"On a circle of stones they placed the pot,On a circle of stones but barely nine;They heated it red and fiery hot,Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine."They rolled him up in a sheet of lead,A sheet of lead for a funeral pall;They plunged him in the cauldron red,And melted him, lead, and bones, and all."
"On a circle of stones they placed the pot,On a circle of stones but barely nine;They heated it red and fiery hot,Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine.
"On a circle of stones they placed the pot,
On a circle of stones but barely nine;
They heated it red and fiery hot,
Till the burnished brass did glimmer and shine.
"They rolled him up in a sheet of lead,A sheet of lead for a funeral pall;They plunged him in the cauldron red,And melted him, lead, and bones, and all."
"They rolled him up in a sheet of lead,
A sheet of lead for a funeral pall;
They plunged him in the cauldron red,
And melted him, lead, and bones, and all."
R. S. F.
Perth.
—The principal reason why the names of the Empress Matilda, King Henry junior, and Queen Jane (Grey or Dudley), are not inserted in the lists of English sovereigns, as J. J. S. suggests they should be, arises from the fact of the periods of their supposed reigns being concurrent with those of other monarchs, and our constitution recognising one only at a time. The name of Queen Jane has, however, found a place in some recent lists; following that given in Sir Harris Nicolas'sChronology of History(edit. 1833, p. 330.), where he states that her nominal reign extended from the 6th to the 17th July, 1553. Appended toThe Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary(printed for the Camden Society), I have given a list of all the public documents or state papers known to be extant which bear date in the reign of Queen Jane, and the last is a letter of the Privy Council to Lord Rich, dated the 19th July; this extends the period two days longer than in theChronology of History, and was certainly the last public document that recognised Jane's authority. Only oneprivatedocument so dated has been discovered. It is a deed relating to the parish of St. Dunstan's in Kent (dated 15th July), which was communicated by Mr. Hunter to theRetrospective Review, N. S. vol. i. p. 505. But an act of parliament of the 1st March, 1553-4, legalised all documents that might be so dated from the 6th of July to the last day of the same month (Nicolas, p. 316.). Among our historians, Heylin, in hisHistory of the Reformation, has apportioned a distinct division of his narrative to "The Reign of Queen Jane."
JOHNGOUGHNICHOLS.
—I cannot tell H. B. C. what is theeditio princepsof these hymns; but as he appears to know of no edition anterior to 1749, I beg to observe that an edition ofPsalms and Hymnsfor the use of the Moravians was published by the Rev. John Gambold, one of their bishops, at London, in 1738. It is in 12mo. without the name of any printer. There is a copy of this book in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth. But as it is five-and-twenty years, or more, since I saw it, I have no recollection of the particulars of its contents.
H. C.
Thurles.
In 1801 a Moravian Hymn-book was issued, which, being out of print, was reprinted in 1809. I should suppose the book a great improvement upon the old Moravian hymn-books. I have a copy of the edition of 1809: about half the hymns are translations from the German, and the rest selected from Watts, Wesley, Steel, Robinson, and others. The hymn "To you, ye Jesus' wounds" is not in it. The book contains also their simple and beautiful liturgy, offices for baptism, burial, ordination of bishops, priests, and deacons, &c.
JAMESEDMESTON.
Homerton.
The following is the title of a book, printed in 1749, for James Hutton, Fetter Lane:—Hymns composed for the Use of the Brethren by the Right Rev. and most Illustrious C. Z.(Count Zinzendorf?) I transcribe some specimens.
"God's side hole, hear my prayer,Accept my meditation;On thee I cast my care,With childlike adoration.While days and ages pass, and endless periods roll,An everlasting blaze shall sparkle from that hole.
"God's side hole, hear my prayer,
Accept my meditation;
On thee I cast my care,
With childlike adoration.
While days and ages pass, and endless periods roll,
An everlasting blaze shall sparkle from that hole.
Lovely side hole, dearest side hole!Sweetest side hole, made for me;O my most beloved side hole!I wish to be lost in thee.O my dearest side hole!Thou art to my bride soulThe most dear and loveliest place;Pleura's space!Soul and body in the pass.
Lovely side hole, dearest side hole!
Sweetest side hole, made for me;
O my most beloved side hole!
I wish to be lost in thee.
O my dearest side hole!
Thou art to my bride soul
The most dear and loveliest place;
Pleura's space!
Soul and body in the pass.
The daughters reverence do,Christess and praise thee too,Thou happy Kyria, daughter of Abijah;We reach each sister of Jehovah,Manness of the man Jeshuah,Out of the pleura Hosannah."
The daughters reverence do,
Christess and praise thee too,
Thou happy Kyria, daughter of Abijah;
We reach each sister of Jehovah,
Manness of the man Jeshuah,
Out of the pleura Hosannah."
JAMESCORNISH.
—Was not the "Essex Broad Oak" identical with the "Fairlop Oak?" The Fairlop Oak is thus described inExcursions through Essex(Longman, 1818, vol. ii. p. 56.):
"In Hainault Forest, about one mile from Barkingside, stands an oak which has been known through many centuries by the name of Fairlop. For an account of this celebrated tree (which seems to have escaped the attention of the laborious Camden, and his indefatigable continuator, Mr. Gough) we are indebtedto the Rev. Mr. Gilpin. 'The tradition of this tree,' says this ingenious writer in hisRemarks on Forest Scenery and other Woodland Views, 'traces it half way up the Christian æra. It is still a noble tree, though it has suffered greatly from the depredations of time. About a yard from the ground, where its rough fluted stem is 36 feet in circumference, it divides into eleven vast arms; yet not in the horizontal manner of an oak, but rather in that of a beach. Beneath its shade, which overspreads an area of 300 feet in circuit, an annual fair has long been held on the first Friday in July.' This celebrated tree was for some time fenced round with a close paling about five feet high. Almost all the extremities of its branches have been sawed off, and Mr. Forsyth's composition applied to them, to preserve then from decay; and the injury which the trunk of the tree had sustained from the lighting of fires have been repaired, as much as possible, with the same composition. On one of the branches a board was fixed, with this inscription, 'All good foresters are requested not to hurt this old tree, a plaister having been lately applied to its wounds.'"
If my recollection serves me correctly, a drawing and description of this old tree is contained in one of Hone's publications,—I think hisTable Book.[9]
[9][The drawing and description of this venerable oak is given in theMirror, vol. ii. p. 81., where it is stated that Mr. Forsyth's precautions were insufficient to protect it from an injurious custom practised by many of its thoughtless visitors, of making a fire within the cavities to cook their provisions; for, in the month of June, 1805, it was set on fire, and continued burning until the following day, by which the trunk was considerably injured. The high winds of February, 1820, at last stretched its massy trunk and limbs on that turf which it had for so many ages overshadowed with its verdant foliage. The wood of which the pulpit and reading-desk of St. Pancras new church are composed was a portion of the Fairlop Oak; and are looked upon as matters of greater curiosity perhaps, on that account, than even the beautiful grained and highly polished material and the splendid carvings.—ED.]
Another large tree is mentioned in the same volume (p. 87.) as being called "Doodle [Query,doleorboundary] Oke."
To conclude (if I have not already trespassed too much upon your space), Is the Fairlop Oak still standing; and, if so, what is its present condition?
J. B. COLMAN.
Eye.
Cypress trees on the continent of America grow to immense ages. By counting the concentric rings observed in the wood, on sawing a trunk across, it appears that 400 years is a common age. There is a gigantic trunk near Santa Maria del Tula, in the province of Oaxaca, in Mexico, whose circumference at the dilated base is no less than 200 feet. Of this, taking 1·6 line as the average growth of a year, the age would be 3512 years. (Lyell'sSecond Visit to United States, vol. ii. pp. 254, 255. Prescott'sPeru, vol. ii. p. 315. 4th edition.) Adanson, the celebrated botanist, calculated the age of one of the famous Baobab trees of Senegal to be 5150 years. (Marquis of Ormonde'sSicily, p. 76.) A tamarind tree in the Mahometan burial-ground at Putelam, in Ceylon, is 39 feet in diameter, or upwards of 117 feet in circumference, from which the age may be calculated on the above scale. (Sirr'sCeylon, vol. i. p. 85.)
T. G.
—Your correspondent L.'s letter is very valuable. May I add a few contributions?
There is a mode of printing used in Cuvier'sRègne Animal, which is exceedingly useful for books of classification, that is, to print those sentences which relate to the primary divisions in a larger type, and full up to the side; the subdivisions to be printed short, as sums are entered in an account book, and in a smaller type. I believe I had the fortune to introduce a slight improvement in indexes. For instance, in your index the subordinate items are arranged according to time, but that gives a great deal of trouble. Under MR. BREEN'Sname there are fifteen items; they should be arranged alphabetically, like the principal items, as is done in the same index in the case of notices of books, unavoidably. But such subordinate items had better, in general, have the word on which the alphabetical arrangement turns printed in Italics to catch the eye, rather than invert the order of the words, asmustbe done in the principal items.
In what books the old spelling should be retained is a matter of individual question, upon which no rules can be laid down. Walpole complained that thePaston Letterswere printed with the old spelling, and that, though a version is on the opposite page; but few persons will agree with him in that. In such books we have a right to see the old spelling in order to judge whether the version is right, as well as for general information.
C. B.
—The two questions mooted concerning the ring-finger,i.e.why the third finger is the ring-finger, and why the wedding-ring is worn on the third finger of the left hand? have not yet been satisfactorily answered.
Thethird finger is the only recognised ring-finger. Hence all who wear ringsex officio, wear them on that finger. Cardinals, bishops, doctors, abbots, &c., wear their ring on the third finger. Thereason is that it is the first vacant finger. The thumb and the first two fingers have always been reserved as symbols of the three persons of the Blessed Trinity. When a bishop gives his blessing,he blesses with the thumb and first two fingers. Our brasses and sepulchral slabs bear witness to this fact. And at the marriage ceremony, the ring is put on to the thumb and the first two fingers, whilst the names of "The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost" are pronounced. Thus the third is the first vacant finger, and the ring-finger.The wedding-ring is worn on the left hand to signify the subjection of the wife to her husband.The right hand signifies power, independence, authority; according to the words:
"The salvation of his right hand is in powers."Psalm xx. 6."The change of the right hand of the Most High."Psalm lxxvii. 10.
"The salvation of his right hand is in powers."Psalm xx. 6.
"The salvation of his right hand is in powers."
Psalm xx. 6.
"The change of the right hand of the Most High."Psalm lxxvii. 10.
"The change of the right hand of the Most High."
Psalm lxxvii. 10.
The left hand signifies dependence or subjection. Married women, then, wear the wedding-ring on the third finger of the left hand, because they are subject to their husbands.
Bishops, because they have ecclesiastical authority, and doctors, because they have authority to teach, wear the ring on the ring-finger of the right hand.
CEYREP.
—The Queries put by MR.MARKLANDwill be found solved in that excellent book,The English Causes Célèbres, edited by Mr. Craik, and published in 1840. It is a great pity that Mr. Craik's undertaking was not prosecuted beyond vol. i.
Walpole was wrong, and Sir Egerton Brydges right. Charles John Count Königsmark was the instigator of the assassination of Mr. Thynne. Philip Christopher von Königsmark, the younger brother of Charles John, was the presumed lover of Sophia of Zell.
Charles John von Königsmark was mortally wounded at the battle of Argos, on the 29th August, 1686.
The presumed "foul play" in the Königsmark case consisted, I suppose, in Chief Justice Pemberton summing up strongly, in accordance with the known wish of the king, that the Count should be acquitted.
JOHNBRUCE.
MR. MARKLANDwill find his inquiries as to the two Königsmarks answered in a late number of theQuarterly Review(I think that for October, 1851), in an article on the Lexington Papers.
C.
—I thank ÆGROTUSfor the clue he has afforded me, as to the date of the document he inquired for, and can now give him some further particulars. At a Court of Common Council held Feb. 23, 1810, in consequence of a proposition in the House of Commons to settle upon Lord Wellington 2000l.per ann. for three lives, a motion was made, and carried by sixty-five to fifty-eight, to petition the House against it. The petition is very long, but it is to the following tenor: it commences by objecting to the grant on the ground of economy, and that his services have not deserved it; "that his gallant efforts in Portugal have lead only to the disgraceful and scandalous Convention of Cintra, signed by his own hand;" that the result of the battle of Talavera was a retreat, with the abandonment of sick and wounded; that as yet they have seen no inquiry into either of these campaigns; that he and his family have held lucrative appointments in the East Indies; that no provision has been made for the family of the highly deserving Sir John Moore. It then goes on to say, "that it appears a high aggravation of the misconduct of his Majesty's incapable and unprincipled advisers;" that they advised his Majesty to refuse to receive from the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, either at a levee, or personal audience, a petition from the livery praying an inquiry into the conduct of the commanders of the late campaign. This is the substance of the petition which I should think might be readily seenin extensoby a reference to a file of newspapers of the date.
E. N. W.
Southwark.
P.S.—The petition from the Livery, doubtless agreed to in Common Hall, which the king refused to receive, and which is referred to above, is most probably the one which ÆGROTUSinquires about, and of which the Duke complains in his dispatch of Jan. 1810. I have not been able to see it; but if I can find it, will send you notes of it; the mem. I have sent establishes the fact of its having been carried.
—If A. N. will do me the favour to refer to my question, he will see that his remarks do not furnish a reply. Reichenbach says, that "thousands of ghost stories will now receive a natural explanation," from his discovery that the decomposition of animal matter is accompanied by light, or luminous vapour, which is visible to certain sensitive persons. As I originally stated, "my Query is,where to findthe 'thousands of ghost stories' which are explained by it." I now repeat that Query in unaffected ignorance. I have read a good many ghost stories, British and foreign; but I know that some of the writers in "N. & Q." are much better acquainted with German literature and superstitions than I am; and I ask them if they can tell me where to findsuchstories,—that is, ghost stories explained by Reichenbach's discovery? I do not ask for "thousands," nor even hundreds—a score or two will be quite enough; or even a dozen, if they are good ones.
S. R. MAITLAND.
Gloucester.
—I can only offer the following note on the above subject as a conjecture,probably most of your readers will think a very wild one.
It has sometimes occurred to me that the origin of the symbol now generally known as the "broad arrow" might be traced back to the mysteries of Mithras. At all events, it is known that the same figure occurs on coins, gems, &c. as the symbol of Mithras as theSun. Now, so widely was the worship of Mithras spread throughout the Roman empire, that I believe no one would feel any surprise at the adoption of a Mithraic symbol even in the remotest parts of the empire; and indeed the fact that Carausius, during his usurpation of the imperial authority in Britain, issued coins with the inscriptionἩλίῳ Μίθρᾳ ἀνικήτῳ, brings the worship of Mithras, as it were, home to our own doors. Whether the symbol of the sun was ever employed for any such purpose as our modern broad arrow, is a question on which I hope some of your readers may be able to throw some light. Meanwhile, being quite ignorant as to the antiquity of our Ordnance mark, the above is merely thrown out as a conjecture. It is perhaps, to some extent, confirmed by a statement of Grimm's (Deutsche Mythologie), that the symbol of theMoonwas used by the ancient Germans precisely as our broad arrow, viz. on boundary stones, &c.
I think there is more probability in another conjecture of mine, that the same symbol occurs elsewhere, and for a very different purpose, viz. in our churches, and as symbolical of the Sun of Righteousness. Our painted windows and our altar-cloths contain the symbol ↑, which I believe generally goes by the name of the "three sacred nails,"—an explanation which I always thought ridiculous, even at a time when I could give no other. Is it not far more in accordance with the principles of symbolism, and the practice of the early Christians, to believe it to be the adoption of a heathen symbol, and its application to Christian purposes?
J. M. (4).
St. Mary Tavy, Tavistock.
—I have met with a gentleman in the navy who informs me that these words should be "Quarter Wagner," and was so called from the publisher's name, "Wagner," who published the charts in four parts answering to the four quarters of the globe. These charts so called have been disused for near thirty years; and it was commonly observed that they who did not make alteration by improvement in the charts, or who knew not of anything beyond what was then known in maritime affairs, did not know anything beyond what was noted on the then existing charts by Wagner. Hence the phrase.
†
In connexion with the notes of BOLTONCORNEY, I would mention that I have a ponderous folio volume, with thick oak backs, covered with canvas, on which is the name of the book,The Dutch Waggoner: the printed title is—
"The Lightning Columne or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern, and Western Navigation; Setting forth in divers necessarie Sea-Cards, all the Ports, Rivers, Bayes, Roads, Depths and Sands, very curiously placed on its due Polus heigt furnished, With the discoveries of the chief Countries, and on what cours and distance they lay one from another. Never theretofore so clearly laid open, and here and there very diligently bettered and augmented for the use of all Seamen. As also the Situation of the Northernly Countries, as Islands, the Strate Davids, the Isle of Jan Mayen, Bear's Island, Old Greenland, Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla: Adorned with many Sea-Cards and Discoveries, gathered out of the Experience and Practice of divers Pilots and Lovers of the famous Art of Navigation. Whereunto is added a brief Instruction of the Art of Navigation, together with New Tables of the Sun's Declination, wit an New Almanach. At Amsterdam. Printed by Casparus Loots-man, Bookseller upon the Water in the Loots-man, 1689. With previledge for fiftheen Iears."
The "priviledge" is signed "Arent Baron van Waggenaer. By the appointment of the States, Symon van Beaumont." The book is full of very curious charts, sections, and headlands, and other engravings, and is very rare; but I merely mention it to show that books of charts, &c.wereknown aswaggoners.
L. JEWITT.
MR. BOLTONCORNEYhas traced the "Waggoner" to Wagenaer's work satisfactorily; but surely theQuarteris merelyQuarto. I believe the term is not now used in the navy, and apparently was neverofficiallyrecognised: at least it does not occur in theAdmiralty Instructions for the Navyof 1747, 1790, or 1808. I may add a reference to Falconer'sMarine Dictionary, where "Waggoner" is explained to be a "book of charts, describing the coasts, rocks, &c.," and to Dalrymple'sCharts and Memoirs(1772), where a work calledThe English Waggoneris mentioned.
Log-bookis so called because the rate of sailing of the ship, as ascertained by heaving thelog, is one of the most frequent and important entries.
B. R. I.
—I have not Croker'slastedition of Boswell'sLife of Johnsonto refer to, to see what is there said respecting Cibber's title to the authorship of this book; but I find the following MS. note on the fly-leaf of the first volume of my copy of theLives of the Poets:—
"Steevens says that not the smallest part of the work called 'Cibber'sLives of the Poets' was the compilation of Cibber; being entirely written by Mr. Shiells, amanuensis to Dr. Johnson, when his Dictionary was preparing for the press. T. Cibber was in the King's Bench, and accepted of ten guineas from the booksellersfor leave to prefix his name to the work, and it was purposely so prefixed as to leave the reader in doubt whether he or his father was the person designed."
The American edition of the GermanConversations-Lexicon, at vol. iii. p. 190. makes the same statement, but without giving any authority. The name of Robert Shiells, a Scotchman, is here given as the author of theLives of the Poets.
P. T.
—TheSecond part of Henry the Sixt, ascribed to Shakspere by Heminge and Condell, is founded on a play entitledThe first part of the contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster, which was first printed anonymously in 1594. It was reprinted anonymously in 1600; and, as the work of Shakspere, about 1619. The amended play first appeared in the folio of 1623. The passage in which Jack Cade reproaches lord Say with having promoted education, stands thus in the editions of 1594 and 1623:
"Thou hast most traitorously erected a grammer schoole, to infect the youth of the realme, and against the kings crowne and dignitie, thou hast built vp a paper-mill."—1594. (J. O. H.)
"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill."—1623. (J. P. C.)
Fabian gives no information on the charges made against lord Say; nor do the subsequent chroniclers. The received text contains two undoubted anachronisms—to what extent, it would require a volume to decide. On comparing the extracts, it appears that we must ascribe the anachronism on paper-making to the earlier dramatist, and that on printing to William Shakspere—who also borrowed the allusion tothe score and the tallyfrom a former speech in the work of his unknown precursor.
Malone, when he editedThe plays and poems of William Shakspere, undertook to distinguish by inverted commas the lines of this play which the poet "retouched and greatly improved," and by asterisks, those which were "his own original production." The design was commendable, but in the execution of it he committed numerous oversights.
BOLTONCORNEY.
The Book of Familiar Quotations; being a Collection of Popular Extracts and Aphorisms selected from the Works of the best Authors, is a little volume of such extracts from Shakspeare, Pope, and others of our greatest poets as most frequently fall on the ear in conversation, or meet the eye in the columns of the press and periodicals of the country. The present selection is a very good one, as far as it goes, and has the advantage over its predecessors of not only giving us the name of the author of each passage quoted, but also its precise place in his works.
Shall we Register our Deeds? answered by Sir Edward Sugden.This clever pamphlet proposes an important Query, and replies to it thus: "Let us therefore to the question proposed, Shall we register our deeds? answer with one voice, No!"
If the study of Natural History be one which may with advantage be introduced into the family circle (and who can doubt it?) we know no better medium than the clever and well-conducted little weekly paper which has just been commenced under the title of Kidd'sLondon Journal, of which the first five numbers are before us.
Mr. Tymms, the active and zealous Secretary of theBury and West Suffolk Archæological Institute, and Editor of the volume ofBury Wills, printed by the Camden Society, is about to publish aHandbook of Bury, on the plan of Cunningham'sHandbook of London, and would be glad to receive any notes upon the subject: more especially with respect to its remarkable inhabitants.
We have to call the attention of our readers interested in the history of our Constitution and Constitutional Law to a preliminary Essay on the History of theLaw of Habeas Corpusrecently published by Dr. Marquardsen, under the titleUeber Haft und Bürgschaft bei den Angelsachsen. It is but a small pamphlet, but will repay the time spent in its perusal. This mention of the Anglo-Saxon polity reminds us, that the Second Part ofThe Jubilee Edition of the Complete Works of King Alfredhas been issued, and, in addition to a continuation of theHarmony of the Chronicles, contains aSketch of the Anglo-Saxon Mint, and aDescription of all the Coins of King Alfrednow remaining.
FIELDING'SWORKS.14 Vols. 1808. Vol. XI. [Being 2nd or Amelia.]
SHADWELL. Vols. II. and IV. 1720.
ARCHBISHOPLEIGHTON. Vol. IV. 1819.
BARONETAGE. Vol. I. 1720.Ditto. Vols. I. and II. 1727.
CHAMBERLAYNE'SPHARONNIDA. (Reprint.) Vols. I. and II. 1820.
EVANS'OLDBALLADS. Vol. III. 1784.
HOLCROFT'SLAVATER. Vol. I. 1789.
ENCYCLOPÆDIABRITANNICA. Vol. I. Third edition, published in 1794, Edinburgh, for A. Bell.
DRECHSLERUSDELARVIS. Lipsiæ, 1674.
GIBBON'SDECLINE ANDFALL. Vol. II. Dublin. Luke White. 1789.
ELSLEY ON THEGOSPEL ANDACTS. London, 1833. Vol. I.
SPENSER'SWORKS.Pickering's edition, 1839. Sm. 8vo. Vol. V.
WHARTON'SANGLIASACRA. Fol. Vol. II.
ARISTOPHANES, Bekker. (5 Vols. edit.) Vol. II. London, 1829.
LYDGATE'SBOKE OFTROYE. 4to. 1555. (Any fragment.)
COLERIDGE'STABLETALK.Vol. I. Murray. 1835.
THEBARBERS(a poem), by W. Hutton. 8vo. 1793. (Original edition, not the fac-simile.)
THEDOCTRINE ANDPRACTICE OF THECHURCH OFROMETRULYREPRESENTED, by Edw. Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, edited by William Cunningham, Min. Edinburgh.
A CATECHISMTRULYREPRESENTING THEDOCTRINES ANDPRACTICES OF THECHURCH OFROME, with an Answer to them, by John Williams, M.A.
DODD'SCERTAMENUTRIUSQUEECCLESIÆ; or a List of all the Eminent Writers, Catholics and Protestants, since the Reformation. 1724.
FÜSSLEIN, JOH. CONRAD, BEYTRÄGE ZURERLÄUTERUNG DERKIRCHEN-REFORMATIONS-GESCHICHTE DESSCHWEITZERLANDES. 5 Vols. Zürich, 1741.
VERUSCHRISTIANUS, ORDIRECTIONS FORPRIVATEDEVOTIONS, &c., with Appendix, by David Stokes. Oxford, 1668.
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EXECUTIONER OFCHARLES I.The passage from Lilly sent us byR. S. F.has already appeared in"N. & Q.;"seeVol. II., p. 268.The story of Lord Stair being the executioner, forwarded byR. F. M.andC.,is obviously a fiction. It was printed by Hone in hisCecil's Sixty Curious and Authentic Narratives,where it is given as a quotation fromThe Recreations of a Man of Feeling.
R. GLENNwill find a list of Englishman who have been Cardinals in our2nd Vol., p. 406.
R. G. V. THE THREEBALLS OFPAWNBROKERSis explained in our1st Vol., p. 42.
T. B. H.Does not our division ofREPLIES TOMINORQUERIESanswer the purpose suggested?
H. G. D.is thanked for his private note. The ballad is intended for insertion. We will make inquiries respecting the old tablets. Many of our early Numbers are out of print again.
J. J. D.shall receive a note from us shortly, not only with reference to thespecimenenclosed, but to his former communication, which has not been lost sight of.
O. T. D. (Hull)is thanked. His wishes shall be attended to.
M. W. B. (Bruges).The order has been duly received.
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Established 1806.
Policy Holders' Capital, 1,192,818l.
Annual Income, 150,000l.—Bonuses Declared, 743,000l.
Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450l.
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The Right Honourable EARL GREY.
Directors.
The Rev. James Sherman,Chairman.Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq.,Deputy-Chairman.Henry B. Alexander, Esq.George Dacre, Esq.William Judd, Esq.Sir Richard D. King, Bart.The Hon. Arthur KinnairdThomas Maugham, Esq.William Ostler, Esq.Apsley Pellatt, Esq.George Round, Esq.Frederick Squire, Esq.William Henry Stone, Esq.Capt. William John Williams.
The Rev. James Sherman,Chairman.
Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq.,Deputy-Chairman.
Henry B. Alexander, Esq.
George Dacre, Esq.
William Judd, Esq.
Sir Richard D. King, Bart.
The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird
Thomas Maugham, Esq.
William Ostler, Esq.
Apsley Pellatt, Esq.
George Round, Esq.
Frederick Squire, Esq.
William Henry Stone, Esq.
Capt. William John Williams.
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Date of Policy. 1806
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Sum Insured. £1000
Original Premium. £33 19 2 Ditto [Extinguished]
Bonuses added subsequently,to be further interested annually. £231 17 8
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Original Premium. £34 16 10 Ditto [Extinguished]
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Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies.
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Policy No. 1174
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J. Basley White, Esq.
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