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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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increased together: "and," he says, " that what is 

 the Rickets in children, may be the other in more 

 grown bodies." But he does not describe it. It 

 is clear that the names of disorders forced their 

 way into the bills of mortality from time to time 

 at the fancy of the almost uneducated practi- 

 tioners who attended the lower classes : the stop- 

 ping of the stomach, first mentioned in 1636, with 

 six cases, had 480 cases in 1695, in the London 

 Bills of Mortality. The numbers fluctuated 

 backwards and forwards, on which Graunt ob- 

 serves : — 



" Now, such backstartings seem to be universal in all 

 things ; for we do not onely see in the progressive motion 

 of the wheels of Watches, and in the rowing of Boats, 

 that there is a little starting, a jerking backwards be- 

 tween every step forwards, but also (if I am not deceived) 

 there appeared the like in the motion of the Moon, 

 which in the long Telescopes at Gresham- College one may 

 sensibly discern." 



No doubt the long telescopes had tremors, 

 which they communicated to the moon, a kind of 

 astronomical rickets from which the telescope, 

 then in its infancy, communicated rising (and fall- 

 ing) of the lights to the " more grown body." 



While finishing this Note, I received a work in 

 which the old story of Sir William Petty being 

 the real author of Graunt's well known work is 

 revived. This story was disposed of by tlie Bio- 

 graphia Britannica ; and I have endeavoured to 

 choke the revival in a letter which will perhaps 

 appear in the next number (35.) of the Assurance 

 Magazine, a periodical of a character as novel as 

 "N. & Q.," and, in its way, as much wanted. 



A. De Moegan. 



Exchange of Rubbings of Brasses (2"'^ S. vii. 

 84.) — The proposal of VV". H. Hart to facilitate 

 the exchange of rubbings of monumental brasses 

 is truly admirable. The difficulty of procuring 

 rubbings of brasses from a distance has been felt 

 by every person who has attempted to form a col- 

 lection of these interesting memorials. I hope that 

 brass rubbers, who, although not so numerous as 

 they were some ten or twelve years ago, still mus- 

 ter a goodly number, will show their due appre- 

 ciation of Mr. Hart's excellent suggestion, and 

 the readiness with which you adopt anything cal- 

 culated to extend the usefulness of " N. &. Q." 



John L'Estrange. 



Stamp Office, Norwich. 



List of deserving Students (2""* S. vii. 68.) — Sir 

 W. Boswell's list would be a very interesting 

 document if it could be recovered, which I fear is 

 doubtful. Would it interest Mr. Lee to know 

 that Dr. Cudworth, Master of Christ's, was con- 

 sulted by Secretary Thurloe, on behalf of the 

 Protector, " with regard to the characters of such 

 persons in the University as were proper to be 

 employed in civil and political affairs ? " 



Cudworth's answer is printed in Birch's Life of 



Cudworth, prefixed to his Works (London, 1820, 

 4 vols. 8vo.), pp. 11, 12. S. Cheetham. 



Lawrence of Tver (2"^ S. vii. 47.) — An account 

 of this family will be found in the Collectanea To- 

 pograph, et Oenealogica, iii. 280. Their coat was 

 argent, a cross ragulee gules. J. G. N. 



Bishoj) Thomas West of Ely (2"* S. vii. 69.) — 

 The Christian name of West, Bishop of Ely, 1515, 

 was Nicholas, not Thomas. Far from being a son 

 or other descendant of the Delawarrs, he is de- 

 scribed by Bentham as " the son of John West, a 

 baker at Putney in Surrey." 



" At the east end of the south aisle of Putney Cburch 

 is a small chantry chapel, erected by Nicholas West, 

 Bishop of Ely, who was a native of Putney." — Lewis. 



W. T. 



Letters of Horace Walpole (1" S. ix. 135.) — 

 Walpole, writing to the Countess of Ossory, under 

 date of 22nd July, 1788, says : — 



" I have got a new admirer, though an anonymous one. 

 It is the gentleman who has dedicated to me and Sir 

 Joshua Reynolds two quarto pieces, called 'Imperfect 

 Hints for a new Edition of Shakspeare.' " 



At the foot of the page is a note, thus : 



" Malone ? — Cunningham." 



The author of the above was Samuel Fenton. 

 (Halliwell's Shakesperiana, 28.) Charles Wylib. 



Old China (2"'' S. vi. 480.) — I am obliged to 

 M. (2.) for his reply to my Query, The yellow 

 vases of which he seems inclined to doubt the 

 genuineness are undoubtedly ancient. I should 

 be happy to show M. (2.) a sketch of them, if he 

 will inform me where it can be sent for his in- 

 spection. Vebna. 



Halflings and Feorthlings (2"'' S. vii. 66.)— The 

 halfling of the time of Richard I. could not have 

 been the minted halfpenny, as there were no 

 minted halfpence or farthings (" fourthings") till 

 the time of Edward I. During his reign the 

 penny was first coined without indenture. W. T. 



MiiteURXieaus. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Quarterly Revieio, No. 209. January, 1859. 

 (Murray.) 



The new Number of The Quarterly is, as usual, distin- 

 guished by the agreeable variety of its Papers. We have 

 nothing to do with the political article, which is on Re- 

 form — those on what we may call social reform, or social 

 interests, are four, namelj'', Patents; The Consular Ser- 

 vice ; Soldiers' Lodging, Food and Dress ; and Bread. The 

 article on Pius VIII. and Gregory XVI. is of considera- 

 ble historical interest — while the historical and biogra- 

 phical ai'e well combined in the opening paper on the 

 Correspondence of Lord Cornwallis. An article on Shak- 

 speare, in which the reviewer gives great praise to Mr. 



