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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11265 ***</div>
+
+ <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>&mdash;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&mdash;it would be a mean
+ hypocrisy&mdash;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&mdash;leaders in their several branches of inquiry&mdash;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&mdash;such as it is&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;a treasury towards enriching future
+ editions of them."</p>
+
+ <p>Another correspondent&mdash;a bibliographical friend&mdash;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:&mdash;</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:&mdash;"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&mdash;"Imprinted at
+ London for Toby Cooke, 1589,"&mdash;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:&mdash;
+ <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," &amp;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:&mdash;</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:&mdash;"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:&mdash;</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," &amp;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>&mdash;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&mdash;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,&mdash;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&mdash;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,&mdash;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, &amp;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,&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;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,&mdash;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&mdash;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"&mdash;to Prior Henry Chichely
+ (1413&mdash;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,"
+ &amp;c. was returned to Canterbury, and had a place in the list;&mdash;and
+ this, we think, is satisfactorily shown by the following entry:&mdash;</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&gt;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.&mdash;cxvi., for extracts from the historical
+ chronicles preserved in the monasteries, &amp;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,
+ &amp;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,&mdash;I am encouraged by the eminent names which illustrate
+ the first Number of your new experiment&mdash;a most happy thought&mdash;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,&mdash;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,&mdash;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&mdash;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,&mdash;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,&mdash;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."&mdash;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&mdash;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, &amp;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"&mdash;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."&mdash;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>, &amp;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,&mdash;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,&mdash;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&mdash;CONSTITUTION HILL&mdash;COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S
+ LETTER&mdash;TENNISON'S FUNERAL SERMON ON NELL GWYNNE.</h2>
+
+ <p>Sir,&mdash;I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the
+ following Queries:&mdash;</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&mdash;BISHOP BARNABY.</h2>
+
+ <p>Mr. Editor,&mdash;I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies.</p>
+
+ <p>Query, the origin of the word "Grog?"&mdash;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, &amp;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:&mdash;</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. &amp;c., first published imperfectly in 4to.
+ 1593) and many other of his most considerable compositions (Odes, the
+ Owle, &amp;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&lt;
+ 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.):&mdash;</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;"&mdash;</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>who remarks upon it as follows:&mdash;</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,&mdash;The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for
+ sale, issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:&mdash;</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,&mdash;No doubt most of your readers are well acquainted with
+ Colley Cibber's <i>Apology for his Life</i>, &amp;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, &amp;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&mdash;WHITE GLOVES.</h2>
+
+ <p>Mr. Editor.&mdash;I forward for insertion in your new publication the
+ following "Note," taken from the <i>Times</i> of the 20th of August,
+ 1847:&mdash;</p>
+
+ <p>"A Fortunate County.&mdash;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,&mdash;"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>
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+ <p>The work, of which the present volume is a translation, was originally
+ written by Mr. Worsaae, for the Copenhagen Society for the Promotion of
+ Useful Knowledge, and intended in the first place, to show how the early
+ history of the country might be read through its monuments, and in the
+ second, to awaken a greater interest for their preservation. It has been
+ translated and applied to the History of similar Remains in England, in the
+ hope that it will be found a useful Handbook for the use of those who desire
+ to know something of the nature of the numerous Primeval Monuments scattered
+ over these Islands, and the light which their investigation is calculated to
+ throw over the earliest and most obscured periods of our national
+ history.</p>
+
+ <p>Oxford: JOHN HENRY PARKER, and 377. Strand.</p>
+ <hr class="full" />
+ <span class="pagenum"><a id="page32" name="page32"></a>{32}</span>
+
+ <p>ILLUSTRATED WORKS.</p>
+
+ <p>AN INTRODUCTION to the STUDY of GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, with numerous
+ Illustrations. Nearly ready.</p>
+
+ <p>THE PRIMÆVAL ANTIQUITIES OF DENMARK. By J. J. A. WORSAAE, Member of the
+ Royal Society of Antiquaries of Copenhagen. Translated and applied to the
+ Illustration of similar Remains in England, by WILLIAM J. THOMS, F.S.A.,
+ Secretary of the Camden Society. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo. 10s.
+ 6d.</p>
+
+ <p>A MANUAL FOR THE STUDY OF SEPULCHRAL SLABS AND CROSSES OF THE MIDDLE
+ AGES. By the Rev. EDWARD L. CUTTS, B.A. 8vo. Illustrated by upwards of 300
+ Engravings. 12s.</p>
+
+ <p>WORKING DRAWINGS of STRIXTON CHURCH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE&mdash;Views,
+ Elevations, Sections, and Details of. By EDWARD BARR, Esq., Architect. 12
+ Plates. Folio. 10s6d. A small Church in the Early English Style; calculated
+ for 200 persons; to cost about 800l.</p>
+
+ <p>A BOOK OF ORNAMENTAL GLAZING QUARRIES, collected and arranged from
+ Ancient Examples. By AUGUSTUS WOLLASTON FRANKS, B.A. With 112 Coloured
+ Examples. 8vo. 16s.</p>
+
+ <p>"Designed as a supplemental volume to Mr. Winston's Book on Painted
+ Glass, is an admirable collection. The subjects are accurately traced, and
+ the nicety of the tint and leading preserved. The examples are classed, and
+ an ingenious Introduction displays the taste and research of the
+ author."&mdash;<i>Christian Remembrancer</i>.</p>
+
+ <p>AN INQUIRY INTO THE DIFFERENCE OF STYLE OBSERVABLE IN ANCIENT PAINTED
+ GLASS, with Hints on Glass Painting, illustrated by numerous Coloured Plates
+ from Ancient Examples. By an AMATEUR. 2 vols. 8vo. 1l. 10s.</p>
+
+ <p>AN ATTEMPT TO DISCRIMINATE THE DIFFERENT STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE IN
+ ENGLAND. By the late THOMAS RICKMAN, F.S.A. With 30 Engravings on Steel by
+ Le Keux, &amp;c., and 465 on Wood, of the best examples, from Original
+ Drawings by F. Mackenzie, O. Jewitt, and P. H. De la Motte. Fifth Edition.
+ 8vo. 21s.</p>
+
+ <p>A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BRITISH HERALDRY, with a Chronological Table
+ illustrative of its Rise and Progress. 8vo., with 700 engravings. 16s.</p>
+
+ <p>MEMORIALS OF THE COLLEGES AND HALLS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, with
+ numerous Illustrations on Steel and Wood. By the Rev. JAMES INGRAM, D.D.,
+ President of Trinity College. Second edition. 2 vols. 8vo. 1l. 10s.</p>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>THEOLOGICAL WORKS.</p>
+
+ <p>A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, from the Earliest Times to the
+ Revolution of 1688. By the late Rev. J. B. CARWITHEN. A New Edition, revised
+ and corrected. 2 vols. small 8vo. 12s.</p>
+
+ <p>OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. Four Books by THOMAS A KEMPIS. A new edition
+ revised, handsomely printed in fcp. 8vo. with vignettes, and red border
+ lines, cloth, 5s., morocco, 9s. Also kept in antique calf binding, vermilion
+ edges, 10s. 6d.</p>
+
+ <p>LECTURES ON THE FESTIVALS. By the Rev. C. J. ABRAHAM, M.A., Assistant
+ Master of the Upper School, Eton, 8vo. price 10s. 6d.</p>
+
+ <p>TRACTS FOR THE CHRISTIAN SEASONS, following the Course of the Christian
+ Year. The first series complete in 4 vols. fcp. 8vo. 18s.</p>
+
+ <p>RULES FOR HOLY LIVING AND DYING, containing the whole duty of a
+ Christian, and the part of Devotions fitted to all occasions and furnished
+ for all necessities. By Bishop JEREMY TAYLOR. Complete in 1 vol. 18mo.
+ cloth, gilt edges, 4s.</p>
+
+ <p>THE PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN, OR THE DEVOUT PENITENT. By RICHARD SHERLOCK,
+ D.D. A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author, by his pupil Bishop Wilson.
+ 18mo., complete in 1 vol. cloth 4s.</p>
+
+ <p>THE CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR. Thoughts on the Study of the Classics, in Prose
+ and Verse. By the author of "The Cathedral." fcp, 8vo. cloth, 10s. 6d.;
+ morocco, 14s.</p>
+
+ <p>THE CATHEDRAL; or, The Catholic and Apostolic Church in England. Thoughts
+ in Verse on Ecclesiastical Subjects, selected and arranged so as to
+ correspond with the different parts of a Gothic Cathedral. Sixth edition,
+ 32mo. with Engravings, price 4s. 6d. cloth; morocco, 6s. Also in fcp. 8vo.
+ with Engravings, 7s. 6d. cloth; morocco, 10s. 6d.</p>
+
+ <p>THE BAPTISTERY; or, The Way of Eternal Life. By the author of "The
+ Cathedral." Third edition, 8vo. cloth, 15s.; morocco, 1l. 1s. Also 32mo.
+ cloth, 3s. 6d.; morocco, 5s.</p>
+
+ <p>THE CHILD'S CHRISTIAN YEAR; Hymns for every Sunday and Holyday in the
+ Year. Fourth edition, 18mo. cloth, 2s; morocco, 4s 6d.</p>
+
+ <p>THE DAILY CHURCH SERVICES. Complete in 1 vol. 18mo. Price 10s. 6d.; or
+ bound in morocco, 16s.</p>
+ <hr class="full" />
+
+ <p>Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New
+ Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and
+ published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186 Fleet Street, in the Parish of St.
+ Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet
+ Street aforesaid.&mdash;Saturday, November 10, 1849.</p>
+
+<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11265 ***</div>
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