Chapter L

_George Herbert._--It is much to be desired that the suggestion thrown out by your correspondent (Vol. ii., p. 460.) may be acted upon. The admirers of George Herbert are doubtless so numerous, that the correct and complete restoration of Bemerton Church might be effected by means of a small subscription among them, as in the case of the Chaucer monument. Most gladly would I aid in the good work.

R.V.

[It is needless for us to add that we shall be glad to promote, in
every way, the good work proposed by our correspondent.--ED. N. AND Q.]

_Dutch Versions of English Essayists._--How much the works of the British Essayists were appreciated by my Dutch ancestors, the following plain facts may show. I have now before me

A translation of the Tatler:

"De Snapper, of de Britsche Tuchtmeester. Door den Ridder Richard
Steele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door P. le Clerc. t'Amsterdam, by
Hendrik Vieroot, 1733, iv. vol. in 12º."

A second edition of

"De Guardian of de Britsche Zedemeester, door den Ridder Richard
Steele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald dor P. le Clercq. Te Rotterdam, by
Jan Daniel Beman, 1734, iii. vol. in 12º."

A third edition of

"De Spectator, of verrezene Socrates. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door
A.G. & R.G. (some volumes by P. le Clercq) t'Amsterdam, by Dirk
Sligtenhorst, Boekverkooper, 1743, ix. vol. 12º."

JANUS DOUSA.

_Long Meg of Westminster_ (Vol. ii., p. 131.).--The same epithet has been applied to women in other places. In the parish Register of Tiverton, Devon, is the following entry:

"Burials. April, 1596. The long Jone seruant to Mr. Demant's. iii.
day."

Why should "long Meg" be more fabulous than "long Jone?"

E.A.D.

_Errors in the Date of Printed Books._--In the title-page of Peter Heylin's _Microcosmos_, 8th ed., the date is printed 1939 instead of 1639. In like manner, in _Historical Applications and occasional Meditations upon several Subjects, written by a Person of Honour_, printed in 1670, the imprimatur, signed "Sam. Parker," is dated 1970, instead of 1670. In each of these cases the error is evidently caused by the compositor having inverted the figure 6, which thus became 9.

P.H.F.

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QUERIES.

DOUSA'S POEM ON SIDNEY.--OLD DUTCH SONG-BOOK.

Your correspondent, who subscribes himself JANUS DOUSA in the last number of "NOTES AND QUERIES," ought to be able, and I dare say will be able, to supply through your columns information of which I have been long in search. In 1586 his great namesake printed at Lugd. Batav. a collection of Greek and Latin poems upon dead and living persons of distinction. Geoffrey Whitney, an Englishman, apparently residing at Leyden, and {23} who printed two works there in his own language, has fifteen six-line stanzas preceding Dousa's collection, and he subjoins to it a translation of a copy of Dousa's verses on the Earl of Leicester. Of these I have a memorandum, and they are not what I want; but what I am at a loss for is a copy of verses by Dousa, in the same volume, upon Sir Philip Sidney. It is many years since I saw the book, and I am not sure if there be not two copies of verses to Sidney, in which he is addressed as _Princeps_; and if your correspondent can furnish me with either, or both, I shall be much obliged to him.

Will you allow me to put another question relating to an old Dutch song-book that has lately fallen in my way; and though I can hardly expect a man like JANUS DOUSA to know anything about such a trifle, it is on some accounts a matter of importance to me, in connection with two early English songs, and one or other of your many friends may not object to aid me. The book is called _De zingende Lootsman of de Vrolyke Boer_, and it professes to be the _tweede druk_: the imprint is _Te Amsteldam By S. en W. Koene, Boekdrukkers, Boek en Papierverkoopers, op de Linde Gragt_. The information I request is the date of the work, for I can find none; and whether any _first part_ of it is known in England, and where?

You are probably aware that the Dutch adopted not a few of our early tunes, and they translated also some of our early songs. These I am anxious to trace.

THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Sir Cloudesley Shovel._--In Mrs. Markham's _History of England_ it is stated that Sir Cloudesley Shovel escaped from the wreck of his ship, but was murdered afterwards by a woman, who on her death-bed confessed it.

Is there any authentic record elsewhere published?

H.J.

_Christopher Flecamore._--Walton says that Sir H. Wotton wrote his well-known definition of an ambassador at Augusta (_Augsburg_), in the Album of "Christopher Flecamore." (Wordsworth, _Eccl. Biog._, vol. iv. p. 86., ed. 1839.) Can any of your correspondents tell me who this person was?

J.C.R.

"_Earth has no Rage," &c._--Can you, or any of your contributors or readers, inform one where the following couplet is to be found:

"Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd."

I do not trouble you idly, as I have a particular reason for desiring to know the source of the lines.

W.T.M.

O. and C. Club

_D'Oyly and Barry Families._--Any authentic information, original or not in the usual depositories, concerning the two great Norman races of D'OYLY and BARRY, or De Barry (both of which settled in England at the Conquest, and, singularly, both connected themselves with mistresses of King Henry I.), will be thankfully received if sent to WM. D'OYLY BAYLEY (Barry), F.S.A., whose histories of both races are still unfinished.

Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire.

_Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham._--A collector of scraps and anecdotes relating to Nathaniel Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, would be glad to know whether, in the various MS. collections of our public libraries, there are extant any letters either written by that prelate or addressed to him?

E.H.A.

_Epigram on the Synod of Dort._--In the _Biographie Universelle_, art. GROTIUS, it is stated that the following singular distich against the Synod of Dort was made in England:--

"Dordrechti synodus, nodus; chorus integer, æger;
Conventus, ventus; sessio, stramen. Amen!"

Query, By whom was it made?