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diff --git a/22625-8.txt b/22625-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd0094c --- /dev/null +++ b/22625-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2239 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, +1851, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: September 16, 2007 [EBook #22625] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, ISSUE 67 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +{97} + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + + * * * * * + + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 67.] +SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1851. +[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS. + + + NOTES:-- Page + Inedited Letter from the Earl of Shaftesbury, Author of + the "Characteristics," to Le Clerc, respecting Locke 97 + + Mr. Gough's Translation of the "History of The Bible" 100 + + Folk-Lore:--Lammer Beads, by Albert Way 100 + + On Catalogues of Books, by Bolton Corney 101 + + Minor Notes:--The "Winter's Tale"--Inscribed + Alms-dish--Landwade Church--The First Edition + of the Second Book of Homilies, by Queen Elizabeth, + in 1563 101 + + QUERIES:-- + + Dutch Translation of a Tract by Robert Greene 103 + + The Black Rood of Scotland 104 + Minor Queries:--The "Tanthony"--"Beauty Retire"--The + Soul's Dark Cottage--Small by Degrees and + beautifully less--Musical Plagiarism--Simon Bache--Sir + Walter Raleigh--Harrison's Chronology--Aristophanes + on the Modern Stage--Drachmarus--Strutt's + Queen Hoo Hall--Cardinal's Monument--Names + Bacon and Fagan--Blunder--Prince of + Wales' Feathers--Portrait of Ben Jonson--Robert + Burton--Blowen 105 + + REPLIES:-- + + Touchstone's Dial, by Robert Snow and J. Clarke 107 + + Winifreda, by Lord Braybrooke 108 + Replies to Minor Queries--Did St. Paul's Clock + strike Thirteen--By the bye--Clement's Inn--Words + are Men's Daughters--Passage in Saint Mark--"And + Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a Grin"--Dr. + Trusler's Memoirs 109 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 110 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 111 + + Notices to Correspondents 111 + + Advertisements 111 + + * * * * * + + +Notes. + +INEDITED LETTER FROM THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, AUTHOR OF THE +"CHARACTERISTICS," TO LE CLERC, RESPECTING LOCKE. + + [We are indebted to our valued correspondent JANUS DOUSA, for a + transcript of the following important letter--the original of which is + preserved in the Remonstrant Library of Amsterdam--and for which our + correspondent acknowledges his obligations to the great kindness of + Prof. des Amories van der Hoven.] + +"St. Giles's, in Dorset, Feb. 8-13. 1705. + +"Sir,--Having once writt to you in my own Language, I continue to use the +same Privilege. I am sorry that I am in no better a condition to acquit my +self of my Promise to you. My Recovery has been so slow, that I am scarce +yet got up: and I have been unable to hold any Correspondance with my +Friends in Town. Mr. King promisd to send me the Papers I mention'd to you +of Mr. Lock's; who, it seems, had begun some Memoires of his own relating +to my G^d Father. These however imperfect, yet as being Mr. Lock's own I +should have been glad to send you with what supplement I could make myself: +But Mr. King's Engagements in the Publick affaires has made him delay this +so long, that according to the account you have given me of the shortness +of your Time, I must wayt no longer: but content my self with giving you +what I can out of my own head, without other Assistance. + +"Mr. Lock came into my Grandfathers Family in the summer of the year 1666, +recommended by his Friend[1] Mr. Bennet of y^e town of Shaftesbury. The +occasion of it was thus. My Grandfather had been ill for a great while +after a Fall, by w^{ch} his Breast was so bruised that in time it came to +an Imposthumation (?) within, and appeard by a swelling under his stomach. +Mr. Lock was at that time a student in Physick at Oxford: and my +Grandfather taking a journey that way to drink the Waters (having Mr. +Bennett in y^e Coach with him), He had this young Physician presented to +him: who tho' he had never practic'd Physick; yet appear'd to my +Grandfather to be such a Genius that he valew'd him above all his other +Physicians, the great men in practice of those times. Accordingly on his +advice and allmost solely by his Direction my G^d Father underwent an +Operation w^{ch} sav'd his Life, and was the most wonderfull of the kind +that had been heard of, till that time. His Breast was layd open, the +matter discharg'd, and an Orifice ever afterwards kept open by a silver +pipe: an Instrument famouse {98} upon Record, in the Writings our Popish +and Jacobite Authors, who never faild to reproach him with this Infirmity. + +"After this Cure, Mr. Lock grew so much in esteem with my Grand-Father that +as great a Man as he had experienc'd him in Physick; he look'd upon this +but as his least part. He encourag'd him to turn his Thoughts another way. +Nor would he suffer him to practice Physick except in his own Family and as +a kindness to some particular Friend. He put him upon the studdy of the +Religiouse and Civil affaires of the Nation with whatsoever related to the +Business of a Minister of State: in w^{ch} he was so successfull, that my +G^d Father begun soon to use him as a Friend, and consult with him on all +occasions of that kind. He was not only with him in his Library and Closet, +but in company with the Great Men of those times, the Duke of Buckingham, +Lord Hallifax and others, who being men of Witt and Learning, were as much +taken with him. For together with his seriouse, respectfull and humble +Character, he had a mixture of Pleasantry and a becoming Boldness of +Speech. The Liberty he could take with these great Men was peculiar to such +a Genius as his. A pleasant Instance of it runs in my Mind: tho' perhaps +the relation of it may not be so pleasing to another. + +"At an appointed Meeting of two or three of these Great-Men at my G^d +Father's House, more for Entertainment and good company than for Business, +it happen'd that after a few Compliments the Cards were called for, and the +Court-Fashion prevailing, they were engag'd in Play before any Conversation +was begun. Mr. Lock sate by as a spectator for some time. At least taking +out his Table-Book, he began to write something very busily: till being +observd by one of the Lords, and ask'd what he was meditating; My Lords +(sayd he) I am improving my self the best I can in your Company: for, +having impatiently wayted this Honour of being present at such a meeting of +the wisest Men and greatest Witts of the Age, I thought I could not do +better than to write your Conversation: and here I have it, in substance, +all that has pass'd for this hour or two. There was no need of Mr. Lock's +writing much of the Dialogue. The great men felt the ridicule, and took +pleasure in improving it. They quitted their Play, and fell into a +Conversation becoming them: and so passed the remainder of the Day. + +"When my G^d Father, from being Chancellor of the Exchequer, was made High +Chancellor (w^{ch} was in the year 1672) he advanc'd Mr. Lock to the Place +of Secretary for the Clergy: and when my G^d Father quitted the Court and +began to be in Danger from it, Mr. Lock now shard with him in Dangers, as +before in Honours & Advantages. He entrusted him with his secretest +negotiations, and made use of his assistant Pen in matters that nearly +concerned the State, and were fitt to be made publick, to raise that spirit +in the Nation which was necessary against the prevailing Popish Party. + +"It was for something of this kind that got air, and out of great +Tenderness to Mr. Lock that my Grandfather in the year 1674 sent him abroad +to travell: an Improvement w^{ch} my G^d father was gladd to add to those +he had allready given him. His Health servd as a very just Excuse: he being +consumptive as early in his Life as that was. So that having travelld thro' +France he went[2] to Montpelier and there stayd for some time. He returnd +again to my G^d Fathers in the year 1678, and remaind in his Family till +the year 1682: w^{ch} was the year that my G^d Father retird into Holland +and there dyed. Mr. Lock who was to have soon followd him thither, was not +prevented in the voyage, by this Death: but found it safest for him to +retire thither, and there lived (at our good Friend Mr. Furly's of +Rotterdam) till the happy Revolution of King William, w^{ch} restord him to +his native Country and to other Publick offices of greater Note, w^{ch} by +fresh Meritts he deserv'd: witness his then Publishd Books of Government, +Trade and Coin: by w^{ch} he had as considerably servd the State, as he had +done the Church and Protestant Interest by his defence of Toleration and +support of the Revolution-Principles. + +"But of this part of his Life, you need no Information. + +"Thus far I have made mention of Mr. Lock as to his station in Publick +affaires, under my Grandfather. Now as to his Service in private affaires, +and the Concerns of a Family, w^{ch} was, in every respect, so happy in +him, that he seem as a good Guardian Angel sent to bless it. + +"When Mr. Lock first came into the Family, my Father was a youth of about +fifteen or sixteen. Him my Grandfather entrusted wholly to Mr. Lock for +what remain'd of his Education. He was an only Child, and of no firm +Health: w^{ch} induc'd my G^d Father, in concern for his Family to think of +marrying him as soon as possible. He was too young and unexperienc'd to +chuse a Wife for himself: and my Grandfather too much in Business to chuse +one for him. The affair was nice, for tho' my Grandfather requir'd not a +great Fortune, he insisted on good Blood, good Person and Constitution, and +above all, good Education, and a Character as remote as possible from that +of Court- or Town-bred Lady. All this was thrown upon Mr. Lock, who being +allready so good Judge of Men, my Grand Father doubted not of his equal +{99} Judgment in Women. He departed from him, entrusted and sworn, as +_Abraham's_ Head-servant[3] _that ruled over all that he had_, and went +into a far-Country (the North of England) _to seek for his Son a Wife_ +whome he as successfully found. Of Her, I and six more of us, Brothers & +Sisters, were born; in whose Education Mr. Lock govern'd according to his +own Principles (since publishd by him) and with such success that we all of +us came to full years, with strong healthy Constitutions: my own the worst; +tho' never faulty till of late. I was his more peculiar Charge: being as +eldest son, taken by my Grandfather, & bred under his immediate Care: Mr. +Lock having the absolute Direction of my Education, and to whome next my +immediate Parents as I must own the greatest Obligation, so I have ever +preserved the highest Gratitude & Duty. + +"I could wish that my Time and Health would permit me to be longer in this +Account of my Friend and Foster-Father, Mr. Lock. If I add any thing as you +desire, concerning my Grandfather himself, it must have a second place: +this being a subject more selfish and in w^{ch} I may justly suspect my +self of Partiality: of w^{ch} I would willingly be free: and think I truly +am so in this I now send you. But I fear least this (such as it is) should +come too late, and therefore hasten to conclude with repeated Assurances of +my being your Oblig'd Friend and humble Servant + +"SHAFTESBURY. + +"P.S. If after what I have said I dare venture a Word to you as to my +Grandfather's Apology for the one and only thing I repine at in his whole +Life (I mean the unhappy Words you mention _delenda est Carthago_), It must +be this: That the Publick would not insist on this as so ill, and +injuriouse; if they considered the English Constitution and manner of those +times in w^{ch} the Prince more lofty in Prorogative and at greater +distance from his People than now of days, used but a few Words to his +Parlement; and committed the rest to his Keepers or Chancellor, to speak +his sence for him (as he expresses it in y^e conclusion of his own speech) +upon w^{ch} my Grandfather, the then Chancellor, and in his Chancellor's +Place[4], spoke of King's sence, as the King's mouth; in y^e same manner as +the Speaker of the House of Peers or Commons, speaks the House's sence, as +_the House's mouth_ (for so he is esteemd and calld) whatsoever may be his +own private sence; or tho' he may have deliver'd his own Opinion far +contrary. + +"Such was my Grandfather's Call: who was far from delivering his Vote or +Opinion in this manner, either as a Councillor or Peer, or in his Place in +Parlement: where he carryed on a direct opposite Interest: he being +allready in open Enmity with the Duke of York and his Party that carryed on +that Warr, in so much that he was at that very time suspected of holding a +Correspondence with Holland in favour of the Commonwealth-Party in England. +However it be, it is no small Comfort to me that that wise Commonwealth of +Holland, the Parent and Nursing-Mother of Liberty, thought him worthy of +their Protection when he was a sufferer for the common Cause of Religion +and Liberty: and he must ever remain a noble Instance of the Generosity of +that State, and of that potent Head of it, y^e City of Amsterdam; where +yourself and other Great Men have met with a Reception y^t will redound to +their Honour. + +"My Grandfather's _turning short upon the Court_ (as[5] Sir William Temple +expresses it) had only this plain reason for it; that he discoverd the King +to be a Papist, through that disguise of an _Esprit fort_, w^{ch} was a +character his Vices and over fondness of Witt made him affect and act very +naturally. Whatever Complyances my Grandfather, as a States-man, might make +before this discovery, to gain the King, from his Brother and y^e French +Party, he broke off all, when by the Duke of Buckingham's means, he had +gaind this secret. For my Grandfather's Aversion and irreconcileable Hatred +to Popery, was (as Phanaticisme,) confessd by his greatest Enemyes to be +his Master-Passion. Nor was it ever said that the King left him: but He the +King, for nothing was omitted afterwards by that Prince to regain him; nor +nothing to destroy him, when that was found impossible---- + +"But I must end: least I fail this Post." + +The superscription is: + + "A Monsieur + Monsieur LE CLERC + sur le Keiser Gracht + près de l'Eglise Arminienne + a Amsterdam" + +[Footnote 1: "A Gentleman of a Sound Protestant Family allways in great +Friendship with ours. Both Father and Son were members of Parlement for +that Town, and were Stewards to my G^d Father." (_In a marginal note._)] + +[Footnote 2: "It was there (as I take it) that Mr. Lock came so +particularly well acquainted with My Lord Pembrock, that great Ornament and +Pillar of our Nation. He was then Mr. Herbert, a younger Brother only." +--(_In a marginal note_.)] + +[Footnote 3: "Gen. c. 24." (_In a marginal note._)] + +[Footnote 4: The Speech was an Act of Councill examind beforehand in the +Cabinet. + +"Mr. Lock saw the first Coppy of it, w^{ch} was very different; and after +it was alter'd in the Cabinet, my Grandfather complain'd to Mr. Lock and a +Relation of his whome Mr. Lock introducd into y^e family. + +"The same Person has left me a written account of that affaire; and so +great was my Grandfather's Concern and Trouble, that He who of all Men alas +esteemd y^e most ready in speaking was forcd to desire Mr. Lock to stand at +his Elbow with the written Coppy to prompt him in Case of failure in his +Repetition." (_In a marginal note._)] + +[Footnote 5: "It is my Grandfathers Misfortune to have S^r Will^m Temple, a +valewable Author, very unfavourable to him: there having been a great +Quarrel between them on a slight occasion of my Grandfather's having stopt +his Gift of Plate after his Embassy; a Custome w^{ch} my Grandfather as +Chancellor of ye Exchequer thought very prejudicial." (_In a marginal +note._)] + + * * * * * + +{100} + +MR. GOUGH'S TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE. + +In vol. vi., p. 266., of Nichols's _Literary Anecdotes_, "Memoirs of Mr. +Gough," is the following anecdote of Mr. Gough's precocious talents-- + + "At the very early age of eleven he commenced a task that would have + reflected credit on any period of life; which, by the indulgence of his + mother, appeared in print under the title of '_The History of the + Bible_, translated from the French by R. G., junior, 1746. London: + Printed by James Waugh in the year 1747.' Of this curious volume, + consisting of 160 sheets in folio, not more than twenty-five copies + were printed, as presents to a few particular friends and when + completed at the press, it is marked by way of colophon, 'Done at + twelve years and a half old.'" + +Mr. Nichols in his notes says, that the French edition was printed at +Amsterdam, in 2 vols. folio, with plates, 1700. That by the generosity of +Mr. Gough's worthy relict, he had a copy of the work with Mr. Gough's +corrections in maturer age; and in a note at p. 642. of this volume of the +_Literary Anecdotes_ Mr. Nichols further states, that + + "By a singular chance, at a sale of the library of Dr. Guise in + January, 1812, he met with two copies of Mr. Gough's juvenile + translation of the _History of the Bible_; and at the end of one of the + volumes were ten sheets of Mr. Pickering's _Dictionary_, perhaps the + only copy of them in existence." + +The Rev. Roger Pickering was Mr. Gough's tutor until he was admitted at +Bene't College, Cambridge, July, 1752, being then in the 17th year of his +age. This Dictionary was compiled on the plan of Calmet, but left +unfinished. + +Mr. J. B. Nichols, son of the late venerable octogenarian, having recently +presented me with a copy of Mr. Gough's scarce volume, I am anxious to +learn by whom the original French work was written, and where a copy may be +purchased. It is one of much erudition; sound in doctrine and principle; +pleasing and familiar in its language, and would, I should think, well +repay the publisher of a new edition, after a careful correction of a few +deficiencies in composition, incidental to the early period at which Mr. +Gough translated it. There is nothing in the preface, or in any part of the +volume, to indicate the name of the original author. Should Mr. J. B. +Nichols still possess Mr. Gough's more matured and corrected copy, he might +perhaps discover some reference to the author. + +J. M. G. + +Worcester, Jan. 1851. + + * * * * * + +FOLK LORE. + +_Lammer Beads_ (Vol. iii. p. 84.).--If L. M. M. R. had taken the trouble to +consult Jamieson's _Etymological Dictionary_,--that rich storehouse of +curious information, not merely in relation to the language, but to the +manners and customs, and the superstitions of North Britain,--he would have +found interesting notices connected with his inquiry. See the word LAMMER, +and the same in the Supplement. We might accept, without a moment's +hesitation, the suggestion of a learned friend of Dr. Jamieson's, deriving +Lammer from the French, _l'ambre_, were it not that Kilian gives us Teut. +Lamertyn-steen, _succinum_. In Anglo-Saxon times it was called Eolhsand +(_Gloss. Ælfr._), and appears to have been esteemed in Britain from a very +early period. Amongst antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon age, beads of amber +are of very frequent occurrence. Douglas has collected some interesting +notes regarding this substance, in his _Nenia_, p. 9. It were needless to +cite the frequent mention of _precularia_, or Paternosters, of amber, +occurring in inventories. The Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, purchased +a most costly chaplet from a Parisian jeweller, in 1431, described as "une +patenostres à signeaux d'or et d'ambre musquet." (Leber, Inventaires, p. +235.) The description "de alba awmbre," as in the enumeration of strings of +beads appended to the shrine of S^r William, at York Minster, may have been +in distinction from jet, to which, as well as to amber, certain virtuous or +talismanic properties were attributed. There were, however, several kinds +of amber,--_succinum rubrum_, _fulvum_, &c. The learned professor of +Copenhagen, Olaus Worm, alludes to the popular notions and superstitious +use of amber-- + + "Foris in collo gestatum, contra fascinationes et nocturna + terriculamenta pueros tueri volunt; capitis etiam destillationibus, et + tonsillarum ac faucium vitiis resistere, oculorum fluxus et ophthalmias + curare." + +By his account it would seem to have been received as a panacea, sovereign +for asthma, dropsy, toothache, and a multitude of diseases. + + "In summâ (he concludes) Balsami instar est, calorem nativum roborans + et morborum insultibus resistens."--_Museum Wormianum_, p. 32. + +Bartholomaeus Glanvilla, in his work, _De Proprietatibus Rerum_, has not +overlooked the properties of amber, which he seems to regard as a kind of +jet (book xvi., c. xlix.). + + "Gette, hyght Gagates, and is a boystous stone, and never the les it is + precious." + +He describes it as most abundant and of best quality in Britain of two +kinds, yellow and black; it drives away adders,-- + + "Is contrary to fendes,--helpeth for fantasies and ayenste vexacions of + fendis by night.--And so, if so boystus a stone dothe so great wonders, + none shuld be dispisid for foule colour without, while the vertu that + is within is unknowe." (Translation by Trevisa.) + +ALBERT WAY. + + * * * * * + +{101} + +ON CATALOGUES OF BOOKS. + +A series of notes on the _utility_ of printed catalogues of public +libraries may seem to be a superfluity. It may be said, _Who ever denied +it?_ Relying on a official document, I can assert that it _has_ been +denied--in defiance of common sense, and the experience of two hundred and +fifty years! + +At such a time, it behoves every lover of literature to declare himself, +and to furnish his quota of facts or arguments corrective of this upstart +paradox. It is under the influence of that sentiment that I submit, for +consideration in the proper quarter, some short extracts from my +bibliographic portfolios. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + "The forwardness of your CATALOGUE [of the public library at Oxford] is + very good tidings.... I would intreat you to meditate upon it, how it + may be performed to both our credits and contents."--_Sir Thomas_ + BODLEY to _Tho. James_, c. 1604. + + Habes, benigne lector, catalogum librorum, eo ordine dispositum, quo in + celeberrima Oxoniensi bibliothecâ collocantur; opus diu multumque + desideratum, et jam tandem editum."--_Thomas_ JAMES, 1605. + + "Quamprimum benignis academicorum suffragiis in bibliothecarium electus + essem, viderémque justum bibliothecæ publicæ catalogum ab omnibus + desiderari, ego ut gratiis litatum irem, me protinùs accinxi ad + conficiendum proprio marte novum catalogum."--_Thomas_ HYDE, 1674. + + "The general use of catalogues of [of books], and the esteem they are + in at present, is so well known, that it were to waste paper to + expatiate on it."--_Gerard_ LANGBAINE, 1688. + + "Quelles obligations la république des lettres n'a-t-elle pas aux + Anglais, d'avoir donné les catalogues des livres que renferment leurs + bibliothèques! Celui d'Oxford est d'une utilité reconnue, par le grand + nombre de livres qu'il contient, et par l'ordre alphabétique qu'on leur + a donné."--JOURDAN, 1739. + + Catalogues of books are of great use in literary pursuits.... We mean + not here to enter into all the conveniencies of a more improved + catalogue, for it would require a volume to display them."--_William_ + OLDYS, 1745. + + "Solebat [sc. Ruhnkenius] haud exiguam subsecivæ operæ partem tribuere + perlegendis catalogis librorum, sive per auctiones divendendorum, sive + in bibliothecis publicis servatorum; unde factum est, ut rariorum + cognitionem librorum, jam in Bergeri disciplina perceptam, continuo + augeret."--_Dan_. WYTTENBACH, 1799. + + "Le premier besoin de l'homme de lettres qui entreprend un ouvrage, est + de connoître les sources auxquelles il peut puiser, les livres qui ont + traité directement ou indirectement le sujet qui l'occupe."--_S_. + CHARDON _de la Rochette_, 1812. + + "La bibliothèque [savoir, la bibliothèque royale établie à Bruxelles] + aura deux catalogues: l'un alphabétique, l'autre systématique. Dans + l'intérêt de la science, le catalogue sera imprimé, en tout ou en + partie."--LÉOPOLD, _roi des Belges_, 1837. + + "Le catalogue est l'inventaire en le véritable palladium d'une + bibliothèque. L'impression des catalogues est toujours une chose utile, + sinon indispensable.... La publicité est, en outre, le frein des abus, + des négligences, et des malversations, l'aiguillon du zèle, et la + source de toute amélioration."--_L. A._ CONSTANTIN, 1839. + + "La publication d'une nouvelle édition complète du catalogue de la + bibliothèque du roi [de France], serait, sans doute, le plus grand + service qu'on pût jamais rendre à l'histoire littéraire; et nous ne + regardons pas cette entreprise comme impraticable."--_Jacques Charles_ + BRUNET, 1842. + + "M. Merlin pense avec moi, et c'est quelque chose, que les justes + plaintes formées contre l'administration de la bibliothèque royale [de + France] cesseront dès l'instant où l'on aura rédigé et publié le + catalogue géneral des livres imprimés."--_Paulin_ PARIS, 1847. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_The "Winter's Tale."_--As MR. PAYNE COLLIER is making inquiries as to the +origin of Shakspeare's _Winter's Tale_, perhaps he will allow me to call +his attention to an oversight he has committed in his edition of Greene's +_Pandosto_, in the series called _Shakspeare's Library_. In a note to the +introduction, p. ii., MR. COLLIER says, + + "Some verbal resemblances and trifling obligations have been pointed + out by the commentators in their notes to the WINTER'S TALE. One of the + principal instances occurs in Act IV. Sc. 3., where Florizel says: + + "'The gods themselves, + Humbling their deities to love, have taken + The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter + Became a bull and bellow'd; the green Neptune + A ram, and bleated; and the fire-rob'd god, + Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain, + As I seem now. Their transformations + Were never for a piece of beauty rarer, + Nor in a way so chaste.' + + "'This,' says Malone, 'is taken almost literally from the novel'--when, + in fact, the resemblance merely consists in the adoption by Shakspeare + of part of the mythological knowledge supplied by Greene. 'The gods + above disdaine not to love women beneath. Phoebus liked Daphne; Jupiter + Io; and why not I then Fawnia?' The resemblance is anything but + literal." + +It would appear, however, that the passage cited by MR. COLLIER is not the +one referred to by Malone. MR. COLLIER's passage is at p. 34. of his +edition of the novel; the one Malone evidently had in view is at p. 40., +and is as follows:-- + + "And yet, Dorastus, shame not at thy shepheard's weede: the heavenly + godes have sometime earthly thoughtes. Neptune became a ram, Jupiter a + bul, Apollo a shepheard: they Gods, and yet in love; and thou a man, + appointed to love." + +E. L. N. + +_Inscribed Alms-dish._--There is an alms-dish (?) {102} in the possession +of a clergyman near Rotherham, in this county, with the following +inscription:-- + +"VREEST . GODT . ONDERHOVEDT . SYN . GEBOEDT . ANNO . 1634." + +[Fear God (and?) keep his commandments.] + +Having so lately been so justly reproved by your correspondent, MR. JANUS +DOUSA, for judging of Vondel's _Lucifer_ by an apparently unjust review +rather than by perusal,--and his beautiful chorus having so fully +"established his case,"--I am rather shy of making any remarks upon this +inscription: otherwise I would venture (errors excepted) to observe that +there _may_ be a mistake in the position of the last three letters of the +third word. + +If MR. DOUSA would kindly inform a _very_ imperfect Dutch scholar whether +this sentence is intended as a quotation from Ecclesiastes xii., 13th +verse,-- + + "Vreest Godt ende hout sÿne geboden;" + +or whether the third word is from the verb "_onder houden_,"--as _looks_ +probable, I shall be greatly obliged to him. The Bible to which I refer is +dated 1644. + +Being neither a scholar nor a critic, but only a lover of books and +languages, I hope MR. DOUSA will accept my apology for the affront offered +to his countryman, Vondel. Your publication has been a great temptation to +people with a few curious books around them to set sail their little boats +of inquiry or observation for the mere pleasure of seeing them float down +the stream in company with others of more importance and interest. I +confess myself to have been one of the injudicious number; and having made +shipwreck of my credit against M. Brellet's _Dictionnaire de la Langue +Celtique_, and also on Vondel's _Lucifer_, I must here apologise and +promise to offend no more. If MR. DOUSA will not be appeased, I have only +to add that I "send him my card." As Mrs. Malaprop said to Sir Lucius +O'Trigger-- + + "Spare my blushes--_I_ am Delia." + +HERMES. + +P. S. Can MR. DOUSA fix a positive date to my undated _History of Dr. John +Faustus_? + +_Landwade Church._--It appears to me that an important service would be +rendered to posterity, if a full account were taken of all the monuments +and inscriptions in such deserted churches as Landwade appears to be. Such +records may ere long become invaluable, and every day is hastening them to +oblivion. Already hundreds of such churches, with the several monuments and +inscriptions they contained, have entirely passed away. I have been making +some investigation into the demolished and desecrated churches of +Buckinghamshire, and am astonished at the number of monumental records +which have thus perished. Thirty-one churches at least have been lost to +the county, and some of them were rich in monumental memorials. + +Other counties, doubtless, have equally suffered. Would it not, therefore, +be well to collect accounts of the memorials they contained, so far as they +can be obtained, and have them recorded in some publication, that they may +be available to future historians, genealogists, and antiquaries? Is there +any existing periodical suitable for the purpose? + +W. HASTINGS KELKE. + +_The First Edition of the Second Book of Homilies, by Queen Elizabeth in_ +1563.--In the edition of the _Homilies_ at the Oxford University press in +1822, and which from inspection, in the portion concerned, appear to be the +same in the last, I find in the Advertisement, page iv. note d., that there +exist _four editions_ of the date 1563. Of these, I presume, are two in my +possession, and I conclude one of them to be the _first edition_ on the +following grounds:--_That_ one, printed by Richard Jugge and John Cawood, +1563, has in the last page and a half, "Faultes escaped in the printyng," +which appear to have been _corrected_ in all the subsequent editions, and +are as they stand in the subsequent and modern editions, I presume, up to +the present time. But the principal proof arises from a cancelled leaf in +the Homily, "Of Common Prayer and Sacraments," as it stands in the Oxford +edition of 1822, p. 329-331. The passage in question, as it there stands, +and stands likewise in another edition of 1563, which I have, begins within +three lines of the end of the paragraph, p. 329.,--"eth, that common or +public prayer," &c., and ends at p. 331. line 13.,--"ment of baptism and +the Lord's supper," &c. In my presumed first edition the original passage +has been dismissed, and the substituted passage, being one leaf, _in a +smaller type_, in order plainly to contain more matter, and it is that +which appears, as I suppose, in all subsequent and the present copies. It +would have been a matter of some curiosity, and perhaps of some importance, +to have the original cancelled passage. But every intelligent reader will +perceive that the subject was one which required both delicacy and +judgment. Is any copy existing which has the original passage? My copy +unfortunately is imperfect, wanting three leaves; and I apprehend this is +an additional instance in which the first edition of an important work has +been in a manner thrown aside for its imperfection; as was the case with +the real first edition of the _Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent_, +and the _Execution of Justice_ given to Burghley. As the Oxford editor +wished for information upon this subject, it is hoped that the present +communication may not be unacceptable to him. + +J. M. + +Jan. 23. 1851. + + * * * * * + + +{103} + +Queries. + +DUTCH TRANSLATION OF A TRACT BY ROBERT GREENE. + +I was thinking of sending you a note or two on an early Dutch translation +of a very celebrated English tract when your last number came to hand, by +which I find that so much interest has been produced by "NOTES AND QUERIES" +in Holland, that certain _literati_ are about to establish a similar work +in that country. If I mistake not, what I now transmit will be acceptable +to your Batavian friends, and not unwelcome to those who approve of your +undertaking on this side of the water. + +A good deal has been advanced lately regarding the interest taken by the +inhabitants of Holland, Belgium, and Germany, in our ancient drama; and in +consistency with what was said by Thomas Heywood more than 200 years ago, +some new information has been supplied respecting the encouragement given +to English players abroad. The fact itself was well-known, and the author +last cited (Shakspeare Society's reprint of the _Apology for Actors_, 1841, +p. 58.) furnishes the name of the very play performed on one occasion at +Amsterdam. The popularity of our drama there perhaps contributed to the +popularity of our lighter literature, (especially of such as came from the +pens of our most notorious playwrights,) in the same part of Europe, and +may account for the circumstance I am about to mention. + +At this time of day I need hardly allude to the reputation the celebrated +Robert Greene obtained in England, both as a dramatist and a pamphleteer; +and although we have no distinct evidence on the point, we need hardly +doubt that some of his plays had been represented with applause in Holland. +_The Four Sons of Aymon_, which Heywood tells us was acted with such +strange effect at Amsterdam, must have been a piece of precisely the same +kind as Greene's _Orlando Furioso_, which we know was extraordinarily +popular in this kingdom, and may have been equally so abroad. We may thus +suppose that Greene's fame had spread to the Netherlands, and that anything +written by him would be well received by Batavian readers. + +His _Quip for an Upstart Courtier, or, a Quaint Dispute between +Velvet-breeches and Cloth-breeches_, was published in London in 1592, and +went through two, if not three, impressions in its first year. It was often +reprinted, and editions in 1606, 1615, 1620, 1625, and 1635, have come down +to us, besides others that, no doubt, have entirely disappeared. That the +fame of this production extended to Holland, I have the proof before me: it +is a copy of the tract in Dutch, with the following imprint--"_Tot Leyden. +By Thomas Basson_. M.D.CI." A friend of mine writes me from Rotterdam, that +he has a copy, without date, but printed about twenty or five-and-twenty +years after mine of 1601, which shows how long the popularity of the tract +was maintained; and I have little doubt that mine is not by any means the +earliest Dutch impression, if only because the wood-cut of the Courtier and +the Countryman (copied with the greatest precision from the London +impression of 1592) is much worn and blurred. The title-page runs as +follows, and the name of Robert Greene is rendered obvious upon it for the +sake of its attraction:-- + + "Een Seer vermakelick Proces tusschen Fluweele-Broeck ende + Laken-Broeck. Waer in verhaldt werdt het misbruyck van de meeste deel + der Menschen. Gheshreven int Engelsch door Robert Greene, ende nu int + Neder-landtsch overgheset. Wederom oversien." + +At the back of this title is printed a short address from the translator to +the _Edele ende welghesinde Leser_, which states little more than that the +original had been received from England, and concludes with the subsequent +quatrain:-- + + "Ghemerckt dit Dal vol van ydelheyt + Soo lachet vrij als Democritus dede: + Doch zy gheraeckt met vvat Barmherticheyt: + Als Heraclyt, bevveen ons qualen mede." + +The spelling and punctuation are the same as in the original, and the body +of the tract follows immediately: + + "Staende eens smorghens op van eene onrustige nacht rust, ende vindende + mijn ghemoet noch wat onstelt, gingh ick wandelen nae de vermacklyche + velden, om mijn Gheest wat te vermacken, dan wesende noch in een + Melancholijcke humeur, seer eensaem sonder eenighe gheselschap, worde + ick seer slaperich: alsoo dat ick droomde. Dat iek een Dal sach wel + verceirt, &c." + +As few of your readers will have the means of referring to the original +English, I quote Greene's opening words from an edition of 1592:-- + + "It was just at that time when the Cuckoulds quirister began to bewray + Aprill, Gentlemen, with his never-changed notes, that I, damped with a + melancholy humor, went into the fields to cheere up my wits with the + fresh aire: where solitarie seeking to solace my selfe, I fell in a + dreame, and in that drowsie slumber I wandered into a vale, &c." + +The Dutch version fills thirty-two closely printed pages, and ends with the +succeeding literal translation of Greene's last sentence:-- + + "Tot dese Sententie (aldus by de Ridder ghepronuncieert) alle de + omstaende Stemde daer toe, ende klapten in haere handen, ende maeckte + een groot geluyde, waer door eck waeker worde, ende schoot uyt mynen + Droom, soo stout ick op, ende met een vrolijck ghemoet, gingh ick + schryven, al her gene, dat ghy hier ghehoort hebt." + +The above is one of the few books I purchased when I was in Holland some +thirty years ago; and as I have quoted enough for the purpose of {104} +identification, I may conclude with asking some of your Dutch +correspondents, whether the tract, in this or in any other edition, is of +considerable rarity with them? In England I never saw a copy of it but that +in my possession. I may add that every paragraph is separately numbered +from 1 to 110, as if the production were one of importance to which more +particular reference might be made than even by the pagination. + +THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT. + + * * * * * + +THE BLACK ROOD OF SCOTLAND. + +(Vol. ii., pp. 308. 409.) + +I am not satisfied with what W. S. G. has written on this subject; and as I +feel interested in it, perhaps I cannot bring out my doubts better than in +the following Queries. + +1. Instead of this famous cross being destined by St. Margaret for +Dunfermline, was it not transmitted by her as an heir-loom to her sons? +_Fordun_, lib. v. cap. lv. "_Quasi munus hæreditarium transmisit ad +filios._" Hailes (_Annals_, sub anno 1093) distinguishes the cross which +Margaret gifted to Dunfermline from the Black Rood of Scotland; and it is +found in the possession of her son David I., in his last illness. He died +at Carlisle, 24th May, 1153. (_Fordun_, ut supra.) + +2. Is not W. S. G. mistaken when, in speaking of this cross being seized by +Edward I. in the Castle of Edinburgh in 1292, he says it is in a list of +muniments, &c., found "_in quadam cista in dormitorio S. Crucis._" instead +of in a list following, "_et in thesauria castri de Edinburgh inventa +fuerunt ornamenta subscripta?_" (Ayloffe's _Calendars_, p. 827.; +Robertson's _Index_, Introd. xiii.) + +3. When W. S. G. says that this cross was not held in the same +superstitious reverence as the Black Stone of Scone, and that Miss +Strickland is mistaken when she says that it was seized by King Edward, and +restored at the peace of 1327, what does he make of the following +authorities?-- + +(1.) _Fordun_, lib. v, cap. xvii: + + "Illa sancta crux quam nigram vocant omni genti Scotorum non minus + terribilem quam amabilem pro suæ reverentia sanctitatis." + +(2.) _Letters to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, +occassioned by some Passages in his late Book of the Scotch Library, &c._, +ascribed to the historian Rymer: London, 1702. From a "notable piece of +Church history," appended to the second Letter, it appears that the Black +Rood accompanied King Edward in his progresses, along with a famous English +cross--the Cross Nigth,--and that he received on these two crosses the +homage of several of the Scottish magnates. (The same thing, I have no +doubt, will appear from the _Foedera_ of the same historian, which I have +it not in my power to refer to.) + +(3.) _Chronicon de Lanercost_, printed by the Maitland Club, Edinburgh, +1839, p. 283. Alluding to the pacification of 1327: + + "Reddidit etiam eis partem crucis Christi _quam vocant Scotti + Blakerode_, et similiter unam instrumentum.... Ragman vocabatur. + Lapidem tamen de Scone, in quo solent regis Scotiæ apud Scone in + creatione sua collocari, Londonensis noluerunt a se demittere + quoquomodo. Omnia autem hæc asportari fecerat de Scotia inclytus rex + Edwardus filius Henrici, dum Scottos suæ subjiceret ditioni." + +Fabian and Holinshed report the same thing. + +4. Is not Fordun _quoting_ from Turgot and Aelred (whom he names Baldredus) +when he speaks of "illa sancta crux _quam nigram_ vocant?" And how does the +description of the Durham cross,-- + + "Which rood and pictures were all three very richly wrought in silver, + and were all smoked black over, being large pictures of a yard or five + quarters long," &c. &c.,-- + +agree with the description of the Black Rood of St. Margaret which, as Lord +Hailes says, "was of _gold_, about the length of _a palm_; the figure of +ebony, studded and inlaid with gold. A piece of the true cross was enclosed +in it"? + +5. As to the cross "miraculously received by David I., and in honour of +which he founded Holyrood Abbey in 1128," and which some antiquaries (see +_A Brief Account of Durham Cathedral_; Newcastle, 1833, p. 46.) gravely +assert was to be seen "in the south aisle of _the choir_ of Durham +Cathedral at its eastern termination, in front of a wooden screen richly +gilt and decorated with stars and other ornaments," are not all agreed that +the story is a mere monkish legend, invented long after Holyrood was +founded (although, perhaps, not so recent as Lord Hailes supposed)? and is +it not, therefore, absurd to speak of such a cross being taken at the +battle of Durham, or to identify it with the Black Rood of Scotland? + +6. The quotation of W. S. G. from the _MS. Dunelm_ is curious; but is there +any contemporary authority for the Black Rood having been taken with King +David at the battle of Durham? I can find none. + +7. Is it not, however, probable that King David lost _two_ crosses at +Durham, one a military cross, carried with his army, and taken from the +Abbey of Holyrood; and the other the famous Black Rood found on his person, +and made an offering to the shrine of St. Cuthbert? This would reconcile +some apparent discrepancies. + +8. I find it noticed by Richardson in his _Table Book_ (Newcastle, 1846, +vol. i. p. 123.), that "there is a letter in the British Museum (Faustina, +A 6. 47.) from the prior of Durham to the Bishop (then absent), giving an +account of the battle of Neville's cross." Has this letter been printed, +and where? If not so, will any of your correspondents have the {105} +kindness to examine it, and say if it gives any information as to a cross +or crosses captured with the King of Scots? + +J. D. N. N. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_The "Tanthony."_--When the porteress at the principal entrance to +Kimbolton Park opens the gates for the admission of a visitor, she rings a +bell to give warning to the servants at the castle of his approach. This +bell is popularly called the "Tanthony," in reference, I presume, to some +legend of Saint Anthony. Will one of your readers be good enough to +enlighten me? + +ARUN. + +"_Beauty Retire._"--Will the noble editor of Pepys's _Diary_ permit me to +ask him whether he has seen, in the Pepysian library, or elsewhere, a copy, +either in print or MS., of Pepys's song, "Beauty Retire," words and music; +or is it to be found in any miscellaneous collection of songs? + +I. H. M. + +_The Soul's Dark Cottage._--Being called on to reply to matters as plain as +those to which I replied last week, I am less reluctant to acknowledge my +own ignorance or obliviousness, respecting a couplet of which, I doubt not, +hundreds of your readers know the original _habitat_, but which cannot be +recalled to my own memory, nor to that of several friends to whom I have +referred. The couplet is-- + + "The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, + Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made." + +EFFARESS. + +London, Jan. 4, 1851. + +"_Small by degrees and beautifully less._"--This is a very common +quotation, but, although I have made frequent inquiries, I have never yet +been able to find out the author of it. Perhaps some of your readers can +inform me. + +W. H. B. + +_Musical Plagiarism._--I think I remember to have heard, two or three years +ago, of an action for damages brought against an eminent composer, on +account of plagiarism in a musical composition; and that the defendant's +argument was founded on the fact, that there exist very few really +"original compositions," if originality excludes every form of plagiarism. +And he adduced as examples the "See the conquering hero," of Handel; and +the "Zitti Zitti," of Rossini. Can any of your readers refer me to the +minutes of this trial; and tell me if any book has been published in +criticism of the originality of composers? + +R. M. + +_Simon Bache._--In the parish church of Knebworth, Herts, is the brass of a +priest, with the following inscription:-- + + "Hic jacet Dominus Simo Bache, Clericus, quondam _Thesaurarius + Hospitii_ illustrissimi Principis Domini Henrici Quinti Regis Angliæ, + ac Canonic. Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Sancti Paulli, London; qui obiit xix. + die Maii. Anno Dom. nostr. 1414." + +Can any of your readers inform me what this office of _Thesaurarius +Hospitii_ was; also, who Simon Bache was that held it; and how it happens +that he is buried at Knebworth? + +A. W. H. + +_Sir Walter Raleigh._--In speaking of the difficulty which exists in +obtaining a perfect knowledge of any event, reference is often made to Sir +Walter Raleigh having witnessed an occurrence, while confined in the Tower, +and that two witnesses gave such a different account from each other as +well as from himself, that he threw his MS. history into the fire. In what +contemporary work is this recorded? + +A similar discrepancy in evidence is mentioned with reference to the +celebrated tourney at Tiani, in 1502, in Prescott's _Ferdinand and +Isabella_, vol. iii. p. 45. + +H. J. + +_Harrison's Chronology._--William Harrison, a native of London, chaplain to +Sir William Brooke, Baron Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, composed +a _Description of Britain and of England_; and likewise translated Hector +Boethius's _Description of Scotland_, from the Scottish version of John +Bellenden. Both these pieces are printed in Holinshed's _Chronicles_, 2 +vols. fol. 1587. In the prefaces Harrison speaks of a work on _Chronology_, +"which I have yet in hand." Has that work ever been printed? I discovered +the manuscript of it last year, in the Diocesan Library of Derry, in +Ireland; but did not ascertain _who_ was its author (though it bears the +name of Harrison), until a few days ago. + +H. COTTON. + +Thurles, Ireland, Dec. 21. 1850. + +_Aristophanes on the Modern Stage._--Can any of your valuable +correspondents inform me whether any of the plays of Aristophanes have been +produced upon the stage in a modern version; and if so, when, and by whom? + +I am inclined to think that some at least of the comedies in the hands of a +skilful author might be made entertaining and popular. + +The _Acharnians_ and _Peace_, or perhaps even the _Birds_, might form the +groundwork of an amusing piece. Should you be able to spare a corner in +your valuable periodical for this Query, you would greatly oblige + +C. J. R. (2.) + +Burton Crescent. + +_Drachmarus._--Can any of your readers kindly inform me, under what name +"Drachmarus," one of the Schoolmen, is commonly known? + +J. SANSOM. + +_Strutt's Queen Hoo Hall._--Some years back I purchased of a son of the +late Joseph Strutt, a copy of _Queen Hoo Hall_, containing manuscript {106} +memoranda by that son relating to his father and to Walter Scott. Amongst +other matters it states, that the original manuscript of that romance was +submitted to Mr. Scott before it was published, and that he retained it a +long time before he published his _Waverley Novels_. Mr. Strutt, jun., +accuses him of taking hints and facts from his parent's work. He also +stated that the story of the Illuminator in _Queen Hoo Hall_ is mainly an +account of the life of his father. The three volumes I gave to my friend +and patron, Mr. John Broadly, whose very fine and choice library was sold +by auction after his death, with the copy of the work referred to. I am +desirous of ascertaining in whose possession these volumes are? I have a +beautiful miniature portrait of Joseph Strutt. + +J. BRITTON. + +17. Burton Street, Jan. 21. 1851. + +_Cardinal's Monument_.--Passing into the church of St. Saviour, Southwark, +yesterday by the centre door on the south, I observed on a pillar to the +right, a sculpture of a cardinal's hat with the usual cord and tassels +properly coloured, beneath which was a coat of arms, quartering alternately +three lions and three fleur-de-lis. There is no name or date upon it. It +would be interesting to know to whom it refers. + +J. D. A. + +_Names Bacon and Fagan_.--The very curious and interesting information +which has come to light in the replies to my Query about the origin of the +patronymic BACON, emboldens me to put another question upon the subject. + +I have long suspected, but have been unable to prove, that the names Bacon +and Fagan were originally one and the same. Bacon, it appears, is a Saxon +word, meaning "of the beech tree." Fagan, I presume, is as undoubtedly from +the Latin "de fago," "of the beech tree." + +The approximation of sound in these names is sufficiently evident. That the +letters C and G have been commonly convertible between the Latin and Saxon +is without doubt. Query: Have B and F been at all used convertibly? Or can +any of your readers, by any other means, strengthen the probability, or +prove the truth, of my conjecture? + +NOCAB. + +_Blunder_.--What is the origin of this word? In Woolston's _First Discourse +on Miracles_ (Lond. 1729), at p 28., I find this passage:-- + + "In another place he intimates what are meant by oxen and sheep, viz., + the literal sense of the Scriptures. And if the literal sense be + irrational and nonsensical, the metaphor we must allow to be proper, + inasmuch as nowadays dull and foolish and absurd stuff we call _Bulls_, + _Fatlings_, and _Blunders_." + +This would seem to imply that in Woolston's days _blunder_ was the name of +some animal; but in no dictionary have I been able to find such a +signification attributed to it. The Germans use the words _bock_ and +_pudel_ in the same sense as our word _blunder_. + +C. W. G. + +_Prince of Wales' Feathers._--The establishment of "DE NAVORSCHER" is a +matter of great importance to all students of our early history, and the +liberal mention of its projectors, to bring under the notice of their +countrymen all Queries likely to be answered by them, is one calculated to +clear up many obscure points in our early history. Sir H. Nicolas concludes +his valuable papers on the Badge and Mottoes of the Prince of Wales +(_Archæologia_, vol. xxxi. p. 372.) by expressing his belief that both the +former, namely, _the Feathers_, and the mottoes, "_Ich Dien_" and +"_Houmout_," were derived from the House of Hainault, possibly from the +Comté of Ostrevant, which formed the appanage of the eldest sons of the +Counts of that province. Perhaps I may be allowed, through your columns, to +invite the attention of the correspondents of "DE NAVORSCHER" to this +point. + +EFFESSA. + +_Portrait of Ben Jonson._--Ritson, the well-known antiquary, possessed an +original painting of Ben Jonson. It was afterwards purchased by W. +Fillingham, Esq., of the Inner Temple, a gentleman well known for his love +of the early drama; and whilst in his possession it was engraved by Ridley +in 8vo. What has become of the painting? Can any of your readers point out +its locality at the present time? + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Robert Burton_, otherwise _Democritus Junior_, the author of that glorious +book _The Anatomy of Melancholy_, is stated by Wood to have been born at +Lindley, in Leicestershire. Plot, however, in his _Natural History of +Staffordshire_, 1686, p.276., gives the place of his birth, Fald, in the +latter county; and, furthermore, says he was shown the very house of his +nativity. Can any of your correspondents throw any light upon this subject? + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Blowen, Origin of the Name._--You have fallen into a very general error in +spelling my name (pp. 71. 76.) with the terminal r, "Blower," instead of +"Blowen." Perhaps some one of your genealogical readers can inform me of +the origin and descendants of the family with this scarce name, thus spelt, +"Blowen." Are we a branch of the Blowers (as you appear to think we must +be), that useful family of alarmists, whose services in early times were so +necessary? or are we the descendants of the Flanders "Boleyns," +Anglicanized "Bloyen?" + +Query, Did Anna Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII., ever spell her name so? I need +not to be reminded that some lexicographers define "Blowen" to be a rude +woman. Query, origin of that appellation, so used? + +We have been citizens and liverymen of London from Richard Blowen, who +married, at {107} the close of the seventeenth century, the sister of Dr. +Hugh Boulter (who became chaplain to George I., and afterwards Lord +Archbishop of Armagh). + +BLOWEN. + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +TOUCHSTONE'S DIAL. + +(Vol. ii., p. 405.; vol. iii., p. 52.) + +How is it that Mr. Knight, who so well and so judiciously exposes the +absurdness of attempting to measure out a poet's imaginings by +rule-and-compass probability, should himself endeavour to embody and +identify Touchstone's dial--an ideal image--a mere peg on which to hang the +fool's sapient moralizing. + +Surely, whether it was a real moving animated pocket watch, that was +present to the poet's mind, or a thumb ring dial, is an inquiry quite as +bootless as the geographical existence of a sea-coast in Bohemia, or of +lions and serpents in the forest of Ardennes. + +When Thaliard engages to take away the life of Pericles if he can get him +within his "pistol's length," are we seriously to inquire whether the +weapon was an Italian dagger or an English firearm? or are we to debate +which of the interpretations would be the lesser anachronism? + +But your correspondents (Vol. ii., p. 405. and vol. iii., p. 52.) approve +of, and confirm Mr. Knight's suggestion of a ring dial, as though it were +so self-evident as to admit of no denial. Nevertheless, neither he nor they +have shown any good reason for its adoption: even its superior antiquity +over the portable time-piece is mere surmise on their parts, unaccompanied +as yet by any direct proof. In point of fact, the sole argument advanced by +Mr. Knight why Touchstone's dial should be a ring dial is, that "_it was +not likely that the fool would have a pocket watch_." Well, but it might +belong to Celia, carried away with the "jewels and wealth" she speaks of, +and, on account of the unwieldy size of watches in those days, intrusted to +the porterage of the able-bodied fool. + +When Touchstone said, so very wisely, "_It is ten o'clock_," he used a +phrase which, according to Orlando in the same play, could only properly +apply to a mechanical time-piece. Rosalind asks Orlando, "I pray you what +is it _a clock?_" to which he replies, "You should ask me what time _o' +day_; there's no clock in the forest." Again, when Jacques declares that he +did laugh "an hour by his dial," do we not immediately recall Falstaff's +similar phrase, "an hour by Shrewsbury clock?" + +If it shall be said that the word "dial" is more used in reference to a +natural than to a mechanical indicator of time, I should point, in reply, +to Hotspur's allusion: + + "Tho' life did ride upon a dial's point + Still ending with the arrival of an hour" + +The "dial's point," so referred to, must be _in motion_, and is therefore +the hand or _pointer_ of a mechanical clock. + +A further confirmation that the Shakspearian "dial" was a piece of +mechanism may be seen in Lafeu's reply to Bertram, when he exclaims, + + "Then my dial goes not true," + +using it as a metaphor to imply that his judgment must have been deceived. + +These are some of the considerations that would induce me to reject Mr. +Knight's interpretation, and, _were it necessary to realize the scene +between Jacques and Touchstone at all_, I should prefer doing so by +imagining some old turnip-faced atrocity in clock-making presented to the +fool's lack-lustre eye, than the nice astronomical observation supposed by +Mr. Knight. + +The ring-dial, as described by him, and by your correspondents, is likewise +described in most of the encyclopædias. It is available for the latitude of +construction only, and was no doubt common enough a hundred years ago; but +it is scarcely an object as yet for deposit in the British Museum. + +A. E. B. + +Leeds, Jan. 28. 1851. + +The Ring Dial, perhaps the most elegant in principle of all the forms of +sun dial, has not, I think, fallen into greater disuse than have sun dials +of other constructions. To describe, in this place, a modern ring dial, and +the method of using it, would be useless: because it is an instrument which +may be so readily inspected in the shops of most of the London opticians. +Messrs. Troughton and Simms, of Fleet Street, make ring dials to a pattern +of about six inches in diameter, costing, in a case, 2_l_. 5_s_. They are, +in truth, elegant and instructive astronomical toys, to say the least of +them; and indicate the solar time to the accuracy of about two minutes, +when the sun is pretty high. + +Formerly, ring dials were made of a larger diameter, with much costly +graduation bestowed upon them; too heavy to be portable, and too expensive +for the occasion. For example, at the apartments of the Royal Astronomical +Society, at Somerset House, a ring dial, eighteen inches in diameter, may +be seen, constructed by Abraham Sharp, contemporary and correspondent of +Newton and Flamstead; one similar to which, hazarding a guess, I should +say, could not be made under 100_l_. At the same place also may be seen, +belonging to Mr. Williams, the assistant-secretary of the society, a very +handsome oriental astrolabe, about four inches in diameter, richly chased +with Arabic characters and symbols; to which instrument, as well as to +modern ring dials, the ring dials described in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. +iii., p. 52.) seem to bear relation. If I recollect right, in one of the +tales of the _Arabian Nights_, the barber goes out, leaving his customer +half shaved, {108} to take an observation with his astrolabe, to ascertain +if he were operating in a lucky _hour_. By his astrolabe, therefore, the +barber could find the _time_ of day; _this_, however, I confess I could not +pretend to find with the astrolabe in question. Ring dials, as I am +informed, are in demand to go out to India, where they are in use among +surveyors and military men; and, no doubt, such instruments as the +astrolabe above-mentioned, which, though pretty old, does not pretend to be +an antique, are in use among the educated of the natives all over the East. + +ROBERT SNOW. + +I send you the particulars of two brass ring dials, seeing they are +claiming some notice from your learned correspondents, and having recently +bought them of a dealer in old metals. + +7-16ths of an inch wide, 1 and 7-16ths over, + +[Illustration] + +3-8ths wide, and 1½ over, + +[Illustration] + +J. CLARKE. + +Easton, Jan. 27. 1851. + + * * * * * + +WINIFREDA. + +(Vol. ii., p. 519. Vol. iii., p. 27.) + +Subjoined is a brief notice of the various printed forms in which the old +song called "Winifreda" has, from time to time, been brought before the +public. I am indebted for these particulars to a kind friend in the British +Museum, but we have hitherto failed in discovering the author. + +1. The song first occurs as a translation from the ancient British language +in D. Lewis's _Collection of Miscellaneous Poems_, 8vo. 1726, vol. i., p. +53., pointed out by your correspondent, MR. HICKSON. (Vol. ii., p. 519.) + +2ndly. In Watts' _Musical Miscellany_, vol. vi., p. 198. Lond. 1731; it is +with the tune, "Eveillez vous ma belle Endormie," and is called "Winifreda, +from the ancient language." + +3dly. As an engraved song entitled "Colin's Address;" the words by the Earl +of Chesterfield, set by W. Yates, 1752. The air begins "Away, &c." + +4thly. In 1755, 8vo., appeared _Letters concerning Taste_, anonymously, but +by John Gilbert Cooper; in Letter XIV. pp. 95, 96, he says,-- + + "It was not in my power then to amuse you with any poetry of my own + composition, I shall now take the liberty to send you, without any + apology, an old song wrote above a hundred years ago by the happy + bridegroom himself." + +Cooper then praises the poem, and prints it at length. + +5thly. In 1765, Dr. Percy first published his _Reliques_, with the song, as +copied from Lewis. + +6thly. We find an engraved song, entitled "Winifreda, an Address to +Conjugal Love," translated from the ancient British language; set to music +by Signor Giordani, 1780. The air begins, "Away, &c." + +7thly. In Ritson's printed Songs as by Gilbert Cooper, Park's edition, +1813, vol. i., p. 281., with a note by the editor referring to Aikin's +_Vocal Biography_, p. 152.; and mentioning that in the _Edinburgh Review_, +vol. xi., p. 37. "Winifreda" is attributed to the late Mr. Stephens, +meaning George Steevens. + +8thly. In Campbell's _British Poems_, 1819, vol. vi., p. 93., with a Life +of John Gilbert Cooper, to whom Campbell attributes the authorship, stating +that he was born in 1723, and died in 1769; he was, consequently, only +three years old when the poem was printed, which would settle the question, +even if his disclaimer had been merely a trick to deceive his friend. + +Lord Chesterfield's claim is hardly worth notice; his name seems to have +been used to promote the sale of the "Engraven old Song;" and no one can +doubt that he would gladly have avowed a production which would have added +to his literary fame. + +Whether the problem will ever be solved, seems very doubtful; but I am +disposed to think that the song belongs to a much earlier period, and that +it should be looked for amongst the works of those poets of whom Izaak +Walton has left us such agreeable reminiscences; and whose simplicity and +moral tone are in keeping with those sentiments of good feeling to which +"Winifreda" owes its principal attraction. + +BRAYBROOKE. + +Audley End. + +_Winifreda_ (Vol. iii., p. 27.).--LORD BRAYBROOKE has revived a Query which +I instituted above forty years ago (see _Gent.'s Magazine_ for 1808, vol. +lxxviii., Part I. p. 129.). The correspondent, C. K., who replied to my +letter in the same magazine, mentioned the appearance of this song in +Dodsley's _Letters on Taste_ (3rd edition, 1757.) These letters, being +edited by John Gilbert Cooper, doubtless led Aikin, in his collection of +songs, and Park, in his edition of Ritson's _English Songs_, to ascribe it +to Cooper. That writer speaks of it as an "old song," and with such warm +praise, that we may fairly suppose it was not his own production. C. K. +adds, from his own knowledge, that about the middle of the eighteenth +century, he well remembered a Welsh clergyman repeating the lines with +spirit and pathos, and asserting that they were written by a native of +Wales. The name of Winifreda gives countenance to this; and the publication +by David Lewis, in 1726, referred to by Bishop Percy, as that in which it +first {109} appeared, also connects the song with the principality. An +Edinburgh reviewer (vol. xi. p. 37.) says that it is "one of the love +songs" by Stephens (meaning George Steevens), a strange mistake, as the +poem appeared in print ten years before Steevens was born. + +I notice this error for the purpose of asking your readers whether many +poems by this clever, witty, and mischievous writer exist, although not, to +use the words of the reviewer, "in a substantive or collective form?" "The +Frantic Lover," referred to in the _Edinburgh Review_, and considered by +his biographer as "superior to any similar production in the English +language," and the verses on Elinor Rummin, are the only two poems of +George Steevens which now occur to me; but two or three others are noticed +in Nichols's _Literary Anecdotes_ as his productions. + +J. H. M. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Did St. Paul's Clock strike Thirteen?_ (Vol. iii., p. 40.).--MR. CAMPKIN +will find some notice of the popular tradition to which he refers, in the +_Antiquarian Repertory_, originally published in 1775, and republished in +1807; but I doubt whether it will satisfactorily answer his inquiries. + +I. H. M. + +_By the bye_ (Vol. ii., p. 424.).--As no one of your correspondents has +answered the Query of J. R. N., as to the etymology and meaning of _by the +bye_ and _by and by_, I send you the following exposition; which I have +collected from Richardson's _Dictionary_, and the authorities there +referred to. + +Spelman informs us, that in Norfolk there were in his time thirteen +villages with names ending in _by:_ this _By_ being a Danish word, +signifying "villa." That a _bye_-law, Dan. _by-lage_, is a law _peculiar_ +to a villa. And thus we have the general application of _bye_ to any thing; +peculiar, private, indirect, as distinguished from the direct or main: as, +_bye-ways_, _bye-talk_, &c. &c. In the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, _State +Trials_, James I., 1603, are these words:-- + + "You are fools; you are on the _bye_, Raleigh and I are on the _main_. + We mean to take away the king and his cubs." + +Here the contradistinction is manifest. Lord Bacon and B. Jonson write, +_on_ the _by_; as if, on the way, in passing, indirectly:-- + + "'There is, _upon_ the _by_, to be noted.'--'Those who have seluted + poetry _on_ the _by_'--such being a collateral, and not the main object + of pursuit." + +This I think is clear and satisfactory. + +_By and by_ is quite a different matter. Mr. Tyrwhitt, upon the line in +Chaucer,-- + + "These were his words _by and by_."--_R. R._ 4581. + +interprets "separately, distinctly;" and there are various other instances +in Chaucer admitting the same interpretation:-- + + "Two yonge knightes ligging, _by and by_."--_Kn. T._, v. 1016. + + "His doughter had a bed all _by_ hireselve, + Right in the same chambre _by and by_."--_The Reves T._, v. 4441. + +So also in the "Floure and the Leafe," stanzas 9 and 24. The latter I will +quote, as it is much to the purpose:-- + + "The semes (of the surcote) echon, + As it were a maner garnishing, + Was set with emerauds, _one and one_, + _By and by_." + +But there are more ancient usages, e.g. in R. Brunne, bearing also the same +interpretation. "The chartre was read ilk poynt _bi and bi_:" William had +taken the homage of barons "_bi_ and _bi_." He assayed (_i.e._ tried) "tham +(the horses) _bi and bi_." + +Richardson's conception is, that there is a _subaudition_ in all these +expressions; and that the meaning is, by point and by point; by baron and +by baron; by horse and by horse: _one and one_, as Chaucer writes; each +_one_ separately, by _him_ or _it_-self. And thus, that _by and by_ may be +explained, _by_ one and _by_ one; distinctly, both in space or time. Our +modern usage is restricted to _time_, as, "I will do so _by and by_:" where +_by and by_ is equivalent to _anon_, _i.e._ in one (moment, instant, &c.). +And so-- + +GOOD B'YE. + +Bloomsbury. + +_Clement's Inn_ (Vol. iii., p. 84.).--This inn was neither "a court of law" +nor "an inn of court," but "an inn of chancery;" according to the +distinction drawn by Sir John Fortescue, in his _De Laudibus Legum Angliæ_, +chap. xlix., written between 1460 and 1470. + +The evidence of its antiquity is traced back to an earlier date than 1486; +for, according to Dugdale (_Orig._, p. 187.), in a _Record of Michaelmas_, +19 _Edward IV_., 1479, it is spoken of as then, and _diu ante_, an Inn +"hominum Curiæ Legis temporalis, necnon hominum Consiliariorum ejusdem +Legis." + +The early history of the Inns of Court and Chancery is involved in the +greatest obscurity; and it is difficult to account for the original +difference between the two denominations. + +Any facts which your correspondents may be able to communicate on this +subject, or in reference to what were the _ten_ Inns of Chancery existing +in Fortescue's time, but not named by him, or relating to the history of +either of the Inns, whether of Court or Chancery, will be most gratefully +received by me, and be of important service at the present time, when I am +preparing {110} for the press my two next volumes of _The Judges of +England_. + +EDWARD FOSS. + +Street-End House, near Canterbury. + +_Words are men's daughters_ (Vol. iii., p. 38.).--I take this to be a +proverbial sentence. In the _Gnomologia_ of Fuller we have "Words are for +women; actions for men"--but there is a nearer approach to it in a letter +written by Sir Thomas Bodley to his librarian about the year 1604. He says, + + "Sir John Parker hath promised more than you have signified: but words + are women, and deeds are men." + +It was no doubt an adoption of the worthy knight, and I shall leave it to +others to trace out the true author--hoping it may never be ascribed to an +ancestor of + +BOLTON CORNEY. + +_Passage in St. Mark_ (Vol. iii., p. 8.).--Irenæus is considered the best +(if not the only) commentator among the very early Fathers upon those words +in Mark xiii. 32. "[Greek: oude ho huios?]" and though I cannot refer +CALMET further than to the author's works, he can trust the general +accuracy of the following translation:-- + + "Our Lord himself," says he, "the Son of God, acknowledged that the + Father only knew the day and hour of judgment, declaring expressly, + that of that day and hour knoweth no one, neither the Son, but the + Father only. Now, if the Son himself was not ashamed to leave the + knowledge of that day to the Father, but plainly declared the truth; + neither ought we to be ashamed to leave to God such questions as are + too high for us. For if any one inquires why the Father, who + communicates in all things to the Son, is yet by our Lord declared to + know alone that day and hour, he cannot at present find any better, or + more decent, or indeed any other safe answer at all, than this, that + since our Lord is the only teacher of truth, we should learn of him, + that the Father is above all; for the Son saith, 'He is greater than + I.' The Father, therefore, is by Our Lord declared to be superior even + in knowledge also; to this end, that we, while we continue in this + world, may learn to acknowledge God only to have perfect knowledge, and + leave such questions to him; and (put a stop to our presumption), lest + curiously inquiring into the greatness of the Father, we run at last + into so great a danger, as to ask whether even above God there be not + another God." + +BLOWEN. + +"_And Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a Grin_" (Vol. i., p. 384.).--This line +is taken from Dr. Brown's _Essay on Satire_, part ii. v. 224. The entire +couplet is-- + + "Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, + And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin." + +Dr. Brown's Essay is prefixed to Pope's "Essay on Man" in Warburton's +edition of Pope's _Works_. (See vol. iii. p. 15., edit. 1770, 8vo.) + +_Dr. Trusler's Memoirs_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--The first part of Dr. +Trusler's _Memoirs_ (Bath, 1806), mentioned by your correspondent, but +which is not very scarce, is the only one published. I have the +continuation in the Doctor's _Autograph_, which is exceedingly entertaining +and curious, and full of anecdotes of his contemporaries. It is closely +written in two 8vo. volumes, and comprises 554 pages, and appears to have +been finally revised for publication. Why it never appeared I do not know. +He was a very extraordinary and ingenious man, and wrote upon everything, +from farriery to carving. With life in all its varieties he was perfectly +acquainted, and had personally known almost every eminent man of his day. +He had experienced every variety of fortune, but seems to have died in very +reduced circumstances. The _Sententiæ Variorum_ referred to by your +correspondent is, I presume, what was published under the title of-- + + "Detached Philosophic Thoughts of near 300 of the best Writers, Ancient + and Modern, on Man, Life, Death, and Immortality, systematically + arranged under the Authors' Names." 2 vols. 12mo. 1810. + +JAS. CROSSLEY. + +Manchester, Jan. 25. 1851. + + * * * * * + + +Miscellaneous. + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +Dr. Latham seems to have adopted as his literary motto the dictum of the +poet, + + "The proper study of mankind is man." + +We have recently had occasion to call the attention of our readers to his +learned and interesting volume entitled _The English Language_,--a work +which affords proof how deeply he has studied that remarkable +characteristic of our race, which Goldsmith wittily described as being +"given to man to conceal his thoughts." From the language to _The Natural +History of the Varieties of Man_, the transition is an easy one. The same +preliminary studies lead to a mastery of both divisions of this one great +subject: and having so lately seen how successfully Dr. Latham had pursued +his researches into the languages of the earth, we were quite prepared to +find, as we have done, the same learning, acumen, and philosophical spirit +of investigation leading to the same satisfactory results in this kindred, +but new field of inquiry. In paying a well-deserved tribute to his +predecessor, Dr. Prichard, whom he describes as "a physiologist among +physiologists, and a scholar among scholars,"--and his work as one "which, +by combining the historical, the philological, and the anatomical methods, +should command the attention of the naturalist, as well as of the +scholar,"--Dr. Latham has at once done justice to that distinguished man, +and expressed very neatly the opinion which will be entertained by the +great majority of his readers of his own acquirements, and of the merits of +this his last contribution to our stock of knowledge. + +_The Family Almanack and Educational Register for_ 1851, with what its +editor justly describes as "its noble list of grammar schools," to a great +extent the "offspring of the English Reformation in the sixteenth {111} +century," will be a very acceptable book to every parent who belongs to the +middle classes of society; and who must feel that an endowed school, of +which the masters are bound to produce testimonials of moral and +intellectual fitness, presents the best security for the acquirement by his +sons of a solid, well-grounded education. + +Messrs. 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