Miscellaneous.

'Iste liber Pauli retinet documenta sereniHartmodus Gallo quem contulit Abba Beato,Si quis et hunc Sancti sumit de culmine GalliHunc Gallus Paulusque simul dent pestibus amplis.'

'Iste liber Pauli retinet documenta sereni

Hartmodus Gallo quem contulit Abba Beato,

Si quis et hunc Sancti sumit de culmine Galli

Hunc Gallus Paulusque simul dent pestibus amplis.'

Which I thus have tried to imitate:

Thys boke conteynes the doctrynes of Seynct Paull,Hartmodus thabbat yeve yt to Seynct Gall;Gyf any tak thys boke from hygh Seynct Gall,Seynct Gall appall hym and Seynct Paull hym gall.

Thys boke conteynes the doctrynes of Seynct Paull,

Hartmodus thabbat yeve yt to Seynct Gall;

Gyf any tak thys boke from hygh Seynct Gall,

Seynct Gall appall hym and Seynct Paull hym gall.

Hartmodus was Abbot of St. Gall in the Grisons fromA.D.872 to 874. The MS. therefore may be earlier than the former, but cannot be later than the latter date.

This MS. is of the very highest importance. It contains the celebrated passage of St. John thus: 'Quia tres sunt, qui testimonium dant, Spliritus, aqua, et sanguis, et tres unum sunt. Sicut in cœlo tres sunt, Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus, et tres unum sunt.' This most important wordSicutclearly shows how the disputed passage, from having been a Gloss crept into the text. And on the first page prior to the Seven Catholic Epistles is the Prologue of St. Jerome, bearing his name in uncials, which Porson and other learned men think spurious. See Porson'sLetters to Travis, p. 290."—Bp. Butler's Manuscript Catalogue.

H. Foss.

Rotherhithe, Jan. 29. 1851.

Harrison's Chronology(Vol. iii., p. 105.).—To the querist on William Harrison all lovers of bibliography are under obligations. At Oxford, amid the Bodleian treasures, he could not have had many questions to ask: at Thurles the case may be much otherwise, and he is entitled to a prompt reply.

After examining theTypographical Antiquitiesof Ames and Herbert, and various bibliographical works, relying also on my own memory as a collector of books for more than thirty years, I may venture to assert that theChronologyof W. Harrison has never been printed. I can further assert that no copy of the work is recorded in theCatalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, Oxoniæ, 1697.

The best account of Harrison is given by bishop Tanner, in hisBibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica. Wood, however, should be consulted. With reference to the events of his life, it is important to observe that the date of his letter to sir William Brooke, which may be called an autobiography in miniature, is 1577.

Assuming that this question could not escape the notice of other contributors, I had made no researches with a view to answer it, and shall be happy to remedy the defects of this scrap at a future time.

Bolton Corney.

Mistletoe on Oaks(Vol. ii., pp. 163, 214.).—Is it ever found now onothertrees? Sir Thos. Browne (Vulg. Err.lib. ii. cap. vi. § 3.) says, "We observe it in England very commonly uponSallow,Hazell, and Oake." By-the-bye,Dr. Bell(p. 163.) seems to adopt the belief, which it is Browne's object in the section referred to above to refute, viz., that "Misseltoe is bred upon trees, from seeds which birds let fall thereon." Have later observations shown that it was Browne himself who was in error?

Ache.

Swearing by Swans(Vol. iii., p. 70.).—An instance of the cognate custom of swearing by pheasants is given by Michelet,Précis de l'Histoire Moderne(pp. 19, 20.). On the taking of Constantinople by the Turks,—

"L'Europe s'émut enfin: Nicholas V. prêcha la croisade.... à Lille, le duc de Bourgoyne fit apparaître, dans un banquet, l'image de l'Eglise désolée et, selon les rites de la chevalerie, jura Dieu, la Vierge, les dames, etle faisan, qu'il irait combattre les infidèles." (1454.)

It seems, however, that in spite of all these formalities, the oath did not sit very heavily on the conscience of the taker: for we are told immediately after that—

"Cette ardeur dura peu.... le duc de Bourgoyne resta dans ses états."

Michelet gives, as his authority, Olivier de la Marche, t. viii.De la Collection des Mémoires rélatifs à l'Hist. de France, edit. de M. Petitot.

X. Z.

Jurare ad caput animalium(Vol. ii., p. 392; Vol. iii., p. 71.).—Schayes, a Belgic writer (inLes Pays Bas avant et durant la Domination Romaine, vol. ii. p. 73. et seq.), furnishes references to two councils, in which this mode of swearing was condemned, viz. Concil. Aurelianense (Orleans),A.D.541, and Concil. Liptinense (Liptines or Lestines), 743. On the Indiculus Paganiarum of the latter he subjoins the commentaries of Des Roches (Anc. Mém. de l'Acad. de Brux.), de Meinders (de statu relig. sub Carolo M., p. 144.), d'Eckart (Francia Orient, lib. i. p. 407.), de Canciani (de Legibus barbaror., tom. iii. p. 78.). The enquirer may also consult Riveli Opera on the Decalogue; Petiti,Observ. Miscell.lib. iv. c. 7.: "Defenditur Socrates ab improba Lactantii calumnia et de ejus jusjurando percanem:" and Alex. ab Alexandro,Geniales Dies, lib. v. c. 10.

I may avail myself of this opportunity of noticing the misprint in p. 152.,Vezron forPezron.

T. J.

Ten Children at a Birth(Vol. ii., p. 459.; Vol. iii., p. 64.).—We are indebted to the obliging courtesy of the editor of theLeeds Mercuryfor the following extract from that paper of the 9th October, 1781:—

"A letter from Sheffield, dated October 1, says, 'This day one Ann Birch, formerly of Derby, who came to work at the silk-mills here, was delivered ofTENchildren; nine were dead, and one living, which, with the mother, is likely to do well.'"

Our informant adds—

"I never heard of any silk-mills at Sheffield. If there was a Medical Society in Sheffield then, its records might be examined."

Can our correspondent N. D. throw any further light upon this certainly curious and interesting case?

Richard Standfast(Vol. iii., p. 143.).—This divine is buried in Christ Church, Bristol; having been rector of that church for the long space of fifty-one years. There is a monument erected to his memory in the above-mentioned building, with the following inscription:—

"Near this place lieth the body of Richard Standfast, Master of Arts, of Sidney College in Cambridge, and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to his Majesty King Charles I., who for his loyalty to the King and stedfastness in the established religion, suffered fourteen years' sequestration. He returned to his place in Bristol at the restoration of King Charles II., was then made prebendary of the cathedral church of Bristol, and for twenty years and better (notwithstanding his blindness) performed the offices of the church exactly, and discharged the duties of an able, diligent, and orthodox preacher. He was Rector of Christ Church upwards of fifty-one years, and died August 24, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and in the year of Our Lord 1681.He shall live again."

He shall live again."

The following additional lines, composed by himself, were taken down from his own mouth two days before his death; and are, according to his own desire, inscribed on his tomb:—

"Jacob was at Bethel found,And so may we, though under ground.With Jacob there God did intend,To be with him where'ver he went,And to bring him back again,Nor was that promise made in vain.Upon which words we rest in confidenceThat he which found him there will fetch us hence.Nor without cause are we persuaded thus,For where God spake with him, he spake with us."

"Jacob was at Bethel found,

And so may we, though under ground.

With Jacob there God did intend,

To be with him where'ver he went,

And to bring him back again,

Nor was that promise made in vain.

Upon which words we rest in confidence

That he which found him there will fetch us hence.

Nor without cause are we persuaded thus,

For where God spake with him, he spake with us."

Besides the work your correspondent mentions, he wrote a book, entitled aCaveat against Seducers.

J. K. R. W.

Feb. 22. 1851.

"Jurat, crede minus" (Vol. iii., p. 143.).—This epigram was quoted by Sir Ed. Coke on the trial of Henry Garnet. The author I cannot tell, but F. R. R. may be glad to trace it up thus far.

J. Bs.

Rab Surdam(Vol. ii., p. 493.; Vol. iii., p. 42.).—May not "Rab Surdam" be the ignorant stone-cutter's version of "resurgam?"

M. A. H.

The Scaligers(Vol. iii., p. 133.).—Everything relating to this family is interesting, and I have read with pleasure your correspondent's communication on the origin of their armorial bearings. I am, however, rather surprised to observe, that he seems to take for granted the relationship of Julius Cæsar Scaliger and his son Joseph to the Lords of Verona, which has been so convincingly disproved by several writers. The world has been for some time pretty well satisfied that these two illustrious scholars were mere impostors in the claim they made, that Joseph Scaliger's letter to Janus Dousa was a very impudent affair. If your correspondent has met with any new evidence in support of their claim, it would gratify me much if he would make it known. Who would not derive pleasure from seeing the magnificent boast of Joseph proved at last to have been founded in fact:

"Ego sum septimus ab Imperatore Ludovico et Illustrissimâ Hollandiæ comite Margareta: septimus item a Mastino tertio, ut et magnus Rex Franciscus, literarum parcus."

and Scioppius's parting recommendation—

"Quid jam reliquum est tibi, nisi ut nomen commutes et ex Scalifero fias Furcifer?"—Scaliger Hypobolimaeus. Mogunt., 1607, 4to., p. 74. b.

deprived of its force and stringency? I fear, however, that this is not to be expected.

It is impossible to read Joseph Scaliger's defence of his own case in the rejoinder to Scioppius,Confutatio fabulæ Burdonum, without observing that the author utterly fails in connecting Niccolo, the great-grandfather of Joseph, with Guglielmo della Scala, the son of Can Grande Secundo. And yet such is the charm of genius, that theConfutatio, altogether defective in the main point as a reply, will ever be read with delight by succeeding generations of scholars.

James Crossley.

Manchester, Feb. 22, 1851.

Lincoln Missal(Vol. iii., p. 119.).—It is clear that one of the most learned ritualists, Mr. Maskell, did not know of a manuscript of the Lincoln Use, else he would have noted it in his work,The Ancient Liturgy of the British Church, where the other Uses of Salisbury, York, Bangor, and Hereford, are compared together. In his preface to this work (p. ix.) he states—

"It has been doubted whether there ever was a Lincoln Use in any other sense than a different mode and practice of chanting."

Mr. Peacockwould probably find more information in theMonumenta Ritualia, to which Mr. Maskell refers in his preface.

N. E. R. (A Subscriber.)

By and bye(Vol. iii., p. 73.).—Your correspondent S. S., in support of his opinion thatby the byemeans "by the way," suggests thatgood byemay mean "bon voyage." I must say the commonly received notion, that it is a contraction of "God be wi' ye," appears to me in every way preferable. I think that in the writers of the Elizabethan age, every intermediate variety of form (such as "God b' w' ye," &c.) may be found; but I cannot at this moment lay my hand on any instance.

In an ingenious and amusing article in a late Number of theQuarterly, the character of different nations is shown to be indicated by their different forms of greeting, and surely the same may be said of their forms of taking leave. The English pride themselves, and with justice, on being a peculiarly religious people: now, applying the above test,—as the Frenchman has hisadieu, the Italian hisaddio, the Portuguese hisaddios, and the Spaniard his "vaya usted conDios,"—it is to be presumedthat the Englishman, also, on parting from his friend, will commit him to the care of Providence. On the other hand, it must be admitted that the Germans, who, as well as the English, are supposed to entertain a deeper sense of religion than many other nations, content themselves with a mere "lebe-wohl." I should be obliged if some one of your readers will favour me with the forms of taking leave used by other nations, in order that I may be enabled to see whether the above test will hold good on a more extensive application.

X. Z.

Gregory the Great.—This is clearly a mere slip of the pen in Lady Morgan's pamphlet. I I think it may confidently be asserted that Gregory VII. has not been thus designated habitually at any period.

R. D. H.

True Blue(Vol. iii., p. 92.)—"The earliest connexion of the colour blue with truth" (which inquiry I cannot consider as synonymous with the original Query, Vol. ii., p. 494.) is doubtless to be traced back to one of the typical garments worn by the Jewish high priest, which was (see Godwyn'sMoses and Aaron, London, 1631, lib. i. chap. 5.) "A robe all of blew, with seventy two bels of gold, and as many pomegranates, of blew, purple, and scarlet, upon the skirts thereof." He says that "by the bells was typed the sound of his (Christ's) doctrine; by the pomegranates the sweet savour of an holy life;" and, without doubt, by "the blew robe" was typified the immutability and truthfulness of the person, mission, and doctrine of our great High Priest, who was clothed with truth as with a garment. The great Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic panoply of his lesser type.

Blowen.

Drachmarus(Vol. iii., p. 157.).—Your correspondent has my most cordial thanks both for his suggestion, and also for his conjecture.

1. Perhaps you will kindly afford me space to say, that the name of Drachmarus occurs in a well-written MS. account of Bishop Cosin's controversy, during his residence in Paris, with the Benedictine Prior Robinson, concerning the validity of our English ordination: in the course of which, after stating the opinion of divers of the Fathers, that the keys of order and jurisdiction were given John xx., "Quorum peccata," &c., Cosin adds:

"I omit Hugo Cardinalis, the ordinary gloss,Drachmarus, Scotus, as men of a later age (though all, as you say, of your church) that might be produced to the same purpose."

I should here perhaps state, that no letter of Prior Robinson's is extant in which any mention is made either of Drachmarus or of Druthmarus.

2. Before my Query was inserted, it had not only occurred to me as probable that the transcriber might have written Drachmarus in mistake for Druthmarus, but I had also consulted such of Druthmar's writings as are found in theBibl. Patr.I came to the conclusion, however, that a later writer than Christian Druthmar was intended.Myconjecture was, that Drachmarus must be a second name for some known writer of the age of the schoolmen, just asCarbajulusmay be found cited under the name ofLoysius, orLoisius, which are only other forms of his Christian name,Ludovicus.

J. Sansom.

The Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex.—E. H. Y. (Vol. iii., p. 66.) is wrong in assigning the title of LordMountacuteto the Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex. In 1 & 2 Phil. and Mary, Sir Antony Browne (son of the Master of the Horse to Henry VIII.) was created ViscountMontague(Collins). When curate of Eastbourne, in which parish are situated the ruins of their ancestral Hall of Cowdray, I frequently heard the village dames recite the tales of the rude forefathers of the hamlet respecting the family.

They relate, that while the great Sir Antony (temp. Hen. VIII.) was holding a revel, a monk presented himself before the guests and pronounced the curse of fire and water against the male descendants of the family, till none should be left, because the knight had received and was retaining the church-lands of Battle Abbey, and those which belonged to the priory of Eastbourne. Within the last hundred years, destiny, though slow of foot, has overtaken the fated race. In one day the hall perished by fire, and the lord by water, as mentioned by E. H. Y. The male line being extinct, the estate passed to the sister of Lord Montague. This lady was married to the late W. S. Poyntz, Esq., M.P. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Poyntz were drowned at Bognor, and the estate a second time devolved on the female representatives. These ladies, still living, are the Marchioness of Exeter, the Countess Spencer, and the Dowager Lady Clinton. The estate passed by purchase into the hands of the Earl of Egmont.

The old villagers, the servants, and the descendants of servants of the family, point to the ruins of the hall, and religiously cling to the belief that its destruction and that of its lords resulted from the curse. It certainly seems an illustration of Archbishop Whitgift's words to Queen Elizabeth:

"Church-land added to an ancient inheritance hath proved like a moth fretting a garment, and secretly consumed both: or like the eagle that stole a coal from the altar, and thereby set her nest on fire, which consumed both her young eagles and herself that stole it."

E. Rds.

Queen's Col., Birm., Feb. 20. 1851.

Red Hand(Vol. ii., p. 506.,et antè).—A correspondent,Arun, says, "Your correspondents would confer a heraldic benefit if they wouldpoint out other instances, which I believe to exist, where family reputation has been damaged by similar ignorance in heraldic interpretation." I have always thought this ignorance to be universal with the country people in England: I could mentionseveral instances. First, when I was a boy at school I was shown the hatchments in Wateringbury church, in Kent, by my master, and informed that Sir Thomas Styles had murdered some domestic, and was consequently obliged to bear the "bloody hand:" and lastly, and lately, at Church-Gresley, in Derbyshire, at the old hall of the Gresley family, I was shown the marble table on which Sir Roger or Sir Nigel Gresley had cut up, in a sort of Greenacre style, his cook; for which he was obliged to have the bloody hand in his arms, and put into the church on his tomb.

H. W. D.

Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe(Vol. iii., p. 137.).—The two tracts mentioned by your correspondent R. D. H., and which he states he has often sought in vain, namely,Augusta Triumphans, London, 1728, 8vo., andSecond Thoughts are best, London, 1729, 8vo., are to be found in theSelection from Defoe's Workspublished by Talboys in 20 vols. 12mo. in 1840. They are both indisputably by Defoe, and contain, as your correspondent observes, many anticipations of modern improvements. I may mention that there is a tract, also beyond doubt by Defoe, on the subject of London street-robberies, which has never yet been noticed or attributed to him by any one. It is far more curious and valuable thanSecond Thoughts are best, and is perfectly distinct from that tract. It gives a history, and the only one I ever yet met with, written in all Defoe's graphic manner, of the London police and the various modes of street robbery in the metropolis, from the time of Charles II. to 1731, and concludes by suggestions of effectual means of prevention. It is evidently the work of one who had lived in London during the whole of the period. The title is—

"An effectual Scheme for the immediate preventing of Street Robberies, and suppressing all other Disorders of the Night, with a brief History of the Night Houses, and an Appendix relating to those Sons of Hell called Incendiaries. Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower de Luees, behind the Chapter House in St. Paul's Church Yard. 1731. (Price 1s.) 8vo., pages 72."

I have also another tract on the same subject, which has not been noticed by Defoe's biographers, but which I have no hesitation in ascribing to him. It is curious enough, but not of equal value with the last. The title is—

"Street Robberies considered. The reason of their being so frequent, with probable Means to prevent 'em. To which is added, three short Treatises: 1. A Warning for Travellers; with Rules to know a Highwayman and Instructions how to behave upon the occasion. 2. Observations on Housebreakers. How to prevent a Tenement from being broke open. With a Word of Advice concerning Servants. 3. A Caveat for Shopkeepers: with a Description of Shoplifts, how to know 'em, and how to prevent 'em: also a Caution of delivering Goods: with the Relation of several Cheats practised lately upon the Publick. Written by a converted Thief. To which is prefix'd some Memoirs of his Life.Set a Thief to catch a Thief.London: Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick Lane. Price 1s.(No date, but circ. 1726.) 8vo., pages 72."

James Crossley.

Meaning of Waste-book(Vol. iii., p. 118.).—Thewaste-bookin a counting-house is that in which all the transactions of the day, receipts, payments, &c., are entered miscellaneously as they occur, and of which no account is immediately taken, no value immediately found; whence, so to speak, the mass of affairs is undigested, and the wilderness orwasteis uncultivated, and without result until entries are methodically made in the day-book and ledger; without which latter appliances there would, in book-keeping, bewasteindeed, in the worst sense of the term. The wordday-bookexplains itself. The wordledgeris explained in Johnson's and in Ash'sDictionary, from the Dutch, as signifying a book that lies in the counting-housepermanently in one place. The etymology there given also explains why certain lines used in fishing-tackle, by old Isaak Walton, and by his disciples at the present day, are calledledger-lines. It, however, does not seem to explain the phraseledger-lines, used in music; namely, the term applied to those short lines added above or below the staff of five lines, when the notes run very high or very low, and which are exactly those which are notpermanent. Here the French wordlégertempts the etymologist a little.

Robert Snow.

Deus Justificatus(Vol. ii., p. 441.).—There is no doubt that this work was written by Henry Hallywell, and not by Cudworth. Dr. Worthington, whose intercourse with the latter was of the most intimate kind, and who would have been fully aware of the fact had he been the author, observes, in a letter not dated, but written circ. September, 1668, addressed to Dr. More, and of which I have a copy now before me:

"I bought at London Mr. Hallywell'sDeus Justificatus. Methinks it is better written than his former Letter. He will write better and better."

In a short account of Hallywell, who was of the school of Cudworth and More, and whose MS. correspondence with the latter is now in my possession, in Wood'sFasti, vol. ii. p. 187. Edit. Bliss, Wood, "amongst several things that he hath published," enumerates five only, but does not give theDeus Justificatusamongst them. Itappears (Wood'sAthenæ, vol. iv. p. 230.) that he was ignorant who the author of this tract was.

It is somewhat singular that the mistake in ascribingDeus Justificatusto Cudworth should have been continued in Kippis's edition of theBiographia Britannica. It was so ascribed to him, first, as far as I can find, by a writer of the name of Fancourt, in the preface to hisFree Agency of Accountable Creatures Examined, London, 1733, 8vo. On his authority it was included in the list of Cudworth's works in theGeneral Dictionary, 1736, folio, vol. iv. p. 487., and in theBiographia Britannica, 1750, vol. iii. p. 1581., and in the last edition by Kippis. Birch, in the mean time, finding, no doubt, on inquiry, that there was no ground for ascribing it to Cudworth, made no mention of it in his accurate life prefixed to the edition of theIntellectual Systemin 1742.

Hallywell, the author, deserves to be better known. In many passages in his works he gives ample proof that he had fully imbibed the lofty Platonism and true Christian spirit of his great master.

James Crossley.

Touchstone's Dial(Vol. ii., p. 405.; Vol. iii., pp. 52. 107.).—I am gratified to find that my note on "Touchstone's Dial" has promptedMr. Stephensto send you his valuable communication on these old-fashioned chronometers. The subjoined extract fromTravels in America in the Year1806, by Thomas Ashe, Esq., is interesting, as it shows that "Ring-dials" were used as common articles of barter in America at the commencement of the present century:—

"The storekeepers on the Alleghany River from above Pittsburg to New Orleans are obliged to keep every article which it is possible that the farmer and manufacturer may want. Each of their shops exhibits a complete medley: a magazine, where are to be had both a needle and an anchor, a tin pot and a large copper boiler, a child's whistle and a piano-forte, aring-dialand a clock," &c.

J. M. B.

Ring Dials.—I was interested with the reference toPocket Sun-dialsin "Notes and Queries," pp. 52. 107. because it re-furnished an opportunity of placing in print a scrap of information on the subject, which I neglected to embrace when I first readMr. Knight'snote on the passage in Shakspeare. About seventy years ago these small, cheap, brass "Ring-dials" for the pocket were manufactured by the gross by a firm in Sheffield (Messrs. Proctor), then in Milk street. I well remember the workman—an old man in my boyhood—who had been employed in making them, as he said, "in basketsful;" and also his description of themodus operandi, which was curious enough. They were of different sizes and prices, and their extreme rarity at present, considering the number formerly in use, is only less surprising than the commonness of pocket-watches which have superseded them. I never saw but one of these cheapest and most nearly forgotten horologia, and which the old brass-turner, as I recollect, boasted of as "telling the time true to a quarter of an hour!"

Sheffield, Jan. 2. 1851.

Cockade(Vol. iii., p. 7.).—The Query of A. E. has not yet been satisfactorily answered; nor can I pretend to satisfy him. But as a small contribution to the history of the decoration in question, I beg to offer him the following definition from theDictionnaire étymologiqueof Roquefort, 8vo., Paris, 1829:—

"Cocarde, touffe de rubans que sous Louis XIII. on portoit sur le feutre, et qui imitoit la crête du coq."

If this be correct,Apodliktes(p. 42.) must be mistaken in attributing so recent an origin to the cockade as the date of the Hanoverian succession. The truth is, that from the earliest period of heraldic institutions, colours have been used to symbolise parties. The mode of wearing them may have varied; and whether wrought in silk, or more economically represented in the stamped leather cockade of our private soldier, is little to the purpose. It will, however, hardly be contended that our present fashion at all resembles "la crête du coq."

F. S. Q.

"The ribband worn in the hat" was styled "a favour" previous to the Scotch Covenanters' nick-naming it a cockade. Allow me to correctApodliktes(p. 42.): "The blackfavourbeing the Hanoverian badge, the whitefavourthat of the Stuarts." The knots or bunches of ribbons given as favours at marriages, &c., were not invariably worn in the hat as a cockade is, but it was sometimes (see Hudibras, Pt. i. canto ii. line 524.)

"Wore in their hats like wedding garters."

There is a note on this line in my edition, which is the same asJ. B. Colmanrefers to for the note on the Frozen Horn (p. 91.).

Blowen.

Rudbeck's Atlantica—Grenville copy—Tomus I Sine Anno.1675. 1679. (Vol. iii., p. 26.).—Has any one of these three copies a separate leaf, entitled "Ad Bibliopegos?"—Not one of them.

(Neither has the king's (George III.) copy, nor the Sloane copy, both in the Museum.)

Has the copy with the date 1679, "Testimonia" at the end?—The Testimonia are placed after the Dedication, before the text (they are inlaid). They occupy fifteen pages.

Have they a separateTitleand a separate sheet ofErrata?—Neither the one nor the other.

Is there a duplicate copy of this separate Title at the end of the Preface?—No.

(The copy with the date 1675 has at the end Testimonia filling eight pages, with a separate title, and a leaf containing three lines of Errata.)

Tomus II. 1689.—How many pages ofTestimonia are there at the end of the Preface?—Thirty-eight pages.

(In George III.'s copy the Testimonia occupy forty-three pages.)

Is there in any one of these volumes the name of any former owner, any book number, or any other mark by which they can be recognised; for instance, that of the Duke de la Vallière?—No. Not in Mr. Grenville's, nor in George III.'s, nor in the Sloane's; this last has not the Third Volume.

Henry Foss.

Scandal against Queen Elizabeth(Vol. iii., p. 11.).—It is a tradition in a family with which I am connected, that Queen Elizabeth had a son, who was sent over to Ireland, and placed under the care of the Earl of Ormonde. The Earl, it will be remembered, was distantly related to the Queen, her great-grandmother being the daughter of Thomas, the eighth Earl.

Papers are said to exist in the family which prove the above statement.

J. Bs.

Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth.—The curious little volume mentioned byMr. Roper(Vol. iii., p. 45.), is most probably the book alluded to by J. E. C., p. 23. I possess a copy of much later date (1767). It is worthy of note, that the narrative is headedThe Earl of Essex; or, the Amours of Queen Elizabeth; while the title-page states,The secret History of the most Renown'd Q. Elizabeth and Earl of Essex.

I think it can scarcely be said to becorroborativeof the "scandal" contained in Mr. Ives's MS. note, or that in Burton'sParliamentary Diary, cited by P. T., Vol. ii. p. 393. Whitaker, in hisVindication of Mary Q. of Scots, has displayed immense industry and research in his collection of charges against the private life of Elizabeth, but makes no mention of these reports.

E. B. Price.

Bibliographical Queries(No. 39.),Monarchia Solipsorum(Vol. iii., p. 138.).—Your correspondent asks, Can there be the smallest doubt that the veritable inventor of this satire upon the Jesuits was their former associate, Jules-Clement Scotti? Having paid considerable attention to the writings of Scotti, Inchofer, and Scioppius, and to the evidence as to the authorship of this work, I should, notwithstanding Niceron's authority, on which your correspondent seems to rely, venture to assert that the claim made for Scotti, as well as that for Scioppius, may be at once put aside. No two authors ever more carefully protected their literary offspring, numerous as they were, by the catalogues and lists of them which they published or dispersed from time to time, than these two writers. In them every tract is claimed, however short, which they had written. Scotti published one in 1650, five years after the publication of theMonarchia Solipsorum; and I have a letter of his, of the same period, containing a list of his writings. Scioppius left one, dated 1647, now in MS. in the Laurentian Library with his other MSS., and which carefully mentions every tract he had written against the Jesuits. TheMonarchia Solipsorumdoes not appear in the lists of these two writers; and no good reason can be assigned why it should not, on the supposition of its being written by either of them. If not in those which were published, it certainly would not have been omitted in those communicated to their friends, not Jesuits, or which were found amongst their own MSS. Then, nothing can be more distinct than the style of Scotti, of Scioppius, and that of the author, whoever he was, of theMonarchia. The much-vexed spirit of the bitterest of critics would have been still more indignant if one or two of the passages in this work could ever, in his contemplation, have been imputed to his pen.

It is in this case, as in most other similar ones, much easier to conclude who is not, than who is the author of the book in question. The internal evidence is very strong in favour of Inchofer. It was published with his name in 1652, seven years only after the date of the first edition; and the witnesses are many among his contemporaries, who speak positively to his being the author. Further, there is no great dissimilarity in point of style, and I have collected several parallel expressions occurring in theMonarchiaand Inchofer's other works, which very much strengthen the claim made on his behalf, but which it is scarcely necessary to insert here. In my opinion, he is the real author. The question might, I have no doubt, be finally set at rest by an examination of his correspondence with Leo Allatius, which is, or was, at all events, in the Vatican.

James Crossley.

Manchester, Feb. 22, 1851.

Touching for the Evil(Vol. iii., p. 93.).—It was one of the proofs against the Duke of Monmouth, that he had touched for the evil when in the West; and I have seen a handbill describing the cures he effected. It was sold at Sir John St. Aubyn's sale of prints at Christie's some few years since.

H. W. D.

"Talk not of Love" (Vol. iii., pp. 7.77.).—In answering the Query of A. M. respecting this pleasing little song, your correspondents have neglected to mention that the earliest copy of it,i.e.that in Johnson'sScots Musical Museum, hastwoadditional stanzas. This is important, because, from No. 8. of Burns'sLetters to Clarinda, it appears that the concluding lines were supplied by Burns himself to suit the music. He remarks that—

"The latter half of the first stanza would have been worthy of Sappho. I am in raptures with it."

Mrs. Mac Lehose (Clarinda) was living in 1840, in the eightieth year of her age.

Edward F. Rimbault.

Did St. Paul's Clock strike Thirteen?(Vol. iii., p. 40.).—Yes: but it was not then at St. Paul's; for I think St. Paul's was then being rebuilt. The correspondent to theAntiquarian Repertorysays:

"The first time I heard it (the circumstance) was at Windsor, before St. Paul's had a clock, when the soldier's plea was said to be that Tom of Westminster struck thirteen instead of twelve at the time when he ought to have been relieved. It is not long since a newspaper mentioned the death of one who said he was the man."

About the beginning of the eighteenth century this bell was removed to St. Paul's, &c.—Can any of the readers of the "Notes and Queries" supply the newspaper notice above referred to. The above was written in 1775. The clock tower in which the bell was originally (and must have been when the sentinel heard it) was removed in 1715.

John Francis.

[The story is given in Walcott'sMemorials of Westminsteras being thus recorded inThe Public Advertiserof Friday, 22nd June, 1770:—"Mr. John Hatfield, who died last Monday at his house in Glasshouse Yard, Aldersgate, aged 102 years, was a soldier in the reign of William and Mary, and the person who was tried and condemned by a Court Martial for falling asleep on his duty upon the terrace at Windsor. He absolutely denied the charge against him, and solemnly declared that he heard St. Paul's clock strike thirteen, the truth of which was much doubted by the court because of the great distance. But whilst he was under sentence of death, an affidavit was made by several persons that the clock actually did strike thirteen instead of twelve; whereupon he received his majesty's pardon. The above his friends caused to be engraved upon his plate, to satisfy the world of the truth of a story which has been much doubted, though he had often confirmed it to many gentlemen, and a few days before his death told it to several of his neighbours. He enjoyed his sight and memory to the day of his death."]

Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots(Vol. iii., p. 113.).—Among the benefits conferred by "Notes and Queries" upon the literary world, is the information occasionally afforded, in what libraries, public and private, very rare books are deposited.Mr. Collierexpresses his thanks toMr. Laingfor sending to him a very rare volume by Kyffin. Had I seen his "Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company," I should have had much pleasure in furnishing him with extracts, from another copy in the Chetham Library, of the tract he has described. The Rev. T. Corser possesses the same author'sBlessedness of Britain. His other works are enumerated by Watt, and should be transferred to a Bibliotheca Cambrensis.

T. J.

Metrical Psalms, &c.(Vol. iii., p. 119.).—Arunmay find all the information he seeks by consulting a treatise ofHeylin'son the subject of the metrical version of the Psalms, published by Dr. Rich. Watson, under the title ofThe Deduction, 8vo. Lond. 1685.

Together with this treatise, two letters from BishopCosinto Watson are published; in the latter of which, towards the end, the following paragraph occurs:—

"The singing Psalms are not adjoined to our Bibles, or to our Liturgy, by any other authority than what the Company of Stationers for their own gain have procured, either by their own private ordinances among themselves, or by some order from the Privy Council in Queen Elizabeth's time. Authority of convocation, or of Parliament, such as our Liturgy had, never had they any: only the Queen, by her Letters Patent to the Stationers, gave leave to have them printed, and allowed them (did not command them) to be sung in churches or private houses by the people. When the Liturgy was set forth, and commanded to be used, these psalms were not half of them composed: no bishop ever inquired of their observance, nor did ever any judge at an assize deliver them in his charge: which both the one and other had been bound to do, if they had been set forth by the same authority which the Liturgy was. Besides you may observe, that they are never printed with the Liturgy or Bible, nor ever were; but only bound up, as the stationers please, together with it," &c.

J. Sansom.

Aristophanes on the Modern Stage(Vol. iii., p. 105.)—Molière has availed himself in the comedy of theBourgeois Gentilhommevery liberally of the comedy of theClouds. The lesson in grammar given to Monsr. Jourdain is nearly the same as that which Socrates gives to Strepsiades.

W. B. D.

The last number of theGentleman's Magazinecontains a very important paper upon the limited accessibility of the State Paper Office to literary inquirers, and the consequent injury to historical literature. But not only is the present system illiberal; it seems that it has been determined by the Lords of the Treasury that the historical papers anterior to 1714 shall be transferred from the State Paper Office to the new Record Office, which is now rising rapidly on the Rolls Estate. Under present circumstances, this is a transfer from bad to worse. Our contemporary shows the absurdity and injustice to literature of such a determination in a very striking manner. We cannot follow him through his proofs, but are bound as the organ of literary men to direct attention to the subject. It is most important to every one who is interested—and who is not?—in the welfare of historical literature.

TheUnpublished Manuscripts on Church Governmentby Archbishop Laud, stated to have been prepared for the education of Prince Henry, and subsequently presented to Charles I., which we mentioned in our sixty-ninth number, was sold by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on the 24th ultimo, for Twenty Guineas. And here we may note that in the Collection of Autographs sold by the same auctioneers on Friday last, among other valuable articles was a Letter of Burke, dated 3rd Oct. 1793, from which we quote the following passage, which will be read with interest at the present time, and furnishes some information respecting Cardinal Erskine—the subject of a recent Query:—"I confess, I would, if the matter rested with me, enter into much more distinct and avowed political connections with the Court of Rome than hitherto we have held. If we decline them, the bigotry will be on our part and not on that of his Holiness. Some mischief has happened, and much good has, I am convinced, been prevented by our unnatural alienation.

... With regard to Monsignor Erskine, I am certain that all his designs are formed upon the most honourable and the most benevolent public principles." One of the most interesting lots at the sale was a proclamation of the "Old Pretender," dated Rome, 23 Dec. 1743, given "under our Sign Manual and Privy Seal," the seal having the inscription "Jacobus III. Rex," which fetched Eleven Pounds.

We believe there are few libraries in this country, however small, in which there is not to be found one shelf devoted to such pet books on Natural History as White'sSelborne, theJournal of a Naturalist, and Waterton'sWanderings. The writings of Mr. Knox are obviously destined to take their place in the same honoured spot. Actuated with the same love of nature, and gifted with the same power of patient observation as White, he differs from him in the wider range over which he extends his observation, and in combining the ardour of the sportsman with the scientific spirit of inquiry which distinguishes the naturalist. In hisGame Birds and Wild Fowl: their Friends and their Foes, which contains the result of his observations and experience, not only on the birds described in his title-page, but on certain other animals supposed, oftentimes most erroneously, to be injurious to their welfare and increase—we have a work which reflects the highest credit upon the writer, and can scarcely fail to accomplish the great end for which Mr Knox wrote it, that of "adding new votaries to a loving observation of nature."

Books Received.—Desdemona, the Magnifico's Child; the Fourth of Mrs. Cowden Clarke's Stories ofThe Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines, is devoted to the history of

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