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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1859. 



No. 164. — CONTENTS. 



NoTFS! — f ase 



Cromwclliana, by Sir Frederic Madden - - - - 141 



Charles Farley, by Dr. Doran - - - - - - H3 



Diablerie Illustrated hy Harsnet - - - - - 144 



Edward the Conlessor's Font, by Eev. F. Trench - - - 145 



Minor Nctps: — Warren Hastings' Impeachment — Robert Bums 



— The Centenary of the Poet Burns _'• A Man's a Man for a' 

 that " — The word Rapid .-..-- 145 



QlTFRIES : — 



"OmiJesu.qui Bubire:" Dean Trench's Sacred Latin Poetry - 146 

 Minor Qlfrius : — Anne Boleyn's Ancestry — Sir John Calf— 

 I.ctter to Mr. Bayes _ Cross at Somersby, Lincolnsliire — Jacob 

 Gins;le, Ksq.— Faunes Family — 'Witchcralt near Berwick — 

 Caxton's Birth-pluce- Sir Hans Sloane— John Rutty. M.D.— 

 Author of " Comparative View " — Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds 



— Swift's Drapier Letters — Enniskillen School, &c. - - 147 

 Ml^oR QcRiiiEs WITH Answers: — Robert Belus — Ben Jonsou 



helped to build Lincoln's Inn— Thomas Johnson, M.D. — "Pan- 

 dion and Amphieenia " — Churchill's " Divi Britannica" — 

 Dean Swift -Sir BenryColet 149 



Rf..1..ks:- 



Carleton's Memoirs, by Joseph Rix, &c. - - - - 150 



Ancient Demesne Tenure - - - - - - 151 



The y net n of Prussia - - - - - - -152 



TVhy was Ludovicus Sforza called Anglus ? by Rev. T. Boys - 152 



RgrLiRs TO Minor Qi'eriss: — Negro Slaves sold in England- 

 Pythagoras on Beans — Smelt Family — Dryinz and Keeping 

 Seaw. eds — Passage in Burke — Southey's " The Holly Tree " — 

 Col. Dillon — Age of Tropical Trees, &c. - - - - 153 



Kotes on Books, &c. - - - - - - - 159 



CKOMWELLIANA. 



Altliouorh I am unable to point out the precise 

 (late of the death of Ki.jhard Symonds (2"^ S. vii. 

 67.), yet it is certain tli.it he was living in March 

 1659-60, as proved by one of his Memoranda 

 Books in the British Museum, MS. Harl. 991. 

 This volume cc^ntains a collection of anecdotes and 

 notes communicated to Symonds by various per- 

 sons between 1653 and 1660, and jotted down at 

 the time ; with the names of the authorities from 

 whom they were received. Many of these anec- 

 dotes relate to Oliver Cromwell, to whom the- 

 Royalist writer was no friend; and it is to him 

 we are indebted for the well-known stories of 

 Cromwell's mad behaviour at his daughter's mar- 

 riajje to Mr. Rich, and his forcing open the coffin 

 of Charles I. with the pommel of a sword. With 

 these anecdotes are intermixed memoranda con- 

 cerning the parentage, estates, &c., of several 

 individuals, which may interest biographers. Ex- 

 tracts from these memoranda were printed in the 

 Gentleman's Magazine for 1796 (vol. Ixvi. Pt. i. 

 p. 466.) ; and at a later period (in 1816), a few 

 of the anecdotes appeared in the same work (vol. 

 Ixxxvi. Pl>. II. p. 498.). Noble, in his Memoirs of 

 the House of Cromwell, had previously availed 

 himself of one or two of these stories ; but he only 

 derived them at second-hand from Dr. Mutton's 

 MSS., and does not give the authorities for them 

 mentioned by Symonds. As several anecdotes 

 still remain unpublished, and the others have not 

 yet been given in an authentic or complete form, 

 I thought it might be acceptable to the readers of 

 " N. &"Q." to have them collected together. Even 

 if not true, thev will serve to show what sort of 



stories were circulated at the period, in reference 

 to " Noll," the Protector. F. Madden. 



O. Cromwell. 

 P. 16. Russel, the taylour, #aye3 he alwayes observd 

 of him, that what he pretended to doe, and gave promises 

 and assurances of, and gave directions to Ireton, in pub- 

 lique to suitors, he secretly ordred the contrary. 



He told the Lady Gapel that great pitty it was so 

 noble a gent as her lord waa should dy, and putt her in 

 great hopes. 



When the D. Mayo'' Foulke went to him for repara- 

 tions for the affronts the Anabaptists had done, he pro- 

 misd and made him beleive great matters : next Sunday 

 [he] was scene sitting among the crowd, to heare one of 

 them preach, at the Glasthowse Hall. 



Cromwell alias Williams his name is, and that he 

 pretends [to] be by Williams descended of Perkin War- 

 beck. 



Thursday, Novemb. 9, [1654], in the lower House, 

 he made a speech, laying all the warr of England, the 

 death of King Charles, &c., upon the Dutch." 



P. 17. Upon Fridaj', December 16, 1653, in great state, 

 attended by the cheife officers of the army, except 

 Majo''- Genii. Harrison, he went to the Chancery Court 

 in Westminster Hall, habited in a black plush suit and 

 cloake, where he stood bareheaded an howre, and Lisle, the 

 Commissioner of the Great Seale, read to him the new 

 Charter, as also his Oath ; which Oath he repeated after 

 Lisle, and signed tliis Charter, and then sealed it with 

 the Great Seale. The Judges were all present, except 

 Cheife Justice Rolls and the MayC of London. Vyner. 

 Then Lambert and Whaley were the cheife officers, and 

 assisted him to his seat, which was a stately chayre, with 

 costly footclothes and most rich cushions,; and then he 

 sate in it, and put on his hatt, none els being covered in 

 the Court. The MayC" gave him his sword, and he ren- 

 dred it him againe ; the Keepers the seale, and he gave 

 it them againe. 



Then the Maj'o'' went afore him thorough Westminster 

 Hall, which was throng'd with people, and with a great 

 guard to his coach. — This cousen (?) Harison saw. 



Gessop, secretary to the Earle of Warwick, having 

 supplyd the roome of Thurloe, Secretary to the Councell 

 of State, consisting of the army officers, did read the 

 Charter openly in the Chancery. All the while Cromwell 

 held up his right hand to sweare it ; it shooke extreamly, 

 and notoriously, for that is the new way of Swearing, and 

 not kissing the booke. 



P. 20. Un giorno congiuro il suo cogino Will. Crom- 

 well, per dirlo tutto che lui ne dimanderebbe. Dimando 

 che persona era il Rfe, di che fattezza et costumi, &c. 

 Rispose con molti lodi. 'Then you like him?' 'And 

 if you knew him as well as I, you'de like him too.' * Then 

 vou are taken with him, are you? ' Et non piu. 



Invited by Vyner, Mayo'' of London, to dinner, and 

 he chose Ashwednesday. [8 Feb. 1653-4.] 



The streets were rayld, and the Companyes sate in 

 their gownes, and the pennons of each Company fixt, 

 from Temple Bar to Grocers' Hall, where the dinner was 

 provided. 



The Mayo"" and Aldermen went up to Temple Bar, 

 to meet him. He came thither in coach, and downe 

 Fleetstreet. This was the maner of proceeding : — 



The 8 Trompets of the Citty on horseback. 



The Aldermen 2 and 2 [on] horseback, in red gownes. 



The Officers of the Mayo'' and the City Councell, a 

 foot. 



His Life guard on horseback ; among them Greg, his 

 tavlour. 



Two Heralds, one black .... and Riley, in cotes with 

 the crosse and harpe, on horseback. 



