2"* S. VII. Jan. 22. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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miglit be inserted in future editions, so that his 

 naipe might go down to posterity together with 

 that of his friend. His request was complied with, 

 and from that time it has been printed in almost 

 all the editions of the poet's Works. 



Having thus answered the question of Leth- 

 BEDiENSis, allow me to add a few words of ex- 

 planation in reference to my Query respecting a 

 cancellation in the first edition of "Expostulation" 

 (see " N. & Q.," 2"'^ S. vii. 8.). Since I sent you 

 that Query, I have found that the cancellation 

 referred to took place during the progress of the 

 printing, and not after the publication of the 

 volume. Southey, as I stated in my former com- 

 munication, has printed the cancelled lines. He 

 introduced them as follows : — 



" It is proper to insert here, from the first edition, a re- 

 markable passage, for which the next paragraph was 

 substituted in the second and all subsequent ones." 



Upon the authority of this passage, I have not 

 the slightest doubt that Southey obtained these 

 lines, from a copy of the first edition — probably 

 from the author's presentation copy to Mr. Bull, of 

 •which Southey had the use — and if they were to 

 be found in one copy of that edition, they may be 

 in others. I still, therefore, solicit a sight of any 

 copy in which they occur ; but it is equally clear 

 that the correction was made before publication. 

 On the 4th Dec. 1781, Cowper writes to Newton : 



" I subjoin the lines with which I mean to supersede 

 the obnoxious ones in Expostulation. . . The new para- 

 graph consists exactly of the same number of lines with 

 the old one ; for upon this occasion I worked like a tailor 

 when he sews a patch upon a hole in your coat, supposing 

 it might be necessary to do so." 



I cannot doubt that these words refer to the 

 cancellation in question. The volume was not 

 published until March, 1782 ; there was plenty of 

 time, therefore, to make the desired substitution ; 

 but it is perfectly possible that other copies beside 

 the one referred to by Southey may have gone 

 out with the passage unaltered ; perhaps even with 

 the cancel inserted at the end, to be substituted 

 by the bookbinder. An unbound copy would in 

 that case be more likely to contain them than a 

 bound one. John Bkuce. 



5. Upper Gloucester Street. 



MONSTKE GUN (qUEEN ELIZABETH'S POCKKT-PISTOl) 

 AT DOVER. 



(2»<^ S. iv. 409.) 

 The Utrecht Gunfounder, Jan van Tolhuys. — 

 Perhaps the following replies to the Query just 

 quoted may be welcome to some of your readers, 

 and make them bring their quota towards its solu- 

 tion. I translate from the Navorscher, vol. viii. 

 pp. 83. 142. 169.: — 



" I have reason to doubt whether the arms on the 

 Dover monster-gun were blazoned aright in your perio- 



dical. The shield probably is quartered as follows : 1 and 

 4 the chevrons (^Egmond) ; 2 and 3 the fasce bretessee and 

 contrebret<issee {Buren) ; for surtoiU, a fasce, over which 

 a saltire cheque ( Ysselstein). 



" Can this piece of ordnance have been the property of 

 Maximilian van Egraond, Count of Buren and Leerdam, 

 Lord of Ysselstein, St. Maertensdijk, Caet. and Stad- 

 holder of Friesland, who deceased in Brussels in 1548 ; a 

 man highly esteemed by the Emperor Charles V. ? M<>." 



[Maximilian was, in 1540, appointed Captain-General 

 of all the Netherlands ; and probably will, according to 

 his Emperor's behest, in this quality have ordered the 

 gun to be made. So, in compliment to him, the Egmond, 

 Buren, and Ysselstein arms, with the motto Sans Atiltre, 

 will have been engraved in the brass. 



J. H. VAN Lennep.] 



" In Velius, Chron. van Hoorn, I find on page 259. of 

 the edition by Centen, that the Hoorn magistrates of 

 1545 had several brass pieces of ordnance cast at Utrecht 

 by a certain Master Jan van Tolhuis ; and on page 263., 

 the same founder is again mentioned as the purveyor of 

 four brass guns in 1551. On page 295., Centen remarks 

 that one of those cannons, still on a city rampart in 1738, 

 bore the inscription : — 

 " ' Ik heet die Joffer fel wrect spkekende 



MUIREN EN ScIIANSEN WART IK BREKENDE. 



Jan Tolhuus van Utrecht, 1542.' 

 " [I am the Maid, that speaks right fearful things : 

 To wall and stonce my pow'r destruction brings.] 



" CONSTANTER." 



" Jan Tolhuys was gunfounder at Utrecht in the 16th 

 century; and, in the town archives, is also called bell- 

 founder of the same city. In the Utrechtsche Volks- 

 Almanak of 1851, I gave a short account of the cannon- 

 foundery at that place in the 15th and 16th centuries, 

 whilst, on page 116., I showed that the Utrecht foundery 

 already in 1413 cast guns for the King of England. 



" L. E. Bosch, Jr." 



" Concerning Master Jan Tolhuys, Bell and Gunfounder, 

 at Utrecht, and Trijntje [_Catherine'[ his wife, we read 

 that, in 1534, they agreed to found two bells for the Buur- 

 herk, and purveyed them ' out of the church's metal, as 

 good as any [bell's] ring in Utrecht; item, in 1540 and 

 '41, to refound the bell Michael of the Buurkerk, which 

 was burst.' In 1545 and '46 we find Tolhuys transferring 

 the purchase of a bell, weighing 1108 lbs., to the same 

 church, for 13G guilders. 



" From the same source we learn that, in 1538 and '39, 

 he furnished tin for the bells of St. Nicholas's in Utrecht ; 

 that, in 1540, he was appointed the town's gunmaster 

 [meester bus-scut'], and was sworn as such ; in the same 

 jear he received money for casting in full the new Watch- 

 clock [ Waec-clok], hanging in the tower of the Buurkerk ; 

 moreover that, in 1541, to him as Master Bus-scut were 

 paid 20 pounds Flemish ' as his salary for a whole year, he 

 being engaged for that ofiice his life during, viz. for the 

 firing off, inspecting and assaying of all sorts of guns, 

 large and small : he, furthermore, being obliged to dwell 

 in the town for life, and there to follow up and pursue 

 his handicraft of gun-casting and bell- founding, but 

 with leave to quit the city and to journey for his affairs 

 and trade, and to make agreements for work to be cast 

 within the precincts of the town ; it being moreover en- 

 acted, that he, besides his salary, would be clothed like 

 the Summoners \_deurwaarders'], and enjoy with them 

 equal rations and wine, and that he would be exempted 

 from mounting night-watch \_waekvri/ zijnj.' In 1542 

 permission was given to Tolhuys to pull down his bell- 

 foundery outside the Wittevrouwepoort, and to rebuild it 

 within the town behind his dwelling. In the year 1551, 



