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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"» S. VII. Jan. 15. '59. 



BlachvoocTs Magazine for October, 1832, p. 632., 

 and is highly amusing and excellent. If the same, 

 it begins with the line, 



" I've borne a pretty tolerable share," &c. 



But your correspondent is greatly in error, or 

 sadly misprinted, when he calls it a satiric drama. 

 Those of Aristophanes are properly satiric ; but 

 this is one remaining specimen of the saturic or 

 satyric drama, or melodrame : quite a different 

 thing. W. 



Carletori's " Memoirs'' (2"* S. vii. II.) — In a 

 previous number of " N. & Q." an inquiry was 

 made by a very intelligent correspondent ;8 re- 

 specting the exact title of the first edition of 

 Carleton's Memoirs, which was replied to as above 

 in a way which certainly gives a very erroneous 

 impression. Mr. Markland, — trusting, I sup- 

 pose, to recollection merely — states that the title- 

 page of 1728 begins, " The Military Memoirs of 

 Capt. Oeorge Carleton, ^c." I have a copy of 

 the book now before me, and can therefore in- 

 form both correspondents that the exact words 

 are as follows : — 



" The Memoirs of an English Officer who served in the 

 Dutch War in 1672 to the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. 

 Containing several remarkable Transactions both by Sea 

 and Land, and in divers Countries, but chiefly those 

 wherein the Author was personally concerned, together 

 with, &c. &c. By Capt. George Carleton. London. 

 Printed for E. Symon, over against the Royal Exchange, 

 Cornhill. mdccxxviii," 



I may add that the " erroneous " biographical 

 sketch reprehended by (3 is prefixed to this first 

 edition. Lethrediensis. 



Portrait of Graham of Claverhouse (2""^ S. v. 

 131.) — There is a portrait of this celebrated and 

 gallant Scotish cavalier in the collection of the 

 Earl of Strathmore, at Glamis Castle, in Forfar- 

 shire, which was painted by Sir Peter Lely. There 

 was also an original painting of Lord Dundee in 

 the possession of James Ritchie, Esq., Solicitor, 

 Elgin, N. B. The circumstances of the death of 

 .lobn Graham, first Viscount Dundee, and Lord 

 Graham of Claverhouse in the county of For- 

 far, are well known. He fell in the arms of vic- 

 tory, slain by a " felon shot " on the battle-field of 

 Killiecrankie, on Saturday evening, 27th July, 

 1689. It is rather singular, however, that it is 

 not quite clear, from contemporary accountSj whe- 

 ther this noble soldier's death occurred during the 

 night of Saturday — the day of his last battle — or 

 on the morning of the following Sunday, 28 th July. 

 In his grave were buried the fruits of his victory, 

 and the cause of legitimacy and the Stuart dy- 

 nasty perished with him. Dr. Pitcairn, in his 

 beautifully <'lassical Elegy to the memory of Lord 

 Dundee, styles him Ultime Scotorum. His only 

 son .lames, second "Viscount Dundee, survived him 

 but a few months, dying in infancy in the month 



of December, 1689. It is much- to be regretted 

 that hitherto no monument of any kind has been 

 erected over his grave in the neighbouring church- 

 yard ; and the spot where, according to tradition, 

 he received his death-wound is only indicated by 

 a rude stone hardly visible to passers-by. 



A. S. A. 

 Barrackpore. 



" Sincere" (2°* S. vii. p. 19.) — I cannot imagine 

 how any one can entertain a doubt of the etymo- 

 logy of sincerus. Donatus has given it on Ter., 

 Eunuch., Act I. Sc. 2. v. 97. : 



" Purum, et simplex ut mel sine cera." 



" Simplex, sine plica,'' is an analogous formation, 

 the n being changed, as usual, by the following 

 labial. Whenever the word sincerus occurs, it 

 either means (literally) pure, clean ; or (meta- 

 phorically) true, without any mixture of deceit. 

 This was the explanation cited from Dean Trench 

 (l'^' S. viii. 197., and well illustrated in pp. 328. 

 567., and xii. 292.). The suggestions of your 

 other correspondents seem hardly worth a serious 

 answer. E. C. H. 



Johnson and Warburton (2""^ S. vi. 459.)— M. A. 

 wishes to know the date and j)lace of meeting of 

 these " two great luminaries." The place is 

 given in the following anecdote in vol. ix. p. 134. 

 of Croker's edition of BosivelVs Life of Johnson, 

 10 vols. 12mo. 1839 : — 



" To a person who asked ' whether he had ever been in 

 company with Dr. Warburton,' he answered, ' I never 

 saw him 'till one evening, about a week ago, at the 

 Bishop of St. Asaph's : at first he looked surlily at me ; 

 but after we had been jostled into conversation, he took 

 me to a window, asked me some questions, and before we 

 parted was so well pleased with me that he patted me.' 

 ' You always, Sir, preserved a respect for him ? ' ' Yes, 

 and justly; when as j'et I was in no favour with the 

 world, he spoke well of me *, and I hope I never forgot 

 the obligation.' " 



The date of the meeting will perhaps be found 

 in Hawkins's Life of Johnson, from which the 

 above anecdote is selected. W. H. "W. T. 



Bell Ringing^ (2°* S. vi. 526.) — The " Art of 

 Bell-ringing " is so thoroughly English that it is 

 not likely there is anything on the subject in any 

 other language. On " Bells," N. G. C. will find a 

 goodly list of authors (mostly foreign) in my com- 

 munication to » N. & Q." (1" S. ix. 240. ; xi. 32.). 

 And in some of them will be found by whom, and 

 when, and why bells are to be rung ; but to learn 

 the art, he must become a ringer, and study it in 

 some of the English books on Campanology. I 

 will give him any farther information in my power, 

 if he will write to me. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Rectory, Clvst St. George, Topsham, Devon, 

 Dec. 27, 1858. 



* In bis Preface to ^hahspeare. 



