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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N« 61., Feb. 28. '57. 



evidence on which an assertion apparently so 

 irreconcilable with the internal testimony of so 

 many of the letters rests ? F. K. 



Bath. 



" Last of the Mohicans" a Tragedy. — Who is 

 the author of The Last of the Mohicans, a tragedy 

 in five acts ? Published in 1842. X. 



" The Reform Deformed." — Who is the author 

 of the following political piece, The Reform De- 

 formed, or, the Fate of his Majesty s Good Ship 

 the State, a tragedy in three acts, by Lord J. 

 R 1, 8vo., London, 1831 ? X. 



John Lodge. — We shall be glad of any par- 

 ticulars respecting John Lodge, I)eputy-keeper of 

 the Records in» Birmingham Tower, Dublin. He 

 was the author of The Peerage of Ireland, London 

 and Dublin, 4 vols. 8vo., 1754. A new edition 

 was published by Mervyn Archdall, A.M., in 

 seven volumes 8vo. The MS. collections respect- 

 ing Irish history were secured by the govern- 

 ment, 500Z. per ann. being granted to his widow. 

 A transcript in sixteen folio volumes was sold at 

 Sir William Betham's sale for 155Z. C. & R. 



Ambrose Serle. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents give us any information respecting Ambrose 

 Serle, author of The Art of Writing, London, 

 12rao., 1767, (another edition, London, 12mo., 

 1782) ? C. & R. 



Meaning of'''' Two Turkey ses or London Drapers" 

 — What does R. C[arew], Esq., in his eulogy on 

 the English tongue in Camden's Remaines (edit. 

 1674, p. 57.), mean by " two Turkeyses or the 

 London drapers " in the following passage ? — 



" I come now to the last and sweetest point of the 

 sweetness of our tongue, which shall appear the more 

 plainly, if, like two Turkeyses or the London Drapers,* we 

 match it with our neighbours. The Italian is pleasant 

 ... the French delicate ... the Spanish majestical, but 

 fulsome," &c. 



Makk Antony Lower. 



Lewes. 



Passage in Machines " Dumb Knight." — In 

 Machin's Dumb Knight, Act III. Sc. 1., is the 

 following, to me unintelligible, passage : 



" Doth this lord Alphonso turn the orator to an ante- 

 lope?" 



Is this a proverbial phrase ? Dunelmensis. 



Humphrey Booth of Dublin. — I shall feel 

 greatly obliged to any of your Irish correspond- 

 ents who can give me information respecting 

 Humphrey Booth, Gent., who was living in Ire- 

 land (and as it is supposed in Dublin) in 1672. I 



[* It is singular that the words quoted by our corre- 

 spondent in Italic are omitted in Carew's Essay on the 

 English Tongue, printed in 1723, 4to. — Ed.] 



wish chiefly to learn the name of his wife, and the 

 date of his marriage and death, together with the 

 names, &e., of his issue. His daughter Letitia 

 married Nathaniel Gore of Artaman and Newtown 

 Gore (according to Burke) in 1711, ancestor of 

 the present Sir Robert Gore Booth. What pro- 

 fession did he follow, or what office did he hold in 

 that country ? J. B. 



" Utere jure tuo," S^x. — I shall be obliged if 

 you or a correspondent will kindly inform me who 

 the poet is who is thus referred to in A Reply to 

 the Neiu Test of the Church of England's Loyalty, 

 4to., Lond. 1687 ? 



" Thus says j'our Poet : 



' Utere jure tuo, Cassar, sectamque Lutheri 



Ense, Rota, Ponto, furibus \_sic ?] Igne neca.' " 



Also in what library is deposited a copy of A 

 Reply to the Two Answers of the New Test of the 

 Church of England: s Loyalty, 4to., 1687 ? * 



BiBLlOTHECAR. CheTHAM. 



Cromwell Family. — The papers are quoting 

 the following from the Ohio Statesman: 



" The Cromwells still live — the line of Oliver in direct 

 descent from the veritable Oliver that drove out the 

 Rump Parliament, still lives ! A part of the family live 

 in Claj' county, Indiana. They are farmers, rather above 

 mediocrity in their vicinitj'-; intelligent, and in full pos- 

 session of the family historj'. They still keep up the 

 name of Oliver in every fiimily. Oliver Cromwell V. now 

 lies in the cemetery at Bowling Green. He died there an 

 aged, respected, and venerated citizen of Clay county in 

 1855." 



Through whom can these be descended from the 

 Protector ? Through the second son, who was in 

 the army, and of whom so little is known ? Or 

 through some illegitimate son, taking his father's 

 name ? As " N. & Q." is heartily welcomed in 

 America, we may hope that some Transatlantic 

 antiquary will obtain what information he can 

 from these Cromwells on this point. 



Theelkeld. 

 Cambridge. 



Double Hexameter. — Can you inform me, Mr. 

 Editor, who was the author of the following sin- 

 gularly expressive double hexameter ? 

 " Si Christum 

 ""'^f I nihil est si cetera ^ '^'''''^ 



discis 



Cambridge. 



\ nescis." 



G. W. A. 



Serjeant- Surgeons and Presidents of the College 

 of Physicians. — I should be obliged by any of 

 your correspondents telling me where I could 

 find a list of the Serjeant-surgeons from the first 

 appointment to the present time (the appointment 



[* This tract is in the British Museum, old catalogue, 

 art. Test, Press-mark, T. 763. 40.] 



