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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13550 ***
+
+NOTES AND QUERIES:
+
+A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 6.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1849 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       * {81}
+
+CONTENTS
+
+A few Words of Explanation. 81
+NOTES:--
+  Letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury respecting
+    Monmouth's Ash. 82
+  Drayton's Poems. 83
+  On a Passage in Goldsmith. 83
+  Ancient Libraries, by Rev. Dr. Todd. 83
+  Defence of a Bald Head, by J. Payne Collier. 84
+  Royal Household Allowances. 85
+  Adversaria:--Printers' Couplets--Charles Martel. 86
+  Bodenham and Ling. 86
+  Travelling in England. 87
+  Minor Notes:--Ancient Alms Dish--Bishop that
+    Burneth--Ironworks in Sussex, &c.--Order of
+    Minerva, &c. 87
+  Queries Answered:--
+    Dorne the Bookseller. 88
+    Henno Rusticus. 89
+    Myles Blomefylde. 90
+  Answers to Minor Queries:--Curse of Scotland--Katherine
+    Pegg--Rev. T. Leman--Burnet Prize--Humble Pie, &c. 90
+
+MINOR QUERIES:
+  Eva, Daughter, &c.--John de Daundelyon--Genealogy
+    of European Sovereigns--Duke of Ashgrove, &c. 92
+
+MISCELLANEOUS:--
+  Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 94
+  Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 95
+  Notices to Correspondents. 95
+  Advertisements. 95
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A FEW WORDS OF EXPLANATION.
+
+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."
+
+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, _we_ 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:--
+
+  "Ful gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 _two_ words for ourselves under the semblance of
+_one_ of our readers, "that it is obvious that our friends will extend
+the usefulness of our paper in proportion as they increase its
+circulation."
+
+       *       *       *       *       * {82}
+
+MONMOUTH'S ASH.
+
+_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._
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+About sixty years ago there was hardly a house there. It was the leading
+place of all the smugglers of this neighborhood.
+
+SHAFTESBURY.
+
+St. Giles's House, Nov. 27. 1849.
+
+
+HISTORY OF MONMOUTH CLOSE.
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"The Duke was carried before Anthony Etterick, Esq., of Holt, a justice
+of the peace, who ordered him to London.
+
+"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.
+
+"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."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DRAYTON'S POEMS.
+
+In addition to the notes on Drayton by Dr. Farmer, communicated in your
+2nd number, the following occurs in a copy of Drayton's _Poems_, printed
+for Smithwicke, in 1610, 12mo.:--
+
+    "See the _Return from Parnassus_ for a good character of
+    Drayton.
+
+    "See an _Epigram_ by Drayton, I suppose, prefixed to Morley's
+    first _Booke of Balletes_.
+
+    "A Sonnet to _John Davies_, before his _Holy Roode, or Christ's
+    Crosse_, 4to. (1610). A Poem in 6 line stanzas.
+
+    "Another to the old edit. of _Wit's Commonwealth_.
+
+    "Commendatory Verses before Chapman's _Hesiod_.
+
+    "Sonnet to Ant. Mundy's 2nd Book of _Primation of Greece_, 1619.
+
+    "His _Heroical Epistles_ were newly enlarged and republished in
+    8vo. 1598; which is the most antient edition we have seen or
+    read of.--[_Bodl. Cat._]--_Biographia his Art_.
+
+    "Another edition, _as we have heard_, in 1610.--Ibid.
+
+    "See Merc's _Wit's Treasury_, p. 281. A modern edition was
+    published by _Oldmixon_.--Cibber's _Lives_, 4. 204.
+
+    "See Warton's _Essay on Pope_, 296.
+
+    "Drayton's last Copy of Verses was prefixed to Sir John
+    Beaumont's _Poems_, 1629."
+
+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.
+
+Malone asserted that the _Baron's Wars_ was not {83} published until
+1610. I have before me a copy, probably the first edition, with the
+following title: "_The Barrons Wars in the raigne of Edward the Second,
+with England's Heroical Epistles_, by Michaell Drayton. At London,
+Printed by J.R. for N. Ling, 1603," 12mo.; and the poem had been printed
+under the title of _Mortimerindos_, in 4to., 1596.
+
+I have an imperfect copy of an early edition (circa 1600) of "_Poemes
+Lyrick and Pastorall. Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon_, by Michaell
+Drayton Esquier. At London, printed by R.B. for N.L. and J. Flaskett."
+
+It is now thirty-five years since (eheu! fugaces labuntur anni!) the
+writer of this induced his friend Sir Egerton Brydges to print the
+_Nymphidia_ 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.
+
+The _Nymphidia_, 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 _The Battaile of
+Agincourt_ and _The Miseries of Queene Margarite_. Prefixed to this
+volume was the noble but tardy panegyric of his friend Ben Jonson,
+entitled _The Vision_, and beginning:
+
+  "It hath been question'd, Michael, if I be
+   A friend at all; or, if at all, to thee."
+
+S.W.S.
+
+Mickleham, Nov. 10. 1849.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ON A PASSAGE IN GOLDSMITH.
+
+Sir,--I observe in the _Athenæum_ of the 17th inst. a quotation from the
+_Life of Goldsmith_ 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."
+
+This is certainly found in No. 3. of _The Bee_, 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. _Quart. Rev._ quoting
+two lines written by Young (nearly one hundred years before), in
+allusion to courts:--
+
+  "Where Nature's end of language is declined,
+   And men talk only to conceal their mind."
+
+Voltaire has used the same expression so long ago as 1763, in his little
+satiric dialogue _La Chapon et la Poularde_, where the former,
+complaining of the treachery of men says, "Ils n'emploient les paroles
+que pour déguiser leurs pénsees." (see xxix. tom. _Oeuvres Complétes_,
+pp. 83, 84. ed. Paris, 1822.)
+
+The germ of the idea is also to be found in Lloyd's _State Worthies_,
+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."
+
+Lloyd's book first appeared in 1665, but I use the ed. by Whitworth,
+vol. i. p. 503.
+
+F.R.A.
+
+Oak House, Nov. 21. 1849.
+
+    [The further communications proposed to us by F.R.A. will be
+    very acceptable.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANCIENT LIBRARIES--LIBRARY OF THE AUGUSTINIAN EREMITES OF YORK.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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:--
+
+    "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."
+
+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:--
+
+Biblie.
+Hystorie scholastice.
+Textus biblie glosati.
+Postille.
+Concordancie et interpretaciones nominum hebreorum. {84}
+Originalia. [Under this head are included the
+  works of the Fathers, and medieval writers.]
+Historie geneium.
+Summe doctorum. Scriptores super sententias.
+  quodlibet. et questiones.
+Tabulæ. [This division contained Indexes to
+  various authors, the Scriptures, canon law,
+  &c.]
+Logicalia et philosophia cum scriptis et commentis.
+Prophecie et supersticiosa.
+Astronomia et Astrologia.
+Instrumenta astrologica magistri Johannis Erghome
+  [who appears to have been a great
+  benefactor to the Library].
+Libri divini officii magistri Johannis Erghome.
+Jura civilia.
+Jura canonica et leges humane: magistri Johannis
+  Erghome.
+Auctores et philosophi extranei. [Under this
+  head occurs the following entry, "Liber hebraice
+  scriptus."]
+Gramatica.
+Rethorica. [Two leaves of the MS. appear to
+  have been cut out here.]
+Medicina.
+Hystorie et cronice.
+Sermones et materie sermonum.
+Summe morales doctorum et sermones.
+Arithmetica, Musica, Geometria, Perspectiva,
+  magistri Johannis Erghome.
+
+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":--
+
+BIBLIE
+
+A. Biblia. incipit in 2º. fo. Samuel in[1] heli.
+B. Biblia. incipit in 2º. fo. Zechieli qui populo.
+  _in duobus voluminibus_.
+C. Biblia. inc't. in 2º. fo. mea et in crane.
+D. Biblia. inc't. in 2º. fo. ego disperdam.
+  ¶ Libri magistri Johannis Erghome
+    Biblia. 2º. _fol ravit quosdam._     }
+    Interpretationes.                    }--A
+E. _Biblia incomplet. diversarum scripturarum.
+    quondam fratris R. Bossal. 2º. fo. me
+    occidet me etc._
+
+HYSTORIE SCOLASTICE
+
+A. Incipit in 2º. folio. secunda die.
+B. inci't. in 2º. fo. emperio sane formatis. _ligatus_.
+C. inci't. in 2º. fo. et celumque celi.
+
+The words printed in _Italics_ 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 _Historia Scholastica_, or
+abridgement of Scripture history by Peter Comestor.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+JAMES H. TODD.
+
+Trin. Coll. Dublin, Nov. 27. 1849.
+
+    [Footnote 1: _Sic_ perhaps a mistake for et.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DEFENCE OF A BALD HEAD--THE STATIONERS' REGISTERS.
+
+I am about to supply a deficiency in my last volume of _Extracts from
+the Register of the Stationers' Company_ (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.
+
+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 _Extracts_: the date is
+22nd September, 1579.
+
+    "H. Denham. Lycensed unto him, &c. A Paradox, provinge by reason
+    and example that baldnes is much better than bushie heare. vj'd"
+
+When I wrote the comment on this registration I was only acquainted with
+the clever MS. ballad in _Defence of a Bald Head_, 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, _H.E.P._ iv. 229.; but there is not a hint of its existence in
+Ritson, although it ought to have found a place in his _Bibliographia
+Poetica_; 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 _literatim_ thus:--
+
+    "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 {85} 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 _The Spider and the Fly_. The _Pretie Paradoxe_, 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 _Finis_, 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 (4d., or 6d. at
+the utmost), a sort of appendix was added, which, on some accounts, is
+the most interesting part of the work.
+
+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 _Paradoxe, &c._ so that
+Fleming was quite sure the property could never be challenged by the
+true owner of it.
+
+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."
+
+A marginal note in Fleming's Translation of Virgil's _Georgics_, 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?
+
+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 _broadside_, 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.
+
+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.
+
+J. PAYNE COLLIER.
+
+Kensington, Dec. 3. 1849.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ROYAL HOUSEHOLD ALLOWANCES
+
+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:--
+
+    "HENRY R.--By the King.
+
+    "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. {86}
+
+    "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."
+
+As to Sir Christopher Hatton, I would refer ANTIQUARIUS, and all other
+whom it may concern, to Sir Harris Nicolas's ably written _Memoirs of
+the "Dancing Chancellor"_, 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.
+
+JOSEPH BURTT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ADVERSARIA
+
+Printers' Couplets.
+
+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
+_Mélanges d'Histoire et de Littérature_, 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:--
+
+  "Stet liber hic, donec fluctus formica marinos
+  Ebibat et totum testudo perambulet orbem."
+
+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, _Commentariis Andreæ de Ysernia super
+constitutionibus Siciliæ_, printed by Sixtus Riffingerus at Naples in
+1472:--
+
+  "Sixtus hoc impressit: sed bis tamen ante revisit
+    Egregius doctor Petrus Oliverius.
+  At tu quisque emis, lector studiose, libellum
+    Lætus emas; mendis nam caret istud opus."
+
+G.J.K.
+
+
+Charles Martel
+
+Mr. Editor,--Perhaps the subjoined note, extracted from M. Collin de
+Plancy's _Bibliothèque des Légendes_, 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[2]:--
+
+    "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 _Chronicle of St.
+    Denis_, which affirms that the surname of Martel was conferred
+    on Charles for having hammered (_martelé_) the Saracens. Certain
+    writers of the present day style him, in this sense,
+    _Karle-le-Marteau_. The word martel, in the ancient Frank
+    language, never bore such a signification, but was, on the
+    contrary, merely an abbreviation of Martellus, Martin."[3]
+
+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.
+
+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 _Chronicle of St. Denis_. Mr. Ince, in
+his little work, _Outlines of French History_, states, that "he received
+the surname of _Martel_, or the Hammerer, from the force with which he
+_hammered_ down the Saracens--_martel being the name of a weapon which
+the ancient Franks used, much resembling a hammer_,--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.
+
+G.J.K.
+
+    [Footnote 2: 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, _uxor altera_. See Frédégaire.]
+
+    [Footnote 3: _Légendes de l'Histoire de France_, par J. Collin
+    de Plancy, p. 149. (notes.) Paris. Mellier Frères.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BODENHAM AND LING.
+
+Referring to BOOKWORM's note at p. 29, I beg to observe that the
+dedication negativing Bodenham's authorship of _Politeuphuia_ 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."
+
+In Brydges' _Censura Literaria_, Bodenham is spoken of as the _compiler_
+of _The Garden of the Muses_, and _editor_ of the _Wit's Commonwealth_,
+the {87} _Wit's Theatre of the Little World_, and _England's Helicon_.
+He seems to have less claim to be considered the author of the _Wit's
+Theatre_ than of the _Wit's Commonwealth_, 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."
+
+I.F.M.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND.
+
+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.
+
+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.,
+
+G.G.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MINOR NOTES.
+
+Ancient Inscribed Alms Dish.
+
+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."[4]
+
+This seems to be another example of the inscription which was
+satisfactorily explained in No. 5. p. 73.
+
+    [Footnote 4: Blomefeld's _Norfolk_. Folio. 1739. Vol. ii. p.
+    803.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Bishop that burneth.
+
+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 _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_, quoted
+in Ellis's _Brand_, iii. 207.:--
+
+  "Blesse Cisley (good mistress) that bishop doth ban
+  For burning the milk of her cheese to the pan."
+
+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 _Obedyence of a Crysten Man_:--
+
+    "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."
+
+I fear the origin of the appellation "Bishop Barnaby," applied to the
+lady-bird in Suffolk, has yet to be sought.
+
+D.S.
+
+
+Iron Manufactures of Sussex.
+
+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 _Essay on the Ironworks of Sussex_ in the recent numbers of the
+_Athenæum_ and _Gentleman's Magazine_. 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."
+
+    "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 _Kent_, _Sussex_, and _Hampshire_ (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.
+
+    "I left _Tunbridge_ ... and came to _Lewes_, through the
+    deepest, dirtiest, but many ways the richest and most profitable
+    country in all that part of England. {88}
+
+    "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 _tug_, drawn by two-and-twenty oxen, and even
+    then this carried so little a way, and then thrown down and left
+    for other _tugs_ 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
+    _Lewes_, 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."--_A Tour
+    through Great Britain by a Gentleman_. London, 1724. Vol. i. p.
+    54. Letter II.
+
+Factotum
+
+    "He was so farre the _dominus fac totum_ in this _juncto_ that
+    his words were laws, all things being acted according to his
+    desire."--p. 76. of Foulis' _Hist. of Plots of our Pretended
+    Saints_, 2nd edit. 1674
+
+F.M.
+
+
+Birthplace of Andrew Borde
+
+Hearne says, in Wood's _Athenæ_, "that the Doctor was not born at
+Pevensey or Pensey, but at Boonds-hill in Holmsdayle, in Sussex."
+
+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.
+
+J.F.M.
+
+
+Order of Minerva
+
+    "We are informed that his Majesty is about to institute a new
+    order of knighthood, called _The Order of Minerva_, 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."--_Perth Magazine_, July, 1772.
+
+SCOTUS.
+
+
+Flaws of Wind
+
+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."
+
+SCOTUS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+QUERIES ANSWERED.
+
+DORNE THE BOOKSELLER AND HENNO RUSTICUS.
+
+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."
+
+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
+_Henno Rusticus_? Or, 3dly, of another, called _Of the Sige (Signe) of
+the End_?
+
+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 _Henno Rusticus_, his book, it is said, ever existed.
+Permit me one word of expostulation upon this.
+
+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."
+
+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 _n_ in "henno" is expressed by a contraction,
+which in the MS. _very_ commonly denotes that letter, and sometimes the
+final _m_. How frequently it represents _n_ may be judged from the fact
+that in the few words already quoted, the final _n_ in "amen," and the
+first in "Johannes," are supplied by it. So that {89} 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.
+
+Admitting, however, for supposition's sake, that your correspondent is
+right, that the man was named Dormer, and the book _Homo rusticus_--is
+there any one who will obligingly favour me with information respecting
+these, or either of them?
+
+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 _three_ difficulties propounded from it contents, _two_ should be
+capable of being shown to have arisen from nothing else but my inability
+to read it. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
+
+W.
+
+Trin. Coll. Oxon. Dec. 5, 1849.
+
+    [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 _Henno Rusticus_, confirms the accuracy of his
+    reading.]
+
+
+HENNO RUSTICUS.
+
+The query of your correspondent W. at p. 12, No. 1. regards, I presume,
+_Henno Comediola Rustico Ludicra, nunc iterum publicata_; Magdeburg,
+1614, 8vo.? If so, he will find it to be identical with the _Scænica
+Progymnasmata h. e. Ludicra Præexercitamenta_ 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.
+
+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.
+
+Reuchlin, while at Heidelberg, had amused himself by writing a satirical
+drama, entitled _Sergius seu Capitis Caput_, 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 _Maistre Pierre Patelin_, and produced his
+_Scænica Progymnasmata_, in which the _Rustic Henno_ 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.
+
+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.
+
+Melchior Adam gives the following account:--
+
+    "Ibi Comoediam scripsit, _Capitis Caput_ plenam nigri salis &
+    acerbitatis adversus Monachum, qui ejus vitæ insidiatus erat.
+    Ibi & alteram Comoediam edidit _fabulam Gallicam_, 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 _Capellus_, 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."
+
+Mr. Hallam (_Literat. of Europe_, vol. i. p. 292., {90} 1st ed.), misled
+by Warton and others, gives a very defective and erroneous account of
+the _Progymnasmata Scænica_, 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 _History of the German Drama_, 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 _Henno_.
+
+S.W.S.
+
+Mickleham, Dec. 1. 1849.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MYLES BLOMEFYLDE--ORTUS VOCABULORUM.
+
+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 _unique_
+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:--
+
+    "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."
+
+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 _Ortus Vocabulorum_, printed by W. de Worde, in 1518, and the
+_Promptuarium Parvulorum_, printed by the same, in 1516, bound together,
+on both of which the name of _Myles Blomefylde_ in inscribed.
+
+I may add, as a slight contribution to a future edition of the
+_Typographical Antiquities_, 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 _Ortus Vocabulorum_, unnoticed by bibliographers, with the
+following colophon:--
+
+    "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."--_Harl. MSS._ 5919. art. 36.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES.
+
+The Curse of Scotland--Why the Nine of Diamonds is so called.
+
+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 "_cross_ of Scotland," which, in the
+Scotch pronunciation, had become "curse."
+
+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.
+
+A.F.
+
+
+Thistle of Scotland.
+
+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 _Orders of
+Knighthood of the British Empire_. 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
+"_Nemo me impune lacessit_," does not appear until James VI. adopted it
+on his coinage.
+
+G.H.B.
+
+
+For Scottish Thistle, see Nisbet's _Heraldry_, vol. ii. _Order of St.
+Andrew_. Selden, _Titles of Honour_, p. 704. ed. 1672, refers to
+"Menenius, Miræus, Favin, and such more."
+
+SCOTUS.
+
+
+Record Publications.
+
+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?
+
+With every wish for the success of your undertaking,
+
+Yours, &c.
+
+D.S.
+
+    [The late Sir H. Nicolas compiled an account of the publications
+    of the Record Commission, which was published in his _Notitia
+    Historica_, and also in an 8vo. vol, and is easily obtainable.
+    There is also a series of articles in the _Gentleman's Magazine_
+    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.]
+
+
+Katherine Pegge.
+
+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 {91} 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.
+
+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.
+
+Katherine Pegge, the Earl's mother, after her _liaison_ 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.
+
+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.
+
+Both mother and son are said to have been eminently beautiful.
+
+G.M.
+
+East Winch, Nov. 30.
+
+
+N., who refers our Querist for particulars of this lady to the "Memoirs
+of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Pegge and his Family," in Nichols' _Literary
+Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, 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.
+
+    "I see he was created a baronet 26th July, 1660, and died s. p.
+    Dec. 1676; and that Courthope, in his _Extinct Baronetage_,
+    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."
+
+
+The Rev. T. Leman.
+
+Sir,--Your correspondent A.T. will find the information he requires
+respecting the Reverend Thomas Leman, of Bath, in the _Gentleman's
+Magazine_ for Oct. 1826, p. 373.; for Aug. 1828, p. 183.; and for Feb.
+1829. He may also consult Britton's _Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and
+Character of Henry Hatcher_.
+
+G.M.
+
+
+A Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Leman will be found in Nichols's
+_Illustrations of Literature_, vol. vi. p. 435, _et seq._, 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.
+
+N.
+
+
+Burnet Prize at Aberdeen.
+
+Sir,--I sent a _query_ to the _Athenæum_, who, by a _note_, referred it
+to you.
+
+My object is to ascertain _who gained_ the last _Theological Premium_
+(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."
+
+I wish to know who gained the first prize, and _who_ the second premium.
+
+H. ANDREW
+
+Manchester, Nov. 27, 1849.
+
+    [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 _Essay on the Existence of a Supreme Being
+    possessed of Infinite Power, Wisdom, and Goodness_, 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 _A Treatise on the Records of
+    Creation_, was published in London, in 2 vols. 8vo. 1816.]
+
+
+Incumbents of Church Livings.
+
+Sir,--In answer to the Query of your correspondent L., I beg to inform
+him that he may find the _name_, 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.
+
+G.M.
+
+
+History of Landed and Commercial Policy of England--History of Edward
+II.
+
+In reply to the two queries of your correspondent ANGLO-CAMBRIAN:--
+
+1. The _Remarks upon the History of the Landed and Commercial Policy of
+England_ 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 _Literary Anecdotes
+of the Eighteenth Century_, vol. viii. p. 160, note. {92} Mr. N.
+characterises it as "a valuable work, richly deserving to be better
+known."
+
+2. There are two histories of King Edward II., one in small _folio_, 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
+_Harleian Miscellany_, 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 _Harl. Miscellany_, I find the most
+essential differences; so much so, as hardly to be recognised as the
+same. Mr. Park, the last editor of the _Harl. Miscellany_ (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 _Miscellany_), 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."
+
+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."--_Athen. Oxom._ 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.
+
+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 _Richard of Cirencester_, in Mr. Britton's
+own _Autobiography_. See pp. 7 and 8.
+
+C.L.L.
+
+
+To eat Humble Pie.
+
+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 _humble pie_ 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.
+
+A.G.
+
+Ecclesfield, Nov. 24, 1849.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MINOR QUERIES.
+
+Eva, Daughter of Dermot Mac Murrough.
+
+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.
+
+Any fortunate possessor of O'Donovan's new translation of _The Annals of
+the Four Masters_, 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.
+
+A. HAPLESS HUNTER
+
+Malvern Wells, Nov. 20, 1849.
+
+
+John de Daundelyon.
+
+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 _History of the Isle of Tenet_,
+1723 (p. 98.), says:
+
+    "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:
+
+      "John de Daundelyon, with his great dog,
+      Brought over this bell on a mill-cog."
+
+This legend is still given to visitors of this fine old church. Will
+some of your antiquarian correspondents throw some light on the
+obscurity?
+
+C.
+
+
+Genealogy of European Sovereigns.
+
+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 _Royal Genealogies_, London, 1732, folio. But that is
+not of as late a date as I should wish to see.
+
+Q.X.Z.
+
+
+Duke of Ashgrove.
+
+At p. 14. of Doctor Simon Forman's _Diary_ (edited by Mr. Halliwell,
+1849), mention is twice made of Forman being engaged as "Scholmaster to
+the _Duke of Ashgrove's_ Sonnes." Who was the person thus alluded to?
+
+P.C.S.S. {93}
+
+
+Sir William Godbold.
+
+Mr. Editor,--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for July, 1842, occurs
+this:--
+
+    "In the parish church of Mendham, Suffolk, is a mural monument
+    bearing an inscription, of which the following is a transcript:
+
+    "'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.'
+
+    "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."
+
+To the writer of that letter the desideratum still remains unsupplied.
+Your welcome publication appears to offer a channel for repeating the
+inquiry.
+
+G.A.C.
+
+
+Ancient motto.
+
+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:--
+
+    "Si quis amiecum absentem rodere delectat ad hanc mensam
+    accumbere indignus est."
+
+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.
+
+J.E.M.
+
+
+Works of King Alfred.
+
+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,
+
+J.A. GILES.
+
+Bampton, Oxford, Nov. 23. 1849
+
+
+"Bive" and "Chote" Lambs.
+
+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.
+
+  "27 Hen. VIII. Michaelm.
+  Bive lambes at xvid. the pece.
+  Chote lambes at xiid. the pece."
+
+T.W.
+
+
+Anecdote of the Civil Wars.
+
+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 _quietly going out with his hounds_.
+Where did Walpole find this anecdote?
+
+C.
+
+
+A Political Maxim--when first used.
+
+Who first used the phrase--"_When bad men conspire, good men must
+combine_"?
+
+C.
+
+
+Richard of Cirencester
+
+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.
+
+
+Lord Erskine's Brooms.
+
+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?
+
+GRIFFIN.
+
+
+John Bell of the Chancery Bar.
+
+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?
+
+GRIFFIN
+
+
+Billingsgate.
+
+Mr. Editor--Stow, in his _Survey of London_, 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 {94} stone over the same _Gate_."
+... "That it was the largest water _Gate_ on the River of Thames." ...
+"That it is at this day a large water _Gate_," &c. Can you, Mr. Editor,
+or any of your respected correspondents, refer me to any drawing or
+description of the said _Gate_?
+
+WILLIAM WILLIAMS.
+
+Rood Lane, Nov. 24. 1849.
+
+
+Family of Pointz of Greenham.
+
+Mr. Editor,--Can any of your readers inform me if that branch of the
+ancient family of _Pointz_, 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.
+
+The Pointzes remained at Greenham after 1600.
+
+L.B.
+
+
+Marescaucia.
+
+Sir,--In the _Testa de Nevill_ appear the following entries:--
+
+    P. 237. a "terra Willi de Montellis (read Moncellis) in villa de
+    Cumpton pertinet ad _marescauciam_ domini Regis," &c.
+
+    P. 2269. a. "Will's de Munceus tenet Parvam Angram (Little
+    Ongar, in Essex) de Domino Rege de _Mareschaucie_ quæ fuit de
+    Baronia Gilberti de Tani."
+
+    P. 235. b. "Waleramus de Munceus tenet Cumpton per serjantiam
+    _Marescautiæ_."
+
+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
+
+D.S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.
+
+The Work of Walter Mapes, "_De Nugis Curialium_," 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.
+
+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."
+
+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:--
+
+578 Dedekindus (Fred.) School of Slovenrie, or Cato turned Wrong Side
+Outward, in Verse, by R.F. Gent. _very rare, original binding: sold at
+Perry's sale for_ £11 11s. 1605
+
+591 De Soto (Barahona) Primera Parte de la Angelica _blue morocco, rare
+Granada_, 1586
+
+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.
+
+747 Jests and Jeeres, Pleasant Taunt and Merry Tales (_wants all before
+B 2_), VERY RARE.
+
+One of these Jests mentions Shakspeare by name.
+
+1211 MARIE of EGYPT, a sacred Poeme describing the Miraculous Life and
+Death of the Glorious Convert of, in verse. _rare, russia, gilt edges no
+date_ (1650)
+
+1212 MARKHAM (Robert), THE DESCRIPTION OF THAT EVER TO BE FAMED KNIGHT
+SIR JOHN BURGH, _fine copy, with port. by Cecill_ 1628
+
+A POEM OF GREAT RARITY: the Bindley copy, afterwards Mr. Heber's, sold
+for £15.
+
+1345 SHAKESPEARE (W.), COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES, FIRST
+EDITION, _wanting the title and four leaves at the end, soiled_ folio,
+1623
+
+1451 Polimantcia, or the Means Lawfull and Unlawfull to judge of the
+Commonwealth, _rare_ 4to. 1595
+
+Notice is made of Shakespeare (R 2), Spenser, Sir D. Lyndsay, Harvey,
+Nash, &c.
+
+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, _Edin._ 1607--Countess of Argyle, _ib._
+1607--Earl Keith, _ib._ 1609--Earl of Montrose, _ib._ 1609--Prince
+Henry, _ib._ 1612--Fredericke Prince Palatine, _ib._ 1614--Earl of
+Lothian; with the author's Sylvarum liber, 1614
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+       *       *       *       *       * {95}
+
+BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
+
+WANTED TO PURCHASE.
+
+(_In continuation of List in No. 5._)
+
+DIBDIN's TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES. Vol. II.
+
+CATALOGUE OF LIBRARY OF JOHN HOLME. Vol. IV. 1830 or 1833. In boards.
+
+PINDAR, BY ABRAHAM MOORE, Part II, Boards. Uncut.
+
+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.
+
+[WHEATLEY'S] CHRISTIAN EXCEPTIONS TO THE PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE LORD'S
+SUPPER. 1737.
+
+THE APPENDIX TO DR. RICH. WARREN'S AURORA. 1737.
+
+THE APPENDIX TO HOADLEY'S PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE SACRAMENT.
+
+W.G. BROUGHTON's SECOND REPLY TO AUTHOR OF PALÆOROMAICA.
+
+BRITISH CRITIC for January, February, April, 1823. Uncut.
+
+DR. JOHN EDWARDS' REMARKS AND REFLECTIONS (_not_ his SOME BRIEF CRITICAL
+REMARKS, 1714) ON DR. CLARKE's SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE.
+
+SPECTATOR, Vol. IV. of the edition in 6 vols. small 8vo., 1826, with
+Preface by Lynam.
+
+EVANS' OLD BALLADS. Vol. III. 1784.
+
+HOLCROFT's LAVATER. Vol. I. 1789.
+
+EDMONDSON'S HERALDRY. Vol. II. 1780.
+
+FIELDING'S WORKS. Vol. XI. 1808. The 14 vol. Bookseller's edition.
+
+SWIFT'S WORKS. Vol I. of Edition published by Falconar, Dublin. 1763.
+
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