of it:—"Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee sold + in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Tygres head, 1589."</p> + + <p>There exists several exemplars of the London edition—"Imprinted at + London for Toby Cooke, 1589,"—the title-page of which, as well as the + rest of the poem, differs only literally from that of Oxford, excepting that + to the latter is appended a Latin version, also in rhyme, and in close + imitation of the English. I subjoin a brief specimen of it:— + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>{19}</span></p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Qui regis Hispanos,</p> + + <p>Superbos et vanos,</p> + + <p>Crudeles et insanos,</p> + + <p>Multùm aberrasti,</p> + + <p>Cùm tuos animasti,</p> + + <p>Et bellum inchoasti</p> + + <p>Contra Anglos animosos,</p> + + <p>Fortes et bellicosos,</p> + + <p>Nobiles et generosos.</p> + + <p>Qui te excitavit</p> + + <p>Proculdubio deliravit</p> + + <p>Et te fascinavit," &c.</p> + </div> + + <p>The whole production consists only of ten leaves, 4to., and the Latin + portion, which has the subsequent separate title-page, occupies four of + them:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p class="i6">"AD REGEM</p> + + <p class="i6">HISPANVM.</p> + + <p>Cum tua non fuerint heroica facta, Philippe,</p> + + <p>Risu digna cano carmine ridiculo."</p> + </div> + + <p>I shall not here introduce any part of the English version, because one + or two long quotations will be found in the introductory portion of the Rev. + A. Dyce's excellent edition of Skelton's Works (2 vols. 8vo. 1843). + Respecting the Latin portion I have been more particular, because the + learned editor was not aware that the production had come from the press of + Barnes of Oxford, nor that a Latin version was appended to it.</p> + + <p>I may take the liberty of adding here a mention of Skelton which escaped + notice, and which is from one of the tracts against Thomas Nash, produced by + Gabriel Harvey, the friend of Spenser. He couples Skelton and Scoggin + together, in no very respectful manner, and completes the triumvirate by + Nash, whom he here calls Signor Capriccio:—"And what riott so + pestiferous as that which in sugred baites presenteth most poisonous hookes? + Sir Skelton and Master Scoggin were but innocents to Signior Capricio."</p> + + <p>This quotation is the more noticeable, because it recognises the sacred + character of Skelton (however unworthy of the gown) in the prefix "Sir," + which, as most people are aware, was then generally given to clergymen: + Scoggin, on the other hand, is only styled "Master Scoggin."</p> + + <p class="author">J. PAYNE COLLIER.</p> + + <p class="note">[The preceding communication was already in type when we + received the following from Mr. Bolton Corney, which we gladly print, + inasmuch as it illustrates some points not touched upon by Mr. Collier.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 1.</h2> + + <p>It is not without some slight reluctance that I notice anonymous + communications, but shall endeavour to repress such feelings with regard to + the modest students who may choose to announce their desiderata through the + convenient channel of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." A <i>hearty well wisher</i> + to so commendable an enterprise, shall have my first responsive scrap.</p> + + <p>The inquiry affords no scope for ingenuity of conjecture! The <i>foolish + rime</i> to which bishop Aylmer refers, is undoubtedly the pamphlet thus + entitled:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"A Skeltonicall salutation,</p> + + <p>Or condigne gratulation,</p> + + <p>And iust vexation</p> + + <p>Of the Spanish nation,</p> + + <p>That in a bravado</p> + + <p>Spent many a crusado,</p> + + <p>In setting forth an armado</p> + + <p>England to invado."</p> + + <p class="i2">Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1589. 4to.</p> + + <p>"A Skeltonicall salutation," &c.</p> + + <p class="i2">Imprinted at London for Toby Cook, 1589. 4to.</p> + </div> + + <p>The Oxford edition is recorded by Ames, and there is a copy of the London + edition in the British Museum. Strype, in his account of bishop Aylmer, + gives the substance of the letter as his <i>own</i> narrative, almost + <i>verbatim</i>—but fails to identify the pamphlet in question. Park + briefly describes it in <i>Censura Literaria</i>, 1815, ii. 18.; and there + is a specimen of it in <i>The Poetical Works of John Skelton</i>, as edited + by the Reverend Alexander Dyce, 1843.</p> + + <p>While <i>queries</i> evince a sharp mental appetite, <i>answers</i> help + to satisfy it; and so, by their united influence, a brisk circulation of + ideas may be produced—which, as master Burton assures us, wards off + melancholy.</p> + + <p class="author">BOLTON CORNEY.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES UPON "NOTES, NO. 1."</h2> + + <p>Sir,—I take the liberty to send you one or two Notes on your first + Number, just as they occur to me in looking it over. I will not trespass on + you by preface or apology.</p> + + <p>The "<i>bibliographic project</i>" I shall rejoice <span class= + "pagenum"><a id="page20" name="page20"></a>{20}</span> to see carried out; + and though neither an unemployed aspirant nor a fortunate collector (of + which class I hope many will be stimulated by the proposition), yet, as I + once took some trouble in the matter, I should be happy to contribute some + Notes then made whenever the plan is matured and the proposed appeal is + made—provided (I must add, and to <i>you</i> I may add) I can find + them.</p> + + <p>The <i>Liber Sententiarum</i> was printed by Limborch, at Amsterdam, in + 1692. It forms the greater part, as, indeed, it was the occasion, of his + folio volume, entitled "<i>Historia Inquisitionis cui subjungitur Liber + Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanæ ab anno Christi Cl[*C]CCCVI ad annum + Cl[*C]CCCXXIII.</i>" Gibbon, in a note on his fifty-fourth chapter, observes + that the book "deserved a more learned and critical editor;" and, if your + correspondent will only place the <i>Book of Sentences</i> before the public + in a readable form, with a map, and (by all means) a few <i>notes</i>, he + will be doing a great service to all persons who take an interest in + ecclesiastical history, or, indeed, in history of any kind. In the year 1731 + Chandler published a translation of the <i>History of the Inquisition</i>, + with a long Introduction of his own, but did not meddle with the <i>Book of + Sentences</i>, except so far as to introduce into the text of the + <i>History</i> some passages from it, which Limborch (as he appended the + whole book) did not think it necessary to quote. I remember seeing the MS. + in the British Museum within these ten or twelve years, and, according to my + recollection, it was accompanied by papers which would furnish an + interesting literary history of the volume. I hope your correspondent will + give us farther information.</p> + + <p class="author">N.B.</p> + + <p class="note">[Mr. Brooke, of Ufford, has also kindly replied to the Query + of INQUISITORIUS, by referring him to Limborch.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>QUERY AS TO REFERENCES.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—May I be permitted to suggest one way in which you may be of + great service to many literary men, and indeed to the cause of literature in + general; and this, too, without much trouble to yourself? Would you be + willing to receive "Queries" respecting <i>references</i>? They frequently + puzzle those who are engaged in literary works, and indeed those who are + merely readers, and who have not access to public libraries or the + manuscript treasures of the metropolis and the universities. If, for + instance, a clergyman or squire, interested in the history of his parish, + should find in the county historian something which his own local or + genealogical knowledge leads him to think erroneous, vouched for by a + reference to the <i>Cotton</i> or <i>Harleian MSS.</i>, might he apply to + you? It may be supposed that you are not very far from some one of the great + fountains of information, and have easy access to all; and it is probable + that you might not only do a personal favour to the inquirer, but confer a + benefit on the public, by correcting an erroneous statement. Of course you + would subject yourself to unreasonable requests, but the remedy would always + be in your own hands.</p> + + <p>Yours, &c.</p> + + <p class="author">A. G. C.</p> + + <p class="note">[The Editor inserts this letter because he is sure that it + comes from a friendly quarter, and he knows that something like what it + suggests is very much wanted. He would feel great diffidence as to his + powers of fulfilling all that might be expected if he were simply to reply + in the affirmative: but he is quite willing to make the trial, and he thinks + that (though sometimes perhaps with a little delay) he could in general + obtain any information of this kind which could be reasonably sought.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>LINES IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—The following lines are written in pencil on sheet 61. + of the <i>Notes of the Debates in the Long Parliament</i>, taken down in the + House of Commons by Sir Ralph Verney. The <i>Notes of Debates</i>, but not + these lines, were published by the Camden Society in 1845. For any thing + that appears to the contrary, these lines may have been written in the House + as well as the <i>Notes of Debates</i>. The sheet 61. refers to debates + which took place in March 1641-2. I am not aware that the lines have been + published, nor can I assign them to their author. If any of your readers can + tell me anything about them, I shall esteem it a favour.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Wert thou yet fairer than thou art,</p> + + <p class="i2">Which lies not in the power of art;</p> + + <p>Or hadst thou, in thine eyes, more darts</p> + + <p class="i2">Than Cupid ever shot at hearts;</p> + + <p>Yet, if they were not thrown at me,</p> + + <p class="i2">I could not cast one thought at thee.</p> + </div><span class="pagenum"><a id="page21" name="page21"></a>{21}</span> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I'd rather marry a disease</p> + + <p class="i2">Than court the thing I cannot please;</p> + + <p>She that will cherish my desires,</p> + + <p class="i2">Must feed my flames with equal fires.</p> + + <p>What pleasure is there in a kiss,</p> + + <p class="i2">To him that doubts the heart's not his?</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I love thee, not 'cause thou art fair,</p> + + <p class="i2">Smoother than down, softer than air,</p> + + <p>Nor for those Cupids that do lie</p> + + <p class="i2">In either corner of thine eye;</p> + + <p>Will you then know what it may be?</p> + + <p class="i2">'Tis—I love you 'cause you love me.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p class="author">J. BRUCE.</p> + + <p>24th Oct. 1849</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES UPON ANCIENT LIBRARIES.</h2> + + <p>A knowledge of the intellectual acquirements of the middle ages must be + mainly formed upon a consideration of the writings which directed them, or + emanated from them. Unfortunately such materials are very imperfect, our + knowledge of the existence of works often resting only upon their place in + some loosely-entered catalogue—and of the catalogues themselves, the + proportion still remaining must be small indeed. Under these circumstances + the following documents, which are now for the first time printed, or even + noticed, will be found to be of considerable interest. The first is, in + modern language, a Power of Attorney, executed by the Prior of Christ + Church, Canterbury, appointing two of the monks of his church to be his + procurators for the purpose of receiving from the convent of Anglesey, in + Cambridgeshire<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href= + "#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>, a book which had been lent to the late Rector + of Terrington. Its precise date is uncertain, but it must be of about the + middle of the thirteenth century (1244-1254), as Nicholas Sandwich, the + Prior of Christ Church, was the second of four priors who presided between + the years 1234 and 1274.</p> + + <blockquote> + "N. Prior Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis discretis viris et religiosis + Domino Priori de Anglesheya et ejusdem loci sacro conventui salutem in + Domino. Cum sincera semper caritate noverit faternitas vestra nos + constiuisse fratres Gauterum de Hatdfeld et Nicolaum de Grantebrigiense + Ecclesiæ nostræ monachos latores precencium procuratores nostros ad + exigendum et recipiendum librum qui intitulatur. Johannes Crisestomus de + laude Apostoli. In quo etiam volumine continentur Hystoria vetus Britonum + quæ Brutus appellatur et tractatus Roberti Episcopi Herfordiæ de compoto. + Quæ quondam accommodavimus Magistro Laurentio de Sancto Nicholao tunc + Rectori ecclesiæ de Tyrenton. Qui post decessum præfati Magistri L. penes + vos morabatur et actenus moratur. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras + patentes nostro sigillo signatas vobis transmittimus." + </blockquote> + + <p>The contents of the book which is the subject of this special embassy are + of the character usually found to have formed the staple of monastic + libraries, though the particular treatises included in it are not + common.</p> + + <p>In the Reverend Joseph Hunter's valuable treatise upon <i>English + Monastic Libraries</i><a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href= + "#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> occurs a notice of an indenture executed in + A.D. 1343, whereby the priory of Henton lent no less than twenty books to + another monastic establishment. The deed is described, but not printed. It + will be seen that the instrument we have given above is nearly a century + earlier; and the minute description of the book given in this document + supplies some very curious facts illustrative of the mode of putting + together ancient books, which have not hitherto been remarked, for the + simple reasons that no opportunity for comparison like that presented by the + present case has yet been noticed. Among the Cottonian MSS. (Galba E. iv.) + is a perfect specimen of an ancient Library Catalogue, which, although not + altogether unnoticed, deserves a more careful examination than it has yet + received. It relates to the magnificent monastic foundation from which + emanated the deed we have printed above, and is headed "Tituli librorum de + libraria Ecclesiæ Christi Cantuariensis et contenta in eisdem libris tempore + H. Prioris." It is written in that bold hand which prevails so extensively + in ecclesiastical MSS., with but little variation, from the middle of the + fourteenth century, to the end of the fifteenth,—a hand which is not + always clearly written, and which therefore, in itself, does not materially + assist in the distinction of a date. Now having first assigned the credit of + this noble <span class="pagenum"><a id="page22" name= + "page22"></a>{22}</span> Catalogue—in which are entered about 600 + volumes, in nearly every one of which, besides the substantive (or initial?) + work, are particularised numerous detached writings, varying from two or + three to five-and-forty distinct "tracts"—to Prior Henry Chichely + (1413—1443), the founder of All Souls' and St. John's Colleges, + Oxford, and who, "built the library of the church, and furnished it with + books," we will see whether the book "qui intitulatur Johannes Crisestomus," + &c. was returned to Canterbury, and had a place in the list;—and + this, we think, is satisfactorily shown by the following entry:—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Johannes Crisostomus de laude Apostoli.</p> + + <p class="i2">In hoc volumine continentur</p> + + <p>Idem de laude Redemptoris.</p> + + <p>Brutus latine.</p> + + <p>Nomina Regum Britanniæ sicut in ordine successerunt.</p> + + <p>Nomina Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensis sicut in ordine successerunt.</p> + + <p>Tabula et questiones Bede de ratione temporum.</p> + + <p>Tabula ejusdem et expositio super tabulam de lunationibus.</p> + + <p>Descriptio Britanniæ Insulæ.</p> + + <p>Expositio super Merlinum, imperfecta."</p> + </div> + + <p>It may perhaps be supposed that this proves too much, as, besides the + direct title of the volume, <i>eight</i> "tracts" are here entered, while in + the Power of Attorney only <i>two</i> are noticed. But we would maintain, + nevertheless, that it is the identical book, and explain this variation in + the description by the circumstance that the library having, in the space of + nearly two centuries, been materially enriched, numerous works, consisting + in many cases only of a single "quaternion," were inserted in the volumes + already existing. An examination of the structure of books of this period + would confirm this view, and show that their apparent clumsiness is to be + explained by the facility it was then the custom to afford for the + interpolation or extraction of "sheets," by a contrivance somewhat + resembling that of the present day for temporarily fixing loose papers in a + cover, and known as the "patent leaf-holder."</p> + + <p>The second document is a list of certain books, belonging to the + monastery of Anglesey, early in the fourteenth century, allotted out to the + canons of the house for the purpose of custody, or, perhaps, of study or + devotion.</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Isti libri liberati sunt canonicis die ... anno regni Regis Edwardi + septimo"<a id="footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href= + "#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a> (7 Edw. II. A.D. 1314.)</p> + + <p>Penes Dominum Priorem; Parabelæ Salomonis; Psalterium cum ...</p> + + <p>Penes Dominum J. de Bodek.; Epistolæ Pauli...; Quædam notulæ super + psalter et liber miraculorum ... Mariæ cum miraculis sanctorum.</p> + + <p>Penes Sub-priorem; Liber vitæ Sancti Thomæ Martiris.</p> + + <p>Penes E. de Ely; Quartus liber sententiarum cum sermo...; Liber + Reymundi; Liber de vitiis et virtutibus et pastorale.</p> + + <p>Penes R. Pichard; Liber Alquini; Liber Johannis de Tyrington cum Catone + et aliis.</p> + + <p>Penes Henrici Muchet; Liber de vita Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ et + remediarum (?)</p> + + <p>Penes Walteri de Yilwilden; Liber S ... ligatus in panno ymnaro + glosatus cum constitutionibus; Belet ligatus et vita sanctorum.</p> + + <p>Penes Ricardi de Queye; Omeliæ Gregorii (?) super Evangelistos ligatæ + in nigro corio.</p> + + <p>In commune biblia; Decreta; Decretales; Prima pars moralium Job; Liber + de abusionibus.</p> + + <p>Liber justitiæ; penes Magistrum Adam de Wilburham.</p> + + <p>Penes Walteri de Wyth; Liber Innocentii super sacramenta cum Belet et + introductione in uno volumine.</p> + + <p>Item penes Sup-priorem; Psalterium glosatum duod fuit in custodia + Magistri Henrice de Melreth.</p> + + <p>Item aliud psalterium glosatum inpignoratum penes Isabellam + Siccadona.</p> + </div> + + <p>Several of these descriptions are highly curious; particularly the last + item, which describes one of the "glossed" psalters as being "<i>in + pawn</i>," a fact which, in itself, tells a history of the then condition of + the house.</p> + + <p>The first document, taken in connection with that referred to by Mr. + Hunter would seem to establish the existence of a system of interchanging + the literary wealth of monastic establishments, and thereby greatly + extending the advantages of their otherwise scanty stores. Both are executed + with all the legal forms used in the most important transactions, which + would support the opinion of their not <span class="pagenum"><a id="page23" + name="page23"></a>{23}</span> being special instances: but they are, in + either case, curious and satisfactory evidence of the care and caution + exercised by the monks in cases where their books were concerned; and one + cannot but regret that when the time came that the monasterias were destined + to be dissolved, and their books torn and scattered to the winds, no + attention was paid to Bale's advice for the formation of "one solemne + library in every shire of England."</p> + + <p class="author">JOSEPH BURTT</p> + + <blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a> <b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href= + "#footnotetag1">(return)</a> + + <p>The information given of this house by Dugdale is very scanty. It could + surely be added to considerably.</p> + </blockquote> + + <blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a> <b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href= + "#footnotetag2">(return)</a> + + <p>London, 1831. quarto. See also a Paper by Mr. Halliwell in>the + <i>Archæologia</i>, xxvii. p. 455., and Sir Francis Palgrave's + Introduction to <i>Documents and Records illustrating the History of + Scotland</i>, pp. xcvi.—cxvi., for extracts from the historical + chronicles preserved in the monasteries, &c.</p> + </blockquote> + + <blockquote class="footnote"> + <a id="footnote3" name="footnote3"></a> <b>Footnote 3</b>: <a href= + "#footnotetag3">(return)</a> + + <p>The formula of this date, "anno R.R.E. septimo," would at first sight + be considered to refer to the preceding reign; but the list is merely a + memorandum on the dorse of a completely executed instrument dated A.D. + 1300, which it is highly improbable that it preceded. The style of Edward + II. is often found as above, though not usually so.</p> + </blockquote> + <hr /> + + <h2>PEDLAR'S SONG ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKSPERE, AND TRADITION CONNECTED WITH + SHAKSPERE'S "HAMLET."</h2> + + <p>The following verses, which would form a very appropriate song for + Autolycus, were arranged as a glee for three voices by Dr. Wilson about the + year 1667. They are published in Playford's <i>Musical Companion</i> in + 1673; in Warren's <i>Collection of Glees and Catches</i>; and in S. Webbe's + <i>Conveto Harmonico</i>. The words were, I believe, first ascribed to + Shakspere by Clark, in 1824, in his <i>Words of Glees, Madrigals, + &c.</i>; but he has not given his authority for so doing. It has been + stated that they have since been discovered in a common-place book written + about Shakspere's time, with his name attached to them, and with this + indirect evidence in favour of their being written by him, that the other + pieces in the collection are attributed to their proper writers. The late + Mr. Douce, who was inclined to believe the song to have been written by + Shakspere, once saw a copy of it with a fourth verse which was shown to him + by the then organist of Chichester. The poem is not included in Mr. + Collier's edition of Shakspere, nor in the Aldine edition of Shakspere's + Poems, edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Perhaps if you will be good enough to + insert the song and the present communication in the "NOTES AND QUERIES," + some of your readers may be enabled to fix the authorship and to furnish the + additional stanza to which I have referred.</p> + + <h3>PEDLAR'S SONG.</h3> + + <div class="poem"> + <div class="stanza"> + <p>From the far Lavinian shore,</p> + + <p>I your markets come to store;</p> + + <p>Muse not, though so far I dwell,</p> + + <p>And my wares come here to sell;</p> + + <p>Such is the sacred hunger for gold.</p> + + <p class="i4">Then come to my pack,</p> + + <p class="i6">While I cry</p> + + <p class="i4">"What d'ye lack,</p> + + <p class="i6">What d'ye buy?</p> + + <p>For here it is to be sold."</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>I have beauty, honour, grace,</p> + + <p>Fortune, favour, time, and place,</p> + + <p>And what else thou would'st request,</p> + + <p>E'en the thing thou likest best;</p> + + <p>First, let me have but a touch of your gold.</p> + + <p class="i4">Then, come to me, lad,</p> + + <p class="i6">Thou shalt have</p> + + <p class="i4">What thy dad</p> + + <p class="i6">Never gave;</p> + + <p>For here it is to be sold.</p> + </div> + + <div class="stanza"> + <p>Madam, come, see what you lack,</p> + + <p>I've complexions in my pack;</p> + + <p>White and red you may have in this place,</p> + + <p>To hide your old and wrinkled face.</p> + + <p>First, let me have but a touch of your gold,</p> + + <p class="i4">Then you shall seem</p> + + <p class="i4">Like a girl of fifteen,</p> + + <p>Although you be threescore and ten years old.</p> + </div> + </div> + + <p>While on this subject, perhaps I may be permitted to ask whether any + reader of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" can throw light on the following + questionable statement made by a correspondent of the <i>Morning Herald</i>, + of the 16th September, 1822.</p> + + <blockquote> + "Looking over an old volume the other day, printed in 1771, I find it + remarked that it was known as a tradition, that Shakspeare shut himself up + all night in Westminster Abbey when he wrote the ghost scene in Hamlet." + </blockquote> + + <p>I do not find in Wilson's <i>Shakspeariana</i> the title of a single + "old" book printed in 1771, on the subject of Shakspere.</p> + + <p class="author">T.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>SIR WILLIAM SKIPWYTH, KING'S JUSTICE IN IRELAND.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—I am encouraged by the eminent names which illustrate + the first Number of your new experiment—a most happy thought—to + inquire whether they, or any other correspondent, can inform me who was the + William de Skypwith, the patent of whose appointment as Chief Justice of the + King's Bench in Ireland, dated February 15. 1370, 44 Edward III., is to be + found in the <i>New Fædera</i> vol. iii. p.877.? In the entry on the Issue + Roll of that year, p. 458., of the payment of "his expences and equipment" + in going there, he is called "Sir William Skipwyth, Knight, and the King's + Justice in Ireland." <span class="pagenum"><a id="page24" name= + "page24"></a>{24}</span></p> + + <p>There was a Sir William Skipwyth, who was appointed a Judge of the Common + Pleas in 33 Edward III., and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 36 Edward III.; + and, were it not that Collins, in his <i>Baronetage</i>, followed by Burke, + says that he remained Chief Baron till 40 Edward III., <i>in which year he + died</i>, I should have had no doubt that the Irish Chief Justice was the + same with the English Chief Baron.</p> + + <p>The same authority adds that Sir William Skipwyth who was made a Justice + of the King's Bench [it should have been of the Common Pleas] in 50 Edward + III., and who resigned his office in 11 Richard II., was the eldest son of + the Chief Baron. But that authority does not make the slightest allusion to + the appointment of the Chief Justice of Ireland.</p> + + <p>A suspicion that this last Justice of the Common Pleas is not only the + same person as the Chief Justice of Ireland, but also as the Chief Baron of + the Exchequer, has arisen in my mind for the following among other + reasons.</p> + + <p>1. Collins and Burke are wrong in saying that he remained Chief Baron + till 40 Edward III. His successor in that office was appointed on October + 29. 1365, 39 Edward III.</p> + + <p>2. They are further wrong, I imagine, in saying that he continued Chief + Baron till his death: for Joshua Barnes, in his <i>History of Edward + III.</i>, p. 667., says that Skipwyth and Sir Henry Green, the Chief Justice + of the King's Bench, were in 1365 arrested and imprisoned on account of many + enormities which the King understood they had committed against law and + justice; and this relation is corroborated by the fact that Green's + successor as Chief Justice was appointed on the same day as Skipwyth's + successor as Chief Baron.</p> + + <p>3. No proof whatever is given of the Chief Baron's death in 40 Edward + III.</p> + + <p>I will not trouble you with other grounds of identification which occur + to me: but as an answer to my question might "make these odds all even," I + sent the "Query" to the "Lost and Found Office" you have established, in the + hope that some stray "Note," as yet unappropriated, may assist in solving + the difficulty.</p> + + <p class="author">EDWARD FOSS.</p> + + <p>November 5. 1849.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in + an early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the + emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but as + yet found nothing definite enough.</p> + + <p class="author">R. L.</p> + + <p>Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your + Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which Monmouth + was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the property of the + Earl of Shaftesbury.</p> + + <p>I shall be happy at some future day, if it suits your purpose, to collect + and send you such particulars as may be gained on the spot respecting it, + and the incidents of the capture.</p> + + <p>We have still in the Town Hall here the chain in which it is said + Jefferies sat at the Bloody Assize.</p> + + <p class="author">A. D. M.</p> + + <p>Dorcester, 3d Nov. 1849.</p> + + <p class="note">[We shall gladly receive the particulars which our + Correspondent proposed to collect and forward.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>SERPENTS' EGGS AND STRAW NECKLACES.</h2> + + <p class="note">[Mr. Thoms' Query in this case should have been limited to + the <i>straw necklaces</i>, as Mr. Nichols has already explained the + <i>serpents' eggs</i>; but our Correspondent's letter is so satisfactory on + both points that we insert it entire.]</p> + + <p>The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to + be rendered "and with a string of serpents' eggs on your arm." The meaning + is equally apparent on recalling the manner in which snakes' eggs are found, + viz., hanging together in a row. Erasmus intends Menedemus to utter a joke + at the <i>rosary of beads</i> hanging over the pilgrim's arm, which he + professes to mistake for serpents' eggs.</p> + + <p>I am not aware what particular propriety the "collar or chaplet" (for it + may mean either) of <i>straw</i> may have, as worn by a pilgrim from + Compostella; or whether there may not lurk under this description, as + beneath <span class="pagenum"><a id="page25" name="page25"></a>{25}</span> + the other, a jocular sense. The readiest way of determining this point would + be to consult some of the accounts of Compostella and of its relics, which + are to be found in a class of books formerly abundant in the north-western + towns of Spain.</p> + + <p class="author">V.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>MADOC—HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA.</h2> + + <p>"A Student" may consult the <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society of + Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen</i>, Mr. Geogehan's <i>Ireland</i>, + O'Flaherty's <i>Ogygia</i>, Magnusen and Rafn <i>On the Historical Monuments + of Greenland and America</i>, and some of the <i>Sagas</i>.</p> + + <p class="author">SCOTUS.</p> + + <p>Brechin, Nov. 5. 1849.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES ON COFFEE.</h2> + + <p>The earliest account we have of coffee is said to be taken from an + Arabian MS. in the Bibliothèque du Roi in Paris.</p> + + <p>Schehabeddin Ben, an Arabian author of the ninth century of the Hegira, + or fifteenth of the Christians, attributes to Gemaleddin, Mufti of Aden, a + city of Arabia Felix, who was nearly his contemporary, the first + introduction into that country, of drinking coffee. He tells us, that + Gemaleddin, having occasion to travel into Persia, during his abode there + saw some of his countrymen drinking coffee, which at that time he did not + much attend to; but, on his return to Aden, finding himself indisposed, and + remembering that he had seen his countrymen drinking coffee in Persia, in + hopes of receiving some benefit from it, he determined to try it on himself; + and, after making the experiment, not only recovered his health, but + perceived other useful qualities in that liquor; such as relieving the + headach, enlivening the spirits, and, without prejudice to the constitution, + preventing drowsiness. This last quality he resolved to turn to the + advantage of his profession; he took it himself, and recommended it to the + Dervises, or religious Mahometans, to enable them to pass the night in + prayer, and other exercises of their religion, with greater zeal and + attention. The example and authority of the mufti gave reputation to coffee. + Soon men of letters, and persons belonging to the law, adopted the use of + it. These were followed by the tradesmen and artisans that were under the + necessity of working in the night, and such as were obliged to travel late + after sunset. At length the custom became general in Aden; and it was not + only drunk in the night by those who were desirous of being kept awake, but + in the day for the sake of its other agreeable qualities.</p> + + <p>Before this time coffee was scarce known in Persia, and very little used + in Arabia, where the tree grew. But, according to Schehabeddin, it had been + drunk in Æthiopia from time immemorial.</p> + + <p>Coffee being thus received at Aden, where it has continued in use ever + since without interruption, passed by degrees to many neighbouring towns; + and not long after reached Mecca, where it was introduced as at Aden, by the + Dervises, and for the same purposes of religion.</p> + + <p>The inhabitants of Mecca were at last so fond of this liquor, that, + without regarding the intention of the religious, and other studious + persons, they at length drank it publicly in coffee-houses, where they + assembled in crowds to pass the time agreeably, making that the pretense. + From hence the custom extended itself to many other towns of Arabia, + particularly to Medina, and then to Grand Cairo in Egypt, where the Dervises + of Yemen, who lived in a district by themselves, drank coffee on the nights + they intended to spend in devotion.</p> + + <p>Coffee continued its progress through Syria, and was received at Damascus + and Aleppo without opposition; and in the year 1554, under the reign of + Solyman, one hundred years after its introduction by the Mufti of Aden, + became known to the inhabitants of Constantinople, when two private persons + of the names of Schems and Hekin, the one coming from Damascus, and the + other from Aleppo, opened coffee-houses.</p> + + <p>"It is not easy," says Ellis, "to determine at what time, or upon what + occasion, the use of coffee passed from Constantinople to the western parts + of Europe. It is, however, likely that the Venetians, upon account of the + proximity of their dominions, and their great trade to the Levant, were the + first acquainted with it; which appears from part of a letter wrote by Peter + della Valle, a Venetian, in 1615, from Constantinople; in which he tells his + friend, that, upon his return he should <span class="pagenum"><a id="page26" + name="page26"></a>{26}</span> bring with him some coffee, which he believed + was a thing unknown in his country."</p> + + <p>Mr. Garland tells us he was informed by M. de la Croix, the King's + interpreter, that M. Thevenot, who had travelled through the East, at his + return in 1657, brought with him to Paris some coffee for his own use, and + often treated his friends with it.</p> + + <p>It was known some years sooner at Marseilles; for, in 1644, some + gentlemen who accompanied M. de la Haye to Constantinople, brought back with + them on their return, not only some coffee, but the proper vessels and + apparatus for making it. However, until 1660, coffee was drunk only by such + as had been accustomed to it in the Levant, and their friends; but that year + some bales were imported from Egypt, which gave a great number of persons an + opportunity of trying it, and contributed very much to bringing it into + general use; and in 1661, a coffee-house was opened at Marseilles in the + neighbourhood of the Exchange.</p> + + <p>Before 1669, coffee had not been seen at Paris, except at M. Thevenot's, + and some of his friends'; nor scarce heard of but from the account of + travellers. In that year, Soliman Aga, ambassador from the Sultan Mahomet + the Fourth, arrived, who, with his retinue, brought a considerable quantity + of coffee with them, and made presents of it to persons both of the court + and city, and it is supposed to have established the custom of drinking + it.</p> + + <p>Two years afterwards, an Armenian of the name of Pascal, set up a + coffee-house, but meeting with little encouragement, left Paris and came to + London.</p> + + <p>From Anderson's <i>Chronological History of Commerce</i>, it appears that + the use of coffee was introduced into London some years earlier than into + Paris. For in 1652 one Mr. Edwards, a Turkey merchant, brought home with him + a Greek servant, whose name was Pasqua, who understood the roasting and + making of coffee, till then unknown in England. This servant was the first + who sold coffee, and kept a house for that purpose in George Yard Lombard + Street.</p> + + <p>The first mention of coffee in our statute books is anno 1660 (12 Car. + II. c. 24), when a duty of 4d. was laid upon every gallon of coffee made and + sold, to be paid by the maker.</p> + + <p>The statute 15 Car. II. c. 11. § 15. an. 1663, directs that all + coffee-houses should be licensed at the general quarter sessions of the + peace for the county within which they are to be kept.</p> + + <p>In 1675 King Charles II. issued a proclamation to shut up the + coffee-houses, but in a few days suspended the proclamation by a second. + They were charged with being seminaries of sedition.</p> + + <p>The first European author who has made any mention of coffee is + Rauwolfus, who was in the Levant in 1573.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>DR. DRYASDUST.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—Do you or any of your readers know anything of the family of + that celebrated antiquary, and do you think it probable that he was + descended from, or connected with, the author of a work which I met with + some time ago, intituled "Wit Revived, or A new and excellent way of + Divertisement, digested into most ingenious Questions and Answers. By + ASDRYASDUST TOSSOFFACAN. London: Printed for T. E. and are to be sold by + most Booksellers. MDCLXXIV." 12mo. I do not know anything of the author's + character, but he appears to have been a right-minded man, in so far as he + (like yourself) expected to find "wit revived" by its digestion into "most + ingenious questions and answers;" though his notion that asking and + answering questions was a <i>new</i> way of divertisement, seems to indicate + an imperfect knowledge of the nature and history of mankind; but my query is + simply genealogical.</p> + + <p class="author">H. F. W.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>MACAULAY'S "YOUNG LEVITE."</h2> + + <p>Sir,—The following passage from the <i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i>, + published 1651, struck me as a curious corroboration of the passage in Mr. + Macaulay's <i>History</i> which describes the "young Levite's" position in + society during the seventeenth century; and as chance lately threw in my way + the work from which Burton took his illustration, I take the liberty of + submitting Notes of both for your examination.</p> + + <blockquote> + "If he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman's house (as it befel + Euphormio), after some seven years' service he may perchance have a living + to <span class="pagenum"><a id="page27" name="page27"></a>{27}</span> the + halves, or some small rectory, with the mother of the maids at length, a + poor kinswoman, or a crackt chambermaid, to have and to hold during the + time of his life."—Burton, <i>Anat. of Mel.</i> part i. sect. 2. + mem. 3. subsect 15. + </blockquote> + + <p>Burton is here referrng to the <i>Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon</i>, + published anno 1617. It professes to be a satire, or rather A FURIOUS + INVECTIVE, on the corrupt manners of the times, and is in four parts: the + 1st is dedicated to King James I.; the 2nd to Robert Cecil; the 3rd to + Charles Emmanuel of Savoy; the 4th to Louis XIII., King of France.</p> + + <p>The use that Burton makes of the name of Euphormio is any thing but + happy. He was not a "<i>trencher chaplain</i>" but the slave of a rich + debauchée, Callion, sent in company with another slave, Percas, to carry + some all-potent nostrum to Fibullius, a friend of Callion, who was suffering + from an attack of stone. Euphormio cures Fibullius, not by the drug with + which he was armed, but by a herb, which he sought for and found on a + mountain. Fibullius, to reward his benefactor, offers him as a wife a most + beautiful girl, whom he introduces to him privately while in his sick room. + Euphormio looks with no little suspicion on the offer; but, after a few + excuses, which are overruled by Fibullius, accepts the lady as his + betrothed, "seals the bargain with a holy kiss," and walks out of the room + (to use his own words) "et sponsus, et quod nesciebam—Pater," page + 100. The next mention of this lady [evidently the prototype of the "crackt + chambermaid,"] is in page 138. Callion had paid his sick friend Fibullius a + visit, and, on the eve of his departure, had ordered Euphormio to ride post + before him, and prepare the inhabitants of the districts through which he + was to pass for his arrival. While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the act + of mounting his steed, a rustic brings him a letter from Fibullius, and in + conversation gives him such an account of his bride as forces upon him the + reflection, that even the grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, to + so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, as the <i>protegée</i> of + Fibullius would be likely to prove. But, as these <i>notes</i> have, in + spite of all my attempts at condensation, already grown to a most formidable + size, I will not indulge in any moral reflections; but conclude by + <i>querying</i> you, or any of your readers, to inform me whether the + personages mentioned in the <i>Euphorm. Lus. Satyricon</i>, such as Callion, + Pereas, Fibullius, &c., are real characters or not? as, in the former + case, I am inclined to think that the work might throw some interesting + lights on the private manners and characters of some of the courtiers of the + day. "No scandal against any of the maids of honour"—of course. The + phrase "<i>To the halves</i>" (in the quotation from Burton) means, + inadequate, insufficient; we still talk of "half and half" measures. + Montanus inveighs against such "perturbations, that purge <i>to the + halves</i>, tire nature, and molest the body to no purpose."—Burton, + <i>Anat. of Mel.</i>, part. ii. sect. 2. mem. 4. subsect. 6.</p> + + <p class="author">MELANION.</p> + + <p class="note">[The work referred to by our correspondent was written by + Barclay, better known as the author of the <i>Argenis</i>. The First Part of + the <i>Satyricon</i>, dedicated to James the First, was published, London, + 12mo. 1603; and with the addition of the 2nd Part, Paris, 1605. The best + edition of the work (which, really in two parts, is made, by the addition of + the <i>Apologia Euphormionis</i>, &c. sometimes into five) is said to be + the Elzevir 12mo., 1637. There are two editions of it <i>cum notis + variorum</i>, Leyden, 1667 and 1669, 8vo., in two volumes. Of some of the + editions (as that of 1623, 12mo.) it is said, "adjecta Clavi sive obscurorum + et quasi ænigmaticorum nominum, in hoc Opere passim occurrentium, dilucida + explicatione." The <i>Satyricon</i> was twice translated into French; and + its literary history, and that of the <i>Censura Euphormionis</i>, and other + tracts, which it called forth, might furnish a curious and amusing + paper.]</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>SERMONES SANCTI CAROLI BORROMÆI.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—I have been wanting to get a sight of the following work, + "Sermones Sancti Caroli Borromæi, Archiepisc. Mediol. Edidit. J.A. Saxius. 5 + Tom. Mediol. 1747." Can I learn through your columns whether the work is any + where accessible in London? I sought for it in vain at the British Museum a + twelvemonth ago; nor, though then placed in their list of <i>Libri + desiderati</i>, has it yet been procured.</p> + + <p class="author">C. F. SECRETAN.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>LUTHER AND ERASMUS.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—The following lines, written in a hand of the early + part of the seventeenth century, occur on the fly-leaf of a copy of the + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page28" name="page28"></a>{28}</span> + <i>Translation of Luther on the Galatians</i>, edit. London, 4to. 1577. Can + any of your readers oblige me by informing me who was their author?</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Parum Lutherus ac Erasmus differunt</p> + + <p>Serpens uterque est, plenus atro toxico;</p> + + <p>Sed ille mordet ut cerastes in via,</p> + + <p>Hic fraudulentus mordet in silentio."</p> + </div> + + <p>Your obedient servant,</p> + + <p class="author">ROTERODAMUS.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>TOWER ROYAL—CONSTITUTION HILL—COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S + LETTER—TENNISON'S FUNERAL SERMON ON NELL GWYNNE.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the + following Queries:—</p> + + <p>1. What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London + locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to + inhabit it?</p> + + <p>2. When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why?</p> + + <p>3. Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have + been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph + Williamson? It first appeared in <i>The World</i>.</p> + + <p>4. Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop + Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne?</p> + + <p class="author">PETER CUNNINGHAM.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>GROG—BISHOP BARNABY.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies.</p> + + <p>Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"—And why do the people in + Suffolk call a ladybird "Bishop Barnaby?"</p> + + <p>If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel + encouraged to try again.</p> + + <p>Yours, &c.</p> + + <p class="author">LEGOUR.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. II.</h2> + + <h3>DR. FARMER ON DRAYTON'S WORKS.</h3> + + <p>The following bibliographical memoranda, in the well-known hand of Dr. + Farmer, occur in a copy of the edition of Drayton's <i>Poems</i> published + in 1619, in small folio, by John Smethwick, which contains "The Barons' + Wars; England's Heroical Epistles; Idea; Odes; The Legends of Robert Duke of + Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and Great Cromwell; The Owle; and + Pastorals, containing Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone."</p> + + <p>They may be of use to some future editor of Drayton, an author now + undeservedly neglected, whose <i>Nymphidia</i> alone might tempt the + tasteful publisher of the "Aldine Poets" to include a selection, at least, + of his poems in that beautiful series:—</p> + + <blockquote> + <p>"The works of Michael Drayton, Esq., were reprinted in folio, 1748. The + title-page 'promises all the writings of that <i>celebrated author</i>,' + but his Pastorals (p.433. &c., first published imperfectly in 4to. + 1593) and many other of his most considerable compositions (Odes, the + Owle, &c., see the Appendix), are not so much as spoken of. See his + article in the <i>Biog. Brit.</i> by Mr. Oldys, curiously and accurately + written.</p> + + <p>"Another edition (which is called the <i>best</i>) was printed in 4 + vols. 8vo. 1753. Robson, 1765.</p> + + <p>"A Poem Triumphant, composed for the Society of the Goldsmiths of + London, by <i>M. Drayton</i>. 4to. 1604. <i>Harl. Cat.</i> v.3. p. + 357.</p> + + <p>"Charles Coffey was the editor of the folio edit. 1748, he had a + large< + subscription for it, but died before the publication; and it was afterward + printed for the benefit of his widow. See Mottley, p. 201.</p> + + <p>"The print of Drayton at the back of the title-page, is marked in + Thane's Catalogue, 1774, 7s. 6d.</p> + + <p>"N.B. The copy of the <i>Baron's Warres</i> in this edition differs in + almost every line from that in the 8vo. edit. 1610.</p> + + <p>"It was printed under the title of Mortimeriados, in 7 line + stanzaes.</p> + + <p>"Matilda was first printed 1594, 4to., by Val. Simmes. Gaveston appears + by the Pref. to have been publish't before. Almost every line in the old + 4to. of Matilda differs from the copy in this edit. A stanza celebrating + Shakespeare's Lucrece is omitted in the later edition.</p> + + <p>"Idea. The Shepherd's Garland. Fashion'd in 9 Eglogs. Rowland's + sacrifice to the 9 Muses, 4to. 1593. But they are printed in this Edition + very different from the present Pastorals.</p> + + <p>"A sonnet of Drayton's prefixed to the 2nd Part of <i>Munday's + Primaleon of Greece</i>, B.L. 4to. 1619."</p> + </blockquote> + + <div class="note"> + <p>[The stanza in <i>Matilda</i>, celebrating Shakespeare's + <i>Lucrece</i>, to which Dr. Farmer alludes, is thus quoted by Mr. Collier + in his edition of Shakespeare (viii. p. 411.):—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Lucrece, of whom proud Rome hath boasted long,</p> + + <p class="i2">Lately revived to live another age,</p> + + <p>And here arrived to tell of Tarquin's wrong,</p> + + <p class="i2">Her chaste denial, and the tyrant's rage,</p> + <span class="pagenum"><a id="page29" name="page29"></a>{29}</span> + <p>Acting her passions on our stately stage:</p> + + <p class="i2">She is remember'd, all forgetting me,</p> + + <p class="i2">Yet I as fair and chaste as e'er was she;"—</p> + </div> + + <p>who remarks upon it as follows:—</p> + + <blockquote> + "A difficulty here may arise out of the fifth line, as if Drayton was + referring to a play upon the story of Lucrece, and it is very possible + that one was then in existence. Thomas Heywood's tragedy, <i>The Rape of + Lucrece,</i> did not appear in print until 1608, and he could hardly + have been old enough to have been the author of such a drama in 1594; he + may, nevertheless, have availed himself of an elder play, and, according + to the practice of the time, he may have felt warranted in publishing it + as his own. It is likely, however, that Drayton's expressions are not to + be taken literally; and that his meaning merely was, that the story of + Lucrece had lately been revived, and brought upon the stage of the + world: if this opinion be correct, the stanza we have quoted above + contains a clear allusion to Shakespeare's <i>Lucrece</i>; and a + question then presents itself, why Drayton entirely omitted it in the + after-impression of his <i>Matilda</i>. He was a poet who, as we have + shown in the Introduction to <i>Julius Cæsar</i> (vol. viii. p. 4.), was + in the habit of making extensive alterations in his productions, as they + were severally reprinted, and the suppression of this stanza may have + proceeded from many other causes than repentance of the praise he had + bestowed upon a rival."] + </blockquote> + </div> + <hr /> + + <h2>BODENHAM, OR LING'S POLITEUPHUIA.</h2> + + <p>Sir,—The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for + sale, issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:—</p> + + <blockquote> + <p>"Bodenham? (Ling?), Politeuphuia. Wits commonwealth, <i>original + wrapper, vellum</i>. VERY RARE.</p> + + <p>"80 fr. 8vo. London, for Nicholas Ling, 1597.</p> + + <p>"This book, 'being a methodical collection of the most choice and + select admonitions and sentences, compendiously drawn from infinite + varietie,' is quoted by Lowndes under Bodenham, as first printed in 1598; + the Epistle dedicatory however of the present copy is signed: 'N. Ling', + and addressed 'to his very good friend Maister I.B.,' so that Ling appears + to have been the author, and this an edition unknown to Lowndes or any + other bibliographer."</p> + </blockquote> + + <p>This seems to settle one point, perhaps a not very important one, in our + literary history; and as such may deserve a place among your "NOTES."</p> + + <p class="author">BOOKWORM.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>COLLEY CIBBER'S APOLOGY.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor,—No doubt most of your readers are well acquainted with + Colley Cibber's <i>Apology for his Life</i>, &c., first printed, I + believe, in 1740, 4to, with a portrait of himself, painted by Vanloo, and + engraved by Vandergucht. Chapters IV. and V. contain the celebrated + characters he drew of the principal performers, male and female, in, and + just before, his time, viz. Betterton, Montfort, Kynaston, &c. Upon + these characters I have two questions to put, which I hope some of your + contributors may be able to answer. The first is, "Were these characters of + actors reprinted in the same words, and without additions, in the subsequent + impressions of Cibber's <i>Apology</i> in 8vo?" Secondly, "Had they ever + appeared in any shape before they were inserted in the copy of Cibber's + <i>Apology</i> now before me, in 1740, 4to?" To this may be added, if + convenient, some account of the work in which these fine criticisms + originally appeared, supposing they did not first come out in the + <i>Apology</i>. I am especially interested in the history of the Stage about + the period when the publication of these characters formed an epoch.</p> + + <p>I am, Mr. Editor, yours,</p> + + <p class="author">DRAMATICUS.</p> + <hr /> + + <h2>A MAIDEN ASSIZE—WHITE GLOVES.</h2> + + <p>Mr. Editor.—I forward for insertion in your new publication the + following "Note," taken from the <i>Times</i> of the 20th of August, + 1847:—</p> + + <p>"A Fortunate County.—In consequence of there being no prisoners, + nor business of any kind to transact at the last assizes for the county of + Radnor, the high sheriff, Mr. Henry Miles, had to present the judge, Mr. + Justice Cresswell, with a pair of white kid gloves, embroidered in gold, and + which have been forwarded to his lordship; a similar event has not taken + place for a considerable number of years in that county. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, No. 2, November 10 1849 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11265] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, NO. 2 *** + + + + +Produced by Jon Ingram, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: +In the section 'NOTES UPON "NOTES, NO. 1."' there are several 'C's +which have been flipped along a vertical axis. These have been denoted +by [*C].] + +{17} NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + +No. 2.] +SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1849. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + +A FEW WORDS TO OUR FRIENDS. + +In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching +to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform. We stated +that "we would rather give a specimen than a description." We are now in +like manner unwilling to point as exultingly, as we think we might, to +the position which we have already taken. But there is a vast difference +between vain boasting and the expression of an honest satisfaction; and +it would be worse than an affectation of humility--it would be a mean +hypocrisy--if we did not express heartily and unreservedly the gratitude +we owe and feel to those who have encouraged us by their friendly advice +and able pens. We have opened a Literary Exchange, and we have had the +gratification to see that men whose learning and talents the public +recognise--leaders in their several branches of inquiry--have at once +taken advantage of it. They have proved the necessity for some such +medium of communication, as well as their good-will to the one now +offered to them, by a gathering in its behalf which the public will +respect, and of which we may well feel proud. + +Some whose good opinion we most value, and who have spoken most warmly +in favour of our plan, have proved the sincerity of their praise by +suggestions of improvement in its detail, and hints for its further +extension. They may feel assured that such hints and such suggestions +shall not be lost sight of. For instance, one respected correspondent +hints that as we have very properly adopted Dr. Maitland's suggestion +with regard to Herbert's edition of Ame's _Typographical Antiquities_, +namely, that of "offering a receptacle for illustrations, additions, and +corrections," and invited "our readers to take advantage of our columns +to carry out Dr. Maitland's suggestions," we should open our columns +with equal readiness to the correction and illustration of more modern +and more popular works. We entirely concur with him; but in reference to +this subject there is a distinction which must be borne in mind. Our own +literature, like that of every other country, consists of two classes of +books. We have the books of pretenders to knowledge, the hasty, crude, +imperfect, but often for the time attractive and popular volumes of the +Ned Purdons of the day. These books have a use--such as it is--and thus +answer their purpose; but it would be for the credit of our literature, +and save a world of trouble, if they were forgotten as soon as they had +done so. To illustrate such books, to add to their information or +correct their blunders, would be useless and almost ridiculous. They +should be left to die of mere powerlessness and exhaustion, or to wither +under the wholesome influence of a just and manly criticism. + +But there are books of another kind--books {18} which our worthy +bibliopoles designate as "standard works." These are the books of +competent workmen--books which are the result of honest labour and +research, and which from the moment of their publication assume a +permanent station in our national literature. Even in such books there +are many things incomplete, many things erroneous. But it is the +interest of every man that such books should be rendered as complete as +possible; and whatever tends to illustrate or correct works of that +class will be sure of insertion in our columns. + +We would point to Macaulay's _England_, and Hallam's _Introduction to +the Literary History of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries_, his _Middle +Ages_, and his _Constitutional History_, and we may add, as +illustrations of a different kind, _The Annals of the Stage_ of our +excellent friend Mr. Collier, and _The Handbook of London_ of our valued +contributor Mr. Peter Cunningham, as examples of the sort of +publications to which we allude. Such were the books we had in our mind, +when we spoke in our Prospectus of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" becoming, +through the inter-communication of our literary friends, "a most useful +supplement to works already in existence--a treasury towards enriching +future editions of them." + +Another correspondent--a bibliographical friend--suggests that, for +various reasons, which bibliographers will appreciate, our Prospectus +should have a place in the body of our work. We believe that many of our +readers concur in a wish for its preservation, and it will therefore be +found in the Number now before them. + +One suggestion again urges us to look carefully to Foreign Literature, +and another points out the propriety of our making our paper as British +as possible, so that our topographical facts should, as far as +practicable, be restricted to the illustration of British counties, and +our biographical ones to such as should contribute towards a Biographia +Brittanica. + +All these, and many other expressions of sympathy and promises of +support, poured in upon us within a few hours after our birth. No one of +them shall be forgotten; and if for a time our pages seem to indicate +that we have made a QUERY as to the adoption of any suggestion, let our +kind contributors be assured that there is no hint which reaches us, +whether _at present_ practicable or not, that we do not seriously and +thankfully "make a NOTE of." + + * * * * * + +BISHOP AYLMER'S LETTER, AND THE POEM ON THE ARMADA. + +As I am in a condition to answer the inquiry of your "Hearty +Well-wisher," on p. 12 of your last Number of "NOTES AND QUERIES," I +proceed to give him the information he asks. I shall be happy if what +follows is of any use to your correspondent, taking it for granted that +he is as zealous for your success as his signature indicates. + +The "foolish rhyme," to which the attention of the Bishop of London had +been directed by Lord Burghley, has the subsequent doggrel title:-- + + "A Skeltonicall Salvtation, + Or condigne gratvlation, + And iust vexation + Of the Spanishe nation, + That in a bravado + Spent many a crvsado, + In setting forth an armado + England to invado." + +This is as the title stands in the Oxford impression (of which I never +saw more than one copy, because, we may presume, it was suppressed by +the authorities of the University), and the following is the imprint at +the bottom of it:--"Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee +sold in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Tygres head, 1589." + +There exists several exemplars of the London edition--"Imprinted at +London for Toby Cooke, 1589,"--the title-page of which, as well as the +rest of the poem, differs only literally from that of Oxford, excepting +that to the latter is appended a Latin version, also in rhyme, and in +close imitation of the English. I subjoin a brief specimen of it:-- {19} + + "Qui regis Hispanos, + Superbos et vanos, + Crudeles et insanos, + Multum aberrasti, + Cum tuos animasti, + Et bellum inchoasti + Contra Anglos animosos, + Fortes et bellicosos, + Nobiles et generosos. + Qui te excitavit + Proculdubio deliravit + Et te fascinavit," &c. + +The whole production consists only of ten leaves, 4to., and the Latin +portion, which has the subsequent separate title-page, occupies four of +them:-- + + "AD REGEM + HISPANVM. + Cum tua non fuerint heroica facta, Philippe, + Risu digna cano carmine ridiculo." + +I shall not here introduce any part of the English version, because one +or two long quotations will be found in the introductory portion of the +Rev. A. Dyce's excellent edition of Skelton's Works (2 vols. 8vo. 1843). +Respecting the Latin portion I have been more particular, because the +learned editor was not aware that the production had come from the press +of Barnes of Oxford, nor that a Latin version was appended to it. + +I may take the liberty of adding here a mention of Skelton which escaped +notice, and which is from one of the tracts against Thomas Nash, +produced by Gabriel Harvey, the friend of Spenser. He couples Skelton +and Scoggin together, in no very respectful manner, and completes the +triumvirate by Nash, whom he here calls Signor Capriccio:--"And what +riott so pestiferous as that which in sugred baites presenteth most +poisonous hookes? Sir Skelton and Master Scoggin were but innocents to +Signior Capricio." + +This quotation is the more noticeable, because it recognises the sacred +character of Skelton (however unworthy of the gown) in the prefix "Sir," +which, as most people are aware, was then generally given to clergymen: +Scoggin, on the other hand, is only styled "Master Scoggin." + +J. PAYNE COLLIER. + +[The preceding communication was already in type when we received the +following from Mr. Bolton Corney, which we gladly print, inasmuch as it +illustrates some points not touched upon by Mr. Collier.] + + * * * * * + +QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 1. + +It is not without some slight reluctance that I notice anonymous +communications, but shall endeavour to repress such feelings with regard +to the modest students who may choose to announce their desiderata +through the convenient channel of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." A _hearty +well wisher_ to so commendable an enterprise, shall have my first +responsive scrap. + +The inquiry affords no scope for ingenuity of conjecture! The _foolish +rime_ to which bishop Aylmer refers, is undoubtedly the pamphlet thus +entitled:-- + + "A Skeltonicall salutation, + Or condigne gratulation, + And iust vexation + Of the Spanish nation, + That in a bravado + Spent many a crusado, + In setting forth an armado + England to invado." + Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1589. 4to. + "A Skeltonicall salutation," &c. + Imprinted at London for Toby Cook, 1589. 4to. + +The Oxford edition is recorded by Ames, and there is a copy of the +London edition in the British Museum. Strype, in his account of bishop +Aylmer, gives the substance of the letter as his _own_ narrative, almost +_verbatim_--but fails to identify the pamphlet in question. Park briefly +describes it in _Censura Literaria_, 1815, ii. 18.; and there is a +specimen of it in _The Poetical Works of John Skelton_, as edited by the +Reverend Alexander Dyce, 1843. + +While _queries_ evince a sharp mental appetite, _answers_ help to +satisfy it; and so, by their united influence, a brisk circulation of +ideas may be produced--which, as master Burton assures us, wards off +melancholy. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON "NOTES, NO. 1." + +Sir,--I take the liberty to send you one or two Notes on your first +Number, just as they occur to me in looking it over. I will not trespass +on you by preface or apology. + +The "_bibliographic project_" I shall rejoice {20} to see carried out; and +though neither an unemployed aspirant nor a fortunate collector (of +which class I hope many will be stimulated by the proposition), yet, as +I once took some trouble in the matter, I should be happy to contribute +some Notes then made whenever the plan is matured and the proposed +appeal is made--provided (I must add, and to _you_ I may add) I can find +them. + +The _Liber Sententiarum_ was printed by Limborch, at Amsterdam, in 1692. +It forms the greater part, as, indeed, it was the occasion, of his folio +volume, entitled "_Historia Inquisitionis cui subjungitur Liber +Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholosanae ab anno Christi Cl[*C]CCCVI ad annum +Cl[*C]CCCXXIII._" Gibbon, in a note on his fifty-fourth chapter, observes +that the book "deserved a more learned and critical editor;" and, if +your correspondent will only place the _Book of Sentences_ before the +public in a readable form, with a map, and (by all means) a few _notes_, +he will be doing a great service to all persons who take an interest in +ecclesiastical history, or, indeed, in history of any kind. In the year +1731 Chandler published a translation of the _History of the +Inquisition_, with a long Introduction of his own, but did not meddle +with the _Book of Sentences_, except so far as to introduce into the +text of the _History_ some passages from it, which Limborch (as he +appended the whole book) did not think it necessary to quote. I remember +seeing the MS. in the British Museum within these ten or twelve years, +and, according to my recollection, it was accompanied by papers which +would furnish an interesting literary history of the volume. I hope your +correspondent will give us farther information. + +N.B. + +[Mr. Brooke, of Ufford, has also kindly replied to the Query of +INQUISITORIUS, by referring him to Limborch.] + + * * * * * + +QUERY AS TO REFERENCES. + +Sir,--May I be permitted to suggest one way in which you may be of great +service to many literary men, and indeed to the cause of literature in +general; and this, too, without much trouble to yourself? Would you be +willing to receive "Queries" respecting _references_? They frequently +puzzle those who are engaged in literary works, and indeed those who are +merely readers, and who have not access to public libraries or the +manuscript treasures of the metropolis and the universities. If, for +instance, a clergyman or squire, interested in the history of his +parish, should find in the county historian something which his own +local or genealogical knowledge leads him to think erroneous, vouched +for by a reference to the _Cotton_ or _Harleian MSS._, might he apply to +you? It may be supposed that you are not very far from some one of the +great fountains of information, and have easy access to all; and it is +probable that you might not only do a personal favour to the inquirer, +but confer a benefit on the public, by correcting an erroneous +statement. Of course you would subject yourself to unreasonable +requests, but the remedy would always be in your own hands. + +Yours, &c. + +A. G. C. + +[The Editor inserts this letter because he is sure that it comes from a +friendly quarter, and he knows that something like what it suggests is +very much wanted. He would feel great diffidence as to his powers of +fulfilling all that might be expected if he were simply to reply in the +affirmative: but he is quite willing to make the trial, and he thinks +that (though sometimes perhaps with a little delay) he could in general +obtain any information of this kind which could be reasonably sought.] + + * * * * * + +LINES IN THE STYLE OF SUCKLING. + +Mr. Editor,--The following lines are written in pencil on sheet 61. of +the _Notes of the Debates in the Long Parliament_, taken down in the +House of Commons by Sir Ralph Verney. The _Notes of Debates_, but not +these lines, were published by the Camden Society in 1845. For any thing +that appears to the contrary, these lines may have been written in the +House as well as the _Notes of Debates_. The sheet 61. refers to debates +which took place in March 1641-2. I am not aware that the lines have +been published, nor can I assign them to their author. If any of your +readers can tell me anything about them, I shall esteem it a favour. + + Wert thou yet fairer than thou art, + Which lies not in the power of art; + Or hadst thou, in thine eyes, more darts + Than Cupid ever shot at hearts; + Yet, if they were not thrown at me, + I could not cast one thought at thee. {21} + + I'd rather marry a disease + Than court the thing I cannot please; + She that will cherish my desires, + Must feed my flames with equal fires. + What pleasure is there in a kiss, + To him that doubts the heart's not his? + + I love thee, not 'cause thou art fair, + Smoother than down, softer than air, + Nor for those Cupids that do lie + In either corner of thine eye; + Will you then know what it may be? + 'Tis--I love you 'cause you love me. + +J. BRUCE. + +24th Oct. 1849 + + * * * * * + +NOTES UPON ANCIENT LIBRARIES. + +A knowledge of the intellectual acquirements of the middle ages must be +mainly formed upon a consideration of the writings which directed them, +or emanated from them. Unfortunately such materials are very imperfect, +our knowledge of the existence of works often resting only upon their +place in some loosely-entered catalogue--and of the catalogues +themselves, the proportion still remaining must be small indeed. Under +these circumstances the following documents, which are now for the first +time printed, or even noticed, will be found to be of considerable +interest. The first is, in modern language, a Power of Attorney, +executed by the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, appointing two of +the monks of his church to be his procurators for the purpose of +receiving from the convent of Anglesey, in Cambridgeshire[1], a book +which had been lent to the late Rector of Terrington. Its precise date +is uncertain, but it must be of about the middle of the thirteenth +century (1244-1254), as Nicholas Sandwich, the Prior of Christ Church, +was the second of four priors who presided between the years 1234 and +1274. + + "N. Prior Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis discretis viris et + religiosis Domino Priori de Anglesheya et ejusdem loci sacro + conventui salutem in Domino. Cum sincera semper caritate + noverit faternitas vestra nos constiuisse fratres Gauterum de + Hatdfeld et Nicolaum de Grantebrigiense Ecclesiae nostrae monachos + latores precencium procuratores nostros ad exigendum et + recipiendum librum qui intitulatur. Johannes Crisestomus de + laude Apostoli. In quo etiam volumine continentur Hystoria vetus + Britonum quae Brutus appellatur et tractatus Roberti Episcopi + Herfordiae de compoto. Quae quondam accommodavimus Magistro + Laurentio de Sancto Nicholao tunc Rectori ecclesiae de Tyrenton. + Qui post decessum praefati Magistri L. penes vos morabatur et + actenus moratur. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras patentes + nostro sigillo signatas vobis transmittimus." + +The contents of the book which is the subject of this special embassy +are of the character usually found to have formed the staple of monastic +libraries, though the particular treatises included in it are not +common. + +In the Reverend Joseph Hunter's valuable treatise upon _English Monastic +Libraries_[2] occurs a notice of an indenture executed in A.D. 1343, +whereby the priory of Henton lent no less than twenty books to another +monastic establishment. The deed is described, but not printed. It will +be seen that the instrument we have given above is nearly a century +earlier; and the minute description of the book given in this document +supplies some very curious facts illustrative of the mode of putting +together ancient books, which have not hitherto been remarked, for the +simple reasons that no opportunity for comparison like that presented by +the present case has yet been noticed. Among the Cottonian MSS. (Galba +E. iv.) is a perfect specimen of an ancient Library Catalogue, which, +although not altogether unnoticed, deserves a more careful examination +than it has yet received. It relates to the magnificent monastic +foundation from which emanated the deed we have printed above, and is +headed "Tituli librorum de libraria Ecclesiae Christi Cantuariensis et +contenta in eisdem libris tempore H. Prioris." It is written in that +bold hand which prevails so extensively in ecclesiastical MSS., with but +little variation, from the middle of the fourteenth century, to the end +of the fifteenth,--a hand which is not always clearly written, and which +therefore, in itself, does not materially assist in the distinction of a +date. Now having first assigned the credit of this noble {22} Catalogue--in +which are entered about 600 volumes, in nearly every one of which, +besides the substantive (or initial?) work, are particularised numerous +detached writings, varying from two or three to five-and-forty distinct +"tracts"--to Prior Henry Chichely (1413--1443), the founder of All +Souls' and St. John's Colleges, Oxford, and who, "built the library of +the church, and furnished it with books," we will see whether the book +"qui intitulatur Johannes Crisestomus," &c. was returned to Canterbury, +and had a place in the list;--and this, we think, is satisfactorily +shown by the following entry:-- + + "Johannes Crisostomus de laude Apostoli. + In hoc volumine continentur + Idem de laude Redemptoris. + Brutus latine. + Nomina Regum Britanniae sicut in ordine successerunt. + Nomina Archiepiscoporum Cantuariensis sicut in ordine successerunt. + Tabula et questiones Bede de ratione temporum. + Tabula ejusdem et expositio super tabulam de lunationibus. + Descriptio Britanniae Insulae. + Expositio super Merlinum, imperfecta." + +It may perhaps be supposed that this proves too much, as, besides the +direct title of the volume, _eight_ "tracts" are here entered, while in +the Power of Attorney only _two_ are noticed. But we would maintain, +nevertheless, that it is the identical book, and explain this variation +in the description by the circumstance that the library having, in the +space of nearly two centuries, been materially enriched, numerous works, +consisting in many cases only of a single "quaternion," were inserted in +the volumes already existing. An examination of the structure of books +of this period would confirm this view, and show that their apparent +clumsiness is to be explained by the facility it was then the custom to +afford for the interpolation or extraction of "sheets," by a contrivance +somewhat resembling that of the present day for temporarily fixing loose +papers in a cover, and known as the "patent leaf-holder." + +The second document is a list of certain books, belonging to the +monastery of Anglesey, early in the fourteenth century, allotted out to +the canons of the house for the purpose of custody, or, perhaps, of study +or devotion. + + "Isti libri liberati sunt canonicis die ... anno regni Regis Edwardi + septimo"[3] (7 Edw. II. A.D. 1314.) + Penes Dominum Priorem; Parabelae Salomonis; Psalterium cum ... + Penes Dominum J. de Bodek.; Epistolae Pauli...; Quaedam notulae super + psalter et liber miraculorum ... Mariae cum miraculis sanctorum. + Penes Sub-priorem; Liber vitae Sancti Thomae Martiris. + Penes E. de Ely; Quartus liber sententiarum cum sermo...; Liber + Reymundi; Liber de vitiis et virtutibus et pastorale. + Penes R. Pichard; Liber Alquini; Liber Johannis de Tyrington cum + Catone et aliis. + Penes Henrici Muchet; Liber de vita Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae et + remediarum (?) + Penes Walteri de Yilwilden; Liber S ... ligatus in panno ymnaro + glosatus cum constitutionibus; Belet ligatus et vita sanctorum. + Penes Ricardi de Queye; Omeliae Gregorii (?) super Evangelistos ligatae + in nigro corio. + In commune biblia; Decreta; Decretales; Prima pars moralium Job; Liber + de abusionibus. + Liber justitiae; penes Magistrum Adam de Wilburham. + Penes Walteri de Wyth; Liber Innocentii super sacramenta cum Belet et + introductione in uno volumine. + Item penes Sup-priorem; Psalterium glosatum duod fuit in custodia + Magistri Henrice de Melreth. + Item aliud psalterium glosatum inpignoratum penes Isabellam Siccadona. + +Several of these descriptions are highly curious; particularly the last +item, which describes one of the "glossed" psalters as being "_in +pawn_," a fact which, in itself, tells a history of the then condition +of the house. + +The first document, taken in connection with that referred to by Mr. +Hunter would seem to establish the existence of a system of +interchanging the literary wealth of monastic establishments, and +thereby greatly extending the advantages of their otherwise scanty +stores. Both are executed with all the legal forms used in the most +important transactions, which would support the opinion of their not {23} +being special instances: but they are, in either case, curious and +satisfactory evidence of the care and caution exercised by the monks in +cases where their books were concerned; and one cannot but regret that +when the time came that the monasterias were destined to be dissolved, +and their books torn and scattered to the winds, no attention was paid +to Bale's advice for the formation of "one solemne library in every +shire of England." + +JOSEPH BURTT + + [1] The information given of this house by Dugdale is very + scanty. It could surely be added to considerably. + + [2] London, 1831. quarto. See also a Paper by Mr. Halliwell in + the _Archaeologia_, xxvii. p. 455., and Sir Francis Palgrave's + Introduction to _Documents and Records illustrating the History + of Scotland_, pp. xcvi.--cxvi., for extracts from the + historical chronicles preserved in the monasteries, &c. + + [3] The formula of this date, "anno R.R.E. septimo," would at + first sight be considered to refer to the preceding reign; but + the list is merely a memorandum on the dorse of a completely + executed instrument dated A.D. 1300, which it is highly + improbable that it preceded. The style of Edward II. is often + found as above, though not usually so. + + * * * * * + +PEDLAR'S SONG ATTRIBUTED TO SHAKSPERE, AND TRADITION CONNECTED WITH +SHAKSPERE'S "HAMLET." + +The following verses, which would form a very appropriate song for +Autolycus, were arranged as a glee for three voices by Dr. Wilson about +the year 1667. They are published in Playford's _Musical Companion_ in +1673; in Warren's _Collection of Glees and Catches_; and in S. Webbe's +_Conveto Harmonico_. The words were, I believe, first ascribed to +Shakspere by Clark, in 1824, in his _Words of Glees, Madrigals, &c._; +but he has not given his authority for so doing. It has been stated that +they have since been discovered in a common-place book written about +Shakspere's time, with his name attached to them, and with this indirect +evidence in favour of their being written by him, that the other pieces +in the collection are attributed to their proper writers. The late Mr. +Douce, who was inclined to believe the song to have been written by +Shakspere, once saw a copy of it with a fourth verse which was shown to +him by the then organist of Chichester. The poem is not included in Mr. +Collier's edition of Shakspere, nor in the Aldine edition of Shakspere's +Poems, edited by the Rev. A. Dyce. Perhaps if you will be good enough to +insert the song and the present communication in the "NOTES AND +QUERIES," some of your readers may be enabled to fix the authorship and +to furnish the additional stanza to which I have referred. + + +PEDLAR'S SONG. + + From the far Lavinian shore, + I your markets come to store; + Muse not, though so far I dwell, + And my wares come here to sell; + Such is the sacred hunger for gold. + Then come to my pack, + While I cry + "What d'ye lack, + What d'ye buy? + For here it is to be sold." + + I have beauty, honour, grace, + Fortune, favour, time, and place, + And what else thou would'st request, + E'en the thing thou likest best; + First, let me have but a touch of your gold. + Then, come to me, lad, + Thou shalt have + What thy dad + Never gave; + For here it is to be sold. + + Madam, come, see what you lack, + I've complexions in my pack; + White and red you may have in this place, + To hide your old and wrinkled face. + First, let me have but a touch of your gold, + Then you shall seem + Like a girl of fifteen, + Although you be threescore and ten years old. + +While on this subject, perhaps I may be permitted to ask whether any +reader of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" can throw light on the following +questionable statement made by a correspondent of the _Morning Herald_, +of the 16th September, 1822. + + "Looking over and old volume the other day, printed in 1771, + I find it remarked that it was known as a tradition, that + Shakspeare shut himself up all night in Westminster Abbey when + he wrote the ghost scene in Hamlet." + +I do not find in Wilson's _Shakspeariana_ the title of a single "old" +book printed in 1771, on the subject of Shakspere. + +T. + + * * * * * + +SIR WILLIAM SKIPWYTH, KING'S JUSTICE IN IRELAND. + +Mr. Editor,--I am encouraged by the eminent names which illustrate the +first Number of your new experiment--a most happy thought--to inquire +whether they, or any other correspondent, can inform me who was the +William de Skypwith, the patent of whose appointment as Chief Justice of +the King's Bench in Ireland, dated February 15. 1370, 44 Edward III., is +to be found in the _New Faedera_ vol. iii. p.877.? In the entry on the +Issue Roll of that year, p. 458., of the payment of "his expences and +equipment" in going there, he is called "Sir William Skipwyth, Knight, +and the King's Justice in Ireland." {24} + +There was a Sir William Skipwyth, who was appointed a Judge of the +Common Pleas in 33 Edward III., and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 36 +Edward III.; and, were it not that Collins, in his _Baronetage_, +followed by Burke, says that he remained Chief Baron till 40 Edward +III., _in which year he died_, I should have had no doubt that the Irish +Chief Justice was the same with the English Chief Baron. + +The same authority adds that Sir William Skipwyth who was made a Justice +of the King's Bench [it should have been of the Common Pleas] in 50 +Edward III., and who resigned his office in 11 Richard II., was the +eldest son of the Chief Baron. But that authority does not make the +slightest allusion to the appointment of the Chief Justice of Ireland. + +A suspicion that this last Justice of the Common Pleas is not only the +same person as the Chief Justice of Ireland, but also as the Chief Baron +of the Exchequer, has arisen in my mind for the following among other +reasons. + +1. Collins and Burke are wrong in saying that he remained Chief Baron +till 40 Edward III. His successor in that office was appointed on +October 29. 1365, 39 Edward III. + +2. They are further wrong, I imagine, in saying that he continued Chief +Baron till his death: for Joshua Barnes, in his _History of Edward +III._, p. 667., says that Skipwyth and Sir Henry Green, the Chief +Justice of the King's Bench, were in 1365 arrested and imprisoned on +account of many enormities which the King understood they had committed +against law and justice; and this relation is corroborated by the fact +that Green's successor as Chief Justice was appointed on the same day as +Skipwyth's successor as Chief Baron. + +3. No proof whatever is given of the Chief Baron's death in 40 Edward +III. + +I will not trouble you with other grounds of identification which occur +to me: but as an answer to my question might "make these odds all even," +I sent the "Query" to the "Lost and Found Office" you have established, +in the hope that some stray "Note," as yet unappropriated, may assist in +solving the difficulty. + +EDWARD FOSS. + +November 5. 1849. + + * * * * * + +THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND. + +Mr. Editor,--May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in an +early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the +emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but +as yet found nothing definite enough. + +R. L. + +Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849. + + * * * * * + +CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH. + +Mr. Editor,--Having noticed the letter of Mr. John Bruce, in your +Miscellany, I beg leave to inform him that the ash tree under which +Monmouth was taken is still standing on the Woodland estate, now the +property of the Earl of Shaftesbury. + +I shall be happy at some future day, if it suits your purpose, to +collect and send you such particulars as may be gained on the spot +respecting it, and the incidents of the capture. + +We have still in the Town Hall here the chain in which it is said +Jefferies sat at the Bloody Assize. + +A. D. M. + +Dorcester, 3d Nov. 1849. + +[We shall gladly receive the particulars which our Correspondent +proposed to collect and forward.] + + * * * * * + +SERPENTS' EGGS AND STRAW NECKLACES. + +[Mr. Thoms' Query in this case should have been limited to the _straw +necklaces_, as Mr. Nichols has already explained the _serpents' eggs_; +but our Correspondent's letter is so satisfactory on both points that we +insert it entire.] + +The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to +be rendered "and with a string of serpents' eggs on your arm." The +meaning is equally apparent on recalling the manner in which snakes' +eggs are found, viz., hanging together in a row. Erasmus intends +Menedemus to utter a joke at the _rosary of beads_ hanging over the +pilgrim's arm, which he professes to mistake for serpents' eggs. + +I am not aware what particular propriety the "collar or chaplet" (for it +may mean either) of _straw_ may have, as worn by a pilgrim from +Compostella; or whether there may not lurk under this description, as +beneath {25} the other, a jocular sense. The readiest way of determining +this point would be to consult some of the accounts of Compostella and +of its relics, which are to be found in a class of books formerly +abundant in the north-western towns of Spain. + +V. + + * * * * * + +MADOC--HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA. + +"A Student" may consult the _Proceedings of the Royal Society of +Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen_, Mr. Geogehan's _Ireland_, +O'Flaherty's _Ogygia_, Magnusen and Rafn _On the Historical Monuments of +Greenland and America_, and some of the _Sagas_. + +SCOTUS. + +Brechin, Nov. 5. 1849. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON COFFEE. + +The earliest account we have of coffee is said to be taken from an +Arabian MS. in the Bibliotheque du Roi in Paris. + +Schehabeddin Ben, an Arabian author of the ninth century of the Hegira, +or fifteenth of the Christians, attributes to Gemaleddin, Mufti of Aden, +a city of Arabia Felix, who was nearly his contemporary, the first +introduction into that country, of drinking coffee. He tells us, that +Gemaleddin, having occasion to travel into Persia, during his abode +there saw some of his countrymen drinking coffee, which at that time he +did not much attend to; but, on his return to Aden, finding himself +indisposed, and remembering that he had seen his countrymen drinking +coffee in Persia, in hopes of receiving some benefit from it, he +determined to try it on himself; and, after making the experiment, not +only recovered his health, but perceived other useful qualities in that +liquor; such as relieving the headach, enlivening the spirits, and, +without prejudice to the constitution, preventing drowsiness. This last +quality he resolved to turn to the advantage of his profession; he took +it himself, and recommended it to the Dervises, or religious Mahometans, +to enable them to pass the night in prayer, and other exercises of their +religion, with greater zeal and attention. The example and authority of +the mufti gave reputation to coffee. Soon men of letters, and persons +belonging to the law, adopted the use of it. These were followed by the +tradesmen and artisans that were under the necessity of working in the +night, and such as were obliged to travel late after sunset. At length +the custom became general in Aden; and it was not only drunk in the +night by those who were desirous of being kept awake, but in the day for +the sake of its other agreeable qualities. + +Before this time coffee was scarce known in Persia, and very little used +in Arabia, where the tree grew. But, according to Schehabeddin, it had +been drunk in AEthiopia from time immemorial. + +Coffee being thus received at Aden, where it has continued in use ever +since without interruption, passed by degrees to many neighbouring +towns; and not long after reached Mecca, where it was introduced as at +Aden, by the Dervises, and for the same purposes of religion. + +The inhabitants of Mecca were at last so fond of this liquor, that, +without regarding the intention of the religious, and other studious +persons, they at length drank it publicly in coffee-houses, where they +assembled in crowds to pass the time agreeably, making that the +pretense. From hence the custom extended itself to many other towns of +Arabia, particularly to Medina, and then to Grand Cairo in Egypt, where +the Dervises of Yemen, who lived in a district by themselves, drank +coffee on the nights they intended to spend in devotion. + +Coffee continued its progress through Syria, and was received at +Damascus and Aleppo without opposition; and in the year 1554, under the +reign of Solyman, one hundred years after its introduction by the Mufti +of Aden, became known to the inhabitants of Constantinople, when two +private persons of the names of Schems and Hekin, the one coming from +Damascus, and the other from Aleppo, opened coffee-houses. + +"It is not easy," says Ellis, "to determine at what time, or upon what +occasion, the use of coffee passed from Constantinople to the western +parts of Europe. It is, however, likely that the Venetians, upon account +of the proximity of their dominions, and their great trade to the +Levant, were the first acquainted with it; which appears from part of a +letter wrote by Peter della Valle, a Venetian, in 1615, from +Constantinople; in which he tells his friend, that, upon his return he +should {26} bring with him some coffee, which he believed was a thing +unknown in his country." + +Mr. Garland tells us he was informed by M. de la Croix, the King's +interpreter, that M. Thevenot, who had travelled through the East, at +his return in 1657, brought with him to Paris some coffee for his own +use, and often treated his friends with it. + +It was known some years sooner at Marseilles; for, in 1644, some +gentlemen who accompanied M. de la Haye to Constantinople, brought back +with them on their return, not only some coffee, but the proper vessels +and apparatus for making it. However, until 1660, coffee was drunk only +by such as had been accustomed to it in the Levant, and their friends; +but that year some bales were imported from Egypt, which gave a great +number of persons an opportunity of trying it, and contributed very much +to bringing it into general use; and in 1661, a coffee-house was opened +at Marseilles in the neighbourhood of the Exchange. + +Before 1669, coffee had not been seen at Paris, except at M. Thevenot's, +and some of his friends'; nor scarce heard of but from the account of +travellers. In that year, Soliman Aga, ambassador from the Sultan +Mahomet the Fourth, arrived, who, with his retinue, brought a +considerable quantity of coffee with them, and made presents of it to +persons both of the court and city, and it is supposed to have +established the custom of drinking it. + +Two years afterwards, an Armenian of the name of Pascal, set up a +coffee-house, but meeting with little encouragement, left Paris and came +to London. + +From Anderson's _Chronological History of Commerce_, it appears that the +use of coffee was introduced into London some years earlier than into +Paris. For in 1652 one Mr. Edwards, a Turkey merchant, brought home with +him a Greek servant, whose name was Pasqua, who understood the roasting +and making of coffee, till then unknown in England. This servant was the +first who sold coffee, and kept a house for that purpose in George Yard +Lombard Street. + +The first mention of coffee in our statute books is anno 1660 (12 Car. +II. c. 24), when a duty of 4d. was laid upon every gallon of coffee made +and sold, to be paid by the maker. + +The statute 15 Car. II. c. 11. Sec. 15. an. 1663, directs that all +coffee-houses should be licensed at the general quarter sessions of the +peace for the county within which they are to be kept. + +In 1675 King Charles II. issued a proclamation to shut up the +coffee-houses, but in a few days suspended the proclamation by a second. +They were charged with being seminaries of sedition. + +The first European author who has made any mention of coffee is +Rauwolfus, who was in the Levant in 1573. + + * * * * * + +DR. DRYASDUST. + +Sir,--Do you or any of your readers know anything of the family of that +celebrated antiquary, and do you think it probable that he was descended +from, or connected with, the author of a work which I met with some time +ago, intituled "Wit Revived, or A new and excellent way of +Divertisement, digested into most ingenious Questions and Answers. By +ASDRYASDUST TOSSOFFACAN. London: Printed for T. E. and are to be sold by +most Booksellers. MDCLXXIV." 12mo. I do not know anything of the +author's character, but he appears to have been a right-minded man, in +so far as he (like yourself) expected to find "wit revived" by its +digestion into "most ingenious questions and answers;" though his notion +that asking and answering questions was a _new_ way of divertisement, +seems to indicate an imperfect knowledge of the nature and history of +mankind; but my query is simply genealogical. + +H. F. W. + + * * * * * + +MACAULAY'S "YOUNG LEVITE." + +Sir,--The following passage from the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, published +1651, struck me as a curious corroboration of the passage in Mr. +Macaulay's _History_ which describes the "young Levite's" position in +society during the seventeenth century; and as chance lately threw in my +way the work from which Burton took his illustration, I take the liberty +of submitting Notes of both for your examination. + + "If he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman's house (as it befel + Euphormio), after some seven years' service he may perchance have + a living to {27} the halves, or some small rectory, with the + mother of the maids at length, a poor kinswoman, or a crackt + chambermaid, to have and to hold during the time of his + life."--Burton, _Anat. of Mel._ part i. sect. 2. mem. 3. subsect 15. + +Burton is here referrng to the _Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon_, +published anno 1617. It professes to be a satire, or rather A FURIOUS +INVECTIVE, on the corrupt manners of the times, and is in four parts: +the 1st is dedicated to King James I.; the 2nd to Robert Cecil; the 3rd +to Charles Emmanuel of Savoy; the 4th to Louis XIII., King of France. + +The use that Burton makes of the name of Euphormio is any thing but +happy. He was not a "_trencher chaplain_" but the slave of a rich +debauchee, Callion, sent in company with another slave, Percas, to carry +some all-potent nostrum to Fibullius, a friend of Callion, who was +suffering from an attack of stone. Euphormio cures Fibullius, not by the +drug with which he was armed, but by a herb, which he sought for and +found on a mountain. Fibullius, to reward his benefactor, offers him as +a wife a most beautiful girl, whom he introduces to him privately while +in his sick room. Euphormio looks with no little suspicion on the offer; +but, after a few excuses, which are overruled by Fibullius, accepts the +lady as his betrothed, "seals the bargain with a holy kiss," and walks +out of the room (to use his own words) "et sponsus, et quod +nesciebam--Pater," page 100. The next mention of this lady [evidently +the prototype of the "crackt chambermaid,"] is in page 138. Callion had +paid his sick friend Fibullius a visit, and, on the eve of his +departure, had ordered Euphormio to ride post before him, and prepare +the inhabitants of the districts through which he was to pass for his +arrival. While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the act of mounting his +steed, a rustic brings him a letter from Fibullius, and in conversation +gives him such an account of his bride as forces upon him the +reflection, that even the grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, +to so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, as the _protegee_ of +Fibullius would be likely to prove. But, as these _notes_ have, in spite +of all my attempts at condensation, already grown to a most formidable +size, I will not indulge in any moral reflections; but conclude by +_querying_ you, or any of your readers, to inform me whether the +personages mentioned in the _Euphorm. Lus. Satyricon_, such as Callion, +Pereas, Fibullius, &c., are real characters or not? as, in the former +case, I am inclined to think that the work might throw some interesting +lights on the private manners and characters of some of the courtiers of +the day. "No scandal against any of the maids of honour"--of course. The +phrase "_To the halves_" (in the quotation from Burton) means, +inadequate, insufficient; we still talk of "half and half" measures. +Montanus inveighs against such "perturbations, that purge _to the +halves_, tire nature, and molest the body to no purpose."--Burton, +_Anat. of Mel._, part. ii. sect. 2. mem. 4. subsect. 6. + +MELANION. + +[The work referred to by our correspondent was written by Barclay, +better known as the author of the _Argenis_. The First Part of the +_Satyricon_, dedicated to James the First, was published, London, 12mo. +1603; and with the addition of the 2nd Part, Paris, 1605. The best +edition of the work (which, really in two parts, is made, by the +addition of the _Apologia Euphormionis_, &c. sometimes into five) is +said to be the Elzevir 12mo., 1637. There are two editions of it _cum +notis variorum_, Leyden, 1667 and 1669, 8vo., in two volumes. Of some of +the editions (as that of 1623, 12mo.) it is said, "adjecta Clavi sive +obscurorum et quasi aenigmaticorum nominum, in hoc Opere passim +occurrentium, dilucida explicatione." The _Satyricon_ was twice +translated into French; and its literary history, and that of the +_Censura Euphormionis_, and other tracts, which it called forth, might +furnish a curious and amusing paper.] + + * * * * * + +SERMONES SANCTI CAROLI BORROMAEI. + +Sir,--I have been wanting to get a sight of the following work, +"Sermones Sancti Caroli Borromaei, Archiepisc. Mediol. Edidit. J.A. +Saxius. 5 Tom. Mediol. 1747." Can I learn through your columns whether +the work is any where accessible in London? I sought for it in vain at +the British Museum a twelvemonth ago; nor, though then placed in their +list of _Libri desiderati_, has it yet been procured. + +C. F. SECRETAN. + + * * * * * + +LUTHER AND ERASMUS. + +Mr. Editor,--The following lines, written in a hand of the early part of +the seventeenth century, occur on the fly-leaf of a copy of the {28} +_Translation of Luther on the Galatians_, edit. London, 4to. 1577. Can +any of your readers oblige me by informing me who was their author? + + "Parum Lutherus ac Erasmus differunt + Serpens uterque est, plenus atro toxico; + Sed ille mordet ut cerastes in via, + Hic fraudulentus mordet in silentio." + +Your obedient servant, + +ROTERODAMUS. + + * * * * * + +TOWER ROYAL--CONSTITUTION HILL--COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S +LETTER--TENNISON'S FUNERAL SERMON ON NELL GWYNNE. + +Sir,--I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the following +Queries:-- + +1. What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London +locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to +inhabit it? + +2. When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why? + +3. Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have +been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph +Williamson? It first appeared in _The World_. + +4. Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop +Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne? + +PETER CUNNINGHAM. + + * * * * * + +GROG--BISHOP BARNABY. + +Mr. Editor,--I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies. + +Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"--And why do the people in Suffolk +call a ladybird "Bishop Barnaby?" + +If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel +encouraged to try again. + +Yours, &c. + +LEGOUR. + + * * * * * + +NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. II. + +DR. FARMER ON DRAYTON'S WORKS. + +The following bibliographical memoranda, in the well-known hand of Dr. +Farmer, occur in a copy of the edition of Drayton's _Poems_ published in +1619, in small folio, by John Smethwick, which contains "The Barons' +Wars; England's Heroical Epistles; Idea; Odes; The Legends of Robert +Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and Great Cromwell; The +Owle; and Pastorals, containing Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone." + +They may be of use to some future editor of Drayton, an author now +undeservedly neglected, whose _Nymphidia_ alone might tempt the tasteful +publisher of the "Aldine Poets" to include a selection, at least, of his +poems in that beautiful series:-- + + "The works of Michael Drayton, Esq., were reprinted in folio, + 1748. The title-page 'promises all the writings of that + _celebrated author_,' but his Pastorals (p.433. &c., first + published imperfectly in 4to. 1593) and many other of his most + considerable compositions (Odes, the Owle, &c., see the Appendix), + are not so much as spoken of. See his article in the _Biog. + Brit._ by Mr. Oldys, curiously and accurately written. + + "Another edition (which is called the _best_) was printed in 4 + vols. 8vo. 1753. Robson, 1765. + + "A Poem Triumphant, composed for the Society of the Goldsmiths of + London, by _M. Drayton_. 4to. 1604. _Harl. Cat._ v.3. p. 357. + + "Charles Coffey was the editor of the folio edit. 1748, he had a + large subscription for it, but died before the publication; and + it was afterward printed for the benefit of his widow. See + Mottley, p. 201. + + "The print of Drayton at the back of the title-page, is marked in + Thane's Catalogue, 1774, 7s. 6d. + + "N.B. The copy of the _Baron's Warres_ in this edition differs in + almost every line from that in the 8vo. edit. 1610. + + "It was printed under the title of Mortimeriados, in 7 line + stanzaes. + + "Matilda was first printed 1594, 4to., by Val. Simmes. Gaveston + appears by the Pref. to have been publish't before. Almost every + line in the old 4to. of Matilda differs from the copy in this + edit. A stanza celebrating Shakespeare's Lucrece is omitted in the + later edition. + + "Idea. The Shepherd's Garland. Fashion'd in 9 Eglogs. Rowland's + sacrifice to the 9 Muses, 4to. 1593. But they are printed in this + Edition very different from the present Pastorals. + + "A sonnet of Drayton's prefixed to the 2nd Part of _Munday's + Primaleon of Greece_, B.L. 4to. 1619." + +[The stanza in _Matilda_, celebrating Shakespeare's _Lucrece_, to which +Dr. Farmer alludes, is thus quoted by Mr. Collier in his edition of +Shakespeare (viii. p. 411.):-- + + "Lucrece, of whom proud Rome hath boasted long, + Lately revived to live another age, + And here arrived to tell of Tarquin's wrong, + Her chaste denial, and the tyrant's rage, {29} + Acting her passions on our stately stage: + She is remember'd, all forgetting me, + Yet I as fair and chaste as e'er was she;"-- + +who remarks upon it as follows:-- + + "A difficulty here may arise out of the fifth line, as if + Drayton was referring to a play upon the story of Lucrece, and + it is very possible that one was then in existence. Thomas + Heywood's tragedy, _The Rape of Lucrece,_ did not appear in print + until 1608, and he could hardly have been old enough to have been + the author of such a drama in 1594; he may, nevertheless, have + availed himself of an elder play, and, according to the practice + of the time, he may have felt warranted in publishing it as his + own. It is likely, however, that Drayton's expressions are not to + be taken literally; and that his meaning merely was, that the + story of Lucrece had lately been revived, and brought upon the + stage of the world: if this opinion be correct, the stanza we have + quoted above contains a clear allusion to Shakespeare's _Lucrece_; + and a question then presents itself, why Drayton entirely omitted + it in the after-impression of his _Matilda_. He was a poet who, as + we have shown in the Introduction to _Julius Caesar_ (vol. viii. + p. 4.), was in the habit of making extensive alterations in his + productions, as they were severally reprinted, and the suppression + of this stanza may have proceeded from many other causes than + repentance of the praise he had bestowed upon a rival."] + + * * * * * + +BODENHAM, OR LING'S POLITEUPHUIA. + +Sir,--The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for sale, +issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:-- + + "Bodenham? (Ling?), Politeuphuia. Wits commonwealth, _original + wrapper, vellum_. VERY RARE. + + "80 fr. 8vo. London, for Nicholas Ling, 1597. + + "This book, 'being a methodical collection of the most choice + and select admonitions and sentences, compendiously drawn from + infinite varietie,' is quoted by Lowndes under Bodenham, as first + printed in 1598; the Epistle dedicatory however of the present + copy is signed: 'N. Ling', and addressed 'to his very good friend + Maister I.B.,' so that Ling appears to have been the author, and + this an edition unknown to Lowndes or any other bibliographer." + +This seems to settle one point, perhaps a not very important one, in our +literary history; and as such may deserve a place among your "NOTES." + +BOOKWORM. + + * * * * * + +COLLEY CIBBER'S APOLOGY. + +Mr. Editor,--No doubt most of your readers are well acquainted with +Colley Cibber's _Apology for his Life_, &c., first printed, I believe, +in 1740, 4to, with a portrait of himself, painted by Vanloo, and +engraved by Vandergucht. Chapters IV. and V. contain the celebrated +characters he drew of the principal performers, male and female, in, and +just before, his time, viz. Betterton, Montfort, Kynaston, &c. Upon +these characters I have two questions to put, which I hope some of your +contributors may be able to answer. The first is, "Were these characters +of actors reprinted in the same words, and without additions, in the +subsequent impressions of Cibber's _Apology_ in 8vo?" Secondly, "Had +they ever appeared in any shape before they were inserted in the copy of +Cibber's _Apology_ now before me, in 1740, 4to?" To this may be added, +if convenient, some account of the work in which these fine criticisms +originally appeared, supposing they did not first come out in the +_Apology_. 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