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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VII. June 18. '59. 



anterior to either ; but it may be observed that, 

 according to Walton, Herbert repaired his house 

 at Bemerton in the thirty-sixth year of his age, 

 •which would give the date 1630, and that Fuller 

 published his Holy and Profane State in the year 

 1642. 



Fuller writes in his character of the Faithful 

 Minister : — 



" A clergyman who built his house from the ground 

 wrote on it this counsel to his successor, — 



' If thou dost find 

 An house built to thy mind, 



Without thy cost, 

 Serve thou the more 

 God and the poor : 

 My labour is not lost.' " 



Walton, after noticing that George Herbert 

 rebuilt "the greatest part of the Parsonage 

 House " at his own charge, adds, that he caused 

 these verses to be written upon, or engraven on, 

 the mantel of the chimney in his hall : — 

 " To my Successor. 

 " If thou chance for to find 

 A new house to thy mind, 



And built without thy cost ; 

 Be good to the poor, 

 As God gives thee store. 



And then my labor's not lost." 



I confess a preference for Fuller's version. The 

 " various readings " almost equal those of some 

 favourite hymns, which is saying a great deal. 



Francis Tkench. 



Islip. 



A Full Coach. — • 



" She (Queen Christina) took him (Whitelocke) into 

 her coach, where was the • Belle Contesse,' the Countess 

 Gabriel Oxenstiern, Prince Adolphus, Piementelle, Monte- 

 cuculi, Tolt, and Whitelocke." — Whitelocke's Swedish 

 Embassy, vol. ii. p. 16. 



Fkakcis Tk£NCH. 



Islip. 



Lord Bolinglroke. — The following extract is 

 from the letter of a gentleman, then travelling on 

 the Continent, to an old fellow collegian in Eng- 

 land. I never remember to have noticed any 

 allusion to Lord Bolingbroke's residence at Sens. 

 The only place we read of, is the Chateau de la 

 Source, near Orleans. Moreover, I am not aware 

 that he had any aunt the abbess of a convent. 



« Sens, 21 Jan. 1786. 



" I had almost forgot to mention a circumstance which, 

 perhaps, may interest you as an Englishman, and an ad- 

 mirer of great men ; which is, that this was the residence 

 of my Lord Bolingbroke during part of his exile, but 

 which I was not acquainted with till the other day. His 

 aunt was then Abbess of the Convent of St. Antoine, a 

 short distance from the town ; and he inhabited a small 

 house in the Court of the Convent, a little detached from 

 the principal building. It was, probably, in this retire- 

 ment that his literary leisure produced to the world some 

 of his best works." 



L. (1.) 



Massachusetts Historical Society. — I send the 

 following extract from The Historical Magazine, 

 S^c. vol. iii. p. 144. New York, May, 1859 : — 



" Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, April 14th 

 (1859). The Annual Meeting, the President Hon. Ro- 

 bert C. Winthrop, in the chair. 



"The President read a communication from William 

 H. Gardiner, Esq., the executor of the estate of the late 

 Mr. Prescott, containing an extract from his will, in 

 which he bequeaths to the Historical Society the sword 

 of his grandfather. Gen. William Prescott, which he wore 

 when in command of the American troops at the battle of 

 Bunker's Hill. It will be recollected that the swords of 

 Gen. Prescott, and. of Capt. Lindzee of the Roj'al Navy 

 of Great Britain, the grandfather of Mr. Prescott's wife, 

 had been for many years suspended crosswise in Mr. 

 Prescott's library ; the one used in fighting for American 

 liberty, and the other at the same time employed in be- 

 half of the British Crown. Capt. Lindzee's sword Mr. 

 Prescott bequeathed to his wife, but Mr. Gardiner in his 

 communication stated that he was authorised by Mrs. 

 Prescott to present that also to the society. It was voted 

 that they be suspended in the societj^'s room in a position 

 similar to that they occupied in Mr. Prescott's library, 

 and that a suitable inscription be placed upon them." 



Belat'er-Adime. 



Robert Mercator. — The following is from a fly- 

 leaf at the commencement of Sermons sur divers 

 Textes de VEcriture Sainte par feu Mr. P. Butini, 

 Ministre du s. e. et Geneve, 1708 : — 



" Robert Mercator Dyed at Saltfleethaven, in the Pa- 

 rish of Skidbrook, in Lincolnshire, on y 21'' Day of feb. 

 172f, about a quarter past six o'clock in the Evening, in 

 the 22'! year of his age ; he was buried in Skidbrook 

 Church on the 2A^^ of feb." 



And above : — 



" E Libris Robert! Mercatoris, 



E CoUegio Christi Alumni, 



1722." 



At the back of the title : — 



" David Mercator, his Book, given him by his Loving 

 Father, Daniel Mercator, in the year 1728." 



P. R. 



Handel in Bristol. — The following article ap- 

 peared recently in the pages of The Bristol Times 

 and Felix Farley's Journal. As so many anec- 

 dotes, in relation to the life of this great composer, 

 have lately appeared in the " N. & Q.," this may 

 be worth adding to the number. It was commu- 

 nicated to that newspaper shortly after a concert 

 had taken place in that city in commemoration of 

 the centenary of the birth of Handel, the pro- 

 ceeds of which were given towards the restoration 

 of that ancient and noble' church. Saint Mary 

 RedclifF. 



" Handel Commemoration Concert. 

 " The late Mr. Pearsall has stated, in his Essay on Ma- 

 drigal Writing, that an old lady, who lived in College 

 Green, had told him that she distinctly remembered 

 being at a Concert given at the Assembly Rooms in 

 Prince's Street, when Handel presided at the organ. 

 There can be no doubt, we believe, that the great com- 

 poser was for a short time a sojourner in this city, and 

 there are some who go as far as to say — but we expect 



