a-a S. VII. Jan. 29. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



93 



The translation of Barlow to Bath and Wells does not 

 appear in Cranmer's Reg. at all. The mandate to the 

 Archdeacon of Cant, to inthrone (by which alone at that 

 date it could appear) is entered there in the parallel cases 

 of Thirlby and Ridley in April, 1550 ; but this properly 

 finds its place in the register of the particular see," 



At p. 77. of the Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum*, 

 by the Rev. William Stubbs, Oxford, 4to., 1858, 

 tnis entry occurs : — 



« 153G, June 11, Lambeth. William Barlow, S. Da- 

 vid's. Consecrators. Thomas [Cranmer], John [Voysey], 

 Exeter, John [Clerk], Bath. Authorities. Haddon on 

 Bramhall, vol. iii. pp. 138—143., and Preface." (Anglo- 

 Catholic Library, Oxford, 1844.) 



I quote this principally to call your readers' at- 

 tention to this work, which is one of immense re- 

 search and of inestimable value. 



B. B. WOODWABD, 



CABLETON S MEMOIKS. 



(2°'J S. vi. 392., vii. 11.) 



Quo teneam vvltus mutantem Protea nodo ? may 

 well be asked respecting that multifarious writer, 

 whether Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe, Dr. 

 Drelincourt, or Daniel De Foe, whose squibs, 

 tracts, novels, histories, and books of travels fur- 

 nished the staple of the light literature of the end 

 of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth 

 centuries. One need therefore feel no compunc- 

 tion in attempting to reinstate a fine old officer 

 in his right, even though the result may be to 

 withdraw one of his aliases from The True Born 

 Englishman. 



A remark of another writer of English history, 

 which I am able to adduce, though not of equal 

 weight perhaps with the opinions of Lord Stan- 

 hope, may have some weight in showing that 

 Capt. Carleton is not a mere nominis umbra, but 

 the true and proper designation of a real actor in 

 the events which the Memoirs record. 



In 1790, James Pettit Andrews, the continuator 

 of Henry's History of Great Britain, and the 

 author of a very useful (though neglected) his- 

 tory " connecting our annals with the Chronology 

 of Europe," published a volume of " Anecdotes 

 &c.. Ancient and Modern," arranged under dif- 

 ferent subjects. Under the head of " Incon- 

 sistency" he contrasts the bravery displayed by 



r* We are greatly indebted to our correspondent for 

 calling our attention to this extremely valuable work. 

 Mr. Stubbs offers it " as a Contribution to Ecclesiastical 

 History in the Departments of Biography and exact 

 Chronology;" and from the patient research of the 

 editor, a most valuable contribution it is. Its preparation 

 reflects credit upon Mr, Stubbs, and its publication upon 

 the Delegates of the Oxford University Press, — and we 

 hope that these lines may be the n^eans of making it as 

 generally known as it deserves to be. — Ed, "N. & Q."] 



James II, at one period of Lis life, with the pol- 

 troonery with which he stigmatises it at another. 



The authority cited by Andrews (at page 170.) in 

 support of his earlier statement, is the very book 

 before us, — The Memoirs of Capt. Carleton, and in 

 doing so he throws in parenthetically his opinion of 

 it and of its author as " a book deserving credit, 

 as the author was a veteran of good family and. 

 irreproachable character." Now here we have a 

 testimony not to the authenticity only, but to the 

 genuineness of the work, as the production of 

 the person whose name it bears, spoken in no 

 measured or hesitating tone, by a man necessarily 

 conversant with the writers on matters of English 

 history, and himself, as a literary antiquary of no 

 mean note, the very kind of witness most compe- 

 tent to speak on such a question. 



Perhaps it might not be too much, after hearing 

 the opinions now before us, to ask some of your 

 correspondents to explain how the Memoirs began 

 to be attributed to De Foe at all ? In the con- 

 versation of Dr. Johnson, as reported by Boswell, 

 they are attributed to a Capt, Carleton, not (if, 

 even at this distance of time, one might venture 

 to hint at a lapsus of the sage of Fleet Street) 

 indeed rightly designated, — but still to a Carle- 

 ton, and no hint of De Foe is recorded. Again, 

 Sir Walter Scott (the best editor of the Memoirs) 

 says nothing to imply the slightest doubt that 

 they were written by him whose nanae they bear. 

 Indeed, towards the close of his Preface, which 

 had been mainly occupied by notices of the Earl 

 of Peterborough, Sir Walter says (p. xiii.) : — 



" To this short sketch of the principal characters in 

 these Memoirs, the publishers would willingly have added 

 some particulars of the author ; but they are unable to 

 say more on the subject than may be collected from the 

 work itself, and the original preface. It is obvious that 

 Capt. George Carleton was one of those men who chuse 

 [sic] the path of military life, not from a wish to in- 

 dulge either indolent or licentious habits, but with a 



feeling of duty There is a strain of grave 



and manly reflection through the work which speaks the 

 author accustomed to scenes of danger, and familiar with 

 the thoughts of death. From his studies in mathematics 

 and in fortification, he is entitled to credit for his military 

 remarks, which are usually made with simple modesty. 

 His style is plain and soldier-like, without any pretence 

 at ornament ; though, in narrating events of importance, 

 its verj^ simplicity gives it occasional dignity. Of the 

 fate of the author after deliverance from his Spanish 

 captivity, we know nothing ; but can gather from some 

 passages in his Memoirs, that it did not correspond with 

 his merit," 



Every word here speaks the conviction of the 

 editor as to the genuineness of the work. But I 

 would venture, if not trespassing too largely on 

 your space, to offer a few remarks on the notice 

 in Boswell's Life of Johnson, which I cite from 

 Scott's Preface, not having a copy of Boswell at 

 hand, Johnson is represented as saying : — 



« The best account of Lord Peterborough that I have 

 happened to meet with is in Captain Carleton's Memoirs. 



