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+Project Gutenberg's Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854, by Various
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854
+       A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
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+Author: Various
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+CONTENTS.
+
+  NOTES:--                                                    Page
+
+  "Shakspeare's Rime which he made at the Mytre," by
+  Dr. E. F. Rimbault                                           439
+
+  Rous, the Sottish Psalmist, Provost of Eton College: and
+  his Will, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe                        440
+
+  Original English Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of
+  Malta, by William Winthrop                                   442
+
+  Disease among Cattle, by Thos. Nimmo                         445
+
+  Popiana, by Harry Leroy Temple                               445
+
+  Hampshire Folk Lore, by Eustace W.
+  Jacob                                                        446
+
+  The most curious Book in the World                           446
+
+  Minor Notes:--Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of
+  Geo. III.--Copernicus--First Instance of Bribery amongst
+  Members of Parliament--Richard Brinsley Sheridan--Publican's
+  Invitation--Bishop Burnet again!--Old Custom preserved in
+  Warwickshire--English Diplomacy v. Russian                   447
+
+  QUERIES:--
+
+  Ancient Tenure of Lands, by A. J. Dunkin                     448
+
+  Owen Rowe the Regicide                                       449
+
+  Writings of the Martyr Bradford, by the Rev. A. Townsend     449
+
+  MINOR QUERIES:--Courtney Family--"The Shipwrecked Lovers"--
+  Sir John Bingham--Proclamation for making Mustard--Judges
+  practising at Bar--Celebrated Wagers--"Pay me tribute, or
+  else----"--"A regular Turk"--Benj. Rush--Per Centum Sign--
+  Burial Service Tradition--Jean Bart's Descent on Newcastle--
+  Madame de Staël--Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny--Hospital
+  of John of Jerusalem--Heiress of Haddon Hall--Monteith--
+  Vandyking--Hiel the Bethelite--Earl of Glencairn--Willow
+  Bark in Ague--"Perturbabantur," &c.                          450
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+  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Seamen's Tickets--Bruce,
+  Robert--Coronation Custom--William Warner--"Isle of
+  Beauty"--Edmund Lodge--King John                             452
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+  REPLIES:--
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+  Has Execution by Hanging been survived? by William Bates     453
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+  Coleridge's Christabel, by C. Mansfield Ingleby              455
+
+  General Whitelocke                                           455
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+  Photographic Experience                                      456
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+  Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black Sea--Aristotle on living
+  Law--Christ's or Cris Cross Row--Titles to the Psalms in
+  the Syriac Version--"Old Rowley"--Wooden Effigies--Abbott
+  Families                                                     456
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+{439}
+
+_LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1854._
+
+Notes.
+
+"SHAKSPEARE'S RIME WHICH HE MADE AT THE MYTRE."
+
+In the third volume of Mr. Collier's valuable _History of Dramatic Poetry_
+(p. 275.) is the following passage, which forms part of a note:
+
+    "Mr. Thorpe, the enterprising bookseller of Bedford Street, is in
+    possession of a MS. full of songs and poems, in the handwriting of a
+    person of the name of Richard Jackson, all copied prior to the year
+    1631, and including many unpublished pieces, by a variety of celebrated
+    poets. One of the most curious is a song in five seven-line stanzas,
+    thus headed 'Shakspeare's rime, which he made at the Mytre in Fleete
+    Streete.' It begins 'From the rich Lavinian shore;' and some few of the
+    lines were published by Playford, and set as a catch."
+
+In Mr. Thoms' _Anecdotes and Traditions_ (published by the Camden Society)
+is a story of the celebrated Dr. John Wilson, to which the editor has
+appended an interesting note, adding:
+
+    "Wilson was the composer of a glee for three voices, published in
+    Playford's _Musical Companion_, where the words are attributed to
+    Shakspeare; and the supposition that they were really written by him
+    having been converted into a certainty, by their appearing with
+    Shakspeare's name to them in the MS. Collection of Poetry, copied prior
+    to 1631 by Richard Jackson," &c.
+
+Mr. Thoms then prints the "rime," not inappropriately calling it "A Song
+for Autolycus," with this remark:
+
+    "My late respected friend Mr. Douce once told me, that some musical
+    friend at Chichester, I think the organist, possessed a copy of this
+    song, with an additional verse."
+
+Mr. Thoms' version of "Shakspeare's Rime" was inserted (probably by our
+worthy Editor himself?) in the first volume of "N. & Q." (p. 23.) with a
+view of obtaining the additional stanza; a desideratum which I am now
+enabled to supply. The following copy has _two_ additional stanzas, and is
+transcribed from a MS. Collection of Songs, with the music, written in the
+early part of the reign of James I. The MS. was formerly in the possession
+of Mr. J. S. Smith, the learned editor of _Musica Antiqua_.
+
+              I.
+
+ "From the fair Lavinian shore,
+  I your markets come to store;
+  Marvel not, I thus far dwell,
+  And hither bring my wares to sell;
+  Such is the sacred hunger of gold.
+    Then come to my pack,
+      While I cry,
+    What d'ye lack,
+      What d'ye buy?
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              II.
+
+ "I have beauty, honour, grace,
+  Virtue, favour, time and space,
+  And what else thou wouldst request,
+  E'en the thing thou likest best;
+  First, let me have but a touch of thy gold,
+    Then come too lad,
+      Thou shalt have
+    What thy dad
+      Never gave;
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              III.
+
+ "Though thy gentry be but young,
+  As the flow'r that this day sprung,
+  And thy father thee before,
+  Never arms nor scutcheon bore;
+  First let me have but a catch of thy gold,
+    Then, though thou be an ass,
+      By this light
+    Thou shalt pass
+      For a knight;
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              IV.
+
+ "Thou whose obscure birth so base,
+  Ranks among the ignoble race,
+  And desireth that thy name,
+  Unto honour should obtain;
+  First let me have but a catch of thy gold,
+    Then, though thou be an ass,
+      By this light,
+    Thou shalt pass
+      For a knight;
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              V.
+
+ "Madam, come see what you lack?
+  Here's complexion in my pack;
+  White and red you may have in this place,
+  To hide an old ill-wrinkled face:
+  First, let me have but a catch of thy gold,
+    Then thou shalt seem,
+    Like a wench of fifteen,
+  Although you be threescore and ten years old."
+
+That this song enjoyed extensive popularity in the latter half of the
+seventeenth century, is evinced by the number of printed copies. It is
+found in Playford's _Select Ayres and Dialogues_, 1659; in Dr. Wilson's
+_Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads_, 1660; in Playford's _Catch that Catch Can_,
+1667; and in many subsequent collections of a similar kind. But in none of
+these works is the name of the writer of the words given; and all the
+copies are deficient of the _third_ and _fourth_ stanzas. The point of the
+satire conveyed in these stanzas was lost after the reign of James I.,
+which may account for their omission.
+
+"Shakspeare's rime," being associated with Wilson's music, is of some
+importance towards settling the point of authorship. In 1846 I printed a
+little pamphlet with the following title:
+
+    "Who was _Jack Wilson_, the Singer of Shakspeare's Stage? An Attempt to
+    prove the Identity of this {440} Person with John Wilson, Doctor of
+    Musick, in the University of Oxford, A.D. 1644."
+
+It would be out of place here to dwell upon this publication, suffice it to
+say, that all the information I have since collected, tends to confirm the
+hypothesis advanced. One extract from this _brochure_ will show the
+connexion that existed between Shakspeare and Wilson:
+
+    "Wilson was the composer of four other Shakspearian lyrics, a fact
+    unknown to Mr. Collier, when he wrote the article in the _Shakspeare
+    Papers_: 'Where the bee sucks,' 'Full fathom five,' 'Lawn as white as
+    driven snow,' and 'From the fair Lavinian shore.' They are all printed
+    in the author's _Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads_, Oxford, 1660. We have now
+    evidence from this work, that Wilson was the _original_ composer of the
+    music to _one_ of Shakspeare's plays. He says in his preface, 'some of
+    these ayres were _originally_ composed by those whose names are affixed
+    to them, but are here placed as being _new set_ by the author of the
+    rest. The two songs, 'Where the bee sucks,' and 'Full fathom five,'
+    have appended to them the name of 'R. Johnson,' who, upon this
+    evidence, we may undoubtedly conclude was the _original_ composer of
+    the music in the play of the _Tempest_. The song 'Lawn as white as
+    driven snow,' from the _Winter's Tale_, has the name of 'John Wilson'
+    attached to it, from which it is equally certain that he was its
+    _original_ composer. In my own mind, the circumstances connected with
+    the Shakspearian lyrics in this book are almost conclusive as to the
+    identity of John Wilson the _composer_ with John Wilson the _singer_.
+    Unless the composer had been intimately acquainted with the theatre of
+    Shakspeare's day, it is not likely that he would have remembered, so
+    long after, the name of one of its composers. Nor is it likely, being
+    so well acquainted with the _original_ composers of the Shakspearian
+    drama, and so anxious as he appears to have been to do justice to their
+    memory, that he would have omitted informing us, who was the _original_
+    composer of the song in the _Winter's Tale_, had it been any other than
+    himself. The _Winter's Tale_ was not produced before 1610 or 1611, at
+    which period Wilson was sixteen or seventeen years old, an age quite
+    ripe enough for the production of the song in question."
+
+A reviewer of my little publication in the _Athenæum_ (Nov. 8, 1846) makes
+the following remark:
+
+    "Let us observe, in conclusion, that Dr. Rimbault is better read in
+    Jack Wilson than Ben Jonson, or we should never have seen Mr.
+    Shakspeare's 'Rime' at the 'Mitre,' in Fleet Street, seriously referred
+    to as a genuine composition. It is a mere clumsy adaptation, from Ben's
+    interesting epigram 'Inviting a Friend to Supper.'"
+
+It is really too bad to be charged with ignorance _unjustly_. I have on my
+shelves the works of glorious Ben, three times over: in folio 1616-31; in
+folio, 1692; and in nine volumes octave (Gifford's edition), 1816; all of
+which I will freely give to the "reviewer," if he can prove that _one line_
+of "Shakspeare's Rime at the Mytre" is taken from the aforesaid epigram. I
+heartily agree with him in admiration of Jonson's spirited imitation of
+Martial, which I have transcribed as a pleasant relish towards digesting
+these rambling remarks:
+
+         "INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER.
+
+ "To-night, grave Sir, both my poor house and I
+  Do equally desire your company:
+  Not that we think us worthy such a guest,
+  But that your worth will dignify our feast,
+  With those that come; whose grace may make that seem
+  Something, which else could hope for no esteem.
+  It is the fair acceptance, Sir, creates
+  The entertainment perfect, not the cates.
+  Yet shall you have, to rectify your palate,
+  An olive, capers, or some better salad,
+  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legg'd hen,
+  If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
+  Limons, and wine for sauce: to these, a coney
+  Is not to be despair'd of for our money;
+  And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
+  The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
+  I'll tell you of more, and lie, so you will come:
+  Of partridge, pheasant, woodcock, of which some
+  May yet be there; and godwit if we can;
+  Knat, rail, and ruff too. Howsoe'er my man
+  Shall read a piece of Virgil, Tacitus,
+  Livy, or of some better book to us,
+  Of which we'll speak our minds, amidst our meat;
+  And I'll profess no verses to repeat;
+  To this if aught appear, which I not know of,
+  That will the pastry, not my paper, show of.
+  Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be;
+  But that which most doth take my muse and me,
+  Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine,
+  Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine;
+  Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted,
+  Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
+  Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring,
+  Are all but Luther's beer, to this I sing,
+  Of this we will sup free, but moderately,
+  And we will have no Pooly', or Parrot by;
+  Nor shall our cups make any guilty men:
+  But at our parting, we will be, as when
+  We innocently met. No simple word,
+  That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board,
+  Shall make us sad next morning; or affright
+  The liberty, that we'll enjoy to-night."
+
+EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ROUS, THE SCOTTISH PSALMIST, PROVOST OF ETON COLLEGE: AND HIS WILL.
+
+Looking over some back Numbers of "N. & Q.," I see an inquiry (Vol. v.,
+p. 81.) after Francis Rous. G. N. will find an account of him in Chalmers's
+_Biographical Dictionary_, gathered out of Wood's _Athenæ_; Noble's _Memoir
+of Cromwell_, vol. i. {441} p. 409; Lysons' _Environs of London_, vol. ii.;
+_Granger_, vol. iii.
+
+In his will, a copy of which lies before me, proved Feb. 10, 1658, he
+speaks of "a youth in Scotland, his grandson," and "as the heir of idleness
+abhorring to give him an estate, but wishing he might be a useful member of
+Christ and the Commonwealth, he desires his executors to give him 50l. a
+year so long as he shall be in preparation towards a profession, and as
+many of his books as may be fit for him."
+
+I shall be much obliged if any correspondent can find out anything farther
+about the said "youth in Scotland?"
+
+H. T. ELLACOMBE.
+
+Clyst St. George.
+
+P.S.--Why should not "N. & Q." be the publisher of any curious old wills,
+which might interest the general reader? Allow me to suggest a corner for
+_Testamenta Vestusta_. I will begin by sending a copy of the will of
+Francis Rous.
+
+    This my last Will and Testament, I, Francis Rous,   Provost of Eaton
+    College, wrote and made   March 18th, 1657.
+
+    Forasmuch as to put houses in order before our departure is pleasing to
+    the God of order, I do dispose of my affairs and estates in manner
+    following:
+
+    There is a youth in Scotland concerning whom (because they call him my
+    grandson) it is perchance expected that I should do some great matters
+    for him; but his father marrying against my will and prohibition, and
+    giving me an absolute discharge before the marriage under his hand, not
+    to expect anything from me if he did marry contrary to my prohibition,
+    I hold myself discharged from the father, and consequently from the son
+    of that father, the son having no interest in me but by the father. And
+    I hold it a good example, for the benefitt of the Commonwealth, that
+    matters of discouragement should be put upon such marriages, being
+    assured that their parents will not disinheritt or lessen them,
+    especially if they have but one son, and that which Solomon saith is to
+    be considered--an understanding servant shall have rule over a son that
+    maketh ashamed, and both that[1], and his son, and his son in Scotland
+    have both made ashamed, the one in his match, the other by a sad
+    mischief of dangerous consequence and fatal; and though his mother is
+    bound to maintain him, yet because I wish he might be a useful member
+    of Christ and the Commonwealth, towards which I think she is not well
+    able to give him an answerable education, I have in this my will taken
+    course for a competent maintenance for him towards a profession, and in
+    it utterly abhorring to give him an estate, as the heir of idleness.
+    Wherefore to the fore-mentioned purpose, I desire my executor to give
+    him 50l. a year, so long as he shall be in preparation towards a
+    profession, or shall really and seriously be in the practice of it; and
+    as many of my books as may be fitt for him in the profession he shall
+    undertake, and shall not be given to Pembroke College, I desire my
+    executor to give unto him: but if he, or a guardian, or any other,
+    shall sue or implead, or call my executor into question to his trouble
+    or cost, I leave it to my executor's choice whether he will pay his
+    maintenance of 50l. per annum, or any part of it.
+
+    I give to Mr. Ellford, my pastor at Acton, 20l. I give 5l. per annum
+    for ever to be disposed of in buying Bibles, catechisms, or for
+    encouraging poor children to learn to read and answer in catechising in
+    the parish of Dittisham, in the county of Devon, the place of my
+    nativity and baptism, which sum shall be bestowed according to the
+    direction of the minister there for the time being; and to the present
+    minister I give 20l. I give to the poor of Acton each five shillings; I
+    give to the poor of Westminster, Kensington, Knightsbridge, half a
+    year's rent of that which they used to receive. I give Mr. Bartlett of
+    Windsor 20l. I appoint 100l. to be lent to my nephew William Rous,
+    which he must pay by 10l. a year to my nephew Richard Rous, his son. I
+    give Thomas Rous, of King's College, 6l. for two years. I give Eliz.
+    Rous, of Penrose in Cornwall, 20l. I give Anthony Rous at Eaton School,
+    5l. a year for seven years. I give to my niece Rudyard, and her sisters
+    Skelton and Dorothy, each 20l. I give to Margaret Baker 10l. I give to
+    a poor Xtian woman in Dartmouth, Mrs. Adams, 10l. To Robert Needler I
+    give a black suit and cloak; the like to William Grantham and 10l. To
+    my niece Portman, now in my house, I give 50l. To my other friends of
+    more ability, I leave it to my executor to give such memorials as he
+    shall think fitt. To the poor of Eaton I give 20l. To each of my
+    servants that are with me at any decease I give black suits and 5l.;
+    and to Peter Fluellen, who is now endeavouring to get a place of
+    removal, 10l. I give to Thomas Rolle of Eaton, and Robert Yard, each
+    10l. I give to Christian, now the wife of Mr. Johnson, 20l. I give to
+    the young Winnington of Eaton, 10l. I give 40l. per annum out of the
+    Parsonage or Tythe of Great Brookeham in Surrey, to maintain two
+    schollars in Pembroke College in Oxford. I also give 20l. per annum
+    unto one schollar more in the same college, out of a tenement in the
+    Manor of Wootton in Cornwall, during two lives of two Bigfords, and
+    after their decease out of a tenement of mine in Cowkberry, in Devon,
+    for ever. The scholars to be chosen are to be poor, {442} not having
+    10l. a year, apt to learning, and to be of the posterity of myself or
+    my brother Robert, Richard, or Arthur Rous, or of my sister Nicholl, or
+    my sister Upton; and if no such shall be tendered, then they are to be
+    chosen out of the two highest forms in Eaton College. I give power to
+    my executor to choose them during his life, and desire him, with the
+    advice of my dear kinsman, Mr. Ambrose Upton, Prebend of Xt Church in
+    Oxford, to settle and order all things for the sure and usefull
+    continuance of their allowances to schollars so qualified as before and
+    of good conversation, and that they study divinity, and some time
+    before they be Batchelors of Arts, they make good proof of their
+    studying divinity, and that they continued in their several places but
+    _seven years_, and then others to be chosen in their rooms. What shall
+    be above 40l. per annum arising out of the tythe of Brookham declaro,
+    and above all rates and taxes, I give unto the minister of that parish;
+    and I give the parsonage to my respected kinsman Samuel Rous, Esq., of
+    that parish, yet so, that if he die before my executor, my executor
+    shall present during his life, and after it shall go to the heirs of
+    the said Samuel Rous, it being to be hoped that their dwelling be there
+    they will be carefull for their own souls. I do make and constitute my
+    dear kinsman Anthony Rous, Esq., of Wootton, in the county of Cornwall,
+    commonly called or known by the name of Colonel Rous, to be my whole
+    and sole executor. And I give and bequeath to him all my lands,
+    tenements, my interest in the parsonage of Great Brookham in Surrey,
+    all my leases, chattels, plate, money, and other goodly whatsoever, as
+    also my copyholds, which shall, according to custom, be made over to
+    him in Acton or Branford, hoping that he will faithfully dispose them
+    according to my will and intention made known to him; and I give him
+    100l., and lend him 200l. more for seven years, which he may bestow in
+    defence of himself as to law suits, if any be brought as concerning my
+    estate, or if there shall be none to bestow, in some charitable use as
+    he shall think fitt. I desire my body may be interred and put to rest
+    in the chapple of Eaton College, a place that hath my dear affections
+    and prayers that it may be a flouring nursery of piety and learning to
+    the end of the world. And for a profession of any faith, I refer myself
+    to the works which I not long since published in one volume, wherein I
+    have professed a right and saving faith, and hope to continue therein
+    until faith shall be swallowed up of sight, laying hold of the free
+    grace of God in his beloved Son as my only title to eternity, being
+    confident that his free grace, which took me up lying in the blood of
+    irregeneration, will wash away the guilt of that estate, and all the
+    cursed fruits of it by the pretious blood of his Son, and will wash
+    away the filth of it by the spirit of his Son, and so present me
+    faultless before the presence of God's glory with joy.
+
+  (Signed) FRANCIS ROUS.
+
+    The Right Honorable Francis Rous, Esq., acknowledged this to be his
+    last will and testament, the 12th day of April, 1658[2], in the
+    presence of me, Abel Borsett, endorsed, upon a paper wherein the
+    original will was folded and sealed up, thus, viz., "My last will,
+    attested by Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Borsett."
+
+    This will was proved at London the 10th day of February, in the year of
+    our Lord God 1658, before the judges for probate of wills and granting
+    administrations lawfully authorised, by the oath of Collonell Anthony
+    Rouse, Esq., the sole and only executor named in the said will, to whom
+    administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and debts of
+    the said deceased was granted and committed.
+
+[Footnote 1: This appears to be an error.]
+
+[Footnote 2: It should doubtless be 1657.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ORIGINAL ENGLISH ROYAL LETTERS TO THE GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA.
+
+(_Concluded from_ Vol. ix., p. 419.)
+
+No. XI.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most illustrious and most high Prince, the Lord Nicholas Cotoner,
+Grand Master of the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and
+friend--Greeting:
+
+It having appeared to us a matter of interest, not only to ourselves, but
+likewise to the whole Christian world, that we also should keep in the
+Mediterranean sea a certain number of galleys ready to afford prompt aid to
+our neighbours and allies against the frequent insults of the barbarians
+and Turks, we lately caused to be constructed two galleys, one in Genoa,
+and the other in the port of Leghorn; in order to man these, we directed a
+person well acquainted with such affairs to be sent, as to other parts, so
+also to the island of Malta, subject to the rule of your highness, in order
+to _buy slaves and procure other necessaries_. He having purchased some
+slaves, it has been reported to us that your highness' collector of customs
+demanded five pieces of gold of Malta money per head before they could be
+permitted to embark, under the title of toll; at which proceeding we were
+certainly not a little astonished, it appearing to us a new proceeding, and
+one contrary to custom, especially it being well known to us that our
+neighbours and allies, the Kings of France and Spain, are never accustomed
+to pay anything under the title of toll {443} for the slaves which they
+cause yearly to be transported from your island.
+
+We therefore beg your highness, by the good and long friendship existing
+between us, to grant to us the same privilege in _regard to this kind of
+commerce_ within the territories of your highness, as is enjoyed by both
+our said neighbours and allies, which although it ought to be conceded to
+us simply on account of our mutual friendship and our affection towards
+your highness and the illustrious Order of Malta, still we shall receive so
+gratefully, that if at any time we can do anything to please your highness,
+we shall be always ready to do it, with all attention, and most willingly.
+
+In the meantime we heartily recommend your highness and all the members of
+the illustrious Order of Malta, as well as all your affairs, to the Divine
+keeping.
+
+Given from our palace of Westminster on the 12th day of February, in the
+year of our Lord 1673, and of our reign the 25th.
+
+  Your Highness' good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XII.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince, the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+The military order over which your eminence most worthily presides, having
+always used its power to render the navigation of the sea safe and
+peaceable for Christians, we in no way doubt that our ships of war, armed
+for the same purpose, will receive from your eminence every office of
+friendship. We therefore are desirous of signifying to your eminence by
+these our letters that we have sent a squadron of our royal fleet to the
+Mediterranean sea under the command of Sir John Narbrough, knight, to look
+after the safety of navigation and commerce, and to oppose the enemies of
+public tranquillity. We therefore amicably beseech your eminence that if
+ever the above-named Admiral Narbrough, or any of our ships cruising under
+his flag, should arrive at any of your eminence's ports or stations, or in
+any place subject to the Order of Malta, that they may be considered and
+treated as friends and allies, and that they may be permitted to purchase
+with their money, and at just prices, and to export provisions and
+munitions of war, and whatever they may require, which, on similar
+occasions, we will abundantly reciprocate to your eminence and to your most
+noble Order.
+
+In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence to the safeguard of
+the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the last day of November, 1674.
+
+  Your Highness' Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XIII.
+
+    Charles the Second by the Grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+Most eminent Prince, our cousin and well-beloved friend--Greeting:
+
+Although we in no way doubt of the sincere readiness of your eminence and
+of your holy Order of Malta to do everything which might be known to be
+expedient for our interests, still we could not read your eminence's
+letters under date of 24th March last, in which such readiness is fully set
+forth, without the greatest pleasure. Our affection is sharpened and
+excited by the mention of the good will of our predecessors, the Kings of
+Great Britain, evinced in every age towards your most illustrious Order,
+which, as your eminence in your said letters so honourably commemorates, so
+will we studiously endeavour to imitate, and even to surpass. From our
+admiral, Sir John Narbrough, knight, and also from other parties, we have
+heard with how much benignity your eminence lately received him, and caused
+him and the other officers of our fleet to be supplied with what was
+requisite for our ships of war, which we consider not less worthy of the
+piety and valour of your Order than of our friendship; and we on our part,
+on opportunity presenting itself, will be careful to abundantly reciprocate
+by every kind of good offices.
+
+It remains to recommend your eminence and the whole of your holy Order
+militant to the safeguard of the God of Hosts.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 19th day of May, 1675.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XIV.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+We know not how it came to pass that our admiral in the Mediterranean sea,
+Sir John Narbrough, knight, should have given such cause of complaint as
+mentioned in your eminence's letters addressed to us under date of the 5th
+of April, as to have refused to give the usual salute to the city {444} of
+Malta, unless, perhaps, he had thought something had been omitted on the
+part of the Maltese which he considered due to our dignity, and to the flag
+of our royal fleet. Be it, however, as it may, your eminence may be
+persuaded that it is our fixed and established intention to do and perform
+everything both ourselves and by our officers amply to show how much we
+esteem the sacred person of your eminence and the Order of Malta.
+
+In order, therefore, that it should already appear that we do not wish
+greater honour to be paid to any prince than to your eminence and to your
+celebrate Order, we have directed our above-mentioned admiral to accord all
+the same signs of friendship and good will towards your eminence's ports
+and citadels as towards those of the most Christian and catholic kings; and
+we no way doubt your Order will equally show that benevolence towards us
+which it is customary to show to the above-mentioned kings, or to either of
+them.
+
+It only remains to us to heartily recommend your eminence and all your
+military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall on the 21st day of June, 1675.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XV.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+Not only by the letters of Sir John Narbrough, knight, whom we appointed in
+right and power to be the admiral of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea,
+but also from other sources, we have heard how benignantly your eminence,
+both by command and example, and all the sacred Order of Malta, have
+treated him and the other commanders of our ships, so much so that they
+could not have been better at home, and in our dockyards, than in your port
+of Malta. This is, indeed, a sign of great friendship, and the more so that
+our kingdoms and seas are so far distant from the usual navigation of the
+sacred Order of Malta, that few occasions could be expected to offer
+themselves to us of reciprocating the friendship of your eminence. Some
+other mode, therefore, must be sought by which we may testify our gratitude
+and affection towards your eminence and the other members of your most
+sacred Order, to do which we shall willingly embrace and studiously search
+after every opportunity which may offer.
+
+In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence and all your military
+Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 26th day of January, 1675-6.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XVI.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Greet   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+Most eminent Prince, our most dear cousin and friend.
+
+Our well-beloved and faithful Sir John Narbrough, knight, latterly admiral
+of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea, conveyed to us your eminence's
+letters written under date of the 7th of April last, which being most full
+indeed of affection and gratitude on your part, we received and perused
+with equal feelings and satisfaction. The acknowledgments of benefits
+conferred by us, which your eminence so frequently expresses, causes us
+also to return similar thanks to your eminence and to the whole of your
+sacred Order, for all those offices of humanity and courtesy with which you
+assisted our above-mentioned admiral and other our ships stationed in that
+sea, of which we shall always preserve the memory indelibly engraved in our
+hearts. It is equally a source of pleasure to us that our arms have been of
+help to your eminence and to your Order; and if the expedition had been of
+no other benefit, we consider it ample compensation in having restored to
+their homes so many persons celebrated through the whole Christian and
+Infidel world who were recovered from the power and chains of the
+barbarians.
+
+May your eminence continue to desire that we should freely divide the glory
+of rendering peaceful the Mediterranean sea with the illustrious Order of
+Malta!
+
+May the Most Good and Great God sustain and preserve your eminence with all
+your religious Order!
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 28th day of October, 1676.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XVII.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+The thanks which your eminence, by your {445} letters written under date of
+the 15th of August last, returns to us on account of the fifty knights of
+your Order liberated by our assistance from the slavery of the barbarians,
+could hardly be more acceptable to us than the prayers adjoined in the
+above-mentioned letters for the liberation from the slavery of the
+Algerines of another member of your holy Order, the German, John Robert A.
+Stael. We in consequence, in order that we my not appear to be wanting
+either in the will or in affection towards your eminence, have communicated
+our orders to our well-beloved and faithful subject, Sir John Narbrough,
+knight, commanding our fleet in those seas, that if the city of Algiers
+should be constrained to agree to a treaty of just peace and submission by
+the force of our arms, assisted by Divine help, he should use every effort
+in his power, so that the liberty of the said John Robert A. Stael be
+obtained.
+
+Your eminence is already well aware of the fidelity and zeal of our
+above-mentioned admiral, and we have no doubt that he will willingly and
+strenuously observe our orders on that head.
+
+It remains for us to heartily recommend your eminence and the whole of your
+military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 2nd day of November, in the year of
+our Lord 1678.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+WILLIAM WINTHROP.
+
+La Valetta, Malta.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.
+
+For some years past, a great many cattle have died from a disease of the
+lungs, for which I believe no effectual antidote has been discovered. This
+fact having been mentioned to a German in London, who had formerly been a
+_Rossarzt_ or veterinary surgeon in the Prussian army, he stated that he
+had known a similar disease to prevail in Germany; and that by
+administering a decoction of _Erica communis_ (Common Heath), mixed with
+tar, the progress of the disease had in many instances been arrested.
+
+In order, therefore, that the British farmer may obtain the benefit of this
+gentleman's experience, and that he may receive all manner of justice, I
+beg leave to send you a literal copy of the recipe which he was kind enough
+to give _pro bono publico_.
+
+"REMEDY AGAINST THE PRESENT DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.
+
+    "Taken Erika communis, and boiled it into water of such quantity, that
+    the water after boiling coloured like beer; generally of a pinte of
+    water ¼--½ lb. Erika communis, and boiling 5 to 6 hours. After it is
+    be done, filled the fluids trough a seive in ather boiler, and mixed
+    the same with 1/20 part of common tear. In order to make a good
+    composition from it, you must boiling the tear and the fluide to a
+    second time of 2--3 hour's and much storret. After then the medecin is
+    to by ready.
+
+    "Everry cattle sicke or well must you giving of three times to day,
+    everry time one pot from the said mixture, which you have befor keapet
+    a little warm but not to much heat. Keepet werry much from the fluide
+    of Erika communis not mixed with tear, and give to drinke the cattle a
+    much as possible. Everry cattle liked to drinke such fluide.
+
+    "Becom's the tongue stick, black pumpels, or becom's the mouth and
+    palatt red and sort, washe it out with a softe brush deyed in a mixture
+    as follow described: One part of hony, 3 parts of vinaigre, 3 parts of
+    water, and one half part of burned and grinded allumn.
+
+    "Becom's the cattle in the legs, generally in the klawes, washed the
+    sores with cold water, that you mixed 1 once white vitriol, and 1 once
+    burned allumn of a pint of water, 3--4 times to day, and keepet the
+    cattle everry time day's and night's in the open air of meadows or
+    lots. Everry cattle become's in the first time that it is driven out
+    the stables to the green feeding of meadow's, &c. a little sickness,
+    generally a little diarrhae, and this is a remedy against the disease
+    as before stated.
+
+    "If you continnuit with the firste remedy, you should findet that the
+    cattle becom's a verry slight influence of the said disease."
+
+THOS. NIMMO.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+POPIANA.
+
+I. In Roscoe's edition of _Pope_, vol. iv. p. 465., is this epitaph:
+
+ "Well then, poor G---- lies underground,
+    So there's an end of honest Jack:
+  So little justice here he found,
+   'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back."
+
+This must have been running in Goldsmith's heed when he wrote:
+
+ "Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
+    Who long was a bookseller's hack:
+  He led such a damnable life in this world,
+    I don't think he'll wish to come back."
+
+II. Epigram on the feuds between Handel and Bononcini:
+
+ "Strange! all this difference should be,
+ 'Twixt Tweedle-DUM and Tweedle-DEE!"
+
+The various editors print only these two lines. Where have I seen it
+printed as follows, in _six_ lines; and whence came the other four?[3]
+
+{446}
+
+ "Some say, that Signior Bononcini
+  Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;
+  Others aver, that to him Handel
+  Is scarcely fit to hold a candle:
+  Strange that," &c.
+
+III. In "N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 245., the following passage occurs:
+
+    "In the Imitation of the _Second Satire, Book I._ of Horace, _only to
+    be found in modern editions_, there is an allusion to 'poor E----s,'
+    who suffered by 'the fatal steel' for an intrigue with a Royal
+    Mistress."
+
+Query, in _what_ modern editions is this imitation found? I have searched
+most of them (including the last, and by no means the worst, by Mr. Robert
+Carruthers) in vain.
+
+IV. It has always seemed to me desirable that a perfect edition of an
+author like Pope, whose pages teem with proper names frequently repeated,
+and personal allusions, should be furnished with an Index _nominum
+propriorum_, which would enable the reader to refer in a moment to the
+exact whereabouts of the line wanted. I once took the trouble to make such
+an Index to Pope for my own use, and add one word of it as a specimen:
+
+  Granville's moving lays           _Past._ i.    46
+  Granville commands, &c.           _Wind. For._   5
+  Granville could refuse to sing,
+  what Muse for                         "          6
+  Granville sings, or is it             "        282
+  Granville of a former age, Surrey
+  the                                   "        292
+  Granville's verse recite, the
+  thoughts of God let                   "        425
+  Granville's Myra die, till  _Epist. to Jervas_  76
+  Granville the polite        _Prol. to Sat._    135
+
+Is this a hint worthy the notice of Mr. Croker, Mr. P. Cunningham, or Mr.
+John Murray, whose joint labours promise us a new edition of Pope?
+
+V. Roscoe and Croly give _four_ poems on _Gulliver's Travels_. Why does Mr.
+Carruthers leave out the _third_? His edition appears to contain (besides
+many additions) all that all previous editors have admitted, with the
+exception of this _third_ Gulliver poem, the sixteen additional verses to
+Mrs. Blount on leaving town, the verses to Dr. Bolton, and a fragment of
+eight lines (perhaps by Congreve); which last three are to be found in
+Warton's edition.
+
+HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.
+
+Garrick Club.
+
+[Footnote 3: These lines are quoted in the fourth edition of the _Ency.
+Britan._, art. BONONCINI, and are said to have been written by Swift. Only
+the last two lines, however, are given in Scott's edition of his
+_Works_.--ED.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HAMPSHIRE FOLK LORE.
+
+_Churching._--A woman in this village, when going to church for the first
+time after the birth of her child, keeps to the same side of the road, and
+no persuasions or threats would induce her to cross it. She wears also upon
+that occasion a pair of new boots or shoes, so that the mothers of large
+families patronise greatly the disciples of St. Crispin. I should much like
+to know if this twofold superstition is prevalent, and how it first
+originated.
+
+_Bees._--There is not one peasant I believe in this village, man or woman,
+who would sell you a swarm of bees. To be guilty of selling bees is a
+grievous omen indeed, than which nothing can be more dreadful. To barter
+bees is quite a different matter. If you want a hive, you may easily obtain
+it in lieu of a small pig, or some other equivalent. There may seem little
+difference in the eyes of enlightened persons between selling, and
+bartering, but the superstitious beekeeper sees a grand distinction, and it
+is not his fault if you don't see it too.
+
+When a hive swarms, it is customary to take the shovel from the grate, and
+the key from the door, and to produce therewith a species of music which is
+supposed to captivate and soothe the winged tribe. If the bees do not
+settle on any neighbouring tree where they may have the full benefit of the
+inharmonious music, they are generally assailed with stones. This is a
+strange sort of proceeding, but it is orthodox, and there is nothing the
+villagers despise more than modern innovations of whatever kind.
+
+_Charming._--As regards charming, the wife of the village innkeeper who
+preceded the present one (she now rests in the churchyard), used to whisper
+away burns. Her form of words, if she had any, is unknown. The mind has
+great influence upon the body, and the doctor knows it, or he would not
+give his nervous lady patients so many boxes of bread pills, and sleeping
+draughts in the shape of vials filled with savoury rum-punch. Doubtless
+this good woman cured her patients by acting on their imaginations. If the
+agency of imagination is an incorrect supposition, I see but one way of
+accounting for the curative powers of whispering, namely, by means of
+animal magnetism. I trust your medical readers do not question the curative
+powers of animal magnetism in certain cases; if they do, I would recommend
+them to read a work entitled _Human Magnetism, its Claim to Dispassionate
+Inquiry_, by W. Newnham, Esq., M.R.S.L. It is published by John Churchill,
+Princes Street, Soho.
+
+EUSTACE W. JACOB.
+
+Crawley.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD.
+
+The following account of this truly wonderful specimen of human patience
+and skill is from a rough copy that I took some years ago. I regret that I
+cannot give any reference, as I made no note of my authority, which has now
+escaped my {447} recollection. But that is of little consequence, as the
+book is well known to bibliographists.
+
+Perhaps the most singular bibliographic curiosity is that which belonged to
+the family of the Prince de Ligne, and is now in France. It is entitled
+_Liber Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, cum Characteribus nulla
+materia compositis_. This book is neither written nor printed! The whole
+letters of the text are cut out of each folio upon the finest vellum; and
+being interleaved with blue paper, is read as easily as the best print. The
+labour and patience bestowed in its completion must have been excessive,
+especially when the precision and minuteness of the letters are considered.
+The general execution, in every respect, is indeed admirable; and the
+vellum is of the most delicate and costly kind. Rodolphus II. of Germany
+offered for it, in 1640, 11,000 ducats, which was probably equal to 60,000
+at this day. The most remarkable circumstance connected with this literary
+treasure is, that it bears the royal arms of England; but it cannot be
+traced to have ever been in this country.
+
+I now offer this notice, in the hope that the readers of "N. & Q." may
+supply farther particulars; such as the time of its commencement or
+completion, and also whether it is still in France. With respect to the
+arms of England, which yet present a puzzle to all antiquaries, I beg to
+submit a conjecture. I think it was intended as a present to our Henry
+VIII., when he was in such high favour at Rome, for his _Defence of the
+Seven Sacraments_, that Leo X. conferred on him the title of "Fidei
+Defensor," and which all our sovereigns have subsequently retained. But
+when he threw off the Papal authority, declared himself supreme head of the
+Church, and proceeded to confiscate its property, the intention of
+presentation was abandoned. This is at least plausible, as I do not mean
+that it was _originally_ designed for a present to "bluff Harry," because
+it was produced before he was born. But the arms were a work for any time;
+and I think they were executed just before his rupture with the Pope was
+known. To pay him a compliment afterwards from any part of Catholic Europe
+was, of course, out of the question.
+
+C. B. A.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Notes.
+
+_Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III._--
+
+    "Died at his palace at Lambeth, aged seventy-five, the Most Reverend
+    Thomas Secker, LL.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was many
+    years Prebendary of Durham, seventeen years Rector of St. James',
+    Westminster, consecrated Bishop of Bristol in 1734, and in 1737 was
+    translated to the See of Oxford. In 1750 he resigned the Rectory of St.
+    James, on his succeeding Bishop Butler in the Deanery of St. Paul's;
+    and on the death of Archbishop Hutton in 1758, was immediately
+    nominated to the metropolitan see, and confirmed at Bow Church, on the
+    20th of April in that year, Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was
+    Rector of St. James's when our present sovereign was born at Norfolk
+    House, and had the honour to baptize, to marry, and crown his majesty
+    and his royal consort, and to baptize several of their majesties'
+    children."--From _Pennsylvania Chronicle_, Oct. 3, 1768.
+
+M. R. F.
+
+Pennsylvania.
+
+_Copernicus._--The inscription on the tomb of the celebrated Copernicus, in
+the cathedral church at Thorn, in Prussian Poland, supposed to have been
+written by himself, deserves a place in "N. & Q."
+
+ "Non parem _Pauli_ gratiam requiro,
+  Veniam _Petri_ neque posco; sed quam
+  In crucis ligno dederat Latroni
+            Sedulus oro."
+
+FITZROY.
+
+_First Instance of Bribery amongst Members of Parliament._--The following
+extract from Parry's _Parliaments and Councils of England_, deserves, I
+think, a corner in "N. & Q.," especially at the present day:
+
+    "1571, A. R. 13, May 10.--Thomas Long, 'a very simple man and unfit' to
+    serve, is questioned how he came to be elected. He confesses that he
+    gave the Mayor of Westbury and another four pounds for his place in
+    parliament. They are ordered to repay this sum, to appear to answer
+    such things as should be objected against them in that house, and a
+    fine of twenty pounds is to be assessed on the corporation and
+    inhabitants of Westbury, for their scandalous attempt."
+
+ABHBA.
+
+_Richard Brinsley Sheridan._--In the "Life of Sheridan," by G. G. S.,
+prefixed to his _Dramatic Works_, published by Bohn in 1848, is the
+following passage (p. 90.):
+
+    "At the age of twenty-nine he had achieved a brilliant reputation, _had
+    gained an immense property_, and was apparently master of large
+    resources."
+
+And in an essay lately published, entitled _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_, by
+George Gilfillan, is this statement:
+
+    "Young Sheridan had no patrimony, _not a shilling_, indeed, _all his
+    life that he could call his own_."
+
+Which of these two contradictory accounts is true?
+
+In the _Life_ by G. G. S. are two glaring slips of the pen or of the press;
+at p. 8. it is said that Sheridan was born in the year 1771 (1751?), and at
+p. 44. that _The Duenna_ was brought out on the 21st of November, 1755
+(1775?).
+
+WILLIAM DUANE.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+{448}
+
+_Publican's Invitation._--Amongst various other ingenious contrivances
+adopted by the proprietors of the _rosoglio_ houses (anglicè, dram-shops)
+in Valetta, to attract the custom and patronage of the gallant red-jackets
+that swarm in our streets at this time, one individual has put forth and
+distributed among the soldiers the following puzzle, which I send for the
+amusement of your readers. A very little study will suffice to master the
+mysterious document.
+
+   "THE PUBLICAN'S INVITATION.
+  Here's to Pand's Pen. DASOCI.
+  Alhou Rinha? R. M. (Les Smirt)
+  Ha! N. D. F. Unlet fri. Ends.
+  HIPRE! ign. Beju! Standk.
+  Indan! DEVIL'S PEAKO! F. N.
+  (One.)"
+
+JOHN O' THE FORD.
+
+Malta.
+
+_Bishop Burnet again!_--The following anecdote occurs in Mrs.
+Thistlethwaite's _Memoirs and Correspondence of Dr. Henry Bathurst, Lord
+Bishop of Norwich_, p. 7.:
+
+    "I have heard my father mention the following anecdote of my
+    grandfather, Benjamin Bathurst, Esq., and the Duke of Gloucester (Queen
+    Anne's son), during their boyhood. My grandfather and the Duke were
+    playfellows; and the Duke's tutor was Dr. Burnet. One day, when the
+    Doctor went out of the room, the Duke having as usual courted him, and
+    treated him with obsequious civility, young Bathurst expressed his
+    surprise that his Royal Highness should treat a person, whom he
+    disliked as much as he did the Doctor, with so much courtesy and
+    kindness. The Duke replied, 'Do you think I have been so long a pupil
+    of Dr. Burnet's without learning to be a hypocrite?'"
+
+J. Y.
+
+_Old Custom preserved in Warwickshire._--There is a large stone a few miles
+from Dunchurch, in Warwickshire, called "The Knightlow Cross." Several of
+Lord John Scott's tenants hold from him on the condition of laying their
+rent before daybreak on Martinmas Day on this stone: if they fail to do so,
+they forfeit to him as many pounds as they owe pence, or as many white
+bulls with red tips to their ears and a red tip to their tail as they owe
+pence, whichever he chooses to demand. This custom is still kept up, and
+there is always hard riding to reach the stone before the sun rises on
+Martinmas Day?
+
+L. M. M. R.
+
+_English Diplomacy_ v. _Russian_.--A friend of Sir Henry Wotton's being
+designed for the employment of an ambassador, came to Eton, and requested
+from him some experimental rules for his prudent and safe carriage in his
+negociations; to whom he smilingly gave this for an infallible
+aphorism,--that, to be in safety himself, and serviceable to his country,
+he should always, and upon all occasions, speak the truth (it seems a state
+paradox). "For," says Sir Henry Wotton, "_you shall never be believed_; and
+by this means your truth will secure yourself, if you shall ever be called
+to any account; and 'twill also put your adversaries (who will still hunt
+counter) to a loss in all their disquisitions and undertakings." (_Reliquiæ
+Wottonianæ_.)
+
+ALPHA.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Queries.
+
+ANCIENT TENURE OF LANDS.
+
+(Vol. ix., pp. 173. 309.)
+
+The following paragraphs, containing both Notes and Queries, will doubtless
+interest your readers
+
+At the last Kent assizes held at Maidstone (March, 1854) a case was tried
+by a special jury, of whom the writer was one, before Mr. Baron Parke;
+plaintiffs, "the Earl of Romney and others," trustees under an act of
+parliament to pay the debts of the borough of Queenborough, county Kent;
+defendants, "the Inclosure Commissioners of England and Wales." Tradition
+relates that Edward III. was so pleased with his construction of the Castle
+of Queenborough, that he complimented his consort by not only building a
+town, but creating a borough[4], which he named after her honour.[5] The
+case, in various shapes, has been before the law courts for some time, and
+was sent to these Kent assizes to ascertain whether Queenborough was either
+a manor or a reputed manor. In the course of the trial Baron Parke said,
+that, in despite of the statute _Quia Emptores_, he should rule that manors
+could be created when they contained the essentials.
+
+My first Query is, therefore, Have any manors been created in England since
+the passing of that statute? In my _History of Deptford_ I have alluded to
+the manor of Hatcham as one of the last manors I supposed to have been
+created.
+
+The Inclosure Commissioners, as the defendants, had been prayed by the
+Leeze-holders[6] of {449} Queenborough to inclose sundry lands called
+Queenborough Common; such inclosure was opposed by the trustees, who
+claimed under the act of parliament which constituted their existence to be
+in the position of the mayor[7], &c., and thus, if they were the lords of
+the manor, to have a veto upon the inclosure of the waste. The plaintiffs
+relied very much upon the following fact, which I here embalm as a _note_,
+and append thereon a _query_:--During the Mayoralty of Mr. Greet[8], a
+gentleman who died in 1829, a turbot was caught by a dredger on the
+Queenborough oyster-grounds: this unlucky fish was immediately pounced upon
+by the Queenborough officials, and seized for the mayor's behoof as his
+perquisite, _à la_ sturgeon.
+
+Query, a like instance?
+
+The Jury, after two days' long sitting, decided that Queenborough was
+neither a manor nor a reputed manor.
+
+A. J. DUNKIN.
+
+Dartford.
+
+[Footnote 4: _Parliamentary History_, 1765.--On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1654, an
+attempt was made to disfranchise Queenborough: the then member, Mr.
+Garland, suddenly and jocularly moved the Speaker that we give not any
+legacies before the Speaker was dead. This pleasant conceit so took with
+the House, as, for that time, Queenborough was reprieved, but was voted for
+the future to be dismembered, and to be added to the county.--Ap. Burton i.
+cxi. _Archæological Mine_, i. 12. Queenborough was one of the victims
+included in Schedule A of the act of parliament known as "The Reform
+Bill."]
+
+[Footnote 5: In our own day Cove has been called Queenstown in honour of
+Queen Victoria.]
+
+[Footnote 6: _Leeze-holders_, a right of turning on the coming or Leeze
+(_Celtic_, Leswes) twenty-four sheep, which of late years, by a bye-law,
+has been arranged to substitute either two horses or three bullocks. A
+Leeze is supposed to contain about seven acres of land of herbage. The
+common consists of about 240 acres, including roads.]
+
+[Footnote 7: See Hogarth's Visit, &c. to Queenborough. A hearty laugh will
+repay the trouble. The mayor was then a thatcher: the room remains as it
+did in Hogarth's day; and as Queenborough was then, so it is now, one long
+street without any trade.]
+
+[Footnote 8: Of Mr. Greet's mayoralty many humorous tales are told: he was
+at times popular, but towards the close of his reign most decidedly the
+reverse. At his funeral the dredgers, &c. threw halfpence into his grave to
+pay his passage to the lower regions. He, one day, _ex officio_, sentenced
+a pilferer to a flogging at the cart's tail, and as executioners did not
+volunteer, he took off his coat, and himself applied the cat to the bare
+back of the culprit from one end of the street to the other. Mr. Greet was
+one of the best friends Queenborough ever had. After his death it plunged
+deeply into debt, had its paraphernalia and books seized and sold by the
+sheriff, and now all its property is in the hands of trustees to pay its
+debts, whilst its poor-rates are, a witness, a late mayor said, nine
+shillings in the pound. The debt was originally 12,700l.; but as no
+interest has been paid thereon, it is now 17,000l. The trustees have
+received about 4,000_l_., but this sum has been melted in subsequent
+litigation; for Queenborough men are mightily fond of supporting the law
+courts.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OWEN ROWE THE REGICIDE.
+
+Mark Noble, in his _Lives of the Regicides_, says that Owen Rowe was
+descended from Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London in 1568. In the
+Additional Manuscripts (British Museum), 6337. p. 52., is a coat in trick:
+Argent, on a chevron azure, three bezants between three trefoils per pale
+gules and vert, a martlet sable for difference; crest, a roe's head couped
+gules, attired or, rising from a wreath; and beneath is written, "Coll.
+Row, Coll. of hors and futt." These arms I imagine to have been the
+regicide's. If so, he was a fourth son. Query, whose? The Hackney Parish
+Register records, that on Nov. 6, 1655, Captain Henry Rowe was buried from
+Mr. Simon Corbet's, of Mare Street, Hackney. How was he related to Colonel
+Owen Rowe? I should feel particularly obliged to any correspondent who
+could furnish me with his descent from Sir Thos. Rowe.
+
+According to Mr. Lysons (_Environs of London_, vol. iv. p. 540.), the
+daughter of Mr. Rowland Wilson, and widow of Dr. Crisp, married Colonel
+Rowe; adding in a note, that he _supposes_ this Colonel Rowe to have been
+Colonel Owen Rowe, the regicide. The same statement is found in Hasted's
+_History of Kent_ (edit. 1778), vol. i. p. 181. I should be glad of some
+more certain information on this point; also, what issue Owen Rowe left, if
+any, besides two daughters, whose marriages are recorded in the Hackney
+Register.
+
+I am likewise anxious to learn whether there exist any lineal descendants
+of this family of Rowe, which had its origin in Kent; and thence branching
+off in the sixteenth century, settled and obtained large possessions in
+Shacklewell, Walthamstow, Low Layton, Higham Hill, and Muswell Hill.
+Through females, several of our nobility are descended from them.
+
+TEE BEE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WRITINGS OF THE MARTYR BRADFORD.
+
+The second and concluding volume of Bradford's writings, which I am editing
+for the Parker Society, is about to be concluded.
+
+Bradford's _Treatise against the Fear of Death, with Sweet Meditations on
+the Felicity of the Life to Come and the Kingdom of Christ_, was printed by
+Powell without a date, by Singleton without a date, and by Wolf 1583,--the
+last two editions being mentioned by Herbert, the first of Powell by Dibdin
+from Herbert's MS. additions. If any of your readers could inform me where
+a copy of any one of these editions is to be found, it would greatly
+oblige.
+
+I have also never met, after some years' inquiry, with the edition of
+Bradford's _Letter on the Mass_, printed by Waldegrave, Edinburgh.
+
+Some of the early editions of Bradford's writings are very rare. I possess
+his _Examinations_, Griffith, 1561; and _Meditations_, Hall, 1562; both of
+which are scarce: as also the only copy I have ever seen (though imperfect)
+of the first edition of his _Sermon on Repentance_, evidently printed in
+1553.
+
+His _Complaint of Verity_ is of extraordinary rarity. The only copy I am
+aware of is possessed {450} by the Rev. T. Corser, of Stand, Manchester;
+and was purchased (I believe) at Mr. Bright's sale for 17l.
+
+I should be obliged to any one who would supply me with any information
+about early editions of Bradford's writings.
+
+Every one is familiar with the story that Bradford, on seeing a criminal
+pass to execution, said, "There goes John Bradford but for the grace of
+God." Can any one inform me of any early printed authority for that story?
+
+A. TOWNSEND.
+
+Weston Lane, Bath.
+
+    [In the British Museum are the following works by John Bradford, bound
+    in one volume, press-mark 3932, c.:--_The Hvrte of Hering Masse_; also
+    Two Notable Sermons, the one of _Repentance_, and the other of the
+    _Lord's Supper_, Lond. 1581. On the fly-leaf is written, "A copy of
+    Bradford's _Hurte of Hearyng Masse_, printed for H. Kirham, 1596,
+    B. L., was in Mr. Jolley's sale, Feb. 1843. This edition by William
+    Copland for William Martyne without date is scarcer, and I believe
+    earlier.--R. H. BARHAM."]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries.
+
+_Courtney Family._--I throw an apple of discord to your heraldic,
+genealogical, and antiquarian, readers. Was there originally more than one
+family of Courtnay, Courtney, Courtenay, Courteney, Courtnaye, Courtenaye,
+&c. Which is right, and when did the family commence in England, and how
+branch off? If your readers can give no information, who can?
+
+S. A.
+
+Oxford.
+
+"_The Shipwrecked Lovers._"--Can you give me any account of the following
+tragedy, where the scene of it is laid, &c.? It is printed along with some
+poems, and appears never to have been acted. The name of the piece is _The
+Shipwrecked Lovers_, a tragedy in five acts, by James Templeton, Dublin,
+12mo., 1801. I regret that I am unable to give any account of the author,
+but perhaps some of your Irish readers may be able to do this.
+
+SIGMA.
+
+_Sir John Bingham._--In Burke's _Peerage and Baronetage_, article "Lucan,"
+it is stated that this gentlemen was high in rank in King James's army at
+the battle of Aughrim, and turned the fortune of the day in favour of
+William by deserting, with his whole command, at the crisis of the battle.
+A late number of the _Dublin University Magazine_ repeats this story on the
+authority of Mr. Burke, and it would therefore be satisfactory to know
+where the latter found a statement affecting so much the honour of the
+family in question, one of the first in my native county. The dates of Sir
+John's birth and marriage are not given, but the ages of several of his
+children are known, and from them it follows that, supposing the father of
+the first Lord Lucan not to have married till the mature age of fifty-five
+or sixty, he was barely of age at the time of the battle, therefore not
+likely to have been high in command. My countrymen are too much inclined,
+like the French, to attribute their disasters to treachery, or to any cause
+but the equal numbers and courage, and superior discipline, of their
+adversaries: but they have never done so to less purpose than when they
+ascribe the loss of that battle to a man who was in all probability not
+born in 1691, and must in any case have been a mere boy at the time. No
+peerage that I have met with gives the date of his birth, which would at
+once settle the question. It seems most unlikely, if such were actually the
+case, that the family, on attaining the peerage, should have revived the
+title of the gallant Sarsfield (whose representatives they were), and thus
+challenged public attention, always on the alert on such points in Ireland,
+to their alleged dishonour and betrayal of the cause for which he fought
+and fell.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Proclamation for making Mustard._--Did Queen Elizabeth issue a
+proclamation for "the right of making mustard?" And if so, what was the
+language of such proclamation?
+
+AN ADMIRER.
+
+_Judges practicing at the Bar._--A curious disquisition has run through "N.
+& Q." on the relinquishment of their sees by bishops, but I do not see that
+any of them are shown to have officiated as parish priests after quitting
+the episcopate.
+
+Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your readers,
+but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject.
+
+In Craik's _Romance of the Peerage_ there occurs:
+
+    "Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant
+    (afterwards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be first a
+    puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence
+    transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and after all
+    ended his days a practitioner at the bar."--Vol. iv. p. 291. note.
+
+Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he was
+counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced judge,
+Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686.
+
+Are these the only two instances of judges, _qui olim fuere_, practising at
+the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not the latest, does
+not etiquette forbid such practice now?
+
+W. T. M.
+
+Hong Kong.
+
+_Celebrated Wagers._--I should be glad if any correspondent will point out
+any remarkable {451} instances of the above. The ordinary channels for
+obtaining such information I am of course acquainted with.
+
+C. CLIFTON BARRY.
+
+"_Pay me tribute, or else_----."--In Mr. Bunn's late work, _Old England and
+New England_, I find this note:
+
+    "We all remember the haughty message of the ruler of a certain province
+    to the governor of a neighbouring one, 'Pay me tribute, or else----;'
+    and the appropriate reply, 'I owe you none, and if----.'"
+
+Not being of the totality reminiscent, may I beg for enlightenment? The
+anecdote sounds well, and I am therefore curious to know who the governors
+and what the provinces?
+
+W. T. M.
+
+Hong Kong.
+
+"_A regular Turk._"--We often hear of people bad to manage being "regular
+Turks." When did the phrase originate? Though not a journal for politics,
+"N. & Q." will no doubt breathe a wish for the present sultan to be, in the
+approaching warfare, "a regular Turk."
+
+PRESTONIENSIS.
+
+_Benjamin Rush._--I found the following in an old paper:
+
+    "Edinburgh, June 14, 1768. Yesterday Benjamin Rush, of the city of
+    Philadelphia, A. M., and Gustavus Richard Brown, of Maryland, were
+    admitted to the honour of a degree of Doctors of Physic, in the
+    university of this place, after having undergone the usual
+    examinations, both private and public. The former of whom was also
+    presented some time before with the freedom of this city."
+
+The Benjamin Rush here referred to subsequently became quite eminent as a
+physician. He took an active part in the struggle between the American
+colonies and the mother country, and was one of the signers of the
+Declaration of Independence. One of his sons was the American minister to
+London a few years since.
+
+Can any of your readers inform me why the freedom of Edinburgh was
+conferred upon him? In 1768 he could not have been over twenty-five years
+of age.
+
+INQUIRER.
+
+_Per Centum Sign._--Will you kindly inform me why the symbol % means per
+centum: viz. 5 %, 10 %, &c.?
+
+JAMES MILLS.
+
+_Burial Service Tradition._--About forty years ago, a young man hung
+himself. When his body was taken to the church for interment, the clergymen
+refused reading the burial service over him; his friends took him to
+another parish, and the clergyman of that place refused also; they then
+removed him to an adjoining one, and the clergyman received him and buried
+him. The last clergyman said, if any friend of the deceased had cut off his
+right hand, and laid it outside the coffin, no clergyman then could refuse
+legally receiving and burying the corpse. Query, is this true?
+
+May I ask your readers for an answer, as it will oblige many friends. The
+above happened in Derbyshire.
+
+S. ADAMS, Curate.
+
+_Jean Bart's Descent on Newcastle._--I find no notice, either in Sykes's
+_Local Records_, or in Richardson's _Local Historian's Table-book_, of the
+descent made on Newcastle in 1694 by the celebrated Jean Bart, whom the
+Dutch nicknamed "De Fransch Duyvel." Somewhere or other I have seen it
+stated that he returned to France with an immense booty. Perhaps some of
+your north country correspondents can tell us whether any record of his
+visit exists in the archives of the corporation of Newcastle or elsewhere?
+
+WILLIAM BROCKIE.
+
+Russell Street, South Shields.
+
+_Madame de Staël._--In _Three Months in Northern Germany_, p. 151., 1817,
+the following, passage occurs among some corrections of the mistakes of
+Madame de Staël:
+
+    "She knew the language imperfectly, read little, and misrepresented the
+    gossip which she heard, either from carelessness or misunderstanding.
+    When she censures Fichte, who she says had received no provocation from
+    Nicolai, for helping Schlegel to write a dull book against him when he
+    was too old to reply, she must have been ignorant of the fact, that
+    Nicolai lived and wrote many years after the publication; and that,
+    whether provoked or not, it is far from dull."
+
+I cannot find any mention of this dispute in Madame de Staël's _De
+l'Allemagne_, and shall be glad if any of your readers can direct me to the
+passage in her works, and also to the joint work of Schlegel and Fichte.
+
+R. A.
+
+Ox. and C. Club.
+
+_Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny._--I should be extremely obliged to any of
+your correspondents if they could give me the date of the death of Honoria,
+daughter and heiress of Edward, Lord Denny, who was married to James Hay,
+afterwards Earl Carlisle, on the 6th of January, 1607. She had issue James,
+second Earl of Carlisle, who died in 1660. As James Hay, then Baron Hay of
+Sawley, married his second wife (Lucy, daughter of Henry, Earl of
+Northumberland) in November 1617, the time of the first Lady Hay's death is
+fixed between 1607 and 1617.
+
+AUGUSTUS JESSOPP.
+
+N.B.--"Bis dat qui cito dat."
+
+Rectory, Papworth St. Agnes.
+
+_Hospital of John of Jerusalem._--Is there any book or manuscript relating
+to the proceedings of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England,
+{452} which enters so fully into particulars as to give the names of the
+members of the society and its officers about the year 1300?
+
+C. F. K.
+
+_Heiress of Haddon Hall._--Any one who visits Haddon Hall in Derbyshire,
+the property of the Duke of Rutland, is shown a doorway, through which the
+heiress to this baronial mansion eloped with (I think) a Cavendish some
+centuries ago. I have been informed that in a recent restoration of
+Bakewell Church, which is near Haddon Hall, the vault which contained the
+remains of this lady and her family was accidentally broken into, and that
+the bodies of herself, her husband, and some children, were found
+decapitated, with their heads under their arms; moreover, that in all the
+coffins there were dice. My informant had read an authenticated account of
+this curious circumstance, which was drawn up at the time of the discovery,
+but he could not refer me to it, and it is very possible that either his
+memory or mind may have failed as to the exact facts. At any rate they are
+worth embalming, I think, in the pages of "N. & Q." if any correspondent
+will kindly supply both "chapter and verse."
+
+ALFRED GATTY.
+
+_Monteith._--There is a peculiar style of silver bowl, of about the time of
+Queen Anne, which is called a Monteith. Why is it so designated? and to
+what particular use was it generally applied?
+
+P.
+
+_Vandyking._--In a letter from Secretary Windebanke to the Lord Deputy
+Wentworth (_Strafford Papers_, vol. i. p. 161.), P. C. S. S. notices this
+phrase, "Pardon, I beseech your lordship the over-free censure of your
+_Vandyking_." What is the meaning of this term, which P. C. S. S. does not
+find in any other writing of the period? Had the _costume_, so usual in the
+portraits by Vandyke, become proverbial so early as 1633, the date of
+Windebanke's letter?
+
+P. C. S. S.
+
+_Hiel the Bethelite._--What is the meaning of the 34th verse of the 16th
+chapter of the 1st Book of Kings? In one of Huddlestone's notes to Toland's
+_History of the Druids_, he quotes the acts of Hiel the Bethelite, therein
+mentioned, as an instance of the Druidical Custom of burying a man alive
+under the foundations of any building which was to be undertaken?
+
+L. M. M. R.
+
+_Earl of Glencairn._--Could you or any of your readers inform me of any
+particulars concerning the Earl of Glencairn, who, with a sister, is said
+to have fled from Scotland about 1700, or rather later, and to have
+concealed himself in Devonshire, where his sister married, 1712, one John
+Lethbridge, and had issue? Was this sister called Grace? Within late years
+they were spoken of by the very old inhabitants of Okehampton, Devon, and
+stories of the coroneted clothes, &c. were current.
+
+LODBROK.
+
+_Willow Bark in Ague._--I have seen recently some notices of the use of
+willow bark in ague. Will some kind correspondent inform me and others
+interested in the subject, where the information is to be found?
+
+E. C.
+
+_"Perturbabantur," &c._--Can any of your readers give the whole of the
+poem, of which the first two lines are--
+
+ "Perturbabantur Constantinopolitani,
+  Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus"?
+
+These lines are singularly applicable at the present moment.
+
+I am also desirous of knowing the history of this poem.
+
+P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries with Answers.
+
+_Seamen's Tickets._--From an old paper, 1768:
+
+    "Feb. 8. Died at her house in Chapel Street, near Ratcliff Highway,
+    aged 95, Margaret McKennow, who kept a lodging-house in that
+    neighbourhood many years, and dealt in seamen's tickets. She is said to
+    have died worth upwards of 6000l., and just after she expired
+    twenty-nine quarter guineas were found in her mouth."
+
+What are seamen's tickets?
+
+W. D. R.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+    [The system of paying seamen with tickets instead of cash caused great
+    discontent during the reign of Charles II., and, from the frequent
+    notices respecting it in Pepys's _Diary_, seems to have given our
+    Diarist great trouble. On November 30, 1660, he says: "Sir G. Carteret
+    did give us an account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the
+    parliament to try his project of discharging the seamen all at present
+    by ticket, and so promise interest to all men that will lend money upon
+    them at eight per cent. for so long as they are unpaid, whereby he do
+    think to take away the growing debt which do now lie upon the kingdom
+    for lack of present money to discharge the seamen." These tickets the
+    poor fellows sold at half price to usurers, mostly Jews; and to so
+    great an extent was the system carried, that in the year 1710 there was
+    a floating debt due to these usurers of ten millions paid by Harley
+    from a fictitious fund formed by the government.]
+
+_Bruce, Robert._--Can you tell me the name of the author of the following
+little work? It is small, and contains 342 pages, and is entitled:
+
+    "The Acts and Life of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce, King
+    of Scotland. Wherein also are contained the Martial Deeds of the
+    Valiant Princes Edward Bruce, Sir James Douglas, Earl Thomas Randal,
+    Walter Stewart, and sundry others. To which is added a Glossary,
+    explaining the difficult {453} Words contained in this Book, and that
+    of Wallace. Glasgow: printed by Mr. A. Carmichael and A. Miller.
+    MDCCXXXVII."
+
+JAMES P. BRYCE.
+
+    [This work is by John Barbour (sometimes written Barber, Barbere, and
+    Barbare), an eminent Scottish metrical historian. It has been said that
+    he received his education at the Abbey of Aberbrothock, where he took
+    orders, and obtained a living near Aberdeen. Dr. Henry supposes Barbour
+    to have become Archdeacon of Aberdeen in 1356. It is probable he died
+    towards the close of 1395. His poem has passed through several
+    editions, and is considered of high historical value. The earlier
+    editions are those of Edinburgh, 1616, 1670, 12mo. In 1790, Pinkerton
+    published "the first genuine edition from a MS. dated 1489, with notes
+    and a Glossary." The best edition, however, is that by Dr. Jamieson,
+    with Notes, and Life of the Author, Edinb. 4to. 1820.]
+
+_Coronation Custom._--At the coronations of Henry IV. and Richard III. a
+ceremony was performed which seems to indicate some idea of the elective
+sovereignty in England. The archbishop stood at each of the four corners of
+the dais in succession, and asked from thence the consent of the assembled
+Commons (Heylin, _Reform._, 1st edit., p. 32.). Did this ever take place at
+the coronation of English monarchs whose succession was not disputed?
+
+J. H. B.
+
+    [In after times this ceremony seems to be that called "The
+    Recognition." Sandford, speaking of the coronation of James II., says,
+    "The Archbishop of Canterbury standing near the king, on the east side
+    of the theatre, his majesty, attended as before, rose out of his chair,
+    and stood before it, whilst the archbishop, having his face to the
+    east, said as follows: 'Sirs. I here present unto you King James, the
+    rightful inheritor of the crown of this realm; wherefore all ye that
+    are come this day to do your homage, service, and bounden duty, are ye
+    willing to do the same?' From thence the said archbishop, accompanied
+    with the lord keeper, the lord great chamberlain, the lord high
+    constable, and the earl marshal (garter king of arms going before
+    them), proceeded to the south side of the theatre, and repeated the
+    same words; and from thence to the west, and lastly to the north side
+    of the theatre, in like manner: the king standing all this while by his
+    chair of state, toward the east side of the theatre, and turning his
+    face to the several sides of the theatre, at such time as the
+    archbishop at every of them spake to the people. At every of which the
+    people signified their willingness and joy by loud acclamations."]
+
+_William Warner._--Where can any account be found of Warner the poet, the
+author of _Albion's England_?
+
+I. R. R.
+
+    [Some account of William Warner will be found in Wood's _Athenæ
+    Oxonienses_. vol. i. pp., 765-773. (Bliss); also in Percy's _Reliques
+    of Ancient English Poetry_, vol. ii. p. 261., edit. 1812. From the
+    register of Amwell, in Herts, it appears that he died there March 9,
+    1608-9, "soddenly in the night in his bedde, without any former
+    complaint or sicknesse;" and that he was "a man of good yeares and
+    honest reputation; by his profession an attorney at the Common
+    Please."--Scott's _Amwell_, p. 22. note.]
+
+"_Isle of Beauty._"--Who was the author of "Isle of Beauty?" I always
+thought Thomas Haynes Bayly, but some say Lord Byron. Not knowing Mrs.
+Bayly's immediate address, I send this Query. I much regret not asking her
+when I sent my volume of poems, with view of poor Bayly's Grove,
+Cheltenham.
+
+L. M. THORNTON.
+
+14. Philip Street, Bath.
+
+    [The "Isle of Beauty" is by Thomas Haynes Bayly, and is given among his
+    _Songs, Ballads, and other Poems_, edited by his widow, vol. i. p. 182.
+    edit. 1844.]
+
+_Edmund Lodge._--Can you give me the date of the death of Edmund Lodge, the
+herald? I suppose there will be some account of him in the Obituary of the
+_Gentleman's Magazine_, to which I wish to refer. Was he a descendant of
+the Rev. Edmund Lodge, the predecessor of Dawes in the Mastership of Queen
+Elizabeth's Grammar School at Newcastle-upon-Tyne?
+
+E. H. A.
+
+    [Edmund Lodge died January 16, 1839. An account of him is given in the
+    _Gentleman's Magazine_ for April, 1839, p. 433.]
+
+_King John._--Baines, in his _History of Liverpool_, p. 77., says King John
+"was at Lancaster on the 26th February 1206, and at Chester on the 28th
+February following." What route did he take from the first to the
+second-named town, and what was the object of his visit?
+
+PRESTONIENSIS.
+
+    [Upon reference to the Introduction to the _Patent Rolls_, it appears
+    that John was at Lancaster from Monday the 21st to Sunday 27th, from
+    Monday 28th to Wednesday 1st March at Chester, on Thursday 2nd at
+    Middlewich, Friday the 3rd at Newcastle-under-Lyne, and from the 4th to
+    the 8th at Milburn.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies.
+
+HAS EXECUTION BY HANGING BEEN SURVIVED?
+
+(Vol. ix., pp. 174. 280.)
+
+The copious Notes of your correspondents on this subject have only left the
+opportunity for a few stray gleanings in the field of their researches,
+which may, however, not prove uninteresting.
+
+The compiler of a curious 12mo. (_A Memorial for the Learned_, by J. D.,
+Gent., London, 1686) records, among "Notable Events in the Reign of Henry
+VI.," that,--
+
+    "Soon after the good Duke of Gloucester was secretly murthered, five of
+    his menial servants, viz. Sir Roger Chamberlain, Knt., Middleton,
+    Herber, {454} Artzis, Esq., and John Needham, Gent., were condemned to
+    be hanged, drawn, and quartered; and hanged they were at Tyburn, let
+    down quick, stript naked, marked with a knife to be quartered; and then
+    the Marquess of Suffolk brought their pardon, and delivered it at the
+    place of execution, and so their lives were saved."--P. 77.
+
+The following document from the Patent Rolls of the forty-eighth year of
+the reign of King Henry III. (skin 5.) affords conclusive evidence of the
+affirmative:
+
+    "Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Quia Inetta de Balsham pro receptamento
+    latronum et imposito nuper per considerationem curie nostre suspendio
+    adjudicata, et ab horâ nonâ diei Iune usque post ortum solis diei
+    martis sequen. suspensa, viva evasit, sicut ex testimonio fide dignorum
+    accipimus. Nos, divinæ charitatis intuitu, pardonavimus eidem Inetta
+    sectam pacis nostre que ad nos pertinet pro receptamento predicto, et
+    firmam pacem nostrum ei inde concedimus. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud
+    Cantuar. XVI^o. die Augusti.
+
+    "Convenit cum recordo LAUR. HALSTED, Deput. Algern. May. mil."
+
+Plot, in his _Natural History of Staffordshire_, p. 292., quotes this
+pardon, and suggests that possibly
+
+    "She could not be hanged, upon account that the larynx, or upper part
+    of her windpipe, was turned to bone, as Fallopius (_Oper._, tom. i.,
+    _Obs. Anat._, tract. 6.) tells us he has sometimes found it, which
+    possibly might be so strong, that the weight of her body could not
+    compress it, as it happened in the case of a Swiss, who, as I am told
+    by the Rev. Mr. Obadiah Walker, Master of University College, was
+    attempted to be hanged no less than thirteen times, yet lived
+    notwithstanding, by the benefit of his windpipe, that after his death
+    was found to have turned into a bone; which yet is still wonderful,
+    since the circulation of the blood must be stopt, however, unless his
+    veins and arteries were likewise turned to bone, or the rope not slipt
+    close."
+
+Besides the account of Anne Green, Denham, in the 4th book of his
+_Physico-Theology_, quotes the following instance from Rechelin (_De Aere
+et Alim. defect._, cap. vii.),--
+
+    "Of a certain woman hang'd, and in all appearance dead, who was
+    nevertheless restored to life by a physician accidentally coming in,
+    and ordering a plentiful administration of the spirit of sal ammoniac."
+
+(See also _The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, and the Danger of
+precipitate Interments and Dissections demonstrated_, 12mo., London, 1751.)
+
+A paragraph, stating that Fauntleroy, the notorious forger, had survived
+his execution, and was living abroad, has more than once gone the round of
+the newspapers. It is sometimes added that his evidence was required in a
+Chancery suit,--absurdly enough, as, if not _actually_, he was at least
+_legally_ dead.
+
+The story of Brodie, executed October, 1788, for an excise robbery at
+Edinburgh, is probably familiar to most. The self-possession and firmness
+with which he met his fate was the result of a belief in the possibility of
+his resuscitation:
+
+    "It is a curious fact, that an attempt was made to resuscitate Brodie
+    immediately after the execution. The operator was Degravers, whom
+    Brodie himself had employed. His efforts, however, were utterly
+    abortive. A person who witnessed the scene, accounted for the failure
+    by saying that the hangman, having been bargained with for a short
+    fall, his excess of caution made him shorten the rope too much at
+    first, and when he afterwards lengthened it, he made it too long, which
+    consequently proved fatal to the experiment."--_Curiosities of
+    Biography_, 8vo., Glasgow, 1845.
+
+There is a powerfully-written story in _Blackwood's Magazine_, April, 1827,
+entitled "Le Revenant," in which a resuscitated felon is supposed to
+describe his feelings and experience. The author, in his motto, makes a
+sweeping division of mankind:--"There are but two classes in the
+world--those who are _hanged_, and those who are _not hanged_; and it has
+been my lot to belong to the former." Many well-authenticated cases might
+still be adduced; but enough at least has now probably been said upon the
+subject, to show the possibility of surviving the tender mercies of
+Professor Calcraft and his fraternity.
+
+WILLIAM BATES.
+
+Birmingham.
+
+In Atkinson's _Medical Bibliography_, A. and B., under the head "Bathurst
+Rodolphus," is the following:
+
+    "Nuremberg, 4to., 1655. On a maid who recovered after being hanged.
+
+    "This is the remarkable case of Elizabeth Gren, whom Bathurst and Dr.
+    Willis restored after being executed, _i. e._ hanged, for infanticide.
+    'Vena incisa refocillata est.'
+
+    "These poor creatures are seldom considered as maids, after being
+    hanged for infanticide. A similar recovery also happened to a man who
+    had been executed for murder at York. My father had the body for public
+    dissection. Whether the law then required the body to be hung for one
+    hour or not, I cannot say; but I well remember my father's observation,
+    that it was a pity the wretch had ever been restored, as his morals
+    were by no means improved. Hanging is therefore by no means a cure for
+    immorality, and it will be needless (in any of us) trying the
+    experiment'--P. 255.
+
+H. J.
+
+Sheffield.
+
+There is a record of a person being alive immediately after hanging, in the
+_Local Historian's Table-book_, vol. ii. pp. 43, 44., and under the date
+May 23, 1752. It is there stated, Ewan Macdonald, a recruit in General
+Guise's regiment of {455} Highlanders, then quartered in
+Newcastle-upon-Tyne, murdered a cooper named Parker, and was executed on
+September 28, pursuant to his sentence. He was only nineteen years of age,
+and at the gallows endeavoured to throw the executioner off the ladder. The
+statement concludes with--"his body was taken to the surgeons' hall and
+there dissected;" and the following is appended as a foot-note:
+
+    "It was said that, after the body was taken to the surgeons' hall, and
+    placed ready for dissection, the surgeons were called to attend a case
+    at the infirmary, who, on their return, found Macdonald so far
+    recovered as to be sitting up. He immediately begged for mercy; but a
+    young surgeon, not wishing to be disappointed of the dissection, seized
+    a wooden mall, with which he deprived him of life. It was farther
+    reported, as the just vengeance of God, that this young man was soon
+    after killed in the stable by his own horse. They used to show a mall
+    at the surgeons' hall, as the identical one used by the surgeon."
+
+ROBERT S. SALMON.
+
+Newcastle-on-Tyne.
+
+The case of Anne Green is attested by a _third_ witness:
+
+    "In December, 1650, he was one of the persons concerned in recovering
+    Anne Green to life, who was hanged at Oxford on the 14th, for the
+    supposed murther of her bastard child."--"Memoir of Sir William Petty,
+    Knt.," prefixed to _Several Essays on Political Arithmetic_, p. 3., 4th
+    edit., London, 1755.
+
+CPL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+COLERIDGE'S CHRISTABEL.
+
+(Vol. vii., pp. 206. 292; Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.)
+
+MR. J. S. WARDEN might well express astonishment at the rash and groundless
+statement in "Blackwood" (Dec. 1839), that the third part of Christabel
+which Dr. Maginn sent to that magazine in 1820 "perplexed the public, _and
+pleased even Coleridge_." How far the "discerning public" were imposed upon
+I know not; the following extract will show how far the poet-philosopher
+was "pleased" with the parody.
+
+    "If I should finish 'Christabel,' I shall certainly extend it, and give
+    new characters, and a greater number of incidents. This the 'reading
+    public' require, and this is the reason that Sir Walter Scott's poems,
+    though so loosely written, are pleasing, and interest us by their
+    picturesqueness. If a genial recurrence of the ray divine should occur
+    for a few weeks, I shall certainly attempt it. I had the whole of the
+    two cantos in my mind before I began it; certainly the first canto is
+    more perfect, has more of the true wild weird spirit than the last. I
+    laughed heartily at the continuation in 'Blackwood,' which I have been
+    told is by Maginn. It is in appearance, and in appearance _only_, a
+    good imitation. I do not doubt but that it gave more pleasure, and to a
+    greater number, than a continuation by myself in the spirit of the two
+    first (_sic_) cantos (_qu._ would give)."--_Letters, &c._, Moxon, 1836,
+    vol. i. pp. 94-5.
+
+C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
+
+Birmingham.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GENERAL WHITELOCKE.
+
+(Vol. ix., p. 201.)
+
+General Whitelocke being on a visit to Aboyne Castle, in this county, the
+seat of the late Marquis of Huntley, then Earl of Aboyne, and a public
+market being held in the neighbourhood, the Earl, the General, and some
+other visitors, were seen sauntering amongst the cattle and the tents of
+the fair. Amongst the attenders of the country markets at that period was a
+woman of the name of Tibby Masson, well known in this city for her
+masculine character and deeds of fearlessness. Tibby had accompanied her
+husband, who was a soldier, to South America; and, along with him, had been
+present at the unfortunate siege of Buenos Ayres; and, as a trophy of her
+valour, she brought with her an enormous-sized silver watch, which she
+declared she had taken from the person of a Spanish officer who lay wounded
+in the neighbourhood of the city after the engagement. Tibby was standing
+by her "sweetie" (confectionary) stall in the Aboyne Market when the Earl
+and Whitelocke, and the other gentlemen, were passing, and she at once
+recognised her old commander. They stopped, and the General tasted some of
+her "sweeties," and saucily declared that they were abominably bad. Upon
+which Tibby immediately retorted: "They are a great deal better than the
+timmer (wooden) flints that you gave our soldiers at Bonny's Airs." On
+hearing this, the consternation of Whitelocke and his friends can more
+easily be imagined than described. They all fled from the field with the
+utmost rapidity, leaving Tibby completely victorious; and the General, so
+far as is known, never again visited Aberdeenshire.
+
+B. B.
+
+Aberdeen.
+
+I have not access to a file of newspapers, but have been frequently told by
+an old pensioner, who served under General Whitelocke: "We marched into
+_Bowsan Arrys_ (as he pronounced Buenos Ayres) without ere a flint in our
+muskets."
+
+L. G.
+
+The subjoined charade, which I have seen years ago, is perhaps preferable:
+
+ "My first is an emblem of purity,
+  My next against knaves a security;
+    My whole is a shame
+    To an Englishman's name
+  And branded will be to futurity."
+
+{456}
+
+I have also seen a sort of parody upon the above applied to Waterloo:
+
+ "My first, tho' it's clear,
+    Will oft troubl'd appear,
+  My next's an amusement so clever;
+    My whole is a name,
+    Recorded by fame,
+  To the glory of England for ever."
+
+M. J. C.
+
+If the _jeu d'esprit_ on the above name be worthy of preservation, the more
+correct version of it is as follows:
+
+ "My first is the emblem of purity,
+  My second is used for security;
+    My whole is a name,
+    Which, if I had the same,
+  I should blush to hand down to futurity."
+
+The authorship was ascribed (I believe with truth) to a lady of the name of
+Belson.
+
+M. (2)
+
+The following is the correct version:
+
+ "My first is an emblem of purity,
+  My second the means of security;
+    My whole is a name,
+    Which, if mine were the same,
+  I should blush to hand down to futurity."
+
+N. L. J.
+
+General Whitelocke died at Clifton, in his house in Princes Buildings.
+
+ANON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+_Gravelly Wax Negatives._--The only remedy I am acquainted with is to use
+the paper within twenty-four hours after excitement. I have tried the
+methods of Messrs. Crookes, Fenton, and How; in every case I was equally
+annoyed with gravel, if excited beyond that time; in fact, I believe all
+the good wax negatives have been taken within twelve hours. The Rev. Wm.
+Collings, who has produced such excellent wax negatives, 24 in. × 18
+(several were sent to the late Exhibition of the Photographic Society),
+informs me the above is quite his experience, and that he excites his
+papers for the day early in the morning. The cause lies, I believe, in the
+fault of homogeneity of the waxed paper, arising from unevenness in the
+structure of the paper exaggerated by the transparency of the wax, partly,
+perhaps, from a semi-crystallizing of the wax in cooling, and also from its
+being adulterated with tallow, resin, &c. As a consequence of this, the
+paper is filled with innumerable hard points; the iodizing and exciting
+solutions are unequally absorbed, and the actinic influence acting more on
+the weak points, produces under gallic acid a speckled appearance, if
+decomposition has gone to any length in the exciting nitrate by keeping.
+The céroléine process, by its power of penetrating, will, I hope, produce
+an homogeneous paper, and go far to remove this annoyance.
+
+In answer to a former Query by MR. HELE, Whatman's paper of 1849 is lightly
+sized, and not hard rolled, so that twenty minutes' washing in repeated
+water sufficed to remove the iodide of potassium, and if long soaked the
+paper became porous, often letting the gallic acid through in the
+development. I have lately been trying Turner's and Sandford's papers; they
+require three or four hours' repeated washing to get rid of the salts,
+being very hard rolled. Many negatives on Turner's paper, especially if
+weak, exhibit a structural appearance like linen, the unequal density gives
+almost exactly the same gravelly character as wax, as the positive I
+inclose, taken from such a negative, shows. Not only ought collodion to be
+"structureless," as MR. SHADBOLT well expresses it, but likewise all the
+other substrata of iodide of silver.
+
+T. L. MANSELL.
+
+Guernsey.
+
+_Photographic Experience._--The plan proposed by DR. MANSELL, in the last
+Number of "N. & Q.," for comparison of photographic experiences, will, I am
+sure, prove of much practical advantage and I therefore lose no time in
+filling up the table published in your paper:
+
+  1. Eight minutes' exposure.
+  2. South Wales.
+  3. Mr. Talbot's original receipt.
+  4. Turner.
+  5. 3/8 inch.
+  6. 2 inches.
+  7. 3 inches. Focal length, 17 inches. Maker, Ross.
+
+I would also suggest that the character of the object copied should be
+included in the above table. My answer supposes a light-coloured building,
+of an ordinary sandstone colour. A view comprising foliage would require a
+much longer time for its full development. In working on the sea-coast, I
+find that the dark slate rocks of north Cornwall require an exposure in the
+camera half as long again as the blue mountain limestone cliffs of South
+Wales, which abound in actinic power.
+
+J. D. LLEWELYN.
+
+Pen-ller-gaer.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies to Minor Queries.
+
+_Turkish Language_ (Vol. ix., p. 352.).--Your correspondent HASSAN, who
+would much gratify our friends the Turks if he would spell his signature
+with one _s_ only, will find the object of his inquiry in a little book
+just published by Clowes, Military Publisher, Charing Cross, _Turkish and
+English Words and Phrases, for the Use of the British Army and Navy in the
+East_, price 1s. The pronunciation is given in the Roman character, and
+according to the plainest English rules.
+
+OSMANLI.
+
+_Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black Sea_ (Vol. ix.,
+p. 132.).--A reply respecting these important Charts, and their value, was
+given by the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House of Commons on March
+6, in consequence of an inquiry made by Mr. French. Sir James Graham {457}
+is stated by _The Times_ of the following day to have said on that
+occasion:
+
+    "The Charts alluded to by the hon. gentleman were most valuable, and
+    had been made use of; but subsequent observations, and farther surveys,
+    had in a great measure superseded them at the present time."
+
+ELLUM.
+
+_Aristotle on living Law_ (Vol. ix., p. 373).--Your correspondent H. P.
+asks where Aristotle says that a judge is a living law, as the law itself
+is a dumb judge. The first part of this antithesis is in _Eth. Nic._, v. 4.
+§ 7.:
+
+    "[Greek: Ho gar dikastês bouletai einai hoion dikaion empsuchon.]"
+
+    "The judge wishes to be justice incarnate."
+
+Your correspondent, however, probably had in his mind the passage of
+Cicero, _de Leg._, iii. 1.:
+
+    "Videtis igitur, magistratûs hanc esse vim, ut præsit, præscribatque
+    recte et utilia et conjuncta cum legibus;--vereque dici, magistratum
+    legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum."
+
+The commentators compare an antithetical sentence attributed to
+Simonides,--that a picture is a silent poem, and that a poem is a speaking
+picture.
+
+L.
+
+_Christ's or Cris Cross Row_ (Vol. viii., p. 18.).--The Alphabet. See _The
+Romish Beehive_, 319.:
+
+ "In Bacon's _Reliques of_   +---+ _Rome_, p. 257., describing
+  the hallowing of churches, | A | among other ceremonies
+  is the following: 'There   | B | must be made in the
+                       +-----+ C +-----+
+  pavement of the      | D E F G H I K | church a crosse
+                       +-----+ L +-----+
+  of ashes and sand wherein  | M | the whole Alphabet,
+  or Christ's Crosse, shall  | O | be written in Greek and
+  Latin letters.'            | P |
+                             | Q |
+ "Sir Thos. More, in         | R | his Works, p. 606. H, says,
+ 'Crosse Rowe was printed    | S | on cards for learners.'
+  I first went to school     | T | at a dame's, and had a
+  Horn-Book (as it was       | V | called), in which was
+  the Alphabet in a form     | U | something like that here
+  given, and the dame        | W | called me and other beginners
+  to learn our               | X | 'Cris Cross Row;' at
+  that time the term was     | Y | used, that is, about
+  seventy years since."      | Z |
+                             +---+
+
+GODDARD JOHNSON.
+
+_Titles to the Psalms in the Syriac Version._--MR. T. J. BUCKTON (Vol. ix.,
+p. 242.) observes, in reference to the superscription [Hebrew: LMNTSCH
+BNGYNT], "For the chief performer on the neginoth," that "the Syriac and
+Arabic versions omit this superscription altogether, from _ignorance_ of
+the musical sense of the words." And lower down he speaks as if [Hebrew:
+NCHYLWT] were expressed in the Syriac by the word "church." I do not
+question the accuracy of MR. B.'s renderings of the Hebrew words, for they
+have been admitted for centuries; but I wish to observe that the translator
+of the Syriac should not be lightly charged with ignorance of Hebrew, as I
+can testify from an extensive acquaintance with that venerable version. I
+therefore cannot allow that the words were omitted by the translator for
+that reason. Besides, whenever he found a word untranslateable, he
+transferred it as it was. Nor do I admit that _nehiloth_, in Psalm v., is
+translated by the term "church." And this leads me to remark, what seems to
+have been overlooked by most writers, viz. that the Syriac version _omits_
+uniformly the titles of the Psalms as they are found in Hebrew[9]. The
+inscriptions contained in the common editions of these Psalms form no part
+of the translation. One of them refers to the destruction of Jerusalem by
+Titus! They are not always the same. I am acquainted with at least _three
+different sets_ of these headings contained in the Syriac MSS. in the
+British Museum. Erpenius omitted them altogether in his edition of the
+Psalter, and Dathe's follows his; for which very substantial reasons are
+given by him in the "Præf. ad Lect." of his _Psalterium Syriacum_, pp. 36,
+37., Halæ, 1768.
+
+B. H. C.
+
+[Footnote 9: Except the words "of David:" I am not sure about these.]
+
+"_Old Rowley_" (Vol. ix., p. 235.).--The nickname of "Old Rowley," as
+applied to Charles II., seems to be derived from Roland, and has reference
+to the proverbial saying, "A Roland for an Oliver;" the former name being
+given to Charles, in contradistinction to the Protector's name of Oliver.
+Roland and Oliver were two celebrated horses, or, as some say, two pages of
+Charlemagne possessing equal qualities and hence, "I'll give you a Roland
+for your Oliver" was tantamount to "I'll give you as good as you send."[10]
+
+N. L. J.
+
+[Footnote 10: [See "N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 132.]]
+
+_Wooden Effigies_ (Vol.ix., p. 17.).--I beg to refer your readers to two
+figures which are in excellent preservation, and I am not aware that they
+have ever obtained public notice. In the church at Boxted, near Sudbury,
+Suffolk, which is the burial-place of the ancient family of Poley of Boxted
+Hall, are, with several other interesting monuments, the effigies of
+William Poley and Alice Shaa, his wife.
+
+He is in armour, with a beard, and the lady in the dress of her day, with a
+long pendant from her girdle, having suspended a small thick book and the
+arms of Poley impaling Shaa on the cover. At her feet a greyhound to fill
+up the space, in consequence of the lady being short, and their heads on
+the same line. There is an inscription in relief on the cushion on which
+the lady rests her head, which states that he died 17th December, 1587, and
+the lady March 7, {458} 1579. The figures rest on a tomb of masonry, and
+fill the recess of a window, with iron railing to protect them. Their are
+painted black, so that the nature of the wood is not apparent.
+
+Alice Shaa was the only daughter and heiress of her father, and the eldest
+son of this William and Alice was Sir John Poley, Knt. (See Morant's
+_Essex_, vol. i. pp. 151. 217. &c.)
+
+R. A.
+
+Melford.
+
+_Abbott Families_ (Vol. ix., pp. 105. &c.).--MR. ADAMS having very
+satisfactorily afforded the required information concerning Samuel Abbott,
+I shall still feel very greatly obliged if any other gentleman can throw
+any light upon the Archbishop's descendants, especially Sir Maurice's sons
+and their issue. I have in my possession an old will of an ancestress,
+sealed with the crest of Bartholomew Barnes, of London, merchant, whose
+daughter was second wife and mother to Sir Maurice's children, viz.,
+Bartholomew, George, Edward, and Maurice. Did any of them leave a son
+called James, born about 1690 or 1700?
+
+I. T. ABBOTT.
+
+Darlington.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Miscellaneous.
+
+NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
+
+Every reader of the _Archæologia_ knows so well the great value of the
+papers contained in it (too few in number) by the Rev. John Webb, that he
+will be sure that any work edited by that gentleman will be edited with
+diligence, intelligence, and learning. Such is the _Roll of the Household
+Expenses of Richard de Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, during part of the
+Years 1289 and 1290_, which he has just edited for the Camden Society, in a
+manner every way worthy of his reputation, which is that of one of the best
+antiquaries of the day. The present volume contains only the Roll, its
+endorsement, and an appendix of contemporary and explanatory documents, the
+whole being richly annotated by the editor. Another volume will contain his
+introduction, glossary, &c. On its completion we shall again call attention
+to a work which is so creditable both to Mr. Webb and to the Camden
+Society.
+
+The third volume of the cheap and handsome library edition of _The Works of
+Oliver Goldsmith_, edited by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., which forms a
+portion of _Murray's British Classics_, contains I. _The Bee_; II.
+_Essays_; III. _Unacknowledged Essays_; and IV. _His Prefaces,
+Introductions, &c._
+
+Our photographic friends will be glad to hear that a new edition of
+Professor Hunt's _Manual of Photography_ has just been issued, in which the
+author, besides including all the most recent improvements, the process of
+photographic etching, &c., has taken the opportunity of making such
+alterations in the arrangements of the several divisions of the subject, as
+have enabled him to place the various phenomena in a clearer view.
+
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+volume just issued by Professor Beale, _The Microscope, and its Application
+to Clinical Medicine_. Though addressed more particularly to medical
+practitioners, it contains so much valuable instruction with respect to the
+management of the microscope generally, as to render it a valuable guide to
+all who are engaged in microscopic investigations.
+
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+Empires_. The Lecture is for the benefit of the Colet Schools of the very
+poor district of St. Thomas, Stepney.
+
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+Works of John Dryden_, edited by Robert Bell, Vol. III. This is the
+concluding volume of Dryden in Mr. Bell's _Annotated Edition of the English
+Poets_.--_Cyclopædia Bibliographica_, Part XX. The first division of this
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+ENCHIRIDION PRECUM. 1707.
+
+ENCHIRIDION PRECUM. 1715.
+
+LIBER PRECUM. 1819. Worcester College, Oxford.
+
+  Wanted by _Rev. J. W. Hewett_, Bloxham, Banbury.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Notices to Correspondents.
+
+BALLIOLENSIS. _We think the article in question has recently been
+reprinted. If not, which we will ascertain, we shall be glad to receive
+it._
+
+G. B. A. _is thanked. His reply has been anticipated._
+
+ABHBA. _For explanation of the monogram of the Parker Society, see_ Vol.
+vii., p. 502.
+
+I. R. R. Embost, _with hunters, refers to a deer that has been so hard
+chased that she foams at the mouth_.--Stound, _in Spenser, is explained in
+the glossary, as space, moment, season, hour, time_.--Yarke _is to make
+ready, or prepare_.--Crampette, _in Heraldry, is the chape at the bottom of
+the scabbard of a sword, to prevent the point from protruding. It is a
+badge borne by the Earl de la Warr._--_An_ Ambry, _in old customs, was a
+place where arms, plate, and vessels of domestic use were kept; probably a
+corruption of Almonry_.--Gispen _is a pot or cup made of leather_, "_gyspen
+potte_, pot de _cuir_." _Palsgrave. In use at Winchester School, according
+to Kennett._--_The item in the Newcastle Accounts, "Paid for cowllinge of
+Bartye Allyson, the fool," may mean, for habiting him in a friar's
+cowl._--Clito, _or_ Clitones, _says Du Cange, "nom modo Regum primogenitos,
+quod vult Spelmanus, sed universim filios omnes, appellarunt Anglo-Saxones,
+tanquam_ [Greek: Kleitous], _id est_, inclytos, claros."--Sollerets _are
+pieces of steel, which formed part of the armour for the feet_.
+
+A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER _must clearly see (what we ought not to have to
+repeat) that we cannot recommend particular houses for photographic
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+Replies._
+
+OUR EIGHTH VOLUME _is now bound and ready for delivery, price_ 10s. 6d.,
+_cloth, boards. A few sets of the whole Eight Volumes are being made up,
+price_ 4l. 4s.--_For these early application is desirable._
+
+"NOTES AND QUERIES" _is published on Friday, so that the Country
+Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels, and deliver them to
+their Subscribers on the Saturday_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PHOTOGRAPHY.--HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining Instantaneous
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+
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+
+Also every description of Apparatus, Chemicals, &c. &c. used in this
+beautiful Art.--123. and 121. Newgate Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
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+
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+
+THE EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, by the most eminent English and Continental
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+    BLAND & LONG, Opticians and Photographical Instrument Makers, and
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+
+
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+to the Eyes from the Selection of Improper Glasses, and is extensively
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+
+BLAND & LONG, Opticians, 153. Fleet Street, London.
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+
+
+IMPROVEMENT IN COLLODION.--J. B. HOCKIN & CO., Chemists, 289. Strand, have,
+by an improved mode of Iodizing, succeeded in producing a Collodion equal,
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+
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+Photography. Instruction in the Art.
+
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+Post, 1s. 2d.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS.
+
+OTTEWILL AND MORGAN'S
+
+Manufactory, 24. & 25. Charlotte Terrace, Caledonian Road, Islington.
+
+OTTEWILL'S Registered Double Body Folding Camera, adapted for Landscapes or
+Portraits, may be had of A. ROSS, Featherstone Buildings, Holborn; the
+Photographic Institution, Bond Street; and at the Manufactory as above,
+where every description of Cameras, Slides, and Tripods may be had. The
+Trade supplied.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+{460}
+
+WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY.
+
+3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.
+
+Founded A.D. 1842.
+
+  _Directors._
+
+  H. E. Bicknell, Esq.          | T. Grissell, Esq.
+  T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M.P.  | J. Hunt, Esq.
+  G. H. Drew, Esq.              | J. A. Lethbridge, Esq.
+  W. Evans, Esq.                | E. Lucas, Esq.
+  W. Freeman, Esq.              | J. Lys Seager, Esq.
+  F. Fuller, Esq.               | J. B. White, Esq.
+  J. H. Goodhart, Esq.          | J. Carter Wood, Esq.
+
+  _Trustees._--W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.; George Drew, Esq., T. Grissell,
+      Esq.
+  _Physician._--William Rich. Basham, M.D.
+  _Bankers._--Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.
+
+VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.
+
+POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary
+difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application to
+suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed in
+the Prospectus.
+
+Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share in
+three-fourths of the Profits:--
+
+  Age       £   s.  d. | Age       £   s.  d.
+   17       1  14   4  |  32       2  10   8
+   22       1  18   8  |  37       2  18   6
+   27       2   4   5  |  42       3   8   2
+
+ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.
+
+Now ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, with material additions,
+INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON BENEFIT BUILDING
+SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in
+the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a
+Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR
+SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3.
+Parliament Street, London.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BANK OF DEPOSIT. No. 3. Pall Mall East, and 7. St. Martin's Place,
+Trafalgar Square, London.
+
+_Established_ A. D. 1844.
+
+INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS may be opened daily, with capital of any amount.
+
+Interest payable in January and July.
+
+  PETER MORRISON,
+  Managing Director.
+
+Prospectuses and Forms sent free on application.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HOPE LIFE OFFICE: incorporated under Act of Parliament. Guarantee fund
+100,000l.
+
+Life assurance, endowments, annuities, and honesty guarantee bonds, at
+moderate and just premiums.
+
+  By order,
+  H. C. EIFFE, General Manager.
+
+4. Princes Street, Bank.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CHUBBB'S LOCKS, with all the recent improvements. Strong fire-proof safes,
+cash and deed boxes. Complete lists of sizes and prices may be had on
+application.
+
+CHUBB & SON, 57. St. Paul's Churchyard, London; 28. Lord Street, Liverpool;
+16. Market Street, Manchester; and Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE ST. MARGARET'S ESTATE, Richmond.--This magnificent MANSION and
+Picturesque PARK at St. Margaret's, opposite Richmond Gardens, may be
+VIEWED daily, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock (Sundays excepted), by
+cards only, to be had of the Executive Committee of the Conservative Land
+Society. Cards will be forwarded on application to
+
+CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Sec.
+
+Offices, 33. Norfolk Street, Strand, April 15, 1854.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Patronised by the Royal Family.
+
+TWO THOUSAND POUNDS for any person producing Articles superior to the
+following:
+
+THE HAIR RESTORED AND GREYNESS PREVENTED.
+
+BEETHAM'S CAPILLARY FLUID is acknowledged to be the most effectual article
+for Restoring the Hair in Baldness, strengthening when weak and fine,
+effectually preventing falling or turning grey, and for restoring its
+natural colour without the use of dye. The rich glossy appearance it
+imparts is the admiration of every person. Thousands have experienced its
+astonishing efficacy. Bottles 2s. 6d.; double size, 4s. 6d.; 7s. 6d. equal
+to 4 small; 11s. to 6 small; 21s. to 13 small. The most perfect beautifier
+ever invented.
+
+SUPERFLUOUS HAIR REMOVED.
+
+BEETHAM'S VEGETABLE EXTRACT does not cause pain or injury to the skin. Its
+effect is unerring, and it is now patronised by royalty and hundreds of the
+first families. Bottles, 5s.
+
+BEETHAM'S PLASTER is the only effectual remover of Corns and Bunions. It
+also reduces enlarged Great Toe Joints in an astonishing manner. If space
+allowed, the testimony of upwards of twelve thousand individuals, during
+the last five years, might be inserted. Packets, 1s.; Boxes, 2s. 6d. Sent
+Free by BEETHAM, Chemist, Cheltenham, for 14 or 36 Post Stamps.
+
+    Sold by PRING, 30. Westmorland Street; JACKSON, 9. Westland Row; BEWLEY
+    & EVANS, Dublin; GOULDING, 108. Patrick Street, Cork; BARRY, 9. Main
+    Street, Kinsale; GRATTAN, Belfast; MURDOCK, BROTHERS, Glasgow; DUNCAN &
+    FLOCKHART, Edinburgh. SANGER, 150. Oxford Street; PROUT, 229. Strand;
+    KEATING, St. Paul's Churchyard; SAVORY & MOORE, Bond Street; HANNAY,
+    63. Oxford Street; London. All Chemists and Perfumers will procure
+    them.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALLSOPP'S PALE or BITTER ALE. MESSRS. S. ALLSOPP & SONS beg to inform the
+TRADE that they are now registering Orders for the March Brewings of their
+PALE ALE in Casks of 18 Gallons and upwards, at the BREWERY,
+Burton-on-Trent; and at the under-mentioned Branch Establishments:
+
+  LONDON, at 61. King William Street, City.
+  LIVERPOOL, at Cook Street.
+  MANCHESTER, at Ducie Place.
+  DUDLEY, at the Burnt Tree.
+  GLASGOW, at 115. St. Vincent Street.
+  DUBLIN, at 1. Crampton Quay.
+  BIRMINGHAM, at Market Hall.
+  SOUTH WALES, at 13. King Street, Bristol.
+
+MESSRS. ALLSOPP & SONS take the opportunity of announcing to PRIVATE
+FAMILIES that their ALES, so strongly recommended by the Medical
+Profession, may be purchased in DRAUGHT and BOTTLES GENUINE from all the
+most RESPECTABLE LICENSED VICTUALLERS, on "ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE" being
+specially asked for.
+
+When in bottle, the genuineness of the label can be ascertained by its
+having "ALLSOPP & SONS" written across it.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LIBRARY OF VALUABLE BOOKS.
+
+MR. BENTLEY will SELL by AUCTION, in the Lecture Room of the Natural
+History Society, at Worcester, on Tuesday, the 23rd Day of MAY, 1854, at
+Eleven o'clock, A VALUABLE LIBRARY of RARE and CHOICE BOOKS, including one
+Copy of the First Folio Edition of Shakspeare, London, 1623, and two
+varying Copies of the Second Folio, London, 1632, with many valuable
+Black-letter Books in Divinity and History.
+
+Catalogues may be had at the Office of the Auctioneer, 9. Foregate Street,
+Worcester, one week previous to the Sale.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+W. H. HART, RECORD AGENT and LEGAL ANTIQUARIAN (who is in the possession of
+Indices to many of the early Public Records whereby his Inquiries are
+greatly facilitated) begs to inform Authors and Gentlemen engaged in
+Antiquarian or Literary Pursuits, that he is prepared to undertake searches
+among the Public Records, MSS. in the British Museum, Ancient Wills, or
+other Depositories of a similar Nature, in any Branch of Literature,
+History, Topography, Genealogy, or the like, and in which he has had
+considerable experience.
+
+1. ALBERT TERRACE, NEW CROSS, HATCHAM, SURREY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALLEN'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing Size, Price, and Description of
+upwards of 100 articles, consisting of PORTMANTEAUS, TRAVELLING-BAGS,
+Ladies' Portmanteaus, DESPATCH-BOXES, WRITING-DESKS, DRESSING-CASES, and
+other travelling requisites, Gratis on application, or sent free by Post on
+receipt of Two Stamps.
+
+MESSRS. ALLEN'S registered Despatch-box and Writing-desk, their
+Travelling-bag with the opening as large as the bag, and the new
+Portmanteau containing four compartments, are undoubtedly the best articles
+of the kind ever produced.
+
+J. W. & T. ALLEN, 18. & 22. West Strand.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
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+in Gold and Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to all Climates,
+may now be had at the MANUFACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold London-made
+Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4
+guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas.
+Ditto. in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with
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+Chronometer, Gold, 50 guineas; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch skilfully
+examined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers, 2l., 3l., and
+4l. Thermometers from 1s. each.
+
+BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory, the
+Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen,
+
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+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HEAL & SON'S SPRING MATTRESSES.--The most durable Bedding is a well-made
+SPRING MATTRESS; it retains its elasticity, and will wear longer without
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+varieties. For price of the different sizes and qualities, apply for HEAL &
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+
+HEAL & SON, 196. Tottenham Court Road.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the Parish
+of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St.
+Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186.
+Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of
+London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, May 13.
+1854.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Corrections made to printed original.
+
+page 443, "the last day of November, 1674.": '1574' in original.
+
+page 450, "(afterwards Sir Francis)": 'aftewards' in original. "p. 291.":
+'p. 29.' in original (reference checked).
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854, 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
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+
+
+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854
+       A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
+              Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
+
+Author: Various
+
+Other: George Bell
+
+Release Date: February 23, 2010 [EBook #31378]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, MAY 13, 1854 ***
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+<table border="0" cellpadding="10" style="background-color: #ccccff;">
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+<td style="width:25%; vertical-align:top">
+Transcriber's note:
+</td>
+<td>
+A few typographical errors have been corrected. They
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+explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked
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+<p><!-- Page 437 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page437"></a>{437}</span></p>
+
+<h1>NOTES AND QUERIES:</h1>
+
+<h2>A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
+GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</h2>
+
+<h3><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>&mdash;<span class="sc">Captain Cuttle</span>.</h3>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="masthead" title="masthead">
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left; width:25%">
+      <p><b>No. 237.</b></p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:center; width:50%">
+      <p><b><span class="sc">Saturday, May 13. 1854</span></b></p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:25%">
+      <p><b>Price Fourpence<br />Stamped Edition 5<i>d.</i></b></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+
+<table width="100%" class="nomar" summary="Contents" title="Contents">
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left; width:94%">
+      <p><span class="sc">Notes</span>:&mdash;</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:5%">
+      <p>Page</p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>"Shakspeare's Rime which he made at the Mytre," by Dr. E. F.
+      Rimbault</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page439">439</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Rous, the Sottish Psalmist, Provost of Eton College: and his Will,
+      by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page440">440</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Original English Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by
+      William Winthrop</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page442">442</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Disease among Cattle, by Thos. Nimmo</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page445">445</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Popiana, by Harry Leroy Temple</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page445">445</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Hampshire Folk Lore, by Eustace W. Jacob</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page446">446</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>The most curious Book in the World</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page446">446</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Minor Notes</span>:&mdash;Baptism, Marriage, and
+      Crowning of Geo. III.&mdash;Copernicus&mdash;First Instance of
+      Bribery amongst Members of Parliament&mdash;Richard Brinsley
+      Sheridan&mdash;Publican's Invitation&mdash;Bishop Burnet
+      again!&mdash;Old Custom preserved in Warwickshire&mdash;English
+      Diplomacy <i>v.</i> Russian</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page447">447</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Queries</span>:&mdash;</p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Ancient Tenure of Lands, by A. J. Dunkin</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page448">448</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Owen Rowe the Regicide</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page449">449</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Writings of the Martyr Bradford, by the Rev. A. Townsend</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page449">449</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries</span>:&mdash;Courtney
+      Family&mdash;"The Shipwrecked Lovers"&mdash;Sir John
+      Bingham&mdash;Proclamation for making Mustard&mdash;Judges practising
+      at Bar&mdash;Celebrated Wagers&mdash;"Pay me tribute, or
+      else&mdash;&mdash;"&mdash;"A regular Turk"&mdash;Benj. Rush&mdash;Per
+      Centum Sign&mdash;Burial Service Tradition&mdash;Jean Bart's Descent
+      on Newcastle&mdash;Madame de Staël&mdash;Honoria, Daughter of Lord
+      Denny&mdash;Hospital of John of Jerusalem&mdash;Heiress of Haddon
+      Hall&mdash;Monteith&mdash;Vandyking&mdash;Hiel the
+      Bethelite&mdash;Earl of Glencairn&mdash;Willow Bark in
+      Ague&mdash;"Perturbabantur," &amp;c.</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page450">450</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Minor Queries with Answers</span>:&mdash;Seamen's
+      Tickets&mdash;Bruce, Robert&mdash;Coronation Custom&mdash;William
+      Warner&mdash;"Isle of Beauty"&mdash;Edmund Lodge&mdash;King John</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page452">452</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Replies</span>:&mdash;</p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Has Execution by Hanging been survived? by William Bates</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page453">453</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Coleridge's Christabel, by C. Mansfield Ingleby</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page455">455</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>General Whitelocke</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page455">455</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Photographic
+      Correspondence</span>:&mdash;Gravelly Wax
+      Negatives&mdash;Photographic Experience</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page456">456</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Replies to Minor Queries</span>:&mdash;Turkish
+      Language&mdash;Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black
+      Sea&mdash;Aristotle on living Law&mdash;Christ's or Cris Cross
+      Row&mdash;Titles to the Psalms in the Syriac Version&mdash;"Old
+      Rowley"&mdash;Wooden Effigies&mdash;Abbott Families</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page456">456</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p><span class="sc">Miscellaneous</span>:&mdash;</p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Notes on Books, &amp;c.</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page458">458</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Books and Odd Volumes Wanted</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page458">458</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:left">
+      <p>Notices to Correspondents</p>
+    </td>
+    <td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right">
+      <p><a href="#page459">459</a></p>
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
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+ON
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+
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+  <p>NOTES ON AQUATIC MICROSCOPIC SUBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY, selected
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+<p><!-- Page 438 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page438"></a>{438}</span></p>
+
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+
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+
+  <p>THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPE, from the Fall of Napoleon
+  to the Accession of Louis Napoleon. By SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Contents</span>:&mdash;Asia Minor, Greece, Turkey, in
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+
+<p class="cenhead">II.</p>
+
+  <p>NARRATIVE of a JOURNEY THROUGH SYRIA AND PALESTINE IN 1851 and 1852.
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+
+<p class="cenhead">III.</p>
+
+  <p>HISTORY OF THE PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE HEATHEN SINCE THE
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+<p class="cenhead">THE PHYSICAL ATLAS OF
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+
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+F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., &amp;c.</p>
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+  <p>THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW.&mdash;NEW SERIES. No. X. APRIL, 1854.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6"><span class="sc">Contents:</span></p>
+      <p>1. Results of the Census of 1851.</p>
+      <p>2. Manners and Fashion.</p>
+      <p>3. Archbishop Whately on Christianity.</p>
+      <p>4. Criminal Legislation and Prison Discipline.</p>
+      <p>5. Lord Campbell as a Writer of History.</p>
+      <p>6. Schamyl, the Prophet-Warrior of the Caucasus.</p>
+      <p>7. Thomas De Quincey and his Works.</p>
+      <p>8. The Balance of Power in Europe.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>Cotemporary Literature:&mdash;§ 1. Theology, Philosophy, and Politics.
+  § 2 Science. § 3. Classics and Philology. § 4. History, Biography,
+  Voyages, and Travels. § 5. Belles Lettres. § 6. Art.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"This number is the most equal and most readable of the New
+  Series."&mdash;<i>Economist.</i></p>
+
+  <p>"The Westminster Review seems to be in a rising way.... Of the eight
+  articles four are of immediate interest."&mdash;<i>Daily News.</i></p>
+
+  <p>"The paper on cotemporary literature concludes a volume of more than
+  average interest."&mdash;<i>Oxford Chronicle.</i></p>
+
+  <p>"Schamyl, a paper of remarkable
+  interest."&mdash;<i>Commonwealth.</i></p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+<p class="cenhead">London: JOHN CHAPMAN, 142. Strand.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p><!-- Page 439 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page439"></a>{439}</span></p>
+
+<p class="cenhead"><i>LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1854.</i></p>
+
+<h2>Notes.</h2>
+
+<h3>"SHAKSPEARE'S RIME WHICH HE MADE AT THE MYTRE."</h3>
+
+  <p>In the third volume of Mr. Collier's valuable <i>History of Dramatic
+  Poetry</i> (p. 275.) is the following passage, which forms part of a
+  note:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Mr. Thorpe, the enterprising bookseller of Bedford Street, is in
+  possession of a MS. full of songs and poems, in the handwriting of a
+  person of the name of Richard Jackson, all copied prior to the year 1631,
+  and including many unpublished pieces, by a variety of celebrated poets.
+  One of the most curious is a song in five seven-line stanzas, thus headed
+  'Shakspeare's rime, which he made at the Mytre in Fleete Streete.' It
+  begins 'From the rich Lavinian shore;' and some few of the lines were
+  published by Playford, and set as a catch."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>In Mr. Thoms' <i>Anecdotes and Traditions</i> (published by the Camden
+  Society) is a story of the celebrated Dr. John Wilson, to which the
+  editor has appended an interesting note, adding:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Wilson was the composer of a glee for three voices, published in
+  Playford's <i>Musical Companion</i>, where the words are attributed to
+  Shakspeare; and the supposition that they were really written by him
+  having been converted into a certainty, by their appearing with
+  Shakspeare's name to them in the MS. Collection of Poetry, copied prior
+  to 1631 by Richard Jackson," &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Mr. Thoms then prints the "rime," not inappropriately calling it "A
+  Song for Autolycus," with this remark:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"My late respected friend Mr. Douce once told me, that some musical
+  friend at Chichester, I think the organist, possessed a copy of this
+  song, with an additional verse."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Mr. Thoms' version of "Shakspeare's Rime" was inserted (probably by
+  our worthy Editor himself?) in the first volume of "N. &amp; Q." (p. 23.)
+  with a view of obtaining the additional stanza; a desideratum which I am
+  now enabled to supply. The following copy has <i>two</i> additional
+  stanzas, and is transcribed from a MS. Collection of Songs, with the
+  music, written in the early part of the reign of James I. The MS. was
+  formerly in the possession of Mr. J.&nbsp;S. Smith, the learned editor of
+  <i>Musica Antiqua</i>.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6">I.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"From the fair Lavinian shore,</p>
+      <p>I your markets come to store;</p>
+      <p>Marvel not, I thus far dwell,</p>
+      <p>And hither bring my wares to sell;</p>
+      <p>Such is the sacred hunger of gold.</p>
+      <p class="i1">Then come to my pack,</p>
+      <p class="i2">While I cry,</p>
+      <p class="i1">What d'ye lack,</p>
+      <p class="i2">What d'ye buy?</p>
+      <p>For here it is to be sold.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6">II.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"I have beauty, honour, grace,</p>
+      <p>Virtue, favour, time and space,</p>
+      <p>And what else thou wouldst request,</p>
+      <p>E'en the thing thou likest best;</p>
+      <p>First, let me have but a touch of thy gold,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Then come too lad,</p>
+      <p class="i2">Thou shalt have</p>
+      <p class="i1">What thy dad</p>
+      <p class="i2">Never gave;</p>
+      <p>For here it is to be sold.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6">III.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Though thy gentry be but young,</p>
+      <p>As the flow'r that this day sprung,</p>
+      <p>And thy father thee before,</p>
+      <p>Never arms nor scutcheon bore;</p>
+      <p>First let me have but a catch of thy gold,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Then, though thou be an ass,</p>
+      <p class="i2">By this light</p>
+      <p class="i1">Thou shalt pass</p>
+      <p class="i2">For a knight;</p>
+      <p>For here it is to be sold.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6">IV.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Thou whose obscure birth so base,</p>
+      <p>Ranks among the ignoble race,</p>
+      <p>And desireth that thy name,</p>
+      <p>Unto honour should obtain;</p>
+      <p>First let me have but a catch of thy gold,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Then, though thou be an ass,</p>
+      <p class="i2">By this light,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Thou shalt pass</p>
+      <p class="i2">For a knight;</p>
+      <p>For here it is to be sold.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6">V.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Madam, come see what you lack?</p>
+      <p>Here's complexion in my pack;</p>
+      <p>White and red you may have in this place,</p>
+      <p>To hide an old ill-wrinkled face:</p>
+      <p>First, let me have but a catch of thy gold,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Then thou shalt seem,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Like a wench of fifteen,</p>
+      <p>Although you be threescore and ten years old."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>That this song enjoyed extensive popularity in the latter half of the
+  seventeenth century, is evinced by the number of printed copies. It is
+  found in Playford's <i>Select Ayres and Dialogues</i>, 1659; in Dr.
+  Wilson's <i>Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads</i>, 1660; in Playford's <i>Catch
+  that Catch Can</i>, 1667; and in many subsequent collections of a similar
+  kind. But in none of these works is the name of the writer of the words
+  given; and all the copies are deficient of the <i>third</i> and
+  <i>fourth</i> stanzas. The point of the satire conveyed in these stanzas
+  was lost after the reign of James I., which may account for their
+  omission.</p>
+
+  <p>"Shakspeare's rime," being associated with Wilson's music, is of some
+  importance towards settling the point of authorship. In 1846 I printed a
+  little pamphlet with the following title:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Who was <i>Jack Wilson</i>, the Singer of Shakspeare's Stage? An
+  Attempt to prove the Identity of this <!-- Page 440 --><span
+  class="pagenum"><a name="page440"></a>{440}</span>Person with John
+  Wilson, Doctor of Musick, in the University of Oxford, <span
+  class="scac">A.D.</span> 1644."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>It would be out of place here to dwell upon this publication, suffice
+  it to say, that all the information I have since collected, tends to
+  confirm the hypothesis advanced. One extract from this <i>brochure</i>
+  will show the connexion that existed between Shakspeare and Wilson:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Wilson was the composer of four other Shakspearian lyrics, a fact
+  unknown to Mr. Collier, when he wrote the article in the <i>Shakspeare
+  Papers</i>: 'Where the bee sucks,' 'Full fathom five,' 'Lawn as white as
+  driven snow,' and 'From the fair Lavinian shore.' They are all printed in
+  the author's <i>Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads</i>, Oxford, 1660. We have now
+  evidence from this work, that Wilson was the <i>original</i> composer of
+  the music to <i>one</i> of Shakspeare's plays. He says in his preface,
+  'some of these ayres were <i>originally</i> composed by those whose names
+  are affixed to them, but are here placed as being <i>new set</i> by the
+  author of the rest. The two songs, 'Where the bee sucks,' and 'Full
+  fathom five,' have appended to them the name of 'R. Johnson,' who, upon
+  this evidence, we may undoubtedly conclude was the <i>original</i>
+  composer of the music in the play of the <i>Tempest</i>. The song 'Lawn
+  as white as driven snow,' from the <i>Winter's Tale</i>, has the name of
+  'John Wilson' attached to it, from which it is equally certain that he
+  was its <i>original</i> composer. In my own mind, the circumstances
+  connected with the Shakspearian lyrics in this book are almost conclusive
+  as to the identity of John Wilson the <i>composer</i> with John Wilson
+  the <i>singer</i>. Unless the composer had been intimately acquainted
+  with the theatre of Shakspeare's day, it is not likely that he would have
+  remembered, so long after, the name of one of its composers. Nor is it
+  likely, being so well acquainted with the <i>original</i> composers of
+  the Shakspearian drama, and so anxious as he appears to have been to do
+  justice to their memory, that he would have omitted informing us, who was
+  the <i>original</i> composer of the song in the <i>Winter's Tale</i>, had
+  it been any other than himself. The <i>Winter's Tale</i> was not produced
+  before 1610 or 1611, at which period Wilson was sixteen or seventeen
+  years old, an age quite ripe enough for the production of the song in
+  question."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>A reviewer of my little publication in the <i>Athenæum</i> (Nov. 8,
+  1846) makes the following remark:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Let us observe, in conclusion, that Dr. Rimbault is better read in
+  Jack Wilson than Ben Jonson, or we should never have seen Mr.
+  Shakspeare's 'Rime' at the 'Mitre,' in Fleet Street, seriously referred
+  to as a genuine composition. It is a mere clumsy adaptation, from Ben's
+  interesting epigram 'Inviting a Friend to Supper.'"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>It is really too bad to be charged with ignorance <i>unjustly</i>. I
+  have on my shelves the works of glorious Ben, three times over: in folio
+  1616-31; in folio, 1692; and in nine volumes octave (Gifford's edition),
+  1816; all of which I will freely give to the "reviewer," if he can prove
+  that <i>one line</i> of "Shakspeare's Rime at the Mytre" is taken from
+  the aforesaid epigram. I heartily agree with him in admiration of
+  Jonson's spirited imitation of Martial, which I have transcribed as a
+  pleasant relish towards digesting these rambling remarks:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i4"><span class="scac">"INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER.</span></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"To-night, grave Sir, both my poor house and I</p>
+      <p>Do equally desire your company:</p>
+      <p>Not that we think us worthy such a guest,</p>
+      <p>But that your worth will dignify our feast,</p>
+      <p>With those that come; whose grace may make that seem</p>
+      <p>Something, which else could hope for no esteem.</p>
+      <p>It is the fair acceptance, Sir, creates</p>
+      <p>The entertainment perfect, not the cates.</p>
+      <p>Yet shall you have, to rectify your palate,</p>
+      <p>An olive, capers, or some better salad,</p>
+      <p>Ushering the mutton; with a short-legg'd hen,</p>
+      <p>If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,</p>
+      <p>Limons, and wine for sauce: to these, a coney</p>
+      <p>Is not to be despair'd of for our money;</p>
+      <p>And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,</p>
+      <p>The sky not falling, think we may have larks.</p>
+      <p>I'll tell you of more, and lie, so you will come:</p>
+      <p>Of partridge, pheasant, woodcock, of which some</p>
+      <p>May yet be there; and godwit if we can;</p>
+      <p>Knat, rail, and ruff too. Howsoe'er my man</p>
+      <p>Shall read a piece of Virgil, Tacitus,</p>
+      <p>Livy, or of some better book to us,</p>
+      <p>Of which we'll speak our minds, amidst our meat;</p>
+      <p>And I'll profess no verses to repeat;</p>
+      <p>To this if aught appear, which I not know of,</p>
+      <p>That will the pastry, not my paper, show of.</p>
+      <p>Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be;</p>
+      <p>But that which most doth take my muse and me,</p>
+      <p>Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine,</p>
+      <p>Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine;</p>
+      <p>Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted,</p>
+      <p>Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.</p>
+      <p>Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring,</p>
+      <p>Are all but Luther's beer, to this I sing,</p>
+      <p>Of this we will sup free, but moderately,</p>
+      <p>And we will have no Pooly', or Parrot by;</p>
+      <p>Nor shall our cups make any guilty men:</p>
+      <p>But at our parting, we will be, as when</p>
+      <p>We innocently met. No simple word,</p>
+      <p>That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board,</p>
+      <p>Shall make us sad next morning; or affright</p>
+      <p>The liberty, that we'll enjoy to-night."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Edward F. Rimbault.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>ROUS, THE SCOTTISH PSALMIST, PROVOST OF ETON COLLEGE: AND HIS WILL.</h3>
+
+  <p>Looking over some back Numbers of "N. &amp; Q.," I see an inquiry
+  (Vol. v., p.&nbsp;81.) after Francis Rous. G.&nbsp;N. will find an account of him
+  in Chalmers's <i>Biographical Dictionary</i>, gathered out of Wood's
+  <i>Athenæ</i>; Noble's <i>Memoir of Cromwell</i>, vol. i. <!-- Page 441
+  --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page441"></a>{441}</span>p. 409;
+  Lysons' <i>Environs of London</i>, vol. ii.; <i>Granger</i>, vol.
+  iii.</p>
+
+  <p>In his will, a copy of which lies before me, proved Feb. 10, 1658, he
+  speaks of "a youth in Scotland, his grandson," and "as the heir of
+  idleness abhorring to give him an estate, but wishing he might be a
+  useful member of Christ and the Commonwealth, he desires his executors to
+  give him 50<i>l.</i> a year so long as he shall be in preparation towards
+  a profession, and as many of his books as may be fit for him."</p>
+
+  <p>I shall be much obliged if any correspondent can find out anything
+  farther about the said "youth in Scotland?"</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">H. T. Ellacombe.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Clyst St. George.</p>
+
+  <p>P.S.&mdash;Why should not "N. &amp; Q." be the publisher of any
+  curious old wills, which might interest the general reader? Allow me to
+  suggest a corner for <i>Testamenta Vestusta</i>. I will begin by sending
+  a copy of the will of Francis Rous.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>This my last Will and Testament, I, Francis Rous,   Provost of Eaton
+  College, wrote and made   March 18th, 1657.</p>
+
+  <p>Forasmuch as to put houses in order before our departure is pleasing
+  to the God of order, I do dispose of my affairs and estates in manner
+  following:</p>
+
+  <p>There is a youth in Scotland concerning whom (because they call him my
+  grandson) it is perchance expected that I should do some great matters
+  for him; but his father marrying against my will and prohibition, and
+  giving me an absolute discharge before the marriage under his hand, not
+  to expect anything from me if he did marry contrary to my prohibition, I
+  hold myself discharged from the father, and consequently from the son of
+  that father, the son having no interest in me but by the father. And I
+  hold it a good example, for the benefitt of the Commonwealth, that
+  matters of discouragement should be put upon such marriages, being
+  assured that their parents will not disinheritt or lessen them,
+  especially if they have but one son, and that which Solomon saith is to
+  be considered&mdash;an understanding servant shall have rule over a son
+  that maketh ashamed, and both that<a name="footnotetag1"
+  href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, and his son, and his son in
+  Scotland have both made ashamed, the one in his match, the other by a sad
+  mischief of dangerous consequence and fatal; and though his mother is
+  bound to maintain him, yet because I wish he might be a useful member of
+  Christ and the Commonwealth, towards which I think she is not well able
+  to give him an answerable education, I have in this my will taken course
+  for a competent maintenance for him towards a profession, and in it
+  utterly abhorring to give him an estate, as the heir of idleness.
+  Wherefore to the fore-mentioned purpose, I desire my executor to give him
+  50<i>l.</i> a year, so long as he shall be in preparation towards a
+  profession, or shall really and seriously be in the practice of it; and
+  as many of my books as may be fitt for him in the profession he shall
+  undertake, and shall not be given to Pembroke College, I desire my
+  executor to give unto him: but if he, or a guardian, or any other, shall
+  sue or implead, or call my executor into question to his trouble or cost,
+  I leave it to my executor's choice whether he will pay his maintenance of
+  50<i>l.</i> per annum, or any part of it.</p>
+
+  <p>I give to Mr. Ellford, my pastor at Acton, 20<i>l.</i> I give
+  5<i>l.</i> per annum for ever to be disposed of in buying Bibles,
+  catechisms, or for encouraging poor children to learn to read and answer
+  in catechising in the parish of Dittisham, in the county of Devon, the
+  place of my nativity and baptism, which sum shall be bestowed according
+  to the direction of the minister there for the time being; and to the
+  present minister I give 20<i>l.</i> I give to the poor of Acton each five
+  shillings; I give to the poor of Westminster, Kensington, Knightsbridge,
+  half a year's rent of that which they used to receive. I give Mr.
+  Bartlett of Windsor 20<i>l.</i> I appoint 100<i>l.</i> to be lent to my
+  nephew William Rous, which he must pay by 10<i>l.</i> a year to my nephew
+  Richard Rous, his son. I give Thomas Rous, of King's College, 6<i>l.</i>
+  for two years. I give Eliz. Rous, of Penrose in Cornwall, 20<i>l.</i> I
+  give Anthony Rous at Eaton School, 5<i>l.</i> a year for seven years. I
+  give to my niece Rudyard, and her sisters Skelton and Dorothy, each
+  20<i>l.</i> I give to Margaret Baker 10<i>l.</i> I give to a poor Xtian
+  woman in Dartmouth, Mrs. Adams, 10<i>l.</i> To Robert Needler I give a
+  black suit and cloak; the like to William Grantham and 10<i>l.</i> To my
+  niece Portman, now in my house, I give 50<i>l.</i> To my other friends of
+  more ability, I leave it to my executor to give such memorials as he
+  shall think fitt. To the poor of Eaton I give 20<i>l.</i> To each of my
+  servants that are with me at any decease I give black suits and
+  5<i>l.</i>; and to Peter Fluellen, who is now endeavouring to get a place
+  of removal, 10<i>l.</i> I give to Thomas Rolle of Eaton, and Robert Yard,
+  each 10<i>l.</i> I give to Christian, now the wife of Mr. Johnson,
+  20<i>l.</i> I give to the young Winnington of Eaton, 10<i>l.</i> I give
+  40<i>l.</i> per annum out of the Parsonage or Tythe of Great Brookeham in
+  Surrey, to maintain two schollars in Pembroke College in Oxford. I also
+  give 20<i>l.</i> per annum unto one schollar more in the same college,
+  out of a tenement in the Manor of Wootton in Cornwall, during two lives
+  of two Bigfords, and after their decease out of a tenement of mine in
+  Cowkberry, in Devon, for ever. The scholars to be chosen are to be poor,
+  <!-- Page 442 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page442"></a>{442}</span>not having 10<i>l.</i> a year, apt to
+  learning, and to be of the posterity of myself or my brother Robert,
+  Richard, or Arthur Rous, or of my sister Nicholl, or my sister Upton; and
+  if no such shall be tendered, then they are to be chosen out of the two
+  highest forms in Eaton College. I give power to my executor to choose
+  them during his life, and desire him, with the advice of my dear kinsman,
+  Mr. Ambrose Upton, Prebend of Xt Church in Oxford, to settle and order
+  all things for the sure and usefull continuance of their allowances to
+  schollars so qualified as before and of good conversation, and that they
+  study divinity, and some time before they be Batchelors of Arts, they
+  make good proof of their studying divinity, and that they continued in
+  their several places but <i>seven years</i>, and then others to be chosen
+  in their rooms. What shall be above 40<i>l.</i> per annum arising out of
+  the tythe of Brookham declaro, and above all rates and taxes, I give unto
+  the minister of that parish; and I give the parsonage to my respected
+  kinsman Samuel Rous, Esq., of that parish, yet so, that if he die before
+  my executor, my executor shall present during his life, and after it
+  shall go to the heirs of the said Samuel Rous, it being to be hoped that
+  their dwelling be there they will be carefull for their own souls. I do
+  make and constitute my dear kinsman Anthony Rous, Esq., of Wootton, in
+  the county of Cornwall, commonly called or known by the name of Colonel
+  Rous, to be my whole and sole executor. And I give and bequeath to him
+  all my lands, tenements, my interest in the parsonage of Great Brookham
+  in Surrey, all my leases, chattels, plate, money, and other goodly
+  whatsoever, as also my copyholds, which shall, according to custom, be
+  made over to him in Acton or Branford, hoping that he will faithfully
+  dispose them according to my will and intention made known to him; and I
+  give him 100<i>l.</i>, and lend him 200<i>l.</i> more for seven years,
+  which he may bestow in defence of himself as to law suits, if any be
+  brought as concerning my estate, or if there shall be none to bestow, in
+  some charitable use as he shall think fitt. I desire my body may be
+  interred and put to rest in the chapple of Eaton College, a place that
+  hath my dear affections and prayers that it may be a flouring nursery of
+  piety and learning to the end of the world. And for a profession of any
+  faith, I refer myself to the works which I not long since published in
+  one volume, wherein I have professed a right and saving faith, and hope
+  to continue therein until faith shall be swallowed up of sight, laying
+  hold of the free grace of God in his beloved Son as my only title to
+  eternity, being confident that his free grace, which took me up lying in
+  the blood of irregeneration, will wash away the guilt of that estate, and
+  all the cursed fruits of it by the pretious blood of his Son, and will
+  wash away the filth of it by the spirit of his Son, and so present me
+  faultless before the presence of God's glory with joy.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>(Signed) <span class="sc">Francis Rous</span>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>The Right Honorable Francis Rous, Esq., acknowledged this to be his
+  last will and testament, the 12th day of April, 1658<a
+  name="footnotetag2" href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>, in the presence
+  of me, Abel Borsett, endorsed, upon a paper wherein the original will was
+  folded and sealed up, thus, viz., "My last will, attested by Mr.
+  Humphreys and Mr. Borsett."</p>
+
+  <p>This will was proved at London the 10th day of February, in the year
+  of our Lord God 1658, before the judges for probate of wills and granting
+  administrations lawfully authorised, by the oath of Collonell Anthony
+  Rouse, Esq., the sole and only executor named in the said will, to whom
+  administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and debts of the
+  said deceased was granted and committed.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote1"></a><b>Footnote 1:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag1">(return)</a>
+  <p>This appears to be an error.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote2"></a><b>Footnote 2:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag2">(return)</a>
+  <p>It should doubtless be 1657.</p>
+
+</div>
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>ORIGINAL ENGLISH ROYAL LETTERS TO THE GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(<i>Concluded from</i> Vol. ix., p.&nbsp;419.)</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">No. XI.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and
+  Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>To the most illustrious and most high Prince, the Lord Nicholas
+  Cotoner, Grand Master of the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and
+  friend&mdash;Greeting:</p>
+
+  <p>It having appeared to us a matter of interest, not only to ourselves,
+  but likewise to the whole Christian world, that we also should keep in
+  the Mediterranean sea a certain number of galleys ready to afford prompt
+  aid to our neighbours and allies against the frequent insults of the
+  barbarians and Turks, we lately caused to be constructed two galleys, one
+  in Genoa, and the other in the port of Leghorn; in order to man these, we
+  directed a person well acquainted with such affairs to be sent, as to
+  other parts, so also to the island of Malta, subject to the rule of your
+  highness, in order to <i>buy slaves and procure other necessaries</i>. He
+  having purchased some slaves, it has been reported to us that your
+  highness' collector of customs demanded five pieces of gold of Malta
+  money per head before they could be permitted to embark, under the title
+  of toll; at which proceeding we were certainly not a little astonished,
+  it appearing to us a new proceeding, and one contrary to custom,
+  especially it being well known to us that our neighbours and allies, the
+  Kings of France and Spain, are never accustomed to pay anything under the
+  title of toll <!-- Page 443 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page443"></a>{443}</span>for the slaves which they cause yearly to
+  be transported from your island.</p>
+
+  <p>We therefore beg your highness, by the good and long friendship
+  existing between us, to grant to us the same privilege in <i>regard to
+  this kind of commerce</i> within the territories of your highness, as is
+  enjoyed by both our said neighbours and allies, which although it ought
+  to be conceded to us simply on account of our mutual friendship and our
+  affection towards your highness and the illustrious Order of Malta, still
+  we shall receive so gratefully, that if at any time we can do anything to
+  please your highness, we shall be always ready to do it, with all
+  attention, and most willingly.</p>
+
+  <p>In the meantime we heartily recommend your highness and all the
+  members of the illustrious Order of Malta, as well as all your affairs,
+  to the Divine keeping.</p>
+
+  <p>Given from our palace of Westminster on the 12th day of February, in
+  the year of our Lord 1673, and of our reign the 25th.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your Highness' good Cousin and Friend,</p>
+      <p class="i8"><span class="sc">Charles Rex.</span></p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p class="cenhead">No. XII.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France,
+  and Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>To the most eminent Prince, the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of
+  the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and
+  friend&mdash;Greeting:</p>
+
+  <p>Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.</p>
+
+  <p>The military order over which your eminence most worthily presides,
+  having always used its power to render the navigation of the sea safe and
+  peaceable for Christians, we in no way doubt that our ships of war, armed
+  for the same purpose, will receive from your eminence every office of
+  friendship. We therefore are desirous of signifying to your eminence by
+  these our letters that we have sent a squadron of our royal fleet to the
+  Mediterranean sea under the command of Sir John Narbrough, knight, to
+  look after the safety of navigation and commerce, and to oppose the
+  enemies of public tranquillity. We therefore amicably beseech your
+  eminence that if ever the above-named Admiral Narbrough, or any of our
+  ships cruising under his flag, should arrive at any of your eminence's
+  ports or stations, or in any place subject to the Order of Malta, that
+  they may be considered and treated as friends and allies, and that they
+  may be permitted to purchase with their money, and at just prices, and to
+  export provisions and munitions of war, and whatever they may require,
+  which, on similar occasions, we will abundantly reciprocate to your
+  eminence and to your most noble Order.</p>
+
+  <p>In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence to the safeguard
+  of the Most High and Most Good God.</p>
+
+  <p>Given from our palace of Whitehall the last day of November, <span
+  class="correction" title="Original reads `1574'.">1674</span>.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your Highness' Cousin and Friend,</p>
+      <p class="i8"><span class="sc">Charles Rex</span>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p class="cenhead">No. XIII.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Charles the Second by the Grace of God, of Great   Britain, France,
+  and Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of
+  the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend.</p>
+
+  <p>Most eminent Prince, our cousin and well-beloved
+  friend&mdash;Greeting:</p>
+
+  <p>Although we in no way doubt of the sincere readiness of your eminence
+  and of your holy Order of Malta to do everything which might be known to
+  be expedient for our interests, still we could not read your eminence's
+  letters under date of 24th March last, in which such readiness is fully
+  set forth, without the greatest pleasure. Our affection is sharpened and
+  excited by the mention of the good will of our predecessors, the Kings of
+  Great Britain, evinced in every age towards your most illustrious Order,
+  which, as your eminence in your said letters so honourably commemorates,
+  so will we studiously endeavour to imitate, and even to surpass. From our
+  admiral, Sir John Narbrough, knight, and also from other parties, we have
+  heard with how much benignity your eminence lately received him, and
+  caused him and the other officers of our fleet to be supplied with what
+  was requisite for our ships of war, which we consider not less worthy of
+  the piety and valour of your Order than of our friendship; and we on our
+  part, on opportunity presenting itself, will be careful to abundantly
+  reciprocate by every kind of good offices.</p>
+
+  <p>It remains to recommend your eminence and the whole of your holy Order
+  militant to the safeguard of the God of Hosts.</p>
+
+  <p>Given from our palace of Whitehall the 19th day of May, 1675.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,</p>
+      <p class="i8"><span class="sc">Charles Rex</span>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p class="cenhead">No. XIV.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France,
+  and Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of
+  the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and
+  friend&mdash;Greeting:</p>
+
+  <p>Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.</p>
+
+  <p>We know not how it came to pass that our admiral in the Mediterranean
+  sea, Sir John Narbrough, knight, should have given such cause of
+  complaint as mentioned in your eminence's letters addressed to us under
+  date of the 5th of April, as to have refused to give the usual salute to
+  the city <!-- Page 444 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page444"></a>{444}</span>of Malta, unless, perhaps, he had thought
+  something had been omitted on the part of the Maltese which he considered
+  due to our dignity, and to the flag of our royal fleet. Be it, however,
+  as it may, your eminence may be persuaded that it is our fixed and
+  established intention to do and perform everything both ourselves and by
+  our officers amply to show how much we esteem the sacred person of your
+  eminence and the Order of Malta.</p>
+
+  <p>In order, therefore, that it should already appear that we do not wish
+  greater honour to be paid to any prince than to your eminence and to your
+  celebrate Order, we have directed our above-mentioned admiral to accord
+  all the same signs of friendship and good will towards your eminence's
+  ports and citadels as towards those of the most Christian and catholic
+  kings; and we no way doubt your Order will equally show that benevolence
+  towards us which it is customary to show to the above-mentioned kings, or
+  to either of them.</p>
+
+  <p>It only remains to us to heartily recommend your eminence and all your
+  military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.</p>
+
+  <p>Given from our palace of Whitehall on the 21st day of June, 1675.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,</p>
+      <p class="i8"><span class="sc">Charles Rex</span>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p class="cenhead">No. XV.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France,
+  and Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>To the most eminent prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of
+  the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and
+  friend&mdash;Greeting:</p>
+
+  <p>Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.</p>
+
+  <p>Not only by the letters of Sir John Narbrough, knight, whom we
+  appointed in right and power to be the admiral of our fleet in the
+  Mediterranean sea, but also from other sources, we have heard how
+  benignantly your eminence, both by command and example, and all the
+  sacred Order of Malta, have treated him and the other commanders of our
+  ships, so much so that they could not have been better at home, and in
+  our dockyards, than in your port of Malta. This is, indeed, a sign of
+  great friendship, and the more so that our kingdoms and seas are so far
+  distant from the usual navigation of the sacred Order of Malta, that few
+  occasions could be expected to offer themselves to us of reciprocating
+  the friendship of your eminence. Some other mode, therefore, must be
+  sought by which we may testify our gratitude and affection towards your
+  eminence and the other members of your most sacred Order, to do which we
+  shall willingly embrace and studiously search after every opportunity
+  which may offer.</p>
+
+  <p>In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence and all your
+  military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.</p>
+
+  <p>Given from our palace of Whitehall the 26th day of January,
+  1675-6.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,</p>
+      <p class="i8"><span class="sc">Charles Rex</span>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p class="cenhead">No. XVI.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Greet   Britain, France,
+  and Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of
+  the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend.</p>
+
+  <p>Most eminent Prince, our most dear cousin and friend.</p>
+
+  <p>Our well-beloved and faithful Sir John Narbrough, knight, latterly
+  admiral of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea, conveyed to us your
+  eminence's letters written under date of the 7th of April last, which
+  being most full indeed of affection and gratitude on your part, we
+  received and perused with equal feelings and satisfaction. The
+  acknowledgments of benefits conferred by us, which your eminence so
+  frequently expresses, causes us also to return similar thanks to your
+  eminence and to the whole of your sacred Order, for all those offices of
+  humanity and courtesy with which you assisted our above-mentioned admiral
+  and other our ships stationed in that sea, of which we shall always
+  preserve the memory indelibly engraved in our hearts. It is equally a
+  source of pleasure to us that our arms have been of help to your eminence
+  and to your Order; and if the expedition had been of no other benefit, we
+  consider it ample compensation in having restored to their homes so many
+  persons celebrated through the whole Christian and Infidel world who were
+  recovered from the power and chains of the barbarians.</p>
+
+  <p>May your eminence continue to desire that we should freely divide the
+  glory of rendering peaceful the Mediterranean sea with the illustrious
+  Order of Malta!</p>
+
+  <p>May the Most Good and Great God sustain and preserve your eminence
+  with all your religious Order!</p>
+
+  <p>Given from our palace of Whitehall the 28th day of October, 1676.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,</p>
+      <p class="i8"><span class="sc">Charles Rex</span>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p class="cenhead">No. XVII.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France,
+  and Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &amp;c.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of
+  the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and
+  friend&mdash;Greeting:</p>
+
+  <p>Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.</p>
+
+  <p>The thanks which your eminence, by your <!-- Page 445 --><span
+  class="pagenum"><a name="page445"></a>{445}</span>letters written under
+  date of the 15th of August last, returns to us on account of the fifty
+  knights of your Order liberated by our assistance from the slavery of the
+  barbarians, could hardly be more acceptable to us than the prayers
+  adjoined in the above-mentioned letters for the liberation from the
+  slavery of the Algerines of another member of your holy Order, the
+  German, John Robert A. Stael. We in consequence, in order that we my not
+  appear to be wanting either in the will or in affection towards your
+  eminence, have communicated our orders to our well-beloved and faithful
+  subject, Sir John Narbrough, knight, commanding our fleet in those seas,
+  that if the city of Algiers should be constrained to agree to a treaty of
+  just peace and submission by the force of our arms, assisted by Divine
+  help, he should use every effort in his power, so that the liberty of the
+  said John Robert A. Stael be obtained.</p>
+
+  <p>Your eminence is already well aware of the fidelity and zeal of our
+  above-mentioned admiral, and we have no doubt that he will willingly and
+  strenuously observe our orders on that head.</p>
+
+  <p>It remains for us to heartily recommend your eminence and the whole of
+  your military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good
+  God.</p>
+
+  <p>Given from our palace of Whitehall the 2nd day of November, in the
+  year of our Lord 1678.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,</p>
+      <p class="i8"><span class="sc">Charles Rex</span>.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">William Winthrop.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">La Valetta, Malta.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.</h3>
+
+  <p>For some years past, a great many cattle have died from a disease of
+  the lungs, for which I believe no effectual antidote has been discovered.
+  This fact having been mentioned to a German in London, who had formerly
+  been a <i>Rossarzt</i> or veterinary surgeon in the Prussian army, he
+  stated that he had known a similar disease to prevail in Germany; and
+  that by administering a decoction of <i>Erica communis</i> (Common
+  Heath), mixed with tar, the progress of the disease had in many instances
+  been arrested.</p>
+
+  <p>In order, therefore, that the British farmer may obtain the benefit of
+  this gentleman's experience, and that he may receive all manner of
+  justice, I beg leave to send you a literal copy of the recipe which he
+  was kind enough to give <i>pro bono publico</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">"REMEDY AGAINST THE PRESENT DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Taken Erika communis, and boiled it into water of such quantity, that
+  the water after boiling coloured like beer; generally of a pinte of water
+  ¼&mdash;½ lb. Erika communis, and boiling 5 to 6 hours. After it is be
+  done, filled the fluids trough a seive in ather boiler, and mixed the
+  same with 1/20 part of common tear. In order to make a good composition
+  from it, you must boiling the tear and the fluide to a second time of
+  2&mdash;3 hour's and much storret. After then the medecin is to by
+  ready.</p>
+
+  <p>"Everry cattle sicke or well must you giving of three times to day,
+  everry time one pot from the said mixture, which you have befor keapet a
+  little warm but not to much heat. Keepet werry much from the fluide of
+  Erika communis not mixed with tear, and give to drinke the cattle a much
+  as possible. Everry cattle liked to drinke such fluide.</p>
+
+  <p>"Becom's the tongue stick, black pumpels, or becom's the mouth and
+  palatt red and sort, washe it out with a softe brush deyed in a mixture
+  as follow described: One part of hony, 3 parts of vinaigre, 3 parts of
+  water, and one half part of burned and grinded allumn.</p>
+
+  <p>"Becom's the cattle in the legs, generally in the klawes, washed the
+  sores with cold water, that you mixed 1 once white vitriol, and 1 once
+  burned allumn of a pint of water, 3&mdash;4 times to day, and keepet the
+  cattle everry time day's and night's in the open air of meadows or lots.
+  Everry cattle become's in the first time that it is driven out the
+  stables to the green feeding of meadow's, &amp;c. a little sickness,
+  generally a little diarrhae, and this is a remedy against the disease as
+  before stated.</p>
+
+  <p>"If you continnuit with the firste remedy, you should findet that the
+  cattle becom's a verry slight influence of the said disease."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Thos. Nimmo.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>POPIANA.</h3>
+
+  <p>I. In Roscoe's edition of <i>Pope</i>, vol. iv. p.&nbsp;465., is this
+  epitaph:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Well then, poor G&mdash;&mdash; lies underground,</p>
+      <p class="i1">So there's an end of honest Jack:</p>
+      <p>So little justice here he found,</p>
+      <p class="i1hg1">'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>This must have been running in Goldsmith's heed when he wrote:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Who long was a bookseller's hack:</p>
+      <p>He led such a damnable life in this world,</p>
+      <p class="i1">I don't think he'll wish to come back."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>II. Epigram on the feuds between Handel and Bononcini:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Strange! all this difference should be,</p>
+      <p class="hg1">'Twixt Tweedle-<span class="scac">DUM</span> and Tweedle-<span class="scac">DEE</span>!"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>The various editors print only these two lines. Where have I seen it
+  printed as follows, in <i>six</i> lines; and whence came the other
+  four?<a name="footnotetag3" href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a></p>
+
+<p><!-- Page 446 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page446"></a>{446}</span></p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Some say, that Signior Bononcini</p>
+      <p>Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;</p>
+      <p>Others aver, that to him Handel</p>
+      <p>Is scarcely fit to hold a candle:</p>
+      <p>Strange that," &amp;c.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>III. In "N. &amp; Q.," Vol. i., p.&nbsp;245., the following passage
+  occurs:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"In the Imitation of the <i>Second Satire, Book I.</i> of Horace,
+  <i>only to be found in modern editions</i>, there is an allusion to 'poor
+  E&mdash;&mdash;s,' who suffered by 'the fatal steel' for an intrigue with
+  a Royal Mistress."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Query, in <i>what</i> modern editions is this imitation found? I have
+  searched most of them (including the last, and by no means the worst, by
+  Mr. Robert Carruthers) in vain.</p>
+
+  <p>IV. It has always seemed to me desirable that a perfect edition of an
+  author like Pope, whose pages teem with proper names frequently repeated,
+  and personal allusions, should be furnished with an Index <i>nominum
+  propriorum</i>, which would enable the reader to refer in a moment to the
+  exact whereabouts of the line wanted. I once took the trouble to make
+  such an Index to Pope for my own use, and add one word of it as a
+  specimen:</p>
+
+<table class="nobctr" summary="Index to Pope." title="Index to Pope.">
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville's moving lays </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> <i>Past.</i> i. </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 46</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville commands, &amp;c. </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> <i>Wind. For.</i> </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 5</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville could refuse to sing,
+   what Muse for </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:center"> " </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 6</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville sings, or is it </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:center"> " </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 282</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville of a former age, Surrey
+   the </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:center"> " </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 292</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville's verse recite, the
+   thoughts of God let </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:center"> " </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 425</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville's Myra die, till </td><td class="nspcsingle"> <i>Epist. to Jervas</i> </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 76</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="nspcsingle"> Granville the polite </td><td class="nspcsingle"> <i>Prol. to Sat.</i> </td><td class="nspcsingle" style="text-align:right"> 135</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+  <p>Is this a hint worthy the notice of Mr. Croker, Mr. P. Cunningham, or
+  Mr. John Murray, whose joint labours promise us a new edition of
+  Pope?</p>
+
+  <p>V. Roscoe and Croly give <i>four</i> poems on <i>Gulliver's
+  Travels</i>. Why does Mr. Carruthers leave out the <i>third</i>? His
+  edition appears to contain (besides many additions) all that all previous
+  editors have admitted, with the exception of this <i>third</i> Gulliver
+  poem, the sixteen additional verses to Mrs. Blount on leaving town, the
+  verses to Dr. Bolton, and a fragment of eight lines (perhaps by
+  Congreve); which last three are to be found in Warton's edition.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Harry Leroy Temple.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Garrick Club.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote3"></a><b>Footnote 3:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag3">(return)</a>
+  <p>These lines are quoted in the fourth edition of the <i>Ency.
+  Britan.</i>, art. <span class="sc">Bononcini</span>, and are said to have
+  been written by Swift. Only the last two lines, however, are given in
+  Scott's edition of his <i>Works</i>.&mdash;<span
+  class="sc">Ed.</span></p>
+
+</div>
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>HAMPSHIRE FOLK LORE.</h3>
+
+  <p><i>Churching.</i>&mdash;A woman in this village, when going to church
+  for the first time after the birth of her child, keeps to the same side
+  of the road, and no persuasions or threats would induce her to cross it.
+  She wears also upon that occasion a pair of new boots or shoes, so that
+  the mothers of large families patronise greatly the disciples of St.
+  Crispin. I should much like to know if this twofold superstition is
+  prevalent, and how it first originated.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Bees.</i>&mdash;There is not one peasant I believe in this village,
+  man or woman, who would sell you a swarm of bees. To be guilty of selling
+  bees is a grievous omen indeed, than which nothing can be more dreadful.
+  To barter bees is quite a different matter. If you want a hive, you may
+  easily obtain it in lieu of a small pig, or some other equivalent. There
+  may seem little difference in the eyes of enlightened persons between
+  selling, and bartering, but the superstitious beekeeper sees a grand
+  distinction, and it is not his fault if you don't see it too.</p>
+
+  <p>When a hive swarms, it is customary to take the shovel from the grate,
+  and the key from the door, and to produce therewith a species of music
+  which is supposed to captivate and soothe the winged tribe. If the bees
+  do not settle on any neighbouring tree where they may have the full
+  benefit of the inharmonious music, they are generally assailed with
+  stones. This is a strange sort of proceeding, but it is orthodox, and
+  there is nothing the villagers despise more than modern innovations of
+  whatever kind.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Charming.</i>&mdash;As regards charming, the wife of the village
+  innkeeper who preceded the present one (she now rests in the churchyard),
+  used to whisper away burns. Her form of words, if she had any, is
+  unknown. The mind has great influence upon the body, and the doctor knows
+  it, or he would not give his nervous lady patients so many boxes of bread
+  pills, and sleeping draughts in the shape of vials filled with savoury
+  rum-punch. Doubtless this good woman cured her patients by acting on
+  their imaginations. If the agency of imagination is an incorrect
+  supposition, I see but one way of accounting for the curative powers of
+  whispering, namely, by means of animal magnetism. I trust your medical
+  readers do not question the curative powers of animal magnetism in
+  certain cases; if they do, I would recommend them to read a work entitled
+  <i>Human Magnetism, its Claim to Dispassionate Inquiry</i>, by W.
+  Newnham, Esq., M.R.S.L. It is published by John Churchill, Princes
+  Street, Soho.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Eustace W. Jacob.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Crawley.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD.</h3>
+
+  <p>The following account of this truly wonderful specimen of human
+  patience and skill is from a rough copy that I took some years ago. I
+  regret that I cannot give any reference, as I made no note of my
+  authority, which has now escaped my <!-- Page 447 --><span
+  class="pagenum"><a name="page447"></a>{447}</span>recollection. But that
+  is of little consequence, as the book is well known to
+  bibliographists.</p>
+
+  <p>Perhaps the most singular bibliographic curiosity is that which
+  belonged to the family of the Prince de Ligne, and is now in France. It
+  is entitled <i>Liber Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, cum
+  Characteribus nulla materia compositis</i>. This book is neither written
+  nor printed! The whole letters of the text are cut out of each folio upon
+  the finest vellum; and being interleaved with blue paper, is read as
+  easily as the best print. The labour and patience bestowed in its
+  completion must have been excessive, especially when the precision and
+  minuteness of the letters are considered. The general execution, in every
+  respect, is indeed admirable; and the vellum is of the most delicate and
+  costly kind. Rodolphus II. of Germany offered for it, in 1640, 11,000
+  ducats, which was probably equal to 60,000 at this day. The most
+  remarkable circumstance connected with this literary treasure is, that it
+  bears the royal arms of England; but it cannot be traced to have ever
+  been in this country.</p>
+
+  <p>I now offer this notice, in the hope that the readers of "N. &amp; Q."
+  may supply farther particulars; such as the time of its commencement or
+  completion, and also whether it is still in France. With respect to the
+  arms of England, which yet present a puzzle to all antiquaries, I beg to
+  submit a conjecture. I think it was intended as a present to our Henry
+  VIII., when he was in such high favour at Rome, for his <i>Defence of the
+  Seven Sacraments</i>, that Leo X. conferred on him the title of "Fidei
+  Defensor," and which all our sovereigns have subsequently retained. But
+  when he threw off the Papal authority, declared himself supreme head of
+  the Church, and proceeded to confiscate its property, the intention of
+  presentation was abandoned. This is at least plausible, as I do not mean
+  that it was <i>originally</i> designed for a present to "bluff Harry,"
+  because it was produced before he was born. But the arms were a work for
+  any time; and I think they were executed just before his rupture with the
+  Pope was known. To pay him a compliment afterwards from any part of
+  Catholic Europe was, of course, out of the question.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">C. B. A.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Minor Notes.</h2>
+
+  <p><i>Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III.</i>&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Died at his palace at Lambeth, aged seventy-five, the Most Reverend
+  Thomas Secker, LL.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was many
+  years Prebendary of Durham, seventeen years Rector of St. James',
+  Westminster, consecrated Bishop of Bristol in 1734, and in 1737 was
+  translated to the See of Oxford. In 1750 he resigned the Rectory of St.
+  James, on his succeeding Bishop Butler in the Deanery of St. Paul's; and
+  on the death of Archbishop Hutton in 1758, was immediately nominated to
+  the metropolitan see, and confirmed at Bow Church, on the 20th of April
+  in that year, Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was Rector of St.
+  James's when our present sovereign was born at Norfolk House, and had the
+  honour to baptize, to marry, and crown his majesty and his royal consort,
+  and to baptize several of their majesties' children."&mdash;From
+  <i>Pennsylvania Chronicle</i>, Oct. 3, 1768.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author">M. R. F.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Pennsylvania.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Copernicus.</i>&mdash;The inscription on the tomb of the celebrated
+  Copernicus, in the cathedral church at Thorn, in Prussian Poland,
+  supposed to have been written by himself, deserves a place in "N. &amp;
+  Q."</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Non parem <i>Pauli</i> gratiam requiro,</p>
+      <p>Veniam <i>Petri</i> neque posco; sed quam</p>
+      <p>In crucis ligno dederat Latroni</p>
+      <p class="i5">Sedulus oro."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Fitzroy.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>First Instance of Bribery amongst Members of
+  Parliament.</i>&mdash;The following extract from Parry's <i>Parliaments
+  and Councils of England</i>, deserves, I think, a corner in "N. &amp;
+  Q.," especially at the present day:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"1571, A. R. 13, May 10.&mdash;Thomas Long, 'a very simple man and
+  unfit' to serve, is questioned how he came to be elected. He confesses
+  that he gave the Mayor of Westbury and another four pounds for his place
+  in parliament. They are ordered to repay this sum, to appear to answer
+  such things as should be objected against them in that house, and a fine
+  of twenty pounds is to be assessed on the corporation and inhabitants of
+  Westbury, for their scandalous attempt."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Abhba.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Richard Brinsley Sheridan.</i>&mdash;In the "Life of Sheridan," by
+  G.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;S., prefixed to his <i>Dramatic Works</i>, published by Bohn in
+  1848, is the following passage (p. 90.):</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"At the age of twenty-nine he had achieved a brilliant reputation,
+  <i>had gained an immense property</i>, and was apparently master of large
+  resources."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>And in an essay lately published, entitled <i>Richard Brinsley
+  Sheridan</i>, by George Gilfillan, is this statement:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Young Sheridan had no patrimony, <i>not a shilling</i>, indeed,
+  <i>all his life that he could call his own</i>."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Which of these two contradictory accounts is true?</p>
+
+  <p>In the <i>Life</i> by G.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;S. are two glaring slips of the pen or of
+  the press; at p.&nbsp;8. it is said that Sheridan was born in the year 1771
+  (1751?), and at p.&nbsp;44. that <i>The Duenna</i> was brought out on the 21st
+  of November, 1755 (1775?).</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">William Duane.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p>
+
+<p><!-- Page 448 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page448"></a>{448}</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Publican's Invitation.</i>&mdash;Amongst various other ingenious
+  contrivances adopted by the proprietors of the <i>rosoglio</i> houses
+  (anglicè, dram-shops) in Valetta, to attract the custom and patronage of
+  the gallant red-jackets that swarm in our streets at this time, one
+  individual has put forth and distributed among the soldiers the following
+  puzzle, which I send for the amusement of your readers. A very little
+  study will suffice to master the mysterious document.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i1"><span class="scac">"THE PUBLICAN'S INVITATION.</span></p>
+      <p>Here's to Pand's Pen. DASOCI.</p>
+      <p>Alhou Rinha? R. M. (Les Smirt)</p>
+      <p>Ha! N. D. F. Unlet fri. Ends.</p>
+      <p>HIPRE! ign. Beju! Standk.</p>
+      <p>Indan! <span class="sc">Devil's Peako!</span> F. N.</p>
+      <p>(One.)"</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">John o' the Ford.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Malta.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Bishop Burnet again!</i>&mdash;The following anecdote occurs in
+  Mrs. Thistlethwaite's <i>Memoirs and Correspondence of Dr. Henry
+  Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich</i>, p.&nbsp;7.:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"I have heard my father mention the following anecdote of my
+  grandfather, Benjamin Bathurst, Esq., and the Duke of Gloucester (Queen
+  Anne's son), during their boyhood. My grandfather and the Duke were
+  playfellows; and the Duke's tutor was Dr. Burnet. One day, when the
+  Doctor went out of the room, the Duke having as usual courted him, and
+  treated him with obsequious civility, young Bathurst expressed his
+  surprise that his Royal Highness should treat a person, whom he disliked
+  as much as he did the Doctor, with so much courtesy and kindness. The
+  Duke replied, 'Do you think I have been so long a pupil of Dr. Burnet's
+  without learning to be a hypocrite?'"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author">J. Y.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Old Custom preserved in Warwickshire.</i>&mdash;There is a large
+  stone a few miles from Dunchurch, in Warwickshire, called "The Knightlow
+  Cross." Several of Lord John Scott's tenants hold from him on the
+  condition of laying their rent before daybreak on Martinmas Day on this
+  stone: if they fail to do so, they forfeit to him as many pounds as they
+  owe pence, or as many white bulls with red tips to their ears and a red
+  tip to their tail as they owe pence, whichever he chooses to demand. This
+  custom is still kept up, and there is always hard riding to reach the
+  stone before the sun rises on Martinmas Day?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">L. M. M. R.</p>
+
+  <p><i>English Diplomacy</i> v. <i>Russian</i>.&mdash;A friend of Sir
+  Henry Wotton's being designed for the employment of an ambassador, came
+  to Eton, and requested from him some experimental rules for his prudent
+  and safe carriage in his negociations; to whom he smilingly gave this for
+  an infallible aphorism,&mdash;that, to be in safety himself, and
+  serviceable to his country, he should always, and upon all occasions,
+  speak the truth (it seems a state paradox). "For," says Sir Henry Wotton,
+  "<i>you shall never be believed</i>; and by this means your truth will
+  secure yourself, if you shall ever be called to any account; and 'twill
+  also put your adversaries (who will still hunt counter) to a loss in all
+  their disquisitions and undertakings." (<i>Reliquiæ Wottonianæ</i>.)</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Alpha.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Queries.</h2>
+
+<h3>ANCIENT TENURE OF LANDS.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ix., pp. 173. 309.)</p>
+
+  <p>The following paragraphs, containing both Notes and Queries, will
+  doubtless interest your readers</p>
+
+  <p>At the last Kent assizes held at Maidstone (March, 1854) a case was
+  tried by a special jury, of whom the writer was one, before Mr. Baron
+  Parke; plaintiffs, "the Earl of Romney and others," trustees under an act
+  of parliament to pay the debts of the borough of Queenborough, county
+  Kent; defendants, "the Inclosure Commissioners of England and Wales."
+  Tradition relates that Edward III. was so pleased with his construction
+  of the Castle of Queenborough, that he complimented his consort by not
+  only building a town, but creating a borough<a name="footnotetag4"
+  href="#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a>, which he named after her honour.<a
+  name="footnotetag5" href="#footnote5"><sup>[5]</sup></a> The case, in
+  various shapes, has been before the law courts for some time, and was
+  sent to these Kent assizes to ascertain whether Queenborough was either a
+  manor or a reputed manor. In the course of the trial Baron Parke said,
+  that, in despite of the statute <i>Quia Emptores</i>, he should rule that
+  manors could be created when they contained the essentials.</p>
+
+  <p>My first Query is, therefore, Have any manors been created in England
+  since the passing of that statute? In my <i>History of Deptford</i> I
+  have alluded to the manor of Hatcham as one of the last manors I supposed
+  to have been created.</p>
+
+  <p>The Inclosure Commissioners, as the defendants, had been prayed by the
+  Leeze-holders<a name="footnotetag6" href="#footnote6"><sup>[6]</sup></a>
+  of <!-- Page 449 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page449"></a>{449}</span>Queenborough to inclose sundry lands
+  called Queenborough Common; such inclosure was opposed by the trustees,
+  who claimed under the act of parliament which constituted their existence
+  to be in the position of the mayor<a name="footnotetag7"
+  href="#footnote7"><sup>[7]</sup></a>, &amp;c., and thus, if they were the
+  lords of the manor, to have a veto upon the inclosure of the waste. The
+  plaintiffs relied very much upon the following fact, which I here embalm
+  as a <i>note</i>, and append thereon a <i>query</i>:&mdash;During the
+  Mayoralty of Mr. Greet<a name="footnotetag8"
+  href="#footnote8"><sup>[8]</sup></a>, a gentleman who died in 1829, a
+  turbot was caught by a dredger on the Queenborough oyster-grounds: this
+  unlucky fish was immediately pounced upon by the Queenborough officials,
+  and seized for the mayor's behoof as his perquisite, <i>à la</i>
+  sturgeon.</p>
+
+  <p>Query, a like instance?</p>
+
+  <p>The Jury, after two days' long sitting, decided that Queenborough was
+  neither a manor nor a reputed manor.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">A. J. Dunkin.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Dartford.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote4"></a><b>Footnote 4:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag4">(return)</a>
+  <p><i>Parliamentary History</i>, 1765.&mdash;On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1654,
+  an attempt was made to disfranchise Queenborough: the then member, Mr.
+  Garland, suddenly and jocularly moved the Speaker that we give not any
+  legacies before the Speaker was dead. This pleasant conceit so took with
+  the House, as, for that time, Queenborough was reprieved, but was voted
+  for the future to be dismembered, and to be added to the
+  county.&mdash;Ap. Burton i. cxi. <i>Archæological Mine</i>, i. 12.
+  Queenborough was one of the victims included in Schedule A of the act of
+  parliament known as "The Reform Bill."</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote5"></a><b>Footnote 5:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag5">(return)</a>
+  <p>In our own day Cove has been called Queenstown in honour of Queen
+  Victoria.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote6"></a><b>Footnote 6:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag6">(return)</a>
+  <p><i>Leeze-holders</i>, a right of turning on the coming or Leeze
+  (<i>Celtic</i>, Leswes) twenty-four sheep, which of late years, by a
+  bye-law, has been arranged to substitute either two horses or three
+  bullocks. A Leeze is supposed to contain about seven acres of land of
+  herbage. The common consists of about 240 acres, including roads.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote7"></a><b>Footnote 7:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag7">(return)</a>
+  <p>See Hogarth's Visit, &amp;c. to Queenborough. A hearty laugh will
+  repay the trouble. The mayor was then a thatcher: the room remains as it
+  did in Hogarth's day; and as Queenborough was then, so it is now, one
+  long street without any trade.</p>
+
+  <a name="footnote8"></a><b>Footnote 8:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag8">(return)</a>
+  <p>Of Mr. Greet's mayoralty many humorous tales are told: he was at times
+  popular, but towards the close of his reign most decidedly the reverse.
+  At his funeral the dredgers, &amp;c. threw halfpence into his grave to
+  pay his passage to the lower regions. He, one day, <i>ex officio</i>,
+  sentenced a pilferer to a flogging at the cart's tail, and as
+  executioners did not volunteer, he took off his coat, and himself applied
+  the cat to the bare back of the culprit from one end of the street to the
+  other. Mr. Greet was one of the best friends Queenborough ever had. After
+  his death it plunged deeply into debt, had its paraphernalia and books
+  seized and sold by the sheriff, and now all its property is in the hands
+  of trustees to pay its debts, whilst its poor-rates are, a witness, a
+  late mayor said, nine shillings in the pound. The debt was originally
+  12,700<i>l.</i>; but as no interest has been paid thereon, it is now
+  17,000<i>l.</i> The trustees have received about 4,000<i>l</i>., but this
+  sum has been melted in subsequent litigation; for Queenborough men are
+  mightily fond of supporting the law courts.</p>
+
+</div>
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>OWEN ROWE THE REGICIDE.</h3>
+
+  <p>Mark Noble, in his <i>Lives of the Regicides</i>, says that Owen Rowe
+  was descended from Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London in 1568. In the
+  Additional Manuscripts (British Museum), 6337. p.&nbsp;52., is a coat in
+  trick: Argent, on a chevron azure, three bezants between three trefoils
+  per pale gules and vert, a martlet sable for difference; crest, a roe's
+  head couped gules, attired or, rising from a wreath; and beneath is
+  written, "Coll. Row, Coll. of hors and futt." These arms I imagine to
+  have been the regicide's. If so, he was a fourth son. Query, whose? The
+  Hackney Parish Register records, that on Nov. 6, 1655, Captain Henry Rowe
+  was buried from Mr. Simon Corbet's, of Mare Street, Hackney. How was he
+  related to Colonel Owen Rowe? I should feel particularly obliged to any
+  correspondent who could furnish me with his descent from Sir Thos.
+  Rowe.</p>
+
+  <p>According to Mr. Lysons (<i>Environs of London</i>, vol. iv. p.&nbsp;540.),
+  the daughter of Mr. Rowland Wilson, and widow of Dr. Crisp, married
+  Colonel Rowe; adding in a note, that he <i>supposes</i> this Colonel Rowe
+  to have been Colonel Owen Rowe, the regicide. The same statement is found
+  in Hasted's <i>History of Kent</i> (edit. 1778), vol. i. p.&nbsp;181. I should
+  be glad of some more certain information on this point; also, what issue
+  Owen Rowe left, if any, besides two daughters, whose marriages are
+  recorded in the Hackney Register.</p>
+
+  <p>I am likewise anxious to learn whether there exist any lineal
+  descendants of this family of Rowe, which had its origin in Kent; and
+  thence branching off in the sixteenth century, settled and obtained large
+  possessions in Shacklewell, Walthamstow, Low Layton, Higham Hill, and
+  Muswell Hill. Through females, several of our nobility are descended from
+  them.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Tee Bee.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>WRITINGS OF THE MARTYR BRADFORD.</h3>
+
+  <p>The second and concluding volume of Bradford's writings, which I am
+  editing for the Parker Society, is about to be concluded.</p>
+
+  <p>Bradford's <i>Treatise against the Fear of Death, with Sweet
+  Meditations on the Felicity of the Life to Come and the Kingdom of
+  Christ</i>, was printed by Powell without a date, by Singleton without a
+  date, and by Wolf 1583,&mdash;the last two editions being mentioned by
+  Herbert, the first of Powell by Dibdin from Herbert's MS. additions. If
+  any of your readers could inform me where a copy of any one of these
+  editions is to be found, it would greatly oblige.</p>
+
+  <p>I have also never met, after some years' inquiry, with the edition of
+  Bradford's <i>Letter on the Mass</i>, printed by Waldegrave,
+  Edinburgh.</p>
+
+  <p>Some of the early editions of Bradford's writings are very rare. I
+  possess his <i>Examinations</i>, Griffith, 1561; and <i>Meditations</i>,
+  Hall, 1562; both of which are scarce: as also the only copy I have ever
+  seen (though imperfect) of the first edition of his <i>Sermon on
+  Repentance</i>, evidently printed in 1553.</p>
+
+  <p>His <i>Complaint of Verity</i> is of extraordinary rarity. The only
+  copy I am aware of is possessed <!-- Page 450 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page450"></a>{450}</span>by the Rev. T. Corser, of Stand,
+  Manchester; and was purchased (I believe) at Mr. Bright's sale for
+  17<i>l.</i></p>
+
+  <p>I should be obliged to any one who would supply me with any
+  information about early editions of Bradford's writings.</p>
+
+  <p>Every one is familiar with the story that Bradford, on seeing a
+  criminal pass to execution, said, "There goes John Bradford but for the
+  grace of God." Can any one inform me of any early printed authority for
+  that story?</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">A. Townsend.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Weston Lane, Bath.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[In the British Museum are the following works by John Bradford, bound
+  in one volume, press-mark 3932, c.:&mdash;<i>The Hvrte of Hering
+  Masse</i>; also Two Notable Sermons, the one of <i>Repentance</i>, and
+  the other of the <i>Lord's Supper</i>, Lond. 1581. On the fly-leaf is
+  written, "A copy of Bradford's <i>Hurte of Hearyng Masse</i>, printed for
+  H. Kirham, 1596, B.&nbsp;L., was in Mr. Jolley's sale, Feb. 1843. This edition
+  by William Copland for William Martyne without date is scarcer, and I
+  believe earlier.&mdash;<span class="sc">R.&nbsp;H. Barham.</span>"]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Minor Queries.</h2>
+
+  <p><i>Courtney Family.</i>&mdash;I throw an apple of discord to your
+  heraldic, genealogical, and antiquarian, readers. Was there originally
+  more than one family of Courtnay, Courtney, Courtenay, Courteney,
+  Courtnaye, Courtenaye, &amp;c. Which is right, and when did the family
+  commence in England, and how branch off? If your readers can give no
+  information, who can?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">S. A.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Oxford.</p>
+
+  <p>"<i>The Shipwrecked Lovers.</i>"&mdash;Can you give me any account of
+  the following tragedy, where the scene of it is laid, &amp;c.? It is
+  printed along with some poems, and appears never to have been acted. The
+  name of the piece is <i>The Shipwrecked Lovers</i>, a tragedy in five
+  acts, by James Templeton, Dublin, 12mo., 1801. I regret that I am unable
+  to give any account of the author, but perhaps some of your Irish readers
+  may be able to do this.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Sigma.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Sir John Bingham.</i>&mdash;In Burke's <i>Peerage and
+  Baronetage</i>, article "Lucan," it is stated that this gentlemen was
+  high in rank in King James's army at the battle of Aughrim, and turned
+  the fortune of the day in favour of William by deserting, with his whole
+  command, at the crisis of the battle. A late number of the <i>Dublin
+  University Magazine</i> repeats this story on the authority of Mr. Burke,
+  and it would therefore be satisfactory to know where the latter found a
+  statement affecting so much the honour of the family in question, one of
+  the first in my native county. The dates of Sir John's birth and marriage
+  are not given, but the ages of several of his children are known, and
+  from them it follows that, supposing the father of the first Lord Lucan
+  not to have married till the mature age of fifty-five or sixty, he was
+  barely of age at the time of the battle, therefore not likely to have
+  been high in command. My countrymen are too much inclined, like the
+  French, to attribute their disasters to treachery, or to any cause but
+  the equal numbers and courage, and superior discipline, of their
+  adversaries: but they have never done so to less purpose than when they
+  ascribe the loss of that battle to a man who was in all probability not
+  born in 1691, and must in any case have been a mere boy at the time. No
+  peerage that I have met with gives the date of his birth, which would at
+  once settle the question. It seems most unlikely, if such were actually
+  the case, that the family, on attaining the peerage, should have revived
+  the title of the gallant Sarsfield (whose representatives they were), and
+  thus challenged public attention, always on the alert on such points in
+  Ireland, to their alleged dishonour and betrayal of the cause for which
+  he fought and fell.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. S. Warden.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Proclamation for making Mustard.</i>&mdash;Did Queen Elizabeth
+  issue a proclamation for "the right of making mustard?" And if so, what
+  was the language of such proclamation?</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">An Admirer.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Judges practicing at the Bar.</i>&mdash;A curious disquisition has
+  run through "N. &amp; Q." on the relinquishment of their sees by bishops,
+  but I do not see that any of them are shown to have officiated as parish
+  priests after quitting the episcopate.</p>
+
+  <p>Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your
+  readers, but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject.</p>
+
+  <p>In Craik's <i>Romance of the Peerage</i> there occurs:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant (<span
+  class="correction" title="Original reads `aftewards' - reference checked."
+  >afterwards</span> Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be
+  first a puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was
+  thence transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and
+  after all ended his days a practitioner at the bar."&mdash;Vol. iv.
+  p.&nbsp;<span class="correction" title="Original reads `29' - reference checked."
+  >291</span>. note.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he
+  was counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced
+  judge, Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686.</p>
+
+  <p>Are these the only two instances of judges, <i>qui olim fuere</i>,
+  practising at the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not
+  the latest, does not etiquette forbid such practice now?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">W. T. M.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Hong Kong.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Celebrated Wagers.</i>&mdash;I should be glad if any correspondent
+  will point out any remarkable <!-- Page 451 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page451"></a>{451}</span>instances of the above. The ordinary
+  channels for obtaining such information I am of course acquainted
+  with.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Clifton Barry.</span></p>
+
+  <p>"<i>Pay me tribute, or else</i>&mdash;&mdash;."&mdash;In Mr. Bunn's
+  late work, <i>Old England and New England</i>, I find this note:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"We all remember the haughty message of the ruler of a certain
+  province to the governor of a neighbouring one, 'Pay me tribute, or
+  else&mdash;&mdash;;' and the appropriate reply, 'I owe you none, and
+  if&mdash;&mdash;.'"</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Not being of the totality reminiscent, may I beg for enlightenment?
+  The anecdote sounds well, and I am therefore curious to know who the
+  governors and what the provinces?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">W. T. M.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Hong Kong.</p>
+
+  <p>"<i>A regular Turk.</i>"&mdash;We often hear of people bad to manage
+  being "regular Turks." When did the phrase originate? Though not a
+  journal for politics, "N. &amp; Q." will no doubt breathe a wish for the
+  present sultan to be, in the approaching warfare, "a regular Turk."</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Prestoniensis.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Benjamin Rush.</i>&mdash;I found the following in an old paper:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Edinburgh, June 14, 1768. Yesterday Benjamin Rush, of the city of
+  Philadelphia, A.&nbsp;M., and Gustavus Richard Brown, of Maryland, were
+  admitted to the honour of a degree of Doctors of Physic, in the
+  university of this place, after having undergone the usual examinations,
+  both private and public. The former of whom was also presented some time
+  before with the freedom of this city."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>The Benjamin Rush here referred to subsequently became quite eminent
+  as a physician. He took an active part in the struggle between the
+  American colonies and the mother country, and was one of the signers of
+  the Declaration of Independence. One of his sons was the American
+  minister to London a few years since.</p>
+
+  <p>Can any of your readers inform me why the freedom of Edinburgh was
+  conferred upon him? In 1768 he could not have been over twenty-five years
+  of age.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Inquirer.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Per Centum Sign.</i>&mdash;Will you kindly inform me why the symbol
+  % means per centum: viz. 5&nbsp;%, 10&nbsp;%, &amp;c.?</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">James Mills.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Burial Service Tradition.</i>&mdash;About forty years ago, a young
+  man hung himself. When his body was taken to the church for interment,
+  the clergymen refused reading the burial service over him; his friends
+  took him to another parish, and the clergyman of that place refused also;
+  they then removed him to an adjoining one, and the clergyman received him
+  and buried him. The last clergyman said, if any friend of the deceased
+  had cut off his right hand, and laid it outside the coffin, no clergyman
+  then could refuse legally receiving and burying the corpse. Query, is
+  this true?</p>
+
+  <p>May I ask your readers for an answer, as it will oblige many friends.
+  The above happened in Derbyshire.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">S. Adams</span>, Curate.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Jean Bart's Descent on Newcastle.</i>&mdash;I find no notice,
+  either in Sykes's <i>Local Records</i>, or in Richardson's <i>Local
+  Historian's Table-book</i>, of the descent made on Newcastle in 1694 by
+  the celebrated Jean Bart, whom the Dutch nicknamed "De Fransch Duyvel."
+  Somewhere or other I have seen it stated that he returned to France with
+  an immense booty. Perhaps some of your north country correspondents can
+  tell us whether any record of his visit exists in the archives of the
+  corporation of Newcastle or elsewhere?</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">William Brockie.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Russell Street, South Shields.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Madame de Staël.</i>&mdash;In <i>Three Months in Northern
+  Germany</i>, p.&nbsp;151., 1817, the following, passage occurs among some
+  corrections of the mistakes of Madame de Staël:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"She knew the language imperfectly, read little, and misrepresented
+  the gossip which she heard, either from carelessness or misunderstanding.
+  When she censures Fichte, who she says had received no provocation from
+  Nicolai, for helping Schlegel to write a dull book against him when he
+  was too old to reply, she must have been ignorant of the fact, that
+  Nicolai lived and wrote many years after the publication; and that,
+  whether provoked or not, it is far from dull."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>I cannot find any mention of this dispute in Madame de Staël's <i>De
+  l'Allemagne</i>, and shall be glad if any of your readers can direct me
+  to the passage in her works, and also to the joint work of Schlegel and
+  Fichte.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">R. A.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Ox. and C. Club.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny.</i>&mdash;I should be extremely
+  obliged to any of your correspondents if they could give me the date of
+  the death of Honoria, daughter and heiress of Edward, Lord Denny, who was
+  married to James Hay, afterwards Earl Carlisle, on the 6th of January,
+  1607. She had issue James, second Earl of Carlisle, who died in 1660. As
+  James Hay, then Baron Hay of Sawley, married his second wife (Lucy,
+  daughter of Henry, Earl of Northumberland) in November 1617, the time of
+  the first Lady Hay's death is fixed between 1607 and 1617.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Augustus Jessopp.</span></p>
+
+  <p>N.B.&mdash;"Bis dat qui cito dat."</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Rectory, Papworth St. Agnes.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Hospital of John of Jerusalem.</i>&mdash;Is there any book or
+  manuscript relating to the proceedings of the Hospital of St. John of
+  Jerusalem in England, <!-- Page 452 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page452"></a>{452}</span>which enters so fully into particulars as
+  to give the names of the members of the society and its officers about
+  the year 1300?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">C. F. K.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Heiress of Haddon Hall.</i>&mdash;Any one who visits Haddon Hall in
+  Derbyshire, the property of the Duke of Rutland, is shown a doorway,
+  through which the heiress to this baronial mansion eloped with (I think)
+  a Cavendish some centuries ago. I have been informed that in a recent
+  restoration of Bakewell Church, which is near Haddon Hall, the vault
+  which contained the remains of this lady and her family was accidentally
+  broken into, and that the bodies of herself, her husband, and some
+  children, were found decapitated, with their heads under their arms;
+  moreover, that in all the coffins there were dice. My informant had read
+  an authenticated account of this curious circumstance, which was drawn up
+  at the time of the discovery, but he could not refer me to it, and it is
+  very possible that either his memory or mind may have failed as to the
+  exact facts. At any rate they are worth embalming, I think, in the pages
+  of "N. &amp; Q." if any correspondent will kindly supply both "chapter
+  and verse."</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Alfred Gatty.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Monteith.</i>&mdash;There is a peculiar style of silver bowl, of
+  about the time of Queen Anne, which is called a Monteith. Why is it so
+  designated? and to what particular use was it generally applied?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">P.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Vandyking.</i>&mdash;In a letter from Secretary Windebanke to the
+  Lord Deputy Wentworth (<i>Strafford Papers</i>, vol. i. p.&nbsp;161.),
+  P.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;S. notices this phrase, "Pardon, I beseech your lordship the
+  over-free censure of your <i>Vandyking</i>." What is the meaning of this
+  term, which P.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;S. does not find in any other writing of the period?
+  Had the <i>costume</i>, so usual in the portraits by Vandyke, become
+  proverbial so early as 1633, the date of Windebanke's letter?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">P. C. S. S.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Hiel the Bethelite.</i>&mdash;What is the meaning of the 34th verse
+  of the 16th chapter of the 1st Book of Kings? In one of Huddlestone's
+  notes to Toland's <i>History of the Druids</i>, he quotes the acts of
+  Hiel the Bethelite, therein mentioned, as an instance of the Druidical
+  Custom of burying a man alive under the foundations of any building which
+  was to be undertaken?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">L. M. M. R.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Earl of Glencairn.</i>&mdash;Could you or any of your readers
+  inform me of any particulars concerning the Earl of Glencairn, who, with
+  a sister, is said to have fled from Scotland about 1700, or rather later,
+  and to have concealed himself in Devonshire, where his sister married,
+  1712, one John Lethbridge, and had issue? Was this sister called Grace?
+  Within late years they were spoken of by the very old inhabitants of
+  Okehampton, Devon, and stories of the coroneted clothes, &amp;c. were
+  current.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Lodbrok.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Willow Bark in Ague.</i>&mdash;I have seen recently some notices of
+  the use of willow bark in ague. Will some kind correspondent inform me
+  and others interested in the subject, where the information is to be
+  found?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">E. C.</p>
+
+  <p><i>"Perturbabantur," &amp;c.</i>&mdash;Can any of your readers give
+  the whole of the poem, of which the first two lines are&mdash;</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"Perturbabantur Constantinopolitani,</p>
+      <p>Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus"?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>These lines are singularly applicable at the present moment.</p>
+
+  <p>I am also desirous of knowing the history of this poem.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">P.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Minor Queries with Answers.</h2>
+
+  <p><i>Seamen's Tickets.</i>&mdash;From an old paper, 1768:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Feb. 8. Died at her house in Chapel Street, near Ratcliff Highway,
+  aged 95, Margaret M&lsquo;Kennow, who kept a lodging-house in that
+  neighbourhood many years, and dealt in seamen's tickets. She is said to
+  have died worth upwards of 6000<i>l.</i>, and just after she expired
+  twenty-nine quarter guineas were found in her mouth."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>What are seamen's tickets?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">W. D. R.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Philadelphia.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[The system of paying seamen with tickets instead of cash caused great
+  discontent during the reign of Charles II., and, from the frequent
+  notices respecting it in Pepys's <i>Diary</i>, seems to have given our
+  Diarist great trouble. On November 30, 1660, he says: "Sir G. Carteret
+  did give us an account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the
+  parliament to try his project of discharging the seamen all at present by
+  ticket, and so promise interest to all men that will lend money upon them
+  at eight per cent. for so long as they are unpaid, whereby he do think to
+  take away the growing debt which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of
+  present money to discharge the seamen." These tickets the poor fellows
+  sold at half price to usurers, mostly Jews; and to so great an extent was
+  the system carried, that in the year 1710 there was a floating debt due
+  to these usurers of ten millions paid by Harley from a fictitious fund
+  formed by the government.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>Bruce, Robert.</i>&mdash;Can you tell me the name of the author of
+  the following little work? It is small, and contains 342 pages, and is
+  entitled:</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>"The Acts and Life of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce, King
+  of Scotland. Wherein also are contained the Martial Deeds of the Valiant
+  Princes Edward Bruce, Sir James Douglas, Earl Thomas Randal, Walter
+  Stewart, and sundry others. To which is added a Glossary, explaining the
+  difficult <!-- Page 453 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page453"></a>{453}</span>Words contained in this Book, and that of
+  Wallace. Glasgow: printed by Mr. A. Carmichael and A. Miller. <span
+  class="scac">MDCCXXXVII.</span>"</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">James P. Bryce.</span></p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[This work is by John Barbour (sometimes written Barber, Barbere, and
+  Barbare), an eminent Scottish metrical historian. It has been said that
+  he received his education at the Abbey of Aberbrothock, where he took
+  orders, and obtained a living near Aberdeen. Dr. Henry supposes Barbour
+  to have become Archdeacon of Aberdeen in 1356. It is probable he died
+  towards the close of 1395. His poem has passed through several editions,
+  and is considered of high historical value. The earlier editions are
+  those of Edinburgh, 1616, 1670, 12mo. In 1790, Pinkerton published "the
+  first genuine edition from a MS. dated 1489, with notes and a Glossary."
+  The best edition, however, is that by Dr. Jamieson, with Notes, and Life
+  of the Author, Edinb. 4to. 1820.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>Coronation Custom.</i>&mdash;At the coronations of Henry IV. and
+  Richard III. a ceremony was performed which seems to indicate some idea
+  of the elective sovereignty in England. The archbishop stood at each of
+  the four corners of the dais in succession, and asked from thence the
+  consent of the assembled Commons (Heylin, <i>Reform.</i>, 1st edit.,
+  p.&nbsp;32.). Did this ever take place at the coronation of English monarchs
+  whose succession was not disputed?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">J. H. B.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[In after times this ceremony seems to be that called "The
+  Recognition." Sandford, speaking of the coronation of James II., says,
+  "The Archbishop of Canterbury standing near the king, on the east side of
+  the theatre, his majesty, attended as before, rose out of his chair, and
+  stood before it, whilst the archbishop, having his face to the east, said
+  as follows: 'Sirs. I here present unto you King James, the rightful
+  inheritor of the crown of this realm; wherefore all ye that are come this
+  day to do your homage, service, and bounden duty, are ye willing to do
+  the same?' From thence the said archbishop, accompanied with the lord
+  keeper, the lord great chamberlain, the lord high constable, and the earl
+  marshal (garter king of arms going before them), proceeded to the south
+  side of the theatre, and repeated the same words; and from thence to the
+  west, and lastly to the north side of the theatre, in like manner: the
+  king standing all this while by his chair of state, toward the east side
+  of the theatre, and turning his face to the several sides of the theatre,
+  at such time as the archbishop at every of them spake to the people. At
+  every of which the people signified their willingness and joy by loud
+  acclamations."]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>William Warner.</i>&mdash;Where can any account be found of Warner
+  the poet, the author of <i>Albion's England</i>?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">I. R. R.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[Some account of William Warner will be found in Wood's <i>Athenæ
+  Oxonienses</i>. vol. i. pp., 765-773. (Bliss); also in Percy's
+  <i>Reliques of Ancient English Poetry</i>, vol. ii. p.&nbsp;261., edit. 1812.
+  From the register of Amwell, in Herts, it appears that he died there
+  March 9, 1608-9, "soddenly in the night in his bedde, without any former
+  complaint or sicknesse;" and that he was "a man of good yeares and honest
+  reputation; by his profession an attorney at the Common
+  Please."&mdash;Scott's <i>Amwell</i>, p.&nbsp;22. note.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p>"<i>Isle of Beauty.</i>"&mdash;Who was the author of "Isle of Beauty?"
+  I always thought Thomas Haynes Bayly, but some say Lord Byron. Not
+  knowing Mrs. Bayly's immediate address, I send this Query. I much regret
+  not asking her when I sent my volume of poems, with view of poor Bayly's
+  Grove, Cheltenham.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">L. M. Thornton.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">14. Philip Street, Bath.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[The "Isle of Beauty" is by Thomas Haynes Bayly, and is given among
+  his <i>Songs, Ballads, and other Poems</i>, edited by his widow, vol. i.
+  p.&nbsp;182. edit. 1844.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>Edmund Lodge.</i>&mdash;Can you give me the date of the death of
+  Edmund Lodge, the herald? I suppose there will be some account of him in
+  the Obituary of the <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, to which I wish to
+  refer. Was he a descendant of the Rev. Edmund Lodge, the predecessor of
+  Dawes in the Mastership of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School at
+  Newcastle-upon-Tyne?</p>
+
+  <p class="author">E. H. A.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[Edmund Lodge died January 16, 1839. An account of him is given in the
+  <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i> for April, 1839, p.&nbsp;433.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+  <p><i>King John.</i>&mdash;Baines, in his <i>History of Liverpool</i>, p.
+  77., says King John "was at Lancaster on the 26th February 1206, and at
+  Chester on the 28th February following." What route did he take from the
+  first to the second-named town, and what was the object of his visit?</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Prestoniensis.</span></p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <p>[Upon reference to the Introduction to the <i>Patent Rolls</i>, it
+  appears that John was at Lancaster from Monday the 21st to Sunday 27th,
+  from Monday 28th to Wednesday 1st March at Chester, on Thursday 2nd at
+  Middlewich, Friday the 3rd at Newcastle-under-Lyne, and from the 4th to
+  the 8th at Milburn.]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Replies.</h2>
+
+<h3>HAS EXECUTION BY HANGING BEEN SURVIVED?</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ix., pp. 174. 280.)</p>
+
+  <p>The copious Notes of your correspondents on this subject have only
+  left the opportunity for a few stray gleanings in the field of their
+  researches, which may, however, not prove uninteresting.</p>
+
+  <p>The compiler of a curious 12mo. (<i>A Memorial for the Learned</i>, by
+  J.&nbsp;D., Gent., London, 1686) records, among "Notable Events in the Reign
+  of Henry VI.," that,&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Soon after the good Duke of Gloucester was secretly murthered, five
+  of his menial servants, viz. Sir Roger Chamberlain, Knt., Middleton,
+  Herber, <!-- Page 454 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page454"></a>{454}</span>Artzis, Esq., and John Needham, Gent.,
+  were condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered; and hanged they were
+  at Tyburn, let down quick, stript naked, marked with a knife to be
+  quartered; and then the Marquess of Suffolk brought their pardon, and
+  delivered it at the place of execution, and so their lives were
+  saved."&mdash;P. 77.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>The following document from the Patent Rolls of the forty-eighth year
+  of the reign of King Henry III. (skin 5.) affords conclusive evidence of
+  the affirmative:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Quia Inetta de Balsham pro receptamento
+  latronum et imposito nuper per considerationem curie nostre suspendio
+  adjudicata, et ab horâ nonâ diei Iune usque post ortum solis diei martis
+  sequen. suspensa, viva evasit, sicut ex testimonio fide dignorum
+  accipimus. Nos, divinæ charitatis intuitu, pardonavimus eidem Inetta
+  sectam pacis nostre que ad nos pertinet pro receptamento predicto, et
+  firmam pacem nostrum ei inde concedimus. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud
+  Cantuar. <span class="scac">XVI</span><sup>o</sup>. die Augusti.</p>
+
+  <p>"Convenit cum recordo <span class="sc">Laur. Halsted</span>, Deput.
+  Algern. May. mil."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Plot, in his <i>Natural History of Staffordshire</i>, p. 292., quotes
+  this pardon, and suggests that possibly</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"She could not be hanged, upon account that the larynx, or upper part
+  of her windpipe, was turned to bone, as Fallopius (<i>Oper.</i>, tom. i.,
+  <i>Obs. Anat.</i>, tract. 6.) tells us he has sometimes found it, which
+  possibly might be so strong, that the weight of her body could not
+  compress it, as it happened in the case of a Swiss, who, as I am told by
+  the Rev. Mr. Obadiah Walker, Master of University College, was attempted
+  to be hanged no less than thirteen times, yet lived notwithstanding, by
+  the benefit of his windpipe, that after his death was found to have
+  turned into a bone; which yet is still wonderful, since the circulation
+  of the blood must be stopt, however, unless his veins and arteries were
+  likewise turned to bone, or the rope not slipt close."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Besides the account of Anne Green, Denham, in the 4th book of his
+  <i>Physico-Theology</i>, quotes the following instance from Rechelin
+  (<i>De Aere et Alim. defect.</i>, cap. vii.),&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Of a certain woman hang'd, and in all appearance dead, who was
+  nevertheless restored to life by a physician accidentally coming in, and
+  ordering a plentiful administration of the spirit of sal ammoniac."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>(See also <i>The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, and the Danger of
+  precipitate Interments and Dissections demonstrated</i>, 12mo., London,
+  1751.)</p>
+
+  <p>A paragraph, stating that Fauntleroy, the notorious forger, had
+  survived his execution, and was living abroad, has more than once gone
+  the round of the newspapers. It is sometimes added that his evidence was
+  required in a Chancery suit,&mdash;absurdly enough, as, if not
+  <i>actually</i>, he was at least <i>legally</i> dead.</p>
+
+  <p>The story of Brodie, executed October, 1788, for an excise robbery at
+  Edinburgh, is probably familiar to most. The self-possession and firmness
+  with which he met his fate was the result of a belief in the possibility
+  of his resuscitation:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"It is a curious fact, that an attempt was made to resuscitate Brodie
+  immediately after the execution. The operator was Degravers, whom Brodie
+  himself had employed. His efforts, however, were utterly abortive. A
+  person who witnessed the scene, accounted for the failure by saying that
+  the hangman, having been bargained with for a short fall, his excess of
+  caution made him shorten the rope too much at first, and when he
+  afterwards lengthened it, he made it too long, which consequently proved
+  fatal to the experiment."&mdash;<i>Curiosities of Biography</i>, 8vo.,
+  Glasgow, 1845.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>There is a powerfully-written story in <i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>,
+  April, 1827, entitled "Le Revenant," in which a resuscitated felon is
+  supposed to describe his feelings and experience. The author, in his
+  motto, makes a sweeping division of mankind:&mdash;"There are but two
+  classes in the world&mdash;those who are <i>hanged</i>, and those who are
+  <i>not hanged</i>; and it has been my lot to belong to the former." Many
+  well-authenticated cases might still be adduced; but enough at least has
+  now probably been said upon the subject, to show the possibility of
+  surviving the tender mercies of Professor Calcraft and his
+  fraternity.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">William Bates.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Birmingham.</p>
+
+  <p>In Atkinson's <i>Medical Bibliography</i>, A. and B., under the head
+  "Bathurst Rodolphus," is the following:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Nuremberg, 4to., 1655. On a maid who recovered after being
+  hanged.</p>
+
+  <p>"This is the remarkable case of Elizabeth Gren, whom Bathurst and Dr.
+  Willis restored after being executed, <i>i. e.</i> hanged, for
+  infanticide. 'Vena incisa refocillata est.'</p>
+
+  <p>"These poor creatures are seldom considered as maids, after being
+  hanged for infanticide. A similar recovery also happened to a man who had
+  been executed for murder at York. My father had the body for public
+  dissection. Whether the law then required the body to be hung for one
+  hour or not, I cannot say; but I well remember my father's observation,
+  that it was a pity the wretch had ever been restored, as his morals were
+  by no means improved. Hanging is therefore by no means a cure for
+  immorality, and it will be needless (in any of us) trying the
+  experiment'&mdash;P. 255.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author">H. J.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Sheffield.</p>
+
+  <p>There is a record of a person being alive immediately after hanging,
+  in the <i>Local Historian's Table-book</i>, vol. ii. pp. 43, 44., and
+  under the date May 23, 1752. It is there stated, Ewan Macdonald, a
+  recruit in General Guise's regiment of <!-- Page 455 --><span
+  class="pagenum"><a name="page455"></a>{455}</span>Highlanders, then
+  quartered in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, murdered a cooper named Parker, and was
+  executed on September 28, pursuant to his sentence. He was only nineteen
+  years of age, and at the gallows endeavoured to throw the executioner off
+  the ladder. The statement concludes with&mdash;"his body was taken to the
+  surgeons' hall and there dissected;" and the following is appended as a
+  foot-note:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"It was said that, after the body was taken to the surgeons' hall, and
+  placed ready for dissection, the surgeons were called to attend a case at
+  the infirmary, who, on their return, found Macdonald so far recovered as
+  to be sitting up. He immediately begged for mercy; but a young surgeon,
+  not wishing to be disappointed of the dissection, seized a wooden mall,
+  with which he deprived him of life. It was farther reported, as the just
+  vengeance of God, that this young man was soon after killed in the stable
+  by his own horse. They used to show a mall at the surgeons' hall, as the
+  identical one used by the surgeon."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Robert S. Salmon.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Newcastle-on-Tyne.</p>
+
+  <p>The case of Anne Green is attested by a <i>third</i> witness:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"In December, 1650, he was one of the persons concerned in recovering
+  Anne Green to life, who was hanged at Oxford on the 14th, for the
+  supposed murther of her bastard child."&mdash;"Memoir of Sir William
+  Petty, Knt.," prefixed to <i>Several Essays on Political Arithmetic</i>,
+  p.&nbsp;3., 4th edit., London, 1755.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Cpl.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>COLERIDGE'S CHRISTABEL.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. vii., pp. 206. 292; Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.)</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Mr. J. S. Warden</span> might well express
+  astonishment at the rash and groundless statement in "Blackwood" (Dec.
+  1839), that the third part of Christabel which Dr. Maginn sent to that
+  magazine in 1820 "perplexed the public, <i>and pleased even
+  Coleridge</i>." How far the "discerning public" were imposed upon I know
+  not; the following extract will show how far the poet-philosopher was
+  "pleased" with the parody.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"If I should finish 'Christabel,' I shall certainly extend it, and
+  give new characters, and a greater number of incidents. This the 'reading
+  public' require, and this is the reason that Sir Walter Scott's poems,
+  though so loosely written, are pleasing, and interest us by their
+  picturesqueness. If a genial recurrence of the ray divine should occur
+  for a few weeks, I shall certainly attempt it. I had the whole of the two
+  cantos in my mind before I began it; certainly the first canto is more
+  perfect, has more of the true wild weird spirit than the last. I laughed
+  heartily at the continuation in 'Blackwood,' which I have been told is by
+  Maginn. It is in appearance, and in appearance <i>only</i>, a good
+  imitation. I do not doubt but that it gave more pleasure, and to a
+  greater number, than a continuation by myself in the spirit of the two
+  first (<i>sic</i>) cantos (<i>qu.</i> would give)."&mdash;<i>Letters,
+  &amp;c.</i>, Moxon, 1836, vol. i. pp. 94-5.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">C. Mansfield Ingleby.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Birmingham.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>GENERAL WHITELOCKE.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">(Vol. ix., p. 201.)</p>
+
+  <p>General Whitelocke being on a visit to Aboyne Castle, in this county,
+  the seat of the late Marquis of Huntley, then Earl of Aboyne, and a
+  public market being held in the neighbourhood, the Earl, the General, and
+  some other visitors, were seen sauntering amongst the cattle and the
+  tents of the fair. Amongst the attenders of the country markets at that
+  period was a woman of the name of Tibby Masson, well known in this city
+  for her masculine character and deeds of fearlessness. Tibby had
+  accompanied her husband, who was a soldier, to South America; and, along
+  with him, had been present at the unfortunate siege of Buenos Ayres; and,
+  as a trophy of her valour, she brought with her an enormous-sized silver
+  watch, which she declared she had taken from the person of a Spanish
+  officer who lay wounded in the neighbourhood of the city after the
+  engagement. Tibby was standing by her "sweetie" (confectionary) stall in
+  the Aboyne Market when the Earl and Whitelocke, and the other gentlemen,
+  were passing, and she at once recognised her old commander. They stopped,
+  and the General tasted some of her "sweeties," and saucily declared that
+  they were abominably bad. Upon which Tibby immediately retorted: "They
+  are a great deal better than the timmer (wooden) flints that you gave our
+  soldiers at Bonny's Airs." On hearing this, the consternation of
+  Whitelocke and his friends can more easily be imagined than described.
+  They all fled from the field with the utmost rapidity, leaving Tibby
+  completely victorious; and the General, so far as is known, never again
+  visited Aberdeenshire.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">B. B.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Aberdeen.</p>
+
+  <p>I have not access to a file of newspapers, but have been frequently
+  told by an old pensioner, who served under General Whitelocke: "We
+  marched into <i>Bowsan Arrys</i> (as he pronounced Buenos Ayres) without
+  ere a flint in our muskets."</p>
+
+  <p class="author">L. G.</p>
+
+  <p>The subjoined charade, which I have seen years ago, is perhaps
+  preferable:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"My first is an emblem of purity,</p>
+      <p>My next against knaves a security;</p>
+      <p class="i1">My whole is a shame</p>
+      <p class="i1">To an Englishman's name</p>
+      <p>And branded will be to futurity."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p><!-- Page 456 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page456"></a>{456}</span></p>
+
+  <p>I have also seen a sort of parody upon the above applied to
+  Waterloo:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"My first, tho' it's clear,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Will oft troubl'd appear,</p>
+      <p>My next's an amusement so clever;</p>
+      <p class="i1">My whole is a name,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Recorded by fame,</p>
+      <p>To the glory of England for ever."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p class="author">M. J. C.</p>
+
+  <p>If the <i>jeu d'esprit</i> on the above name be worthy of
+  preservation, the more correct version of it is as follows:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"My first is the emblem of purity,</p>
+      <p>My second is used for security;</p>
+      <p class="i1">My whole is a name,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Which, if I had the same,</p>
+      <p>I should blush to hand down to futurity."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>The authorship was ascribed (I believe with truth) to a lady of the
+  name of Belson.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">M. (2)</p>
+
+  <p>The following is the correct version:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="hg3">"My first is an emblem of purity,</p>
+      <p>My second the means of security;</p>
+      <p class="i1">My whole is a name,</p>
+      <p class="i1">Which, if mine were the same,</p>
+      <p>I should blush to hand down to futurity."</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p class="author">N. L. J.</p>
+
+  <p>General Whitelocke died at Clifton, in his house in Princes
+  Buildings.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Anon.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.</h3>
+
+  <p><i>Gravelly Wax Negatives.</i>&mdash;The only remedy I am acquainted
+  with is to use the paper within twenty-four hours after excitement. I
+  have tried the methods of Messrs. Crookes, Fenton, and How; in every case
+  I was equally annoyed with gravel, if excited beyond that time; in fact,
+  I believe all the good wax negatives have been taken within twelve hours.
+  The Rev. Wm. Collings, who has produced such excellent wax negatives, 24
+  in. × 18 (several were sent to the late Exhibition of the Photographic
+  Society), informs me the above is quite his experience, and that he
+  excites his papers for the day early in the morning. The cause lies, I
+  believe, in the fault of homogeneity of the waxed paper, arising from
+  unevenness in the structure of the paper exaggerated by the transparency
+  of the wax, partly, perhaps, from a semi-crystallizing of the wax in
+  cooling, and also from its being adulterated with tallow, resin, &amp;c.
+  As a consequence of this, the paper is filled with innumerable hard
+  points; the iodizing and exciting solutions are unequally absorbed, and
+  the actinic influence acting more on the weak points, produces under
+  gallic acid a speckled appearance, if decomposition has gone to any
+  length in the exciting nitrate by keeping. The céroléine process, by its
+  power of penetrating, will, I hope, produce an homogeneous paper, and go
+  far to remove this annoyance.</p>
+
+  <p>In answer to a former Query by <span class="sc">Mr. Hele</span>,
+  Whatman's paper of 1849 is lightly sized, and not hard rolled, so that
+  twenty minutes' washing in repeated water sufficed to remove the iodide
+  of potassium, and if long soaked the paper became porous, often letting
+  the gallic acid through in the development. I have lately been trying
+  Turner's and Sandford's papers; they require three or four hours'
+  repeated washing to get rid of the salts, being very hard rolled. Many
+  negatives on Turner's paper, especially if weak, exhibit a structural
+  appearance like linen, the unequal density gives almost exactly the same
+  gravelly character as wax, as the positive I inclose, taken from such a
+  negative, shows. Not only ought collodion to be "structureless," as <span
+  class="sc">Mr. Shadbolt</span> well expresses it, but likewise all the
+  other substrata of iodide of silver.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">T. L. Mansell.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Guernsey.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Photographic Experience.</i>&mdash;The plan proposed by <span
+  class="sc">Dr. Mansell</span>, in the last Number of "N. &amp; Q.," for
+  comparison of photographic experiences, will, I am sure, prove of much
+  practical advantage and I therefore lose no time in filling up the table
+  published in your paper:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>1. Eight minutes' exposure.</p>
+      <p>2. South Wales.</p>
+      <p>3. Mr. Talbot's original receipt.</p>
+      <p>4. Turner.</p>
+      <p>5. &#x215C; inch.</p>
+      <p>6. 2 inches.</p>
+      <p>7. 3 inches. Focal length, 17 inches. Maker, Ross.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>I would also suggest that the character of the object copied should be
+  included in the above table. My answer supposes a light-coloured
+  building, of an ordinary sandstone colour. A view comprising foliage
+  would require a much longer time for its full development. In working on
+  the sea-coast, I find that the dark slate rocks of north Cornwall require
+  an exposure in the camera half as long again as the blue mountain
+  limestone cliffs of South Wales, which abound in actinic power.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">J. D. Llewelyn.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Pen-ller-gaer.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Replies to Minor Queries.</h2>
+
+  <p><i>Turkish Language</i> (Vol. ix., p. 352.).&mdash;Your correspondent
+  <span class="sc">Hassan</span>, who would much gratify our friends the
+  Turks if he would spell his signature with one <i>s</i> only, will find
+  the object of his inquiry in a little book just published by Clowes,
+  Military Publisher, Charing Cross, <i>Turkish and English Words and
+  Phrases, for the Use of the British Army and Navy in the East</i>, price
+  1<i>s.</i> The pronunciation is given in the Roman character, and
+  according to the plainest English rules.</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Osmanli.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black Sea</i> (Vol. ix.,
+  p.&nbsp;132.).&mdash;A reply respecting these important Charts, and their
+  value, was given by the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House of
+  Commons on March 6, in consequence of an inquiry made by Mr. French. Sir
+  James Graham <!-- Page 457 --><span class="pagenum"><a
+  name="page457"></a>{457}</span>is stated by <i>The Times</i> of the
+  following day to have said on that occasion:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"The Charts alluded to by the hon. gentleman were most valuable, and
+  had been made use of; but subsequent observations, and farther surveys,
+  had in a great measure superseded them at the present time."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Ellum.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Aristotle on living Law</i> (Vol. ix., p. 373).&mdash;Your
+  correspondent H.&nbsp;P. asks where Aristotle says that a judge is a living
+  law, as the law itself is a dumb judge. The first part of this antithesis
+  is in <i>Eth. Nic.</i>, v. 4. § 7.:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"<span title="Ho gar dikastês bouletai einai hoion dikaion empsuchon." class="grk"
+  >&#x1F49; &gamma;&#x1F70;&rho;
+  &delta;&iota;&kappa;&alpha;&sigma;&tau;&#x1F74;&sigmaf;
+  &beta;&omicron;&#x1F7B;&lambda;&epsilon;&tau;&alpha;&iota;
+  &epsilon;&#x1F36;&nu;&alpha;&iota; &omicron;&#x1F37;&omicron;&nu;
+  &delta;&#x1F77;&kappa;&alpha;&iota;&omicron;&nu;
+  &#x1F14;&mu;&psi;&upsilon;&chi;&omicron;&nu;.</span>"</p>
+
+  <p>"The judge wishes to be justice incarnate."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>Your correspondent, however, probably had in his mind the passage of
+  Cicero, <i>de Leg.</i>, iii. 1.:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"Videtis igitur, magistratûs hanc esse vim, ut præsit, præscribatque
+  recte et utilia et conjuncta cum legibus;&mdash;vereque dici, magistratum
+  legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p>The commentators compare an antithetical sentence attributed to
+  Simonides,&mdash;that a picture is a silent poem, and that a poem is a
+  speaking picture.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">L.</p>
+
+  <div class="figright" style="width:10%;">
+      <a href="images/237_045.png"><img style="width:100%" src="images/237_045.png"
+      alt="Cris Cross Row" title="Cris Cross Row" /></a>
+  </div>
+  <p><i>Christ's or Cris Cross Row</i> (Vol. viii., p. 18.).&mdash;The
+  Alphabet. See <i>The Romish Beehive</i>, 319.:</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>"In Bacon's <i>Reliques of Rome</i>, p. 257., describing the hallowing
+  of churches, among other ceremonies is the following: 'There must be made
+  in the pavement of the church a crosse of ashes and sand wherein the
+  whole Alphabet, or Christ's Crosse, shall be written in Greek and Latin
+  letters.'</p>
+
+  <p>"Sir Thos. More, in his Works, p. 606. <span class="scac">H</span>,
+  says, 'Crosse Rowe was printed on cards for learners.' I first went to
+  school at a dame's, and had a Horn-Book (as it was called), in which was
+  the Alphabet in a form something like that here given, and the dame
+  called me and other beginners to learn our 'Cris Cross Row;' at that time
+  the term was used, that is, about seventy years since."</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">Goddard Johnson.</span></p>
+
+  <p><i>Titles to the Psalms in the Syriac Version.</i>&mdash;<span
+  class="sc">Mr. T.&nbsp;J. Buckton</span> (Vol. ix., p. 242.) observes, in
+  reference to the superscription <span lang="he" class="heb"
+  title="LMNTSCH BNGYNT" ><bdo
+  dir="rtl">&#x5DC;&#x5DE;&#x5E0;&#x5E6;&#x5D7;
+  &#x5D1;&#x5E0;&#x5D2;&#x5D9;&#x5E0;&#x5EA;</bdo></span>&#x200E;, "For the
+  chief performer on the neginoth," that "the Syriac and Arabic versions
+  omit this superscription altogether, from <i>ignorance</i> of the musical
+  sense of the words." And lower down he speaks as if <span lang="he"
+  class="heb" title="NCHYLWT" ><bdo
+  dir="rtl">&#x5E0;&#x5D7;&#x5D9;&#x5DC;&#x5D5;&#x5EA;</bdo></span>&#x200E;
+  were expressed in the Syriac by the word "church." I do not question the
+  accuracy of <span class="sc">Mr. B.</span>'s renderings of the Hebrew
+  words, for they have been admitted for centuries; but I wish to observe
+  that the translator of the Syriac should not be lightly charged with
+  ignorance of Hebrew, as I can testify from an extensive acquaintance with
+  that venerable version. I therefore cannot allow that the words were
+  omitted by the translator for that reason. Besides, whenever he found a
+  word untranslateable, he transferred it as it was. Nor do I admit that
+  <i>nehiloth</i>, in Psalm v., is translated by the term "church." And
+  this leads me to remark, what seems to have been overlooked by most
+  writers, viz. that the Syriac version <i>omits</i> uniformly the titles
+  of the Psalms as they are found in Hebrew<a name="footnotetag9"
+  href="#footnote9"><sup>[9]</sup></a>. The inscriptions contained in the
+  common editions of these Psalms form no part of the translation. One of
+  them refers to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus! They are not always
+  the same. I am acquainted with at least <i>three different sets</i> of
+  these headings contained in the Syriac MSS. in the British Museum.
+  Erpenius omitted them altogether in his edition of the Psalter, and
+  Dathe's follows his; for which very substantial reasons are given by him
+  in the "Præf. ad Lect." of his <i>Psalterium Syriacum</i>, pp. 36, 37.,
+  Halæ, 1768.</p>
+
+  <p class="author">B. H. C.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote9"></a><b>Footnote 9:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag9">(return)</a>
+  <p>Except the words "of David:" I am not sure about these.</p>
+
+</div>
+  <p>"<i>Old Rowley</i>" (Vol. ix., p. 235.).&mdash;The nickname of "Old
+  Rowley," as applied to Charles II., seems to be derived from Roland, and
+  has reference to the proverbial saying, "A Roland for an Oliver;" the
+  former name being given to Charles, in contradistinction to the
+  Protector's name of Oliver. Roland and Oliver were two celebrated horses,
+  or, as some say, two pages of Charlemagne possessing equal qualities and
+  hence, "I'll give you a Roland for your Oliver" was tantamount to "I'll
+  give you as good as you send."<a name="footnotetag10"
+  href="#footnote10"><sup>[10]</sup></a></p>
+
+  <p class="author">N. L. J.</p>
+
+<div class="note">
+  <a name="footnote10"></a><b>Footnote 10:</b><a
+  href="#footnotetag10">(return)</a>
+  <p>[See "N. &amp; Q.," Vol. ii., p. 132.]</p>
+
+</div>
+  <p><i>Wooden Effigies</i> (Vol.ix., p. 17.).&mdash;I beg to refer your
+  readers to two figures which are in excellent preservation, and I am not
+  aware that they have ever obtained public notice. In the church at
+  Boxted, near Sudbury, Suffolk, which is the burial-place of the ancient
+  family of Poley of Boxted Hall, are, with several other interesting
+  monuments, the effigies of William Poley and Alice Shaa, his wife.</p>
+
+  <p>He is in armour, with a beard, and the lady in the dress of her day,
+  with a long pendant from her girdle, having suspended a small thick book
+  and the arms of Poley impaling Shaa on the cover. At her feet a greyhound
+  to fill up the space, in consequence of the lady being short, and their
+  heads on the same line. There is an inscription in relief on the cushion
+  on which the lady rests her head, which states that he died 17th
+  December, 1587, and the lady March 7, <!-- Page 458 --><span
+  class="pagenum"><a name="page458"></a>{458}</span>1579. The figures rest
+  on a tomb of masonry, and fill the recess of a window, with iron railing
+  to protect them. Their are painted black, so that the nature of the wood
+  is not apparent.</p>
+
+  <p>Alice Shaa was the only daughter and heiress of her father, and the
+  eldest son of this William and Alice was Sir John Poley, Knt. (See
+  Morant's <i>Essex</i>, vol. i. pp. 151. 217. &amp;c.)</p>
+
+  <p class="author">R. A.</p>
+
+  <p class="address">Melford.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Abbott Families</i> (Vol. ix., pp. 105. &amp;c.).&mdash;<span
+  class="sc">Mr. Adams</span> having very satisfactorily afforded the
+  required information concerning Samuel Abbott, I shall still feel very
+  greatly obliged if any other gentleman can throw any light upon the
+  Archbishop's descendants, especially Sir Maurice's sons and their issue.
+  I have in my possession an old will of an ancestress, sealed with the
+  crest of Bartholomew Barnes, of London, merchant, whose daughter was
+  second wife and mother to Sir Maurice's children, viz., Bartholomew,
+  George, Edward, and Maurice. Did any of them leave a son called James,
+  born about 1690 or 1700?</p>
+
+  <p class="author"><span class="sc">I. T. Abbott.</span></p>
+
+  <p class="address">Darlington.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Miscellaneous.</h2>
+
+<h3>NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.</h3>
+
+  <p>Every reader of the <i>Archæologia</i> knows so well the great value
+  of the papers contained in it (too few in number) by the Rev. John Webb,
+  that he will be sure that any work edited by that gentleman will be
+  edited with diligence, intelligence, and learning. Such is the <i>Roll of
+  the Household Expenses of Richard de Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford,
+  during part of the Years 1289 and 1290</i>, which he has just edited for
+  the Camden Society, in a manner every way worthy of his reputation, which
+  is that of one of the best antiquaries of the day. The present volume
+  contains only the Roll, its endorsement, and an appendix of contemporary
+  and explanatory documents, the whole being richly annotated by the
+  editor. Another volume will contain his introduction, glossary, &amp;c.
+  On its completion we shall again call attention to a work which is so
+  creditable both to Mr. Webb and to the Camden Society.</p>
+
+  <p>The third volume of the cheap and handsome library edition of <i>The
+  Works of Oliver Goldsmith</i>, edited by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., which
+  forms a portion of <i>Murray's British Classics</i>, contains I. <i>The
+  Bee</i>; II. <i>Essays</i>; III. <i>Unacknowledged Essays</i>; and IV.
+  <i>His Prefaces, Introductions, &amp;c.</i></p>
+
+  <p>Our photographic friends will be glad to hear that a new edition of
+  Professor Hunt's <i>Manual of Photography</i> has just been issued, in
+  which the author, besides including all the most recent improvements, the
+  process of photographic etching, &amp;c., has taken the opportunity of
+  making such alterations in the arrangements of the several divisions of
+  the subject, as have enabled him to place the various phenomena in a
+  clearer view.</p>
+
+  <p>While on the subject of scientific publications, we notice the very
+  able volume just issued by Professor Beale, <i>The Microscope, and its
+  Application to Clinical Medicine</i>. Though addressed more particularly
+  to medical practitioners, it contains so much valuable instruction with
+  respect to the management of the microscope generally, as to render it a
+  valuable guide to all who are engaged in microscopic investigations.</p>
+
+  <p>Dr. Latham will lecture on Thursday next at the Beaumont Institution,
+  Mile End Road, <i>On the various Families of Mankind in the Russian and
+  Turkish Empires</i>. The Lecture is for the benefit of the Colet Schools
+  of the very poor district of St. Thomas, Stepney.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Books Received.</span>&mdash;<i>The Statistical
+  Companion for 1854</i>, by T.&nbsp;C. Banfield, Esq., is a most valuable
+  compendium of a mass of statistical evidence gathered from Parliamentary
+  Blue Books, and other authentic sources, thus supplying in one small
+  volume the results of many very large ones.&mdash;<i>Addison's Works, by
+  Bishop Hurd</i>. Vol. III. of this cheap and neatly-printed edition
+  (which forms a part of Bohn's Series of <i>British Classics</i>) contains
+  Addison's Papers from <i>The Spectator</i>.&mdash;<i>Lives of the Queens
+  of England</i>, by Agnes Strickland, Vol. V., contains the Biographies of
+  Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria, and Catherine of
+  Braganza.&mdash;<i>Poetical Works of John Dryden</i>, edited by Robert
+  Bell, Vol. III. This is the concluding volume of Dryden in Mr. Bell's
+  <i>Annotated Edition of the English Poets</i>.&mdash;<i>Cyclopædia
+  Bibliographica</i>, Part XX. The first division of this most useful
+  library companion is fast drawing to a close, the present Part extending
+  from Vance (William Ford) to Wilcocks (Thomas).&mdash;<i>The
+  Retrospective Review</i>, No. VII., contains some amusing articles on
+  Ancient Paris, Davies the Epigrammatist, the Turks in the Seventeenth
+  Century, Astrology, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.</h3>
+
+  <p>Particulars of Price, &amp;c. of the following Books to be sent direct
+  to the gentlemen by whom they are required, and whose names and addresses
+  are given for that purpose:</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">The Advancement of Arts, Manufactures, and
+  Commerce</span>, or a Description of Machines and Models, &amp;c.,
+  contained in the Repository of the Society of Arts, &amp;c. By William
+  Bailey, Registrar of the Society, 1772.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">A Register of the Premiums and Bounties Given by the
+  Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce</span>,
+  from the original Institution in the year 1754 to 1776 inclusive. Printed
+  for the society by James Phillips. 1778.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wanted by <i>P. Le Neve Foster</i>, 7. Upper Grove Lane, Camberwell.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Scott's Poetical Works.</span> 8vo. 1830. Vol. I., or
+  the "Minstrelsy," of that date.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Southey's Brazil.</span> 4to. Vols. II. and III.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Salazar, Historia de la Conquista de Mexico.</span>
+  Fol. 1743 or 1786.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Percy Society's Publications</span>, 93 and 94.
+  (1<i>l.</i> will be given for them.)</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wanted by <i>J. R. Smith</i>, 36. Soho Square.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Essays and Sketches of Life and Character</span>, by
+  a Gentleman who recently left his Lodgings. London, 1820.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Memoir of Sheridan</span>, by the late Professor
+  Smyth. Leeds, 1841. 12mo.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wanted by <i>John Martin</i>, Librarian, Woburn Abbey.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<p><!-- Page 459 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page459"></a>{459}</span></p>
+
+  <p>The following Works of Symon Patrick, late Lord Bishop of Ely,
+  &amp;c.:&mdash;</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. John Smith.</span>
+  1652.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Divine Arithmetic</span>, Sermon at the Funeral of
+  Mr. Samuel Jacomb, June 17, 1659.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Angliæ Speculum</span>, Sermon at the Fast, April 24,
+  1678.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Sermon at Covent Garden</span>, Advent Sunday,
+  1678.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Sermon on St. Peter's Day</span>, with enlargements.
+  1687.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Sermon on St. Mark's Day.</span> 1686.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Fast Sermon before the King and Queen</span>, April
+  6, 1690: Prov. xiv. 34.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Exposition of the Ten Commandments.</span> 1665.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Discourse Concerning Prayer.</span></p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">The Pillar and Ground of Truth.</span> 4to. 1687.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Examination of Bellarmine's Second Note of the
+  Church</span>, viz. Antiquity. 4to. 1687.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Examination of the Texts which Papists cite out of
+  the Bible to prove the Supremacy of St. Peter,</span> &amp;c. 1688.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Answer to a Book entitled "The Touchstone of the
+  Reformed Gospel.</span>" 1692.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">A Private Prayer to be used in difficult
+  Times.</span></p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">A Thanksgiving for our late wonderful
+  Deliverance.</span> 1689.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wanted by the <i>Rev. Alexander Taylor</i>, 3. Blomfield Terrace, Paddington.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Archæologia</span>, Numbers or Volumes, from Vol.
+  XXV. to Vol. XXIX. inclusive.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wanted by <i>James Dearden</i>, Upton House, Poole, Dorset.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">The Artifices and Impositions of False
+  Teachers</span>, discovered in a Visitation Sermon. 8vo. London,
+  1712.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">The Church of England not
+  superstitious</span>&mdash;showing what Religions may justly be charged
+  with Superstition, pp. 46, 8vo. London. 1714.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Physica Aristotelica moderna accommodata in usum
+  juventutis academicæ.</span> Auctore Guilelmo Taswell. 8vo. Lond.,
+  1718.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Antichrist Revealed among the Sect of Quakers.</span>
+  London, 1723.</p>
+
+  <p>The above were written by Wm. Taswell, D.D., Rector of Newington.
+  Surrey, &amp;c.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Miscellanea Sacra</span>; containing the Story of
+  Deborah and Barak; David's Lamentations over Saul and Jonathan; a
+  Pindaric Poem; and the Prayer of Solomon at the Dedication of the Temple,
+  4to., by E. Taswell. London, 1760.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">The Usefulness of Sacred Music</span>, 1 Chron. 16.
+  39. 40. 42., by Wm. Taswell. A.M., Rector of Wootton-under-Edge,
+  Gloucestershire. 8vo. London, 1742.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Commerce of the United States and West Indies</span>,
+  by the Hon. Littleton W. Tazewell. London, 1829.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wanted by <i>R. Jackson</i>, 3. Northampton Place, Old Kent Road.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Liber Precum.</span> 1569.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Liber Precum.</span> 1571.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Liber Precum.</span> 1660. Ch. Ch. Oxford.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Liturgia.</span> 1670.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Eton Prayers.</span> 1705.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Enchiridion Precum.</span> 1707.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Enchiridion Precum.</span> 1715.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Liber Precum.</span> 1819. Worcester College,
+  Oxford.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wanted by <i>Rev. J. W. Hewett</i>, Bloxham, Banbury.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<h3>Notices to Correspondents.</h3>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Balliolensis.</span> <i>We think the article in
+  question has recently been reprinted. If not, which we will ascertain, we
+  shall be glad to receive it.</i></p>
+
+  <p>G. B. A. <i>is thanked. His reply has been anticipated.</i></p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Abhba.</span> <i>For explanation of the monogram of
+  the Parker Society, see</i> Vol. vii., p. 502.</p>
+
+  <p>I. R. R. Embost, <i>with hunters, refers to a deer that has been so
+  hard chased that she foams at the mouth</i>.&mdash;Stound, <i>in Spenser,
+  is explained in the glossary, as space, moment, season, hour,
+  time</i>.&mdash;Yarke <i>is to make ready, or
+  prepare</i>.&mdash;Crampette, <i>in Heraldry, is the chape at the bottom
+  of the scabbard of a sword, to prevent the point from protruding. It is a
+  badge borne by the Earl de la Warr.</i>&mdash;<i>An</i> Ambry, <i>in old
+  customs, was a place where arms, plate, and vessels of domestic use were
+  kept; probably a corruption of Almonry</i>.&mdash;Gispen <i>is a pot or
+  cup made of leather</i>, "<i>gyspen potte</i>, pot de <i>cuir</i>."
+  <i>Palsgrave. In use at Winchester School, according to
+  Kennett.</i>&mdash;<i>The item in the Newcastle Accounts, "Paid for
+  cowllinge of Bartye Allyson, the fool," may mean, for habiting him in a
+  friar's cowl.</i>&mdash;Clito, <i>or</i> Clitones, <i>says Du Cange, "nom
+  modo Regum primogenitos, quod vult Spelmanus, sed universim filios omnes,
+  appellarunt Anglo-Saxones, tanquam</i> <span title="Kleitous" class="grk"
+  >&Kappa;&lambda;&epsilon;&iota;&tau;&omicron;&#x1F7B;&sigmaf;</span>,
+  <i>id est</i>, inclytos, claros."&mdash;Sollerets <i>are pieces of steel,
+  which formed part of the armour for the feet</i>.</p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">A Young Photographer</span> <i>must clearly see (what
+  we ought not to have to repeat) that we cannot recommend particular
+  houses for photographic apparatus. Our advertising columns furnish all
+  such Queries with ample Replies.</i></p>
+
+  <p><span class="sc">Our Eighth Volume</span> <i>is now bound and ready
+  for delivery, price</i> 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, <i>cloth, boards. A few
+  sets of the whole Eight Volumes are being made up, price</i> 4<i>l.</i>
+  4<i>s.</i>&mdash;<i>For these early application is desirable.</i></p>
+
+  <p>"<span class="sc">Notes and Queries</span>" <i>is published on Friday,
+  so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's
+  parcels, and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday</i>.</p>
+
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+
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+
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+  Apparatus.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION,<br />
+168. New Bond Street.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>COLLODION PORTRAITS AND VIEWS obtained with the greatest ease and
+  certainty by using BLAND &amp; LONG'S preparation of Soluble Cotton;
+  certainty and uniformity of action over a lengthened period, combined
+  with the most faithful rendering of the half-tones, constitute this a
+  most valuable agent in the hands of the photographer.</p>
+
+  <p>Albumenized paper, for printing from glass or paper negatives, giving
+  a minuteness of detail unattained by any other method, 5s. per Quire.</p>
+
+  <p>Waxed and Iodized Papers of tried quality.</p>
+
+  <p>Instruction in the Processes.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>BLAND &amp; LONG, Opticians and Photographical Instrument Makers, and
+  Operative Chemists, 153. Fleet Street, London.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+<p class="cenhead">Catalogues sent on application.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>THE SIGHT preserved by the Use of SPECTACLES adapted to suit every
+  variety of Vision by means of SMEE'S OPTOMETER, which effectually
+  prevents Injury to the Eyes from the Selection of Improper Glasses, and
+  is extensively employed by</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">BLAND &amp; LONG, Opticians, 153. Fleet
+Street, London.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>IMPROVEMENT IN COLLODION.&mdash;J. B. HOCKIN &amp; CO., Chemists, 289.
+  Strand, have, by an improved mode of Iodizing, succeeded in producing a
+  Collodion equal, they may say superior, in sensitiveness and density of
+  Negative, to any other hitherto published; without diminishing the
+  keeping properties and appreciation of half-tint for which their
+  manufacture has been esteemed.</p>
+
+  <p>Apparatus, pure Chemicals, and all the requirements for the practice
+  of Photography. Instruction in the Art.</p>
+
+  <p>THE COLLODION AND POSITIVE PAPER PROCESS. By J. B. HOCKIN. Price
+  1<i>s.</i> Per Post, 1<i>s.</i> 2<i>d.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p class="cenhead">PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">OTTEWILL AND MORGAN'S</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">Manufactory, 24. &amp; 25. Charlotte Terrace,
+Caledonian Road, Islington.</p>
+
+  <p>OTTEWILL'S Registered Double Body Folding Camera, adapted for
+  Landscapes or Portraits, may be had of A. ROSS, Featherstone Buildings,
+  Holborn; the Photographic Institution, Bond Street; and at the
+  Manufactory as above, where every description of Cameras, Slides, and
+  Tripods may be had. The Trade supplied.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p><!-- Page 460 --><span class="pagenum"><a name="page460"></a>{460}</span></p>
+
+<h3>WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE
+AND ANNUITY SOCIETY.</h3>
+
+<p class="cenhead">3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">Founded A.D. 1842.</p>
+
+<hr class="short" />
+
+<p class="cenhead"><i>Directors.</i></p>
+
+
+<table class="nobctr" summary="directors" title="directors">
+  <tr>
+    <td class="rightbsing" style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left">
+      <p>H. E. Bicknell, Esq.<br />
+      T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M.P.<br />
+      G. H. Drew, Esq.<br />
+      W. Evans, Esq.<br />
+      W. Freeman, Esq.<br />
+      F. Fuller, Esq.<br />
+      J. H. Goodhart, Esq.</p>
+
+    </td>
+    <td class="hspcsingle" style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left">
+      <p>T. Grissell, Esq.<br />
+      J. Hunt, Esq.<br />
+      J. A. Lethbridge, Esq.<br />
+      E. Lucas, Esq.<br />
+      J. Lys Seager, Esq.<br />
+      J. B. White, Esq.<br />
+      J. Carter Wood, Esq.</p>
+
+    </td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="cenhead"><i>Trustees.</i>&mdash;W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.; George Drew, Esq., T. Grissell, Esq.<br />
+<i>Physician.</i>&mdash;William Rich. Basham, M.D.<br />
+<i>Bankers.</i>&mdash;Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.</p>
+
+  <p>POLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary
+  difficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application
+  to suspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed
+  in the Prospectus.</p>
+
+  <p>Specimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100<i>l.</i>, with a Share
+  in three-fourths of the Profits:&mdash;</p>
+
+<table width="35%" class="nobctr" summary="Specimens of Rates" title="Specimens of Rates">
+<tr>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left; width:28%">Age</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:7%"><i>£</i></td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:7%"><i>s.</i></td>
+<td class="rightbsing" style="text-align:right; width:7%"><i>d.</i></td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left; width:28%">Age</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:7%"><i>£</i></td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:7%"><i>s.</i></td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right; width:7%"><i>d.</i></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left">&nbsp; 17</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">1</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">14</td>
+<td class="rightbsing" style="text-align:right">4</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left">&nbsp; 32</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">2</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">10</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">8</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left">&nbsp; 22</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">1</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">18</td>
+<td class="rightbsing" style="text-align:right">8</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left">&nbsp; 37</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">2</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">18</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">6</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left">&nbsp; 27</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">2</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">4</td>
+<td class="rightbsing" style="text-align:right">5</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:left">&nbsp; 42</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">3</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">8</td>
+<td class="hspcsingle" style="text-align:right">2</td>
+</tr></table>
+
+<p class="cenhead">ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.</p>
+
+  <p>Now ready, price 10<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>, Second Edition, with material
+  additions, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON
+  BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land
+  Investment, exemplified in the Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building
+  Companies, &amp;c. With a Mathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and
+  Life Assurance. By ARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life
+  Assurance Society, 3. Parliament Street, London.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>BANK OF DEPOSIT. No. 3. Pall Mall East, and 7. St. Martin's Place,
+  Trafalgar Square, London.</p>
+
+  <p><i>Established</i> <span class="scac">A. D.</span> 1844.</p>
+
+  <p>INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS may be opened daily, with capital of any
+  amount.</p>
+
+  <p>Interest payable in January and July.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>PETER MORRISON,</p>
+      <p>Managing Director.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>Prospectuses and Forms sent free on application.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>HOPE LIFE OFFICE: incorporated under Act of Parliament. Guarantee fund
+  100,000<i>l.</i></p>
+
+  <p>Life assurance, endowments, annuities, and honesty guarantee bonds, at
+  moderate and just premiums.</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>By order,</p>
+      <p>H. C. EIFFE, General Manager.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>4. Princes Street, Bank.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>CHUBBB'S LOCKS, with all the recent improvements. Strong fire-proof
+  safes, cash and deed boxes. Complete lists of sizes and prices may be had
+  on application.</p>
+
+  <p>CHUBB &amp; SON, 57. St. Paul's Churchyard, London; 28. Lord Street,
+  Liverpool; 16. Market Street, Manchester; and Horseley Fields,
+  Wolverhampton.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>THE ST. MARGARET'S ESTATE, Richmond.&mdash;This magnificent MANSION
+  and Picturesque PARK at St. Margaret's, opposite Richmond Gardens, may be
+  VIEWED daily, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock (Sundays excepted),
+  by cards only, to be had of the Executive Committee of the Conservative
+  Land Society. Cards will be forwarded on application to</p>
+
+  <p>CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Sec.</p>
+
+  <p>Offices, 33. Norfolk Street, Strand, April 15, 1854.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p class="cenhead">Patronised by the Royal
+Family.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">TWO THOUSAND POUNDS
+for any person producing Articles superior
+to the following:</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">THE HAIR RESTORED AND GREYNESS
+PREVENTED.</p>
+
+  <p>BEETHAM'S CAPILLARY FLUID is acknowledged to be the most effectual
+  article for Restoring the Hair in Baldness, strengthening when weak and
+  fine, effectually preventing falling or turning grey, and for restoring
+  its natural colour without the use of dye. The rich glossy appearance it
+  imparts is the admiration of every person. Thousands have experienced its
+  astonishing efficacy. Bottles 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; double size,
+  4<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i>; 7<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> equal to 4 small;
+  11<i>s.</i> to 6 small; 21<i>s.</i> to 13 small. The most perfect
+  beautifier ever invented.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">SUPERFLUOUS HAIR REMOVED.</p>
+
+  <p>BEETHAM'S VEGETABLE EXTRACT does not cause pain or injury to the skin.
+  Its effect is unerring, and it is now patronised by royalty and hundreds
+  of the first families. Bottles, 5<i>s.</i></p>
+
+  <p>BEETHAM'S PLASTER is the only effectual remover of Corns and Bunions.
+  It also reduces enlarged Great Toe Joints in an astonishing manner. If
+  space allowed, the testimony of upwards of twelve thousand individuals,
+  during the last five years, might be inserted. Packets, 1<i>s.</i>;
+  Boxes, 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> Sent Free by BEETHAM, Chemist, Cheltenham,
+  for 14 or 36 Post Stamps.</p>
+
+<blockquote class="b1n">
+
+  <p>Sold by PRING, 30. Westmorland Street; JACKSON, 9. Westland Row;
+  BEWLEY &amp; EVANS, Dublin; GOULDING, 108. Patrick Street, Cork; BARRY,
+  9. Main Street, Kinsale; GRATTAN, Belfast; MURDOCK, BROTHERS, Glasgow;
+  DUNCAN &amp; FLOCKHART, Edinburgh. SANGER, 150. Oxford Street; PROUT,
+  229. Strand; KEATING, St. Paul's Churchyard; SAVORY &amp; MOORE, Bond
+  Street; HANNAY, 63. Oxford Street; London. All Chemists and Perfumers
+  will procure them.</p>
+
+</blockquote>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>ALLSOPP'S PALE or BITTER ALE. MESSRS. S. ALLSOPP &amp; SONS beg to
+  inform the TRADE that they are now registering Orders for the March
+  Brewings of their PALE ALE in Casks of 18 Gallons and upwards, at the
+  BREWERY, Burton-on-Trent; and at the under-mentioned Branch
+  Establishments:</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>LONDON, at 61. King William Street, City.</p>
+      <p>LIVERPOOL, at Cook Street.</p>
+      <p>MANCHESTER, at Ducie Place.</p>
+      <p>DUDLEY, at the Burnt Tree.</p>
+      <p>GLASGOW, at 115. St. Vincent Street.</p>
+      <p>DUBLIN, at 1. Crampton Quay.</p>
+      <p>BIRMINGHAM, at Market Hall.</p>
+      <p>SOUTH WALES, at 13. King Street, Bristol.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <p>MESSRS. ALLSOPP &amp; SONS take the opportunity of announcing to
+  PRIVATE FAMILIES that their ALES, so strongly recommended by the Medical
+  Profession, may be purchased in DRAUGHT and BOTTLES GENUINE from all the
+  most RESPECTABLE LICENSED VICTUALLERS, on "ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE" being
+  specially asked for.</p>
+
+  <p>When in bottle, the genuineness of the label can be ascertained by its
+  having "ALLSOPP &amp; SONS" written across it.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p class="cenhead">LIBRARY OF VALUABLE BOOKS.</p>
+
+  <p>MR. BENTLEY will SELL by AUCTION, in the Lecture Room of the Natural
+  History Society, at Worcester, on Tuesday, the 23rd Day of MAY, 1854, at
+  Eleven o'clock, A VALUABLE LIBRARY of RARE and CHOICE BOOKS, including
+  one Copy of the First Folio Edition of Shakspeare, London, 1623, and two
+  varying Copies of the Second Folio, London, 1632, with many valuable
+  Black-letter Books in Divinity and History.</p>
+
+  <p>Catalogues may be had at the Office of the Auctioneer, 9. Foregate
+  Street, Worcester, one week previous to the Sale.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>W. H. HART, RECORD AGENT and LEGAL ANTIQUARIAN (who is in the
+  possession of Indices to many of the early Public Records whereby his
+  Inquiries are greatly facilitated) begs to inform Authors and Gentlemen
+  engaged in Antiquarian or Literary Pursuits, that he is prepared to
+  undertake searches among the Public Records, MSS. in the British Museum,
+  Ancient Wills, or other Depositories of a similar Nature, in any Branch
+  of Literature, History, Topography, Genealogy, or the like, and in which
+  he has had considerable experience.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">1. ALBERT TERRACE, NEW CROSS,
+HATCHAM, SURREY.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>ALLEN'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing Size, Price, and Description
+  of upwards of 100 articles, consisting of PORTMANTEAUS, TRAVELLING-BAGS,
+  Ladies' Portmanteaus, DESPATCH-BOXES, WRITING-DESKS, DRESSING-CASES, and
+  other travelling requisites, Gratis on application, or sent free by Post
+  on receipt of Two Stamps.</p>
+
+  <p>MESSRS. ALLEN'S registered Despatch-box and Writing-desk, their
+  Travelling-bag with the opening as large as the bag, and the new
+  Portmanteau containing four compartments, are undoubtedly the best
+  articles of the kind ever produced.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">J. W. &amp; T. ALLEN, 18. &amp; 22. West Strand.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>BENNETT'S MODEL WATCH, as shown at the GREAT EXHIBITION. No. 1. Class
+  X., in Gold and Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to all
+  Climates, may now be had at the MANUFACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold
+  London-made Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver
+  Cases, 8, 6, and 4 guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12,
+  10, and 8 guineas. Ditto. in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior
+  Lever, with Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 guineas. Bennett's
+  Pocket Chronometer, Gold, 50 guineas; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch
+  skilfully examined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers,
+  2<i>l.</i>, 3<i>l.</i>, and 4<i>l.</i> Thermometers from 1<i>s.</i>
+  each.</p>
+
+  <p>BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory,
+  the Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen,</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">65. CHEAPSIDE.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>HEAL &amp; SON'S SPRING MATTRESSES.&mdash;The most durable Bedding is
+  a well-made SPRING MATTRESS; it retains its elasticity, and will wear
+  longer without repair than any other mattress, and with <i>one</i> French
+  Wool and Hair Mattress on it is a most luxurious Bed. HEAL &amp; SON make
+  them in three varieties. For price of the different sizes and qualities,
+  apply for HEAL &amp; SON'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF BEDSTEADS and priced
+  LIST OF BEDDING. It contains designs and prices of upwards of 100
+  Bedsteads, and prices of every description of Bedding, and is sent free
+  by Post.</p>
+
+<p class="cenhead">HEAL &amp; SON, 196. Tottenham Court Road.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+  <p>Printed by <span class="sc">Thomas Clark Shaw</span>, of No. 10.
+  Stonefield Street, in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New
+  Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and
+  published by <span class="sc">George Bell</span>, of No. 186. Fleet
+  Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London,
+  Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.&mdash;Saturday, May 13.
+  1854.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854, by Various
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+Title: Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854
+       A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,
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+Author: Various
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+NOTES AND QUERIES:
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+A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
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+SATURDAY, MAY 13. 1854.
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+CONTENTS.
+
+  NOTES:--                                                    Page
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+  "Shakspeare's Rime which he made at the Mytre," by
+  Dr. E. F. Rimbault                                           439
+
+  Rous, the Sottish Psalmist, Provost of Eton College: and
+  his Will, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe                        440
+
+  Original English Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of
+  Malta, by William Winthrop                                   442
+
+  Disease among Cattle, by Thos. Nimmo                         445
+
+  Popiana, by Harry Leroy Temple                               445
+
+  Hampshire Folk Lore, by Eustace W.
+  Jacob                                                        446
+
+  The most curious Book in the World                           446
+
+  Minor Notes:--Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of
+  Geo. III.--Copernicus--First Instance of Bribery amongst
+  Members of Parliament--Richard Brinsley Sheridan--Publican's
+  Invitation--Bishop Burnet again!--Old Custom preserved in
+  Warwickshire--English Diplomacy v. Russian                   447
+
+  QUERIES:--
+
+  Ancient Tenure of Lands, by A. J. Dunkin                     448
+
+  Owen Rowe the Regicide                                       449
+
+  Writings of the Martyr Bradford, by the Rev. A. Townsend     449
+
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+  of John of Jerusalem--Heiress of Haddon Hall--Monteith--
+  Vandyking--Hiel the Bethelite--Earl of Glencairn--Willow
+  Bark in Ague--"Perturbabantur," &c.                          450
+
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+  Beauty"--Edmund Lodge--King John                             452
+
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+  Has Execution by Hanging been survived? by William Bates     453
+
+  Coleridge's Christabel, by C. Mansfield Ingleby              455
+
+  General Whitelocke                                           455
+
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+  Photographic Experience                                      456
+
+  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Turkish Language--Dr. Edward
+  Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black Sea--Aristotle on living
+  Law--Christ's or Cris Cross Row--Titles to the Psalms in
+  the Syriac Version--"Old Rowley"--Wooden Effigies--Abbott
+  Families                                                     456
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+{438}
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+{439}
+
+_LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1854._
+
+Notes.
+
+"SHAKSPEARE'S RIME WHICH HE MADE AT THE MYTRE."
+
+In the third volume of Mr. Collier's valuable _History of Dramatic Poetry_
+(p. 275.) is the following passage, which forms part of a note:
+
+    "Mr. Thorpe, the enterprising bookseller of Bedford Street, is in
+    possession of a MS. full of songs and poems, in the handwriting of a
+    person of the name of Richard Jackson, all copied prior to the year
+    1631, and including many unpublished pieces, by a variety of celebrated
+    poets. One of the most curious is a song in five seven-line stanzas,
+    thus headed 'Shakspeare's rime, which he made at the Mytre in Fleete
+    Streete.' It begins 'From the rich Lavinian shore;' and some few of the
+    lines were published by Playford, and set as a catch."
+
+In Mr. Thoms' _Anecdotes and Traditions_ (published by the Camden Society)
+is a story of the celebrated Dr. John Wilson, to which the editor has
+appended an interesting note, adding:
+
+    "Wilson was the composer of a glee for three voices, published in
+    Playford's _Musical Companion_, where the words are attributed to
+    Shakspeare; and the supposition that they were really written by him
+    having been converted into a certainty, by their appearing with
+    Shakspeare's name to them in the MS. Collection of Poetry, copied prior
+    to 1631 by Richard Jackson," &c.
+
+Mr. Thoms then prints the "rime," not inappropriately calling it "A Song
+for Autolycus," with this remark:
+
+    "My late respected friend Mr. Douce once told me, that some musical
+    friend at Chichester, I think the organist, possessed a copy of this
+    song, with an additional verse."
+
+Mr. Thoms' version of "Shakspeare's Rime" was inserted (probably by our
+worthy Editor himself?) in the first volume of "N. & Q." (p. 23.) with a
+view of obtaining the additional stanza; a desideratum which I am now
+enabled to supply. The following copy has _two_ additional stanzas, and is
+transcribed from a MS. Collection of Songs, with the music, written in the
+early part of the reign of James I. The MS. was formerly in the possession
+of Mr. J. S. Smith, the learned editor of _Musica Antiqua_.
+
+              I.
+
+ "From the fair Lavinian shore,
+  I your markets come to store;
+  Marvel not, I thus far dwell,
+  And hither bring my wares to sell;
+  Such is the sacred hunger of gold.
+    Then come to my pack,
+      While I cry,
+    What d'ye lack,
+      What d'ye buy?
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              II.
+
+ "I have beauty, honour, grace,
+  Virtue, favour, time and space,
+  And what else thou wouldst request,
+  E'en the thing thou likest best;
+  First, let me have but a touch of thy gold,
+    Then come too lad,
+      Thou shalt have
+    What thy dad
+      Never gave;
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              III.
+
+ "Though thy gentry be but young,
+  As the flow'r that this day sprung,
+  And thy father thee before,
+  Never arms nor scutcheon bore;
+  First let me have but a catch of thy gold,
+    Then, though thou be an ass,
+      By this light
+    Thou shalt pass
+      For a knight;
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              IV.
+
+ "Thou whose obscure birth so base,
+  Ranks among the ignoble race,
+  And desireth that thy name,
+  Unto honour should obtain;
+  First let me have but a catch of thy gold,
+    Then, though thou be an ass,
+      By this light,
+    Thou shalt pass
+      For a knight;
+  For here it is to be sold.
+
+              V.
+
+ "Madam, come see what you lack?
+  Here's complexion in my pack;
+  White and red you may have in this place,
+  To hide an old ill-wrinkled face:
+  First, let me have but a catch of thy gold,
+    Then thou shalt seem,
+    Like a wench of fifteen,
+  Although you be threescore and ten years old."
+
+That this song enjoyed extensive popularity in the latter half of the
+seventeenth century, is evinced by the number of printed copies. It is
+found in Playford's _Select Ayres and Dialogues_, 1659; in Dr. Wilson's
+_Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads_, 1660; in Playford's _Catch that Catch Can_,
+1667; and in many subsequent collections of a similar kind. But in none of
+these works is the name of the writer of the words given; and all the
+copies are deficient of the _third_ and _fourth_ stanzas. The point of the
+satire conveyed in these stanzas was lost after the reign of James I.,
+which may account for their omission.
+
+"Shakspeare's rime," being associated with Wilson's music, is of some
+importance towards settling the point of authorship. In 1846 I printed a
+little pamphlet with the following title:
+
+    "Who was _Jack Wilson_, the Singer of Shakspeare's Stage? An Attempt to
+    prove the Identity of this {440} Person with John Wilson, Doctor of
+    Musick, in the University of Oxford, A.D. 1644."
+
+It would be out of place here to dwell upon this publication, suffice it to
+say, that all the information I have since collected, tends to confirm the
+hypothesis advanced. One extract from this _brochure_ will show the
+connexion that existed between Shakspeare and Wilson:
+
+    "Wilson was the composer of four other Shakspearian lyrics, a fact
+    unknown to Mr. Collier, when he wrote the article in the _Shakspeare
+    Papers_: 'Where the bee sucks,' 'Full fathom five,' 'Lawn as white as
+    driven snow,' and 'From the fair Lavinian shore.' They are all printed
+    in the author's _Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads_, Oxford, 1660. We have now
+    evidence from this work, that Wilson was the _original_ composer of the
+    music to _one_ of Shakspeare's plays. He says in his preface, 'some of
+    these ayres were _originally_ composed by those whose names are affixed
+    to them, but are here placed as being _new set_ by the author of the
+    rest. The two songs, 'Where the bee sucks,' and 'Full fathom five,'
+    have appended to them the name of 'R. Johnson,' who, upon this
+    evidence, we may undoubtedly conclude was the _original_ composer of
+    the music in the play of the _Tempest_. The song 'Lawn as white as
+    driven snow,' from the _Winter's Tale_, has the name of 'John Wilson'
+    attached to it, from which it is equally certain that he was its
+    _original_ composer. In my own mind, the circumstances connected with
+    the Shakspearian lyrics in this book are almost conclusive as to the
+    identity of John Wilson the _composer_ with John Wilson the _singer_.
+    Unless the composer had been intimately acquainted with the theatre of
+    Shakspeare's day, it is not likely that he would have remembered, so
+    long after, the name of one of its composers. Nor is it likely, being
+    so well acquainted with the _original_ composers of the Shakspearian
+    drama, and so anxious as he appears to have been to do justice to their
+    memory, that he would have omitted informing us, who was the _original_
+    composer of the song in the _Winter's Tale_, had it been any other than
+    himself. The _Winter's Tale_ was not produced before 1610 or 1611, at
+    which period Wilson was sixteen or seventeen years old, an age quite
+    ripe enough for the production of the song in question."
+
+A reviewer of my little publication in the _Athenaeum_ (Nov. 8, 1846) makes
+the following remark:
+
+    "Let us observe, in conclusion, that Dr. Rimbault is better read in
+    Jack Wilson than Ben Jonson, or we should never have seen Mr.
+    Shakspeare's 'Rime' at the 'Mitre,' in Fleet Street, seriously referred
+    to as a genuine composition. It is a mere clumsy adaptation, from Ben's
+    interesting epigram 'Inviting a Friend to Supper.'"
+
+It is really too bad to be charged with ignorance _unjustly_. I have on my
+shelves the works of glorious Ben, three times over: in folio 1616-31; in
+folio, 1692; and in nine volumes octave (Gifford's edition), 1816; all of
+which I will freely give to the "reviewer," if he can prove that _one line_
+of "Shakspeare's Rime at the Mytre" is taken from the aforesaid epigram. I
+heartily agree with him in admiration of Jonson's spirited imitation of
+Martial, which I have transcribed as a pleasant relish towards digesting
+these rambling remarks:
+
+         "INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER.
+
+ "To-night, grave Sir, both my poor house and I
+  Do equally desire your company:
+  Not that we think us worthy such a guest,
+  But that your worth will dignify our feast,
+  With those that come; whose grace may make that seem
+  Something, which else could hope for no esteem.
+  It is the fair acceptance, Sir, creates
+  The entertainment perfect, not the cates.
+  Yet shall you have, to rectify your palate,
+  An olive, capers, or some better salad,
+  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legg'd hen,
+  If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
+  Limons, and wine for sauce: to these, a coney
+  Is not to be despair'd of for our money;
+  And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
+  The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
+  I'll tell you of more, and lie, so you will come:
+  Of partridge, pheasant, woodcock, of which some
+  May yet be there; and godwit if we can;
+  Knat, rail, and ruff too. Howsoe'er my man
+  Shall read a piece of Virgil, Tacitus,
+  Livy, or of some better book to us,
+  Of which we'll speak our minds, amidst our meat;
+  And I'll profess no verses to repeat;
+  To this if aught appear, which I not know of,
+  That will the pastry, not my paper, show of.
+  Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be;
+  But that which most doth take my muse and me,
+  Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine,
+  Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine;
+  Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted,
+  Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted.
+  Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring,
+  Are all but Luther's beer, to this I sing,
+  Of this we will sup free, but moderately,
+  And we will have no Pooly', or Parrot by;
+  Nor shall our cups make any guilty men:
+  But at our parting, we will be, as when
+  We innocently met. No simple word,
+  That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board,
+  Shall make us sad next morning; or affright
+  The liberty, that we'll enjoy to-night."
+
+EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
+
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+
+ROUS, THE SCOTTISH PSALMIST, PROVOST OF ETON COLLEGE: AND HIS WILL.
+
+Looking over some back Numbers of "N. & Q.," I see an inquiry (Vol. v.,
+p. 81.) after Francis Rous. G. N. will find an account of him in Chalmers's
+_Biographical Dictionary_, gathered out of Wood's _Athenae_; Noble's
+_Memoir of Cromwell_, vol. i. {441} p. 409; Lysons' _Environs of London_,
+vol. ii.; _Granger_, vol. iii.
+
+In his will, a copy of which lies before me, proved Feb. 10, 1658, he
+speaks of "a youth in Scotland, his grandson," and "as the heir of idleness
+abhorring to give him an estate, but wishing he might be a useful member of
+Christ and the Commonwealth, he desires his executors to give him 50l. a
+year so long as he shall be in preparation towards a profession, and as
+many of his books as may be fit for him."
+
+I shall be much obliged if any correspondent can find out anything farther
+about the said "youth in Scotland?"
+
+H. T. ELLACOMBE.
+
+Clyst St. George.
+
+P.S.--Why should not "N. & Q." be the publisher of any curious old wills,
+which might interest the general reader? Allow me to suggest a corner for
+_Testamenta Vestusta_. I will begin by sending a copy of the will of
+Francis Rous.
+
+    This my last Will and Testament, I, Francis Rous,   Provost of Eaton
+    College, wrote and made   March 18th, 1657.
+
+    Forasmuch as to put houses in order before our departure is pleasing to
+    the God of order, I do dispose of my affairs and estates in manner
+    following:
+
+    There is a youth in Scotland concerning whom (because they call him my
+    grandson) it is perchance expected that I should do some great matters
+    for him; but his father marrying against my will and prohibition, and
+    giving me an absolute discharge before the marriage under his hand, not
+    to expect anything from me if he did marry contrary to my prohibition,
+    I hold myself discharged from the father, and consequently from the son
+    of that father, the son having no interest in me but by the father. And
+    I hold it a good example, for the benefitt of the Commonwealth, that
+    matters of discouragement should be put upon such marriages, being
+    assured that their parents will not disinheritt or lessen them,
+    especially if they have but one son, and that which Solomon saith is to
+    be considered--an understanding servant shall have rule over a son that
+    maketh ashamed, and both that[1], and his son, and his son in Scotland
+    have both made ashamed, the one in his match, the other by a sad
+    mischief of dangerous consequence and fatal; and though his mother is
+    bound to maintain him, yet because I wish he might be a useful member
+    of Christ and the Commonwealth, towards which I think she is not well
+    able to give him an answerable education, I have in this my will taken
+    course for a competent maintenance for him towards a profession, and in
+    it utterly abhorring to give him an estate, as the heir of idleness.
+    Wherefore to the fore-mentioned purpose, I desire my executor to give
+    him 50l. a year, so long as he shall be in preparation towards a
+    profession, or shall really and seriously be in the practice of it; and
+    as many of my books as may be fitt for him in the profession he shall
+    undertake, and shall not be given to Pembroke College, I desire my
+    executor to give unto him: but if he, or a guardian, or any other,
+    shall sue or implead, or call my executor into question to his trouble
+    or cost, I leave it to my executor's choice whether he will pay his
+    maintenance of 50l. per annum, or any part of it.
+
+    I give to Mr. Ellford, my pastor at Acton, 20l. I give 5l. per annum
+    for ever to be disposed of in buying Bibles, catechisms, or for
+    encouraging poor children to learn to read and answer in catechising in
+    the parish of Dittisham, in the county of Devon, the place of my
+    nativity and baptism, which sum shall be bestowed according to the
+    direction of the minister there for the time being; and to the present
+    minister I give 20l. I give to the poor of Acton each five shillings; I
+    give to the poor of Westminster, Kensington, Knightsbridge, half a
+    year's rent of that which they used to receive. I give Mr. Bartlett of
+    Windsor 20l. I appoint 100l. to be lent to my nephew William Rous,
+    which he must pay by 10l. a year to my nephew Richard Rous, his son. I
+    give Thomas Rous, of King's College, 6l. for two years. I give Eliz.
+    Rous, of Penrose in Cornwall, 20l. I give Anthony Rous at Eaton School,
+    5l. a year for seven years. I give to my niece Rudyard, and her sisters
+    Skelton and Dorothy, each 20l. I give to Margaret Baker 10l. I give to
+    a poor Xtian woman in Dartmouth, Mrs. Adams, 10l. To Robert Needler I
+    give a black suit and cloak; the like to William Grantham and 10l. To
+    my niece Portman, now in my house, I give 50l. To my other friends of
+    more ability, I leave it to my executor to give such memorials as he
+    shall think fitt. To the poor of Eaton I give 20l. To each of my
+    servants that are with me at any decease I give black suits and 5l.;
+    and to Peter Fluellen, who is now endeavouring to get a place of
+    removal, 10l. I give to Thomas Rolle of Eaton, and Robert Yard, each
+    10l. I give to Christian, now the wife of Mr. Johnson, 20l. I give to
+    the young Winnington of Eaton, 10l. I give 40l. per annum out of the
+    Parsonage or Tythe of Great Brookeham in Surrey, to maintain two
+    schollars in Pembroke College in Oxford. I also give 20l. per annum
+    unto one schollar more in the same college, out of a tenement in the
+    Manor of Wootton in Cornwall, during two lives of two Bigfords, and
+    after their decease out of a tenement of mine in Cowkberry, in Devon,
+    for ever. The scholars to be chosen are to be poor, {442} not having
+    10l. a year, apt to learning, and to be of the posterity of myself or
+    my brother Robert, Richard, or Arthur Rous, or of my sister Nicholl, or
+    my sister Upton; and if no such shall be tendered, then they are to be
+    chosen out of the two highest forms in Eaton College. I give power to
+    my executor to choose them during his life, and desire him, with the
+    advice of my dear kinsman, Mr. Ambrose Upton, Prebend of Xt Church in
+    Oxford, to settle and order all things for the sure and usefull
+    continuance of their allowances to schollars so qualified as before and
+    of good conversation, and that they study divinity, and some time
+    before they be Batchelors of Arts, they make good proof of their
+    studying divinity, and that they continued in their several places but
+    _seven years_, and then others to be chosen in their rooms. What shall
+    be above 40l. per annum arising out of the tythe of Brookham declaro,
+    and above all rates and taxes, I give unto the minister of that parish;
+    and I give the parsonage to my respected kinsman Samuel Rous, Esq., of
+    that parish, yet so, that if he die before my executor, my executor
+    shall present during his life, and after it shall go to the heirs of
+    the said Samuel Rous, it being to be hoped that their dwelling be there
+    they will be carefull for their own souls. I do make and constitute my
+    dear kinsman Anthony Rous, Esq., of Wootton, in the county of Cornwall,
+    commonly called or known by the name of Colonel Rous, to be my whole
+    and sole executor. And I give and bequeath to him all my lands,
+    tenements, my interest in the parsonage of Great Brookham in Surrey,
+    all my leases, chattels, plate, money, and other goodly whatsoever, as
+    also my copyholds, which shall, according to custom, be made over to
+    him in Acton or Branford, hoping that he will faithfully dispose them
+    according to my will and intention made known to him; and I give him
+    100l., and lend him 200l. more for seven years, which he may bestow in
+    defence of himself as to law suits, if any be brought as concerning my
+    estate, or if there shall be none to bestow, in some charitable use as
+    he shall think fitt. I desire my body may be interred and put to rest
+    in the chapple of Eaton College, a place that hath my dear affections
+    and prayers that it may be a flouring nursery of piety and learning to
+    the end of the world. And for a profession of any faith, I refer myself
+    to the works which I not long since published in one volume, wherein I
+    have professed a right and saving faith, and hope to continue therein
+    until faith shall be swallowed up of sight, laying hold of the free
+    grace of God in his beloved Son as my only title to eternity, being
+    confident that his free grace, which took me up lying in the blood of
+    irregeneration, will wash away the guilt of that estate, and all the
+    cursed fruits of it by the pretious blood of his Son, and will wash
+    away the filth of it by the spirit of his Son, and so present me
+    faultless before the presence of God's glory with joy.
+
+  (Signed) FRANCIS ROUS.
+
+    The Right Honorable Francis Rous, Esq., acknowledged this to be his
+    last will and testament, the 12th day of April, 1658[2], in the
+    presence of me, Abel Borsett, endorsed, upon a paper wherein the
+    original will was folded and sealed up, thus, viz., "My last will,
+    attested by Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Borsett."
+
+    This will was proved at London the 10th day of February, in the year of
+    our Lord God 1658, before the judges for probate of wills and granting
+    administrations lawfully authorised, by the oath of Collonell Anthony
+    Rouse, Esq., the sole and only executor named in the said will, to whom
+    administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and debts of
+    the said deceased was granted and committed.
+
+[Footnote 1: This appears to be an error.]
+
+[Footnote 2: It should doubtless be 1657.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ORIGINAL ENGLISH ROYAL LETTERS TO THE GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA.
+
+(_Concluded from_ Vol. ix., p. 419.)
+
+No. XI.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most illustrious and most high Prince, the Lord Nicholas Cotoner,
+Grand Master of the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and
+friend--Greeting:
+
+It having appeared to us a matter of interest, not only to ourselves, but
+likewise to the whole Christian world, that we also should keep in the
+Mediterranean sea a certain number of galleys ready to afford prompt aid to
+our neighbours and allies against the frequent insults of the barbarians
+and Turks, we lately caused to be constructed two galleys, one in Genoa,
+and the other in the port of Leghorn; in order to man these, we directed a
+person well acquainted with such affairs to be sent, as to other parts, so
+also to the island of Malta, subject to the rule of your highness, in order
+to _buy slaves and procure other necessaries_. He having purchased some
+slaves, it has been reported to us that your highness' collector of customs
+demanded five pieces of gold of Malta money per head before they could be
+permitted to embark, under the title of toll; at which proceeding we were
+certainly not a little astonished, it appearing to us a new proceeding, and
+one contrary to custom, especially it being well known to us that our
+neighbours and allies, the Kings of France and Spain, are never accustomed
+to pay anything under the title of toll {443} for the slaves which they
+cause yearly to be transported from your island.
+
+We therefore beg your highness, by the good and long friendship existing
+between us, to grant to us the same privilege in _regard to this kind of
+commerce_ within the territories of your highness, as is enjoyed by both
+our said neighbours and allies, which although it ought to be conceded to
+us simply on account of our mutual friendship and our affection towards
+your highness and the illustrious Order of Malta, still we shall receive so
+gratefully, that if at any time we can do anything to please your highness,
+we shall be always ready to do it, with all attention, and most willingly.
+
+In the meantime we heartily recommend your highness and all the members of
+the illustrious Order of Malta, as well as all your affairs, to the Divine
+keeping.
+
+Given from our palace of Westminster on the 12th day of February, in the
+year of our Lord 1673, and of our reign the 25th.
+
+  Your Highness' good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XII.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince, the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+The military order over which your eminence most worthily presides, having
+always used its power to render the navigation of the sea safe and
+peaceable for Christians, we in no way doubt that our ships of war, armed
+for the same purpose, will receive from your eminence every office of
+friendship. We therefore are desirous of signifying to your eminence by
+these our letters that we have sent a squadron of our royal fleet to the
+Mediterranean sea under the command of Sir John Narbrough, knight, to look
+after the safety of navigation and commerce, and to oppose the enemies of
+public tranquillity. We therefore amicably beseech your eminence that if
+ever the above-named Admiral Narbrough, or any of our ships cruising under
+his flag, should arrive at any of your eminence's ports or stations, or in
+any place subject to the Order of Malta, that they may be considered and
+treated as friends and allies, and that they may be permitted to purchase
+with their money, and at just prices, and to export provisions and
+munitions of war, and whatever they may require, which, on similar
+occasions, we will abundantly reciprocate to your eminence and to your most
+noble Order.
+
+In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence to the safeguard of
+the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the last day of November, 1674.
+
+  Your Highness' Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XIII.
+
+    Charles the Second by the Grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+Most eminent Prince, our cousin and well-beloved friend--Greeting:
+
+Although we in no way doubt of the sincere readiness of your eminence and
+of your holy Order of Malta to do everything which might be known to be
+expedient for our interests, still we could not read your eminence's
+letters under date of 24th March last, in which such readiness is fully set
+forth, without the greatest pleasure. Our affection is sharpened and
+excited by the mention of the good will of our predecessors, the Kings of
+Great Britain, evinced in every age towards your most illustrious Order,
+which, as your eminence in your said letters so honourably commemorates, so
+will we studiously endeavour to imitate, and even to surpass. From our
+admiral, Sir John Narbrough, knight, and also from other parties, we have
+heard with how much benignity your eminence lately received him, and caused
+him and the other officers of our fleet to be supplied with what was
+requisite for our ships of war, which we consider not less worthy of the
+piety and valour of your Order than of our friendship; and we on our part,
+on opportunity presenting itself, will be careful to abundantly reciprocate
+by every kind of good offices.
+
+It remains to recommend your eminence and the whole of your holy Order
+militant to the safeguard of the God of Hosts.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 19th day of May, 1675.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XIV.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+We know not how it came to pass that our admiral in the Mediterranean sea,
+Sir John Narbrough, knight, should have given such cause of complaint as
+mentioned in your eminence's letters addressed to us under date of the 5th
+of April, as to have refused to give the usual salute to the city {444} of
+Malta, unless, perhaps, he had thought something had been omitted on the
+part of the Maltese which he considered due to our dignity, and to the flag
+of our royal fleet. Be it, however, as it may, your eminence may be
+persuaded that it is our fixed and established intention to do and perform
+everything both ourselves and by our officers amply to show how much we
+esteem the sacred person of your eminence and the Order of Malta.
+
+In order, therefore, that it should already appear that we do not wish
+greater honour to be paid to any prince than to your eminence and to your
+celebrate Order, we have directed our above-mentioned admiral to accord all
+the same signs of friendship and good will towards your eminence's ports
+and citadels as towards those of the most Christian and catholic kings; and
+we no way doubt your Order will equally show that benevolence towards us
+which it is customary to show to the above-mentioned kings, or to either of
+them.
+
+It only remains to us to heartily recommend your eminence and all your
+military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall on the 21st day of June, 1675.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XV.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender   of the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+Not only by the letters of Sir John Narbrough, knight, whom we appointed in
+right and power to be the admiral of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea,
+but also from other sources, we have heard how benignantly your eminence,
+both by command and example, and all the sacred Order of Malta, have
+treated him and the other commanders of our ships, so much so that they
+could not have been better at home, and in our dockyards, than in your port
+of Malta. This is, indeed, a sign of great friendship, and the more so that
+our kingdoms and seas are so far distant from the usual navigation of the
+sacred Order of Malta, that few occasions could be expected to offer
+themselves to us of reciprocating the friendship of your eminence. Some
+other mode, therefore, must be sought by which we may testify our gratitude
+and affection towards your eminence and the other members of your most
+sacred Order, to do which we shall willingly embrace and studiously search
+after every opportunity which may offer.
+
+In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence and all your military
+Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 26th day of January, 1675-6.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XVI.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Greet   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+Most eminent Prince, our most dear cousin and friend.
+
+Our well-beloved and faithful Sir John Narbrough, knight, latterly admiral
+of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea, conveyed to us your eminence's
+letters written under date of the 7th of April last, which being most full
+indeed of affection and gratitude on your part, we received and perused
+with equal feelings and satisfaction. The acknowledgments of benefits
+conferred by us, which your eminence so frequently expresses, causes us
+also to return similar thanks to your eminence and to the whole of your
+sacred Order, for all those offices of humanity and courtesy with which you
+assisted our above-mentioned admiral and other our ships stationed in that
+sea, of which we shall always preserve the memory indelibly engraved in our
+hearts. It is equally a source of pleasure to us that our arms have been of
+help to your eminence and to your Order; and if the expedition had been of
+no other benefit, we consider it ample compensation in having restored to
+their homes so many persons celebrated through the whole Christian and
+Infidel world who were recovered from the power and chains of the
+barbarians.
+
+May your eminence continue to desire that we should freely divide the glory
+of rendering peaceful the Mediterranean sea with the illustrious Order of
+Malta!
+
+May the Most Good and Great God sustain and preserve your eminence with all
+your religious Order!
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 28th day of October, 1676.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+No. XVII.
+
+    Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great   Britain, France, and
+    Ireland, King, Defender of   the Faith, &c.
+
+To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the
+Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting:
+
+Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend.
+
+The thanks which your eminence, by your {445} letters written under date of
+the 15th of August last, returns to us on account of the fifty knights of
+your Order liberated by our assistance from the slavery of the barbarians,
+could hardly be more acceptable to us than the prayers adjoined in the
+above-mentioned letters for the liberation from the slavery of the
+Algerines of another member of your holy Order, the German, John Robert A.
+Stael. We in consequence, in order that we my not appear to be wanting
+either in the will or in affection towards your eminence, have communicated
+our orders to our well-beloved and faithful subject, Sir John Narbrough,
+knight, commanding our fleet in those seas, that if the city of Algiers
+should be constrained to agree to a treaty of just peace and submission by
+the force of our arms, assisted by Divine help, he should use every effort
+in his power, so that the liberty of the said John Robert A. Stael be
+obtained.
+
+Your eminence is already well aware of the fidelity and zeal of our
+above-mentioned admiral, and we have no doubt that he will willingly and
+strenuously observe our orders on that head.
+
+It remains for us to heartily recommend your eminence and the whole of your
+military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God.
+
+Given from our palace of Whitehall the 2nd day of November, in the year of
+our Lord 1678.
+
+  Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend,
+                  CHARLES REX.
+
+WILLIAM WINTHROP.
+
+La Valetta, Malta.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.
+
+For some years past, a great many cattle have died from a disease of the
+lungs, for which I believe no effectual antidote has been discovered. This
+fact having been mentioned to a German in London, who had formerly been a
+_Rossarzt_ or veterinary surgeon in the Prussian army, he stated that he
+had known a similar disease to prevail in Germany; and that by
+administering a decoction of _Erica communis_ (Common Heath), mixed with
+tar, the progress of the disease had in many instances been arrested.
+
+In order, therefore, that the British farmer may obtain the benefit of this
+gentleman's experience, and that he may receive all manner of justice, I
+beg leave to send you a literal copy of the recipe which he was kind enough
+to give _pro bono publico_.
+
+"REMEDY AGAINST THE PRESENT DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.
+
+    "Taken Erika communis, and boiled it into water of such quantity, that
+    the water after boiling coloured like beer; generally of a pinte of
+    water 1/4--1/2 lb. Erika communis, and boiling 5 to 6 hours. After it
+    is be done, filled the fluids trough a seive in ather boiler, and mixed
+    the same with 1/20 part of common tear. In order to make a good
+    composition from it, you must boiling the tear and the fluide to a
+    second time of 2--3 hour's and much storret. After then the medecin is
+    to by ready.
+
+    "Everry cattle sicke or well must you giving of three times to day,
+    everry time one pot from the said mixture, which you have befor keapet
+    a little warm but not to much heat. Keepet werry much from the fluide
+    of Erika communis not mixed with tear, and give to drinke the cattle a
+    much as possible. Everry cattle liked to drinke such fluide.
+
+    "Becom's the tongue stick, black pumpels, or becom's the mouth and
+    palatt red and sort, washe it out with a softe brush deyed in a mixture
+    as follow described: One part of hony, 3 parts of vinaigre, 3 parts of
+    water, and one half part of burned and grinded allumn.
+
+    "Becom's the cattle in the legs, generally in the klawes, washed the
+    sores with cold water, that you mixed 1 once white vitriol, and 1 once
+    burned allumn of a pint of water, 3--4 times to day, and keepet the
+    cattle everry time day's and night's in the open air of meadows or
+    lots. Everry cattle become's in the first time that it is driven out
+    the stables to the green feeding of meadow's, &c. a little sickness,
+    generally a little diarrhae, and this is a remedy against the disease
+    as before stated.
+
+    "If you continnuit with the firste remedy, you should findet that the
+    cattle becom's a verry slight influence of the said disease."
+
+THOS. NIMMO.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+POPIANA.
+
+I. In Roscoe's edition of _Pope_, vol. iv. p. 465., is this epitaph:
+
+ "Well then, poor G---- lies underground,
+    So there's an end of honest Jack:
+  So little justice here he found,
+   'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back."
+
+This must have been running in Goldsmith's heed when he wrote:
+
+ "Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
+    Who long was a bookseller's hack:
+  He led such a damnable life in this world,
+    I don't think he'll wish to come back."
+
+II. Epigram on the feuds between Handel and Bononcini:
+
+ "Strange! all this difference should be,
+ 'Twixt Tweedle-DUM and Tweedle-DEE!"
+
+The various editors print only these two lines. Where have I seen it
+printed as follows, in _six_ lines; and whence came the other four?[3]
+
+{446}
+
+ "Some say, that Signior Bononcini
+  Compared to Handel's a mere ninny;
+  Others aver, that to him Handel
+  Is scarcely fit to hold a candle:
+  Strange that," &c.
+
+III. In "N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 245., the following passage occurs:
+
+    "In the Imitation of the _Second Satire, Book I._ of Horace, _only to
+    be found in modern editions_, there is an allusion to 'poor E----s,'
+    who suffered by 'the fatal steel' for an intrigue with a Royal
+    Mistress."
+
+Query, in _what_ modern editions is this imitation found? I have searched
+most of them (including the last, and by no means the worst, by Mr. Robert
+Carruthers) in vain.
+
+IV. It has always seemed to me desirable that a perfect edition of an
+author like Pope, whose pages teem with proper names frequently repeated,
+and personal allusions, should be furnished with an Index _nominum
+propriorum_, which would enable the reader to refer in a moment to the
+exact whereabouts of the line wanted. I once took the trouble to make such
+an Index to Pope for my own use, and add one word of it as a specimen:
+
+  Granville's moving lays           _Past._ i.    46
+  Granville commands, &c.           _Wind. For._   5
+  Granville could refuse to sing,
+  what Muse for                         "          6
+  Granville sings, or is it             "        282
+  Granville of a former age, Surrey
+  the                                   "        292
+  Granville's verse recite, the
+  thoughts of God let                   "        425
+  Granville's Myra die, till  _Epist. to Jervas_  76
+  Granville the polite        _Prol. to Sat._    135
+
+Is this a hint worthy the notice of Mr. Croker, Mr. P. Cunningham, or Mr.
+John Murray, whose joint labours promise us a new edition of Pope?
+
+V. Roscoe and Croly give _four_ poems on _Gulliver's Travels_. Why does Mr.
+Carruthers leave out the _third_? His edition appears to contain (besides
+many additions) all that all previous editors have admitted, with the
+exception of this _third_ Gulliver poem, the sixteen additional verses to
+Mrs. Blount on leaving town, the verses to Dr. Bolton, and a fragment of
+eight lines (perhaps by Congreve); which last three are to be found in
+Warton's edition.
+
+HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.
+
+Garrick Club.
+
+[Footnote 3: These lines are quoted in the fourth edition of the _Ency.
+Britan._, art. BONONCINI, and are said to have been written by Swift. Only
+the last two lines, however, are given in Scott's edition of his
+_Works_.--ED.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HAMPSHIRE FOLK LORE.
+
+_Churching._--A woman in this village, when going to church for the first
+time after the birth of her child, keeps to the same side of the road, and
+no persuasions or threats would induce her to cross it. She wears also upon
+that occasion a pair of new boots or shoes, so that the mothers of large
+families patronise greatly the disciples of St. Crispin. I should much like
+to know if this twofold superstition is prevalent, and how it first
+originated.
+
+_Bees._--There is not one peasant I believe in this village, man or woman,
+who would sell you a swarm of bees. To be guilty of selling bees is a
+grievous omen indeed, than which nothing can be more dreadful. To barter
+bees is quite a different matter. If you want a hive, you may easily obtain
+it in lieu of a small pig, or some other equivalent. There may seem little
+difference in the eyes of enlightened persons between selling, and
+bartering, but the superstitious beekeeper sees a grand distinction, and it
+is not his fault if you don't see it too.
+
+When a hive swarms, it is customary to take the shovel from the grate, and
+the key from the door, and to produce therewith a species of music which is
+supposed to captivate and soothe the winged tribe. If the bees do not
+settle on any neighbouring tree where they may have the full benefit of the
+inharmonious music, they are generally assailed with stones. This is a
+strange sort of proceeding, but it is orthodox, and there is nothing the
+villagers despise more than modern innovations of whatever kind.
+
+_Charming._--As regards charming, the wife of the village innkeeper who
+preceded the present one (she now rests in the churchyard), used to whisper
+away burns. Her form of words, if she had any, is unknown. The mind has
+great influence upon the body, and the doctor knows it, or he would not
+give his nervous lady patients so many boxes of bread pills, and sleeping
+draughts in the shape of vials filled with savoury rum-punch. Doubtless
+this good woman cured her patients by acting on their imaginations. If the
+agency of imagination is an incorrect supposition, I see but one way of
+accounting for the curative powers of whispering, namely, by means of
+animal magnetism. I trust your medical readers do not question the curative
+powers of animal magnetism in certain cases; if they do, I would recommend
+them to read a work entitled _Human Magnetism, its Claim to Dispassionate
+Inquiry_, by W. Newnham, Esq., M.R.S.L. It is published by John Churchill,
+Princes Street, Soho.
+
+EUSTACE W. JACOB.
+
+Crawley.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD.
+
+The following account of this truly wonderful specimen of human patience
+and skill is from a rough copy that I took some years ago. I regret that I
+cannot give any reference, as I made no note of my authority, which has now
+escaped my {447} recollection. But that is of little consequence, as the
+book is well known to bibliographists.
+
+Perhaps the most singular bibliographic curiosity is that which belonged to
+the family of the Prince de Ligne, and is now in France. It is entitled
+_Liber Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, cum Characteribus nulla
+materia compositis_. This book is neither written nor printed! The whole
+letters of the text are cut out of each folio upon the finest vellum; and
+being interleaved with blue paper, is read as easily as the best print. The
+labour and patience bestowed in its completion must have been excessive,
+especially when the precision and minuteness of the letters are considered.
+The general execution, in every respect, is indeed admirable; and the
+vellum is of the most delicate and costly kind. Rodolphus II. of Germany
+offered for it, in 1640, 11,000 ducats, which was probably equal to 60,000
+at this day. The most remarkable circumstance connected with this literary
+treasure is, that it bears the royal arms of England; but it cannot be
+traced to have ever been in this country.
+
+I now offer this notice, in the hope that the readers of "N. & Q." may
+supply farther particulars; such as the time of its commencement or
+completion, and also whether it is still in France. With respect to the
+arms of England, which yet present a puzzle to all antiquaries, I beg to
+submit a conjecture. I think it was intended as a present to our Henry
+VIII., when he was in such high favour at Rome, for his _Defence of the
+Seven Sacraments_, that Leo X. conferred on him the title of "Fidei
+Defensor," and which all our sovereigns have subsequently retained. But
+when he threw off the Papal authority, declared himself supreme head of the
+Church, and proceeded to confiscate its property, the intention of
+presentation was abandoned. This is at least plausible, as I do not mean
+that it was _originally_ designed for a present to "bluff Harry," because
+it was produced before he was born. But the arms were a work for any time;
+and I think they were executed just before his rupture with the Pope was
+known. To pay him a compliment afterwards from any part of Catholic Europe
+was, of course, out of the question.
+
+C. B. A.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Notes.
+
+_Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III._--
+
+    "Died at his palace at Lambeth, aged seventy-five, the Most Reverend
+    Thomas Secker, LL.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was many
+    years Prebendary of Durham, seventeen years Rector of St. James',
+    Westminster, consecrated Bishop of Bristol in 1734, and in 1737 was
+    translated to the See of Oxford. In 1750 he resigned the Rectory of St.
+    James, on his succeeding Bishop Butler in the Deanery of St. Paul's;
+    and on the death of Archbishop Hutton in 1758, was immediately
+    nominated to the metropolitan see, and confirmed at Bow Church, on the
+    20th of April in that year, Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was
+    Rector of St. James's when our present sovereign was born at Norfolk
+    House, and had the honour to baptize, to marry, and crown his majesty
+    and his royal consort, and to baptize several of their majesties'
+    children."--From _Pennsylvania Chronicle_, Oct. 3, 1768.
+
+M. R. F.
+
+Pennsylvania.
+
+_Copernicus._--The inscription on the tomb of the celebrated Copernicus, in
+the cathedral church at Thorn, in Prussian Poland, supposed to have been
+written by himself, deserves a place in "N. & Q."
+
+ "Non parem _Pauli_ gratiam requiro,
+  Veniam _Petri_ neque posco; sed quam
+  In crucis ligno dederat Latroni
+            Sedulus oro."
+
+FITZROY.
+
+_First Instance of Bribery amongst Members of Parliament._--The following
+extract from Parry's _Parliaments and Councils of England_, deserves, I
+think, a corner in "N. & Q.," especially at the present day:
+
+    "1571, A. R. 13, May 10.--Thomas Long, 'a very simple man and unfit' to
+    serve, is questioned how he came to be elected. He confesses that he
+    gave the Mayor of Westbury and another four pounds for his place in
+    parliament. They are ordered to repay this sum, to appear to answer
+    such things as should be objected against them in that house, and a
+    fine of twenty pounds is to be assessed on the corporation and
+    inhabitants of Westbury, for their scandalous attempt."
+
+ABHBA.
+
+_Richard Brinsley Sheridan._--In the "Life of Sheridan," by G. G. S.,
+prefixed to his _Dramatic Works_, published by Bohn in 1848, is the
+following passage (p. 90.):
+
+    "At the age of twenty-nine he had achieved a brilliant reputation, _had
+    gained an immense property_, and was apparently master of large
+    resources."
+
+And in an essay lately published, entitled _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_, by
+George Gilfillan, is this statement:
+
+    "Young Sheridan had no patrimony, _not a shilling_, indeed, _all his
+    life that he could call his own_."
+
+Which of these two contradictory accounts is true?
+
+In the _Life_ by G. G. S. are two glaring slips of the pen or of the press;
+at p. 8. it is said that Sheridan was born in the year 1771 (1751?), and at
+p. 44. that _The Duenna_ was brought out on the 21st of November, 1755
+(1775?).
+
+WILLIAM DUANE.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+{448}
+
+_Publican's Invitation._--Amongst various other ingenious contrivances
+adopted by the proprietors of the _rosoglio_ houses (anglice, dram-shops)
+in Valetta, to attract the custom and patronage of the gallant red-jackets
+that swarm in our streets at this time, one individual has put forth and
+distributed among the soldiers the following puzzle, which I send for the
+amusement of your readers. A very little study will suffice to master the
+mysterious document.
+
+   "THE PUBLICAN'S INVITATION.
+  Here's to Pand's Pen. DASOCI.
+  Alhou Rinha? R. M. (Les Smirt)
+  Ha! N. D. F. Unlet fri. Ends.
+  HIPRE! ign. Beju! Standk.
+  Indan! DEVIL'S PEAKO! F. N.
+  (One.)"
+
+JOHN O' THE FORD.
+
+Malta.
+
+_Bishop Burnet again!_--The following anecdote occurs in Mrs.
+Thistlethwaite's _Memoirs and Correspondence of Dr. Henry Bathurst, Lord
+Bishop of Norwich_, p. 7.:
+
+    "I have heard my father mention the following anecdote of my
+    grandfather, Benjamin Bathurst, Esq., and the Duke of Gloucester (Queen
+    Anne's son), during their boyhood. My grandfather and the Duke were
+    playfellows; and the Duke's tutor was Dr. Burnet. One day, when the
+    Doctor went out of the room, the Duke having as usual courted him, and
+    treated him with obsequious civility, young Bathurst expressed his
+    surprise that his Royal Highness should treat a person, whom he
+    disliked as much as he did the Doctor, with so much courtesy and
+    kindness. The Duke replied, 'Do you think I have been so long a pupil
+    of Dr. Burnet's without learning to be a hypocrite?'"
+
+J. Y.
+
+_Old Custom preserved in Warwickshire._--There is a large stone a few miles
+from Dunchurch, in Warwickshire, called "The Knightlow Cross." Several of
+Lord John Scott's tenants hold from him on the condition of laying their
+rent before daybreak on Martinmas Day on this stone: if they fail to do so,
+they forfeit to him as many pounds as they owe pence, or as many white
+bulls with red tips to their ears and a red tip to their tail as they owe
+pence, whichever he chooses to demand. This custom is still kept up, and
+there is always hard riding to reach the stone before the sun rises on
+Martinmas Day?
+
+L. M. M. R.
+
+_English Diplomacy_ v. _Russian_.--A friend of Sir Henry Wotton's being
+designed for the employment of an ambassador, came to Eton, and requested
+from him some experimental rules for his prudent and safe carriage in his
+negociations; to whom he smilingly gave this for an infallible
+aphorism,--that, to be in safety himself, and serviceable to his country,
+he should always, and upon all occasions, speak the truth (it seems a state
+paradox). "For," says Sir Henry Wotton, "_you shall never be believed_; and
+by this means your truth will secure yourself, if you shall ever be called
+to any account; and 'twill also put your adversaries (who will still hunt
+counter) to a loss in all their disquisitions and undertakings."
+(_Reliquiae Wottonianae_.)
+
+ALPHA.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Queries.
+
+ANCIENT TENURE OF LANDS.
+
+(Vol. ix., pp. 173. 309.)
+
+The following paragraphs, containing both Notes and Queries, will doubtless
+interest your readers
+
+At the last Kent assizes held at Maidstone (March, 1854) a case was tried
+by a special jury, of whom the writer was one, before Mr. Baron Parke;
+plaintiffs, "the Earl of Romney and others," trustees under an act of
+parliament to pay the debts of the borough of Queenborough, county Kent;
+defendants, "the Inclosure Commissioners of England and Wales." Tradition
+relates that Edward III. was so pleased with his construction of the Castle
+of Queenborough, that he complimented his consort by not only building a
+town, but creating a borough[4], which he named after her honour.[5] The
+case, in various shapes, has been before the law courts for some time, and
+was sent to these Kent assizes to ascertain whether Queenborough was either
+a manor or a reputed manor. In the course of the trial Baron Parke said,
+that, in despite of the statute _Quia Emptores_, he should rule that manors
+could be created when they contained the essentials.
+
+My first Query is, therefore, Have any manors been created in England since
+the passing of that statute? In my _History of Deptford_ I have alluded to
+the manor of Hatcham as one of the last manors I supposed to have been
+created.
+
+The Inclosure Commissioners, as the defendants, had been prayed by the
+Leeze-holders[6] of {449} Queenborough to inclose sundry lands called
+Queenborough Common; such inclosure was opposed by the trustees, who
+claimed under the act of parliament which constituted their existence to be
+in the position of the mayor[7], &c., and thus, if they were the lords of
+the manor, to have a veto upon the inclosure of the waste. The plaintiffs
+relied very much upon the following fact, which I here embalm as a _note_,
+and append thereon a _query_:--During the Mayoralty of Mr. Greet[8], a
+gentleman who died in 1829, a turbot was caught by a dredger on the
+Queenborough oyster-grounds: this unlucky fish was immediately pounced upon
+by the Queenborough officials, and seized for the mayor's behoof as his
+perquisite, _a la_ sturgeon.
+
+Query, a like instance?
+
+The Jury, after two days' long sitting, decided that Queenborough was
+neither a manor nor a reputed manor.
+
+A. J. DUNKIN.
+
+Dartford.
+
+[Footnote 4: _Parliamentary History_, 1765.--On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1654, an
+attempt was made to disfranchise Queenborough: the then member, Mr.
+Garland, suddenly and jocularly moved the Speaker that we give not any
+legacies before the Speaker was dead. This pleasant conceit so took with
+the House, as, for that time, Queenborough was reprieved, but was voted for
+the future to be dismembered, and to be added to the county.--Ap. Burton i.
+cxi. _Archaeological Mine_, i. 12. Queenborough was one of the victims
+included in Schedule A of the act of parliament known as "The Reform
+Bill."]
+
+[Footnote 5: In our own day Cove has been called Queenstown in honour of
+Queen Victoria.]
+
+[Footnote 6: _Leeze-holders_, a right of turning on the coming or Leeze
+(_Celtic_, Leswes) twenty-four sheep, which of late years, by a bye-law,
+has been arranged to substitute either two horses or three bullocks. A
+Leeze is supposed to contain about seven acres of land of herbage. The
+common consists of about 240 acres, including roads.]
+
+[Footnote 7: See Hogarth's Visit, &c. to Queenborough. A hearty laugh will
+repay the trouble. The mayor was then a thatcher: the room remains as it
+did in Hogarth's day; and as Queenborough was then, so it is now, one long
+street without any trade.]
+
+[Footnote 8: Of Mr. Greet's mayoralty many humorous tales are told: he was
+at times popular, but towards the close of his reign most decidedly the
+reverse. At his funeral the dredgers, &c. threw halfpence into his grave to
+pay his passage to the lower regions. He, one day, _ex officio_, sentenced
+a pilferer to a flogging at the cart's tail, and as executioners did not
+volunteer, he took off his coat, and himself applied the cat to the bare
+back of the culprit from one end of the street to the other. Mr. Greet was
+one of the best friends Queenborough ever had. After his death it plunged
+deeply into debt, had its paraphernalia and books seized and sold by the
+sheriff, and now all its property is in the hands of trustees to pay its
+debts, whilst its poor-rates are, a witness, a late mayor said, nine
+shillings in the pound. The debt was originally 12,700l.; but as no
+interest has been paid thereon, it is now 17,000l. The trustees have
+received about 4,000_l_., but this sum has been melted in subsequent
+litigation; for Queenborough men are mightily fond of supporting the law
+courts.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OWEN ROWE THE REGICIDE.
+
+Mark Noble, in his _Lives of the Regicides_, says that Owen Rowe was
+descended from Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London in 1568. In the
+Additional Manuscripts (British Museum), 6337. p. 52., is a coat in trick:
+Argent, on a chevron azure, three bezants between three trefoils per pale
+gules and vert, a martlet sable for difference; crest, a roe's head couped
+gules, attired or, rising from a wreath; and beneath is written, "Coll.
+Row, Coll. of hors and futt." These arms I imagine to have been the
+regicide's. If so, he was a fourth son. Query, whose? The Hackney Parish
+Register records, that on Nov. 6, 1655, Captain Henry Rowe was buried from
+Mr. Simon Corbet's, of Mare Street, Hackney. How was he related to Colonel
+Owen Rowe? I should feel particularly obliged to any correspondent who
+could furnish me with his descent from Sir Thos. Rowe.
+
+According to Mr. Lysons (_Environs of London_, vol. iv. p. 540.), the
+daughter of Mr. Rowland Wilson, and widow of Dr. Crisp, married Colonel
+Rowe; adding in a note, that he _supposes_ this Colonel Rowe to have been
+Colonel Owen Rowe, the regicide. The same statement is found in Hasted's
+_History of Kent_ (edit. 1778), vol. i. p. 181. I should be glad of some
+more certain information on this point; also, what issue Owen Rowe left, if
+any, besides two daughters, whose marriages are recorded in the Hackney
+Register.
+
+I am likewise anxious to learn whether there exist any lineal descendants
+of this family of Rowe, which had its origin in Kent; and thence branching
+off in the sixteenth century, settled and obtained large possessions in
+Shacklewell, Walthamstow, Low Layton, Higham Hill, and Muswell Hill.
+Through females, several of our nobility are descended from them.
+
+TEE BEE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WRITINGS OF THE MARTYR BRADFORD.
+
+The second and concluding volume of Bradford's writings, which I am editing
+for the Parker Society, is about to be concluded.
+
+Bradford's _Treatise against the Fear of Death, with Sweet Meditations on
+the Felicity of the Life to Come and the Kingdom of Christ_, was printed by
+Powell without a date, by Singleton without a date, and by Wolf 1583,--the
+last two editions being mentioned by Herbert, the first of Powell by Dibdin
+from Herbert's MS. additions. If any of your readers could inform me where
+a copy of any one of these editions is to be found, it would greatly
+oblige.
+
+I have also never met, after some years' inquiry, with the edition of
+Bradford's _Letter on the Mass_, printed by Waldegrave, Edinburgh.
+
+Some of the early editions of Bradford's writings are very rare. I possess
+his _Examinations_, Griffith, 1561; and _Meditations_, Hall, 1562; both of
+which are scarce: as also the only copy I have ever seen (though imperfect)
+of the first edition of his _Sermon on Repentance_, evidently printed in
+1553.
+
+His _Complaint of Verity_ is of extraordinary rarity. The only copy I am
+aware of is possessed {450} by the Rev. T. Corser, of Stand, Manchester;
+and was purchased (I believe) at Mr. Bright's sale for 17l.
+
+I should be obliged to any one who would supply me with any information
+about early editions of Bradford's writings.
+
+Every one is familiar with the story that Bradford, on seeing a criminal
+pass to execution, said, "There goes John Bradford but for the grace of
+God." Can any one inform me of any early printed authority for that story?
+
+A. TOWNSEND.
+
+Weston Lane, Bath.
+
+    [In the British Museum are the following works by John Bradford, bound
+    in one volume, press-mark 3932, c.:--_The Hvrte of Hering Masse_; also
+    Two Notable Sermons, the one of _Repentance_, and the other of the
+    _Lord's Supper_, Lond. 1581. On the fly-leaf is written, "A copy of
+    Bradford's _Hurte of Hearyng Masse_, printed for H. Kirham, 1596,
+    B. L., was in Mr. Jolley's sale, Feb. 1843. This edition by William
+    Copland for William Martyne without date is scarcer, and I believe
+    earlier.--R. H. BARHAM."]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries.
+
+_Courtney Family._--I throw an apple of discord to your heraldic,
+genealogical, and antiquarian, readers. Was there originally more than one
+family of Courtnay, Courtney, Courtenay, Courteney, Courtnaye, Courtenaye,
+&c. Which is right, and when did the family commence in England, and how
+branch off? If your readers can give no information, who can?
+
+S. A.
+
+Oxford.
+
+"_The Shipwrecked Lovers._"--Can you give me any account of the following
+tragedy, where the scene of it is laid, &c.? It is printed along with some
+poems, and appears never to have been acted. The name of the piece is _The
+Shipwrecked Lovers_, a tragedy in five acts, by James Templeton, Dublin,
+12mo., 1801. I regret that I am unable to give any account of the author,
+but perhaps some of your Irish readers may be able to do this.
+
+SIGMA.
+
+_Sir John Bingham._--In Burke's _Peerage and Baronetage_, article "Lucan,"
+it is stated that this gentlemen was high in rank in King James's army at
+the battle of Aughrim, and turned the fortune of the day in favour of
+William by deserting, with his whole command, at the crisis of the battle.
+A late number of the _Dublin University Magazine_ repeats this story on the
+authority of Mr. Burke, and it would therefore be satisfactory to know
+where the latter found a statement affecting so much the honour of the
+family in question, one of the first in my native county. The dates of Sir
+John's birth and marriage are not given, but the ages of several of his
+children are known, and from them it follows that, supposing the father of
+the first Lord Lucan not to have married till the mature age of fifty-five
+or sixty, he was barely of age at the time of the battle, therefore not
+likely to have been high in command. My countrymen are too much inclined,
+like the French, to attribute their disasters to treachery, or to any cause
+but the equal numbers and courage, and superior discipline, of their
+adversaries: but they have never done so to less purpose than when they
+ascribe the loss of that battle to a man who was in all probability not
+born in 1691, and must in any case have been a mere boy at the time. No
+peerage that I have met with gives the date of his birth, which would at
+once settle the question. It seems most unlikely, if such were actually the
+case, that the family, on attaining the peerage, should have revived the
+title of the gallant Sarsfield (whose representatives they were), and thus
+challenged public attention, always on the alert on such points in Ireland,
+to their alleged dishonour and betrayal of the cause for which he fought
+and fell.
+
+J. S. WARDEN.
+
+_Proclamation for making Mustard._--Did Queen Elizabeth issue a
+proclamation for "the right of making mustard?" And if so, what was the
+language of such proclamation?
+
+AN ADMIRER.
+
+_Judges practicing at the Bar._--A curious disquisition has run through "N.
+& Q." on the relinquishment of their sees by bishops, but I do not see that
+any of them are shown to have officiated as parish priests after quitting
+the episcopate.
+
+Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your readers,
+but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject.
+
+In Craik's _Romance of the Peerage_ there occurs:
+
+    "Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant
+    (afterwards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be first a
+    puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence
+    transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and after all
+    ended his days a practitioner at the bar."--Vol. iv. p. 291. note.
+
+Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he was
+counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced judge,
+Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686.
+
+Are these the only two instances of judges, _qui olim fuere_, practising at
+the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not the latest, does
+not etiquette forbid such practice now?
+
+W. T. M.
+
+Hong Kong.
+
+_Celebrated Wagers._--I should be glad if any correspondent will point out
+any remarkable {451} instances of the above. The ordinary channels for
+obtaining such information I am of course acquainted with.
+
+C. CLIFTON BARRY.
+
+"_Pay me tribute, or else_----."--In Mr. Bunn's late work, _Old England and
+New England_, I find this note:
+
+    "We all remember the haughty message of the ruler of a certain province
+    to the governor of a neighbouring one, 'Pay me tribute, or else----;'
+    and the appropriate reply, 'I owe you none, and if----.'"
+
+Not being of the totality reminiscent, may I beg for enlightenment? The
+anecdote sounds well, and I am therefore curious to know who the governors
+and what the provinces?
+
+W. T. M.
+
+Hong Kong.
+
+"_A regular Turk._"--We often hear of people bad to manage being "regular
+Turks." When did the phrase originate? Though not a journal for politics,
+"N. & Q." will no doubt breathe a wish for the present sultan to be, in the
+approaching warfare, "a regular Turk."
+
+PRESTONIENSIS.
+
+_Benjamin Rush._--I found the following in an old paper:
+
+    "Edinburgh, June 14, 1768. Yesterday Benjamin Rush, of the city of
+    Philadelphia, A. M., and Gustavus Richard Brown, of Maryland, were
+    admitted to the honour of a degree of Doctors of Physic, in the
+    university of this place, after having undergone the usual
+    examinations, both private and public. The former of whom was also
+    presented some time before with the freedom of this city."
+
+The Benjamin Rush here referred to subsequently became quite eminent as a
+physician. He took an active part in the struggle between the American
+colonies and the mother country, and was one of the signers of the
+Declaration of Independence. One of his sons was the American minister to
+London a few years since.
+
+Can any of your readers inform me why the freedom of Edinburgh was
+conferred upon him? In 1768 he could not have been over twenty-five years
+of age.
+
+INQUIRER.
+
+_Per Centum Sign._--Will you kindly inform me why the symbol % means per
+centum: viz. 5 %, 10 %, &c.?
+
+JAMES MILLS.
+
+_Burial Service Tradition._--About forty years ago, a young man hung
+himself. When his body was taken to the church for interment, the clergymen
+refused reading the burial service over him; his friends took him to
+another parish, and the clergyman of that place refused also; they then
+removed him to an adjoining one, and the clergyman received him and buried
+him. The last clergyman said, if any friend of the deceased had cut off his
+right hand, and laid it outside the coffin, no clergyman then could refuse
+legally receiving and burying the corpse. Query, is this true?
+
+May I ask your readers for an answer, as it will oblige many friends. The
+above happened in Derbyshire.
+
+S. ADAMS, Curate.
+
+_Jean Bart's Descent on Newcastle._--I find no notice, either in Sykes's
+_Local Records_, or in Richardson's _Local Historian's Table-book_, of the
+descent made on Newcastle in 1694 by the celebrated Jean Bart, whom the
+Dutch nicknamed "De Fransch Duyvel." Somewhere or other I have seen it
+stated that he returned to France with an immense booty. Perhaps some of
+your north country correspondents can tell us whether any record of his
+visit exists in the archives of the corporation of Newcastle or elsewhere?
+
+WILLIAM BROCKIE.
+
+Russell Street, South Shields.
+
+_Madame de Stael._--In _Three Months in Northern Germany_, p. 151., 1817,
+the following, passage occurs among some corrections of the mistakes of
+Madame de Stael:
+
+    "She knew the language imperfectly, read little, and misrepresented the
+    gossip which she heard, either from carelessness or misunderstanding.
+    When she censures Fichte, who she says had received no provocation from
+    Nicolai, for helping Schlegel to write a dull book against him when he
+    was too old to reply, she must have been ignorant of the fact, that
+    Nicolai lived and wrote many years after the publication; and that,
+    whether provoked or not, it is far from dull."
+
+I cannot find any mention of this dispute in Madame de Stael's _De
+l'Allemagne_, and shall be glad if any of your readers can direct me to the
+passage in her works, and also to the joint work of Schlegel and Fichte.
+
+R. A.
+
+Ox. and C. Club.
+
+_Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny._--I should be extremely obliged to any of
+your correspondents if they could give me the date of the death of Honoria,
+daughter and heiress of Edward, Lord Denny, who was married to James Hay,
+afterwards Earl Carlisle, on the 6th of January, 1607. She had issue James,
+second Earl of Carlisle, who died in 1660. As James Hay, then Baron Hay of
+Sawley, married his second wife (Lucy, daughter of Henry, Earl of
+Northumberland) in November 1617, the time of the first Lady Hay's death is
+fixed between 1607 and 1617.
+
+AUGUSTUS JESSOPP.
+
+N.B.--"Bis dat qui cito dat."
+
+Rectory, Papworth St. Agnes.
+
+_Hospital of John of Jerusalem._--Is there any book or manuscript relating
+to the proceedings of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England,
+{452} which enters so fully into particulars as to give the names of the
+members of the society and its officers about the year 1300?
+
+C. F. K.
+
+_Heiress of Haddon Hall._--Any one who visits Haddon Hall in Derbyshire,
+the property of the Duke of Rutland, is shown a doorway, through which the
+heiress to this baronial mansion eloped with (I think) a Cavendish some
+centuries ago. I have been informed that in a recent restoration of
+Bakewell Church, which is near Haddon Hall, the vault which contained the
+remains of this lady and her family was accidentally broken into, and that
+the bodies of herself, her husband, and some children, were found
+decapitated, with their heads under their arms; moreover, that in all the
+coffins there were dice. My informant had read an authenticated account of
+this curious circumstance, which was drawn up at the time of the discovery,
+but he could not refer me to it, and it is very possible that either his
+memory or mind may have failed as to the exact facts. At any rate they are
+worth embalming, I think, in the pages of "N. & Q." if any correspondent
+will kindly supply both "chapter and verse."
+
+ALFRED GATTY.
+
+_Monteith._--There is a peculiar style of silver bowl, of about the time of
+Queen Anne, which is called a Monteith. Why is it so designated? and to
+what particular use was it generally applied?
+
+P.
+
+_Vandyking._--In a letter from Secretary Windebanke to the Lord Deputy
+Wentworth (_Strafford Papers_, vol. i. p. 161.), P. C. S. S. notices this
+phrase, "Pardon, I beseech your lordship the over-free censure of your
+_Vandyking_." What is the meaning of this term, which P. C. S. S. does not
+find in any other writing of the period? Had the _costume_, so usual in the
+portraits by Vandyke, become proverbial so early as 1633, the date of
+Windebanke's letter?
+
+P. C. S. S.
+
+_Hiel the Bethelite._--What is the meaning of the 34th verse of the 16th
+chapter of the 1st Book of Kings? In one of Huddlestone's notes to Toland's
+_History of the Druids_, he quotes the acts of Hiel the Bethelite, therein
+mentioned, as an instance of the Druidical Custom of burying a man alive
+under the foundations of any building which was to be undertaken?
+
+L. M. M. R.
+
+_Earl of Glencairn._--Could you or any of your readers inform me of any
+particulars concerning the Earl of Glencairn, who, with a sister, is said
+to have fled from Scotland about 1700, or rather later, and to have
+concealed himself in Devonshire, where his sister married, 1712, one John
+Lethbridge, and had issue? Was this sister called Grace? Within late years
+they were spoken of by the very old inhabitants of Okehampton, Devon, and
+stories of the coroneted clothes, &c. were current.
+
+LODBROK.
+
+_Willow Bark in Ague._--I have seen recently some notices of the use of
+willow bark in ague. Will some kind correspondent inform me and others
+interested in the subject, where the information is to be found?
+
+E. C.
+
+_"Perturbabantur," &c._--Can any of your readers give the whole of the
+poem, of which the first two lines are--
+
+ "Perturbabantur Constantinopolitani,
+  Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus"?
+
+These lines are singularly applicable at the present moment.
+
+I am also desirous of knowing the history of this poem.
+
+P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Minor Queries with Answers.
+
+_Seamen's Tickets._--From an old paper, 1768:
+
+    "Feb. 8. Died at her house in Chapel Street, near Ratcliff Highway,
+    aged 95, Margaret McKennow, who kept a lodging-house in that
+    neighbourhood many years, and dealt in seamen's tickets. She is said to
+    have died worth upwards of 6000l., and just after she expired
+    twenty-nine quarter guineas were found in her mouth."
+
+What are seamen's tickets?
+
+W. D. R.
+
+Philadelphia.
+
+    [The system of paying seamen with tickets instead of cash caused great
+    discontent during the reign of Charles II., and, from the frequent
+    notices respecting it in Pepys's _Diary_, seems to have given our
+    Diarist great trouble. On November 30, 1660, he says: "Sir G. Carteret
+    did give us an account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the
+    parliament to try his project of discharging the seamen all at present
+    by ticket, and so promise interest to all men that will lend money upon
+    them at eight per cent. for so long as they are unpaid, whereby he do
+    think to take away the growing debt which do now lie upon the kingdom
+    for lack of present money to discharge the seamen." These tickets the
+    poor fellows sold at half price to usurers, mostly Jews; and to so
+    great an extent was the system carried, that in the year 1710 there was
+    a floating debt due to these usurers of ten millions paid by Harley
+    from a fictitious fund formed by the government.]
+
+_Bruce, Robert._--Can you tell me the name of the author of the following
+little work? It is small, and contains 342 pages, and is entitled:
+
+    "The Acts and Life of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce, King
+    of Scotland. Wherein also are contained the Martial Deeds of the
+    Valiant Princes Edward Bruce, Sir James Douglas, Earl Thomas Randal,
+    Walter Stewart, and sundry others. To which is added a Glossary,
+    explaining the difficult {453} Words contained in this Book, and that
+    of Wallace. Glasgow: printed by Mr. A. Carmichael and A. Miller.
+    MDCCXXXVII."
+
+JAMES P. BRYCE.
+
+    [This work is by John Barbour (sometimes written Barber, Barbere, and
+    Barbare), an eminent Scottish metrical historian. It has been said that
+    he received his education at the Abbey of Aberbrothock, where he took
+    orders, and obtained a living near Aberdeen. Dr. Henry supposes Barbour
+    to have become Archdeacon of Aberdeen in 1356. It is probable he died
+    towards the close of 1395. His poem has passed through several
+    editions, and is considered of high historical value. The earlier
+    editions are those of Edinburgh, 1616, 1670, 12mo. In 1790, Pinkerton
+    published "the first genuine edition from a MS. dated 1489, with notes
+    and a Glossary." The best edition, however, is that by Dr. Jamieson,
+    with Notes, and Life of the Author, Edinb. 4to. 1820.]
+
+_Coronation Custom._--At the coronations of Henry IV. and Richard III. a
+ceremony was performed which seems to indicate some idea of the elective
+sovereignty in England. The archbishop stood at each of the four corners of
+the dais in succession, and asked from thence the consent of the assembled
+Commons (Heylin, _Reform._, 1st edit., p. 32.). Did this ever take place at
+the coronation of English monarchs whose succession was not disputed?
+
+J. H. B.
+
+    [In after times this ceremony seems to be that called "The
+    Recognition." Sandford, speaking of the coronation of James II., says,
+    "The Archbishop of Canterbury standing near the king, on the east side
+    of the theatre, his majesty, attended as before, rose out of his chair,
+    and stood before it, whilst the archbishop, having his face to the
+    east, said as follows: 'Sirs. I here present unto you King James, the
+    rightful inheritor of the crown of this realm; wherefore all ye that
+    are come this day to do your homage, service, and bounden duty, are ye
+    willing to do the same?' From thence the said archbishop, accompanied
+    with the lord keeper, the lord great chamberlain, the lord high
+    constable, and the earl marshal (garter king of arms going before
+    them), proceeded to the south side of the theatre, and repeated the
+    same words; and from thence to the west, and lastly to the north side
+    of the theatre, in like manner: the king standing all this while by his
+    chair of state, toward the east side of the theatre, and turning his
+    face to the several sides of the theatre, at such time as the
+    archbishop at every of them spake to the people. At every of which the
+    people signified their willingness and joy by loud acclamations."]
+
+_William Warner._--Where can any account be found of Warner the poet, the
+author of _Albion's England_?
+
+I. R. R.
+
+    [Some account of William Warner will be found in Wood's _Athenae
+    Oxonienses_. vol. i. pp., 765-773. (Bliss); also in Percy's _Reliques
+    of Ancient English Poetry_, vol. ii. p. 261., edit. 1812. From the
+    register of Amwell, in Herts, it appears that he died there March 9,
+    1608-9, "soddenly in the night in his bedde, without any former
+    complaint or sicknesse;" and that he was "a man of good yeares and
+    honest reputation; by his profession an attorney at the Common
+    Please."--Scott's _Amwell_, p. 22. note.]
+
+"_Isle of Beauty._"--Who was the author of "Isle of Beauty?" I always
+thought Thomas Haynes Bayly, but some say Lord Byron. Not knowing Mrs.
+Bayly's immediate address, I send this Query. I much regret not asking her
+when I sent my volume of poems, with view of poor Bayly's Grove,
+Cheltenham.
+
+L. M. THORNTON.
+
+14. Philip Street, Bath.
+
+    [The "Isle of Beauty" is by Thomas Haynes Bayly, and is given among his
+    _Songs, Ballads, and other Poems_, edited by his widow, vol. i. p. 182.
+    edit. 1844.]
+
+_Edmund Lodge._--Can you give me the date of the death of Edmund Lodge, the
+herald? I suppose there will be some account of him in the Obituary of the
+_Gentleman's Magazine_, to which I wish to refer. Was he a descendant of
+the Rev. Edmund Lodge, the predecessor of Dawes in the Mastership of Queen
+Elizabeth's Grammar School at Newcastle-upon-Tyne?
+
+E. H. A.
+
+    [Edmund Lodge died January 16, 1839. An account of him is given in the
+    _Gentleman's Magazine_ for April, 1839, p. 433.]
+
+_King John._--Baines, in his _History of Liverpool_, p. 77., says King John
+"was at Lancaster on the 26th February 1206, and at Chester on the 28th
+February following." What route did he take from the first to the
+second-named town, and what was the object of his visit?
+
+PRESTONIENSIS.
+
+    [Upon reference to the Introduction to the _Patent Rolls_, it appears
+    that John was at Lancaster from Monday the 21st to Sunday 27th, from
+    Monday 28th to Wednesday 1st March at Chester, on Thursday 2nd at
+    Middlewich, Friday the 3rd at Newcastle-under-Lyne, and from the 4th to
+    the 8th at Milburn.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies.
+
+HAS EXECUTION BY HANGING BEEN SURVIVED?
+
+(Vol. ix., pp. 174. 280.)
+
+The copious Notes of your correspondents on this subject have only left the
+opportunity for a few stray gleanings in the field of their researches,
+which may, however, not prove uninteresting.
+
+The compiler of a curious 12mo. (_A Memorial for the Learned_, by J. D.,
+Gent., London, 1686) records, among "Notable Events in the Reign of Henry
+VI.," that,--
+
+    "Soon after the good Duke of Gloucester was secretly murthered, five of
+    his menial servants, viz. Sir Roger Chamberlain, Knt., Middleton,
+    Herber, {454} Artzis, Esq., and John Needham, Gent., were condemned to
+    be hanged, drawn, and quartered; and hanged they were at Tyburn, let
+    down quick, stript naked, marked with a knife to be quartered; and then
+    the Marquess of Suffolk brought their pardon, and delivered it at the
+    place of execution, and so their lives were saved."--P. 77.
+
+The following document from the Patent Rolls of the forty-eighth year of
+the reign of King Henry III. (skin 5.) affords conclusive evidence of the
+affirmative:
+
+    "Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Quia Inetta de Balsham pro receptamento
+    latronum et imposito nuper per considerationem curie nostre suspendio
+    adjudicata, et ab hora nona diei Iune usque post ortum solis diei
+    martis sequen. suspensa, viva evasit, sicut ex testimonio fide dignorum
+    accipimus. Nos, divinae charitatis intuitu, pardonavimus eidem Inetta
+    sectam pacis nostre que ad nos pertinet pro receptamento predicto, et
+    firmam pacem nostrum ei inde concedimus. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud
+    Cantuar. XVI^o. die Augusti.
+
+    "Convenit cum recordo LAUR. HALSTED, Deput. Algern. May. mil."
+
+Plot, in his _Natural History of Staffordshire_, p. 292., quotes this
+pardon, and suggests that possibly
+
+    "She could not be hanged, upon account that the larynx, or upper part
+    of her windpipe, was turned to bone, as Fallopius (_Oper._, tom. i.,
+    _Obs. Anat._, tract. 6.) tells us he has sometimes found it, which
+    possibly might be so strong, that the weight of her body could not
+    compress it, as it happened in the case of a Swiss, who, as I am told
+    by the Rev. Mr. Obadiah Walker, Master of University College, was
+    attempted to be hanged no less than thirteen times, yet lived
+    notwithstanding, by the benefit of his windpipe, that after his death
+    was found to have turned into a bone; which yet is still wonderful,
+    since the circulation of the blood must be stopt, however, unless his
+    veins and arteries were likewise turned to bone, or the rope not slipt
+    close."
+
+Besides the account of Anne Green, Denham, in the 4th book of his
+_Physico-Theology_, quotes the following instance from Rechelin (_De Aere
+et Alim. defect._, cap. vii.),--
+
+    "Of a certain woman hang'd, and in all appearance dead, who was
+    nevertheless restored to life by a physician accidentally coming in,
+    and ordering a plentiful administration of the spirit of sal ammoniac."
+
+(See also _The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, and the Danger of
+precipitate Interments and Dissections demonstrated_, 12mo., London, 1751.)
+
+A paragraph, stating that Fauntleroy, the notorious forger, had survived
+his execution, and was living abroad, has more than once gone the round of
+the newspapers. It is sometimes added that his evidence was required in a
+Chancery suit,--absurdly enough, as, if not _actually_, he was at least
+_legally_ dead.
+
+The story of Brodie, executed October, 1788, for an excise robbery at
+Edinburgh, is probably familiar to most. The self-possession and firmness
+with which he met his fate was the result of a belief in the possibility of
+his resuscitation:
+
+    "It is a curious fact, that an attempt was made to resuscitate Brodie
+    immediately after the execution. The operator was Degravers, whom
+    Brodie himself had employed. His efforts, however, were utterly
+    abortive. A person who witnessed the scene, accounted for the failure
+    by saying that the hangman, having been bargained with for a short
+    fall, his excess of caution made him shorten the rope too much at
+    first, and when he afterwards lengthened it, he made it too long, which
+    consequently proved fatal to the experiment."--_Curiosities of
+    Biography_, 8vo., Glasgow, 1845.
+
+There is a powerfully-written story in _Blackwood's Magazine_, April, 1827,
+entitled "Le Revenant," in which a resuscitated felon is supposed to
+describe his feelings and experience. The author, in his motto, makes a
+sweeping division of mankind:--"There are but two classes in the
+world--those who are _hanged_, and those who are _not hanged_; and it has
+been my lot to belong to the former." Many well-authenticated cases might
+still be adduced; but enough at least has now probably been said upon the
+subject, to show the possibility of surviving the tender mercies of
+Professor Calcraft and his fraternity.
+
+WILLIAM BATES.
+
+Birmingham.
+
+In Atkinson's _Medical Bibliography_, A. and B., under the head "Bathurst
+Rodolphus," is the following:
+
+    "Nuremberg, 4to., 1655. On a maid who recovered after being hanged.
+
+    "This is the remarkable case of Elizabeth Gren, whom Bathurst and Dr.
+    Willis restored after being executed, _i. e._ hanged, for infanticide.
+    'Vena incisa refocillata est.'
+
+    "These poor creatures are seldom considered as maids, after being
+    hanged for infanticide. A similar recovery also happened to a man who
+    had been executed for murder at York. My father had the body for public
+    dissection. Whether the law then required the body to be hung for one
+    hour or not, I cannot say; but I well remember my father's observation,
+    that it was a pity the wretch had ever been restored, as his morals
+    were by no means improved. Hanging is therefore by no means a cure for
+    immorality, and it will be needless (in any of us) trying the
+    experiment'--P. 255.
+
+H. J.
+
+Sheffield.
+
+There is a record of a person being alive immediately after hanging, in the
+_Local Historian's Table-book_, vol. ii. pp. 43, 44., and under the date
+May 23, 1752. It is there stated, Ewan Macdonald, a recruit in General
+Guise's regiment of {455} Highlanders, then quartered in
+Newcastle-upon-Tyne, murdered a cooper named Parker, and was executed on
+September 28, pursuant to his sentence. He was only nineteen years of age,
+and at the gallows endeavoured to throw the executioner off the ladder. The
+statement concludes with--"his body was taken to the surgeons' hall and
+there dissected;" and the following is appended as a foot-note:
+
+    "It was said that, after the body was taken to the surgeons' hall, and
+    placed ready for dissection, the surgeons were called to attend a case
+    at the infirmary, who, on their return, found Macdonald so far
+    recovered as to be sitting up. He immediately begged for mercy; but a
+    young surgeon, not wishing to be disappointed of the dissection, seized
+    a wooden mall, with which he deprived him of life. It was farther
+    reported, as the just vengeance of God, that this young man was soon
+    after killed in the stable by his own horse. They used to show a mall
+    at the surgeons' hall, as the identical one used by the surgeon."
+
+ROBERT S. SALMON.
+
+Newcastle-on-Tyne.
+
+The case of Anne Green is attested by a _third_ witness:
+
+    "In December, 1650, he was one of the persons concerned in recovering
+    Anne Green to life, who was hanged at Oxford on the 14th, for the
+    supposed murther of her bastard child."--"Memoir of Sir William Petty,
+    Knt.," prefixed to _Several Essays on Political Arithmetic_, p. 3., 4th
+    edit., London, 1755.
+
+CPL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+COLERIDGE'S CHRISTABEL.
+
+(Vol. vii., pp. 206. 292; Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.)
+
+MR. J. S. WARDEN might well express astonishment at the rash and groundless
+statement in "Blackwood" (Dec. 1839), that the third part of Christabel
+which Dr. Maginn sent to that magazine in 1820 "perplexed the public, _and
+pleased even Coleridge_." How far the "discerning public" were imposed upon
+I know not; the following extract will show how far the poet-philosopher
+was "pleased" with the parody.
+
+    "If I should finish 'Christabel,' I shall certainly extend it, and give
+    new characters, and a greater number of incidents. This the 'reading
+    public' require, and this is the reason that Sir Walter Scott's poems,
+    though so loosely written, are pleasing, and interest us by their
+    picturesqueness. If a genial recurrence of the ray divine should occur
+    for a few weeks, I shall certainly attempt it. I had the whole of the
+    two cantos in my mind before I began it; certainly the first canto is
+    more perfect, has more of the true wild weird spirit than the last. I
+    laughed heartily at the continuation in 'Blackwood,' which I have been
+    told is by Maginn. It is in appearance, and in appearance _only_, a
+    good imitation. I do not doubt but that it gave more pleasure, and to a
+    greater number, than a continuation by myself in the spirit of the two
+    first (_sic_) cantos (_qu._ would give)."--_Letters, &c._, Moxon, 1836,
+    vol. i. pp. 94-5.
+
+C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
+
+Birmingham.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GENERAL WHITELOCKE.
+
+(Vol. ix., p. 201.)
+
+General Whitelocke being on a visit to Aboyne Castle, in this county, the
+seat of the late Marquis of Huntley, then Earl of Aboyne, and a public
+market being held in the neighbourhood, the Earl, the General, and some
+other visitors, were seen sauntering amongst the cattle and the tents of
+the fair. Amongst the attenders of the country markets at that period was a
+woman of the name of Tibby Masson, well known in this city for her
+masculine character and deeds of fearlessness. Tibby had accompanied her
+husband, who was a soldier, to South America; and, along with him, had been
+present at the unfortunate siege of Buenos Ayres; and, as a trophy of her
+valour, she brought with her an enormous-sized silver watch, which she
+declared she had taken from the person of a Spanish officer who lay wounded
+in the neighbourhood of the city after the engagement. Tibby was standing
+by her "sweetie" (confectionary) stall in the Aboyne Market when the Earl
+and Whitelocke, and the other gentlemen, were passing, and she at once
+recognised her old commander. They stopped, and the General tasted some of
+her "sweeties," and saucily declared that they were abominably bad. Upon
+which Tibby immediately retorted: "They are a great deal better than the
+timmer (wooden) flints that you gave our soldiers at Bonny's Airs." On
+hearing this, the consternation of Whitelocke and his friends can more
+easily be imagined than described. They all fled from the field with the
+utmost rapidity, leaving Tibby completely victorious; and the General, so
+far as is known, never again visited Aberdeenshire.
+
+B. B.
+
+Aberdeen.
+
+I have not access to a file of newspapers, but have been frequently told by
+an old pensioner, who served under General Whitelocke: "We marched into
+_Bowsan Arrys_ (as he pronounced Buenos Ayres) without ere a flint in our
+muskets."
+
+L. G.
+
+The subjoined charade, which I have seen years ago, is perhaps preferable:
+
+ "My first is an emblem of purity,
+  My next against knaves a security;
+    My whole is a shame
+    To an Englishman's name
+  And branded will be to futurity."
+
+{456}
+
+I have also seen a sort of parody upon the above applied to Waterloo:
+
+ "My first, tho' it's clear,
+    Will oft troubl'd appear,
+  My next's an amusement so clever;
+    My whole is a name,
+    Recorded by fame,
+  To the glory of England for ever."
+
+M. J. C.
+
+If the _jeu d'esprit_ on the above name be worthy of preservation, the more
+correct version of it is as follows:
+
+ "My first is the emblem of purity,
+  My second is used for security;
+    My whole is a name,
+    Which, if I had the same,
+  I should blush to hand down to futurity."
+
+The authorship was ascribed (I believe with truth) to a lady of the name of
+Belson.
+
+M. (2)
+
+The following is the correct version:
+
+ "My first is an emblem of purity,
+  My second the means of security;
+    My whole is a name,
+    Which, if mine were the same,
+  I should blush to hand down to futurity."
+
+N. L. J.
+
+General Whitelocke died at Clifton, in his house in Princes Buildings.
+
+ANON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+_Gravelly Wax Negatives._--The only remedy I am acquainted with is to use
+the paper within twenty-four hours after excitement. I have tried the
+methods of Messrs. Crookes, Fenton, and How; in every case I was equally
+annoyed with gravel, if excited beyond that time; in fact, I believe all
+the good wax negatives have been taken within twelve hours. The Rev. Wm.
+Collings, who has produced such excellent wax negatives, 24 in. x 18
+(several were sent to the late Exhibition of the Photographic Society),
+informs me the above is quite his experience, and that he excites his
+papers for the day early in the morning. The cause lies, I believe, in the
+fault of homogeneity of the waxed paper, arising from unevenness in the
+structure of the paper exaggerated by the transparency of the wax, partly,
+perhaps, from a semi-crystallizing of the wax in cooling, and also from its
+being adulterated with tallow, resin, &c. As a consequence of this, the
+paper is filled with innumerable hard points; the iodizing and exciting
+solutions are unequally absorbed, and the actinic influence acting more on
+the weak points, produces under gallic acid a speckled appearance, if
+decomposition has gone to any length in the exciting nitrate by keeping.
+The ceroleine process, by its power of penetrating, will, I hope, produce
+an homogeneous paper, and go far to remove this annoyance.
+
+In answer to a former Query by MR. HELE, Whatman's paper of 1849 is lightly
+sized, and not hard rolled, so that twenty minutes' washing in repeated
+water sufficed to remove the iodide of potassium, and if long soaked the
+paper became porous, often letting the gallic acid through in the
+development. I have lately been trying Turner's and Sandford's papers; they
+require three or four hours' repeated washing to get rid of the salts,
+being very hard rolled. Many negatives on Turner's paper, especially if
+weak, exhibit a structural appearance like linen, the unequal density gives
+almost exactly the same gravelly character as wax, as the positive I
+inclose, taken from such a negative, shows. Not only ought collodion to be
+"structureless," as MR. SHADBOLT well expresses it, but likewise all the
+other substrata of iodide of silver.
+
+T. L. MANSELL.
+
+Guernsey.
+
+_Photographic Experience._--The plan proposed by DR. MANSELL, in the last
+Number of "N. & Q.," for comparison of photographic experiences, will, I am
+sure, prove of much practical advantage and I therefore lose no time in
+filling up the table published in your paper:
+
+  1. Eight minutes' exposure.
+  2. South Wales.
+  3. Mr. Talbot's original receipt.
+  4. Turner.
+  5. 3/8 inch.
+  6. 2 inches.
+  7. 3 inches. Focal length, 17 inches. Maker, Ross.
+
+I would also suggest that the character of the object copied should be
+included in the above table. My answer supposes a light-coloured building,
+of an ordinary sandstone colour. A view comprising foliage would require a
+much longer time for its full development. In working on the sea-coast, I
+find that the dark slate rocks of north Cornwall require an exposure in the
+camera half as long again as the blue mountain limestone cliffs of South
+Wales, which abound in actinic power.
+
+J. D. LLEWELYN.
+
+Pen-ller-gaer.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Replies to Minor Queries.
+
+_Turkish Language_ (Vol. ix., p. 352.).--Your correspondent HASSAN, who
+would much gratify our friends the Turks if he would spell his signature
+with one _s_ only, will find the object of his inquiry in a little book
+just published by Clowes, Military Publisher, Charing Cross, _Turkish and
+English Words and Phrases, for the Use of the British Army and Navy in the
+East_, price 1s. The pronunciation is given in the Roman character, and
+according to the plainest English rules.
+
+OSMANLI.
+
+_Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black Sea_ (Vol. ix.,
+p. 132.).--A reply respecting these important Charts, and their value, was
+given by the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House of Commons on March
+6, in consequence of an inquiry made by Mr. French. Sir James Graham {457}
+is stated by _The Times_ of the following day to have said on that
+occasion:
+
+    "The Charts alluded to by the hon. gentleman were most valuable, and
+    had been made use of; but subsequent observations, and farther surveys,
+    had in a great measure superseded them at the present time."
+
+ELLUM.
+
+_Aristotle on living Law_ (Vol. ix., p. 373).--Your correspondent H. P.
+asks where Aristotle says that a judge is a living law, as the law itself
+is a dumb judge. The first part of this antithesis is in _Eth. Nic._, v. 4.
+s. 7.:
+
+    "[Greek: Ho gar dikastes bouletai einai hoion dikaion empsuchon.]"
+
+    "The judge wishes to be justice incarnate."
+
+Your correspondent, however, probably had in his mind the passage of
+Cicero, _de Leg._, iii. 1.:
+
+    "Videtis igitur, magistratus hanc esse vim, ut praesit, praescribatque
+    recte et utilia et conjuncta cum legibus;--vereque dici, magistratum
+    legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum."
+
+The commentators compare an antithetical sentence attributed to
+Simonides,--that a picture is a silent poem, and that a poem is a speaking
+picture.
+
+L.
+
+_Christ's or Cris Cross Row_ (Vol. viii., p. 18.).--The Alphabet. See _The
+Romish Beehive_, 319.:
+
+ "In Bacon's _Reliques of_   +---+ _Rome_, p. 257., describing
+  the hallowing of churches, | A | among other ceremonies
+  is the following: 'There   | B | must be made in the
+                       +-----+ C +-----+
+  pavement of the      | D E F G H I K | church a crosse
+                       +-----+ L +-----+
+  of ashes and sand wherein  | M | the whole Alphabet,
+  or Christ's Crosse, shall  | O | be written in Greek and
+  Latin letters.'            | P |
+                             | Q |
+ "Sir Thos. More, in         | R | his Works, p. 606. H, says,
+ 'Crosse Rowe was printed    | S | on cards for learners.'
+  I first went to school     | T | at a dame's, and had a
+  Horn-Book (as it was       | V | called), in which was
+  the Alphabet in a form     | U | something like that here
+  given, and the dame        | W | called me and other beginners
+  to learn our               | X | 'Cris Cross Row;' at
+  that time the term was     | Y | used, that is, about
+  seventy years since."      | Z |
+                             +---+
+
+GODDARD JOHNSON.
+
+_Titles to the Psalms in the Syriac Version._--MR. T. J. BUCKTON (Vol. ix.,
+p. 242.) observes, in reference to the superscription [Hebrew: LMNTSCH
+BNGYNT], "For the chief performer on the neginoth," that "the Syriac and
+Arabic versions omit this superscription altogether, from _ignorance_ of
+the musical sense of the words." And lower down he speaks as if [Hebrew:
+NCHYLWT] were expressed in the Syriac by the word "church." I do not
+question the accuracy of MR. B.'s renderings of the Hebrew words, for they
+have been admitted for centuries; but I wish to observe that the translator
+of the Syriac should not be lightly charged with ignorance of Hebrew, as I
+can testify from an extensive acquaintance with that venerable version. I
+therefore cannot allow that the words were omitted by the translator for
+that reason. Besides, whenever he found a word untranslateable, he
+transferred it as it was. Nor do I admit that _nehiloth_, in Psalm v., is
+translated by the term "church." And this leads me to remark, what seems to
+have been overlooked by most writers, viz. that the Syriac version _omits_
+uniformly the titles of the Psalms as they are found in Hebrew[9]. The
+inscriptions contained in the common editions of these Psalms form no part
+of the translation. One of them refers to the destruction of Jerusalem by
+Titus! They are not always the same. I am acquainted with at least _three
+different sets_ of these headings contained in the Syriac MSS. in the
+British Museum. Erpenius omitted them altogether in his edition of the
+Psalter, and Dathe's follows his; for which very substantial reasons are
+given by him in the "Praef. ad Lect." of his _Psalterium Syriacum_, pp. 36,
+37., Halae, 1768.
+
+B. H. C.
+
+[Footnote 9: Except the words "of David:" I am not sure about these.]
+
+"_Old Rowley_" (Vol. ix., p. 235.).--The nickname of "Old Rowley," as
+applied to Charles II., seems to be derived from Roland, and has reference
+to the proverbial saying, "A Roland for an Oliver;" the former name being
+given to Charles, in contradistinction to the Protector's name of Oliver.
+Roland and Oliver were two celebrated horses, or, as some say, two pages of
+Charlemagne possessing equal qualities and hence, "I'll give you a Roland
+for your Oliver" was tantamount to "I'll give you as good as you send."[10]
+
+N. L. J.
+
+[Footnote 10: [See "N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 132.]]
+
+_Wooden Effigies_ (Vol.ix., p. 17.).--I beg to refer your readers to two
+figures which are in excellent preservation, and I am not aware that they
+have ever obtained public notice. In the church at Boxted, near Sudbury,
+Suffolk, which is the burial-place of the ancient family of Poley of Boxted
+Hall, are, with several other interesting monuments, the effigies of
+William Poley and Alice Shaa, his wife.
+
+He is in armour, with a beard, and the lady in the dress of her day, with a
+long pendant from her girdle, having suspended a small thick book and the
+arms of Poley impaling Shaa on the cover. At her feet a greyhound to fill
+up the space, in consequence of the lady being short, and their heads on
+the same line. There is an inscription in relief on the cushion on which
+the lady rests her head, which states that he died 17th December, 1587, and
+the lady March 7, {458} 1579. The figures rest on a tomb of masonry, and
+fill the recess of a window, with iron railing to protect them. Their are
+painted black, so that the nature of the wood is not apparent.
+
+Alice Shaa was the only daughter and heiress of her father, and the eldest
+son of this William and Alice was Sir John Poley, Knt. (See Morant's
+_Essex_, vol. i. pp. 151. 217. &c.)
+
+R. A.
+
+Melford.
+
+_Abbott Families_ (Vol. ix., pp. 105. &c.).--MR. ADAMS having very
+satisfactorily afforded the required information concerning Samuel Abbott,
+I shall still feel very greatly obliged if any other gentleman can throw
+any light upon the Archbishop's descendants, especially Sir Maurice's sons
+and their issue. I have in my possession an old will of an ancestress,
+sealed with the crest of Bartholomew Barnes, of London, merchant, whose
+daughter was second wife and mother to Sir Maurice's children, viz.,
+Bartholomew, George, Edward, and Maurice. Did any of them leave a son
+called James, born about 1690 or 1700?
+
+I. T. ABBOTT.
+
+Darlington.
+
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+
+NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
+
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+papers contained in it (too few in number) by the Rev. John Webb, that he
+will be sure that any work edited by that gentleman will be edited with
+diligence, intelligence, and learning. Such is the _Roll of the Household
+Expenses of Richard de Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, during part of the
+Years 1289 and 1290_, which he has just edited for the Camden Society, in a
+manner every way worthy of his reputation, which is that of one of the best
+antiquaries of the day. The present volume contains only the Roll, its
+endorsement, and an appendix of contemporary and explanatory documents, the
+whole being richly annotated by the editor. Another volume will contain his
+introduction, glossary, &c. On its completion we shall again call attention
+to a work which is so creditable both to Mr. Webb and to the Camden
+Society.
+
+The third volume of the cheap and handsome library edition of _The Works of
+Oliver Goldsmith_, edited by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., which forms a
+portion of _Murray's British Classics_, contains I. _The Bee_; II.
+_Essays_; III. _Unacknowledged Essays_; and IV. _His Prefaces,
+Introductions, &c._
+
+Our photographic friends will be glad to hear that a new edition of
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+author, besides including all the most recent improvements, the process of
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+
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+1. ALBERT TERRACE, NEW CROSS, HATCHAM, SURREY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALLEN'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing Size, Price, and Description of
+upwards of 100 articles, consisting of PORTMANTEAUS, TRAVELLING-BAGS,
+Ladies' Portmanteaus, DESPATCH-BOXES, WRITING-DESKS, DRESSING-CASES, and
+other travelling requisites, Gratis on application, or sent free by Post on
+receipt of Two Stamps.
+
+MESSRS. ALLEN'S registered Despatch-box and Writing-desk, their
+Travelling-bag with the opening as large as the bag, and the new
+Portmanteau containing four compartments, are undoubtedly the best articles
+of the kind ever produced.
+
+J. W. & T. ALLEN, 18. & 22. West Strand.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BENNETT'S MODEL WATCH, as shown at the GREAT EXHIBITION. No. 1. Class X.,
+in Gold and Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to all Climates,
+may now be had at the MANUFACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold London-made
+Patent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4
+guineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas.
+Ditto. in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with
+Chronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 guineas. Bennett's Pocket
+Chronometer, Gold, 50 guineas; Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch skilfully
+examined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers, 2l., 3l., and
+4l. Thermometers from 1s. each.
+
+BENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory, the
+Board of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen,
+
+65. CHEAPSIDE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+HEAL & SON'S SPRING MATTRESSES.--The most durable Bedding is a well-made
+SPRING MATTRESS; it retains its elasticity, and will wear longer without
+repair than any other mattress, and with _one_ French Wool and Hair
+Mattress on it is a most luxurious Bed. HEAL & SON make them in three
+varieties. For price of the different sizes and qualities, apply for HEAL &
+SON'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF BEDSTEADS and priced LIST OF BEDDING. It
+contains designs and prices of upwards of 100 Bedsteads, and prices of
+every description of Bedding, and is sent free by Post.
+
+HEAL & SON, 196. Tottenham Court Road.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the Parish
+of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St.
+Bride, in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186.
+Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of
+London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, May 13.
+1854.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Corrections made to printed original.
+
+page 443, "the last day of November, 1674.": '1574' in original.
+
+page 450, "(afterwards Sir Francis)": 'aftewards' in original. "p. 291.":
+'p. 29.' in original (reference checked).
+
+
+
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