8«.«s.no68.,Apbil18.'87.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Father Haye, an antiquary long resident at Edin- 

 burgh, of which I subjoin a copy. I found at 

 the same time part of the MS. History of Scotland 

 by Father Haye, which has the following descrip- 

 tion of himself on the title-page : 



" Descriptio Scotiaa 



Historico -Geographica 



Authore 



Richardo AagUstino de La Haye Scoto 



Canonico Regular! D. Genovifse 



Parisiensis 



Priore Fani Petri de Petiimonte ad Altam Fluvium 



1696." 



Father Haye was a relation of ours, and a great 

 friend "of my grandfather's, and I have a good 

 many of his MSS. ; some, I am sorry to say, in a 

 very dilapidated state from damp and confusion, 

 and some nearly illegible from bad writing. My 

 grandfather was also an antiquary, and compiled a 

 Monasticon of Scotland, of which I have the MS., 

 never published. 



"Sir, — I did not receive your kind Letter of Sept. 1. 

 till last Night. I am glad the interpolated Fordun is like 

 to come from so good a hand. I had heard of it some time 

 since. And I have therefore taken care that my Design 

 shall not interfere with j'ours. I give the genuine Fordun, 

 and that too from a MS. which (as I gather from your 

 Proposals) will not be regarded in your Ed. of the inter- 

 polated Fordun ; upon which account there is no reason 

 why you should stop your Edition for the book I am pub- 

 lishing. As Fordun left his Work imperfect, and did not 

 revise what he had written, 'tis no wonder there are so 

 many Grammatical Mistakes in him. Besides which 

 there are also many Historical Errors, which for me to 

 correct, and animadvert upon, would be to interfere with 

 you, which, as 1 said before, I avoid. I act the Part of an 

 Editor, not of a Commentator. 



" Since you are so obliging as to offer me your service, 

 I desire the favour of you to know, (1) What you think 

 of the Story of Pope Joan ? 'Tis in the Interpolations, 

 but not in the genuine Fordun. (2) What you think of 

 Fordun's telling us that Robert IIL was born of Eliz. 

 Mure extra matrimonium ? (3) Whether you have met 

 with any authentick MS. in which Fordun is called Jo- 

 hannes Scot cognomento Fordon ? (4) Whether the MS. 

 in the Library of the Scots College at Paris, from which a 

 passage is published in p. 19. of Charta Authentica, be not 

 really a Copy of the interpolated Fordun .' 

 " I am, with all true respect. 

 Honoured Sir, 



Your most humble servant, 



" Tho. Hkarne. 

 [Indorsed] 



" To Mr. Richard Haj'e at the 



Potteraw in Hewison's land near 



Edinburg." 



J. Ss. 



Spottiswoode. 



A Note by Heame on the ^* Description of Wales^^ 

 • — The subjoined note in the handwriting of Hearne 

 is from the fly-leaf of a copy of Sir^John Prise's 

 Description of Wales (Oxford, 1663), formerly in 

 Hearne's possession : 



" Suum cuiq. 

 Tho. Hearne, Dec. 



14 MDCCXXII. 



" The following description of Wales was published b3' 

 Mr. Thomas Ellis, A.M., and Fellow of Jesus College, 

 Oxon, but 'tis much altered from the edition w^"" Dr. 

 Powell set out with Tlie Historie of Cambria now caU'd 

 Wales, at London in 1584, 4°. 



" The said Mr. Thomas Ellis was a learned man and a 

 very great antiquary. He began also to reprint the said 

 Histonf of Cambria, w''> was grown (and is now) very 

 scarce. In order to w'"" that great antiquary Rob. 

 Vaughan, of Hengwort, in Merionethshire, Esq. (who was 

 diverted by other business from publishing this work as 

 he otherwise designed), communicated to him his cor- 

 rections and additions. But Mr. Ellis finding that a 

 paultry illitterate author called Percie Enderbie had been 

 before hand with him, and some way or other had got 

 Mr. Vaughan's notes also, and was so bold as without IMr. 

 Vaughan's leave to print them in his book (vf'^^ is but a 

 poor thing), in folio called Cambria Triumphans, or ancient 

 and modern British and Welsh Histories, he laid by his 

 design, and so no more was printed than 128 pages, all 

 w'^" are here. After he had desisted (for w«'» all curious 

 and learned men were ver^' sorry, he being so very ca- 

 pable of doing great matters) the copies, all but a very 

 few, were sold for wast paper, upon w'='* account the Book 

 is now a wonderfuU rarity and highly valuable. Dr. 

 Powell's additions are marked thus n Mr. Vaughan's 

 thus ^. This book belonged to the Rev. Mr. Josiah 

 Pullen, M.A., and Vice principal of Maud. Hall, Oxon." 



Cl. Hoppek. 



MRS. MARGARET WOFFINGTON. 



Mr. C. Reade has drawn a very charming, but 

 rather too highly rose-tinted sketch of the captivat- 

 ing Peg, who, after all, did not turn saint till in- 

 firmity had so stricken her that she was incapable 

 of continuing in her old line of sinning. As an 

 illustration of the good-nature and true artistic 

 feeling of this actress, who for seventeen years 

 (1740—1757) turned the heads and offended the 

 ears of London playgoers, Mr. Reade notices her 

 condescension in playing old Mrs. Day in The 

 Committee. Davies says that she acted Mi*s. 

 Day, but Genest asserts that "her name does 

 not appear to Mrs. Day in the bills, whereas 

 it frequently stands to Ruth, and that to the 

 last season of her acting." She played Lotha- 

 rio only twice, producing little effect. On the 

 other band, her Sir Harry Wildair was to the 

 young and old gentlemen of the town what 

 Madame Vestris's Don Giovanni was in the suc- 

 ceeding century. Strange as it may sound, there 

 may have been individuals who saw both tliese 

 ladies. The young boy of twelve who saw Peg's 

 Sir Harry in 1757, may as an old boy of seventy- 

 five have witnessed the performance of Madame 

 as the Don in 1820. There was only one cha- 

 racter, that of Portia, in which Margaret turned 

 her unpleasant voice to good account. In the 

 first scene of Act V. Lorenzo says, " That is the 

 voice, or I am much deceived, of Portia." To 

 which the latter replies, " He knows me, as the 

 blind man knows the cuckoo, by the bad voice." 

 And with these words Peg, as handsome and as 



