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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