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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON. SATURDAY, M^y7.1859. 



No 175.— CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Colonel Tobias Hume, by Robert Triphook, &c. - - - 369 



Handkl and nis Works : — Handel's Messiah, by V. Sehoolclier. 

 The Hnndel Festival of 1784,by Dr. Rimbanlfand W.H. Husk. 



— Handel's " Kecitatives "_ Handel - - - - 370 

 Irish Freseo Paintings ofthe Fifteenth Century - - - 3?1 

 AndersonPapers. — No. 5. .---.- 372 



Minor Nutps !_George III. — Bishop Sprat's ' Ketort — Price of 

 Bible as pvxblished 1625 — A Mother of Four Families, &c. - 372 



QuF.iiiEs : — 



The Origin of i;he Curved Form of the Old Divisions of Land - 373 



Bruce of Broomhall ------- 374 



Minor Qoebifs : _ Nuncio at Brussels _ Wisdom of the Corn- 



walUsea — Wotton Queries — Hot Cross Buns, So. - - 374 



Minor Qoehies with Answers : — Pedigree of our Saviour — Rev. 



H. De Luzancy - - - - - - - -377 



Keplifs:- 



Sir Hush Vaughan 378 



Ancient Demesne Tenure, by Rev. E. S. Taylor - - - 378 



Hearing with the Teeth, —" Photographing Sound,' —and a 



New Hearing Trumpet suggested, by Andrew Steinmetz - 379 

 Dr. Woloott CPeter Pindar), by James Elmes, &o. - - 381 



Rkplies to Minor Queries: — Note on Froude's "History of 

 England " — Turning Cat-in-a-pan — Persecution of Polish Nuns 



— lie Beauvoir Family — Chapel Scala Celi — " Drowning the 

 Miller" — Dryden — Pot-galley— University Hoods, &c. - 383 



Notes on Books, &c. ...... - 387 



COLONEL TOBIAS HUME. 



I have picked up a printed tract of a few leaves 

 in small 4to., which as a curiosity of literature 

 may find a place in " N. & Q." The title runs 

 thus : — 



" The Trve Petition of Colonel Ilvme, as it was pre- 

 sented to the Lords assembled in the High Court of 

 Parliament. Being then one of the poore Brethren of 

 that famous Foundation of the Charter House. Declar- 

 ing to their Lordships that, if they would be pleased to 

 employ him for the businesse in Ireland, and let him have 

 but six score or an hundred Instruments of War, which 

 he should give direction for to be made, he would ruine 

 the Rebels all within three months, or else lose his 

 head. Likewise he will undertake within three months, 

 if their Lordships would give credence to him, to bring 

 in by Sea, being furnished with a compleat Navy, to His 

 Majesty and the Parliament 20 Millions of Money. Lon- 

 don, printed for John Giles, 1642." 



The foregoing contains the substance of the 

 petition ; but the crazy language in which their 

 lordships are addressed sufficiently proves the 

 state of the poor colonel's mind : — 



"I humbly entreat to know," he Saj's, "why your 

 Lordships doe slight me as if I were a foole or an asse ? 

 I have been abused to your Lordships by some base fel- 

 low ; but if 1 did know them (sic) I would make them 

 repent it, were they never so great men 1,11 j'our sight, for 

 I can doe the Countrey better service than the best soul- 

 dier or colonel in this Land, or in all Christendom," &c. 



After this boast of his power, the petitioner sets 

 forth his great poverty. For a brother of Charter- 

 house, only thirty years after its foundation, the fol- 

 lowing, if it be not part of Colonel Hume's delusion, 

 is an amusing account of his forage and his fare. 

 We hope the ancient gentlemen now on the foun- 

 dation of that institution, and who clamour at the 



present day for an increase of their pension, are 

 in better plight : — 



"I have pawned all raj' best cloathes," he says, " and 

 nave now no good garment to weare. I have not one 

 penny^t this time to helpe me to buy me bread, so that 

 I am like to be starved for want of meate and drinke, 

 and did walke into the fields very latelj' to gather snailes 

 on the nettles, and brought a bagge of them home to eat, 

 and doe now feed on them for want of other meate, to the 

 great shame of this land and those that doe not helpe me, 

 but rather command their servants to keep me out of 

 their gates, and that is the Lord of Essex and the Lord 

 of Devonshire ; but I thanke the good Lord of Pembroke, 

 and the Lord Keeper, and the Earle of Hartford, and my 

 Lord Mayor, and some other Knights, as Sir John Wor- 

 stenholm and others, doe helpe me sometimes with a 

 meales meate, but not alwaj'es, for I eat snailes and 

 brown bread," &c. &c. 



The colonel's petition concludes with something 

 like a threat that he will carry his invention 

 abroad : — 



" And so I humbly take my leave of your Lordships, 

 being very desirous to speake with all the Lords of Parlia- 

 ment, if they will vouchsafe to speake with me before I 

 goe out of this Land, for I am not able to endure this 

 misery any longer ; for I want money, meate, and drinke, 

 and cloathes, and therefore I pray your Lordships to par- 

 don my boldnesse and help me with some reliefe if you 

 please, or else I must of necessity goe into other Countries 

 presently : so I most humbly take my leave for this time, 

 and rest 



" Your Lordships' most humble servant to do 

 your Honours all the good service I can, 

 for I have many excellent qualities: I 

 give God thankes for it, 



" Tobias Hume, Colonell." 



We are reminded by this curious document of 

 " Warner's long range," which agitated our naval 

 officers a few years ago, and is now in the limbo 

 of things forgotten. 



Robert Triphook. 



Amongst the curiosities of literature I venture 

 to place a petition to the House of Lords assem- 

 bled in the High Court of Parliament, temp. 

 Charles I. 1642. The petitioner was Colonel 

 Tobias Hume, one of " the poore Brethren of 

 that famous foundation of the Charter House." 

 He declares to their Lordships that — 



" If they would be pleased to employ him for the busi- 

 nesse in Ireland, and let him have but six score or an 

 hundred instruments of war, which he should give direc- 

 tions for to be made, he would ruine the Rebels all within 

 three months, or else lose his head." ..." Likewise 

 he will undertake within three months, if their Lordships 

 would but give credence to him, to bring in by sea, being 

 furnished with a compleat navy, to his Majestic and the 

 Parliament 20 Millions of Money." 



The poor mad colonel states his past services 

 thus: — 



" The Lord of Pembrooke, the Lord of Craven, and 

 many other Lords and Knights and Gentlemen, both in 

 this country and in other countries beyond the seas, as 

 Grave Maurice, the Marquesse of Brunningburgh, and 

 lastly the King of Swetheland, they all know that I am 



