,,notes ,,and ,,queries3 ,a ,,medium ,,of ,,inter-,,communication ,,for ,,literary ,,men1 ,,artists1 ,,antiquaries1 ,,genealogists1 ,,etc4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when found1 make a note of4--,,captain ,,cuttle4 99 99 99 99 99 ,no4 #i4 ,,saturday1 ,,december #bi1 #ahdi ,price ,threepence4 ,stamped ,edition #d;d4 99 99 99 99 99 #abi ,,contents ,our ,progress ,,notes3-- ,sir ,e4 ,dering's ,household ,book1 by ,rev4 ,lambert ,b4 ,larking4 #acj ,berkeley's ,theory of ,vision1 by ,rev4 ,j4,h4 ,todd4 #aca ,bishop ,barnaby4 #aca ,mathematical ,archology4 #acb ,song in ,style of ,suckling1 c4 #acc ,gothic ,architecture4 #acd ,dr4 ,burney's ,musical ,works1 by ,e4,f4 ,rimbault4 #ace ,ancient ,alms' ,basins1 by ,dr4 ,bell4 #ace ,minor ,notes3--,prince ,madoc--,st4 ,barnabas--,register of ,cromwell's ,baptism--,the ,times--,rowland ,monoux--,wassail ,song--,portrait of ,charles ,i4--,autograph ,mottoes of ,richard ,duke of ,gloucester and ,henry ,duke of ,buckingham4 #acf ,notes in answer to ,queries3--,lord ,erksine's ,brooms--,scarborough ,warning--,gray's ,elegy--,coffee1 the ,lacedmonian ,black ,broth4 #ach ,,queries3-- ,the ,last of the ,villains1 by ,e4 ,smirke4 #aci ,the ,dore of ,holy ,scripture4 #aci ,turner's ,,ms4 ,history of ,westminster4 #adj ,talisman of ,charlemagne4 #adj ,dick ,shore1 ,isle of ,dogs1 c4 #ada ,minor ,queries3--,the ,strand ,maypole--,to ,fettle--,greek ,verse--,dr4 ,dee's ,petition--,vondel's ,lucifer--,discurs ,modest--,ptolemy of ,alexandria--,vanbrugh's ,london ,improvements--,becket's ,grace-,cup--,sir ,herbert's ,office-,book4 #adb ,,miscellaneous3-- ,books and ,odd ,volumes wanted4 #adc ,notices to ,correspondents4 #adc ,advertisements4 #add 99 99 99 99 99 ,,our ,,progress ,we have this week been called upon to take a step which neither our best friends nor our own hopes could have anticipated4 ,having failed in our endeavours to supply by other means the increasing demand for complete sets of our ,,notes ,,and ,,queries1 we have been compelled to reprint the first four numbers4 ,it is with no slight feelings of pride and satisfaction that we record the fact of a large impression of a work like the present not having been sufficient to meet the demand1--a work devoted not to the witcheries of poetry or to the charms of romance1 but to the illustration of matters of graver import1 such as obscure points of national history1 doubtful questions of literature and bibliography1 the discussion of questionable etymologies1 and the elucidation of old world customs and observances4 ,what ,mr4 ,kemble lately said so well with reference to archology1 our experience justifies us in applying to other literary inquiries3-- ,on every side there is evidence of a generous and earnest co-operation among those who have devoted themselves to special pursuits2 and not only does this tend of itself to widen the general basis1 but it supplies the individual thinker with an ever widening foundation for his own special study4 ,and whence arises this earnest co-operation8 ,is it too much to hope that it springs from an increased reverence for the ,truth1 from an intenser craving after a knowledge of it--whether such ,truth regards an event on which a throne depended1 or the etymology of some household word now familiar only to ,hard-handed men who work in ,athens here8 ,we feel that the kind and earnest men who honour our ,,notes ,,and ,,queries with their correspondence1 hold with ,bacon1 that ,truth1 which only doth judge itself1 teacheth that the inquiry of ,truth1 which is the love-making or wooing of it--the knowledge of ,truth1 which is the presence of it--and the belief of ,truth1 which is the enjoying of it--is the sovereign good of human nature4 ,we believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have flocked to our columns--that the sentiment has found its echo in the breast of the public1 and hence that success which has attended our humble efforts4 ,the cause is so great1 that we may well be pardoned if we boast that we have had both hand and heart in it4 #acj ,and so1 with all the earnestness and heartiness which befit this happy season1 when ,no spirit stirs abroad2 ,the nights are wholesome2 when no planet strikes1 ,no fairy takes1 no witch hath power to charm1 ,so hallow'd and so gracious is the time1 do we greet all our friends1 whether contributors or readers1 with the good old ,english wish1 ,a ,,merry ,,christmas ,,and ,a ,,happy ,,new ,,year6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,sir ,e4 ,,dering',s ,,household ,,book4 ,the muniment chests of our old established families are seldom without their quota of household books4 ,goodly collections of these often turn up1 with records of the expenditure and the doings of the household1 through a period of two or more centuries4 ,these documents are of incalculable value in giving us a complete insight into the domestic habits of our ancestors4 ,many a note is there1 well calculated to illustrate the pages of the dramatist or the biographer1 and even the accuracy of the historian's statements may often be tested by some of the details which find their way into these accounts2 as for the more peculiar province of the antiquary1 there is always a rich store of materials4 ,every change of costume is there2 the introduction of new commodities1 new luxuries1 and new fashions1 the varying prices of the passing age4 ,dress in all its minute details1 modes of travelling1 entertainments1 public and private amusements1 all1 with their cost1 are there3 and last1 though not least1 touches of individual character ever and anon present themselves with the force of undisguised and undeniable truth4 ,follow the man through his pecuniary transactions with his wife and children1 his household1 his tenantry1 nay1 with himself1 and you have more of his real character than the biographer is usually able to furnish4 ,in this view1 a man's household book becomes an impartial autobiography4 ,i would venture to suggest that a corner of your paper might sometimes be profitably reserved for notes from these household books2 there can be little doubt that your numerous readers would soon furnish you with abundant contributions of most interesting matter4 ,while suggesting the idea1 there happens to lie open before me the account-book of the first ,sir ,edward ,dering1 commencing with the day on which he came of age1 when1 though his father was still living1 he felt himself an independent man4 ,one of his first steps1 however1 was to qualify this independence by marriage4 ,if family tradition be correct1 he was as heedless and impetuous in this the first important step of his life1 as he seems to have been in his public career4 ,the lady was ,elizabeth1 daughter of ,sir ,nicholas ,tufton1 afterwards created ,earl of ,thanet4 ,in almost the first page of his account-book he enters all the charges of this marriage1 the different dresses he provided1 his wedding presents1 c4 ,as to his bride1 the first pleasing intelligence which greeted the young knight1 after passing his pledge to take her for richer for poorer1 was1 that the latter alternative was his4 ,sir ,nicholas had jockied the youth out of the promised trousseau1 and handed over his daughter to ,sir ,edward1 with nothing but a few shillings in her purse4 ,she came unfurnished with even decent apparel1 and her new lord had to supply her forthwith with necessary clothing4 ,in a subsequent page1 when he comes to detail the purchases which he was1 in consequence1 obliged to make for his bride1 he gives full vent to his feelings on this niggardly conduct of the father1 and1 in recording the costs of his own outfit1 his very first words have a smack of bitterness in them1 which is somewhat ludicrous-- ,medio de donte leporum ,surgit amari aliquid4 ,he seems to sigh over his own folly and vanity in preparing a gallant bridal for one who met it so unbecomingly4 #afai4 ,my ,,desperate quarter6 the #c;d quarter from ,michaelmas unto ,new ,year's ,day4 #e yards quarter of scarlett coloured satten for a doublett1 and to line my cassocke1 at #afs4 per yard1 #d4 #ds4 #e yards halfe of fine scarlett1 at #ees4 per yard1 to make hose cassocke and cloake sic #ad4 #g yards dim of blacke rich velvett1 att #bds4 per yard1 #i4 #bb ounces of blacke galloune lace #b4 #aes4 ,taffaty to line the doublett #ags4 #e sic grosse of buttons1 at #hs4 the grosse #a4 #ds4 pinkinge and racing the doublett1 and lininge of ye copell #hs4 ffor embrioderinge doublett1 copell1 and scarfe1 #b4 #ajs4 #e dozen of small buttons #as4 #h;d4 ,stickinge and sowing silke #ads4 ffor cuttinge ye scallops #bs4 holland to line the hose #es4 #f;d4 ,dutch bays for the hose #ds4 #f;d4 ,pocketts to ye hose #aj;d4 #b dozen of checker riband pointes #abs4 drawinge ye peeces in ye suite and cloake #es4 canvas and stiffninge to ye doublett #cs4 #f;d4 ffor makinge ye doublett and hose #ahs4 making ye copell #a4 #hs4 making ye cloake #is4 ,sum of this suite #dj4 #bs4 ,i must not occupy more of your space this week by extending these extracts4 ,if likely to supply useful notes to your readers1 they shall have1 in some future number1 the remainder of the bridegroom's wardrobe4 ,in whatever niggardly array the bride came to her lord's arms1 he1 at #aca least1 was pranked and decked in all the apparel of a young gallant1 an exquisite of the first water1 for this was only one of several rich suits which he provided for his marriage outfit2 and then follows a list of costly gloves and presents1 and all the lavish outlay of this his desperate quarter4 ,in some future number1 too1 if acceptable to your readers1 you shall be furnished with a list of other and better objects of expenditure from this household book2 for ,sir ,edward1 albeit1 as ,clarendon depicts him1 the victim of his own vanity1 was worthy of better fame than is yet been his lot to acquire4 ,he was a most accomplished scholar and a learned antiquary4 ,he had his foibles1 it is true1 but they were redeemed by qualities of high and enduring excellence4 ,the eloquence of his parliamentary speeches has elicited the admiration of ,southey2 to praise them therefore now were superfluous4 ,the noble library which he formed at ,surrenden1 and the invaluable collection of charters which he amassed there1 during his unhappily brief career1 testify to his ardour in literary pursuits4 ,the library and a large part of the ,,mss4 are unhappily dispersed4 ,of the former1 all that remains to tell of what it once was1 are a few scattered notices among the family records1 and the titles of books1 with their cost1 as they are entered in the weekly accounts of our household book4 ,of the latter there yet remain a few thousand charters and rolls1 some of them of great interest1 with exquisite seals attached4 ,i shall be able occasionally to send you a few notes on these heads1 from the household book1 and1 in contemplating the remains of this unrivalled collection of its day1 ,i can well bespeak the sympathy of every true-hearted ,chartist and ,bibliographer1 in the lament which has often been mine--,quanta fuisti cum tant sint reliqui6 ,,lambert ,b4 ,,larking4 ,ryarsh ,vicarage1 ,dec4 #ab4 #ahdi4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,berkeley',s ,,theory ,,of ,,vision ,,vindicated4 ,in reply to the query of ,b4,g4 7p4 #ajg4 of your #gth ,no471 ,i beg to say that ,bishop ,berkeley's ,theory of ,vision ,vindicated does not occur either in the #dto4 or #hvo4 editions of his collected works2 but there is a copy of it in the library of ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin1 from which ,i transcribe the full title as follows3-- ,the ,theory of ,vision1 or ,visual ,language1 shewing the immediate ,presence and ,providence of a ,deity1 vindicated and explained4 ,by the author of ,alciphron1 or ,the ,minute ,philosopher4 ,acts1 xvii4 #bh4 ,in ,him we live1 and move1 and have our being4 ,lond4 ,printed for ,j4 ,tonson in the ,strand4 ,,mdccxxxiii4 ,some other of the author's tracts have also been omitted in his collected works2 but1 as ,i am now answering a ,query1 and not making a ,note1 ,i shall reserve what ,i might say of them for another opportunity4 ,the memory of ,berkeley is dear to every member of this ,university2 and therefore ,i hope you will permit me to say one word1 in defence of his character1 against ,dugald ,stewart's charge of having been provoked1 by ,lord ,shaftesbury's ,characteristics1 to a harshness equally unwonted and unwarranted4 ,mr4 ,stewart can scarcely suppose to have seen the book upon which he pronounces this most unwarranted criticism4 ,the tract was not written in reply to the ,characteristics1 but was an answer to an anonymous letter published in the ,daily ,post-,boy of ,september #ith1 #agcb1 which letter ,berkeley has reprinted at the end of his pamphlet4 ,the only allusion to the writer of this letter which bears the slightest tinge of severity occurs at the commencement of the tract4 ,those who will take the trouble of perusing the anonymous letter1 will see that it was richly deserved2 and ,i think it can scarcely1 with any justice1 be censured as unbecomingly harsh1 or in any degree unwarranted4 ,the passage is as follows3-- ,after mentioning that an ill state of health had prevented his noticing this letter sooner1 the author adds1 ,this would have altogether excused me from a controversy upon points either personal or purely speculative1 or from entering the lists of the declaimers1 whom ,i leave to the triumph of their own passions4 ,and indeed1 to one of this character1 who contradicts himself and misrepresents me1 what answer can be made more than to desire his readers not to take his word for what ,i say1 but to use their own eyes1 read1 examine1 and judge for themselves8 ,and to their common sense ,i appeal4 ,the remainder of the tract is occupied with a philosophical discussion of the subject of debate1 in a style as cool and as free from harshness as ,dugald ,stewart could desire1 and containing1 as far as ,i can see1 nothing inconsistent with the character of him1 who was described by his contemporaries as the possessor of every virtue under heaven4 ,,james ,h4 ,,todd4 ,trin4 ,coll4 ,dublin1 ,dec4 #bj4 #ahdi4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,bishop ,,barnaby4 ,mr4 ,editor1--,allow me1 in addition to the ,note inserted in your #dth ,number1 in answer to the ,query of ,,legour1 by your correspondent 7and ,i believe my friend7 ,j4,g41 to give the following extract from ,forby's ,vocabulary of ,east ,anglia3-- ,bishop ,barnabee-s4 ,the pretty insect more generally called the ,lady-bird1 or ,may-bug4 ,it is one of those highly favoured among ,god's harmless creatures which superstition protects from wanton injury4 ,some obscurity seems to hang over this popular name #acb of it4 ,it has certainly no more relation to the companion of ,st4 ,paul than to drunken ,barnaby1 though some have supposed it has4 ,it is sometimes called ,bishop ,benebee1 which may possibly have been intended to mean the blessed bee2 sometimes ,bishop ,benetree1 of which it seems not possible to make any thing4 ,the name has most probably been derived from the ,barn-,bishop2 whether in scorn of that silly and profane mockery1 or in pious commemoration of it1 must depend on the time of its adoption1 before or since the ,reformation2 and it is not worth inquiring4 ,the two words are transposed1 and bee annexed as being perhaps thought more seemly in such a connection than fly-bug or beetle4 ,the dignified ecclesiastics in ancient times wore brilliant mixtures of colours in their habits4 ,bishops had scarlet and black1 as this insect has on its wing-covers4 ,some remains of the finery of the gravest personages still exist on our academical robes of ceremony4 ,there is something inconsistent with the popish episcopal character in the childish rhyme with which ,bishop ,barnabee is thrown up and dismissed when he happens to light on any one's hand4 ,unluckily the words are not recollected1 nor at present recoverable2 but the purport of them is to admonish him to fly home1 and take care of his wife and children1 for that his house in on fire4 ,perhaps1 indeed1 the rhyme has been fabricated long since the name by some one who did not think of such niceties4 ,g4,a4,c4 ,sir1--,in the explanation of the term ,bishop ,barnaby1 given by ,j4,g41 the prefix ,bishop seems yet to need elucidation4 ,why should it not have arisen from the insect's garb8 ,the full dress gown of the ,oxford ,d4,d4--scarlet with black velvet sleeves--might easily have suggested the idea of naming the little insect ,dr4 ,burn bug1 and the transition is easy to ,dr4 ,burnabee1 or ,bishop ,burnaby4 ,these little insects1 in the winter1 congregate by thousands in barns for their long slumber till the reappearance of genial weather1 and it is not impossible that1 from this circumstance1 the country people may have designated them ,barn bug1 or ,barn bee4 ,l4,b4,l4 ,sir1--,i cannot inform ,,legour why the lady-bird 7the seven-spotted1 ,coccinella ,septempunctata1 is the most common7 is called in some places ,bishop ,barnaby4 ,this little insect is sometimes erroneously accused of destroying turnips and peas in its larva state2 but1 in truth1 both in the larva and perfect state it feeds exclusively on aphides4 ,i do not know that it visits dairies1 and ,tusser's ,bishop that burneth1 may allude to something else2 still there appears some popular connection of the ,coccinellid with cows as well as burning1 for in the ,west ,riding of ,yorkshire they are called ,cush ,cow ,ladies2 and in the ,north ,riding one of the children's rhymes anent them runs3-- ,dowdy-cow1 dowdy-cow1 ride away heame1 ,thy#a house is burnt1 and thy bairns are tean1 ,and if thou means to save thy bairns ,take thy wings and flee away6 ,the most mischievous urchins are afraid to hurt the dowdy-cow1 believing if they did evil would inevitably befall them4 ,it is tenderly placed on the palm of the hand--of a girl1 if possible--and the above rhyme recited thrice1 during which it usually spreads its wings1 and at the last word flies away4 ,a collection of nursery rhymes relating to insects would1 ,i think1 be useful4 ,w4,g4,m4,j4 ,,barker4 ,footnote #a3 ,thy is pronounced as thee4 ,we have received many other communications respecting the epithet of this insect--so great a favourite with children4 ,,alicui and several other correspondents incline to ,l4,b4,l4's opinion that it takes its name from a fancied resemblance of its bright wing-cases to the episcopal cope or chasuble4 ,j4,t4 reminds us that ,st4 ,barnabas has been distinguished of old by the title of bright1 as in the old proverbial distich intended to mark the day of his festival according to the ,old ,style 7#bast ,june73-- ,barnaby bright6 ,the longest day and the shortest night4 ,while ,f4,e4 furnishes us with another and happier version of the ,norfolk popular rhyme3-- ,bishop1 ,bishop ,barnabee1 ,tell me when my wedding be2 ,if it be to-morrow day1 ,take your wings and fly away6 ,fly to the east1 fly to the west1 ,fly to them that ,i love best6 ,the name which this pretty insect bears in the various languages of ,europe is clearly mythic4 ,in this1 as in other cases1 the ,virgin has supplanted ,freya2 so that ,freyjuhaena and ,frouehenge have been changed into ,marienvoglein1 which corresponds with ,our ,lady's ,bird4 ,there1 can1 therefore1 be little doubt that the esteem with which the lady-bird1 or ,our ,lady's cow1 is still regarded1 is a relic of the ancient cult4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,mathematical ,,arch,,ology4 ,sir1--,i cannot gather from your ,notes that scientific archology is included in your plan1 nor yet1 on the other hand1 any indications of its exclusion4 ,science1 however1 and especially mathematical science1 has its archology2 and many doubtful points of great importance are amongst the vexed questions that can only be cleared up by documentary evidence4 ,that evidence is more likely to be found mixed up amongst the masses of papers belonging to systematic collectors than amongst the papers of mere mathematicians--amongst men who never destroy a paper because they have no present use for it1 or because the subject does not come within the range of their researches1 than amongst men who value nothing but a new theorem or an improved solution4 ,as a general rule ,i have always habituated myself to preserve every scrap of paper of any remote 7and indeed recent7 period1 that had the appearance of being written by a literary man1 whether ,i #acc knew the hand1 or understood the circumstance to which it referred1 or not4 ,such papers1 whether we understand them or not1 have a possible value to others2 and indeed1 as my collections have always been at the service of my friends1 very few indeed have been left in my hands1 and those1 probably1 of no material value4 ,i wish this system were generally adopted4 ,papers1 occasionally of great historical importance1 and very often of archological interest1 would thus be preserved1 and1 what is more1 used1 as they would thus generally find their way into the right hands4 ,there are1 ,i fancy1 few classes of papers that would be so little likely to interest archologists in general1 as those relating to mathematics2 and yet such are not unlikely to fall in their way1 often and largely1 if they would take the trouble to secure them4 ,i will give an example or two1 indicating the kind of papers which are desiderata to the mathematical historian4 #a4 ,a letter from ,dr4 ,robert ,simson1 the editor of ,euclid and the restorer of the ,porisms1 to ,john ,nourse of the ,strand1 is missing from an otherwise unbroken series1 extending from #a ,jan4 #agea to near the close of ,simson's life4 ,the missing letter1 as is gathered from a subsequent one1 is ,feb4 #e4 #agec4 ,a mere letter of business from an author to his publisher might not be thought of much interest2 but it need not be here enforced how much of consistency and clearness is often conferred upon a series of circumstances by matter which such a letter might contain4 ,this letter1 too1 contains a problem1 the nature of which it would be interesting to know4 ,it would seem that the letter passed into the hands of ,dodson1 editor of the ,mathematical ,repository2 but what became of ,dodson's papers ,i could never discover4 ,the uses1 however1 to which such an unpromising series of letters have been rendered subservient may be seen in the ,philosophical ,magazine1 under the title of ,geometry and ,geometers1 ,nos4 ii4 iii4 and iv4 ,the letters themselves are in the hands of ,mr4 ,maynard1 ,earl's ,court1 ,leicester ,square4 #b4 ,thomas ,simpson 7a name venerated by every geometer7 was one of the scientific men consulted by the committee appointed to decide upon the plans for ,blackfriars ,bridge1 in #agei and #agfj4 ,it is probable1 says ,dr4 ,hutton1 in his ,life of ,simpson1 prefixed to the ,select ,exercises1 #agib1 that this reference to him gave occasion to his turning his thoughts more seriously to this subject1 so as to form the design of composing a regular treatise upon it3 for his family have often informed me that he laboured hard upon this work for some time before his death1 and was very anxious to have completed it1 frequently remarking to them that this work1 when published1 would procure him more credit than any of his former publications4 ,but he lived not to put the finishing hand to it4 ,whatever he wrote upon this subject probably fell1 together with all his other remaining papers1 into the hands of ,major ,henry ,watson1 of the ,engineers1 in the service of the ,india ,company1 being in all a large chest full of papers4 ,this gentleman had been a pupil of ,mr4 ,simpson's1 and had lodged in his house4 ,after ,mr4 ,simpson's death ,mr4 ,watson prevailed upon the widow to let him have the papers1 promising either to give her a sum of money for them1 or else to print and publish them for her benefit4 ,but nothing of the kind was ever done2 this gentleman always declaring1 when urged on this point by myself and others1 that no use could be made of any of the papers1 owing to the very imperfect state in which he said they were left4 ,and yet he persisted in his refusal to give them up again4 ,in #aghj ,colonel ,watson was recalled to ,india1 and took out with him one of the most remarkable ,english mathematicians of that day1 ,reuben ,burrow4 ,this gentleman had been assistant to ,dr4 ,maskelyne at the ,royal ,observatory2 and to his care was1 in fact1 committed the celebrated ,schehallien experiments and observations4 ,he died in ,india1 and1 ,i believe1 all his papers which reached ,england1 as well as several of his letters1 are in my possession4 ,this1 however1 is no further of consequence in the present matter1 than to give authority to a remark ,i am about to quote from one of his letters to his most intimate friend1 ,isaac ,dalby4 ,in this he says3--,colonel ,watson has out here a work of ,simpson's on bridges1 very complete and original4 ,it was no doubt by his dread of the sleepless watch of ,hutton1 that so unscrupulous a person as ,colonel ,watson is proved to be1 was deterred from publishing ,simpson's work as his own4 ,the desideratum here is1 of course1 to find what became of ,colonel ,watson's papers2 and then to ascertain whether this and what other writings of ,simpson's are amongst them4 ,a really good work on the mathematical theory of bridges1 if such is ever to exist1 has yet to be published4 ,it is1 at the same time1 very likely that his great originality1 and his wonderful sagacity in all his investigations1 would not fail him in this2 and possibly a better work on the subject was composed ninety years ago than has yet seen the light--involving1 perhaps1 the germs of a totally new and more effective method of investigation4 ,i have1 ,i fear1 already trespassed too far upon your space for a single letter2 and will1 therefore1 defer my notice of a few other desiderata till a future day4 ,t4,s4,d4 ,shooter's ,hill1 ,dec4 #ae4 #ahdi4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,song ,,in ,,the ,,style ,,of ,,suckling--,,the ,,two ,,noble ,,kinsmen4 ,the song in your second number1 furnished by a correspondent1 and considered to be in the style #acd of ,suckling1 is of a class common enough in the time of ,charles ,i4 ,george ,wither1 rather than ,suckling1 ,i consider as the head of a race of poets peculiar to that age1 as ,shall ,i wasting in ,despair may be regarded as the type of this class of poems4 ,the present instance ,i do not think of very high merit1 and certainly not good enough for ,suckling4 ,such as it is1 however1 with a few unimportant variations1 it may be found at page #aja4 of the #ast vol4 of ,the ,hive1 a ,collection of the most celebrated ,songs4 ,my copy is the #bnd edit4 ,london1 #agbd4 ,i will1 with your permission1 take this opportunity of setting ,mr4 ,dyce right with regard to a passage in the ,two ,noble ,kinsmen1 in which he is only less wrong than all his predecessors4 ,it is to be found in the second scene of the fourth act1 and is as follows3-- ,here ,love himself sits smiling3 ,just such another wanton ,ganymede ,set ,jove afire with1 c4 ,one editor proposed to amend this by inserting the normative he after ,ganymede2 and another by omitting with after afire4 ,mr4 ,dyce saw that both these must be wrong1 as a comparison between two wanton ,ganymedes1 one of which sat in the coutenance of ,arcite1 could never have been intended2--another1 something1 if not ,ganymede1 was wanted1 and he1 therefore1 has this note3--,the construction and meaning are1 ',with just such another smile 7which is understood from the preceding 'smiling'7 wanton ,ganymede set ,jove afire4 ,when there is a choice of nouns to make intelligible sense1 how can that one be understood which is not expressed8 ,it might be with just such another ,love2 but1 as ,i shall shortly show1 no conjecture on the subject is needed4 ,the older editors were so fond of mending passages1 that they did not take ordinary pains to understand them2 and in this instance they have been so successful in sticking the epithet wanton to ,ganymede1 that even ,mr4 ,dyce1 with his clear sight1 did not see that the very word he wanted was the next word before him4 ,it puts one in mind of a man looking for his spectacles who has them already across his nose4 ,wanton is a noun as well as an adjective2 and1 to prevent it from being mistaken for an epithet applied to ,ganymede1 it will in future be necessary to place after it a comma1 when the passage will read thus3-- ,here ,love himself sits smiling4 ,just such another wanton1 7as the aforesaid smiling ,love7 ,ganymede ,set ,jove afire with1 c4 ,the third act of the same play commences thus3-- ,the duke has lost ,hippolita2 each took ,a several land4 ,mr4 ,dyce suspects that for land we should read laund1 an old form of lawn4 ,land being either wrong1 or having a sense not understood now1 we must fall back on the general sense of the passage4 ,when people go a hunting1 and don't keep together1 it is very probable that they may take a several direction4 ,now hand means direction1 as we say to the right or left hand4 ,it is not1 therefore1 probable1 that we should read a several hand8 ,,samuel ,,hickson 99 99 99 99 99 ,,gothic ,,architecture ,it would require more space than you could allot to the subject1 to explain1 at much length1 the origin1 as well as the date1 of the introduction of the term ',gothic1' as applied to pointed styles of ecclesiastical architecture1 required by ,r4 ,vincent1 of ,winchester1 in your ,fourth ,number4 ,there can be no doubt that the term was used at first contemptuously1 and in derision1 by those who were ambitious to imitate and revive the ,grecian orders of architecture1 after the revival of classical literature4 ,but1 without citing many authorities1 such as ,christopher ,wren1 and others1 who lent their aid in depreciating the old medival style1 which they termed ,gothic1 as synonymous with every thing that was barbarous and rude1 it may be sufficient to refer to the celebrated ,treatise of ,sir ,henry ,wotton1 entitled ,the ,elements of ,architecture1 #dto41 printed in ,london so early as #afbd4 ,this work was so popular1 that it was translated into ,latin1 and annexed to the works of ,vitruvius1 as well as to ,freart's ,parallel of the ,ancient ,architecture with the ,modern4 ,dufresnoy1 also1 who divided his time between poetry and painting1 and whose work on the latter art was rendered popular in this country by ,dryden's translation1 uses the term ,gothique in a bad sense4 ,but it was a strange misapplication of the term to use it for the pointed style1 in contradistinction to the circular1 formerly called ,saxon1 now ,norman1 ,romanesque1 c4 ,these latter styles1 like ,lombardic1 ,italian1 and the ,byzantine1 of course belong more to the ,gothic period than the light and elegant structures of the pointed order which succeeded them4 ,felibien1 the ,french author of the ,lives of ,architects1 divides ,gothic architecture into two distinct kinds--the massive and the light2 and as the latter superseded the former1 the term ,gothic1 which had been originally applied to both kinds1 seems to have been restricted improperly to the latter only4 ,as there is now1 happily1 no fear of the word being understood in a bad sense1 there seems to be no longer any objection to the use of it in a good one1 whatever terms may be used to discriminate all the varieties of the style observable either at home or abroad4 ,j4,i4 ,trinity ,college1 ,oxford4 99 99 99 99 99 #ace ,,dr4 ,,burney',s ,,musical ,,works4 ,mr4 ,editor1--,on pp4 #fc4 and #gh4 of your columns inquiry is made for ,burney's ,treatise on ,music 7not his ,history74 ,before correspondents trouble you with their wants1 ,i think they should be certain that the books they inquire for have existence4 ,dr4 ,burney never published1 or wrote1 a ,treatise on ,music4 ,his only works on the subject 7the ,general ,history of ,music excepted7 are the following3-- ,the ,present ,state of ,music in ,france and ,italy4 #hvo4 #agga4 ,the ,present ,state of ,music in ,germany1 the ,netherlands1 and ,united ,provinces4 #b vols4 #hvo4 #agge4 ,an ,account of the ,musical ,performances in ,westminster ,abbey1 and the ,pantheon1 c4 in ,commemoration of ,handel4 #dto4 #aghe4 ,a ,plan for the ,formation of a ,musical ,academy1 #hvo4 n4 d4 ,as your ,,notes ,,and ,,queries will become a standard book of reference1 strict accuracy on all points is the grand desideratum4 ,,edw4 ,f4 ,,rimbault4 ,p4,s4 ,i might1 perhaps1 have included in the above list the ,life of ,metastasio1 which1 although not generally classed among musical works1 forms an admirable supplement to the ,general ,history of ,music4 ,e4,f4,r4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,ancient ,,inscribed ,,dishes4 ,judging from the various notices in your ,nos4 #c1 #e1 and #f1 the dishes and inscriptions mentioned therein by ,,clericus1 ,l4,s4,b41 c41 pp4 #dd4 #gc4 #hg41 are likely to cause as much speculation here as they have some time experienced on the continent4 ,they were there principally figured and discussed in the ,curiositten1 a miscellaneous periodical1 conducted from about #ahah to #ahbe1 by ,vulpius1 brother-in-law of ,gthe1 librarian to the ,grand ,duke of ,saxe ,weimar4 ,herr v4 ,strombeck1 ,judge of the ,supreme ,court of ,appeal at ,wolfenbttel1 first noticed them from a specimen belonging to the church of a suppressed convent at ,sterterheim near ,brunswick1 and they were subsequently pounced upon by ,joseph v4 ,hammer 7now v4 ,purgstall71 the learned orientalist of ,vienna1 as one of the principal proofs which he adduced in his ,mysterium ,baphometis ,revelatum in one of the numbers of the ,fundgruben 7,mines7 des ,orients1 for the monstrous impieties and impurities which he1 ,nicolai1 and others1 falsely attributed to the ,templars4 ,comments upon these dishes occur in other works of a recent period1 but having left my portfolio1 concerning them1 with other papers1 on the continent1 ,i give these hasty notices entirely from memory4 ,they are by no means uncommon now in ,england1 as the notices of your correspondents prove4 ,a paper on three varieties of them at ,hull was read in #ahbi1 to the ,hull ,literary and ,philosophical ,society4 ,in ,nash's ,worcestershire one is depicted full size1 and a reduced copy given about this period in the ,gentleman's ,magazine1 and ,nash first calls them ,offertory ,dishes4 ,the ,germans call them ,taufbecken1 or baptismal basins2 but ,i believe the ,english denomination more correct1 as ,i have a distinct recollection of seeing1 in a ,catholic convent at ,danzig1 a similar one placed on ,good ,friday before the tomb of the interred image of the ,saviour1 for the oblations for which it was not too large4 ,another of them is kept upon the altar of ,boroughbridge ,church 7,n4 ,riding of ,yorkshire71 but sadly worn down by scrubbing to keep it bright1 and the attempt at a copy of the ,inscription in a ,harrowgate ,guide is felicitously ludicrous3 it is there taken as a relic of the ,roman ,isurium on the same spot4 ,three others were observed some years ago in a neglected nook of the sacristy of ,york ,cathedral4 ,at the last meeting of the ,institute at ,salisbury1 a number of these were exhibited in ,st4 ,john's ,house there1 but ,i believe without any notice taken of them in its ,proceedings2 and another was shown to the ,archological ,society1 at their last ,chester ,congress1 by ,colonel ,biddulph1 at ,chirk ,castle2 when more were mentioned by the visitors as in their possession1 anxious as your correspondents to know the import of the inscriptions4 ,they are sometimes seen exposed in the shops of ,wardour ,street1 and in other curiosity shops of the metropolis4 ,on their sunken centres all have religious types3 the most common is the temptation of ,eve2 the next in frequency1 the ,annunciation2 the ,spies sent by ,joshua returning with an immense bunch of grapes suspended betwixt them1 is not unfrequent2 but non-scriptural subjects1 as the ,martyrdom of ,st4 ,sebastian1 mentioned by ,l4,s4,b41 is a variety ,i have not before observed4 ,the inscriptions vary1 and are sometimes double in two concentral rings4 ,the most usual is that alluded to by your correspondents1 and though obviously ,german1 neither old nor obsolete2 having been viewed even by native decipherers1 through the mist of a preconceived hypothesis1 have never yet been by them satisfactorily accounted for4 ,it is always repeated four times1 evidently from the same slightly curved die2 when1 however1 the enlarged circumference of the circle required more than this fourfold repetition to go round it1 the die was set on again for as much of a fifth impression as was necessary3 this was seldom more than four or five letters1 which1 as pleonastic or intercalary1 are to be carefully rejected in reading the rest2 their introduction has confused many expositors4 ,the readings of some of your correspondents who understand ,german is pretty near the truth4 #acf ,i have before said that the centre type of ,eve's ,temptation is the most common1 and to it the words especially refer1 and seem at the place of their manufacture 7most probably ,nuremburg7 to have been used for other centres without any regard to its fitness4 ,the letters1 as ,i can safely aver from some very perfect specimens1 are ,,der ,,selen ,,infrid ,,wart2 in modern ,german der ,seelen ,infried wort4 ,to the ,german scholar the two latter words only require explanation4 ,infrid for ,unfried1 discord1 disturbance1 any thing in opposition to ,frieden or peace4 ,the ,frid-stools at ,beverley1 ,ripon1 and ,hexham1 still bear the old theotise stamp4 ,wart1 or ward1 may be either the past tense of werden1 to be 7our was71 or an old form of whren1 to endure1 to last3 our ,english wear is the same word4 ,the sense is pretty much the same in both readings alluding to ,eve4 ,in the first3 7,by her7 the soul's disturbance came 7was74 ,by the second3 7,through her7 the soul's disturbance continues4 ,i may here observe that the words ,,ich ,,wart are particularly distinct on a helmet1 pictured in the ,journal of the ,british ,archological ,association1 which the ,secretary1 ,mr4 ,planche1 in such matters the highest authority1 regards as a tilting helmet4 ,it may there have been in the original ,,ich ,,warte1 meaning ,i bide 7my time74 ,but the centres and this inscription are the least difficulty4 ,a second1 frequently met with1 is by far more puzzling4 ,i could not give your readers any idea of it without a drawing3 however it is found imperfectly depicted on the plates ,i have before mentioned in ,nash's ,worcestershire1 and the ,gentleman's ,magazine1 and ,i think ,i recollect also a very rude copy in a volume of ,hearne's ,miscellaneous ,works1 which ,i examined in the ,gottingen ,library1 but whether belonging to the work or a ,,ms4 addition ,i cannot now call to mind4 ,the fanciful and flowery form of its letters gives great scope to the imagination in assigning them their particular position in the alphabet1 and the difficulty of reading them is enhanced by the doubts of ,german archologists whether they are initials or component parts of a sentence4 ,herr ,joseph v4 ,hammer ,purgstall1 however1 in his version ,,record ,,de ,,sci ,,gnsi1 or in full ,recordamini de sancta ,gnosi1 deduces thence his principal proof of ,gnostic heresy amongst the calumniated ,templars1 in which ,i am sorry to say he has been too servilely followed in ,england3 e4g4 by ,mr4 ,godfrey ,higgins1 in his posthumous ,anaclypsis 7p4 #hcj note71 as well as by ,e4,g4 ,addison1 ,the ,temple ,church 7p4 #eg71 and by ,mr4 ,r4,w4 ,billings more especially1 who tacks to his account of this building an ,essay on the symbolical ,evidences of the ,temple ,church1 where the ,templars are proved ,gnostic ,idolators1 as alleged by ,edward ,clarkson1 ,esq4 ,had the learnedly hypothetic ,austrian seen the engravings of the ,crypt at ,canterbury ,cathedral 7,archologia1 viii4 p4 #gd471 and ,ledwick's remarks on it in conjunction with the carvings at ,glendalloch 7,history of ,ireland1 p4 #agd471 or those of ,grymbald's ,crypt at ,oxford1 he might have been expected to have attributed their monstrosities to his order1 with as little hesitation and as thorough a contempt of chronology1 or proved connection1 as he has the curious and innocent sculptures of the church at ,schngrabern in ,bohemia 7vide ,curiositten1 vol4 viii4 p4 #eja474 ,,william ,,bell1 ,phil4 ,dr4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,minor ,,notes4 ,prince ,modoc4--,at p4 #eg41 ,,anglo-,,cambrian refers to the report of the ,proceedings of the ,british ,association at ,swansea1 in ,aug4 #ahdh1 extracted from the ,athenum newspaper4 ,in the course of a discussion which took place on ,prof4 ,elton's address1 it was observed 7if ,i recollect rightly7 by the learned ,dr4 ,latham1 that a vocabulary of the so-called ,welsh-,indian dialect has been formed1 and that it contains no trace of any ,celtic root4 ,j4,m4,t4 ,december #aj4 #ahdi4 ,st4 ,barnabas4--,about the time of the ,reformation1 it was strongly debated whether the festival days of ,st4 ,paul and ,st4 ,barnabas should be admitted into the calendar2 and1 in the #b;d ,book of ,k4 ,edward1 the conversion of ,st4 ,paul is put down in black1 and ,st4 ,barnabas is omitted altogether6 ,no wonder1 therefore1 if1 in ,suffolk1 liberties were taken with the name of ,st4 ,barnabas1 and it was transferred to doggerel rhyme1 to be repeated by children4 ,j4,i4 ,register of ,cromwell's ,baptism4--,the communication of your correspondent ,c4,w4,g4 at p4 #ajc4 of your last number1 induces me to offer you the inclosed copy from the ,register of ,all ,saints' ,church1 ,huntingdon1 of the birth and baptism of ,oliver ,cromwell3-- ,anno ,domini #aeii ,oliverus filius ,roberti ,cromwell generosi et ,elisabeth huxoris ejus ,natus vicesimo quinto die ,aprilis et ,baptisatus vicesimo nono ejusdem mensis4 ,then follow the words ,england's plague for many years1 written in a different hand4 ,r4,o4 ,the ,times4--,a correspondent 7,,naso7 informs us of the following fact in the history of this widely circulated and influential journal2 namely1 that it is stated in that the paper of the #abth of ,march1 #aghh1 that it was printed ,logographically6 ,we wish our correspondent had furnished us with the precise words of this very curious statement4 #acg ,roland ,monoux4--,i have in my possession a brass monumental plate1 said to have been taken from some church in ,middlesex1 and bearing the following lines1 engraved in black letter3-- ,behold what droupinge ,dethe maye doe1 consume y'e corse to duste1 ,what ,dethe maie not shall lyue for aye1 in spite of ,dethe his luste2 ,thoughe ,rouland ,monoux shrowdeth here1 yet ,rouland ,monoux lives1 ,his helpynge hand to nedys want1 a fame for ever geves2 ,hys worde and dede was ever one1 his credyth never quaylde1 ,his zeall' to ,christ was stronge1 tyll' dethe w'th latest panges asaylde4 ,twyse thre and one he ,children had1 two sones1 one kepes his name1 ,and dowghters fyve for home he carde1 y't lyve in honest fame4 ,what booteth more1 as he be kynde dyd come of ,jentyll race1 ,so ,rouland ,monoux good ,desertes this grave can not ,deface4 ,i should be obliged to any of your readers for some account of this ,rouland ,monoux1 and when he died4 ,i may also add2 that ,i should be very willing to restore the brass to its original site1 did ,i know the spot from whence it has been sacrilegiously torn4 ,m4 ,wessel ,cup ,hymn4--,the following ,wassail ,song is taken from a little chap-book printed at ,manchester1 called ,a ,selection of ,christmas ,hymns4 it is obviously a corrupted version of a much older song3-- ,here we come a wesseling1 ,among the leaves so green1 ,here we come a wandering1 ,so fair to be seen4 ,cho4--,love and joy come to you1 ,and to your wessel too1 ,and ,god send you a happy new year1 ,a new year1 ,and ,god send you a happy new year4 ,our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree1 ,so is your beer of the best barley4 ,we are not daily beggars1 ,that beg from door to door1 ,but we are neighbours' children1 ,whom you have seen before4 ,call up the butler of this house1 ,put on his golden ring1 ,let him bring us up a glass of beer1 ,and the better we shall sing4 ,we have got a little purse1 ,made of stretching leather skin1 ,we want a little of your money1 ,to line it well within4 ,bring us out a table1 ,and spread it with a cloth1 ,bring us out a mouldy cheese1 ,and some of your ,christmas loaf4 ,god bless the master of this house1 ,likewise the mistress too1 ,and all the little children1 ,that round the table go4 ,good master and mistress1 ,while you'r sitting by the fire1 ,pray think of us poor children1 ,who are wand'ring in the mire4 ,cho4--,love and joy come to you1 ,and to your wessel to1 ,and ,god send you a happy new year1 ,a new year1 ,and ,god send you a happy new year4 ,our wessel cup is made of the rosemary tree1 ,so is your beer of the best barley4 ,it is a song of the season which well deserves to be preserved4 ,its insertion will at least have that effect1 and may be the means of our discovering an earlier and purer text4 ,,ambrose ,,merton4 ,portrait of ,charles ,i4--,in ,sir ,henry ,ellis's ,original ,letters1 #b;d series1 vol4 iii4 p4 #bed41 amongst the prefatory matter to the reign of ,charles ,i41 there is a notice of a sermon1 entitled ,the ,subject's ,sorrow1 or ,lamentations upon the ,death of ,britaine's ,josiah1 ,king ,charles4 ,sir ,henry ,ellis says it is expressly stated1 in this ,sermon1 that the ,king himself desired that unto his ,golden ,manual might be prefixed his representation1 kneeling2 contemning a temporal crown1 holding our blessed ,saviour's crown of thorns1 and aspiring unto an eternal crown of happiness4 ,note b4 upon this passage is as follows3-- ,this very portrait of ,king ,charles the ,first1 engraved by ,marshall1 adorned the original edition of the ,greek3 ,eikon ,basilikae4 #hvo4 #afdh4 ,the same portrait1 as large as life1 in oil painting1 was afterwards put up in many of our churches4 ,when ,i was a boy1 such a portrait1 in oil painting1 hung upon the south wall of the body of ,st4 ,michael's ,church1 ,cambridge1 between the pulpit and a small door to the west1 leading into the south aisle4 ,out of the window of the chamber in which the ,king was kneeling was represented a storm at sea1 and the ship being driven by it upon some rocks4 ,a few years ago1 upon visiting ,cambridge1 ,i went purposely to ,st4 ,michael's ,church to see this picture1 which had been so familiar to me in my boyhood4 ,the clerk told me it had been taken down1 and was in the vestry4 ,in the vestry ,i found it1 on its side1 on the floor against the wall4 #ach ,you are probably aware that this ,st4 ,michael's ,church was nearly destroyed by fire not many weeks since2 that a committee is established to arrange its restoration4 ,would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made about the fate of this picture8 ,r4,o4 ,dec4 #ag4 #ahdi4 ,p4,s4--,i may add1 that there was affixed to the bottom of the frame of the picture a board1 on which was painted1 in conformably large letters-- ,,lord1 remember ,david and all his trouble4 ,psalm cxxxii4 #a4 ,the italics in part of the ,note above quoted are mine4 ,autograph ,mottoes of ,richard ,duke of ,gloucester1 and ,henry ,duke of ,buckingham4--,in the volume of the ,cottonian ,,mss4 marked ,vespasian ,f4 ,,xiii41 at fol4 #ec41 is a slip of parchment1 upon which is written by the hands of ,richard ,duke of ,gloucester1 and ,henry ,duke of ,buckingham1 the following couplet3-- ,loyaulte me lie ,richard ,gloucestre ,souente me soune ,harre ,bokingh'a'm4 ,a fac-simile is engraved in ,autographs of ,royal1 ,noble1 ,learned1 and ,remarkable ,personages in ,english ,history1 engraved by ,c4,j4 ,smith1 and edited by ,mr4 ,john ,gough ,nichols1 #ahbi1 #dto41 where the editor suggests that this slip of parchment was perhaps a deceitful toy1 or it may have been attached to some present offered by the ,duke of ,gloucester to his royal nephew ,edward the ,fifth4 ,the meaning of ,gloucester's motto is perfectly free from misapprehension2 but he asserts his fidelity to the crown1 which he soon so flagrantly outraged--,loyalty binds me4 ,in the work above mentioned1 the motto of ,buckingham is interpreted by these words1 in modern ,french3--,souvent me souviens4 ,this does not appear to me perfectly satisfactory2 and ,i have to request the opinions of such as are conversant with old manuscripts1 whether the true meaning1 or even the true reading1 of the ,duke of ,buckingham's motto has as yet been ascertained8 ,h4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,notes ,,in ,,answer ,,to ,,queries4 ,lord ,erskine's ,brooms4--,g4,b4 informs us1 that the anecdote about ,lord ,erskine's brooms1 and the apprehension of his servant for selling them without a licence1 will be found in his ,life by ,lord ,campbell 7,lives of the ,chancellors1 vol4 vi4 p4 #fah474 ,erskine himself attended the sessions to plead the man's cause1 and contended that the brooms were agricultural produce1 or1 as he jocosely observed1 came under the sweeping clause4 ,the when is about #ahjg1 and the where an estate in ,sussex1 which proved rather an unprofitable speculation to its owner1 as it produced nothing but birch trees1 and those but stunted ones4 ,to which information ,w4,j4 adds1 that about the same period ,lord ,erskine printed1 for private circulation1 ,an ,appeal in favour of the agricultural ,services of ,rooks2 a production probably scarce now1 but full of humanity1 and very characteristic4 ,scarborough ,warning4--,in a postscript to a letter written from court on the #aith ,january1 #afjc1 by ,toby ,matthew1 ,bishop of ,durham1 to ,hutton1 ,archbishop of ,york1 ,i find the term ,scarborough warning4 ,can any of the correspondents of your valuable paper inform me of the origin and prevalence of this saying8 ,the postscript is-- ,when ,i was in the middest of this discourse1 ,i received a message from my lord chamberlaine1 that it was his majesty's pleasure that ,i should preach before him upon ,sunday next2 which ,scarborough warning did not perplex me1 but so puzzled me1 as no mervail if somewhat be pretermitted1 which otherwise ,i might have better remembered4 ,quoted in ,caldwell's ,conferences1 p4 #aff4 ,w4,m4,c4 ,,nares tells us1 that ,ray1 on the authority of ,fuller1 states that this saying took its origin from ,thomas ,stafford1 who1 in the reign of ,mary1 ,a4,d4 #aeeg1 with a small company1 seized on ,scarborough ,castle 7utterly destitute of provision for resistance71 before the townsmen had the least notice of their approach2 but shows that it was probably much older1 as1 in a ballad written by ,j4 ,heywood on the taking of that place by ,stafford1 the following more probable origin is given to the proverb3-- ,this term ,scarborow warning grew 7some say71 ,by hasty hanging for rank robbery theare4 ,who that was met1 but suspect in that way1 ,straight he was trust up1 whatever he were4 ,this implies that ,scarborough imitated the ,halifax gibbet law4 ,is any thing known of such a privilege being claimed or exercised by the men of ,scarborough8 ,we should be glad to hear from any local antiquary upon this point4 ,gray's ,elegy4--,in answer to your correspondent1 ,j4,f4,m4 7p4 #aja471 who asks for information respecting the competition for the best translation of ,gray's ,elegy1 in which ,dr4 ,sparke was a candidate1 ,i would beg to refer him to the satirical poem attributed to ,mr4 ,t4,j4 ,matthias1 formerly ,fellow of ,trinity ,college1 ,cambridge1 entitled ,the ,pursuits of ,literature1 in which a ludicrous account is given of the affair4 ,it does not appear who offered the prize1 but ,mr4 ,nares1 the editor of ,the ,british ,critic1 was the judge1 and the place of meeting ,the ,musical ,room in #aci ,hanover ,square1 which was decorated for the occasion with appropriate scenery--at least so says ,the ,critic4 ,he thus describes the solemnity 7p4 #agd #hth edit4 #agih73-- ,lo1 learned clerks in sable stole1 ,graceful in years1 pant eager for the goal4 ,old ,norbury starts1 and1 with the seventh-form boys1 ,in weeds of ,greek the church-yard's peace annoys1 ,with classic ,weston1 ,charley ,coote and ,tew1 ,in dismal dance about the mournful yew4 ,but first in notes ,sicilian placed on high1 ,bates sounds the soft precluding symphony2 ,and in sad cadence1 as the bands condense1 ,the curfew tolls the knell of parting sense4 ,the distribution of prizes is thus recorded1 ,dr4 ,norbury being apparently the conqueror3-- ,nares rising paused2 then gave1 the contest done1 ,to ,weston1 ,taylor's ,hymns and ,alciphron1 ,and ,rochester's ,address to lemans loose2 ,to ,tew1 ,parr's ,sermon and the game of goose2 ,to ,coote the foolscap1 as the best relief ,a dean could hope2 last to the hoary chief ,he filled a cup2 then placed on ,norbury's back ,the ,sunday suit of customary black4 ,the gabbling ceased2 with fixed and serious look ,gray glanced from high1 and owned his rival1 ,,cook4 ,w4 ,lincoln's ,inn1 ,dec4 #ag4 ,coffee1 the ,lacedmonian ,black ,broth4--,your correspondent ,r4,o4 inquires what modern author suggests the probability of coffee being the black broth of the ,lacedmonians8 ,the suggestion1 ,i think1 originated with ,george ,sandys1 the translator of ,ovid's ,metamorphoses4 ,sandys travelled in the ,turkish empire in #afaj4 ,he first published his ,notes in #afae4 ,the following is from the #fth edit4 #afeb1 p4 #eb43-- ,although they be destitute of taverns1 yet have they their coffa-houses1 which something resemble them4 ,their sit they1 chatting most of the day1 and sip of a drink called coffa 7of the berry that it is made of71 in little ,china dishes1 as hot as they can suffer it2 black as soot1 and tasting not much unlike it 7why not that black broth which was in use among the ,lacedmonians87 which helpeth1 as they say1 digestion1 and procureth alacrity1 c4 ,burton also 7,anatomy of ,melancholy7 describes it as like that black drink which was in use among the ,lacedmonians1 and perhaps the same4 ,e4,b4 ,,price4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,queries4 ,,the ,,last ,,of ,,the ,,villains4 ,it would be an interesting fact if we could ascertain the last bondsman by blood--nativus de sanguine--who lived in this country4 ,the beginning of the seventeenth century is the period usually referred to as the date of the extinction of personal villenage4 ,in the celebrated argument in the case of the negro ,somerset 7,state ,trials1 vol4 xx4 p4 #da71 an instance as late as #afag-ah is cited as the latest in our law books4 7,see ,noy's ,reports1 p4 #bg47 ,it is probably the latest recorded claim1 but it is observable that the claim failed1 and that the supposed villain was adjudged to be a free man4 ,i can supply the names of three who were living near ,brighton in the year #afag1 and whose thraldom does not appear to have been disputed4 ,norden1 from whose unpublished ,survey of certain ,crown ,manors ,i have extracted the following notice1 adverts to the fact1 but seems to think that the times were rather unfavourable to any attempt by the lord of the manor to put his rights in force4 ,there are three bondmen of bloude belonginge unto this manor1 never known to be anie way mannumissed1 namely1 ,thomas ,goringe1 ,william and ,john ,goringe4 ,thomas ,goringe dwells at ,amberley1 ,william at ,piddinghow1 and ,john ,goringe at ,rottingdean4 ,what goods they have the ,jurie know not4 ,all poor men4 ,thomas hath the reversion of a cotage now in the tenure of ,william ,jefferye4 ,but mee thinks this kinde of advantage is nowe out of season2 yet1 were they men of ability1 they might be1 upon some consideration1 infraunchized4 7,survey of the ,manor of ,falmer1 ,sussex47 ,i shall be glad to know whether any more recent instance can be pointed out4 ,e4 ,,smirke4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,dore ,,of ,,holy ,,scripture4 ,in ,herbert's edition of ,ames's ,typographical ,antiquities1 #aghe1 vol4 i4 p4 #dib41 is noticed ,the ,dore of ,holy ,scripture1 #abmo41 printed by ,john ,gowghe in #aecf2 and1 at p4 #did41 a reprint of the same work is mentioned in #aedj1 by the same printer1 and a description of a copy given from one then in the possession of ,herbert himself4 ,in the preface prefixed by the printer1 he calls the work the prologue of the fyrste translatoure of the byble out of latyn in to ,englyshe2 and at the end of the work is this note3--,perused by doctor ,taylor and doctor ,barons1 ,master ,ceton and ,master ,tornor4 ,as ,i am much interested in the subject to which this publication refers1 may ,i ask for information on three points8--#a4 ,what evidence is there of this edition of #aecf1 beyond the statement in ,ames8 #b4 ,what has become of the copy of the edition of #aedj1 formerly belonging to ,herbert8 and1 #c4 ,who are the persons who peruse and revise the latter edition8 ,there is not copy of either edition1 as far as ,i can trace1 in the ,british ,museum1 in the ,bodleian1 or at ,lambeth4 ,i may add to these queries the following remarks3-- #a4 ,ames asserted that ,the ,dore of ,holy ,scripture was among the books prohibited to be read #adj by the injunctions of ,henry the ,eighth1 and refers1 as his authority1 to ,foxe's ,acts and ,monument1 ed4 #aefb1 p4 #egd4 ,herbert1 in a note1 questions the fact1 and raises a doubt as to the existence of the passage in ,foxe1 since it is not in the edition of #afda4 ,i have1 however1 the first edition now before me of #aefc 7not #aefb71 and at p4 #egd41 among the names of certen bokes whiche after this injunction namely1 of #aeci1 or some other in the said kinges dayes were prohybited1 occurs1 ,item1 the doore of holy scripture4 made by ,jhon4 ,gowghe4 #b4 ,this work was again printed by ,crowley in #aeej1 #abmo41 under a different title1 namely1 ,the ,pathway to ,perfect ,knowledge2 and in the preface1 he falsely ascribes it to ,john ,wycliffe1 and adds1 the original wherof is in an olde ,english ,bible1 betwixt the ,olde ,testament and the ,newe1 which ,bible remaineth now in the ,kyng his ,majesties chamber4 ,this ,bible appears to be the identical manuscript copy of the later ,wycliffe version of the ,scriptures1 now preserved in the ,university ,library1 ,cambridge1 and marked ,mm #b4 #ae4 ,a copy of ,crowley's edition is in the ,british ,museum1 but the orthography and language of the tract are modernised4 ,f4,m4 ,b4,m41 ,dec4 #ai4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,turner',s ,,ms4 ,,history ,,of ,,westminster--,,crucifix ,,of ,,edward ,,the ,,confessor4 ,on ,april #f4 #agjh1 ,henry ,turner was elected1 by the vestry1 organist of ,st4 ,margaret's1 ,westminster1 in the room of the famous ,father ,smith 7,bernard ,schmidt74 ,as regards his musical capabilities1 ,hawkins does not assign him a niche in his ,temple of ,worthies1 although he names some of his predecessors and successors in that office4 ,one merit we must accord him1 that of true antiquarian love and zeal in all matters regarding this renowned city4 ,great materials are said to have been collected for a full description 7of ,westminster71 by a parish-clerk of ,st4 ,margaret's4 ,i presume this is ,henry ,turner1 mentioned in ,widmore's ,account of the ,writers of the ,history of ,westminster ,abbey4444 ,his book was only a survey of the city of ,westminster1 purposely omitting the history of the 7collegiate7 church4--,gough1 ,brit4 ,top4 vol4 i4 p4 #gfa4 ,lond4 #aghj4 ,the man's natural parts were very good2 he was also very diligent in making enquiries relating to his subject1 and he had collected a great deal4--,widmore's ,acc4 of ,writers of the ,hist4 of ,westm4 ,abbey1 pp4 #f1 #g4 ,lond4 #agea4 ,as regards his personal history1 ,i alighted on some curious notes on a fly-leaf of a transcript of a register3 ,henry ,turner1 borne at ,yearely1 ,derbyshire1 #ab4 ,july1 #afgi3 married ,eliz4 ,sabin1 of ,clement ,danes1 in ,st4 ,margrts4 ,westmr4 ,feb4 #bf4 #agja4 by ,dr4 ,onley4 ,in #afig it was discovered that some valuable ,,ms4 records belonging to the parish1 and taken out of the ,tower of ,london1 had been lost by their keeper4 ,this history in its time appears to have suffered the same fate4 ,however1 there is this entry in the ,harleian ,,mss4 #gjde4 fol4 #cfa43 ,from the learned ,dr4 ,kennet1 ,dean of ,peterborough's ,collection4 ,,mss4 ,,ms4 ,h4 ,on ,aug4 #b4 #agjh1 at ,windsor1 ,i read over the ,history of the ,parish of ,st4 ,margaret's1 ,westminster1 drawn up in ,,ms4 by one of the parish clerks4 ,some interesting extracts follow4 ,compare ,aysc4 ,add4 ,,mss4 ,brit4 ,mus4 #dafc4 fol4 #e4 ,bishop ,kennet resided in ,st4 ,james's ,street1 in this parish1 and died there on ,dec4 #ai4 #agbh4 ,i have applied in vain for any account of this ,,ms4 to the librarians of ,windsor ,castle and ,eton ,college4 ,can any of your readers give a clue to its recovery8 ,are any aware that this survey1 which would be valuable now1 still exists8 ,there is an instance1 as early as the fifteenth century1 of the union of the offices of lay-clerk and organist in ,st4 ,margaret's1 in the person of one ,metyngham1 and ,h4 ,turner also held them at the same time2 since1 on ,july #bhth1 #agac1 he was elected parish-clerk by the vestry1 in consideration of the experience they had of fitness and diligence in executing the office of deputy-clerk of this parish for several years last past2 and he did not resign the place of organist until #bnd ,october1 #agah4 ,may ,i make another ,query8--,the gold chain and crucifix1 laid in the grave of ,k4 ,edward the ,confessor1 were removed by ,charles ,taylor1 and given into the hands of ,king ,james ,,ii4 ,on the reverse of the same cross was pictured a ,benedictine monk1 in his habit1 and on each side of him these capital ,roman letter1-- ,on the right limb thus3 and on the left thus3 7,a7 ,p4 ,z4 ,a4 ,x ,a4 ,c4 ,a ,h4 ,antiq4 of ,st4 ,peter's1 vol4 ii4 ,app4 n4 iij1 ,ed4 #agbb4 ,what does the inscription mean8 ,is the former portion to be understood ,greek3 ,a4 ,o4 ,zoae agion ,christos8 ,what is the import of the latter8 ,,mackenzie ,,walcott1 ,m4,a4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,talisman ,,of ,,charlemagne4 ,many years back1 ,prince ,louis ,napoleon was stated to be in possesion of the talisman of ,charlemagne2--a small nut1 in a gold filigree envelopment1 found round the neck of that monarch on the opening of his tomb1 and given by the town of ,aachen 7,aix-la-,chapelle7 to ,buonaparte1 and by him to his favourite ,hortense1 ci-de-vant ,queen of ,holland1 at whose death it descended to her son1 the present ,president of the ,french ,republic4 #ada ,the ,germans have a curious legend connected with this talisman4 ,it was framed by some of the magi in the train of the ambassadors of ,aaroun-al-,raschid to the mighty ,emperor of the ,west1 at the instance of his spouse ,fastrada1 with the virtue that her husband should be always fascinated towards the person or thing on which it was4 ,the constant love of ,charles to this his spouse was the consequence2 but1 as it was not taken from her finger after death1 the affection of the emperor was continued unchanging to the corpse1 which he would on no account allow to be interred1 even when it became offensive4 ,his confessor1 having some knowledge of the occult sciences1 at last drew off the amulet from the inanimate body1 which was then permitted to be buried2 but he retained possession of it himself1 and thence became ,charles's chief favourite and prime minister1 till he had been promoted to the highest ecclesiastical dignity1 as ,archbishop of ,mainz and ,chancellor of the ,empire4 ,at this pitch of power1 whether he thought he could rise no higher1 or scruples of conscience were awakened by the hierarchical vow1 he would hold the heathen charm no longer1 and he threw it into a lake not far from his metropolitan seat1 where the town of ,ingethm now stands4 ,the regard and affection of the monarch were immediately diverted from the monk1 and all men1 to the country surrounding the lake2 and he determined on building there a magnificent palace for his constant residence1 and robbed all the ancient royal and imperial residences1 even to the distance of ,ravenna1 in ,italy1 to adorn it4 ,here he subsequently resided and died3 but it seems the charm had a passive as well as an active power2 his throes of death were long and violent2 and though dissolution seemed every moment impending1 still he lingered in ceaseless agony1 till the ,archbishop1 who was called to his bed-side to administer the last sacred rites1 perceiving the cause1 caused the lake to be dragged1 and1 silently restoring the talisman to the person of the dying monarch1 his struggling soul parted quietly away4 ,the grave was opened by the third ,otto in #iig1 and possibly the town of ,aachen may have been thought the proper depository of the powerful drug1 to be by them surrendered to one who was believed by many1 as he believed himself to be1 a second ,charlemagne4 ,so much for the introduction to the following ,queries3--#a4 ,can any of your readers say whether this amulet is still in possession of the ,president of the ,french ,republic8 #b4 ,if so1 might not the believers in the doctrines of ,sympathy attribute the votes of the six millions who1 in ,dec4 #ahdh1 voted in favour of his election1 to the sympathetic influence of his nut in gold filigree1 and be justified in looking upon those who voted for his rivals as no true ,franks8 ,it was originally concocted for a ,frankish monarch of pure blood1 and may be supposed to exercise its potency only on those of genuine descent and untainted lineage4 ,,william ,,bell1 ,phil4 ,dr4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,dick ,,shore--,,isle ,,of ,,dogs--,,katherine ,,pegg4 ,i entirely concur in the opinion of your able correspondent1 ,mr4 ,p4 ,cunningham1 that ,pepys's ,diary is well deserving all the illustrative light which may be reflected upon it from your useful pages4 ,in submitting the following ,query1 however1 my object is to glean a scrap of information on a point connected with the neglected topography of the east end of ,london1 taking ,pepys for my text4 ,in the ,diary1 the entry for ,january #aeth1 #affj-fa1 contains this passage3-- ,we took barge and went to ,blackwall1 and viewed the ,dock and the new west ,dock which is newly made there1 and a brave new merchantman which is to launched shortly1 and they say to be called the ,royal ,oake4 ,hence we walked to ,dick ,shoare1 and thence to the ,towre1 and so home4--,vol4 i4 p4 #agh4 new ,ed4 ,i shall be glad to learn from any of your readers what part of the northern bank of the river1 between ,blackwall and the ,tower1 was called ,dick ,shore4 ,it is not marked on any of the old maps of ,london ,i have been able to consult2 but it was probably beyond the most easterly point generally shown within their limits4 ,the modern maps present no trace of the locality in question4 ,the dock-yard visited by ,pepys was long one of the most considerable private ship-building establishments in ,england4 ,for may years it was conducted by ,mr4 ,perry1 and subsequently1 under the firm of ,wigram and ,green1 the property having been purchased by the late ,sir ,robert ,wigram1 ,bart4 ,the extensive premises are still applied to the same use2 but they have been divided to form two distinct yards1 conducted by separate firms4 ,the origin of the name 7,isle of ,dogs71 given to the marshy tract of land lying within the bold curve of the ,thames between ,blackwall and ,limehouse1 is still undetermined4 ,the common story is1 that it receives its name from the king's hounds having been kept there during the residence of the royal family at ,greenwich4 ,this tradition is wholly unsupported2 nor is it very probable that the king's hounds would be kennelled in this ungenial and inconvenient place1 while they could be kept on the ,kentish side of the river1 in the vicinity of ,greenwich ,castle1 then occupying the site of the present ,observatory4 ,the denominations isle and island appear to have been bestowed on many places not geographically entitled to them4 ,the ,isle of ,dogs1 before the construction of the canal which now crosses its isthmus1 was in fact a peninsula4 ,pepys #adb spent a night in the isle of ,doggs1 as appears by his entry for ,july #bdth1 #affe1 and again1 on the #cast of the same month1 he was compelled to wait in the unlucky ,isle of ,doggs1 in a chill place1 the morning cool and wind fresh1 above two if not three hours1 to his great discontent4 ,to the account of ,katherine ,pegg1 given by your correspondents1 pp4 #ij1 #ia1 may be added1 that1 besides ,charles ,fitz-,charles1 ,earl of ,plymouth1 she had1 by ,charles ,,ii41 a daughter1 who died in her infancy4 ,mrs4 ,pegg was one of the three wives of ,sir ,edward ,greene1 of ,sampford 7not ,samford71 near ,thaxted1 ,essex1 created a baronet #bfth ,july1 #affj 7within two months of the ,restoration71 to whom she seems to have been not unfitly matched2 for it is recorded of him that1 by his extravagancy and love of gambling1 he entirely ruined his estate1 and his large inheritance passed from his family4 ,he had issue two daughters1 who married4--,see ,burke's ,extinct ,baronetage4 ,i do not think that ,katherine ,pegg1 whose son by the ,king was born in #afeg1 was the pretty woman newly come called ,pegg1 saluted by ,pepys1 #gth ,may1 #affh1 as ,mr4 ,cunningham surmises4 ,j4,t4 ,,hammack4 ,december4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,minor ,,queries4 ,the ,strand ,maypole4--,e4,f4,r4 inquires what was the ultimate fate of the tall ,maypole which once o'erlooked the ,strand8 ,it was taken down about the year #agag1 when it was found to measure a hundred feet4 ,it was obtained by ,sir ,isaac ,newton1 and borne on a carriage1 for timber1 to ,wanstead1 in ,essex1 the seat of the ,earl of ,tylney1 where1 under the direction of the ,reverend ,mr4 ,pound ,breton1 it was placed in the ,park1 for the erection of a telescope1 the largest then in the world1 presented by a ,french gentleman to the ,royal ,society4 ,to ,fettle4--,what is the derivation of the verb to fettle8 ,in the ,north it means to amend--to repair--to put a thing1 which is out of order1 into such a state as to effectuate1 or to be effectual for1 its original1 or a given purpose2 e4g4 a cart out of order is sent to the wheelwright's to be fettled4 ,it has been suggested that the word is a verbalised corruption of the word effectual4 ,bailey1 in his ,dictionary1 has designated it as a north country word3 but it is evident that he misunderstood its entire meaning2 for he has merely to fettle to1 and seems to have been ignorant of the use of the word fettle as a verb active4 ,to revert to my former example of its use--,an injured cart is fettled by the wheel-wright2 the wheelwright fettles the injured cart4 ,l4,c4,r4 ,greek ,verse4--,can any of your readers inform me who is the author of the line-- ,greek3 ,pollai men thnaetois glottai1 mia d' athanatoisi8 ,c4 ,dr4 ,dee's petition to ,james ,i4--,e4,f4,r4 states that he has lately discovered1 in the lining of an ancient trunk1 two or three curious broadsides1 one of which purports to be ,dr4 ,dee's petition to ,james ,i41 #afjd1 against the report raised against him1 namely1 ,that he is or hath bin a ,conjurer and ,caller1 or ,invocator of ,divels4 ,he would be glad to know whether this curious broadside has been printed in any memoir of ,dr4 ,dee4 ,vondel's ,lucifer4--,f4 desires to be informed whether the tragedy or dramatic poem ,lucifer1 of the ,dutch poet ,vondel1 which has been said to bear some analogy to ,paradise ,lost1 has ever been translated8 and if not1 why not8 ,the ,french writer1 ,alfred de ,vigny1 in ,stella1 calls ,vondel 7,wundel in his spelling7 ce vieux ,shakspeare de la ,hollande4 ,discurs ,modest4--,in ,bishop ,andrewes' ,reply to the ,apology of ,bellarmine1 chap4 i4 p4 #g1 ed4 #dto4 ,london1 #afaj1 certain jesuits in prison are reported to have confessed1 ,rem transubstantiationis patres ne attigisse quidem2 as authority for which is quoted ,discurs ,modest1 p4 #ac4 ,from this work apparently the passage is copied by ,jeremy ,taylor1 ,real ,presence1 sect4 #ab4 #af2 ,dissuasive1 part i4 chap4 #a4 #e1 and part #b4 book #b4 sect4 #c4 #c3 also by ,cosin on ,transubstantiation1 chap4 #f4 #ag4 ,can any of your readers favour me with a clue to the ,modest ,discourse8 ,a4,t4 ,ptolemy of ,alexandria4--,,query wishes to be informed what works of ,ptolemy of ,alexandria are to be met with in an ,english translation4 ,vanbrugh's ,london ,improvements4--,in the ,london ,journal of ,march #afth1 #agbb-bc1 there is the following paragraph3-- ,we are informed that ,sir ,john ,vanbrugh1 in his scheme for new paving the cities of ,london and ,westminster1 among other things1 proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches1 to stop all channels in the street1 and to carry all the water off by drains and common sewers under ground4 ,sir ,john ,vanbrugh was chiefly known as an architect of noblemen's and gentlemen's mansions4 ,can any of your readers supply me with a reference to any detailed plan1 from ,sir ,john1 for the general improvement of the metropolis8 ,b4,m4 ,becket's ,grace-,cup4--,the inscription round the neck of this so-called cup1 of which a representation is given in ,no4 #a4 of ,mr4 ,scott's ,antiquarian ,gleanings1 is thus printed by him--,,god ,,ferare--3 to which he adds1 in explanation1 probably the name of the goldsmith4 #adc ,at the foot of an earlier print of this relic1 the inscription is given thus--,,ferare ,,god--and till the appearance of ,mr4 ,scott's version1 ,i had considered the former word as an accidental error of the engraver1 instead of ,,feare2 which would present a moral motto1 suiting the ,,sobrii ,,estote round the lid4--,as ,mr4 ,nichols1 in his recent interesting work on ,pilgrimages to ,walsingham and ,canterbury1 noticing the misnomer of the cup 7p4 #bbi1 n471 indicates its date to be of the early part of the sixteenth century1 perhaps some one of your well-informed readers could state if any artist-goldsmith of that era1 and of that name1 be known4 ,,alicui4 ,sir ,henry ,herbert's ,office-,book4--,i should be glad to know if any of your readers can tell me the whereabouts of ,sir ,henry ,herbert's ,office-,book1 a ,,ms4 frequently referred to by ,malone1 ,chalmers1 and ,collier4 ,sir ,henry ,herbert was ,master of the ,revels to ,king ,james the ,first1 and the two succeeding kings1 and the said ,,ms4 contains an account of almost every piece exhibited at any of the theatres from ,august1 #afbc1 to the commencement of the rebellion in #afda4 ,malone1 in his ,historical ,account of the ,english ,stage 7edit4 ,boswell1 iii4 #eg471 says1 in a note-- ,for the use of this very curious and valuable manuscript ,i am indebted to ,francis ,ingram1 of ,ribbisford1 near ,bewdley1 in ,worcestershire1 ,esq41 ,deputy ,remembrancer in the ,court of the ,exchequer4 ,it has lately been found in the same old chest which contained the manuscript ,memoirs of ,lord ,herbert of ,cherbury1 from which ,mr4 ,walpole1 about twenty years ago1 printed the life of that nobleman1 who was elder brother to ,sir ,henry ,herbert4 ,in another place1 ,malone adds3-- ,this valuable manuscript1 having lain for a considerable time in a damp place1 is unfortunately damaged1 and in a very mouldering condition2 however1 no material part of it appears to have perished4 ,such being the case1 it becomes more than ever desirable that this interesting volume should be sought after1 and the whole of its contents put on record before its total decay4 ,surely1 if its depositary is known1 and accessible1 it is well worth the attention of the ,shakespeare ,society1 or some other learned body instituted for the preservation of documents of this nature4 ,a biographical account of the various persons that have held the appointment of ,master of the ,revels1 with such particulars of the stage as would necessarily fall in1 would form a valuable ,prolegomena to the publication of ,sir ,henry's ,office-,book4 ,we have1 it is true1 much information upon this subject1 but in a very scattered form4 ,i have now before me a list of the ,masters of the ,revells1 with the dates of their patents1 which ,i beg to transcribe4 ,it is of more than ordinary value1 being in the handwriting of ,sir ,henry ,herbert himself1 and copied at the back of the worthy knight's ,petition to ,charles the ,second against the ,grant to ,killegrew and ,davenant to form ,two ,companies of ,players4 ,masters of ye ,revells4 ,sir ,richard ,guilford - not on record4 ,sir ,thomas ,cawerden - #aedd #cf ,henry ,,viii4 ,sir ,thomas ,beneger - not on record4 ,sir ,john ,fortescue - not on record4 ,edmund ,tilney1 ,esq4 - ,july #bd #aegh #ba ,eliz4 ,sir ,george ,buck - ,june #bc #afjc ,i ,jac4 ,sir ,john ,astley - #afab #aj ,jac4 ,i4 ,benjamin ,johnson - #afag #ae ,jac4 ,i4 ,sir ,henry ,herbert1 and ,simon ,thelwall1 ,esq4 - ,aug4 #ba #afbi #e ,car4 ,i4 ,,edward ,f4 ,,rimbault4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,books ,,and ,,odd ,,volumes ,,wanted ,,to ,,purchase 7,in continuation of ,lists in former ,nos47 #a4 ,,dr4 ,,brook ,,taylor',s ,,perspective4 #ast edit4 #agae4 #b4 ,,dr4 ,,austin',s ,,critical ,,examination ,,of ,,the ,,first ,,six ,,books ,,of ,,euclid4 7,date not known47 #c4 ,,dr4 ,,abraham ,,robertson ,,on ,,ratio ,,and ,,proportion4 ,oxford4 #ahjd4 #d4 ,,lawson',s ,,dissertation ,,on ,,the ,,analysis ,,of ,,the ,,antients4 ,edited by ,fryer1 and printed in ,bristol1 #ahji4--,the particular copy wanted is interleaved with thick paper and ,,ms4 alterations by the ,editor4 ,it was surreptitiously obtained from its owner2 but the books of the person who had it are dispersed4 ,letters1 stating particulars and lowest price1 carriage free1 to be sent to ,,mr4 ,,bell1 ,publisher of ,,notes ,,and ,,queries1 #ahf4 ,fleet ,street4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,notices ,,to ,,correspondents ,it will be seen by our leading article that having been unable to procure by any other means sufficient copies of our early numbers1 to supply perfect sets to all who applied for them1 we have reprinted ,nos4 #a4 #b4 #c4 and #d41 so that our subscribers have now an opportunity of completing their sets4 ,our correspondent who inquired respecting the ,life and ,diary of ,haydon the ,painter1 is informed that its publication is suspended for the present4 ,we have to explain to correspondents who inquire as to the mode of procuring ,,notes ,,and ,,queries1 that every bookseller and newsman will supply it if ordered1 and that gentlemen residing in the country may be supplied regularly with the ,stamped ,edition1 by giving their orders direct to the publisher1 ,,mr4 ,,george ,,bell1 #ahf4 ,fleet ,street1 accompanied by a ,post ,office order for a ,quarter 7#ds4 #d;d474 ,a neat ,case for holding ,numbers of ,,notes ,,and ,,queries until the completion of each volume1 is now ready1 price #as4 #f;d41 and may be had1 by ,order1 of all ,booksellers and ,newsmen4 ,we are again compelled to omit many ,notes1 ,queries1 and ,answers to ,queries1 as well as ,answers to ,correspondents4 99 99 99 99 99 #add ,illustration3 ,a pilgrim in a field4 ,this day is published1 price #fs41 ,,the ,,pilgrimages ,,of ,,walsingham and ,,canterbury3 by ,,desiderius ,,erasmus4 ,being his ,colloquy on ,pilgrimage1 translated and illustrated with ,notes1 by ,,john ,,gough ,,nichols1 ,f4,s4,a42 together with the ,colloquy on ,rash ,vows1 and the ,characters of ,archbishop ,warham and ,dean ,collet1 by the same ,author4 ,this entertaining little volume will afford to many a reader not only much information on the subject of ,pilgrimages1 but also numerous illustrations of the feelings and habits of the times4--,athenum4 ,we can conceive no more perfect translation than ,mr4 ,nichols has given2 most delicately does he express the quiet eloquence and quieter irony of the original2 while his ,notes--which occupy about three-fourths of the handsome volume--are full of the most curious1 learned1 and interesting matter4--,weekly ,news4 ,in the ,appendix1 ,mr4 ,nichols gives a very interesting dissertation on pilgrimages in general1 and furnishes us with much curious information relative to ,walsingham1 and a judicious summary of facts and circumstances connected with the murder of ,archbishop ,becket4-- ,salisbury ,journal4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,gentleman',s ,,magazine4 ,the ,obituary of the ,gentleman's ,magazine is generally allowed to be one of its most valuable features1 and unremitting attention is devoted to the task of making it as complete and comprehensive as possible4 ,it records the decease of all persons of station in society or of individual merit1 and biographical memoirs are given 7amounting every year to more than three hundred7 of eminent characters1 whether statesmen1 senators1 officers in the public service1 members of the learned professions1 men of science1 authors1 artists1 c4 c4 ,the ,magazine for ,january will contain1 among others1 ,memoirs of ,her ,majesty the ,queen ,dowager2 ,sir ,john ,dashwood ,king1 ,bart42 ,sir ,thomas ,lethbridge1 ,bart42 ,rear-,adm4 ,sir ,s4,j4,b4 ,pechell1 ,bart42 ,admiral ,sir ,j4 ,hawkins ,whitshed2 ,general ,sir ,george ,anson2 ,general ,sir ,john ,vandeleur2 ,lieut4-,col4 ,john ,browne2 ,charles ,lyell1 ,esq42 ,john ,musters1 ,esq42 ,louis ,hayes ,petit1 ,esq42 ,wm4 ,cooke ,taylor1 ,l4,l4,d42 ,mr4 ,kenney1 the dramatist2 ,charles ,edw4 ,horn1 the composer1 c4 c4 ,the ,number for ,january will be embellished with two ,plates of the ,roman ,pavements recently found at ,cirencester4 ,,nichols ,,and ,,son1 #be4 ,parliament ,street4 99 99 99 99 99 ,vols4 ,i4 and ,,ii4 #hvo41 price #bhs41 cloth4 ,,the ,,judges ,,of ,,england2 from the ,,time of the ,,conquest4 ,by ,edward ,foss1 ,f4,s4,a4 ,a work in which a 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