Chapter II: Part 2

_Villenage_ (Vol. iii., p. 327.).--In reply to the question put by H. C., I beg to say that in Burton's _Leicestershire_ (published in 1622), a copy of which is now before me, some curious remarks occur on this subject. Burton says, under the head of "Houghton-on-the-Hill," that the last case he could find in print, concerning the claim to a villein, was in Mich. 9 & 10 Eliz. (_Dyer_, 266. b.), where one Butler, Lord of the Manor of Badminton in Gloucestershire, did claim one Crouch for his villein regardant to his said manor, and made an entry upon Crouch's lands in Somersetshire. Upon an answer made by Crouch, an _ejectione firmae_ was brought in the King's Bench; and upon the evidence it was moved, that as no seizure of the body had been made, or claim set up by the lord, for sixty years preceding, none could then be made. The Court held, in accordance with this, that no seizure could be made. I do not know what the reference means; perhaps some of your legal correspondents may do so.

JAYTEE.

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MACLEAN NOT JUNIUS.

(Vol. iii., p. 378.)

Your correspondent AEGROTUS (_ante_, p. 378.) is not justified in writing so confidently on a subject respecting which he is so little informed. He is evidently not even aware that the claims of Maclean have been ably and elaborately set forth by Sir David Brewster, and, as I think, conclusively, on the evidence, set aside in the _Athenaeum_. He has, however, been pleased to new vamp some old stories, to which he gives something of novelty by telling them "with a difference." I remember, indeed, four or five years since, to have seen a letter on this subject, written by Mr. Pickering, the bookseller, to the late Sir Harris Nicolas, in which the same statements were made, supported by the same authorities,--which, in fact, corresponded so exactly with the communication of AEGROTUS, that I must believe either that your correspondent has seen that letter, or that both writers had their information from a common story-teller.

Respecting the "vellum-bound copy" locked up in the ebony cabinet in possession of the late Marquis of Lansdowne, Mr. Pickering's version came nearer to the authority; for he said, "_My informant saw_ the bound volumes and the cabinet _when a boy_." The proof then rests on the recollection of an Anonymous, who speaks positively as to what took place nearly half a century since; and this anonymous boy, we are to believe, was already so interested about Junius as to notice the fact at the time, and remember it ever after. Against the probabilities of this we might urge, that the present Marquis--who was born in 1780, and came to the title in 1809, is probably as old, or older than Anonymous; as much interested in a question believed by many persons, AEGROTUS amongst them, intimately to concern his father, and quite as precocious, for he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1805--never saw or heard of either the volumes or the cabinet; and, as AEGROTUS admits, after a search expressly made by his order, they could not be found. Further, allow me to remind you, that it is not more than six weeks since it was recorded in "NOTES AND QUERIES" that a "vellum-bound" Junius was lately sold at Stowe; and it is about two months since I learnt, on the same authority, that a Mr. Cramp had asserted that vellum-bound copies were so common, that the printer must have taken the Junius copy as a pattern; so that, if AEGROTUS'S facts be admitted, they would prove nothing. There is one circumstance, however, bearing on this question, which perhaps AEGROTUS himself will think entitled to some weight. It was not until 1812, when George Woodfall published the private letters of Junius, that the public first heard about "a vellum-bound" copy. If therefore the Anonymous knew before 1809 that some special interest did or would attach more to one vellum-bound book than another, he must be Junius himself; for Sampson Woodfall was dead, and when living had said nothing about it.

AEGROTUS then favours us with the anecdote about "old Mr. Cox" the printer, and that Maclean corrected the proofs of _Junius' Letters_ at his printing-office. Of course, persons acquainted with the subject have heard the story before, though not with all the circumstantialities now given. Where, I might ask, is the authority for {412} this story? Who is responsible for it? But the emphatic question which common sense will ask is this: Why should Junius go to Mr. Cox's printing-office to correct his proofs? Where he wrote the letters he might surely have corrected the proofs. Why, after all his trouble, anxiety, and mystification to keep the secret, should he needlessly go to anybody's printing-office to correct the proofs, and thus wantonly risk the consequences?--in fact, go there and betray himself, as we are expected to believe he did? The story is absurd, on the face of it. But what authority has AEGROTUS for asserting that Junius corrected proofs at all? Strong presumptive evidence leads me to believe that he did not: in some instances he could not. In one instance he specially desired to have a proof; but it was, as we now know, for the purpose of forwarding it to Lord Chatham. Junius was also anxious to have proofs of the Dedication and Preface, but it is by no means certain that he had them; the evidence tends to show that they were, at Woodfall's request, and to remove from his own shoulders the threatened responsibility, read by Wilkes: and the collected edition was printed from Wheble's edition, so far as it went, and the remainder from slips cut from the _Public Advertiser_, both corrected by Junius; but we have no reason to believe that Junius ever saw a proof, even of the collected edition,--many reasons that tend strongly to the contrary opinion. Under these circumstances, we are required to believe an anonymous story, which runs counter to all evidence, that we may superadd an absurdity.

Mr. Pickering further referred to Mr. Raphael West, as one who "could tell much on the subject." Here AEGROTUS enlarges on the original, and tells us what this "much" consisted of. The story, professedly told by Benjamin West, about Maclean and Junius, on which Sir David Brewster founded his theory, may be found in Galt's _Life of West_. But Galt himself, in his subsequent autobiography, admits that the story told by West "does not relate the actual circumstances of the case correctly;" that is to say, Galt had found out, in the interval, that it was open to contradiction and disproof, and it has since been disproved in the _Athenaeum_. So much for a story discredited by the narrator himself. Of these facts AEGROTUS is entirely ignorant, and therefore proceeds by the following extraordinary circumstantialities to uphold it. "The late President of the Royal Academy knew Maclean; and his son, the late Raphael West, _told the writer of these remarks_ [AEGROTUS himself] that _when a young man_ he had seen him [Maclean] in the evening at his father's house in Newman Street, and _once heard him repeat a passage in one of the letters which was not then published_;" and AEGROTUS adds, "a more correct and veracious man than Mr. R. West could not be." So be it. Still it is strange that the President, who was said to have told his anecdote expressly to show that Maclean was Junius, never thought to confirm it by the conclusive proof of having read the letters before they were published! Further,--and we leave the question of extreme accuracy and _veraciousness_ to be settled by AEGROTUS,--the President West was born in 1738; he embarked from America for Italy in 1759; on his return he visited England in 1763, and such was the patronage with which he was welcomed, that his friends recommended him to take up his residence in London. This he was willing to do, provided a young American lady to whom he was attached would come to England. She consented; his father accompanied her, and they were married on the 2nd of September, 1765, at St. Martin's Church. Now Maclean embarked for India in December, 1773, or January, 1774, and was lost at sea, when "the young man," Master Raphael, could not have been more than seven years of age,--nay, to speak by the card, as Master Raphael heard one of Junius' letters read before it was published, and as the last was published in January, 1772, it follows, assuming that he was the eldest child, born in nine months to the hour, and that it was the very last letter that he heard read, he _may have been_ five years and seven months old--a very "young man" indeed; or rather, all circumstances considered, as precocious a youth as he who found out the vellum-bound copy years before it was known to be in existence.

I regret to have occupied so much of your space. But speculation on this subject is just now the fashion. "NOTES AND QUERIES" is likely hereafter to become an authority, and if these circumstantial statements are admitted into its columns, they must be as circumstantially disproved.

M. J.

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_The Ten Commandments_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--The controversy on the division of the Ten Commandments between the Romanists and Lutherans on the one side, and the Reformers or Calvinists on the other, has been discussed in the following works--1. Goth (Cardinalis), _Vera Ecclesia, &c._, Venet., 1750 (Art. xvi. s. 7.); 2. Chamieri _Panstratia_ (tom i. l. xxi. c. viii.); 3. Riveti _Opera_ (tom. i. p. 1227., and tom. iii. _Apologeticus pro vera Pace Ecclesiastica contra H. Grotii Votum_.); 4. Bohlii _Vera divisio Decalogi ex infallibili principio accentuationis_; 5. Hackspanii _Notae Philologicae in varia loca S. Scripturae_; 6. Pfeifferi _Opera_ (Cent. i. Loc. 96.); 7. Ussher's _Answer to a Jesuit's Challenge (of Images) and his Serm. at Westminster before the House of Commons, out of Deuteronomy, chap. iv. ver_. 15, 16., _and Romans, chap. i. ver._ 23.; 8. Stillingfleet's _Controversies with Godden, Author of "Catholics no Idolaters," and_ {413} _with Gother, Author of "The Papist Misrepresented," &c._

The earliest notices of the division of the Decalogue, are those of Josephus, lib. iii. c. 5. s. 5.; Philo-Judaeus _de Decem Oraculis_; and the Chaldaic Paraphrase of Jonathan. According to these, the third verse of Exod. xx. contains the first commandment; the fourth, fifth, and sixth, the second. The same distinction was adopted by the following early writers:--Origen (_Homil. viii. in Exod._), Greg. Nazienzen (_Carmina Mosis Decalogus_), Irenaeus (lib. iii. c. 42.), Athanasius (_in Synopsi S. Scripturae_), Ambrose (_in Ep. ad Ephes. c. vi._).

It was first abandoned by Augustine, who was instigated to introduce this innovation by the unwarranted representation of the doctrine of the Trinity by the First Tablet containing three commandments. The schoolmen followed his example, and accommodated the words of God to the legislative requirements of their new divinity, progressive development, which terminated in the Church of Rome, in compelling them to command what He strictly prohibits (See Ussher's _Answer_.)

"Hath God himself any where declared this to be only an explication of
the first commandment? Have the prophets or Christ and His apostles
ever done it? How then can any man's conscience be safe in this matter?
For it is not a trifling controversy whether it be a distinct
commandment or an explication of the first; but the lawfulness or
unlawfulness of the worship of images depends very much upon it, for if
it be only an explication of the first, then, unless one takes images
to be gods, their worship is lawful, and so the heathens were excused
in it, who were not such idiots; but if it be a new and distinct
precept, then the worshipping any image or similitude becomes a
grievous sin, and exposes men to the wrath of God in that severe manner
mentioned in the end of it. And it is a great confirmation that this is
the true meaning of it, because all the primitive writers[20] of the
Christian Church not only thought it a sin against this commandment,
but insisted upon the force of it against those heathens who denied
that they took their images for gods; and, therefore, this is a very
insufficient account of leaving out the second commandment (that the
people are in no danger of superstition or idolatry by
it.)."--Stillingfleet's _Doctrines of the Church of Rome, 25. Of the
Second Commandment_.

"If God allow the worship of the represented by the representation, he
would never have forbidden that worship absolutely, which is unlawful
only in a certain respect."--Ibid. _Answer to the Conclusion_.

With your permission I shall return to this subject, not of Images, but of the Second Commandment, in reply to MR. GATTY'S Queries on the division at present adopted by the Jews, &c.

T. JONES.

Chetham's Library, Manchester.

[Footnote 20: Thus St. Augustine himself: "In the first commandment, any similitude of God in the figments of men is forbidden to be worshipped, not because God hath not an image, but because no image of Him ought to be worshipped, but that which is the same thing that He is, nor yet that for Him but with Him."--See what is further cited from Augustine by Ussher in his _Answer_.]

_Mounds, Munts, Mount_ (Vol. iii., p. 187.).--If R. W. B. will refer to Mr. Lower's paper on the "Iron Works of the County of Sussex" in the second volume of the _Sussex Archaelogical Collections_, he will find that iron works were carried on in the parish of Maresfield in 1724, and probably much later. It is therefore probable that the lands which he mentions have derived their names from the pit-mounts round the mouths of the pits through which the iron ore was raised to the surface. In Staffordshire and Shropshire the term _munt_ is used to denote fire-clay of an inferior kind, which makes a large part of every coal-pit mount in those counties. If the same kind of fire-clay was found in the iron mines of Sussex, it is not necessary to suggest the derivation of the word _munt_.

I take this opportunity of suggesting to MR. ALBERT WAY that the utensil figured in page 179. of the above-mentioned work is not an ancient mustard-mill, but the upper part of an iron mould in which cannon-shot were cast. The iron tongs, of which a drawing is given in page 179., were probably useful for the purpose of drawing along a floor recently cast shot while they were too hot to be handled.

V. X. Y.

_San Graal_ (Vol. iii., pp 224. 281.).--Roquefort's article of nine columns in his _Glos. de la L. Rom._, is decisive of the word being derived from _Sancta Cratera;_ of _Graal, Greal_, always having meant a vessel or dish and of all the old romancers having understood the expression in the same meaning, namely, _Sancta Cratera, le Saint Graal, the Holy Cup or Vessel_, because, according to the legend, Christ used it at the Paschal Supper; and Joseph of Arimathea afterwards employed it to catch the blood flowing from his wounds. Many cities formerly claimed the honour of possessing this fabulous relic. Of course, as Price shows, it was an old Oriental magic-dish legend, imitated in the West.

GEORGE STEPHENS.

Stockholm.

_Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke_ (Vol. iii., pp 262. 307.).--It has been asserted that the second part of this epitaph was written by Lady Pembroke's son; among whose poems, which were published in 1660, the whole piece was included. (Park's _Walpole_, ii. 203. _note_; Gifford's _Ben Jonson_, viii. 337.) But it is notorious, that no confidence whatever can be placed in that volume (see this shown in detail in Mr. Hannah's edit. of Poems by Wotton and Raleigh, pp. 61. 63.); nor have we any right to distribute the two parts between different authors. There are at least _four_ {414} old copies of the whole; two in MSS. which are referred to by Mr. Hannah; the one in Pembroke's _Poems_; and the one in that Lansdowne MS., where it is ascribed to William Browne. Brydges assigned it to Browne, when he published his _Original Poems_ from that MS. at the Lee Priory Press in 1815, p. 5. Upon the whole, there seems to be more direct evidence for Browne than any other person.

R.

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Parcels delivered Carriage Free in London, daily.

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PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,

50. REGENT STREET.

CITY BRANCH: 2. ROYAL EXCHANGE BUILDINGS. Established 1806.

Policy Holders' Capital, 1,192,818l.

Annual Income, 150,000l.--Bonuses Declared, 743,000l. Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 2,001,450l.

_President._ The Right Honourable EARL GREY.

_Directors._ The Rev. James Sherman, _Chairman._ Henry Blencowe Churchill, Esq., _Deputy-Chairman._

Henry B. Alexander, Esq.
George Dacre, Esq.
William Judd, Esq.
Sir Richard D. King, Bart.
The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird
Thomas Maugham, Esq.
William Ostler, Esq.
Apsley Pellatt, Esq.
George Round, Esq.
Frederick Squire, Esq.
William Henry Stone, Esq.
Capt. William John Williams.

J. A. Beaumont, Esq. _Managing Director._

_Physician_--John Maclean, M.D. F.S.S., 29. Upper Montague Street, Montague Square.

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NINETEEN-TWENTIETHS OF THE PROFITS ARE DIVIDED AMONG THE INSURED.

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Examples of the Extinction of premiums by the Surrender of Bonuses.

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| | | | Bonuses added |
| Date | Sum | | subsequently, to be |
| of | Insured. | Original Premium. | further increased |
| Policy. | | | annually. |
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| 1806 | L2500 |L79 10 10 Extinguished| L1222 2 0 |
| 1811 | 1000 | 33 19 2 Ditto | 231 17 8 |
| 1818 | 1000 | 34 16 10 Ditto | 114 18 10 |
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Examples of Bonuses added to other Policies.

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| | | | | Total with Additions, |
| Policy | Date. | Sum | Bonuses | to be further |
| No. | | Insured. | added. | increased. |
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| 521 | 1807 | L900 | L982 12 1 | L1882 12 1 |
| 1174 | 1810 | 1200 | 1160 5 6 | 2360 5 6 |
| 3392 | 1820 | 5000 | 3558 17 8 | 8558 17 8 |
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Beautifully printed in 8vo., price 7s. 6d.; or postage free, 8s. 6d.; illustrated by Eighty splendid Pictures, engraved by GEORGE MEASOM.

DEDICATED TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.

GILBERT'S DESCRIPTION of the CRYSTAL PALACE: its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels. By PETER BERLYN and CHARLES FOWLER, Jun., Esqs. The Engravings depict the various peculiarities and novelties of this wonderful Building, as well as the Machinery, &c., used in its construction. The combined ambition of the Proprietor, Authors, and Artists, has been to produce a Book worthy of being purchased by every Visitor to the Exhibition as an attractive and interesting memento.

"The authors exhibit, by means of a series of very clever engravings, its gradual progress to a complete state."--_The Examiner_.

"The book is based on public and professional documents, and fully illustrated by plates. The best designs laid before the Committee, and buildings previously erected for similar purposes, are also given."--_The Spectator_.

"We most warmly recommend this history of the Crystal Palace."--_The Standard of Freedom_.

"The word embodies a variety of interesting facts; the whole illustrated by many excellent illustrations in order to convey an idea of the auxiliaries employed to facilitate and bring to perfection this glorious work."--_The Weekly Dispatch_.

London: JAMES GILBERT, 49. Paternoster Row. Orders received by all Booksellers, &c.

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Price 2s. 6d.; by Post 3s.

ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING TO MESMERISM. Part I. By the REV. S. R. MAITLAND, DD. F.R.S. F.S.A. Sometime Librarian to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and Keeper of the MSS. at Lambeth.

"One of the most valuable and interesting pamphlets we ever
read."--_Morning Herald_.

"This publication, which promises to be the commencement of a larger
work, will well repay serious perusal."--_Ir. Eccl. Journ._

"A small pamphlet in which he throws a startling light on the practices
of modern Mesmerism."--_Nottingham Journal_.

"Dr. Maitland, we consider, has here brought Mesmerism to the
'touchstone of truth,' to the test of the standard of right or wrong.
We thank him for this first instalment of his inquiry, and hope that he
will not long delay the remaining portions."--_London Medical Gazette_.

"The Enquiries are extremely curious, we should indeed say important.
That relating to the Witch of Endor is one of the most successful we
ever read. We cannot enter into particulars in this brief notice; but
we would strongly recommend the pamphlet even to those who care nothing
about Mesmerism, or _angry_ (for it has come to this at last) with the
subject."--_Dublin Evening Post_.

"We recommend its general perusal as being really an endeavour, by one
whose position gives him the best facilities, to ascertain the genuine
character of Mesmerism, which is so much disputed."--_Woolmer's Exeter
Gazette_.

"Dr. Maitland has bestowed a vast deal of attention of the subject for
many years past, and the present pamphlet is in part the result of his
thoughts and inquiries. There is a good deal in it which we should have
been glad to quote ... but we content ourselves with referring our
readers to the pamphlet itself."--_Brit. Mag._

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This day is published,

[Greek: E PALAIA DIATHEKE kata tous EBDOMEKONTA.] The Greek Septuagint Version, with the Apocrypha, including the Fourth Book of Maccabees, and the real Septuagint Version of Daniel: with an Historical Introduction. One Volume 8vo., 18s.

[Greek: E KAINE DIATHEKE.] A Large-print Greek New Testament, with selected various Readings and Parallel References, &c. &c. One Volume 8vo., 12s. Uniform with the Septuagint.

London: SAMUEL BAGSTER and Sons, 15. Paternoster Row.

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Books relating to America, Voyages, Maps, Charts, &c.

PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on WEDNESDAY, June 4, and following Day, a curious and valuable Library, including a collection of interesting and rare works relating to America and its territories, their history, natural history, progress, language, and literature; also relating to Mexico, the East and West Indies, &c.; several very curious Voyages, Travels, and Itineraries, including some pieces of the utmost rarity; a few curious works on the Indian Languages; and a very extensive and highly valuable collection of Maps and Charts in the finest condition. Catalogues will be sent on application.

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Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride in the City of London; and published by GEORGE BELL, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186 Fleet Street aforesaid.--Saturday, May 24. 1851.