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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ S. VII. Apuil 2. '59. 



published manuscript dedicated to Prince Rupert. 

 Is anything known regarding the authoress ? 



R. Inglis. 



Glasgow. 



Dramatic Authors. — Wanted, information of the 

 three following authors: — 1. Isaac Craven of 

 Trinity College, author of a Sermon published in 

 1658 or 165^. 2. Philip Bennet, Fellow of Mag- 

 dalen College ; author of The Beaus Adventures, 

 a farce, 1733 ; The Beau Philosopher, a poem, 

 1736. He died about 1752. 3. Edward Lewis, 

 M.A., author of The Patriot King displayed, in the 

 \* X^'. and Reign of Henry the Eighth, King of 

 ^ *^ Wngtand ; from the Time of his Quarrel with the 

 Pi)pe to his Death, 1769. R. Inglis. 



Dr. Wolcott (Peter Pindar^. — It is well known 

 that this celebrated person was the friend of Opie 

 the painter, and greatly assisted in introducing 

 him to practice ; but is anything known of Dr. 

 Wolcott as an amateur artist himself? P. P. Q. 



0?de the Caricaturist. — Some old caricature 

 etchings in my possession have the name T. Orde 

 attached. Is anything known of him? E.King. 



" My part lyes therein-a." — The words of the 

 song, " My part lyes therein-a." Any gentleman 

 who will be so kind as to copy it will confer a 

 favour on Edward King. 



Lymington, Hants. 



Luckyn or Luhin of Essex. — I am endeavour- 

 ing to complete a full pedigree of this old family, 

 branches of which have been settled for many 

 years at Great Baddow, Roxwell, Messing, and 

 Dunmow. Geoffrey Lukyn, the oldest known 

 member, died in 1549, and from him descend the 

 present Earls of Verulam, and the Windhams of 

 Felbrigge ; but I have been unable, from the 

 ordinary sources of information, to obtain the 

 intermediate links. Any particulars, however ap- 

 parently unimportant, will be gladly received and 

 acknowledged by Chaeles Robinson. 



28. Gordon Street. 



Minax <h\xtxiti &)itl3 ^ni'eatvi, 



Vivat Oranje. — On an old China punch-powl is 

 the inscription "Vivat Oranje, 1745." What 

 does this allude to? E.King. 



p' Vivat Oranje ! " in Dutch " Oranje boven ! " (Orange 

 above! or Orange up!) was an old national or political 

 cry of the Dutch, employed bj' those who were adherents 

 of the House of Orange." William 1., who was born 1533, 

 and obtained in 1540 from his cousin, Renato of Nassau, 

 the principality of Orange, founded the Republic of the 

 United Netherlands. Hence the rallying cry, " Oranje 

 boven ! " (vide Alison's Hist, of Europe, Nov. 15, 1813, 

 note.) In 1745, the Dutch helped the English against 

 the young Pretender. This circumstance may account 

 for the appearance of "Vivat Oranje! " on the punch- 



bowl of that date. Or the inscription may convey a 

 sneering allusion to the reported conduct of the Dutch 

 at Fontenoy, earlier in the same year, when they are said 

 not to have properly advanced. " Vivat Oranje ! " they 

 took good care to do that.] 



Gravesend. — Can any reader suggest the ety- 

 mology of Gravesend ? I have somewhere seen 

 it stated that it obtained its name from the fact 

 that it was the last place where people dying on 

 board an outward-bound ship were buried on 

 shore, i. e. the graves ended there, and that after 

 passing Gravesend, the bodies were committed to 

 the deep. Is there any warrant for such a pro- 

 ceeding? Has it existed, or does it still hold ? 



T. W. WONFOE. 

 [Both Lambarde and Leland derive the name of Graves- 

 end from the Saxon word Gere/a, a Ruler, or Portreve. 

 " So that," sa3's Lambarde, " Portreve is the ruler of the 

 town, and Graves-end is as much as to say, the limit, 

 bound, or precinct of such a rule or office." Leland, in 

 his Itinerary, calls it Greva. In the Domesday-book 

 this place is called Graves ham, and in the Textus Roffen- 

 sis Grceves-cende. Others, however, derive the name from 

 grcef, a coppice, denoting its situation at the extremity of 

 a wood towards the sea. ] 



Greek Testam.ent. — Can any of your readers 

 say who was the editor of a Greek Testament, two 

 vols., with brief Latin notes (2nd edition), pub- 

 lished in 1778 by J. Robson, New Bond Street, 

 and B. Law, Ave Maria Lane ? The dedication 

 is as follows : — 



" Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac Domino Frederico 

 Divina Providentia Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, totius 

 Anglife Primati et Metropolitano ; hos commentaries in 

 Novi Foederis libros, viri reverendi tov fia/captTou, L. M. D. 

 D. D, Q. Editor." 



Who was the archbishop ? and who was & /.lUKa- 



/JtTTJJ ! 



C. J. S. Walkee. 



[The archbishop is Dr. Frederick CornAvallis. The 

 work was edited by the Rev. Samuel Hardy, late Rector 

 of Little Blakenham, Suffolk, and is usuallj' attributed to 

 him ; but from the dedication it would seem that the 

 editor was not the author of the notes. The first edition 

 was published in 1768 ; second in 1778 ; and third in 

 1820.] 



Playing on the Salt-Box. — In the Book for a 

 Rainy Day an individual is mentioned as having 

 had a talent for playing on the "salt-box." I 

 have in vain racked my brains to ascertain what 

 sort of an instrument that could be. Can you en- 

 lighten me ? DUEYAFT. 



[The " salt-box " is often played upon bj' Merrj' An- 

 drews at country fairs, by beating it with a rolling-pin. 

 In Croker's Boswell (p. 143. ed. 1859) our correspondent 

 will find Johnson praising the humour of Bonnell Thorn- 

 ton's burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, and repeating the 

 lines, — 

 " In strains more exalted the salt-box shall join, 



And clattering and battering, and clapping combine ; 



With a rap and a tap, while the hollow side sounds, 



Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling re- 

 bounds." 

 In a note Mr. Croker quotes from Dr. Burney a passage. 



