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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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No. 167.]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8. 1853
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                    Page

  Autograph of Edward of Lancaster, Son of Henry VI., by Sir
    Frederic Madden                                             33

  Robert Bloomfield, by George Daniel                           34

  Note for London Topographers, by Lambert B. Larking           34

  Sermons by Parliamentary Chaplains, by R. C. Warde            34

  A Perspective View of Twelve Postage-stamps, by Cuthbert
    Bede, B.A.                                                  35

  MINOR NOTES:--Cremona Violins--Prices of Tea--
    Coleridge a Prophet--Lord Bacon's Advice peculiarly
    applicable to the Correspondents of "N. & Q."--Etymology
    of Molasses--A Sounding Name                                36

  QUERIES:--

  Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions, by Rev. E. S. Taylor           37

  Chapel Plaster, by J. E. Jackson                              37

  MINOR QUERIES:--Martha Blount--Degree of B.C.L.--
    The Word "anywhen"--Shoreditch Cross, &c.--Winchester and
    Huntingdon--La Bruyere--Sir John Davys or Davies--Fleshier
    of Otley--Letters U, V, W--Heraldic Queries--"Drengage"
    and "Berewich"--Sidney as a Female Name--"The Brazen
    Head"--Portrait of Baron Lechmere--"Essay for a New
    Translation of the Bible," and "Letters on Prejudice"--
    David Garrick--Aldiborontophoskophornio--Quotations
    wanted--Arago on the Weather--"Les Veus du Hairon," or
    "Le Voeu du Heron"--Inscription on a Dagger-case--Hallet
    and Dr. Saxby                                               38

  REPLIES:--

  Descent of the Queen from John of Gaunt, by W. Hardy          41

  Uncertain Etymologies: "Leader"                               43

  Lines of Tipperary                                            43

  Shakspeare Emendations, by Thomas Keightley                   44

  Statues represented on Coins, by W. H. Scott                  45

  Judge Jeffreys, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, &c.                    45

  Dutch Allegorical Pictures, by Dr. J. H. Todd                 46

  The Reprint, in 1808, of the First Folio Edition of
    Shakspeare                                                  47

  PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Le Grey and the
    Collodion Process--Ready Mode of iodizing Paper--
    After-dilution of Solutions--Stereoscopic Pictures from
    one Camera--Camera for Out-door Operations                  47

  "'Twas on the Morn"                                           49

  Alleged Reduction of English Subjects to Slavery, by
    Henry H. Breen                                              49

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Royal Assent, &c.--Can
    Bishops vacate their Sees?--"Genealogies of the Mordaunt
    Family," by the Earl of Peterborough--Niagara, or
    Niagara?--Maudlin--Spiritual Persons employed in Lay
    Offices--Passage in Burke--Ensake and Cradock Arms--Sich
    House--Americanisms so called--The Folger Family--Wake
    Family--Shakspeare's "Twelfth Night"--Electrical
    Phenomena--Daubuz Family--Lord Nelson--Robes and Fees
    in the Days of Robin Hood--Wray--Irish Rhymes               50

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

  Notes of Books, &c.                                           53

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                  53

  Notices to Correspondents                                     54

  Advertisements                                                54

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Notes.

AUTOGRAPH OF EDWARD OF LANCASTER, SON OF HENRY VI.

In the Museum of Antiquities of Rouen is preserved an original document,
thus designated, "Lettre d'Edouard, Prince de Galles (1471)." It is kept
under a glass case, and shown as "an undoubted autograph of the Black
Prince," according to the testimony of the gentleman who has very
obligingly placed a transcript of this interesting relic at my disposal. It
is as follows:

    "Chers et bons amis, nous avons entendu, que ung nostre homme lige
    subject, natif de nostre pays de Galles, est occupe et detenu es
    prisons de la ville de Diepe, pour la mort d'un homme d'icelle ville,
    dont pour le dict cas autres ont este executez. Et pour ce que nostre
    dict subject estoit clerc, a este et est encores en suspens, parce
    qu'il a este requis par les officiers de nostre tres cher et aime
    cousin l'archevesque de Rouen, afin qu'il leur fut rendu, ainsi que de
    droict; pourquoy nous vous prions, que icelui nostre homme et subject
    vous veuillez bailler et delivrer aux gens et officiers de mon dict
    cousin, sans en ce faire difficulte. Et nous vous en saurons un tres
    grant gre, et nous ferez ung essingulier plaisir. Car monseigneur le
    roy de France nous a autorisez faire grace en semblable cas que celui
    de mon dict subject, duquel desirons fort la delivrance. Escript a
    Rouen, le onziesme jour de Janvier.

            (Signed) EDUARD.
      (Countersigned) MARTIN."

The error of assigning this signature to Edward the Black Prince is
sufficiently obvious, and somewhat surprising, since we here have an
undoubted, and, I believe, _unique_ autograph of Edward of Lancaster,
Prince of Wales, only son of Henry VI. by Margaret of Anjou. He was born at
Westminster, October 13th, 1453, and was therefore, in January, 1471 (no
doubt the true date of the document), in the eighteenth year of his age. He
had sought refuge from the Yorkists, in France, with his mother, ever since
the year 1462, and in the preceding July or August, 1470, had been
affianced to Anne Neville, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Warwick. At
the period when this {34} letter was written at Rouen, Margaret of Anjou
was meditating the descent into England which proved so fatal to herself
and son, whose life was taken away with such barbarity on the field at
Tewksbury, in the month of May following. The letter is addressed,
apparently, to the magistrates of Rouen or Dieppe, to request the
liberation of a native of Wales (imprisoned for the crime of having slain a
man), and his delivery to the officers of the Archbishop of Rouen, on the
plea of his being a clerk. The prince adds, that he was authorised by the
King of France (Louis XI.) to grant grace in similar cases. As the
signature of this unfortunate prince is at present quite unknown in the
series of English royal autographs, it would be very desirable that an
accurate fac-simile should be made of it by some competent artist; and
perhaps the art of photography might in this instance be most
advantageously and successfully used to obtain a perfect copy of the entire
document.

F. MADDEN.

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ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.

Presuming that some of the many readers of "N. & Q." may feel an interest
in the author of _The Farmer's Boy_, whom I knew intimately (a
sickly-looking, retiring, and meditative man), and have often seen trimming
his bright little flower-garden fronting his neat cottage in the City
Road--a pastry-cook's shop, an apple and oyster stall, and part of the
Eagle Tavern ("To what base uses," &c.) now occupy its, to me, hallowed
site,--I send you a few extracts from his sale catalogue, an interesting
and a rare document, as a mournful record of a genius as original and
picturesque, as it was beautiful and holy. His books, prints, drawings (215
lots), and furniture (105 lots) were sold in the humble house in which he
died, at Shefford, Beds, on the 28th and 29th May, 1824. The far greater
number of his books had been presented to him by his friends, viz. the Duke
of Grafton (a very liberal contributor), Dr. Drake, James Montgomery,
Samuel Rogers, Mrs. Barbauld, Richard Cumberland, Sir James Bland Burges,
Capel Lofft, &c. His autograph manuscript of _The Farmer's Boy_, elegantly
bound, was sold for 14l.; of _Rural Tales_, boards, for 4l.; of _Wild
Flowers_, for 3l. 10s.; of _Banks of the Wye_, for 3l.; of _May-day with
the Muses_ (imperfect), for ten shillings; and _Description of the Aeolian
Harp_ (he was a maker of Aeolian harps), for 15s. His few well-executed
drawings by _himself_ (views of his City Road cottage and garden, &c.)
produced from 5s. to 18s. each. Among his furniture were "A handsome
inkstand, presented to him by the celebrated Dr. Jenner" (in return for his
sweet poem of "Good Tidings"), and the "celebrated oak table, which Mr.
Bloomfield may be said to have rendered immortal by the beautiful and
pathetic poem inscribed to it in his _Wild Flowers_. The first was sold for
6l. 10s., the second for 14l. I am happy in the possession of the _original
miniature_ (an admirable likeness, and finely painted) of Robert
Bloomfield, by Edridge. It is the first and most authentic portrait of him
that was engraved, and prefixed to his poems:

 "And long as Nature in her simplest guise,
  And virtuous sensibility we prize,
  Of well-earn'd fame no poet shall enjoy
  A fairer tribute than _The Farmer's Boy_."

GEORGE DANIEL.

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NOTE FOR LONDON TOPOGRAPHERS.

I send you a note for London topographers. The charter is dateless, but,
inasmuch as Walter de Langeton was appointed to the bishopric of Coventry
and Lichfield in 1295, and Sir John le Bretun was "custos" of London 22 to
25 Edw. I., _i.e._ 1294 to 1297, we may fairly assign it to the years 1296
or 1297:--

"Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presentes litere pervenerint, Johannes
de Notlee salutem in domino. Noveritis me remisisse, et omnino quietum
clamasse pro me et heredibus meis, Domino Waltero de Langeton, Coventrensi
et Lichfeldensi episcopo, heredibus, vel assignatis suis, totum jus et
clameum quod habui, vel aliquo modo habere potui, in quadam placea terre
cum pertinenciis in vico Westmonasterio sine ullo retenemento, illam
videlicet que jacet inter exitum curie et porte domini Walteri episcopi
supradicti