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_Engraved Portrait._--

"All that thou see'st and readest is divine,
Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine;
Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde,
View here the case; i'th Booke the Jewell finde."

The above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically engraved by Cross. Above the head is the following inscription:--

"Ætatis Suæ 50º. Octob. 10. 1649."

Of whom is this a portrait? It is no doubt well known to collectors, and is of course a frontispiece; but having never yet seen it _vis-à-vis_ with a title-page, I am at a loss as to the author of whom it is the _vera effigies_. Possibly some of your readers will be kind enough to enlighten me upon the matter, and favour me with the name of the British worthy thus handed down to posterity by Cross's admirable burin.

HENRY CAMPKIN.

_Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Precedence._--The first edition of Blackstone was published at Oxford in 4to., in the year 1765; and the Table of Precedence, in the 12th chapter of the First Book, found in subsequent editions edited by Mr. Christian, does not occur in Blackstone's first edition. Can any of your readers, having access to good legal theories, inform me in which of Blackstone's _own_ editions the Table of Precedence was first inserted?

E.

_The Two Drs. Abercromby._--In the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were two physicians of the name of Abercromby, who both graduated at the university of Leyden, and were afterwards the authors of various published works. The first work of David Abercromby mentioned in Watt's _Bibliotheca_ is dated in 1684, and the first written by Patrick Abercromby in 1707. As it was usual to compose an inaugural dissertation at obtaining the doctorate, and such productions were ordinarily printed (in small quarto), J. K. would feel obliged by the titles and dates of the inaugural dissertations of either or both of the physicians above mentioned.

_Witte van Haemstede._--Can any of your readers inform me whether there still exist any descendants of _Witte van Haemstede_, an illegitimate scion of the ancient house of _Holland_? _Willem de Water_, in his _Adelijke Zeeland_, written in the seventeenth century, says that in his youth he knew a _Witte van Haemstede_ of this family, one of whose sons became pastor of the Dutch congregation in _London_.--_Navorscher_, Jan. 1851, p. 17.

_J. Bruckner--Dutch Church in Norwich._--In the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1804 is a short memoir of the Rev. J. Bruckner. He was born in the island of Cadsand, completed his studies at Leyden, where he enjoyed the society of Hemsterhuis, Valckenaer, and the elder Schultens. In 1753 he became pastor of the Walloon, and afterwards of the Dutch congregation in Norwich, where he remained till his death in May, 1804. In 1767 he published at Leyden his _Théorie du Système Animal_; in 1790 appeared his _Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley_.

Could your correspondents furnish me with a complete list of Bruckner's works, and direct me to a history of the Dutch church in Norwich, from its origin to the present time?--_Navorscher_, Feb. 1851, p. 28.

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Minor Queries Answered.

[Under this heading we propose to give such Minor Queries as we are
able to reply to at once, but which are not of a nature to be answered
with advantage in our Notices to Correspondents. We hope by this means
to economise our space.]

_The Hereditary Earl Marshal._--Miss Martineau, in her _History of England_, book iii. ch. 8., speaks (in 1829) of

"three Catholic peers, the _Duke of Norfolk_, Lord Clifford, and Lord
Dormer, having obtained entrance _at last_ to the legislative assembly,
where their fathers sat and ruled when their faith was the law of the
land."

In Lord Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_, there is an anecdote, vol. vii. p. 695., of the Duke of Norfolk falling asleep and _snoring_ in the House of Lords, while Lord Eldon was on the woolsack. Did not the Duke of Norfolk (though Roman Catholic) sit and vote in the House of Lords, either by prescription or special act of parliament, before 1829?

J. H. S.

[The anecdote told by Lord Campbell (but much better by Lord Eldon
himself in Twiss's Life of the great Chancellor), does not refer to the
_late_ Duke of Norfolk, but to his predecessor Charles (the eleventh
duke), who was a Protestant. The late duke never sat in parliament till
after the Relief Bill passed. In 1824 a Bill was passed to enable him
to exercise the office of Earl Marshal without taking certain oaths,
but gave him no seat in the House. We may as well add, that Lord
Eldon's joke must have been perpetrated--not on the bringing up of the
Bill, when the duke was not in the House--but on the occasion of the
_Great Snoring Bill being reported_ (April 2, 1811), when the duke
appears to have been present.]

_The Beggar's Petition._--I shall feel obliged by your informing me who the author is of the lines--

"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door."

S.

[The authorship of this little poem has at times excited a good deal of
attention. It has been attributed, on no very sufficient grounds, to
Dr. Joshua Webster, M.D.; but from the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol.
lxx., p. 41., it appears that it is the entire production of the {210}
Rev. Thomas Moss, minister of Brierly Hill and Trentham, in
Staffordshire, who wrote it at about the age of twenty-three. He sold
the manuscript of that, and of several others, to Mr. Smart, printer,
in Wolverhampton, who, from the dread which Mr. Moss had of criticism,
was to publish them on this condition, that only twenty copies should
have his name annexed to them, for the purpose of being presented to
his relations and friends.]

"_Tiring-irons never to be untied._"--To what does Lightfoot (vol. vii. p. 214.) refer when, in speaking of the Scriptures, he says--

"They are not unriddleable riddles, and tiring-irons never to be
untied"?

J. EASTWOOD.

Ecclesfield.

[The allusion is to a puzzle for children--often used by grown
children--which consists of a series of iron rings, on to or off which
a loop of iron wire may be got with some labour by those who know the
way, and which is very correctly designated _a tiring-iron_.]

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Replies.

THE MEANING OF EISELL.

[This controversy is becoming a little too warm for our pages. But MR.
CAUSTON is entitled to have some portion of the letter he has sent to
us inserted. He writes with reference to the communications from MR.
HICKSON and MR. SINGER in our 68th number, p. 119., in reply to MR.
C.'S Article, which, although it had been in our hands a considerable
time, was not inserted until out 65th Number, p. 66.; a delay which
gave to that article the appearance of an attempt to revive a
discussion, whereas it really was written only in continuance of one.]

To MR. HICKSON I suggest, that whether the notion of "drinking up a river," or "eating a crocodile," be the more "unmeaning" or "out of place," must after all be a mere matter of opinion, as the latter must remain a question of taste; since it seems to be his settled conviction that it is not "impossible," but only "extravagant." Archdeacon Nares thought it quite the reverse; and I beg to remind your readers that Shakspearian crocodiles are never served _à la Soyer_, but swallowed _au naturel_ and entire.

MR. HICKSON is dissatisfied with my terms "mere verbiage" and "extravagant rant." I recommend a careful consideration of the scene over the grave of Ophelia; and then let any one say whether or not the "wag" of tongue between Laertes and Hamlet be not fairly described by the expressions I have used,--a paraphrase indeed, of Hamlet's concluding lines:

"Nay, an thou'lt _mouth_,
I'll _rant_ as well as thou."

Doubtless Shakspeare had a purpose in everything he wrote, and his purpose at this time was to work up the scene to the most effective conclusion, and to display the excitement of Hamlet in a series of beautiful images, which, nevertheless, the queen his mother immediately pronounced to be "mere madness," and which one must be as mad as Hamlet himself to adopt as feats literally to be performed.

The offence is rank in the eyes of MR. SINGER that I should have styled MR. HICKSON his friend. The amenities of literature, I now perceive, do not extend to the case, and a new canon is required, to the effect that "when one gentleman is found bolstering up the argument of another, he is not, ever for the nonce, to be taken for his friend." I think the denial to be expressed in rather strong language; but I hasten to make the _amende_ suitable to the occasion, by withdrawing the "falsehood and unfounded insinuation."

MR. SINGER has further charged me with "want of truth," in stating that the question remains "substantially where Steevens and Malone had left it." Wherein, I ask, substantially consists the difference?

MR. SINGER has merely substituted his "wormwood wine" for Malone's vinegar; and before he can make it as palatable to common sense, and Shakspeare's "logical correctness and nicety of expression," as it was to Creed and Shepley, he must get over the "stalking-horse," the _drink_ UP, which stands in his way precisely as it did in that of Malone's more legitimate proposition. MR. SINGER overleaps the difficulty by a bare assertion that "to _drink_ UP was commonly used for simply to drink." He has not produced any parallel case of proof, with the exception of one from Mr. Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_. I adopt his citation, and shall employ it against him.

_Drink_ UP can only be grammatically applied to a determinate total, whether it be the river Yssell or MR. HICKSON'S dose of physic. Shakespeare seems to have been well acquainted with, and to have observed, the grammatical rule which MR. SINGER professes not to comprehend. Thus:

"I will drink,
_Potions of_ eysell."
Shaksp. _Sonnet_ cxi.

and

"Give me to drink mandragora,"
_Ant. and Cleop._, Act I. Sc. 5.

are parallel passages, and imply quantity indeterminate, inasmuch as they admit of more or less.

Now MR. SINGER'S obliging quotation from the _Nursery Rhymes_,--

"Eat UP your cake, Jenny,
_Drink_ UP YOUR wine"--

certainly implies quite the reverse; for it can be taken to mean neither more nor less than the identical glass of wine that Jenny had standing before her. A parallel passage will be found in Shakspeare's sonnet (CXIV.):

"_Drink up_ the monarch's plague, _this_ flattery:"

{211} and in this category, on the rule exponed, since it cannot positively appertain to the other, must, I think, be placed the line of Hamlet,--

"Woo't _drink up_ eisell?"

as a noun implying absolute entirety; which might be a _river_, but could not be grammatically applied to any unexpressed quantity.

Now what is the amount and value of MR. SINGER'S proposition? He says:

"In Thomas's _Italian Dictionary_, 1562, we have 'ASSENZIO,
_Eysell_'[4]; and Florio renders that word [ASSENZIO, not _Eysell_?] by
'wormwood.' What is meant, however, is _wormwood wine_, a nauseously
bitter medicament then much in use."

When pressed by LORD BRAYBROOKE ("NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. ii., p. 286.), who proved, by an extract from _Pepys's Diary_, that wormwood wine, so far from bearing out MR. SINGER'S description, was, in fact, a fashionable luxury, probably not more nauseous than the _pale ale_ so much in repute at the present day, MR. SINGER very adroitly produced a "corroborative note" from "old Langham" ("NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. ii., p. 315.), which, curiously enough, is castrated of all that Langham wrote pertaining to the question in issue. Treating of the many virtues of the prevailing tonic as an appetiser, and restorer "of a good color" to them that be "leane and evil colored," Langham says:

["Make wormwood wine thus: take _aqua vitæ_ and malmsey, of each like
much, put it in a glasse or bottell with _a few leaves of dried
wormwood_, and let it stand certain days,] and strein out a little
spoonfull, and drink it with a draught of ale or wine: [it may be long
preserved.]"[5]

Thus it will be seen that the reason for "streining out a little spoonfull" as a restorative for a weak stomach was less on account of the infusion being so "atrociously unpalatable," than of the alcohol used in its preparation.

Dr. Venner also recommends as an excellent stomachic,

"To drink mornings fasting, and sometimes also before dinner, _a
draught of wormwood-wine_ or beer:"

and we may gather the "atrocious bitterness" of the restorative, by the substitute he proposes: "or, for want of them," he continues:

"white wine or stale beer, wherein a few branches of wormwood have, for
certain hours, been infused."[6]

Dr. Parr, quoting Bergius, describes _Absinthium_ as "a grateful stomachic;" and _Absinthites_ as "a pleasant form of the wormwood."[7]

Is this therefore the article that Hamlet proposed to _drink_ UP with his crocodile? So far from thinking so, I have ventured to coincide with Archdeacon Nares in favour of Steevens; for whether it be Malone's vinegar, or MR. SINGER'S more comfortable stomachic, the challenge to drink either "_in such a rant_, is so inconsistent, and even ridiculous, that we must decide for the river, whether its name be exactly found or not."[8]

I am quite unconscious of any purport in my remarks, other than they appear on paper; and I should be sorry indeed to accuse MR. SINGER of being "ignorant" of anything; but I venture to suggest that those young gentlemen of surpassing spirit, who ate crocodiles, _drank_ UP eisell, and committed other anomalies against nature in honor of their mistresses, belonged decidedly to a period of time anterior to that of Shakspeare, and went quite out with the age of chivalry, of which Shakspeare saw scarcely even the fag end. Your lover of Shakspeare's time was quite another animal. He had begun to take beer. He had become much more subtle and self-satisfied. He did sometimes pen sonnets to his mistress's eye-brow, and sing soft nothings to the gentle sighing of his "Lewte." He sometimes indeed looked "pale and wan;" but, rather than for love, it was more than probably from his immoderate indulgence in the "newe weede," which he _drank_[9], though I never discovered that it was _drank up_ by him. He generally wore a doublet and breeches of satin, slashed and lined with coloured taffata; and walked about with a gilliflower in one hand, and his gloves in the other. His veritable portrait is extant, and is engraved in Mr. Knight's _Pictorial Shakspeare_.[10]

It will be time enough to decide which of us has run his head against "a stumbling-block of his own making," when MR. SINGER shall have found a probable solution of his difficulty "by a parallelism in the poet's pages."

H. K. STAPLE CAUSTON.

Vassall Road, Brixton, Feb. 21. 1851.

[Footnote 4: This deduction is not warranted by the _Vocab. della Crusca_, or any other Ital. Dic. to which I have had the opportunity of reference: and _Somner_ and _Lye_ are quite distinct on the A.-Sax. words, _Wermod_ and _Eisell_.]

[Footnote 5: _Garden of Health_, 4to. London, 1633. The portions within the brackets were omitted by MR. SINGER.]

[Footnote 6: _Via Recta ad Vitam Longam_, by Thomas Venner, M.D. 4to. London, 1660.]

[Footnote 7: _Med. Dict._]

[Footnote 8: A description of the rivers Yssel will be found in _Dict. Géograph. de la Martinière_, v. ix. fo. 1739.]

[Footnote 9: As the verb "to drink" was not limited to the act of bibition, but for MR. HICKSON'S decision against drinking up the "sea-serpent," it might yet become a question whether Hamlet's _eisell_ had not been a misprint for _eosol_ (asinus).]

[Footnote 10: _Merchant of Venice_, Introduction.]

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_William Chilcott_ (Vol. iii., pp. 38. 73.).--The few notes which follow are very much at the service of your correspondent. William Chilcott, M.A., was rector of St. George's, Exeter, where he died on May 30, 1711, at the age of forty-eight. The coat of arms on the tablet to his memory indicates that he married a Coplestone. His daughter Catherine died in August, 1695. The first edition of the _Practical Treatise concerning Evil Thoughts_ was printed at Exeter in 1690, and was dedicated to his parishioners. Robert Chilcott, whom I take to be the brother of William, was rector of St. Mary-Major in Exeter, and died Feb. 7, 1689.

There does not appear to be any evidence that the persons above mentioned, were descended from the Chilcotts of Tiverton, though the identity of the Christian names renders it probable. If the object were to trace their ancestors or their descendants, much might be added to the suggestions of E.A.D. by searching the registers at Tiverton, and by comparing Prince's _Worthies of Devon_, ed. 1810, p. 213., and Polwhele's _Devon_, vol. iii. p. 351., with Harding's _Tiverton_; in various parts of which eight or nine individuals of the name are mentioned; especially vol. i. book ii. p. 114.; vol. ii. book iii. pp. 101, 102. 167. 183., and book iv., p. 20., where the connexion of the Chilcotts with the families of Blundell, Hooper, Collamore, Crossing, Slee, and Hill, is set forth. Failing these, the object might be attained by reference to the registers at Stogumber, co. Somerset, and of Northam, near Bideford, with the inscribed floorstones in the church there. Something might perhaps be learned of their descendants by reference to the registers at Exeter, and those at Morchard-Bishop, where a John Chilcott resided in 1700; Nympton St. George, where a family of the same name lived about 1740; North Molton, where C. Chilcott was vicar in 1786; and Dean Prior, where Joseph Chilcott was vicar about 1830. A Mr. Thomas Chilcott, who was an organist at Bath, married Ann, daughter of the Rev. Chichester Wrey. This lady died in 1758, and was buried at Tavistock, near Barnstaple. The coat of arms on the tablet to her memory is almost identical with the coat of the Rev. William Chilcott of Exeter first above mentioned.

J. D. S.

_Fossil Elk of Ireland_ (Vol. iii., p. 121.).--In the _Edinburgh Journal of Science_, New Series, vol. ii., 1830, p. 301., is a curious paper by the late Dr. Hibbert Ware, under the title of "Additional Contributions towards the History of the Cervus Euryceros, or Fossil Elk of Ireland." It is illustrated with a copy of an engraving of an animal which Dr. H. W. believes to have been the same as the Irish elk, and which was living in Prussia at the time of the publication of the book from which it is taken, viz. the _Cosmographia Universalis_ of Sebastian Munster: Basiliæ, 1550.

Dr. H. W. in this paper refers to a former one in the third volume of the first series of the same journal, in which he advanced proofs that the Cervus was a race which had but very recently become extinct.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

Edinburgh, Feb. 19. 1851.

_Canes Lesos_ (Vol. iii. p. 141.).--In a note to Beckwith's edition of Blount's _Jocular Tenures_, 4to. 1815, p. 225., Mr. Allan of Darlington anticipates your correspondent C. W. B., and says, respecting Blount's explanation of "Canes lesos," "I can meet with no such word in this sense: why may it not be dogs that have received some hurt? _læsos_ from _lædo_." _Clancturam_ should be _clausturam_, and so it is given in the above edition, and explained "a tax for fencing."

S. W. SINGER.

"_By Hook or by Crook_" (vol. iii. p. 116.).--However unimaginative the worthy Cit may be for whose explanation of this popular phrase J. D. S. has made himself answerable, the solution sounds so pretty, that to save its obtaining further credence, more than your well-timed note is needed. I with safety can contradict it, for I find that "Tusser," a Norfolk man living in the reign of Henry VIII., in a poem which he wrote as a complete monthly guide and adviser for the farmer through the year, but which was not published till 1590, in the thirty-second year of Queen Elizabeth, has the following advice for March 30:

"Of mastiues and mongrels, that many we see
A number of thousands, to many there be:
Watch therefore in Lent, to thy sheepe go and looke,
For dogs will have vittels, by hooke and by crooke."

This must be a Norfolk phrase; for in January he advises farmers possessing "Hollands," rich grass lands, to only keep ewes that bear twins, "twinlins."

BLOWEN.

This appears as a well-known proverbial expression long before the time pointed out by J. D. S. Thus, in _Devout Contemplations_, by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca, Englished by J. M., London, 1629, we read that the Devil

"Overthroweth monasteries; through sloth and idleness soliciting
religious men to be negligent in coming to Church, careless in
preaching, and loose in their lives. In the marriage bed he soweth
tares, treacheries, and lightness. With worldly men he persuadeth that
he is nobody that is not rich, and therefore, _bee it by hooke or by
crooke_, by right or wrong, he would have them get to be wealthy."

W. D--N.

_Suem._--Allow me to suggest to your correspondents C. W. G. (Vol. iii., p. 7.) and [Delta]. (Vol. iii., p. 75.), that _suem_ is probably a form of the A.-S. word _seam_, a _horse-load_, and generally a _burden_. For cognates, see Bosworth's _A.-S. Dict._ {213} I may add, that the word is written _swun_ in a charter of Edward the Confessor, printed by Hickes in his _Thesaurus_, vol. i. p. 159., as follows:

"--ic ann [þæt] ðridde treow. [et] [þæt] ðridde swun of ævesan ðæs
nextan wudes ðe liþ to kyngesbyrig," &c.

Which Hickes thus renders:

"Dono tertiam quamque arborem, et tertiam quamque sarcinam jumentariam
fructuum, qui nascuntur in sylva proxime ad kyngesbyrig sita," &c.

R. M. W.

_Sir George Downing_ (Vol. iii., p. 69.).--The following extract of a letter in Cartes' _Letters_, ii. 319., confirms the accuracy of the memorandum as to Sir G. Downing's parentage, sent you by J. P. C. The letter is from T. Howard to Charles II., written April 5, 1660, on the eve of the Restoration. Downing had offered to Howard to serve the King,--

"alleging to be engaged in a contrary party by his father, who was
banished into New England, where he was brought up, and had sucked in
principles that since his reason had made him see were erroneous."

CH.

_Miching malicho_ (Vol. iii., p. 3.).--Your correspondent MR. COLLIER is probably not aware that his suggestion respecting the meaning of _Malicho_ had been anticipated upwards of twenty years since. In the unpretending edition of Shakspeare by another of your correspondents, MR. SINGER, printed in 1825, I find the following note:--

"_Miching malicho_ is lurking mischief, or evil doing. _To mich_, for
to skulk, to lurk, was an old English verb in common use in
Shakspeare's time; and _Malicho_, or _Malhecho_, misdeed, he has
borrowed from the Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian were
then affectedly used in common conversation, as we have seen French
used in more recent times. The Quarto spell the word _Mallicho_. Our
ancestors were not particular in orthography, and often spelt according
to the ear."

I have since looked at MR. COLLIER'S note to which he refers, and find that he interprets _miching_ by _stealing_, which will not suit the context; and abundant examples may be adduced that to _mich_ was to _skulk_, to _lurk_, as MR. SINGER has very properly explained it. Thus Minsheu:--

"To MICHE, or secretly hide himself out of the way, as TRUANTS doe from
Schoole, vi. _to hide_, to cover."

and again--

"A _micher_, vi. _Truant_."

MR. COLLIER'S text, too, is not satisfactory, for he has abandoned the old word _Malicho_, and given _Mallecho_, which is as far from the true form of the Spanish word as the old reading, which he should either have preserved or printed _Malhecho_, as Minsheu gives it.

I am glad to see from your pages that MR. SINGER has not entirely abandoned Shakspearian illustration, for in my difficulties I have rarely consulted his edition in vain; and, in my humble opinion, it is as yet the most practically useful and readable edition we have.

FIAT JUSTITIA.

_Cor Linguæ, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 168.).--The lines quoted by J. Bs. occur in the poem "De Palpone et Assentatore," printed in the volume of _Latin Poems_, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, edited by Mr. T. Wright for the Camden Society, 1841, at p. 112., with a slight variation in expression, as follows:--

"Cor linguæ foederat naturæ sanctio,
Tanquam legitimo quodam connubio;
Ergo cum dissonant cor et locutio,
Sermo concipitur ex adulterio."

Mr. Wright's only source quoted for the poem is MS. Cotton, Vespas, E. xii. Of its authority he remarks (Preface, p. xx.), that the writer's name was certainly Walter, but that he appears to have lived at Wimborne, with which place Walter Map is not traced to have had any connexion; and if Mr. Wright's conjecture be correct, that the young king alluded to in it is Henry III., it must of course have been written some years after Walter Map's death.

J. G. N.

_Under the Rose_ (Vol. i., pp. 214. 458.; Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.).--I am surprised that no one has noticed Sir T. Browne's elucidations of this phrase. (_Vulg. Err._ lib. v. cap. 21. § 7.) Besides the explanation referred to by ARCHÆUS (Vol. i., p. 214.), he says:

"The expression is commendable, if the rose from any _naturall_
propertie may be the symbole of silence, as Nazienzene seems to imply
in these translated verses--

'Utque latet Rosa verna suo putamine clausa,
Sic os vinela ferat, validisque arctetur habenis,
Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris.'"

He explains "the Germane custome, which over the table describeth a rose in the seeling" (Vol. ii., pp. 221. 323.), by making the phrase to refer only to the secrecy to be observed "in society and compotation, from the ancient custome in Symposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of roses about their heads."

ACHE.

"_Impatient to speak and not see_" (Vol. ii., p. 490.).--There is no doubt of the fine interpretation of your correspondent; but it is not illustrated by the Latin. Also, I apprehend, "indocilis pati" is not put for "indocilis patiendi." It is a common use of _to_--proud to be praised; angry to be so ill-treated.

It illustrates a line in Hotspur, the construction of which Warburton would have altered:

"I then, all smarting, and my wounds being cold,
_To be_ so pestered," &c., _i.e._ at being.

May I mention a change in _Troilus and Cressida_ which I have long entertained, but with doubt:

"And with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
Retires to chiding fortune."

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Pope reads "returns," Hanmer "replies." My conjecture is "recries."

C. B.

_Bishop Frampton_ (Vol. iii., p. 61.).--See an interesting notice of his preaching in Pepys' _Diary_, Jan. 20, 1666-7; and what is said of him in Lathbury's _Nonjurors_, p. 203. But probably MR. EVANS is already aware of these references to Bishop Frampton, whose life is a desideratum which many will be glad to hear is going to be supplied.

E. H. A.

_Old Tract on the Eucharist_ (Vol. iii., p. 169.).--The author of the tract on the Eucharist, referred to by ABHBA, was the Rev. John Patrick. The title of the tract, as given in the catalogues of Archbishop Wake, No. 22.; of Dr. Gee, No. 73.; and of Peck, No. 286., of the _Discourses against Popery during the Reign of James II._, is as follows:--

"A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church
relating to the Eucharist, wholly different from those of the present
_Roman_ Church, and inconsistent with the Belief of Transubstantiation;
being a sufficient Confutation of _Consensus Veterum_, _Nubes Testium_,
and other late Collections of the Fathers pretending the contrary. By
_John Patrick, Preacher at the Charter-house_, 1688. 4to."

E. C. HARRINGTON.

Exeter, March 3. 1851.

This tract is in 4to., and contains pp. xv. 202. It is one of the more valuable of the numerous tracts published on the Roman Catholic controversy during the reign of James II. In a collection of more than two hundred of these made at the period of publication, and now in my library, the names of the authors are written upon the titles, and this is attributed to _Mr. Patrick_. In another collection from the library of the late Mr. Walter Wilson, it is stated to be by _Bishop Patrick_. Bishop Gibson reprinted the tract in his _Preservative against Popery_, London, 1738, fol. vol. ii. tit. vii. pp. 176--252.; and in the table of contents says that it was written by "Mr. Patrick, late preacher of the Charter-house." Not Bishop Patrick therefore, but his brother, Dr. John Patrick, who died 1695, aged sixty-three, was the author of this tract.

JOHN J. DREDGE.

_Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--I possess

"A Dying Father's last Legacy to an Onely Child, or Hugh Peter's Advice
to his Daughter. Written by his own Hand during his late Imprisonment
in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his Death.
London, 1660:"

which advice he ends, p. 94., with--

"The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve you to his Heavenly
Kingdom, my poor child.

"To ELIZABETH PETERS."

And then, after a poem at p. 97., he commences a short sketch of his life with--

"I shall give you an account of myself and dealings, that (if possible)
you may wipe off some dirt, or be the more content to carry it."

That part of his life which would bear upon this subject reads thus, p. 98.:--

"When (at Cambridge) I spent some years vainly enough, being but
fourteen years old when thither I came, my tutor died, and I was
exposed to my shifts. Coming from thence, at London God struck me with
the sense of my sinful estate by a sermon I heard under Paul's."

The wonderful success of his lecture at Sepulchre's caused it to be asserted by his enemies, that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but stage buffoonery. (See p. 100.)

"At this lecture the resort grew so great, that it contracted envie and
anger ... There were six or seven thousand hearers ... and I went to
Holland:"

thereby leaving his character to be maligned. I do not believe, from the tone of the condemned man's _Legacy_, that he would purposely avoid any mention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and "usually performed the part of a clown;" in fact it appears, that immediately on his coming into London he was awakened by the "sermon under Paul's, which stuck fast:" he almost directly left for Essex, and was converted by "the love and labours of Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;" so that he was mostly preaching itinerantly in Essex, when it is asserted that he was "a player in Shakespeare's company." That _Legacy_ in question, and a book autograph of Hugh Peters, are at the service of DR. RIMBAULT.

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