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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: December 20, 2011 [EBook #38350] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, AUGUST 16, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: This text uses _underscores_ to indicate _italic_ +fonts. Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. An +angled C (Roman numeral) is shown as [C]. A list of volumes and +pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] + + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. IV.--No. 94. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + Traditions from remote Periods through few Hands 113 + + Minor notes:--Nelson's Coat--Strange Reason for keeping + a Public-house--Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury + Thorn--The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury--The + Three Estates of the Realm 114 + + QUERIES:-- + + Bensleys of Norwich 115 + + Minor Queries:--Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge + Castle--English Translation of Nonnus--Of Prayer in One + Tongue--Inscription in Ely Cathedral--Cervantes: what was + the Date of his Death?--Meaning of "Agla"--Murderers buried + in Cross Roads--Wyle Cop--The Devil's Knell--Queries on + Poem of Richard Rolle--Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of + Cromwell?--English Translation of Alcon 115 + + REPLIES:-- + + John Bodley, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault and R. J. King 117 + + Wither's "Hallelujah" 118 + + First Panorama 118 + + John a Kent 119 + + The British Sidanen 120 + + Petty Cury 120 + + The Word "Rack" in the Tempest.--The Nebular Theory 121 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Pseudo MSS.: The Devil, + Cromwell and his Amours--Anonymous Ravennas--Margaret + Maultasch--Pope's Translation or Imitations of + Horace--Brother Jonathan--Cromwell's Grants of + Land in Monaghan--Stanedge Pole--Baskerville the + Printer--Inscription on a Claymore--Burton Family--Notation + by Coalwhippers--Statue of Charles II.--Serius, where + situated?--Corpse passing makes a Right of Way--The + Petworth Register--Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia + Ecclesiæ S. Pauli"--Mistake as to an Eclipse--"A Posie + of other Men's Flowers," &c. 122 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 126 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 127 + + Notices to Correspondents 127 + + Advertisements 127 + + + + +Notes. + + +TRADITIONS FROM REMOTE PERIODS THROUGH FEW HANDS. + +On two or three occasions in the "NOTES AND QUERIES" instances have been +given of "Traditions from remote periods through few hands," of which it +would not be difficult to adduce numerous additional examples; but my +present purpose is to mention some within my personal experience, or +derived from authentic communication. + +In 1781, and my eleventh year, a schoolfellow took me to see his +great-grandmother, a Mrs. Arthur, in Limerick, then aged one hundred and +eight years, whose recollection of that city's siege in 1691, when she +was eighteen, was perfectly fresh and unimpaired, as, indeed, she was +fond of showing by frequent and even unsolicited recurrence to its dread +scenes, in which the women, history tells us, fearlessly participated. +We are here then presented with an interval of one hundred and sixty +years between a memorable event and my recollection of its narrative by +a person actively engaged in it. The old lady's family had furnished a +greater number of chief magistrates to Limerick than any other recorded +in its annals. + +Again in 1784, on a visit to my grandfather in the county of Limerick, +during a school vacation, I heard him, then in his eighty-sixth year, +say, that in 1714, on the accession to the British throne of the present +royal dynasty, he heard in Cork, where he was at school, a conversation +between several gentlemen on this change of the reigning family, when +one of them, a Mr. Martin, said that he was born the same day as Charles +II., on the 29th of May, 1631, and was present at the execution of +Charles I., the 29th of January, 1649. His family then resided in +London, where he joined Cromwell's Ironsides, and thence accompanied +them to Ireland. The transfer to him of some forfeited property +naturally induced him to settle there. Thus, between me and the +eye-witness of the regicidal catastrophe, only one person intervenes. + +In 1830 there died in London, at the eastern extremity, called the +World's End, an Irishman, aged one hundred and eleven, named Gibson, +whose father, a Scotchman, he told me, served under the Duke of Monmouth +at the battle of Sedgemore in July, 1685, and afterwards, in July, 1690, +under William, at the Boyne. Supposing, as we well may, the father to +have been born about 1660, in 1830, before the son's decease, the two +successive lives thus embrace one hundred and seventy years. I had +rendered the son some services which made him very communicative to me. +The father married and settled in Tipperary, where he became a Roman +Catholic, and no adherent of O'Connell could be more ardent in his cause +than the son. This veteran had served full seventy years in the royal +navy. + +In 1790 I recollect an old man of a hundred and twenty, who appeared +before the French National Assembly, and gave clear answers to questions +on events which he had witnessed one hundred and ten years before. + +Similar lengths of personal remembrance are related of old Parr, Lady +Desmond, and others, whose ages exceeded one hundred and forty years. +The daughter-in-law of the French king, Charles IX. (widow of his +natural son, the Duke of Angoulême), survived that monarch by a hundred +and thirty-nine years (1574-1713),--a rare, if not an unexampled fact. +The famous Cardan, in his singular work, _De Vita Propriâ_, states that +his grandfather's birth anteceded his own by a hundred and fifty years +(1351-1501). Franklin relates that his grandfather was born in the +sixteenth century, and reign of Elizabeth, as Sir Stephen Fox, the +grandfather of our contemporary statesman, Charles, was born shortly +after the death of James I., in 1627. A very near connexion of my own, +though much younger, is the grandson of a gentleman whose birth +retrocedes to Charles II., in 1672. Niebuhr grounds one of his +objections to the truth of the early Roman history on the very great +improbability of the long period of two hundred and forty-five years +assigned to the collective reigns of the seven kings. It does, indeed, +exceed the average of enthroned life; but the seven monarchs of Spain, +from Ferdinand (the Catholic) to the French Bourbon, Philip V., +inclusively, embraced a period of two hundred and sixty-seven years in +their successive rule (1469, when Ferdinand obtained the crown of +Arragon, and 1746, the date of Philip's death). The eminent German +historian offers, however, much stronger arguments in disbelief of the +Roman annals; but he had many predecessors in his views, though himself, +unquestionably, the most powerful writer on the subject. + + J. R. (An Octogenarian.) + +P.S.--In Vol. iv., p. 73., Madame du Châtelet's epitaph on Voltaire +contains an error, where _canis_ twice appears, but should be _carus_. +The lady's object was certainly complimentary, not sarcastic. My crampt +writing was of course the cause of the mistake, though, in the _opinion +of many_, the substituted word would not appear inapplicable to +Voltaire. A subjoined article of the same page, "Children at a Birth," +reminds me of something analogous in Mercier's _Tableau de Paris_, where +reference is made to the _Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences_ for the +fact. The wife of a baker, it is there stated, in the short space of +seven years, produced one-and-twenty children, or three at each annual +birth; and, to prove that the prolific faculty was exclusively his, he +made a maid servant similarly the mother of three children at a birth. +The major portion, it appears, of this numerous progeny long survived. +Bayle, in his article of Tiraqueau, a French advocate of the sixteenth +century, quotes an epigram, which would make him the father of +forty-five children, and, it is added, by one wife. If so, several must +at least have been twins: + + "Fæcundus facundus aquæ Tiraquellus amator, + Terquindecim librorum et liberum parens; + Qui nisi restinxisset aquis abstemius ignes, + Implesset orbem prole animi atque corporis." + +The accomplished authoress of _A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic_ +(1841, 2 volumes) was, it is well known, one of _four_ congenital +children in Norwich, where her father was an eminent physician. + + J. R. + + Cork, August, 1851. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Nelson's Coat_ (Vol. iii., p. 517.).--The recognition of the coat +Nelson wore at Trafalgar depends on its fulfilling a detail in the +following fact. The present Captain Sir George Westphal was a midshipman +on board the Victory, and was wounded on the back of the head: he was +taken into the cockpit, and placed by the side of Nelson. When +Westphal's wound was dressed, nothing else being immediately available, +Nelson's coat was rolled up and used as a support to Westphal's head. +Blood flowed from the wound, and, coagulating, stuck the bullion of one +of the epaulettes to the bandage; it was deemed better to cut off some +of the bullion curls to liberate the coat: so that the coat Nelson wore +on that day will be found minus of bullion in one of the epaulettes. + + ÆGROTUS. + +_Strange Reasons for keeping a Public-house._--A clergyman in the +south-west of England, calling lately on one of his parishioners, who +kept a public-house, remarked to her how sorry he was, when passing +along the road, to hear such noises proceeding from her house. "I +wonder," said he, "that any woman can keep a public-house, especially +one where there is so much drunkenness and depravity as in yours." "Oh, +Sir," she replied, "that is the very reason why I like to keep such a +house, because I see every day so much of the _worst part of human +nature_." + + T. W. + +_Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury Thorn._--It is handed down, +that when Joseph of Arimathea, during his mission to England, arrived at +Weary-all-hill, near Glastonbury, he struck his travelling staff into +the earth, which immediately took root, and ever after put forth its +leaves and blossoms on Christmas Day, being converted into a miraculous +thorn. + +This tree, which had two trunks, was preserved until the time of Queen +Elizabeth; when one of the trunks was destroyed by a Puritan, and the +other met with the same fate during the Great Rebellion. + +Throughout the reign of Henry VIII., its blossoms were esteemed such +great curiosities, and sovereign specifics, as to become an object of +gain to the merchants of Bristol; who not only disposed of them to the +inhabitants of their own city, but _exported_ these blossoms to +different parts of Europe. There were, in addition to these, relics for +rain, for avoiding the evil eye, for rooting out charlock, and all weeds +in corn, with similar specifics, which were considered, at this time, +_the best of all property_! + + T. W. + +_The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury._--This far-famed tree was at +the north of St. Joseph's chapel, in the abbey churchyard. It was +supposed to have been brought from Palestine by some of the pilgrims, +and was visited in former days, and regarded as sacred by _all ranks_ of +people; and, even so late as the time of King James, that monarch, as +well as his ministers and nobility, paid large sums for sprigs of it, +which were preserved as holy relics. + + T. W. + +_The Three Estates of the Realm._--Some, even educated persons of this +day, if asked which are the three estates of the realm, will reply, the +Queen, Lords, and Commons. That the three estates do not include the +Queen, and are therefore the Lords, the Clergy in Convocation, and the +Commons, is obvious from the title of the "Form of Prayer with +Thanksgiving to be used yearly upon the 5th day of November, for the +happy Deliverance of _King James I._ and the Three Estates of England +from the most Traitorous," &c.; and also from the following passage of +the Communion Collect for Gunpowder Treason:-- + + "Eternal God, and our most mighty Protector, we Thy unworthy + servants do humbly present ourselves before Thy Majesty, + acknowledging Thy power, wisdom, and goodness, in preserving _the + king_, AND _the three estates_ of the realm of England assembled + in Parliament, from the destruction this day intended against + them." + + W. FRAER. + + + + +Queries. + + +BENSLEYS OF NORWICH. + +As I am much interested in the above family, which I know to have +existed at Norwich, or the vicinity, for a century or more, and have +reason to think was one of some consequence, will you, through the +medium of your useful columns, allow me to ask some of your intelligent +correspondents who reside in that neighbourhood the following Queries? + +1. Is anything known of the family of the late Sir William Bensley +farther back than his father, Thomas Bensley? Sir William was born in +the county of Norfolk, and at an early age entered the navy; transferred +himself to the Honourable East India Company's service, made a large +fortune, was elected a Director of the Company 1771, created a baronet +1801, and died without issue 1809. + +2. Was Mr. Richard Bensley, an actor of some celebrity, who made his +"first appearance" in 1765 (he had previously been an officer in the +Marines, and, as I am informed, held the appointment of barrack-master +at Knightsbridge till his death in 1817), any connexion of the above, or +at all connected with Norwich? + +3. Cowper, in one of his letters [to Joseph Hill, Esq., dated +Huntingdon, July 3, 1765], says: + + "The tragedies of Lloyd and Bensley are both very deep. If they + are of no use to the surviving part of society, it is their own + fault," &c. + +Any information as to who this Bensley was, will be very acceptable; or +anything concerning the tragedies mentioned. + +4. Any intelligence respecting one "Isaac Bensley" of Norwich, weaver; +who was alive in 1723, as his son was in that year baptized at the +Octagon Chapel in that city. + +If any of your contributors, in their archæological researches among +tombstones and parish registers, should have met with the name of +Bensley, by addressing a "note" to you thereon they will confer a great +obligation on your constant reader and occasional contributor. + + TEE BEE. + + +Minor Queries. + +68. _Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge Castle._--In the court of the castle +of this place, there stands a colossal figure of what I take to be an +heraldic panther gorged with a ducal crown, supporting a shield of the +royal arms of France and England quarterly, as borne before the +accession of James I. + +The corresponding supporter is gone, but the base and one claw remain, +showing it to have been a beast of prey, and with it is a broken shield, +thereon, "party per pale three lions rampant;" the arms, and probably +the supporter of the Herberts, earls of Pembroke. The two figures have +evidently capped the piers of a gateway. + +Can any of your readers account for the presence of these figures here, +where the Herberts are not recorded to have possessed any property? + + ERMINES. + + Tonbridge, July 29. 1851. + +69. _English Translation of Nonnus._--I shall be obliged if any of your +correspondents will inform me if any translation of the poet Nonnus, +which contains, perhaps, most that is known about Bacchus, has ever been +made into English; if so, by whom, and when? + + ÆGROTUS. + +70. _Of Prayer in one Tongue._--Bishop Jewel, in his celebrated sermon +preached at Paul's Cross, quotes the following argument as used by +Gerson, sometime Chancellor of Paris: + + "There is but one only God; ergo, all nations throughout the world + must pray to Him in one tongue." + +The editor of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel cannot discover the +argument in the works of Gerson; but if any of your readers can point +out where it may be found, I shall be much obliged. + + N. E. R. (a Subscriber). + +71. _Inscription in Ely Cathedral._--M. D. (Great Yarmouth) is anxious +to have the meaning of the following inscription explained. It is on a +tombstone in Ely Cathedral. + + Human + Redemption + 590 [x] 590 [x] 590 + Born [o] Sara [o] Watts + + Died + 600 [x] 600 [x] 600 + 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 + + Aged + Y 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 + M 3 [x] d 31 - 3 + h 3 [x] 3 [x] 3 [x] 12 + + Nations make fun of his + Commands. + + -------- + + S. M. E. + Judgements begun on Earth. + + In memory of + JAMES FOUNTAIN. + Died August 21, 1767. + Aged 60 years. + +72. _Cervantes--what was the Date of his Death?_--In the Life prefixed +to a corrected edition of Jarvis's translation, published by Miller, +1801, it is stated to be April 23, 1616; and it is added: + + "It is a singular coincidence of circumstances, that the same day + should deprive the world of two men of such transcendent abilities + as Cervantes and Shakspeare, the latter of whom died in England on + the very day that put an end to the life of the former in Spain." + +Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, in his Life of his uncle, the poet, remarks +on his decease on the anniversary of the death of Shakspeare, but makes +no allusion to the double anniversary; and in the Life of Cervantes +prefixed to Smollet's translation of _Don Quixote_, the day of +Cervantes' death is somewhat differently stated. + + GEO. E. FRERE. + +73. _"Agla," Meaning of._--I have in my possession a silver ring, found +some time since at a place called "Grungibane" in this neighbourhood. +The hoop is flat both inside and out, about a quarter of an inch broad. +On the outside, occupying about half the length, is the following +inscription: "+ AGLA." + +I should feel great obliged by some of your learned correspondents +decyphering the above. + + JOHN MARTIN. + + Downpatrick. + +74. _Murderers buried in Cross Roads._--Though the lines of Hood's, + + "So they buried him where the cross roads met + With a stake in his inside." + +occur in one of his comic poems, I have often heard it gravely stated +that it was formerly the custom to bury murderers with a stake driven +through the body, where cross roads meet. Was this ever a _custom_, and +when was "formerly?" Are there many such tragic spots in England and can +I find them enumerated anywhere? + + P. M. M. + +75. _Wyle Cop._--This is the name of a street, or rather bank in +Shrewsbury, leading from the English Bridge to High Street. It has +always struck me as being a curious name; and I should feel obliged to +any of your readers who could inform me what is the origin of the place +being so called, or if there is any meaning in the words beyond being +the name of a place. + + SALOPIAN. + +76. _The Devil's Knell._--In the _Collectanea Topographica_, vol. i. p. +167., is the following note: + + "At Dewsbury, Yorkshire, there is a bell called 'Black Tom of + Sothill:' the tradition is, that it is as expiatory gift for a + murder. One of the bells, perhaps this one, is tolled on + Christmas-eve as at a funeral, or in the manner of a passing-bell: + and any one asking whose bell it was, would be told that it was + the _devil's knell_. The moral of it is, that the devil died when + Christ was born. The custom was discontinued for many years, but + was revived by the vicar in 1828." + +Is the gift of a bell a common expiatory gift for crime? And does the +custom of tolling the _devil's knell_ on Christmas eve exist in any +other place at the present time? + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +77. _Queries on Poems of Richard Rolle_ (Vol. iv., p. 49.).--I should be +glad to ask a question or two of your Cambridge correspondent, touching +his very interesting contribution from the MS. remains of Richard Rolle +of Hampole. + +What language is meant by the _deuenisch_? + +What is a _guystroun_? + +How does the word _chaunsemlees_ come to mean shoes? + +An expression very strange to English verse occurs in the line, + + "Hir cher was ay _semand_ sori." + +I can think of nothing to throw light upon this intensive adverb, except +the Danish _saamænd_, which is generally used in that language (or +rather _was_ used, i.e. when Holberg wrote his comedies) as an +affirmatory oath. Native authorities explain it to mean "_so_ it is, by +the holy _men_," or in other terms, "by the saints I swear." + +I have no doubt that the same kindness which led your correspondent to +communicate those delightful extracts, will also make him willing to +assist the understanding of them. + + J. E. + + Oxford. + +78. _Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?_--Mr. Carlyle, in +treating on the biographies of Oliver Cromwell, says that the _Short +Critical Review of the Life of Oliver Cromwell_, by a gentleman of the +Middle Temple, was written by a certain "Mr. Banks, a kind of a lawyer +and playwright," and that the anonymous _Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord +Protector of the Commonwealth, impartially collected, &c._, London, +1724, which Noble ascribes to Bishop Gibson, was by "one Kember, a +dissenting minister of London." + +On the other hand, Mr. Russell, in his _Life of Oliver Cromwell_, 2 +vols. 12mo. 1829, says: + + "There is an anonymous work deserving of some notice, entitled _A + Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell_. + The title professes that it was written by a gentleman of the + Middle Temple, but there is reason to believe that it proceeded + from the pen of the learned Bishop Gibson." + +It would seem, therefore, by these statements, that two different lives +of the Great Protector have been ascribed to Gibson. Query, Did Gibson +ever write a life of Cromwell; and if so, which is it? + +It is well worth knowing which Gibson did write, if he wrote one at all, +for he was connected with the Cromwell family, and, what is of more +consequence, a learned, liberal man, not given to lying, so that his +book probably contains more truth than any of the other Cromwell +biographies of that time. + + DRYASDUST. + +79. _English Translation of Alcon._--Is there any translation of _Alcon_ +by Baldisare Castiglione? The _Lycidas_ of Milton is a splendid +paraphrase of it. The parallel passages are to be found in (I think) No. +47. of the _Classical Journal_, published formerly by Valpy. The +prototypes of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are at the beginning of +Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_. Thus three of Milton's early poems +cannot be termed wholly original. + + ÆGROTUS. + + + + +Replies. + + +JOHN BODLEY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 59.) + +John Bodley is a name that ought not to be passed over without due +reverence. He not only fostered the translation of the Genevan Bible, +but was specially interested in its circulation throughout England. +Neither Fox, Burnet, or Strype, Mr. Todd, or Mr. Whittaker give us any +particular information respecting him. Lewis glances at him as _one_ +John Bodley; and Mr. Townley, in his valuable _Biblical Literature_, +after some notice of Whittingham, Gilby, Sampson, &c., closes by saying, +"Of John Bodleigh no account has been obtained." + +This good and pious man was the father of the celebrated Sir Thomas +Bodley. He was born at Exeter, and according to the statement of his son +(_Autobiography_, 4to., Oxf. 1647),-- + + "In the time of Queen Mary, after being cruelly threatened and + narrowly observed by those that maliced his religion, for the + safety of himself and my mother (formerly Miss Joan Hone, an + heiress in the hundred of Ottery St. Mary), who was wholly + affected as my father, knew no way so secure as to fly into + Germany; where, after a while, he found means to call over my + mother, with all his children and family, when he settled for a + while at Wesel, in Cleveland, and from thence we removed to the + town of Frankfort. Howbeit, we made no long tarriance in either of + these towns, for that my father had resolved to fix his abode in + the city of Geneva, where, as far as I remember, the English + Church consisted of some hundred members." + +John Bodley returned to England in 1559, and on the 8th of January, +1560-61, a patent was granted to him by Queen Elizabeth, "to imprint, or +cause to be imprinted, the English Bible, with annotations." This +privilege was to last for the space of seven years. In 1565 Bodley was +preparing for a new impression; and by March the next year, a careful +review and correction being finished, this zealous reformer wished to +_renew_ his patent beyond the seven years first granted. It does not +appear, however, that his application to the authorities had the desired +effect; for it will be remembered that Archbishop Parker's Bible was now +in the field, and the Queen's Secretary, Sir William Cecil, was +compelled to act with caution. A curious letter, addressed by the +Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London to Sir William Cecil, +concerning the extension of Bodley's privilege, is printed from the +Lansdown MS. No. 8. (Art. 82.), in _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, +edited by Sir Henry Ellis for the Camden Society. + +For a full history of the Geneva Bible, I beg to refer S. S. S. to the +second volume of Anderson's _Annals of the English Bible:_ Lond. 2 vols. +8vo. 1845. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +In the notice of Sir Thomas Bodley contained in Prince's _Worthies of +Devon_, S. S. S. will find some particulars relating to his father, John +Bodley. Prince's account of Sir Thomas is "from a MS. on probable +grounds supposed to be his own handwriting, now in the custody of a +neighbour gentleman," (Walter Bogan of Gatcombe, near Totnes.) From +this it appears that John Bodley was long resident at Geneva-- + + "Where [says Sir Thomas], as far as I remember, the English church + consisted of some hundred persons. I was at that time of twelve + years of age, but through my father's cost and care sufficiently + instructed to become an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew, of + Beraldus in Greek, of Calvin and Beza in divinity, and of some + other professors in the university, which was then newly erected: + besides my domestical teachers in the house of Philibertus + Saracenus, a famous physician in that city, with whom I was + boarded, where Robertus Constantinus, that made the Greek Lexicon, + read Homer unto me." + +There is, however, no mention of John Bodley's having been one of the +translators of the Bible. + + R. J. KING. + + +WITHER'S "HALLELUJAH." + +(Vol. iii., p. 330.) + +A correspondent, S. S. S., inquires concerning one of the numberless, +and now almost fameless, works of George Wither, a poet of the +seventeenth century, famous in his generation, but unworthily disparaged +in that which followed him; the names of Quarles and Wither being +proverbially classed with those of Bavius and Mævius in the Augustan +age. The _Hallelujah_ of the latter has become precious from its rarity. +A copy of this volume (of nearly 500 pages) was lent to me several years +ago, by a collector of such treasures. On the blank at the back of the +cover, there was written a memorandum that it had been bought at Heber's +sale by Thorpe the bookseller for sixteen guineas; my friend, I had +reason to believe, paid a much higher price for it, when it fell into +his hands. The contents consist of several hundreds of _hymns_ for all +sorts and conditions of men, on all the ordinary, and on many of the +extraordinary circumstances of human life. Of course they are very +heterogeneous, yet no small number are beyond the average of such +compositions in point of devotional and poetical excellence. + +The author himself, with the consciousness of Horace, in his + + "Exegi monumentum ære perennius," + +crowns his labours at the 487th page with the following "Io triumphe" +lines:-- + + "Although my Muse flies yet far short of those, + Who perfect Hallelujahs can compose, + Here to affirm I am not now afraid, + What once in part a heathen prophet said, + With slighter warrant, when to end was brought + What he for meaner purposes had wrought; + _The work is finished_, which nor human power, + Nor flames, nor times, nor envy shall devour, + But with devotion to God's praise be sung + As long as Britain speaks her English tongue, + Or shall that Christian saving faith possess, + Which will preserve these Isles in happiness; + And, if conjecture fail not, some, that speak + In other languages, shall notice take + Of what my humble musings have composed, + And, by these helps, be often more disposed + To celebrate His praises in their songs, + To whom all honour and all praise belongs." + +How has this fond anticipation been fulfilled? There are not known (says +my authority) to be more than _three_ or _four_ copies in existence of +this indestructible work; and the price in gold which a solitary +specimen can command, is no evidence of anything but its market value. +Had its poetic worth been proportionate, its currency might have been as +common as that of Milton's masterpiece, and its trade price as low as +Paternoster Row could afford a cheap edition of the _Pilgrim's +Progress_. + + J. M. G. + + Hallamshire. + +P.S.--Lowndes says: + + "Few books of a cotemporary date can more readily be procured than + Wither's first _Remembrancer_ in 1628; few, it is believed, can be + more difficult of attainment than his second _Remembrancer_, + licensed in 1640, of which latter Dalrymple observes, 'there are + some things interspersed in it, nowhere, perhaps, to be + surpassed.'"--_Bibliographer's Manual_, p. 1971. + + +FIRST PANORAMA. + +(Vol. iv., p. 54.) + +I did not speak of my own recollection of Girtin's panorama; my memory +cannot reach so far back. It was my father who does perfectly remember +_Girtin's_ semicircular panorama. I think the mistake must be with H. T. +E. Some years back a large collection of Girtin's drawings and sketches +were sold at Pimlico; my father went to see them, and was delighted to +find among them some of the original sketches for this panorama, which +he immediately recognised and bought. He afterwards showed them to +Girtin's son, now living in practice as a surgeon at Islington (I +believe), who identified them as his father's work, and with whom I went +to see the painting, when not many years back it was found in a +carpenter's loft. Girtin certainly was a painter principally in water +colour, and one who, with the present J. M. W. Turner, contributed much +to the advancement of that branch of art; but I do not see how that is a +reason why he did not paint a panorama. I should think it not unlikely +that two semicircular panoramas of the same subject were painted; and, +therefore, with all deference, believe that the mistake is with H. T. E. +Girtin's son, if applied to, could, and I am sure would, give any +information he possessed readily. + + E. N. W. + +We are not yet quite right about the first panorama, but perhaps the +following will close the discussion. + +I have lately been sitting with Mr. Barker (ætat 78), and he tells me +that, when quite a boy, he sketched for his father the view of Edinburgh +from the observatory on the Calton Hill: in the foreground was Holyrood +House; that _that_ was a half circle, and was exhibited in Edinburgh. + +So much was thought of the discovery of its being _possible_ to take a +view beyond the old rule of sixty degrees, that they went to London, and +then he took the view from the top of the Albion Mills, as was stated in +Vol. iv., p. 54. + +That was three quarters of a circle, and was exhibited in Castle Street, +Leicester Square. Afterwards the whole circle was attempted. The idea of +painting a view more than sixty degrees, was suggested by his mother. +His father did not work at them, he being a portrait painter; but _he_ +did, young as he was. Mr. Robert Barker and his wife were both Irish; +but Henry Aston the son was born in Glasgow. + + H. T. ELLACOMBE. + + Clyst St. George. + + +JOHN A KENT. + +(Vol. iv., p. 83.) + +As I have not seen the _Athenæum_, I send the following notes, in +uncertainty whether or not they may prove acceptable to MR. COLLIER. + +_Sion y Cent_, i.e. John a Kent, or John of Kentchurch, is very +generally believed in Wales to have been Owen Glendowr; though some +few--unable to account for the mysterious disappearance of the hero--are +still firmly convinced that he sleeps, like Montezuma and various other +mighty men, in some deep cavern, surrounded by his warriors, until the +wrongs of his country shall call him forth once more to lead them on to +battle. + +The following extracts are from notes appended [by the editors] to some +poems of John a Kent which are published amongst the "Iolo MSS." by the +"Welsh MSS. Society." + + "... John of Kent, as he is called, is said to have been a priest + at Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on the confines of Wales, about + the beginning of the fifteenth century. He still enjoys a high + degree of popularity, in the legendary stories of the + principality, as a powerful magician. There is in the possession + of Mr. Scudamore, of Kentchurch, an ancient painting of a monk, + supposed to be a portrait of John of Kent; and as the family of + Scudamore is descended from a daughter of Owen Glendowr, at whose + house that chieftain is believed to have passed in concealment a + portion of the latter part of his life, it has been supposed that + John of Kentchurch was no other than Owen Glendowr himself," &c. + &c.--Page 676., note to the poem on _The Names of God_. + + "... The author was a priest of Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on + the confines of Monmouthshire and Breconshire, and is said to have + lived in the time of Wickliffe, and to have been of his party. As + the parish of Kentchurch is adjacent to that of Oldcastle, the + residence of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, it is by no means + impossible that John of Kentchurch may also have favoured the same + opinions; and may in some measure sanction the idea." + + "... The poet then proceeds to speak of the indignation of the + well-robed bishops, the monks, friars and priests; and in the + course of the composition he makes some strong animadversions on + the luxurious living of the churchmen, stating that formerly the + friars were preachers, who possessed no wealth, and went about on + foot with nothing but a staff; but that they now possessed horses, + and frequented banquets," &c. &c.--Page 687., notes to _A Poem to + another's Book_, by John of Kentchurch; from the collection of + Thomas ap Jevan of Tre'r Bryn, made about 1670. + +The following words occur in this poem:-- + + "... onid côf cwymp + Olcastr, ti a gair ailcwymp." + + "---- rememberest thou not the fall + Of Oldcastle?--Thou shall have a repetition of the fall." + +In addition to the two poems here mentioned, the collection contains one +"_Composed by John of Kent on his death-bed_;" in which are some lines +of considerable beauty: and also one on _The Age and Duration of +Things_. + +The parish church of Kentchurch is dedicated to St. Mary. I hope to be +able to send you some further information on the subject, but I well +know that quotations from memory are _nearly_ valueless. Meanwhile, the +following note on the mysterious disappearance to which I have already +alluded may be not uninteresting: I give it as translated by the editors +of the Iolo MSS. + + "In 1415, Owen disappeared, so that neither sight nor tidings of + him could be obtained in the country. It was rumoured that he + escaped in the guise of a reaper; bearing[1] ... according to the + testimony of the last who saw and knew him; after which little or + no information transpired respecting him, nor of the place or + manner of his concealment. The prevalent opinion was, that he died + in a wood in Glamorgan; but occult chroniclers assert that he and + his men still live, and are asleep on their arms, in a cave called + Govog y ddinas, in the Vale of Gwent, where they will continue, + until England becomes self-debased; but that then they will sally + forth, and reconquer their country, privileges, and crown for the + Welsh, who shall be dispossessed of them no more until the day of + judgment, when the world shall be consumed with fire, and so + reconstructed, that neither oppression nor devastation shall take + place any more: and blessed will be he who shall see the + time."--Page 454. _Historical Notices extracted from the Papers of + the Rev. Evan Evans, now in the Possession of Paul Panton, Esq., + of Anglesea._ + + [Footnote 1: The manuscript is defective here. "A sickle" was + probably the word.] + + SELEUCUS. + + +THE BRITISH SIDANEN. + +(Vol. iv., p. 83.) + +MR. J. P. COLLIER will find all the information that Cambrian +antiquaries can give him respecting Sidanen in Powell's _Cambria_, +Matthew Paris, Wynne's _Caradoc_, and Warrington's _History of Wales_, +under the year 1241. The history is given at most length in Warrington; +where the share which Sidanen had in an interesting episode in Cambrian +history is fully developed. There were two Welsh princes named Llywelyn, +who stood to each other in the following relation: + + LLYWELYN AB JORWERTH + (died in 1240). + | + +------+-------+-----------+ + | | | + GRIFFITH, DAVID. GLADYS, a + married to daughter. + _Senena_, + daughter of a + Cambrian lord + named Caradoc + ab Thomas. + | + +--------------------------+--------+ + | | | + LLYWELYN AB GRIFFITH, OWEN. DAVID. + last Prince of Wales. + +The Prince of Wales mentioned by Munday is the first, Llywelyn ab +Jorwerth, whose descent, as his father was not allowed to reign on +account of personal deformity, we had better indicate: + + OWEN, king of North Wales. + | + (Eldest son) JORWERTH, the _Broken-nosed_. + | + LLYWELYN AB JORWERTH. + +Llywelyn, as has been shown, had two sons, Griffith and David, the first +and eldest of whom, being a turbulent prince, was set aside by his +father at a solemn assembly of Cambrian lords, in 1238, and David was +elected to succeed his father. In 1240, David became king of North +Wales, and one of his first acts was to apprehend his brother and his +son Owen, and put them in prison. This was done with the connivance of a +Bishop of Bangor: but that worthy, fearing that the scandal would spread +abroad, intrigued with _Senena_, the _daughter-in-law_, and not the +daughter of Prince Llywelyn, and wife of his son Griffith, for his +release. Overtures were made to Henry III.; and certain lords having +joined the confederacy, stipulations were entered into, and Henry +marched against King David. David, who had married the king's daughter, +now began to counterplot, in which he was quite successful; for Henry, +who had come to release Griffith, by _special contract_ with his +brother, took him, with his wife Senena, and his son Owen, with him to +London, and imprisoned them in the Tower, in attempting to escape from +whence, two years afterwards, Griffith lost his life. Such is a brief +outline of all that is known of Senena, who is undoubtedly the Sidanen +of Munday, and whose name is variously written _Sina_, _Sanan_, +_Sanant_, and in the Latin chronicle _Senena_. The negotiations here +alluded to, with the names of all the parties engaged in them, will be +found in the authorities herein named; all of which being in English, +MR. COLLIER can easily consult. + +John a Cumber is probably John y Kymro, or John the Cambrian; but I know +nothing of him. + +Respecting John of Kent there is but little else known than may be found +in Coxe's _Monmouthshire_, and Owen's _Cambrian Biography_, sub "Sion +Cent." There is, however, a tradition in this neighbourhood that he was +born at Eglwys Ilan, in the county of Glamorgan; and the road is shown +by which he went to Kentchurch, in Herefordshire. It was at Eglwys Ilan +that he is reported to have pounded the crows by closing the park gates. +As this story has not appeared in English print, I will endeavour to +furnish you again with a more circumstantial statement. Sion Kent, who +lived about 1450, appears to have derived his name from Kent Chester, or +Kent Church. He was a monk, holding Lollard opinions; and a bard of +considerable talent and celebrity. As a matter of course, he was on good +terms with his Satanic majesty; for he was a mighty reputation as a +conjuror. MR. COLLIER may find a portion of one of his poems, translated +in the Iolo MSS., page 687. Should this, or any other authority herein +named, not be accessible to MR. COLLIER, it would afford me great +pleasure to send him transcripts. + +There is a very gross anachronism in making Sion, _lege_ Shôn Kent, to +be the contemporary of Senena. + + T. STEPHENS. + + Merthyr Tydfil, Aug. 7. 1851. + + +PETTY CURY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 24.) + +I believe that Petty Cury signifies the Little Cookery. See a note in my +_Annals of Cambridge_, vol. i. p. 273. + + C. H. COOPER. + + Cambridge, July 12. 1851. + +To those who are familiar with the _Form of Cury_, edited by Dr. Pegge, +no explanation can be necessary for the name of this street, or rather +lane. It seems, indeed, strange that any one who calls himself a +Cambridge man should have failed to discover that it was the peculiar +quarter of the _cooks_ of the town; as we in London have our Poultry +named from the _Poulters_ (not _Poulterers_, as now corruptly +designated) who there had their shops. + + F. S. Q. + +The Cambridge senate-house is called "Curia," and therefore it may be +supposed that "Petty Cury" means "_parva curia_," from some court-leet +or court-baron formerly held there; the town-hall is at the end of it to +this day. The only objection to the above is, that in the Caius map of +Cambridge, A.D. 1574, now in the British Museum, Petty Curie is a large +street even then, whilst neither town-hall nor senate-house exist. + + J. EASTWOOD. + +Surely there can be little doubt that the name of this street at +Cambridge is a corruption from the French "petite écurie." We knew +little enough about such matters when I was an undergraduate there; but +still, I think, we could have solved this mystery. Might I be permitted +to suggest that as the court stables at Versailles were called "les +petites écuries," to distinguish them from the king's, which were styled +"les grandes écuries," although they exactly resembled them, and +contained accommodation for five hundred horses; so the street in +question may have contained some of the fellows' stables, which were +called "les petites écuries," to distinguish them from the masters'. +Should this supposition be correct, it would seem to imply that at one +time the French language was not altogether _ignored_ at Cambridge. + + H. C. + + Workington. + + +THE WORD "RACK" IN THE "TEMPEST."--THE NEBULAR THEORY. + +(Vol. iii., p. 218.; Vol. iv., p. 37.) + +MR. HICKSON seems to court opinion as to the justness of his +interpretation of _rack_. I therefore express my total and almost +indignant dissent from it. + +Luckily, neither in the proposition itself, nor in the manner in which +it is advocated, is there anything to disturb my previous conviction as +to the true meaning of this word (which, in the well-known passage in +the _Tempest_, is, beyond all doubt, "haze" or "vapour"), since few +things would be more distasteful to me than to encounter any argument +really capable of throwing doubt upon the reading of a passage I have +long looked upon as one of the most marvellous instances of +philosophical depth of thought to be met with, even in Shakspeare,--one +of those astonishing speculations, in advance of his age, that now and +then drop from him as from the lips of a child inspired,--wherein the +grandeur of the sentiment is so out of all proportion to the simplicity +and absence of pretension with which it is introduced, that the reader, +not less surprised than delighted, is scarcely able to appreciate the +full meaning until after long and careful consideration. + +It is only lately that the nebular theory of condensation has been +advanced, for the purpose of speculating upon the probable formation of +planetary bodies. Yet it is a subject that possesses a strange +coincidence with this passage of Shakspeare's _Tempest_. + +Perhaps the best elucidation I can give of it will be to cite a certain +passage in Dr. Nichols' _Architecture of the Heavens_, which happens to +bear a rather remarkable, although I believe an accidental, resemblance +to Shakspeare's words: _accidental_, because if Dr. Nichols had this +passage of the _Tempest_ present to his mind, when writing in a +professedly popular and familiar style, he would scarcely have omitted +allusion to it, especially as it would have afforded a peculiarly happy +illustration of his subject. + +I shall now quote both passages, in order that they may be conveniently +compared: + + "Our revels now are ended--these our actors + As I foretold you, were all spirits, and + Are melted into air--INTO THIN AIR: + And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, + The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, + The solemn temples, the great globe itself, + Yea, all that it inherit--shall dissolve-- + And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, + Leave not a rack behind." + + "---- in the laboratory of the chemist matter easily passes + through all conditions, the solid, liquid, and gaseous, as if _in + a sort of phantasmagoria_; and his highest discoveries even now + are pointing to the conclusion, that the bodies which make up the + solid portion of our earth may, simply by the dissolution of + existing combinations, _be ultimately resolved into a permanently + gaseous form_."--Nichols' _Architecture of the Heavens_, p. 147. + +Had we no other presumption to lead us to Shakspeare's true meaning but +what is afforded by the expression, "into air--thin air," it ought, in +my opinion, to be amply sufficient; for no rational person can entertain +a doubt that Shakspeare intended the repetition, "thin air," to have +reference to the simile that was to follow. The globe itself shall +dissolve, and, like this vision, leave not a _rack_ behind! In what was +the resemblance to the vision to consist, if not in melting, like it, +into _thin_ air? into air unobscured by vapour, rarified from the +slightest admixture of rack or cloud. + +Shakespeare knew that atmospheric rack is not insubstantial; that it is +corporeal like the globe itself, of which it is a part; and that, so +long as a particle of it remained, dissolution could not be complete. + +And shall we reject this exquisite philosophy--this profundity of +thought--to substitute our own mean and common-place ideas? + + A. E. B. + + Leeds, July 22. + +P.S.--Apart from the philosophical beauty of this wonderful passage, +there are other aspects in which it may be studied with not less +interest. + +How true is the poetical image of the _rack_ as the last object of +dissipation! the expiring evidence of combustion! the lingering +cloudiness of solution! + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Pseudo MSS._--_The Devil, Cromwell and his Amours._--It is too bad! In +Vol. iii., p. 282., there is a good page and a half taken up with a +verbatim extract from Echard, which has either been alluded to or quoted +by every writer on Cromwell from Echard's time down to a few months ago, +when it appeared in _Chambers's Papers for the People_, No. 11. Again, +in Vol. iv., p. 19., there is another page and a half relating to +Cromwell, which, I fearlessly assert, I have seen frequently in print, +but cannot at present tell where; and more important avocations forbid +me to search. As if that was not enough, in Vol. iv., p. 50. there is +another half page respecting the preservation of these _precious MSS._! +Is it not too bad? Do, worthy Mr. Editor, make the _amende honorable_ by +publishing the true characters of the MSS. forwarded by S. H. H., which +you have so inadvertently published as original. + + W. PINKERTON. + + [Our correspondent seems to doubt that the communications to which + he refers were really printed from contemporary MSS. The Editor is + able to vouch for that having been certainly the fact. They are + not printed from transcripts from Echard, but from real MSS. of + the time of Charles II., or thereabouts; while the fact of these + early transcripts having been printed surely does not furnish any + argument against the valuable suggestion of S. H. H. as to the + preservation of similar documents for the use of the public, and + in the manner pointed out in his communication.--ED.] + +_Anonymous Ravennas_ (Vol. i., pp. 124. 220. 368.; Vol. iii., p. +462.).--Your correspondents have neglected to observe that this author's +Chorography of Britain was published by Gale, "ad calcem Antonini Iter +Britanniarum," viz., _Britanniæ Chorographia cum Autographo Regis Galliæ +Ms'o. et Codice Vaticano collata; Adjiciuntur conjecturæ plurimæ cum +nominibus locorum Anglicis, quotquot iis assignari potuerint_: Londini, +1709, 4to. + +A copy of the edition of _Anonymi Ravennatis Geographiæ Libri Quinque_ +(of the last of which the Chorography of Britain forms a part) noticed +by J. I. (Vol. i., p. 220.) is now before me; as also a later edition, +published by the editor's son, Abram Gronovius: Lugduni Batavorum, 1722, +8vo. + +Horsley's _Britannia Romana_, book iii. chap. iv., contains "1. Some +account of this author and his work; 2. The Latin text of this +writer[2]; 3. Remarks upon many of the places mentioned by him, and more +particularly of such as seem to be the same with the stations per lineam +valli in the Notitia." His remarks are diametrically opposite to the +conjectures of Camden and Gale. + + [Footnote 2: The Chorography from Gale's edition.] + + T. J. + +_Margaret Maultasch_ (Vol. iv., p. 56.).--Your correspondent who +inquires where he can meet with the particulars of the life of Margaret, +surnamed _Maultasch_, Countess of Tyrol, will find them in the +Supplement of the _Biographie Universelle_, vol. lxxiii. p. 136. + +The great heiress in question, though a monster of ugliness, was twice +married: first to John Henry, son of Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia (1331), +from whom she procured a divorce on the plea of his incapacity; and, +secondly (1341), to Louis of Bavaria, eldest son of the Emperor Louis +IV., by whom she had a son, Mainard, who died without issue during his +mother's lifetime. + +I know not upon what authority rest the imputed irregularities of her +life, but her biographer, in the article above mentioned, casts no such +slur upon her character. Nor can I discover that the armorial bearings +of the town of Halle, in Tyrol, have any such significant meaning as has +been hinted at. They are to be found in Matthew Merian's _Topographia +Provinciarum Austriacarum_, printed at Frankfort on the Maine in 1649, +engraved on the view of Halle, at p. 139., and appear to be _a cask or +barrel, supported by two lions_. There is _no_ statue of Margaret +Maultasch among those which surround the mausoleum of Emperor +_Maximilian_ (not _Matthias_) in the Franciscan church at Inspruck; but +her ludicrously hideous features may be found amongst the historical +portraits engraved in the magnificent work descriptive of the Museum of +Versailles, published a few years ago at Paris, under the auspices of +King Louis Philippe. + + W. S. + + Denton, July 28. + +_Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace_ (Vol. i., p. 230.; Vol. +iv., p. 58.).--Is your correspondent C. correct in attributing _A true +Character of Mr. Pope and his Writings, in a Letter to a Friend_, +printed for Popping, 1716, to Oldmixon? In the Testimonies of Authors, +prefixed to the _Dunciad_, and the Appendix, and throughout the Notes, +Dennis is uniformly quoted and attacked as the author. Oldmixon's feud +with Pope was hardly, I think, so early. + +Assuming your correspondent's quotation from the pamphlet to be correct, +the terms made use of will surely refer to Pope's _Imitation of Horace_ +(S. ii. L. i.), a fragment of which was published by Curll about this +time (1716). It was afterwards republished in folio about 1734, printed +for J. Boreman, under the title of _Sober Advice from Horace to the +young Gentlemen about Town_, but in an enlarged state, and with some of +the initials altered, and several new adaptations. Mrs. Oldfield and +Lady Mary are not introduced in the first edition. I have both, but at +present can only refer to the second one in folio. From this the +_Imitation_ was transferred to the Supplement to Pope's Works, +published by Cooper: London, 1757, 12mo., and from thence to the +Supplementary Volumes to the later editions. The publication of it +formed an article of impeachment against Dr. Jos. Warton, by the author +of the _Pursuits of Literature_, as all who have read that satire will +well remember. + + JAS. CROSSLEY. + +_Brother Jonathan_ (Vol. iii., p. 495.).--The origin of this term, as +applied to the United States, is given in a recent number of the +_Norwich Courier_. The editor says it was communicated by a gentleman +now upwards of eighty years of age, who was an active participator in +the scenes of the revolution. The story is as follows: + + "When General Washington, after being appointed commander of the + army of the revolutionary war, came to Massachusetts to organize + it, and make preparations for the defence of the country, he found + a great want of ammunition and other means necessary to meet the + powerful foe he had to contend with, and great difficulty to + obtain them. If attacked in such condition, the cause at once + might be hopeless. On one occasion at that anxious period a + consultation of the officers and others was had, when it seemed no + way could be devised to make such preparations as were necessary. + His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull the elder was then governor of + the State of Connecticut, on whose judgment and aid the general + placed the greatest reliance, and remarked, 'We must consult + Brother Jonathan on the subject.' The general did so, and the + governor was successful in supplying many of the wants of the + army. When difficulties afterwards arose, and the army was spread + over the country, it became a by-word, 'We _must consult_ Brother + Jonathan.' The term Yankee is still applied to a portion, but + 'Brother Jonathan' has now become a designation of the whole + country, as John Bull has for England."--_Dictionary of + Americanisms_, by John Russell Bartlett, 1849. + + H. J. + +_Cromwell's Grants of Land in Monaghan_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--E. A. asks +whether there are any grants of land in the county of Monaghan recorded +as made by Cromwell, and where such records are preserved? I fear I can +give but a negative answer to the question: but among the stores of the +State Paper Office are many books of orders, letters, &c. during the +Commonwealth. Among them are two bundles dated in 1653, which relate to +the lands granted by lot, to the adventurers who had advanced money for +the army, in the different provinces of Ireland. Monaghan is not +mentioned. + + SPEC. + +_Stanedge Pole_ (Vol. iii., p. 391.).--In answer to your correspondent +A. N., I beg to state that Stanedge Pole is between six and seven miles +from Sheffield, on the boundary line between Yorkshire and Derbyshire, +on a long causeway which was in former times the road from Yorkshire to +Manchester. Its only antiquity consists in having been for centuries one +of the meers marking the boundaries of Hallamshire. In Harrison's +_Survey of the Manor of Sheffield_, 1637, appears an account of the +boundaries as viewed and seen the 6th of August, 1574, from which the +following is an extract:-- + + "Item. From the said Hurkling Edge so forward after the Rock to + Stannedge, which is a meer between the said Lordshipps (of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge). + + "Item. From Stannedge after the same rock to a place called the + Broad Rake, which is also a meer between the said Lordshipps of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge." + +The situation is a very fine one, commanding a very beautiful and +extensive view of the surrounding country.[3] + + [Footnote 3: Its elevation is, according to the Ordnance Survey, + 1463 feet.] + + H. J. + + Stanedge. + +_Baskerville the Printer_ (Vol. iv., p. 40.).--Baskerville was interred +in the grounds attached to the house in which he lived, near Easy Row, +Birmingham. The land becoming valuable for building purposes, he was, +after lying there about half a century, disinterred and removed to the +workshop of a lead merchant, named Marston, in Monmouth Street, +Birmingham. While there I saw his remains. They were in a wooden coffin, +which was enclosed in one of lead. How long they had been above ground I +do not know, but certainly not long. This, as far as I can recollect, is +about twenty-five years since. The person who showed me the body, and +who was either one of the Marstons or a manager of the business, told me +he had seen the coffins opened, and that the features were then perfect. +When exhibited to me the nose and lips were gone, as were also two front +teeth, which had been torn from the mouth surreptitiously and taken +away. I understood that it was known who had them, and that they would +be restored. The shroud was discoloured, I presume from natural causes, +being of a dirty yellow colour, as though it had been drawn through a +clay pit. The texture and strength of the cloth remained unaffected. +Baskerville entertained peculiar opinions on religious subjects. There +was a rumour of some efforts having been made to deposit his remains in +one of the church burial grounds, but they were not successful. A year +or two ago, while in Birmingham, a snuff-box was shown me, on the lid of +which a portrait of Baskerville was painted, which fully agreed with a +description of his person given me many years previously by one who had +known him. This portrait had not, from its appearance, been painted very +long. From its being there I infer that there is in existence at least +one original portrait of this eminent printer. + + ST. JOHNS. + +_Inscription on a Claymore_ (Vol. iv., p. 59.).--Is your correspondent +"T. M. W., Liverpool," who inquires the translation of an "inscription +on a claymore," certain that his quotation is correct? To me it appears +that it should run thus: + + [x] GOTT BEWAR DE + [x] _G_ERECHTE SCHOTTEN. + +or, "God preserve the righteous (or just) Scots;" referring, no doubt, +to the undertaking in which they were then engaged. + +I believe that formerly, and probably at the present time, many of the +finest sword blades were made abroad, and sent to England to be mounted, +or even entirely finished on the Continent. I have in my possession a +heavy trooper's sword, bearing the name of a celebrated German maker, +although the ornaments and devices are unquestionably English. Another +way of accounting for the inscription is, that it belonged to some of +those foreign adventurers who are known to have joined Charles Edward. + + W. SHIRLEY. + +_Burton Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 22.).--In Hunter's _History of +Hallamshire_, p. 236., is a pedigree of Burton of Royds Mill, near +Sheffield, in which are the following remarks:-- + + "Richard Burton of Tutbury, Staffordshire, died May 9th, 8 Henry + V. Married Maud, sister of Robert Gibson of Tutbury; and had a + son, Sir William Burton of Falde and Tutbury, Knight; slain at + Towtonfield, 1461, from whom descended the Burtons of Lindley." + + "Thomas Burton of Fanshawgate, who died in 1643, left three sons; + Michael, Thomas, and Francis. Michael was of Mosborough, and had a + numerous issue; the names of his children appear on his monumental + brass in the chancel of the church at Eckington. Thomas, the + second son, was of London and Putney, married, and had issue. + Francis, the youngest, was lord of the Manor of Dronfield, and + served the office of High Sheriff of Derby in 1669. Was buried at + Dronfield in 1687." + +I find no account of any Roger Burton; but if your correspondent E. H. +A. is not in possession of the above pedigree, and should wish for a +copy, I shall be glad to send him it. + + JOHN ALGOR. + + Eldon Street, Sheffield. + +_Notation by Coalwhippers_ (Vol. iv., p. 21.).--The notation used by +coalwhippers, &c., mentioned by I. J. C., is, after all, I expect, but a +part of a system which was probably the origin of the Roman notation. +The first four strokes or units were cut diagonally by the fifth, and +taking the first and last of these strokes we readily obtain V, or the +Roman five; but as the natural systems of arithmetic are decimal, from +the number of fingers, it is most probable that the _tens_ were thus +marked off, or by a stroke drawn across the last unit thus X, whence we +obtain the Roman ten: these tens were repeated up to a hundred, or the +second class of tens, which were probably connected by two parallel +lines top and bottom [C], which would be the sign of the second class +of tens, or hundreds; this became afterwards rounded into C: the third +class of tens, or thousands, was represented by four strokes M, and +these symbols served by abbreviation for some intermediate numbers; thus +X divided became V, or 5, the half of 10; then L, half of [C], +represented 50, half of 100; and M becoming rounded thus (M) was +frequently expressed in this manner CI?; and this became abbreviated +into D, 500, half of CI? or 1000: and thus, by variously combining +these six symbols (though all derived from the one straight stroke), +numbers to a very high amount could be expressed. + + THOS. LAWRENCE. + + Ashby de la Zouch. + +_Statue of Charles II._ (Vol. iv., p. 40.).--The following passage is +from Hughson's _History of London_, vol. ii. p. 521.: + + "Among the adherents and sufferers in the cause of Charles II. was + Sir Robert Viner, alderman of London. After the Restoration the + worthy alderman, willing to show his loyalty and prudence, raised + in this place [_i. e._ the Stock's Market] the statue above + mentioned. The figure had been carved originally for John + Sobieski, king of Poland, but by some accident was left upon the + workman's hands. Finding the work ready carved to his hands, Sir + Robert thought that, with some alteration, what was intended for a + king of Poland might suit the monarch of Great Britain; he + therefore converted the Polander into an Englishman, and the Turk + underneath his horse into Oliver Cromwell; the turban on the last + figure being an undeniable proof of the truth attached to the + story. The compliment was so ridiculous and absurd, that no one + who beheld it could avoid reflecting on the taste of those who had + set it up; but as its history developed the farce improved, and + what was before esteemed contemptible, proved in the end + entertaining. The poor mutilated figure stood neglected some years + since among the rubbish in the purlieus of Guildhall; and in 1779, + it was bestowed by the common council on Robert Viner, Esq., who + removed it to grace his country seat." + +The earliest engraving of "the King at the Stock's Market" may be seen +in Thomas Delaune's _Present State of London_, 12mo. 1681. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Serius, where situated?_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--The Serius, now Serio, +rises in the chain of mountains in the south of the Valteline, between +the lakes Como and Ixo: it flows through a valley called the Val Seria, +passes near Bergamo and Cremona, and falls into the Adda a little before +that river joins the Po. + + J. M. (4) + +_Corpse passing makes a Right of Way_ (Vol. iii., pp. 477. 507. +519.).--Some time ago, I buried in our churchyard a person from an +adjoining parish; but, instead of taking a pathway which led directly +from the house of the deceased to the church, they kept to the +high-road,--so going four miles instead of one. When I asked the +reason, I was told that the pathway was not a _lich-road_, and therefore +it was not lawful to bring a corpse along it. + + J. M. (4) + +_The Petworth Register_ (Vol. iii., p. 510.; Vol. iv., p. 27.).--Your +correspondents LLEWELLYN and J. S. B. do not appear to be acquainted +with Heylyn's quotations from the book thus designated. In one place (p. +63., folio; vol. i. p. 132., 8vo.) he refers to it for a statement-- + + "That many at this time [A.D. 1548] affirmed the most blessed + Sacrament of the altar to be of little regard," &c. + +And in another place (p. 65., folio; vol. i. p. 136., 8vo.), he gives an +extract relating to Day, Bishop of Chichester:-- + + "Sed Ricardus Cicestrensis, (ut ipse mihi dixit) non subscripsit." + +Hence the _Register_ would seem to have been a sort of chronicle, kept +by the rector of Petworth; and it does not appear whether it was or was +not in the same volume with the register of births, marriages, and +deaths. In the latter case, it may possibly be still in the Petworth +parish chest; for the returns to which your correspondents refer, would +probably not have mentioned any other registers than those of which the +law takes cognizance. On the other hand, if the chronicle was attached +to the register of births, &c., it may have shared the too common fate +of early registers; for, when an order of 1597 directed the clergy to +transcribe on parchment the entries made in the proper registers since +the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, they seem to have generally +interpreted it as a permission to make away with the older registers, +although there _are_ cases in which the proper books are still +preserved. (I am myself acquainted with two in this neighbourhood; and +J. S. B., if I am right in identifying him with the author of the very +curious and valuable _History of Parish Registers_, can no doubt mention +many others.) But how did Heylyn, who collected most of his materials +about 1638, get hold of the book? + + J. C. ROBERTSON. + + Bekesbourne. + +_Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli"_ (Vol. ii., p. +265.; Vol. iii., p. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 62.).--Sir Egerton Brydges, in +his _Censura Literaria_, vol. i. p. 305., attributes this work to +_Henry_ Holland. In his notice of _Heroologia Anglica_, he says: + + "The author was Henry Holland, son of Philemon Holland, a + physician and schoolmaster at Coventry, and the well-known + translator of Camden, &c. Henry was born at Coventry, and + travelled with John, Lord Harrington, into the Palatinate in 1613, + and collected and wrote (besides the _Heroologia_) _Monumenta + Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli, Lond._, 4to.; and engraved and + published _A Book of Kings, being a true and lively effigies of + all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present_, &c., + 1618. He was not educated either in Oxford or Cambridge; having + been a member of the society of Stationers in London. I think it + is most probable that he was brother to Abraham Holland, who + subscribes his name as 'Abr. Holland alumnus S. S. Trin. Coll. + Cantabr.' to some copies of Latin verses on the death of John, + second Lord Harrington, of Exton, in the _Heroologia_; which + Abraham was the author of a poem called _Naumachia, or Holland's + Sea-Fight_, Lond. 1622, and died Feb. 18, 1625, when his + _Posthuma_ were edited by 'his brother H. Holland.' At this time, + however, there were other writers of the name of Hen. + Holland.--(See Wood's _Athenæ_, i. 499.)" + + J. Y. + + Hoxton. + +_Mistake as to an Eclipse_ (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--From your +correspondent's mention of it, I should have supposed Casaubon meant +that the astronomers had been mistaken in the _calculation_ of an +eclipse. But the matter is of another kind. In the _lunar_ eclipse of +April 3, 1605, two _observers_, Wendelinus and Lansberg, in different +longitudes, made the eclipse end at times far more different than their +difference of longitudes would explain. The ending of a lunar eclipse, +observed with the unassisted eye, is a very indefinite phenomenon. + +The allusion to this, made by Meric Casaubon, is only what the French +call a _plat de son métier_. He was an upholder of the ancients in +philosophy, and his bias would be to depreciate modern successes, and +magnify modern failures. When he talks of the astronomer being "deceived +in the hour," he probably uses the word _hour_ for _time_, as done in +French and old English. + + M. + +"_A Posie of other Men's Flowers_" (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--D. Q. is +referred to Montaigne, who is the author of the passage; but not having +access to his works, I am not able to give a paginal reference. + + H. T. E. + + Clyst St. George. + +_Davies' History of Magnetical Discovery_ (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--The +_History, &c._, by T. S. Davies, is in the _British Annual_ for 1837, +published by Baillière. + + M. + +_Marriage of Bishops_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--A. B. C. will find his +questions fully answered in Henry Wharton's tract, entitled _A Treatise +of the Celibacy of the Clergy, wherein its Rise and Progress are +historically considered_, 1688, 4to. pp. 168. There is also another +treatise on the same subject, entitled _An Answer to a Discourse +concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy_, by E. Tully, 1687, in reply to +Abraham Woodhead. + + E. C. HARRINGTON. + + The Close, Exeter, July 28. 1851. + +"_The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong_" (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--The +same idea as that conveyed in this line is frequently expressed, though +not in precisely the same words, in Defoe's _Jure Divino_, a poem which +contains many vigorous and spirited passages; but I do not believe that +Pope gave the line as a quotation at all, or that it is other, as far as +he is concerned, than original. The inverted commas merely denote that +this line is the termination of the goddess's speech. The punctuation is +not very correct in any of the editions of the _Dunciad_; and sometimes +inverted commas occur at the end of the last line of a speech, and +sometimes both at the beginning and end of the line. + + JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_Equestrian Statues_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--In reply to F. M.'s Query +respecting the Duke of Wellington's statue being the only equestrian one +erected to a subject in her Majesty's dominions, I may mention that +there is one erected in Cavendish Square to William Duke of Cumberland, +who, though of the blood royal, was yet a subject. + + D. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: December 20, 2011 [EBook #38350] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, AUGUST 16, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been +standardized. 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Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + Traditions from remote Periods through few Hands 113 + + Minor notes:--Nelson's Coat--Strange Reason for keeping + a Public-house--Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury + Thorn--The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury--The + Three Estates of the Realm 114 + + QUERIES:-- + + Bensleys of Norwich 115 + + Minor Queries:--Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge + Castle--English Translation of Nonnus--Of Prayer in One + Tongue--Inscription in Ely Cathedral--Cervantes: what was + the Date of his Death?--Meaning of "Agla"--Murderers buried + in Cross Roads--Wyle Cop--The Devil's Knell--Queries on + Poem of Richard Rolle--Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of + Cromwell?--English Translation of Alcon 115 + + REPLIES:-- + + John Bodley, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault and R. J. King 117 + + Wither's "Hallelujah" 118 + + First Panorama 118 + + John a Kent 119 + + The British Sidanen 120 + + Petty Cury 120 + + The Word "Rack" in the Tempest.--The Nebular Theory 121 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Pseudo MSS.: The Devil, + Cromwell and his Amours--Anonymous Ravennas--Margaret + Maultasch--Pope's Translation or Imitations of + Horace--Brother Jonathan--Cromwell's Grants of + Land in Monaghan--Stanedge Pole--Baskerville the + Printer--Inscription on a Claymore--Burton Family--Notation + by Coalwhippers--Statue of Charles II.--Serius, where + situated?--Corpse passing makes a Right of Way--The + Petworth Register--Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia + Ecclesiæ S. Pauli"--Mistake as to an Eclipse--"A Posie + of other Men's Flowers," &c. 122 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 126 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 127 + + Notices to Correspondents 127 + + Advertisements 127 + + + + +Notes. + + +TRADITIONS FROM REMOTE PERIODS THROUGH FEW HANDS. + +On two or three occasions in the "NOTES AND QUERIES" instances have been +given of "Traditions from remote periods through few hands," of which it +would not be difficult to adduce numerous additional examples; but my +present purpose is to mention some within my personal experience, or +derived from authentic communication. + +In 1781, and my eleventh year, a schoolfellow took me to see his +great-grandmother, a Mrs. Arthur, in Limerick, then aged one hundred and +eight years, whose recollection of that city's siege in 1691, when she +was eighteen, was perfectly fresh and unimpaired, as, indeed, she was +fond of showing by frequent and even unsolicited recurrence to its dread +scenes, in which the women, history tells us, fearlessly participated. +We are here then presented with an interval of one hundred and sixty +years between a memorable event and my recollection of its narrative by +a person actively engaged in it. The old lady's family had furnished a +greater number of chief magistrates to Limerick than any other recorded +in its annals. + +Again in 1784, on a visit to my grandfather in the county of Limerick, +during a school vacation, I heard him, then in his eighty-sixth year, +say, that in 1714, on the accession to the British throne of the present +royal dynasty, he heard in Cork, where he was at school, a conversation +between several gentlemen on this change of the reigning family, when +one of them, a Mr. Martin, said that he was born the same day as Charles +II., on the 29th of May, 1631, and was present at the execution of +Charles I., the 29th of January, 1649. His family then resided in +London, where he joined Cromwell's Ironsides, and thence accompanied +them to Ireland. The transfer to him of some forfeited property +naturally induced him to settle there. Thus, between me and the +eye-witness of the regicidal catastrophe, only one person intervenes. + +In 1830 there died in London, at the eastern extremity, called the +World's End, an Irishman, aged one hundred and eleven, named Gibson, +whose father, a Scotchman, he told me, served under the Duke of Monmouth +at the battle of Sedgemore in July, 1685, and afterwards, in July, 1690, +under William, at the Boyne. Supposing, as we well may, the father to +have been born about 1660, in 1830, before the son's decease, the two +successive lives thus embrace one hundred and seventy years. I had +rendered the son some services which made him very communicative to me. +The father married and settled in Tipperary, where he became a Roman +Catholic, and no adherent of O'Connell could be more ardent in his cause +than the son. This veteran had served full seventy years in the royal +navy. + +In 1790 I recollect an old man of a hundred and twenty, who appeared +before the French National Assembly, and gave clear answers to questions +on events which he had witnessed one hundred and ten years before. + +Similar lengths of personal remembrance are related of old Parr, Lady +Desmond, and others, whose ages exceeded one hundred and forty years. +The daughter-in-law of the French king, Charles IX. (widow of his +natural son, the Duke of Angoulême), survived that monarch by a hundred +and thirty-nine years (1574-1713),--a rare, if not an unexampled fact. +The famous Cardan, in his singular work, _De Vita Propriâ_, states that +his grandfather's birth anteceded his own by a hundred and fifty years +(1351-1501). Franklin relates that his grandfather was born in the +sixteenth century, and reign of Elizabeth, as Sir Stephen Fox, the +grandfather of our contemporary statesman, Charles, was born shortly +after the death of James I., in 1627. A very near connexion of my own, +though much younger, is the grandson of a gentleman whose birth +retrocedes to Charles II., in 1672. Niebuhr grounds one of his +objections to the truth of the early Roman history on the very great +improbability of the long period of two hundred and forty-five years +assigned to the collective reigns of the seven kings. It does, indeed, +exceed the average of enthroned life; but the seven monarchs of Spain, +from Ferdinand (the Catholic) to the French Bourbon, Philip V., +inclusively, embraced a period of two hundred and sixty-seven years in +their successive rule (1469, when Ferdinand obtained the crown of +Arragon, and 1746, the date of Philip's death). The eminent German +historian offers, however, much stronger arguments in disbelief of the +Roman annals; but he had many predecessors in his views, though himself, +unquestionably, the most powerful writer on the subject. + + J. R. (An Octogenarian.) + +P.S.--In Vol. iv., p. 73., Madame du Châtelet's epitaph on Voltaire +contains an error, where _canis_ twice appears, but should be _carus_. +The lady's object was certainly complimentary, not sarcastic. My crampt +writing was of course the cause of the mistake, though, in the _opinion +of many_, the substituted word would not appear inapplicable to +Voltaire. A subjoined article of the same page, "Children at a Birth," +reminds me of something analogous in Mercier's _Tableau de Paris_, where +reference is made to the _Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences_ for the +fact. The wife of a baker, it is there stated, in the short space of +seven years, produced one-and-twenty children, or three at each annual +birth; and, to prove that the prolific faculty was exclusively his, he +made a maid servant similarly the mother of three children at a birth. +The major portion, it appears, of this numerous progeny long survived. +Bayle, in his article of Tiraqueau, a French advocate of the sixteenth +century, quotes an epigram, which would make him the father of +forty-five children, and, it is added, by one wife. If so, several must +at least have been twins: + + "Fæcundus facundus aquæ Tiraquellus amator, + Terquindecim librorum et liberum parens; + Qui nisi restinxisset aquis abstemius ignes, + Implesset orbem prole animi atque corporis." + +The accomplished authoress of _A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic_ +(1841, 2 volumes) was, it is well known, one of _four_ congenital +children in Norwich, where her father was an eminent physician. + + J. R. + + Cork, August, 1851. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Nelson's Coat_ (Vol. iii., p. 517.).--The recognition of the coat +Nelson wore at Trafalgar depends on its fulfilling a detail in the +following fact. The present Captain Sir George Westphal was a midshipman +on board the Victory, and was wounded on the back of the head: he was +taken into the cockpit, and placed by the side of Nelson. When +Westphal's wound was dressed, nothing else being immediately available, +Nelson's coat was rolled up and used as a support to Westphal's head. +Blood flowed from the wound, and, coagulating, stuck the bullion of one +of the epaulettes to the bandage; it was deemed better to cut off some +of the bullion curls to liberate the coat: so that the coat Nelson wore +on that day will be found minus of bullion in one of the epaulettes. + + ÆGROTUS. + +_Strange Reasons for keeping a Public-house._--A clergyman in the +south-west of England, calling lately on one of his parishioners, who +kept a public-house, remarked to her how sorry he was, when passing +along the road, to hear such noises proceeding from her house. "I +wonder," said he, "that any woman can keep a public-house, especially +one where there is so much drunkenness and depravity as in yours." "Oh, +Sir," she replied, "that is the very reason why I like to keep such a +house, because I see every day so much of the _worst part of human +nature_." + + T. W. + +_Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury Thorn._--It is handed down, +that when Joseph of Arimathea, during his mission to England, arrived at +Weary-all-hill, near Glastonbury, he struck his travelling staff into +the earth, which immediately took root, and ever after put forth its +leaves and blossoms on Christmas Day, being converted into a miraculous +thorn. + +This tree, which had two trunks, was preserved until the time of Queen +Elizabeth; when one of the trunks was destroyed by a Puritan, and the +other met with the same fate during the Great Rebellion. + +Throughout the reign of Henry VIII., its blossoms were esteemed such +great curiosities, and sovereign specifics, as to become an object of +gain to the merchants of Bristol; who not only disposed of them to the +inhabitants of their own city, but _exported_ these blossoms to +different parts of Europe. There were, in addition to these, relics for +rain, for avoiding the evil eye, for rooting out charlock, and all weeds +in corn, with similar specifics, which were considered, at this time, +_the best of all property_! + + T. W. + +_The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury._--This far-famed tree was at +the north of St. Joseph's chapel, in the abbey churchyard. It was +supposed to have been brought from Palestine by some of the pilgrims, +and was visited in former days, and regarded as sacred by _all ranks_ of +people; and, even so late as the time of King James, that monarch, as +well as his ministers and nobility, paid large sums for sprigs of it, +which were preserved as holy relics. + + T. W. + +_The Three Estates of the Realm._--Some, even educated persons of this +day, if asked which are the three estates of the realm, will reply, the +Queen, Lords, and Commons. That the three estates do not include the +Queen, and are therefore the Lords, the Clergy in Convocation, and the +Commons, is obvious from the title of the "Form of Prayer with +Thanksgiving to be used yearly upon the 5th day of November, for the +happy Deliverance of _King James I._ and the Three Estates of England +from the most Traitorous," &c.; and also from the following passage of +the Communion Collect for Gunpowder Treason:-- + + "Eternal God, and our most mighty Protector, we Thy unworthy + servants do humbly present ourselves before Thy Majesty, + acknowledging Thy power, wisdom, and goodness, in preserving _the + king_, AND _the three estates_ of the realm of England assembled + in Parliament, from the destruction this day intended against + them." + + W. FRAER. + + + + +Queries. + + +BENSLEYS OF NORWICH. + +As I am much interested in the above family, which I know to have +existed at Norwich, or the vicinity, for a century or more, and have +reason to think was one of some consequence, will you, through the +medium of your useful columns, allow me to ask some of your intelligent +correspondents who reside in that neighbourhood the following Queries? + +1. Is anything known of the family of the late Sir William Bensley +farther back than his father, Thomas Bensley? Sir William was born in +the county of Norfolk, and at an early age entered the navy; transferred +himself to the Honourable East India Company's service, made a large +fortune, was elected a Director of the Company 1771, created a baronet +1801, and died without issue 1809. + +2. Was Mr. Richard Bensley, an actor of some celebrity, who made his +"first appearance" in 1765 (he had previously been an officer in the +Marines, and, as I am informed, held the appointment of barrack-master +at Knightsbridge till his death in 1817), any connexion of the above, or +at all connected with Norwich? + +3. Cowper, in one of his letters [to Joseph Hill, Esq., dated +Huntingdon, July 3, 1765], says: + + "The tragedies of Lloyd and Bensley are both very deep. If they + are of no use to the surviving part of society, it is their own + fault," &c. + +Any information as to who this Bensley was, will be very acceptable; or +anything concerning the tragedies mentioned. + +4. Any intelligence respecting one "Isaac Bensley" of Norwich, weaver; +who was alive in 1723, as his son was in that year baptized at the +Octagon Chapel in that city. + +If any of your contributors, in their archæological researches among +tombstones and parish registers, should have met with the name of +Bensley, by addressing a "note" to you thereon they will confer a great +obligation on your constant reader and occasional contributor. + + TEE BEE. + + +Minor Queries. + +68. _Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge Castle._--In the court of the castle +of this place, there stands a colossal figure of what I take to be an +heraldic panther gorged with a ducal crown, supporting a shield of the +royal arms of France and England quarterly, as borne before the +accession of James I. + +The corresponding supporter is gone, but the base and one claw remain, +showing it to have been a beast of prey, and with it is a broken shield, +thereon, "party per pale three lions rampant;" the arms, and probably +the supporter of the Herberts, earls of Pembroke. The two figures have +evidently capped the piers of a gateway. + +Can any of your readers account for the presence of these figures here, +where the Herberts are not recorded to have possessed any property? + + ERMINES. + + Tonbridge, July 29. 1851. + +69. _English Translation of Nonnus._--I shall be obliged if any of your +correspondents will inform me if any translation of the poet Nonnus, +which contains, perhaps, most that is known about Bacchus, has ever been +made into English; if so, by whom, and when? + + ÆGROTUS. + +70. _Of Prayer in one Tongue._--Bishop Jewel, in his celebrated sermon +preached at Paul's Cross, quotes the following argument as used by +Gerson, sometime Chancellor of Paris: + + "There is but one only God; ergo, all nations throughout the world + must pray to Him in one tongue." + +The editor of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel cannot discover the +argument in the works of Gerson; but if any of your readers can point +out where it may be found, I shall be much obliged. + + N. E. R. (a Subscriber). + +71. _Inscription in Ely Cathedral._--M. D. (Great Yarmouth) is anxious +to have the meaning of the following inscription explained. It is on a +tombstone in Ely Cathedral. + + Human + Redemption + 590 [x] 590 [x] 590 + Born [o] Sara [o] Watts + + Died + 600 [x] 600 [x] 600 + 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 + + Aged + Y 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 + M 3 [x] d 31 - 3 + h 3 [x] 3 [x] 3 [x] 12 + + Nations make fun of his + Commands. + + -------- + + S. M. E. + Judgements begun on Earth. + + In memory of + JAMES FOUNTAIN. + Died August 21, 1767. + Aged 60 years. + +72. _Cervantes--what was the Date of his Death?_--In the Life prefixed +to a corrected edition of Jarvis's translation, published by Miller, +1801, it is stated to be April 23, 1616; and it is added: + + "It is a singular coincidence of circumstances, that the same day + should deprive the world of two men of such transcendent abilities + as Cervantes and Shakspeare, the latter of whom died in England on + the very day that put an end to the life of the former in Spain." + +Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, in his Life of his uncle, the poet, remarks +on his decease on the anniversary of the death of Shakspeare, but makes +no allusion to the double anniversary; and in the Life of Cervantes +prefixed to Smollet's translation of _Don Quixote_, the day of +Cervantes' death is somewhat differently stated. + + GEO. E. FRERE. + +73. _"Agla," Meaning of._--I have in my possession a silver ring, found +some time since at a place called "Grungibane" in this neighbourhood. +The hoop is flat both inside and out, about a quarter of an inch broad. +On the outside, occupying about half the length, is the following +inscription: "+ AGLA." + +I should feel great obliged by some of your learned correspondents +decyphering the above. + + JOHN MARTIN. + + Downpatrick. + +74. _Murderers buried in Cross Roads._--Though the lines of Hood's, + + "So they buried him where the cross roads met + With a stake in his inside." + +occur in one of his comic poems, I have often heard it gravely stated +that it was formerly the custom to bury murderers with a stake driven +through the body, where cross roads meet. Was this ever a _custom_, and +when was "formerly?" Are there many such tragic spots in England and can +I find them enumerated anywhere? + + P. M. M. + +75. _Wyle Cop._--This is the name of a street, or rather bank in +Shrewsbury, leading from the English Bridge to High Street. It has +always struck me as being a curious name; and I should feel obliged to +any of your readers who could inform me what is the origin of the place +being so called, or if there is any meaning in the words beyond being +the name of a place. + + SALOPIAN. + +76. _The Devil's Knell._--In the _Collectanea Topographica_, vol. i. p. +167., is the following note: + + "At Dewsbury, Yorkshire, there is a bell called 'Black Tom of + Sothill:' the tradition is, that it is as expiatory gift for a + murder. One of the bells, perhaps this one, is tolled on + Christmas-eve as at a funeral, or in the manner of a passing-bell: + and any one asking whose bell it was, would be told that it was + the _devil's knell_. The moral of it is, that the devil died when + Christ was born. The custom was discontinued for many years, but + was revived by the vicar in 1828." + +Is the gift of a bell a common expiatory gift for crime? And does the +custom of tolling the _devil's knell_ on Christmas eve exist in any +other place at the present time? + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +77. _Queries on Poems of Richard Rolle_ (Vol. iv., p. 49.).--I should be +glad to ask a question or two of your Cambridge correspondent, touching +his very interesting contribution from the MS. remains of Richard Rolle +of Hampole. + +What language is meant by the _deuenisch_? + +What is a _guystroun_? + +How does the word _chaunsemlees_ come to mean shoes? + +An expression very strange to English verse occurs in the line, + + "Hir cher was ay _semand_ sori." + +I can think of nothing to throw light upon this intensive adverb, except +the Danish _saamænd_, which is generally used in that language (or +rather _was_ used, i.e. when Holberg wrote his comedies) as an +affirmatory oath. Native authorities explain it to mean "_so_ it is, by +the holy _men_," or in other terms, "by the saints I swear." + +I have no doubt that the same kindness which led your correspondent to +communicate those delightful extracts, will also make him willing to +assist the understanding of them. + + J. E. + + Oxford. + +78. _Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?_--Mr. Carlyle, in +treating on the biographies of Oliver Cromwell, says that the _Short +Critical Review of the Life of Oliver Cromwell_, by a gentleman of the +Middle Temple, was written by a certain "Mr. Banks, a kind of a lawyer +and playwright," and that the anonymous _Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord +Protector of the Commonwealth, impartially collected, &c._, London, +1724, which Noble ascribes to Bishop Gibson, was by "one Kember, a +dissenting minister of London." + +On the other hand, Mr. Russell, in his _Life of Oliver Cromwell_, 2 +vols. 12mo. 1829, says: + + "There is an anonymous work deserving of some notice, entitled _A + Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell_. + The title professes that it was written by a gentleman of the + Middle Temple, but there is reason to believe that it proceeded + from the pen of the learned Bishop Gibson." + +It would seem, therefore, by these statements, that two different lives +of the Great Protector have been ascribed to Gibson. Query, Did Gibson +ever write a life of Cromwell; and if so, which is it? + +It is well worth knowing which Gibson did write, if he wrote one at all, +for he was connected with the Cromwell family, and, what is of more +consequence, a learned, liberal man, not given to lying, so that his +book probably contains more truth than any of the other Cromwell +biographies of that time. + + DRYASDUST. + +79. _English Translation of Alcon._--Is there any translation of _Alcon_ +by Baldisare Castiglione? The _Lycidas_ of Milton is a splendid +paraphrase of it. The parallel passages are to be found in (I think) No. +47. of the _Classical Journal_, published formerly by Valpy. The +prototypes of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are at the beginning of +Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_. Thus three of Milton's early poems +cannot be termed wholly original. + + ÆGROTUS. + + + + +Replies. + + +JOHN BODLEY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 59.) + +John Bodley is a name that ought not to be passed over without due +reverence. He not only fostered the translation of the Genevan Bible, +but was specially interested in its circulation throughout England. +Neither Fox, Burnet, or Strype, Mr. Todd, or Mr. Whittaker give us any +particular information respecting him. Lewis glances at him as _one_ +John Bodley; and Mr. Townley, in his valuable _Biblical Literature_, +after some notice of Whittingham, Gilby, Sampson, &c., closes by saying, +"Of John Bodleigh no account has been obtained." + +This good and pious man was the father of the celebrated Sir Thomas +Bodley. He was born at Exeter, and according to the statement of his son +(_Autobiography_, 4to., Oxf. 1647),-- + + "In the time of Queen Mary, after being cruelly threatened and + narrowly observed by those that maliced his religion, for the + safety of himself and my mother (formerly Miss Joan Hone, an + heiress in the hundred of Ottery St. Mary), who was wholly + affected as my father, knew no way so secure as to fly into + Germany; where, after a while, he found means to call over my + mother, with all his children and family, when he settled for a + while at Wesel, in Cleveland, and from thence we removed to the + town of Frankfort. Howbeit, we made no long tarriance in either of + these towns, for that my father had resolved to fix his abode in + the city of Geneva, where, as far as I remember, the English + Church consisted of some hundred members." + +John Bodley returned to England in 1559, and on the 8th of January, +1560-61, a patent was granted to him by Queen Elizabeth, "to imprint, or +cause to be imprinted, the English Bible, with annotations." This +privilege was to last for the space of seven years. In 1565 Bodley was +preparing for a new impression; and by March the next year, a careful +review and correction being finished, this zealous reformer wished to +_renew_ his patent beyond the seven years first granted. It does not +appear, however, that his application to the authorities had the desired +effect; for it will be remembered that Archbishop Parker's Bible was now +in the field, and the Queen's Secretary, Sir William Cecil, was +compelled to act with caution. A curious letter, addressed by the +Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London to Sir William Cecil, +concerning the extension of Bodley's privilege, is printed from the +Lansdown MS. No. 8. (Art. 82.), in _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, +edited by Sir Henry Ellis for the Camden Society. + +For a full history of the Geneva Bible, I beg to refer S. S. S. to the +second volume of Anderson's _Annals of the English Bible:_ Lond. 2 vols. +8vo. 1845. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +In the notice of Sir Thomas Bodley contained in Prince's _Worthies of +Devon_, S. S. S. will find some particulars relating to his father, John +Bodley. Prince's account of Sir Thomas is "from a MS. on probable +grounds supposed to be his own handwriting, now in the custody of a +neighbour gentleman," (Walter Bogan of Gatcombe, near Totnes.) From +this it appears that John Bodley was long resident at Geneva-- + + "Where [says Sir Thomas], as far as I remember, the English church + consisted of some hundred persons. I was at that time of twelve + years of age, but through my father's cost and care sufficiently + instructed to become an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew, of + Beraldus in Greek, of Calvin and Beza in divinity, and of some + other professors in the university, which was then newly erected: + besides my domestical teachers in the house of Philibertus + Saracenus, a famous physician in that city, with whom I was + boarded, where Robertus Constantinus, that made the Greek Lexicon, + read Homer unto me." + +There is, however, no mention of John Bodley's having been one of the +translators of the Bible. + + R. J. KING. + + +WITHER'S "HALLELUJAH." + +(Vol. iii., p. 330.) + +A correspondent, S. S. S., inquires concerning one of the numberless, +and now almost fameless, works of George Wither, a poet of the +seventeenth century, famous in his generation, but unworthily disparaged +in that which followed him; the names of Quarles and Wither being +proverbially classed with those of Bavius and Mævius in the Augustan +age. The _Hallelujah_ of the latter has become precious from its rarity. +A copy of this volume (of nearly 500 pages) was lent to me several years +ago, by a collector of such treasures. On the blank at the back of the +cover, there was written a memorandum that it had been bought at Heber's +sale by Thorpe the bookseller for sixteen guineas; my friend, I had +reason to believe, paid a much higher price for it, when it fell into +his hands. The contents consist of several hundreds of _hymns_ for all +sorts and conditions of men, on all the ordinary, and on many of the +extraordinary circumstances of human life. Of course they are very +heterogeneous, yet no small number are beyond the average of such +compositions in point of devotional and poetical excellence. + +The author himself, with the consciousness of Horace, in his + + "Exegi monumentum ære perennius," + +crowns his labours at the 487th page with the following "Io triumphe" +lines:-- + + "Although my Muse flies yet far short of those, + Who perfect Hallelujahs can compose, + Here to affirm I am not now afraid, + What once in part a heathen prophet said, + With slighter warrant, when to end was brought + What he for meaner purposes had wrought; + _The work is finished_, which nor human power, + Nor flames, nor times, nor envy shall devour, + But with devotion to God's praise be sung + As long as Britain speaks her English tongue, + Or shall that Christian saving faith possess, + Which will preserve these Isles in happiness; + And, if conjecture fail not, some, that speak + In other languages, shall notice take + Of what my humble musings have composed, + And, by these helps, be often more disposed + To celebrate His praises in their songs, + To whom all honour and all praise belongs." + +How has this fond anticipation been fulfilled? There are not known (says +my authority) to be more than _three_ or _four_ copies in existence of +this indestructible work; and the price in gold which a solitary +specimen can command, is no evidence of anything but its market value. +Had its poetic worth been proportionate, its currency might have been as +common as that of Milton's masterpiece, and its trade price as low as +Paternoster Row could afford a cheap edition of the _Pilgrim's +Progress_. + + J. M. G. + + Hallamshire. + +P.S.--Lowndes says: + + "Few books of a cotemporary date can more readily be procured than + Wither's first _Remembrancer_ in 1628; few, it is believed, can be + more difficult of attainment than his second _Remembrancer_, + licensed in 1640, of which latter Dalrymple observes, 'there are + some things interspersed in it, nowhere, perhaps, to be + surpassed.'"--_Bibliographer's Manual_, p. 1971. + + +FIRST PANORAMA. + +(Vol. iv., p. 54.) + +I did not speak of my own recollection of Girtin's panorama; my memory +cannot reach so far back. It was my father who does perfectly remember +_Girtin's_ semicircular panorama. I think the mistake must be with H. T. +E. Some years back a large collection of Girtin's drawings and sketches +were sold at Pimlico; my father went to see them, and was delighted to +find among them some of the original sketches for this panorama, which +he immediately recognised and bought. He afterwards showed them to +Girtin's son, now living in practice as a surgeon at Islington (I +believe), who identified them as his father's work, and with whom I went +to see the painting, when not many years back it was found in a +carpenter's loft. Girtin certainly was a painter principally in water +colour, and one who, with the present J. M. W. Turner, contributed much +to the advancement of that branch of art; but I do not see how that is a +reason why he did not paint a panorama. I should think it not unlikely +that two semicircular panoramas of the same subject were painted; and, +therefore, with all deference, believe that the mistake is with H. T. E. +Girtin's son, if applied to, could, and I am sure would, give any +information he possessed readily. + + E. N. W. + +We are not yet quite right about the first panorama, but perhaps the +following will close the discussion. + +I have lately been sitting with Mr. Barker (ætat 78), and he tells me +that, when quite a boy, he sketched for his father the view of Edinburgh +from the observatory on the Calton Hill: in the foreground was Holyrood +House; that _that_ was a half circle, and was exhibited in Edinburgh. + +So much was thought of the discovery of its being _possible_ to take a +view beyond the old rule of sixty degrees, that they went to London, and +then he took the view from the top of the Albion Mills, as was stated in +Vol. iv., p. 54. + +That was three quarters of a circle, and was exhibited in Castle Street, +Leicester Square. Afterwards the whole circle was attempted. The idea of +painting a view more than sixty degrees, was suggested by his mother. +His father did not work at them, he being a portrait painter; but _he_ +did, young as he was. Mr. Robert Barker and his wife were both Irish; +but Henry Aston the son was born in Glasgow. + + H. T. ELLACOMBE. + + Clyst St. George. + + +JOHN A KENT. + +(Vol. iv., p. 83.) + +As I have not seen the _Athenæum_, I send the following notes, in +uncertainty whether or not they may prove acceptable to MR. COLLIER. + +_Sion y Cent_, i.e. John a Kent, or John of Kentchurch, is very +generally believed in Wales to have been Owen Glendowr; though some +few--unable to account for the mysterious disappearance of the hero--are +still firmly convinced that he sleeps, like Montezuma and various other +mighty men, in some deep cavern, surrounded by his warriors, until the +wrongs of his country shall call him forth once more to lead them on to +battle. + +The following extracts are from notes appended [by the editors] to some +poems of John a Kent which are published amongst the "Iolo MSS." by the +"Welsh MSS. Society." + + "... John of Kent, as he is called, is said to have been a priest + at Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on the confines of Wales, about + the beginning of the fifteenth century. He still enjoys a high + degree of popularity, in the legendary stories of the + principality, as a powerful magician. There is in the possession + of Mr. Scudamore, of Kentchurch, an ancient painting of a monk, + supposed to be a portrait of John of Kent; and as the family of + Scudamore is descended from a daughter of Owen Glendowr, at whose + house that chieftain is believed to have passed in concealment a + portion of the latter part of his life, it has been supposed that + John of Kentchurch was no other than Owen Glendowr himself," &c. + &c.--Page 676., note to the poem on _The Names of God_. + + "... The author was a priest of Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on + the confines of Monmouthshire and Breconshire, and is said to have + lived in the time of Wickliffe, and to have been of his party. As + the parish of Kentchurch is adjacent to that of Oldcastle, the + residence of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, it is by no means + impossible that John of Kentchurch may also have favoured the same + opinions; and may in some measure sanction the idea." + + "... The poet then proceeds to speak of the indignation of the + well-robed bishops, the monks, friars and priests; and in the + course of the composition he makes some strong animadversions on + the luxurious living of the churchmen, stating that formerly the + friars were preachers, who possessed no wealth, and went about on + foot with nothing but a staff; but that they now possessed horses, + and frequented banquets," &c. &c.--Page 687., notes to _A Poem to + another's Book_, by John of Kentchurch; from the collection of + Thomas ap Jevan of Tre'r Bryn, made about 1670. + +The following words occur in this poem:-- + + "... onid côf cwymp + Olcastr, ti a gair ailcwymp." + + "---- rememberest thou not the fall + Of Oldcastle?--Thou shall have a repetition of the fall." + +In addition to the two poems here mentioned, the collection contains one +"_Composed by John of Kent on his death-bed_;" in which are some lines +of considerable beauty: and also one on _The Age and Duration of +Things_. + +The parish church of Kentchurch is dedicated to St. Mary. I hope to be +able to send you some further information on the subject, but I well +know that quotations from memory are _nearly_ valueless. Meanwhile, the +following note on the mysterious disappearance to which I have already +alluded may be not uninteresting: I give it as translated by the editors +of the Iolo MSS. + + "In 1415, Owen disappeared, so that neither sight nor tidings of + him could be obtained in the country. It was rumoured that he + escaped in the guise of a reaper; bearing[1] ... according to the + testimony of the last who saw and knew him; after which little or + no information transpired respecting him, nor of the place or + manner of his concealment. The prevalent opinion was, that he died + in a wood in Glamorgan; but occult chroniclers assert that he and + his men still live, and are asleep on their arms, in a cave called + Govog y ddinas, in the Vale of Gwent, where they will continue, + until England becomes self-debased; but that then they will sally + forth, and reconquer their country, privileges, and crown for the + Welsh, who shall be dispossessed of them no more until the day of + judgment, when the world shall be consumed with fire, and so + reconstructed, that neither oppression nor devastation shall take + place any more: and blessed will be he who shall see the + time."--Page 454. _Historical Notices extracted from the Papers of + the Rev. Evan Evans, now in the Possession of Paul Panton, Esq., + of Anglesea._ + + [Footnote 1: The manuscript is defective here. "A sickle" was + probably the word.] + + SELEUCUS. + + +THE BRITISH SIDANEN. + +(Vol. iv., p. 83.) + +MR. J. P. COLLIER will find all the information that Cambrian +antiquaries can give him respecting Sidanen in Powell's _Cambria_, +Matthew Paris, Wynne's _Caradoc_, and Warrington's _History of Wales_, +under the year 1241. The history is given at most length in Warrington; +where the share which Sidanen had in an interesting episode in Cambrian +history is fully developed. There were two Welsh princes named Llywelyn, +who stood to each other in the following relation: + + LLYWELYN AB JORWERTH + (died in 1240). + | + +------+-------+-----------+ + | | | + GRIFFITH, DAVID. GLADYS, a + married to daughter. + _Senena_, + daughter of a + Cambrian lord + named Caradoc + ab Thomas. + | + +--------------------------+--------+ + | | | + LLYWELYN AB GRIFFITH, OWEN. DAVID. + last Prince of Wales. + +The Prince of Wales mentioned by Munday is the first, Llywelyn ab +Jorwerth, whose descent, as his father was not allowed to reign on +account of personal deformity, we had better indicate: + + OWEN, king of North Wales. + | + (Eldest son) JORWERTH, the _Broken-nosed_. + | + LLYWELYN AB JORWERTH. + +Llywelyn, as has been shown, had two sons, Griffith and David, the first +and eldest of whom, being a turbulent prince, was set aside by his +father at a solemn assembly of Cambrian lords, in 1238, and David was +elected to succeed his father. In 1240, David became king of North +Wales, and one of his first acts was to apprehend his brother and his +son Owen, and put them in prison. This was done with the connivance of a +Bishop of Bangor: but that worthy, fearing that the scandal would spread +abroad, intrigued with _Senena_, the _daughter-in-law_, and not the +daughter of Prince Llywelyn, and wife of his son Griffith, for his +release. Overtures were made to Henry III.; and certain lords having +joined the confederacy, stipulations were entered into, and Henry +marched against King David. David, who had married the king's daughter, +now began to counterplot, in which he was quite successful; for Henry, +who had come to release Griffith, by _special contract_ with his +brother, took him, with his wife Senena, and his son Owen, with him to +London, and imprisoned them in the Tower, in attempting to escape from +whence, two years afterwards, Griffith lost his life. Such is a brief +outline of all that is known of Senena, who is undoubtedly the Sidanen +of Munday, and whose name is variously written _Sina_, _Sanan_, +_Sanant_, and in the Latin chronicle _Senena_. The negotiations here +alluded to, with the names of all the parties engaged in them, will be +found in the authorities herein named; all of which being in English, +MR. COLLIER can easily consult. + +John a Cumber is probably John y Kymro, or John the Cambrian; but I know +nothing of him. + +Respecting John of Kent there is but little else known than may be found +in Coxe's _Monmouthshire_, and Owen's _Cambrian Biography_, sub "Sion +Cent." There is, however, a tradition in this neighbourhood that he was +born at Eglwys Ilan, in the county of Glamorgan; and the road is shown +by which he went to Kentchurch, in Herefordshire. It was at Eglwys Ilan +that he is reported to have pounded the crows by closing the park gates. +As this story has not appeared in English print, I will endeavour to +furnish you again with a more circumstantial statement. Sion Kent, who +lived about 1450, appears to have derived his name from Kent Chester, or +Kent Church. He was a monk, holding Lollard opinions; and a bard of +considerable talent and celebrity. As a matter of course, he was on good +terms with his Satanic majesty; for he was a mighty reputation as a +conjuror. MR. COLLIER may find a portion of one of his poems, translated +in the Iolo MSS., page 687. Should this, or any other authority herein +named, not be accessible to MR. COLLIER, it would afford me great +pleasure to send him transcripts. + +There is a very gross anachronism in making Sion, _lege_ Shôn Kent, to +be the contemporary of Senena. + + T. STEPHENS. + + Merthyr Tydfil, Aug. 7. 1851. + + +PETTY CURY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 24.) + +I believe that Petty Cury signifies the Little Cookery. See a note in my +_Annals of Cambridge_, vol. i. p. 273. + + C. H. COOPER. + + Cambridge, July 12. 1851. + +To those who are familiar with the _Form of Cury_, edited by Dr. Pegge, +no explanation can be necessary for the name of this street, or rather +lane. It seems, indeed, strange that any one who calls himself a +Cambridge man should have failed to discover that it was the peculiar +quarter of the _cooks_ of the town; as we in London have our Poultry +named from the _Poulters_ (not _Poulterers_, as now corruptly +designated) who there had their shops. + + F. S. Q. + +The Cambridge senate-house is called "Curia," and therefore it may be +supposed that "Petty Cury" means "_parva curia_," from some court-leet +or court-baron formerly held there; the town-hall is at the end of it to +this day. The only objection to the above is, that in the Caius map of +Cambridge, A.D. 1574, now in the British Museum, Petty Curie is a large +street even then, whilst neither town-hall nor senate-house exist. + + J. EASTWOOD. + +Surely there can be little doubt that the name of this street at +Cambridge is a corruption from the French "petite écurie." We knew +little enough about such matters when I was an undergraduate there; but +still, I think, we could have solved this mystery. Might I be permitted +to suggest that as the court stables at Versailles were called "les +petites écuries," to distinguish them from the king's, which were styled +"les grandes écuries," although they exactly resembled them, and +contained accommodation for five hundred horses; so the street in +question may have contained some of the fellows' stables, which were +called "les petites écuries," to distinguish them from the masters'. +Should this supposition be correct, it would seem to imply that at one +time the French language was not altogether _ignored_ at Cambridge. + + H. C. + + Workington. + + +THE WORD "RACK" IN THE "TEMPEST."--THE NEBULAR THEORY. + +(Vol. iii., p. 218.; Vol. iv., p. 37.) + +MR. HICKSON seems to court opinion as to the justness of his +interpretation of _rack_. I therefore express my total and almost +indignant dissent from it. + +Luckily, neither in the proposition itself, nor in the manner in which +it is advocated, is there anything to disturb my previous conviction as +to the true meaning of this word (which, in the well-known passage in +the _Tempest_, is, beyond all doubt, "haze" or "vapour"), since few +things would be more distasteful to me than to encounter any argument +really capable of throwing doubt upon the reading of a passage I have +long looked upon as one of the most marvellous instances of +philosophical depth of thought to be met with, even in Shakspeare,--one +of those astonishing speculations, in advance of his age, that now and +then drop from him as from the lips of a child inspired,--wherein the +grandeur of the sentiment is so out of all proportion to the simplicity +and absence of pretension with which it is introduced, that the reader, +not less surprised than delighted, is scarcely able to appreciate the +full meaning until after long and careful consideration. + +It is only lately that the nebular theory of condensation has been +advanced, for the purpose of speculating upon the probable formation of +planetary bodies. Yet it is a subject that possesses a strange +coincidence with this passage of Shakspeare's _Tempest_. + +Perhaps the best elucidation I can give of it will be to cite a certain +passage in Dr. Nichols' _Architecture of the Heavens_, which happens to +bear a rather remarkable, although I believe an accidental, resemblance +to Shakspeare's words: _accidental_, because if Dr. Nichols had this +passage of the _Tempest_ present to his mind, when writing in a +professedly popular and familiar style, he would scarcely have omitted +allusion to it, especially as it would have afforded a peculiarly happy +illustration of his subject. + +I shall now quote both passages, in order that they may be conveniently +compared: + + "Our revels now are ended--these our actors + As I foretold you, were all spirits, and + Are melted into air--INTO THIN AIR: + And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, + The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, + The solemn temples, the great globe itself, + Yea, all that it inherit--shall dissolve-- + And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, + Leave not a rack behind." + + "---- in the laboratory of the chemist matter easily passes + through all conditions, the solid, liquid, and gaseous, as if _in + a sort of phantasmagoria_; and his highest discoveries even now + are pointing to the conclusion, that the bodies which make up the + solid portion of our earth may, simply by the dissolution of + existing combinations, _be ultimately resolved into a permanently + gaseous form_."--Nichols' _Architecture of the Heavens_, p. 147. + +Had we no other presumption to lead us to Shakspeare's true meaning but +what is afforded by the expression, "into air--thin air," it ought, in +my opinion, to be amply sufficient; for no rational person can entertain +a doubt that Shakspeare intended the repetition, "thin air," to have +reference to the simile that was to follow. The globe itself shall +dissolve, and, like this vision, leave not a _rack_ behind! In what was +the resemblance to the vision to consist, if not in melting, like it, +into _thin_ air? into air unobscured by vapour, rarified from the +slightest admixture of rack or cloud. + +Shakespeare knew that atmospheric rack is not insubstantial; that it is +corporeal like the globe itself, of which it is a part; and that, so +long as a particle of it remained, dissolution could not be complete. + +And shall we reject this exquisite philosophy--this profundity of +thought--to substitute our own mean and common-place ideas? + + A. E. B. + + Leeds, July 22. + +P.S.--Apart from the philosophical beauty of this wonderful passage, +there are other aspects in which it may be studied with not less +interest. + +How true is the poetical image of the _rack_ as the last object of +dissipation! the expiring evidence of combustion! the lingering +cloudiness of solution! + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Pseudo MSS._--_The Devil, Cromwell and his Amours._--It is too bad! In +Vol. iii., p. 282., there is a good page and a half taken up with a +verbatim extract from Echard, which has either been alluded to or quoted +by every writer on Cromwell from Echard's time down to a few months ago, +when it appeared in _Chambers's Papers for the People_, No. 11. Again, +in Vol. iv., p. 19., there is another page and a half relating to +Cromwell, which, I fearlessly assert, I have seen frequently in print, +but cannot at present tell where; and more important avocations forbid +me to search. As if that was not enough, in Vol. iv., p. 50. there is +another half page respecting the preservation of these _precious MSS._! +Is it not too bad? Do, worthy Mr. Editor, make the _amende honorable_ by +publishing the true characters of the MSS. forwarded by S. H. H., which +you have so inadvertently published as original. + + W. PINKERTON. + + [Our correspondent seems to doubt that the communications to which + he refers were really printed from contemporary MSS. The Editor is + able to vouch for that having been certainly the fact. They are + not printed from transcripts from Echard, but from real MSS. of + the time of Charles II., or thereabouts; while the fact of these + early transcripts having been printed surely does not furnish any + argument against the valuable suggestion of S. H. H. as to the + preservation of similar documents for the use of the public, and + in the manner pointed out in his communication.--ED.] + +_Anonymous Ravennas_ (Vol. i., pp. 124. 220. 368.; Vol. iii., p. +462.).--Your correspondents have neglected to observe that this author's +Chorography of Britain was published by Gale, "ad calcem Antonini Iter +Britanniarum," viz., _Britanniæ Chorographia cum Autographo Regis Galliæ +Ms'o. et Codice Vaticano collata; Adjiciuntur conjecturæ plurimæ cum +nominibus locorum Anglicis, quotquot iis assignari potuerint_: Londini, +1709, 4to. + +A copy of the edition of _Anonymi Ravennatis Geographiæ Libri Quinque_ +(of the last of which the Chorography of Britain forms a part) noticed +by J. I. (Vol. i., p. 220.) is now before me; as also a later edition, +published by the editor's son, Abram Gronovius: Lugduni Batavorum, 1722, +8vo. + +Horsley's _Britannia Romana_, book iii. chap. iv., contains "1. Some +account of this author and his work; 2. The Latin text of this +writer[2]; 3. Remarks upon many of the places mentioned by him, and more +particularly of such as seem to be the same with the stations per lineam +valli in the Notitia." His remarks are diametrically opposite to the +conjectures of Camden and Gale. + + [Footnote 2: The Chorography from Gale's edition.] + + T. J. + +_Margaret Maultasch_ (Vol. iv., p. 56.).--Your correspondent who +inquires where he can meet with the particulars of the life of Margaret, +surnamed _Maultasch_, Countess of Tyrol, will find them in the +Supplement of the _Biographie Universelle_, vol. lxxiii. p. 136. + +The great heiress in question, though a monster of ugliness, was twice +married: first to John Henry, son of Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia (1331), +from whom she procured a divorce on the plea of his incapacity; and, +secondly (1341), to Louis of Bavaria, eldest son of the Emperor Louis +IV., by whom she had a son, Mainard, who died without issue during his +mother's lifetime. + +I know not upon what authority rest the imputed irregularities of her +life, but her biographer, in the article above mentioned, casts no such +slur upon her character. Nor can I discover that the armorial bearings +of the town of Halle, in Tyrol, have any such significant meaning as has +been hinted at. They are to be found in Matthew Merian's _Topographia +Provinciarum Austriacarum_, printed at Frankfort on the Maine in 1649, +engraved on the view of Halle, at p. 139., and appear to be _a cask or +barrel, supported by two lions_. There is _no_ statue of Margaret +Maultasch among those which surround the mausoleum of Emperor +_Maximilian_ (not _Matthias_) in the Franciscan church at Inspruck; but +her ludicrously hideous features may be found amongst the historical +portraits engraved in the magnificent work descriptive of the Museum of +Versailles, published a few years ago at Paris, under the auspices of +King Louis Philippe. + + W. S. + + Denton, July 28. + +_Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace_ (Vol. i., p. 230.; Vol. +iv., p. 58.).--Is your correspondent C. correct in attributing _A true +Character of Mr. Pope and his Writings, in a Letter to a Friend_, +printed for Popping, 1716, to Oldmixon? In the Testimonies of Authors, +prefixed to the _Dunciad_, and the Appendix, and throughout the Notes, +Dennis is uniformly quoted and attacked as the author. Oldmixon's feud +with Pope was hardly, I think, so early. + +Assuming your correspondent's quotation from the pamphlet to be correct, +the terms made use of will surely refer to Pope's _Imitation of Horace_ +(S. ii. L. i.), a fragment of which was published by Curll about this +time (1716). It was afterwards republished in folio about 1734, printed +for J. Boreman, under the title of _Sober Advice from Horace to the +young Gentlemen about Town_, but in an enlarged state, and with some of +the initials altered, and several new adaptations. Mrs. Oldfield and +Lady Mary are not introduced in the first edition. I have both, but at +present can only refer to the second one in folio. From this the +_Imitation_ was transferred to the Supplement to Pope's Works, +published by Cooper: London, 1757, 12mo., and from thence to the +Supplementary Volumes to the later editions. The publication of it +formed an article of impeachment against Dr. Jos. Warton, by the author +of the _Pursuits of Literature_, as all who have read that satire will +well remember. + + JAS. CROSSLEY. + +_Brother Jonathan_ (Vol. iii., p. 495.).--The origin of this term, as +applied to the United States, is given in a recent number of the +_Norwich Courier_. The editor says it was communicated by a gentleman +now upwards of eighty years of age, who was an active participator in +the scenes of the revolution. The story is as follows: + + "When General Washington, after being appointed commander of the + army of the revolutionary war, came to Massachusetts to organize + it, and make preparations for the defence of the country, he found + a great want of ammunition and other means necessary to meet the + powerful foe he had to contend with, and great difficulty to + obtain them. If attacked in such condition, the cause at once + might be hopeless. On one occasion at that anxious period a + consultation of the officers and others was had, when it seemed no + way could be devised to make such preparations as were necessary. + His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull the elder was then governor of + the State of Connecticut, on whose judgment and aid the general + placed the greatest reliance, and remarked, 'We must consult + Brother Jonathan on the subject.' The general did so, and the + governor was successful in supplying many of the wants of the + army. When difficulties afterwards arose, and the army was spread + over the country, it became a by-word, 'We _must consult_ Brother + Jonathan.' The term Yankee is still applied to a portion, but + 'Brother Jonathan' has now become a designation of the whole + country, as John Bull has for England."--_Dictionary of + Americanisms_, by John Russell Bartlett, 1849. + + H. J. + +_Cromwell's Grants of Land in Monaghan_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--E. A. asks +whether there are any grants of land in the county of Monaghan recorded +as made by Cromwell, and where such records are preserved? I fear I can +give but a negative answer to the question: but among the stores of the +State Paper Office are many books of orders, letters, &c. during the +Commonwealth. Among them are two bundles dated in 1653, which relate to +the lands granted by lot, to the adventurers who had advanced money for +the army, in the different provinces of Ireland. Monaghan is not +mentioned. + + SPEC. + +_Stanedge Pole_ (Vol. iii., p. 391.).--In answer to your correspondent +A. N., I beg to state that Stanedge Pole is between six and seven miles +from Sheffield, on the boundary line between Yorkshire and Derbyshire, +on a long causeway which was in former times the road from Yorkshire to +Manchester. Its only antiquity consists in having been for centuries one +of the meers marking the boundaries of Hallamshire. In Harrison's +_Survey of the Manor of Sheffield_, 1637, appears an account of the +boundaries as viewed and seen the 6th of August, 1574, from which the +following is an extract:-- + + "Item. From the said Hurkling Edge so forward after the Rock to + Stannedge, which is a meer between the said Lordshipps (of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge). + + "Item. From Stannedge after the same rock to a place called the + Broad Rake, which is also a meer between the said Lordshipps of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge." + +The situation is a very fine one, commanding a very beautiful and +extensive view of the surrounding country.[3] + + [Footnote 3: Its elevation is, according to the Ordnance Survey, + 1463 feet.] + + H. J. + + Stanedge. + +_Baskerville the Printer_ (Vol. iv., p. 40.).--Baskerville was interred +in the grounds attached to the house in which he lived, near Easy Row, +Birmingham. The land becoming valuable for building purposes, he was, +after lying there about half a century, disinterred and removed to the +workshop of a lead merchant, named Marston, in Monmouth Street, +Birmingham. While there I saw his remains. They were in a wooden coffin, +which was enclosed in one of lead. How long they had been above ground I +do not know, but certainly not long. This, as far as I can recollect, is +about twenty-five years since. The person who showed me the body, and +who was either one of the Marstons or a manager of the business, told me +he had seen the coffins opened, and that the features were then perfect. +When exhibited to me the nose and lips were gone, as were also two front +teeth, which had been torn from the mouth surreptitiously and taken +away. I understood that it was known who had them, and that they would +be restored. The shroud was discoloured, I presume from natural causes, +being of a dirty yellow colour, as though it had been drawn through a +clay pit. The texture and strength of the cloth remained unaffected. +Baskerville entertained peculiar opinions on religious subjects. There +was a rumour of some efforts having been made to deposit his remains in +one of the church burial grounds, but they were not successful. A year +or two ago, while in Birmingham, a snuff-box was shown me, on the lid of +which a portrait of Baskerville was painted, which fully agreed with a +description of his person given me many years previously by one who had +known him. This portrait had not, from its appearance, been painted very +long. From its being there I infer that there is in existence at least +one original portrait of this eminent printer. + + ST. JOHNS. + +_Inscription on a Claymore_ (Vol. iv., p. 59.).--Is your correspondent +"T. M. W., Liverpool," who inquires the translation of an "inscription +on a claymore," certain that his quotation is correct? To me it appears +that it should run thus: + + [x] GOTT BEWAR DE + [x] _G_ERECHTE SCHOTTEN. + +or, "God preserve the righteous (or just) Scots;" referring, no doubt, +to the undertaking in which they were then engaged. + +I believe that formerly, and probably at the present time, many of the +finest sword blades were made abroad, and sent to England to be mounted, +or even entirely finished on the Continent. I have in my possession a +heavy trooper's sword, bearing the name of a celebrated German maker, +although the ornaments and devices are unquestionably English. Another +way of accounting for the inscription is, that it belonged to some of +those foreign adventurers who are known to have joined Charles Edward. + + W. SHIRLEY. + +_Burton Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 22.).--In Hunter's _History of +Hallamshire_, p. 236., is a pedigree of Burton of Royds Mill, near +Sheffield, in which are the following remarks:-- + + "Richard Burton of Tutbury, Staffordshire, died May 9th, 8 Henry + V. Married Maud, sister of Robert Gibson of Tutbury; and had a + son, Sir William Burton of Falde and Tutbury, Knight; slain at + Towtonfield, 1461, from whom descended the Burtons of Lindley." + + "Thomas Burton of Fanshawgate, who died in 1643, left three sons; + Michael, Thomas, and Francis. Michael was of Mosborough, and had a + numerous issue; the names of his children appear on his monumental + brass in the chancel of the church at Eckington. Thomas, the + second son, was of London and Putney, married, and had issue. + Francis, the youngest, was lord of the Manor of Dronfield, and + served the office of High Sheriff of Derby in 1669. Was buried at + Dronfield in 1687." + +I find no account of any Roger Burton; but if your correspondent E. H. +A. is not in possession of the above pedigree, and should wish for a +copy, I shall be glad to send him it. + + JOHN ALGOR. + + Eldon Street, Sheffield. + +_Notation by Coalwhippers_ (Vol. iv., p. 21.).--The notation used by +coalwhippers, &c., mentioned by I. J. C., is, after all, I expect, but a +part of a system which was probably the origin of the Roman notation. +The first four strokes or units were cut diagonally by the fifth, and +taking the first and last of these strokes we readily obtain V, or the +Roman five; but as the natural systems of arithmetic are decimal, from +the number of fingers, it is most probable that the _tens_ were thus +marked off, or by a stroke drawn across the last unit thus X, whence we +obtain the Roman ten: these tens were repeated up to a hundred, or the +second class of tens, which were probably connected by two parallel +lines top and bottom [C], which would be the sign of the second class of +tens, or hundreds; this became afterwards rounded into C: the third +class of tens, or thousands, was represented by four strokes M, and +these symbols served by abbreviation for some intermediate numbers; thus +X divided became V, or 5, the half of 10; then L, half of [C], +represented 50, half of 100; and M becoming rounded thus (M) was +frequently expressed in this manner CI*C; and this became abbreviated +into D, 500, half of CI*C; or 1000: and thus, by variously combining +these six symbols (though all derived from the one straight stroke), +numbers to a very high amount could be expressed. + + THOS. LAWRENCE. + + Ashby de la Zouch. + +_Statue of Charles II._ (Vol. iv., p. 40.).--The following passage is +from Hughson's _History of London_, vol. ii. p. 521.: + + "Among the adherents and sufferers in the cause of Charles II. was + Sir Robert Viner, alderman of London. After the Restoration the + worthy alderman, willing to show his loyalty and prudence, raised + in this place [_i. e._ the Stock's Market] the statue above + mentioned. The figure had been carved originally for John + Sobieski, king of Poland, but by some accident was left upon the + workman's hands. Finding the work ready carved to his hands, Sir + Robert thought that, with some alteration, what was intended for a + king of Poland might suit the monarch of Great Britain; he + therefore converted the Polander into an Englishman, and the Turk + underneath his horse into Oliver Cromwell; the turban on the last + figure being an undeniable proof of the truth attached to the + story. The compliment was so ridiculous and absurd, that no one + who beheld it could avoid reflecting on the taste of those who had + set it up; but as its history developed the farce improved, and + what was before esteemed contemptible, proved in the end + entertaining. The poor mutilated figure stood neglected some years + since among the rubbish in the purlieus of Guildhall; and in 1779, + it was bestowed by the common council on Robert Viner, Esq., who + removed it to grace his country seat." + +The earliest engraving of "the King at the Stock's Market" may be seen +in Thomas Delaune's _Present State of London_, 12mo. 1681. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Serius, where situated?_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--The Serius, now Serio, +rises in the chain of mountains in the south of the Valteline, between +the lakes Como and Ixo: it flows through a valley called the Val Seria, +passes near Bergamo and Cremona, and falls into the Adda a little before +that river joins the Po. + + J. M. (4) + +_Corpse passing makes a Right of Way_ (Vol. iii., pp. 477. 507. +519.).--Some time ago, I buried in our churchyard a person from an +adjoining parish; but, instead of taking a pathway which led directly +from the house of the deceased to the church, they kept to the +high-road,--so going four miles instead of one. When I asked the +reason, I was told that the pathway was not a _lich-road_, and therefore +it was not lawful to bring a corpse along it. + + J. M. (4) + +_The Petworth Register_ (Vol. iii., p. 510.; Vol. iv., p. 27.).--Your +correspondents LLEWELLYN and J. S. B. do not appear to be acquainted +with Heylyn's quotations from the book thus designated. In one place (p. +63., folio; vol. i. p. 132., 8vo.) he refers to it for a statement-- + + "That many at this time [A.D. 1548] affirmed the most blessed + Sacrament of the altar to be of little regard," &c. + +And in another place (p. 65., folio; vol. i. p. 136., 8vo.), he gives an +extract relating to Day, Bishop of Chichester:-- + + "Sed Ricardus Cicestrensis, (ut ipse mihi dixit) non subscripsit." + +Hence the _Register_ would seem to have been a sort of chronicle, kept +by the rector of Petworth; and it does not appear whether it was or was +not in the same volume with the register of births, marriages, and +deaths. In the latter case, it may possibly be still in the Petworth +parish chest; for the returns to which your correspondents refer, would +probably not have mentioned any other registers than those of which the +law takes cognizance. On the other hand, if the chronicle was attached +to the register of births, &c., it may have shared the too common fate +of early registers; for, when an order of 1597 directed the clergy to +transcribe on parchment the entries made in the proper registers since +the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, they seem to have generally +interpreted it as a permission to make away with the older registers, +although there _are_ cases in which the proper books are still +preserved. (I am myself acquainted with two in this neighbourhood; and +J. S. B., if I am right in identifying him with the author of the very +curious and valuable _History of Parish Registers_, can no doubt mention +many others.) But how did Heylyn, who collected most of his materials +about 1638, get hold of the book? + + J. C. ROBERTSON. + + Bekesbourne. + +_Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli"_ (Vol. ii., p. +265.; Vol. iii., p. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 62.).--Sir Egerton Brydges, in +his _Censura Literaria_, vol. i. p. 305., attributes this work to +_Henry_ Holland. In his notice of _Heroologia Anglica_, he says: + + "The author was Henry Holland, son of Philemon Holland, a + physician and schoolmaster at Coventry, and the well-known + translator of Camden, &c. Henry was born at Coventry, and + travelled with John, Lord Harrington, into the Palatinate in 1613, + and collected and wrote (besides the _Heroologia_) _Monumenta + Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli, Lond._, 4to.; and engraved and + published _A Book of Kings, being a true and lively effigies of + all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present_, &c., + 1618. He was not educated either in Oxford or Cambridge; having + been a member of the society of Stationers in London. I think it + is most probable that he was brother to Abraham Holland, who + subscribes his name as 'Abr. Holland alumnus S. S. Trin. Coll. + Cantabr.' to some copies of Latin verses on the death of John, + second Lord Harrington, of Exton, in the _Heroologia_; which + Abraham was the author of a poem called _Naumachia, or Holland's + Sea-Fight_, Lond. 1622, and died Feb. 18, 1625, when his + _Posthuma_ were edited by 'his brother H. Holland.' At this time, + however, there were other writers of the name of Hen. + Holland.--(See Wood's _Athenæ_, i. 499.)" + + J. Y. + + Hoxton. + +_Mistake as to an Eclipse_ (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--From your +correspondent's mention of it, I should have supposed Casaubon meant +that the astronomers had been mistaken in the _calculation_ of an +eclipse. But the matter is of another kind. In the _lunar_ eclipse of +April 3, 1605, two _observers_, Wendelinus and Lansberg, in different +longitudes, made the eclipse end at times far more different than their +difference of longitudes would explain. The ending of a lunar eclipse, +observed with the unassisted eye, is a very indefinite phenomenon. + +The allusion to this, made by Meric Casaubon, is only what the French +call a _plat de son métier_. He was an upholder of the ancients in +philosophy, and his bias would be to depreciate modern successes, and +magnify modern failures. When he talks of the astronomer being "deceived +in the hour," he probably uses the word _hour_ for _time_, as done in +French and old English. + + M. + +"_A Posie of other Men's Flowers_" (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--D. Q. is +referred to Montaigne, who is the author of the passage; but not having +access to his works, I am not able to give a paginal reference. + + H. T. E. + + Clyst St. George. + +_Davies' History of Magnetical Discovery_ (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--The +_History, &c._, by T. S. Davies, is in the _British Annual_ for 1837, +published by Baillière. + + M. + +_Marriage of Bishops_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--A. B. C. will find his +questions fully answered in Henry Wharton's tract, entitled _A Treatise +of the Celibacy of the Clergy, wherein its Rise and Progress are +historically considered_, 1688, 4to. pp. 168. There is also another +treatise on the same subject, entitled _An Answer to a Discourse +concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy_, by E. Tully, 1687, in reply to +Abraham Woodhead. + + E. C. HARRINGTON. + + The Close, Exeter, July 28. 1851. + +"_The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong_" (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--The +same idea as that conveyed in this line is frequently expressed, though +not in precisely the same words, in Defoe's _Jure Divino_, a poem which +contains many vigorous and spirited passages; but I do not believe that +Pope gave the line as a quotation at all, or that it is other, as far as +he is concerned, than original. The inverted commas merely denote that +this line is the termination of the goddess's speech. The punctuation is +not very correct in any of the editions of the _Dunciad_; and sometimes +inverted commas occur at the end of the last line of a speech, and +sometimes both at the beginning and end of the line. + + JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_Equestrian Statues_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--In reply to F. M.'s Query +respecting the Duke of Wellington's statue being the only equestrian one +erected to a subject in her Majesty's dominions, I may mention that +there is one erected in Cavendish Square to William Duke of Cumberland, +who, though of the blood royal, was yet a subject. + + D. K. + + + + +Miscellaneous. + + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +When Mr. Murray commenced that admirable series of _Guides_ which form +the indispensable companion of those restless spirits who delight with +each recurring summer-- + + "To waft their _size to_ Indus or the Pole," + +he first sent his Schoolmaster abroad; with what success those who have +examined, used, and trusted to his _Continental Handbooks_ best can +tell. Whether Mr. Murray is now actuated by a spirit of patriotism, or +of moral responsibility under the remembrance that "charity begins at +home," we neither know nor care; since our "home-staying" friends, as +well as all who visit us, will benefit by the new direction which his +energy has taken. Among the first fruits of this we have Murray's +_Handbook for Modern London_, which did not need the name of our valued +contributor MR. PETER CUNNINGHAM at the foot of its preliminary +advertisement to show the mint in which it was coined; for it is in +every page marked with the same characteristics, the same laborious +research--the same scrupulous exactness--the same clear and distinct +arrangements, which won such deserved praise for that gentleman's +_Handbook for London, Past and Present_. Any visitor to London, be he +mere sight-seer or be he artist, architect, statist, &c., will find in +this neatly printed volume the most satisfactory replies to his +inquiries. + +_The Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum, being a +Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan +Art, preserved there_, by W. S. W. Vaux, _Assistant in the Department of +Antiquities_, has been compiled for the purpose of laying before the +public the contents of one department of the British Museum--that of +antiquities--in a compendious and popular form. The attempt has been +most successful. Mr. Vaux has not only the advantage of official +position, but of great practical knowledge of the subject, and abundant +scholarship to do it justice; and the consequence is, that his _Handbook +to the Antiquities in the British Museum_ will be found not only most +useful for the special object for which it has been written, but a +valuable introduction to the study of Early Art. + +There are probably no objects in the Great Exhibition which have +attracted more general attention than the Stuffed Animals exhibited by +Herrmann Ploucquet, of Stuttgart. Prince and peasant, old and young, the +pale-faced student deep in Goethe and Kaulbach, and the hard-handed +agriculturist who picked up his knowledge of nature and natural history +while plying his daily task,--have all gazed with delight on the +productions of this accomplished artist. That many of these admirers +will be grateful to Mr. Bogue for having had daguerreotypes of some of +the principal of these masterpieces taken by M. 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13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49- 78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81- 95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | + | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | + | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | + | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | + | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | + | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | + | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | + | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | + | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | + | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | + | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | + | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | + | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | + | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | + | Vol. III No. 87 | June 28, 1851 | 513-528 | PG # 37516 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. IV. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 | + | Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 | + | Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 | + | Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 | + | Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: December 20, 2011 [EBook #38350] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, AUGUST 16, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1> +<span id="idno">Vol. IV.—No. 94.</span> + +<span>NOTES <small>AND</small> QUERIES:</span> + +<span id="id1"> A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION</span> + +<span id="id2"> FOR</span> +<span id="id3"> LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.</span> +</h1> + +<div class="center1"> +<p class="noindent"><b>"When found, make a note of."</b>—C<span class="smcap lowercase">APTAIN</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">UTTLE.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="noindent center smaller">V<span class="smcap lowercase">OL</span>. IV.—No. 94.</p> +<p class="noindent center smaller">S<span class="smcap lowercase">ATURDAY</span>, A<span class="smcap lowercase">UGUST</span> 16. 1851.</p> + +<p class="noindent center smaller"> Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4<i>d.</i></p> + + + + +<h2><span>CONTENTS.</span></h2> + + +<p class="larger"> N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES</span>:— </p> + +<div class="toc"> + + <p class="indh i5">Traditions from remote Periods through few Hands +<a title="Go to page 113" href="#notes113">113</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">Minor notes:—Nelson's Coat—Strange Reason for + keeping a Public-house—Superstitions with regard to + Glastonbury Thorn—dash;The miraculous Walnut-tree + at Glastonbury—The Three Estates of the Realm +<a title="Go to page 114" href="#navy114">114</a> </p> +</div> + +<p class="larger">Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>:—</p> + +<div class="toc"> + + <p class="indh i5">Bensleys of Norwich +<a title="Go to page 115" href="#the115">115</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">Minor Queries:—Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge Castle—English + Translation of Nonnus—Of Prayer in + One Tongue—Inscription in Ely Cathedral—Cervantes: + what was the Date of his Death?—Meaning + of "Agla"—Murderers buried in Cross Roads—Wyle + Cop—The Devil's Knell—Queries on Poem of + Richard Rolle—Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of + Cromwell?—English Translation of Alcon +<a title="Go to page 115" href="#the115">115</a> </p> +</div> + +<p class="larger"> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EPLIES</span>:—</p> + +<div class="toc"> + + <p class="indh i5">John Bodley, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault and R. J. King +<a title="Go to page 117" href="#rather117">117</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">Wither's "Hallelujah" +<a title="Go to page 118" href="#near118">118</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">First Panorama +<a title="Go to page 118" href="#near118">118</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">John a Kent +<a title="Go to page 119" href="#readily119">119</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5"> The British Sidanen +<a title="Go to page 120" href="#Evan120">120</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">Petty Cury +<a title="Go to page 120" href="#Evan120">120</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">The Word "Rack" in the Tempest.—The Nebular Theory +<a title="Go to page 121" href="#Curia121">121</a> </p> + + <p class="indh i5">Replies to Minor Queries:—Pseudo MSS.: The Devil, + Cromwell and his Amours—Anonymous Ravennas—Margaret + Maultasch—Pope's Translation or Imitations + of Horace—Brother Jonathan—Cromwell's + Grants of Land in Monaghan—Stanedge Pole—Baskerville + the Printer—Inscription on a Claymore—Burton + Family—Notation by Coalwhippers—Statue + of Charles II.—Serius, where situated?—Corpse + passing makes a Right of Way—The Petworth Register—Holland's + "Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. + Pauli"—Mistake as to an Eclipse—"A Posie of other + Men's Flowers," &c. +<a title="Go to page 122" href="#rack122">122</a> </p> +</div> + +<p class="larger">M<span class="smcap lowercase">ISCELLANEOUS</span>:—</p> + +<div class="toc"> + <p>Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. +<a title="Go to page 126" href="#Jure126">126</a> </p> + + <p>Books and Odd Volumes wanted +<a title="Go to page 127" href="#Sale127">127</a> </p> + + <p>Notices to Correspondents +<a title="Go to page 127" href="#Sale127">127</a> </p> + + <p>Advertisements +<a title="Go to page 127" href="#Sale127">127</a> +<span class="pagenum">[113]</span><a id="notes113"></a> </p> + +<p class="indh i5"> <a id="was_added1"></a><a title="Go to list of vol. numbers and pages" + href="#pageslist1" class="fnanchor">List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages</a></p> + +</div> + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Notes.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>TRADITIONS FROM REMOTE PERIODS THROUGH FEW HANDS.</span></h3> + +<p>On two or three occasions in the "N<span class="smcap lowercase">OTES AND</span> Q<span class="smcap lowercase">UERIES</span>" instances have been +given of "Traditions from remote periods through few hands," of which it +would not be difficult to adduce numerous additional examples; but my +present purpose is to mention some within my personal experience, or +derived from authentic communication.</p> + +<p>In 1781, and my eleventh year, a schoolfellow took me to see his +great-grandmother, a Mrs. Arthur, in Limerick, then aged one hundred and +eight years, whose recollection of that city's siege in 1691, when she +was eighteen, was perfectly fresh and unimpaired, as, indeed, she was +fond of showing by frequent and even unsolicited recurrence to its dread +scenes, in which the women, history tells us, fearlessly participated. +We are here then presented with an interval of one hundred and sixty +years between a memorable event and my recollection of its narrative by +a person actively engaged in it. The old lady's family had furnished a +greater number of chief magistrates to Limerick than any other recorded +in its annals.</p> + +<p>Again in 1784, on a visit to my grandfather in the county of Limerick, +during a school vacation, I heard him, then in his eighty-sixth year, +say, that in 1714, on the accession to the British throne of the present +royal dynasty, he heard in Cork, where he was at school, a conversation +between several gentlemen on this change of the reigning family, when +one of them, a Mr. Martin, said that he was born the same day as Charles +II., on the 29th of May, 1631, and was present at the execution of +Charles I., the 29th of January, 1649. His family then resided in +London, where he joined Cromwell's Ironsides, and thence accompanied +them to Ireland. The transfer to him of some forfeited property +naturally induced him to settle there. Thus, between me and the +eye-witness of the regicidal catastrophe, only one person intervenes.</p> + +<p>In 1830 there died in London, at the eastern extremity, called the +World's End, an Irishman, aged one hundred and eleven, named Gibson, +whose father, a Scotchman, he told me, served under the Duke of Monmouth +at the battle of Sedgemore in July, 1685, and afterwards, in July, 1690, +under William, at the Boyne. Supposing, as we well may, the father to +have been born about 1660, in 1830, before the son's decease, the two +successive lives thus embrace one hundred and seventy years. I had +rendered the son some services which made him very communicative to me. +The father married and settled in Tipperary, where he became a Roman +Catholic, and no adherent of O'Connell could be more ardent in his cause +than the son. This veteran had served full seventy years in the royal +navy. +<a id="navy114"></a> <span class="pagenum">[114]</span></p> + +<p>In 1790 I recollect an old man of a hundred and twenty, who appeared +before the French National Assembly, and gave clear answers to questions +on events which he had witnessed one hundred and ten years before.</p> + +<p>Similar lengths of personal remembrance are related of old Parr, Lady +Desmond, and others, whose ages exceeded one hundred and forty years. +The daughter-in-law of the French king, Charles IX. (widow of his +natural son, the Duke of Angoulême), survived that monarch by a hundred +and thirty-nine years (1574-1713),—a rare, if not an unexampled fact. +The famous Cardan, in his singular work, <i>De Vita Propriâ</i>, states that +his grandfather's birth anteceded his own by a hundred and fifty years +(1351-1501). Franklin relates that his grandfather was born in the +sixteenth century, and reign of Elizabeth, as Sir Stephen Fox, the +grandfather of our contemporary statesman, Charles, was born shortly +after the death of James I., in 1627. A very near connexion of my own, +though much younger, is the grandson of a gentleman whose birth +retrocedes to Charles II., in 1672. Niebuhr grounds one of his +objections to the truth of the early Roman history on the very great +improbability of the long period of two hundred and forty-five years +assigned to the collective reigns of the seven kings. It does, indeed, +exceed the average of enthroned life; but the seven monarchs of Spain, +from Ferdinand (the Catholic) to the French Bourbon, Philip V., +inclusively, embraced a period of two hundred and sixty-seven years in +their successive rule (1469, when Ferdinand obtained the crown of +Arragon, and 1746, the date of Philip's death). The eminent German +historian offers, however, much stronger arguments in disbelief of the +Roman annals; but he had many predecessors in his views, though himself, +unquestionably, the most powerful writer on the subject.</p> + + <p class="right">J. R. (An Octogenarian.)</p> + +<p>P.S.—In Vol. iv., p. 73., Madame du Châtelet's epitaph on Voltaire +contains an error, where <i>canis</i> twice appears, but should be <i>carus</i>. +The lady's object was certainly complimentary, not sarcastic. My crampt +writing was of course the cause of the mistake, though, in the <i>opinion +of many</i>, the substituted word would not appear inapplicable to +Voltaire. A subjoined article of the same page, "Children at a Birth," +reminds me of something analogous in Mercier's <i>Tableau de Paris</i>, where +reference is made to the <i>Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences</i> for the +fact. The wife of a baker, it is there stated, in the short space of +seven years, produced one-and-twenty children, or three at each annual +birth; and, to prove that the prolific faculty was exclusively his, he +made a maid servant similarly the mother of three children at a birth. +The major portion, it appears, of this numerous progeny long survived. +Bayle, in his article of Tiraqueau, a French advocate of the sixteenth +century, quotes an epigram, which would make him the father of +forty-five children, and, it is added, by one wife. If so, several must +at least have been twins:</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p>"Fæcundus facundus aquæ Tiraquellus amator,</p> + <p>Terquindecim librorum et liberum parens;</p> + <p>Qui nisi restinxisset aquis abstemius ignes,</p> + <p>Implesset orbem prole animi atque corporis."</p> +</div> + +<p>The accomplished authoress of <i>A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic</i> +(1841, 2 volumes) was, it is well known, one of <i>four</i> congenital +children in Norwich, where her father was an eminent physician.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. R.</p> + + <p class="left">Cork, August, 1851.</p> + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Minor Notes.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Nelson's Coat</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 517.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The recognition of the coat +Nelson wore at Trafalgar depends on its fulfilling a detail in the +following fact. The present Captain Sir George Westphal was a midshipman +on board the Victory, and was wounded on the back of the head: he was +taken into the cockpit, and placed by the side of Nelson. When +Westphal's wound was dressed, nothing else being immediately available, +Nelson's coat was rolled up and used as a support to Westphal's head. +Blood flowed from the wound, and, coagulating, stuck the bullion of one +of the epaulettes to the bandage; it was deemed better to cut off some +of the bullion curls to liberate the coat: so that the coat Nelson wore +on that day will be found minus of bullion in one of the epaulettes.</p> + + <p class="right">Æ<span class="smcap lowercase">GROTUS</span>.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Strange Reasons for keeping a Public-house.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—A clergyman in the +south-west of England, calling lately on one of his parishioners, who +kept a public-house, remarked to her how sorry he was, when passing +along the road, to hear such noises proceeding from her house. "I +wonder," said he, "that any woman can keep a public-house, especially +one where there is so much drunkenness and depravity as in yours." "Oh, +Sir," she replied, "that is the very reason why I like to keep such a +house, because I see every day so much of the <i>worst part of human +nature</i>."</p> + + <p class="right">T. W.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury Thorn.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—It is handed down, +that when Joseph of Arimathea, during his mission to England, arrived at +Weary-all-hill, near Glastonbury, he struck his travelling staff into +the earth, which immediately took root, and ever after put forth its +leaves and blossoms on Christmas Day, being converted into a miraculous +thorn.</p> + +<p>This tree, which had two trunks, was preserved until the time of Queen +Elizabeth; when one of the trunks was destroyed by a Puritan, and +the +<a id="the115"></a> + <span class="pagenum">[115]</span> + other met with the same fate during the Great Rebellion.</p> + +<p>Throughout the reign of Henry VIII., its blossoms were esteemed such +great curiosities, and sovereign specifics, as to become an object of +gain to the merchants of Bristol; who not only disposed of them to the +inhabitants of their own city, but <i>exported</i> these blossoms to +different parts of Europe. There were, in addition to these, relics for +rain, for avoiding the evil eye, for rooting out charlock, and all weeds +in corn, with similar specifics, which were considered, at this time, +<i>the best of all property</i>!</p> + + <p class="right"> T. W.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—This far-famed tree was at +the north of St. Joseph's chapel, in the abbey churchyard. It was +supposed to have been brought from Palestine by some of the pilgrims, +and was visited in former days, and regarded as sacred by <i>all ranks</i> of +people; and, even so late as the time of King James, that monarch, as +well as his ministers and nobility, paid large sums for sprigs of it, +which were preserved as holy relics.</p> + + <p class="right">T. W.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>The Three Estates of the Realm.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Some, even educated persons of this +day, if asked which are the three estates of the realm, will reply, the +Queen, Lords, and Commons. That the three estates do not include the +Queen, and are therefore the Lords, the Clergy in Convocation, and the +Commons, is obvious from the title of the "Form of Prayer with +Thanksgiving to be used yearly upon the 5th day of November, for the +happy Deliverance of <i>King James I.</i> and the Three Estates of England +from the most Traitorous," &c.; and also from the following passage of +the Communion Collect for Gunpowder Treason:—</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"Eternal God, and our most mighty Protector, we Thy unworthy + servants do humbly present ourselves before Thy Majesty, + acknowledging Thy power, wisdom, and goodness, in preserving <i>the + king</i>, <span class="smcap lowercase">AND</span> <i>the three estates</i> of the realm of England assembled + in Parliament, from the destruction this day intended against + them."</p> + + <p class="right"> W. F<span class="smcap lowercase">RAER</span>.</p> + + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Queries.</span></h2> + +<h3><span>BENSLEYS OF NORWICH.</span></h3> + +<p>As I am much interested in the above family, which I know to have +existed at Norwich, or the vicinity, for a century or more, and have +reason to think was one of some consequence, will you, through the +medium of your useful columns, allow me to ask some of your intelligent +correspondents who reside in that neighbourhood the following Queries?</p> + +<p>1. Is anything known of the family of the late Sir William Bensley +farther back than his father, Thomas Bensley? Sir William was born in +the county of Norfolk, and at an early age entered the navy; transferred +himself to the Honourable East India Company's service, made a large +fortune, was elected a Director of the Company 1771, created a baronet +1801, and died without issue 1809.</p> + +<p>2. Was Mr. Richard Bensley, an actor of some celebrity, who made his +"first appearance" in 1765 (he had previously been an officer in the +Marines, and, as I am informed, held the appointment of barrack-master +at Knightsbridge till his death in 1817), any connexion of the above, or +at all connected with Norwich?</p> + +<p>3. Cowper, in one of his letters [to Joseph Hill, Esq., dated +Huntingdon, July 3, 1765], says:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"The tragedies of Lloyd and Bensley are both very deep. If they + are of no use to the surviving part of society, it is their own + fault," &c.</p> + +<p>Any information as to who this Bensley was, will be very acceptable; or +anything concerning the tragedies mentioned.</p> + +<p>4. Any intelligence respecting one "Isaac Bensley" of Norwich, weaver; +who was alive in 1723, as his son was in that year baptized at the +Octagon Chapel in that city.</p> + +<p>If any of your contributors, in their archæological researches among +tombstones and parish registers, should have met with the name of +Bensley, by addressing a "note" to you thereon they will confer a great +obligation on your constant reader and occasional contributor.</p> + + <p class="right"> T<span class="smcap lowercase">EE</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">EE</span>.</p> + + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Minor Queries.</span></h3> + +<h4><span>68. <i>Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge Castle.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In the court of the castle +of this place, there stands a colossal figure of what I take to be an +heraldic panther gorged with a ducal crown, supporting a shield of the +royal arms of France and England quarterly, as borne before the +accession of James I.</p> + +<p>The corresponding supporter is gone, but the base and one claw remain, +showing it to have been a beast of prey, and with it is a broken shield, +thereon, "party per pale three lions rampant;" the arms, and probably +the supporter of the Herberts, earls of Pembroke. The two figures have +evidently capped the piers of a gateway.</p> + +<p>Can any of your readers account for the presence of these figures here, +where the Herberts are not recorded to have possessed any property?</p> + + <p class="right"> E<span class="smcap lowercase">RMINES</span>.</p> + + <p class="left"> Tonbridge, July 29. 1851.</p> + + + +<h4><span>69. <i>English Translation of Nonnus.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—I shall be obliged if any of your +correspondents will inform me if any translation of the poet Nonnus, +which contains, perhaps, most that is known about Bacchus, has ever been +made into English; if so, by whom, and when?</p> + + <p class="right">Æ<span class="smcap lowercase">GROTUS</span>. +<a id="when116"></a> <span class="pagenum">[116]</span></p> + + + +<h4><span>70. <i>Of Prayer in one Tongue.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Bishop Jewel, in his celebrated sermon +preached at Paul's Cross, quotes the following argument as used by +Gerson, sometime Chancellor of Paris:</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "There is but one only God; ergo, all nations throughout the + world must pray to Him in one tongue."</p> + +<p>The editor of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel cannot discover the +argument in the works of Gerson; but if any of your readers can point +out where it may be found, I shall be much obliged.</p> + + <p class="right">N. E. R. (a Subscriber).</p> + + + +<h4><span>71. <i>Inscription in Ely Cathedral.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—M. D. (Great Yarmouth) is anxious +to have the meaning of the following inscription explained. It is on a +tombstone in Ely Cathedral.</p> + +<div class="box"> + +<table summary="Inscription in Ely Cathedral"> + +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Human</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Redemption</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang">590</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">590</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">590</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang">Born</td><td class="tdhang">[•]</td><td class="tdhang">Sara</td><td class="tdhang">[•]</td><td class="tdhang">Watts</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Died</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang">600</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">600</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">600</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang">30</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">00</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">33</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Aged</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang">Y 30</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">00</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">33</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang">M 3</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">d 31</td><td class="tdhang">-</td><td class="tdhang">3</td><td align="left"> </td><td align="left"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang">h 3</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">3</td><td class="tdhang">[X]</td><td class="tdhang">3</td><td align="left">[X]</td><td align="left">12</td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Nations make fun of his Commands.</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">———</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">S. M. E.</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Judgements begun on Earth.</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3"> In memory of</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> F<span class="smcap lowercase">OUNTAIN</span>.</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Died August 21, 1767.</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +<tr><td class="tdhang"></td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdcenter" colspan="3">Aged 60 years.</td><td class="tdhang"> </td><td class="tdhang"> </td></tr> +</table> +</div> + + + +<h4><span>72. <i>Cervantes—what was the Date of his Death?</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In the Life prefixed +to a corrected edition of Jarvis's translation, published by Miller, +1801, it is stated to be April 23, 1616; and it is added:</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "It is a singular coincidence of circumstances, that the same day + should deprive the world of two men of such transcendent + abilities as Cervantes and Shakspeare, the latter of whom died in + England on the very day that put an end to the life of the former + in Spain."</p> + +<p>Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, in his Life of his uncle, the poet, remarks +on his decease on the anniversary of the death of Shakspeare, but makes +no allusion to the double anniversary; and in the Life of Cervantes +prefixed to Smollet's translation of <i>Don Quixote</i>, the day of +Cervantes' death is somewhat differently stated.</p> + + + <p class="right">G<span class="smcap lowercase">EO</span>. E. F<span class="smcap lowercase">RERE</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span>73. <i>"Agla," Meaning of.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—I have in my possession a silver ring, found +some time since at a place called "Grungibane" in this neighbourhood. +The hoop is flat both inside and out, about a quarter of an inch broad. +On the outside, occupying about half the length, is the following +inscription: "+ A<span class="smcap lowercase">GLA</span>."</p> + +<p>I should feel great obliged by some of your learned correspondents +decyphering the above.</p> + + <p class="right">J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHN</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ARTIN</span>.</p> + + <p class="left">Downpatrick.</p> + + + +<h4><span>74. <i>Murderers buried in Cross Roads.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Though the lines of Hood's,</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p>"So they buried him where the cross roads met</p> + <p> With a stake in his inside."</p> +</div> + +<p>occur in one of his comic poems, I have often heard it gravely stated +that it was formerly the custom to bury murderers with a stake driven +through the body, where cross roads meet. Was this ever a <i>custom</i>, and +when was "formerly?" Are there many such tragic spots in England and can +I find them enumerated anywhere?</p> + + <p class="right"> P. M. M.</p> + + + +<h4><span>75. <i>Wyle Cop.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—This is the name of a street, or rather bank in +Shrewsbury, leading from the English Bridge to High Street. It has +always struck me as being a curious name; and I should feel obliged to +any of your readers who could inform me what is the origin of the place +being so called, or if there is any meaning in the words beyond being +the name of a place.</p> + + <p class="right">S<span class="smcap lowercase">ALOPIAN</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span>76. <i>The Devil's Knell.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—In the <i>Collectanea Topographica</i>, vol. i. p. +167., is the following note:</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "At Dewsbury, Yorkshire, there is a bell called 'Black Tom of + Sothill:' the tradition is, that it is as expiatory gift for a + murder. One of the bells, perhaps this one, is tolled on + Christmas-eve as at a funeral, or in the manner of a + passing-bell: and any one asking whose bell it was, would be told + that it was the <i>devil's knell</i>. The moral of it is, that the + devil died when Christ was born. The custom was discontinued for + many years, but was revived by the vicar in 1828."</p> + +<p>Is the gift of a bell a common expiatory gift for crime? And does the +custom of tolling the <i>devil's knell</i> on Christmas eve exist in any +other place at the present time?</p> + + <p class="right"> E<span class="smcap lowercase">DWARD</span> F. R<span class="smcap lowercase">IMBAULT</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span>77. <i>Queries on Poems of Richard Rolle</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 49.).</span></h4> + +<p>—I should be +glad to ask a question or two of your Cambridge correspondent, touching +his very interesting contribution from the MS. remains of Richard Rolle +of Hampole.</p> + +<p>What language is meant by the <i>deuenisch</i>?</p> + +<p>What is a <i>guystroun</i>?</p> + +<p>How does the word <i>chaunsemlees</i> come to mean shoes?</p> + +<p>An expression very strange to English verse occurs in the line,</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p>"Hir cher was ay <i>semand</i> sori."</p> +</div> + +<p>I can think of nothing to throw light upon this intensive adverb, except +the Danish <i>saamænd</i>, which is generally used in that language (or +rather +<a id="rather117"></a> <span class="pagenum">[117]</span> + <i>was</i> used, i.e. when Holberg wrote his comedies) as an +affirmatory oath. Native authorities explain it to mean "<i>so</i> it is, by +the holy <i>men</i>," or in other terms, "by the saints I swear."</p> + +<p>I have no doubt that the same kindness which led your correspondent to +communicate those delightful extracts, will also make him willing to +assist the understanding of them.</p> + + <p class="right">J. E.</p> + + <p class="left">Oxford.</p> + + + +<h4><span>78. <i>Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Mr. Carlyle, in +treating on the biographies of Oliver Cromwell, says that the <i>Short +Critical Review of the Life of Oliver Cromwell</i>, by a gentleman of the +Middle Temple, was written by a certain "Mr. Banks, a kind of a lawyer +and playwright," and that the anonymous <i>Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord +Protector of the Commonwealth, impartially collected, &c.</i>, London, +1724, which Noble ascribes to Bishop Gibson, was by "one Kember, a +dissenting minister of London."</p> + +<p>On the other hand, Mr. Russell, in his <i>Life of Oliver Cromwell</i>, 2 +vols. 12mo. 1829, says:</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "There is an anonymous work deserving of some notice, entitled <i>A + Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell</i>. + The title professes that it was written by a gentleman of the + Middle Temple, but there is reason to believe that it proceeded + from the pen of the learned Bishop Gibson."</p> + +<p>It would seem, therefore, by these statements, that two different lives +of the Great Protector have been ascribed to Gibson. Query, Did Gibson +ever write a life of Cromwell; and if so, which is it?</p> + +<p>It is well worth knowing which Gibson did write, if he wrote one at all, +for he was connected with the Cromwell family, and, what is of more +consequence, a learned, liberal man, not given to lying, so that his +book probably contains more truth than any of the other Cromwell +biographies of that time.</p> + + <p class="right">D<span class="smcap lowercase">RYASDUST</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span>79. <i>English Translation of Alcon.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—Is there any translation of <i>Alcon</i> +by Baldisare Castiglione? The <i>Lycidas</i> of Milton is a splendid +paraphrase of it. The parallel passages are to be found in (I think) No. +47. of the <i>Classical Journal</i>, published formerly by Valpy. The +prototypes of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are at the beginning of +Burton's <i>Anatomy of Melancholy</i>. Thus three of Milton's early poems +cannot be termed wholly original.</p> + + <p class="right"> Æ<span class="smcap lowercase">GROTUS</span>.</p> + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Replies.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>JOHN BODLEY.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 59.)</span></h3> + +<p>John Bodley is a name that ought not to be passed over without due +reverence. He not only fostered the translation of the Genevan Bible, +but was specially interested in its circulation throughout England. +Neither Fox, Burnet, or Strype, Mr. Todd, or Mr. Whittaker give us any +particular information respecting him. Lewis glances at him as <i>one</i> +John Bodley; and Mr. Townley, in his valuable <i>Biblical Literature</i>, +after some notice of Whittingham, Gilby, Sampson, &c., closes by saying, +"Of John Bodleigh no account has been obtained."</p> + +<p>This good and pious man was the father of the celebrated Sir Thomas +Bodley. He was born at Exeter, and according to the statement of his son +(<i>Autobiography</i>, 4to., Oxf. 1647),—</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"In the time of Queen Mary, after being cruelly threatened and + narrowly observed by those that maliced his religion, for the + safety of himself and my mother (formerly Miss Joan Hone, an + heiress in the hundred of Ottery St. Mary), who was wholly + affected as my father, knew no way so secure as to fly into + Germany; where, after a while, he found means to call over my + mother, with all his children and family, when he settled for a + while at Wesel, in Cleveland, and from thence we removed to the + town of Frankfort. Howbeit, we made no long tarriance in either + of these towns, for that my father had resolved to fix his abode + in the city of Geneva, where, as far as I remember, the English + Church consisted of some hundred members."</p> + +<p>John Bodley returned to England in 1559, and on the 8th of January, +1560-61, a patent was granted to him by Queen Elizabeth, "to imprint, or +cause to be imprinted, the English Bible, with annotations." This +privilege was to last for the space of seven years. In 1565 Bodley was +preparing for a new impression; and by March the next year, a careful +review and correction being finished, this zealous reformer wished to +<i>renew</i> his patent beyond the seven years first granted. It does not +appear, however, that his application to the authorities had the desired +effect; for it will be remembered that Archbishop Parker's Bible was now +in the field, and the Queen's Secretary, Sir William Cecil, was +compelled to act with caution. A curious letter, addressed by the +Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London to Sir William Cecil, +concerning the extension of Bodley's privilege, is printed from the +Lansdown MS. No. 8. (Art. 82.), in <i>Letters of Eminent Literary Men</i>, +edited by Sir Henry Ellis for the Camden Society.</p> + +<p>For a full history of the Geneva Bible, I beg to refer S. S. S. to the +second volume of Anderson's <i>Annals of the English Bible:</i> Lond. 2 vols. +8vo. 1845.</p> + + <p class="right"> E<span class="smcap lowercase">DWARD</span> F. R<span class="smcap lowercase">IMBAULT</span>.</p> + +<p>In the notice of Sir Thomas Bodley contained in Prince's <i>Worthies of +Devon</i>, S. S. S. will find some particulars relating to his father, John +Bodley. Prince's account of Sir Thomas is "from a MS. on probable +grounds supposed to be his own handwriting, now in the custody of a +neighbour gentleman," (Walter Bogan of Gatcombe, near +<a id="near118"></a> <span class="pagenum">[118]</span> +Totnes.) +From this it appears that John Bodley was long resident at Geneva—</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "Where [says Sir Thomas], as far as I remember, the English + church consisted of some hundred persons. I was at that time of + twelve years of age, but through my father's cost and care + sufficiently instructed to become an auditor of Chevalerius in + Hebrew, of Beraldus in Greek, of Calvin and Beza in divinity, and + of some other professors in the university, which was then newly + erected: besides my domestical teachers in the house of + Philibertus Saracenus, a famous physician in that city, with whom + I was boarded, where Robertus Constantinus, that made the Greek + Lexicon, read Homer unto me."</p> + +<p>There is, however, no mention of John Bodley's having been one of the +translators of the Bible.</p> + + <p class="right"> R. J. K<span class="smcap lowercase">ING</span>.</p> + + + +<h3><span>WITHER'S "HALLELUJAH."<br /> +(Vol. iii., p. 330.)</span></h3> + +<p>A correspondent, S. S. S., inquires concerning one of the numberless, +and now almost fameless, works of George Wither, a poet of the +seventeenth century, famous in his generation, but unworthily disparaged +in that which followed him; the names of Quarles and Wither being +proverbially classed with those of Bavius and Mævius in the Augustan +age. The <i>Hallelujah</i> of the latter has become precious from its rarity. +A copy of this volume (of nearly 500 pages) was lent to me several years +ago, by a collector of such treasures. On the blank at the back of the +cover, there was written a memorandum that it had been bought at Heber's +sale by Thorpe the bookseller for sixteen guineas; my friend, I had +reason to believe, paid a much higher price for it, when it fell into +his hands. The contents consist of several hundreds of <i>hymns</i> for all +sorts and conditions of men, on all the ordinary, and on many of the +extraordinary circumstances of human life. Of course they are very +heterogeneous, yet no small number are beyond the average of such +compositions in point of devotional and poetical excellence.</p> + +<p>The author himself, with the consciousness of Horace, in his</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p>"Exegi monumentum ære perennius,"</p> +</div> + +<p>crowns his labours at the 487th page with the following "Io triumphe" +lines:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "Although my Muse flies yet far short of those,</p> + <p> Who perfect Hallelujahs can compose,</p> + <p>Here to affirm I am not now afraid,</p> + <p>What once in part a heathen prophet said,</p> + <p> With slighter warrant, when to end was brought</p> + <p>What he for meaner purposes had wrought;</p> + <p> <i>The work is finished</i>, which nor human power,</p> + <p>Nor flames, nor times, nor envy shall devour,</p> + <p>But with devotion to God's praise be sung</p> + <p>As long as Britain speaks her English tongue,</p> + <p> Or shall that Christian saving faith possess,</p> + <p> Which will preserve these Isles in happiness;</p> + <p> And, if conjecture fail not, some, that speak</p> + <p> In other languages, shall notice take</p> + <p>Of what my humble musings have composed,</p> + <p> And, by these helps, be often more disposed</p> + <p> To celebrate His praises in their songs,</p> + <p>To whom all honour and all praise belongs."</p> +</div> + +<p>How has this fond anticipation been fulfilled? There are not known (says +my authority) to be more than <i>three</i> or <i>four</i> copies in existence of +this indestructible work; and the price in gold which a solitary +specimen can command, is no evidence of anything but its market value. +Had its poetic worth been proportionate, its currency might have been as +common as that of Milton's masterpiece, and its trade price as low as +Paternoster Row could afford a cheap edition of the <i>Pilgrim's +Progress</i>.</p> + + <p class="right">J. M. G.</p> + <p class="left">Hallamshire.</p> + +<p>P.S.—Lowndes says:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"Few books of a cotemporary date can more readily be procured + than Wither's first <i>Remembrancer</i> in 1628; few, it is believed, + can be more difficult of attainment than his second + <i>Remembrancer</i>, licensed in 1640, of which latter Dalrymple + observes, 'there are some things interspersed in it, nowhere, + perhaps, to be surpassed.'"—<i>Bibliographer's Manual</i>, p. 1971.</p> + + + +<h3><span>FIRST PANORAMA.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 54.)</span></h3> + +<p>I did not speak of my own recollection of Girtin's panorama; my memory +cannot reach so far back. It was my father who does perfectly remember +<i>Girtin's</i> semicircular panorama. I think the mistake must be with H. T. +E. Some years back a large collection of Girtin's drawings and sketches +were sold at Pimlico; my father went to see them, and was delighted to +find among them some of the original sketches for this panorama, which +he immediately recognised and bought. He afterwards showed them to +Girtin's son, now living in practice as a surgeon at Islington (I +believe), who identified them as his father's work, and with whom I went +to see the painting, when not many years back it was found in a +carpenter's loft. Girtin certainly was a painter principally in water +colour, and one who, with the present J. M. W. Turner, contributed much +to the advancement of that branch of art; but I do not see how that is a +reason why he did not paint a panorama. I should think it not unlikely +that two semicircular panoramas of the same subject were painted; and, +therefore, with all deference, believe that the mistake is with H. T. E. +Girtin's son, if applied to, could, and I am sure would, give any +information he possessed readily.</p> + + <p class="right">E. N. W. +<a id="readily119"></a> <span class="pagenum">[119]</span></p> + +<p>We are not yet quite right about the first panorama, but perhaps the +following will close the discussion.</p> + +<p>I have lately been sitting with Mr. Barker (ætat 78), and he tells me +that, when quite a boy, he sketched for his father the view of Edinburgh +from the observatory on the Calton Hill: in the foreground was Holyrood +House; that <i>that</i> was a half circle, and was exhibited in Edinburgh.</p> + +<p>So much was thought of the discovery of its being <i>possible</i> to take a +view beyond the old rule of sixty degrees, that they went to London, and +then he took the view from the top of the Albion Mills, as was stated in +Vol. iv., p. 54.</p> + +<p>That was three quarters of a circle, and was exhibited in Castle Street, +Leicester Square. Afterwards the whole circle was attempted. The idea of +painting a view more than sixty degrees, was suggested by his mother. +His father did not work at them, he being a portrait painter; but <i>he</i> +did, young as he was. Mr. Robert Barker and his wife were both Irish; +but Henry Aston the son was born in Glasgow.</p> + + <p class="right">H. T. E<span class="smcap lowercase">LLACOMBE</span>.</p> + <p class="left"> Clyst St. George.</p> + + + +<h3><span>JOHN A KENT.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 83.)</span></h3> + +<p>As I have not seen the <i>Athenæum</i>, I send the following notes, in +uncertainty whether or not they may prove acceptable to M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLIER</span>.</p> + +<p><i>Sion y Cent</i>, i.e. John a Kent, or John of Kentchurch, is very +generally believed in Wales to have been Owen Glendowr; though some +few—unable to account for the mysterious disappearance of the hero—are +still firmly convinced that he sleeps, like Montezuma and various other +mighty men, in some deep cavern, surrounded by his warriors, until the +wrongs of his country shall call him forth once more to lead them on to +battle.</p> + +<p>The following extracts are from notes appended [by the editors] to some +poems of John a Kent which are published amongst the "Iolo MSS." by the +"Welsh MSS. Society."</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "... John of Kent, as he is called, is said to have been a priest + at Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on the confines of Wales, about + the beginning of the fifteenth century. He still enjoys a high + degree of popularity, in the legendary stories of the + principality, as a powerful magician. There is in the possession + of Mr. Scudamore, of Kentchurch, an ancient painting of a monk, + supposed to be a portrait of John of Kent; and as the family of + Scudamore is descended from a daughter of Owen Glendowr, at whose + house that chieftain is believed to have passed in concealment a + portion of the latter part of his life, it has been supposed that + John of Kentchurch was no other than Owen Glendowr himself," &c. + &c.—Page 676., note to the poem on <i>The Names of God</i>.</p> + + <p> "... The author was a priest of Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on + the confines of Monmouthshire and Breconshire, and is said to + have lived in the time of Wickliffe, and to have been of his + party. As the parish of Kentchurch is adjacent to that of + Oldcastle, the residence of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, it + is by no means impossible that John of Kentchurch may also have + favoured the same opinions; and may in some measure sanction the + idea."</p> + + <p>"... The poet then proceeds to speak of the indignation of the + well-robed bishops, the monks, friars and priests; and in the + course of the composition he makes some strong animadversions on + the luxurious living of the churchmen, stating that formerly the + friars were preachers, who possessed no wealth, and went about on + foot with nothing but a staff; but that they now possessed + horses, and frequented banquets," &c. &c.—Page 687., notes to <i>A + Poem to another's Book</i>, by John of Kentchurch; from the + collection of Thomas ap Jevan of Tre'r Bryn, made about 1670.</p> + +<p>The following words occur in this poem:—</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p> "... onid côf cwymp</p> + <p>Olcastr, ti a gair ailcwymp."</p> + + <p>"—— rememberest thou not the fall</p> + <p>Of Oldcastle?—Thou shall have a repetition of the fall."</p> +</div> + +<p>In addition to the two poems here mentioned, the collection contains one +"<i>Composed by John of Kent on his death-bed</i>;" in which are some lines +of considerable beauty: and also one on <i>The Age and Duration of +Things</i>.</p> + +<p>The parish church of Kentchurch is dedicated to St. Mary. I hope to be +able to send you some further information on the subject, but I well +know that quotations from memory are <i>nearly</i> valueless. Meanwhile, the +following note on the mysterious disappearance to which I have already +alluded may be not uninteresting: I give it as translated by the editors +of the Iolo MSS.</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"In 1415, Owen disappeared, so that neither sight nor tidings of + him could be obtained in the country. It was rumoured that he + escaped in the guise of a reaper; bearing<a id="bearing1"></a><a title="Go to footnote 1." href="#fn1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> ... according to the + testimony of the last who saw and knew him; after which little or + no information transpired respecting him, nor of the place or + manner of his concealment. The prevalent opinion was, that he + died in a wood in Glamorgan; but occult chroniclers assert that + he and his men still live, and are asleep on their arms, in a + cave called Govog y ddinas, in the Vale of Gwent, where they will + continue, until England becomes self-debased; but that then they + will sally forth, and reconquer their country, privileges, and + crown for the Welsh, who shall be dispossessed of them no more + until the day of judgment, when the world shall be consumed with + fire, and so reconstructed, that neither oppression nor + devastation shall take place any more: and blessed will be he who + shall see the time."—Page 454. +<a id="Evan120"></a> <span class="pagenum">[120]</span> +<i>Historical Notices extracted + from the Papers of the Rev. Evan + Evans, now in the + Possession of Paul Panton, Esq., of Anglesea.</i></p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn1"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#bearing1" class="label">[1]</a> + The manuscript is defective here. "A sickle" was probably +the word.</p> + + <p class="right"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">ELEUCUS</span>.</p> + + + +<h3><span>THE BRITISH SIDANEN.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 83.)</span></h3> + +<p>M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. J. P. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLIER</span> will find all the information that Cambrian +antiquaries can give him respecting Sidanen in Powell's <i>Cambria</i>, +Matthew Paris, Wynne's <i>Caradoc</i>, and Warrington's <i>History of Wales</i>, +under the year 1241. The history is given at most length in Warrington; +where the share which Sidanen had in an interesting episode in Cambrian +history is fully developed. There were two Welsh princes named Llywelyn, +who stood to each other in the following relation:</p> + +<div class="box"> +<table summary="Llywelyn family 1"> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang">L<span class="smcap lowercase">LYWELYN AB</span> J<span class="smcap lowercase">ORWERTH</span> (died in 1240). <br /> |</td> +<td class="left"> </td> +<td class="left"> </td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang" colspan="3">_____________________________________________________</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang"> G<span class="smcap lowercase">RIFFITH</span>,</td> +<td class="tdhang"> D<span class="smcap lowercase">AVID</span>.</td> +<td class="tdhang"> G<span class="smcap lowercase">LADYS</span>,</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang">married to <i>Senena</i>, daughter of a Cambrian lord named Caradoc ab Thomas.<br /> |<br /> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> </td> +<td class="tdhang">a daughter.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang" colspan="3">_____________________________________________________</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +<td class="tdhang"> |</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang"> L<span class="smcap lowercase">LYWELYN AB</span> G<span class="smcap lowercase">RIFFITH</span>, last Prince of Wales.</td> +<td class="tdhang"> O<span class="smcap lowercase">WEN</span>.</td> +<td class="tdhang"> D<span class="smcap lowercase">AVID</span>.</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> + + +<p>The Prince of Wales mentioned by Munday is the first, Llywelyn ab +Jorwerth, whose descent, as his father was not allowed to reign on +account of personal deformity, we had better indicate:</p> + +<div class="box"> +<table summary="Llywelyn family 2"> +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang" colspan="3">O<span class="smcap lowercase">WEN</span>, king of North Wales. <br /> |</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang" colspan="3">(Eldest son) J<span class="smcap lowercase">ORWERTH</span>, the <i>Broken-nosed</i>. <br /> |</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="left"></td> +<td class="tdhang" colspan="3"> L<span class="smcap lowercase">LYWELYN AB</span> J<span class="smcap lowercase">ORWERTH</span>. + <br /> |</td> +</tr> + + +</table> +</div> + + +<p>Llywelyn, as has been shown, had two sons, Griffith and David, the first +and eldest of whom, being a turbulent prince, was set aside by his +father at a solemn assembly of Cambrian lords, in 1238, and David was +elected to succeed his father. In 1240, David became king of North +Wales, and one of his first acts was to apprehend his brother and his +son Owen, and put them in prison. This was done with the connivance of a +Bishop of Bangor: but that worthy, fearing that the scandal would spread +abroad, intrigued with <i>Senena</i>, the <i>daughter-in-law</i>, and not the +daughter of Prince Llywelyn, and wife of his son Griffith, for his +release. Overtures were made to Henry III.; and certain lords having +joined the confederacy, stipulations were entered into, and Henry +marched against King David. David, who had married the king's daughter, +now began to counterplot, in which he was quite successful; for Henry, +who had come to release Griffith, by <i>special contract</i> with his +brother, took him, with his wife Senena, and his son Owen, with him to +London, and imprisoned them in the Tower, in attempting to escape from +whence, two years afterwards, Griffith lost his life. Such is a brief +outline of all that is known of Senena, who is undoubtedly the Sidanen +of Munday, and whose name is variously written <i>Sina</i>, <i>Sanan</i>, +<i>Sanant</i>, and in the Latin chronicle <i>Senena</i>. The negotiations here +alluded to, with the names of all the parties engaged in them, will be +found in the authorities herein named; all of which being in English, +M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLIER</span> can easily consult.</p> + +<p>John a Cumber is probably John y Kymro, or John the Cambrian; but I know +nothing of him.</p> + +<p>Respecting John of Kent there is but little else known than may be found +in Coxe's <i>Monmouthshire</i>, and Owen's <i>Cambrian Biography</i>, sub "Sion +Cent." There is, however, a tradition in this neighbourhood that he was +born at Eglwys Ilan, in the county of Glamorgan; and the road is shown +by which he went to Kentchurch, in Herefordshire. It was at Eglwys Ilan +that he is reported to have pounded the crows by closing the park gates. +As this story has not appeared in English print, I will endeavour to +furnish you again with a more circumstantial statement. Sion Kent, who +lived about 1450, appears to have derived his name from Kent Chester, or +Kent Church. He was a monk, holding Lollard opinions; and a bard of +considerable talent and celebrity. As a matter of course, he was on good +terms with his Satanic majesty; for he was a mighty reputation as a +conjuror. M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLIER</span> may find a portion of one of his poems, translated +in the Iolo MSS., page 687. Should this, or any other authority herein +named, not be accessible to M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OLLIER</span>, it would afford me great +pleasure to send him transcripts.</p> + +<p>There is a very gross anachronism in making Sion, <i>lege</i> Shôn Kent, to +be the contemporary of Senena.</p> + + <p class="right">T. S<span class="smcap lowercase">TEPHENS</span>.</p> + <p class="left">Merthyr Tydfil, Aug. 7. 1851.</p> + + + +<h3><span>PETTY CURY.<br /> +(Vol. iv., p. 24.)</span></h3> + +<p>I believe that Petty Cury signifies the Little Cookery. See a note in my +<i>Annals of Cambridge</i>, vol. i. p. 273.</p> + + <p class="right">C. H. C<span class="smcap lowercase">OOPER</span>.</p> + <p class="left">Cambridge, July 12. 1851.</p> + +<p>To those who are familiar with the <i>Form of Cury</i>, edited by Dr. Pegge, +no explanation can be necessary for the name of this street, or rather +lane. It seems, indeed, strange that any one who calls himself a +Cambridge man should have failed to discover that it was the peculiar +quarter of the <i>cooks</i> of the town; as we in London have our Poultry +named from the <i>Poulters</i> (not <i>Poulterers</i>, as now corruptly +designated) who there had their shops.</p> + + <p class="right">F. S. Q.</p> + +<p>The Cambridge senate-house is called "Curia," +<a id="Curia121"></a> <span class="pagenum">[121]</span> + and therefore it +may be supposed that "Petty Cury" means "<i>parva curia</i>," from some +court-leet or court-baron formerly held there; the town-hall is at the +end of it to this day. The only objection to the above is, that in the +Caius map of Cambridge, <span class="smcap lowercase">A.D.</span> 1574, now in the British Museum, Petty +Curie is a large street even then, whilst neither town-hall nor +senate-house exist.</p> + + <p class="right">J. E<span class="smcap lowercase">ASTWOOD</span>.</p> + +<p>Surely there can be little doubt that the name of this street at +Cambridge is a corruption from the French "petite écurie." We knew +little enough about such matters when I was an undergraduate there; but +still, I think, we could have solved this mystery. Might I be permitted +to suggest that as the court stables at Versailles were called "les +petites écuries," to distinguish them from the king's, which were styled +"les grandes écuries," although they exactly resembled them, and +contained accommodation for five hundred horses; so the street in +question may have contained some of the fellows' stables, which were +called "les petites écuries," to distinguish them from the masters'. +Should this supposition be correct, it would seem to imply that at one +time the French language was not altogether <i>ignored</i> at Cambridge.</p> + + <p class="right"> H. C.</p> + <p class="left"> Workington.</p> + + + + +<h3><span>THE WORD "RACK" IN THE "TEMPEST."—THE NEBULAR THEORY.<br /> +(Vol. iii., p. 218.; Vol. iv., p. 37.)</span></h3> + + +<p>M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. H<span class="smcap lowercase">ICKSON</span> seems to court opinion as to the justness of his +interpretation of <i>rack</i>. I therefore express my total and almost +indignant dissent from it.</p> + +<p>Luckily, neither in the proposition itself, nor in the manner in which +it is advocated, is there anything to disturb my previous conviction as +to the true meaning of this word (which, in the well-known passage in +the <i>Tempest</i>, is, beyond all doubt, "haze" or "vapour"), since few +things would be more distasteful to me than to encounter any argument +really capable of throwing doubt upon the reading of a passage I have +long looked upon as one of the most marvellous instances of +philosophical depth of thought to be met with, even in Shakspeare,—one +of those astonishing speculations, in advance of his age, that now and +then drop from him as from the lips of a child inspired,—wherein the +grandeur of the sentiment is so out of all proportion to the simplicity +and absence of pretension with which it is introduced, that the reader, +not less surprised than delighted, is scarcely able to appreciate the +full meaning until after long and careful consideration.</p> + +<p>It is only lately that the nebular theory of condensation has been +advanced, for the purpose of speculating upon the probable formation of +planetary bodies. Yet it is a subject that possesses a strange +coincidence with this passage of Shakspeare's <i>Tempest</i>.</p> + +<p>Perhaps the best elucidation I can give of it will be to cite a certain +passage in Dr. Nichols' <i>Architecture of the Heavens</i>, which happens to +bear a rather remarkable, although I believe an accidental, resemblance +to Shakspeare's words: <i>accidental</i>, because if Dr. Nichols had this +passage of the <i>Tempest</i> present to his mind, when writing in a +professedly popular and familiar style, he would scarcely have omitted +allusion to it, especially as it would have afforded a peculiarly happy +illustration of his subject.</p> + +<p>I shall now quote both passages, in order that they may be conveniently +compared:</p> + + <div class="poem"> +<p> "Our revels now are ended—these our actors</p> + <p>As I foretold you, were all spirits, and</p> + <p>Are melted into air—INTO THIN AIR:</p> + <p> And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,</p> + <p>The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,</p> + <p> The solemn temples, the great globe itself,</p> + <p>Yea, all that it inherit—shall dissolve—</p> + <p> And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,</p> + <p>Leave not a rack behind."</p> +</div> + + <p class="blockquot">"—— in the laboratory of the chemist matter easily passes + through all conditions, the solid, liquid, and gaseous, as if <i>in + a sort of phantasmagoria</i>; and his highest discoveries even now + are pointing to the conclusion, that the bodies which make up the + solid portion of our earth may, simply by the dissolution of + existing combinations, <i>be ultimately resolved into a permanently + gaseous form</i>."—Nichols' <i>Architecture of the Heavens</i>, p. 147.</p> + +<p>Had we no other presumption to lead us to Shakspeare's true meaning but +what is afforded by the expression, "into air—thin air," it ought, in +my opinion, to be amply sufficient; for no rational person can entertain +a doubt that Shakspeare intended the repetition, "thin air," to have +reference to the simile that was to follow. The globe itself shall +dissolve, and, like this vision, leave not a <i>rack</i> behind! In what was +the resemblance to the vision to consist, if not in melting, like it, +into <i>thin</i> air? into air unobscured by vapour, rarified from the +slightest admixture of rack or cloud.</p> + +<p>Shakespeare knew that atmospheric rack is not insubstantial; that it is +corporeal like the globe itself, of which it is a part; and that, so +long as a particle of it remained, dissolution could not be complete.</p> + +<p>And shall we reject this exquisite philosophy—this profundity of +thought—to substitute our own mean and common-place ideas?</p> + + <p class="right">A. E. B.</p> + <p class="left"> Leeds, July 22.</p> + +<p>P.S.—Apart from the philosophical beauty of this wonderful passage, +there are other aspects in which it may be studied with not less +interest.</p> + +<p>How true is the poetical image of the <i>rack</i> as +<a id="rack122"></a> <span class="pagenum">[122]</span> + the last object +of dissipation! the expiring evidence of combustion! the lingering +cloudiness of solution!</p> + + + +<h3><span class="bla">Replies to Minor Queries.</span></h3> + +<h4><span><i>Pseudo MSS.</i>—<i>The Devil, Cromwell and his Amours.</i></span></h4> + +<p>—It is too bad! In +Vol. iii., p. 282., there is a good page and a half taken up with a +verbatim extract from Echard, which has either been alluded to or quoted +by every writer on Cromwell from Echard's time down to a few months ago, +when it appeared in <i>Chambers's Papers for the People</i>, No. 11. Again, +in Vol. iv., p. 19., there is another page and a half relating to +Cromwell, which, I fearlessly assert, I have seen frequently in print, +but cannot at present tell where; and more important avocations forbid +me to search. As if that was not enough, in Vol. iv., p. 50. there is +another half page respecting the preservation of these <i>precious MSS.</i>! +Is it not too bad? Do, worthy Mr. Editor, make the <i>amende honorable</i> by +publishing the true characters of the MSS. forwarded by S. H. H., which +you have so inadvertently published as original.</p> + + <p class="right"> W. P<span class="smcap lowercase">INKERTON</span>.</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> [Our correspondent seems to doubt that the communications to + which he refers were really printed from contemporary MSS. The + Editor is able to vouch for that having been certainly the fact. + They are not printed from transcripts from Echard, but from real + MSS. of the time of Charles II., or thereabouts; while the fact + of these early transcripts having been printed surely does not + furnish any argument against the valuable suggestion of S. H. H. + as to the preservation of similar documents for the use of the + public, and in the manner pointed out in his communication.—E<span class="smcap lowercase">D</span>.]</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Anonymous Ravennas</i></span> <span>(Vol. i., pp. 124. 220. 368.; Vol. iii., p. 462.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Your correspondents have neglected to observe that this author's +Chorography of Britain was published by Gale, "ad calcem Antonini Iter +Britanniarum," viz., <i>Britanniæ Chorographia cum Autographo Regis Galliæ +Ms<span class="topnum">o</span>. et Codice Vaticano collata; Adjiciuntur conjecturæ plurimæ cum +nominibus locorum Anglicis, quotquot iis assignari potuerint</i>: Londini, +1709, 4to.</p> + +<p>A copy of the edition of <i>Anonymi Ravennatis Geographiæ Libri Quinque</i> +(of the last of which the Chorography of Britain forms a part) noticed +by J. I. (Vol. i., p. 220.) is now before me; as also a later edition, +published by the editor's son, Abram Gronovius: Lugduni Batavorum, 1722, +8vo.</p> + +<p>Horsley's <i>Britannia Romana</i>, book iii. chap. iv., contains "1. Some +account of this author and his work; 2. The Latin text of this +writer;<a id="writer2"></a><a title="Go to footnote 2." href="#fn2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> 3. Remarks upon many of the places mentioned by him, and more +particularly of such as seem to be the same with the stations per lineam +valli in the Notitia." His remarks are diametrically opposite to the +conjectures of Camden and Gale.</p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn2"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#writer2" class="label">[2]</a> The Chorography from Gale's edition.</p> + + <p class="right">T. J.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Margaret Maultasch</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 56.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Your correspondent who +inquires where he can meet with the particulars of the life of Margaret, +surnamed <i>Maultasch</i>, Countess of Tyrol, will find them in the +Supplement of the <i>Biographie Universelle</i>, vol. lxxiii. p. 136.</p> + +<p>The great heiress in question, though a monster of ugliness, was twice +married: first to John Henry, son of Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia (1331), +from whom she procured a divorce on the plea of his incapacity; and, +secondly (1341), to Louis of Bavaria, eldest son of the Emperor Louis +IV., by whom she had a son, Mainard, who died without issue during his +mother's lifetime.</p> + +<p>I know not upon what authority rest the imputed irregularities of her +life, but her biographer, in the article above mentioned, casts no such +slur upon her character. Nor can I discover that the armorial bearings +of the town of Halle, in Tyrol, have any such significant meaning as has +been hinted at. They are to be found in Matthew Merian's <i>Topographia +Provinciarum Austriacarum</i>, printed at Frankfort on the Maine in 1649, +engraved on the view of Halle, at p. 139., and appear to be <i>a cask or +barrel, supported by two lions</i>. There is <i>no</i> statue of Margaret +Maultasch among those which surround the mausoleum of Emperor +<i>Maximilian</i> (not <i>Matthias</i>) in the Franciscan church at Inspruck; but +her ludicrously hideous features may be found amongst the historical +portraits engraved in the magnificent work descriptive of the Museum of +Versailles, published a few years ago at Paris, under the auspices of +King Louis Philippe.</p> + + <p class="right"> W. S.</p> + <p class="left">Denton, July 28.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace</i></span> +<span>(Vol. i., p. 230.; Vol. iv., p. 58.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Is your correspondent C. correct in attributing <i>A true +Character of Mr. Pope and his Writings, in a Letter to a Friend</i>, +printed for Popping, 1716, to Oldmixon? In the Testimonies of Authors, +prefixed to the <i>Dunciad</i>, and the Appendix, and throughout the Notes, +Dennis is uniformly quoted and attacked as the author. Oldmixon's feud +with Pope was hardly, I think, so early.</p> + +<p>Assuming your correspondent's quotation from the pamphlet to be correct, +the terms made use of will surely refer to Pope's <i>Imitation of Horace</i> +(S. ii. L. i.), a fragment of which was published by Curll about this +time (1716). It was afterwards republished in folio about 1734, printed +for J. Boreman, under the title of <i>Sober Advice from Horace to the +young Gentlemen about Town</i>, but in an enlarged state, and with some of +the initials altered, and several new adaptations. Mrs. Oldfield and +Lady Mary are not introduced in the first edition. I have both, but at +present can only refer to the second one in folio. From this the +<i>Imitation</i> was transferred to the Supplement to +<a id="to123"></a> <span class="pagenum">[123]</span> + Pope's Works, +published by Cooper: London, 1757, 12mo., and from thence to the +Supplementary Volumes to the later editions. The publication of it +formed an article of impeachment against Dr. Jos. Warton, by the author +of the <i>Pursuits of Literature</i>, as all who have read that satire will +well remember.</p> + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AS</span>. C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROSSLEY</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Brother Jonathan</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 495.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The origin of this term, as +applied to the United States, is given in a recent number of the +<i>Norwich Courier</i>. The editor says it was communicated by a gentleman +now upwards of eighty years of age, who was an active participator in +the scenes of the revolution. The story is as follows:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"When General Washington, after being appointed commander of the + army of the revolutionary war, came to Massachusetts to organize + it, and make preparations for the defence of the country, he + found a great want of ammunition and other means necessary to + meet the powerful foe he had to contend with, and great + difficulty to obtain them. If attacked in such condition, the + cause at once might be hopeless. On one occasion at that anxious + period a consultation of the officers and others was had, when it + seemed no way could be devised to make such preparations as were + necessary. His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull the elder was then + governor of the State of Connecticut, on whose judgment and aid + the general placed the greatest reliance, and remarked, 'We must + consult Brother Jonathan on the subject.' The general did so, and + the governor was successful in supplying many of the wants of the + army. When difficulties afterwards arose, and the army was spread + over the country, it became a by-word, 'We <i>must consult</i> Brother + Jonathan.' The term Yankee is still applied to a portion, but + 'Brother Jonathan' has now become a designation of the whole + country, as John Bull has for England."—<i>Dictionary of + Americanisms</i>, by John Russell Bartlett, 1849.</p> + + <p class="right">H. J.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Cromwell's Grants of Land in Monaghan</i></span> + <span>(Vol. iv., p. 87.).</span></h4> + +<p>—E. A. asks +whether there are any grants of land in the county of Monaghan recorded +as made by Cromwell, and where such records are preserved? I fear I can +give but a negative answer to the question: but among the stores of the +State Paper Office are many books of orders, letters, &c. during the +Commonwealth. Among them are two bundles dated in 1653, which relate to +the lands granted by lot, to the adventurers who had advanced money for +the army, in the different provinces of Ireland. Monaghan is not +mentioned.</p> + + <p class="right"> S<span class="smcap lowercase">PEC</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Stanedge Pole</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 391.).</span></h4> + +<p>—In answer to your correspondent +A. N., I beg to state that Stanedge Pole is between six and seven miles +from Sheffield, on the boundary line between Yorkshire and Derbyshire, +on a long causeway which was in former times the road from Yorkshire to +Manchester. Its only antiquity consists in having been for centuries one +of the meers marking the boundaries of Hallamshire. In Harrison's +<i>Survey of the Manor of Sheffield</i>, 1637, appears an account of the +boundaries as viewed and seen the 6th of August, 1574, from which the +following is an extract:—</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"Item. From the said Hurkling Edge so forward after the Rock to + Stannedge, which is a meer between the said Lordshipps (of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge).</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"Item. From Stannedge after the same rock to a place called the + Broad Rake, which is also a meer between the said Lordshipps of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge."</p> + +<p>The situation is a very fine one, commanding a very beautiful and +extensive view of the surrounding country.<a id="country3"></a><a title="Go to footnote 3." href="#fn3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> </p> + +<p class="footnote"><a id="fn3"></a><a title="Return to text." href="#country3" class="label">[3]</a> Its + elevation is, according to the Ordnance Survey, 1463 +feet.</p> + + <p class="right"> H. J.</p> + <p class="left">Stanedge.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Baskerville the Printer</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 40.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Baskerville was interred +in the grounds attached to the house in which he lived, near Easy Row, +Birmingham. The land becoming valuable for building purposes, he was, +after lying there about half a century, disinterred and removed to the +workshop of a lead merchant, named Marston, in Monmouth Street, +Birmingham. While there I saw his remains. They were in a wooden coffin, +which was enclosed in one of lead. How long they had been above ground I +do not know, but certainly not long. This, as far as I can recollect, is +about twenty-five years since. The person who showed me the body, and +who was either one of the Marstons or a manager of the business, told me +he had seen the coffins opened, and that the features were then perfect. +When exhibited to me the nose and lips were gone, as were also two front +teeth, which had been torn from the mouth surreptitiously and taken +away. I understood that it was known who had them, and that they would +be restored. The shroud was discoloured, I presume from natural causes, +being of a dirty yellow colour, as though it had been drawn through a +clay pit. The texture and strength of the cloth remained unaffected. +Baskerville entertained peculiar opinions on religious subjects. There +was a rumour of some efforts having been made to deposit his remains in +one of the church burial grounds, but they were not successful. A year +or two ago, while in Birmingham, a snuff-box was shown me, on the lid of +which a portrait of Baskerville was painted, which fully agreed with a +description of his person given me many years previously by one who had +known him. This portrait had not, from its appearance, been painted very +long. From its being there I infer that there is in existence at least +one original portrait of this eminent printer.</p> + + <p class="right"> <span class="smcap lowercase">T</span>. J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHNS</span>. +<a id="printer124"></a> <span class="pagenum">[124]</span></p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Inscription on a Claymore</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 59.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Is your correspondent +"T. M. W., Liverpool," who inquires the translation of an "inscription +on a claymore," certain that his quotation is correct? To me it appears +that it should run thus:</p> + +<div class="poem"> + <p>[X] GOTT BEWAR DE</p> + <p>[X] <i>G</i>ERECHTE SCHOTTEN.</p> +</div> + +<p>or, "God preserve the righteous (or just) Scots;" referring, no doubt, +to the undertaking in which they were then engaged.</p> + +<p>I believe that formerly, and probably at the present time, many of the +finest sword blades were made abroad, and sent to England to be mounted, +or even entirely finished on the Continent. I have in my possession a +heavy trooper's sword, bearing the name of a celebrated German maker, +although the ornaments and devices are unquestionably English. Another +way of accounting for the inscription is, that it belonged to some of +those foreign adventurers who are known to have joined Charles Edward.</p> + + <p class="right">W. S<span class="smcap lowercase">HIRLEY</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Burton Family</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 22.).</span></h4> + +<p>—In Hunter's <i>History of +Hallamshire</i>, p. 236., is a pedigree of Burton of Royds Mill, near +Sheffield, in which are the following remarks:—</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"Richard Burton of Tutbury, Staffordshire, died May 9th, 8 Henry + V. Married Maud, sister of Robert Gibson of Tutbury; and had a + son, Sir William Burton of Falde and Tutbury, Knight; slain at + Towtonfield, 1461, from whom descended the Burtons of Lindley."</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"Thomas Burton of Fanshawgate, who died in 1643, left three sons; + Michael, Thomas, and Francis. Michael was of Mosborough, and had + a numerous issue; the names of his children appear on his + monumental brass in the chancel of the church at Eckington. + Thomas, the second son, was of London and Putney, married, and + had issue. Francis, the youngest, was lord of the Manor of + Dronfield, and served the office of High Sheriff of Derby in + 1669. Was buried at Dronfield in 1687."</p> + +<p>I find no account of any Roger Burton; but if your correspondent E. H. +A. is not in possession of the above pedigree, and should wish for a +copy, I shall be glad to send him it.</p> + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">OHN</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">LGOR</span>.</p> + + <p class="left">Eldon Street, Sheffield.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Notation by Coalwhippers</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 21.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The notation used by +coalwhippers, &c., mentioned by I. J. C., is, after all, I expect, but a +part of a system which was probably the origin of the Roman notation. +The first four strokes or units were cut diagonally by the fifth, and +taking the first and last of these strokes we readily obtain V, or the +Roman five; but as the natural systems of arithmetic are decimal, from +the number of fingers, it is most probable that the <i>tens</i> were thus +marked off, or by a stroke drawn across the last unit thus X, whence we +obtain the Roman ten: these tens were repeated up to a hundred, or the +second class of tens, which were probably connected by two parallel +lines top and bottom [C];, which would be the sign of the second +class of tens, or hundreds; this became afterwards rounded into C: the +third class of tens, or thousands, was represented by four strokes M, +and these symbols served by abbreviation for some intermediate numbers; +thus X divided became V, or 5, the half of 10; then L, half of [C], + represented 50, half of 100; and M becoming rounded thus (M); was frequently expressed in this manner CIƆ; and this became +abbreviated into D, 500, half of CIƆ or 1000: and thus, by variously +combining these six symbols (though all derived from the one straight +stroke), numbers to a very high amount could be expressed.</p> + +<p class="center"> +<img src="images/image01.jpg" width="100" height="26" alt="Roman numerals +angled C and rounded M" /></p> + + <p class="right"> T<span class="smcap lowercase">HOS</span>. L<span class="smcap lowercase">AWRENCE</span>.</p> + + <p class="left">Ashby de la Zouch.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Statue of Charles II.</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 40.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The following passage is +from Hughson's <i>History of London</i>, vol. ii. p. 521.:</p> + + <p class="blockquot">"Among the adherents and sufferers in the cause of Charles II. + was Sir Robert Viner, alderman of London. After the Restoration + the worthy alderman, willing to show his loyalty and prudence, + raised in this place [<i>i. e.</i> the Stock's Market] the statue + above mentioned. The figure had been carved originally for John + Sobieski, king of Poland, but by some accident was left upon the + workman's hands. Finding the work ready carved to his hands, Sir + Robert thought that, with some alteration, what was intended for + a king of Poland might suit the monarch of Great Britain; he + therefore converted the Polander into an Englishman, and the Turk + underneath his horse into Oliver Cromwell; the turban on the last + figure being an undeniable proof of the truth attached to the + story. The compliment was so ridiculous and absurd, that no one + who beheld it could avoid reflecting on the taste of those who + had set it up; but as its history developed the farce improved, + and what was before esteemed contemptible, proved in the end + entertaining. The poor mutilated figure stood neglected some + years since among the rubbish in the purlieus of Guildhall; and + in 1779, it was bestowed by the common council on Robert Viner, + Esq., who removed it to grace his country seat."</p> + +<p>The earliest engraving of "the King at the Stock's Market" may be seen +in Thomas Delaune's <i>Present State of London</i>, 12mo. 1681.</p> + + <p class="right">E<span class="smcap lowercase">DWARD</span> F. R<span class="smcap lowercase">IMBAULT</span>.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Serius, where situated?</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 494.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The Serius, now Serio, +rises in the chain of mountains in the south of the Valteline, between +the lakes Como and Ixo: it flows through a valley called the Val Seria, +passes near Bergamo and Cremona, and falls into the Adda a little before +that river joins the Po.</p> + + <p class="right">J. M. (4)</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Corpse passing makes a Right of Way</i></span> + <span>(Vol. iii., pp. 477. 507. 519.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Some time ago, I buried in our churchyard a person from an +adjoining parish; but, instead of taking a pathway which led directly +from the house of the deceased to the church, they kept to the +high-road,—so going +<a id="going125"></a> <span class="pagenum">[125]</span> +four miles instead of one. When I asked +the reason, I was told that the pathway was not a <i>lich-road</i>, and +therefore it was not lawful to bring a corpse along it.</p> + + <p class="right"> J. M. (4)</p> + + +<h4><span><i>The Petworth Register</i></span> + <span>(Vol. iii., p. 510.; Vol. iv., p. 27.).</span></h4> + +<p>—Your +correspondents L<span class="smcap lowercase">LEWELLYN</span> and J. S. B. do not appear to be acquainted +with Heylyn's quotations from the book thus designated. In one place (p. +63., folio; vol. i. p. 132., 8vo.) he refers to it for a statement—</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "That many at this time [<span class="smcap lowercase">A.D.</span> 1548] affirmed the most blessed + Sacrament of the altar to be of little regard," &c.</p> + +<p>And in another place (p. 65., folio; vol. i. p. 136., 8vo.), he gives an +extract relating to Day, Bishop of Chichester:—</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "Sed Ricardus Cicestrensis, (ut ipse mihi dixit) non + subscripsit."</p> + +<p>Hence the <i>Register</i> would seem to have been a sort of chronicle, kept +by the rector of Petworth; and it does not appear whether it was or was +not in the same volume with the register of births, marriages, and +deaths. In the latter case, it may possibly be still in the Petworth +parish chest; for the returns to which your correspondents refer, would +probably not have mentioned any other registers than those of which the +law takes cognizance. On the other hand, if the chronicle was attached +to the register of births, &c., it may have shared the too common fate +of early registers; for, when an order of 1597 directed the clergy to +transcribe on parchment the entries made in the proper registers since +the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, they seem to have generally +interpreted it as a permission to make away with the older registers, +although there <i>are</i> cases in which the proper books are still +preserved. (I am myself acquainted with two in this neighbourhood; and +J. S. B., if I am right in identifying him with the author of the very +curious and valuable <i>History of Parish Registers</i>, can no doubt mention +many others.) But how did Heylyn, who collected most of his materials +about 1638, get hold of the book?</p> + + <p class="right"> J. C. R<span class="smcap lowercase">OBERTSON</span>.</p> + <p class="left"> Bekesbourne.</p> + +<p><i>Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli"</i> (Vol. ii., p. +265.; Vol. iii., p. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 62.).—Sir Egerton Brydges, in +his <i>Censura Literaria</i>, vol. i. p. 305., attributes this work to +<i>Henry</i> Holland. In his notice of <i>Heroologia Anglica</i>, he says:</p> + + <p class="blockquot"> "The author was Henry Holland, son of Philemon Holland, a + physician and schoolmaster at Coventry, and the well-known + translator of Camden, &c. Henry was born at Coventry, and + travelled with John, Lord Harrington, into the Palatinate in + 1613, and collected and wrote (besides the <i>Heroologia</i>) + <i>Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiæ S. Pauli, Lond.</i>, 4to.; and + engraved and published <i>A Book of Kings, being a true and lively + effigies of all our English Kings from the Conquest till this + present</i>, &c., 1618. He was not educated either in Oxford or + Cambridge; having been a member of the society of Stationers in + London. I think it is most probable that he was brother to + Abraham Holland, who subscribes his name as 'Abr. Holland alumnus + S. S. Trin. Coll. Cantabr.' to some copies of Latin verses on the + death of John, second Lord Harrington, of Exton, in the + <i>Heroologia</i>; which Abraham was the author of a poem called + <i>Naumachia, or Holland's Sea-Fight</i>, Lond. 1622, and died Feb. + 18, 1625, when his <i>Posthuma</i> were edited by 'his brother H. + Holland.' At this time, however, there were other writers of the + name of Hen. Holland.—(See Wood's <i>Athenæ</i>, i. 499.)"</p> + + <p class="right">J. Y.</p> + <p class="left"> Hoxton.</p> + + +<h4><span><i>Mistake as to an Eclipse</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 58.).</span></h4> + +<p>—From your +correspondent's mention of it, I should have supposed Casaubon meant +that the astronomers had been mistaken in the <i>calculation</i> of an +eclipse. But the matter is of another kind. In the <i>lunar</i> eclipse of +April 3, 1605, two <i>observers</i>, Wendelinus and Lansberg, in different +longitudes, made the eclipse end at times far more different than their +difference of longitudes would explain. The ending of a lunar eclipse, +observed with the unassisted eye, is a very indefinite phenomenon.</p> + +<p>The allusion to this, made by Meric Casaubon, is only what the French +call a <i>plat de son métier</i>. He was an upholder of the ancients in +philosophy, and his bias would be to depreciate modern successes, and +magnify modern failures. When he talks of the astronomer being "deceived +in the hour," he probably uses the word <i>hour</i> for <i>time</i>, as done in +French and old English.</p> + + <p class="right">M.</p> + + + +<h4><span>"<i>A Posie of other Men's Flowers</i>"</span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 58.).</span></h4> + +<p>—D. Q. is +referred to Montaigne, who is the author of the passage; but not having +access to his works, I am not able to give a paginal reference.</p> + + <p class="right">H. T. E.</p> + <p class="left">Clyst St. George.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Davies' History of Magnetical Discovery</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 58.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The +<i>History, &c.</i>, by T. S. Davies, is in the <i>British Annual</i> for 1837, +published by Baillière.</p> + + <p class="right"> M.</p> + + + + +<h4><span><i>Marriage of Bishops</i></span> <span>(Vol. iv., p. 57.).</span></h4> + +<p>—A. B. C. will find his +questions fully answered in Henry Wharton's tract, entitled <i>A Treatise +of the Celibacy of the Clergy, wherein its Rise and Progress are +historically considered</i>, 1688, 4to. pp. 168. There is also another +treatise on the same subject, entitled <i>An Answer to a Discourse +concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy</i>, by E. Tully, 1687, in reply to +Abraham Woodhead.</p> + + <p class="right"> E. C. H<span class="smcap lowercase">ARRINGTON</span>.</p> + + <p class="left">The Close, Exeter, July 28. 1851.</p> + + + + +<h4><span>"<i>The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong</i>"</span> +<span>(Vol. iii., p. 494.).</span></h4> + +<p>—The same idea as that conveyed in this line is frequently expressed, though +not in precisely the same words, in Defoe's +<a id="Jure126"></a> <span class="pagenum">[126]</span> +<i>Jure Divino</i>, a +poem which contains many vigorous and spirited passages; but I do not +believe that Pope gave the line as a quotation at all, or that it is +other, as far as he is concerned, than original. The inverted commas +merely denote that this line is the termination of the goddess's speech. +The punctuation is not very correct in any of the editions of the +<i>Dunciad</i>; and sometimes inverted commas occur at the end of the last +line of a speech, and sometimes both at the beginning and end of the +line.</p> + + <p class="right"> J<span class="smcap lowercase">AMES</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">ROSSLEY</span>.</p> + + + +<h4><span><i>Equestrian Statues</i></span> <span>(Vol. iii., p. 494.).</span></h4> + +<p>—In reply to F. M.'s Query +respecting the Duke of Wellington's statue being the only equestrian one +erected to a subject in her Majesty's dominions, I may mention that +there is one erected in Cavendish Square to William Duke of Cumberland, +who, though of the blood royal, was yet a subject.</p> + + <p class="right"> D. K.</p> + + + + +<h2><span class="bla">Miscellaneous.</span></h2> + + +<h3><span>NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.</span></h3> + +<p>When Mr. Murray commenced that admirable series of <i>Guides</i> which form +the indispensable companion of those restless spirits who delight with +each recurring summer—</p> + + <div class="poem"> + <p> "To waft their <i>size to</i> Indus or the Pole,"</p> +</div> + +<p>he first sent his Schoolmaster abroad; with what success those who have +examined, used, and trusted to his <i>Continental Handbooks</i> best can +tell. Whether Mr. Murray is now actuated by a spirit of patriotism, or +of moral responsibility under the remembrance that "charity begins at +home," we neither know nor care; since our "home-staying" friends, as +well as all who visit us, will benefit by the new direction which his +energy has taken. Among the first fruits of this we have Murray's +<i>Handbook for Modern London</i>, which did not need the name of our valued +contributor M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. P<span class="smcap lowercase">ETER</span> C<span class="smcap lowercase">UNNINGHAM</span> at the foot of its preliminary +advertisement to show the mint in which it was coined; for it is in +every page marked with the same characteristics, the same laborious +research—the same scrupulous exactness—the same clear and distinct +arrangements, which won such deserved praise for that gentleman's +<i>Handbook for London, Past and Present</i>. Any visitor to London, be he +mere sight-seer or be he artist, architect, statist, &c., will find in +this neatly printed volume the most satisfactory replies to his +inquiries.</p> + +<p><i>The Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum, being a +Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan +Art, preserved there</i>, by W. S. W. Vaux, <i>Assistant in the Department of +Antiquities</i>, has been compiled for the purpose of laying before the +public the contents of one department of the British Museum—that of +antiquities—in a compendious and popular form. The attempt has been +most successful. Mr. Vaux has not only the advantage of official +position, but of great practical knowledge of the subject, and abundant +scholarship to do it justice; and the consequence is, that his <i>Handbook +to the Antiquities in the British Museum</i> will be found not only most +useful for the special object for which it has been written, but a +valuable introduction to the study of Early Art.</p> + +<p>There are probably no objects in the Great Exhibition which have +attracted more general attention than the Stuffed Animals exhibited by +Herrmann Ploucquet, of Stuttgart. Prince and peasant, old and young, the +pale-faced student deep in Goethe and Kaulbach, and the hard-handed +agriculturist who picked up his knowledge of nature and natural history +while plying his daily task,—have all gazed with delight on the +productions of this accomplished artist. That many of these admirers +will be grateful to Mr. Bogue for having had daguerreotypes of some of +the principal of these masterpieces taken by M. Claudet, and engravings +made from them on wood as faithfully as possible, we cannot doubt: and +to all such we heartily recommend <i>The Comical Creatures from +Wurtemburg; including the Story of Reynard the Fox, with Twenty +Illustrations</i>. The letter-press by which the plates are accompanied is +written in a right Reynardine spirit; and whether as a memorial of the +Exhibition—of the peculiar talent of the artist—or as a gift book for +children—this pretty volume deserves to be widely circulated.</p> + +<p>B<span class="smcap lowercase">OOKS</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">ECEIVED</span>.—Neander's <i>General History of the Christian Religion +and Church</i>, vol. iv., is the new volume of Bohn's <i>Standard Library</i>; +and it speaks very emphatically for the demand for cheap editions of +works of learning and research that it can answer Mr. Bohn's purpose to +issue a translation of such a book as this by the great ecclesiastical +historian of Germany in its present form.</p> + +<p><i>The Stone Mason of Saint Pont, a Village Tale from the French of De +Lamartine</i>, a new volume of Bohn's cheap series, is a tale well +calculated to stir the sympathy of the reader, and to waken in him +thoughts too deep for tears. It must prove one of the most popular among +the works of imagination included in the series; as its companion +volume, <i>Monk's Contemporaries, Biographic Studies of the English +Revolution, by M. Guizot</i>, must take a high place among the historical +works. M. Guizot describes his Sketches as "constituting, together with +Monk, a sort of gallery of portraits, in which persons of the most +different character appear in juxtaposition;" and a most interesting +study they make—not the less, perhaps, because, as the author candidly +avows, "in spite of the great diversity of manners, contemporary +comparisons and applications will present themselves at every step, +however careful we may be not to seek them."</p> + +<p>C<span class="smcap lowercase">ATALOGUES</span> R<span class="smcap lowercase">ECEIVED</span>.—W. Dearden's (Carlton Street, Nottingham) +Catalogue Part I. of Important Standard and Valuable Books; J. +Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part 125., No. 6. for 1851, of +Old and New Books; Joseph Lilly's (7. Pall Mall) Catalogue of a very +Valuable Collection of Fine and Useful Books; F. Butsch's, at Augsburg, +Catalogue (which may be had of D. Nutt, 270. Strand) of a Choice and +Valuable Collection of Rare and Curious Books; Edward Tyson's (55. Great +Bridgewater Street, Manchester) Catalogue, No. 1. of 1851, of Books on +Sale. +<a id="Sale127"></a> <span class="pagenum">[127]</span></p> + + +<h3><span>BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES<br /> +WANTED TO PURCHASE.</span></h3> + +<ul> +<li> B<span class="smcap lowercase">RITISH</span> E<span class="smcap lowercase">SSAYISTS</span>, by Chalmers. 45 Vols. Johnson and Co. Vols. VI. VII. VIII. IX. and XXIII.</li> + +<li> K<span class="smcap lowercase">NIGHT'S</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">ICTORIAL</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">HAKSPEARE</span>. Part XXV.</li> + +<li> B<span class="smcap lowercase">UDDEN'S</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">IFE OF</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">RCHBISHOP</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ORTON</span>, 1607.</li> + +<li> T<span class="smcap lowercase">HOMAS</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">YTE'S</span> A<span class="smcap lowercase">NCIENT</span> B<span class="smcap lowercase">ALLADS AND</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">ONGS</span>. 12mo. 1827.</li> + +<li> D<span class="smcap lowercase">ODWELL</span> (H<span class="smcap lowercase">ENRY</span>, M.A.), D<span class="smcap lowercase">ISCOURSE PROVING FROM</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">CRIPTURES THAT THE</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">OUL IS A</span> P<span class="smcap lowercase">RINCIPLE NATURALLY</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">ORTAL</span>, &c.</li> + +<li> R<span class="smcap lowercase">EFLECTIONS ON</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">R</span>. B<span class="smcap lowercase">URCHET'S</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">EMOIRS</span>; or, Remarks on his Account of Captain Wilmot's Expedition to the West Indies, by Colonel Luke Lillingston, 1704.</li> + +<li> G<span class="smcap lowercase">ENTLEMAN'S</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">AGAZINE</span>. Vol. I. 1731.</li> + +<li> N<span class="smcap lowercase">EW</span> E<span class="smcap lowercase">NGLAND</span> J<span class="smcap lowercase">UDGED, NOT BY</span> M<span class="smcap lowercase">AN'S BUT BY THE</span> S<span class="smcap lowercase">PIRIT OF THE</span> L<span class="smcap lowercase">ORD</span>, &c. By George Bishope. 1661. 4to. 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Fleet Street aforesaid.—Saturday, August + 16. 1851.</p> + + +<div class="tnbox"> + +<p>Transcriber's Note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized.</p> + +<p><a id="pageslist1"></a><a title="Return to top" href="#was_added1"> Pages + in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-IV</a> </p> + +<pre> + + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | + | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | + | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | + | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | + | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | + | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | + | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | + | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | + | Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | + | Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | + | Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | + | Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | + | Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | + | Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | + | Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | + | Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | + | Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | + | Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | + | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | + | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | + | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | + | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | + | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | + | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. II. | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1- 15 | PG # 12589 | + | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17- 32 | PG # 15996 | + | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33- 48 | PG # 26121 | + | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49- 64 | PG # 22127 | + | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65- 79 | PG # 22126 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81- 96 | PG # 13361 | + | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | + | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | + | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | + | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | + | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | + | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | + | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | + | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49- 78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81- 95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | + | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | + | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | + | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | + | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | + | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | + | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | + | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | + | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | + | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | + | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | + | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | + | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | + | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | + | Vol. III No. 87 | June 28, 1851 | 513-528 | PG # 37516 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. IV. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 | + | Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 | + | Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 | + | Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 | + | Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. + +Author: Various + +Editor: George Bell + +Release Date: December 20, 2011 [EBook #38350] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, AUGUST 16, 1851 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + +[Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been +standardized. Characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with +an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on top, or [C] for +a Roman angled C; the Roman numeral *C shows an inverted C, or closing +). Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. A list of +volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.] + + + + +NOTES and QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION + +FOR + +LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + +VOL. IV.--No. 94. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16. 1851. + +Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._ + + + + +CONTENTS. + + Page + + + NOTES:-- + + Traditions from remote Periods through few Hands 113 + + Minor notes:--Nelson's Coat--Strange Reason for keeping + a Public-house--Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury + Thorn--The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury--The + Three Estates of the Realm 114 + + QUERIES:-- + + Bensleys of Norwich 115 + + Minor Queries:--Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge + Castle--English Translation of Nonnus--Of Prayer in One + Tongue--Inscription in Ely Cathedral--Cervantes: what was + the Date of his Death?--Meaning of "Agla"--Murderers buried + in Cross Roads--Wyle Cop--The Devil's Knell--Queries on + Poem of Richard Rolle--Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of + Cromwell?--English Translation of Alcon 115 + + REPLIES:-- + + John Bodley, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault and R. J. King 117 + + Wither's "Hallelujah" 118 + + First Panorama 118 + + John a Kent 119 + + The British Sidanen 120 + + Petty Cury 120 + + The Word "Rack" in the Tempest.--The Nebular Theory 121 + + Replies to Minor Queries:--Pseudo MSS.: The Devil, + Cromwell and his Amours--Anonymous Ravennas--Margaret + Maultasch--Pope's Translation or Imitations of + Horace--Brother Jonathan--Cromwell's Grants of + Land in Monaghan--Stanedge Pole--Baskerville the + Printer--Inscription on a Claymore--Burton Family--Notation + by Coalwhippers--Statue of Charles II.--Serius, where + situated?--Corpse passing makes a Right of Way--The + Petworth Register--Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia + Ecclesiae S. Pauli"--Mistake as to an Eclipse--"A Posie + of other Men's Flowers," &c. 122 + + MISCELLANEOUS:-- + + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 126 + + Books and Odd Volumes wanted 127 + + Notices to Correspondents 127 + + Advertisements 127 + + + + +Notes. + + +TRADITIONS FROM REMOTE PERIODS THROUGH FEW HANDS. + +On two or three occasions in the "NOTES AND QUERIES" instances have been +given of "Traditions from remote periods through few hands," of which it +would not be difficult to adduce numerous additional examples; but my +present purpose is to mention some within my personal experience, or +derived from authentic communication. + +In 1781, and my eleventh year, a schoolfellow took me to see his +great-grandmother, a Mrs. Arthur, in Limerick, then aged one hundred and +eight years, whose recollection of that city's siege in 1691, when she +was eighteen, was perfectly fresh and unimpaired, as, indeed, she was +fond of showing by frequent and even unsolicited recurrence to its dread +scenes, in which the women, history tells us, fearlessly participated. +We are here then presented with an interval of one hundred and sixty +years between a memorable event and my recollection of its narrative by +a person actively engaged in it. The old lady's family had furnished a +greater number of chief magistrates to Limerick than any other recorded +in its annals. + +Again in 1784, on a visit to my grandfather in the county of Limerick, +during a school vacation, I heard him, then in his eighty-sixth year, +say, that in 1714, on the accession to the British throne of the present +royal dynasty, he heard in Cork, where he was at school, a conversation +between several gentlemen on this change of the reigning family, when +one of them, a Mr. Martin, said that he was born the same day as Charles +II., on the 29th of May, 1631, and was present at the execution of +Charles I., the 29th of January, 1649. His family then resided in +London, where he joined Cromwell's Ironsides, and thence accompanied +them to Ireland. The transfer to him of some forfeited property +naturally induced him to settle there. Thus, between me and the +eye-witness of the regicidal catastrophe, only one person intervenes. + +In 1830 there died in London, at the eastern extremity, called the +World's End, an Irishman, aged one hundred and eleven, named Gibson, +whose father, a Scotchman, he told me, served under the Duke of Monmouth +at the battle of Sedgemore in July, 1685, and afterwards, in July, 1690, +under William, at the Boyne. Supposing, as we well may, the father to +have been born about 1660, in 1830, before the son's decease, the two +successive lives thus embrace one hundred and seventy years. I had +rendered the son some services which made him very communicative to me. +The father married and settled in Tipperary, where he became a Roman +Catholic, and no adherent of O'Connell could be more ardent in his cause +than the son. This veteran had served full seventy years in the royal +navy. + +In 1790 I recollect an old man of a hundred and twenty, who appeared +before the French National Assembly, and gave clear answers to questions +on events which he had witnessed one hundred and ten years before. + +Similar lengths of personal remembrance are related of old Parr, Lady +Desmond, and others, whose ages exceeded one hundred and forty years. +The daughter-in-law of the French king, Charles IX. (widow of his +natural son, the Duke of Angouleme), survived that monarch by a hundred +and thirty-nine years (1574-1713),--a rare, if not an unexampled fact. +The famous Cardan, in his singular work, _De Vita Propria_, states that +his grandfather's birth anteceded his own by a hundred and fifty years +(1351-1501). Franklin relates that his grandfather was born in the +sixteenth century, and reign of Elizabeth, as Sir Stephen Fox, the +grandfather of our contemporary statesman, Charles, was born shortly +after the death of James I., in 1627. A very near connexion of my own, +though much younger, is the grandson of a gentleman whose birth +retrocedes to Charles II., in 1672. Niebuhr grounds one of his +objections to the truth of the early Roman history on the very great +improbability of the long period of two hundred and forty-five years +assigned to the collective reigns of the seven kings. It does, indeed, +exceed the average of enthroned life; but the seven monarchs of Spain, +from Ferdinand (the Catholic) to the French Bourbon, Philip V., +inclusively, embraced a period of two hundred and sixty-seven years in +their successive rule (1469, when Ferdinand obtained the crown of +Arragon, and 1746, the date of Philip's death). The eminent German +historian offers, however, much stronger arguments in disbelief of the +Roman annals; but he had many predecessors in his views, though himself, +unquestionably, the most powerful writer on the subject. + + J. R. (An Octogenarian.) + +P.S.--In Vol. iv., p. 73., Madame du Chatelet's epitaph on Voltaire +contains an error, where _canis_ twice appears, but should be _carus_. +The lady's object was certainly complimentary, not sarcastic. My crampt +writing was of course the cause of the mistake, though, in the _opinion +of many_, the substituted word would not appear inapplicable to +Voltaire. A subjoined article of the same page, "Children at a Birth," +reminds me of something analogous in Mercier's _Tableau de Paris_, where +reference is made to the _Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences_ for the +fact. The wife of a baker, it is there stated, in the short space of +seven years, produced one-and-twenty children, or three at each annual +birth; and, to prove that the prolific faculty was exclusively his, he +made a maid servant similarly the mother of three children at a birth. +The major portion, it appears, of this numerous progeny long survived. +Bayle, in his article of Tiraqueau, a French advocate of the sixteenth +century, quotes an epigram, which would make him the father of +forty-five children, and, it is added, by one wife. If so, several must +at least have been twins: + + "Faecundus facundus aquae Tiraquellus amator, + Terquindecim librorum et liberum parens; + Qui nisi restinxisset aquis abstemius ignes, + Implesset orbem prole animi atque corporis." + +The accomplished authoress of _A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic_ +(1841, 2 volumes) was, it is well known, one of _four_ congenital +children in Norwich, where her father was an eminent physician. + + J. R. + + Cork, August, 1851. + + +Minor Notes. + +_Nelson's Coat_ (Vol. iii., p. 517.).--The recognition of the coat +Nelson wore at Trafalgar depends on its fulfilling a detail in the +following fact. The present Captain Sir George Westphal was a midshipman +on board the Victory, and was wounded on the back of the head: he was +taken into the cockpit, and placed by the side of Nelson. When +Westphal's wound was dressed, nothing else being immediately available, +Nelson's coat was rolled up and used as a support to Westphal's head. +Blood flowed from the wound, and, coagulating, stuck the bullion of one +of the epaulettes to the bandage; it was deemed better to cut off some +of the bullion curls to liberate the coat: so that the coat Nelson wore +on that day will be found minus of bullion in one of the epaulettes. + + AEGROTUS. + +_Strange Reasons for keeping a Public-house._--A clergyman in the +south-west of England, calling lately on one of his parishioners, who +kept a public-house, remarked to her how sorry he was, when passing +along the road, to hear such noises proceeding from her house. "I +wonder," said he, "that any woman can keep a public-house, especially +one where there is so much drunkenness and depravity as in yours." "Oh, +Sir," she replied, "that is the very reason why I like to keep such a +house, because I see every day so much of the _worst part of human +nature_." + + T. W. + +_Superstitions with regard to Glastonbury Thorn._--It is handed down, +that when Joseph of Arimathea, during his mission to England, arrived at +Weary-all-hill, near Glastonbury, he struck his travelling staff into +the earth, which immediately took root, and ever after put forth its +leaves and blossoms on Christmas Day, being converted into a miraculous +thorn. + +This tree, which had two trunks, was preserved until the time of Queen +Elizabeth; when one of the trunks was destroyed by a Puritan, and the +other met with the same fate during the Great Rebellion. + +Throughout the reign of Henry VIII., its blossoms were esteemed such +great curiosities, and sovereign specifics, as to become an object of +gain to the merchants of Bristol; who not only disposed of them to the +inhabitants of their own city, but _exported_ these blossoms to +different parts of Europe. There were, in addition to these, relics for +rain, for avoiding the evil eye, for rooting out charlock, and all weeds +in corn, with similar specifics, which were considered, at this time, +_the best of all property_! + + T. W. + +_The miraculous Walnut-tree at Glastonbury._--This far-famed tree was at +the north of St. Joseph's chapel, in the abbey churchyard. It was +supposed to have been brought from Palestine by some of the pilgrims, +and was visited in former days, and regarded as sacred by _all ranks_ of +people; and, even so late as the time of King James, that monarch, as +well as his ministers and nobility, paid large sums for sprigs of it, +which were preserved as holy relics. + + T. W. + +_The Three Estates of the Realm._--Some, even educated persons of this +day, if asked which are the three estates of the realm, will reply, the +Queen, Lords, and Commons. That the three estates do not include the +Queen, and are therefore the Lords, the Clergy in Convocation, and the +Commons, is obvious from the title of the "Form of Prayer with +Thanksgiving to be used yearly upon the 5th day of November, for the +happy Deliverance of _King James I._ and the Three Estates of England +from the most Traitorous," &c.; and also from the following passage of +the Communion Collect for Gunpowder Treason:-- + + "Eternal God, and our most mighty Protector, we Thy unworthy + servants do humbly present ourselves before Thy Majesty, + acknowledging Thy power, wisdom, and goodness, in preserving _the + king_, AND _the three estates_ of the realm of England assembled + in Parliament, from the destruction this day intended against + them." + + W. FRAER. + + + + +Queries. + + +BENSLEYS OF NORWICH. + +As I am much interested in the above family, which I know to have +existed at Norwich, or the vicinity, for a century or more, and have +reason to think was one of some consequence, will you, through the +medium of your useful columns, allow me to ask some of your intelligent +correspondents who reside in that neighbourhood the following Queries? + +1. Is anything known of the family of the late Sir William Bensley +farther back than his father, Thomas Bensley? Sir William was born in +the county of Norfolk, and at an early age entered the navy; transferred +himself to the Honourable East India Company's service, made a large +fortune, was elected a Director of the Company 1771, created a baronet +1801, and died without issue 1809. + +2. Was Mr. Richard Bensley, an actor of some celebrity, who made his +"first appearance" in 1765 (he had previously been an officer in the +Marines, and, as I am informed, held the appointment of barrack-master +at Knightsbridge till his death in 1817), any connexion of the above, or +at all connected with Norwich? + +3. Cowper, in one of his letters [to Joseph Hill, Esq., dated +Huntingdon, July 3, 1765], says: + + "The tragedies of Lloyd and Bensley are both very deep. If they + are of no use to the surviving part of society, it is their own + fault," &c. + +Any information as to who this Bensley was, will be very acceptable; or +anything concerning the tragedies mentioned. + +4. Any intelligence respecting one "Isaac Bensley" of Norwich, weaver; +who was alive in 1723, as his son was in that year baptized at the +Octagon Chapel in that city. + +If any of your contributors, in their archaeological researches among +tombstones and parish registers, should have met with the name of +Bensley, by addressing a "note" to you thereon they will confer a great +obligation on your constant reader and occasional contributor. + + TEE BEE. + + +Minor Queries. + +68. _Heraldic Figures at Tonbridge Castle._--In the court of the castle +of this place, there stands a colossal figure of what I take to be an +heraldic panther gorged with a ducal crown, supporting a shield of the +royal arms of France and England quarterly, as borne before the +accession of James I. + +The corresponding supporter is gone, but the base and one claw remain, +showing it to have been a beast of prey, and with it is a broken shield, +thereon, "party per pale three lions rampant;" the arms, and probably +the supporter of the Herberts, earls of Pembroke. The two figures have +evidently capped the piers of a gateway. + +Can any of your readers account for the presence of these figures here, +where the Herberts are not recorded to have possessed any property? + + ERMINES. + + Tonbridge, July 29. 1851. + +69. _English Translation of Nonnus._--I shall be obliged if any of your +correspondents will inform me if any translation of the poet Nonnus, +which contains, perhaps, most that is known about Bacchus, has ever been +made into English; if so, by whom, and when? + + AEGROTUS. + +70. _Of Prayer in one Tongue._--Bishop Jewel, in his celebrated sermon +preached at Paul's Cross, quotes the following argument as used by +Gerson, sometime Chancellor of Paris: + + "There is but one only God; ergo, all nations throughout the world + must pray to Him in one tongue." + +The editor of the Parker Society's edition of Jewel cannot discover the +argument in the works of Gerson; but if any of your readers can point +out where it may be found, I shall be much obliged. + + N. E. R. (a Subscriber). + +71. _Inscription in Ely Cathedral._--M. D. (Great Yarmouth) is anxious +to have the meaning of the following inscription explained. It is on a +tombstone in Ely Cathedral. + + Human + Redemption + 590 [x] 590 [x] 590 + Born [o] Sara [o] Watts + + Died + 600 [x] 600 [x] 600 + 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 + + Aged + Y 30 [x] 00 [x] 33 + M 3 [x] d 31 - 3 + h 3 [x] 3 [x] 3 [x] 12 + + Nations make fun of his + Commands. + + -------- + + S. M. E. + Judgements begun on Earth. + + In memory of + JAMES FOUNTAIN. + Died August 21, 1767. + Aged 60 years. + +72. _Cervantes--what was the Date of his Death?_--In the Life prefixed +to a corrected edition of Jarvis's translation, published by Miller, +1801, it is stated to be April 23, 1616; and it is added: + + "It is a singular coincidence of circumstances, that the same day + should deprive the world of two men of such transcendent abilities + as Cervantes and Shakspeare, the latter of whom died in England on + the very day that put an end to the life of the former in Spain." + +Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, in his Life of his uncle, the poet, remarks +on his decease on the anniversary of the death of Shakspeare, but makes +no allusion to the double anniversary; and in the Life of Cervantes +prefixed to Smollet's translation of _Don Quixote_, the day of +Cervantes' death is somewhat differently stated. + + GEO. E. FRERE. + +73. _"Agla," Meaning of._--I have in my possession a silver ring, found +some time since at a place called "Grungibane" in this neighbourhood. +The hoop is flat both inside and out, about a quarter of an inch broad. +On the outside, occupying about half the length, is the following +inscription: "+ AGLA." + +I should feel great obliged by some of your learned correspondents +decyphering the above. + + JOHN MARTIN. + + Downpatrick. + +74. _Murderers buried in Cross Roads._--Though the lines of Hood's, + + "So they buried him where the cross roads met + With a stake in his inside." + +occur in one of his comic poems, I have often heard it gravely stated +that it was formerly the custom to bury murderers with a stake driven +through the body, where cross roads meet. Was this ever a _custom_, and +when was "formerly?" Are there many such tragic spots in England and can +I find them enumerated anywhere? + + P. M. M. + +75. _Wyle Cop._--This is the name of a street, or rather bank in +Shrewsbury, leading from the English Bridge to High Street. It has +always struck me as being a curious name; and I should feel obliged to +any of your readers who could inform me what is the origin of the place +being so called, or if there is any meaning in the words beyond being +the name of a place. + + SALOPIAN. + +76. _The Devil's Knell._--In the _Collectanea Topographica_, vol. i. p. +167., is the following note: + + "At Dewsbury, Yorkshire, there is a bell called 'Black Tom of + Sothill:' the tradition is, that it is as expiatory gift for a + murder. One of the bells, perhaps this one, is tolled on + Christmas-eve as at a funeral, or in the manner of a passing-bell: + and any one asking whose bell it was, would be told that it was + the _devil's knell_. The moral of it is, that the devil died when + Christ was born. The custom was discontinued for many years, but + was revived by the vicar in 1828." + +Is the gift of a bell a common expiatory gift for crime? And does the +custom of tolling the _devil's knell_ on Christmas eve exist in any +other place at the present time? + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +77. _Queries on Poems of Richard Rolle_ (Vol. iv., p. 49.).--I should be +glad to ask a question or two of your Cambridge correspondent, touching +his very interesting contribution from the MS. remains of Richard Rolle +of Hampole. + +What language is meant by the _deuenisch_? + +What is a _guystroun_? + +How does the word _chaunsemlees_ come to mean shoes? + +An expression very strange to English verse occurs in the line, + + "Hir cher was ay _semand_ sori." + +I can think of nothing to throw light upon this intensive adverb, except +the Danish _saamaend_, which is generally used in that language (or +rather _was_ used, i.e. when Holberg wrote his comedies) as an +affirmatory oath. Native authorities explain it to mean "_so_ it is, by +the holy _men_," or in other terms, "by the saints I swear." + +I have no doubt that the same kindness which led your correspondent to +communicate those delightful extracts, will also make him willing to +assist the understanding of them. + + J. E. + + Oxford. + +78. _Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?_--Mr. Carlyle, in +treating on the biographies of Oliver Cromwell, says that the _Short +Critical Review of the Life of Oliver Cromwell_, by a gentleman of the +Middle Temple, was written by a certain "Mr. Banks, a kind of a lawyer +and playwright," and that the anonymous _Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord +Protector of the Commonwealth, impartially collected, &c._, London, +1724, which Noble ascribes to Bishop Gibson, was by "one Kember, a +dissenting minister of London." + +On the other hand, Mr. Russell, in his _Life of Oliver Cromwell_, 2 +vols. 12mo. 1829, says: + + "There is an anonymous work deserving of some notice, entitled _A + Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell_. + The title professes that it was written by a gentleman of the + Middle Temple, but there is reason to believe that it proceeded + from the pen of the learned Bishop Gibson." + +It would seem, therefore, by these statements, that two different lives +of the Great Protector have been ascribed to Gibson. Query, Did Gibson +ever write a life of Cromwell; and if so, which is it? + +It is well worth knowing which Gibson did write, if he wrote one at all, +for he was connected with the Cromwell family, and, what is of more +consequence, a learned, liberal man, not given to lying, so that his +book probably contains more truth than any of the other Cromwell +biographies of that time. + + DRYASDUST. + +79. _English Translation of Alcon._--Is there any translation of _Alcon_ +by Baldisare Castiglione? The _Lycidas_ of Milton is a splendid +paraphrase of it. The parallel passages are to be found in (I think) No. +47. of the _Classical Journal_, published formerly by Valpy. The +prototypes of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso are at the beginning of +Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_. Thus three of Milton's early poems +cannot be termed wholly original. + + AEGROTUS. + + + + +Replies. + + +JOHN BODLEY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 59.) + +John Bodley is a name that ought not to be passed over without due +reverence. He not only fostered the translation of the Genevan Bible, +but was specially interested in its circulation throughout England. +Neither Fox, Burnet, or Strype, Mr. Todd, or Mr. Whittaker give us any +particular information respecting him. Lewis glances at him as _one_ +John Bodley; and Mr. Townley, in his valuable _Biblical Literature_, +after some notice of Whittingham, Gilby, Sampson, &c., closes by saying, +"Of John Bodleigh no account has been obtained." + +This good and pious man was the father of the celebrated Sir Thomas +Bodley. He was born at Exeter, and according to the statement of his son +(_Autobiography_, 4to., Oxf. 1647),-- + + "In the time of Queen Mary, after being cruelly threatened and + narrowly observed by those that maliced his religion, for the + safety of himself and my mother (formerly Miss Joan Hone, an + heiress in the hundred of Ottery St. Mary), who was wholly + affected as my father, knew no way so secure as to fly into + Germany; where, after a while, he found means to call over my + mother, with all his children and family, when he settled for a + while at Wesel, in Cleveland, and from thence we removed to the + town of Frankfort. Howbeit, we made no long tarriance in either of + these towns, for that my father had resolved to fix his abode in + the city of Geneva, where, as far as I remember, the English + Church consisted of some hundred members." + +John Bodley returned to England in 1559, and on the 8th of January, +1560-61, a patent was granted to him by Queen Elizabeth, "to imprint, or +cause to be imprinted, the English Bible, with annotations." This +privilege was to last for the space of seven years. In 1565 Bodley was +preparing for a new impression; and by March the next year, a careful +review and correction being finished, this zealous reformer wished to +_renew_ his patent beyond the seven years first granted. It does not +appear, however, that his application to the authorities had the desired +effect; for it will be remembered that Archbishop Parker's Bible was now +in the field, and the Queen's Secretary, Sir William Cecil, was +compelled to act with caution. A curious letter, addressed by the +Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London to Sir William Cecil, +concerning the extension of Bodley's privilege, is printed from the +Lansdown MS. No. 8. (Art. 82.), in _Letters of Eminent Literary Men_, +edited by Sir Henry Ellis for the Camden Society. + +For a full history of the Geneva Bible, I beg to refer S. S. S. to the +second volume of Anderson's _Annals of the English Bible:_ Lond. 2 vols. +8vo. 1845. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +In the notice of Sir Thomas Bodley contained in Prince's _Worthies of +Devon_, S. S. S. will find some particulars relating to his father, John +Bodley. Prince's account of Sir Thomas is "from a MS. on probable +grounds supposed to be his own handwriting, now in the custody of a +neighbour gentleman," (Walter Bogan of Gatcombe, near Totnes.) From +this it appears that John Bodley was long resident at Geneva-- + + "Where [says Sir Thomas], as far as I remember, the English church + consisted of some hundred persons. I was at that time of twelve + years of age, but through my father's cost and care sufficiently + instructed to become an auditor of Chevalerius in Hebrew, of + Beraldus in Greek, of Calvin and Beza in divinity, and of some + other professors in the university, which was then newly erected: + besides my domestical teachers in the house of Philibertus + Saracenus, a famous physician in that city, with whom I was + boarded, where Robertus Constantinus, that made the Greek Lexicon, + read Homer unto me." + +There is, however, no mention of John Bodley's having been one of the +translators of the Bible. + + R. J. KING. + + +WITHER'S "HALLELUJAH." + +(Vol. iii., p. 330.) + +A correspondent, S. S. S., inquires concerning one of the numberless, +and now almost fameless, works of George Wither, a poet of the +seventeenth century, famous in his generation, but unworthily disparaged +in that which followed him; the names of Quarles and Wither being +proverbially classed with those of Bavius and Maevius in the Augustan +age. The _Hallelujah_ of the latter has become precious from its rarity. +A copy of this volume (of nearly 500 pages) was lent to me several years +ago, by a collector of such treasures. On the blank at the back of the +cover, there was written a memorandum that it had been bought at Heber's +sale by Thorpe the bookseller for sixteen guineas; my friend, I had +reason to believe, paid a much higher price for it, when it fell into +his hands. The contents consist of several hundreds of _hymns_ for all +sorts and conditions of men, on all the ordinary, and on many of the +extraordinary circumstances of human life. Of course they are very +heterogeneous, yet no small number are beyond the average of such +compositions in point of devotional and poetical excellence. + +The author himself, with the consciousness of Horace, in his + + "Exegi monumentum aere perennius," + +crowns his labours at the 487th page with the following "Io triumphe" +lines:-- + + "Although my Muse flies yet far short of those, + Who perfect Hallelujahs can compose, + Here to affirm I am not now afraid, + What once in part a heathen prophet said, + With slighter warrant, when to end was brought + What he for meaner purposes had wrought; + _The work is finished_, which nor human power, + Nor flames, nor times, nor envy shall devour, + But with devotion to God's praise be sung + As long as Britain speaks her English tongue, + Or shall that Christian saving faith possess, + Which will preserve these Isles in happiness; + And, if conjecture fail not, some, that speak + In other languages, shall notice take + Of what my humble musings have composed, + And, by these helps, be often more disposed + To celebrate His praises in their songs, + To whom all honour and all praise belongs." + +How has this fond anticipation been fulfilled? There are not known (says +my authority) to be more than _three_ or _four_ copies in existence of +this indestructible work; and the price in gold which a solitary +specimen can command, is no evidence of anything but its market value. +Had its poetic worth been proportionate, its currency might have been as +common as that of Milton's masterpiece, and its trade price as low as +Paternoster Row could afford a cheap edition of the _Pilgrim's +Progress_. + + J. M. G. + + Hallamshire. + +P.S.--Lowndes says: + + "Few books of a cotemporary date can more readily be procured than + Wither's first _Remembrancer_ in 1628; few, it is believed, can be + more difficult of attainment than his second _Remembrancer_, + licensed in 1640, of which latter Dalrymple observes, 'there are + some things interspersed in it, nowhere, perhaps, to be + surpassed.'"--_Bibliographer's Manual_, p. 1971. + + +FIRST PANORAMA. + +(Vol. iv., p. 54.) + +I did not speak of my own recollection of Girtin's panorama; my memory +cannot reach so far back. It was my father who does perfectly remember +_Girtin's_ semicircular panorama. I think the mistake must be with H. T. +E. Some years back a large collection of Girtin's drawings and sketches +were sold at Pimlico; my father went to see them, and was delighted to +find among them some of the original sketches for this panorama, which +he immediately recognised and bought. He afterwards showed them to +Girtin's son, now living in practice as a surgeon at Islington (I +believe), who identified them as his father's work, and with whom I went +to see the painting, when not many years back it was found in a +carpenter's loft. Girtin certainly was a painter principally in water +colour, and one who, with the present J. M. W. Turner, contributed much +to the advancement of that branch of art; but I do not see how that is a +reason why he did not paint a panorama. I should think it not unlikely +that two semicircular panoramas of the same subject were painted; and, +therefore, with all deference, believe that the mistake is with H. T. E. +Girtin's son, if applied to, could, and I am sure would, give any +information he possessed readily. + + E. N. W. + +We are not yet quite right about the first panorama, but perhaps the +following will close the discussion. + +I have lately been sitting with Mr. Barker (aetat 78), and he tells me +that, when quite a boy, he sketched for his father the view of Edinburgh +from the observatory on the Calton Hill: in the foreground was Holyrood +House; that _that_ was a half circle, and was exhibited in Edinburgh. + +So much was thought of the discovery of its being _possible_ to take a +view beyond the old rule of sixty degrees, that they went to London, and +then he took the view from the top of the Albion Mills, as was stated in +Vol. iv., p. 54. + +That was three quarters of a circle, and was exhibited in Castle Street, +Leicester Square. Afterwards the whole circle was attempted. The idea of +painting a view more than sixty degrees, was suggested by his mother. +His father did not work at them, he being a portrait painter; but _he_ +did, young as he was. Mr. Robert Barker and his wife were both Irish; +but Henry Aston the son was born in Glasgow. + + H. T. ELLACOMBE. + + Clyst St. George. + + +JOHN A KENT. + +(Vol. iv., p. 83.) + +As I have not seen the _Athenaeum_, I send the following notes, in +uncertainty whether or not they may prove acceptable to MR. COLLIER. + +_Sion y Cent_, i.e. John a Kent, or John of Kentchurch, is very +generally believed in Wales to have been Owen Glendowr; though some +few--unable to account for the mysterious disappearance of the hero--are +still firmly convinced that he sleeps, like Montezuma and various other +mighty men, in some deep cavern, surrounded by his warriors, until the +wrongs of his country shall call him forth once more to lead them on to +battle. + +The following extracts are from notes appended [by the editors] to some +poems of John a Kent which are published amongst the "Iolo MSS." by the +"Welsh MSS. Society." + + "... John of Kent, as he is called, is said to have been a priest + at Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on the confines of Wales, about + the beginning of the fifteenth century. He still enjoys a high + degree of popularity, in the legendary stories of the + principality, as a powerful magician. There is in the possession + of Mr. Scudamore, of Kentchurch, an ancient painting of a monk, + supposed to be a portrait of John of Kent; and as the family of + Scudamore is descended from a daughter of Owen Glendowr, at whose + house that chieftain is believed to have passed in concealment a + portion of the latter part of his life, it has been supposed that + John of Kentchurch was no other than Owen Glendowr himself," &c. + &c.--Page 676., note to the poem on _The Names of God_. + + "... The author was a priest of Kentchurch in Herefordshire, on + the confines of Monmouthshire and Breconshire, and is said to have + lived in the time of Wickliffe, and to have been of his party. As + the parish of Kentchurch is adjacent to that of Oldcastle, the + residence of Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, it is by no means + impossible that John of Kentchurch may also have favoured the same + opinions; and may in some measure sanction the idea." + + "... The poet then proceeds to speak of the indignation of the + well-robed bishops, the monks, friars and priests; and in the + course of the composition he makes some strong animadversions on + the luxurious living of the churchmen, stating that formerly the + friars were preachers, who possessed no wealth, and went about on + foot with nothing but a staff; but that they now possessed horses, + and frequented banquets," &c. &c.--Page 687., notes to _A Poem to + another's Book_, by John of Kentchurch; from the collection of + Thomas ap Jevan of Tre'r Bryn, made about 1670. + +The following words occur in this poem:-- + + "... onid cof cwymp + Olcastr, ti a gair ailcwymp." + + "---- rememberest thou not the fall + Of Oldcastle?--Thou shall have a repetition of the fall." + +In addition to the two poems here mentioned, the collection contains one +"_Composed by John of Kent on his death-bed_;" in which are some lines +of considerable beauty: and also one on _The Age and Duration of +Things_. + +The parish church of Kentchurch is dedicated to St. Mary. I hope to be +able to send you some further information on the subject, but I well +know that quotations from memory are _nearly_ valueless. Meanwhile, the +following note on the mysterious disappearance to which I have already +alluded may be not uninteresting: I give it as translated by the editors +of the Iolo MSS. + + "In 1415, Owen disappeared, so that neither sight nor tidings of + him could be obtained in the country. It was rumoured that he + escaped in the guise of a reaper; bearing[1] ... according to the + testimony of the last who saw and knew him; after which little or + no information transpired respecting him, nor of the place or + manner of his concealment. The prevalent opinion was, that he died + in a wood in Glamorgan; but occult chroniclers assert that he and + his men still live, and are asleep on their arms, in a cave called + Govog y ddinas, in the Vale of Gwent, where they will continue, + until England becomes self-debased; but that then they will sally + forth, and reconquer their country, privileges, and crown for the + Welsh, who shall be dispossessed of them no more until the day of + judgment, when the world shall be consumed with fire, and so + reconstructed, that neither oppression nor devastation shall take + place any more: and blessed will be he who shall see the + time."--Page 454. _Historical Notices extracted from the Papers of + the Rev. Evan Evans, now in the Possession of Paul Panton, Esq., + of Anglesea._ + + [Footnote 1: The manuscript is defective here. "A sickle" was + probably the word.] + + SELEUCUS. + + +THE BRITISH SIDANEN. + +(Vol. iv., p. 83.) + +MR. J. P. COLLIER will find all the information that Cambrian +antiquaries can give him respecting Sidanen in Powell's _Cambria_, +Matthew Paris, Wynne's _Caradoc_, and Warrington's _History of Wales_, +under the year 1241. The history is given at most length in Warrington; +where the share which Sidanen had in an interesting episode in Cambrian +history is fully developed. There were two Welsh princes named Llywelyn, +who stood to each other in the following relation: + + LLYWELYN AB JORWERTH + (died in 1240). + | + +------+-------+-----------+ + | | | + GRIFFITH, DAVID. GLADYS, a + married to daughter. + _Senena_, + daughter of a + Cambrian lord + named Caradoc + ab Thomas. + | + +--------------------------+--------+ + | | | + LLYWELYN AB GRIFFITH, OWEN. DAVID. + last Prince of Wales. + +The Prince of Wales mentioned by Munday is the first, Llywelyn ab +Jorwerth, whose descent, as his father was not allowed to reign on +account of personal deformity, we had better indicate: + + OWEN, king of North Wales. + | + (Eldest son) JORWERTH, the _Broken-nosed_. + | + LLYWELYN AB JORWERTH. + +Llywelyn, as has been shown, had two sons, Griffith and David, the first +and eldest of whom, being a turbulent prince, was set aside by his +father at a solemn assembly of Cambrian lords, in 1238, and David was +elected to succeed his father. In 1240, David became king of North +Wales, and one of his first acts was to apprehend his brother and his +son Owen, and put them in prison. This was done with the connivance of a +Bishop of Bangor: but that worthy, fearing that the scandal would spread +abroad, intrigued with _Senena_, the _daughter-in-law_, and not the +daughter of Prince Llywelyn, and wife of his son Griffith, for his +release. Overtures were made to Henry III.; and certain lords having +joined the confederacy, stipulations were entered into, and Henry +marched against King David. David, who had married the king's daughter, +now began to counterplot, in which he was quite successful; for Henry, +who had come to release Griffith, by _special contract_ with his +brother, took him, with his wife Senena, and his son Owen, with him to +London, and imprisoned them in the Tower, in attempting to escape from +whence, two years afterwards, Griffith lost his life. Such is a brief +outline of all that is known of Senena, who is undoubtedly the Sidanen +of Munday, and whose name is variously written _Sina_, _Sanan_, +_Sanant_, and in the Latin chronicle _Senena_. The negotiations here +alluded to, with the names of all the parties engaged in them, will be +found in the authorities herein named; all of which being in English, +MR. COLLIER can easily consult. + +John a Cumber is probably John y Kymro, or John the Cambrian; but I know +nothing of him. + +Respecting John of Kent there is but little else known than may be found +in Coxe's _Monmouthshire_, and Owen's _Cambrian Biography_, sub "Sion +Cent." There is, however, a tradition in this neighbourhood that he was +born at Eglwys Ilan, in the county of Glamorgan; and the road is shown +by which he went to Kentchurch, in Herefordshire. It was at Eglwys Ilan +that he is reported to have pounded the crows by closing the park gates. +As this story has not appeared in English print, I will endeavour to +furnish you again with a more circumstantial statement. Sion Kent, who +lived about 1450, appears to have derived his name from Kent Chester, or +Kent Church. He was a monk, holding Lollard opinions; and a bard of +considerable talent and celebrity. As a matter of course, he was on good +terms with his Satanic majesty; for he was a mighty reputation as a +conjuror. MR. COLLIER may find a portion of one of his poems, translated +in the Iolo MSS., page 687. Should this, or any other authority herein +named, not be accessible to MR. COLLIER, it would afford me great +pleasure to send him transcripts. + +There is a very gross anachronism in making Sion, _lege_ Shon Kent, to +be the contemporary of Senena. + + T. STEPHENS. + + Merthyr Tydfil, Aug. 7. 1851. + + +PETTY CURY. + +(Vol. iv., p. 24.) + +I believe that Petty Cury signifies the Little Cookery. See a note in my +_Annals of Cambridge_, vol. i. p. 273. + + C. H. COOPER. + + Cambridge, July 12. 1851. + +To those who are familiar with the _Form of Cury_, edited by Dr. Pegge, +no explanation can be necessary for the name of this street, or rather +lane. It seems, indeed, strange that any one who calls himself a +Cambridge man should have failed to discover that it was the peculiar +quarter of the _cooks_ of the town; as we in London have our Poultry +named from the _Poulters_ (not _Poulterers_, as now corruptly +designated) who there had their shops. + + F. S. Q. + +The Cambridge senate-house is called "Curia," and therefore it may be +supposed that "Petty Cury" means "_parva curia_," from some court-leet +or court-baron formerly held there; the town-hall is at the end of it to +this day. The only objection to the above is, that in the Caius map of +Cambridge, A.D. 1574, now in the British Museum, Petty Curie is a large +street even then, whilst neither town-hall nor senate-house exist. + + J. EASTWOOD. + +Surely there can be little doubt that the name of this street at +Cambridge is a corruption from the French "petite ecurie." We knew +little enough about such matters when I was an undergraduate there; but +still, I think, we could have solved this mystery. Might I be permitted +to suggest that as the court stables at Versailles were called "les +petites ecuries," to distinguish them from the king's, which were styled +"les grandes ecuries," although they exactly resembled them, and +contained accommodation for five hundred horses; so the street in +question may have contained some of the fellows' stables, which were +called "les petites ecuries," to distinguish them from the masters'. +Should this supposition be correct, it would seem to imply that at one +time the French language was not altogether _ignored_ at Cambridge. + + H. C. + + Workington. + + +THE WORD "RACK" IN THE "TEMPEST."--THE NEBULAR THEORY. + +(Vol. iii., p. 218.; Vol. iv., p. 37.) + +MR. HICKSON seems to court opinion as to the justness of his +interpretation of _rack_. I therefore express my total and almost +indignant dissent from it. + +Luckily, neither in the proposition itself, nor in the manner in which +it is advocated, is there anything to disturb my previous conviction as +to the true meaning of this word (which, in the well-known passage in +the _Tempest_, is, beyond all doubt, "haze" or "vapour"), since few +things would be more distasteful to me than to encounter any argument +really capable of throwing doubt upon the reading of a passage I have +long looked upon as one of the most marvellous instances of +philosophical depth of thought to be met with, even in Shakspeare,--one +of those astonishing speculations, in advance of his age, that now and +then drop from him as from the lips of a child inspired,--wherein the +grandeur of the sentiment is so out of all proportion to the simplicity +and absence of pretension with which it is introduced, that the reader, +not less surprised than delighted, is scarcely able to appreciate the +full meaning until after long and careful consideration. + +It is only lately that the nebular theory of condensation has been +advanced, for the purpose of speculating upon the probable formation of +planetary bodies. Yet it is a subject that possesses a strange +coincidence with this passage of Shakspeare's _Tempest_. + +Perhaps the best elucidation I can give of it will be to cite a certain +passage in Dr. Nichols' _Architecture of the Heavens_, which happens to +bear a rather remarkable, although I believe an accidental, resemblance +to Shakspeare's words: _accidental_, because if Dr. Nichols had this +passage of the _Tempest_ present to his mind, when writing in a +professedly popular and familiar style, he would scarcely have omitted +allusion to it, especially as it would have afforded a peculiarly happy +illustration of his subject. + +I shall now quote both passages, in order that they may be conveniently +compared: + + "Our revels now are ended--these our actors + As I foretold you, were all spirits, and + Are melted into air--INTO THIN AIR: + And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, + The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, + The solemn temples, the great globe itself, + Yea, all that it inherit--shall dissolve-- + And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, + Leave not a rack behind." + + "---- in the laboratory of the chemist matter easily passes + through all conditions, the solid, liquid, and gaseous, as if _in + a sort of phantasmagoria_; and his highest discoveries even now + are pointing to the conclusion, that the bodies which make up the + solid portion of our earth may, simply by the dissolution of + existing combinations, _be ultimately resolved into a permanently + gaseous form_."--Nichols' _Architecture of the Heavens_, p. 147. + +Had we no other presumption to lead us to Shakspeare's true meaning but +what is afforded by the expression, "into air--thin air," it ought, in +my opinion, to be amply sufficient; for no rational person can entertain +a doubt that Shakspeare intended the repetition, "thin air," to have +reference to the simile that was to follow. The globe itself shall +dissolve, and, like this vision, leave not a _rack_ behind! In what was +the resemblance to the vision to consist, if not in melting, like it, +into _thin_ air? into air unobscured by vapour, rarified from the +slightest admixture of rack or cloud. + +Shakespeare knew that atmospheric rack is not insubstantial; that it is +corporeal like the globe itself, of which it is a part; and that, so +long as a particle of it remained, dissolution could not be complete. + +And shall we reject this exquisite philosophy--this profundity of +thought--to substitute our own mean and common-place ideas? + + A. E. B. + + Leeds, July 22. + +P.S.--Apart from the philosophical beauty of this wonderful passage, +there are other aspects in which it may be studied with not less +interest. + +How true is the poetical image of the _rack_ as the last object of +dissipation! the expiring evidence of combustion! the lingering +cloudiness of solution! + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Pseudo MSS._--_The Devil, Cromwell and his Amours._--It is too bad! In +Vol. iii., p. 282., there is a good page and a half taken up with a +verbatim extract from Echard, which has either been alluded to or quoted +by every writer on Cromwell from Echard's time down to a few months ago, +when it appeared in _Chambers's Papers for the People_, No. 11. Again, +in Vol. iv., p. 19., there is another page and a half relating to +Cromwell, which, I fearlessly assert, I have seen frequently in print, +but cannot at present tell where; and more important avocations forbid +me to search. As if that was not enough, in Vol. iv., p. 50. there is +another half page respecting the preservation of these _precious MSS._! +Is it not too bad? Do, worthy Mr. Editor, make the _amende honorable_ by +publishing the true characters of the MSS. forwarded by S. H. H., which +you have so inadvertently published as original. + + W. PINKERTON. + + [Our correspondent seems to doubt that the communications to which + he refers were really printed from contemporary MSS. The Editor is + able to vouch for that having been certainly the fact. They are + not printed from transcripts from Echard, but from real MSS. of + the time of Charles II., or thereabouts; while the fact of these + early transcripts having been printed surely does not furnish any + argument against the valuable suggestion of S. H. H. as to the + preservation of similar documents for the use of the public, and + in the manner pointed out in his communication.--ED.] + +_Anonymous Ravennas_ (Vol. i., pp. 124. 220. 368.; Vol. iii., p. +462.).--Your correspondents have neglected to observe that this author's +Chorography of Britain was published by Gale, "ad calcem Antonini Iter +Britanniarum," viz., _Britanniae Chorographia cum Autographo Regis Galliae +Ms'o. et Codice Vaticano collata; Adjiciuntur conjecturae plurimae cum +nominibus locorum Anglicis, quotquot iis assignari potuerint_: Londini, +1709, 4to. + +A copy of the edition of _Anonymi Ravennatis Geographiae Libri Quinque_ +(of the last of which the Chorography of Britain forms a part) noticed +by J. I. (Vol. i., p. 220.) is now before me; as also a later edition, +published by the editor's son, Abram Gronovius: Lugduni Batavorum, 1722, +8vo. + +Horsley's _Britannia Romana_, book iii. chap. iv., contains "1. Some +account of this author and his work; 2. The Latin text of this +writer[2]; 3. Remarks upon many of the places mentioned by him, and more +particularly of such as seem to be the same with the stations per lineam +valli in the Notitia." His remarks are diametrically opposite to the +conjectures of Camden and Gale. + + [Footnote 2: The Chorography from Gale's edition.] + + T. J. + +_Margaret Maultasch_ (Vol. iv., p. 56.).--Your correspondent who +inquires where he can meet with the particulars of the life of Margaret, +surnamed _Maultasch_, Countess of Tyrol, will find them in the +Supplement of the _Biographie Universelle_, vol. lxxiii. p. 136. + +The great heiress in question, though a monster of ugliness, was twice +married: first to John Henry, son of Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia (1331), +from whom she procured a divorce on the plea of his incapacity; and, +secondly (1341), to Louis of Bavaria, eldest son of the Emperor Louis +IV., by whom she had a son, Mainard, who died without issue during his +mother's lifetime. + +I know not upon what authority rest the imputed irregularities of her +life, but her biographer, in the article above mentioned, casts no such +slur upon her character. Nor can I discover that the armorial bearings +of the town of Halle, in Tyrol, have any such significant meaning as has +been hinted at. They are to be found in Matthew Merian's _Topographia +Provinciarum Austriacarum_, printed at Frankfort on the Maine in 1649, +engraved on the view of Halle, at p. 139., and appear to be _a cask or +barrel, supported by two lions_. There is _no_ statue of Margaret +Maultasch among those which surround the mausoleum of Emperor +_Maximilian_ (not _Matthias_) in the Franciscan church at Inspruck; but +her ludicrously hideous features may be found amongst the historical +portraits engraved in the magnificent work descriptive of the Museum of +Versailles, published a few years ago at Paris, under the auspices of +King Louis Philippe. + + W. S. + + Denton, July 28. + +_Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace_ (Vol. i., p. 230.; Vol. +iv., p. 58.).--Is your correspondent C. correct in attributing _A true +Character of Mr. Pope and his Writings, in a Letter to a Friend_, +printed for Popping, 1716, to Oldmixon? In the Testimonies of Authors, +prefixed to the _Dunciad_, and the Appendix, and throughout the Notes, +Dennis is uniformly quoted and attacked as the author. Oldmixon's feud +with Pope was hardly, I think, so early. + +Assuming your correspondent's quotation from the pamphlet to be correct, +the terms made use of will surely refer to Pope's _Imitation of Horace_ +(S. ii. L. i.), a fragment of which was published by Curll about this +time (1716). It was afterwards republished in folio about 1734, printed +for J. Boreman, under the title of _Sober Advice from Horace to the +young Gentlemen about Town_, but in an enlarged state, and with some of +the initials altered, and several new adaptations. Mrs. Oldfield and +Lady Mary are not introduced in the first edition. I have both, but at +present can only refer to the second one in folio. From this the +_Imitation_ was transferred to the Supplement to Pope's Works, +published by Cooper: London, 1757, 12mo., and from thence to the +Supplementary Volumes to the later editions. The publication of it +formed an article of impeachment against Dr. Jos. Warton, by the author +of the _Pursuits of Literature_, as all who have read that satire will +well remember. + + JAS. CROSSLEY. + +_Brother Jonathan_ (Vol. iii., p. 495.).--The origin of this term, as +applied to the United States, is given in a recent number of the +_Norwich Courier_. The editor says it was communicated by a gentleman +now upwards of eighty years of age, who was an active participator in +the scenes of the revolution. The story is as follows: + + "When General Washington, after being appointed commander of the + army of the revolutionary war, came to Massachusetts to organize + it, and make preparations for the defence of the country, he found + a great want of ammunition and other means necessary to meet the + powerful foe he had to contend with, and great difficulty to + obtain them. If attacked in such condition, the cause at once + might be hopeless. On one occasion at that anxious period a + consultation of the officers and others was had, when it seemed no + way could be devised to make such preparations as were necessary. + His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull the elder was then governor of + the State of Connecticut, on whose judgment and aid the general + placed the greatest reliance, and remarked, 'We must consult + Brother Jonathan on the subject.' The general did so, and the + governor was successful in supplying many of the wants of the + army. When difficulties afterwards arose, and the army was spread + over the country, it became a by-word, 'We _must consult_ Brother + Jonathan.' The term Yankee is still applied to a portion, but + 'Brother Jonathan' has now become a designation of the whole + country, as John Bull has for England."--_Dictionary of + Americanisms_, by John Russell Bartlett, 1849. + + H. J. + +_Cromwell's Grants of Land in Monaghan_ (Vol. iv., p. 87.).--E. A. asks +whether there are any grants of land in the county of Monaghan recorded +as made by Cromwell, and where such records are preserved? I fear I can +give but a negative answer to the question: but among the stores of the +State Paper Office are many books of orders, letters, &c. during the +Commonwealth. Among them are two bundles dated in 1653, which relate to +the lands granted by lot, to the adventurers who had advanced money for +the army, in the different provinces of Ireland. Monaghan is not +mentioned. + + SPEC. + +_Stanedge Pole_ (Vol. iii., p. 391.).--In answer to your correspondent +A. N., I beg to state that Stanedge Pole is between six and seven miles +from Sheffield, on the boundary line between Yorkshire and Derbyshire, +on a long causeway which was in former times the road from Yorkshire to +Manchester. Its only antiquity consists in having been for centuries one +of the meers marking the boundaries of Hallamshire. In Harrison's +_Survey of the Manor of Sheffield_, 1637, appears an account of the +boundaries as viewed and seen the 6th of August, 1574, from which the +following is an extract:-- + + "Item. From the said Hurkling Edge so forward after the Rock to + Stannedge, which is a meer between the said Lordshipps (of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge). + + "Item. From Stannedge after the same rock to a place called the + Broad Rake, which is also a meer between the said Lordshipps of + Hallamshire and Hathersedge." + +The situation is a very fine one, commanding a very beautiful and +extensive view of the surrounding country.[3] + + [Footnote 3: Its elevation is, according to the Ordnance Survey, + 1463 feet.] + + H. J. + + Stanedge. + +_Baskerville the Printer_ (Vol. iv., p. 40.).--Baskerville was interred +in the grounds attached to the house in which he lived, near Easy Row, +Birmingham. The land becoming valuable for building purposes, he was, +after lying there about half a century, disinterred and removed to the +workshop of a lead merchant, named Marston, in Monmouth Street, +Birmingham. While there I saw his remains. They were in a wooden coffin, +which was enclosed in one of lead. How long they had been above ground I +do not know, but certainly not long. This, as far as I can recollect, is +about twenty-five years since. The person who showed me the body, and +who was either one of the Marstons or a manager of the business, told me +he had seen the coffins opened, and that the features were then perfect. +When exhibited to me the nose and lips were gone, as were also two front +teeth, which had been torn from the mouth surreptitiously and taken +away. I understood that it was known who had them, and that they would +be restored. The shroud was discoloured, I presume from natural causes, +being of a dirty yellow colour, as though it had been drawn through a +clay pit. The texture and strength of the cloth remained unaffected. +Baskerville entertained peculiar opinions on religious subjects. There +was a rumour of some efforts having been made to deposit his remains in +one of the church burial grounds, but they were not successful. A year +or two ago, while in Birmingham, a snuff-box was shown me, on the lid of +which a portrait of Baskerville was painted, which fully agreed with a +description of his person given me many years previously by one who had +known him. This portrait had not, from its appearance, been painted very +long. From its being there I infer that there is in existence at least +one original portrait of this eminent printer. + + ST. JOHNS. + +_Inscription on a Claymore_ (Vol. iv., p. 59.).--Is your correspondent +"T. M. W., Liverpool," who inquires the translation of an "inscription +on a claymore," certain that his quotation is correct? To me it appears +that it should run thus: + + [x] GOTT BEWAR DE + [x] _G_ERECHTE SCHOTTEN. + +or, "God preserve the righteous (or just) Scots;" referring, no doubt, +to the undertaking in which they were then engaged. + +I believe that formerly, and probably at the present time, many of the +finest sword blades were made abroad, and sent to England to be mounted, +or even entirely finished on the Continent. I have in my possession a +heavy trooper's sword, bearing the name of a celebrated German maker, +although the ornaments and devices are unquestionably English. Another +way of accounting for the inscription is, that it belonged to some of +those foreign adventurers who are known to have joined Charles Edward. + + W. SHIRLEY. + +_Burton Family_ (Vol. iv., p. 22.).--In Hunter's _History of +Hallamshire_, p. 236., is a pedigree of Burton of Royds Mill, near +Sheffield, in which are the following remarks:-- + + "Richard Burton of Tutbury, Staffordshire, died May 9th, 8 Henry + V. Married Maud, sister of Robert Gibson of Tutbury; and had a + son, Sir William Burton of Falde and Tutbury, Knight; slain at + Towtonfield, 1461, from whom descended the Burtons of Lindley." + + "Thomas Burton of Fanshawgate, who died in 1643, left three sons; + Michael, Thomas, and Francis. Michael was of Mosborough, and had a + numerous issue; the names of his children appear on his monumental + brass in the chancel of the church at Eckington. Thomas, the + second son, was of London and Putney, married, and had issue. + Francis, the youngest, was lord of the Manor of Dronfield, and + served the office of High Sheriff of Derby in 1669. Was buried at + Dronfield in 1687." + +I find no account of any Roger Burton; but if your correspondent E. H. +A. is not in possession of the above pedigree, and should wish for a +copy, I shall be glad to send him it. + + JOHN ALGOR. + + Eldon Street, Sheffield. + +_Notation by Coalwhippers_ (Vol. iv., p. 21.).--The notation used by +coalwhippers, &c., mentioned by I. J. C., is, after all, I expect, but a +part of a system which was probably the origin of the Roman notation. +The first four strokes or units were cut diagonally by the fifth, and +taking the first and last of these strokes we readily obtain V, or the +Roman five; but as the natural systems of arithmetic are decimal, from +the number of fingers, it is most probable that the _tens_ were thus +marked off, or by a stroke drawn across the last unit thus X, whence we +obtain the Roman ten: these tens were repeated up to a hundred, or the +second class of tens, which were probably connected by two parallel +lines top and bottom [C], which would be the sign of the second class of +tens, or hundreds; this became afterwards rounded into C: the third +class of tens, or thousands, was represented by four strokes M, and +these symbols served by abbreviation for some intermediate numbers; thus +X divided became V, or 5, the half of 10; then L, half of [C], +represented 50, half of 100; and M becoming rounded thus (M) was +frequently expressed in this manner CI*C; and this became abbreviated +into D, 500, half of CI*C; or 1000: and thus, by variously combining +these six symbols (though all derived from the one straight stroke), +numbers to a very high amount could be expressed. + + THOS. LAWRENCE. + + Ashby de la Zouch. + +_Statue of Charles II._ (Vol. iv., p. 40.).--The following passage is +from Hughson's _History of London_, vol. ii. p. 521.: + + "Among the adherents and sufferers in the cause of Charles II. was + Sir Robert Viner, alderman of London. After the Restoration the + worthy alderman, willing to show his loyalty and prudence, raised + in this place [_i. e._ the Stock's Market] the statue above + mentioned. The figure had been carved originally for John + Sobieski, king of Poland, but by some accident was left upon the + workman's hands. Finding the work ready carved to his hands, Sir + Robert thought that, with some alteration, what was intended for a + king of Poland might suit the monarch of Great Britain; he + therefore converted the Polander into an Englishman, and the Turk + underneath his horse into Oliver Cromwell; the turban on the last + figure being an undeniable proof of the truth attached to the + story. The compliment was so ridiculous and absurd, that no one + who beheld it could avoid reflecting on the taste of those who had + set it up; but as its history developed the farce improved, and + what was before esteemed contemptible, proved in the end + entertaining. The poor mutilated figure stood neglected some years + since among the rubbish in the purlieus of Guildhall; and in 1779, + it was bestowed by the common council on Robert Viner, Esq., who + removed it to grace his country seat." + +The earliest engraving of "the King at the Stock's Market" may be seen +in Thomas Delaune's _Present State of London_, 12mo. 1681. + + EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + +_Serius, where situated?_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--The Serius, now Serio, +rises in the chain of mountains in the south of the Valteline, between +the lakes Como and Ixo: it flows through a valley called the Val Seria, +passes near Bergamo and Cremona, and falls into the Adda a little before +that river joins the Po. + + J. M. (4) + +_Corpse passing makes a Right of Way_ (Vol. iii., pp. 477. 507. +519.).--Some time ago, I buried in our churchyard a person from an +adjoining parish; but, instead of taking a pathway which led directly +from the house of the deceased to the church, they kept to the +high-road,--so going four miles instead of one. When I asked the +reason, I was told that the pathway was not a _lich-road_, and therefore +it was not lawful to bring a corpse along it. + + J. M. (4) + +_The Petworth Register_ (Vol. iii., p. 510.; Vol. iv., p. 27.).--Your +correspondents LLEWELLYN and J. S. B. do not appear to be acquainted +with Heylyn's quotations from the book thus designated. In one place (p. +63., folio; vol. i. p. 132., 8vo.) he refers to it for a statement-- + + "That many at this time [A.D. 1548] affirmed the most blessed + Sacrament of the altar to be of little regard," &c. + +And in another place (p. 65., folio; vol. i. p. 136., 8vo.), he gives an +extract relating to Day, Bishop of Chichester:-- + + "Sed Ricardus Cicestrensis, (ut ipse mihi dixit) non subscripsit." + +Hence the _Register_ would seem to have been a sort of chronicle, kept +by the rector of Petworth; and it does not appear whether it was or was +not in the same volume with the register of births, marriages, and +deaths. In the latter case, it may possibly be still in the Petworth +parish chest; for the returns to which your correspondents refer, would +probably not have mentioned any other registers than those of which the +law takes cognizance. On the other hand, if the chronicle was attached +to the register of births, &c., it may have shared the too common fate +of early registers; for, when an order of 1597 directed the clergy to +transcribe on parchment the entries made in the proper registers since +the beginning of Elizabeth's reign, they seem to have generally +interpreted it as a permission to make away with the older registers, +although there _are_ cases in which the proper books are still +preserved. (I am myself acquainted with two in this neighbourhood; and +J. S. B., if I am right in identifying him with the author of the very +curious and valuable _History of Parish Registers_, can no doubt mention +many others.) But how did Heylyn, who collected most of his materials +about 1638, get hold of the book? + + J. C. ROBERTSON. + + Bekesbourne. + +_Holland's "Monumenta Sepulchralia Ecclesiae S. Pauli"_ (Vol. ii., p. +265.; Vol. iii., p. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 62.).--Sir Egerton Brydges, in +his _Censura Literaria_, vol. i. p. 305., attributes this work to +_Henry_ Holland. In his notice of _Heroologia Anglica_, he says: + + "The author was Henry Holland, son of Philemon Holland, a + physician and schoolmaster at Coventry, and the well-known + translator of Camden, &c. Henry was born at Coventry, and + travelled with John, Lord Harrington, into the Palatinate in 1613, + and collected and wrote (besides the _Heroologia_) _Monumenta + Sepulchralia Ecclesiae S. Pauli, Lond._, 4to.; and engraved and + published _A Book of Kings, being a true and lively effigies of + all our English Kings from the Conquest till this present_, &c., + 1618. He was not educated either in Oxford or Cambridge; having + been a member of the society of Stationers in London. I think it + is most probable that he was brother to Abraham Holland, who + subscribes his name as 'Abr. Holland alumnus S. S. Trin. Coll. + Cantabr.' to some copies of Latin verses on the death of John, + second Lord Harrington, of Exton, in the _Heroologia_; which + Abraham was the author of a poem called _Naumachia, or Holland's + Sea-Fight_, Lond. 1622, and died Feb. 18, 1625, when his + _Posthuma_ were edited by 'his brother H. Holland.' At this time, + however, there were other writers of the name of Hen. + Holland.--(See Wood's _Athenae_, i. 499.)" + + J. Y. + + Hoxton. + +_Mistake as to an Eclipse_ (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--From your +correspondent's mention of it, I should have supposed Casaubon meant +that the astronomers had been mistaken in the _calculation_ of an +eclipse. But the matter is of another kind. In the _lunar_ eclipse of +April 3, 1605, two _observers_, Wendelinus and Lansberg, in different +longitudes, made the eclipse end at times far more different than their +difference of longitudes would explain. The ending of a lunar eclipse, +observed with the unassisted eye, is a very indefinite phenomenon. + +The allusion to this, made by Meric Casaubon, is only what the French +call a _plat de son metier_. He was an upholder of the ancients in +philosophy, and his bias would be to depreciate modern successes, and +magnify modern failures. When he talks of the astronomer being "deceived +in the hour," he probably uses the word _hour_ for _time_, as done in +French and old English. + + M. + +"_A Posie of other Men's Flowers_" (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--D. Q. is +referred to Montaigne, who is the author of the passage; but not having +access to his works, I am not able to give a paginal reference. + + H. T. E. + + Clyst St. George. + +_Davies' History of Magnetical Discovery_ (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--The +_History, &c._, by T. S. Davies, is in the _British Annual_ for 1837, +published by Bailliere. + + M. + +_Marriage of Bishops_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--A. B. C. will find his +questions fully answered in Henry Wharton's tract, entitled _A Treatise +of the Celibacy of the Clergy, wherein its Rise and Progress are +historically considered_, 1688, 4to. pp. 168. There is also another +treatise on the same subject, entitled _An Answer to a Discourse +concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy_, by E. Tully, 1687, in reply to +Abraham Woodhead. + + E. C. HARRINGTON. + + The Close, Exeter, July 28. 1851. + +"_The Right divine of Kings to govern wrong_" (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--The +same idea as that conveyed in this line is frequently expressed, though +not in precisely the same words, in Defoe's _Jure Divino_, a poem which +contains many vigorous and spirited passages; but I do not believe that +Pope gave the line as a quotation at all, or that it is other, as far as +he is concerned, than original. The inverted commas merely denote that +this line is the termination of the goddess's speech. The punctuation is +not very correct in any of the editions of the _Dunciad_; and sometimes +inverted commas occur at the end of the last line of a speech, and +sometimes both at the beginning and end of the line. + + JAMES CROSSLEY. + +_Equestrian Statues_ (Vol. iii., p. 494.).--In reply to F. M.'s Query +respecting the Duke of Wellington's statue being the only equestrian one +erected to a subject in her Majesty's dominions, I may mention that +there is one erected in Cavendish Square to William Duke of Cumberland, +who, though of the blood royal, was yet a subject. + + D. 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Fleet Street. + + +CUTTINGS FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES. + + VERY interesting COLLECTIONS of OLD NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE + CUTTINGS, curious EXHIBITION and PLAY BILLS, VIEWS, and PORTRAITS: + relating to all the ENGLISH COUNTIES and LONDON PARISHES, to + REMARKABLE EVENTS, and to CELEBRATED and EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, + may be had at moderate prices on application to + + MR. FENNELL, 1. Warwick Court, Gray's Inn. + + N. B. All the articles are carefully dated, and many of the + Cuttings are from Newspapers above a century old, and of great + rarity. + + +Now ready, Price 25_s._, Second Edition, revised and corrected. +Dedicated by Special Permission to + + THE (LATE) ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. + + PSALMS AND HYMNS FOR THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH. The words selected + by the Very Rev. H. H. MILMAN, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's. The Music + arranged for Four Voices, but applicable also to Two or One, + including Chants for the Services, Responses to the Commandments, + and a Concise SYSTEM OF CHANTING, by J. B. SALE, Musical + Instructor and Organist to Her Majesty. 4to., neat, in morocco + cloth, price 25_s._ To be had of Mr. J. B. SALE, 21. Holywell + Street, Millbank, Westminster, on the receipt of a Post Office + Order for that amount; and, by order, of the principal Booksellers + and Music Warehouses. + + "A great advance on the works we have hitherto had, connected with + our Church and Cathedral Service."--_Times._ + + "A collection of Psalm Tunes certainly unequalled in this + country."--_Literary Gazette._ + + "One of the best collections of tunes which we have yet seen. Well + merits the distinguished patronage under which it + appears."--_Musical World._ + + "A collection of Psalms and Hymns, together with a system of + Chanting of a very superior character to any which has hitherto + appeared."--_John Bull._ + + Also, lately published, + + J. B. SALE'S SANCTUS, COMMANDMENTS and CHANTS as performed at the + Chapel Royal St. James, price 2_s._ + + C. LONSDALE, 26. Old Bond Street. + + +8vo., price 1_s._ 6_d._ + + THE TIPPETS OF THE CANONS ECCLESIASTICAL, with Illustrative + Woodcuts. By GILBERT J. FRENCH. + + Also, by the same Author, Second Edition, 18mo., price 6_d_. + + HINTS ON THE ARRANGEMENT OF COLOURS IN ANCIENT DECORATIVE ART, + with some Observations on the Theory of Complementary Colours. + + London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street. + + +Just published, fcp. 8vo., cloth, with Steel engraving, price 4_s._ +6_d._ + + THE FAIRY GODMOTHERS and other Tales. + + By Mrs. ALFRED GATTY. + + "Her love for Fairy literature has led Mrs. Alfred Gatty to + compose four pretty little moral stories, in which the fairies are + gracefully enough used as machinery. They are slight, but well + written, and the book is altogether very nicely put out of + hand."--_Guardian._ + + London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street. + + +Now ready, Third Series, also New Editions of the First and Second +Series, price 7_s._ 6_d._ each. + + PLAIN SERMONS, addressed to a Country Congregation. By the late + Rev. EDWARD BLENCOWE, Curate of Teversal, and formerly Fellow of + Oriel College, Oxford. + + "Their style is simple, the sentences are not artfully + constructed, and there is an utter absence of all attempt at + rhetoric. The language is plain Saxon language, from which 'the + men on the wall' can easily gather what it most concerns them to + know." + + "Again, the range of thought is not high and difficult, but level, + and easy for the wayfaring man to follow. It is quite evident that + the author's mind was able and cultivated, yet, as a teacher to + men of low estate, he makes no display of eloquence or + argument."--_Theologian._ + + "Plain, short, and affectionate discourses."--_English Review._ + + GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street. + + + + +Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New +Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride in the City of London; and +published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. +Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet +Street aforesaid.--Saturday, August 16. 1851. + + + + + [List of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries", Vol. I-IV] + + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. I. | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 1 | November 3, 1849 | 1 - 17 | PG # 8603 | + | Vol. I No. 2 | November 10, 1849 | 18 - 32 | PG # 11265 | + | Vol. I No. 3 | November 17, 1849 | 33 - 46 | PG # 11577 | + | Vol. I No. 4 | November 24, 1849 | 49 - 63 | PG # 13513 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 5 | December 1, 1849 | 65 - 80 | PG # 11636 | + | Vol. I No. 6 | December 8, 1849 | 81 - 95 | PG # 13550 | + | Vol. I No. 7 | December 15, 1849 | 97 - 112 | PG # 11651 | + | Vol. I No. 8 | December 22, 1849 | 113 - 128 | PG # 11652 | + | Vol. I No. 9 | December 29, 1849 | 130 - 144 | PG # 13521 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 10 | January 5, 1850 | 145 - 160 | PG # | + | Vol. I No. 11 | January 12, 1850 | 161 - 176 | PG # 11653 | + | Vol. I No. 12 | January 19, 1850 | 177 - 192 | PG # 11575 | + | Vol. I No. 13 | January 26, 1850 | 193 - 208 | PG # 11707 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 14 | February 2, 1850 | 209 - 224 | PG # 13558 | + | Vol. I No. 15 | February 9, 1850 | 225 - 238 | PG # 11929 | + | Vol. I No. 16 | February 16, 1850 | 241 - 256 | PG # 16193 | + | Vol. I No. 17 | February 23, 1850 | 257 - 271 | PG # 12018 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 18 | March 2, 1850 | 273 - 288 | PG # 13544 | + | Vol. I No. 19 | March 9, 1850 | 289 - 309 | PG # 13638 | + | Vol. I No. 20 | March 16, 1850 | 313 - 328 | PG # 16409 | + | Vol. I No. 21 | March 23, 1850 | 329 - 343 | PG # 11958 | + | Vol. I No. 22 | March 30, 1850 | 345 - 359 | PG # 12198 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 23 | April 6, 1850 | 361 - 376 | PG # 12505 | + | Vol. I No. 24 | April 13, 1850 | 377 - 392 | PG # 13925 | + | Vol. I No. 25 | April 20, 1850 | 393 - 408 | PG # 13747 | + | Vol. I No. 26 | April 27, 1850 | 409 - 423 | PG # 13822 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Vol. I No. 27 | May 4, 1850 | 425 - 447 | PG # 13712 | + | Vol. I No. 28 | May 11, 1850 | 449 - 463 | PG # 13684 | + | Vol. I No. 29 | May 18, 1850 | 465 - 479 | PG # 15197 | + | Vol. I No. 30 | May 25, 1850 | 481 - 495 | PG # 13713 | + +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. II. | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 31 | June 1, 1850 | 1- 15 | PG # 12589 | + | Vol. II No. 32 | June 8, 1850 | 17- 32 | PG # 15996 | + | Vol. II No. 33 | June 15, 1850 | 33- 48 | PG # 26121 | + | Vol. II No. 34 | June 22, 1850 | 49- 64 | PG # 22127 | + | Vol. II No. 35 | June 29, 1850 | 65- 79 | PG # 22126 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 36 | July 6, 1850 | 81- 96 | PG # 13361 | + | Vol. II No. 37 | July 13, 1850 | 97-112 | PG # 13729 | + | Vol. II No. 38 | July 20, 1850 | 113-128 | PG # 13362 | + | Vol. II No. 39 | July 27, 1850 | 129-143 | PG # 13736 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 40 | August 3, 1850 | 145-159 | PG # 13389 | + | Vol. II No. 41 | August 10, 1850 | 161-176 | PG # 13393 | + | Vol. II No. 42 | August 17, 1850 | 177-191 | PG # 13411 | + | Vol. II No. 43 | August 24, 1850 | 193-207 | PG # 13406 | + | Vol. II No. 44 | August 31, 1850 | 209-223 | PG # 13426 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 45 | September 7, 1850 | 225-240 | PG # 13427 | + | Vol. II No. 46 | September 14, 1850 | 241-256 | PG # 13462 | + | Vol. II No. 47 | September 21, 1850 | 257-272 | PG # 13936 | + | Vol. II No. 48 | September 28, 1850 | 273-288 | PG # 13463 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 49 | October 5, 1850 | 289-304 | PG # 13480 | + | Vol. II No. 50 | October 12, 1850 | 305-320 | PG # 13551 | + | Vol. II No. 51 | October 19, 1850 | 321-351 | PG # 15232 | + | Vol. II No. 52 | October 26, 1850 | 353-367 | PG # 22624 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 53 | November 2, 1850 | 369-383 | PG # 13540 | + | Vol. II No. 54 | November 9, 1850 | 385-399 | PG # 22138 | + | Vol. II No. 55 | November 16, 1850 | 401-415 | PG # 15216 | + | Vol. II No. 56 | November 23, 1850 | 417-431 | PG # 15354 | + | Vol. II No. 57 | November 30, 1850 | 433-454 | PG # 15405 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. II No. 58 | December 7, 1850 | 457-470 | PG # 21503 | + | Vol. II No. 59 | December 14, 1850 | 473-486 | PG # 15427 | + | Vol. II No. 60 | December 21, 1850 | 489-502 | PG # 24803 | + | Vol. II No. 61 | December 28, 1850 | 505-524 | PG # 16404 | + +----------------+--------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. III. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 62 | January 4, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 15638 | + | Vol. III No. 63 | January 11, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 15639 | + | Vol. III No. 64 | January 18, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 15640 | + | Vol. III No. 65 | January 25, 1851 | 49- 78 | PG # 15641 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 66 | February 1, 1851 | 81- 95 | PG # 22339 | + | Vol. III No. 67 | February 8, 1851 | 97-111 | PG # 22625 | + | Vol. III No. 68 | February 15, 1851 | 113-127 | PG # 22639 | + | Vol. III No. 69 | February 22, 1851 | 129-159 | PG # 23027 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 70 | March 1, 1851 | 161-174 | PG # 23204 | + | Vol. III No. 71 | March 8, 1851 | 177-200 | PG # 23205 | + | Vol. III No. 72 | March 15, 1851 | 201-215 | PG # 23212 | + | Vol. III No. 73 | March 22, 1851 | 217-231 | PG # 23225 | + | Vol. III No. 74 | March 29, 1851 | 233-255 | PG # 23282 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 75 | April 5, 1851 | 257-271 | PG # 23402 | + | Vol. III No. 76 | April 12, 1851 | 273-294 | PG # 26896 | + | Vol. III No. 77 | April 19, 1851 | 297-311 | PG # 26897 | + | Vol. III No. 78 | April 26, 1851 | 313-342 | PG # 26898 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 79 | May 3, 1851 | 345-359 | PG # 26899 | + | Vol. III No. 80 | May 10, 1851 | 361-382 | PG # 32495 | + | Vol. III No. 81 | May 17, 1851 | 385-399 | PG # 29318 | + | Vol. III No. 82 | May 24, 1851 | 401-415 | PG # 28311 | + | Vol. III No. 83 | May 31, 1851 | 417-440 | PG # 36835 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. III No. 84 | June 7, 1851 | 441-472 | PG # 37379 | + | Vol. III No. 85 | June 14, 1851 | 473-488 | PG # 37403 | + | Vol. III No. 86 | June 21, 1851 | 489-511 | PG # 37496 | + | Vol. III No. 87 | June 28, 1851 | 513-528 | PG # 37516 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Notes and Queries Vol. IV. | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol., No. | Date, Year | Pages | PG # xxxxx | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 88 | July 5, 1851 | 1- 15 | PG # 37548 | + | Vol. IV No. 89 | July 12, 1851 | 17- 31 | PG # 37568 | + | Vol. IV No. 90 | July 19, 1851 | 33- 47 | PG # 37593 | + | Vol. IV No. 91 | July 26, 1851 | 49- 79 | PG # 37778 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol. IV No. 92 | August 2, 1851 | 81- 94 | PG # 38324 | + | Vol. IV No. 93 | August 9, 1851 | 97-112 | PG # 38337 | + +-----------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+ + | Vol I. Index. [Nov. 1849-May 1850] | PG # 13536 | + | INDEX TO THE SECOND VOLUME. MAY-DEC., 1850 | PG # 13571 | + | INDEX TO THE THIRD VOLUME. 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