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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 67., April 11. '57. 



Minax €iuzviei ioit^ ^nSiotvg. 



Right Hon. John Aislabie. — This <rentleinan 

 was Treasurer of the Navy, 1714 to 1718, and 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1718 to 1721. Any 

 further particulars respecting him will oblige 



C. H. AND Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



[Sir John Aislabie was the son of George Aislabie, Esq., 

 of .Stndley Park in Yorkshire, principal registrar of the 

 Ecclesiastical Court at York, who died in 1674. Sir John 

 was Mayor of Ripon in 1702, and at the time of the fatal 

 South-Sea scheme was tirst Lord Commissioner of the 

 Treasury, Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exche- 

 quer, and a member of the Privy Council. Sir John died 

 on June 18, 1742, at Studley Park. He published His 

 Case, or Defence against the Resolutions of the House of 

 Commons, 4to. 1720 ; and Two Speeches in the House of 

 Lords, against the Bill for taking away the Estates of the 

 late South Sea Directors, on the 19th and 20th of July, 

 1721, 4to., 1721. See also A Speech upon the Consolidated 

 Sill against John Aislabie, Esq., 4to., 1721. His death is 

 noticed in Gent. Mag., 1742, p. 331. ; London Mag., 1742, 

 p. 309.; and Annals of Europe, 1742, p. 529.] 



" The Penitent Pilgrim.'''' — Can you favour me 

 with the name of the author or any particulars of 

 a little devotional work (reprinted by Pickering) 

 entitled The Penitent Pilgrim., 1641 ? It is not 

 Bishop Patrick's Pilgrim that I refer to. 



Priscds. 



[77te Penitent Pilgrim is attributed to Richard Brath- 

 wait, author of Bamahee's Journal, Sec. We have before 

 us a fine-paper copy, in which is written " very scarce, 

 31. 3s." It has an engraved frontispiece by W. Marshall, 

 of an aged man as " the Penitent Pilgrim," journeying 

 barefoot with bottle and staff, scallop-shell in his hat, his 

 loins girded, and beneath his feet " Few and evill have 

 the days of my life been." (Gen. xlvii. 9.) On the last 

 leaf a quaint couplet occurs before the Errata : 



" No place hut is of Errors rife. 

 In labours, lectures, leafes, lines, life." 



" The clue for appropriating this pious production to 

 Brathwait," says Joseph Haslewood, " is the mannerism 

 of style, which his many unacknowledged publications 

 now compel us confidently to rely upon."] 



Dr. Dee and Queen Elizabeth. — In Mr. Bow- 

 den's pamphlet Ofi the Sonnets of Shakspeare, I 

 find at p. 56. the following statement : 



" Queen Elizabeth and the Pembroke family were 

 Dee's [i.e. the famous Dr. Dee's] chief patrons." 



May I ask on what authority this is given ; and 

 where I can find any reference to it ? as it seems 

 at variance with the fact that Dr. Dee's library of 

 books and manuscripts were all seized in 1583, 

 which would not have been the case had he been a 

 protegee of the queen's. Ignoto. 



[If our correspondent will consult the Life of Dr. Dee 

 in Kippis's Biographia Britannica ; Dr. Dee's Diary, 

 edited by Halliwell for the Camden Society; and Lysons' 

 account of him in The Environs of London, i. 377., he 

 will find Mr. Bowden's statement fully corroborated. The 

 plunder of Dr. Dee's library in 1583 was simply the act of 



a popular rabble, as stated by the Messrs. Lysons : " Dee 

 left Mortlake for the Continent on Sept. 21, 1683; the 

 mob, who had always been prejudiced against him as a 

 magician, immediately upon his departure broke into his 

 house, and destroyed a great part of his furniture and 

 books." On Dee's return to England he waited upon her 

 majesty at Richmond, and was very graciously received ; 

 and we find the queen appointed commissioners to inquire 

 into the losses and injuries he had sustained.] 



" Huon de Bourdeaux.'" — What was a book 

 called Huon de Bourdeavlx f Is the title the 

 name of the author or of a fiction? It is mentioned 

 in a late number of the Quarterly., in the article 

 on "Montaigne," where, describing his library, it 

 is said it seemed a place better fitted for writing 

 Pilgrim's Progress, The Castle of Otranto, or a 

 third part to Huon de Bourdeaulx ; and in a pre- 

 vious volume of the Quarterly, in the review of 

 some travels thought to be rather fictitious, it is 

 said " this sounds more like the adventures of 

 Sindbad the Sailor, Huon de Bourdeaidx, or Ernest 

 of Bavaria." Anon. 



\_Huon de Bourdeau.v is an old French Romance, origin- 

 ally written in verse by Huon de Villeneuve, as far back 

 as the thirteenth centurj', but in its present form supposed 

 not to be long anterior to the invention of printing. The 

 earliest printed edition is in folio without date, and what 

 is believed to be the second is in 4to, 1516. It was trans- 

 lated into English by Lord Berners in the reign of Henry 

 VIII. The Oberon of the Poet Wieland, so admirably 

 translated by Sotheby, is a German poetical version of 

 the same story: which has long been so popular in 

 France that it forms not onlj' a portion of the well-known 

 Bihliotheque Bleue, but is still reprinted as a chap-book. 

 It is also a popular Story Book in Germany and the Low 

 Countries. For further information see Dunlop's History 

 of Fiction, i. 394. et seq. ; Nisard, Histoire des Livres Popu- 

 laires, &c., ii. 535.] 



Dr. Manton. — Who did Thomas Manton, D.D., 

 marry, and what family had he ? Who did they 

 marry ? A. S. S. 



Brighton. 



[Harris, in his Life of Dr. Thomas Manton, 1725, p. 10., 

 states that "the Doctor married Mrs. Morgan, who was a 

 daughter of a genteel family of Mansion in Sidbury, co. 

 Devon."] 



" The Puffiad: a Satire." —\Nho is the author 

 of this anonymous book, published by Maunder, 

 1828 ? It is a poetical diatribe against the puffs 

 of publishers, and is clever, trenchant, and amus- 

 ing. CUTHBEBT BeDE. 



[This is one of the earliest productions of the late Rev. 

 Robert Montgomery, author of Satan, &c.] 



Bishop Cosin\ Worhs. — Can any body tell 

 whether the Anglo-Catholic Library people intend 

 to print any more volumes (five are published) 

 of this author or not ? P. D. P. 



[It is not intended to print any more volumes than the 

 five which are already published.] 



