Minor Queries Answered.

"The difficult passages they shun,And hold their farthing rushlight to the sun."

"The difficult passages they shun,

And hold their farthing rushlight to the sun."

Again, this:

"And like unholy menQuote scripture for the deed."

"And like unholy men

Quote scripture for the deed."

Again, this: The entire epigram said to have been made by Porson on a Fellow of his college, who habitually pronounced Euphrătes (short) instead of Euphrātes. The only words I remember—it is now near thirty years since I heard it—are

"Et corripuit fluxeum;"

and Jekyll, the celebrated wit, rendered the epigram into English, and part of it thus:

"He abridged the river."

H. M.

Sons of the Conqueror—William Rufus and Walter Tyrell.—Sir N. W. Wraxall (Posthumous Memoirs, vol. i., p. 425.) says of the Duke of Dorset:

"His only son perished at twenty-one in an Irish foxchase: a mode of dying not the most glorious or distinguished, though two sons of William the Conqueror, one of whom was a King of England, terminated their lives in a similar occupation."

Who are thesetwosons? William Rufus would be one of them; but who is the other? And whilst I am on this subject, I would inquire,on what authoritydoes the commonly received story of William II.'s death by the hand of Sir Walter Tyrrell rest?

Tewars.

Brass of Lady Gore.—Moody, in hisSketches of Hampshire, states that there is a brass of anAbbess, 1434, Lady Gore by name, in the church of Nether Wallop. But in theOxford Manualit is stated (Introduction, p. xxxix.) that only two brasses of Abbesses are known, one at Elstow, Beds, to Elizabeth Hervey, and the other at Denham, Bucks, to Agnes Jordan, Abbess of Syon, bothc.1530. Which is correct of these two authorities?

Unicorn.

Smyth's MSS. relating to Gloucestershire.—In Rudder'sHistory of Gloucestershire, title "Nibley," p. 575., is the following passage:

"John Smyth, of Nibley, ancestor to the present proprietor, was very eminent for his great assiduity in collecting every kind of information respecting this county and its inhabitants. He wrote the Genealogical History of the Berkeley Family, in three folio MSS., which Sir William Dugdale abridged and published in hisBaronage of England. In three other folio MSS. he has registered with great exactnessthe names of the lords of manors in the county in the year 1608,the number of men in each parish able to bear arms, with their names, age, stature, professions, armour, and weapons.The sums each landholder paid to subsidies granted in a certain yearare set down in another MS. He likewise committed to writing a very particular account of the customs of the several manors in the hundred of Berkeley, andthe pedigrees of their respective lords. These and some other MSS., which cost him forty years in compiling, are now (1779) in the possession of Nicholas Smyth, Esq., the fifth from him in lineal descent."

I shall feel much obliged to any of your readers who will inform me where these MSS., or any of them, may now be seen. Those that I particularly want to inspect are printed in Italics in the above quotation.

Julius Partrige.

Birmingham.

[Atkyns, in hisGloucestershire, p. 579., states that Smythe's MSS. were at the time he wrote,A.D.1712, in the custody of his great-grandson, Sir George Smith, who generously communicated them to all that desired a perusal of them. Fosbrooke, however, in the preface to hisHistory of Gloucestershire, published in 1807, speaks of them as being in the possession of the Earl of Berkeley. He says, "Of the noblemen and gentlemen who honoured me with support and information, the Earl of Berkeley's permission to use Mr. Smythe's MSS. in every important extent has been of essential service." Fosbrooke subsequently published, in 1821, a quarto volume ofAbstracts and Extracts of Smythe's Lives of the Berkeleysfrom these manuscripts.]

Origin of Terms in Change-ringing.—I shall be obliged by any one informing me as to the origin and derivation of the terms "plain bob," "grandsire bob," "single bob minor," "grandsire treble," "caters," "cinques,"et hoc genus omne, so well known to campanologists.

Alfred Gatty.

[Our correspondent may probably get some clue to the derivation of these terms in a work entitledCampanologia Improved; or the Art of Ringing made Easy, third edition, 12mo. 1733. We may also mention, that some Notes of Dedications of Churches and Bells in the Diocese of Gloucester will be found in the British Museum, Add. MSS. 5836. f. 189 b.]

Keseph's Bible.—About the year 1828, there was issued a thin duodecimo pamphlet by some one who took the cognomen of Keseph, and whoproposed to publish an edition of the authorised version under the title of "Keseph's Bible," with the substitution of the Hebrew termsAlehim,Aleh,Al,Adon,Adonai, &c. &c. for our English onesGod,Lord, &c. &c.

Can any of your readers inform me if this was ever published? and can they also favour me with the loan of the pamphlet for a month?

The Editor of the "Chronological New Testament."

36. Trinity Square, Southwark.

[This Bible was published in 1830, as far as chap. xix. of the Second Book of Kings, with the following title:The Holy Bible, according to the Established Version: with the Exception of the Substitution of the Original Hebrew Names, in place of the English Words, Lord and God, and of a few corrections thereby rendered necessary. With Notes.London: Westley and Davis, 4to. It contains a Preface of four pages, and a list of the Meaning or Signification of the Sacred Names substituted in this edition, of nine pages. A copy of it is in the British Museum, the press mark 1276 h.]

Proclamations to prohibit the Use of Coal, as Fuel, in London.—Dr. Bachoffner, in the lecture which he is now delivering at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, mentions the fact that three separate proclamations were issued for this purpose, and that it was at last made a capital offence; and a man was actually accused, tried, condemned, and executed for burning coal within the metropolis. Now what I want to ascertain relative to the above facts, is: 1. The date of each; 2. Any particulars that you or any of your correspondents may be kind enough to furnish; 3. The name, and station, trade, or profession of the person so executed.

As Dr. Bachoffner has now often reiterated the above statement at the Polytechnic, and as it has always been received (at least when I have been there) with acclamations of surprise, I have no doubt that the particulars will interest many of your readers.

Arthur C. Wilson.

[We have not been able to find any account of the execution for burning coal noticed by Dr. Bachoffner, which probably took place during the reign of Edward I., when the use of coal was prohibited by proclamation at London in the year 1306. These proclamations are noticed in Prynne'sAnimadversions on the Fourth Part of Sir Edward Coke's Institutes, p. 182., where it is said, that "in the latter part of the reign of Edward I., when brewers, dyers, and other artificers using great fires, began to use sea-coals instead of dry wood and charcoal, in and near the city of London, the prelates, nobles, commons, and other people of the realm, resorting thither to parliaments, and upon other occasions, with the inhabitants of the city, Southwark, Wapping, and East Smithfield, complained thereof twice one after another to the king as a public nuisance, corrupting the air with its stink and smoke, to the great prejudice and detriment of their health. Whereupon the king first prohibited the burning of sea-coal by his proclamation; which being disobeyed by many for their private lucre, the king upon their second complaint issued a commission of Oyer and Terminer to inquire of all such who burned sea-coals against his proclamation within the city, or parts adjoining to it, and to punish them for their first offence by great fines and ransoms; and for the second offence to demolish their furnaces, kilns wherein they burnt sea-coals, and to see his proclamation strictly observed for times to come, as the Record of 35 Edw. I. informs us." On this subject our correspondent should consult Edington'sTreatise on the Coal Trade; Ralph Gardiner'sEngland's Grievance discovered in Relation to the Coal Trade; and Anderson'sOrigin of Commerce.]

(Vol. v., p. 439.)

Any attempt to divorce Addison from his hymns in theSpectator, and to ascribe them to any other writer, is so great a wrench to the feelings of a sexagenarian like myself, that the question must at once be set at rest.

In reply to J. G. F.'s inquiry, these hymns, or a portion of them, were claimed for Andrew Marvell by Captain Edward Thompson, the editor of Marvell's works; but a writer in Kippis's edition of theBiographia Britannicaremarks:

"We shall content ourselves with observing, that any man who can suppose that the ease, eloquence, and harmony of the ode, 'The Spacious Firmament,' &c., could flow from Marvell's pen, must be very deficient in taste and judgment."

This claim on Captain Thompson's part was to have been considered under the article "Marvell," but the second edition of theBiographiadid not, as we well know, extend beyond the letter F.

But though we cannot concede these hymns to Marvell, he must not be underrated. His downright honesty of character and purpose must ever excite respect. His biographer strangely introduces him to us as "A witty droll in the seventeenth century, the son of a facetious gentleman at Hull." In one respect he resembled our gifted essayist; his style in prose was so captivating that we are told

"From the King down to the Tradesman, hisRehearsal Transposedwas read with great pleasure; he had all the men of wit on his side."

To return to the hymns and the just claims of Addison to the whole of them.

In theSpectator, No. 453., Addison says,

"I havealreadycommunicated to the public some pieces of divine poetry, and as they have met with a very favourable reception,I shall from time to time publish any work of the same nature which has not yet appeared in print, and may be acceptable to my readers."

Then follows the hymn "When all Thy Mercies," &c. Coming from such a man as Addison, thismust be considered as pretty strong evidence of authorship.

In theSpectator, No. 441., when introducing the hymn "The Lord my Pasture," &c., Addison observes—

"As the poetry of the original is very exquisite, I shall present my readers with the following translation of it."

With respect to this composition Bishop Hurd remarks, that Addison's

"True judgment suggested to him that what he drew from Scripture was best preserved in a pure and simple expression, and the fervour of his piety made that simplicity pathetic."

No doubt seems to have crossed the Bishop's mind as to the authorship. Sometimes Addison thought fit to throw a little mystery over these hymns. InSpectator, No. 489., after alluding to Psalm cvii. v. 23., "They that go down to the sea," &c. (which Addison says gives a description of a ship in a storm, preferable to any other that he has met with), he subjoins his "divine Ode made by aGentlemanon the conclusion of his travels," "How are Thy servants blest," &c.

The verses 4 to 8 are said to refer to the storm which Allison himself encountered on the Mediterranean, after he embarked at Marseilles in 1700.

The hymn "When rising from the bed of death,"Spectator, No. 513, "a thought in sickness," is contained in a supposed letter from aClergyman, viz. one of the club, "who assist me in my speculations."

Tickell, in his exquisite elegy, so worthy of its subject, when asking,

"What new employments please the unbody'd mind?"

adds,

"Or mixed with milder cherubim to glow,Inhymns of love, not ill essayed below."

"Or mixed with milder cherubim to glow,

Inhymns of love, not ill essayed below."

Were not the very hymns which we are speaking of in Tickell's mind?

Addison's piety, we may well gather from his writings, was, as Mr. Macaulay observes, of a cheerful character. The feeling which predominates in all his devotional papers, is that of gratitude; do we not find it also strikingly developed in his hymns? We all remember the beautiful lines,

"Ten thousand thousand precious giftsMy daily thanks employ,Nor is the least a cheerful heart,That tastes those gifts with joy."

"Ten thousand thousand precious gifts

My daily thanks employ,

Nor is the least a cheerful heart,

That tastes those gifts with joy."

Let Bishop Ken and Addison retain their divine hymns—dear as they are, and let us hope ever will be, to man, woman, and child—whilst the English language is read or spoken. How greatly is their sublimity heightened, and their beauty enhanced, when we associate with them the purity of character and the assemblage of virtues which distinguished their excellent authors!

J. H. Markland.

(Vol. v., p. 394.)

The particulars your correspondent asks for have not been furnished; but on what authority,to move the previous question, does the alleged fact of such a trial and execution at Huntingdon in 1716 for witchcraft, stated by Mr. Wills, and adopted by theQuarterly Rev., rest? Mr. Wills (Sir Roger de Coverley, Notes, p. 126.) mentions also the execution of two women at Northampton for witchcraft just before theSpectatorbegan to be published (March 1, 1710-11), but gives no reference to any original source to support his statement. On the other hand, Hutchinson, the first edition of whoseEssay concerning Witchcraftwas published in 1718, and the second in 1720, who gives a chronological table of facts, informs us that the last execution in England for witchcraft was that at Exeter of Susan Edwards, Mary Trembles, and Temperance Lloyd in 1682 (vid.Essay, p. 41., 1st edit.). He was too painstaking a writer to be in ignorance of cases which had occurred so recently; and he had the assistance, in collecting his materials, of the two chief justices Parker and King, and Chief Baron Bury, to whom the work is dedicated. Through their means he must have been informed of what had taken place on the circuits, if any cases of witchcraft on which convictions had arisen had actually come before the judges. When it is remembered what attention was directed to the trial of Jane Wenham in 1712, who, though condemned, was not executed, and on whose case a great number of pamphlets were written, it can scarcely be supposed that in four years after two persons, one only nine years old (I take the account in Mackay'sPopular Delusions, vol. iii.), should have been tried and executed for witchcraft without public attention being called to the circumstance. I may add that in theHistorical Registerfor 1716, which notices in the domestic occurrences all trials of interest, there is no mention of such a case; and that in two London newspapers for 1716, which I have in a complete series, though enumerating other convictions on the circuit, I have equally searched without success. As it is a matter of considerable historical interest to ascertain accurately when the last execution for witchcraft took place in England, I should be glad if any of your correspondents would refer me to the authority on which the statements of the trials circ. 1710 and in 1716 are founded. Mr. Wright, I observe, does not notice them, and his words are—

"The case of Jane Wenham is the last instance of a witch being condemned by the verdict of an English jury."—Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, vol. ii. p. 326.

Jas. Crossley.

(Vol. i., p. 261.)

In answer toMr. Strickland'sthird Query, I beg to inform him that among the original authors who speak of the Dodo as a living bird, Johan Nieuhof merits a place. His work is entitled:

"Johan Nieuhofs gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense zee en Lantreize, behelsende alhetgeen op dezelve is voorgevallen: beneffens een bondige beschrijving van gantsch Neerlants Brasil, zoo van lantschappen, steden, dieren, gewassen, als draghten, zeden en godsdienst der inwoonders; en insonderheit, een wijtloopig verhael der merkwaardigste voorvallen en geschiedenissen, die zich, geduurende zijn negenjarigh verblijf in Brasil, in d'oorlogen en opstant der Portugesen, tegen d'onzen, zich sedert het jaer 1640-1649 hebben toegedragen. Doorgaens verciert met verscheide afbeeldingen, na't leven aldaer getekent. Te Amsterdam, voor de Weduwe van Jacob van Meurs, op de Keizersgracht, anno 1682."

This work, although published in six languages, and several times reprinted, adorned with a hundred exquisite engravings, and portrait of the author, seems to be no longer generally known. It was dedicated to Nikolaes Witsen, burgomaster and councillor of Amsterdam; and the licence granted to Jacob van Meurs, the 14th Dec. 1671, by the states of Hollandt en Westvrieslandt, is signed "Johan de Wit."

The copy in my possession consists of two parts in folio, bound together in parchment, furnished with two indexes, which however do not mention all the volume contains, for we look in vain for the nameDodaers,Dodo, orDrontein the indexes; and yet we find in the second part, p. 282., a well-executed representation of this bird, and on the following page we read:

"Dronte of Dodaers."Op het eilant Mauritius inzonderheit, houdt zeker vogel van een wonderlijke gestalte, Dronte, en by d'onzen Dodaers genoemt. Hy is van groote tusschen een vogel-struis en Indische Hoen; en verschilt in gestalte, en komt ten deele daer mee over-een, ten aenzien van de veeren, pluimen en staert. Hy heeft een groot en wanstaltigh hooft met een vel bedekt, en verbeelt dat van een koekoek: d'oogen zijn groot en zwart: de hals krom, vet, en steekt voor uit. De bek is boven mate lang, sterk en blaeuwachtigh wit: behalve d'einden: waer van d'onderste zwartachtigh, een bovenste geelachtig zijn, en beide spits en krom. Hy spert den bek leelijk en zeer wijt open, is ront en vet van lijf, dat met zachte en graeuwe pluimen, als die van den struisvogel, bedekt is. De buik en aers is dik, die byna op d'aerde hangt: waerom, en van wegen hunnen loomen gang, deez vogel Dodaers by d'onzen genoemt wort. Aen beide zijden zitten eenige kleine pluymige pennen, in plaetse van vleugels, uit den gelen witachtigh, en achter aen den stuit, in plaetse van de steert, vijf gekrulde penne-veeren van een zelve kleure. De beenen zijn geelachtigh en dik; maer zeer kort: doch met vier vaste en lange pooten. Deze vogel is langzaem van gang en dom, en laet zich lichtelijk vangen. Het vleesch, inzonderheit dat van den borst, is vet en eetbaer. Hy is zoo zwaer, dat hondert menschen aen drie of vier Dronten genoegh t'eeten hebben. Het vleesch van d'ouden is, zoo niet gaer gekookt is, zwaer om te verteeren. Het wort ook ingezouten. Veelijts hebben zy een grooten en herden steen in de mage, die holachtigh en evenwel hart is."

"Dronte of Dodaers.

"Op het eilant Mauritius inzonderheit, houdt zeker vogel van een wonderlijke gestalte, Dronte, en by d'onzen Dodaers genoemt. Hy is van groote tusschen een vogel-struis en Indische Hoen; en verschilt in gestalte, en komt ten deele daer mee over-een, ten aenzien van de veeren, pluimen en staert. Hy heeft een groot en wanstaltigh hooft met een vel bedekt, en verbeelt dat van een koekoek: d'oogen zijn groot en zwart: de hals krom, vet, en steekt voor uit. De bek is boven mate lang, sterk en blaeuwachtigh wit: behalve d'einden: waer van d'onderste zwartachtigh, een bovenste geelachtig zijn, en beide spits en krom. Hy spert den bek leelijk en zeer wijt open, is ront en vet van lijf, dat met zachte en graeuwe pluimen, als die van den struisvogel, bedekt is. De buik en aers is dik, die byna op d'aerde hangt: waerom, en van wegen hunnen loomen gang, deez vogel Dodaers by d'onzen genoemt wort. Aen beide zijden zitten eenige kleine pluymige pennen, in plaetse van vleugels, uit den gelen witachtigh, en achter aen den stuit, in plaetse van de steert, vijf gekrulde penne-veeren van een zelve kleure. De beenen zijn geelachtigh en dik; maer zeer kort: doch met vier vaste en lange pooten. Deze vogel is langzaem van gang en dom, en laet zich lichtelijk vangen. Het vleesch, inzonderheit dat van den borst, is vet en eetbaer. Hy is zoo zwaer, dat hondert menschen aen drie of vier Dronten genoegh t'eeten hebben. Het vleesch van d'ouden is, zoo niet gaer gekookt is, zwaer om te verteeren. Het wort ook ingezouten. Veelijts hebben zy een grooten en herden steen in de mage, die holachtigh en evenwel hart is."

ShouldMr. Stricklandwish further information concerning the work of Johan Nieuhof, I shall ever be happy to oblige him.

J. M. van Maanen.

Amsterdam.

[From our Dutch cotemporary,De Navorscher, by whom similar replies have been received fromH—gandG. P. Roos.]

(Vol. v., p. 416.)

Like your correspondentMr. Clark, I too have kept a sharp look-out for this curious piece ascribed to Baxter; but having been unable to track it, I had long since come to the conclusion that its existence was apocryphal.

The Rev. James Graves, in hisSpiritual Quixote, written to ridicule Moravians and Methodists, notes it "as a very good book of old Baxter's," among several others of questionable identity, forming the library of Geoffrey Wildgoose's grandmother.

When we recollect the temptation offered in the quaint and uncouth titles of the old Presbyterians, we can hardly wonder at their enemies improving upon them; and in this way, it appears to me, we are to account for the respectable name of Baxter being popularly attached to a book which everybody talks about, but which nobody has seen.

It is again mentioned by Richard Cooksey, in hisLife of Lord Somers, Worcester, 1791, and, taking its existence for granted, the author is astonished that Baxter, whom he extols to the skies, "could so far condescend to the temper and debased humour of the times as to entitle one of his tractsA Shove, &c. Commenting upon this, Wilson, in hisHistory of Dissenting Churches, London, 1808, is the next who alludes to the book in question, but merely to shift its authorship from "the famous Richard Baxter of Kidderminster" to a more obscure individual of the same name,—described as "an elder (in 1692) of the Particular Baptist congregation worshipping in Winchester House." Of this person he says, "I know nothing excepting that he appears to have been a Fifth Monarchy man, and to have been far gone in enthusiasm."

Although thus doubting that the author of theSaints' Restwrote such a book as that described, Ido not deny that there is a piece bearing the title in existence; but upon it the name of "WilliamBunyan" figures as the author. A copy of this was in the Theological Portion of the late Mr. Rodd's books, sold by Sotheby & Co. in 1850, and bears the imprint of "London, 1768." This, I am inclined to think, is the onlyShoveMr. Clarkis likely to meet with; and although I can give no further account of it, I am disposed to consider it the spurious catchpenny of some ignorant scoffer, who, taking hiscuefrom Graves, or rather from some earlier writer who has noticed it, thought it would be a goodspec., and therefore launched into the worldhis"Effectual Shove."

J. O.

(Vol. v., p. 370.)

Your Querist J. C. E. is informed that the singular phenomenon of the formation of ice in the beds of running rivers has not escaped the notice of scientific observers. M. Arago has devoted a paper to its investigation in theAnnuaire du Bureau des Longitudesfor 1832 or 1833, in which he specifies the rivers in which it has been observed. Indeed, although from its nature it is likely to escape notice, it is probably of not infrequent occurrence. Ireland, in hisPicturesque Views of the Thames, quoting Dr. Plot, speaks of the subaqueous ice of that river. Colonel Jackson, in the fifth volume of theJournal of the Royal Geographical Society, alludes to its formation in the Neva, in a paper on the congelation of that river; and in the following volume of the same Journal is an article by Mr. Weitz, especially devoted to the ground ice of the rivers of Siberia. More recently, Mr. Eisdale has contributed the result of his researches upon the same subject to theEdinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. xvii.; and, finally, Dr. Farquharson has made public his observations upon the ground-gru of the rivers Don and Leochal, in Lincolnshire, in thePhilosophical Transactionsfor 1835. There is also an article on the subject in one of the later volumes of thePennyorSaturdayMagazines.

That bodies of running, water, the surface of which solidifies when exposed to a diminished temperature, should have a tendency to congelate in their sheltered depths, seems an anomaly which demands inquiry and explanation; and accordingly each of the above-mentioned writers has raised an hypothesis more or less probable, to account for the phenomenon. Dr. Farquharson would attribute it to the radiation of heat from the bottom, as dew is formed by radiation from the surface of the earth; but a consideration of the supervening obstacles to radiation—a body of moving water thickly coated with ice and even snow—destroys the plausibility of his theory. That of Mr. Eisdale, that the frozenspiculæof the atmosphere falling into the water becomenuclei, around which the water at the bottom freezes, seems merely frivolous. The explanation of M. Arago is more satisfactory, viz. that the lower currents of water being less rapid in motion than those intermediate, or at the surface, congelation may be expected at a lower temperature (say 32° Fahr.), the process of crystallisation being favoured by the pebbles, fragments of wood, and the uneven surface of the river's bed. After all, however, the phenomenon has been but imperfectly investigated under its various manifestations, and its real cause probably remains yet to be discovered.

William Bates.

Birmingham.

For an explanation of this occurrence, I would refer J. C. E. to Whewell'sAstronomy, Bridgewater Treatise.

Unicorn.

(Vol. v., pp. 426. 447.)

Your two correspondents C. E. D. (p. 426.) and C. (p. 447.) appear to have readMr. Hepworth Dixon'sQuery about Algernon Sydney either very hastily or very carelessly. Yet it seems to me plain enough. There is not one word in it about Barillon or Dalrymple; no inquiry about the home life of Sydney. As every one knows a great part of his time was spent abroad, it is probableMr. Dixonthinks that anecdotes and allusions to so conspicuous a person may occur in the cotemporary letters and memoirs of France, Germany, Italy, &c., and he asks for references to any such anecdotes or allusions as may have fallen in the way of readers of "N. & Q." Surely this is explicit. But what has Dalrymple or Mr. Croker to say in answer to a question about Sydney's way of life when abroad? That, as I take it, was the point, and a general discussion as to the character of the author of theDiscourses on Governmentisà-proposof nothing. As the subject has been opened, and as I know of none more interesting in the whole range of English history, I cannot refrain from at least entering one protest against C.'s description of the "illustrious patriot" as a "corrupt traitor of the worst class."

ThatMr. Dixonis not single in his admiration of the character of Sydney I could quote many "instances," from our late prime minister downwards. But the title "illustrious" can scarcely be denied to a man who, besides being of the best blood in England, played a leading part in the Revolution, and was one of the closest thinkers and most masculine writers our language has to show. What makes a man illustrious? Birth, commanding position, intellect, learning, literary genius? Sydney had them all. But C. thinkshe ought not to be called a patriot. What, do his wisdom and moderation in the civil war; his opposition to the extreme measures of Cromwell; his long solitary exile; his glorious death, count for nothing? There is, however, the charge of taking money from the King of France. No doubt this is a very "curious case," and I too shall be anxious to see "what lightMr. Dixonmay be able to throw on it." The accusation rests on the sole authority of Dalrymple; and Dalrymple isnota man who can be taken on his mere word. He was a violent partisan. He hated the Whigs, and is convicted of having suppressed the truth, when it suited his party or his passions to misrepresent. The Barillon Correspondence should be again examined, and, if possible, further particulars of the money payments to our party leaders obtained.

S. Walton.

Belgrave Square.

(Vol. v., p. 415.)

Having visited the interesting city of Antwerp in the autumn of 1846, I can answer the Query of your correspondent C. E. D. from personal inspection. The monument to Mary Queen of Scots is still in existence; and consists of a richly ornamented slab, placed at a considerable height from the pavement, against a pillar in (I think) the southern transept of the church of St. Andrew. I was told on the spot that it was erected by two English ladies, but my informant was silent as to the tradition respecting the head. In the centre of the carvings which adorn the upper part of the monument, is inserted a medallion portrait of the beautiful but unfortunate queen; it is extremely well painted, and represents her in that peculiar costume so familiar to those acquainted with her accustomed style of dress. I inclose a copy of the inscription:—

"Maria Stuarta,Scot. et Gall. Reg.Jacob. Magn. Britan. Reg. Mater.Anno 1568, in. Angl. Refugii causâ descendens.Cogna. Elisab. ibi regnavit.Perfidiâ senat. et Hæret. post xix. Captivit. Annos.Relig. ergo. cap. obtrunc.Martyrium consumavit. Anno D. N. 1587.Æta. Regy. 45."

The wood-carvings, with which this church abounds (especially those of the pulpit and its accessories), are marvellous efforts of Art.

M. W. B.

Having visited the church of St. Andrew at Antwerp during the autumn of last year, I am able to inform your correspondent C. E. D. (Vol. v., p. 415.) that the monument to which he alludes still exists.

The portrait of Mary Queen of Scots is above the tablet, which was, I believe, erected to the memory of Elizabeth Curle; who, after the execution of her mistress, resided at Antwerp, and was buried in that church.

F. H.

The monument dedicated to the memory of their beloved mistress by the two noble ladies of the household of Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Barbara Mowbray, the wife, and Elizabeth Curle, the sister, of Gilbert Curle, the queen's confidential secretary, still exists in the church of St. Andrew at Antwerp. The history, or ratherstoryof the decapitated head having been borne away by these ladies, and buried at the foot of the pillar on which the monument is placed, which is alluded to by your correspondent, is too apocryphal for belief. There is no reason to suppose that anyheadof the queen was carried away by these devoted women into exile, excepting in the shape of her portrait painted on copper; which, instead of being interredbeneaththe monument, is still to be seen placed above the dedicatory inscription. It is true that in the edition of Descamps'Voyage Pittoresque de la Flandre, published atParisandRouenin 1769, it is stated that the monument was surmounted by "son buste en marbre;" but this error was corrected in theAntwerpedition of 1792, where it is correctly affirmed to be "son portrait peint."

Mention is made of this crowned portrait, of a circular form, in Mackie'sCastles and Prisons of Queen Mary, and of the close resemblance it bears to another in the possession of Lady Cathcart; who assured Mr. Mackie that the two portraits were painted by order of the queen, and presented by her totwo Scottish ladies, but whose names are not mentioned.

The following epitaph to the memory of these two faithful servants of the unhappy queen, has also been preserved by Jacques Le Roy in hisThéâtre Sacré du Brabant, tom. ii. p. 90. It was copied by him from a blue marble slab placed over the entrance to the vault in which they were deposited:—

"D. O. M.Sub hoc lapide duarum feminarum vere piarum conduntur corporaD. Barbaræ MoubrayetD. Elisabethæ Curleutræque Scotæ, nobilissimæ Mariæ Reginæ à cubiculis, quarum monumentum superiori affigitur columnæ. Illa vidua mortalium legi cessitXXXI.Julii anno 1616 ætatisLVII.,dum hæc semper cælebsXXIX.Maii, ætatisLX.DniM.DC.XX."

"D. O. M.

Sub hoc lapide duarum feminarum vere piarum conduntur corporaD. Barbaræ MoubrayetD. Elisabethæ Curleutræque Scotæ, nobilissimæ Mariæ Reginæ à cubiculis, quarum monumentum superiori affigitur columnæ. Illa vidua mortalium legi cessitXXXI.Julii anno 1616 ætatisLVII.,dum hæc semper cælebsXXIX.Maii, ætatisLX.DniM.DC.XX."

In the inscription placed against the pillar, dedicated to the memory of Queen Mary, Lady Barbara is said to be a daughter of Lord John Mowbray—Barbara Moubray, D. Johan Moubray, Baronis F.

The writer of this note is desirous of obtaining some authentic information respecting these two noble Scottish families, and hopes thiscommunication may serve to elicit what he has long sought to trace. The armorial bearings of both families (originally affixed to the monument) have been effaced.

He would be glad also to be referred to any documents tending to throw light on the obscure history of poor Mary's intriguingFrenchsecretary, Nau; as to where he was born, his connexions and avocations in early life; how, and by what secret influence he entered into the service of the queen; and, lastly, how he came to be pardoned, and what became of him afterwards? She declared, in her last hours, thathe was the cause of her death?

Nhrsl.

(Vol. v., p. 457.)

IfBalliolensiswishes for a more particular account of the Sclater family than that which follows, I shall be happy to correspond with him upon the subject.

Anthony Sclater, D.D., was vicar of Leighton Buzzard for fifty years, and died, aged 100, about 1620. His son—

William Sclater, D.D., Fellow of King's, and vicar of Pitminster in Somersetshire, is the person mentioned by Dr. Kellet. He was an exceedingly learned man, and the author of many theological works (for a list, seeBib. Bod. Cat.), some of which were published after his death,which occurred in 1627. There is a curious and interesting account of him in Fuller'sWorthies, vol. i. p. 119. (see alsoAthenæ Oxonienses). His son—

William Sclater, also D.D. and Fellow of King's, was vicar of Collumpton, Devon, and prebend of Exeter, and appears to have kept up by several works and sermons the reputation of the family for doctrinal theology.[2]His son—

Francis Sclater, B.D.(Fellow of C. C. C. Oxon. May 17, 1667, æt. 17), was likewise a person of extraordinary learning and abilities, as appears from several notices, and more particularly from the inscription on a silver-gilt cup presented to C. C. C. in memory of him by his father; and from an elegant Latin epitaph which was placed on the south wall of St. James's, Clerkenwell.[3]He died in 1685, æt. 35, leaving a son—

Christopher Sclater, M.A., born 1679, rector of Loughton in Essex, and afterwards of Chingford in the same county. His eldest son—

William Sclater, D.D., seems (from MSS. still existing) to have inherited the theological talent of his ancestors, but o. s. p. Richard Sclater, Esq., the second son of Christopher, was grandfather to William Lutley Sclater, Esq., of Hoddington House, Hants, the present representative of the family. By a third son, Christopher Sclater was grandfather to Eliza Sclater, wife of —— Draper, Esq., and celebrated for her Platonic attachment to Lawrence Sterne. From MSS. preserved in the family, it is clear that she must have been a woman of considerable talent.

I had always supposedWilliam Sclater, the Nonjuror, and author ofAn Original Draught, &c., to have been a brother ofFrancis Sclater; but, if it be true that his work was a posthumous publication (as I learn for the first time from the Note by theEditorof "N. & Q."), I think it most probable that it was his father (the vicar of Collumpton above mentioned), who would have been about sixty years of age in 1688, and who was certainly a man of learning and scholarship.

I have no doubt that Edward Sclater, the pervert of Putney, belonged to the same family, though I know not in how near relationship.

The name of Sclater, which is curious, seems to have originated in a place called Slaughter (olim Sclostre or Sclaughtre,temp.King John) in Gloucestershire, where a family of Sclaughters flourished as lords of the manor for upwards of 300 years. The arms of both families are: arg. a saltier az.; crest, an eagle sa. rising out of a ducal coronet. The motto of the Sclater family (which they owe, no doubt to one of their learned ancestors) is a Greek quotation from Gal. vi. 14.: "εἴ μὴ ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ."

About the commencement of the seventeenth century, another branch of the same family (whose patronymic was Thomas) was settled in Cambridgeshire. The last male representative of these, Sir Thomas Sclater, Bart., died without issue in 1684 (see Burke'sExt. Baronetages).

I should be glad of any information respecting the connexion of these two branches with each other, or of either with the parent stem in Gloucestershire. I should also be glad of information respecting one Will. Slatyer, D.D. (whose name is sometimes, Ibelieveerroneously, spelt Sclater) a very learned person, chaplain to James I., theauthor of some curious historical and genealogical works, and a celebrated Hebraist in those times. He was a cotemporary of Sclater of Pitminster, and died at Ottenden in Kent about the same time; but it is doubtful whether they were relations.

S. L. P.

Oxford and Cambridge Club.

Footnote 2:(return)This Dr. Sclater appears to have been at one time minister of St. James, Clerkenwell, from the following work in the Bodleian Catalogue. "The Royal Pay, and Pay-master, or the Indigent Officer's Comfort; a Sermon before the Military Company, on Rev.ii. 10. By William Sclater, D.D., Minister of St. James, Clerkenwell, 4to. Lond. 1671."—Ed.Footnote 3:(return)F. Sclater, S. T. B. C. C. C., Oxon. olim socius, Eccl. Anglicanæ Spes, academiæ gloria, Eruditorum desiderium, Sanæ doctrinæ contrà omnes regnantes errores, etiam inter iniquissima tempora propugnator acerrimus. Vir fuit ingenio acri ac vivido judicio sagaci candore animi egregio. Quibus accessit eloquentia singularis atque doctrina omnibus numeris absoluta. Ideoque sive dissererit, sive concionaretur, ab illius ore non populus magis quam clerus et literati avidè pendebant.... Obit. Maii. 12. d.A.D.1685. æt 35. Deflendus quidem multum, sed magis imitandus Gulielmus SS. T.P. mœstissimus Pater P.

This Dr. Sclater appears to have been at one time minister of St. James, Clerkenwell, from the following work in the Bodleian Catalogue. "The Royal Pay, and Pay-master, or the Indigent Officer's Comfort; a Sermon before the Military Company, on Rev.ii. 10. By William Sclater, D.D., Minister of St. James, Clerkenwell, 4to. Lond. 1671."—Ed.

F. Sclater, S. T. B. C. C. C., Oxon. olim socius, Eccl. Anglicanæ Spes, academiæ gloria, Eruditorum desiderium, Sanæ doctrinæ contrà omnes regnantes errores, etiam inter iniquissima tempora propugnator acerrimus. Vir fuit ingenio acri ac vivido judicio sagaci candore animi egregio. Quibus accessit eloquentia singularis atque doctrina omnibus numeris absoluta. Ideoque sive dissererit, sive concionaretur, ab illius ore non populus magis quam clerus et literati avidè pendebant.... Obit. Maii. 12. d.A.D.1685. æt 35. Deflendus quidem multum, sed magis imitandus Gulielmus SS. T.P. mœstissimus Pater P.

The following Notes are very much at the service of your correspondentBalliolensis. It is true that they do not afford a precise answer to his immediate Query, but they comprise particulars which may very probably lead to it, and will at least be interesting in compliance with his request for any notices respecting the family of Sclater.

Anthony Sclater was minister of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire for about fifty years, and died at the age of nearly one hundred. His son, William Sclater, was born there in 1577; educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, B.D. and D.D., preacher at Walsall, co. Staffordshire; presented to the vicarage of Pitminster, near Taunton, co. Somerset, by John Coles, Esq.; and to a rectory in the same county by John, afterwards Lord Powlett. Died at Pitminster, 1627. He was the author of the following works, and of others unpublished:—

"A Key to the Key of Scripture, or an Exposition, with Notes, on the Epistle to the Romans, &c. 4to, London, 1611. Dedicated to Sir Henry Hawley, Knt., and four other Gentlemen.""The Minister's Portion, a Sermon on 1 Cor. ix. 13, 14. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to Thomas Southcote, Esq., of Mohun's Ottery in Devonshire.""The Sick Soul's Salve, a Sermon on Prov. xviii. 14. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to John Horner, Esq., and to the devout Anna his wife, at Melles in Somerset.""The Christian's Strength, a Sermon at Oxford on Philip. iv. 13. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to William Hill, Esq., of Pitminster.""An Exposition upon the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to. London, 1619. Dedicated to the Lord Stanhope, Baron of Haringdon.""The Question of Tythes revised, &c. 4to. London, 1623. Dedicated to Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells.""A Briefe Exposition upon the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to. London, 1629. Dedicated to 'John Pawlet, Esq., his very honourable good Patron, and Elisabeth his Wife, his much honoured Patronesse.'""Utriusque Epistolæ ad Corinthios Explicatio, &c. Edited by his Son. 4to. Oxon. 1633. Dedicated to 'Edvardo Keletto, S. T. D. Sancti Petri apud Exoniensis residentiario, nec non M. Georgio Goadio coll. Regalis in Academia Cantabrig. Socio, suo non ita pridem tutori dilectissimo.'""A Brief and Plain Commentary on the Prophecy of Malachy, &c. Published by his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to Mr. Henry Walrond of Bradfield, Devon.""An Exposition on the Fourth Chapter of the Romans, &c. Published by his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to 'John Bampfield of Poltimore in Devon, Esq., a most eximious and exemplary Worthy of the West.'"

"A Key to the Key of Scripture, or an Exposition, with Notes, on the Epistle to the Romans, &c. 4to, London, 1611. Dedicated to Sir Henry Hawley, Knt., and four other Gentlemen."

"The Minister's Portion, a Sermon on 1 Cor. ix. 13, 14. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to Thomas Southcote, Esq., of Mohun's Ottery in Devonshire."

"The Sick Soul's Salve, a Sermon on Prov. xviii. 14. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to John Horner, Esq., and to the devout Anna his wife, at Melles in Somerset."

"The Christian's Strength, a Sermon at Oxford on Philip. iv. 13. 4to. Oxford, 1612. Dedicated to William Hill, Esq., of Pitminster."

"An Exposition upon the First Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to. London, 1619. Dedicated to the Lord Stanhope, Baron of Haringdon."

"The Question of Tythes revised, &c. 4to. London, 1623. Dedicated to Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells."

"A Briefe Exposition upon the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. 4to. London, 1629. Dedicated to 'John Pawlet, Esq., his very honourable good Patron, and Elisabeth his Wife, his much honoured Patronesse.'"

"Utriusque Epistolæ ad Corinthios Explicatio, &c. Edited by his Son. 4to. Oxon. 1633. Dedicated to 'Edvardo Keletto, S. T. D. Sancti Petri apud Exoniensis residentiario, nec non M. Georgio Goadio coll. Regalis in Academia Cantabrig. Socio, suo non ita pridem tutori dilectissimo.'"

"A Brief and Plain Commentary on the Prophecy of Malachy, &c. Published by his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to Mr. Henry Walrond of Bradfield, Devon."

"An Exposition on the Fourth Chapter of the Romans, &c. Published by his Son. 4to. London, 1650. Dedicated to 'John Bampfield of Poltimore in Devon, Esq., a most eximious and exemplary Worthy of the West.'"

William Sclater, son of the above, was born at Pitminster; admitted member of King's College, Cambridge, in 1626; Fellow of that College; Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter's Barony of St. Stephen's in Exeter, and preacher at St. Martin's in that city, 1639; Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral; admitted Vicar of Collumpton, co. Devon, 4th Feb. 1644, on the presentation of Roger Mallack of Exeter, Esq. Living there in 1650, then styled B.D., and late Fellow of King's College; D.D.; minister of St. Peter's-le-Poor, Broad Street, London, in 1654. Died before 1660.

The following were his published works:

"The Worthy Communicant rewarded, &c.; a Sermon in Exeter Cathedral, 21st April, 1639. 4to. London, 1639. Dedicated to Dr. Peterson, Dean of Exeter.""Papisto-Mastix: or Deborah's Prayer against God's Enemies, a Sermon on Judges, v. 31. 4to. London, 1642.""The Crowne of Righteousness, &c.; a Funeral Sermon at St. Botolph's Aldersgate, Sept. 25, 1653, for Mr. Abraham Wheelock, B.D., &c. 4to. London, 1654."

"The Worthy Communicant rewarded, &c.; a Sermon in Exeter Cathedral, 21st April, 1639. 4to. London, 1639. Dedicated to Dr. Peterson, Dean of Exeter."

"Papisto-Mastix: or Deborah's Prayer against God's Enemies, a Sermon on Judges, v. 31. 4to. London, 1642."

"The Crowne of Righteousness, &c.; a Funeral Sermon at St. Botolph's Aldersgate, Sept. 25, 1653, for Mr. Abraham Wheelock, B.D., &c. 4to. London, 1654."

The registers of Pitminster and Collumpton would perhaps assist in tracing the descendants of these worthies, whose name still exists near Exeter. Fuller, under "Bedfordshire," gives some further particulars. The works above-mentioned may almost all, I think, be found in the Bodleian.

J. D. S.

Balliolensiswill find an account of "William Sclater," whom he rightly supposes to have been at Eton and King's, in Harwood'sAlumni Etonensis, p. 200., under the year 1593, 35 Eliz. He will there see that he died 1627, in the fifty-first year of his age, and was the author ofComment on the Romans and Thessalonians;Sermons at St. Paul's Cross; and theTreatise on Tithes, styledThe Minister's Portion.

Under 1598 occurs "John Sclater." From a MS. account it is stated, "John Sclater, B.D., 1613, Rector of Holford, Somerset; then of Church Lawford, Warwick. (SeeDugdale.) Query, If ejected 1662? if so, his farewell sermon in Collection A." (See tooHarwood, p. 203.)

Under 1626 occurs "William Sclater," at p. 227. ofHarwood, probably a mistake for 1625. In MS. under 1625 appears "William Sclater, son of W. S. of 1593, of Pitminster, Somerset, where his father was V.; R. of St. Steph., Exon.; D.D. 1651; Minister of St. Peter le Poor, Broad Street. (SeeEngl. Worth., 8vo., p. 21.) Pr. of Exon., Sept. 18, 1641. (SeeWalker, ob. 1656. SeeWood.)"

Edward Kellet occurs inHarwoodunder 1598,p. 204. The account of his works given there agrees with the extract from theGentleman's Magazine. It is also stated that he was the author of a sermon entitledA Return from Argier, preached at Minehead, March 16, 1627, on the Re-admission of a relapsed Christian into our Church, on Gal.v. 2.: London, 1628, 4to, and that he was a sufferer from the rebellion. In Harwood he is described as Rector of Bagborough and Crocombe, and Canon of Exeter. The MS. account is very short. He is there described as "R. of Rowbarrow, Som.; Can. of Exon.—See his works inWood."

J. H. L.

(Vol. v., p. 344.).

From the following extracts I send in answer to your correspondentCeyrep, there seems to be very great doubt if St. Patrick ever existed in reality, but that we ought rather to place him in the same category with St. Amphibalus, St. Denis, &c. Dr. Ledwich relates that—

"In Usuard's, and theRoman Martyrology, Bishop Patrick, of Auvergne, is placed at the 16th day of March, and on the same day the office of the Lateran canons, approved by Pius V., celebrates the festival of a Patrick, the apostle of Ireland. The 17th of March is dedicated to Patrick, Bishop of Nola. Had not Dr. Maurice, then, the best reasons for supposing that Patricus Auvernensis sunk a day lower in the calendar, and made for the Irish a Patricius Hibernensis? This seems exactly to be the case. It is very extraordinary the 16th and 17th of March should have three Patricks, one of Auvergne, another of Ireland, and a third of Nola! The antiquities of Glastonbury record three Patricks, one of Auvergne, another archbishop of Ireland, and a third an abbot. The last, according to a martyrology cited by Usher, went on the mission to Ireland,A.D.850, but was unsuccessful: he returned and died at Glastonbury. If all that is now advanced be not a fardel of monkish fictions, which it certainly is, the last Patrick was the man who was beatified by the bigoted Anglo-Saxons, for his endeavours to bring the Irish to a conformity with the Romish church."

Dr. Aikin remarks upon this—

"The author now ventures upon the bold attempt of annihilating St. Patrick. It is an undoubted fact, that this saint is not mentioned in any author, or in any work of veracity, in the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth centuries. His name is in Bede'sMartyrology; but it is more than probable that that martyrology is not Bede's: nor can it be conceived that Bede, in his other works, should never notice the signal service rendered by Patrick to the Roman church, and the signal miracles wrought by him in its behalf, if he had ever heard of them; for the old venerabilis was zealously devoted to that church and its mythology."

The saint certainly vanishes into "an airy nothing," if we are to credit the above authors. I have also consulted Ware, a Roman Catholic writer, author of theAntiquitates Hibernicæ, and nowhere can I find a trace of St. Patrick's birthplace, although he is frequently mentioned. In his seventh chapter he says, "Sancti præcipui Hibernici Seculi quinti, qui Euangelium in Hibernia prædicærunt, fuerunt Palladius, Patricius," and many others. The twenty-sixth chapter entitled "Monasteriologia Hibernica, sive Diatriba de Hiberniæ Cœnobiis, in qua Origines eorum et aliæ Antiquitates aperiuntur," gives the names and titles of the founders of monasteries, as also their dates, and, in speaking of one of them, but in this case specifying no date, relates a curious circumstance as to the building of a church. It may perhaps interest your readers, and I will therefore quote the passage (p. 212.):

"Sanctus Patricius construxit hoc cœnobium Canonicis regularibus, eique præfecit Abbatem S. Dunnium: Ecclesiam verò adjecit (juxta Jocelinum Furnessensem), contra morem receptum, non ab Occidente in Orientem, sed à Septentrione in Austrum protensam."

This nevertheless hangs upon the reality of a St. Patrick. In another part of the same work it is said of a monastery (p. 219.):

"S. Dabeocum fundâsse ferunt Seculo 5, vivente S. Patricio. Alii S. Patricium fundatorem volunt."

From these quotations it is clear Ware treated him as a real actor in Irish ecclesiastical affairs; but the two first-named authors appear to set the matter at rest.

E. M. R.

Grantham.

Cabal(Vol. iv., p. 507.).—The two quotations fromHudibrasevidently refer to two different meanings of this wordCabal. The first, alluding to the ancient Cabala, or Mysteries, or Secrets, from whenceCabalistic; the second, to its more modern, or political acceptation,—both, however, including the idea ofsecrecyorprivity, as opposed to a general participation of knowledge or purpose. It is the latter application of the word to which the inquiry of E. H. D. D., at p. 443., Vol. iv., refers: andMr. Kersley's quotation from a book printed in 1655 (p. 139., Vol. v.), proves its usage in this sense at least seven years before Burnet's derivation of the word from the initials of the five chief ministers of Charles II. I do not think that Pepys could use the wordCabal, as applicable to the "king's confidential advisers,"severalyears before Burnet derived it from their initials; the ministers in question having been appointed circa 1670. Burnet's definition was published in 1672, and Pepys was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty in 1673. Blount, in hisGlossographia, 3rd edition, 1670, says, "We use to say he is not of ourcabal, that is, he is not received into ourcouncil, or is not privy to our secrets." Cole, in hisEnglish Dictionary, 1685, definesCabal, "a secret council:" and Bailey derivesCaballerfromcabaleur(French), "a party man" andTo cabal, fromcabaler(French), "to plot together privately, to make parties;" andCabal, from "a junto, or private council, a particular party, a set, or gang."

I find among my papers a scrap relating to the derivation of the wordWhig. I do not know where I took it from; but the origin which it gives to this much-used word is new to me, and may be to some others of your readers also:

"The word Whig was given to the Liberal party in England by the Royalists in Cromwell's days, from the initial letters of their motto, 'We hope in God.'"

P. T.

Stoke Newington.

Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough(Vol. v., p. 441.).—There is very fine portrait of Charles Earl of Peterborough (the famous Earl) at Drayton House, in Northamptonshire, the ancient seat of the Mordaunt family, and which is now in the possession of Wm. Bruce Stopford, Esq.

J. B.

A full-length portrait of the Earl of Peterborough, by J. B. Vanloo, is in the collection of the Marquis of Exeter at Burghley. The picture belonged to the father-in-law of the present owner, the late W. S. Poyntz, Esq., of Midgham.

J. P., Jr.

The Word "Oasis"(Vol. v., p. 465.).—I beg to incloseMr. Templean instance of the use of the above word in English poetry, it will be found in a poem entitledHopes of Matrimony, by John Holland, author ofSheffield Park, published by Francis Westley, 1822, and now lies before me.

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