Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

These lay on Hampstead Heath, and were thence guarded through Highgate, and behind Islington to Kingsland and Mile End Green, receiving charity as they went, and having "a cart load or two of biskett behind them." Thence they proceeded by Aldgate, through Cheapside, Fleetstreet, and the Strand, and on through Westminster.

"Many of them brought their wives and berns in with them, yet
were many of our scotified citizens so pitifull unto them, that
as they passed through the city, they made them, though
prisoners at mercy, masters of more money and good white bread
than some of them ever see in their lives. They marched this
night [Saturday, Sept. 13.] into Tuttle Fields. Some Irishmen
are among them, but most of them are habited after that
fashion."

The contemporary journals in the British Museum would probably state some epidemic which may have caused the mortality that followed.

GEO. ORMEROD Sedbury Park, Clepstow.

_Long Friday_ (Vol. ii., p. 323.).--T.E.L.L. is not correct in his supposition that "Long Friday" is the same as "Great Friday". In Danish, Good Friday is Langfredag; in Swedish, Längfredag. I have always understood the epithet had reference to the length of the services.

COLL. ROYAL SOC.

_The Bradshaw Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 356.).--The president of the pretended high court of justice, a Cheshire man, had no connexion with Haigh Hall, in Lancashire. E.C.G. may satisfy himself by referring to Mr. Ormerod's _History of Cheshire_ (vol. iii. p. 408.) for some valuable information respecting the regicide and his family, and to Wotton's _Baronetage_ (vol. iii. P. 2. p. 655.) for the descent of the loyal race of Bradshaigh.

J.H.M. Bath.

_Julin, the drowned City_ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 282.).--I am sorry I did not state more clearly the inquiry respecting the fate of _Julin_, which DR. BELL has been so good as to notice. This is partly the printer's fault. I spoke of the _drowned_, not the _doomed_ city.

The _drowning_ was what I desired some account of. "A flourishing emporium of commerce", extant {380} in 1072, and now surviving only in tradition, and in "records" of ships wrecked on its "submerged ruins," does not sink into the ocean without exciting wonder and pity. I knew of the tradition, and presumed there was some probability of the existence of a legend (_legendum_, something to be _read_) describing a catastrophe that must have been widely heard of when it happened.

This I conjectured might be found in Adam of Bremen; to whose mention of Julin DR. BELL referred. But it seems that in his time the city was still existing, and flourishing ("urbs locuples").

The "excidium civitatis," if the _Veneta_ of Helmold were Julin, must have taken place, therefore, between 1072 and 1184, when the latter account was written. If Veneta was Julin, and "aquarum æstu absorpta," there must, I suppose, be some account of this great calamity: and as I have seen in modern German works allusions to the drowning of the great city, and to the ruins still visible at times under water, I hoped to find out the _where_ of its site, and the _when_ of its destruction--as great cities do not often sink into the waves, like exhalations, without some report of their fate.

V. Belgravia.

_Dodsley's Poems_ (Vol. ii., pp. 264. 343).--THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT is informed that the first edition of Dodsley's _Collection of Poems, by several Hands_, was published in 1748, 3 vols. 12mo. A fourth volume was added in 1749, containing pieces by Collins, Garrick, Lyttelton, Pope, Tickell, Thomson, &c. Those by Garrick and Lyttelton are anonymous. The four volumes were reprinted uniformly in 1755. The fifth and sixth were added in 1758.

AMICUS CURIÆ.

_Shunamitis Poema_ (Vol. ii., p. 326.).--The titlepage to the volume of poems inquired after by E.D. is as follows:

"Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College,
Oxford.

'Nec lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.' HOR.

London: printed for L. Bathurst over against St. Dunstan's
Church, in Fleet Street, MDCCXLI."

I know not the author; but I suspect either that the title of an Oxford man was assumed by a Cantab, who might fairly wish not to be suspected as the author of several of the poems; or that the author, having been rusticated at Cambridge, vide at p. 84. the ode "Ad Thomam G." (whom I take to be Thomas Gilbert of Peterhouse), transferred himself and his somewhat licentious muse to Oxford.

COLL. ROYAL SOC.

_Jeremy Taylor's Works_ (Vol. ii., p. 271.).--It seems desirable that an advance should occasionally be made in _editing_, beyond the mere verification of authorities, in seeing, that is, whether the passages cited are _applicable_ to the point in hand, and properly apprehended. Bp. Taylor, in his _Liberty of Prophecying_, sect. vi., for instance, seems incorrect in stating that Leo I., bishop of Rome, _rejected_ the Council of Chalcedon; whereas his reproofs are directed against Anatolias, bishop of Constantinople, an unwelcome aspirant to ecclesiastical supremacy. (See _Concilia Studio Labbei_, tom. iv., col. 844, &c.)

A passage frown Jerome's _Epistle to Evangelus_ is often quoted in works on church government, as equalising, or nearly so, the office of bishop and presbyter; but the drift of the argument seems to be, to show that the _site_ of a bishop's see, be it great or small, important or otherwise, does not affect the episcopal _office_. Some readers will perhaps offer an opinion on these two questions.

NOVUS.

_Ductor Dubitantium_.--The Judge alluded to by Jeremy Taylor in the passage quoted by A.T. (Vol. ii., p. 325.), was Chief-Justice Richardson; but the place where the outrage was committed was not Ludlow, as stated by the eloquent divine, but Salisbury, as appears from the following marginal note in Dyer's _Reports_, p. 1886--a curious specimen of the legal phraseology of the period:--

"Richardson, C.J. de C.B. at Assizes at Salisbury in Summer 1631
fuit assault per Prisoner la condemne pur Felony; que puis son
condemnation ject un Brickbat a le dit Justice, que narrowly
mist. Et pur ceo immediately fuit Indictment drawn pur Noy
envers le Prisoner, et son dexter manus ampute et fixe al
Gibbet, sur que luy mesme immediatement hange in presence de
Court."

EDWARD FOSS.

_Aërostation_ (Vol. ii., p. 317.).--The account published by Lunardi of his aërial voyage, alluded to by M., is, in the copy I have seen, entitled

"An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in Britain, in a series
of letters to his guardian, the Chevalier Gherardo Compagni,
written under the impressions of the various events that
affected the undertaking, by Vicent Lunardi, Esq., Secretary to
the Neapolitan Ambassador. 'A non esse nec fuisse non datur
argumentum ad non posse.' Second edition, London: printed for
the Author, and sold at the Panther; also by the Publisher J.
Bell, at the British Library, Strand, and at Mr. Molini's,
Woodstock Street, MDCCLXXXIV."

The book contains printed copies of the depositions of witnesses who beheld Lunardi's descent; and Mr. Baker, who, as a magistrate, took those depositions on oath, to establish what he thought so wonderful a fact, erected on the spot where the balloon descended, in a field near Colliers End, in the parish of Standon, Herts, on the left of the high road from London to Cambridge, a stone with the following inscription on a copper plate. It is still {381} legible, though somewhat defaced. It is engraved in lines of unequal length, but to save your space I have not adhered to those divisions.

"Let posterity know, and knowing, be astonished, that on the
fifteenth day of September, 1784, Vincent Lunardi of Lucca, in
Tuscany, the first aërial traveller in Britain, mounting from
the Artillery Ground in London, traversing the regions of the
air for two hours and fifteen minutes, in this spot revisited
the earth. On this rude monument for ages be recorded, that
wondrous enterprise, successfully achieved by the powers of
chemistry and the fortitude of man, that improvement in science,
which the great Author of all knowledge, patronising by His
providence the inventions of mankind, hath graciously permitted
to their benefit and His own eternal glory."

COLL. ROYAL SOC.

_Gwyn's London and Westminster_ (Vol. ii., p. 297.).--A reference to Mr. Croker's _Boswell_ (last edit. 1847, p. 181.) may best satisfy § N. "Gwyn," says Mr. Croker, "proposed the _principle_, and in many instances the _details_, of the most important improvements which have been made in the metropolis in our day." Was this copied into the _Literary Gazette_?

Mr. Sydney Smirke speaks favourably of Gwyn's favourite project, "the formation of a permanent Board or Commission for superintending and controlling the architectural embellishments of London." (_Suggestions_, &c., 8vo. 1834, p. 23.)

J.H.M. Bath.

_Gwyn's London and Westminster_ (Vol. ii., p. 297.).--Under this head § N. inquires, "Will you permit me, through your useful publication, to solicit information of the number and date of the _Literary Gazette_ which recalled public attention to this very remarkable fact:" namely, that stated by Mr. Thomas Hunt, in his _Exemplars of Tudor Architecture_ (Longmans, 1830), to the effect that the _Literary Gazette_ had referred to the work entitled _London and Westminster Improved, by John Gwynn_. London, 1766, 4to., as having "pointed out almost all the designs for the improvement of London which have been _devised_ by the civil and military architects of the present day."

In answer to the above, your correspondent will find two articles in the _Literary Gazette_ on this interesting subject; the first in No. 473., Feb. 11. 1826, in which it is mentioned that _Mr. Gwynn_, founding himself in some degree upon the plan of _Sir C. Wren_, proposed

"To carry a street from Piccadilly through Coventry Street,
Sydney's Alley, Leicester Fields, Cranbourn Alley, and so to
Long Acre, Queen Street, and Lincolns Inn Fields, and thus
afford an easy access to Holborn; he also recommends _the
widening the Strand_ in its narrow parts," &c.

I need hardly notice that by the removal of Exeter Change, the alterations near Charing Cross, and the more recent openings from Coventry Street, along the line suggested by Mr. Gwynn, his designs have been so far carried out.

The second paper in the _Literary Gazette_ was rather a long one, No. 532., March 31. 1827. In it Mr. Gwynn's publication is analysed, and all the leading particulars bearing on the "_old novelties_ of our modern improvements" are brought to light.

The whole is worth your reprinting, and at your service, if you will send a copyist to the _Literary Gazette_ office to inspect the volume for 1827.

W.J., ED.

"_Regis ad Exemplum totus componitur Orbis_" (Vol. ii., p. 267.).--This hexameter verse, which occurs in collections of Latin apophthegms, is not to be found in this form, in any classical author. It has been converted into a single proverbial verse, from the following passage of Claudian:

"Componitur orbis
Regis ad exemplum: nec sic inflictere sensus
Humanos edicta valent, ut vita regentis."
_De IV. Consul. Honor_., 299.

L.

_St. Uncumber_ (Vol. ii., pp. 286. 342.).--Sir Thomas More details in his _Dialoge_, with his usual quaintness, the attributes and merits of many saints, male and female, highly esteemed in his day, and, amongst others, makes special mention of _St. Uncumber_, whose proper name, it appears, was _Wylgeforte_. Of these saints he says--

"Some serve for the eye onely, and some for a sore breast. _St.
Germayne_ onely for children, and yet will he not ones loke at
them, but if the mother bring with them a white lofe and a pot
of good ale: and yet is he wiser than _St. Wylgeforte_, for she,
good soule, is, as they say, served and contented with otys.
Whereof I cannot perceive the reason, but if it be bycause she
sholde provyde an horse for an evil housebonde to ride to the
Devyll upon; for that is the thing that she is so sought for, as
they say. In so much that women hath therefore chaunged her
name, and in stede of _St. Wylgeforte call her St. Uncumber,
bycause they reken that for a pecke of otys she will not fayle
to uncumber theym of theyr housbondys_."--(Quoted in Southey's
_Colloquies_, vol. i. p. 414.)

_St. Wylgeforte_ is the female saint whom the Jesuit Sautel has celebrated (in his _Annus Sacer Poeticus_) for her _beard_--a mark of Divine favour bestowed upon her in answer to her prayers. She was a beautiful girl, who wished to lead a single life, and that she might be suffered to do so free from importunity, she prayed earnestly to be rendered disagreeable to look upon, either by wrinkles, a hump on the back, or in any other efficacious way. Accordingly the beard was given her; and it is satisfactory to know that it had the desired {382} effect to the fullest extent of her wishes. (Vid. Southey's _Omniana_, vol. ii. p. 54., where Sautel's lines are quoted.)

J.M.B.

_West (James), President of Royal Society_ (Vol. ii., p. 289.).--T.S.D. states there "has certainly never been a president or even a secretary of the Royal Society, of the name of James West." Your readers will remember that West is mentioned by Mr. Cunningham in his _London_, as having filled the former distinguished office: his statement, which T.S.D. thus contradicts, is perfectly correct.

Mr. West's election took place 30th of November, 1768, and he filled the chair until his death in July, 1772.

J.H.M.

[Mr. Cooper, of Cambridge, J.G.N., and other correspondents, have called our attention to this oversight.]

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