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CONTENTS

NOTES:--
Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton, by F.H. Markland. 481
Spenser's Monument. 481
Borrowed Thoughts, by S.W. Singer. 482
Folk Lore:--Easter Eggs--A Cure for Warts--Charm
for Wounds--Fifth Son--Cwm Wybir. 482
Bartholomew Legate, the Martyr. 483
Bohn's Edition of Milton's Prose Works. 483
Reprint of Jeremy Taylor's Works. 483
Dr. Thos. Bever's Legal Polity of Great Britain. 483

QUERIES:--
Dr. Richard Holsworth and Thos. Fuller. 484
Queries upon Cunningham's Handbook of London. 484
On a Passage in Macbeth. 484
Minor Queries:--As throng as Throp's Wife--Trimble
Family--"Brozier." 485

REPLIES:--
The Dodo Queries, by S.W. Singer. 485
Abbey of St. Wandrille. 486
Origin of the Word "News." 487
Replies to Minor Queries:--Dr. Whichcot and Lord
Shaftesbury--Elizabeth and Isabel--Trunck Breeches--Mercenary
Preacher--Abdication of James II.--Toom Shawn Cattie--Wotton's
Poem to Lord Bacon--"My Mind to Me a Kingdom is"--Gesta
Grayorum--Marylebone Gardens--Mother of Thomas à Becket--Dr.
Strode's Poem--Lord Carrington--Esquires
and Gentlemen--Early Inscriptions--American Aborigines--Vox
Populi--Dutch Language--Salting, &c. 488

MISCELLANIES:--
Bishop Burnet as an Historian--Dance Thumbkin--King's
Coffee House--Spur Money. 493

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 494
Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 494
Notice to Correspondents. 494
Advertisements. 495

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NOTES

DR. JOHNSON AND DR. WARTON.

Amongst the poems of the Rev. Thos. Warton, vicar of Basingstoke, who is best remembered as the father of two celebrated sons, is one entitled _The Universal Love of Pleasure_, commencing--

"All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue."
&c. &c.

Warton died in 1745, and his Poems were published in 1748.

Johnson's _Vanity of Human Wishes_ appeared in 1749; but Boswell believes that it was composed in the preceding year. That Poem, as we well remember, commences thus tamely:--

"Let observation with extensive view,
Survey Mankind from China to Peru."

Though so immeasurably inferior to his own, Johnson may have noticed these verses of Warton's with some little attention, and unfortunately borrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem. Besides the imitation before quoted, both writers allude to Charles of Sweden. Thus Warton says,--

"'Twas hence rough Charles rush'd forth to ruthless war."

Johnson, in his highly finished picture of the same monarch, says,--

"War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field."

J.H. MARKLAND.

Bath.

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SPENSER'S MONUMENT.

In the _Lives of English Poets_, by William Winstanley (London, printed by H. Clark for Samuel Manship, 1687), in his account of Spenser, p. 92., he says, "he died anno 1598, and was honourably buried at the sole charge of Robert, first of that name, Earl of Essex, on whose monument is written this epitaph:--

"Edmundus Spenser, Londinensis, Anglicorum poetarum nostri
seculi fuit princeps, quod ejus Poemata, faventibus Musis, et
victuro genio conscripa comprobant. Obiit immatura morte, anno
salutis 1598, et prope Galfredum Chaucerum conditur, qui
foelicisime Poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. In quem
hæc scripta sunt Epitaphia.

"Hic prope Chaucerum situs est Spenserius, illi
Prominens ingenio, proximum ut tumulo
Hic prope Chaucerum Spensere poeta poetam
Conderis, et versud quam tumulo proprior,
Anglica te vivo vixit, plausitque l'oesis;
Nunc moritura timet, te moriente mori."

I have also a folio copy of Spenser, printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, London, 1679. In a short life therein printed, it says that he was buried near Chaucer, 1596; and the frontispiece is an engraving of his tomb, by E. White, which bears this epitaph:--

"Heare lyes (expecting the second comminge of our Saviour,
Christ Jesus) the body of Edmond Spenser, the Prince of Poets in
his tyme, whose Divine spirit needs noe othir witness than the
works which he left behind {482} him. He was borne in London in
the yeare 1510, and died in the yeare 1596."

Beneath are these lines:--

"Such is the tombs the Noble Essex gave
Great Spenser's learned reliques, such his grave:
Howe'er ill-treated in his life he were,
His sacred bones rest honourably here."

How are these two epitaphs, with their differing dates, to be reconciled? Can he have been born in 1510, as the first one says "obiit _immaturâ_ morte?" Now eighty-five is not very immature; and I believe he entered at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1569, at which time he would be fifty-nine, and that at a period when college education commenced at an earlier age than now. Vertue's portrait, engraved 1727, takes as a motto the last two lines of the first epitaph--"Anglica te vivo," &c.

E.N.W

Southwark, April 29 1850.

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BORROWED THOUGHTS.

Crenius wrote a dissertation _De Furibus Librariis_, and J. Conrad Schwarz another _De Plagio Literario_, in which some curious appropriations are pointed out; your pages have already contained some additional recent instances. The writers thus pillaged might exclaim, "Pereant iste qui _post_ nos nostra dixerunt." Two or three instances have occurred to me which, I think, have not been noticed. Goldsmith's _Madame Blaize_ is known to be a free version of _La fameuse La Galisse_. His well-known epigram,--

"Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,"

is borrowed from the following by the Chevalier de Cailly (or d'Aceilly, as he writes himself) entitled,--

"_La Mort du Sieur Etienne_.

"Il est au bout de ses travaux,
Il a passé le Sieur Etienne;
En ce monde il eut tant des maux,
Qu'on ne croit pas qu'il revienne."

Another well-know epigram,--

"I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,"

is merely a version of the 33d epigram of the first books of those by the witty Roger de Bussy, Comte de Rabutin:--

"Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas,
Je n'en saurois dire la cause,
Je sais seulement une chose;
C'est que je ne vous aime pas."

Lastly, Prior's epitaph on himself has its prototype in one long previously written by or for one John Carnegie:--

"Johnnie Carnegie lais heer,
Descendit of Adam and Eve,
Gif ony con gang hieher,
I'se willing gie him leve."

S.W. SINGER

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FOLK LORE.

_Easter Eggs_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--The custom recorded by Brande as being in use in the North of England in his time, still continues in Richmondshire.

_A Cure for Warts_ is practised with the utmost faith in East Sussex. The nails are cut, the cuttings carefully wrapped in paper, and placed in the hollow of a pollard ash, concealed from the birds; when the paper decays, the warts disappear. For this I can vouch: in my own case the paper did decay, and the warts did all disappear, and, of course, the effect was produced by the cause. Does the practice exist elsewhere?

_Charm for Wounds._--Boys, in his _History of Sandwich_, gives, (p. 690.) the following from the Corporation Records, 1568: a woman examined touching her power to charm wounds who--

"Sayesth that she can charme for fyer and skalding in forme as
oulde women do, sayeng 'Owt fyer in frost, in the name of the
Father, the Sonne, and the Holly Ghost;' and she hath used when
the skyn of children do cleve fast, to advise the mother to
annoynt them with the mother's milk and oyle olyfe; and for
skalding to take oyle olyfe only."

W. DURRANT COOPER.

_Fifth Son._--What is the superstition relating to a fifth son? I should be glad of any illustrations of it. There certainly are instances in which the fifth son has been the most distinguished scion of the family.

W.S.G.

_Cwn Wybir, or Cwn Annwn_--_Curlews_ (No. 19. p. 294).--The late ingenious and well-informed Mr. William Weston Young, then residing in Glamorgan, gave me the following exposition of these mysterious _Dogs of the Sky_, or _Dogs of the Abyss_, whose aërial cries at first perplexed as well as startled him. He was in the habit of traversing wild tracts of country, in his profession of land surveyor and often rode by night. One intensely dark night he was crossing a desolate range of hills, when he heard a most diabolical yelping and shrieking in the air, horrible enough in such a region and at black midnight. He was not, however, a superstitious man, and, being an observant naturalist, had paid great attention to the notes of birds, and the remarkable variations between the day and night notes of the same species. He suspected these strange unearthly sounds to be made by some gregarious birds on the wing; but {483} the darkness was impenetrable, and he gazed upwards in vain. The noises, meanwhile, were precisely those which he had heard ascribed to the _Cwn Wybir_, and would have been truly appalling to a superstitious imagination. His quick ear at length caught the rush of pinions, and, in a short time, a large flight of curlews came sweeping down to the heather, so near his head, that some of their wings brushed his hat. They were no sooner settled, than the _Cwn Wybir_ ceased to be heard. Mr. Young then recollected having noticed similar nocturnal cries from the curlew, but had never before encountered such a formidable flying legion of those birds, screaming in a great variety of keys, amidst mountain echoes.

ELIJAH WARING.

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BARTHOLOMEW LEGATE, THE MARTYR.

An erroneous date, resting on such authorities as Mr. Hallam and Mr. J. Payne Collier, deserves a note. The former in his _Const. Hist._ (ii. 275. note, second edition), and the latter in the _Egerton Papers_, printed for the Camden Society (p. 446.), assigns the date 1614 to the death of Bartholomew Legate at Smithfield. The latter also gives the date March 13. Now the true date is March 18, 1611-12, as will appear by consulting--1. The commissions and warrants for the burning of Legate and Wightman, inserted in _Truth brought to Light, or the Narrative History of King James for the first Fourteen Years_, 4to. 1651; 2. Chamberlain's _Letters to Sir Dudley Carleton_, dated Feb. 26, 1611 (1611-12), and March 25, 1612, printed in _The Court and Times of James I._, vol. i. pp. 136. 164.; and 3. Wallace's _Antitrinitarian Biography_, vol. ii. p. 534. Fuller, in his _Church History_, gives the correct date, and states that his "burning of heretics much startled common people;" "wherefore King James politicly preferred that heretics hereafter, though condemned, should silently and privately waste themselves away in the prison."

Legate and Wightman were, in fact, the last martyrs burnt at the stake in England for their religious opinions.

A.B.R.

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BOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON'S PROSE WORKS.

Three volumes of this edition have already appeared, the last bearing the date of 1848, and concluding thus:--"End of Vol. III." In the latest Catalogue, which Mr. Bohn has appended to his publications, appears a notice of "Milton's Prose Works, _complete_ in 3 vols." This word _complete_ is not consistent with the words terminating the last volume, nor with the exact truth. For instance, the History of Britain does not find a place in this edition; and I can hardly believe that Mr. Bohn originally intended that the Prose Works of Milton should be issued from his press without a full index. Without such an index, this edition is comparatively worthless to the investigator of history. I would therefore suggest to Mr. Bohn (whose services to literature I most gratefully acknowledge), that he should render his edition of Milton's Prose Works _really complete_, by issuing a fourth volume, which _inter alia_, might contain the _Latin_ prose works of Milton, reprinted in Fletcher's edition of 1834, together with any omitted English prose work of the author, and be terminated, as is usual in Mr. Bohn's publications, with a full alphabetical index, embracing both persons and things. The lover of historical pursuits would then have _fresh_ reason to thank Mr. Bohn.

N.

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REPRINT OF JEREMY TAYLOR'S WORKS.

A reprint being called for of vol. iv. of _Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Works_, now in course of publication, I would beg permission to make it known to your readers, that assistance in regard to any references which were not verified in the former edition of that volume would be very acceptable to me. They should be sent within the next fortnight.

C. PAGE EDEN.

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DR. THOMAS BEVER'S LEGAL POLITY OF GREAT BRITAIN.

I do not know if such a notice as this is intended to be, is admissible into your publication.

Many years ago, I bought of a bookseller a MS. intitled "A Short History of the Legal and Judicial Polity of Great Britain, attempted by Thos. Bever, LL.D., Advocate in Doctor's Commons, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1759." It is presented to Richard Pennant, Esq.; and there is a letter from Mr. Bever to Mr. Pennant wafered to the fly-leaf. At the close of the "Advertisement," the author "earnestly requests that it [the work] may not be suffered to fall into the hands of a bookseller, or be copied, without his consent: and whenever it shall become useless, and lose its value (if any it ever had) with the present owner, that he will be kind enough to return it to the author if living, or if dead, to any of his surviving family at Mortimer near Reading, Berks."

In pious sympathy with this wish, I more than thirty years since wrote a letter, addressed to "---- Bever, Esq., Mortimer, near Reading, Berks," offering to give up the volume to any one entitled to it under the above description; but my letter was returned from the post office with the announcement "Not found" upon it. I make this other attempt, if you are pleased to admit it, through you; and immediate attention will be paid to any claim which may appear in your pages.

J.R.

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QUERIES.

DR. RICHARD HOLSWORTH AND THOS. FULLER.

Can any of your readers inform me who was the author of _The Valley of Vision_, published in 1651 as the work of Dr. Richard Holsworth, the Master of Emmanuel College, and Dean of Worcester. In a preface to the reader, Fuller laments "that so worthy a man should dye issulesse without leaving any books behind him for the benefit of learning and religion." He adds that the private notes which he had left behind him were dark and obscure; his hand being legible only to himself, and almost useless for any other. The sermon published as _The Valley of Vision_ appears to have been prepared for publication from the notes of a short-hand writer. When Fuller published, about eleven years afterwards, his _Worthies of England_, he wrote thus:--

"Pity it is so learned a person left no monuments (save a
sermon) to posterity; for _I behold that posthume work as none
of his, named by the transcriber The Valley of Vision_, a
Scripture expression, but here misplaced.... This I conceived
myself in credit and conscience concerned to observe, because I
was surprised at the _preface_ to the book, and will take the
blame rather than clear myself, when my innocency is complicated
with the accusing of others."

If, as is probable, Dr. Holsworth, in this instance, preached other men's sermons, which the short-hand writer afterwards gave to the world as his, it is a singular fact, that in the preface of this supposititious volume, Fuller speaks of the abuse of printed sermons by some--

"Who lazily imp their wings with other men's plumes, wherewith
they soar high in common esteeme, yet have not the ingenuity
with that son of the Prophet to confesse, Alasse! it was
borrowed."

A.B.R.

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QUERIES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON.

We promised to make a few QUERIES on this amusing volume, and thus redeem our promise.

Mr. Cunningham has been the first to point out the precise situation of a spot often mentioned by our old dramatists, which had baffled the ingenuity of Gifford, Dyce, and in fact of all the commentators,--the notorious Picthatch. He thus describes it:--

"_Picthatch_, or _Pickehatch_.--A famous receptacle for
prostitutes and pickpockets, generally supposed to have been in
_Turnmill Street_, near Clerkenwell Green, but its position is
determined by a grant of the 33rd of Queen Elizabeth, and a
survey of 1649. What _was_ Picthatch is a street at the back of
a narrow turning called Middle Row (formerly Rotten Row)
opposite the Charter-house wall in Goswell Street. The name is
still preserved in 'Pickax Yard' adjoining Middle Row."

Why then, among the curious illustrations which he has brought to bear upon the subject, has Mr. Cunningham omitted that of the origin of the name from the "picks upon the hatch?" which is clearly established both by Malone and Steevens, in their notes upon "'twere not amiss to keep our door hatch'd," in Pericles.

The following is an excellent suggestion as to the origin of the--

"_Goat and Compasses._--At Cologne, in the church of Santa Maria
in Capitolio, is a flat stone on the floor professing to be the
Grabstein der Brüder und Schwester eines ehrbaren Wein-und
Fass-Ampts, Anno 1693; that is, as I suppose, a vault belonging
to the Wine Coopers' Company. The arms exhibit a shield with a
pair of compasses, an axe, and a dray, or truck, with goats for
supporters. In a country like England, dealing so much at one
time in Rhenish wine, a more likely origin for such a sign could
hardly be imagined. For this information I am indebted to the
courtesy of Sir Edmund Head."

Can Mr. Cunningham, Sir E. Head, or any of our correspondents point out any German "Randle Holme" whose work may be consulted for the purpose of ascertaining the arms, &c. of the various professions, trades, &c. of that country?

Why has not Mr. Cunningham, in his description of _St. James' Street_, mentioned what certainly existed long after the commencement of the present century, the occasional "steps" which there were in the foot-path--making the street a succession of terraces. This fact renders intelligible the passage quoted from Pope's letter to Mr. Pearse, in which he speaks of "y'e second Terras in St. James' Street." Why, too, omit that characteristic feature of the street, the rows of _sedan chairs_ with which it was formerly lined? The writer of this perfectly remembers seeing Queen Charlotte in her sedan chair, going from the Queen's Library in the Green Park to Buckingham House.

Mr. Cunningham states, we dare say correctly, that Sheridan died at No. 17 Saville Row. We thought he had died at Mr. Peter Moore's, in Great George Street, Westminster. Was he not living there shortly before his death? and did not his funeral at Westminster Abbey proceed from Mr. Moore's?

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ON A PASSAGE IN MACBETH.

If any of your correspondents would favour me, I should like to be satisfied with respect to the following passage in Macbeth; which, as at present punctuated, is exceedingly obscure:--

"If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: If the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here, {485}
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,--
We'd jump the life to come."

Now, I think by altering the punctuation, the sense of the passage is at once made apparent, as thus,--

"If it were done when 'tis done then 'twere well.
It were done quickly, if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success, that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end all here," &c.

but to make use of a paradox, it is _not_ done when it _is_ done; for this reason, there is the conscience to torment the evil-doer while living, and the dread of punishment in another world after death: the "bank and shoal of time" refers to the interval between life and death, and to "_jump_" the life to come is to _hazard_ it. The same thought occurs in _Hamlet_, when he alludes to--

"That undiscovered country, from whose bourne
No traveller returns."

But that is clear enough, as in all probability the annotators left the passage as they found it. I have not the opportunity of consulting Mr. Collier's edition of Shakespeare, so that I am unaware of the manner in which he renders it; perhaps I ought to have done so before I troubled you. Possibly some of your readers may be disposed to coincide with me in the "new reading;" and if not, so to explain it that it may be shown it is my own obscurity, and not Shakespeare's, with which I ought to cavil.

I have witnessed many representations of _Macbeth_, and in every instance the passage referred to has been delivered as I object to it: but that is not to be wondered at, for there are professed admirers of Shakspeare among actors who read him _not_ as if they understood him, but who are--

"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

G. BLINK.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_As throng as Throp's Wife._--As I was busy in my garden yesterday, a parishioner, whose eighty-two years of age render her a somewhat privileged person to have a gossip with, came in to speak to me. With a view to eliciting material for a Note or a Query, I said to her, "You see I am _as throng as Throp's wife_;" to which she replied, "Aye, Sir, and _she_ hanged herself in the dishcloth." The answer is new to me; but the proverb itself, as well as the one mentioned by "D.V.S." (No. 24. p. 382.) "As lazy as Ludlum's dog, &c.," has been an especial object of conjecture to me as long as I can remember. I send this as a pendant to "D.V.S.'s" Query, in hopes of shortly seeing the origin of _both_ these curious sayings.

J.E.

Ecclesfield, Sheffield, April 19. 1850.

_Trimble Family._--In a MS. account of the Fellows of King's I find the following:--

"1530.--Rich. Trimble, a very merry fellow, the fiddle of the
society, who called him 'Mad Trimble.' M. Stokes of 1531 wrote
this distich on him:--

'Os, oculi, mentum, dens, guttur, lingua, palatum
Sunt tibi; sed nasus, Trimbale, dic ubi sit?'

By which it appears he had a very small nose; and this day, July
13, 1739, I hear that there is one Mr. R. Trimble of an English
family, an apothecary at Lisburn in Ireland, who is remarkable
for the same."

As "NOTES AND QUERIES" circulate in Ireland, are there any of the family of "Trimble" now in that country, and are they distinguished by any such peculiarity?

J.H.L.

_The Word "Brozier."_--my brother Etonians will feelingly recollect the word "Brozier," used by the boys for nearly a century to denote any one who had spent his pocket-money; an event of very frequent occurrence shortly after the holidays. There were also sometimes attempts made to "_brozier my dame_," in case a suspicion had arisen that the good lady's larder was not too well supplied. The supper table was accordingly cleared of all the provisions, and a further stock of eatables peremptorily demanded.

I spell the word "brozier" as it is still pronounced; perhaps some of your readers have seen it in print, and may be able to give some account of its origin and etymology, and decide whether it is exclusively belonging to Eton.

BRAYBROOKE.

April 14.

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REPLIES.

THE DODO QUERIES.

There is no mention of the Solitaire as inhabiting Bourbon, either in Père Brown's letter or in the _Voyage de l'Arabic Heureuse_, from whence the notice of the Oiseau Bleu was extracted. I have since seen Dellon, _Rélation d'un Voyage des Indes Orientales_, 2 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1685, in which there is a brief notice of the Isle of Bourbon or Mascarin; but neither the Dodo, the Solitaire, or the Oiseau Bleu are noticed. The large Bat is mentioned, and the writer says that the French who were on the island did not eat it, but only the Indians. He also notices the tameness of the birds, and says that the Flammand, with its long neck, is the only bird it was necessary to use a gun against, the others being readily destroyed with a stick or taken by hand.

Mr. Strickland's correction of the error about the monumental evidence of the discovery of Bourbon by the Portuguese, in 1545, will aid research into the period at which it was first visited and named; but my stock of Portuguese literature is but small, and not all of it accessible {486} to me at present. In the meantime it may be acceptable to Mr. Strickland to know, that there is a detailed account of Portuguese discoveries in a book whose title would hardly indicate it, in which one passage will probably interest him. I allude to the rare and interesting folio volume printed at Lisbon in 1571. _De Rebus Emanuelis Regis Lusitanie, invictissimi Virtute et Auspicio Gestis, auctore Hieronymo Osorio Episcopo Silvensis_. These annals embrace the period from 1495 to 1529. In narrating the principal events of Vasco de Gama's first voyage, after he had rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th November, 1497, steering to the east along the southern coast of Africa, the vessels anchor in the bay of St. Blaize, where--

"In intimo sinu est parva quædam Insula, ad quam nostri aquandi
gratia naves-appulerunt. Ibi phocarum armenta conspexere
admiranda quædam multitudine. In quibus inerat tanta feritas et
truculentia, ut in homines irruerent. AVES etiam eo in loco visæ
sunt, quas incolas apellant SOLTICARIOS, pares anscribus
magnitudine: plumis minime vestiuntur, alas habent similes alis
verspertionum: volare nequeunt, sed explicatis alarum membranis,
cursum celeritate summa conficiunt."

The islet was probably that of _La Cruz_; but what were the birds? and what was the indigenous name which is represented by _Solticarios_? It is possible that some of your correspondents may be familiar with the original narration which Osorio follows, or Mr. Strickland may be able to solve the question.

I may just remark, that my observation respecting the improbability of Tradescant's stuffed specimen having been a fabrication could hardly be considered superfluous, seeing that some naturalists, Dr. Gray, I believe, among others, had suggested that it most probably was one.

S.W. SINGER.

May 3. 1850.

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ABBEY OF ST. WANDRILLE.

In reply to the Vicar of Ecclesfield (No. 24. p. 382.), I am sorry to say that the "Chronicle of the Abby of St. Wandrille," to which I alluded (No. 21. p. 338.), contains nothing relating to the subject of his inquiry. The Abbey of Fontanelle, or St. Wandrille, was founded A.D. 645; and this chronicle contains a very concise account of a few only of its abbots and most celebrated members, down to the year 834: written, it is supposed, by a cotemporary of Ansegisus, the last abbot therein mentioned. It is followed by an appendix containing a compilation from a book on miracles wrought in the translation of the body of St. Wilfran, by an "eye-witness," which also recounts incidentally some of the acts of the abbots of St. Wandrille to the year 1053. Acheri speaks of persons who had been long engaged in collecting memorials of the history of this abbey up to the time of his writing, 1659. Whether these have ever been published, I have not the means at this moment of ascertaining. Some account of this abbey, with views of its ruins, will be found in that splendid work, _Voyages dans L'Ancienne France_, by Nodier, &c., vol. i.

The following notes from this chronicle may not be without interest, as showing an early connection between the abbey and this country, and our attachment to the See of Rome.