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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«"i S. VII. Feb. 19. '69. 



William and Mary. He is supposed to have been 

 expelled as a Nonjuror ; but it is said that after 

 leaving St, Neots he held a living in Bucking- 

 hamshire. Query, What parish ? and how long ? 

 I find no trace of him at St. Neots after 1G91, in 

 which year he obtained a faculty for a vicarage 

 pew in the church. William Gibbs was officiating 

 minister from 1692 till 1707, when Queen Anne 

 presented him to the vicarage. The Rev. William 

 Sheppard having resigned the living of Tilbrook 

 in Bedfordshire, became the minister of a dissent- 

 ing congregation at Oundle. His son Thomas 

 Sheppard followed his example in seceding from 

 the Established Church ; and in 1700 was engaged 

 with other ministers in founding a dissenting 

 church at Hail- Weston, a village near St. Neots. 

 In 1697 he preached as a pi'obationary to the 

 Presbyterian congregation in " Poor Jewry Lane," 

 and was elected pastor in 1698 by a majority of 

 one. The election was overruled, and two years 

 afterwards Mr. Sheppard began to preach at 

 Booking in Essex, to a congregation with whom 

 he continued as their minister till his death, 29th 

 Jan. 1739, at the age of seventy-three. He was 

 the author of many sermons, which in 1726 he 

 collected into a single volume, called Discourses 

 on various Subjects, omitting, however, two pam- 

 phlets which he had formerly printed in defence 

 of Nonconformity. Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots. 



" A Friend to the House of Hanover" (2'"^ S. vii. 

 43. 77.) — R. M'C. has got the key to the mean- 

 ing of the oracular verses quoted at p. 43., but he 

 is wrong in his application of it. K.'s mistake 

 consisted in copying the sixteen lines consecu- 

 tively, instead of placing them side by side in two 

 columns of eight lines in each, when they might be 

 read Hanoverian or Jacobite-wise, according as 

 they are read down or across. The lines, as ex- 

 tracted from the Lansdown MSS. (852. British 

 Museum), may be found, with some other curious 

 specimens of this double-faced poetry, in Collet's 

 Relics of Literature, pp. 169-70, A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



List of WorTis of Great Painters (2°'* S. vi. 477.) 

 — Sttlites will find much of the information he 

 requires in a work now publishing in bi-monthly 

 parts in Paris, entitled Histoire des Peintres de 

 toutes les E' coles depuis la Renaissance jusqu'd nos 

 jours, — containing not only lives of the artists il- 

 lustrated with their portraits, and woodcuts of a 

 ieyi of the best known works of each Master, but 

 also lists of their authenticated works contained 

 in the principal galleries in Europe, both public 

 and private; notices of prices realised at impor- 

 tant sales, and also of the best engravings and 

 etchings by or after each Master. Of course the 

 work, although it has reached Its 250th livraison, 

 is very far from complete, but the lives of nearly 



200 Masters have been issued (including eight of 

 our own school, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, 

 Wilson, West, Lawrence, Wilkie, and Turner), 

 and, if ever finished, it will form a most valuable 

 and perfect "Dictionary of Painters." The French 

 and Dutch schools are fast advancing towards 

 completion, nearly seventy Masters in each being 

 published. The illustrations are remarkable for 

 their brilliancy and beauty, and have the rare 

 merit of being most carefully printed. The fac- 

 similes of the etchings by Lucas van Leyden and 

 Albert Durer ; the " Marriage of Cana in the 

 Louvre," by Paolo Veronese, and the " St. Gero- 

 lamo," by Dominichino in the Vatican, may be 

 cited as masterpieces of woodcut engraving. 



J. M. L. 



Annual Register (P' S. xli. 62. 92. 171.) — 

 Prof Smyth, in his Lectures on the French Revolu- 

 tion, vol. i. p. 133., states that the historical por- 

 tion of the Annual Register for 1787 was written 

 by Dr. Laurence. In speaking of the 10th of 

 August, 1792, the day on which the Tulleries 

 were attacked and taken, he has the following 

 passage : — 



" Among our English writers, the account given by 

 the Annual Register is full, and, on the whole, reasonable 

 and fair. It is the conclusion of that part of the history 

 of the French Revolution which was furnished by Dr. 

 Laurence. The reader sees here the conclusion, and he 

 sees it with regret. He has lost the assistance of a dili- 

 gent inquirer, and the instruction of an elegant and in- 

 telligent writer; in general, and on the whole, a faithful 

 guide J and though not sufficiently on the popular side, 

 always friendly to the best interests of mankind." — Vol. 

 ii. p. 336. 



It appears, from the authentic account in the 

 12th vol. of the 1st Series of " N. & Q." p. 171., 

 that, after Burke ceased to furnish the historical 



Eortion of the Annual Register, it was contributed 

 y Dr. Walker King, afterwards Bishop of Ro- 

 chester. Dr. King was succeeded by Dr. French 

 Laurence, the civilian and friend of Burke; and 

 Dr. French Laurence was succeeded by his 

 brother, Dr. Richard Laurence, a clergyman. 

 The latter is stated to have written for the years 

 1791, 1792, and 1793. Prof Smyth's account is 

 difierent : he states that the history for the years 

 from 1787 to 1792 inclusive was written by Dr. 

 Laurence the civilian. L. 



Gregorians (2"'' S. vi. 206. 273.) — In a former 

 number of" N. & Q." a wish was expressed for 

 information relative to the Gregorians. Recently 

 arranging a collection of single-sheet music for 

 binding, which had been picked up from various 

 quarters at difierent periods, I found one entitled 

 the " Gregorian Constitution Song." The former 

 possessor had written his name on the back ; but 

 he, or some other person into whose hands it had 

 fallen, had obliterated it in the most eSectual 

 manner, leaving only the date (1745) of its acqui- 



