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It is in this case, as in most other similar ones, much easier to conclude who is not, than who is the author of the book in question. The internal evidence is very strong in favour of Inchofer. It was published with his name in 1652, seven years only after the date of the first edition; and the witnesses are many among his contemporaries, who speak positively to his being the author. Further, there is no great dissimilarity in point of style, and I have collected several parallel expressions occurring in the Monarchia and Inchofer's other works, which very much strengthen the claim made on his behalf, but which it is scarcely necessary to insert here. In my opinion, he is the real author. The question might, I have no doubt, be finally set at rest by an examination of his correspondence with Leo Allatius, which is, or was, at all events, in the Vatican.
James Crossley.
Manchester, Feb. 22, 1851.
Touching for the Evil (Vol. iii., p. 93.).—It was one of the proofs against the Duke of Monmouth, that he had touched for the evil when in the West; and I have seen a handbill describing the cures he effected. It was sold at Sir John St. Aubyn's sale of prints at Christie's some few years since.
H. W. D.
"Talk not of Love" (Vol. iii., pp. 7.77.).—In answering the Query of A. M. respecting this pleasing little song, your correspondents have neglected to mention that the earliest copy of it, i.e. that in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, has two additional stanzas. This is important, because, from No. 8. of Burns's Letters to Clarinda, it appears that the concluding lines were supplied by Burns himself to suit the music. He remarks that—
"The latter half of the first stanza would have been worthy of Sappho. I am in raptures with it."
Mrs. Mac Lehose (Clarinda) was living in 1840, in the eightieth year of her age.
Edward F. Rimbault.
Did St. Paul's Clock strike Thirteen? (Vol. iii., p. 40.).—Yes: but it was not then at St. Paul's; for I think St. Paul's was then being rebuilt. The correspondent to the Antiquarian Repertory says:
"The first time I heard it (the circumstance) was at Windsor, before St. Paul's had a clock, when the soldier's plea was said to be that Tom of Westminster struck thirteen instead of twelve at the time when he ought to have been relieved. It is not long since a newspaper mentioned the death of one who said he was the man."
About the beginning of the eighteenth century this bell was removed to St. Paul's, &c.—Can any of the readers of the "Notes and Queries" supply the newspaper notice above referred to. The above was written in 1775. The clock tower in which the bell was originally (and must have been when the sentinel heard it) was removed in 1715.
John Francis.
[The story is given in Walcott's Memorials of Westminster as being thus recorded in The Public Advertiser of Friday, 22nd June, 1770:—"Mr. John Hatfield, who died last Monday at his house in Glasshouse Yard, Aldersgate, aged 102 years, was a soldier in the reign of William and Mary, and the person who was tried and condemned by a Court Martial for falling asleep on his duty upon the terrace at Windsor. He absolutely denied the charge against him, and solemnly declared that he heard St. Paul's clock strike thirteen, the truth of which was much doubted by the court because of the great distance. But whilst he was under sentence of death, an affidavit was made by several persons that the clock actually did strike thirteen instead of twelve; whereupon he received his majesty's pardon. The above his friends caused to be engraved upon his plate, to satisfy the world of the truth of a story which has been much doubted, though he had often confirmed it to many gentlemen, and a few days before his death told it to several of his neighbours. He enjoyed his sight and memory to the day of his death."]
Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (Vol. iii., p. 113.).—Among the benefits conferred by "Notes and Queries" upon the literary world, is the information occasionally afforded, in what libraries, public and private, very rare books are deposited. Mr. Collier expresses his thanks to Mr. Laing for sending to him a very rare volume by Kyffin. Had I seen his "Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company," I should have had much pleasure in furnishing him with extracts, from another copy in the Chetham Library, of the tract he has described. The Rev. T. Corser possesses the same author's Blessedness of Britain. His other works are enumerated by Watt, and should be transferred to a Bibliotheca Cambrensis.
T. J.
Metrical Psalms, &c. (Vol. iii., p. 119.).—Arun may find all the information he seeks by consulting a treatise of Heylin's on the subject of the metrical version of the Psalms, published by Dr. Rich. Watson, under the title of The Deduction, 8vo. Lond. 1685.
Together with this treatise, two letters from Bishop Cosin to Watson are published; in the latter of which, towards the end, the following paragraph occurs:—
"The singing Psalms are not adjoined to our Bibles, or to our Liturgy, by any other authority than what the Company of Stationers for their own gain have procured, either by their own private ordinances among themselves, or by some order from the Privy Council in Queen Elizabeth's time. Authority of convocation, or of Parliament, such as our Liturgy had, never had they any: only the Queen, by her Letters Patent to the Stationers, gave leave to have them printed, and allowed them (did not command them) to be sung in churches or private houses by the people. When the Liturgy was set forth, and commanded to be used, these psalms were not half of them composed: no bishop ever inquired of their observance, nor did ever any judge at an assize deliver them in his charge: which both the one and other had been bound to do, if they had been set forth by the same authority which the Liturgy was. Besides you may observe, that they are never printed with the Liturgy or Bible, nor ever were; but only bound up, as the stationers please, together with it," &c.
J. Sansom.
Aristophanes on the Modern Stage (Vol. iii., p. 105.)—Molière has availed himself in the comedy of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme very liberally of the comedy of the Clouds. The lesson in grammar given to Monsr. Jourdain is nearly the same as that which Socrates gives to Strepsiades.
W. B. D.
Miscellaneous
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC
The last number of the Gentleman's Magazine contains a very important paper upon the limited accessibility of the State Paper Office to literary inquirers, and the consequent injury to historical literature. But not only is the present system illiberal; it seems that it has been determined by the Lords of the Treasury that the historical papers anterior to 1714 shall be transferred from the State Paper Office to the new Record Office, which is now rising rapidly on the Rolls Estate. Under present circumstances, this is a transfer from bad to worse. Our contemporary shows the absurdity and injustice to literature of such a determination in a very striking manner. We cannot follow him through his proofs, but are bound as the organ of literary men to direct attention to the subject. It is most important to every one who is interested—and who is not?—in the welfare of historical literature.
The Unpublished Manuscripts on Church Government by Archbishop Laud, stated to have been prepared for the education of Prince Henry, and subsequently presented to Charles I., which we mentioned in our sixty-ninth number, was sold by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on the 24th ultimo, for Twenty Guineas. And here we may note that in the Collection of Autographs sold by the same auctioneers on Friday last, among other valuable articles was a Letter of Burke, dated 3rd Oct. 1793, from which we quote the following passage, which will be read with interest at the present time, and furnishes some information respecting Cardinal Erskine—the subject of a recent Query:—"I confess, I would, if the matter rested with me, enter into much more distinct and avowed political connections with the Court of Rome than hitherto we have held. If we decline them, the bigotry will be on our part and not on that of his Holiness. Some mischief has happened, and much good has, I am convinced, been prevented by our unnatural alienation.
… With regard to Monsignor Erskine, I am certain that all his designs are formed upon the most honourable and the most benevolent public principles." One of the most interesting lots at the sale was a proclamation of the "Old Pretender," dated Rome, 23 Dec. 1743, given "under our Sign Manual and Privy Seal," the seal having the inscription "Jacobus III. Rex," which fetched Eleven Pounds.
We believe there are few libraries in this country, however small, in which there is not to be found one shelf devoted to such pet books on Natural History as White's Selborne, the Journal of a Naturalist, and Waterton's Wanderings. The writings of Mr. Knox are obviously destined to take their place in the same honoured spot. Actuated with the same love of nature, and gifted with the same power of patient observation as White, he differs from him in the wider range over which he extends his observation, and in combining the ardour of the sportsman with the scientific spirit of inquiry which distinguishes the naturalist. In his Game Birds and Wild Fowl: their Friends and their Foes, which contains the result of his observations and experience, not only on the birds described in his title-page, but on certain other animals supposed, oftentimes most erroneously, to be injurious to their welfare and increase—we have a work which reflects the highest credit upon the writer, and can scarcely fail to accomplish the great end for which Mr Knox wrote it, that of "adding new votaries to a loving observation of nature."
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"a maid
That paragons description and wild fame."
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Notices to Correspondents
Although we have this week enlarged our paper to 24 pages, we are compelled to solicit the indulgence of many correspondents for the postponement of many interesting Notes, Queries, and Replies.
C. H. P. will find his query inserted. It was in type last week, but only postponed from want of room. We have omitted his comment called for by the omission of the words "fleet against the."
W. S. The fine lines commencing,—
"My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such perfect joy therein I find:"
were written by Lovelace.
F. B. Relton. The Satyr on the Jesuits was written by John Oldham, and originally published in 1679.
Salopian. The tragedy of The Earl of Warwick or The King and Subject, was translated from the French of De la Harpe by Paul Heffernan.
Cam. It appears from Brayley's Londiniana, iv. 5. on the authority of Strype's Stow. b. i. p. 287., that Sir Baptist Hicks, afterwards Viscount Campden, was the son of Robert Hicks, a silk mercer, who kept a shop in Cheapside, at Soper's Lane End, at the White Bear. See also Cunningham's Handbook of London, Art. Hicks' Hall.
O. P. The lines—
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have chang'd his doom,
Not forc't him wander, but confin'd him home."
are from Cleveland's Rebell Scott, and would be found at p. 52 of Cleveland's Poems, ed. 1654.
H., who asks whether any friend living in London would consult books for him at the British Museum, and let him know the result, had better specify more particularly what is the information he requires.
Rusticus will find the information he seeks in a Biographical Dictionary under the name Sarpi.
L. J. Blackstone (Book iv. cap. 25.; vol. iv. p. 328. ed 1778) supposes that pressing a mute prisoner to death was gradually introduced between 31 Edw. III and 8 Hen. IV. as a species of mercy to the delinquent, by delivering him sooner from his torment.
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