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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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above heading, with John Huwet, Huet, or Huyt, 

 whose wife was Isabella and son Robert, also 

 temp. Rich. II., and who possessed lands in divers 

 counties, induces me to think that the blanks 

 should be filled up with that name, and to beg 

 E. B., should my surmise be correct, to do me the 

 great favour to copy me the feoffment charter 

 alluded to, before sending it to any one, who, being 

 the owner of the property, may claim the per- 

 formance of his disinterested promise. 



J. F. N. Hewett. 

 Tyr Mab Ellis, Pont-y-Pridd, 

 Glamorgan. 



Fanatical Citizen's Prayer (2"'' S. vii. 433.) — 

 Dr. Wm. Robinson, in his Hist, and Ant. of the 

 Parish of Hackney, 1842, voh i. p. 125., gives this 

 under the more appropriate title of " The Miser's 

 Prayer ; " and states that it was found " among a 

 variety of curious papers of Mr. Ward, in his 

 own hand-writing." In the version of the prayer 

 given by Dr. Robinson there are some verbal 

 differences from that inserted by J. Y., but these 

 are not material to the sense. The dwellers in 

 Hackney still know " Ward's Corner," and until 

 within a few years they knew " Ward's House," 

 so called from having been built by the author 

 of this pious production. And the readers of 

 Pope know the worthy himself; who stands in 

 the excellent company of 



" Waters, Chartres, and the Devil," 



in the Moral Essays, Epist. ii. v. 20. Being con- 

 victed of forgery, John Ward was expelled from 

 the House of Commons (where he had sat for 

 Melcombe Regis), and set in the pillory, 17 Feb. 

 1727. Cf. Dunciad, iii. 34. Ache. 



Wotton Queries (2°^ S. vii. 374.) — Edward, 

 first Lord Wotton, was alive in 1614, for' in a 

 letter dated Midsummer morning in that year, 

 from Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon, 

 he says : " Of the Office of Five Ports, I dare yet 

 pronounce nothing. My Lord, my brother, will 

 none of it." (JReliq. Wot. 1685, p. 437.) 



Dugdale, in his Baronage, ii. 414., says that 

 Edward Lord Wotton was made Treasurer of the 

 Household in 1616 (14 Jac), and quotes as au- 

 thority " Annal. R., Jac. per Camd." 



In the church, of Boughton Malherbe is an 

 epitaph on Sir James Wotton, who, it states, died 

 on the 20th Oct. 1628, and that he was brother to 

 " Edward late Lord Wotton." W. (Bombay.) 



Pronunciation of Words ending in " -oirf" (2"^ 

 S. vii. 394. 468.) — I am very glad to see that your 

 correspondents have advocated the cause of o and 

 i, so wrongfully blended into a diphthong. Allow 

 me to take the opportunity of remarking that 

 while of the four vowels, a, e, i, o, the third and 

 fourth, i, and o, are thus improperly amalgamated, 

 the first and second, a and e, are frequently 



crushed into one with equal injustice. I lately 

 read in a local newspaper, To he sold, a Phceton ! 

 And no doubt, if the weather continues warm, we 

 shall soon be deluged, as in former summers, with 

 advertisements of cerated lemonade ! 



Thomas Bots. 



Anecdote of Frdler (2"« S. vii. 476.)— This with 

 the slight variation of " ever seen him before" 

 instead of " ever seen his face," is from the Appeal 

 of Injured Innocence, pt. ii. book iv. $ 94. 



J. Eastwood. 



Oliver Cromwell and his Sons (2°'^ S. vii. 472.) 

 — Your correspondent, James Elmes, writes : 

 »I never read of his (viz. Cromwell) having more 

 than two sons — Richard, his successor in the Pro- 

 tectorate, and Henry." 



A reference to the Cromwell pedigree in 

 Gough's Camden (vol. ii.) will show him tbe names 

 of three more, viz. — 

 " Robert, bap. Oct. 13, 1621, died young. 

 " Oliver, bap. Feb. 6, 1622, ditto. 

 " James, bap. Jan. 8, 1631, buried same year." 



L. (1.) 

 Dowle (2'"» S. vii. 336. 483.) : — 

 "... As diminish 

 One dowle that's in my plume." 



Tempest, Act III. Sc. 3. 



The following quotation will, I think, go to- 

 wards establishing the meaning of the word doivle 

 as given by Bailey, and upheld by Mr. F. A. Car- 

 kin gton : — 



" There is a certain shell-fish in the sea, called Pinna, 

 that bears a mossy dowl, or wool, whereof cloth was spun 

 and made." — Humane Industry, or History of Man. Arts, 

 1661. 



J. A. Pn. 



Anglo-Saxon Words in ^^ Liber Winton" (2"^ S. 

 vii. 474.) — May I correct an error or two in the 

 Query you so obligingly inserted, without which 

 it wiU be impossible to obtain a satisfactory an- 

 swer ? 



As the contractions are not all given, for " me- 

 wenehaia " read merewenehaia ; and for " Hest- 

 dinges," Hesterdinges. 



Also, for '■^hantacheuesle" read hantacheusele ; 

 the printed copy being in error in that word. 



B. B. Woodward. 



Haverstock Hill. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Strictures on Mr. Collier's New Edition of Shakspeare, 

 1858. By the Rev. Alexander Dyce. (Russell Smith.) 



Every lover of Elizabethan literature — every student 

 of Shakspeare — must share the pain with which we have 

 seen the two gentlemen whose names appear on the title- 

 page we have just quoted — 



" Turning their books to glaives, their ink to blood. 

 Their pens to lances, and their tongues divine. 

 To a loud trumpet and a point of war." 



