2nd s. VII. April 9. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Minav ^attS. 



Bishops Hoadly and Sherlock. — These two pre- 

 lates were botli of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, and 

 pupils of Mr. Bower, a learned Scotchman. When 

 they were freshmen, they were called to lectures 

 in TuUy's Offices. One day Hoadly performed 

 so well, as to receive a compliment from his tutor. 

 As they were coming away from the tutor's cham- 

 ber, Sherlock, who w-as probably a little nettled, 

 called out, " Ben, you have made good use of 

 L'Estrange's translation to-day ! " " No, Tom," 

 replied Hoadly, " I have it not, and I forgot to 

 send the bedmaker to borrow yours, which, I am 

 told, is the only one in the college ! " So early 

 did the emulation between these celebrated men 

 commence. J. Y. 



Weights and Meas^tres. — I notice in A Lon- 

 doner s Walk to the Land's End, p. 323., it is 

 stated " that the Camelford bushel is 24 gallons, 

 and the Launceston bushel is 16 gallons." It 

 would be very useful if your readers would send 

 particulars of these peculiarities in their districts 

 relating to different weights and measures, some 

 of which are peculiar and curious. A. B. S. 



Addison and the White Horse, Kensington. — Irt 

 a paper in the National Reviev), No. 8., April, 

 1857, the writer says : — 



" The tavern in Kensington is still standing to which 

 Addison used to steal away from the grandeur of Holland 

 House and the society of his countess to enjoy a solitary 

 bottle, and muse over old times." 



There are two mistatements in this sentence. 

 First, the house to which Addison used to escape 

 from his termagant countess was, traditionally, the 

 White Horse Inn, not in Kensington, but at the 

 bottom of Holland House Lane, immediately west 

 of the Park ; and, secondly, the house was taken 

 down many years since, and the site is now occu- 

 pied by the Holland Arms Inn. In his convivial 

 retreat, we learn from Spence that Addison 

 enjoyed " his favourite dish, a fillet of veal, his 

 bottle, and perchance a friend." The tradition of 

 the White Horse being the tavern frequented by 

 Addison was common in Kensington when Faulk- 

 ner printed his History in 1820. Q. 



Periodicity of Political Revohdions. — Gervinus, 

 in his defence on 24th February, 1853, before the 

 Duke of Baden's court, of his Introduction to the 

 History of the Nineteenth Century, pleads that the 

 law of historical development which he therein 

 demonstrated, did not originate with him, but 

 with Aristotle ; since whose time it had only been 

 twice repeated, by Macchiavelli and Hegel ; ad- 

 ding : — 



" I solemnly ask of the whole philosophical world if 

 my words can be gainsaid, and to name for me the third, 

 by whom the Aristotelian law, of which I speak, has been 

 repeated and understood." — Boha's edit. xvi. 



In reply to this challenge it may be alleged that 

 a third may be named, not less eminent as an his- 

 torian than either, Polybius ; who is thus rendered 

 by Hampton (ii. 122.) : — 



" And when roj-alty has degenerated into its congenial 

 evil, which is t3-ranny ; the destruction of the latter gives 

 birth to aristocracy. This again being changed, accord- 

 ing to the natural order of things, into oligarchy ; the 

 subjects, roused to vengeance by oppression, resist the 

 injustice of their governors, and establish a democracj'. 

 And, in the last place, when the people themselves be- 

 come haughty and uutractable, and reject all law; to 

 democracy (S^/aos) succeeds, in the course of time, the 

 government of the multitude (oxAoKparia)." 



Again (ii. 129.) : — 



_ " With the help of being acquainted with these prin- 

 ciples, though it may not perhaps be easy to foretell the 

 exact time of every alteration that may happen in a 

 state, yet, if our sentiments are free from prejudice and 

 passion, we shall very rarely be deceived in judging of 

 the degree, either of exaltation or decline, in which it 

 actually subsists, or in declaring the form into which it 

 must at last be changed." 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



Privately printed Books. — Having had occasion 

 very recently to consult the second edition of 

 Martin's Bibliographical Catalogue of privately 

 printed Books, I noticed that there were many 

 volumes (to my knowledge) not included in this 

 catalogue ; also others but very imperfectly de- 

 scribed. 



I am sure that the possessors of any privately 

 printed works which Mr. Martin omitted to make 

 mention of (or but imperfectly described), would 

 confer a favour on many of the readers of "N. & 

 Q." by sending notices of such works, adding 

 thereto a short bibliographical account, — such as 

 list of plates, number of pages, &c. 



It is almost, if not altogether, impossible for 

 one person to compile a complete catalogue of 

 these works, on account of the extreme rarity of 

 many of them. I especially allude to the works 

 which have been written on family history, &c. 



C. H. L. 



Athenaeum. 



€mtritS. 



UNCONbECRATEC IICRIAL-GROUNDS. 



I shall be glad if any reader of " N. & Q." can 

 inform me when unconsecrated burial-grounds 

 were first established in England ? I have put 

 this question to several eminent antiquaries, both 

 Churchmen and Dissenters, and as yet have not 

 obtained a satisfactory answer ; and doubtless the 

 subject is one of considerable historical import- 

 ance, and of interest to many persons. 



I think it will appear that no unconsecrated 

 burial-ground existed previous to the passing of 

 the Act of Uniformity m 1662, and that the esta- 



