Chapter I: Front Matter

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CONTENTS.

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Marlowe's "Lust's Dominion" 253

Dover Castle: a Note to Hasted 254

Dean Swift: Autographs in Books, by George Daniel 255

Shakspeare Elucidations, by Thomas Keightley 255

Imprecatory Epitaphs, by Dr. E. Charlton 256

Derivation of "Lad" and "Lass" 256

MINOR NOTES:--Iona--Inscriptions in Parochial Registers--
Lieutenant--"Prigging Tooth" or "Pugging Tooth"--
London--Note from the Cathedral at Seville--Riddles
for the Post Office 257

QUERIES:--

National Portraits: Portrait of the Duke of Gloucester,
Son of Charles I., by Albert Way 258

Boston Queries, by Pishey Thompson 258

Welborne Family 259

Descendants of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by C. Gonville 259

MINOR QUERIES:--English Bishops deprived by Queen
Elizabeth, 1559--John Williams of Southwark, Esq.--
"A Screw"--Tanner's MSS.--The Westminster Assembly of
Divines--The Witch Countess of Morton--Mary, Daughter
of King James I. of Scotland--Hibernicis Hibernior--
The Cucking-stool, when last used--Grafts and the
Parent Tree--Conway Family--Salt--Geological
Query--Wandering Jew--Frescheville Family--The
Wednesday Club--Oratories--Arms of De Turneham--
Poisons--Open Seats or Pews in Churches--Burial of
unclaimed Corpse 260

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Sir John Powell--"Reynard
the Fox"--Campvere, Privileges of--Bishops Inglis and
Stanser of Nova Scotia 262

REPLIES:--

Monument to Barbara Mowbray and Elizabeth Curle at Antwerp 263

Rigby Correspondence 264

Marigmerii--Melinglerii--Berefellarii 264

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Questions--Developing Paper Pictures with Pyrogallic
Acid--Photography in the Open Air; Improved Camera--
New Effect in Collodion Pictures--Powdered Alum:
How does it act? 265

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Whipping-boys--"Grub Street Journal"--"Pinch of
Snuff"--Race for Canterbury--Chichester Pallant--Scarfs
worn by Clergymen--Alicia Lady Lisle--Major-General
Lambert--Mistletoe--The Sizain--Venda--Meaning of
"Assassin"--Dimidium Scientiæ--Epigrams--Use of Tobacco
before the Discovery of America--Oldham, Bishop of
Exeter--Tortoiseshell Tom Cat--Irish Rhymes--Consecrated
Rings--Brasses since 1688--Derivation of Lowbell--The
Negative given to the Demand of the Clergy at
Merton--Nugget--Blackguard 267

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Notes on Books, &c. 273

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 274

Notices to Correspondents 274

Advertisements 274

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Notes.

MARLOWE'S "LUST'S DOMINION."

The Rev. Mr. Dyce omits the play of _Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen_, from the excellent, and (in all other respects) complete edition of Marlowe's _Works_ which he has lately published, considering it to have been "distinctly shown by Mr. Collier" that it could not have been the work of that poet. I must say, however, that the argument for its rejection does not appear to me by any means conclusive. It runs thus: in the first act is presented the death of a certain King Philip of Spain; and this King Philip must be Philip II., because in a tract printed in the _Somers' Collection_, giving an account of the "last words" of that monarch, are found passages which are plainly copied in the play. Now, Philip II. did not die till 1598, and the tract was not published till 1599, whereas Marlowe's death took place in 1593. _Ergo_, Marlowe could not have written _Lust's Dominion_. But we know that it was the constant custom of managers to cause acting plays to be altered and added to from time to time: the curious _Diary of Manager Henslowe_ is full of entries of the payment of sums of twenty shillings or so, to the authors whom he kept, for "adycyons" to the works of others. And surely it is no forced hypothesis to suppose that some literary cobbler employed to touch up Marlowe's work, finding a King Philip in it, should have thought to improve and give it an air of historic truth, by introducing the circumstances furnished by the pamphlet into the death-scene. Apart from these particulars, the king is neither Philip I. nor Philip II., but a mere King Philip of Spain in general, quite superior to historical considerations. The positive evidence in support of Marlowe's authorship is tolerably strong, though not absolutely conclusive. The earliest extant edition of the play bears his name at full length on the title-page. It is true that the date of that edition is 1650, sixty-six years after his death: still the publisher must have had _some_ reasonable ground for attributing the work to him; and in all cases comparatively little value ought to be attached to negative, when opposed by positive evidence. We {254} need look no farther than this very edition of Marlowe for an illustration of the possibility such a combination of circumstances as I have supposed. In the earliest known edition of the play of _Dr. Faustus_ is found an allusion to a certain Dr. Lopez, who did not attain notoriety (by being hanged) till after Marlowe's death; but Mr. Dyce very justly only infers from this that the particular passage is an interpolation. According to the reasoning applied to _Lust's Dominion_, Faustus also should have been expelled summarily, upon this objection: and yet, in the case of that play, we know that such a conclusion from such premises would have been erroneous. I am unwilling to lay much stress on the internal evidence to be drawn from the language and conduct of the play itself, because I am aware how little reliance can be placed on reasoning drawn from such observations; but no one, I think, will deny that there are many passages which at least _might_ have been written by Marlowe: and, on the whole, I submit that it would have been more satisfactory if Mr. Dyce had included it in this edition.

He has changed his practice since he printed among Middleton's works (and rightly) the play of the _Honest Whore_, a play generally--I believe, universally--attributed to Dekker alone, on the authority of one single entry in Henslowe's _Diary_, where the names of the two poets are incidentally coupled together as joint authors of the piece!

I should mention, that I take the dates and book-lore from Mr. Dyce himself.

B. R. I.

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DOVER CASTLE: A NOTE TO HASTED.

Lambard, Camden, and Kilburne all speak of an accumulation of stores in Dover Castle, on the origin of which various traditions and opinions existed in their days.

"The Castell of Douer (sayth Lidgate and Rosse) was firste builded by
Julius Cæsar the Romane emperour, in memorie of whome, they of the
castell kept, till this day, certeine vessels of olde wine and salte,
whiche they affirme to be the remayne of suche prouision as he brought
into it, as touching the whiche (if they be natural and not
sophisticate), I suppose them more likely to have beene of that store
whiche Hubert de Burghe layde in there."--_Lambard._

"In this castle likewise antiently was to be seen a tower (called
Cæsar's Tower), afterwards the king's lodgings (excellent for
workmanship and very high),--a spacious hall (called King Arthur's
Hall) with a faire gallery, or entry,--_great pipes and cashes (bound
with iron hoopes), wherein was liquor (supposed to be wine) which by
long lying became as thick as treackle_, and would _cleave like
bird-lime_;--_salt congealed together as hard as stone_, cross bowes,
long bowes, and arrowes to the same (_to which was fastened brass
instead of feathers_); and the same were of such bigness as not fit to
be used by any men of this or late ages."--_Kilburne._

"Camden relates that he was shown these arrows, which he thinks were
such as the Romans used to shoot out of their engines, which were like
to large crossbows. These last might, though not Cæsar's, belong to the
Romans of a later time; and the former might, perhaps, be part of the
provisions and stores which King Henry VIII. laid in here, at a time
when he passed from hence over sea to France; but for many years past
it has not been known what is become of any of these
things."--_Hasted._

The following extract from an inventory furnished by William de Clynton, Earl of Huntyngdon, Lord Warden, on handing over the castle to Bartholomew de Burghersh, his successor, dated "die Sabati in vigilia sancti Thome Apostoli, anno regni regis Edwardi tercei a conquestu Anglie decimo septimo" (_i. e._ September 20, 1343), will supply a satisfactory elucidation of what these stores were:

"Item in magna Turri; _quinque dolea et j pipam mellis_; unde de j
doleo deficiunt viij pollices; et de alio deficiunt iij pollices; et de
alio deficiunt xvj pollices; et de alio xv pollices; et de quinto xj
pollices; et de pipa deficiunt xx pollices. Item, j molendinum manuale
et _ij molas pro eodem_.

"Item, in domo armorum iij springaldas magnas cum toto atilo[1] præter
cordas. Item, quinque minores springaldas sine cordis; et iij parvas
springaldas[2] modici valoris; L arcus de tempore Regis avi; clvj arcus
de tempore Regis nunc; cxxvj arbalistas, de quibus xxxiij arbaliste de
cornu ad duos pedes, et ix de cornu ad unum pedem, et iij magne
arbaliste ad turnum.[3] Item, xliij baudrys; vij^{xx} et ix garbas
sagittarum; lviij sagittas large barbatas; xxv haubergons debiles et
putrefactos; xxij basenettos debiles de veteri tour; xj galeas de
ferro, de quibus vj cum visers; xx capellas de ferro; xxij basenettos
coopertos de coreo, de veteri factura, debiles et putrefactos; xxv
paria cirotecarum de platis nullius valoris; xij capellas de nervis de
Pampilon depictas; xxx haketons[4] et gambesons[5] nullius valoris; ix
picos; ij trubulos; j cenovectorium[6] cum j rota ferro ligata; j cuva;
iij instrumenta pro arbalistis tendendis; cxviij lanceas, quarum xviij
sine capitibus; j cas cum sagittis saracenorum; ciij targettos, quorum
xxiiij nullius valoris; j veterem cistam cum capitibus quarellorum et
sagittarum debilem; ij barellos; vj bukettos cum quarellis debilibus
non pennatis; j cistam cum quantitate capitum {255} quarellorum et
quadam quantitate de cawetrappis in j doleo. Item _m^l vj^c et xxviij
garroks_[7] de majori forma. Item, iiij^{xx} garroks de eadem forma,
sine capitibus. Item, m^l vj^c & xxiij garroks, de minori forma."

Query, What were the "capellæ de nervis de Pampilon depictæ?" Ducange cites the word, but does not explain it.