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N» 180. -CONTENTS. 



NoTKs : — 

 Spencc'ePolymetis: Indexes, by J. H. Markland - 

 Notes on Bartholomew Fair, by Henry Morley 

 Oliver Cromwell and his Sons, by James Elmes 

 Parocliial Library, by Rev. J. Eastwood 



MmoH Nr.rEs:— The Ruins at Mayfield, Sussex _ Travelling . 

 from Belfast to Loudon, 1785 — Arms of Sicily and Man — An- 

 cient Document — Blomefield's " Norfolk " - - - 473 



QtTKKJES : — 



Anglo-Saxon Words in the " Liber Winton, by B. B. Woodward 474 



Minor QtiKiiiFsi— Natural: Lawful: Illegitimate — Grave-diggers 



— Tlie Kcmblc Family — Lutlier and Wesley — Knights created 

 by Oliver Cromwell — Tooth and Egg Metal — Irish banished by 

 Cromwell to West Indies — Chevalier Pierropaint, or Pierpoint — 

 Numbers of Words used by different Classes — Lucas of Whitton, 

 a Painter — Anecdote of Dr. Fuller — Ponk — Mai tese Galleys — 

 TheBlockPrince — Bradow Family of Lincolnshire - - 475 



MiNoB QcEiiiKs WITH ANSWERS: — Sir Tliomas Rowe — Charles 

 llerlc— Jane Cromwell — Sir Martin Frobisher— General Monk 



— Bodleian and Vatican Libraries — Laurence Coster, &c. - 477 



Bkplies: — 



Christian Cliildren crucified by Jews - - - - 479 



Waits: Anomes: Musical Instruments, by Dr. Rimbault,&c. - 480 



Number of Letters in the Old Testament . - - - 480 



Climate of England, by E.G. Byiig 481 



Passage in St. Matthew, by James Elmes - - - - 481 



Rkit.ies TO MiNiiii OoEniE8: — St. Paul's Visit to Britain — Lists 

 of M.P.'s.- Rev. Charles WoUey — Price of Bible 1625 — Scotch 

 Paraphrases: .Michael Bruce — Coins in Foundations — Dowle — 

 Cicero and Chrysippus _ Coverdale's Bible — Raleigh's Portrait 

 _ Cockehut — Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portraits of the Hoare Fa- 

 mily —Miss Bowdler— Cant Words— Vale of Bed Horse, Sic. - 482 



Notes on Books, &c. ...-.-. 487 



spence's polymetis : indexes. 



There is a plate in Spence's Polymetis (first 

 edition, 1747), at the close of Dialogue XVII. 

 representing an ass, clothed in a loose robe, ad- 

 dressing two young men, one of whom is seated. 

 The animal was said to be a caricature likeness 

 of a learned Provost of Eton (Dr. Cooke), and in 

 my copy there is a pencil reference to this effect : 

 " See the History of tl)is plate in a letter from 

 Spence to Mr. C. Pitt, copied by Cole, and printed 

 in Walpole." To various editions of Walpole's 

 Co7Tespondence, and more especially to the last, I 

 have referred for Spence's or Cole's letter, but in 

 vain ; and one of your readers will perhaps favour 

 me, either by pointing out the edition, and volume 

 and page, of Walpole's Letters where this letter 

 may be found, or with the history of the plate. 

 The caricature originated doubtless in some of- 

 fence given to Spence by Dr. Cooke. It was 

 withdrawn from the later edition of the Poly- 

 metis of 1774. 



Not finding what I wanted in the Index to 

 Mr. Cunningham's edition of AValpole's Corre- 

 spondence, extensive as it is, I am led to offer a 

 few observations on the subject of Indexes gene- 

 rally. 



Three of your correspondents (see " N. & Q." 

 P' S. V. 51.; vi. 334.; ix. 371. and 526.) have 

 adverted to their importance, and no reader will 

 be disposed to question the additional value 

 which a good one imparts to a book worthy of 

 being consulted. Richardson attached indexes to 

 his novels, and it was declared by the Roxburghe 



Club that " the omission of an Index, where 

 essential, should be an indictable offence ! " * 



One of your correspondents, L. (v. 49.), says 

 that " a meagre index — an alphabetical list of 

 persons and places — is better than no index at 

 all." I am not quite disposed to agree with him 

 in opinion that a meagre index is worth having, 

 for reasons which shall be given. The last edi- 

 tion of Walpole's Letters comprises 4587 pages, 

 ocGupying nine thick 8vo. vols. The Index, 

 which, from the nature of the work, ought to 

 have been full and minute, is far otherwise, — a 

 reference to the volume and page being fre- 

 quently all that is supplied, and the reader, who 

 consults the work with any special object, will 

 find his time idly absorbed, — no clue to guide 

 him through the countless figures which follow a 

 name. General Conway, for instance, has 210 

 references ; George Selwyn 135 ; Lady Ailes- 

 bury 164 ; Gray the poet 177. I will turn to 

 another work where the same objectionable plan 

 has been adopted — too many instances indeed 

 might be supplied. 



In the Index to Sir W. Scott's Life of Swift, 

 Pope thus appears : " Pope, Alexander, i. 139. 

 140. 158. 204.;" these figures are followed by 

 229 empty references of a similar kind. Harley, 

 Earl of Oxford, is entered under three distinct 

 headings; (1.) Robert Harley, with 227 refer- 

 ences; (2.) as Lord Oxford, with 111, and (3.) 

 as " Treasurer Lord Oxford," with 300. Thus we 

 may turn to 638 pages for what we are in search 

 of. The following examples may show us what 

 Indexes should be, and will best illustrate my 

 suggestion, viz., that some guides or indications 

 why a person is named should always be given in 

 an Index, so that if we are in search of the date 

 of his birth, we should not perchance turn to that 

 of his marriage or of his death : 



1 . Nichols's Literary Anecdotes : — 



Nelson, Robert, " Practice of True Devotion," i. 107. ; 

 a friend of Mr, Spincke's, 124. ; selected Dr. Lupton as a 

 fit model for young preachers, 140. ; his " Duty of a 

 Christian,"147. ; suspected to have had a hand in the book 

 on Hereditarj' Right, 400. ; Mr. Bowyer's obligations to 

 him, iii. 269. 285." 



2. Hallam's Constitutional History : 



" Melville, Andrew, and the general assembly of Scot- 

 land, restrain the Bishops, iv. 151. ; some of the Bishops 

 submit, ib, ; he is summoned before the council for sedi- 

 tious language, ib., 163. ; flies to England, 154. ; argu- 

 ments urged in his defence, ib." 



* The Bishop of Nelson, in his Sketch of the Life of Wal- 

 ter de Merton — an offering of pious affection to his Col- 

 lege on his quitting England, — when referring to Kilner's 

 Pythagoras' School, says, " This bequest to Merton Col- 

 lege would have been without drawback, had there been 

 any arrangement of the documents, or index," &c. Again, 

 in the same page, he repeats, " an index to the original 

 documents printed in this book would be a great acqui- 

 sition." 



