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NOtfiS AND QUERIES. 



[2«d S. ITo 68., April 18. '57. 



days of Queen Elizabeth, wrotd a poem against 

 tobacco with the following title : 



" Tobacco battered and the Pipes shattered about theit 

 Ears that idly idolize so loathsome a Vanity, by a Volley 

 of holy Shot thundered from Mount Helicon." 



w. w. 



Maltat 



Sonnet on Tobacco. — As many of the readers 

 of " ISTj & Q." are interested in poetical effusions 

 on the '' nasty weed," 1 present tliem with a little 

 sonnet from the pen of Sir Kobert Aytoun. This 

 worthy knight was born In the Castle of Kinaldie 

 in 1570, and died in the palace of Whitehall in 

 1638. it is transcribed from The Poems of Sir 

 Robert Aytoun, edited by Charles Roger, 8vo., 

 Edinb. 1844. 



" Forsaken of all comforts but these two, 

 My faggot and my pipe, I sit and niuse 

 On all my crosses, and almost accuse 

 The Heav'ns for dealing with me as the}' do. 

 Then Hope steps in, and with a stniling brow 

 Such cheerful expectations doth infuse 

 As makes me think ere long I cannot choose 

 But be some grandee, whatsoe'er I'm now. 

 But having spent my pipe, I then perceive 

 That hopes and dreams are cousins — both deceivei 

 Then mark I this conclusion in my mind, 

 It's all one thing — both tend into one scope — 

 To live upon Tobacco and on Hope, 

 The one's but smoke, the other is but wind." 



Edward F, Rimbault. 



A few Words anent Tobacco. — Although 

 James I. is said to have Written " A Counter-blast 

 to Tobacco, to which is added A learned Discourse 

 by Dr. Everard Maynwaring, proving that To- 

 bacco is a procui-ing cause of the Scurvey : Lon- 

 don, 1672, quarto," — it will be seen from the 

 following extract from the Records that he did 

 not mind granting a lease for the sale of clay 

 "proles Tobacco-pipes." 



" Originalia 16 James I. — Rex licentiaiii dedit Phi- 

 lippo Foote pro 21 annis vendere le Clay pro les Tobacco 

 pipes in Civitate Londonise sub redditii ibidem speci- 

 fic atOi" 



Anon. 



DOUBLE CHRISTIAN NAMES. 



(a"-* S. iii. 99.) 



To show the increase of double Christian names 

 in modern times, I send yoti the following com- 

 pilations from Dr. Bliss s Catalogue of Oxford 



Graduates : 



Numbet of t)oiible 



Persons. Xtian Natnes. 



Proctors. a.d. 1660—1700 - 86 - 



IT'Ol— 1750 - 102 - 



1751—1800 - 102 - 8 



1801—1850 - 106 - 44 



1851—1856 - 13 - 8 



t^rom the foundation of the various colleges and 



halls, with one exception, all who have had two 

 Christian names have been elected in this cen- 

 tury : 



University, 1 present. 

 Balliol, 0. 



Merton, 1, present.* 

 Exeter, 3, present and last 



two. 

 Oriel, 0. 

 Queen's, 0. 

 New, 1, last. 

 Lincoln, 0. 

 All Souls, 0. 

 Magdalen, 1, last. 

 Brasenose, 2, present and last. 

 Corpus, 1, last. 



Christ Church, 2, 

 trinit,r, 0. 

 Jesus, 0. 

 St. John's, 0. 

 Wadham, 1, present. 

 Pembroke, 1, last. 

 Worcester, 1, present. 



St: Alban Hall, 0. 

 St. Edmund, 0. 

 St. Mary, 1, last. 

 New Inn, 1, last. 

 Magdalen, 1, present. 



Of the twenty-nine Chancellors of the Univer- 

 sity from 1552 — 1852, the following only have 

 borne two or more Christian names : 



1762. Geo. Henry Lee, Earl of Lichfield. 



1792. Wm. H. Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of Portland. 



1809. Wm. Wyndham Grenville. 



1852. Edw. Geoflfry Smith Stanley, Earl of Derby. • 



Of the burgesses in Parllattient (fifty), from 

 1603—1850, only 



Mr. Thos. Grimston Bucknall-Estcourt, 

 Sir Robert Harry Inglis, and 

 Mr. Wm. Ewart Gladstone, 



have more than one Christian name : these were 

 first elected within the last thirty years* 



Deo Ducb. 

 Oxford. 



The registers of this parish (Wiston), perfect 

 from 1538, do not afford a single instance of more 

 than one name being given in baptism until 1781. 



Chas. E. Birch. 



Rectory* 



RICHARD, KING OF THE ROMANS. 



(2"i S. iii. 267.) 



Mr. Taylor's notice of this individual gives 

 me information which I am in some measure 

 able to repay, assuming, as I do, that our re- 

 ference is to the same individual. So long since 

 as when John Evelyn was travelling in Italy, hei 

 " made a note " (copied also by me) of an epitaph 

 in the church of San Michael, Lucca, from a tomb 

 which, as he says, " still exists a crux to aiiti- 

 quaries and travellers." The epitaph is as follows: 



" Hie Rex Richardus, requiescit Sceptifer almus. 

 Rex fuit Anglorum (.'), regnum tenet iste polorunl. 

 Regnum dimisit, pro Christo cuncta rdiqUit. . 

 fergo Richardum nobis dedit Anglia SanctttrtJ. 

 Hie genitor Sanctse WaWurgce Virginis alraag, 

 Et Willebaldis Sancti simul et Vetiebaldt, 

 Suffragium quorum nobis det regna polorum." 



Although it is most probable that this epitaph 

 reffers to that individual mentioned by Ms. Tat- 



* Double sirname ? 



