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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[•iod S. NO 71., May 9. '67. 



the boys. I saw bis Guide to Winchester, with 

 MS. notes, sold at Leigh and Sotheby's four years 

 since, and should have bouj^ht it for the College, 

 had the annotations been of any moment. Many 

 of his MSS., including a Tour, are at Winton ; 

 and the President of Trinity College, Oxford, 

 some time since, kindly gave me permission to 

 look over the Warton MSS. in his possession ; but 

 I have not been able hitherto to avail myself of 

 that offer. The two Wartons, who were scholars 

 of Winton, were Joseph, admitted 1736 ; and 

 Thomas, admitted 1772, M.A. 1779, F. N. C. July 

 6, 1775, who died 1787. The latter was Dr. 

 Joseph Warton's second son. I copy their names 

 from an annotated Register of the College, which 

 I have been long preparing for presentation to it, 

 under care of its excellent and beloved Warden. 

 Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Gillray's Caricatures (2"'^ S. iii. 228.) — A full 

 description of the caricature referred to is given 

 in Wright and Evans's Historical and Descriptive 

 Account of Gillray s Caricatures, 8vo. Lond. 1851, 

 p. 467. See also Illustrative Description of Gill- 

 ray's Wo7-ks, published by McLean, Haymarket, 

 p. 255. F. 



Tavern Signs (1" S. passim.') — Add as a con- 

 tinuation of the derivations of the names of various 

 modern inns which have already appeared in " N. 

 & Q.," that a public house in London which was 

 once the George Canning, is already the George 

 and Cannon. If any of your readers can furnish 

 me with any similar recent changes, I for one 

 shall feel greatly interested and obliged. 



J. R. Kemp, 

 Geneva (2"^ S. iii. 169.) — I can point out a still 

 earlier allusion to Geneva,- it is to be found in 

 vol. i. p. 7. of the Carmina Quadragesimalia, pub- 

 lished at Oxford in 1723. The thesis is : 

 " An vita consistat in Calore? Aff'. 

 " Dum tremula hyberno Dipsas superimminet igni, 

 • Et dextra cyathum sustinet ore tubum, 

 Alternis vicibus fumos hauritque, bibitque : 



Quam dat arundo sitim, grata Geneva levat. 

 Larguenti hie ingens stomacho est fultura, nee alvus 



Nunc Hj'pocondriacis flatibus a;gra tumet : 

 Liberior fluit in tepido nunc corpore sanguis ; 



Hinc nova vis raembris, et nevus inde calor. 

 Si quando audieris vetulam banc periisse : Geneva 

 Dicas ampullam non renovasse suam." 



This copy of verses was contributed by Sauls- 

 bury Cade, elected from Westminster to Ch. Ch. 

 in 1714. OxoNiENSis. 



Ancient Representation of the Trinity (2""^ S. ii. 

 248.) — I remember seeing on one of the seats in 

 the choir of the fine old Priory Church of Cart- 

 mel, in Lancashire, an ingeniously carved repre- 

 sentation of the Trinity. It is three human faces 

 in one. If half is covered there is seen a profile 

 looking to the right ; if the other half of the 



carving is covered there is seen another profile 

 looking to the left ; if the whole is uncovered 

 there is no profile, but a full face fronting the 

 spectator. It is well carved, and is, I think, in 

 the Prior's Stall. The church was built, I believe, 

 in the reign of Henry III. I may mention that 

 the tower of Cartmel church, which rises from the 

 intersection of the nave and transepts, is of a very 

 singular construction, being a square within a 

 square, the upper part being placed diagonally 

 with the lower. I have heard of a similar tower 

 in Norway ; but I should be glad to know if there 

 be a similar tower elsewhere in England ? 



F. H. Maude. 



Ipswich. 



The Slingshy Family (2"'' S. iii. 331.)— In the 

 reigns of Charles II. and James II., there was a 

 favourite actress at the Theatre Royal, who, down 

 to 1681, was known as Mrs. Lee. After that 

 period, she took the title of Lady Slingsby, and 

 appeared as such in the bills down to 1685. She 

 lived and died in St. James's parish, but she was 

 buried at Pancras in March, 1693-4 ; and was on 

 that occasion described as " a widow." Could she 

 have been the wife of V. L.'s Henry Slingsby ? 

 who may have been Knighted. Or was she the 

 widow of another Sir Henry, the son of the Thomas 

 mentioned by "V. L. The latter Sir Henry died 

 in 1692 ; and in the list of baronets, given in 

 Hargrove's History of Knaresbrough, this Sir 

 Henry is the only baronet of the family of whose 

 marriage no notice is taken. Was he a bachelor, 

 or was he really married to pretty Mistress Lee 

 (the original Corisca in Pastor Fido) ? and was 

 this considered such a mesalliance as to cause the 

 omission of all notice of " my lady ? " J. Doran. 



Henry, second son of Thos. Bellasyse, Viscount 

 Falconberg, married Rogersa Rogers, daughter 

 of Richard Rogers of Brianstone, co. Dorset, by 

 his second wife Anne Cheke, a descendant of Sir 

 John Cheke, tutor, and afterwards Secretary of 

 State to King Edward VI. Wm. W. C. 



Spinettes (2"^ S. ill. 11 1.) — I have one pf these 

 little instruments in very tolerable repair, con- 

 sidering it bears the inscription " Johannes Hitch- 

 cock fecit, Londini, 1630." It Is in shape like a 

 harp laid on its side : the compass Is five octaves, 

 and the keys are of ebony, having ivory fronts ; 

 the flats and sharps have narrow slips of ivory, 

 inlaid. I have also two editions of An Instruction 

 Booh for the Harpsicord, Spinnet, or Pianoforte, 

 the contents of which tend to show that the 

 " spinnet" was made and sold within the last eighty 

 years. 



One of the songs in the above books is " The 

 Dusky Night, as sung by Mrs. Farrel in the Beg- 

 gars Opera." I do not find this song in an early 

 edition of that opera, which contains the words 



