Chapter M

_Cabalistic Author._--Who was the author of a chemical and cabalistical work, not noticed by Lowndes, entitled:

"A philosophicall epitaph in hierogliphicall figures. A briefe of the
golden calf (the world's idol). The golden ass well managed, and Midas
restored to reason. Written by J. Rod, Glauber, and Jehior, the three
principles or originall of all things. Published by W.C., Esquire, 8vo.
Lond. Printed for William Cooper, at the Pellican, in Little Britain,
1673."

With a long catalogue of chemical books, in three parts, at the end. My copy has two titles, the first being an engraved one, with ten small circles round it, containing hieroglyphical figures, and an engraved frontispiece, which is repeated in the volume, with some other cuts. There are two dedications, one to Robert Boyle, Esq., and the other to Elias Ashmole, Esq.; both signed "W.C. or twice five hundred," which signature is repeated in other parts of the book. What is the meaning of "W.C. or twice five hundred"?

T. CR.

_Brandon the Juggler._--Where is any information to be obtained of Brandon the Juggler, who lived in the reign of King Henry VIII.?

T. CR.

_Jacobus Praefectus Siculus._--I have a beautiful copy of a poem by this person, entitled _De Verbo DEI Cantica_. The binding expresses its date: "Neapoli, 1537." It is not, I believe, the work which suggested to Milton his greater songs, though it is a pretty complete outline of the _Paradise Lost_ and _Regained_/ What is known about the author, or any other works of his?

J.W.H.

_The Word "after" in the Rubric--Canons of 1604._--

1. Can any of your correspondents who may have in their possession any old Greek, or Latin, or other versions, of the Book of Common Prayer, kindly inform me how the word _after_ is rendered in the rubrics of the General Confession, the Lord's Prayer in the Post Communion, and the last prayer of the Commination Service? Is it in the sense of _post_ or _secundum_?

2. Where can any account of the translation of the Canons of 1604 into English be found? It is apprehended the question is one more difficult to answer than might be supposed.

T.Y.

_Hard by._--Is not _hard by_ a corruption of the German _hierbei_? I know no other similar instance of the word _hard_, that is to say, as signifying _proximity_, without the conjoint idea of _pressure_ or _pursuit._

K.

_Thomas Rogers of Horninger._--Can any of the readers of your valuable publication give me, or put me in the way of obtaining, any information about one Thomas Rogers, who was in some way connected with the village of Horninger or Horringer, near Bury St. Edmunds, was author of a work on the Thirty-nine Articles, and died in the year 1616?

S.G.

Corpus Christi Col., Cambridge.

_Armorial Bearings._--Three barrulets charged with six church bells, three, two, and one, is a shield occurring in the Speke Chauntry, in Exeter Cathedral. Can this coat be assigned?

J.W.H.

_Lady Compton's Letter to her Husband._--In Bishop Goodman's _Court of King James I.,_ edited by John S. Brewer, M.A. (vol. ii. p. 127..), is a letter from Lady Compton to her husband, William Lord Compton, afterwards Earl of Northampton, written upon occasion of his coming into possession of a large fortune. This letter, with some important variations, is also given in Knight's _London_ (vol. i. p. 324.), and, if my memory does not deceive me, in Hewitt's _Visits to Remarkable Places_. This letter is very curious, but I can hardly think it genuine. Can any of your correspondents throw any light on the matter? Was it printed before 1839, when Mr. Brewer's work appeared? Where is the original, or supposed original, to be seen? Above all, is it authentic? If not, is it known when, and by {425} whom, and under what circumstances it was written?

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, November 15. 1850.

_Romagnasi's Works._--In a "Life of G.D. Romagnasi," in vol. xviii. _Law Mag._, p. 340., after enumerating several of his works, it is added, "All these are comprised in a single volume, Florentine edit. of 1835." I have in vain endeavoured to procure the work, and have recently received an answer from the first book establishment in Florence, to the effect that no such edition ever appeared either at Florence or elsewhere.

This is strange after the explicit statement in the _Law Mag._, and I shall be obliged to receive through the medium of your useful pages any information regarding the work in question.

F.R.H.

_Christopher Barker's Device._--I have often been puzzled to understand the precise meaning of the inscription on Christopher Barker's device. Whether this arises from my own ignorance, or from any essential difficulty in it, I cannot tell; but I should be glad of an explanation. I copy from a folio edition of the Geneva Bible, "imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queene's Majesty, 1578."

The device consists of a boar's head rising from a mural crown, with a scroll proceeding from its mouth, and embracing a lamb in the lowest fold. The inscription on this scroll is as follows:--

"Tigre . Reo.
Animale . Del.
Adam . Vecchio.
Figliuolo . Merce.
L'Evangelio . Fatto.
N'Estat . Agnello."

I venture my own solution:--The tiger, the wicked animal, of the old Adam, being made, thanks to the Gospel, a son, is hence become a lamb."

I presume _N'Estat_ to be an abbreviation of "ne e stato." Any correction or illustration of this will oblige.

C.W. BINGHAM.

Bingham's Melcombe, Blandford.

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REPLIES.

LICENSING OF BOOKS.

(Vol. ii., p.359.)

On the 12th November, 5 & 6 Philip and Mary, 1558, a bill "That no man shall print any book or ballad, &c., unless he be authorized thereunto by the king and queen's majesties licence, under the Great Seal of Englande," was read for the first time in the House of Lords, where it was read again a second time on the 14th. On the 16th it was read for the third time, but it did not pass, and probably never reached the Commons; for Queen Mary died on the following day, and thereby the Parliament was dissolved. (_Lords' Journal_, i. 539, 540.) Queen Elizabeth, however did by her high prerogative what her sister had sought to effect by legislative sanction. In the first year of her reign, 1559, she issued injunctions concerning both the clergy and the laity: the 51st Injunction was in the following terms:--

"Item, because there is great abuse in the printers of books, which for
covetousness chiefly regard not what they print, so they may have gain,
whereby ariseth the great disorder by publication of unfruitful, vain,
and infamous books and papers; the queen's majesty straitly chargeth
and commandeth, that no manner of person shall print any manner of book
or paper, of what sort, nature, or in what language soever it be,
except the same be first licensed by Her Majesty by express words in
writing, or by six of her privy council; or be perused and licensed by
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the
chancellors of both universities, the bishop being ordinary, and the
archdeacon also of the place, where any such shall be printed, or by
two of them, whereof the ordinary of the place to be always one. And
that the names of such, as shall allow the same, to be added in the end
of every such work, for a testimony of the allowance thereof. And
because many pamphlets, plays, and ballads be oftentimes printed,
wherein regard would be had that nothing therein should be either
heretical, seditious, or unseemly for Christian ears; Her Majesty
likewise commandeth that no manner of person shall enterprise to print
any such, except the same be to him licensed by such Her Majesty's
commissioners, or three of them, as be appointed in the city of London
to hear and determine divers clauses ecclesiastical, tending to the
execution of certain statutes made the last parliament for uniformity
of order in religion. And if any shall sell or utter any manner of
books or papers, being not licensed as is abovesaid, that the same
party shall be punished by order of the said commissioners, as to the
quality of the fault shall be thought meet. And touching all other
books of matters of religion, or policy, or governance, that have been
printed, either on this side the seas, or on the other side, because
the diversity of them is great, and that there needeth good
consideration to be had of the particularities thereof, Her Majesty
referreth the prohibition or permission thereof to the order, which her
said commissioners within the city of London shall take and notify.
According to the which, Her Majesty straitly chargeth and commandeth
all manner her subjects, and especially the wardens and company of
stationers, to be obedient.

"Provided that these orders do not extend to any profane authors and
works in any language, that have been heretofore commonly received or
allowed in any of the universities or schools, but the same may be
printed, and used as by good order they were accustomed."--Cardswell's
_Documentary Annals_, i. 229.

This injunction was, I take it, the origin of the licensing of the press of this country. On the 23d June, 28 Eliz. 1586 (not 1585, as in Strype), {426} Archbishop Whitgift and the Lords of the Privy Council in the Star Chamber made rules and ordinances for redressing abuses in printing. No printing-press was to be allowed elsewhere than in London (except one in each University); and no book was to be printed until first seen and perused by the Archbishop of Canterbury or Bishop of London; with an exception in favour of the queen's printer, and books of the common law, which were to be allowed by the Chief Justices and Chief Baron, or one of them. Extensive and arbitrary powers of search for unlicensed books and presses were also given to the wardens of the Stationers' Company. (Strype's _Life of Archbishop Whitgift_, 222.; Records, No.XXIV.) On the 1st July, 1637, another decree of a similar character was made by the Court of Star Chamber. (Rushworth's _Historical Collections_, Part ii. p.450.) The Long Parliament, although it dissolved the Star Chamber, seems to have had no more enlightened views as respects the freedom of the press than Queen Elizabeth or the Archbishops Whitgift and Laud; for on the 14th June, 1643, the two Houses made an ordinance prohibiting the printing of any order or declaration of either House, without order of one or both Houses; or the printing or sale of any book, pamphlet, or paper, unless the same were approved and licensed under the hands of such persons as both or either House should appoint for licensing the same. (_Parliamentary History_, xii. 298.) The names of the licensers appointed are given in Neal's _History of the Puritans_ (ed. 1837, ii. 205.). It was this ordinance which occasioned the publication, in or about 1644, of Milton's most noble defence of the liberty of the press, entitled _Areopagitica; a Speech for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing, To the Parliament of England_. After setting out certain Italian imprimaturs, he remarks:

"These are the pretty responsories, these are the dear antiphonies that
so bewitched of late our prelates and their chaplains with the godly
echo they made and besotted, as to the gay imitation of a lordly
imprimatur, one from Lambeth House, another from the west end of
Paul's; so apishly romanising, that the word of command still was set
down in Latin, as if the learned grammatical pen that wrote it would
cast no ink without Latin; or, perhaps, as they thought, because no
vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur;
but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever
famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily
find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption
englished."

On the 28th September, 1647, the Lords and Commons passed a still more severe ordinance, which imposed pains and penalties on all persons printing, publishing, selling, or uttering any book, pamphlet, treatise, ballad, libel, or sheet of news, without the licence of both, or either House of Parliament, or such persons as should be thereunto authorised by one or both Houses. Offending hawkers, pedlars, and ballad-chappers were to be whipped as common rogues. (_Parliamentary History_, xvi. 309.) We get some insight into the probable cause of this ordinance from a letter of Sir Thomas Fairfax to the Earl of Manchester, dated "Putney, 20th Sept., 1647." He complains of some printed pamphlets, very scandalous and abusive, to the army in particular, and the whole kingdom in general; and expresses his desire that these, and all of the like nature, might be suppressed for the future. In order, however, to satisfy the kingdom's expectation for intelligence, he advises that, till a firm peace be settled, two or three sheets might be permitted to come out weekly, which might be licensed; and as Mr. Mabbott had approved himself faithful in that service of licensing, and likewise in the service of the House and the army, he requested that he might be continued in the said place of licenser. (_Lords' Journals_, ix. 457.) Gilbert Mabbott was accordingly appointed licenser of such weekly papers as should be printed, but resigned the situation 22nd May, 1649. (_Commons' Journals_, vi. 214.) It seems he had conscientious objections to the service, for elsewhere it is recorded, under the same date, "Upon Mr. Mabbott's desire and reasons against licensing of books to be printed, he was discharged of that imployment." (Whitelock's _Memorials_, 389.) On the 20th September, 1649, was passed a parliamentary ordinance prohibiting printing elsewhere than in London, the two Universities, York, and Finsbury, without the licence of the Council of State (Scobell's _Ordinances_, Part ii. 90.); and on the 7th January, 1652-3, the Parliament passed another ordinance for the suppression of unlicensed and scandalous books. (Scobell's _Ordinances_, Part ii. 231.) In 1661 a bill for the regulation of printing passed the Lords, but was rejected by the Commons on account of the peers having inserted a clause exempting their own houses from search; but in 1662 was passed the statute 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 33., which required all books to be licensed as follows:--Law books by the Lord Chancellor, or one of the Chief Justices, or Chief Baron; books of history and state, by one of the Secretaries of State; of heraldry, by the Earl Marshal, or the King-at-Arms; of divinity, physic, philosophy, or whatsoever other science or art, by the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of London: or if printed at either University, by the chancellor thereof. The number of master printers (exclusive of the king's printers and the printers of the Universities) was to be reduced to twenty, and then vacancies were to be filled up by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London, and printing was not to be allowed elsewhere than in London, York (where the Archbishop of York was to license all books), {427} and the two Universities. This Act was to continue for two years, from 10th June, 1662. It was renewed by the 16 Car. II. c. 8.; 16 & 17 Car. II. c. 7.; and 17 Car. II. c. 4., and expired on the 26th May, 1679,--a day rendered ever memorable by the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act: but in less than a year afterwards the judges unanimously advised the king that he might by law prohibit the printing and publishing of all news-books and pamphlets of news not licensed by His Majesty's authority; and accordingly on the 17th May, 1680, appeared in the _Gazette_ a proclamation restraining the printing of such books and pamphlets without license. The Act of 1662 was revived for seven years, from 24th June, 1685, by 1 Jac. II. c. 17. s. 15., and, even after the Revolution, was continued for a year longer by 4 & 5 Wm. and Mary, c. 24. s. 14. When that year expired, the press of England became free; but on the 1st of April, 1697, the House of Commons, after passing a vote against John Salusbury, printer of the _Flying Post_, for a paragraph inserted in that journal tending to destroy the credit and currency of Exchequer Bills, ordered that leave should be given to bring in a bill to prevent the writing, printing, and publishing any news without licence. Mr. Poultney accordingly presented such a bill on the 3rd of April. It was read a first time; but a motion to read it a second time was negatived. (_Commons' Journals_, xi. 765. 767.) This attempt again to shackle the press seems to have occasioned

"A Letter to a Member of Parliament showing that a restraint on the
Press is inconsistent with the Protestant Religion and dangerous to the
Liberties of the Nation." Printed 1697, and reprinted in Cobbett's
_Parliamentary History_, v. App. p. cxxx.

C.H. COOPER.

Cambridge, October 29. 1850.

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REMAINS OF JAMES II.

(Vol. ii., pp. 243. 281.)

To the information which has recently been furnished in your pages respecting the remains of James II., it may be not uninteresting to add the inscription which is on his monument in the church of St. Germain-en-Laye, and which I copied, on occasion of my last visit to France.

The body of the king, or a considerable portion of it, which had remained unburied, was, I believe, interred at St. Germain soon after the termination of the war in 1814; but it being necessary to rebuild the church, the remains were exhumed and re-interred in 1824. Vicissitudes as strange in death as in life seem to have attended this unhappy king.

The following is the inscription _now_ on his monument in the parish church of St. Germain:

"REGIO CINERI PIETAS REGIA.

"Ferale quisquis hoc monumentum suspicis
Rerum humanarum vices meditare
Magnus in prosperis in adversis major
Jacobus 2. Anglorum Rex.
Insignes aerumnas dolendaque nimium fata
Pio placidoque obitu exsolvit
in hac urbe
Die 16. Septemb. anni 1701.
Et nobiliores quaedam corporis ejus partes
Hic reconditae asservantur."

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Qui prius augusta gestabat fronte coronam
Exigua nunc pulvereus requiescit in urna
Quid solium--quid et alta juvant! terit omnia lethum,
Verum laus fidei ac morum haud peritura manebit
Tu quoque summe Deus regem quem regius hospes
Infaustum excepit tecum regnare jubebis."

But a different inscription formerly was placed over the king's remains in this church, which has now disappeared; at all events, I could not discover it; and I suppose that the foregoing was preferred and substituted for that, a copy of which I subjoin:

"D.O.M. Jussu Georgii IV. Magnae Britanniae &c., Regis, et curante Equite
exc. Carolo Stuart Regis Britanniae Legato, caeteris antea rite peractis
et quo decet honore in stirpem Regiam hic nuper effossae reconditae sunt
Reliquiae Jacobi II., qui in secundo civitatis gradu clarus triumphis in
primo infelicior, post varios fortunae casus in spem melioris vitae et
beatae resurrectionis hic quievit in Domino, anno MDCCI, v. idus
Septemb., MDCCCXXIV."

At the foot of the monument were the words--

"Depouilles mortelles de Jacques 2. Roi d'Angleterre."

A third monumental inscription to the memory of James II., in Latin, is to be seen in the chapel of the Scotch College in Paris. This memorial was erected in 1703, by James, Duke of Perth. An urn, containing the brains of the king, formerly stood on the top of it. A copy of this inscription is preserved in the _Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, vol. vii.

J. REYNELL WREFORD, D.D.

Bristol, November 8. 1850.

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JUDGE CRADOCK.

My transplantation from Gloucester to Devonshire, and the consequent unapproachable state of my books, prevents my referring to authorities at the moment in support of what I have said about the arms of Judge Cradock _alias_ Newton: still I wish to notice the subject at once that I may not appear to shrink from the Query of S.A.Y. (Vol. ii., p. 371.)

I happen to have at hand a copy of the Grant {428} of Arms to Sir John of East Harptree, Somerset, in 1567 in which, on the authority of the heralds of the day, arg. on a chevron az. 3 garbs or, are granted to him in the first quarter as the arms of Robert Cradock _alias_ Newton. The Judge seems to have been the first of the family who dropped the name of Cradock. His forefathers, for several generations (from Howel ap Grononye, who was Lord of Newton, in Rouse or Trenewith, in Poursland), went by the name of Cradog Dom. de Newton.

Robert Cradock, mentioned in the Grant I have quoted, married Margaret Sherborne. He was the Judge's great-great-grandfather. Sir John Newton, to whom the grant was made, lies buried at East Harptree; and on his tomb may be seen (besides his effigies as large as life) the twelve quarterings in their original (?) blazoning, impaled with those of his wife, one of the Pointz family. The same arms (of Newton) are still discernible on a beautifully wrought, though now much mutilated shield, over one of the doors of Barres Court, at East Hanham, in Bitton, Gloucestershire, where Newton also had a residence, where John Leland on his itinerary visited him, and says (_Itin._ vol. vii. p. 87.) "his very propre name is Caradoc," &c. This property Newton inherited as a descendant from the De Bittons or Button (through Hampton), a family of great note in their day, and residents on the site of Barres Court, a "fayr manner place of stone," which evidently took its name from Sir John Barre, who married Joan, the relict of Robert Greyndon, and daughter of Thomas Roug by Catherine, who was the last heiress of that branch of De Bittons--(she died 1485, and is buried with her first husband at Newlond). Of the same family were the three bishops of that name, in the reigns of the early Edwards; one of which, _Thomas_, Bishop of Exeter in 1299, was the pious founder of a chantry chapel adjoining Bitton Church, over the bodies of his father and another, who were buried there; the building itself is quite an architectural gem. The said bishop must also have resided there, for in 1287, when Dean of Wells, the Lord of the Manor of that part of Bitton where his estate lay, impounded some of his cattle, and had a trial thereon at Gloucester, as appears by a Placite Roll of that date.

I send you a copy of the Grant of Arms, as it may be interesting, to publish--besides, it is a reply to the latter part of S.A.Y.'s Query. It is copied from the Ashmol. MSS. No. 834. p. 34.

Of the Newtons of Yorkshire I know nothing; but if S.A.Y. wishes to question me further, I shall be happy to receive his communication under his own proper sign-manual.

In Nichols' _Leicestershire_, vol. iv. pt. 2. p. 807., is a pedigree of Cradock bearing the same arms, and it is there laid down that Howel ap Gronow was slain by the French in 1096, and buried at Llandilo Vawr; also that the Judge was called Newton from his birth-place. (It is in Montgomeryshire, I believe.) Matthew Cradock, who lies in Swansea Church, bore different arms.

"To all and singular as well nobles and gentills as others to whom
these presents shall come, we, Sir Gilbert Dethicke, knight, alias
Garter, principall kinge of armes for the Order of the Garter, Robte.
Cooke, alias Clarenciault, kinge of armes of the south, William Flower
alias Norroy, kinge of armes of the northe, and all others the
hereauldes of armes send humble commendacion and gretinge: that whereas
we being required by Sir John Newton, of Richmond Castill, in the
countie of Somersett, knight, to make serche for the ancient armes
descendinge to him from his ancetors [sic], at whose requeste we, the
said kinges and hereauldes of armes have not only made diligent serche
in our regesters, but also therewithall perused diverse of his ancient
evidence and other monumentes, whereuppon we doe fynd that the said Sir
John Newton, knight, maye beare twelve severall cotes, that is to say,
the armes of Robte. Cradocke alias Newton, the armes of Robte.
Sherborne, the arms of Steven Angle, the armes of Steven Pirot, the
armes of John Harvie, the armes of Sir John Sheder, knight, the armes
of Richard Hampton, the armes of Sir John Bitton, knight, the armes of
Sir Matthewe Ffurneault, knight, the armes of Walter Cawdecot, the
armes of Sir Aunsell Corney, knight, and the armes of Sir Henry
Harterie, knight. All which armes doth plainlie appere depicted in the
Margent; and for that the said Sir John Newton is yncertaine of any
creaste which he ought to beare by his owne proper name, he therefore
hath also required vs, the said kings and hereauldes of armes, to
assigne and confirme vnto him and his posteritie for ever, the creaste
of Sir Auncell Corney, knight, which Sir Auncell Corney, as it doth
appere by divers ancient evidence and other monuments of the said Sir
John Newton, was at the winnynge of Acom with Kinge Richard the First,
where he toke prisoner a kinge of the Mores: and farther, the said Sir
John Newton, knight, hath made goode proofe for the bearinge of the
same creaste, that the heires male of the said Sir Auncell Corney is
extingueshed, and the heires generall do only remaine in him. In
consideracion whereof wee, the said kinges and herehauldes of arms, do
give, confirme, and grant vnto the said Sir John Newton and his
posteritie for ever, the said creaste of Sir Auncell Corney, knight,
that is to say, vppon his helme on a torce silver and asure, a kinge of
the Mores armed in male, crowned gold, knelinge vpon his left knee
rendring vppe his sworde, as more plainly aperith depicted in this
Margent, to have and to horold the said creast to him and his
posteretie, with there due difference to vse, beare, and show in
shelde, cote armour, or otherwise, for ever, at his or their libertie
and pleasure, without impediment, let, or interruption of any parson or
parsons. In witnesse whereof we, the said hinges and hereauldes of
arms, have caused these letters to be made patentes, and set herevnto
our common seale of corporation, given at the office of arms in London,
the twelvethe of December, and in the tenthe yeare of the reigne of our
sovereign {429} ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England,
France and Ireland, defender of the faithe," &c.

H.T. ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St George, Nov. 4. 1850.

_Cradock_--I should like to know whether the MSS. of Randle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still accessible? Nichols refers to them as his authority for Cradock's pedigree, as laid down in his _Leicestershire_ (vol. iv. part ii. p. 807.).

H.T.E.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

REPLIES BY GEORGE STEPHENS.

I beg to encloze ethe following scraps, purposely written on slips, ethat ethe one may be destroyed and not ethe oether if you should žink fit so to do, and for eaze ov printing.

Pleaze to respect my oržography--a _beginning_ to a better system--if you can and will. Ethe types required will only be ethe Eth, eth, and Ž, ž, ov our noble Anglo-Saxon moether-tongue, letterz in common use almost down to ethe time ov _Shakspeare_!

If you _will_ not be charmed, ov course you are at liberty to change it.

I have a large work in ethe press (translationz from ethe A.-Saxon) printed entirely in ethis oržography.

GEORGE STEPHENS.

Stockholm.

[Even our respect for Mr. Stephens' well-known scholarship, fails to
remove our prejudices in favour of the ordinary system of orthography.]

_On a Passage in "The Tempest"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).--Will you allow me to suggest that the reading of the original edition is perfectly correct as it stands, as will be seen by simply italicising the emphatic words:--

"_Most_ busie _least_, when I doe it."

The construction is thus merely an instance of a common ellipsis (here of the word _busy_), and requires the comma after _least_. This is another proof of the advantage of being slow to abandon primitive texts.

GEORGE STEPHENS.

_Saint, Legend of a_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267.).--The circumstance alluded to is perhaps that in the legend of _St. Patrick_. It was included by Voragine in his life of that saint. See the "Golden Legend" in init.

GEORGE STEPHENS.

_Cupid and Psyche_ (Vol. ii., pp. 247.).--This is probably an old _Folk-tale_, originally perhaps an antique philosophical temple-allegory. Apuleius appears only to have dressed it up in a new shape. The tale is still current, but in a form _not_ derived from him, among the _Swedes_, _Norwegians_, _Danes_, _Scots_, _Germans_, _French_, _Wallachians_, _Italians_, and _Hindoos_. See _Svenska Folk-sagor och Afventyr, efter muntlig Ofverlemning samlade och utgifna of G.O.H. Cavallius och G. Stephens_, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844-9), p. 323.

GEORGE STEPHENS.

_Kongs Skuggsia_ (Vol. ii., pp 296. 335.).--This noble monument of Old Norse literature was written at the close of the twelfth century by a Norwegian of high rank, but who expresses his resolution to remain unknown, in which he has perfectly succeeded. He probably resided near Trondhjem. See, for other information, the preface to the last excellent edition lately published by _Keyser_, _Munch_, and _Unger_, as follows:--

"Speculum Regale Konungs-Skuggsja Konge-Speilet et
philosophisk-didaktisk Skrift, forfattet i Norge mod slutningen af det
tolfte aarhundrede. Tilligemed et samtidigt Skrift om den norske kirkes
Stilling til Statem. Med to lithographerede Blade
Facsimile-Aftryck."--Christiana, 1848. 8vo.

GEORGE STEPHENS.

Stockholm.

_The disputed Passage in the "Tempest"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).--I am the "COMMA" which MR. COLLIER claims the merit of having removed, and I humbly protest against the removal. I adhere to the reading of the folio of 1632, except that I would strike out the final _s_ in labours. The passage would then read:

"But these sweet thoughts so refresh my labour
Most busy least, when I do it."

That is, the thoughts so refresh my labour, that I am "most busy least" (an emphatic way of saying least busy), "when I do it," to wit, the labour. MR. HICKSON is ingenious, but he takes no notice of--

COMMA.

_Viscount Castlecomer_ (Vol. ii., p. 376.).--S.A.Y. asks whether Lord Deputy Wandesford (not Wanderforde) "ever took up this title, and what became of it afterwards?" He never did; for on the receipt of the patent, in the summer of 1640, Wandesford exclaimed, "Is this a time for a faithful subject to be exalted, when his king, the fountain of honours, is likely to be reduced lower than ever." A few months afterwards he died of a broken heart. We are told that he concealed the patent, and his grandson was the first of the family--apparently by a fresh creation in 1706--who assumed the title. The neglect of sixty-six years, perhaps, rendered this necessary: Beatson does not notice the first creation. The life of this active and useful statesman, the friend and relative of Strafford, was compiled from his daughter's papers, by his descendant, Thomas Comber, LL.D. Of this work Dr. Whitaker availed himself in the very interesting memoir which he has given of the Lord Deputy, in his _History of Richmondshire_, written, as we may suppose it would be by so devoted {430} an admirer of Charles I., with the warmest feelings of respect and admiration.

"The death of my cousin Wandesford," said Lord Strafford, "more affects
me than the prospect of my own; for in him is lost the richest magazine
of learning, wisdom, and piety that these times could boast."

J.H.M.

Bath.

_Steele's Burial-place_ (Vol. ii., pp. 375, 441.).--I have been able to get the following particulars respecting Steele's burial-place. Steele was buried in the chancel of St. Peter's church, Caermarthen. The entry stands thus in the Register:--

"1729.
"Sep. 4. Sr Richard Steel."

There is no monument to his memory in St. Peter's Church; but in Llangunnor church, about two miles from Caermarthen, there is a plain monumental tablet with the following inscription:--

"This stone was erected at the instance of William Williams, of Ivy
Tower, owner of Penddaylwn Vawr, in Llangunnor; part of the estate
there once belonging to the deservedly celebrated Sir Richard Steele,
knight, chief author of the essays named Tatlers, Guardians, and
Spectators; and he wrote The Christian Hero, The Englishman, and The
Crisis, The Conscious Lovers, and other fine plays. He represented
several places in parliament; was a staunch and able patriot; finally,
an incomparable writer on morality and Christianity. Hence the ensuing
lines in a poem, called The Head of the Rock:--

'Behold Llangunnor, leering o'er the vale,
Pourtrays a scene t' adorn romantic tale;
But more than all the beauties of its site,
Its former owner gives the mind delight.
Is there a heart that can't affection feel
For lands so rich as once to boast a Steele?
Who warm for freedom, and with virtue fraught,
His country dearly lov'd, and greatly taught;
Whose morals pure, the purest style conveys,
T' instruct his Britain to the last of days.'"

Steele resided at White House (Ty Gwyn, as it is called in Welsh), a clean farm-house half way between Caermarthen and Llangunnor church, which is situate on a hill commanding extensive views of one of the prettiest values in Wales. A field near the house is pointed out as the site of Steele's garden, in the bower of which he is said to have written his "Conscious Lovers." The Ivy Bush, formerly a private house, and said to be the house where Steele died, is now the principal inn in Caermarthen.

WM. SPURRELL.

Caermarthen.

_Cure for Warts_ (Vol. i., p. 482.)-- In Buckinghamshire I have heard of the charming away of warts by touching each wart with a separate green pea. Each pea being wrapped in paper by itself, and buried, the wart will vanish as the pea decays.

J.W.H.

_Etymology of "Parse"_ (Vol. ii., p. 118.).--Surely _to parse_ is to take by itself each _pars_, or part of speech. The word does not seem to have been known in 1611 when Brinsley published his _Posing of the Parts: or, a most plain and easie Way of examining the Accidence and Grammar_. This work appears to have been very popular, as I have by me the _twelfth_ edition, London, 1669. In 1612, the same author issued his _Ludus Literarius: or the Grammar Schoole_. Both these works interest me in him. Can any of your readers communicate any particulars of his history?

J.W.H.

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Admiration of the works of Holbein in Germany, as in this country, seems to increase with increasing years. We have received from Messrs. Williams and Norgate a copy of a new edition of his Bible Cuts lately published at Leipsic, under the title _Hans Holbein's Altes Testament in funfzig Holzschnitten getreu nach den Originalen copirt. Herausgegeben von Hugo Burkner, mit einer Einleitung von D.F. Sotymann_, to which we direct the attention of our readers, no less on account of the beauty and fidelity with which these admirable specimens of Holbein's genius have been copied, than of the interesting account of them prefixed by their new editor.

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While on the subject of foreign works of interest to English readers, we may mention two or three others which we have been for some time intending to bring under the notice of those who know how much light may be thrown upon our early language and literature by a study of the contemporary literature of the Low Countries. The first is, _Denkmaeler Niederdeutscher Sprache und Literatur von Dr. Albert Hoefer, Erstes Banchen_, which contains the highly curious Low German Whitson play called _Claws Bur_. The next is a larger, more elaborately edited, and from its introduction and extensive notes and various illustrations, a yet more interesting work to English philologists. It is entitled _Leven van Sinte Christina de Wonderbare_, an old Dutch poem, now first edited from a MS. of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, by Professor Bormans.

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