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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 18. 1889. 



N°. 181. — CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Notes ! — 



Death of Charles the Second - - - - - - 489 



Milton's Father, &c., by Hyde Clarke, &c. - - - - 489 



New Catalogue of Shakspeariana, by W. Wardlaw Reid - 490 



Tee-Book of Serjeant Sir John Chesshyre, by Mr. Robert Cole - 492 

 Americans who have been Members of the Royal Society, by 



William Winthrop - - - - - - - 493 



Minor Notes : _ Bemerton Parsonage — A full Coach - Lord Bol- 

 in^broke — Massachusetts Historical Society— Robert Mercator 

 — Handel in Bristol - - - - - - -493 



QCTERIES : — 



Cromwell's Head - - - - - - - 495 



Minor Qhebibs : — Patrick Hannay — Alan, Son of Henry, Count 

 of Brittany — Marks on Pewter — Sir William Weston — Childe 

 Childers — Fraternisation: Billingsgate: Simious,&c. - - 495 



Minor Queries with Answers: — The Holy Thistle — Mrs. Joane 

 Drake — Hope in Death — " 'The Assembly," &c. - - - 497 



Replies : — 



The Piepowder Court : Bartholomew Fair, by Henry Morley - 498 



Silk, by J. Eastwood, &c. ...--. 500 



Spelling of the Name Dryden, by John Pavin Phillips - - 501 



" The Style is the Man Himself " 502 



Swarming, a Word for Climbing, by Wm. Matthews, &c. - - 502 



Replies to Minor Queries : — The Precious Ointment — Robin- 

 son's Hymn, " Come thou fount," &c Judicial Torture— Desig- 

 nation of Works under Review— The Union, 1707, &c. - - 504 



Notes on Books -..--...507 



DBATH OP CHARLES THE SECOND. 



[The following account of the death of Charles II. 

 occurs in a MS. volume, composed principally of original 

 letters of the period, with a sight of which we have been 

 favoured. With reference to this particular paper, it is 

 enough for us to refer our readers to the communications 

 on this subject published in our previous volumes. The 

 passage which we have printed, " At 5 P: M: P: C: F: came 

 to the Duke," — as it stands in the MS., — might, we ima- 

 gine, have been printed, "At 5 p.m. P. C. F.," an alteration 

 which has a very important bearing on the disputed con- 

 struction of these capital letters.] 



"A Paper is published without authority relating 

 the manner of the death of the late King. 



" On Munday, Feb. 2. He fell into an Apo- 

 plexy, and by. loss of 16 ounces of blood and 

 some other Remedies he seemed somewhat reco- 

 vered. But at 1 on Thursday the Physicians 

 despaired of his health ; and so acquainted the 

 Counsell. At 5 P: M: P: C: F: came to the 

 D. and told him this was the time to take care 

 of his Brother's soul. He went to him, and upon 

 his desire sent for Huddleston, The King saying 

 that the Father which saved him in the Tree 

 would now save his soul. Then the nobles all 

 departed, but the D. ordered P: F: & B: to stay ; 

 and when Huddleston came, the K. said L"*. what 

 Good Planet watches over one ; O Lord, my 

 Exile, my fight at Worcester ; my safety there by 

 the help of this good Father ; my dangers in the 

 late Conspiracy ; and that now This Good Father 

 should be present to save my soul ho [?]. Sure, 

 Lord, thou hast created him for my good. Then 

 after a long discourse, H. asked if he would re- 

 ceive ; He said ; Yes, if he were worthy, and so 

 he received and had extreme Unction. Then the 

 nobles returned, and B^* asked him Whether he 



would receive. He answered No. 

 day at 12 He dyed." 



The next 



MILTON S FATHER. 



On the present occasion I send a few gleanings, 

 and I take the opportunity of observing that some 

 expressions in my former paper appear to attri- 

 bute researches to Professor Masson, which be- 

 long to _Mr. Hunter, who has done so much for 

 this subject of Milton, as for so many branches of 

 research. I may farther observe that I have seen 

 no ground for altering the views I formerly ex- 

 pressed with regard to the period of birth of John 

 Milton the father. 



It is recorded in the books of the Scriveners' 

 Company that John Milton, on his admission to 

 the freedom, is described as " late apprentice to 

 James Colbron." Mr. Park Nelson, the clerk of 

 the Company, has not, however, beea able to dis- 

 cover any entry of the indenture of apprentice- 

 ship of John Milton, which would be in the year 

 1592 ; nor has the Chamberlain of London, Mr. 

 Benjamin Scott, been able to help me; for the 

 arrangement of the records, which he has been 

 zealously carrying out, only reaches back to a cen- 

 tury later. 



There is, however, this peculiarity with regard 

 to James Colbron, the master of John Milton, 

 that he was only admitted himself to the freedom 

 of the Company on the 1st April, 1595. Thug 

 Colbron was in all likelihood a very young man, 

 and John Milton could not have been apprenticed 

 to him originally, but must have been a turn- 

 over. 



There remains, therefore, a farther research to 

 be made as to the name of John Milton's original 

 master ; whether he was the father of Colbron, or 

 the original master of Colbron ? The cause of 

 the turning over to Colbron was most likely the 

 death of the original master. On these points we 

 must await the discovery of deeds between 1592 

 and 1595, describing Milton as an attesting wit- 

 ness, and as "the servant" of the scrivener. This 

 is by no means hopeless. Indeed it is desirable 

 to examine all deeds of the period for signatures 

 of John Milton and his contemporaries. 



With regard to the apprentices' of John Milton, 

 Mr. Hunter has found a deed of 1603, to which 

 Peter Jones, " servant to John Milton, scrivener," 

 was an attesting witness ; and a deed of 1623, to 

 which were attesting witnesses Thomas Bower 

 and John Hutton. Thus he had two clerks or 

 apprentices at that time; which was, however, 

 when he had been in business nearly half a cen- 

 tury. He took an apprentice or clerk soon after 

 his setting up in business, but it does not follow 

 that "servant" necessarily means "apprentice," as 

 Professor Masson seems to suppose. 



Peter Jones does not appear to have been ad- 



