Chapter L: Jewitt

MR. BOLTON CORNEY has traced the "Waggoner" to Wagenaer's work satisfactorily; but surely the _Quarter_ is merely _Quarto_. I believe the term is not now used in the navy, and apparently was never _officially_ recognised: at least it does not occur in the _Admiralty Instructions for the Navy_ of 1747, 1790, or 1808. I may add a reference to Falconer's _Marine Dictionary_, where "Waggoner" is explained to be a "book of charts, describing the coasts, rocks, &c.," and to Dalrymple's _Charts and Memoirs_ (1772), where a work called _The English Waggoner_ is mentioned.

_Log-book_ is so called because the rate of sailing of the ship, as ascertained by heaving the _log_, is one of the most frequent and important entries.

B. R. I.

_Cibber's Lives of the Poets_ (Vol. v., p. 25.).--I have not Croker's _last_ edition of Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ to refer to, to see what is there said respecting Cibber's title to the authorship of this book; but I find the following MS. note on the fly-leaf of the first volume of my copy of the _Lives of the Poets_:--

"Steevens says that not the smallest part of the work called
'Cibber's _Lives of the Poets_' was the compilation of Cibber;
being entirely written by Mr. Shiells, amanuensis to Dr. Johnson,
when his Dictionary was preparing for the press. T. Cibber was in
the King's Bench, and accepted of ten guineas from the booksellers
for leave to prefix his name to the work, and it was purposely so
prefixed as to leave the reader in doubt whether he or his father
was the person designed."

The American edition of the German _Conversations-Lexicon_, at vol. iii. p. 190. makes the same statement, but without giving any authority. The name of Robert Shiells, a Scotchman, is here given as the author of the _Lives of the Poets_.

P. T.

_Shakspere and the English Press_ (Vol. iv., p. 344.).--The _Second part of Henry the Sixt_, ascribed to Shakspere by Heminge and Condell, is founded on a play entitled _The first part of the contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster_, which was first printed anonymously in 1594. It was reprinted anonymously in 1600; and, as the work of Shakspere, about 1619. The amended play first appeared in the folio of 1623. The passage in which Jack Cade reproaches lord Say with having promoted education, stands thus in the editions of 1594 and 1623:

"Thou hast most traitorously erected a grammer schoole, to infect
the youth of the realme, and against the kings crowne and
dignitie, thou hast built vp a paper-mill."--1594. (J. O. H.)

"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in
erecting a grammar-school: and whereas, before, our forefathers
had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused
printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and
dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill."--1623. (J. P. C.)

Fabian gives no information on the charges made against lord Say; nor do the subsequent chroniclers. The received text contains two undoubted anachronisms--to what extent, it would require a volume to decide. On comparing the extracts, it appears that we must ascribe the anachronism on paper-making to the earlier dramatist, and that on printing to William Shakspere--who also borrowed the allusion to _the score and the tally_ from a former speech in the work of his unknown precursor.

Malone, when he edited _The plays and poems of William Shakspere_, undertook to distinguish by inverted commas the lines of this play which the poet "retouched and greatly improved," and by asterisks, those which were "his own original production." The design was commendable, but in the execution of it he committed numerous oversights.

BOLTON CORNEY.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

_The Book of Familiar Quotations; being a Collection of Popular Extracts and Aphorisms selected from the Works of the best Authors_, is a little volume of such extracts from Shakspeare, Pope, and others of our greatest poets as most frequently fall on the ear in conversation, or meet the eye in the columns of the press and periodicals of the country. The present selection is a very good one, as far as it goes, and has the advantage over its predecessors of not only giving us the name of the author of each passage quoted, but also its precise place in his works.

_Shall we Register our Deeds? answered by Sir Edward Sugden._ This clever pamphlet proposes an important Query, and replies to it thus: "Let us therefore to the question proposed, Shall we register our deeds? answer with one voice, No!"

If the study of Natural History be one which may with advantage be introduced into the family circle (and who can doubt it?) we know no better medium than the clever and well-conducted little weekly paper which has just been commenced under the title of Kidd's _London Journal_, of which the first five numbers are before us.

Mr. Tymms, the active and zealous Secretary of the _Bury and West Suffolk Archæological Institute_, and Editor of the volume of _Bury Wills_, printed by the Camden Society, is about to publish a _Handbook of Bury_, on the plan of Cunningham's _Handbook of London_, and would be glad to receive any notes upon the subject: more especially with respect to its remarkable inhabitants.

We have to call the attention of our readers interested in the history of our Constitution and Constitutional Law to a preliminary Essay on the History of the _Law of Habeas Corpus_ recently published by Dr. Marquardsen, under the title _Ueber Haft und Bürgschaft bei den Angelsachsen_. It is but a small pamphlet, but will repay the time spent in its perusal. This mention of the Anglo-Saxon polity reminds us, that the Second Part of _The Jubilee Edition of the Complete Works of King Alfred_ has been issued, and, in addition to a continuation of the _Harmony of the Chronicles_, contains a _Sketch of the Anglo-Saxon Mint_, and a _Description of all the Coins of King Alfred_ now remaining.

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EXECUTIONER OF CHARLES I. _The passage from Lilly sent us by_ R. S. F. _has already appeared in_ "N. & Q.;" _see_ Vol. II., p. 268. _The story of Lord Stair being the executioner, forwarded by_ R. F. M. _and_ C., _is obviously a fiction. It was printed by Hone in his_ Cecil's Sixty Curious and Authentic Narratives, _where it is given as a quotation from_ The Recreations of a Man of Feeling.

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