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A list of volumes and pages\nin \"Notes and Queries\" has been added at the end.]\n\n\n\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION\n\nFOR\n\nLITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\nVOL. V.--No. 123. SATURDAY, MARCH 6. 1852.\n\nPrice Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n                                                                Page\n\n\n      NOTES:--\n\n      South Sea Playing Cards, by John Sudlow                    217\n\n      Birthplace of the Empress Josephine, by Henry H. Breen     220\n\n      Notes on Homer, No. III., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie       221\n\n      Folk Lore:--Ancient Custom on Interment--Pure\n      Rain Water--Cure for Hooping Cough                         223\n\n      Sainted Kings Incorruptible                                223\n\n      Minor Notes:--Rev. A. Butler--Birthplace of Bishop\n      Hoadley--Humboldt's \"Cosmos,\" and Nares' \"Attempt\"--Gough,\n      the Irish Portion of his Camden:\n      Ledwich--Chronogram--Junius and the Quarterly\n      Review again                                               224\n\n      QUERIES:--\n\n      Seven Queries                                              225\n\n      Plague Stones                                              226\n\n      Minor Queries:--The Cross on Counsels' Briefs--Sir\n      James Hayes, of Bedgebury, Kent--Authorship of the\n      Song \"Oh Nanny,\" &c.--Hexameter Poem on English\n      Counties--Wild Oats, Origin of the Phrase--The Dr. Richard\n      Mortons--General Lambert--Cross-legged Effigies and Collars\n      of SS.--The Crooked Billet--Collins the Poet, and his Ode\n      on the Music of the Grecian Theatre--Bishop Kidder's\n      Autobiography--Shrine of Edward the Confessor--\"Wise\n      above that which is written\"--\"Hoffman,\" a Tragedy by\n      Chettle--Inverted Commas--Quotations Wanted--Deacons,\n      a Phrase used by Foxe--The Count de Vordac                 226\n\n      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Hoare's Charity--Dr.\n      Sacheverell's \"Sermon at Derby\"--Lucas Lossius--The\n      \"Athenian Oracle\"                                          229\n\n      REPLIES:--\n\n      French Revolutions foretold                                231\n\n      Grimesdyke                                                 231\n\n      Poet referred to by Bacon, by S. W. Singer                 232\n\n      Johnson's House, Bolt Court                                232\n\n      Cooper's Miniature of Cromwell, by Major-General\n      Fox                                                        234\n\n      The Queen of the Isle of Man                               234\n\n      Replies to Minor Queries:--Old Scots March--Elizabeth,\n      Equestrian Figure of--Meaning of Stickle--Latin\n      Names of Towns--Llandudno, on the Great Orme's\n      Head--Brozier--Passage in Troilus and Cressida--Nelson\n      Family--Maps of Africa--Muggleton--Passage in\n      Hamlet--Theoloneum--Donkey--Sir Samuel Garth--Princes\n      of Wales and Earls of Chester, &c.: Mr. Bush's\n      Collection--Litera scripta manet                           235\n\n      MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n      Notes on Books, &c.                                        237\n\n      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               238\n\n      Notices to Correspondents                                  238\n\n      Advertisements                                             239\n\n\n\n\nNotes.\n\n\nSOUTH SEA PLAYING CARDS.\n\nIt is pretty generally known that, during the South Sea mania, a pack of\nplaying cards was published in illustration of the prevailing folly.\nEach card contained a caricature of one of the numerous bubble\ncompanies, with a pertinent verse underneath. These cards are now\nextremely rare. I never saw a complete set, nor do I know where one is\nto be found. Some time ago a friend kindly furnished me with a copy of\nall the verses (except one), and as I am not aware that they have been\nprinted separately, I beg to forward a transcript for preservation in\n\"N. & Q.;\" not because I think they have any excellence to recommend\nthem, but because it is desirable that so curious a record of a very\nextraordinary time should not be entirely lost.\n\nPerhaps some of your correspondents can supply the missing verse:--\n\nSPADES.\n\n      Ace. _River Douglas._\n\n      \"Since bubbles came in vogue, new arts are found\n      To cut thro' rocks, and level rising ground;\n      That murmuring waters may be made more deep,\n      To drown the knaves and lull the fools asleep.\"\n\n      Two. _Grand Fishery._\n\n      \"Well might this bubble claim the style of grand,\n      Whilst they that raised the same could fish by land;\n      But now the town does at the project pish,\n      They've nothing else to cry but stinking fish.\"\n\n      Three. _Cleaning the Streets._\n\n      \"A cleanly project, well approved no doubt,\n      By strolling dames, and all that walk on foot.\n      This bubble well deserves the name of best,\n      Because the cleanest bite of all the rest.\"\n\n      Four. _Fish Pool._\n\n      \"How famous is the man that could contrive,\n      To serve this gluttonous town with fish alive.\n      But now we're bubbled by his fishing pools,\n      And as the men catch fish, the fish catch fools.\"\n\n      Five. _York Buildings Water Company._\n\n      \"You that are blest with wealth by your Creator,\n      And want to drown your money in Thames water,\n      Buy but York buildings, and the cistern there\n      Will sink more pence than any fool can spare.\"\n\n      Six. _Insurance on Lives._\n\n      \"Come all ye gen'rous husbands with your wives\n      Insure round sums on your precarious lives,\n      That to your comfort, when you're dead and rotten,\n      Your widows may be rich when you're forgotten.\"\n\n      Seven. _Stockings Company._\n\n      \"You that delight to keep your sweaty feet,\n      By often changing stockings, clean and neat,\n      Deal not in stocking shares, because I doubt\n      Those that buy most 'ere long will go without.\"\n\n      Eight. _Puckles Machine_ (Bullets round and square).\n\n      \"A rare invention to destroy the crowd\n      Of fools at home, instead of foes abroad.\n      Fear not, my friends, this terrible machine,\n      They're only wounded that have shares therein.\"\n\n      Nine. _Welsh Copper._\n\n      \"This bubble for a time may current pass,\n      Copper's the title, but 'twill end in brass;\n      Knaves cry it up, fools buy, but when it fails,\n      The losing crowd will cry 'lots splutter a'nails.'\"\n\n      Ten. _Providing for and employing all the Poor of\n      Great Britain._\n\n      \"The poor when managed and employ'd in trade,\n      Are to the public welfare useful made.\n      But if kept idle, from their vices spring\n      W----s for the stews, and soldiers for the king.\"\n\n      Knave. _Raddish Oil._\n\n      \"Our oily project with the gaping town,\n      Will surely for a time go smoothly down.\n      We sow and press to carry on the cheat:\n      To bite Change Alley is not fraud, but wit.\"\n\n      Queen. _For erecting Hospitals for taking in and maintaining\n      Illegitimate Children._\n\n      \"Love on, ye jolly rakes and buxom dames,\n      A child is safer than venereal flames;\n      Indulge your senses with the sweet offence,\n      We'll keep your bastards at a small expence.\"\n\n      King. _An inoffensive Way of emptying Houses of Office._\n\n      \"Our fragrant bubble, would the world believe it,\n      Is to make human dung smell sweet as civet;\n      None sure before us ever durst presume\n      To turn a ... into a rich perfume.\"\n\nCLUBS.\n\n      Ace. _Lute-string Co._\n\n      \"These crafty managers have play'd for years\n      The world as many tricks as dancing bears,\n      By bubbling too they broke their ancient rules;\n      They first made lute-strings, but they now make fools.\"\n\n      Two. _Paste board Manufacturing Co._\n\n      \"As empty sayings flow from windy fools,\n      So pasteboard bubbles rise from paper skulls.\n      Madness must surely be the town's disease\n      When knaves get money by such whims as these.\"\n\n      Three. _Trade to Harborough._\n\n      \"You that delight to take up foreign linen,\n      At Harbro' made, a little town near Bremen,\n      Encourage trade abroad for time to come,\n      And, like kind fools, neglect your own at home.\"\n\n      Four. _Saltpetre._\n\n      \"Come all ye black infernal powder makers,\n      And Rocketeers that deal in squibs and crackers,\n      Buy petre stock, let me be your adviser,\n      'Twill make you (tho' not richer) much the wiser.\"\n\n      Five. _For Bleaching Coarse Sugars._\n\n      \"Fair tattling gossips, you that love to see\n      Fine sugar blended with expensive tea,\n      Since you delight in things both dear and sweet,\n      Buy sugar shares, and you'll be sweetly bit.\"\n\n      Six. _Fatting of Hogs._\n\n      \"Come all ye bacon making, greasy rogues\n      That want good names for your meagre hogs,\n      Send them to us, and at a small expence,\n      We'll fat 'em up with offal, blood, and grains.\"\n\n      Seven. _Rose Insurance from Fire._\n\n      \"Projecting sure must be a gainful trade,\n      Since all the elements are bubbles made;\n      They're right that gull us with the dread of fire,\n      For fear makes greater fools than fond desire.\"\n\n      Eight. _Buying Seamen's Tickets._\n\n      \"As the case stands, the Wapping wives all buy\n      The seamen's tickets for a small supply;\n      But 'tis no matter whether spendthrift slaves\n      Are choused by Wapping w----s, or bubbling knaves.\"\n\n      Nine. _Liverpool Fresh Water._\n\n      \"This town does to our Western Islands deal,\n      And serves 'em with malt liquors, and with meal,\n      Both excellently good! then how in nature\n      Can people brew fine drink, yet want fresh water.\"\n\n      Ten. _Bleaching of Hair Company._\n\n      \"Here dirty brown, dark red, and yellow hair,\n      Are bleach'd to colours that are fine and fair,\n      Then blended,--so that half the w----s in town\n      Contribute to adorn one addled crown.\"\n\n      Knave. _Freeholders Company._\n\n      \"Come all ye spendthrift prodigals that hold\n      Free land, and want to turn the same to gold,\n      We'll buy your all, provided you agree\n      To drown your purchase-money in South Sea.\"\n\n      Queen. _Lending Money on Bottomry._\n\n      \"Some lend their money for the sake of more,\n      And others borrow to increase their store;--\n      Both these do oft engage in Bottomree,\n      But curse sometimes the bottom of the sea.\"\n\n      King. _Irish Sail Cloth._\n\n      \"If good St. Patrick's friends should raise a stock,\n      And make in Irish looms true hollands duck,\n      Then shall this noble project, by my soul,\n      No longer be a bubble but a bull.\"\n\nHEARTS.\n\n      Ace. _Hemp and Flax._\n\n      \"Here hemp is served for stubborn rogues to die in,\n      And softer flax for tender skins to lie in,\n      But should the useful project be defeated,\n      The knaves will prosper, and the fools be cheated.\"\n\n      Two. _Manuring of Land._\n\n      \"A noble undertaking, but abused,\n      And only as a tricky bubble used;--\n      Much they pretend to, but the public fear,\n      They'll never make corn cheap, or horse-dung dear!\"\n\n      Three. _Coal Trade from Newcastle._\n\n      \"Some deal in water, some in wind like fools,\n      Others in wood, but we alone in coals;\n      From such like projects a declining nation\n      May justly fear a fatal inflammation.\"\n\n      Four. _Water Engine._\n\n      \"Come all ye culls, my water engine buy\n      To pump your flooded mines and coal-pits dry:\n      Some projects are all wind, but ours is water,\n      And tho' at present low, may rise herea'ter.\"\n\n      Five. _Royal Fishery of Great Britain._\n\n      \"They talk of distant seas, of ships and nets,\n      And with the style of Royal, gild their baits;\n      When all that the projectors hope or wish for\n      Is to catch fools, the only chubs they fish for.\"\n\n      Six. _Erecting Houses of Office in Britain for Strangers\n      and Travellers._\n\n      \"A useful project merrily advanced,\n      Tho' chiefly by town-nightmen countenanced,\n      Design'd to sweeten the North British nation,\n      And put close stools and bedpans out of fashion.\"\n\n      Seven. _Building Ships to let to Freight._\n\n      \"Who but a nest of blockheads to their cost,\n      Would build new ships for freights when trade is lost?\n      To raise fresh barks must surely be amusing,\n      When hundreds rot in docks for want of using.\"\n\n      Eight. _Drying Malt by the Air._\n\n      \"Of all the windy projects now in vogue\n      To fleece the fool, and feed the cunning rogue,\n      The malting bubble seems to be most fair,\n      Because our maltsters own they work by air.\"\n\n      Nine. _English Copper and Brass Company._\n\n      \"The headlong fool that wants to be a swopper\n      Of gold and silver coin for English copper,\n      May in Change Alley prove himself an ass,\n      And give rich metal for adult'rate brass.\"\n\n      Ten. _Exporting Timber from Germany._\n\n      \"You that are rich and hasty to be poor,\n      Buy timber export from the German shore;\n      For gallowses built up of foreign wood,\n      If rightly used, may do Change Alley good.\"\n\n      Knave. _For Erecting Salt-works in Holy Island._\n\n      \"Here by mixt elements of earth and water,\n      They make a mud that turns to salt herea'ter,\n      To help the project on among Change dealers,\n      May all bad wives, like Lot's, become salt pillars,\n      Since crowds of fools delight to be salt sellers.\"\n\n      Queen. _Curing Tobacco for Snuff._\n\n      \"Here slaves for snuffs are sifting Indian weed,\n      Whilst th' overseer does the riddle feed.\n      The dust arising gives their eyes much trouble,\n      To show their blindness that espouse the bubble.\"\n\n      King. _Whale Fishery._\n\n      \"Whale fishing, which was once a gainful trade,\n      Is now by cunning heads a bubble made,\n      For round the Change they only spread their sails,\n      And to catch gudgeons, bait their hooks with whales.\"\n\nDIAMONDS.\n\n      Ace. _Sir J. Lambert's Improvement of Land Company._\n\n      \"The famous knight that is the sole projector,\n      Of this new bubble, is a South director;\n      But 'twod be better taken at his hands,\n      To raise poor South Sea, than improve poor lands.\"\n\n      Two. _Greenland Trade._\n\n      \"This project was to catch, to cut or boil,\n      Huge whales and other monstrous fish to oil;\n      A stinking bubble tho' of late so dear,\n      Yet now the greatest sharers stink for fear.\"\n\n      Three. [Wanting.]\n\n      Four. _Insurance on Horses._\n\n      \"You that keep horses to preserve your ease,\n      And pads to please your wives and mistresses,\n      Insure their lives, and if they die we'll make\n      Full satisfaction, or be bound to break.\"\n\n      Five. _Bahama Islands._\n\n      \"Rare fruitful isles, where not an ass can find\n      A verdant tuft or thistle to his mind.\n      How then must those poor silly asses fare,\n      That leave their native land to settle there?\"\n\n      Six. _Insurance on Ships._\n\n      \"In vain are all insurances,--for still\n      The raging winds must answer heaven's hill;\n      To what wise purpose do we then insure,\n      Since some must lose whate'er the sea devour?\"\n\n      Seven. _Rock-salt._\n\n      \"You that are willing to preserve your meat\n      In winter savoury, and in summer sweet,\n      Encourage this salt project, and your coin\n      Will turn to some account--at least to brine.\"\n\n      Eight. _Settling Colonies in Acadia, N. America._\n\n      \"He that is rich and wants to fool away\n      A good round sum in North America,\n      Let him subscribe himself a headlong sharer,\n      And asses' ears shall honour him or bearer.\"\n\n      Nine. _Pennsylvanian Company._\n\n      \"Come all ye saints that would for little buy\n      Great tracts of land, and care not where they lie,\n      Deal with your Quaking friends, they're men of light;\n      The spirit hates deceit, and scorns to bite.\"\n\n      Ten. _Purchasing Estates illegally detained._\n\n      \"You that have dormant titles to estates,\n      Piled on your closet shelves to feed the rats,\n      Sell them to us, we'll gratify your spite,\n      And plague the rogues that roil you of your right.\"\n\n      Knave. _Coral Fishery._\n\n      \"Coral, that beauteous product only found\n      Beneath the water and above the ground,\n      If fish'd for as it ought, from thence might spring\n      A Neptune's palace for a British king.\"\n\n      Queen. _Furnishing Funerals to all Parts of Great\n      Britain._\n\n      \"Come all ye sickly mortals, die apace,\n      And solemn pomps your funerals shall grace;\n      Old rusty hackneys still attend each hearse,\n      And scarecrows in black gowns complete the farce.\"\n\n      King. _Temple Mills._\n\n      \"By these old mills strange wonders have been done,\n      Numbers have suffer'd, yet they still work on;\n      Then tell us, which have done the greater ills,\n      The Temple lawyers, or the Temple Mills?\"\n\n    JNO. SUDLOW.\n\n\nBIRTHPLACE OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE.\n\nIt is commonly believed that the Island of Martinique was the birthplace\nof Marie Josephine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, better known as the\nEmpress Josephine. It would seem, however, from the following\ncircumstances, that St. Lucia has a preferable claim to that\ndistinction. By the treaty of Paris (10th February, 1763), St. Lucia,\nuntil then one of the neutral islands, was ceded to France, and was made\na dependency of Martinique. The first step adopted by the local\nauthorities on that occasion, was to offer extensive grants of land in\nSt. Lucia to such families in Martinique as might be disposed to settle\nin the former island; and among those who took advantage of the proposal\nwas M. de Tascher, the father of Josephine. In the course of the year\n1763 he came over to St. Lucia, and settled with his family on the crest\nof a hill called _Paix-Bouche_, within a few miles of the site now\noccupied by the principal town. Here they continued to reside until\n1771, when M. de Tascher, having been selected for the office of\nPresident of the _Conseil Souverain_ in Martinique, returned with his\nfamily to that island, taking with him a child seven years old, to whom\nMadame de Tascher had given birth at _Morne Paix-Bouche_ on the 24th\nJune, 1764, and who was destined to become the wife of Bonaparte and the\nEmpress of France.\n\nThe fact that M. de Tascher and his family settled in St. Lucia after\nthe Treaty of Paris, is too well established to require corroboration.\nThe fact that his residence there extended from 1763 to 1771, is no less\ncertain. While collecting materials some years ago for the history of\nSt. Lucia, I met with the most authentic proofs of this circumstance;\nbut having returned the books and documents to the several parties to\nwhom they belonged, I am unable at this moment to give a special\nreference under this head. As regards the particular date of\nMademoiselle De Tascher's birth, I am indebted for a knowledge of it to\nno less an authority than M. Sidney Daney, the author of a voluminous\nhistory of Martinique, who, while asserting that she was born on the\npaternal estate in that island, records the date in the following words:\n\n  \"Cette ann\u00e9e 1764 fut signal\u00e9e par la naissance d'une femme qui,\n  tout en parvenant \u00e0 la plus glorieuse des destin\u00e9es humaines,\n  devait \u00eatre \u00e0 la fois le symbole le plus doux de cette divine\n  charit\u00e9. Le vingt-quatre Juin naquit aux Trois-Ilets, sur\n  l'habitation de ses parens, Marie Josephine Rose Tascher de la\n  Pagerie.\"\n\nThat the claim of St. Lucia to the honour of having given birth to that\nremarkable woman is no idle dream, no imaginary pretension, now set up\nfor the first time, can be shown by many circumstances. From her\ncoronation in 1804, to her death in 1814, there were several persons in\nSt. Lucia who asserted their knowledge of the fact. Some of them were\nstill living in 1825, when the late Sir John Jeremie came to St. Lucia\nand collected information on the subject. In 1831 that able judge\npublished in a local newspaper a short historical notice of St. Lucia,\nin which he gives the following unequivocal testimony on this question.\nI quote from the _St. Lucia Gazette and Public Advertiser_ of 23rd\nFebruary, 1831:\n\n  \"On the summit of one of its (St. Lucia's) highest mountains, the\n  _Paix-Bouche_ (a word which in Negro-French is significantly\n  expressive of silence), on a spot surrounded by trees, apparently\n  the growth of centuries, it might be supposed that here at least\n  the very name of the extraordinary being who has given an impulse\n  to the age of Napoleon had scarcely reached. A few yards from the\n  almost impracticable and faintly traced path is the mouldering\n  foundation of a decayed cottage. _That was the birthplace of\n  Josephine._ The inhabitants of Martinique, with whom all the St.\n  Lucia families are connected, lay claim to Josephine as their\n  countrywoman. The fact is, however, as I have stated it; and this\n  was admitted by one of her own family at Martinique to a lady of\n  our island, but with the truly French addition, 'qu'elle n'avait\n  fait qu'y na\u00eetre.' The companion of her childhood was Mr. Martin\n  Raphael, late a councillor of the royal court, who is still\n  living, and who on visiting France was kindly received by her at\n  Malmaison. Madame Delomel, who died but a few months ago at a very\n  advanced age, knew her well.\"\n\nOn my arrival in St. Lucia in 1831, an old woman of colour, named\n_D\u00e9d\u00e9_, was pointed out to me as having been in the service of the\nTaschers at _Morne Paix-Bouche_. She was then residing with the family\nof Mr. R. Juge, the President of the Court of First Instance, and that\ngentleman assured me that nothing was more certain than that Josephine\nwas born in St. Lucia. I afterwards had several conversations with\n_D\u00e9d\u00e9_ on the subject, and she confirmed Mr. Juge's statement, adding\nthat she was present at the time of Josephine's birth, and was employed\nas her _bonne_ until the departure of the family for Martinique. _D\u00e9d\u00e9_\nwas an intelligent old dame, then about eighty years of age, and was\ngreatly respected by every one.\n\nI am aware that all this is at variance with the biographical records of\nour time, which assign Martinique as the place of Josephine's birth. But\nthis inaccuracy may be accounted for on the following grounds. 1st. St.\nLucia is within a short distance of Martinique, and at the period of\nJosephine's birth was a dependency, a portion, as it were, of that\ncolony. 2nd. The family had long been settled in Martinique before they\ncame to St. Lucia, and all their predilections were for the former\nisland. 3rd. Their sojourn in St. Lucia was not of long duration, and in\na few years the circumstance of their having been there at all was\nprobably forgotten by the public. 4th. There was no priest in St. Lucia\nin 1764, by whom the child might have been christened, and the place of\nher birth established beyond dispute. 5th. When at a subsequent period\nshe was baptized in Martinique, it happened naturally enough that there\nwas no one present who had any knowledge of her having been born in St.\nLucia, or who felt any concern in the matter. 6th. M. De Tascher had now\nbecome a personage of some distinction, and he was probably not\nunwilling to efface the recollection of his having been, at one time, a\nneedy planter in the wilds of St. Lucia. 7th. Facts which have since\nacquired an obvious importance, were of none at all in 1771. The\nsuppression of such a circumstance, whether intentional or accidental,\nwould have attracted no notice at that period of the history of the\nTaschers. It was not then anticipated that a member of the family would,\nat no very remote period, become associated with the greatest actor in\nthe most extraordinary revolution in the world's history, and prove\nherself not unworthy of so exalted a destiny.\n\nAll that relates to the Empress Josephine receives an added degree of\ninterest from recent occurrences. It would be strange if the wife who\nwas discarded by Napoleon because she could not give him an heir for the\nimperial throne, should give him, if not an heir, his first successor,\nin the person of her grandson, Prince Louis Napoleon. As regards St.\nLucia, too, there is a coincidence which may be worth mentioning. When\nNapoleon fell into our hands after the battle of Waterloo, St. Lucia was\nthe place _first_ selected for his exile; but in consequence of the\ndangers likely to arise frown its proximity to Martinique, the scheme\nwas relinquished, and the preference given to St. Helena.\n\n    HENRY H. BREEN.\n\n  St. Lucia.\n\n\nNOTES ON HOMER, NO. III.\n\n(_Continued from_ Vol. v., p. 172.)\n\n_Lachmann and Grote. New Views._\n\nAgreeably to my promise at the conclusion of my former article, I\ncontinue and conclude my remarks on the Homeric question.\n\nNitzsch, one of Wolf's most indefatigable and learned opponents,\nexamined his theory with the closest critical nicety, and, by proving\nits fallaciousness, he shook the stability of it very much--not wholly,\nhowever, because disproof does not always engender disbelief; scholars\nwere beginning to lose faith therein, when, ten years ago, the late Carl\nLachmann revived it, with certain modifications, in his _Fernere\nBetrachtungen \u00fcber die Ilias_ (Abhandl. Berlin. Acad. 1841), where he\nhas proposed the following views:--\n\nThat the Homeric poems were not composed by one man, but by several,\nworking together; and that, after the collection of these lays by\nPeisistratos, the history of them is precisely as given us by classical\nwriters.\n\nThis proposition, to use the words of Grote[1], \"explains the gaps and\ncontradictions in the narrative, but it explains nothing else;\" and is\nfurther refuted by the actual facts of the poems themselves[2], where,\nas we find, no contradictions bearing on this point occur, and the whole\nsixteen poets (for such is Lachmann's number) concur in killing and\nsending off the stage, so to speak, these considerable chieftains (and\nall in the first battle after the secession of Achilles), Elephenor,\nchief of the Euboeans[3], Tlepolemos, of the Rhodians[4]; Pandaros of\nthe Lycians[5]; Odios, of the Halizonians[6]; Pirous and Acamas, of the\nThracians[7]; besides many of inferior note. None of these reappear in\nthe whole course of the work; and it seems strange, as Mure continues,\nthat \"any number of 'independent poets' should have so harmoniously\ndispensed with the services of all six in the sequel.\" And he then cites\nthe solitary discrepancy, Pyl\u00e6menes, as the only exception[8], whose\ndeath is related in the fifth, and who weeps at his son's funeral in the\nthirteenth book. This however, Mure explains as an oversight on the part\nof the poet (which is, however, _impossible_), or to the more probable\ncause of an interpolation of verses 658 and 659 by an early rhapsodist,\n\"better versed in the 'Battle of the Ships,' as his habitual part in the\nrecital, than in the 'Prowess of Diomed.'\"\n\n  [Footnote 1: Grote, vol. ii. p. 231.]\n\n  [Footnote 2: Mure, Appendix C., vol. i. p. 507.]\n\n  [Footnote 3: \u0399\u03bb. iv. 469.]\n\n  [Footnote 4: \u0399\u03bb. v. 659.]\n\n  [Footnote 5: \u0399\u03bb. v. 290.]\n\n  [Footnote 6: v. 39.]\n\n  [Footnote 7: iv. 527., vi. 7.]\n\n  [Footnote 8: v. 576., xiii. 658.]\n\nGrote also objects to the modifications of Lachmann, and in the\nfollowing words:\n\n  \"The advocates of the Wolfian theory appear to feel the\n  difficulties which beset it: for their language is wavering in\n  respect to these supposed primary atoms.... I will add in respect\n  to his [Lachmann's] dissertations, so instructive as a microscopic\n  examination of the poem, 1. That I find myself constantly\n  dissenting from that critical feeling on the strength of which he\n  cuts out parts as interpolations, and discovers traces of the\n  hands of distinct poets: 2. That his objections against the\n  continuity of the narrative are often founded upon lines which the\n  ancient scholiasts and Mr. Payne Knight had already pronounced to\n  be interpolations: 3. That such of his objections as are founded\n  upon lines undisputed admit, in many cases, of a complete and\n  satisfactory reply.\"[9]\n\n  [Footnote 9: _Hist. of Greece_, vol. ii. p. 232. n. 1.]\n\nGrote's own opinions on the subject are difficult to arrive at, but what\nhe _has_ said is mostly true. These three different views of the Homeric\ncontroversy have, as I have said, occupied the world since thinking on\nthe subject began; each hypothesis has found most able, critical, and\nquibbling adherents and opponents, each affirming and proving, after his\nown way, what the others denied and scouted.\n\nThere is another author who has likewise discussed the subject of Homer,\nand in a way more attractive to the general reader; and that is the\nfinely-feeling and learned Walter Savage Landor, in his _Pericles and\nAspasia_. Speaking in the person of Pericles, he says[10]:--\n\n  \"I have no paradox to maintain, no partiality to defend. Some tell\n  us there were twenty Homers; some deny that there was ever one.\n  _It were idle and foolish to shake the contents of a vase in order\n  to let them settle at last._ We are perpetually labouring to\n  destroy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior\n  power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for\n  us. My opinion is, that what is best for us is our admiration of\n  good. No man living venerates Homer more than I do. He was the\n  only author I read when I was a boy; for our teachers are usually\n  of opinion that wisdom and poetry are, like fruits for children,\n  unwholesome, if too fresh. Simonides had indeed grown somewhat\n  sound; Pindar was heating; \u00c6schylus ... ay, but \u00c6schylus was\n  almost at the next door. Homer then nourished my fancy, animated\n  my dreams, awoke me in the morning, marched with me, sailed with\n  me, taught me morals, taught me language, taught me music, and\n  philosophy, and war.\"\n\n  [Footnote 10: _Pericles and Aspasia_, Letter LXXXIV.--_Works_,\n  vol. ii. p. 387.]\n\nAgreeing with my honoured friend in what I have italicised above, I\nthink it is time that the Homeric question were set at rest, and, to\natone for our error in shaking the vase, let it remain at peace forever.\nI offer my reflections on the subject with extreme diffidence, yet,\nthough I confess myself open to correction, and desirous of it, as a\nfriend to literature, I cannot say that I think my views will be found\nfar from an approximation to the truth, which, at this remote age, is\nall we can possibly arrive at. As Plinius Secundus held that there was\nno book so bad but that something might be learned from it, so I hold\nthat there is no theory so bad (always excepting that one put forth by\nsome escaped Bedlamite, of Shakspeare's non-being, and that his works\nwere the composition of the monks), but that there lies some truth at\nthe bottom of it. On that principle I have endeavoured \"to lay the keel\"\n(as Southey used to say of his planned poems) of a reconciliation\nbetween all the beliefs of all the theorists.\n\nI will state my theory, as I have done the others, in the plainest\npossible terms; and, to begin at the beginning, I must go back to the\norigin of song. Is it possible that an army like that of the Hellenes\nwhen at Troy, had no idea of passing the weary evenings except in\ndrinking and talking? No: surely not. We find Phemios singing, in the\n_Odyssea_, lays of much the same kidney as those in Athen\u00e6os, and in\nXenophon's _Symposion_. These were short recitals of some particular\ncircumstance of antiquity, half religious and half earthly. No doubt the\ncommon soldiers of that age had, like the common sailors of some fifty\nyears ago, some one qualified to \"discourse in excellent music\" among\nthem. Many of these, like those of the negroes in the United States,\nwere extemporaneous, and allusive to events passing around them. But\nwhat was passing around them? The grand events of a spirit-stirring war;\noccurrences likely to impress themselves, as the mystical legends of\nformer times had done, upon their memory; besides which, a retentive\nmemory was deemed a virtue of the first water, and was cultivated\naccordingly, in those ancient times. Ballads at first, and down to the\nbeginning of the war with Troy, were mere recitations with an\nintonation. Then followed a species of recitative, probably with an\nintoned burden. Tune next followed, as it aided the memory considerably.\n\nIt was at this period, about four hundred years after the war, that a\npoet flourished of the name of Melesigenes, or Meonides, but most\nprobably the former. He saw that these ballads might be made of great\nutility to his purpose of writing a poem on the social position of\nHellas, and as a collection he published these lays, connecting them by\na tale of his own. This poem now exists under the title of the\n_Odyssea_. The author, however, did not affix his own name to the poem,\nwhich, in fact, was great part of it remodelled from the archa\u00efc dialect\nof Crete, in which tongue the ballads were found by him. He therefore\ncalled it the poem of _Homeros_, or the Collector.[11] But this is\nrather a proof of his modesty and talent, than of his mere drudging\narrangement of other people's ideas, for, as Grote has finely observed,\narguing for the unity of authorship, \"a great poet might have recast\npre-existing separate songs into one comprehensive whole; but no mere\narrangers or compilers would be competent to do so.\"[12]\n\n  [Footnote 11: Welcker, _Der Epische Cyclus_, p. 127. Professor\n  Wilson, in his _System of Hindu Mythology_ (Introduct. p. lxii.),\n  has the following passage, quoted by Grote: \"The sage Vyasa is\n  represented not as the author, but as the arranger and compiler of\n  the Vedas and the Pur\u00e2nas. His name dates his character, meaning\n  the _arranger_ or _distributor_; and the recurrence of so many\n  Vyasas,--many individuals who new-modelled the Hindu\n  Scriptures,--has nothing in it that is improbable, except the\n  fabulous intervals by which their labours are separated.\"]\n\n  [Footnote 12: _Hist of Greece_, vol. ii. p. 232.]\n\nWhile employed on the wild legend of Odysseus, he met with a ballad\nrecording the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon; his noble mind seized\nthe hint that there presented itself, and the _Achille\u00efs_[13] grew under\nhis hand. Unity of design, however, caused him to publish the poem under\nthe same pseudonyme as his former work; and the disjointed lays of the\nancient bards were joined together, like those relating to the Cid, into\na chronicle history, named the _Iliad_.[14] Melesigenes knew that the\npoem was destined to be a lasting one; and so it has proved. But first,\nthe poems were destined to undergo many vicissitudes and corruptions, by\nthe people who took to singing them in the streets, assemblies, and\nagoras. However, Solon first, and then Peisistratos, and afterwards\nAristoteles and others, revised the poems, and restored the works of\nMelesigenes Homeros to their original integrity in a great measure. But\nthat this was of no great avail is evident from the corruption\n\u03bf\u1f30\u03c9\u03bd\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c3\u03af \u03c4\u03b5 \u03c0\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b9, in the opening. _All_ birds are not carnivorous, and\ntherefore the passage must be wrong: besides, the words immediately\nfollowing, savouring somewhat of interpolation, and, indeed, being\ncondemned by some as such, would lead to the fair assumption that the\nwhole line was corrupted.\n\n  [Footnote 13: \"The first book, together with the eighth, and the\n  books from the eleventh to the twenty-second inclusive, seem to\n  form the primary organisation of the poem, _then properly an\n  Achille\u00efs_,\" &c.--Grote, Vol. ii. pp. 235. fol.]\n\n  [Footnote 14: Mure, vol. i. p. 23 n. Ticknor, _History of Spanish\n  Literature_, vol. i. p. 11. seq.]\n\nI said before (Vol. v., p. 99.) that the Cyclic poems illustrated the\nhistory of the Homeric compositions, just as the letters of Poplicola,\nand those of Philo Junius, illustrate the history of Junius; but I am\nnot inclined to deprive them all of credit as the compositions of the\nsame poet. For instance, part of the \u0399\u03bb\u03b9\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1 was probably\ndone from the notes of Melesigenes, who was, like Herodotos, always at\nwork upon some matter.\n\nThe origin of writing has been made a stumbling-block in the Homeric\nquestion, and most foolishly; and I must again agree with Colonel Mure\non this subject. Mr. Grote, Mr. Granville Penn, and the Colonel, have\ndone more for the elucidation of the question than any other scholars of\nthe present or last age; and it is to them we must turn for further\nassistance. I wish they would give their attention to the hymns,\nespecially that to Hermes; for \"thereby hangs a tale.\"\n\nAs for me, I leave my speculations to the mercy of those who do not\nthink like myself. I am satisfied that they are not far from the truth,\nand as near as we can hope to come in these days. Indeed, it is a\nwell-known fact, embodied in the old proverb, \"What's one man's meat's\nanother's poison;\" and that which is convincing to one is the contrary\nto another.\n\nEre I \"close\" my \"scribblings,\" however, I must tender my thanks to the\nEditor of \"N. & Q.,\" for his kind admission of these articles to his\npages. Haveto!\n\n    KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE.\n\n  March 3. 1852.\n\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_Ancient Custom on Interment._--I have read that it was a custom to\ninter an hour-glass with the deal, as an emblem of the sand of life\nbeing run out; or perhaps (as I should rather suggest) to intimate that\nthe departed, having entered upon eternity, had done with time. I\nbelieve that in the early part of the last century the custom had not\nentirely disappeared, and that small hour-glasses were given to the\nfriends of the deceased attending at funerals, and were put beside the\ncorpse (like rosemary), or thrown into the grave? Does the custom still\nlinger in any remote parts of the country?\n\n    W. S. G.\n\n  Newcastle-on-Tyne.\n\n_Pure Rain Water._--_Pure rain water_ is said to be an infallible cure\nfor sore eyes, and cases are reported to the writer by persons who have\ntried and fancy they have proved its efficacy. The rain water must be\ncollected in a clean open vessel, _in the month of June_, and must not\nbe contaminated be being previously collected by any other means; it\nwill then remain pure for any length of time, if preserved in a bottle.\n\n    T. D.\n\n  Gainsbro'.\n\n_Cure for Hooping Cough._--This complaint is very prevalent in my\nneighbourhood just now. I overheard a conversation the other day between\nsome farmers: one was recommending the patient to inhale the breath of a\nhorse as a certain cure; another gravely informed his audience that the\nsight of a piebald horse would afford immediate relief!\n\n    G. A. C.\n\n\nSAINTED KINGS INCORRUPTIBLE.\n\nIn the Appendix to Evelyn's interesting _Diary_ (last edition, 1850),\nyour readers may recollect there is a note upon the \"unexpected finding\nthe crucifix and gold chain of that pious prince, St. Edward the\nConfessor.\" The note contains an extract from the narrative of the\ncircumstances attending the finding of those relics by \"Charles Taylour,\nGent.\" (or, Henry Keepe--the writer's correct name). It appears from\nthat account, that when, in 1163, Thomas \u00e0 Becket obtained a\ncanonisation of the king, and the coffin was opened, the body was found\nuncorrupted; and that, 136 years after William I. had commanded the\ncoffin to be enshrined, when the abbot resolved to inspect the body,\nthen likewise \"said to be incorruptible,\" he found it so, \"being\nperfect, the limbs flexible,\" &c.\n\nA curious parallel to this presented itself recently to one in the\ncourse of a reference to the 2nd volume of Mr. W. B. MacCabe's curious\nand laborious _Catholic History of England_. [_En passant_, allow me to\nexpress the hope, in which I well know many sympathise, that the\nlong-promised _third_ volume, bringing the history down to the accession\nof William the Conqueror, will ere long appear. The work gives in a\nwell-arranged form so much that is curious in our early national\nrecords, that it would be a matter of regret that it should not be\ncompleted. It is a great pity indeed that the author's original plan, to\ncarry the history down to the Reformation, should have been abandoned.]\nAfter describing the burial of Edgar (also a \"Confessor,\" as well as St.\nEdward), it is stated that \"in the year 1052, upon his tomb being opened\nby the Abbot Eilward, his body was found perfectly _free from_ the\nslightest stain of _corruption_;\" and that upon the body being\n\"profanely hacked,\" in order to make it fit the receptacle prepared for\nit, \"torrents of blood burst from the king's corpse.\" (W. Malmsb. _Ges.\nReg. Ang._) This, be it remembered, was eighty-seven years after burial.\nThe body was afterwards deposited in a shrine. Are there other examples\nmentioned by the chroniclers of the incorruptibility of saintly kings?\nBoth Edward and Edgar were, it should be recollected, good friends to\nthe monks. William of Malmsbury, in the course of his eulogium upon\nEdgar, mentions the important fact that the monarch not only gave--\n\n      \"Templa Deo,\"\n\nbut also--\n\n      \"Templis Monachos, Monachis dedit agros.\"\n\nWere not these strong reasons why the king should remain uncorrupted, at\nall events in the memory, and also the records, of the brotherhood?\n\n    J. J. S.\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Rev. A. Butler._--The Rev. R. Gibbings, M.A., did some years since give\nto the public an exact reprint of the first Roman _Index Expurgatorius_,\nin the lengthened Introduction to which he has treated of the whole\nliterature pertaining to the question.\n\nThe same rev. gentleman is author of the following elegant inscription\non the monument of the Rev. Archer Butler, recently professor of moral\nphilosophy in Trinity College, Dublin. Your miscellany seems an\nappropriate place wherein to enshrine matters of this order.\n\n      \"D. O. M.\n\n            \"GUILIELMUS ARCHER BUTLER, A.M.\n          Rathmothachi\u00e6 Rector in Dioecesi Rapotensi,\n            Apud Dublinienses in Ethicis Professor,\n                Theologus, Poeta, Philosophus,\n      Optimis ingenii dotibus, summ\u00e2que eloquenti\u00e2 pr\u00e6ditus,\n          Multa pro Ecclesi\u00e2 Christi feliciter conscripsit,\n                      Plura moliebatur.\n              Viris ille bonis doctisque juxta carus,\n                  Integer vit\u00e6, maturus animi,\n              Religione devinctus, concionibus potens\n                \u00c6qualium decus, simul et exemplar,\n                    Malign\u00e2 febre correptus,\n                    Eheu, qu\u00e0m intempestiv\u00e8!\n      E terris migravit A.D. MDCCCXLVIII. \u00e6tatis su\u00e6 XXXVII.,\n            Triste desiderium superstitibus relinquens,\n      Amici pi\u00e8 memores hoc illi monumentum poni voluere.\"\n\n    O. T. D.\n\n_Birthplace of Bishop Hoadley._--On the west side of the London Road,\nWesterham, Kent, are some neatly built brick cottages: before one of\nthem stands a yew tree, which, I was informed by an intelligent\ninhabitant of the town, was planted by the Rev.--Hoadley, on the birth\nof his son Benjamin. Although the tree still marks the spot, the house\nitself does not now stand; it was razed to the ground some years since\nto make room for the present buildings. Benjamin's brother, who was\nafterwards Archbishop of Dublin, was also born in this house. I may add\nthat this is not generally known in the town, but I think the above\n\"Note\" is accurate.\n\n    H. G. D.\n\n_Humboldt's \"Cosmos,\" and Nares' \"Attempt.\"_--Observing that the learned\nand accomplished Humboldt has concluded his _Cosmos_ in German, although\nthe English translation of the last portion has not yet appeared,--an\nextremely valuable and interesting scientific contribution towards a\ngeneral view of human knowledge regarding the universe,--will you permit\nme to observe, that as it perhaps did not enter into his plan to\nconsider the _religious_ considerations that arise from a _Christian's_\nview of the universe in its relation to our small portion of its\napparently illimitable extent, any reader of Humboldt's work who wishes\nto see how a scholar and a divine of a former generation has treated the\nsubject, will, if I mistake not, peruse the following work with singular\npleasure, making all due allowance for the imperfect state of\nscientific knowledge at the time when the author wrote:--\n\n  \"\u0395\u03b9\u03c2 \u0398\u03b5\u03bf\u03c2 \u0395\u03b9\u03c2 \u039c\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2; or, an Attempt to show how far\n  the Philosophical Notion of a Plurality of Worlds is consistent,\n  or not so, with the language of the Holy Scriptures. By the Rev.\n  Edward Nares, A.M., Rector of Biddenden, Kent, and late Fellow of\n  Merton College, Oxford. 8vo. London, 1801.\"\n\nThe author, I may add, was a friend of the eminent geologist, De Luc.\n\n    J. M.\n\n_Gough, the Irish Portion of his Camden: Ledwich._--The following\ncutting from a Dublin bookseller's Catalogue (Connolly, 6. Chancery\nPlace, Feb. 1852) may perhaps find a corner in \"N. & Q.\" Dr. Ledwich was\nthe Will-o'-the-Wisp that led Gough astray in the matter of Irish\nantiquities. Few, indeed, of the \"additions\" made to honest Camden's\noriginal are of value, many of them are worse than valueless:--\n\n  \"ANTIQUITIES OF IRELAND, from Gough's edition of Camden's\n  Britannia, profusely illustrated with plates and maps from various\n  works, including Ortelliu's (Ortelius') rare map of Ireland, all\n  of which were inserted by the Rev. Mr. Ledwich, the Irish\n  Antiquarian, royal folio, half russia, neat, 3_l._ 10_s._\n\n  \"This unique copy was presented by Mr. Gough to the Rev. Mr.\n  Ledwich, and bears Gough's autograph: 'For the Rev. Mr. Ledwich.\n  From the author. 1789.'\n\n  \"Mr. Ledwich presented the book to Wm. Monck Mason, Esq., having\n  written the following memorandum:--\n\n  \"'I assisted Mr. Gough in this edition, and he spontaneously\n  promised a copy of the work in 3 vols. folio, but put me off with\n  this paltry volume. So he served my valuable friend, Mr. Beauford\n  of Athy.\n\n  \"'Viveret in terris te si quis avarior uno?'\n\n  \"'_Horace._\n\n  \"'E. L., F.A.S., 1790.'\n\n  \"A copy of the original note [to Mason] inserted in the book--\n\n  \"'York Street, 3rd Feb. 1817.\n\n  \"'Dear Sir--Having parted with all my books, for not one of my\n  family could or would read them, I have retained what I send you.\n  It is a small return for the presents you made me.\n\n  \"'Small as it is, have the goodness to accept of it as a testimony\n  of my obligations and friendship.\n\n  \"'Believe me yours sincerely,\n\n  \"'E. LEDWICH.'\n\n  \"The work is Gough's Britannia, the Irish Part.\"\n\n    JAMES GRAVES.\n\n  Kilkenny.\n\n_Chronogram_ over the door of Sherborne school, marking the date 1670:\n\n   \"Tecta, Draco custos, Leo vinDeX fLos Decus, auctor, ReX pius,\n   h\u00e6c servat, protegit, ornat, aLit.\"\n\nThe letters DLDXLDXL are capitals, and rubricated.\n\n    S. S.\n\n_Junius and the Quarterly Review again._--The article on the Letters of\nJunius, in the last number of the _Quarterly Review_, is very pleasantly\nwritten. But I suppose it will not be considered to have rendered\nprobable the notion that Thomas Lord Lyttelton was the writer of those\nletters. The reviewer observes that \"Lord Lyttelton,\" meaning George,\nthe first Lord Lyttelton, is only once mentioned by Junius. Undoubtedly\nJunius mentions \"Lord _Littleton's_ integrity and judgment\" (Woodfall,\nii. 305.) Can it be imagined that Thomas Lord _Lyttelton_ could have so\nmis-spelled his father's name?\n\n    CAROLUS CURSITOR.\n\n\n\n\nQueries.\n\n\nSEVEN QUERIES.\n\n1. On the 24th February, 1831, was published, at Speenhamland, the first\nnumber of the _History and Antiquities of Newbury and its Environs_. Was\nthis work ever completed? If not, how many numbers were issued.\n\n  [\"The History and Antiquities of Newbury and its Environs,\n  including twenty-eight Parishes situate in the County of Berks,\n  also a Catalogue of Plants found in the Neighbourhood,\" was\n  completed in 1839, and makes a volume of 340 pages.]\n\n2. Can any information be given as to Hannah Woolley beyond what she\ngives in the curious autobiographical sketch prefixed to her\n_Gentlewoman's Companion, or a Guide to the Female Sex_; 3rd edition.\nLondon, 1682, 12mo. Her maiden name she omits to mention; and all she\ndiscloses as to her family and fortunes is, that her parents died when\nshe was very young, and that she had suffered \"all manner of\naffliction,\" \"by loss of husband, children, friend, estate.\"\n\n3. Amongst Mr. C. K. Sharpe's MSS. was sold _The Force of Love, or the\nEphesian Matron; a Dramatick Poem, in Three Parts_. From a playbill,\nwhich was pasted on the fly-leaf, it seems that this drama was produced\nfor the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, at the theatre in Sadler\nStreet, Durham, April 7, 1777. The performance was \"gratis;\" but 2_s._\n6_d._, 2_s._, and 1_s._, for boxes, pit, and gallery, were charged for\nthe \"Concert of Music.\" The title was changed into the _Matron of\nEphesus_, and the authorship was ascribed to Mr. Wallace. No notice\neither of play or author occurs in the _Biographia Dramatica_.\n\n4. Does any MS. of the _Conquest of China_, a tragedy, by Sir Robert\nHoward, exist? I have in my library a scene written by the Earl of\nRochester for the author, and which, so far as I can trace, from the\nvery defective state of the libraries of the north, was never printed.\nIt is a beautiful MS., and some of the lines possess considerable\nvigour. It is written in rhyme.\n\n5. Who was the author of the _History of Faction, alias Hypocrisy, alias\nModeration, from its first Rise, down to its present Toleration in these\nKingdoms_? &c. London, 1705, 8vo.\n\n6. Where can the fourth and concluding(?) number of Wright's _History of\nLudlow_ be obtained?\n\n  [Only three Parts have been published. The last was issued in\n  1847.]\n\n7. Can you inform me who was the translator of--\n\n  \"_The Idea of Christian Love_; being a Translation, at the\n  Instance of Mr. Waller, of a Latin Sermon upon John xiii. 34, 35.,\n  preached by Mr. Edward Young, Prebend of Salisbury. With a large\n  Paraphrase on Mr. Waller's Poem of _Divine Love_. To which are\n  added, some Copies of Verses from that excellent Poetess Mrs.\n  Wharton, with others to her. London, 1688, 8vo.\"\n\nThe versification is extremely good, but as I never saw the sermon, I\ncan have no notion whether the translation be faithful, or the reverse.\nI suspect a Latin \"preachment\" would have few hearers, especially\nnow-a-days: but it would be interesting to see a Latin sermon which\nWaller thought highly of, and which he proposed should be turned into\nverse.\n\nI have not been able to procure any information as to the sermon, or its\npoetical translation, in any bibliographical work; but perhaps some of\nyour numerous readers may know something either about Mr. Edward Young,\nthe father I presume of the poet, or the translator.\n\nMrs. Wharton was the daughter of Sir H. Lee, of Ditchly, and the first\nwife of the future Marquis of Wharton. A manuscript tragedy by her, and\nin her own handwriting, is in my possession. It is the presentation copy\nto Miss Mary Howe, whose autograph is on the fly-leaf. It is beautifully\nbound in old morocco, and formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, whose\nbook-plate is on it. Who was Miss Mary Howe? It was purchased at the\ndispersion of the curious MSS. of Mr. Charles K. Sharpe, who had a great\nfancy for the lady's poetry. She is erroneously styled Marchioness of\nWharton in Park's edition of Walpole's _Royal and Noble Authors_.\n\n    J. MT.\n\n  [The Rev. Edward Young was father to the poet, and Rector of Upham\n  in Hampshire, Prebendary of Salisbury, and lastly Dean of that\n  church. He died in 1705. The translation and paraphrase in _The\n  Idea of Christian Love_ is attributed to William Atwood in the\n  Bodleian Catalogue.]\n\n\nPLAGUE STONES.\n\nIn a recent and valuable report addressed to the General Board of\nHealth, on the sanitary state of the borough of Dorchester, by a\ngentleman to whom I, in common with all the readers of \"N. & Q.,\" have\noften been indebted--I mean Robert Rawlinson, Esq.,--an allusion is made\nto the existence of \"Plague Stones\" in different parts of the country.\nBriefly recording the principal visitations of plague in Dorchester and\nits neighbourhood, he describes these \"plague stones\" as \"stones placed\non the boundary limits of old towns, having a circular or square\ndish-like sinking in them, which was filled with water, into which the\ntown's people dropped the purchase-money in their dealings with the\ncountry people, as was supposed, to prevent infection. _Such stones may\nbe seen in many places throughout England._\" The object of this\ncommunication is, to suggest the propriety of a list of these curious\nrelics being made, through the medium of your excellent paper. I am not\naware of any such list at present existing. A plague stone is to be\nseen, I believe, at Penrith; and another near Manchester, which is, I am\ntold, called the \"Giant's Stone.\" The name of the latter seems, to my\nmind, to point to a more remote period, unless an existing monument of\nantiquity bearing that title was during the times of plague converted to\nthe temporary use of receiving the suspected money in the hollowed dish,\nwhich is made at the top of these \"plague stones.\" By the way, might not\nour forefathers have suffered less from the fearful visitations and\ndevastating epidemics to which so many hundreds of thousands of them\nfell victims, if they had been as careful to _wash themselves_\nhabitually in _aqua pura_ as they were to wash the money which they\nreceived from suspected localities. The custom above alluded to admitted\nthe powerfully cleansing qualities of water. It would have been good for\nthem, especially in trying times of plague, if they had not been so\naccustomed to \"let\" the \"_well_ alone,\" as regards their own personal\npurification.\n\n    J. J. S.\n\n  The Cloisters, Temple.\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_The Cross on Counsels' Briefs._--Can any of your correspondents inform\nme as to the origin and present use of the cross on counsels' briefs?\n\nH. EDWARDS.\n\n_Sir James Hayes, of Bedgebury, Kent._--It is mentioned in the\n_Gentleman's Magazine_, 1792, p. 21., that on the foundation stone of\nOld Bedgebury House in Kent, was found, many years ago, an inscription\nrecording the building of that house in 1688 by Sir James Hayes, and\nRachel Viscountess Falkland, his wife. Allusion is made in the\ninscription to his having attained _great wealth from the depths of the\nocean_; and there was a tradition that he had made his fortune by\n_diving_. Can any of your readers supply information upon this subject?\nWas he one of the party who under Phipps (the ancestor of the house of\nMulgrave) recovered 200,000_l._ out of a Spanish vessel, sunk of the\ncoast of Hispaniola in 1687? and where can the full particulars of that\nadventure be met with?\n\n    J. E. T.\n\n_Authorship of the Song \"Oh Nanny,\" &c._--A question as to the\nnationality, if not the authorship, of this celebrated song was\ndiscussed (if I remember aright) not long ago in letters printed in one\nof the literary periodicals, probably the _Gentleman's Magazine_, but I\nhave not a reference at hand. It may be, that the facts I am about to\nmention were adverted to in that discussion, and that the words are\nadmitted to be of English origin, and to have been written by Dr. Percy,\nyet I am induced to send you this communication. In the drawing-room at\nEcton House, the mansion of Sam. Isted, Esq., at Ecton, a village about\nfive miles from Northampton, there was, in 1814, a portrait of the wife\nof Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore (father of Mrs. Isted), holding in\nher hand a scroll, on which is the celebrated song \"Oh Nanny!\" she being\nthe original, and the lines having been addressed to her before marriage\nby the bishop. (_Account of a Tour, &c., published in the Scarborough\nRepository_, by Cole, 1824.)\n\nPerhaps some correspondent of yours in that vicinity would kindly say\nwhether the picture remains at Ecton; or, if not, what has become of it?\n\n    W. S. G.\n\n  Newcastle-on-Tyne.\n\n_Hexameter Poem on English Counties._--Will any of your correspondents\nbe kind enough to furnish me with a copy of a poem in _hexameter_ verse,\nand in an abbreviated form, enumerating the shires or counties in\nEngland? In my early days it was very common in public schools, and I am\nenabled to give a portion of one verse, viz.------\"Dev. Dors. Gl. Oxfo.\nBuck. Hart. Ess.\"\n\n    M.\n\n  Dublin.\n\n_Wild Oats, Origin of the Phrase._--Can any of your correspondents\nfavour me with the origin and definition of the phrase \"To sow your wild\noats?\" It has never been very clear to me why \"oats\" should be the grain\nselected as emblematical of the dissipations and excesses of youth. They\nconstitute the food of the inhabitants of the poorest regions only, and\nwhere the absence of all aid from climate and sunshine, renders almost\nunceasing toil necessary, in order to obtain a meagre subsistence.\n\nThe \"oat\" appears to me so little the companion of luxury and pleasure,\nthat I am wholly at a loss to account for the origin of this phrase,\nwhich is in the mouth of every one.\n\n    BEAU NASH.\n\n  Bath.\n\n_The Dr. Richard Mortons._--I shall feel greatly indebted to any reader\nof \"N. & Q.\" who can give me some account of Dr. Richard Morton, a\ncelebrated physician of Greenwich, _temp._ William and Mary, and of his\nson Dr. Richard Morton, who died in 1730. Were they descended from the\nMortons of Severn Stoke, co. Worcester? and what was the precise degree\nof their relationship with the Mortons of Slaugham, co. Sussex?\n\n    MARK ANTONY LOWER.\n\n_General Lambert_ (Vol. iv., p. 339.).--A correspondent shows the\nprobability or certainty that the hitherto received opinion as to the\nlong confinement and death in Guernsey of this old parliamentary general\nis not correct. But Mr. Hallam and others who report this, report also\nthat he was tried with Sir Harry Vane; and that his \"submissive\nbehaviour\" was such a contrast to that of his noble fellow-prisoner that\nit perhaps influenced his sentence. Where is the proof of his behaviour\nto be found? Vane's trial has been published separately. It is also in\nthe _State Trials_, with the trials of the regicides; but neither there\nnor elsewhere can I find the trial of Lambert.\n\n    G. L.\n\n_Cross-legged Effigies and Collars of SS._--As some of your\ncorrespondents are sending to \"N. & Q.\" accounts of sepulchral effigies\nbearing SS. collars, I should be obliged to them if they would mention\nwhen such effigies are cross-legged. Does any effigy in this attitude\nexist _bearing a date_ as late as 1350?\n\n    W. H. K.\n\n_The Crooked Billet._--Can any of your readers inform me whether there\nbe any legend connected with the \"Crooked Billet,\" which is frequently\nused in this neighbourhood as a sign to a village inn? The sign itself\nis formed of a crooked piece of wood, or two or three pieces joined, and\nsuspended over the door of the public-house.\n\n    T. D.\n\n  Gainsbro'.\n\n_Collins the Poet, and his Ode on the Music of the Grecian Theatre._--In\nSeward's _Anecdotes of distinguished Persons_ there is a letter from\nCollins to Dr. Hayes, professor of music, Oxford, in which, after\nalluding to his \"Ode on the Passions,\" he mentions another Ode, which\nappears to have been actually written.\n\n  \"The subject,\" he states, \"is _the Music of the Grecian Theatre_,\n  in which,\" he goes on to say, \"I have, I hope naturally,\n  introduced the various characters with which the chorus was\n  concerned, as Oedipus, Medea, Electra, Orestes, &c. &c. The\n  composition too is probably more correct, as I have chosen the\n  ancient tragedies for my models, and only copied the most\n  affecting passages in them.\"\n\nThe letter is dated \"Chichester, November 8, 1750.\" Collins died in\n1756. The Ode is lost; but assuredly every effort should be made to\nbring it to light.\n\n    SMINTHEUS.\n\n_Bishop Kidder's Autobiography._--In the _Lives of the Bishops of Bath\nand Wells_, by the Rev. Stephen Hyde Cassan (Rivingtons, 1829), the\ngreater portion of the notice there given of that learned writer and\nexcellent divine, Richard Kidder, bishop of that see from 1691 to 1703,\nis derived from an autobiographical memoir, of which Mr. Cassan says,\n\"the MS., one of undoubted authority, exists in original at Wells.\" The\nreasonable inference from this statement would be, that the MS. is in\nthe Cathedral Library there; but from what I have recently been able to\nascertain, through the kindness of a gentleman at Wells, it would appear\nthat Kidder's autobiography is not in the Cathedral Library, nor in the\nhands of any individual in that place or its neighbourhood: the\nprobability therefore is, that it is in some private collection; and as\nI believe it contains many particulars connected with the bishop's\npersonal history, which Mr. Cassan has passed over, I shall be glad if\nany of your readers can inform me where it is to be met with. The\nbishop's birthplace has been left in some doubt; it has been stated that\nhe was born at Lewes, at Brighthelmstone, and in Suffolk; in the memoir\nreferred to, the question is set at rest, for he says that he was born\nat East Grinstead, Sussex, in 1633. While upon this subject I would beg\ninformation as to the name and family of the bishop's wife, who was\nkilled with him in the great storm of Nov. 1703. I learn from the\nbaptismal registers of their children that her christian name was\n_Elizabeth_.\n\n    JAS. CROSBY.\n\n  Strantham.\n\n_Shrine of Edward the Confessor._--Is there any print or drawing, or any\nwritten description, which would show the condition of the _shrine of\nKing Edward the Confessor_ previously to the great Rebellion, or in any\nway throw light upon the various changes, mutilations, and restorations\nit has undergone, beyond such as is to be derived from the ordinary\nhistories of the abbey?\n\n    GEO. S. SCOTT.\n\n\"_Wise above that which is written._\"--Can any of your correspondents\ninform me where the words originally occur, \"Wise above that which is\nwritten?\" I was for a long time under the impression that they were\ntaken from one of St. Paul's Epistles, or at least were to be found\nsomewhere in the Bible; but, after having searched Cruden diligently,\nthough ineffectually, I am pretty sure they are not to be found in Holy\nWrit.\n\nI am convinced that most persons share in the opinion I formerly held,\nand I have often seen them quoted in sermons just as if they were a\npassage of Scripture, though, of course, without giving any reference.\n\n    R. C. C.\n\n  Oxon.\n\n\"_Hoffman_,\" _a Tragedy by Chettle._--Can any correspondent of the \"N. &\nQ.\" throw any light upon the source of the plot of _Hoffman, a Tragedy_,\nby Henry Chettle, 4to. 1631? The scene is laid at Dantzig in Prussia;\nthe hero revenges his father's death, which was caused by the Duke of\nL\u00fcneburg and other princes, by means of a red-hot iron crown placed on\nhis head. He kills the son of the Duke of L\u00fcneburg in the same manner,\nand assumes his character; is adopted by the Duke of Prussia, and\navenges himself by the murder of the duke, and others of his father's\njudges; is finally discovered, and put to death by means of the iron\ncrown.\n\nI have in vain searched the German chronicle of the period: from the\ngeographical localities being well preserved, as well as the German\nnames (a peculiarity in the old drama), the presumption is, that it has\nbeen taken from an historical source. Mention is made in Menzel's\n_History of Germany_, of a Count Jordan who suffered death by means of\nan iron crown; and in Goldsmith's _Traveller_, the line of--\n\n      \"Luke's iron crown and Damon's bed of steel,\"\n\nis illustrated by a note in Bohn's edition of that author, of two\nbrothers, George and Luke Leck, who had created a rebellion in Hungary,\nand of one of them suffering death in this manner; but neither of these\ntwo cases apply at all to the subject.\n\n    H. B. L.\n\n_Inverted Commas._--When were inverted commas first introduced to\nindicate quotations in writing?\n\n    S. W. RIX.\n\n_Quotations Wanted._--If the subjoined Queries could be inserted\n_early_, it would greatly oblige me. I want them for a work, of which\nthe first proofs are now before me.\n\nI should be glad if any of the readers of \"N. & Q.\" could refer me to\nthe precise places from whence the following quotations are made:--\n\n  1. \"Qui vult plen\u00e8 et sapid\u00e8 Christi verba intelligere, oportet ut\n  totam vitam suam Illi studeat conformare.\"\n\n  2. \"Gaudium suum ob renascentes literas non sine metu exprimet,\n  unus scrupulus habet animum meum, ne sub obtentu prisc\u00e6 literatur\u00e6\n  caput erigere tentet paganismus.... Optarim frigidas istas\n  argutias (human\u00e6 eloquenti\u00e6 logicarumque subtilitatum) amputari\n  prorsus, Christumque illum simplicem et purum restitui, penitusque\n  humanis mentibus inseri.\"\n\n  _Erasmus._ Query--where?\n\n  3. \"Cujus vita despicitur, restat ut ejus pr\u00e6dicatio contemnatur.\"\n\n  _S. Gregory._\n\n    W. D--N.\n\n_Deacons, a Phrase used by Foxe._--In the martyrology of John Foxe we\nread--\n\n  \"King Edward died, the world being unworthy of him: the Duke of\n  Northumberland came down to Cambridge with an army of men, having\n  commission to proclaim Lady Jane queen.... The duke sent for\n  Doctor Sandys, being vice-chancellor, for Doctor Parker, for\n  Doctor Bill, and Master Leaver to sup with him. Amongst other\n  speeches he said, Masters, pray for us, that we speed well; if\n  not, you shall be made bishops, and we deacons. And even so it\n  came to pass: Doctor Parker and Doctor Sandys were made bishops;\n  and he and Sir John Gates, who were then at the table, were made\n  deacons, ere it was long after, on the Tower-hill.\"\n\nI should be glad to know the allusion here, and how men who were\nexecuted could be said to be thereby made deacons.\n\n    W. D--N.\n\n_The Count de Vordac._--When did the Count de Vordac, a general in the\narmy of the Emperor of Germany, die? His memoirs are scarce; the copy\nwhich I have is reprinted at Paris in 1709. He was an Italian, bred for\nthe church, which he relinquished for the profession of arms. He was\nborn about 1660; his memoirs break off abruptly in 1695 when in midlife,\nand he was serving under our William III. He closes his memoirs with an\naccount of his being at the siege of Namur, which he says cost his own\nparty dear, and himself more particularly. It is very probable he fell\nat this siege if he continued his narrative while in the camp. His\nmemoirs are curious and very entertaining. I find there that he was much\nesteemed at Vienna, and his conduct in rescuing the wife of one of the\nGerman nobility from a horrible imprisonment with the corpse of the man\nof whom her lord was jealous, is full of interest as well as horror,\nfrom the mode in which it was accomplished. He was personally acquainted\nwith William III., who entrusted him with important commands. His\nnarrative makes the reader anxious to know something of his subsequent\nhistory, if he were not a victim to the sword before the close of the\nwar of which he spoke.\n\n    CYRUS REDDING.\n\n\nMinor Queries Answered.\n\n_Hoare's Charity._--Inside the cover of a copy of _The Whole Duty of\nMan_ (8vo., London, 1727, John Baskett) now before me, is pasted a slip\nof paper, containing a coat of arms, \"Sable, a double eagle expanded or\n(?) in a bordure argent,\" surrounded by mantling, and surmounted by\nhelmet and crest; below this is the following:--\n\n  \"The gift of HENRY HOARE, Esq., who died March 12, 1724-5, aged\n  forty-seven, and by his last Will and Testament hath vested the\n  su[=m]e of two thousand pounds in trustees, who are to apply the\n  yearly interest, rents, and profits arising out of the said\n  su[=m]e to the purchasing, dispensing, and giving away, yearly,\n  Bibles, Common Prayer-Books, and such other books as are intirely\n  agreeable to the principles and doctrine of the Church of England,\n  as now by law established, and most conducive to the advancement\n  of Christian faith and piety in the world.\"\n\nI shall be glad to learn whether this charity is still bestowed, and\nwhere: any particulars relative to the original donor will be\nacceptable. Permit me to add the Query,--Is mine the first edition of\n_The Whole Duty of Man_? if not, when was it first published, and who\nwas the author?\n\n    W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.\n\n  [Mr. Henry Hoare was a son of Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of\n  London, and an intimate friend of that worthy man, Robert Nelson,\n  author of the _Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church\n  of England_; a work which Dr. Johnson recommends as being a most\n  valuable help to devotion, and as having had the greatest sale of\n  any book ever printed in England, except the Bible. Mr. Hoare's\n  name occurs in several parts of Robert Nelson's will, viz. \"I give\n  and bequeath to Mr. Henry Hoare, of London, goldsmith, one of my\n  executors, 200_l._, upon trust to distribute 100_l._, part\n  thereof, in such manner as shall be directed by the Society for\n  Promoting Christian Knowledge; and the other 100_l._ to be\n  employed by him in promoting parochial libraries.... I give and\n  bequeath to Mrs. Jane Hoare, wife of the said Mr. Henry Hoare, two\n  pair of little silver candlesticks for her closet.\" It is also\n  worthy a note in our pages that the first legacy received by the\n  Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was that of Robert\n  Nelson's, which is thus entered on the minutes of the\n  Society:--\"3d Feb. 1714-15. Mr. Hoare reported, that Mr. Nelson,\n  lately deceased, had ordered him by his will, as one of his\n  executors, to pay 100_l._ to the Society for promoting their\n  designs; and also 50_l._ towards supporting the charity-school at\n  St. George's Chapel.\" The name of Mr. Henry Hoare occurs among the\n  list of subscribers in the first volume of Jeremy Collier's\n  _Ecclesiastical History_, fol. 1708; and some of his letters to\n  John Strype, the historian, will be found among the Additional\n  MSS. in the British Museum, No. 5853. No biographical notice of\n  Mr. Henry Hoare appears to have been preserved. See Herbert's\n  _History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies_, vol. ii. p. 285.,\n  for a notice of his gift to the Goldsmiths' Company.\n\n  The first edition of _The Whole Duty of Man_ was published in\n  1657. Like the enigmatical Junius, its authorship still remains a\n  problem; but we believe it is now generally supposed to be written\n  either by Lady Packington or Archbishop Sterne. Our correspondent\n  will find the question discussed in the Rev. W. B. Hawkins's\n  Introduction to Pickering's edition of this work, published in\n  1842; as well as in the valuable communication of J. E. B. Mayor,\n  Esq., of Marlborough College, in our second volume, p. 292.]\n\n_Dr. Sacheverell's \"Sermon at Derby.\"_--Can any of your correspondents\nfurnish me with information as to the various editions which were\npublished of Dr. Henry Sacheverell's _Sermon at Derby_ in 1709? I am\nanxious to ascertain how many editions were issued, with their dates and\nother particulars.\n\n    L. J.\n\n  [We think our correspondent will not be able to obtain the\n  information he requires, owing to the great demand at the time for\n  the two Sermons for which the Doctor was prosecuted. Mr. Lathbury\n  states (_History of the Nonjurors_, p. 237) that \"of the Sermon\n  'Perils among False Brethren,' no less than forty thousand copies\n  were sold in a few weeks.\" We have also now before us two copies\n  of the Derby Sermon, both printed in 1709, 8vo., but no intimation\n  on the title-page of their being different editions, which they\n  evidently are, on an examination of their typographical\n  composition. The Bodleian contains a quarto edition of the latter\n  Sermon, 1710.]\n\n_Lucas Lossius._--I have an old 12mo. volume with the following\ntitle-page:\n\n  \"Annotationes Scholastic\u00e6 _in Evangelia Dominicalia et_ ea qu\u00e6 in\n  Festis IESV CHRISTI, et Sanctorum ejus pr\u00e6cipuis, leguntur in\n  Ecclesia, _per totius Anni circulum_: non inutile futur\u00e6\n  puerilibus Scholis.\n\n  \"_His adject\u00e6 sunt in singula Evangelia Disticha, Argumenta,\n  Doctrin\u00e6 Summari\u00e6, Loci et_ _Ob_jectiones pr\u00e6terea, cum brevibus\n  ac veris earum solutionibus Dialecticis, exercend\u00e6 adolescenti\u00e6\n  causa.\n\n  \"_Collecta et dictata \u00e0 Luca Lossio, in Schola Lun\u00e6burgensi._\n\n      \"(*) [right pointing hand symbol] (*)\n\n  \"Adiecimus et iam recens erudita Evangeliorum Dominicalium et\n  Festivalium Disticha, inund\u00e6 memori\u00e6 causa, \u00e0 Vuendelino Helbachio\n  conscripta.\n\n      \"(*)\n\n      \"_Franc. Apud H\u00e6red. Christ. Egen._\n      M.D.LXXVIII.\"\n\nThe words, and parts of words, in Italics are rubricated.\n\nAs I live at a distance from any large library, and have consulted in\nvain such biographical works as my own scanty shelves afford, I shall be\ngreatly obliged to any of your correspondents who have access to our\npublic libraries, to inform me who Lucas Lossius was, and where any\naccount of him may be met with? Also, who Wendelinus Helbachius,\nStigelius, and Bernardus Bomgardius were, whose \"Disticha\" are\ninterspersed throughout the volume? In the \"Epistola Nuncupatoria\"\nmention is made of \"Joannis Stigelij, Poet\u00e6 clarissimi, nostra \u00e6tate,\"\nand of \"M. Bernardi Bomgardij, Ludimoderatoris Vlzeniani;\" but I cannot\nfind any account of these worthies.\n\nI ought to add that each Sunday or Saint's Day is preceded by a curious\nwoodcut representing the subject of which the Gospel treats.\n\n    R. BN.\n\n  [Lucas Lossius, of Lunenburg, was a Lutheran divine and\n  schoolmaster, well skilled in music, who published at Nuremberg,\n  in 1553, _Erotemata Music\u00e6 practic\u00e6_, and together with\n  Melancthon, the Lutheran ritual, _Psalmodia, seu Cantica sacra\n  veteris ecclesi\u00e6 selecta_. At the period of the Reformation, the\n  Lutherans preserved more of the ancient hymns and music of the\n  church in their services than the Calvinists. Some account of\n  Lossius is given in Hawkins's _History of Music_, vol. iii. p.\n  102. There is an edition of _Annotationes Scholastic\u00e6_, with the\n  curious woodcuts printed in the year 1560, at Leipsic.]\n\n_The \"Athenian Oracle.\"_--Can you inform me who were the authors of the\n\"Athenian Oracle,\" or, in other words, the members of the \"Learned\nSociety\" who conducted this work? You may feel some interest in it as a\nkind of prototype and progenitor of your own \"N. & Q.\" Your work, as I\napprehend, does not profess to solve and answer so many nice puzzling\npoints in divinity, philosophy, love, &c., as that of the _Oracle_,\nwhich furnishes us with a curious picture of the wants, opinions, and\nmanners of the age in which it appeared; but _yours_, though neither\ndipping so deeply nor ranging so widely, ought to be highly prized as\nthe exponent of the demands of our times more improved, enlightened, and\nnot less inquisitive, and as affording to some of your correspondents\nfar from the great metropolis of letters, a ready channel for\ninformation, much to their instruction and pleasure. Pardoning this\ndigression, the copy of the _Athenian Oracle_ I possess is in 3 vols.\n8vo., purporting to be an entire collection of all the valuable\nquestions and answers in the old Athenian Mercuries, &c., by a member of\nthe Athenian Society; London, printed for Andrew Bell at the Cross Keys\nand Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks Market, the second volume 1703, the\nfirst and third 1704. The copy bears an autograph on the fly-leaf; \"Ex\nLibris Thomas Browne, Ex Dono plurim; M'ri Guil Carstairs Acad.\nEdinburg. primarij professoris Cui omnia (two words obscure) Ed. Nov.\n23, 1706.\" The historical celebrity of Carstairs is a _small feather in\nthe cap_ of the copy, but unimportant to some farther knowledge from you\nof the book and its authors, the former having often supplied much\nrational fireside entertainment.\n\n    N.\n\n  Glasgow.\n\n  [_The Athenian Gazette_, afterwards called _The Athenian Mercury_,\n  swelled at last to twenty volumes folio; these becoming scarce, a\n  collection of the most valuable questions and answers was\n  reprinted under the title of _The Athenian Oracle_, in 4 vols.\n  8vo. The fourth volume contains a Supplement, to which is prefixed\n  \"The History of the Athenian Society,\" and an \"Essay upon\n  Learning.\" It was projected by the celebrated John Dunton, who\n  says, \"My first project was the _Athenian Gazette_. As the\n  Athenian Society had their first meeting in my brain, so it has\n  been kept ever since religiously secret: but I will now oblige the\n  reader with a true discovery of the _question-project_, and of the\n  several persons that engaged in it.\" These were his\n  brother-in-law, the Rev. Samuel Wesley and Mr. Richard Sault, who\n  were occasionally assisted by Dr. Norris. The work was also\n  countenanced by several of the most eminent writers of the age;\n  and was honoured in particular with a commendatory poem by Swift.\n  Some curious notices respecting Dunton and his numerous literary\n  projects will be found in the _Life and Errors of John Dunton_, 2\n  vols. 8vo., 1818; and in Nichols' _Literary Anecdotes_, vol. v.\n  pp. 59-83.]\n\n\n\n\nReplies.\n\n\nFRENCH REVOLUTIONS FORETOLD.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 100.)\n\nA remarkable instance of foresight relative to the fate of some of the\nFrench sovereigns appears in an epistle of Erasmus to King Francis I.:\n\n  \"Pr\u00e6texunt fidei titulum, sed revera aliud agunt; moliuntur\n  tyrannidem, etiam in capita Principum. Huc tendunt per cuniculos.\n  Nisi Princeps ipsorum voluntati per omnia paruerit, dicetur fautor\n  H\u00e6reticorum; et destitui poterit per Ecclesiam; hoc est, per\n  aliquos conjuratos Pseudomonachos et Pseudotheologos.\"\n\nRicher, Doctor of the Sorbonne, after having alluded to this passage,\nuses the following very striking language:\n\n  \"C\u00e6terum regno Franci\u00e6 his artibus everso, (quod omen Deus\n  avertat,) reliquis Monarchiis Christianis qu\u00e6 supererunt eadem\n  manet pestis; ut prophetia Apostoli, _de iniquitatis mysterio_, et\n  politicarum Potestatum ruina atque interitu, complementum\n  sortiatur; cujus pestis et ruin\u00e6 complementum in dies singulos\n  Bull\u00e6 Coen\u00e6 Domini et Directorii Inquisitorum arcanis promovetur.\n  _Tumque demum, in fine s\u00e6culorum, seditiones, conspirationes, et\n  bella plusquam civilia fervebunt, propter Potestatum s\u00e6culi\n  exarmatorum imbecillitatem atque impotentiam; qu\u00e6 nec sibi ipsis,\n  nec aliis, sufficienter consulere poterunt; quia omnes imperare,\n  et nemo parere volet_: quibus de bellis consule caput 24.\n  Matth\u00e6i.\"\n\n  _Apologia pro Joanne Gersonio_, pp. 203-4. Lugd. Bat. 1676.\n\n    R. G.\n\n\nGRIMESDYKE.\n\n(Vol. iv. _passim._)\n\nNAUTICUS is informed that in Norfolk one of the hundreds, or\nsubdivisions of the county, is called _Grimshoo_ or _Grimshow_, after\n(as it is supposed) a Danish leader of the name of _Grime_ or _Gryme_.\nHe was undoubtedly either _Pr\u00e6situs Comitatus_ or _Centuri\u00e6 Pr\u00e6positus_\nof that part of the country, and gave his name to the hundred as\nhundred-greeve, which name it still retains. In about the centre of this\nhundred is a very curious Danish encampment, in a semicircular form,\nconsisting of about twelve acres.\n\nIn this space are a great number of large deep pits, joined in a regular\nmanner, one near to another, in form of a quincunx, the largest in the\ncentre, where the general's or commander's tent was placed. These pits\nare so deep and numerous as to be able to conceal a very great army. At\nthe east end of this entrenchment is a large tumulus, pointing towards\nThetford, from which it is about five or six miles distant; and which\nmight possibly have served as a watch tower, or place of signal: and\nhere the hundred court used to be called. This place also is known by\nthe name of _The Holes_, or _Grimes-graves_. This part of the country,\nbeing open, was a great seat of war between the Saxons and Danes, as\nappears from many tumuli throughout this hundred, erected over the\ngraves of leaders who fell in battle; or as tokens of victory, to show\nhow far they had led their armies and conquered.--See _Blomfield_ in\nloco.\n\n    J. F. F.\n\n  West Newton.\n\nTo the various instances already recorded in \"N. & Q.,\" of ancient\nearthworks having received the name \"Grimesdyke,\" the following may be\nadded.\n\nOne on Cranbourne Chase, Dorset; three in Berkshire, viz., one near\nSilchester, one near Oare, where also are Grimsbury, and Grimsbury\nForest; another, intersected by the Thames, near Wallingford; another\nnear Witney, Oxfordshire.\n\nThe great fossa and vallum of Lollius Urbicus in Scotland, is called\nGraham's and Grime's Dyke. The frequency of its application to various\nearthworks in such distant parts of the kingdom may perhaps be\nconsidered sufficient evidence that the name is not derived from that of\nany landed proprietor, as suggested by one of your correspondents. I\nhave no doubt the derivation suggested by your first correspondent,\nNAUTICUS, is the true one, viz., that it is of Saxon origin, signifying\nWizard, or the Evil Spirit, which indicates, not only that these\nearthworks were in existence in Saxon times, but that their origin was\neven then so remote and mysterious that they were supposed to be the\nwork of supernatural agency. Grimesdyke, described by NAUTICUS as\nbeginning near Berkhamsted, Herts (not Hants, as misprinted in \"N. &\nQ.\"), and running across the Chiltern hills, is mentioned, _temp._ Henry\nIII., in a charter of Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, granting Ashridge to the\nfraternity of the Bonhommes:\n\n      \"Usque ad quoddam fossatum quod dicitur Grymesdich.\"\n\nIf this should meet the eyes of my friend NAUTICUS, wherever in the\nbroad seas he may happen to be, he will be glad to hear that this\nextensive earthwork of antiquity is now undergoing the investigation of\nan Arch\u00e6ological Society, of which he is an esteemed member. I may\nfurther remark that the family name of Grimesdike is doubtless from some\nancient place so named, and not these several places from the family.\nThe armorial bearings of the family would at once suggest this\nconclusion. I have not found the name given to any ancient work in\nWales, which of course would not be the case, if it be of Saxon origin.\n\n    W. H. K.\n\n\nPOET REFERRED TO BY BACON.\n\n(Vol. iv., p. 257.)\n\nThe poet referred to by Bacon is not the author of the _Mirror for\nMagistrates_, but ARIOSTO, whose _Orlando Furioso_ was then popular in\nthe recent translation of Sir John Harrington. The allegory will be\nfound at the close of the thirty-fourth and commencement of the\nthirty-fifth books:\n\n      \"Further, the Duke did in that place behold,\n      That when the threads were spent that had been spun,\n      Their names in brass, in silver, or in gold,\n      Were wrote, and so into great heaps were done;\n      From which a man that seemed wondrous old,\n      With whole loads of these names away did run,\n      And turn'd again us fast, the way he went,\n      Nor e'er weary was, nor ever spent.\n\n      \"A heap of names within his cloak he bore,\n      And in the river did them all unlade;\n      Or, to say truth, away he cast them all\n      Into the stream which Lethe we do call.\n\n      \"He hurl'd therein full many a precious name,\n      Where millions soon into the bottom sank,\n      Hardly in every thousand one was found,\n      That was not in the gulf quite lost and drown'd.\n\n      \"Yet all about great store of birds there flew\n      As vulture, carrion crows, and chatt'ring pyes,\n      And many more of sundry kind and hue,\n      Making lewd harmony with their loud cries;\n      These when the careless wretch the treasure threw\n      Into that stream, did all they could devise,\n      What with their talons some, and some with beak,\n      To save some names, but find themselves too weak.\n\n      \"Only two swans sustain'd so great a poise,\n      In spite of him that sought them all to drown,\n      These two do still take up the names they list,\n      And bare them safe away, and never misst.\n\n      \"They caught them ere they to the stream arriv'd,\n      Then went they, with the names they had recover'd,\n      Up to a hill, that stood the water nigh,\n      On which a stately church was builded high.\n\n      \"This place is sacred to immortal Fame,\n      And evermore a nymph stood at the gate\n      And took the names ... ...\n      Then all about the church she hang'd the same\n      Before the sacred image, in such rate\n      As they might then well be assur'd for ever,\n      Spite of that wretch, in safety to persever.\n\n      \"But as the swans that there still flying are,\n      With written names, unto that sacred port,\n      So here Historians learn'd, and Poets rare,\n      Preserve then in clear fame and good report.\"\n\n    S. W. SINGER.\n\n\nJOHNSON'S HOUSE, BOLT COURT.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 176.)\n\nA correspondent discussing the question of the site, or of the continued\nexistence, of the house in Bolt Court in which Johnson lived and died,\nmentions that one person now living called there during the last illness\nof our sublime moralist. I believe he refers to Mr. Rogers.\n\nThe fact is that there is also a lady, an inhabitant of Piccadilly,\nViscountess Keith, who not only grew from childhood to the age of twenty\nin the constant association of the Doctor, but who is also mentioned by\nMadame D'Arblay as having been a visitor at Bolt Court in 1784. Whether\nthe noble lady referred to, at the extraordinary age she has reached\n(she was the eldest Miss Thrale), could solve from memory your friend's\ndoubts as to this classical locality, I know not.\n\n    M. A.\n\nI am in a position to assure MR. EDWIN LECHLADE that Dr. Johnson's house\nwas burnt down in 1819, the premises having been long previously\noccupied by the most eminent English printer of his own or any other\ntime, Mr. Thomas Bensley, to whose energy the world is indebted for the\nperfection of the printing machine.\n\nThe house of Johnson's friend, Mr. Allen the printer, was not destroyed\nby the disastrous fire which reduced to ashes the Doctor's residence;\nindeed only one corner of it was injured; and, with that exception, it\nstands as it was built shortly after the Great Fire of London.\n\nMr. Allen's house stands at the head of Bolt Court; Dr. Johnson's stood\nto its left. On the site of the latter was erected, after the\nbefore-mentioned fire, a spacious printing-office, and both are now in\nthe occupation of Mr. Tyler.\n\nThe _Gentleman's Magazine_ (1819, part i., p. 575.), in giving an\naccount of this fire, says in a note:\n\n  \"It may be interesting to some of our readers to know that the\n  house in Bolt Court, formerly the residence of Dr. Johnson, formed\n  part of Mr. Bensley's office, and is now entirely destroyed. A\n  view of it is preserved in the _European Magazine_ for 1810.\"\n\nThe _European Magazine_ (1810, vol. lvii. pp. 353-4.) contains, besides\nthe view above-mentioned, an article to which your correspondent may be\nreferred, in confirmation of the fact that the house occupied by Dr.\nJohnson was the one I have referred to, and was not exactly opposite the\n\"Dr. Johnson tavern.\" The view, I am told by one who well recollects the\nold house, and is a great lover of Johnsoniana, is a correct\nrepresentation of it.\n\nTimperley's _Dictionary of Printers and Printing_, also, in relating the\noccurrence of the fire of Messrs. Bensley's premises, states that a part\nof it was formerly the residence of Dr. Johnson.\n\n    TEE BEE.\n\nIn answer to the Query of EDWIN LECHLADE, being in a position to give\nyou unquestionable information, I will, to quote your correspondent's\nwords, let the question be set at rest. Of the house in which Dr.\nJohnson lived and died, not one brick is left upon another. It was\ndestroyed totally by fire in 1819; and the partywall between that and\nMr. Allen's house alone remains, being the west wall of that large\nresidence. When up Bolt Court, you turn to the left through an iron gate\nleading to a flight of stone steps to the printing-office now occupied\nby Mr. Tyler, and _where those stone steps are_, stood the doctor's\nresidence. I know of no relic that was saved except the _scraper_, which\nwas distorted into a curious shape by the action of the fire, and being\nfirmly fixed in a heavy stone, it lay about the yard for years.\n\nThe late well-known printer Mr. Bensley succeeded Mr. Allen there in\nbusiness in 1783, going at once to reside in his house _next door_ to\nDr. Johnson, whom, of course, as a close neighbour, he often saw, and\nwhose funeral he witnessed. After the Doctor's death the\nRev.--Stockdale, of the Church of England, occupied the house; next to\nhim it was tenanted by a Rev.--Moir, (I believe) a Presbyterian; next,\nby one Copley, an old tailor, whom I have teased many times when a boy;\nfor some of us youngsters having overheard him once in a soliloquy\ngroaning, \"Dear me--and the buttons all wrong!\" on passing him it became\na _mot_ among us expressed sufficiently loud to reach his ears, when he\nwould look unutterable things. He was a worthy but somewhat cross old\nman, in very respectable circumstances. His was the last family which\never occupied the premises as a dwelling-house; I knew him there for\nabout twenty years. During his abode the freehold was put up for sale by\nauction, as well as of Allen's house; Mr. Bensley purchased both. This\nwas somewhere about 1804-1807. But as Copley had a lease, he did not\nvacate till about 1814, when Mr. Bensley appropriated the two houses to\nhis printing purposes (and there, it may not be unworthy of notice, was\nsteam-printing first practised),--so occupied the said premises were,\ntill destroyed by fire in 1819. Mr. Bensley's eldest surviving son\nsucceeded him in 1820, but did not, in re-constructing the premises,\nbuild on the site of Dr. Johnson's house, though _a part_ thereof has\nsince been covered. The map--a very fragile, worm-eaten affair--shows\nthe exact dimensions of the house, the place where the walls stood, &c.\nThe property remains in Mr. Bensley's family. I have often heard Mr.\nBensley describe the Doctor and his funeral.\n\nThe print in the _European Magazine_ is an accurate representation of\nthe appearance of this ancient and gloomy house in the dark corner; but\nit had many comforts, and \"a large garden,\" in which I have been; it is\nnow all built upon, and has been covered for nearly half a century. Some\nyet living may have visited Dr. Johnson there: I have often conversed\nwith others who are dead that did--the late Mr. Bowyer Nichols, Mr.\nCradock (of Leicestershire), Mr. A. Strahan, and others mentioned in the\nDoctor's works, when gratifying their curiosity by showing them over the\nhouse; and it has fallen to my lot to do so to many literary characters.\nIndeed as to the place where Dr. Johnson lived and died, there is no\nmore room for doubt than as to where old London bridge stood. I have\nmany times been with the late Mr. James Boswell (son of Dr. Johnson's\nbiographer) in the rather dismal parlour--which spot, it is not to be\nwondered at, had a peculiar attraction for _him_.\n\nThere is _no_ kind of foundation for assigning Dr. Johnson's residence\nto that where Cobbett lived or wrote--it was a mere joke. As to the\n\"Johnson's Head\" tavern, it was an upholsterer's manufactory at the time\nof Dr. Johnson's death. I myself knew an old man of the name of _Hale_\nresiding in it, and carrying on that occupation so early as 1800, who\nhad doubtless been there before Dr. Johnson's death; his son followed\nhim, and continued till about 1826-1830 in those premises. By the same\ntoken (as Paddy says), while now addressing \"N. & Q.\" (though nearly 300\nmiles from the spot) I am writing at a table Hale sen. made for me in\nthat house in 1818.\n\nThe greater part of Mr. Bensley's extensive premises was _twice_ burned\ndown; but on neither occasion was Allen's house destroyed. It yet\nstands, though so altered and improved as not to resemble the original\nedifice. Mr. Tyler's counting-house, by the iron gate at the S. W.\ncorner, however, is left just as used by Allen (except a passage cut off\nat the end), the panelling, &c., just the same, being the _only_ part\nremaining unaltered: there was then, of course, no door out to the stone\nsteps, as there stood Dr. Johnson's parlour. In this counting-house, no\ndoubt, Dr. Johnson often was; and in the adjoining parlour he often fed.\nIt was a very old-fashioned room, as I well remember it upwards of half\na century ago. His better parlour, or drawing-room, was large and\nhandsomely furnished for the period, with three windows, and two ancient\npier-glasses fixed to tables, gilt and adorned according to the taste of\nthe times. Mr. Bensley bought these and a few other household matters,\nwhich remained _in statu quo_ till 1805-1808.\n\nI have seen some prints of the inside of Dr. Johnson's house, which do\nnot give a very accurate idea of the appearance of the rooms, &c.; but,\nI repeat it, the view of the front in the _European Magazine_ is\nexcellent.\n\nThe celebrity of Dr. Johnson may induce you to insert this, which,\nwithout that influence, I am aware would be too tedious.\n\n    B. B.\n\n\nCOOPER'S MINIATURE OF CROMWELL.\n\n(Vol. iv., p. 368.; Vol. v., p. 189. &c.)\n\nIt is only within a few months that the existence of the \"N. & Q.\"\nbecame known to me. It seemed likely to be such an useful and amusing\npublication, from the description I received of it from a literary\nfriend (now appointed vice-consul to the Isle of Mytilene), that I lost\nno time in becoming a subscriber; and I am rejoiced to add, that my\nexpectations have not been disappointed, though I have not had time to\nread the Notes or attend to the Queries as fully as I could have wished\ntill very lately.\n\nHowever, I have now observed amongst the Replies, Vol. v., p. 189., a\nNote relating to the miniature of Cromwell by Cooper, with several\nreferences to other Notes and Queries upon the same subject, originating\nwith a Query from LORD BRAYBROOKE in Vol. iv., p. 368. If the following\nappears to you worthy of insertion, pray use it.\n\nI have a beautiful miniature of Oliver Cromwell, painted with very great\ncare, and which has every appearance of being an original by Cooper. I\nremember it all my life in my father's (Lord Holland's) room at Holland\nHouse; and on his death in 1840, it was left by him to his friend and\nmine, John Allen, late master of Dulwich College, who died in 1843, and\nleft it with his books to me.\n\nCromwell is painted in armour, with a remarkably clean, plain,\nturned-down shirt collar; his usual countenance, somewhat stern, but\nfull of the expression of good sense and intelligence; reddish hair, and\na small portion of it under the lower lip. On the back is written in my\nfather's handwriting:\n\n  \"This miniature was given to me when at school by Lady Diana\n  Beauclerk, who assured me that it was an original by Cooper, and\n  that it had been long in the possession of the Beauclerk family,\n  who had it from Charles II. (Signed) VASSALL HOLLAND.\"\n\nLady D. Beauclerk, herself distinguished as an artist, was the daughter\nof the Duke of St. Albans, a lineal descendant of Charles II.\n\nThere is an engraving from a miniature of Cromwell in Carlyle's life of\nhim, said to be in the possession of Archdeacon Berners, which I believe\nto be also by Cooper. It is larger than mine, and even better painted. I\nhave seen it, but cannot recollect where or when.\n\n    C. FOX, MAJOR-GENERAL.\n\n  Addison Road.\n\nP.S.--I have left my miniature with my friend Mr. Domenic Colnaghi at\nPall Mall East, for the inspection of any of your correspondents. It\nwill be there till the _31st March_.\n\n\nTHE QUEEN OF THE ISLE OF MAN.\n\n(Vol. v., p. 132.)\n\nIn an interesting communication from MR. WM. SIDNEY GIBSON in a late\nNumber of your publication there occurs the following statement, to\nwhich I beg to add a few remarks. He says:\n\n  \"After the death of Magnus, the island was seized by Alexander\n  III. of Scotland. A daughter and heiress of Reginald sued for it\n  against John Baliol, before Edward I. of England, as lord\n  paramount of Man.\n\n  \"_Rot. Parl._, 31 Edw. I.\"\n\nAnd farther on he states:\n\n  \"From sundry records it appears that Edward II. and Edward III.\n  committed its custody to various persons, and the latter at length\n  conferred his right to it upon William Montacute, Earl of\n  Salisbury, in consideration, probably, of that valiant earl having\n  by his arms regained the island from the Scots, who had resumed\n  possession, and of the circumstance that his grandmother, the wife\n  of Simon de Montacute, was sister and heiress of one of the former\n  kings of Man, and related to the lady who had claimed it as her\n  inheritance on the death of Magnus.\"\n\nNow, I think MR. GIBSON, on reflection, will agree with me in concluding\nthat the wife of Simon de Montacute, and the lady who claimed the island\non the death of Magnus, were one and the same person. There is no\ndocument, I believe, of the kind he refers to, of the \"31st\" of Edw. I.;\nbut in the \"21st\" of Edw. I., which date is probably intended, there is\namongst the Scotch Rolls (anno 21 Edw. I. m. 4.) a citation from Edward\nI., as supreme lord of Scotland, directed to John Baliol, King of Scots,\nto answer the complaint of _Aufrica_, cousin and heiress of Magnus, late\nKing of Man, &c. This is in the year 1292-3; and a few years later we\nagain meet with _Aufrica_, for amongst the ancient charters in the\nBritish Museum is one marked \"V. 73.\" It is a deed by which \"_Aufrica_,\nheiress of the land of Man,\" gives up her right therein \"to her noble\nand potent husband, Simon de Montagu.\" This deed is dated at\nBridgewater, on Thursday the Vigil of the Annunciation, 1305; _i.e._\nMarch 24, 1306.\n\nIn this charter (V. 73.) she calls herself _Aufrica de Connought_: and\nthis is rather curious, for in a volume of pedigrees in the British\nMuseum, in the handwriting of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald (Bib. Harl.\n807.), she is said to be the daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galloway\n(Galway?), and Queen of Man. _Galway_ it is in another MS. in the same\ncollection (MSS. Harl. 1074. folio 22.), where she is styled \"Aufrica,\nReyne de Man,\" and daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galway. In both these\nMSS. she is said to be the wife of Simon de Montagu, who is styled \"Roy\nde Man par sa femme.\"\n\n    F. C. M.\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Old Scots March_ (Vol. v., p. 104.).--The following quotation from a\n\"Dissertation on Scottish Music,\" by Mr. Tytler, of Woodhouselee (the\ngrandfather of the historian), contained in the _Transactions of the\nSociety of Scottish Antiquaries_, vol. i. p. 486., although not an\nanswer to his Query, may perhaps prove interesting to J.M.:--\n\n  \"To the wandering harpers we are certainly indebted for that\n  species of music which is now scarcely known, I mean _the Port_.\n  Almost every great family had a _Port_ that went by the name of\n  the family. Of the few that are still preserved are, _Port\n  Lennox_, _Port Gordon_, _Port Seton_, and _Port Athole_, which are\n  all of them excellent in their kind. The _Port_ is not of the\n  martial strain of the _march_, as some have conjectured; those\n  above named being all in the plaintive strain, and modulated for\n  the harp.\n\n  \"The _pibroch_, the march or battle-tune of the _Highland clans_,\n  with the different strains introduced of the _coronich_, &c., is\n  fitted for the _bagpipe_ only: its measure, in the _pas grave_ of\n  the _Highland piper_, equipped with his flag and military ensigns,\n  when marching up to battle, is stately and animating, rising often\n  to a degree of fury.\"\n\nAlthough anxious to do so, I have never yet been able to meet with any\nof the _ports_ here referred to.\n\n    E. N.\n\n_Elizabeth, Equestrian Figure of_ (Vol. iv., p. 231.).--The \"unnatural\ngait\" which MR. LAWRENCE inquires about, is known in Spain as the \"paso\nCastiliano;\" and supplies the place of the more familiar trot, which the\nSpanish horses are rarely broken into.\n\nI did not see the piece of plate alluded to, but probably the horse was\na Spanish (Andalusian) jennet, which would account for the peculiarity\nof the pace. I cannot explain how this step is taught, but Spanish\nhorses fall into it at once on being touched with the spur, and\nsimultaneously curbed; and they perform long journeys thus, at the rate\nof five miles an hour, with little fatigue to themselves or their\nriders. Does not the dromedary also _pace_ in the same way?\n\n    G. W. T.\n\n_Meaning of Stickle_ (Vol. iv., p. 209.).--MR. RELTON'S supposition that\nthe word _stickle_ is used for a _pool_, is at variance with the common\nusage of the word in Devonshire, where only I have met with it. It is\nthere used to describe the shallow swift running water immediately below\na pool. It is thus equivalent to the word _rapids_. It is by no means\nobsolete, or a mere technical term of the \"patient anglers.\" The\nopposition in the line quoted, \"Near to some _stickle_ or _deep_ bay,\"\nwould alone have been a good reason to doubt whether it could be the\nsame as _pool_.\n\n    G. W. T.\n\n_Latin Names of Towns_ (Vol. i., pp. 287. 402. 474.).--There is a class\nof persons who ought to be contributors to (*?) (I like the idea of a\nrecent correspondent better than \"N. & Q.\" with its marks of quotation)\nto a much larger extent than is the case. I mean those who having asked\nquestions, and profited by the answer, find additional answer, or better\nanswer, by their subsequent researches. As one of these, in reference to\nmy Query about Latin names of towns in Vol. i., I mention the list given\nin Riccioli's _Geographia et Hydrographi\u00e6 Reformat\u00e6_, of which the first\nedition was licensed in 1658 (I don't know where it was printed), and\nthe record is of Venice, folio, 1672. This work contains, from more than\n250 authors whose names are given, more than 8500 Latin names rendered\ninto vernacular, and a much larger number reversely given.\n\n    M.\n\n_Llandudno, on the Great Orme's Head_ (Vol. v., p. 175.).--L. G. T. will\nfind, in _Wanderings in North Wales_, by William Cathrall, published by\nW.S. Orr and Co., the following answer to his Query:--\n\n  \"There are several copper mines conducted here with great success.\n  In October, 1849, the miners in the course of their labours, broke\n  into an immense cavern, the roof of which, being one mass of\n  stalactite, reflected back their lights with dazzling splendour.\n  On examination the work turned out to be an ancient work, probably\n  Roman, the benches, stone hammers, &c. used by that ancient\n  people, having been found entire, together with many bones of\n  mutton. The bones were to all appearance as fresh, though\n  impregnated with copper, as they were when denuded of their fleshy\n  covering, after remaining, as they must have done, nearly 2000\n  years in the bowels of the earth. The cavern is about forty yards\n  long.\"\n\nThe date of the cavern is, therefore, long anterior to the Catholic\ntimes.\n\n    WM. DURRANT COOPER.\n\n_Brozier_ (Vol. ii., p. 44.).--An Essex clergyman, who agrees with MR.\nGATTY in deriving the word from the Greek verb \u0392\u03c1\u03c9\u03c3\u03ba\u03c9, to\ndevour, or eat like a beast, observes, that we still describe that act\nwhen we speak of \"the _browsing_ cattle.\" He also mentions that when he\nwas at Westminster, the word was there used in the same sense as at\nEton, and he well recollects one of his schoolfellows _broziered_ to\nsuch an extent that his life was despaired of.\n\n    BRAYBROOKE.\n\n_Passage in Troilus and Cressida_ (Vol. v., p. 178.).--In reply to your\ncorrespondent W. S. D. I have only to say, that my folio of 1632, with\nearly manuscript emendations, does not contain any alteration of the\nline in _Troilus and Cressida_, Act I. Sc. 3.:\n\n      \"Peaceful commerce from dividable shores;\"\n\nwhich seems to me quite intelligible without any change. In the next\nline it reads \"primogeniture\" for \"primogeni_tive_\", and as I apprehend\nrightly, the concluding syllable _tive_ having been caught by the\ncompositor from \"prerogative,\" the first word in the line immediately\nbelow it.\n\nI may take this opportunity of saying that no play in my volume is more\npatiently corrected than _Troilus and Cressida_; and that in a preceding\nspeech by Nestor it confirms a correction by Theobald in the first\nline--god_like_ for \"godly;\" and by Sir Thomas Hanmer in the last\nline--_replies_ for \"retires.\" Malone printed _returns_ after Pope,\nwhich answers the sense very well, but is hardly so probable a misprint.\nI am sorry to say that I thought otherwise when I published my\nShakspeare; and I never can sufficiently regret that this corrected copy\nof the second folio did not fall into my hands until some years after I\nhad completed that undertaking.\n\n    J. PAYNE COLLIER.\n\n_Nelson Family_ (Vol. v., p. 176.).--If FRANCISCUS will refer to the\npedigree of the Nelson family, in Hoare's _History of Modern Wiltshire_\n(Downton Hundred), he will find that _William Nelson_, who settled at\nDunham parva in Norfolk, and who was the great-grandfather of the naval\nhero, was the son of _Edmund_ Nelson of Scarning, in the same county,\nand grandson of _Thomas_ of the same place, which Thomas, according to\nthe same pedigree, was the son of another William, who is stated to have\nbeen a Nelson of Mandesley, the same family from which the Chuddleworth\nNelsons are derived in Burke's account. I have tested the general\naccuracy of this pedigree, which was, I believe, compiled by Mr. Matcham\nfrom the parochial registers, but I much doubt the assumed descent from\nthe Mandesley family, as I find Nelsons inhabiting the neighbourhood of\nScarning at a period prior to the supposed migration.\n\n    G. A. C.\n\n_Maps of Africa_ (Vol. v., p. 174.).--I have been intending for some\ntime to write to you on the same subject as _Paterfamili\u00e6_, but the\nChristian grace of laziness has been too strong for me. _Paterfamili\u00e6_,\nhowever, has aroused me. My case is this: five years ago I commenced a\nmap, for my own use, of the shores of the Mediterranean, and such\ncountries as received Christianity up to the period of the Council of\nNice; and I had a hope of eventually being able to carry out the plan\nsuggested by DR. MAITLAND, in his work on the Dark Ages, and an\nintention of making mysterious marks to indicate the scene of any great\npersecution, remarkable synod, or other notable event. Well! I got on\nvery well, by the help of Kiepert and Cramer, through Greece, Asia\nMinor, and Italy. Indeed, I managed to be content with all my sources,\nas far as Europe was concerned; but when I had advanced as far as North\nAfrica, I came to a dead stop. There really was absolutely no map that I\ncould find that I could trust for the site of Carthage or Alexandria.\nThere were no \"N. & Q.\" when I found myself at a stand-still; but I\nasked all the friends about me, and I verily believe that to the\nmajority of those I spoke to it appeared an unreasonable thing for any\nman to expect a map of the regions I wanted described. There seemed a\nkind of feeling that when a man had got a map of Caffraria and Egypt,\nand perhaps knew where Algiers _might_ be, he knew quite as much about\nAfrica as he ought. Can any of your correspondents now help me? Is there\nno authentic _French_ map of at least some portion of the coast; or is\nthere any map in existence among ourselves that is not palpably a \"fancy\nportrait?\"\n\n    AJAX.\n\n_Muggleton_ (Vol. v., p. 80.).--The Muggletonian sect probably still\nexists. I was surprised at finding a shop for the sale of its\npublications immediately within St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, about five\nyears ago. Perhaps R.S. may think it worth while to look whether the\nsame trade be still carried on there.\n\n    J. C. R.\n\n_Passage in Hamlet_ (Vol. v., p. 169.).--I have just read A. E. B.'s\nNotes on Shakspeare, No. II. His long criticism, ending in his own\nsuggestion of a new reading of the passage in _Hamlet_, does not\nconvince me that he has found the true reading yet. I suggest the\nfollowing:\n\n                      \"The dram of base\n      Doth all the noble substance often _dull_,\n      To his own scandal.\"\n\nThis reading of mine only makes it necessary to substitute the letters\n_n_ and _ll_, for _a_ and _o_, in the quarto of 1605.\n\n_Dull_ is a favourite word of Shakspeare's; and surely it makes at least\nas good sense as any of the other readings. It is questionable whether\nthe lines are Shakspeare's; for the whole passage, from \"This\nheavy-headed revel,\" to \"To his own scandal,\" is omitted in the first\nand second folios, and also in the first known quarto of \"1603.\"\n\nTo prove how easy it is for printers, or copiers from original\nmanuscripts of authors, to make mistakes, I will call your attention to\na serious blunder in the _first edition_ of Ben Jonson's verses\naddressed to the Earl of Somerset, which are in the _Athen\u00e6um_ of Feb.\n21st. The twenty-first and twenty-second lines are thus printed:\n\n      \"So in theyr number may you neuer see\n      Mortality, till you a _mortall_ be.\"\n\nBen wrote \"_immortall_.\"\n\n    H. F.\n\n_Theoloneum_ (Vol. v., p. 105.).--Theoloneum is a toll, _i.e._ the\npayment made in markets and fairs for goods bought and sold. It was the\nproperty of the lord to whom the fair or market belonged by patent from\nthe crown.\n\nHenry III., by letters patent, dated at Windsor 15th May, in the\nthirty-first year of his reign, grants to the abbot, &c. of Fecamp, the\nmanors at Cheltenham and Slaughter, &c. &c. &c. in exchange for the\nvilles of Winchelsea and Rye, which had been granted to the said abbot,\n&c. by Edward the Confessor; to hold them--\n\n  \"adeo libera et quieta sicut antea tenuerunt Winchelsee et la Rye\n  ratione donationis eis facte a felicis memorie sancto Adwardo, et\n  concessionum ac confirmationum postmodum abitarum a Willelmo et\n  Henrico Regibus Anglie de terra de Staniges cum omnibus apendiciis\n  suis. Inter que reputabantur Winchelsee et la Rye. In cujus regis\n  Willelmi carta continebantur hujusmodi libertates; videlicet, quod\n  predicti abbas et monachi Phiscanenses habeant terram de Staniges,\n  cum omnibus omnino apendiciis suis et cum omnibus legibus,\n  libertatibus, liberis consuetudinibus quietanciis placitis,\n  querelis, et causis que sunt vel fore possunt, absque ulla\n  inquietudine et diminutione cujuslibet secularis vel judiciaria\n  potestatis sicut res ad Phiscum dominicum pertinentes et quod\n  predicta terra cum omnibus apendiciis suis libera sit et quieta ab\n  omni consuetudine terrene servitutis et ab omni dominacione et\n  subjeccione Baronum et principum et omnium aliorum. Et quod\n  prefati abbas et Monachi Phiscanenses et eorum ministri habeant\n  omnem regiam libertatem et consuetudinem et omnem justiciam suam\n  de omnibus rebus et negociis que in terra sua evenient vel\n  poterunt evenire, nec aliquis nisi per eos se inde intromittat.\n  Quia hoc totum regale beneficium est et ab omni servitute quietum.\n  Et quod si aliquis quicquam contra hujusmodi concessionem\n  presumat, ad phiscum dominicum coactus auri libras centum\n  persolvat.\"\n\nI have ventured to subjoin this recital from the charter of William,\nthinking that it may be acceptable to your querist, as fully explanatory\nof the transaction to which his question refers.\n\n    LAMBERT A. LARKING.\n\n_Donkey_ (Vol. v., pp. 78. 165.).--In Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_, v.\n16954., we have--\n\n      \"Ther gan our hoste to jape and to play,\n      And sayde: sires what? _Dun_ is in the mire.\"\n\nThere is also an old proverbial simile:\n\n      \"As dull as _Dun_ in the mire.\"\n\nIt is supposed that _Dun_ was a nickname applied to the ass from his\ncolour, in the same way as _Burnell_, in the _Chester Whitsun Playes_,\nMS. Harl. 2013., and _Russell_ applied to the fox, _Canterbury Tales_,\nv. 15340.\n\nAs to the termination _key_, it is probably (as in _monkey_, _jockey_,\nwhich are the only words of similar formation which I can call to mind\nat present) the same as _kin_, which has the force of a diminutive in\nwords like _lambkin_, _mannikin_, &c.\n\n    JUVENIS.\n\n_Sir Samuel Garth_ (Vol. v., p. 151.).--I believe it will be found\ndifficult to find the place of this celebrated physician's birth. In the\nfourth volume of Mr. Surtees' _History of the County of Durham_, pp. 26,\n27., there is an interesting account of him, to which is added a\npedigree of his family. Surtees, in a note, says:\n\n  \"There is no trace of his having ever revisited the north, and I\n  have in vain endeavoured to glean anything of correspondence, or\n  of traditional anecdote.\"\n\n    FRA. MEWBURN.\n\n  Darlington.\n\n_Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester, &c.: Mr. Bush's Collection_\n(Vol. v., p. 178.).--I suspect Mr. Bush's proposed collection was never\npublished. In an old MS. account of the Fellows of King's, I find the\nfollowing extract. I copy it as it stands:\n\n  \"1718.\n\n  \"Cha. Bush, of Harmondsworth, Middx. Res on being denied his\n  Degree of A. B. in College from Party.... A Clk. of the Record\n  Off. in the Tower, 1725. April 27, 1726, he published _proposals\n  for printing by Subsr_. A lott of Charters and Letters Patent, and\n  other Instruments concerning the Creation and Investiture of the\n  eldest sons of the K's of Engl. as Princes of Wales, D. of\n  Cornwall & E. of Chester & Flint, together with several Extracts\n  out of the Parl. Rolls relating to the Honor, Dignity, & Estate of\n  the P. of Wales, from the time of Edward first, P. of Wales\n  (afterwards K. E. 2) to the time of E. 4. inclusive, faithfully\n  collated from the Records of the Tower by C. B. one of the Clks.\n  of the Record Off. in the T. & late Fell. of K. C. C.\n\n  \"He was taken into the Ordnance Office to assist in methodising\n  the Papers belonging to it, and was after Sec. to the Board of\n  Ordnance.\"\n\nIt would seem Mr. Bush's proposals did not meet with a favourable\nreception, or perhaps his removal to an important government office\nprevented his fulfilling his intentions. It is to be hoped he returned\nhis subscriptions (if any).\n\n    J. H. L.\n\n_Litera scripta manet_ (Vol. v., p. 200.).--The following extract, if\nnot complete answer to the query on _Litera scripta manet_, is a curious\ninstance of the early use of that maxim, and I transcribe it with\npleasure as a specimen of one of the best informed and most interesting\nof our medieval prose writers. I rely, as to orthography and\npunctuation, on Joseph Ames:\n\n  \"Considering that wordes ben perisshyng, wayne, and forgateful,\n  and wrytynes duelle and abide permanent, as I rede, _Vox audita\n  perit, litera scripta manet_. Thise thinges have caused that the\n  faites and deeds of auncient men ben sette by declaracion in fair\n  and aourned volumes, to thende that science and artes, lerned and\n  founden, of thinges passed might be had in perpetuel memorye and\n  remembraunce,\" &c.\n\n  \"William Caxton.\n\n  \"Westmestre by London, 1481.\n\n    BOLTON CORNEY.\n\n\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.\n\n_The Athen\u00e6um_ of Saturday the 21st February announces that Sir F.\nMadden has secured for the British Museum the celebrated \"Bedford\nMissal,\" and several other beautiful MSS., by the wise expenditure of\nthree thousand pounds. The other MSS., not described by _The Athen\u00e6um_,\nare, we believe, the _Breviary of Isabella of Spain_, presented to her\nby Francisco de Rojas in 1497, on the occasion of the double marriage of\nher children, Don Juan and Do\u00f1a Juana, to Margaret of Austria and Philip\nthe Fair, which sold at Mr. Hurd's sale in 1832 for 520_l._; the _Hours\nof Juana of Castile_, wife of Philip the Fair, formerly in Hanrott's\nlibrary; the _Hours of Francis I._, which sold in Sir Mark Masterman\nSykes's sale, 1824, for 163_l._ 16_s._; the _Hours of Fran\u00e7ois\nd'Inteville_, Bishop of Auxerre, executed in 1525, formerly in\nBeckford's collection; another volume of _Hours_ of the sixteenth\ncentury, and a fine copy, in two large vols. folio, of the French\ntranslation of Petrus Comestor's _Historia Scholastica_, by Guiart des\nMolins, completed in 1294. While we agree with our contemporary in our\napproval of this purchase, we cannot help adding to that approval a hope\nthat neither the trustees nor the treasury will make this expenditure an\nexcuse for not enabling the keeper of the MSS. to make extensive\npurchases at the sales of valuable historical collections which are\nexpected to take place in the course of the present year.\n\nAt a general meeting of the Percy Society held last Thursday week, the\ndissolution of the Society was determined on; and the meeting came to\nthe very proper resolution of not selling the stock of books in hand,\nwhich would have had the effect of depreciating the market-value of the\nSociety's publications, but of distributing them among the existing\nmembers. It is proposed, we believe, to form a new Society on a somewhat\nsimilar plan; but which is to have for its object the reprinting,\nwithout abridgment or omission, of such rare but well chosen tracts by\nGreene, Nash Breton, Taylor the Water Poet, &c. as afford valuable\nillustration of manners, or are interesting in any other point of view.\n\nWe have received from Messrs. Rivington a new volume containing _Eight\nEssays on Various Subjects_, by the Rev. S. R. Maitland, D.D. The pages\nof \"N. & Q.\" have been so frequently enriched by contributions from the\nable pen of the writer of these Essays, and he has in the work in\nquestion spoken so kindly of this journal, that we feel it will be more\nrespectful to one who does not need our praise--which might under these\ncircumstances be attributed to interested motives--if we limit our\nnotice of the subject of the volume to an enumeration of the titles of\nthe essays. 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Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, March 6, 1852.\n\n\n\n\n      [Transcriber's Note: List of volumes and content pages in \"Notes\n      and Queries\", Vol. I.-V.]\n\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Notes and Queries Vol. I.                                   |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol., No.     | Date, Year        | Pages     | PG # xxxxx  |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol. I No.  1 | November  3, 1849 |   1 -  17 | PG #  8603  |\n      | Vol. I No.  2 | November 10, 1849 |  18 -  32 | PG # 11265  |\n      | Vol. I No.  3 | November 17, 1849 |  33 -  46 | PG # 11577  |\n      | Vol. I No.  4 | November 24, 1849 |  49 -  63 | PG # 13513  |\n      +---------------+-------------------+-----------+-------------+\n      | Vol. I No.  5 | December  1, 1849 |  65 -  80 | PG # 11636  |\n      | Vol. I No.  6 | December  8, 1849 |  81 -  95 | PG # 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38574 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 100 | Sept. 27, 1851     | 217-246 | PG # 38656 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. IV No. 101 | Oct.  4, 1851      | 249-264 | PG # 38701 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 102 | Oct. 11, 1851      | 265-287 | PG # 38773 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 103 | Oct. 18, 1851      | 289-303 | PG # 38864 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 104 | Oct. 25, 1851      | 305-333 | PG # 38926 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. IV No. 105 | Nov.  1, 1851      | 337-358 | PG # 39076 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 106 | Nov.  8, 1851      | 361-374 | PG # 39091 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 107 | Nov. 15, 1851      | 377-396 | PG # 39135 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 108 | Nov. 22, 1851      | 401-414 | PG # 39197 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 109 | Nov. 29, 1851      | 417-430 | PG # 39233 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. IV No. 110 | Dec.  6, 1851      | 433-460 | PG # 39338 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 111 | Dec. 13, 1851      | 465-478 | PG # 39393 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 112 | Dec. 20, 1851      | 481-494 | PG # 39438 |\n      | Vol. IV No. 113 | Dec. 27, 1851      | 497-510 | PG # 39503 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Notes and Queries Vol. V.                                   |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol., No.       | Date, Year         |  Pages  | PG # xxxxx |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. V  No. 114 | January  3, 1852   |   1- 18 | PG # 40171 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 115 | January 10, 1852   |  25- 45 | PG # 40582 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 116 | January 17, 1852   |  49- 70 | PG # 40642 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 117 | January 24, 1852   |  73- 94 | PG # 40678 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 118 | January 31, 1852   |  97-118 | PG # 40716 |\n      +-----------------+--------------------+---------+------------+\n      | Vol. V  No. 119 | February  7, 1852  | 121-142 | PG # 40742 |\n      | Vol. V  No. 120 | February 14, 1852  | 145-167 | PG # 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