NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'* 8. VII. Jan. 1. '59. 



IS preserved in the British Museum, MS. Eg. 

 1324. The owner was Professor of History at 

 Nuremberg, and his Album contains the auto- 

 graphs of many of the University Professors in 

 various parts of Germany and the Low Countries, 

 in the years 1649—1672, but also includes some 

 others collected during a residence in England in 

 1651. The entry signed by Milton occurs at f. 

 85^, and is thus worded : — 



'Ec a<T0€vtC(f rtAtiovfJidi, 



" Doctissimo virO, meoque fautoH humanisSihi«, D. 

 Christophoro Arholdo, dcdi hoc, in meinoriam cum sure 

 virtutis, turn mei erga so studii. Londini, Ah. D. 1651. 

 Novem. 19. 



" JoanJies Miltootus.'* 



The signature is larger than the one in the 

 printed copy of Aratus (see " N. & Q." 2°'* S. iv. 

 459.), now also in the British Museum, but has a 

 great similarity in the form of the letters. This 

 Album contains also the autographs of the fol- 

 lowing persons resident in London, Oxford, or 

 Cambridge, in 1651 : John Selden, James Ussher, 

 Archbishop of Armagh, Francis Junius, Sir Wil- 

 Hain Petty, Jeremy Collier (recently Fellow of 

 St. John's Coll. Cambr.), John Dury, John Rous 

 (University Librarian, Oxford), Victorinus Byth- 

 ner (Professor of Hebrew, Oxf.), R. "Watkins, 

 Thomas Smith, M.A. (of Ch. Ch. Cambr.), Abra- 

 ham Wheloc (University Librarian, Cambridge), 

 Edw. Dickenson (Fellow of Jesus Coll. Cambr.), 

 Robert Austen (Fellow of King's Coll. Cambr.), 

 and J. Sadler. F. Madden. 



JUNIUS LETTERS. 



I should be glad to learn the name of the 

 individual alluded to in the following passage, 

 which occurs in a note to the History of Ceylon, 

 by Philalethes, A.M. Oxon. Philalethes was, I 

 believe, the Rev. W. Bisset *, who accompanied 

 Sir Robert Brownrigg when appointed governor 

 of Ceylon, and published the above volume in 

 1817. After speaking of Hugh Boyd, who, in 

 1782, had been sent on a mission to the Court at 

 Kandy, he alludes to that gentleman in the fol- 

 lowing terms : — 



" Mr. Boyd, who conducted the above-mentioned em- 

 bassy, was a man of genius and talents, and has been 

 believed by some, though I think without any sufficient 

 reason, to have been the author of the celebrated Letters 

 under the signature of Junius. During six years and a 

 half of a laborious literary life, from July, i807, to De- 

 cember, 1813, my attention was, 6n several occasions, 

 called to the examination of this subject ; but I remember 

 to have been much less impressed by the pretensions of 

 Mr. Boyd, than by those of another gentleman whose name 

 has been seldom mentioned during the discussion of this 

 interesting point of literary curiosity. The letters which 

 have been recently published, * proving a late prime minis- 



[* In the Bodleian Catalogue this work is attributed to 

 Robert Fellowes, M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxfora.— Ed.] 



ter to have been Junius,' do not, I think, establish the 

 authorship of the Duke of Portland; but they still render 

 it higlily credible that the Duke of Portland must havb 

 known who Junius was, and that Junius must have de- 

 rived some of his information from the duke. Now no 

 proof has been adduced to show that the duke himself 

 had sufficient literary capacitv for the authorship of the 

 Letters ; but there is certainly very strong presumptive 

 evidence that at least some of them must have been writ- 

 ten under his cognizance and inspection. Who then Was 

 the powerful agent, whose pen served to vindicate the 

 cldims of the duke, and to vilify both the sovereign and 

 his ministers? Shall I invoke the names of c****** 

 L**** to reveal the disputed name?" — Hist. Ceylon, 

 S^c, c. xvii. p. 139. 



J. Emerson Tennent. 



[This was " Charles Lloyd," of whom Dr. Parr wrote, 

 " The writer of Junius was Mr. Lloyd, Secretary to 

 George Grenville anc^ brother to Philip Lloyd, Dean of 

 Norwich. This will one day or other be generallj' ac- 

 knowledged." Lloyd's claims have been supported at 

 great length, and with considerable ingenuity, bv the 

 late E. H. Barker of Thetford, in his (1.) Claims of Sir 

 P. Francis to the Authorship of Junius' Letters dis- 

 proved; (2.) Some Enquiry into the Claims of the late 

 Charles Lloyd, Esq. to the Composition of them. Loudon, 

 1828.] 



" Who was Junius .?" (2"^ S. i. 185, 186, 187.)— 

 As a note to W. W. J.'s paper, " Who was Ju- 

 nius," I send this scrap. 



W. W. J. particularly refers to the edition of 

 Junius's Letters, with Anecdotes of the Author, pub- 

 lished in 1771, which was subsequently reprinted 

 at Southampton, " with the King's Reply.'" 



A copy of the above work (ed. 1771) belonged 

 to the late Sir J. H. Rose ; and the following note 

 from it, in the baronet's autograph, may appear 

 of sufficient interest to warrant its preservation 

 in " N. & Q." : — 



" This particular volume was once for a short time in 

 the last hands which might be supposed to have ever 

 held it. George the Third Avas more than once my father's 

 guest lor a day or two at WeA'mouth ; both were early 

 men, and they met one morning in the Library. The 

 King said to my father : ' Mr. Rose, you have " Junius" ' ; 

 and he desired him to give it to him. My father sought 

 it, and gave it to him. The King sought out a particular 

 passage, doubled down the page, and carried the book 

 away." 



I think W. W. J.'s interesting paper may al- 

 most as safely be regarded a list of those who have 

 been, from time to time, identified with Junius, as 

 an enumeration of the works which have appeared 

 on the subject. Tooke, Boyd, General Lee, Chat- 

 ham, Wilmot, Burke, (jlover, De Lolme, Duke of 

 Portland, Francis, Gibbon, Chesterfield, Sackville, 

 Lloyd, Wray, Temple, and Rich, pass, like Shak- 

 speare's line of phantom kings, before the reader. 

 Lord Holland, in his Memoirs of the Whig Party, 

 states that George III. always regarded Lord 

 Loughborough, previously Mr. Wedderburn, and 

 afterwards Lord Rosslyn, as Junius. I think 

 Lord Holland adds that King William IV. was 



