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<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11575 ***</div>
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page177" name="page177"></a>{177}</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%" summary="">
<tr>
<td align="left" width="100"><b>No. 12.</b></td>
<td align="center" width="200"><b>SATURDAY, JANUARY 19. 1850. </b></td>
<td align="right" width="100"><b>Price Threepence. Stamped Edition
4d.</b></td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr class="full" />
<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
<dl>
<dt>
NOTES:—</dt>
<dd><a href="#hudibras">Passage in Hudibras, by E.F. Rimbault</a> </dd>
<dd><a href="#field">Field of the Brothers' Footsteps</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#notes">Notes on Books and Authors, by Bolton Corney</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#receipts">Receipts of the Beggar's Opera</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#cunningham">Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#sewerage">Sewerage in Etruria</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#frusius">Andrew Frusius</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#burnet">Opinions respecting Burnet</a></dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>QUERIES:— </dt>
<dd><a href="#thomas">St. Thomas of Lancaster, by R. Monckton Milnes</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#shield">Shield of the Black Prince, &c. by J.R. Planché</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#Fraternitye">Fraternitye of Vagabondes, &c.</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#Shylock">The name of Shylock, by M.A. Lower</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#transpo">Transposition of Letters, by B. Williams</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#pictures">Pictures in Churches</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#flaying">Flaying in Punishment of Sacrilege</a></dd>
<dd><a href="#minor">Minor Queries:—</a>Pokership or Parkership—Boduc or</dd>
<dd>Boduoc—Origin of Snob—Mertens the Printer—</dd>
<dd>Queen's Messengers—Bishop of Ross' Epitaph, &c.—</dd>
<dd>Origin of Cannibal—Sir W. Rider—Origin of word</dd>
<dd>Poghele, &c.</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt><a href="#miscellanies">MISCELLANIES</a>—including ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES:—</dt>
<dd> Darkness at the Crucifixion—High Doctrine—Wife of</dd>
<dd> King Robert Bruce—The Talisman of Charlemagne</dd>
<dd> —Sayers the Caricaturist—May-Day—Dr. Dee's Petition</dd>
<dd> —Lines quoted by Goethe—Queen Mary's Expectations</dd>
<dd> —Ken's Hymns—Etymology of Daysman, &c.</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt>MISCELLANEOUS:—</dt>
<dd><a href="#booknotes"> Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.</a></dd>
<dd> <a href="#bookswanted"> Books and Odd Volumes wanted</a></dd>
<dd> <a href="#notices">Notices to Correspondents</a></dd>
<dd> <a href="#ads">Advertisements</a></dd>
</dl>
<a name="hudibras"></a>
<hr class="full" />
<h3>ORIGIN OF A WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS.</h3>
<p>The often-quoted lines—</p>
<div class="poem">
<p>"For he that fights and runs away</p>
<p> May live to fight another day,"</p></div>
<p>generally supposed to form a part of <i>Hudibras</i>, are
to be found (as Mr. Cunningham points out, at
p. 602. of his <i>Handbook for London</i>), in the <i>Musarum
Deliciæ</i>, 12mo. 1656; a clever collection of
"witty trifles," by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James
Smith.</p>
<p>The passage, as it really stands in <i>Hudibras</i>
(book iii. canto iii. verse 243.), is as follows:—</p>
<div class="poem">
<p>"For those that fly may fight again,</p>
<p>Which he can never do that's slain."</p></div>
<p>But there is a much earlier authority for these
lines than the <i>Musarum Deliciæ;</i> a fact which I
learn from a volume now open before me, the great
rarity of which will excuse my transcribing the
title-page in full:—</p>
<blockquote> "Apophthegmes, that is to saie, prompte, quicke,
wittie, and sentencious saiynges, of certain Emperours,
Kynges, Capitaines, Philosophiers, and Oratours, as
well Grekes as Romaines, bothe veraye pleasaunt and
profitable to reade, partely for all maner of persones,
and especially Gentlemen. First gathered and compiled
in Latine by the right famous clerke, Maister
Erasmus, of Roteradame. And now translated into
Englyshe by Nicolas Udall. <i>Excusam typis Ricardi
Grafton</i>, 1542. 8vo."</blockquote>
<p>A second edition was printed by John Kingston,
in 1564, with no other variation, I believe,
than in the orthography. Haslewood, in a note
on the fly-leaf of my copy, says:—</p>
<blockquote>
"Notwithstanding the fame of Erasmus, and the
reputation of his translator, this volume has not
obtained that notice which, either from its date or value,
might be justly expected. Were its claim only founded
on the colloquial notes of Udall, it is entitled to
consideration, as therein may be traced several of the
familiar phrases and common-place idioms, which have
occasioned many conjectural speculations among the
annotators upon our early drama."</blockquote>
<p>The work consists of only two books of the
original, comprising the apophthegms of Socrates,
Aristippus, Diogenes, Philippus, Alexander, Antigonus,
Augustus Cæsar, Julius Cæsar, Pompey,
Phocion, Cicero, and Demosthenes.</p>
<p>On folio 239. occurs the following apophthegm,
which is the one relating to the subject before
us:—</p>
<div class="poem">
<p>"That same man, that renneth awaie,</p>
<p>May again fight, on other daie.</p></div>
<blockquote>
"¶ Judgeyng that it is more for the benefite of
one's countree to renne awaie in battaile, then to lese
his life. For a ded man can fight no more; but who
hath saved hymself alive, by rennyng awaie, may, in
many battailles mo, doe good service to his countree.</blockquote>
<blockquote>"§ At lest wise, if it be a poinet of good service, to
renne awaie at all times, when the countree hath most
neede of his helpe to sticke to it."</blockquote>
<p>Thus we are enabled to throw back more than
a century these famous Hudibrastic lines, which
have occasioned so many inquiries for their origin.</p>
<p>I take this opportunity of noticing a mistake
which has frequently been made concerning the
<i>French</i> translation of Butler's <i>Hudibras</i>. Tytler,
in his <i>Essay on Translation</i>; Nichols, in his
<i>Biographical Anecdotes of Hogarth</i>; and Ray, in his
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page178" name="page178"></a>{178}</span><i>History of the Rebellion</i>, attributes it to Colonel
Francis Towneley; whereas it was the work of
<i>John</i> Towneley, uncle to the celebrated Charles
Towneley, the collector of the Marbles.</p>
<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p>
<a name="field"></a>
<hr />
<h3>FIELD OF THE BROTHERS' FOOTSTEPS.</h3>
<p>I do not think that Mr. Cunningham, in his
valuable work, has given any account of a piece
of ground of which a strange story is recorded by
Southey, in his <i>Common-Place Book</i> (Second Series,
p. 21.). After quoting a letter received from
a friend, recommending him to "take a view of
those wonderful marks of the Lord's hatred to
<i>duelling</i>, called <i>The Brothers' Steps</i>," and giving
him the description of the locality, Mr. Southey
gives an account of his own visit to the spot (a
field supposed to bear ineffaceable marks of the
footsteps of two brothers, who fought a fatal duel
about a love affair) in these words:—"We sought
for near half an hour in vain. We could find no
steps at all, within a quarter of a mile, no nor half
a mile, of Montague House. We were almost out
of hope, when an honest man who was at work
directed us to the next ground adjoining to a
pond. There we found what we sought, about
three quarters of a mile north of Montague House,
and about 500 yards east of Tottenham Court
Road. The steps answer Mr. Walsh's description.
They are of the size of a large human foot, about
three inches deep, and lie nearly from north-east
to south-west. We counted only seventy-six, but
we were not exact in counting. The place where
one or both the brothers are supposed to have
fallen, is still bare of grass. The labourer also
showed us the bank where (the tradition is) the
wretched woman sat to see the combat."</p>
<p>Mr. Southey then goes on the speak of his full
confidence in the tradition of their indestructibility,
even after ploughing up, and of the conclusions to
be drawn from the circumstance.</p>
<p>To this long note, I beg to append a query, as
to the latest account of these footsteps, previous
to the ground being built over, as it evidently
now must be.</p>
<p class="author">G.H.B.</p>
<a name="notes"></a>
<hr />
<h3>ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. 4.</h3>
<p>Verse may picture the feelings of the author,
or it may only picture his fancy. To assume the
former position, is not always safe; and in two
memorable instances a series of sonnets has been
used to construct a <i>baseless fabric</i> of biography.</p>
<p>In the accompanying sonnet, there is no such
uncertainty. It was communicated to me by
John Adamson, Esq., M.R.S.L., &c., honourably
known by a translation of the tragedy of <i>Dona
Ignez de Castro</i>, from the Portuguese of Nicola
Luiz, and by a <i>Memoir of the life and writings
of Camoens</i>, &c. It was not intended for publication,
but now appears, at my request.</p>
<p>Mr. Adamson, it should be stated, is a
corresponding member of the Royal Academy of
Sciences of Lisbon, and has received diplomas of
the orders of Christ and the Tower-and-Sword.
The <i>coming storm</i> alludes to the menace of invasion
by France.</p>
<div class="poem">
<p class="i8">"SONNET.</p>
<p>"O Portugal! whene'er I see thy name</p>
<p class="i2"> What proud emotions rise within my breast!</p>
<p>To <i>thee</i> I owe—from <i>thee</i> derive that fame</p>
<p class="i2"> Which here may linger when I lie at rest.</p>
<p>When as a youth I landed on thy shore,</p>
<p class="i2"> How little did I think I e'er could be</p>
<p class="i2"> Worthy the honours thou has giv'n to me;</p>
<p>And when the coming storm I did deplore,</p>
<p>Drove me far from thee by its hostile threat—</p>
<p>With feelings which can never be effaced,</p>
<p class="i2"> I learn'd to commune with those writers old</p>
<p class="i2"> Who had the deeds of they great chieftains told;</p>
<p>Departed bards in converse sweet I met,</p>
<p>I'd seen where they had liv'd—the land Camoens grac'd."</p>
</div>
<p>I venture to add the titles of two interesting
volumes which have been printed subsequently to
the publications of Lowndes and Martin. It may
be a useful hint to students and collectors:—</p>
<p>"BIBLIOTHECA LUSITANA, or catalogue of books and
tracts, relating to the history, literature, and poetry, of
Portugal: forming part of the library of John Adamson,
M.R.S.L. etc. <i>Newcastle on Tyne</i>, 1836. 8vo.</p>
<p>"LUSITANIA ILLUSTRATA; notices on the history,
antiquities, literature, etc. of Portugal. Literary
department. Part I. Selection of sonnets, with biographical
Sketches of the author, by John Adamson,
M.R.S.L. etc. <i>Newcastle upon Tyne</i>, 1842. 8vo."</p>
<p class="author">BOLTON CORNEY.</p>
<a name="receipts"></a>
<hr />
<h3>RECEIPTS TO THE BEGGAR'S OPERA ON ITS
PRODUCTION.</h3>
<p>Every body is aware of the prodigious and
unexpected success of Gay's <i>Beggar's Opera</i> on its
first production; it was offered to Colley Cibber
at Drury Lane, and refused, and the author took
it to Rich, at the Lincoln's-Inn-Fields theatre,
by whom it was accepted, but not without
hesitation. It ran for 62 nights (not 63 nights,
as has been stated in some authorities) in the
season of 1727–1728; of these, 32 nights were
in succession; and, from the original Account-book
of the manager, C.M. Rich, I am enabled
to give an exact statement of the money taken at
the doors on each night, distinguishing such
performances as were for the benefit of the author,
viz. the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 15th nights, which put
exactly 693<i>l</i>. 13<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. into Gay's pocket. This is
a new circumstance in the biography of one of our
most fascinating English writers, whether in prose
or verse. Rich records that the king, queen, and <span class="pagenum"><a id="page179" name="page179"></a>{179}</span>
princesses were present on the 21st repetition, but
that was by no means one of the fullest houses.
The very bill sold at the doors on the occasion
has been preserved, and hereafter may be furnished
for the amusement of your readers. It
appears, that when the run of the <i>Beggar's
Opera</i> was somewhat abruptly terminated by
the advance of the season and the benefits of the
actors, the "takings," as they were and still are
called, were larger than ever. The performances
commenced on 29th January, 1728, and that
some striking novelty was required at the
Lincoln's-Inn-Fields theatre, to improve the prospects
of the manager, may be judged from the fact that
the new tragedy of <i>Sesostris</i>, brought out on the
17th January, was played for the benefit of its
author (John Sturm) on its 6th night to only
58<i>l</i>. 19<i>s</i>., while the house was capable of holding
at least 200<i>l</i>.</p>
<p>In the following statement of the receipts to
the <i>Beggar's Opera</i>, I have not thought it necessary
to insert the days of the months:—</p>
<table width="350" summary="">
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td align="right"><i>£</i></td>
<td align="right"><i>s.</i></td>
<td align="right"><i>d.</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">Night</td>
<td align="right">1 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">169</td>
<td align="right">12 </td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">2 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">160</td>
<td align="right">14</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">(Author)</td>
<td align="right">3 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">162</td>
<td align="right">12</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">4 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">163</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">5 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">175</td>
<td align="right">19</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">(Author)</td>
<td align="right">6 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">189</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">7 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">161</td>
<td align="right">19</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">8 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">157</td>
<td align="right">19</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">(Author)</td>
<td align="right">9 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">165</td>
<td align="right">12</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">10 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">156</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">11 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">171</td>
<td align="right">10</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">12 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">170</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">13 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">164</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">14 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">171</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td align="right">(Author)</td>
<td align="right">15 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">175</td>
<td align="right">18</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">16 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">160</td>
<td align="right">11</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">17 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">171</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">18 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">163</td>
<td align="right">16</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">19 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">158</td>
<td align="right">19</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">20 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">170</td>
<td align="right">9</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">21 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">163</td>
<td align="right">14</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">22 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">163</td>
<td align="right">17</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">23 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">179</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">24 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">161</td>
<td align="right">7</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">25 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">169</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">26 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">163</td>
<td align="right">18</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">27 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">168</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">28 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">153</td>
<td align="right">5</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">29 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">165</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">30 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">152</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">31 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">183</td>
<td align="right">4</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td> </td>
<td align="right">32 </td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="right">185</td>
<td align="right">8</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Therefore, when the run was interrupted, the
attraction of the opera was greater than it
had been on any previous night, excepting the
6th, which was one of those set apart for the
remuneration of the author, when the receipt
was 189<i>l</i>. 11<i>s</i>. The total sum realised by the
32 successive performances was 5351<i>l</i>. 15<i>s</i>., of
which, as we have already shown, Gay obtained
693<i>l</i>. 13<i>s</i> 6<i>d</i>. To him it was all clear profit; but
from the sum obtained by Rich are, of course, to
be deducted the expenses of the company, lights,
house-rent, &c.</p>
<p>The successful career of the piece was checked,
as I have said, by the intervention of benefits,
and the manager would not allow it to be repeated
even for Walker's and Miss Fenton's nights, the
Macheath and Polly of the opera; but, in order to
connect the latter with it, when Miss Fenton
issued her bill for <i>The Beaux's Stratagem</i>, on
29th April, it was headed that it was "for the
benefit of Polly." An exception was, however,
made in favour of John Rich, the brother of the
manager, for whose benefit the <i>Beggar's Opera</i>
was played on 26th February, when the receipt
was 184<i>l</i>. 15<i>s</i>. Miss Fenton was allowed a second
benefit, on the 4th May, in consequence, we may
suppose, of her great claims in connection with
the <i>Beggar's Opera</i>, and then it was performed to
a house containing 155<i>l</i>. 4<i>s</i>. The greatest recorded
receipt, in its first season, was on the 13th April,
when, for some unexplained cause the audience
was so numerous that 198<i>l</i>. 17<i>s</i>. were taken at
the doors.</p>
<p>After this date there appears to have been considerable
fluctuation in the profits derived from
repetitions of the <i>Beggar's Opera</i>. On the 5th
May, the day after Polly Fenton's (her real name
was Lavinia) second benefit, the proceeds fell to
78<i>l</i>. 14<i>s</i>., the 50th night produced 69<i>l</i>. 12<i>s</i>., and
the 51st only 26<i>l</i>. 1<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. The next night the
receipt suddenly rose again to 134<i>l</i>. 13<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>., and
it continued to range between 53<i>l</i>. and 105<i>l</i>.
until the 62nd and last night (19th June), when
the sum taken was 98<i>l</i>. 17<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.</p>
<p>Miss Fenton left the stage at the end of the
season, to be made Duchess of Bolton, and in the
next season her place, as regards the <i>Beggar's
Opera</i>, was taken by Miss Warren, and on 20th
September it attracted 75<i>l</i>. 7<i>s</i>.; at the end of
November it drew only 23<i>l</i>., yet, on the 11th
December, for some reason not stated by the
manager, the takings amounted to 112<i>l</i>. 9<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.
On January 1st a new experiment was tried with
the opera, for it was represented by children, and
the Prince of Wales commanded it on one or more
of the eight successive performances it thus underwent.
On 5th May we find Miss Cantrell taking
Miss Warren's character, and in the whole, the
<i>Beggar's Opera</i> was acted more than forty times
in its second year, 1728–9, including the performances
by "Lilliputians" as well as comedians.
This is, perhaps, as much of its early history as
your readers will care about.</p>
<p class="author">DRAMATICUS.</p>
<a name="cunningham"></a>
<hr />
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page180" name="page180"></a>{180}</span>
<h3>NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR
LONDON.</h3>
<p><i>Lady Dacre's Alms-Houses, or Emanuel
Hospital.</i>—"Jan. 8. 1772, died, in Emanual Hospital,
Mrs. Wyndymore, cousin of Mary, queen of
William III., as well as of Queen Anne. Strange
revolution of fortune, that the cousin of two
queens should, for fifty years, by supported by
charity."—<i>MS. Diary</i>, quoted in Collett's <i>Relics
of Literature</i>, p. 310.</p>
<p><i>Essex Buildings.</i>—"On Thursday next, the
22nd of this instant, November, at the <i>Musick-school
in Essex Buildings</i>, over against St. Clement's
Church in the Strand, will be continued a
concert of vocal and instrumental musick, beginning
at five of the clock, every evening. Composed
by Mr. Banister."—<i>Lond. Gazette</i>, Nov. 18. 1678.
"This famous 'musick-room' was afterwards
Paterson's auction-room."—Pennant's
<i>Common-place Book</i>.</p>
<p><i>St. Antholin's.</i>—In Thorpe's Catalogue of MSS.
for 1836 appears for sale, Art. 792., "The
Churchwarden's Accounts, from 1615 to 1752, of the
Parish of <i>St. Antholin's</i>, London." Again, in the
same Catalogue, Art. 793., "The Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Parish of <i>St. Antholin's</i>, in
London, Accounts from 1638 to 1700 inclusive."
Verily these books have been in the hands of
"unjust stewards!"</p>
<p><i>Clerkenwell.</i>—Names of eminent persons residing
in this parish in 1666:—Earl of Carlisle,
Earl of Essex, Earl of Aylesbury, Lord Barkely,
Lord Townsend, Lord Dellawar, Lady Crofts,
Lady Wordham, Sir John Keeling, Sir John Cropley,
Sir Edward Bannister, Sir Nicholas Stroude,
Sir Gower Barrington, Dr. King, Dr. Sloane. In
1667-8:—Duke of Newcastle, Lord Baltimore,
Lady Wright, Lady Mary Dormer, Lady Wyndham,
Sir Erasmus Smith, Sir Richard Cliverton,
Sir John Burdish, Sir Goddard Nelthorpe, Sir
John King, Sir William Bowles, Sir William
Boulton.—<i>Extracted from a MS. in the late Mr.
Upcott's Collection.</i></p>
<p><i>Tyburn Gallows.</i>—No. 49. Connaught Square,
is built on the spot where this celebrated gallows
stood; and, in the lease granted by the Bishop of
London, this is particularly mentioned.</p>
<p class="author">EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.</p>
<a name="sewerage"></a>
<hr />
<h3>SEWERAGE IN ETRURIA.</h3>
<p>I have been particularly struck, in reading <i>The
Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria</i>, of George Dennis,
by the great disparity there appears between
the ancient population of this country and the
present.</p>
<p>The ancient population appears, moreover, to
have been located in circumstances not by any
means favourable to the health of the people.
Those cities surrounded by high walls, and
entered by singularly small gateways, must have
been very badly ventilated, and very unfavourable
to health; and yet it is not reasonable to suppose
they could have been so unhealthy then as the
author describes the country at present to be.
It is hardly possible to imagine so great a people
as the Etruscans, the wretched fever-stricken
objects the present inhabitants of the Maremna
are described to be.</p>
<p>To what, then, can this great difference be
ascribed? The Etruscans appear to have taken
very great pains with the drainage of their cities;
on many sites the cloaca are the only remains of
their former industry and greatness which remain.
They were also careful to bury their dead outside
their city walls; and it is, no doubt, to these two
circumstances, principally, that their increase and
greatness, as a people, are to be ascribed. But
why do not the present inhabitants avail themselves
of the same means to health? Is it that
they are idle, or are they too broken spirited
and poverty-stricken to unite in any public work?
Or has the climate changed?</p>
<p>Perhaps it was owing to some defect in their
civil polity that the ancients were comparatively
so easily put down by the Roman power, which
might have been the superior civilisation.
Possibly the great majority of the people may have
been dissatisfied with their rulers, and gladly
removed to another place and another form of
government. It is even possible, and indeed
likely, that these great public works may have
been carried on by the forced labour of the
poorest and, consequently, the most numerous
class of the population, and that, consequently,
they had no particular tie to their native city, as
being only a hardship to them; and they may
even have had a dislike to sewers in themselves,
as reminding them of their bondage, and which
dislike their descendants have inherited, and for
which they are now suffering. At any rate, it is
an instructive example to our present citizens of
the value of drainage and sanitary arrangements,
and shows that the importance of these things was
recognised and appreciated in the earliest times.
</p>
<p class="author">C.P.F.</p>
<a name="frusius"></a>
<hr />
<h3>ANDREW FRUSIUS—ANDRÉ DES FREUX.</h3>
<p>Many of your readers, as well as "ROTERODAMUS,"
will be ready to acknowledge their obligation
to Mr. Bruce for his prompt identification of
the author of the epigram against Erasmus
(pp. 27, 28.). I have just referred to the catalogue of
the library of this university, and I regret to say
that we have no copy of any of the works of
Frusius. Mr. Bruce says he knows nothing of
Frusius as an author. I believe there is no
mention of him in any English bibliographical or
biographical work. There is, however, a notice
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page181" name="page181"></a>{181}</span>of him in the <i>Biographie Universelle</i>, vol. xvi.
(Paris), and in the <i>Biografia Universale</i>, vol. xxi.
(Venezia). As these works have, perhaps, found
their way into very few private English libraries,
I send you the following sketch, which will probably
be acceptable to your readers. It is much
to be lamented that sufficient encouragement
cannot be given in this country for the production
of a <i>Universal Biography</i>. Roses's work, which
promised to be a giant, dwindled down to a
miserable pigmy; and that under "The Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" was
strangled in its birth.</p>
<p>André des Freux, better known by his Latin
name, Frusius, was born at Chartres, in the beginning
of the sixteenth century. He embraced
the life of an ecclesiastic, and obtained the cure
of Thiverval, which he held many years with
great credit to himself. The high reputation of
Ignatius Loyola, who was then at Rome, with
authority from the Holy See to found the Society
of the Jesuits, led Frusius to that city, where he
was admitted a member of the new order in 1541,
and shortly after became secretary to Loyola.
He contributed to the establishment of the Society
at Parma, Venice, and many towns of Italy and
Sicily. He was the first Jesuit who taught the
Greek language at Messina; he also gave public
lectures on the Holy Scriptures in Rome. He
was appointed Rector of the German College at
Rome, shortly before his death, which occurred
on the 25th of October, 1556, three months and
six days after the death of Loyola. Frusius had
studied, with equal success, theology, medicine,
and law: he was a good mathematician, an excellent
musician, and made Latin verses with such
facility, that he composed them, on the instant, on
all sorts of subjects. But these verses were neither
so elegant nor so harmonious, as Alegambe asserts
<a id="footnotetag1" name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a>,
since he adds, that it requires close attention to
distinguish them from prose. Frusius translated,
from Spanish into Latin, the <i>Spiritual Exercises</i>
of Loyola. He was the author of the following
works:—Two small pieces, in verse, <i>De Verborum
et Rerum Copia</i>, and <i>Summa Latinæ Syntaxeos</i>:
these were published in several different places;
<i>Theses Collectæ ex Interpretatione Geneseos; Assertiones
Theologicæ</i>, Rome, 1554; <i>Poemata</i>, Cologne,
1558—this collection often reprinted at
Lyons, Antwerp and Tournon, contains 255<a id="footnotetag2" name="footnotetag2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>
epigrams against the heretics, amongst whom he
places Erasmus;—a poem <i>De Agno Dei</i>; and,
lastly, another poem, entitled <i>Echo de Presenti
Christianæ Religionis Calamitate</i>, which has been
sometimes cited as an example of a great <i>difficultè
vaincue</i>. The edition of Tournon contains also a
poem, <i>De Simplicitate</i>, of which Alegambe speaks
with praise. To Frusius was also owing an edition
of Martial's <i>Epigrams</i>, divested of their obscenities.</p>
<p class="author">EDW. VENTRIS.</p>
<p>Cambridge, Jan. 10. 1850.</p>
<p class="note">[Our valued correspondent, MR. MACCABE, has
also informed us that the "<i>Epigrams</i> of Frusius were
published at Antwerp, 1582, in 8vo., and at Cologne,
1641, in 12mo. See Feller's <i>Biographie</i>."]</p>
<a name="burnet"></a>
<hr />
<h3>OPINIONS RESPECTING BURNET</h3>
<p>A small <i>catena patrum</i> has been given respecting
Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp. 40, 41., to
which two more <i>scriptorum judicia</i> have been appended
in No. 8. p. 120., by "I.H.M.". As a
sadly disparaging opinion had been quoted, at
p. 40., from Lord Dartmouth, I hope you will
allow the following remarks on the testimony of
that nobleman to appear in your columns:—</p>
<blockquote>
"No person has contradicted Burnet more frequently,
or with more asperity, than Dartmouth. Yet
Dartmouth wrote, 'I do not think he designedly published
anything he believed to be false.' At a later
period, Dartmouth, provoked by some remarks on
himself in the second volume of the Bishop's history,
retracted this praise; but to such a retraction little
importance can be attached. Even Swift has the justice
to say, 'After all he was a man of generosity and
good nature.'"—<i>Short Remarks on Bishop Burnet's
History</i>.
</blockquote>
<blockquote>"It is usual to censure Burnet as a singularly inaccurate
historian; but I believe the charge to be
altogether unjust. He appears to be singularly
inaccurate only because his narrative has been subjected to
a scrutiny singularly severe and unfriendly. If any
Whig thought it worth while to subject Reresby's
<i>Memoirs</i>, North's <i>Examen</i>, Mulgrave's <i>Account of the
Revolution</i>, or the <i>Life of James the Second</i>, edited by
Clarke, to a similar scrutiny, it would soon appear that
Burnet was far indeed from being the most inexact
writer of his time."—Macaulay, <i>Hist. England</i>, vol. ii.
p.177, 3rd. Ed.</blockquote>
<p class="author">T.</p>
<p>Bath.</p>
<hr class="full" />
<a name="thomas"></a>
<h2>QUERIES</h2>
<h3>SAINT THOMAS OF LANCASTER.</h3>
<p>Sir,—I am desirous of information respecting
the religious veneration paid to the memory of
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, cousin-german to King
Edward the Second. He was taken in open
rebellion against the King on the 16th of March,
1322, condemned by a court-martial, and
executed, with circumstances of great indignity, on
the rising ground above the castle of Pomfret,
which at the time was in his possession. His
body was probably given to the monks of the adjacent
priory; and soon after his death miracles
were said to be performed at his tomb, and at the
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page182" name="page182"></a>{182}</span>place of execution; a curious record of which is
preserved in the library of Corpus Christi College,
at Cambridge, and introduced by Brady into his
history of the period. About the same time, a
picture or image of him seems to have been exhibited
in St. Paul's Church, in London, and to
have been the object of many offerings. A special
proclamation was issued, denouncing this
veneration of the memory of a traitor, and threatening
punishment on those who encouraged it; and
a statement is given by Brady of the opinions of
an ecclesiastic, who thought it very doubtful how
far this devotion should be encouraged by the
Church, the Earl of Lancaster, besides his political
offences, having been a notorious evil-liver.</p>
<p>As soon, however, as the King's party was subdued,
and the unhappy sovereign, whose acts and
habits had excited so much animosity, cruelly put
to death, we find not only the political character
of the Earl of Lancaster vindicated, his attainder
reversed, his estates restored to his family, and his
adherents re-established in all their rights and
liberties, but within five weeks of the accession of
Edward the Third, a special mission was sent to
the Pope from the King, imploring the appointment
of a commission to institute the proper
canonical investigation for his admission into the
family of saints. His character and his cause are
described, in florid language, as having been those
of a Christian hero; and the numberless miracles
wrought in his name, and the confluence of pilgrims
to his tomb, are presumed to justify his
invocation.</p>
<p>In June of the same year (1327), a "king's
letter" is given to Robert de Weryngton, authorising
him and his agents to collect alms throughout
the kingdom for the purpose of building a
chapel on the hill where the Earl was beheaded,
and praying all prelates and authorities to give
him aid and heed. This sanction gave rise to
imposture; and in December a proclamation appeared,
ordering the arrest and punishment of
unauthorised persons collecting money under this
pretence, and taking it for their own use.</p>
<p>In 1330, the same clerical personages were sent
again to the Pope, to advance the affair of the
canonization of the Earl, and were bearers of
letters on the same subject from the King to five
of the cardinals, all urging the attention of the
Papal court to a subject that so much interested
the Church and people of England.</p>
<p>It would seem, however, that some powerful
opposition to this request was at work at the
Roman see. For in the April of the following
year another commission, composed of a professor
of theology, a military personage, and a magistrate
of the name of John de Newton, was sent with
letters to the Pope, to nine cardinals, to the
referendary of the Papal court, and to three nephews
of his Holiness, entreating them not to give
ear to the invectives of malignant men ("commenta
fictitia maliloquorum"), who here asserted
that the Earl of Lancaster consented to, or connived
at, some injury or insult offered to certain
cardinals at Durham in the late king's reign. So
far from this being true, the letters assert that
the earl defended these prelates to the utmost of
his power, protected them from enemies who had
designs on their lives, and placed them in security
at his own great peril. The main point of the
canonization is again urged, and allusion made to
former repeated supplications, and the sacred
promise, "Knock, and it shall be opened unto
you," appealed to. The vindication of the Earl
from the malicious charge against him is omitted
in the letters to two of the cardinals and the lay
personages. Were these the two cardinals who
fancied themselves injured?</p>
<p>This, then, is all I can discover in the ordinary
historical channels respecting this object of ancient
public reverence in England. The chapel
was constructed and officiated in till the dissolution
of the monasteries; the image in St. Paul's
was always regarded with special affection; and
the cognomen of <i>Saint</i> Thomas of Lancaster was
generally accepted and understood.</p>
<p>Five hundred years after the execution of the
Earl of Lancaster, a large stone coffin, massive
and roughly hewn, was found in a field that belonged
of old to the Priory of Pomfret, but at
least a quarter of a mile distant from the hill
where the chapel stood. Within was the skeleton
of a full-grown man, partially preserved; the skull
lay between the thighs. There is no record of
the decapitation of any person at Pomfret of
sufficient dignity to have been interred in a manner
showing so much care for the preservation of
the body, except the Earl of Lancaster. The
coffin may have been removed here at the time the
opposite party forbade its veneration, from motives
of precaution for its safety.</p>
<p>Now, I shall be much obliged for information
on the following points:—</p>
<p>Is any thing known, beyond what I have stated,
as to the communications with Rome on the subject
of his canonization, or as to the means by
which he was permitted by the English church to
become a fit object for invocation and veneration?</p>
<p>What are the chief historical grounds that endeared
his memory to the Church or the people?
The compassion for his signal fall can hardly
account for this, although a similar motive was
sufficient to bring to the tomb of Edward II., in
Gloucester Cathedral, an amount of offerings that
added considerably to the splendour of the
edifice.</p>
<p>Are any anecdotes or circumstances recorded,
respecting the worship of this saint in later times,
than I have referred to?</p>
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page183" name="page183"></a>{183}</span>
<p>What is the historic probability that the stone coffin,
discovered in 1822, contained the remains of
this remarkable man?</p>
<p>I have no doubt that much curious and valuable
matter might be discovered, by pursuing into the
remote receptacles of historical knowledge the
lives and characters of persons who have become,
in Catholic times, the unauthorised objects of
popular religious reverence after death.</p>
<p class="author">RICH. MONCKTON MILNES.</p>
<p>26. Pall Mall, Jan. 12th.</p>
<div class="note">
<p >[To this interesting communication we may add that
"<i>The Office of St. Thomas of Lancaster</i>," which begins,</p>
<p class ="poem">"Gaude Thoma, ducum decus, lucerna Lancastriæ,"</p>
<p>is printed in the volume of "<i>Political Songs</i>" edited by
Mr. Wright for the Camden Society, from a Royal MS.
in the British Museum.—MS. Reg. 12.]</p>
</div>
<a name="shield"></a>
<hr />
<h3>SHIELD OF THE BLACK PRINCE—SWORD OF
CHARLES I.</h3>
<p>In Bolton's <i>Elements of Armories</i>, 1610, p. 67.,
is an engraving of a very interesting shield, of the
kind called "Pavoise," which at that period hung
over the tomb of Edward the Black Prince, at
Canterbury, in addition to the shield still remaining
there. Bolton says, "The sayd victorious
Princes tombe is in the goodly Cathedral Church
erected to the honour of Christ, in Canterburie;
there (beside his quilted coat-armour, with half-sleeves,
Taberd fashion, and his triangular shield,
both of them painted with the royall armories of
our kings, and differenced with silver labels)
hangs this kind of Pavis or Target, curiously (for
those times) embost and painted, and the Scutcheon
in the bosse being worne out, and the Armes
(which, it seemes, were the same with his coate
armour, and not any particular devise) defaced, and
is altogether of the same kinde with that upon
which (Froissard reports) the dead body of the
Lord Robert of Dvras, and nephew to the Cardinall
of Pierregoort, was laid, and sent unto that
Cardinale, from the Battell of Poictiers, where the
Blacke Prince obtained a Victorie, the renowne
whereof is immortale."</p>
<p>Can any of your correspondents inform me
when this most interesting relic disappeared?
Sandford, whose <i>Genealogical History</i> was published
some sixty or seventy years later, says, "On
an iron barr over the Tombe are placed the
Healme and Crest, Coat of Maile, and Gantlets,
and, on a pillar near thereunto, his shield of
Armes, richly diapred with gold, all which he is
said to have used in Battel;" but he neither
mentions the missing "Pavoise," engraved in Bolton,
or the scabbard of the sword which yet remains,
the sword itself having been taken away,
according to report, by Oliver Cromwell. Did
that unscrupulous Protector(?) take away the
"Pavoise" at the same time, or order his Ironsides
to "remove that bauble?"—and how came
he to spare the helmet, jupon, gauntlets, shield,
and <i>scabbard</i>? I have strong doubts of his being
the purloiner of the sword. The late Mr. Stothard,
who mentions the report, does not quote
his authority. I will add another query, on a
similar subject:—When did the <i>real</i> sword of
Charles the First's time, which, but a few years
back, hung at the side of that monarch's equestrian
figure at Charing Cross, disappear?—and
what has become of it? The question was put,
at my suggestion, to the official authorities, by the
secretary of the British Archæological Association;
but no information could be obtained on the subject.
That the sword <i>was</i> a real one of that
period, I state upon the authority of my lamented
friend, the late Sir Samuel Meyrick, who had
ascertained the fact, and pointed out to me its
loss.</p>
<p class="author">J.R. PLANCHÉ.</p>
<a name="Fraternitye"></a>
<hr />
<h3>FRATERNITYE OF VAGABONDES—REV. MR.
GENESSE—RED MAIDS.</h3>
<p class="note">[We have for some time past been obliged, by want
of space, to omit all the kind expressions towards ourselves,
in which friendly correspondents are apt to indulge;
but there is something so unusual in the way
in which the following letter begins, that we have done
violence to our modesty, in order to admit the comments
of our kind-hearted correspondent. We have
no doubt that all his questions will be answered in due
course.]</p>
<p>Never, during my life (more than half a century),
do I remember hailing the appearance of
any new publication with such unfeigned delight.
I had hugged myself on having the friendship of
a certain "BOOKWORM," possessing a curious library,
of some three or four thousand volumes;
how much must I have rejoiced, therefore, at
finding that, through the medium of your invaluable
journal, my literary friends were likely to
be increased one hundred-fold; and that, for the
small sum of three pence weekly, I could command
the cordial co-operation, when at a loss, of all the
first scholars, antiquaries, and literary men of the
country; that without the trouble of attending
meetings, &c., I could freely become a member of
the "Society of Societies;" that the four thousand
volumes, to which I had, previously, access,
were increased more than ten thousand-fold. It
is one of the peculiar advantages of literary accumulation,
that it is only by diffusing the knowledge
of the materials amassed, and the information
gained, that their value is felt. Unlike the miser,
the scholar and antiquary, by expending, add to
the value of their riches.</p>
<p>Permit me to avail myself of the "good the
bounteous gods have sent me," and make one or
two inquiries through the medium of your columns.
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page184" name="page184"></a>{184}</span>In the first place, can any of your readers inform
me by whom a pamphlet, of the Elizabethan period,
noticed in the <i>Censura Literaria</i>, and entitled
<i>The Fraternitye of Vagabondes</i>, was reprinted,
some years since?—Was it by Machelle Stace, of
Scotland Yard, who died a brother of the Charter-House?</p>
<p>In the second place, can any of your clerical
readers tell me where I can find any account of
the late Rev. Mr. Genesse, of Bath, author of a
<i>History of the Stage</i>, in ten volumes, one of the
most elaborate and entertaining works ever published,
which must have been a labour of love, and
the labour of a life?</p>
<p>And, in the third and last place, I find, in the
<i>Bristol Gazette</i> of the early part of last month, the
following paragraph:—"THE RED MAIDS, 120
in number, enjoyed their annual dinner in honour
of the birthday of their great benefactor, Alderman
Whitson. The dinner consisted of joints of
<i>veal</i> (which they only have on this occasion), and
some dozens of plum puddings. The mayor and
Mayoress attended, and were much pleased to
witness the happy faces of the girls, to whom the
Mayoress distributed one shilling each."</p>
<p>Can any of your curious contributors give me
any account of these <i>Red Maids</i>?—why they
are so called, &c., &c.?—and, in fact, of the
charity in general?</p>
<p>It will not be one of the least of many benefits
of your publication, that, in noticing from
time to time the real intention of many ancient
charitable bequests, the purposes of the original
benevolent founder may be restored to their integrity,
and the charity devoted to the use of
those for whom it was intended, and who will
receive it as a charity, and not, as is too often the
case, be swallowed up as a mere place,—or worse,
a sinecure.</p>
<p class="author">ARTHUR GRIFFINHOOF, JUN.</p>
<a name="Shylock"></a>
<hr />
<h3>THE NAME OF SHYLOCK.</h3>
<p>Dr. Farmer has stated that Shakspere took the
name which he has given to one of the leading
characters in the <i>Merchant of Venice</i> from a pamphlet
entitled <i>Caleb Shilloche, or the Jew's
Prediction</i>. The date of the pamphlet, however, being
some years posterior to that of the play, renders
this origin impossible. Mr. C. Knight, who points
out this error, adds—"<i>Scialac</i> was the name of
a Marionite of Mount Libanus."</p>
<p>But "query," Was not <i>Shylock</i> a proper name
among the Jews, derived from the designation
employed by the patriarch Jacob in predicting
the advent of the Messiah—"until <i>Shiloh</i> come"?
(Gen. xlix. 10.) The objection, which might be
urged, that so sacred a name would not have been
applied by an ancient Jew to his child, has not
much weight, when we recollect that some Christians
have not shrunk from the blasphemous imposition
of the name <i>Emanuel</i> ("God with us")
upon their offspring. St. Jerome manifestly reads
SHILOACH, for he translates it by <i>Qui mittendus
est. (Lond. Encyc</i>. in voc. "Shiloh.") Now the
difference between <i>Shiloach</i> and <i>Shylock</i> is very
trivial indeed. I shall be very glad to have the
opinion of some of your numerous and able contributors
on this point.</p>
<p>But, after all, Shylock may have been a <i>family
name</i> familiar to the great dramatist. In all my
researches on the subject of <i>English surnames,</i>
however, I have but once met with it as a generic
distinction. In the <i>Battel Abbey Deeds</i> (penes
Sir T. Phillipps, Bart.) occurs a power of attorney
from John Pesemershe, Esq., to <i>Richard
Shylok</i>, of Hoo, co. Sussex, and others, to deliver
seizin of all his lands in Sussex to certain persons
therein named. The date of this document is
July 4, 1435.</p>
<p class="author">MARK ANTONY LOWER.</p>
<a name="transpo"></a>
<hr />
<h3>TRANSPOSITION OF LETTERS.</h3>
<p>I should be obliged if any of your readers would
give me the reason for the transposition of certain
letters, chiefly, but not exclusively, in proper
names, which has been effected in the course of
time.</p>
<p>The name of our Queen Bertha was, in the
seventh century, written Beorhte.</p>
<p>The Duke Brythnoth's name was frequently
written Byrthnoth, in the tenth century.</p>
<p>In Eardweard, we have dropped the <i>a</i>; in
Ealdredesgate, the <i>e</i>. In Aedwini, we have dropped
the first letter (or have sometimes transposed it),
although, I think, we are wrong; for the given
name Adwin has existed in my own family for
several centuries.</p>
<p>John was always written Jhon till about the
end of the sixteenth century; and in Chaucer's
time, the word <i>third</i>, as every body knows, was
written <i>thridde</i>, or <i>thrydde</i>. I believe that the <i>h</i>
in Jhon was introduced, as it was in other words
in German, to give force to the following vowel.
Certain letters were formerly used in old French
in like manner, which were dropped upon the
introduction of the accents.</p>
<p class="author">B. WILLIAMS.</p>
<p>Hillingdon, Jan. 5.</p>
<a name="pictures"></a>
<hr />
<h3>PICTURES OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AND CHARLES I. IN
CHURCHES.</h3>
<p>Your correspondent "R.O." will find two
pictures of Charles I. of the same allegorical character
as that described by him in his note (<i>antè</i>,
p. 137.), one on the wall of the stairs leading to
the north gallery of the church of St. Botolph,
Bishopsgate, and the other in the hall of the
law courts in Guildhall Yard. I know nothing
of the history of the first-mentioned picture; the
latter, until within a few years, hung on the wall,
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page185" name="page185"></a>{185}</span>above the gallery, in the church of St. Olave,
Jewry, when, upon the church undergoing repair,
it was taken down, and, by the parishioners,
presented to the corporation of London, who
placed it in its present position. In the church of
St. Olave there were two other pictures hung in
the gallery, one representing the tomb of Queen
Elizabeth, copied from the original at Westminster,
the other of Time on the Wing, inscribed with
various texts from Scripture. Both these pictures
were presented at the same time with the picture
of Charles I. to the corporation, and are now in
the hall in Guildhall Yard. The representation
of Queen Elizabeth's tomb is to be met with, I
believe, in some other of the London churches.
The picture in Bishopsgate Church is fully described
in the 1st vol. of Malcolm's <i>Londinium
Redivivum</i>, p. 243., and the St. Olave's pictures
are mentioned in the 4th vol. of the same work,
p. 563. Malcolm states he was not able to find
any account of the Bishopsgate painting in the
parish books. Hitherto I have not been able to
discover anything connected with the history of
the St. Olave's pictures, which, as the old church
was destroyed in the great fire of 1666, were
doubtless placed there subsequently to that year.
I shall be glad if any of your readers can throw
any light as to the time when, and the circumstances
under which, such pictures as I have
mentioned, referring to Queen Elizabeth and
Charles I., were placed in our churches.</p>
<p class="author">JAMES CROSBY.</p>
<a name="flaying"></a>
<hr />
<h3>FLAYING IN PUNISHMENT OF SACRILEGE.</h3>
<p>In the <i>Journal of the Archæological Institute</i>, for
September, 1848, there are some most interesting
notes on the subject of "Flaying in Punishment
of Sacrilege," by Mr. Way. Since then I have
felt peculiar interest in the facts and traditions
recorded by Mr. Way. Can any of your correspondents,
or Mr. Way himself, give any further
references to authors by whom the subject is mentioned,
besides those named in the paper to which
I allude? A few weeks ago I received a piece of
skin, stated to be human, and taken from the door
of the parish church of Hadstock, in Essex.
Together with this I received a short written
paper, apparently written some fifty years ago,
which ascribes the fact of human skin being found
on the door of that church, to the punishment, <i>not</i>
of <i>sacrilege</i>, but of a somewhat different crime.
The piece of skin has been pronounced to be
human by the highest authority. As the above
query might lead to some lengthy "notes," I
desire only to be informed of the titles of any
works, ancient or modern, in which distinct mention,
or allusion, is made of the punishment of
flaying.</p>
<p class="author">R.V.</p>
<p>Winchester.</p>
<a name="minor"></a>
<hr />
<h3>MINOR QUERIES.</h3>
<p><i>Pokership or Parkership</i>.—In Collins' <i>Peerage</i>,
vol. iv. p. 242., 5th edition, 1779, we are told
that Sir Robert Harley, of Wigmore Castle, in
1604, was made Forester of Boringwood, alias
Bringwood Forest, in com. Hereford, <i>with the
office of the 'Pokership</i>,' and custody of the forest
or chase of Prestwood for life. The same word
occurs in the edition (the 3rd) of 1741, and in
that edited by Sir Egerton Brydges in 1812
(vol. iv. p. 57.).</p>
<p>If <i>Pokership</i> be not a misprint or misreading of
the original authority, viz. <i>Pat. 2. Jac. I.</i> p. 21.,
for <i>Parkership</i>, can any of your readers tell me
the meaning of "the <i>Pokership</i>," which is not to be
found in any book of reference within my reach?
I like the "NOTES AND QUERIES" very much.</p>
<p>Audley End, Jan. 9. 1850.</p>
<p class="author">BRAYBROOKE.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Boduc or Boduoc on British Coins.</i>—I observe
there is a prevailing opinion that the inscription
on the British coin, "Boduc or Boduoc," must be
intended for the name of our magnanimous Queen
Boadicea. I am sorry to cast a cloud over so
pleasant a vision, but your little book of QUERIES
tempts me to throw in a doubt.</p>
<p>Although the name Budic is not met with in the
pedigrees of England, commonly given by Welsh
heralds, yet it is often found among the families
of the Welsh in Brittany, and as they are reported
to be early descendants of the Welsh of England,
there can be little doubt that the name was once
common in England. I beg leave, therefore, to
<i>query</i>, Whether the inscription is not intended for
a Regulus of Britain of that name?</p>
<p class="author">P.</p>
<br />
<p><i>The Origin of the word Snob.</i>—Can any of your
valuable correspondents give me the origin or
derivation of the word Snob?</p>
<p>When, and under what peculiar circumstances,
was it first introduced into our language?</p>
<p>In the town in which I reside, in the north of
England, the word Snob was formerly applied to
a <i>cobbler</i>, and the phrase was in use, "<i>Snip</i> the
<i>tailor</i>, and <i>Snob</i> the <i>cobbler</i>."</p>
<p>I cannot discover how and why the word Snob
was enlarged into its present comprehensive meaning.</p>
<p>Explanations of many of the slang phrases met
with in the dramatic works of the last century,
such as, "Thank you, sir, I owe you one," "A
Rowland for an Oliver," "Keep moving, dad,"
&c. &c. would perhaps give much light upon the
manners of the times, and an interesting history
might be compiled of the progress of slang phrases
to the present day.</p>
<p class="author">ALPHA.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Mertens, Martins, or Martini, the Printer.</i>—Can
any of your correspondents inform me what was
really the surname of Theodoric Mertens, Martins,
or Martini, the printer of Louvain, and who
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page186" name="page186"></a>{186}</span>was a friend of Erasmus? In a small volume of
his, now before me, printed in 1517, the colophon
gives: "Lovanii apud Theodoricum Martinum
anno MDXVII mense April;" while, on the reverse
of <i>the same leaf</i>, is a wooden block, of his device,
occupying the whole page, and beneath it are
inscribed the words "Theodoricus Martini." This
appears to put <i>Mertens</i> out of the question.</p>
<p class="author">W.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Queen's Messengers</i>.—I should esteem it a favour
conferred if any of your readers could give me
any memoranda touching the early origin of the
corps now termed Queen's Messengers, the former
"Knightes caligate of Armes." The only mention
that I have read of their origin is a brief notice in
Knight's <i>London</i>, No. 131. p. 91; but doubtless
there exists, did I know what works to consult,
many more voluminous a history of their origin
and proceedings than the short summary given in
the work of Mr. Knight. In whose reign were
they first created? and by whom were they appointed?
In fact, any data relating to their early
history would very much oblige, </p>
<p class="author">J.U.G.G.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Bishop Lesly of Ross' Epitaph.— Machoreus or
Macorovius, "De Prælio Aveniniano."</i>—Would any
of your readers be so kind as to favour me with a
copy of the Latin epitaph of Bishop Lesly, of
Ross, inscribed on his tomb in the abbey church
of Gurtenburg, near Brussels?</p>
<p>Can any one furnish the <i>entire</i> title and imprint
of a Latin poem, <i>De Prælio Aveniniano</i>, said to have
been written in 1594, by a Scottish Jesuit named
Alexander Macorovius, or Machoreus? Any particulars
concerning this author would gratify</p>
<p class="author">LLEWELYN ST. GEORGE.</p>
<br />
<p><i>The Word "Cannibal."</i>—When was the word
<i>Cannibal</i> first used in English books?—To what
language does it belong?—and what is its exact
meaning?</p>
<p class="author">W.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Sir William Rider</i>.—"H.F." would feel obliged
by a reference to any work containing an account
of Sir William Rider and his family. He was
Lord Mayor of London in 1600; and his daughter
Mary was married to Sir Thomas Lake, of
Cannons, Secretary of State temp. James I. He
wishes more particularly to ascertain the date of
Sir William Rider's death.</p>
<br />
<p><i>The Word "Poghele."</i>—What is the etymology
and precise meaning of the word "Poghele" (pronounced
Poughley), or rather the first part of it,
which occurs occasionally as the name of a place
in the county of Berks, and perhaps elsewhere?</p>
<p class="author">W.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Duncan Campbell.</i>—Was the Duncan Campbell,
of whom memoirs were written by Defoe, a real
or an imaginary person? If the former, where can
one find any authentic account of him?</p>
<p class="author">L.B.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Boston de Bury de Bib. Monasteriorum.</i>—Can
any of your correspondents give me a reference
to the original MS. of <i>Boston de Bury de Bibliothecis
Monasteriorum</i>?</p>
<p class="author">P.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Cazena on the Inquisition</i>.—Can any one tell
me what is the public opinion of Cazena's work on
the Inquisition? I see Limborch and many others
quoted concerning that tribunal, but never Cazena.
Is the book scarce?—or is it not esteemed?
I never saw but one copy. </p>
<p class="author">P.</p>
<br />
<p><i>The Reconciliation</i>, 1554.—In 1554, Cardinal
Pole directed a register to be kept in every parish
of all the parishioners who, on a certain day, were
to be reconciled to the Church of Rome and absolved.
(Burnet's <i>Ref</i>. vol. iii. p. 245.)</p>
<p>The Bishop of London's Declaration thereon
(Feb. 19. 1554) runs thus:—</p>
<blockquote>"And they not so reconciled, every one of them
shall have process made agaynst him accordyng to
the canons, as the case shall requyre; for which purpose
the pastours and curates of every paryshe shall be
commanded by their archedeacon to certyfye me in
writinge of every man and woman's name that is not
so reconciled."</blockquote>
<p>Have any of your readers at any time seen and
made a <i>note</i> of such a register?</p>
<p>The most probable place of deposit would be
the Bishop's Registry, but I have never yet been
fortunate enough to meet with one of these
curious returns. </p>
<p class="author">J.S.B.</p>
<a name="miscellanies"></a>
<hr class="full" />
<h2>MISCELLANIES.</h2>
<p><i>Darkness at the Crucifixion</i>.—The following
passage, in a volume of Lectures by the Rev. H.
Blunt, has fallen under my notice:—</p>
<blockquote>"It was this Dionysius (the Areopagite) of whom
the earliest Christian historians relate that, being at
Heliopolis, in Egypt, at the time of our Lord's crucifixion,
when he beheld the mid-day darkness which
attended that awful event, he exclaimed, 'Either the
God of Nature suffers, or the frame of the world will
be dissolved.'"</blockquote>
<p>Having very limited opportunity of studying the
ancient historians, I should be greatly obliged if
you would inform me from what work this account
is derived; or refer me to any authors, <i>not</i>
having embraced Christianity, who give a description
of the crucifixion of our Saviour; and especially
with reference to the "darkness over all the
earth" at the time of that event, mentioned by
St. Luke, who also adds, that "the sun was darkened."
Your kindly consenting, as you did in
your second number, to receive queries respecting
references, has induced me to trouble you so far.</p>
<p class="author">S.A.M.</p>
<p class="note">[Our correspondent will find much that is to his
purpose, both in the way of statements and of reference
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page187" name="page187"></a>{187}</span>to original authorities,
in Lardner's <i>Jewish and Heathen Testimonies</i>, chap. xiii. of the Heathen Authors;
vol. ii. p. 125. of the original 4to. edition; or vol. vii.
p. 370. of the 8vo. edition of his works by Kippis,
1788.]</p>
<br />
<p><i>High-Doctrine</i>.—In the Cambridgeshire fens
there are a great number of Dissenters, and I
believe Cromwell's Ironsides were chiefly recruited
from those districts. On the higher lands adjoining
are the old parish churches; and in conversation
it is not uncommon to hear the tenets of the
Church of England described as <i>High land Doctrine</i>,
in contra-distinction to the <i>Low land</i>, or
Dissenters' doctrine.</p>
<p>The thing is amusing, if nothing else, and I
heard it while staying some few years ago with
my brother, who lives on the edges of the
Cambridgeshire fens. </p>
<p class="author">E.H.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Wife of Robert de Bruce</i>.—In the Surrenden
Collection is an interesting roll, entitled "Liberatio
facta Ingelardo de Warlee Custodi Garderobe, 7 E. 2."</p>
<p>It is, as its title imports, the release to the
keeper of the wardrobe, for one year's accounts,
aaº. 7 E. 2.</p>
<p>I shall probably be able to send you therefrom
a few "notes" illustrative of the history of that
time.</p>
<p>As a commencement, I think that the subjoined
"note" will interest your historical readers.</p>
<p>It appears that the unfortunate wife of Robert
Bruce was then consigned to the care of the
Abbess of Barking, with an allowance of 20<i>s</i>. per
week for the same. She was, I believe, the daughter
of Henry de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and died
in 1328. In the above roll there is the following
entry:—</p>
<blockquote>
"Cs liberati Anne de Veer Abbatisse de Berkyng,
per manus domini Roberti de Wakfeld clerici, super
expensis domine Elizabethe uxoris Roberti de Brus,
percipientis per ebdomadum xxs., et ibidem perhendinantis."
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
"Cs liberati Johanni de Stystede valletto Abbatisse
de Berkyng, per manus proprias, super expensis
Domine de Brus in Abbathia de Berkyng perhendinantis."
</blockquote>
<p>It does not appear, in the above roll, how long
the hapless queen remained in the abbey.</p>
<p class="author">LAMBERT B. LARKING.</p>
<p>Ryarsh Vicarage. Dec. 14. 1849.</p>
<br />
<p><i>The Talisman of Charlemagne</i>.—I beg to refer
your correspondent, on the subject of Charlemagne's
Talisman, to what professes to be a correct
representation of this antique relic, in <i>The
Illustrated London News</i>, of March 8th, 1845; but
it is not there described as "a small nut, in a gold
filigree envelopment," and gives the idea of an
ornament much too large for the finger or even
wrist of any lady: that paper says,—</p>
<blockquote>"This curious object of virtu is described in the
Parisian journals as, 'la plus belle relique de
l'Europe;' and it has, certainly, excited considerable
interest in the archæological and religious circles of
the continent. The talisman is of fine gold, of round
form, as our illustration shows, set with gems, and in
the centre are two rough sapphires, and a portion of
the Holy Cross; besides other relics brought from the
Holy Land."</blockquote>
<p>The rest of the description much resembles your
correspondent's, and asserts the talisman to be at
that time the property of Prince Louis Napoleon,
then a prisoner in the château of Ham.</p>
<p class="author">S.A.M.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Sayers the Caricaturist.</i>—In Wright's <i>England
under the House of Hanover</i>, vol. ii. p. 83 <i>n</i>., it is
stated that James Sayer, the caricaturist, "died
in the earlier part of the present century, no long
time after his patron, Pitt." In <i>Sepulchral
Reminiscences of a Market Town</i>, by Mr. Dawson
Turner (Yarmouth, 8vo. 1848), p. 73 <i>n</i>., the caricaturist
is called Sayers, and is said to have died
on the 20th of April, 1823. </p>
<p class="author">C.H. COOPER.</p>
<p>Cambridge, Dec. 29. 1849.</p>
<br />
<p><i>May-Day</i>.—To what old custom does the following
passage allude?</p>
<blockquote>"It is likewise on the first day of this month [May]
that we see the ruddy milk-maid exerting herself in a
most sprightly manner under a pyramid of silver
tankards, and, like the virgin Tarpeia, oppressed by the
costly ornaments which her benefactors lay upon
her."—<i>Spectator</i>, No. 365.</blockquote>
<p class="author">MELANION.</p>
<p class="note">[Our correspondent will find much curious illustration
of this now obsolete custom in Strutt's <i>Sports
and Pastimes</i> p. 357. (ed. Hone), where the preceding
passage from the <i>Spectator</i> is quoted; and we are told
"these decorations of silver cups, tankards, &c. were
borrowed for the purpose, and hung round the milk
pails (with the addition of flowers and ribands), which
the maidens <i>carried upon their heads</i> when they went
to the houses of their customers, and danced in order
to obtain a small gratuity from each of them." In
Tempest's <i>Cryes of London</i> there is a print of a
well-known merry milk-maid, Kate Smith, dancing with
the milk pail decorations upon her head. See also
Hone's <i>Every Day Book</i>, i. p. 576.]</p>
<br />
<p><i>Dr. Dee's Petition</i>.—There is no mention of
Dr. Dee's petition to King James in the list of his
works in Tanner's <i>Bibliotheca Britannica</i>; but in
Beloe's <i>Anecdotes</i>, vol. ii. p. 263., is an account of
the preface to a scarce work of his, in which he
defends himself from the charge of being a conjurer,
or caller of divels, &c.</p>
<p>Tanner mentions his <i>Supplication to Queen Mary
for the Recovery of Ancient Writings and Monuments</i>.</p>
<p>I fear, however, that your correspondent is acquainted
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page188" name="page188"></a>{188}</span>
with these more easily obtained accounts of Dr. Dee's works.</p>
<p>the <i>Dictionary</i> of M. l'Abbé Ladoocat states
that he died in England, A.D. 1607, at the age of
81; so that his petition to James must have been
made at the close of his life.</p>
<p class="author">HERMES.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Lines quoted by Goethe</i>.—I beg to inform your
correspondent "TREBOR," that he will find the
lines quoted by Goethe in his <i>Autobiography</i>, in
Rochester's <i>Satire against Mankind</i>.</p>
<p class="author">J.S.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Queen Mary's Expectations</i>.—Most persons have
heard of the anxiety of Queen Mary I., for the
birth of a child, and of her various disappointments;
but many may not be aware that among the Royal
Letters in the State Paper Office, are letters in
French, prepared in expectation of the event,
addressed by Queen Mary, without date, except
"Hampton Court, 1555" (probably about May),
to her father-in-law, the Emperor Charles V., to
Henry II., King of France, to Eleonora, Queen
Dowager of France, to Ferdinand I., King of Bohemia,
to Mary, the Queen Dowager of Bohemia,
to the Doge of Venice, to the King of Hungary, and
to the Queen Dowager of Hungary, announcing to
each the birth of her child, the word being so
written <i>fil</i>, as to admit of being made <i>filz</i>, or of
an easy alteration to the feminine <i>fille</i>, if necessary.</p>
<p class="author">J.E.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns</i>.—I saw it
mentioned in a review in the <i>Guardian</i> some few
weeks ago, as one merit of the last edition of the
Book of Common Prayer, published by Eyre and
Spottiswoode, that it had restored Bishop Ken's
Morning and Evening Hymns to their original
purity.</p>
<p>I have no means of accurately testing this assertion
by reference to any undoubted version of the
date of the original publication, but I have no
doubt that this might easily be done through the
medium of your paper; and I think you will agree
with me that, if it should be substantiated, not
only is credit due to the Queen's printers, but also
that it is an example which ought to be followed,
without exception, in all future editions of the
Prayer Book.</p>
<p>The variations, which I have noted in the ordinary
version of the Hymns, as given in other
Prayer Books, are too numberous to be inserted
here, not to mention the omission of several
stanzas, three in the Morning Hymn, together
with the Doxology, and one in the Evening
Hymn.</p>
<p>If they be false readings, no doubt they have
been allowed to creep in inadvertently, and need
only pointing out to be corrected. It occurred
to me that this might be done more effectually in
your columns, and I venture to hope that you will
not consider it a task unworthy the high aim
which you have in view in your admirable publication.</p>
<p class="author">OXONIENSIS.</p>
<br />
<p class="note">[Bishop Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns have
been restored in Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode's last
rubricated edition of the Common Prayer, as far as
was practicable; they were carefully collated with the
original, and all variations corrected, except those
which would materially affect immemorial use. The
entire hymns are of great length, but all those verses
which have been at all generally sung in churches are
to be found in the edition to which we refer.</p>
<p class="note">We may take this opportunity of noticing that the
Queen's printers have lately restored the lesser Saints'
Days to the kalendar in their smaller editions of the
Common Prayer. We are not aware of any other
similar editions in which the kalendar appears thus
complete.]</p>
<p><i>Etymology of "Daysman</i>."—What is the etymology
of <i>Daysman</i>, which, in the Book of Job,
and in some of our provincial dialects, means a
mediator or arbitrator?</p>
<p class="author">MARK ANTONY LOWER.</p>
<p class="note">[NARES defines <i>Daysman</i>, an umpire or arbitrator,
from his fixing a day for decision; and adds, "Mr.
Todd shows that <i>day</i> sometimes meant Judgment."
Jacob, in his <i>Law Dictionary</i>, tells us, "Days-man
signifies, in the North of England, an arbitrator or
person chosen to determine an affair in dispute, who is
called a <i>Dies-man</i> or <i>Days-man</i>." Jacob's definition
may be again illustrated from NARES:—"In Switzerland
(as we are informed by Simlerus) they had some
common arbitrators, or <i>dayesmen</i>, in every towne, that
made a friendly composition betwixt man and man."—Burton, <i>Anat</i>.]</p>
<br />
<p><i>Roland Monoux</i>.—In answer to your correspondent
"M", p. 137., the monumental brass in
his possession is, no doubt, from the church at
<i>Edmonton</i>, Middlesex. Lysons (<i>Environs of London</i>,
vol. ii. p. 263.), in his description of Edmonton
Church, says, "Near the door is a brass plate,
with some English verses to the memory of ROLAND
MONOUX (no date)." He subjoins, in a <i>note</i>,
"arms—on a chevron betw. 3 oak-leaves as many
bezants, on a chief 2 anchors, a market for difference.
On the brass plate are some English verses,
nowise remarkable."</p>
<p>These arms (omitting the <i>chief</i>) are those borne
by the Baronet Monnoux of Sandy in Bedfordshire
(extinct in 1814), who was descended from
Sir George Monox, of Walthamstow, Lord Mayor
of London, who died in 1543, to whom and his
lady there are brasses in Walthamstow Church.
ROLAND of Edmonton was doubtless of the same
family. I am not able to give an opinion of the <i>date</i>
of the brass in question; but it might be readily
conjected from the style of its execution.</p>
<p>Your readers will, I am sure, all unite with me
in commendation of your correspondent "M's"
correct feeling in offering to restore this monument
to its original site. I hope "M's" example
will find many followers. There are hundreds of
<span class="pagenum"><a id="page189" name="page189"></a>{189}</span>
these pillaged brasses in the hands of "collectors," and your
admirable publication will have effected
a great public good, if it shall have been instrumental
in promoting their restoration.</p>
<p>Cambridge, Jan. 1. 1850.</p>
<p class="author">E. VENTRIS.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Ancient Motto</i>.—In reference to a query (No. 6.
p. 93.), and a reply (No. 7. p. 104.), permit me to
remark, that St. Augustine, the celebrated Bishop
of Hippo, was the person who caused to be engraved
on his table the distich against detractors.
Possidius, in his Life of that Father (S. Augustini,
<i>Opera Omnia</i>, Paris, 1690, vol. x. part ii. p. 272.),
gives the verses—no doubt an adaptation of
Horace—thus:—</p>
<div class="poem">
<p> "Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere vitam</p>
<p> Hanc mensam indignam noverit esse sibi."</p>
</div>
<p>The Benedictine editors subjoin two readings
of the pentameter:—</p>
<div class="poem">
<p> "Hac mensa indignam noverit esse suam."</p>
<p>"Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi."</p>
</div>
<p class="author">LLEWELYN ST. GEORGE.</p>
<br />
<p><i>Mr. Cresswell and Miss Warneford</i>.—At p. 157.
of the "NOTES AND QUERIES," your correspondent
"B." inquires about a pamphlet relating to the
marriage, many years ago, of Mr. Cresswell
and Miss Warneford. "P.C.S.S." cannot give the
precise title of that pamphlet in question; but he
is enabled to state, on the authority of Watts
(<i>Biblioth. Brit.</i>), and on that of his old friend
Sylvanus Urban (<i>Gent. Mag.</i> vol. xvii. p. 543.),
that it was published in London, towards the end
of the year 1747, and that the very remarkable
and very disgraceful transactions to which it refers
were afterwards (in 1749) made the subject of a
novel, called <i>Dalinda</i>, or <i>The Double Marriage</i>.
Lond. 12mo. Price threepence.</p>
<p>The gentleman who was the hero of this scandalous
affair was Mr. Thomas Estcourt Cresswell,
of Pinkney Park, Wilts, M.P. for Wootton Bassett.
He married Anne, the sole and very wealthy
heiress of Edward Warneford, Esq. As it cannot
be the object of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" to
revive a tale of antiquated scandal, "P.C.S.S."
will not place upon its pages the details of this
painful affair—the cruel injury inflicted upon
Miss Scrope (the lady to whom Mr. Cresswell
was said to have been secretly married before his
union with Miss Warneford)—and the base and
unmanly contrivance by which, it was stated, that
he endeavoured to keep possession of both wives
at the same time. Miss Scrope appears to have
retained, for a considerable time, a deep sense of
her injuries; for in 1749 she published a pamphlet,
in her own name, called <i>Miss Scrope's Answer to
Mr. Cresswell's Narrative</i>. (Lond. Baldwin. Price
2<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.)</p>
<p>If "B." should be desirous of further information,
he is referred, by "P.C.S.S.," to the <i>General
Evening Post</i> of Oct. 3. and 31. 1747, to the <i>Gentleman's
Magazine</i> for that month and year, and to
the same work, vol. xix. pp. 192. 288.</p>
<p class="author">P.C.S.S.</p>
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<p>Little as public attention has of late years been
devoted to commentating upon Pope, his writings
and literary history, there are no doubt many able
and zealous illustrators of them among lovers of
literature for its own sake: and many a curious
note upon the Bard of Twickenham and his works
will probably be evoked by the announcement,
that now is the moment when they may be produced
with most advantage, when Mr. Murray is
about to bring forth a new edition of Pope, under
the able and experienced editorship of Mr. Croker.
Besides numerous original inedited letters, Mr.
Croker's edition will have the advantage of some
curious books bought at the Brockley Hall sale,
including four volumes of Libels upon Pope, and a
copy of Ruffhead's Life of him, with Warburton's
manuscript notes.</p>
<p>No one has rendered better service to the study
of Gothic architecture in this country than Mr.
J.H. Parker, of Oxford. The value of his admirable
<i>Glossary of Terms used in Architecture</i>, is
attested by the fact, that it has already reached a
fourth edition, and that another will soon be called
for. But we doubt whether he has done any
thing better calculated to promote this interesting
branch of Archæology than by the production of
his <i>Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture</i>,
which—originally written as part of a series of
elementary lectures recommended by the Committee
of the Oxford Architectural Society to be
delivered to the junior members, and considered
useful and interesting by those who heard them—
is now published at the request of the Society. A
more interesting volume on the subject, or one
better calculated to give such a knowledge of it, as
is essential to any thing like a just appreciation of
the peculiar characteristics of our church
architecture, could scarcely have been produced, while
its compact size and numerous illustrations fit it
to become a tourist's travelling companion.</p>
<p>We have great pleasure in directing attention
to the advertisement inserted in another column
respecting some improvements about to be introduced
into the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. This
venerable periodical has maintained its station
uninterruptedly in our literature from the year 1731.
From the times of Johnson and Cowper it has been
the medium by which many men of the greatest
eminence have communicated with the public. At
all times it has been the sole depository of much
valuable information of a great variety of kinds.
We are confident that under the new management
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it will put forth fresh claims to the favour of the public.
Many writers of high reputation in historical
and antiquarian literature are henceforth
to be enlisted in its service. We shall look for the
forthcoming number with great interest.</p>
<p>Scheible, of Stuttgart, who is doubtless known
to our readers as the publisher of some very
curious works illustrative of the popular literature
of Germany of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
has just commenced a new Library of
Magic, &c., or <i>Bibliothek der Zanber-Geheimnisse-und
Offenbarungs-Bucher</i>. The first volume of it
is devoted to a work ascribed to that prince of
magicians, our old familiar, Dr. Faustus, and bears
the imposing title <i>Doktor Johannes Faust's Magia
Naturalis et Innaturalis, oder Dreifacher Höllenzwang,
leiztes Testament und Siegelkunst</i>. It is taken
from a MS. of the last century, filled with magical
drawings and devices enough to summon back
again from the Red Sea all the spirits that ever
were laid in it. It is certainly a curious book to
publish in the middle of the nineteenth century.</p>
<p>Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell the extensive
and valuable Collection of MSS. in all languages
formed by the late Mr. Rodd, on Monday the 4th
of February, and five following days. The catalogue
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admit, a classified one. There are upwards of one
thousand lots in the sale—many of a very curious
and interesting character. There are Greek and
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his <i>History of the Coinage of Great Britain</i>; which
work, it is stated, contains only a very small portion
of the materials he had brought together.
One lot consists of a mass of documents and papers
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their intermarriages from the reign of Henry II.
to the present time. Well may Mr. Sotheby talk
of their proving a source of amusement to any
person having room to sort them, and time to devote
to their arrangement.</p>
<p>Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of Piccadilly,
commence their sales on Monday next, with a four
days' miscellaneous sale of works on theology,
history, classics, voyages and travels, and standard
works in foreign and English general literature.
They have some important sales coming on, of
which our readers shall have due notice.</p>
<p>We have received the following new Catalogues:—</p>
<p>"Catalogue of valuable second-hand Books in Divinity,
the Classics, Law, and Miscellaneous, on sale
by William Heath, 29 1/2. Lincoln's Inn Fields."</p>
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High Holborn."</p>
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Books, in fine condition, on sale at the low Prices
affixed, by W. Waller and Son, 188. Fleet Street."</p>
<p>Messrs. Waller have also forwarded to us a
Catalogue recently published by them, which contains
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<p>KNIGHT'S ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ARABIAN NIGHTS. (Last
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<p>LEYBOURN'S MATHEMATICAL REPOSITORY. New Series. Vols.
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<p>MR. HICKSON'S <i>interesting Paper upon "Marlowe," in our
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present state of our literature.</p>
<p>Time was when the whole field of English Literature was before
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<span class="pagenum"><a id="page192" name="page192"></a>{192}</span>
<h4>No. I., for 1850, of </h4>
<h2>JOHN MILLER'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, OLD AND NEW,</h2>
<p class="textc">On sale at 43. Chandos Street, Trafalgar Square, is ready this day,
to be had gratis, and is sent (if required) postage free to any
Book-buyer. The prices are for ready money only.</p>
<p>The following List has been made with a view to exhibit the
character of the selections for the Catalogue generally, as well as
the moderate prices affixed.</p>
<p>It is published regularly every month, with occasional supplemental
sheets and classed Catalogues, embodying in its contents, throughout
the year, works on Archæology, History, Biography, Topography,
Classics, Divinity, Language, &c. together with Poetry and the
Drama, collections relating to Irish History and Antiquities, Books
of Prints, Architecture, Books of Sports, and Treatises on Geology
and Mineralogy, Botany, Gardening, and Domestic Economy.</p>
<p>ANGLING BOOKS:—FISHER'S ANGLING
SOUVENIR, beautifully illustrated. Fcap. 8vo. half morocco binding,
7<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.—HOFLAND'S BRITISH ANGLER'S MANUAL, by JESSE.
Nearly 100 Engravings. Post 8vo. 8<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>—CHITTY'S FLY-FISHER'S
TEXT-BOOK. 12 beautiful Steel Plates. 8vo. half calf, gilt, 7<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.</p>
<p>BALLAD COLLECTIONS:—EVANS' OLD
BALLADS. Best Edition. 4 vols. 8vo. 12<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. 1810—GUTCH'S
ROBIN HOOD GARLANDS and BALLADS, profusely illustrated by
FAIRHOLT. 2 vols. 8vo. 18<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. 1847.—NICHOL'S SELECT COLLECTION
OF FUGITIVE POETRY. 8 vols. 18mo. half calf. Portraits.
6<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>.—RITSON'S ENGLISH ANTHOLOGY. 3 vols. post 8vo. half
morocco extra. 14<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. 1794.—RITSON'S SELECT COLLECTIONS of
ENGLISH SONGS. 3 vols. post 8vo. calf neat, with Music, 15<i>s</i>.
1783.—ROWTON'S FEMALE POETS OF GREAT BRITAIN, Chronologically
arranged. Square 8vo. 10<i>s</i>. 6<i>d</i>. 1848.</p>
<p>BOOKS OF SPORTS:—BLOME'S GENTLEMAN'S
RECREATION IN THE SPORTS OF HORSEMANSHIP, HAWKING,
HUNTING, FOWLING, FISHING, &c. Folio, calf neat, fine Plates.
1<i>l</i>. 1<i>s.</i> 1710.—GALLERY OF ENGLISH RACE-HORSES AND PORTRAITS
OF SPORTSMEN. 73 Plates. Imp. 8vo. cloth, gilt, 15<i>s.</i> 1844.—
MORLEY'S ESSAY ON ARCHERY, 8vo. Plates. Half calf, gilt, 5<i>s.</i>
1792.</p>
<p>BOSWELL'S (J.) LIFE OF DR. S. JOHNSON,
including his Tour to the Hebrides, to which is added
Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds,
Stevens, &c. Edited by J.W. CROKER. Cloth. 50 Plates, 1<i>l</i>. 1<i>s.</i>
1835.</p>
<p>BROWN'S (SIR THOMAS) COMPLETE
WORKS, containing his Vulgar Errors, Religio Medici, and
Miscellaneous Writings, complete in 1 vol. folio, calf, gilt, fine
port, by White, 18<i>s.</i></p>
<p>BUCKLAND'S RELIQUIÆ DILUVINÆ,
on OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORGANIC REMAINS,
contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvian Gravel, and of other
Geological Phenomena. 4to. Fine Plates, some coloured, scarce,
1<i>l</i>. 1<i>s.</i></p>
<p>BURTON'S (T.) CROMWELLIAN DIARY,
from 1656 to 1659, published from the Original Autograph Manuscript,
with an Introduction, containing an Account of the Parliament
of 1654, edited and illustrated with Notes, by J.T. RUTT.
4 vols. 8vo. front., neatly bound in half calf, gilt, 16<i>s</i>.</p>
<p>BYRON'S (LORD) LETTERS AND
JOURNALS, with Notices of his Life, by THOMAS MOORE,
3 vols. 8vo., illustrated with 44 Engravings by the Findens, from
Designs by Turner, Stanfield, &c., elegantly half-bound morocco,
marble edges, by Hayday, 1<i>l</i>. 8<i>s.</i></p>
<p>COVERDALE'S BIBLE. The Holy Scriptures
faithfully and truly translated by MILES COVERDALE, Bishop
of Exeter, 1535, reprinted from the Duke of Sussex's copy. 4to.
very elegantly bound in purple calf, blind tooled in antique style,
gilt edges, fine copy. 2<i>l</i>. 2<i>s.</i> Bagster, 1838.</p>
<p>DANIELL'S (WM.) SKETCHES, representing
the Native Tribes, Animals, and Scenery of Southern Africa,
from Drawings made by S. DANIELL. Royal 4to. half bd. morocco,
uncut, consisting of 48 fine engravings of animals, scenery,
portraits of the various tribes, &c. Proofs on India paper, 1<i>l</i>. 1<i>s.</i>
1820.</p>
<p>EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA. DODSLEY'S
Select Collection of Old Plays. 12 vols. 12mo. old calf, gilt,
neat. 1<i>l</i>. 1<i>s.</i>—DRYDEN'S Entire Dramatic Works. 6 Vols. 12mo.
calf, neat print. 8<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> 1717.—SHIRLEY'S Dramatic Works and
Poems. By the Rev. A. DYCE. 6 vols. 8vo., portrait. 1<i>l</i>. 4<i>s.</i>
1833.—MIDDLETON'S (THOMAS) Dramatic Works, with Life and
Notes, by the Rev. A. DYCE. 5 vols. 8vo. With autograph of
LEIGH HUNT. 1<i>l</i>. 4<i>s.</i> 1840.</p>
<p>FREEMASONS' (The) QUARTERLY REVIEW,
from its commencement in 1834, to the Year 1847, inclusive.
14 vols. 8vo. newly and elegantly half bound, purple calf,
backs emblematically tooled, only 3<i>l</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 1834-47.</p>
<p>GIBBON'S (E.) HISTORY OF THE DECLINE
AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 6 vols.
4to. calf, gilt, good copy. 1<i>l</i>. 5<i>s.</i> 1788.</p>
<p>KAY'S SERIES OF ORIGINAL PORTRAITS AND
CARICATURE ETCHINGS, with Biographical
Sketches and Illustrative Anecdotes. 2 thick vols. 4to. half
bd., morocco, marbled edges. 329 engraved portraits. 3<i>l</i>. 13<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>
1838.</p>
<p>NICOLAS'S (Sir H.) TESTAMENTA VETUSTA,
being Illustrations from Wills of Manners and Customs
as well as of the Descents and Possessions of many Distinguished
Families, from the Reign of Henry the Second, to the Accession
of Queen Elizabeth, with Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas. 2 vols.
royal 8vo. bds. 15<i>s.</i> 1826.</p>
<p>PAYNE'S ROYAL DRESDEN GALLERY,
from Pictures of the Great Masters. 2 vols. 4to. Complete in
parts: a Subscriber's copy, fine plates. 1<i>l</i>. 16<i>s.</i> 1849.</p>
<p>PLOWDON'S (Dr. F.) HISTORICAL REVIEW
OF THE STATE OF IRELAND, from the Invasion
of Henry II. to its Union with Great Britain in 1801; with Appendices
of Original Papers. Portrait. 3 vols. 4to. Half calf,
uncut. 1<i>l</i>. 1<i>s.</i> 1803.</p>
<p>SCRIPTORES REI RESTICÆ. Opera
Agricolationum Columellæ, Varronis, Catonisque, nec non Paladii.
Annot. Beroaldi. Folio, calf, fine copy, rubricated capitals,
gilt edges. 16<i>s.</i> Bononiæ, 1504.</p>
<p>STRUTT'S CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND,
or a Complete History, Civil and Ecclesiastical, of the Ancient
Britons and Saxons, from Cæsar to the Conquest, with a View of
Manners, Customs, Habits, &c. Many Plates, 2 vols. 4to. half bd.
russia, neat, 1<i>l</i>. 10<i>s.</i> 1777.</p>
<p>WILBERFORCE (WILLIAM), THE LIFE
AND CORRESPONDENCE OF, edited and arranged by his
Sons, the Rev. R.T. WILBERFORCE and the Rev. SAM. WILBERFORCE.
5 vols. crown 8vo. Portraits, &c. Calf, gilt. 1<i>l</i>. 4<i>s.</i>
1838.</p>
<p>WILKIE. THE GALLERY, with Notices
Biographical and Critical, a Portrait of WILKIE, and a View of
his Birth-place. Folio, 44 fine Engravings. 2<i>l</i>. 2<i>s.</i> A subscriber's copy. 1849.</p>
<p>WILLIAM III.—LETTERS ILLUSTRATIVE
OF THE REIGN OF, from 1696 to 1708, addressed to
the Duke of SHREWSBURY, by JAMES VERNON, Esq., Secretary of
State, now first published from the Originals, edited by G.P.R. JAMES, Esq., 3 vols. 8vo. Fine portrait. Half calf, gilt,
14<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> 1841.</p>
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<hr class="adverts" />
<blockquote class="footnote">
<a id="footnote1" name="footnote1"></a>
<b>Footnote 1</b>: <a href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
<p> I presume in his <i>Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu</i>.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="footnote">
<a id="footnote2" name="footnote2"></a>
<b>Footnote 2</b>: <a href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
<p>Duthilloeul, according to Mr. Bruce, says 251.</p>
</blockquote>
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in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in
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