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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''<» S. YII. Apeil 30. '69. 



he became tutor to the son of Sir John Hartopp, 

 at Stoke Newington, whose monument and effigies, 

 as I well remember, are in the chancel of that 

 ancient church. After a serious illness, he re- 

 turned in 1712, and found an honourable and 

 honoured asylum in the mansion of Sir Thomas 

 Abney, an alderman of London, where he passed 

 the remainder of his days in the production of 

 those useful works which do honour to his name, 

 till he resigned his well -spent life in 1743. 

 . Living so many years in that village, the name, 

 the works, and the sanctity of Dr. Watts's name 

 were as familiar to me as " household words." I 

 do not remember, in any of his numerous works, 

 the slightest tendency in them to Unitarianism. 

 They were placed in my earliest infancy into my 

 hands by my father and mother, who were ortho- 

 dox members of the Church of England, and 

 would have reckoned Unitarianism as infidelity. 



Every well-read man must know and appre- 

 ciate Watts's Logic, and the numerous editions it 

 went through in the author's lifetime till the 

 present day, and the hold it still retains in our 

 Universities and other institutions of sound learn- 

 ing. They must also remember his admirable 

 supplement to it, entitled I'he Improvement of the 

 Mind. 



Well: G. N. asks, " Was Dr. Watts a Uni- 

 tarian ? " The great logician shall answer for 

 himself. In his Logic, describing the mental pro- 

 cess of induction, he says ; — 



" Induction is when, from several particular Proposi- 

 tions, we infer one genei'al : as, the doctrine of the So- 

 cinians cannot be proved from the Gospels, it cannot be 

 proved from the Acts of the Apostles, it cannot be proved 

 by the Epistles, nor from the Book of Revelation : there- 

 fore it cannot be proved from the New Testament." — 

 fKatts's Logic. 



J. E. 



THE (armada) lord HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM : 

 HIS RELIGION. 



(1«' S. iii. 185. 244. 287. 3C9.) 

 Mr. Charles Knight, in his Popular History of 

 England (iii. 223.), after justly commending the 

 loyalty of the Roman Catholics in 1588, proceeds 

 to state that " the confidence of the government 

 in the patriotism of the great body who adhered 

 to the ancient church was strikingly exhibited by 

 the appointment of Howard, a Catholic, to the 

 command of the fleet." The following facts, in 

 addition to those already adduced in " N. & Q." 

 seem to me to indicate, more or less clearly, that 

 the Lord High Admiral (who died Earl of Not- 

 tingham in 1624) was not a Roman Catholic. 



1. William Lisle, " a rare antiquary," translated 

 into English Babylon, a part of the " Second 

 Week" of Du Bartas, the French Calvinist poet, 

 and dedicated it in 1596 to " Charles, Lord How- 

 ard, Baron of Effingham." Du Bartas had fought 



in the Hugonot ranks ; and the translator of his 

 verses would scarcely have presented them to a 

 Roman Catholic patron. — Wood's Athence, by 

 Bliss, Fasti, i. 265. 



2. " 1613. Lady Bedford, the Queen, Countess 

 of Derby, and Lord Admiral, stand sponsors for 

 the Countess of Salisbury's daughter." — Calendar 

 of State Papers, Domestic, 1611—1618, p. 170. 



3. " May 30, 1623, London. Sir Wm. Monson's 

 eldest son is committed to the Gate-house, for ar- 

 guing in favour of popery at the Earl of Notting- 

 ham's table."— 76. 1619—1623, p. 593. Had the 

 earl been a Roman Catholic, this disclosure could 

 hardly have occurred ; it would have been too 

 flagrant a breach of hospitality. 



4. The Admiral's two wives were ladies of Pro- 

 testant houses ; a Cary, daughter of Lord Huns- 

 don ; and a Stewart, daughter of the Earl of 

 Moray. One of the first things that we learn con- 

 cerning the son, the second Lord Nottingham, is, 

 that he writes to the Council on 8th Dec. 1625, 

 and " sends certificate of names of recusants in co. 

 Surrey, from whom arms have been taken." — lb. 

 1625—1626, p. 172. J. K. 



Highclere. 



Great Events from slender Causes ; Napoleon 

 Bonaparte (P' S. x. 202. 294. 394. ; 2°^ S. ii. 43. 

 152. ; V. 77. 139. 179.)— The following is an ex- 

 tract from a letter of the Rev. Thomas Belsham, 

 dated Hackney, August 16th, 1805, which con- 

 tains an account of a visit which he had just paid 

 to the Duke of Grafton : — 



" Admiral Cosby told me one circumstance which was 

 curious. When he was Commander-in-chief in the Medi- 

 terranean, during the last war, at the time that we were 

 in possession of Corsica, and Avhen Sir Gilbert Elliott 

 was Governor-General of the Island, General Paoli in- 

 troduced Bonaparte, then a young man, to the Governor 

 and to the Admiral, as a friend of his who would be glad 

 to be employed in the service of England; but these 

 wise men, not having Lavater's skill in physiognomy, 

 rejected the proposal, which obliged Bonaparte to offer 

 his services to the French, and this was the rise of Bona- 

 parte's fortunes. I had often heard that Bonaparte had 

 offered his services to the English and been rejected, but 

 I hardly gave credit to it till I learned it from Admiral 

 Cosby himself." 



Clammild. 



Athenasum Club. 



Eev. Dr. Gosset (1^' S. xi. 66.) — The Rev. Dr. 

 Gosset was buried in the Old Marylebone Ceme- 

 tery, on the south side of Paddington Street. 

 The tomb is of a very substantial character, sur- 

 rounded by massive iron rails ; but, though not 

 out of repair, nearly half buried in earth, — the 

 making out a copy of the inscrip.tion caused there- 

 fore some trouble. Pray preserve it in your valu- 

 able pages as sent herewith. Mathew Gosset, the 

 first buried in the vault, was, I fancy, a great-uncle 



