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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



101 



LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1850. 



CONTENTS. 



rage 

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103 



NoTKgl — 



Boye's Satire on WoUcy atiLl the Monastic Orders 



Tiie British Museum and its Dictionaries . - . - 



Minor NoTF<:_Sir Isaac Newton —Pretender's Blue Ribbon — 

 A Lincolnshire Exclamation — Mazer Bowl — Epigram on the 

 French Revolutionists— Lord Bacon .... 



QlFHlES!- 



Alleged Copy of the Sentence passed on the Saviour - - IM 



Eton and Oxford Manuscript Latin and English Poems - - 104 



Minor Quebiks s — Skowbanker — Halsham — Alexander Forrest 

 — Custom of Free Bank or Free Bench — Kin? James's Baronets 

 _ Sir Philip Monckton, Knt. — Poetical Allusion — The Minutes 

 of tlie Westminster Assembly— Calais Sand, &c. - - - 104 



Minor QoEiiiEs with Answers : — The River Aide — Erasmus 

 Smith — Holinshcd's Chronicles— Winchester College, &c. - 106 



Rrpltes : - 

 Bartholomew Fair, by Henry Morley - - - - 107 



The Paston Letters, by Sir F. Madden - - - - 108 



Handel's mode of Composing, by Dr. Gauntlctt - - - 109 



Water-marks in Paper, by J. H. van Lennep - - - 110 



Diary of Goffe, the Regicide, by P. Hutchinson - - - HI 



Registry of Private Baptisms, by Simon Ward - - - 112 



Families of Saxon Origin - - - - - - 112 



BFrLiRs TO MiNOB QiTEBiEs: — Etymology of Mushroom — Scotch 

 Marriages — Early Enfrlish Almanack — J. B. Greenshields _ 

 Madame Du Barry's Portrait of Charles I. — Oak Bedsteads, 

 &.C. — Pilate's " What is truth? " — Operation for Cataract, &c. - 1 13 



Notes on Books, &c. -- - - - - -118 



KOYE's SATIRE ON WOLSBT AND TIIE MONASTIC 

 ORDERS. 



This anonymous and extremely scurrilous pro- 

 duction is entitled 



** d^ttst me una he watt bJiatlje, 



and is usually attributed to William Roye, a friar 

 observant of the Franciscan Order at Greenwich, 

 who (ns Sir Thos. More exultingly informs us in 

 hie Confutation of Tyndale) " made- a meet end at 

 last, and was burned in Portyngale," oh hm^esim, 

 A.D. 1531. It would appear, however, from the 

 preface to Tyndale's Parable of the Wicked Mam- 

 mon, that one Jerome, also a member of the 

 Greenwich fraternity, was associated with lloye 

 in its composition — if, indeed, he was not, as I 

 am inclined to suppose, the sole or principal 

 author of it. More had insinuated, in his Dia- 

 logue, that Tyndale wrote it, and the latter was 

 constrained, therefore, to refute such an odious 

 calumny ; which he does in the preface referred 

 to, revealing at the same time by whom the of- 

 fensive work was really composed. Speaking of 

 Jerome, Tyndale remarks : — 



"When lie was come to Argentine [i.e. Strasbourg], 

 William Roye (whose tongue is not only able to make 

 fools stark mad, but also to deceive the wisest, that is, at 

 the first sight and acquaintance) gat him to him, and set 

 him a work to make rhymes, while he himself translated a 

 dialogue out of Latin into English, in whose Prologue he 

 promiseth more a great deal than I fear me he will ever 

 pay." 



Here we have the occupations of the two recu- 

 sants distinctly noted : whilst Roye was engaged 

 in translating Inter Patrem Christianum et Filium 

 Conlumacem Dialogum Christianum, his companion 



was busy " making rhymes," or satirising the am- 

 bitious Cardinal. Roye, no doubt, rendered him 

 some assistance, more particularly (I am disposed 

 to believe) in the second part of the book, much 

 of which is a lampoon on Wolsey's stateliness and 

 profligacy. I infer this from the fact of the edge 

 of the satire being taken off in its republication in 

 1546, or fifteen years after the death of Roye. In 

 the interval, brother Jerome had witnessed the 

 accomplishment of his malicious prediction of the 

 Cardinal's end : — 



" O caytyfe, when thou thynkest least of all, 

 With confusion thou slialt have a fall ; " 



and, no longer influenced by the presence and 

 counsels of Roye, he transferred the greater part 

 of the abuse to the Roman prelacy in general 

 which he had previously heaped upon the unfor- 

 tunate Wolsey in particular. Who but the author 

 of the Satire would have troubled himself to make 

 such an alteration in it ? 



The Satire was originally published in seventy- 

 two leaves (unpaged), small 12mo., black letter, 

 arfd without date or place. With respect to the last- 

 mentioned points, bibliographers are not agreed. 

 Lowndes says that it first appeared in 1532 ; 

 Herbert, in 1529; Ellis does not attempt to de- 

 termine the question ; and Watt is silent both as 

 regards the author and his book. Hamburg, or 

 Antwerp, is usually assigned as the place of pub- 

 lication. I think it much more probable that it 

 issued from the press of Schott of Strasbourg in 

 the year 1527. Schott also printed Tyndale's New 

 Testament and Roye's Dialogue between the Father 

 and the Son. Upon its appearance Wolsey spared 

 neither pains nor expense to destroy " the blas- 

 phemous book " (as More styles the Satire in his 

 Supplication for Souls in Purgatory), as well as 

 its supposed authors, Tyndale and his amanuensis, 

 Roye. Jerome informs us, in his edition of 1546, 

 that his 



" boke was printed in the Cardinel liys time, whiche 

 when he had harde that it was done, caused a certayne 

 man (whom I could name if 1 lusted), to bye them all 

 uppe." 



A few copies only escaped Wolsey's destructive 

 inquisition : hence the extreme rarity and pro- 

 portionate value of the frst edition. Probably 

 there are not half a dozen copies extant. That in 

 the Grenville Library was purchased for 181. 18s. 



The occasion and period of its composition are 

 determined by the Satire itself Unquestionably 

 the idea of it was suggested by the public burning 

 of Tyndale's version of the New Testament, on 

 Sunday, the 11th Feb. 1526, at Paul's Cross. In 

 " The brefe Dialoge betwene two prestes ser- 

 vaunts named Watkin and Jefl'raye " (i. e. the 

 two friars themselves), occurs the following, as 

 well as ma,nj other passages to the like effect: — 

 "J. They sett nott by the Gospell a flye ; 

 Diddest thou not heare whatt villany 

 They did unto the Gospell ? 



