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Dr. Todd</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page83">83</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Defence of a Bald Head, by J. Payne Collier</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page84">84</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Royal Household Allowances</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page85">85</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Adversaria:—Printers' Couplets—Charles +Martel</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page86">86</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Bodenham and Ling</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page86">86</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Travelling in England</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page87">87</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Minor Notes:—Ancient Alms Dish—Bishop +that Burneth—Ironworks in Sussex, &c.—Order of +Minerva, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page87">87</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Queries Answered:—</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page88">88</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Dorne the Bookseller</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page88">88</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Henno Rusticus</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page89">89</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Myles Blomefylde</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page90">90</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Answers to Minor Queries:—Curse of +Scotland—Katherine Pegg—Rev. T. Leman—Burnet +Prize—Humble Pie, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page90">90</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MINOR QUERIES:</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Eva, Daughter, &c.—John de +Daundelyon—Genealogy of European Sovereigns—Duke of +Ashgrove, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page92">92</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">MISCELLANEOUS:—</td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page94">94</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Books and Odd Volumes wanted</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page95">95</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Notices to Correspondents</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page95">95</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td align="left">Advertisements</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#page95">95</a></td> +</tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> +<h3>A FEW WORDS OF EXPLANATION.</h3> +<p>It was in no boastful or puffing spirit that, when thanking a +correspondent in our last number for "his endeavour to enlarge our +circulation," and requesting all our friends and correspondents "to +follow PHILO'S example by bringing 'NOTES AND QUERIES' under the +notice of such of their friends as take an interest in literary +pursuits," we added "for it is obvious that they will extend the +usefulness of our paper in proportion as they increase its +circulation." We wished merely to state a plain obvious fact. Such +must necessarily be the case, and our experience proves it to be +so; for the number of Queries which have been solved in our +columns, has gone on increasing in proportion to the gradual +increase of our circulation;—a result which fully justifies +that passage of our opening address which stated, "that we did not +anticipate any holding back by those whose Notes were most worth +having."</p> +<p>No sooner is information asked for through our medium, than a +host of friendly pens are busied to supply it. From north, south, +east, and west,—from quarters the most unlooked for, do we +receive Notes and Illustrations of every subject which is mooted in +our pages. Many of these replies, too, though subscribed only with +an initial or a pseudonyme, <i>we</i> know to be furnished by +scholars who have won the foremost rank in their respective +branches of study. Such men manifest, by their willingness to +afford information to those who need it, and their readiness to +receive it from those who have it to bestow, the truthfulness of +old Chaucer's portrait of the Scholar:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Ful gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Nor do our columns exhibit the total result of our labours. +Besides the information communicated to ourselves, some of our +friends who inserted Queries under their own names, have received +answers to them without our intervention.</p> +<p>In addition to those friends who promised us their assistance, +we receive communications from quarters altogether unexpected. Our +present number furnishes a striking instance of this, in the answer +to Mr. Bruce's inquiry respecting the "Monmouth Ash," kindly +communicated by the Earl of Shaftesbury, its distinguished +owner.</p> +<p>We trust that each successive paper shows improvement in our +arrangements, and proves also that our means of procuring answers +to the Queries addressed to us are likewise increasing. In the +belief that such is the case, we feel justified in repeating, even +at the risk of being accused of putting in <i>two</i> words for +ourselves under the semblance of <i>one</i> of our readers, "that +it is obvious that our friends will extend the usefulness of our +paper in proportion as they increase its circulation."</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page82" id="page82"></a>{82}</span> +<h3>MONMOUTH'S ASH.</h3> +<p><i>Letter from the Earl of Shaftesburg accompanying a short +"History of Monmouth Close," formerly printed by his Lordship for +the information of persons visiting that spot.</i></p> +<p>The whole of Woodlands now belongs to me. The greater part of it +was bought by my late brother soon after he came of age.</p> +<p>I knew nothing of Monmouth Close till the year 1787, when I was +shooting on Horton Heath; the gamekeeper advised me to try for game +in the inclosures called Shag's Heath, and took me to see Monmouth +Close and the famous ash tree there.</p> +<p>I then anxiously inquired of the inhabitants of the neighbouring +houses respecting the traditions concerning Monmouth Close and the +celebrated ash tree, and what I then learnt I have printed for the +information of any person who may visit that spot.</p> +<p>What I have since learnt convinces me that the Duke was not +going to Christchurch. He was on his way to Bournemouth, where he +expected to find a vessel. Monmouth Close is in the direct line +from Woodyates to Bournemouth.</p> +<p>About sixty years ago there was hardly a house there. It was the +leading place of all the smugglers of this neighborhood.</p> +<p class="author">SHAFTESBURY.</p> +<p>St. Giles's House, Nov. 27. 1849.</p> +<h4>HISTORY OF MONMOUTH CLOSE.</h4> +<p>"The small inclosure which has been known by the name of +MONMOUTH CLOSE ever since the capture of the Duke of Monmouth +there, in July, 1685, is one of a cluster of small inclosures, five +in number, which stood in the middle of Shag's Heath, and were +called 'The Island.' They are in the parish of Woodlands.</p> +<p>"The tradition of the neighbourhood is this: viz. That after the +defeat of the Duke of Monmouth at Sedgemoor, near Bridgewater, he +rode, accompanied by Lord Grey, to Woodyates, where they quitted +their horses; and the Duke having changed clothes with a peasant, +endeavoured to make his way across the country to Christchurch. +Being closely pursued, he made for the Island, and concealed +himself in a ditch which was overgrown with fern and underwood. +When his pursuers came up, an old woman gave information of his +being in the Island, and of her having seen him filling his pocket +with peas. The Island was immediately surrounded by soldiers, who +passed the night there, and threatened to fire the neighbouring +cotts. As they were going away, one of them espied the skirt of the +Duke's coat, and seized him. The soldier no sooner knew him, than +he burst into tears, and reproached himself for the unhappy +discovery. The Duke when taken was quite exhausted with fatigue and +hunger, having had no food since the battle but the peas which he +had gathered in the field. The ash tree is still standing under +which the Duke was apprehended, and is marked with the initials of +many of his friends who afterwards visited the spot.</p> +<p>"The family of the woman who betrayed him were ever after holden +in the greatest detestation, and are said to have fallen into +decay, and to have never thriven afterwards. The house where she +lived, which overlooked the spot, has since fallen down. It was +with the greatest difficulty that any one could be made to inhabit +it.</p> +<p>"The Duke was carried before Anthony Etterick, Esq., of Holt, a +justice of the peace, who ordered him to London.</p> +<p>"His gold snuff box was afterwards found in the pea-field, full +of gold pieces, and brought to Mrs. Uvedaile, of Horton. One of the +finders had fifteen pounds for half the contents or value of +it.</p> +<p>"Being asked what he would do if set at liberty,—the Duke +answered, that if his horse and arms were restored, he only desired +to ride through the army, and he defied them all to take him +again."</p> +<hr /> +<h3>DRAYTON'S POEMS.</h3> +<p>In addition to the notes on Drayton by Dr. Farmer, communicated +in your 2nd number, the following occurs in a copy of Drayton's +<i>Poems</i>, printed for Smithwicke, in 1610, 12mo.:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"See the <i>Return from Parnassus</i> for a good character of +Drayton.</p> +<p>"See an <i>Epigram</i> by Drayton, I suppose, prefixed to +Morley's first <i>Booke of Balletes</i>.</p> +<p>"A Sonnet to <i>John Davies</i>, before his <i>Holy Roode, or +Christ's Crosse</i>, 4to. (1610). A Poem in 6 line stanzas.</p> +<p>"Another to the old edit. of <i>Wit's Commonwealth</i>.</p> +<p>"Commendatory Verses before Chapman's <i>Hesiod</i>.</p> +<p>"Sonnet to Ant. Mundy's 2nd Book of <i>Primation of Greece</i>, +1619.</p> +<p>"His <i>Heroical Epistles</i> were newly enlarged and +republished in 8vo. 1598; which is the most antient edition we have +seen or read of.—[<i>Bodl. Cat.</i>]—<i>Biographia his +Art</i>.</p> +<p>"Another edition, <i>as we have heard</i>, in +1610.—<i>Ibid.</i></p> +<p>"See Merc's <i>Wit's Treasury</i>, p. 281. A modern edition was +published by <i>Oldmixon</i>.—Cibber's <i>Lives</i>, 4. +204.</p> +<p>"See Warton's <i>Essay on Pope</i>, 296.</p> +<p>"Drayton's last Copy of Verses was prefixed to Sir John +Beaumont's <i>Poems</i>, 1629."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>So far Dr. Farmer, whose books are often valuable for the notes +on the fly-leaves. Should any one act upon the suggestion of your +correspondent, and think of a selection from Drayton, it would be +necessary to collate the various editions of his poems, which, as +they are numerous, evince his popularity with his +contemporaries.</p> +<p>Malone asserted that the <i>Baron's Wars</i> was not +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page83" id="page83"></a>{83}</span> +published until 1610. I have before me a copy, probably the first +edition, with the following title: "<i>The Barrons Wars in the +raigne of Edward the Second, with England's Heroical Epistles</i>, +by Michaell Drayton. At London, Printed by J.R. for N. Ling, 1603," +12mo.; and the poem had been printed under the title of +<i>Mortimerindos</i>, in 4to., 1596.</p> +<p>I have an imperfect copy of an early edition (circa 1600) of +"<i>Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall. Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the +Moon</i>, by Michaell Drayton Esquier. At London, printed by R.B. +for N.L. and J. Flaskett."</p> +<p>It is now thirty-five years since (eheu! fugaces labuntur anni!) +the writer of this induced his friend Sir Egerton Brydges to print +the <i>Nymphidia</i> at his private press; and it would give him +pleasure, should your Notes be now instrumental to the production +of a tasteful selection from the copious materials furnished by +Drayton's prolific muse. Notwithstanding that selections are not +generally approved, in this case it would be (if judiciously done) +acceptable, and, it is to be presumed, successful.</p> +<p>The <i>Nymphidia</i>, full of lively fancy as it is, was +probably produced in his old age, for it was not published, I +believe, till 1627, when it formed part of a small folio volume, +containing <i>The Battaile of Agincourt</i> and <i>The Miseries of +Queene Margarite</i>. Prefixed to this volume was the noble but +tardy panegyric of his friend Ben Jonson, entitled <i>The +Vision</i>, and beginning:</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"It hath been question'd, Michael, if I be</p> +<p>A friend at all; or, if at all, to thee."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">S.W.S.</p> +<p>Mickleham, Nov. 10. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ON A PASSAGE IN GOLDSMITH.</h3> +<p>Sir,—I observe in the <i>Athenæum</i> of the 17th +inst. a quotation from the <i>Life of Goldsmith</i> by Irving, in +which the biographer seems to take credit for appropriating to +Goldsmith the merit of originating the remark or maxim vulgarly +ascribed to Talleyrand, that "the true end of speech is not so much +to express our wants as to conceal them."</p> +<p>This is certainly found in No. 3. of <i>The Bee</i>, by +Goldsmith, and no doubt Talleyrand acted upon the principle of +dissimulation there enunciated; but the idea is much older than +either of those individuals, as we learn from a note in p. 113. of +vol. lxvii. <i>Quart. Rev.</i> quoting two lines written by Young +(nearly one hundred years before), in allusion to +courts:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Where Nature's end of language is declined,</p> +<p>And men talk only to conceal their mind."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>Voltaire has used the same expression so long ago as 1763, in +his little satiric dialogue <i>La Chapon et la Poularde</i>, where +the former, complaining of the treachery of men says, "Ils +n'emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs +pénsees." (see xxix. tom. <i>Oeuvres Complétes</i>, +pp. 83, 84. ed. Paris, 1822.)</p> +<p>The germ of the idea is also to be found in Lloyd's <i>State +Worthies</i>, where speaking of Roger Ascham, he is characterised +as "an honest man,—none being more able for, yet none more +averse to, that circumlocution and contrivance wherewith some men +shadow their main drift and purpose. Speech was made to open man to +man, and not to hide him; to promote commerce, and not betray +it."</p> +<p>Lloyd's book first appeared in 1665, but I use the ed. by +Whitworth, vol. i. p. 503.</p> +<p class="author">F.R.A.</p> +<p>Oak House, Nov. 21. 1849.</p> +<p class="note">[The further communications proposed to us by +F.R.A. will be very acceptable.]</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ANCIENT LIBRARIES—LIBRARY OF THE AUGUSTINIAN EREMITES OF +YORK.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—I have been greatly interested by the two +numbers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" which you have sent me. The work +promises to be eminently useful, and if furnished with a good index +at the end of each yearly volume, will become a book indispensable +to all literary men, and especially to those who, like myself, are +in charge of large public libraries.</p> +<p>To testify my good will to the work, and to follow up Mr. +Burtt's remarks on ancient libraries published in your second +number, I venture to send you the following account of a MS. +Catalogue of the Library of the Monastery of the Friars Eremites of +the Order of St. Augustine in the City of York.</p> +<p>This MS. is now preserved in the Library of Trinity College, +Dublin, amongst the MSS. formerly belonging to the celebrated +Archbishop Ussher. It is on vellum, written in the 14th century, +and begins thus:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Inventarium omnium librorum pertinentium ad commune armariole +domus Ebor. ordinis fratrum heremitarum Sancti Augustini, factum in +presentia fratrum Johannis de Ergum, Johannis Ketilwell, Ricardi de +Thorpe, Johannis de Appilby, Anno domini Mº. CCC lxxij in +festo nativitatis virginis gloriose. Fratre Willelmo de Stayntoun +tunc existente priore."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The volume consists of forty-five leaves, and contains the +titles of a very large and most respectable collection of books in +all departments of literature and learning arranged under the +following heads:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>Biblie.<br /> +Hystorie scholastice.<br /> +Textus biblie glosati.<br /> +Postille.<br /> +Concordancie et interpretaciones nominum hebreorum.<br /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page84" id="page84"></a>{84}</span> +Originalia. [Under this head are included the<br /> +works of the Fathers, and medieval writers.]<br /> +Historie geneium.<br /> +Summe doctorum. Scriptores super sententias.<br /> +quodlibet. et questiones.<br /> +Tabulæ. [This division contained Indexes to<br /> +various authors, the Scriptures, canon law,<br /> +&c.]<br /> +Logicalia et philosophia cum scriptis et commentis.<br /> +Prophecie et supersticiosa.<br /> +Astronomia et Astrologia.<br /> +Instrumenta astrologica magistri Johannis Erghome<br /> +[who appears to have been a great<br /> +benefactor to the Library].<br /> +Libri divini officii magistri Johannis Erghome.<br /> +Jura civilia.<br /> +Jura canonica et leges humane: magistri Johannis<br /> +Erghome.<br /> +Auctores et philosophi extranei. [Under this<br /> +head occurs the following entry, "Liber hebraice<br /> +scriptus."]<br /> +Gramatica.<br /> +Rethorica. [Two leaves of the MS. appear to<br /> +have been cut out here.]<br /> +Medicina.<br /> +Hystorie et cronice.<br /> +Sermones et materie sermonum.<br /> +Summe morales doctorum et sermones.<br /> +Arithmetica, Musica, Geometria, Perspectiva,<br /> +magistri Johannis Erghome.<br /></p> +</blockquote> +<p>Each volume is identified, according to the usual practice, by +the words with which its second folio begins: and letters of tha +alphabet are added, probably to indicate its place on the shelves +of the Library. As a specimen, I shall give the division headed +"Biblie":—</p> +<p>BIBLIE</p> +<p>A. Biblia. incipit in 2º. fo. Samuel in<a id="footnotetag1" +name="footnotetag1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> +heli.<br /> +B. Biblia. incipit in 2º. fo. Zechieli qui populo.<br /> +<i>in duobus voluminibus</i>.<br /> +C. Biblia. inc't. in 2º. fo. mea et in crane.<br /> +D. Biblia. inc't. in 2º. fo. ego disperdam.<br /> +¶ Libri magistri Johannis Erghome<br /> +Biblia. 2º. <i>fol ravit quosdam.</i> }<br /> +Interpretationes. }—A<br /> +E. <i>Biblia incomplet. diversarum scripturarum.<br /> +quondam fratris R. Bossal. 2º. fo. me<br /> +occidet me etc.</i></p> +<p>HYSTORIE SCOLASTICE</p> +<p>A. Incipit in 2º. folio. secunda die.<br /> +B. inci't. in 2º. fo. emperio sane formatis. +<i>ligatus</i>.<br /> +C. inci't. in 2º. fo. et celumque celi.</p> +<p>The words printed in <i>Italics</i> are added by a more recent +hand. Under the head of "Hystorie Scolastice" are doubtless +intended the copies which the Library possessed of the celebrated +<i>Historia Scholastica</i>, or abridgement of Scripture history by +Peter Comestor.</p> +<p>From the foregoing specimen, I think your readers will agree +with me that a Catalogue of such antiquity and interest is well +worthy of publication.</p> +<p>But we have another ancient Catalogue of a monastic library +equally curious, and even more important from its magnitude, and +the numerous works it contains on English history, early romances, +&c. I remain, &c.</p> +<p class="author">JAMES H. TODD.</p> +<p>Trin. Coll. Dublin, Nov. 27. 1849.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote1" name= +"footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag1">(return)</a> +<p><i>Sic</i> perhaps a mistake for et.</p> +</blockquote> +<hr /> +<h3>DEFENCE OF A BALD HEAD—THE STATIONERS' REGISTERS.</h3> +<p>I am about to supply a deficiency in my last volume of +<i>Extracts from the Register of the Stationers' Company</i> +(printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1849), and thereby set an +example that I hope will be followed, in order that various works, +regarding which I could give no, or only incomplete, information, +may be duly illustrated. It is impossible to expect that any one +individual could thoroughly accomplish such an undertaking; and, by +means of your excellent periodical, it will be easy for literary +men, who possess scarce or unique books, mentioned in the Registers +and in my quotations from them, to furnish such brief descriptions +as will be highly curious and very useful.</p> +<p>A tract of this description has just fallen in my way, and it +relates to the subsequent entry on p. 97. of vol. ii. of my +<i>Extracts</i>: the date is 22nd September, 1579.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"H. Denham. Lycensed unto him, &c. A Paradox, provinge by +reason and example that baldnes is much better than bushie heare. +vj'd"</p> +</blockquote> +<p>When I wrote the comment on this registration I was only +acquainted with the clever MS. ballad in <i>Defence of a Bald +Head</i>, which I quoted; but I hardly supposed it to be the +production intended. It turns out that it was not, for I have that +production now before me. My belief is that it is entirely unique; +and the only reason for a contrary opinion, that I am acquainted +with, is that there is an incorrect mention of it in Warton, +<i>H.E.P.</i> iv. 229.; but there is not a hint of its existence in +Ritson, although it ought to have found a place in his +<i>Bibliographia Poetica</i>; neither do I find it noticed in later +authorities; if it be, they have escaped my researches. You will +not blame me, then, for indulging my usual wish to quote the +title-page at length, which exactly agrees with the terms of the +entry in the books of the Stationers' Company. It runs +<i>literatim</i> thus:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"A Paradoxe, proving by reason and example, that baldnesse is +much better than bushie haire, &c. Written by that excellent +philosopher Synesius, Bishop of Thebes, or (as some say) Cyren. A +prettie pamphlet to pervse, and relenished with +recreation.—Englished <span class="pagenum"><a name="page85" +id="page85"></a>{85}</span> by Abraham Fleming.—Herevnto is +annexed the pleasant tale of Hemetes the Heremite, pronounced +before the Queenes Maiestie. Newly recognised both in Latin and +Englishe, by the said A.F.—[Greek: hae taes sophias phalakra +saemeion.]—The badge of wisdome is baldnesse.—Printed +by H. Denham, 1579." 8vo. B.L.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>If I am not greatly mistaken, your readers will look in vain for +a notice of the book in any collected list of the many productions +of Abraham Fleming; if I am not greatly mistaken, also, some of +them will be disapppointed if I do not subjoin a few sentences +describing more particularly the contents of the small volume, +which (speaking as a bibliographer) extends to sign. F. iiij in +eights.</p> +<p>At the back of the title-page is "The life of Synesius drawen +out of Suydas his gatherings," in Greek and in English. Then comes +"The Epistle Apologeticall to the lettered Reader," signed "Thine +for thy pleasure and profite—Abraham Fleming," which, in +excuse for taking up so slight a subject, contains a very singular +notice of the celebrated John Heywood, the dramatist of the reign +of Henry VIII., and of his remarkable poem <i>The Spider and the +Fly</i>. The <i>Pretie Paradoxe</i>, by Synesius, next commences, +and extends as far as sign. D. v. b. This portion of the tract is, +of course, merely a translation, but it includes a passage or two +from Homer, cleverly rendered into English verse. Here we come to +the word <i>Finis</i>, and here, I take it, it was originally +intended that the tract should end; but as it was thought that it +would hardly be of sufficient bulk for the money (4<i>d.</i>, or +6<i>d.</i> at the utmost), a sort of appendix was added, which, on +some accounts, is the most interesting part of the work.</p> +<p>It is headed "The tale of Hemetes the Heremite, pronounced +before the Queene's Maiestie," which Warton, who clearly never saw +the book, calls the "Fable of Hermes." In fact, it is, with a few +verbal changes, the tale of Hemetes, which George Gascoigne +presented, in Latin, Italian, French, and English, to Queen +Elizabeth, and of which the MS., with the portraits of the Queen +and the author is among the Royal MSS. in the British Museum. +Fleming tells us that he had "newly recognised" (whatever may be +meant by the words) this tale in Latin and English, but he does not +say a syllable whence he procured it. Gascoigne died two years +before the date of the publication of this <i>Paradoxe, &c.</i> +so that Fleming was quite sure the property could never be +challenged by the true owner of it.</p> +<p>Before I conclude, allow me to mention two other pieces by A. +Fleming (who became rector of St. Pancras, Soper-lane, in 1593), +regarding which I am anxious to obtain information, and seek it +through the medium of "NOTES AND QUERIES."</p> +<p>A marginal note in Fleming's Translation of Virgil's +<i>Georgics</i>, 1589, 4to., is the following:—"The poet +alludeth to the historie of Leander and Hero, written by Museus, +and Englished by me a dozen yeares ago, and in print." My question +is, whether such a production is in existence?</p> +<p>Fleming's tract, printed in 1580 in 8vo. (miscalled 16mo.), "A +Memorial, &c. of Mr. William Lambe, Esquier," is well known; +but many years ago I saw, and copied the heading of a +<i>broadside</i>, which ran thus:—"An Epitaph, or funeral +inscription vpon the godlie life and death of the Right worshipfull +Maister William Lambe Esquire, Founder of the new Conduit in +Holborne," &c. "Deceased the 21st April Anno 1580. Deuised by +Abraham Fleming." At the bottom was—"Imprinted at London by +Henrie Denham for Thomas Turner," &c.</p> +<p>In whose hands, or in what library, I saw this production, has +entirely escaped my memory; and I am now very anxious to learn what +has become of that copy, or whether any other copy of it has been +preserved.</p> +<p class="author">J. PAYNE COLLIER.</p> +<p>Kensington, Dec. 3. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ROYAL HOUSEHOLD ALLOWANCES</h3> +<p>The following warrant for the allowance of the "diet" of a lady +of the bedchamber, will be found to be a good and curious +illustration of the Note of ANTIQUARIUS upon the domestic +establishment of Queen Elizabeth, although more than half a century +earlier than the period referred to, as it relates to the time of +Elizabeth's majestic sire:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"HENRY R.—By the King.</p> +<p>"We wol and commaunde you to allowe dailly from hensforth unto +our right dere and welbilovede the Lady Lucy into hir chambre the +dyat and fare herafter ensuying; Furst every mornyng at brekefast +oon chyne of beyf at our kechyn, oon chete loff and oon maunchet at +our panatry barre, and a Galon of Ale at our Buttrye barre; Item at +dyner a pese of beyfe, a stroke of roste, and a rewarde at our said +kechyn, a cast of chete bred at our Panatrye barre, and a Galon of +Ale at our Buttry barre; Item at afternone a manchet at our Panatry +bar and half a Galon of Ale at our Buttrye barre; Item at supper a +messe of Porage, a pese of mutton and a Rewarde at our said kechyn, +a cast of chete brede at our Panatrye, and a Galon of Ale at our +Buttrye; Item at after supper a chete loff and a maunchet at our +Panatry barre, a Galon of Ale at our Buttrye barre, and half a +Galon of Wyne at our Seller barre; Item every mornyng at our Wood +yarde foure tall shyds and twoo ffagottes; Item at our Chaundrye +barre in winter every night oon pryket and foure syses of Waxe with +eight candelles white lights and oon torche; Item at our +Picherhouse wekely LIX white cuppes; Item at every tyme of our +remoeving oon hoole carre for the carriage of her stuff. And these +our lettres shal be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this +behalf at all tymes herafter. Yeven under our Signet at our Manour +of Esthampstede the xvjth. day of July the xiiijth year of our +Reigne.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page86" id="page86"></a>{86}</span> +<p>"To the Lord Steward of our Household, the Treasurer, +Comptroller, Cofferer, Clerke of our Grene Clothe, Clerke of our +kechyn, and to all other our hed Officers of our seid Houshold and +to every of theym."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>As to Sir Christopher Hatton, I would refer ANTIQUARIUS, and all +other whom it may concern, to Sir Harris Nicolas's ably written +<i>Memoirs of the "Dancing Chancellor"</i>, published in 1846. +Hatton had amble means for the building of Holdenby, as he was +appointed one of the Gentlemen Pensioners in 1564, and between that +time and his appointment as Vice-Chamberlain in 1577 (five years +prior to the period referred to by ANTIQUARIUS), he received +numerous other gifts and offices.</p> +<p class="author">JOSEPH BURTT.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>ADVERSARIA</h3> +<h4>Printers' Couplets.</h4> +<p>It may not perhaps be generally known that the early printers +were accustomed to place devices or verses along with their names +at the end of the books which they gave to the public. +Vigneul-Marville, in his <i>Mélanges d'Histoire et de +Littérature</i>, relates that he found the two following +lines at the end of the "Decrees of Basle and Bourges," published +under the title of "Pragmatic Sanction," with a Commentary by +Côme Guymier,—Andre Brocard's Paris edition, +1507:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Stet liber hic, donec fluctus formica marinos</p> +<p>Ebibat et totum testudo perambulet orbem."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The printers, it would appear, not only introduced their own +names into these verses, but also the names of the correctors of +the press, as may be seen in the work entitled, <i>Commentariis +Andreæ de Ysernia super constitutionibus Siciliæ</i>, +printed by Sixtus Riffingerus at Naples in 1472:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Sixtus hoc impressit: sed bis tamen ante revisit</p> +<p class="i2">Egregius doctor Petrus Oliverius.</p> +<p>At tu quisque emis, lector studiose, libellum</p> +<p class="i2">Lætus emas; mendis nam caret istud opus."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">G.J.K.</p> +<h4>Charles Martel</h4> +<p>Mr. Editor,—Perhaps the subjoined note, extracted from M. +Collin de Plancy's <i>Bibliothèque des Légendes</i>, +may not be without its value, as tending to correct an error into +which, according to his account, modern historians have fallen +respecting the origin of the surname "Martel," borne by the +celebrated Charles Martel, son of Peppin of Herstal, Duke of +Austrasia, by his Duchess Alphéide<a id="footnotetag2" name= +"footnotetag2"></a><a href= +"#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a>:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"It is surprising," he says, "that almost all our modern +historians, whose profound researches have been so highly vaunted, +have repeated the little tale of the <i>Chronicle of St. Denis</i>, +which affirms that the surname of Martel was conferred on Charles +for having hammered (<i>martelé</i>) the Saracens. Certain +writers of the present day style him, in this sense, +<i>Karle-le-Marteau</i>. The word martel, in the ancient Frank +language, never bore such a signification, but was, on the +contrary, merely an abbreviation of Martellus, Martin."<a id= +"footnotetag3" name="footnotetag3"></a><a href= +"#footnote3"><sup>3</sup></a></p> +</blockquote> +<p>From a legend on this subject given by M. de Plancy, it would +appear that Charles received the second name, Martel, in honour of +his patron saint St. Martin.</p> +<p>Not having at present an opportunity of consulting the works of +our own modern writers on early French history, I am ignorant if +they also have adopted the version given in the <i>Chronicle of St. +Denis</i>. Mr. Ince, in his little work, <i>Outlines of French +History</i>, states, that "he received the surname of +<i>Martel</i>, or the Hammerer, from the force with which he +<i>hammered</i> down the Saracens—<i>martel being the name of +a weapon which the ancient Franks used, much resembling a +hammer</i>,—and from his strokes falling numberless and +effectual on the heads of his enemies." Query.—Which of the +two is the more probable version? Perhaps some one of your numerous +correspondents may be enabled to throw addition light on this +disputed point.</p> +<p class="author">G.J.K.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote2" name= +"footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag2">(return)</a> +<p>This same Alphéide, or Alpaïde, as she was +frequently called, though but scurvily treated by posterior +historians, is honoured by contemporary chroniclers as the second +wife of Peppin, <i>uxor altera</i>. See +Frédégaire.</p> +</blockquote> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote3" name= +"footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag3">(return)</a> +<p><i>Légendes de l'Histoire de France</i>, par J. Collin de +Plancy, p. 149. (notes.) Paris. Mellier Frères.</p> +</blockquote> +<hr /> +<h3>BODENHAM AND LING.</h3> +<p>Referring to BOOKWORM's note at p. 29, I beg to observe that the +dedication negativing Bodenham's authorship of <i>Politeuphuia</i> +is not peculiar to the edition of 1597. I have the edition of 1650, +"printed by Ja. Flesher, and are to be sold by Richard Royston, at +the Angell in Ivye Lane," in which the dedication is addressed as +follows:—"To his very good friend Mr. Bodenham, N.L. wisheth +increase of happinesse." The first sentence of this dedication +seems to admit that Bodenham was something more than patron of the +work:—"What you seriously begun long since, and have always +been very careful for the full perfection of, at length thus +finished, although perhaps not so well to your expectation, I +present you with; as one before all most worthy of the same: bothe +in respect of your earnest travaile therein, and the great desire +you have continually had for the generall profit."</p> +<p>In Brydges' <i>Censura Literaria</i>, Bodenham is spoken of as +the <i>compiler</i> of <i>The Garden of the Muses</i>, and +<i>editor</i> of the <i>Wit's Commonwealth</i>, the <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page87" id="page87"></a>{87}</span> <i>Wit's +Theatre of the Little World</i>, and <i>England's Helicon</i>. He +seems to have less claim to be considered the author of the +<i>Wit's Theatre</i> than of the <i>Wit's Commonwealth</i>, for in +the original edition of the former, "printed by J.R. for N.L., and +are to be sold at the West doore of Paules, 1599," the dedication +is likewise addressed, "To my most esteemed and approved loving +friend, Maister J.B. I wish all happines." After acknowledging his +obligations to his patron, the author proceeds: "Besides this +History or Theatre of the Little World, suo jure, first challengeth +your friendly patronage, by whose motion I undertooke it, and for +whose love I am willing to undergoe the heavy burden of censure. I +must confesse that it might have been written with more maturitie, +and deliberation, but in respect of my promise, I have made this +hast, how happy I know not, yet good enough I hope, if you +vouchsafe your kind approbation: which with your judgement I hold +ominous, and as under which Politeuphuia was so gracious."</p> +<p class="author">I.F.M.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND.</h3> +<p>Sir,—I beg to acknowledge the notice which two of your +correspondents have taken of my query on this subject. At the same +time I must say that the explanations which they offer appear to me +to be quite unsatisfactory. I shall be happy to give my reasons for +this, if you think it worth while; but, perhaps, if we wait a +little, some other solution may be suggested.</p> +<p>For the sake of the inhabitants, I hope that your work is read +at Colchester. Is there nobody there who could inform us at what +time the London coach started a century ago? It seems clear that it +arrived in the afternoon—but I will not at present trespass +further on your columns. I am, &c.,</p> +<p class="author">G.G.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>MINOR NOTES.</h3> +<h4>Ancient Inscribed Alms Dish.</h4> +<p>L.S.B. informs us that in the church of St. Paul, Norwich, is a +brass dish, which has been gilt, and has this legend round it four +times over:—"HER: I: LIFRID: GRECHº: WART."<a id= +"footnotetag4" name="footnotetag4"></a><a href= +"#footnote4"><sup>4</sup></a></p> +<p>This seems to be another example of the inscription which was +satisfactorily explained in No. 5. p. 73.</p> +<blockquote class="footnote"><a id="footnote4" name= +"footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a href= +"#footnotetag4">(return)</a> +<p>Blomefeld's <i>Norfolk</i>. Folio. 1739. Vol. ii. p. 803.</p> +</blockquote> +<hr /> +<h4>The Bishop that burneth.</h4> +<p>I do not think Major Moor is correct in his application of +Tusser's words, "the bishop that burneth," to the lady-bird. +Whether lady-birds are unwelcome guests in a dairy I know not, but +certainly I never heard of their being accustomed to haunt such +places. The true interpretation of Tusser's words must, I think, be +obtained by comparison with the following lines from his <i>Five +Hundred Points of Good Husbandry</i>, quoted in Ellis's +<i>Brand</i>, iii. 207.:—</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"Blesse Cisley (good mistress) that bishop doth ban</p> +<p>For burning the milk of her cheese to the pan."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>The reference here, as well as in the words quoted by Major +Moor, is evidently to the proverb relating to burnt milk, broth, +&c.—"the bishop has put his foot in it;" which is +considered by Ellis to have had its origin in those times when +bishops were much in the habit of burning heretics. He confirms +this interpretation by the following curious passage from Tyndale's +<i>Obedyence of a Crysten Man</i>:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"If the podech be burned to, or the meate ouer rosted, we saye +the Byshope hath put his fote in the potte, or the Byshope hath +playd the coke, because the Bishopes burn who they lust, and +whosoeuer displeaseth them."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>I fear the origin of the appellation "Bishop Barnaby," applied +to the lady-bird in Suffolk, has yet to be sought.</p> +<p class="author">D.S.</p> +<h4>Iron Manufactures of Sussex.</h4> +<p>Sir,—I have made two extracts from a once popular, but now +forgotten work, illustrative of the iron manufacture which, within +the last hundred years, had its main seat in this county, which I +think may be interesting to many of your readers who may have seen +the review of Mr. Lower's <i>Essay on the Ironworks of Sussex</i> +in the recent numbers of the <i>Athenæum</i> and +<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>. The anecdote at the close is curious, +as confirming the statements of Macaulay; the roads in Sussex in +the 18th century being much in the condition of the roads in +England generally in the 17th. "Sowsexe," according to the old +proverb, has always been "full of dirt and mier."</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"From hence (Eastbourne) it was that, turning north, and +traversing the deep, dirty, but rich part of these two counties +(Kent and Sussex), I had the curiosity to see the great foundries, +or ironworks, which are in this county (Sussex), and where they are +carried on at such a prodigious expense of wood, that even in a +county almost all overrun with timber, they begin to complain of +their consuming it for those furnaces and leaving the next age to +want timber for building their navies. I must own, however, that I +found that complaint perfectly groundless, the three counties of +<i>Kent</i>, <i>Sussex</i>, and <i>Hampshire</i> (all which lye +contiguous to one another), being one inexhaustible storehouse of +timber, never to be destroyed, but by a general conflagration, and +able, at this time, to supply timber to rebuild all the royal +navies in Europe, if they were all to be destroyed, and set about +the building them together.</p> +<p>"I left <i>Tunbridge</i> ... and came to <i>Lewes</i>, through +the deepest, dirtiest, but many ways the richest and most +profitable country in all that part of England.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page88" id="page88"></a>{88}</span> +<p>"The timber I saw here was prodigious, as well in quantity as in +bigness, and seem'd in some places to be suffered to grow only +because it was so far off of any navigation, that it was not worth +cutting down and carrying away; in dry summers, indeed a great deal +is carried away to Maidstone and other parts on the Medway; and +sometimes I have seen one tree on a carriage, which they call here +a <i>tug</i>, drawn by two-and-twenty oxen, and even then this +carried so little a way, and then thrown down and left for other +<i>tugs</i> to take up and carry on, that sometimes it is two or +three years before it gets to Chatham; for if once the rains come +in it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole summer is not +dry enough to make the roads passable. Here I had a sight which, +indeed, I never saw in any other part of England, namely, that +going to church at a country village, not far from <i>Lewes</i>, I +saw an ancient lady, and a lady of very good quality, I assure you, +drawn to church in her coach with six oxen; nor was it done in +frolic or humour, but mere necessity, the way being so stiff and +deep that no horses could go in it."—<i>A Tour through Great +Britain by a Gentleman</i>. London, 1724. Vol. i. p. 54. Letter +II.</p> +</blockquote> +<h4>Factotum</h4> +<blockquote> +<p>"He was so farre the <i>dominus fac totum</i> in this +<i>juncto</i> that his words were laws, all things being acted +according to his desire."—p. 76. of Foulis' <i>Hist. of Plots +of our Pretended Saints</i>, 2nd edit. 1674</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">F.M.</p> +<h4>Birthplace of Andrew Borde</h4> +<p>Hearne says, in Wood's <i>Athenæ</i>, "that the Doctor was +not born at Pevensey or Pensey, but at Boonds-hill in Holmsdayle, +in Sussex."</p> +<p>Should we not read "Borde-hill?" That place belonged to the +family of Borde for many generations. It is in Cuckfield parish. +The house may be seen from the Ouse-Valley Viaduct.</p> +<p class="author">J.F.M.</p> +<h4>Order of Minerva</h4> +<blockquote> +<p>"We are informed that his Majesty is about to institute a new +order of knighthood, called <i>The Order of Minerva</i>, for the +encouragement of literature, the fine arts, and learned +professions. The new order is to consist of twenty-four knights and +the Sovereign; and is to be next in dignity to the military Order +of the Bath. The knights are to wear a silver star with nine +points, and a straw-coloured riband from the right shoulder to the +left. A figure of Minerva is to be embroidered in the centre of the +star, with this motto, 'Omnia posthabita Scientiæ.' Many men +eminent in literature, in the fine arts, and in physic, and law, +are already thought of to fill the Order, which, it is said, will +be instituted before the meeting of parliament."—<i>Perth +Magazine</i>, July, 1772.</p> +</blockquote> +<p class="author">SCOTUS.</p> +<h4>Flaws of Wind</h4> +<p>The parish church of Dun-Nechtan, now Dunnichen, was dedicated +to St. Causlan, whose festival was held in March. Snow showers in +March are locally called "St. Causlan's flaws."</p> +<p class="author">SCOTUS.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>QUERIES ANSWERED.</h3> +<h4>DORNE THE BOOKSELLER AND HENNO RUSTICUS.</h4> +<p>Sir,—Circumstances imperatively oblige me to do that from +which I should willingly be excused—reply to the observations +of J.I., inserted in page 75. of the last Saturday's Number of the +"NOTES AND QUERIES."</p> +<p>The subject of these are three questions proposed by me in your +first number to the following effect:—1. Whether any thing +was known, especially from the writings of Erasmus, of a bookseller +and publisher of the Low Countries named Dorne, who lived at the +beginning of the sixteenth century? Or, 2ndly, of a little work of +early date callled <i>Henno Rusticus</i>? Or, 3dly, of another, +called <i>Of the Sige (Signe) of the End</i>?</p> +<p>To these no answer has yet been given, although the promised +researches of a gentleman of this University, to whom literary +inquirers in Oxford have ever reason to be grateful, would seem to +promise one soon, if it can be made. But, in the mean time, the +knot is cut in a simpler way: neither Dorne, nor <i>Henno +Rusticus</i>, his book, it is said, ever existed. Permit me one +word of expostulation upon this.</p> +<p>It is perfectly true that the writing of the MS. which has given +rise to these queries and remarks is small, full of contradictions, +and sometimes difficult to be read; but the contractions are +tolerably uniform and consistent, which, to those who have to do +with such matters, is proved to be no inconsiderable encouragement +and assistance. A more serious difficulty arises from the +circumstance, that the bookselller used more than one language, and +none always correctly. Still it may be presumed he was not so +ignorant as to make a blunder in spelling his own name. And the +first words of the manuscript are these: "+In nomine domini amen +ego Johannes dorne, &c. &c." (In noie domi ame ego Johanes +dorne, &c.) From the inspection of a close copy now lying +before me, in which all the abbreviations are retained, and from my +own clear recollection, I am enabled to state that, to my full +belief, the name of "dorne" is written by the man himself in +letters at length, without any contraction whatever; and that the +altered form of it, "Domr," as applied to that particular person, +exists nowhere whatever, except in page 75. of No. 5 of the "NOTES +AND QUERIES."</p> +<p>The words "henno rusticus" (heno rusticus) are found twice, and +are tolerably clearly written in both cases. Of the "rusticus" +nothing need be said; but the first <i>n</i> in "henno" is +expressed by a contraction, which in the MS. <i>very</i> commonly +denotes that letter, and sometimes the final <i>m</i>. How +frequently it represents <i>n</i> may be judged from the fact that +in the few words already quoted, the final <i>n</i> in "amen," and +the first in "Johannes," are supplied by it. So that <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page89" id="page89"></a>{89}</span> we have to +choose between "henno" and "hemno" rusticus (rather a clown than a +gentleman, whatever was his name; and perhaps the treatise, if ever +found, will prove to treat merely on rural affairs). And although +it may turn out to be perfectly true that "homo rusticus" was the +thing meant, as your correspondent suggests, still that is not the +question at issue; but rather, amidst the confusion of tongues and +ideas which seems to have possessed poor Dorne's brain, what he +actually wrote, rather than what he should have written.</p> +<p>Admitting, however, for supposition's sake, that your +correspondent is right, that the man was named Dormer, and the book +<i>Homo rusticus</i>—is there any one who will obligingly +favour me with information respecting these, or either of them?</p> +<p>One word more, and I have done; though perhaps you will think +that too much has been said already upon a subject not of general +interest; and indeed I cannot but feel this, as well as how painful +it is to differ, even in opinion, with one towards whom nothing can +be due from me but respect and affection. But the direct inference +from your correspondent's remarks (although it is fully my +persuasion he neither designed nor observed it) is, that my +difficulties are no difficulties at all, but mistakes. To these we +are all liable, and none more so than the individual who is now +addressing you, though, it is to be hoped, not quite in the awful +proportion which has been imputed to him. And let it stand as my +apology for what has been said, that I owe it no less to my own +credit, than perhaps to that of others, my kind encouragers and +abettors in these inquiries, to vindicate myself from the charge of +one general and overwhelming error, that of having any thing to do +with the editing of a MS. of which my actual knowledge should be so +small, that out of <i>three</i> difficulties propounded from it +contents, <i>two</i> should be capable of being shown to have +arisen from nothing else but my inability to read it. I remain, +Sir, your obedient servant,</p> +<p class="author">W.</p> +<p>Trin. Coll. Oxon. Dec. 5, 1849.</p> +<p class="note">[We have inserted the foregoing letter in +compliance with the writer's wishes, but under a protest; because +no one can entertain a doubt as to his ability to edit in a most +satisfactory manner the work he has undertaken; and because also we +can bear testimony to the labour and conscientious painstaking +which he is employing to clear up the various obscure points in +that very curious document. The following communication from a +valued correspondent, in answering W.'s Query as to <i>Henno +Rusticus</i>, confirms the accuracy of his reading.]</p> +<h4>HENNO RUSTICUS.</h4> +<p>The query of your correspondent W. at p. 12, No. 1. regards, I +presume, <i>Henno Comediola Rustico Ludicra, nunc iterum +publicata</i>; Magdeburg, 1614, 8vo.? If so, he will find it to be +identical with the <i>Scænica Progymnasmata h. e. Ludicra +Præexercitamenta</i> of Reuchlin, first printed at Strasburg +in 1497, and frequently reprinted during the first part of the +sixteenth century, often with a commentary by Jacob Spiegel.</p> +<p>A copy, which was successively the property of Mr. Bindley and +Mr. Heber, is now before me. It was printed at Tubingen by Thomas +Anselm in 1511. I have another copy by the same printer, in 1519; +both in small 4to.</p> +<p>Reuchlin, while at Heidelberg, had amused himself by writing a +satirical drama, entitled <i>Sergius seu Capitis Caput</i>, in +ridicule of his absurd and ignorant monkish opponent. This he +purposed to have had represented by some students, for the +amusement of his friends; but Dalberg, for prudent reasons, +dissuaded its performance. It being known, however, that a dramatic +exhibition was intended, not to disappoint those who were anxiously +expecting it, Reuchlin hastily availed himself of the very amusing +old farce of <i>Maistre Pierre Patelin</i>, and produced his +<i>Scænica Progymnasmata</i>, in which the <i>Rustic +Henno</i> is the principal character. It varies much, however, from +its prototype, is very laughable, and severely satirical upon the +defects of the law and the dishonesty of advocates.</p> +<p>Its popularity is evinced by the numerous editions; and, as the +commentary was intended for the instruction of youth in the +niceties of the Latin language, it was used as a school-book; the +copies shared the fate of such books, and hence its rarity. It is +perhaps the earliest comic drama of the German stage, having been +performed before Dalberg, Bishop of Worms (at Heidelberg in 1497), +to whom it is also inscribed by Reuchlin. It seems to have given +the good bishop great pleasure, and he requited each of the +performers with a gold ring and some gold coin. Their names are +recorded at the end of the drama.</p> +<p>Melchior Adam gives the following account:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Ibi Comoediam scripsit, <i>Capitis Caput</i> plenam nigri salis +& acerbitatis adversus Monachum, qui ejus vitæ insidiatus +erat. Ibi & alteram Comoediam edidit <i>fabulam Gallicam</i>, +plenam candidi salis; in qua forensia sophismata præcipue +taxat. Hanc narrabat hac occasione scriptam & actam esse. Cum +alteram de Monacho scipsisset, fama sparsa est de agenda Comoedia, +quod illo tempore inusitatum erat. Dalburgius lecta, illius Monachi +insectatione, dissuasit editionem & actionem, quod eodem +tempore & apud Philipum Palatinum Franciscanus erat +<i>Capellus</i>, propter potentiam & malas artes invisus +nobilibus & sapientibus viris in aula. Intellexit periculum +Capnio & hanc Comoediam occultavit. Interea tamen, quia +flagitabatur actio, alteram dulcem fabellam edit, & +repræsentari ab ingeniosis adolescentibus, quorum ibi extant +nomina, curat."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Mr. Hallam (<i>Literat. of Europe</i>, vol. i. p. 292., +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page90" id="page90"></a>{90}</span> +1st ed.), misled by Warton and others, gives a very defective and +erroneous account of the <i>Progymnasmata Scænica</i>, which +he supposed to contain several dramas; but he concludes by saying, +"the book is very scarce, and I have never seen it." Gottsched, in +his <i>History of the German Drama</i>, merely says he had seen +some notice of a Latin drama by Reuchlin. Hans Sachs translated it +into German, after his manner, and printed it in 1531 under the +title of <i>Henno</i>.</p> +<p class="author">S.W.S.</p> +<p>Mickleham, Dec. 1. 1849.</p> +<hr /> +<h4>MYLES BLOMEFYLDE—ORTUS VOCABULORUM.</h4> +<p>Sir,—In reference to the Query of BURIENSIS in No. 4. of +your periodical, as to the parentage of Myles Blomefylde, of Bury +St. Edmund's, I beg to contribute the following information. In the +library of St. John's College, Cambridge, is a volume containing an +<i>unique</i> copy of "the boke called the Informacyon for +pylgrymes vnto the holy lande," printed by Wynkyn de Worde, in +1524, at the end of which occurs the following manuscript +note:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"I, Myles Blomefylde, of Burye Saynct Edmunde in Suffolke, was +borne ye yeare following after ye pryntyng of this boke (that is +to saye) in the yeare of our Lorde 1525, the 5 day of Apryll, +betwene 10 & 11, in ye nyght, nyghest xi, my father's name +John, and my mother's name Anne."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This tract is bound up with two others, on both of which +Blomefylde has written his initials, and from one entry seems to +have been at Venice in 1568. He was undoubtedly an ardent +book-collector, and I possess copies of the <i>Ortus +Vocabulorum</i>, printed by W. de Worde, in 1518, and the +<i>Promptuarium Parvulorum</i>, printed by the same, in 1516, bound +together, on both of which the name of <i>Myles Blomefylde</i> in +inscribed.</p> +<p>I may add, as a slight contribution to a future edition of the +<i>Typographical Antiquities</i>, that among Bagford's curious +collection of title-pages in the Harleian Collection of MSS. (which +I doubt if Dr. Dibdin ever consulted with care), there is the last +leaf of an edition of the <i>Ortus Vocabulorum</i>, unnoticed by +bibliographers, with the following colophon:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Impr. London. per Wynandum de Worde, commorantem in vico +nuncupato Fletestrete, sub intersignio solis aurei, Anno +incarnatiôis Dominice M.CCCCC.IX. die vero prima mêsis +Decêbris."—<i>Harl. MSS.</i> 5919. art. 36.</p> +</blockquote> +<hr /> +<h3>ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES.</h3> +<h4>The Curse of Scotland—Why the Nine of Diamonds is so +called.</h4> +<p>When I was a child (now about half a century ago) my father used +to explain the origin of the nine of diamonds being called "The +curse of Scotland" thus: That it was the "<i>cross</i> of +Scotland," which, in the Scotch pronunciation, had become +"curse."</p> +<p>St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland: he suffered on a +cross, not of the usual form, but like the letter X, which has +since been commonly called a St. Andrew's cross. It was supposed +that the similarity of the nine of diamonds to this form occasioned +its being so called. The arms of the Earl of Stair, alluded to in +your publication, are exactly in the form of this cross. If this +explanation should be useful, you are most welcome to it.</p> +<p class="author">A.F.</p> +<h4>Thistle of Scotland.</h4> +<p>Sir,—Your correspondent R.L. (No. 2. p. 24.), will find +the fullest information on this head in Sir Harris Nicolas's work +on the <i>Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire</i>. He does +not assign to its origin an earlier date than the reign of James +III, in an inventory of whose jewels, Thistles are mentioned as +part of the ornaments. The motto "<i>Nemo me impune lacessit</i>," +does not appear until James VI. adopted it on his coinage.</p> +<p class="author">G.H.B.</p> +<p>For Scottish Thistle, see Nisbet's <i>Heraldry</i>, vol. ii. +<i>Order of St. Andrew</i>. Selden, <i>Titles of Honour</i>, p. +704. ed. 1672, refers to "Menenius, Miræus, Favin, and such +more."</p> +<p class="author">SCOTUS.</p> +<h4>Record Publications.</h4> +<p>Will any of your readers kindly favour me with a reference to +any easily-accessible list of the publications of the Record +Commission, as well as to some account of the more valuable Rolls +still remaining unpublished, specifying where they exist, and how +access is to be obtained to them?</p> +<p>With every wish for the success of your undertaking,</p> +<p>Yours, &c.</p> +<p class="author">D.S.</p> +<p class="note">[The late Sir H. Nicolas compiled an account of the +publications of the Record Commission, which was published in his +<i>Notitia Historica</i>, and also in an 8vo. vol, and is easily +obtainable. There is also a series of articles in the +<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for 1834, which contains a good deal of +information upon the subject, with a classified list of the +publications. The principal unpublished records are in the Tower +and the Rolls' Chapel; any record may be inspected or copied at +those places, or in any other Record Office, upon payment of a fee +of one shilling.]</p> +<h4>Katherine Pegge.</h4> +<p>Sir,—Katherine Pegge, one of the mistresses of Charles +II., was the daughter of Thomas Pegge, of Yeldersley, near Ashborne +in Derbyshire, Esq., where the family had been settled for several +generations, and where Mr. William Pegge, the last of the elder +branch, died without issue in 1768. Another branch of this family +was of Osmaston, in the same neighbourhood, and of this +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page91" id="page91"></a>{91}</span> +was Dr. Samuel Pegge, the learned antiquary. They bore for +arms:—Argent, a chevron between three piles, sable. +Crest:—A demi-sun issuing from a wreath or, the rays +alternately argent and sable.</p> +<p>It was during his exile that the King first met with the fair +Katherine, and in 1657 had a son by her, whom he called Charles +Fitz-Charles,—not Fitz-roy as Granger says. Fitz-Charles had +a grant of the royal arms with a baton sinistre, vairé; and +in 1675 his Majesty created him Earl of Plymouth, Viscount Totness, +and Baron Dartmouth. He was bred to the sea, and having been +educated abroad,—most probably in Spain,—was known by +the name of Don Carlos. In 1678 the Earl married the Lady Bridget +Osborne, third daughter of Thomas Earl of Danby, and died of a flux +at the siege of Tangier in 1680, without issue.</p> +<p>Katherine Pegge, the Earl's mother, after her <i>liaison</i> +with the King, married Sir Edward Greene, Bart., of Samford in +Essex, and died without issue by him in ——. From this +marriage the King is sometimes said to have had a mistress named +Greene.</p> +<p>There was long preserved in the family a half-length portrait of +the Earl, in a robe de chamber, laced cravat, and flowing hair +(with a ship in the back-ground of the picture), by Sir Peter Lely; +and also two of his mother, Lady Greene: one a half length, with +her infant son standing by her side, the other a +three-quarters,—both by Sir Peter Lely, or by one of his +pupils.</p> +<p>Both mother and son are said to have been eminently +beautiful.</p> +<p class="author">G.M.</p> +<p>East Winch, Nov. 30.</p> +<p>N., who refers our Querist for particulars of this lady to the +"Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Pegge and his Family," in Nichols' +<i>Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century</i>, vol. vi. pp. +224, 225, adds—"As the lady had no issue by Sir Edward +Greene, it perhaps does not matter what his family was.</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"I see he was created a baronet 26th July, 1660, and died s. p. +Dec. 1676; and that Courthope, in his <i>Extinct Baronetage</i>, +calls his lady 'dau. of —— Pegg,' not being aware of +her importance as the mother of the Earl of Plymouth. This may be +worth remarking."</p> +</blockquote> +<h4>The Rev. T. Leman.</h4> +<p>Sir,—Your correspondent A.T. will find the information he +requires respecting the Reverend Thomas Leman, of Bath, in the +<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for Oct. 1826, p. 373.; for Aug. 1828, +p. 183.; and for Feb. 1829. He may also consult Britton's +<i>Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character of Henry +Hatcher</i>.</p> +<p class="author">G.M.</p> +<p>A Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Leman will be found in Nichols's +<i>Illustrations of Literature</i>, vol. vi. p. 435, <i>et +seq.</i>, comprising an enumeration of his writings in various +county histories and other works of that character, and followed by +eighteen letters addressed to Mr. Nicholls, J.N. Brewer, Esq., and +the Rev. Dr. Samuel Parr.</p> +<p class="author">N.</p> +<h4>Burnet Prize at Aberdeen.</h4> +<p>Sir,—I sent a <i>query</i> to the <i>Athenæum</i>, +who, by a <i>note</i>, referred it to you.</p> +<p>My object is to ascertain <i>who gained</i> the last +<i>Theological Premium</i> (forty years since, or nearly) at +Aberdeen. You no doubt know the subject: it is the best Treatise on +"the Evidence that there is a Being all powerful, wise, and good, +by whom every thing exists; and particularly to obviate +difficulties regarding the wisdom and goodness of the Deity; and +this, in the first place from considerations independent of Written +Revelation, and, in the second place, from the revelation of the +Lord Jesus; and, from the whole, to point out the inferences most +necessary for and useful to mankind."</p> +<p>I wish to know who gained the first prize, and <i>who</i> the +second premium.</p> +<p class="author">H. ANDREW</p> +<p>Manchester, Nov. 27, 1849.</p> +<p class="note">[We are happy to be able to answer our +correspondent's query at once. The first Burnet prize, on the last +occasion, was gained by the Reverend William Lawrence Brown, D.D., +and Principal, if we recollect rightly, of Mareschal College, +Aberdeen. His prize work, entitled <i>Essay on the Existence of a +Supreme Being possessed of Infinite Power, Wisdom, and +Goodness</i>, was published at Aberdeen in 2 vols. 8vo. 1816. The +second prize man was the present amiable and distinguished +Archbishop of Canterbury. His work, entitled <i>A Treatise on the +Records of Creation</i>, was published in London, in 2 vols. 8vo. +1816.]</p> +<h4>Incumbents of Church Livings.</h4> +<p>Sir,—In answer to the Query of your correspondent L., I +beg to inform him that he may find the <i>name</i>, if not the +birth-place, of incumbents and patrons of Church Livings in the +county of Norfolk, long prior to 1680, in the Institution Books at +Norwich, consisting of numerous well preserved folio volumes. +Blomefield and Parkin, the historians of the county, have made +ample use of these inestimable books.</p> +<p class="author">G.M.</p> +<h4>History of Landed and Commercial Policy of +England—History of Edward II.</h4> +<p>In reply to the two queries of your correspondent +ANGLO-CAMBRIAN:—</p> +<p>1. The <i>Remarks upon the History of the Landed and Commercial +Policy of England</i> was written by the Rev. Joseph Hudson, +Prebendary of Carlisle, 1782, "a judicious and elegant writer, who +could not be prevailed on to give his name with it to the +public."—See Nichols's <i>Literary Anecdotes of the +Eighteenth Century</i>, vol. viii. p. 160, note. <span class= +"pagenum"><a name="page92" id="page92"></a>{92}</span> Mr. N. +characterises it as "a valuable work, richly deserving to be better +known."</p> +<p>2. There are two histories of King Edward II., one in small +<i>folio</i>, of which the title is accurately given by your +correspondent, and another in 8vo., the title of which is given at +the head of the reprint in the <i>Harleian Miscellany</i>, vol. i. +p. 69. Both these editions bear the date of 1680. I had always +supposed that the edition in 8vo. was a mere reprint of the folio; +but on now comparing the text of the folio with that of the 8vo. as +given in the <i>Harl. Miscellany</i>, I find the most essential +differences; so much so, as hardly to be recognised as the same. +Mr. Park, the last editor of the <i>Harl. Miscellany</i> (who could +only find the folio), appears to have been puzzled by these +differences, and explains them by the supposition that the diction +has been much modified by Mr. Oldys (the original editor of the +<i>Miscellany</i>), a supposition which is entirely erroneous. The +"Publisher's Advertisement to the Reader," and the "Author's +Preface to the Reader," signed "E.F.," and dated "Feb. 20, 1627," +are both left out in the 8vo.; and it will be seen that the +anonymous authorship and date of composition in the title-page are +suppressed, for which we have substituted "found among the papers +of, and (supposed to be) writ by, the Right Honourable Henry +Viscount Faulkland."</p> +<p>Antony Wood, without absolutely questioning its authenticity, +seems to have regarded it as a mere ephemeral production, as +brought out at a time "when the press was open for all such books +that could make any thing against the then government, with a +preface to the reader patch'd up from very inconsiderable authors, +by Sir Ja. II. as is supposed."—<i>Athen. Oxom.</i> vol. ii. +p. 565. There is not the slightest evidence to connect the +authorship either of the folio or the 8vo. with Henry Viscount +Falkland.</p> +<p>Your correspondent A.T. (p. 59.) will find all the information +he desires about the Rev. Thomas Leman, and the assistance he +rendered to Mr. Hatcher in his edition of <i>Richard of +Cirencester</i>, in Mr. Britton's own <i>Autobiography</i>. See pp. +7 and 8.</p> +<p class="author">C.L.L.</p> +<h4>To eat Humble Pie.</h4> +<p>Mr. Editor,—Your correspondent, Mr. HAMMACK, having +recorded Mr. Pepys's love of "brave venison pasty," whilst asking +the derivation of the phrase, "eating humble pie," in reference to +a bill of fare of Pepys's age, I venture to submit that the +<i>humble pie</i> of that period was indeed the pie named in the +list quoted; and not only so, but that it was made out of the +"umbles" or entrails of the deer, a dish of the second table, +inferior of course to the venison pasty which smoked upon the dais, +and therefore not inexpressive of that humiliation which the term +"eating humble pie" now painfully describes. The "umbles" of the +deer are constantly the perquisites of the gamekeeper.</p> +<p class="author">A.G.</p> +<p>Ecclesfield, Nov. 24, 1849.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h2>MINOR QUERIES.</h2> +<h3>Eva, Daughter of Dermot Mac Murrough.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—I should be glad if any of your readers, Irish +or English, could inform me whether we have any other mention of +Eva, daughter of Dermot Mac Murrough, last independent king of +Leinster, than that she became, in the spring of the year 1170, the +wife of Richard Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, at Waterford.</p> +<p>Any fortunate possessor of O'Donovan's new translation of <i>The +Annals of the Four Masters</i>, would much oblige me by referring +to the dates 1135 and 1169, and also to the period included between +them, for any casual notice of the birth of this Eva, or mention of +other slight incident with which she is connected, which may there +exist.</p> +<p class="author">A. HAPLESS HUNTER</p> +<p>Malvern Wells, Nov. 20, 1849.</p> +<h3>John de Daundelyon.</h3> +<p>Sir,—In the north chancel of St. John's Church, Margate, +is a fine brass for John Daundelyon, 1445, with a large dog at his +feet; referring to which the Rev. John Lewis, in his <i>History of +the Isle of Tenet</i>, 1723 (p. 98.), says:</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"The two last bells were cast by the same founder, and the tenor +the gift of one of the family of Daundelyon, which has been extinct +since 1460. Concerning this bell the inhabitants repeat this +traditionary rhyme:</p> +</blockquote> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"John de Daundelyon, with his great dog,</p> +<p>Brought over this bell on a mill-cog."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p>This legend is still given to visitors of this fine old church. +Will some of your antiquarian correspondents throw some light on +the obscurity?</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<h3>Genealogy of European Sovereigns.</h3> +<p>Sir,—Can you or any of your correspondents tell me of one +or two of the best works on the "Genealogy of European Sovereigns?" +I know of one,—Anderson's <i>Royal Genealogies</i>, London, +1732, folio. But that is not of as late a date as I should wish to +see.</p> +<p class="author">Q.X.Z.</p> +<h3>Duke of Ashgrove.</h3> +<p>At p. 14. of Doctor Simon Forman's <i>Diary</i> (edited by Mr. +Halliwell, 1849), mention is twice made of Forman being engaged as +"Scholmaster to the <i>Duke of Ashgrove's</i> Sonnes." Who was the +person thus alluded to?</p> +<p class="author">P.C.S.S.</p> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page93" id="page93"></a>{93}</span> +<h3>Sir William Godbold.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—In the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for July, +1842, occurs this:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"In the parish church of Mendham, Suffolk, is a mural monument +bearing an inscription, of which the following is a transcript:</p> +<p>"'M.S.V.Cmi Doctissimique D. Gulielmi Godbold Militis ex +illustri et perantiquâ Prosapiâ oriundi, Qui post +Septennem Peregrinationem animi excolendi gratiâ per Italiam, +Græciam, Palæstinam, Arabiam, Persiam, in solo natali +in bonarum literarum studiis consenescens morte repentinâ +obiit Londini mense Aprilis Ao. D. MDCXIIIC, ætatis +LXIX.'</p> +<p>"One would presume that so great a traveller would have obtained +some celebrity in his day; but I have never met with any notice of +Sir William Godbold. I have ascertained that he was the only son of +Thomas Godbold, a gentleman of small estate residing at Metfield, +in Suffolk, and was nephew to John Godbold, Esq., Serjeant-at-Law, +who was appointed Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely in 1638. He +appears to have been knighted previously to 1664, and married +Elizabeth daughter and heir of Richard Freston, of Mendham +(Norfolk), Esq., and relict of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Gillingham, +Bart., whom he survived, and died without issue in 1687. I should +consider myself under an obligation to any of your correspondents +who could afford me any further account of this learned knight, or +refer me to any biographical or other notice of him."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>To the writer of that letter the desideratum still remains +unsupplied. Your welcome publication appears to offer a channel for +repeating the inquiry.</p> +<p class="author">G.A.C.</p> +<h3>Ancient motto.</h3> +<p>Many years since I read that some pope or emperor caused the +following, or a motto very similar to it, to be engraven in the +centre of his table:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>"Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam +accumbere indignus est."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>It being a maxim which all should observe in the daily +intercourse of life, and in the propriety of which all must concur, +I send this to "NOTES AND QUERIES" (the long wished-for medium), in +the hopes that some kind "note-maker" can inform me from whence +this motto is taken, and to whom ascribed.</p> +<p class="author">J.E.M.</p> +<h3>Works of King Alfred.</h3> +<p>Sir,—If any of your readers can inform me of MSS. of the +Works of Kings Alfred the Great, besides those which are found in +the larger public collections of MSS., he will confer a favour not +only on the Alfred Committee, who propose to publish a complete +edition of King Alfred's Works, but also on their Secretary, who is +your obedient servant,</p> +<p class="author">J.A. GILES.</p> +<p>Bampton, Oxford, Nov. 23. 1849</p> +<h3>"Bive" and "Chote" Lambs.</h3> +<p>I should be much obliged to any of your readers who would favour +me with an explanation of the words "Bive" and "Chote." They were +thus applied in an inventory taken Kent.</p> +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p>"27 Hen. VIII. Michaelm.</p> +<p>Bive lambes at xvid. the pece.</p> +<p>Chote lambes at xiid. the pece."</p> +</div> +</div> +<p class="author">T.W.</p> +<h3>Anecdote of the Civil Wars.</h3> +<p>Horace Walpole alludes to an anecdote of a country gentleman, +during the Civil Wars, falling in with one of the armies on the day +of some battle (Edgehill or Naseby?) as he was <i>quietly going out +with his hounds</i>. Where did Walpole find this anecdote?</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<h3>A Political Maxim—when first used.</h3> +<p>Who first used the phrase—"<i>When bad men conspire, good +men must combine</i>"?</p> +<p class="author">C.</p> +<h3>Richard of Cirencester</h3> +<p>S.A.A. inquires whether the authenticity of Richard of +Cirencester, the Monk of Westminster, has ever been satisfactorily +proved. The prevailing opinion amongst some of the greatest +antiquaries has been that the work was a forgery by Dr. Bertram, of +Copenhagen, with a view of testing the antiquarian knowledge of the +famous Dr. Stukeley; of this opinion was the learned and acute Dr. +Whittaker and Mr. Conybeare. It is also further worthy of mention +that some years since, when the late Earl Spencer was in +Copenhagen, he searched in vain for the original manuscript, which +no one there could tell him had ever existed, and very many doubt +if it ever existed at all.</p> +<h3>Lord Erskine's Brooms.</h3> +<p>When and where was it that a man was apprehended for selling +brooms without a hawker's licence, and defended himself by showing +that they were the agricultural produce of Lord Erskine's property, +and that he was Lord E.'s servant?</p> +<p class="author">GRIFFIN.</p> +<h3>John Bell of the Chancery Bar.</h3> +<p>When did John Bell cease to practise in the Court of Chancery, +and when did he give up practice altogether, and when was the +conversation with Lord Eldon on that subject supposed to have take +place?</p> +<p class="author">GRIFFIN</p> +<h3>Billingsgate.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor—Stow, in his <i>Survey of London</i>, with +reference to Billingsgate, states, from Geoffrey of Monmouth, "that +it was built by Belin, a king of the Britons, whose ashes were +enclosed in a vessel of brass, and set upon a high pinnacle of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page94" id="page94"></a>{94}</span> +stone over the same <i>Gate</i>." ... "That it was the largest +water <i>Gate</i> on the River of Thames." ... "That it is at this +day a large water <i>Gate</i>," &c. Can you, Mr. Editor, or any +of your respected correspondents, refer me to any drawing or +description of the said <i>Gate</i>?</p> +<p class="author">WILLIAM WILLIAMS.</p> +<p>Rood Lane, Nov. 24. 1849.</p> +<h3>Family of Pointz of Greenham.</h3> +<p>Mr. Editor,—Can any of your readers inform me if that +branch of the ancient family of <i>Pointz</i>, which was seated at +Greenham, in the parish of Ashbrittle, in Somersetshire, is +extinct, and when the male issue failed? Some of them intermarried +with the Chichesters, Pynes, and other old Devonshire families.</p> +<p>The Pointzes remained at Greenham after 1600.</p> +<p class="author">L.B.</p> +<h3>Marescaucia.</h3> +<p>Sir,—In the <i>Testa de Nevill</i> appear the following +entries:—</p> +<blockquote> +<p>P. 237. a "terra Willi de Montellis (read Moncellis) in villa de +Cumpton pertinet ad <i>marescauciam</i> domini Regis," &c.</p> +<p>P. 2269. a. "Will's de Munceus tenet Parvam Angram (Little +Ongar, in Essex) de Domino Rege de <i>Mareschaucie</i> quæ +fuit de Baronia Gilberti de Tani."</p> +<p>P. 235. b. "Waleramus de Munceus tenet Cumpton per serjantiam +<i>Marescautiæ</i>."</p> +</blockquote> +<p>If any of your readers can throw any light on the signification +of the word "Marescautia," occurring in these extracts, and the +tenure referred to, they will greatly oblige</p> +<p class="author">D.S.</p> +<hr class="full" /> +<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.</h3> +<p>The Work of Walter Mapes, "<i>De Nugis Curialium</i>," +respecting which we inserted a Query from the Rev. L.B. Larking, in +our last number, is editing for the Camden Society by Mr. Wright, +and will form one of the next publications issued to the +members.</p> +<p>Messrs. Sotheby and Co., of Wellington Street, Strand, will be +occupied during the week commencing on Monday, the 17th instant, +with the sale of "the third portion of the stock of the late +eminent bookseller, Mr. Thomas Rodd, comprising rare and valuable +works of the early English poets and dramatists; facetiæ, +romances, and novels, and other departments of elegant +literature."</p> +<p>Mr. Rodd's knowledge, great in all departments of bibliography, +was particularly so in that of our early poetical and dramatical +writers; and although the numerous commissions he held for such +rarities in it as he secured, necessarily prevented their being +left upon his shelves, the present collection exhibits a number of +articles calculated to interest our bibliographical friends, as the +following specimens of a few Lots will show:—</p> +<p>578 Dedekindus (Fred.) School of Slovenrie, or Cato turned Wrong +Side Outward, in Verse, by R.F. Gent. <i>very rare, original +binding: sold at Perry's sale for</i> £11 11<i>s.</i> +1605</p> +<p>591 De Soto (Barahona) Primera Parte de la Angelica <i>blue +morocco, rare Granada</i>, 1586</p> +<p>No more than the first portion of this poem, which is in +continuation of the Orlando of Ariosto, ever appeared. Cervantes +notices it with great praise in his Don Quixote.</p> +<p>747 Jests and Jeeres, Pleasant Taunt and Merry Tales (<i>wants +all before B 2</i>), VERY RARE.</p> +<p>One of these Jests mentions Shakspeare by name.</p> +<p>1211 MARIE of EGYPT, a sacred Poeme describing the Miraculous +Life and Death of the Glorious Convert of, in verse. <i>rare, +russia, gilt edges no date</i> (1650)</p> +<p>1212 MARKHAM (Robert), THE DESCRIPTION OF THAT EVER TO BE FAMED +KNIGHT SIR JOHN BURGH, <i>fine copy, with port. by Cecill</i> +1628</p> +<p>A POEM OF GREAT RARITY: the Bindley copy, afterwards Mr. +Heber's, sold for £15.</p> +<p>1345 SHAKESPEARE (W.), COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES, FIRST +EDITION, <i>wanting the title and four leaves at the end, +soiled</i> folio, 1623</p> +<p>1451 Polimantcia, or the Means Lawfull and Unlawfull to judge of +the Commonwealth, <i>rare</i> 4to. 1595</p> +<p>Notice is made of Shakespeare (R 2), Spenser, Sir D. Lyndsay, +Harvey, Nash, &c.</p> +<p>1606 SCOTLAND:—A VERY CURIOUS AND RARE SERIES OF LATIN +POEMS (BY ALEXANDER JULIUS) on the Marriage or Deaths of some +Scottish Nobles, as the Marchioness of Huntley, <i>Edin.</i> +1607—Countess of Argyle, <i>ib.</i> 1607—Earl Keith, +<i>ib.</i> 1609—Earl of Montrose, <i>ib.</i> +1609—Prince Henry, <i>ib.</i> 1612—Fredericke Prince +Palatine, <i>ib.</i> 1614—Earl of Lothian; with the author's +Sylvarum liber, 1614</p> +<p>Of these rare poetical pieces four are unnoticed by Lowndes; +five of them are published anonymously; but their similarity to +those with an author's name testifies the source from which the +others emanated.</p> +<p>The collection contains a good deal of early Dutch poetry, well +deserving attention for the lights which we are sure may be thrown +from it upon our own early national literature.</p> +<p>Miller, of 43. Chandos Street, has issued his December +Catalogue, comprising, among other articles, "Books on Freemasonry, +Poetry, and he Drama, Histories of Ireland and Irish Antiquities," +which he states to be "mostly in excellent condition and good +binding," and, he might have added, "at reasonable prices."</p> +<hr /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page95" id="page95"></a>{95}</span> +<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES</h3> +<h4>WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h4> +<h4>(<i>In continuation of List in No. 5.</i>)</h4> +<p>DIBDIN's TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES. Vol. II.</p> +<p>CATALOGUE OF LIBRARY OF JOHN HOLME. Vol. IV. 1830 or 1833. In +boards.</p> +<p>PINDAR, BY ABRAHAM MOORE, Part II, Boards. Uncut.</p> +<p>A TRACT, or SERMON, BY WM. STEPHENS, Fellow of Exeter Collegeand +Vicar of Bampton, "THE SEVERAL HETERODOX HYPOTHESES CONCERNING BOTH +THE PERSONS AND THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE GODHEAD, JUSTLY CHARGEABLE +WITH MORE INCONSISTENCIES THAN THOSE IMPUTED TO THE ORTHODOX," +&c. Printed about 1719 or later.</p> +<p>[WHEATLEY'S] CHRISTIAN EXCEPTIONS TO THE PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE +LORD'S SUPPER. 1737.</p> +<p>THE APPENDIX TO DR. RICH. WARREN'S AURORA. 1737.</p> +<p>THE APPENDIX TO HOADLEY'S PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE SACRAMENT.</p> +<p>W.G. BROUGHTON's SECOND REPLY TO AUTHOR OF +PALÆOROMAICA.</p> +<p>BRITISH CRITIC for January, February, April, 1823. Uncut.</p> +<p>DR. JOHN EDWARDS' REMARKS AND REFLECTIONS (<i>not</i> his SOME +BRIEF CRITICAL REMARKS, 1714) ON DR. CLARKE's SCRIPTURE +DOCTRINE.</p> +<p>SPECTATOR, Vol. IV. of the edition in 6 vols. small 8vo., 1826, +with Preface by Lynam.</p> +<p>EVANS' OLD BALLADS. Vol. III. 1784.</p> +<p>HOLCROFT's LAVATER. Vol. I. 1789.</p> +<p>EDMONDSON'S HERALDRY. Vol. II. 1780.</p> +<p>FIELDING'S WORKS. Vol. XI. 1808. The 14 vol. Bookseller's +edition.</p> +<p>SWIFT'S WORKS. Vol I. of Edition published by Falconar, Dublin. +1763.</p> +<p>ROLLIN'S ANCIENT HISTORY. Vol. I. of 2nd edition in 10 vols. +Knapton. 1739.</p> +<p>Letters stating particulars and lowest price, <i>carriage +free</i>, to be sent to Mr. BELL, publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," +186. Fleet Street.</p> +<hr /> +<h3>NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS</h3> +<p><i>The matter is so generally understood with regard to the +management of periodical works, that it is hardly necessary for the +Editor to say that</i> HE CANNOT UNDERTAKE TO RETURN MANUSCRIPTS; +<i>but on one point he wishes to offer a few words of explanation +to his correspondents in general, and particularly to those who do +not enable him to communicate with them except in print. They will +see, on a very little reflection, that it is plainly his interest +to take all he can get, and make the most, and the best of +everything; and therefore he begs them to take for granted that +their communications are received, and appreciated, even if our +succeeding Numbers bear no proof of it. He is convinced that the +want of specific acknowledgment will only be felt by those who have +no idea of the labour and difficulty attendant on the hurried +management of such a work, and of the impossibility of sometimes +giving an explanation, when there really is one which would quite +satisfy the writer, for the delay or non-insertion of his +communication. Correspondents in such cases have no reason, and if +they understoood an editor's position they would feel that they +have no right, to consider themselves undervalued; but nothing +short of personal experience in editorship would explain to them +the perplexities and evil consequences arising from an opposite +course.</i></p> +<hr /> +<p>COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED.—<i>Naso.—J.I.—W. +Robson.—I.F.M.—I.S.—Laicus.—[Omega.]—Marianne.—Q.D.—G.H.B.—J.B.Yates—W.J.B.R—H.C.de +St. C.—B.—F.E.—Rev. L.B. Larking (with many +thanks).—I.P.L.(Oxford).—A.D.M—W.H.—C.—T.H.T.—L.C.R—I.F.M.</i></p> +<p><i>V. who is thanked for his letter, will see by a Note in a +former part, that the work of Walter Mapes referred to by the Rev. +L.B. Larking, is on the eve of publication by the Camden Society. +Mr. Larking's query refers to the transcripts of that and other +works made by Twysden.</i></p> +<p><i>Articles on "Cold Harbour" and "Parallel Passages in the +Poets," in an early number.</i></p> +<p>MELANION <i>has our best thanks. The Stamp Office affix the +stamp at the corner of the paper most convenient for stamping. The +last page falling in the centre of the sheet prevents the stamp +being affixed to it in that certainly more desireable +place.</i></p> +<p><i>We have received many complaints of a difficulty in procuring +our paper. Every Bookseller and Newsvender will supply it</i> if +ordered, <i>and gentlemen residing in the country may be supplied +regularly with the Stamped Edition by giving their orders direct to +the publisher</i>, Mr. GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street, +<i>accompanied by a Post Office order for a quarter (4s 4d). All +communications should be addressed</i> To the Editor of "NOTES AND +QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.</p> +<p><i>A neat Case for holding One Year's Numbers (52) of</i> NOTES +AND QUERIES <i>will be ready next week, and may be had</i>, by +Order, <i>of all Booksellers.</i></p> +<hr class="adverts" /> +<p>CURIOUS AND RARE BOOKS. Just published, a small Catalogue of old +Books: will be forwarded on receipt of a postage stamp; or various +Catalogues containing numerous Works on the Occult Sciences, +Facetiæ, &c. may be had on application, or by forwarding +six postage stamps, to G. BUMSTEAD, 205. 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It +contains an Alphabetical List of every New Work and New Edition +published in the United Kingdom; together with a well-selected List +of Foreign Works not in the usual abbreviated Form, being a +complete Transcript of the Title, with the Number of Pages, Plates, +Size, and Price; forming a very useful and comprehensive +Bibliographical Companion for all persons engaged in literary +pursuits.</p> +<p>All the principal Publishing Houses contribute their early +Announcements of New Works and their Advertisements generally.</p> +<p>Subscribers have also the opportunity of inserting in the +regular List of "Books Wanted" such works as are out of print, or +not easily procurable—the Publisher undertaking to +communicate all replies to the parties requiring the books, with a +small advance upon the price at which they are offered, so as to +cover all expenses.</p> +<p>SAMPSON LOW, Publisher, 169. 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SCOTT.</p> +<p>"A collection of antiquarian relics, chiefly in the decorative +branch of art, preserved in the northern counties, pourtrayed by a +very competent hand.... All are drawn with that distinctness which +makes them available for the antiquarian, for the artist who is +studying costume, and for the study of decorative +art."—<i>Spectator.</i></p> +<p>GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.</p> +<hr /> +<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.—Saturday, +December 8, 1849.</p> +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13550 ***</div> +</body> +</html> |