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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOL. V.--No. 134. SATURDAY, MAY 22. 1852.

Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5_d._




CONTENTS.

                                                                Page


      NOTES:--

      A few Things about Richard Baxter, by H. M. Bealby         481

      Latin Song by Andrew Boorde, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault         482

      Shakspeare Notes                                           483

      Publications of the Stuttgart Society, by F. Norgate       484

      Manuscript Shakspeare Emendations, by J. O. Halliwell      484

      The Grave-stone of Joe Miller                              485

      Folk Lore:--Swearing on a Skull--New Moon--Rust            485

      Minor Notes:--Epitaph at Low Moor--Sir Thomas Overbury's
      Epitaph--Bibliotheca Literaria--Inscription at Dundrah
      Castle--Derivation of Charing                              486

      QUERIES:--

      Poem by Nicholas Breton                                    487

      The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club                           487

      The Rabbit as a Symbol                                     487

      Is Wyld's Great Globe a Plagiarism from Molenax? by
      John Petheram                                              488

      Minor Queries:--Poem on the Burning of the Houses of
      Parliament--Newton's Library--Meaning of Royd--The
      Cromwell Family--Sir John Darnell, Knt.--Royal
      "We"--Gondomar--Wallington's Journal--Epistola
      Lucifera, &c.--Cambrian Literature--"VCRIMDR" on
      Coins of Vabalathus--Lines on Woman--Penkenol--Fairfax
      Family Mansion--Postman and Tubman in the Court of
      Exchequer--Second Exhumation of King Arthur's Remains,
      &c.                                                        488

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Welsh Women's Hats--Pancakes
      on Shrove Tuesday--Shakspeare, Tennyson, and Claudian      491

      REPLIES:--

      The Ring Finger                                            492

      The Moravian Hymns                                         492

      Cagots                                                     493

      Sheriffs and Lords Lieutenant                              494

      St. Christopher                                            494

      General Pardons: Sir John Trenchard, by E. S. Taylor       496

      Replies to Minor Queries:--Dayesman--Bull; Dun--Algernon
      Sidney--Age of Trees--Emaciated Monumental Effigies--Bee
      Park--Sally Lunn--Baxter's Pulpit--Lothian's Scottish
      Historical Maps--British Ambassadors--Knollys
      Family--'Prentice Pillars; 'Prentice Windows--St.
      Bartholomew--Sun-dial Inscription--History of
      Faction--Barnacles--Family Likenesses--Merchant
      Adventurers to Spain--Exeter Controversy--Corrupted
      Names of Places--Poison--Vikingr Skotar--Rhymes on
      Places--"We three"--Burning Fern brings Rain--Plague
      Stones--Sneezing--Abbot of Croyland's Motto--Derivation
      of the Word "Azores"--Scologlandis and Scologi             497

      MISCELLANEOUS:--

      Notes on Books, &c.                                        501

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted                               502

      Notices to Correspondents                                  502

      Advertisements                                             503




Notes.


A FEW THINGS ABOUT RICHARD BAXTER.

In the year 1836, I visited Kidderminster for the purpose of seeing the
place where Richard Baxter spent fourteen of the most valuable years of
his life; and of ascertaining if any relics were to be found connected
with the history of this remarkable man. Baxter thought much of
Kidderminster, for with strong feeling he says, respecting this place,
in his poem on "Love breathing Thanks and Praise" (_Poetical Fragments_,
1st edit. 1681):--

      "But among all, none did so much abound,
      With fruitful mercies, as that barren ground,
      Where I did make my best and longest stay,
      And bore the heat and burden of the day;
      Mercies grew thicker there than summer flowers:
      They over-numbered my daies and hours.
      There was my dearest flock, and special charge,
      Our hearts in mutual love thou didst enlarge:
      'Twas there that mercy did my labours bless,
      With the most great and wonderful success."

While prosecuting my inquiries, I was shown the house in which he is
said to have resided. It is situated in the High Street, and was, at the
time of my visit, inhabited by a grocer; but I had my doubts, from a
difference of opinion I heard stated as to this being the actual house.
After looking at this house, I visited the vestry of the Unitarian
Chapel, and examined the pulpit; the description of which given by your
correspondent is very correct. He omits to mention Job Orton's chair,
which was shown me, as well as that of Bishop Hall. From all I could
learn at the time, and since, I should say that there is not the
slightest probability of any engraving having been published of this
pulpit. Sketches may have been made by private hands, but nothing I
believe in this way has ever been given to the public. I have long taken
a deep interest in everything, pertaining to Richard Baxter. I some
years ago collected ninety-seven out of the one hundred and sixty-eight
works which he wrote, most of them the original editions, and
principally on controversial subjects. After they had served the purpose
for which I purchased them, I parted with them, reserving to myself the
first editions of the choicest of his practical writings. The folio
edition of his works contains only his practical treatises. One of the
most remarkable facts connected with the history of Baxter, is the
prodigious amount of mechanical drudgery to which he must have patiently
submitted in the production of his varied publications. He had a very
delicate frame: he was continually unwell, and often greatly afflicted.
To this constant ailment of body he refers in a very affecting note in
his _Paraphrase on the New Testament_ under the fifth verse in the fifth
chapter of the Gospel of St. John. The reference is to the impotent man
at the pool of Bethesda, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

  _Note._ "How great a mercy is it, to live eight and thirty years
  under God's wholesome discipline? How inexcusable was this man, if
  he had been proud, or worldly, or careless of his everlasting
  state? O my God! I thank thee for the like discipline of eight and
  fifty years. How safe a life is this, in comparison of full
  prosperity and pleasure."

His ministerial duties were of an arduous nature, and yet he found time
to write largely on theological subjects, and to plunge perpetually into
theological controversy. The _Saint's Rest_, by which his fame will ever
be perpetuated, was published in 1619, 4to. It is in four parts, and
dedicated respectively to the inhabitants of Kidderminster, Bridgenorth,
Coventry, and Shrewsbury. It was the first book he wrote, and the second
he published (_The Aphorisms of Justification_ being the first
published): it was written under the daily expectation of dying. The
names of Brook, Hampden, and Pym, which have a place in the first
edition, are, singularly enough, omitted in the later ones. Fifty years
after the appearance of the _Saint's Rest_, and a few months only before
his death, he published the strangest of all his productions; it is--

  "The Certainty of the World of Spirits, fully evinced by
  unquestionable Histories of Apparitions and Witchcrafts,
  Operations, Voices, &c. Proving the Immortality of Souls, the
  Malice and Misery of Devils and the Damned, and the Blessedness of
  the Justified. Written for the Conviction of Sadducees and
  Infidels."

  12mo. 1691.

His _Reliquiae Baxterianae_, folio, 1686, is the text-book for the actual
every-day life of this eminent divine.

    H. M. BEALBY.

  North Brixton.


LATIN SONG BY ANDREW BOORDE.

The life of this "progenitor of Merry Andrew," as he is termed, would,
if minutely examined, doubtless prove a curious piece of biography. Wood
furnishes many particulars, but some of his statements want
confirmation. He tells us that Boorde was borne at Pevensey in Sussex;
but Hearne corrects him, and says it was at Bounds Hill in the same
county. It then becomes a question whether he was educated at Winchester
school. Certain it is that he was of Oxford, although he left without
taking a degree, and became a brother of the Carthusian order in London.
We next find him studying physic in his old university, and subsequently
travelling through most parts of Europe, and even of Africa. On his
return to England, he settled at Winchester, and practised as a
physician. Afterwards we find him in London occupying a tenement in the
parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. This appears to have been the period
when, in his professional capacity, King Henry VIII. is said to have
consulted him. How long he remained in London is uncertain, but in 1541
he was living at Montpelier in France, where he is supposed to have
taken the degree of doctor in physic, in which he was afterwards
incorporated at Oxford. He subsequently lived at Pevensey, and again at
Winchester. At last we find him a prisoner in the Fleet--the cause has
yet to be learned,--at which place he died in April, 1549. The following
curious relic is transcribed from the flyleaf of a copy of _The Breviary
of Health_, 4to., London, 1547. It is signed "Andrew Boord," and if not
the handwriting of the facetious author himself, is certainly that of
some one of his cotemporaries:

      "Nos vagabunduli,
      Laeti, jucunduli,
              Tara, tantara teino.
      Edimus libere,
      Canimus lepide,
              Tara, &c.
      Risu dissolvimur,
      Pannis obvolvimur,
              Tara, &c.
      Multum in joculis,
      Crebro in poculis,
              Tara, &c.
      Dolo consuimus,
      Nihil metuimus,
              Tara, &c.
      Pennus non deficit,
      Praeda nos reficit,
              Tara, &c.
      Frater Catholice,
      Vir apostolice,
              Tara, &c.
      Dic quae volueris
      Fient quae jusseris,
              Tara, &c.
      Omnes metuite
      Partes gramaticae,
              Tara, &c.
      Quadruplex nebulo
      Adest, et spolio,
              Tara, &c.
      Data licencia,
      Crescit amentia,
              Tara, &c.
      Papa sic praecipit
      Frater non decipit
              Tara, &c.
      Chare fratercule,
      Vale et tempore,
              Tara, &c.
      Quando revititur,
      Congratulabimur,
              Tara, &c.
      Nosmet respicimus,
      Et vale dicimus,
              Tara, &c.
      Corporum noxibus
      Cordium amplexibus,
              Tara tantara teino."

Andrew Boorde's printed works are as follows:

1. _A Book of the Introduction to Knowledge_, 4to., London, 1542.

2. _A Compendious Regiment or Dietary of Health, made at Mountpyller_,
8vo., 1542.

3. _The Breviary of Health_, 4to., London, 1547.

4. _The Princyples of Astronomye_, 12mo., R. Copland, London, n. d.

Wood tells us he wrote "a book on prognosticks," and another "of
urines." _The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham_ are also ascribed
to him, as well as _A Right Pleasant and Merry History of the Mylner of
Abington_, &c.

The origin of the _Merry Tales_ is pointed out by Horsfield, in his
_History of Lewes_, vol. i. p. 239.:--

  "At a _last_, holden at Pevensey, Oct. 3, 24 Hen. VIII., for the
  purpose of preventing unauthorised persons 'from setting nettes,
  pottes, or innyances,' or anywise taking fish within the
  privileges of the Marsh of Pevensey, the king's commission was
  directed to John, Prior of Lewes; Richard, Abbot of Begham; John,
  Prior of Mychillym; Thomas, Lord Dacre, and others... Dr. Boorde
  (the original Merry Andrew) founds his tale of the 'Wise Men of
  Gotham' upon the proceedings of this meeting, Gotham being the
  property of Lord Dacre, and near his residence."

The inhabitants of Gotham in Nottinghamshire have hitherto been
considered the "biggest fools in christendom;" but if the above extract
is to be depended upon, the _Gothamites_ of Sussex have a fair claim to
a share of this honourable distinction.

The quotation from the _History of Lewes_ was first pointed out by your
learned correspondent, MR. M. A. LOWER, in a communication to Mr.
Halliwell's _Archaeologist_, 1842, p. 129. The investigation of the
origin of this popular collection of old _Joe Millerisms_ is of some
importance, because upon them rests Dr. Boorde's title to be the
"progenitor of Merry Andrew."

    EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.


SHAKSPEARE NOTES.

Who was the editor of _The Poems and Plays of William Shakspeare_, eight
vols. 8vo., published by Scott and Webster in 1833?

In that edition the following passage from _The Merchant of Venice_, Act
III. Sc. 2., is _pointed_ in this way:--

      "Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
      To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
      Veiling an Indian; beauty's, in a word,
      The seeming truth which cunning times put on
      To entrap the wisest."

To which the anonymous editor appends the following note:--

  "I have deviated slightly from the folio