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J^OTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''<» S. VII. Feb. 26. '69. 



Alexander Neckham, or Neccham, who was 

 seventh Abbot of Cirencester, wrote a poem on 

 the Bath waters ; a portion is quoted in a note at 

 p. 193. vol. ii. of the British Topography, and 

 another portion at p 21. of Dr. Oliver's P?-actical 

 Dissertation on Bath Waters. Where is the en- 

 tire poem to be found ? \ 



11. WiLBRAHAM Falconer, M.D. 



Bath. 



[The lines appear to have been first printed in Cam- 

 den's Britannia, edit. Gough, ii. 62., from some inedited 

 poem by Neckham, " whose compositions," says Warton 

 \Hist. of English Poetry, i. p. cxxvi. ed. 1840) are various, 

 and crowd the department of manuscripts in our public 

 libraries." The lines are probably talien from the third 

 bool< of the curious Treatise on Science quoted by Mr. 

 Wright in his Life of Neckham {Biographia Brilannica 

 Literaria, Anglo-Norman Period, pp. 449 — 459.] 



3eiejflitS* 



CAPIAIX BtlKT, AUTUOK OF " LETTERS FROM TUE 

 NORTH OF SCOTLAND." 



(2"'^ S. vii. 128.) 



As stated by A Celt very little is known of 

 Captain Edmund Burt, author of the amusing 

 Letters from the North of Scotland, from which 

 Sir Walter Scott and Lord Macaulay have drawn 

 80 largely, I am induced, therefore, to copy a 

 letter written by Burt, which I accidentally met 

 with one day among other papers. The tumult in 

 Glasgow, to which the letter refers, arose out of 

 the imposition of a malt-tax (3«/. per bushel), 

 which was violently opposed, and led to serious 

 riots, Campbell of Shawfield, the member of 

 Parliament for Glasgow, sent to Wade, then in 

 Edinburgh, for military assistance, and the mob 

 in resentment pulled down a fine new house which 

 Campbell had built for himself. The disturbance 

 was soon quelled by the English troops, but the 

 affair long rankled in the minds of the people. The 

 following is Burt's letter : — 



" Edinburgh, 6th July, 1725. 



" Sir, — 

 " I received the favour of your letter of the 28th of 

 June, and shall use the greatest diligence I am capable 

 of to inform mj^self and you concerning the affair»you are 

 pleased to mention. 



" In my account of the tumult at Glasgow, instead of 

 saying there would be 2000 men in that city, I should 

 have said that 2000 men were ready to be drawn together 

 if there should be occasion. There are two of the soldiers 

 still missing. The -.officer with some difficulty prevailed 

 with a constable, instead of a magistrate, to read the pro- 

 clamation before any mischief had happened (except to 

 the house), but the poor man, seeing the fury of the mob, 

 ran away. 



" I have had a sort of fit of the gout, but I hope to be 

 able to attend the General to Glasgow on Thursday next, 

 whither two regiments of dragoons, one regiment of foot, 

 and two Highland companies are marched, with four small 

 field-pieces. I thank you most kindly for your readiness 

 to supply my wife, which I take to be another great 



favour. I shall make a strict inquiry about the money 

 you speak of now I am able to go out of doors again. I 

 am, Sir, your most obliged and most obedt. servt. 



" Edmund Bukt. 

 " To Joseph Gascoigne, Esq. M.P., at his house in 

 Spring Garden, near Charing Cross, London." 



Burt, I have no doubt, accompanied General 

 Wade to the Hij;hlands. He appears to have 

 been here in 1725 (Letter 4.), and also in 1726 

 (Letter 14., in which there is reference made to 

 the death of one of the Inverness clergymen, 

 which took place in February, 1726). The Letters 

 do not appear to have been published until 1754, 

 the year preceding the death of their author : — 



" Feb. 4. At London, Edmund Burt, Esq., late agent 

 to Gen. Wade, Chief Surveyor during the making of 

 roads through the Highlands, and author of the Letters 

 concerning Scotland." — Scots' Magazine, 1765. 



R. Carruthers. 



Inverness. 



SCHILLER S " LDCY. 



(2"'» S. vi. 459. ; vii. 98.) 



I have no doubt that F. Schlegel's Lucinde is 

 meant, but do not think that Der HyperboriX- 

 ischer Esel is the play which the clergyman saw, in 

 which a husband and wife are sentimental over 

 the sprawling of their child. In Der Hyperho- 

 rdischer Esel, Karl and Malchen are only be- 

 trothed, no child is introduced, there is no stage 

 direction for him to do anything, and he merely 

 talks what Kotzebue says are the very words of 

 Schlegel. His hair is cropped, and his dress very 

 slovenly, — " sehr nachlassig," After astounding 

 Malchen on various matters, he says : — 



" Geben Sie doch nur Acht auf die Kinder. Ein kleines 

 Madchen findet nicht selten ein unbeschreibliches Ver- 

 gniigen derin niit den Beinchen in die Hohe gesticuliren, 

 unbekiimmert um ihren Rock und das Urtheil der Welt. 

 Weiui das ein kleines Madchen thut, was darf ich nicht 

 thun, da ich doch, bei Gott ein Man bin, und nicht zarter 

 zu sein brauche als das zarteste weibliche Wesen?" — 

 Lucinde, p. 38. Ler Hyperbordischer Esel, Act I. Sc. 3. 

 Kotzebue, Theater, x. 193., Leipzig, 1840. 



I have found something much nearer to the de- 

 scription in Falk's Jahrmarkt zu Plunderweilern. 



The scene is the dining-room, Julius and Lu- 

 cinde are seated, and Wilhelmine, their child, 

 aged two years, has her arms spread along the 

 table. While Julius is expressing his admiration, 

 Wilhelmine gets down on the floor, and gesticu- 

 lates unbecomingly (uiifeine Gesticulationen auf 

 der Erde vornimmt) : — 



"Julius. sieh Lucinde ! diese liebenswUrdige Wilhel- 

 mine findet ein unaussprechliches VergnUgen darin, auf 

 dem Rucken liegend, mit ihren Beinchen in die Hohe zu 

 gesticuliren, unbekUmmert um Roch und das Urtheil der 

 Welt. 



(^Mit sfeigender Vergeisterung. 



Wenn das Wilhelmine thut, was darf ich nicht thun, da 



