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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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cially grateful to me, and is the more gratifying now, 

 when the humble doings you are pleased to publicly 

 favour can benefit me no otherwise than by sometimes 

 occasioning reflection on the honesty of purpose which 

 stimulated my labours, and which consoles me after I 

 have lost everything on earth, except my integrity and 

 ten children ; these, I trust, I shall be enabled to keep to 

 my life's end. To further literary exertion I am beyond 

 the reach of ' encouragement.' At this moment, the last 

 remains of my ruined fortunes, a few of the books that 

 assisted me in working out my Every Day Book and 

 Table Book (which, by-the-bye, are mine no longer), are 

 passing under the hammer of an auctioneer, to realise a 

 small instalment towards insufficient means of commencing 

 business, wholly foreign to all my former pursuits and 

 addictions. I have thrown down my pen for ever, and, at 

 fifty years of age, am struggling to enter on a strange 

 drudgery, for the future support of my wife and famil}'. 



" In the autumn of last year, while sojourning in a 

 quiet hamlet, I packed up a book or two respecting the 

 Pilgrim's Progress, with the intention of sending them to 

 you. I had misgivings, however, as to whether you 

 would receive from me, as a token of good-will, what I 

 unfeignedly desired to communicate in that spirit, and 

 the parcel was put aside, sealed up as it still remains. In 

 that state I shall forward it for conveyance to you, 

 through Mr. Major, simply to evidence my feeling towards 

 you several months ago. You may be convinced by it 

 that your liberality has a kin in my own mind. After all, 

 perhaps, the best testimony I can give to the fact that I 

 am duly sensible of your unlooked-for kindness is the 

 promptitude with which T acknowledge the obligation. 



" I am, Sir, your very respectful and most 



obedient servant, 



" W. HosfE." 



" To Mr. Hone, 13. Gracechurch Street. 



" Sir, 



" Keswick, April 26. 



" Your letter has given me both pain and pleasure. I 

 am sorry to learn that you are still, in the worldly sense 

 of the word, an unfortunate man ; that you are withdrawn 

 from pursuits which are consonant to your habits and in- 

 clinations, and that a public expression of respect and 

 good-will, made in the hope that it might have been ser- 

 viceable to j'ou, can have no such effect. 



" When I observed your autograph in the little book, I 

 wrote to inquire of Mr. Major whether it had come to his 

 hands from you, directly or indirectly, for my use, that, 

 in that case, I might thank you for it. It proved other- 

 wise, but 1 would not lose an opportunity which I had 

 wished for. 



" Judging of you (as I would myself be judged) by 

 j'our works, I saw in the editor of the Every Day and 

 Table Books a man who had applied himself with great 

 diligence to useful and meritorious pursuits. I thought 

 that time, and reflection, and affliction (of which it was 

 there seen he had had his share) had contributed to lead 

 him into this direction, which was also that of his better 

 mind. What alteration had been produced in his opinions 

 it concerned not me to enquire : here there were none but 

 what were unexceptionable, — no feelings but what Avere 

 to be approved. From all that appeared, I supposed he 

 bad become 'a sadder and a wiser man:' I therefore 

 wished him success in his literary undertakings. 



" The little parcel which you mention I shall receive 

 with pleasure. I wish you success in your present un- 

 dertaking, whatever it be, and that you may one daj% 

 under happier circumstances, resume a pen which has, of 

 late years, been so meritoriously employed. If your new 

 attempt prosper, you will yet find leisure for intellectual 



gratification, and for that self-improvement which may be 

 carried on even in the busiest concerns of life. 

 " I remain, Sir, yours with sincere good-will, 



" Robert Southey." 



W. L. N. 



Bath. 



MEMORIALS OF THE CIVIL WARS. 



The following curious document (which is ex- 

 tracted from the Wells City Records) will convey 

 some idea of the military burdens to which the 

 public were at that time subject : 



" This daj'e was delivered unto this ConvOcon Letters 

 addressed from Sir Edw. Rodney, Knt. and Ralphe 

 Barlowe Deane of the Cathi. Ch. of St. Andrew w'''' 

 is as followeth : 



Somtt. " Whereas we have receaved from the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of this Countie w»'» others from the Lords of 

 H. Mat's Moste Hon'ble Privie Counsell concerninge 

 divers p'ticulars for repaireinge the forces of this Coun- 

 tie and puttinge them in readynesse both to defend his 

 Mat's Kingdome and to w'thstande the attempts or in- 

 vasion of his enemies : For the better discharge of 

 which service wee have thoughte fitt to recommend 

 some of these p'ticulers to your care, desireinge and 

 in his Mat's Name requyringe you to see the same 

 carefully putt in execution, 



1. " First : That you cause such armes as were checked 

 at the last Musters to bee amended or renewed by the 

 fowerth daye of the next Moneth, and if any shall fayle 

 to reforme such armes agaynste the sayde tyme, that you 

 bringe them before the next Deputye Lieutenant or 

 Justice of the Peace to be comitted for theyre contempt 

 unlesse they can finde sureties for the good behaviour 

 and to appeare att the next Sessions. 



2. " That you signifie unto the Soldiers inrolled His 

 Mat's pleasure to bee that none of them remove thej're 

 Dwellinge withoute the license of the next Deputie Lieu- 

 tenante, and that all the Trayned Band bee in readynesse 

 to march uppon an houre's warninge. 



3. "That you cause all the able men untrayned from 

 xxi to Ix to bee inrolled, and the Roll thereof to re- 

 turne to the next Deputie Lieutenante att or before the 

 fowerth day of August nexte. 



4. " That within your Hundred you take order to have 

 for every hundred Trayners three wagons and soe p'por- 

 tionably for a greater or lesser nombre in readynesse 

 uppon annie suddaine occasion for the conveyinge of mu- 

 nition, Victuall, luggage to suche Rendezvous as the 

 Force of the County shall bee assigned. 



5. " That you cause the Beacons to bee dyligentlie 

 watched by discrete and sufficient men viz 2 by day and 

 3 by night. 



6. " That for every 100 Trayners you warne 10 able 

 men w'thin youre Hundred to serve for Pioneers to the 

 Armie. That you p'vide for them xii Pike axes xii 

 spades xii shovells — vi Iron barrs vi axes — vi Hat- 

 chetts — 2 Tente Sawes — and 4 hand saws : xii small 

 basketts to carry Earth — xii Bills to cut Wood : — and 

 10 Borriers of severall sizes. 



7. " That you signifie unto the best sorte of men w'thin 

 youre Hundred, His Mat's pleasure that they p'ride them- 

 selves of Armes for theire p'ticular use. 



8. " That the trayned Soldiers bee warned to keep in 

 readynesse such Naggs or Mares as they have for the 

 more speedye conveyinge of themselves, theyre armes 



