2n'iS. VII. June4. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



457 



a dose ! The " John's bread " (caroube) was indeed an 

 occasional article of food ; but was the fruit of a tree, no 

 herb, and grew only in warmer climates. " John-that- 

 goes-to-bed-at-noon" was the pimpernel, far more avail- 

 able for physic than for diet. In short, being beaten out 

 of the Johns, we were induced to make inquiries among the 

 Jacks; and in that direction we soon fell in with " Jack- 

 b3''-the-hedge " (the herb sauce-alone, alliaire, or hedge- 

 mustard), which, according to Chambers, was formerly 

 eaten as a salad. To this its edible character testimony 

 is also borne by old Parkinson: •' Jacke-of-the-hedge is 

 eaten of many country people as sawce to their salt fish" 

 (Herbnll, p. 114.) Moreover, it has something of the 

 flavour and pungency of garlic, but onli/ in an inferior 

 degree. " Sawce alone, or Jacke-by-the-hedge .... being 

 'bruised, smelleth of Garlicke, but more j)leasantly, and 

 ta.s{Qt\\ somewhat hot and sharpe" {lb. p.ll2.) Can this 

 Jacke, by any possibility, be the identical "herb John" 

 which, being put into the pot, did " neither much good 

 nor hurt"? The identification of plants by their old 

 English names is sometimes extremely difficult; and, in 

 the present instance, we shall be thankful for farther 

 light from any botanical friend.] 



Le Vaillant. — Was this French traveller a real 

 or imaginary person, and his narrative genuine or 

 fictitious ? and, if the latter, who was the writer 

 of what passes under his name ? P. P. Q. 



[A memoir of Francis Le Vaillant, the celebrated tra- 

 veller and ornithologist, by Andrew Crichton, Esq., will 

 be found in The NaturalisVs Library, voi.'xxiii.] 



Dr. Everard. — A parable of 2W Drops rea- j 

 sonirig together, written by this old .divine and 

 mystic, has lately been republished by Mr. G. E. 

 Roberts, of Kidderminster. The editor, in his 

 Preface, states that he has not been able to meet 

 with any biographical notice of Dr. Everard. He 

 is merely mentioned by AUibone as translator of 

 Hermes Trismegistus : — 



" From an * Introduction ' appended to his works by 

 Eapha Harford in 1657, we learn that he was Preacher 

 of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields in the time of James I., from 

 which cure he was deposed and imprisoned for preaching 

 against the Spanish marriage. He died in 1645." 



Is anything-more known of this author ? The 

 Bodleian does not contain a copy of his works, 

 and (as I am informed) the library of the British 

 Museum is also deficient in this respect. 



The little reprint is worth procuring, and may 

 be obtained for five stamps direct from Mr. 

 Roberts. Cothbert Bede. 



[Several notices of Dr. John Everard will be found in 

 our 2»'i S. iv. 336. ; v. 49. 118. The « Address to the 

 Reader," prefixed to his posthumous work Some Gospel 

 Treasures Opened, 2 vols. 8vo., 1653, contains some curi- 

 ous particulars of him, and of his troubles in the High 

 Commission Court. "He was the onlj' nwn," says his 

 editor, " that opposed, preached against, and held out to 

 the utmost against the late King's [Charles I.] matching 

 with the Infanta of Spain, when others durst but whisper 

 their consciences and thoughts. He chose texts on pur- 

 pose to show the unlawfulness of matching with idola- 

 ters, being often committed to prison for it when he was 

 preacher at Martin's in the Fields; and then by the next 

 Sabbath day one Lord or other would beg his liberty of 

 the King : and presently, no sooner out, but he would go 



on and manage the same thing more fully, notwithstand- 

 ing all the power of the bishops, being committed again and 

 again ; being, as I heard him say, six or seven times in 

 prison ; insomuch, they coming so oft to King James about 

 him, he began to take more notice of him, asking * What 

 is this Dr. Ever-out? his name (says he) shall be Dr. 

 Never-cut.' "] 



Michael Drayton. — I have in my possession a 

 cut-down 8Vo. copy of Michael Drayton, com- 

 mencing with " The First Booke of the Barrons 

 Warres," in six books complete ; following that is 

 "England's Heroicall Epistles," "Sonnets" (Idea), 

 and " Legends," so far without any title-page. 

 Following the Legends come the " Poemes," with 

 a title reading as follows : " Poemes, Lyrick and 

 Pastorall ; Odes, Eglogs ; The Man in the Moone" 

 (which last unfortunately is not complete, ending 

 with the catchword "Con-") : "At London, Printed 

 by R. B. for N. L. and L Flasket." (No date.) 



Will any of your readers kindly inform me the 

 date, edition, hov/ much is wanted to complete 

 " The Man in the Moone," and the value of the 

 book. J. H. W. C. 



[Our correspondent has clearly two of Drayton's AVorks 

 bound in one volume. Of the latter, Poemes : Lyrick and 

 Pastoral Odes, we are informed in the new edition of 

 Lowndes, only two copies are known, and that it fetched 

 at Heber's sale, 3/. 16s. ; at Utterson's, 16?. 15s.] 



General Vallancey. — He was by birth an Eng- 

 lishman, but yet devoted himself in no small 

 degree to the study of Irish antiquities. Has any 

 biographical sketch appeared in print ? Abhba. 



[See the Gentleman^ Magazine for Sept. 1812, p. 289. : 

 European Magazine, iv. 347.; xlvii. 31. 99., and most of 

 our later biographical dictionaries.] 



s. Paul's visit to bkitain. 

 (2"'^ S. vii. 90. 158. 222. 320.) 



Mr. Lee has assailed my position with so much 

 learning that I must beg space to defend it. 

 What I attempted in my former communication 

 was this : to show that the often-used quotations 

 produced by Mr. Lee either did not refer to S. 

 Paul or did not refer to Britain. Farther, I 

 stated ray own opinion (one not formed without 

 some study of the subject) that S. Paul's visit to 

 this island could not be considered " even a pro- 

 bability." I do not deny the early origin of 

 British Christianity, and therefore am not called 

 upon to notice passages which bear only on this 

 subject. 



As to the interpretation of S. Clement. 



I do not think Mr. Lee has helped his case much 

 by his vague poetical quotations (all of which are 

 familiar enough) : that Britain was spoken of as 

 a Western Island, or an Island in the Western 

 (our " Atlantic ") Ocean, is quite true ; and this 



