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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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graph, in an early careful handwriting, the initials large 

 Romaii letters, folio, has had gilt edges. 



" Also the following Oratorios and Operas : — 



" Solomon, Alexander's Feast, Athalia, Israel in Egypt, 

 Serenata on Q. Anne's Birthday, Saul, Debora, Esther, 

 Semiramis, Ormisda, Atalanta, Pastor Fido, Alceste Cajo 

 Fabbricio, Giulio Cesare, Serse, Partenope, Ariadne, Dei- 

 damia, Poro, Arminio, Oralando, 1733, Ormisda, Catone, 

 Alessandro, 1725, Rinaldo, Venceslaus, Alcino, Parnasso 

 in Festa, Triongi del Tempo, Faramondo, Rinaldo, Kic- 

 cardo, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Flavio, 

 Sosarmes, Amadigi di Gaula — per il Sigr. G. F. Hendel, 

 1715, Elpidia, ye Pastoral of Mr. Handel (Acis and Gala- 

 tea), Giustino, Argeneo, Berenice, Alessandro-Severo, 

 Hercules's Choice, Siroe, 1728, Tolomeo, Messiah, the 

 Triumphs of Time, English, Semele, Floridante, Tobit, 

 Hercules, Radamisto, Alexander Balug, Joseph, Occasional 

 Oratorio, Jephtha, Susanna, Lotario, Tlieodora, St. Ce- 

 cilia's Day, Serenata, Ottone, Nabal, Judas Macchabeus, 

 Dario, Rebecca, Judith, Winter or Daphne, Feast of Da- 

 rius, Paradise Lost, Gideon, &c., &c., making above 160 

 vols. 



" The greatest part of the above is in the Handwriting 

 OF Handel ; some duplicates and other portions are in the 

 handwriting of his Disciple John Christian Smith, some 

 of whose Compositions which came in the same lot, 



" Ulysses, an Opera, April ye 11 th, 1733. Composed by 

 J. C. Smith. 



" Redemption, an Oratorio. 



" Funeral Service, &c., 

 will be given with it, 



" Making altogether more than 200 vols." 



These volumes were sold by public auction on 

 the death of the Reverend Sir Henry Rivers, 

 Bart., sometime Vicar of St. Swithin's, Winchester, 

 Rector of Worthy-Martyr, near Winchester, and 

 Rector also of Farley Chamberlayne, near Romsey. 

 They came into hiu possession as the third son of 

 the Reverend Sir Peter Rivers, Bart., a Pre- 

 bendary of Winchester Cathedral ; Sir Thomas 

 the eldest, and Sir James the second son, dying 

 unmarried. Sir Peter married Martha, the 

 daughter of Wil -am Coxe, M.D., to whom Smith 

 (who married Dr. Coxe's widow) left the Handel 

 Library. And this library was doubtless disposed 

 of at the public auction to which I have above 

 alluded. If Mr. Kerslake can contribute that 

 catalogue he will confer a great favour on all the 

 readers of this periodical. H. J. Gaujstlett, 



Powys Place. 



A question being raised as to the existence of 

 Handel's Musical MSS., the undersigned is able 

 to inform your correspondent that, some time 

 since, he had the good fortune to ntercept, from 

 the waste -paper market, that portion of them be- 

 queathed by Handel to J. C. Smith, which never 

 found its way into Buckingham Palace. They 

 amounted, including a few of Smith's own com- 

 positions, to above two hundred volumes. Some 

 particulars of them are given in a Catalogue 

 which was lately published by the present writer. 



Thomas Kebslake. 

 Bristol. 



JSitTj^Mti to Minax ^yxzxiti, 



♦' Qmcli, Derivation of {V* S. v. 347.) — Should 

 the qu&ck-derivation question remain still unset- 

 tied, may I venture to forward you the following 

 quotation, as throwing some light on the origin of 

 the term ? 



" Now we have many chimneys, and yet our tender- 

 lings complain of reumes, catarres, and poses; then had 

 we none but reredores, and our head.s did never ake. For, 

 as the smoke in those days was supposed to be a suffi- 

 cient hardning for the timber of the house, so it was 

 reputed a far better medicine to keep the good man and 

 his family from the quacke or pose, wherewith as then 

 very few were acquainted." — Harrison's Description of 

 England, prefixed to HoUinshed, 1577. 



It is evident that here the quacke means the 

 disease, not the doctor ; a disease, I fancy, some- 

 how connected with that terrible attack of that 

 mysterious complaint, " the poofs," from which 

 good Queen Bess and Mr. Secretary suffered such 

 misery one cold winter. This quacke seems to 

 have been something new, and of course for that 

 reason fashionable, — affected by the "tenderlings" 

 of the times as the " proper sort of thing to have," 

 and indicative of delicate nurture and much 

 " coddling." The " quacke doctor " must have 

 been a fashionable style of man, not meddling 

 much with the poor, and familiar with boudoirs, 

 curing the new disease with new and wondrous 

 remedies : doing much what his successors do 

 even in our own time, but with the incalculable 

 advantage of having a semi-Imaginary disease 

 ready made to his hand, Instead of finding it ne- 

 cessary to invent one, as they, poor souls, have to 

 do in these more matter-of-fact days ! 



G. H. KiNQSLET. 



Systems of Short-hand (2'"» S. i. 402. ; ii. 393.) 

 — Will you allow me to inform your correspond- 

 ent, Mr. Benjamin Hanbury, that in the edition 

 of Dr. Rees's Cyclopaedia published early in the 

 present century, he will find engraved in a single 

 plate, " A Chronological and Comparative View of 

 Twenty-two original Alphabets " of short-hand, 

 " selected from about a Hundred, which have ap- 

 peared In England, since the year 1588." Thejr 

 consist of the several alphabets of Dr. Bright, 

 1588; J. Willis, 1602; E.Willis, 1618; Cart- 

 wright, 1642; Shelton, 1672; Bridger, 1659; 

 Mason, 1682; Sloane MS. 1700; Tanner, 1712; 

 Gibbs, 1756 ; Macaulay, 1746 ; Annet, 1761 ? 

 Jeake, 1748; Lyle, 1762; Anonym,, 1763; 

 Holdsworth, 1761 ; Byrom, 1767; Graves, 1775; 

 Mavor, 1780; Taylor, 1786; Blanchard, 1787; 

 Roe, 1802. 



This was the communication of Mr. William 

 Blair, a surgeon, living in Great Russell Street at 

 that time ; a man of sedulous attention to every 

 object of his inquiry, and to whom In my earlier 

 days I gave all the assistance in my power, to 

 this, as well as to other of his investigations. 



H.E. 



