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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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so ftill is malice of sinistei' acceptions. To return to our 

 P^nglish proverb, it is conceived of more antiquity than 

 the fore-mentioned College, though the secondary sense 

 thereof lighted not unhappily, and that it related origin- 

 ally to the cathedral church in Lincoln. The Devil is 

 the map of malice, and his envy (as God's mercy) is over 

 all his works. It grieves him whatever is given to God, 

 crying out with that flesh devil, ' Ut quid hsec perditio?' 

 what needs this waste? On which account he is supposed 

 to have overlooked this church, when first finished with a 

 torve and tetrick countenance, as maligning men's costly 

 devotion, and that they should be so expensive in God's 

 service ; but it is suspicious that some, who account 

 themselves saints, behold such fabricks with little better 

 looks." 



Travels of Henry Wanton. — 



"The Travels of Henry Wanton in Terra Australis 

 Incognita, and the Land of the Monkeys, translated from 

 English into Italian, and thence into Spanish by Don 

 Joaquin de Gnizman y Manrique, &c. 4fo. Madrid, 1781." 



The above is the translated tltle-pajje of a Spanish 

 book, of which I have only an odd volume, the 

 second. I wish to know whether it is really a 

 translation, and, if so, what is the English original ? 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. C. 



[Henry Wilton is a feigned name. An Italian edition 

 appeared in 1772, entitled Delli Viaggi di Enrico Wanton 

 alle Terre Australi. Nuova Edizione, 4 torn. In Londra, 

 1772. A copy of the Italian edition is in the King's 

 library at the British Museum, and is noticed in the 

 Monthly Review of 1772, vol. xlvii. p. 501. The reviewer 

 states, that " the archetype of this work must have been 

 the famous travels of Lemuel Gulliver ; and as in that 

 performance, so likewise in the imaginary voyages before 

 us, we have much useful satire laid up for the human 

 species, without the invidious mode of making that species 

 the immediate object of flagellation."] 



Cuchullin and Conloch. — In Mi*. Grant's new 

 book, Philip Rollo, p. 453., the following sentence 

 occurs : 



" Red Angus is as strong as OuchuUin, and M'Coll as 

 unerring as Conloch.'* 



Perhaps some of yoar readers may be able to 

 explain these similes. If. E. P. 



[The allusion is to two Gaelic proverbs: 1. "He has 

 the strength of Cuchullin." 2. " As unerring as the hand 

 of Conloch." Cuchullin is one of the heroes in Fingal, and 

 celebrated for his amazing strength. Conloch was the 

 son of Morni, and brother of Gaul. See Ossian's Poems. ] 



Stacklands and Northend. — Can any of the cor- 

 respondents of " N. & Q." state where Blacklands 

 and Northend were situated ? Both places are be- 

 lieved to be in the neighbourhood of London. 

 Sir John Stanley resided at Northend in the year 

 1734. Was this the name of the parish or of his 

 house ? IscA, 



[Northend is a village extending from Walham Green 

 to Hammersmith, where the celebrated Jacob Tonson, 

 the bookseller, had a house. In the year 1718, Hicks 

 Borough surrendered a messuage near Northend, Fulham, 

 called Browne's-house, which had been formerly Lord 

 GriflSn'S, to Sir John Stanley, Bart., from whom it passed, 



anno 1735, to William' Monk, Esq. (Lysons' Environs, ii. 

 36o.) Blacklands is in the Marlborough Road, Chelsea, 

 which was formerly called Blacklands Lane. Bowack, 

 in his Antiquities of Middlesex, fol., 1705, informs us that 

 " William Lord Cheyne, Viscount Newhaven in Scotland, 

 has two good seats in Chelsea : the one (being the Man- 

 sion-house) is situated at the east end of the town near 

 the Thames ; and here it was that Queen Elizabeth was 

 nursed : the other stands some distance north of the town, 

 and is called Blackland House, both now [1705] let to 

 French boarding-schools." It is now a private lunatic 

 asylum.] 



Tyndale's New Testament. — Lowndes {Bib: 

 Manual, p. 1793. col. 2.), describing an edition of 

 the New Testament published in Nov. 1534, says, 

 " In this edition first appeared the celebrated Pro- 

 logue to the Romans, occupying thirty-four pages, 

 respecting which some controversy ensued." I 

 have in my possession an edition wanting begin* 

 ning and end, which I have reason to believe to 

 be Joye's, yet having this " celebrated Prologue." 

 Has Lowndes in this case made a mistake, or is 

 mine not the edition I suppose ? Perhaps some 

 of your numerous correspondents can explain this 

 circumstance. If it were not asking too much, I 

 should like the opinion of Mb. Offor on the 

 point. J. GiBSOK. 



Maidstone. 



[We have submitted our correspondent's Query to 

 George Offor, Esq., who has kindly furnished the fol- 

 lowing reply : — 



" The editions of Tyndale's New Testament from 1534 

 to 1550 are so numerous and so similar to each other that 

 it is difficult to identify the date of an imperfect copy. I 

 should have published an amusing account of these rare 

 books, with the means of identifying the edition of any 

 imperfect copy, had not the heavy and incorrect Annals 

 by Anderson, and the imperfect list by Wilson, forestalled 

 me in the market. The edition of 1534, by Joye, is ex- 

 ceedingly rare, and may be known by his having substi- 

 tuted ' the life after this life,' or ' verie lyfe,' for the word 

 'resurrection,' in the Gospels, Acts, and Hebrews. See 

 John V. 29. &c. &c. 



"Joye's edition bears the imprint of 'Christophel of 

 Endhouen, mdxxxiiii. in August.' 



" Tyndale's ' Marten Emperour, MDxxxnii. in tie 

 moneth of Nouember.' 



" Another edition by G. H. mdxxxihi. 



" These three have titles within a border of wood-cuts ; 

 and there is also one without a border, mdxxxiiii. All 

 the four editions in 1534, and seven in 1536, are very 

 similar in size and appearance. 



" If Mr. Gibson would allow me an opportunity, his 

 volume shall be compared with many original editions 

 in my libiarj^ some in fine preservation, and I have little 

 doubt of being able to identify it. 



" Hackney."] 



City Poet Laureate. — When was this office 

 established, and where is to be found a list of 

 persons who held it ? Settle held it in 1703, after 

 which it appears to have been discontinued. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



[The entire list of City Poets Laureate, according to 

 Mr. Faiifholt — that pleasant chronicler of our civic pa- 



