^nd s. N« 69., ArKiL 25. '67.] 



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that the two other daughters of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Thrale are still alive. Can you say whether, with 

 these exceptions, every other Boswellian per- 

 sonage exists only in his pages — a shadow of the 

 past? It does not appear from Mr. Croker's 

 editorial performance, that any information was 

 supplied to him by the ward and "pupil" of 

 Johnson, who must have grown up under his eye 

 from her birth to womanhood ; nor is the subject 

 invested with much interest by the not very lu- 

 minous tribute of Mrs. Gray. Let us hope, how- 

 ever, that the accomplished authoress may have 

 gleaned, and may yet impart, in her fascinating 

 manner, some additional johnsoniana — some few 

 reminiscences derived from the conversation of her 

 noble friend, whose least distinction I should say 

 is to have been a " leader of ton," and a Lady 

 Patroness of Almacks. A. L. 



Braose Family. — Any of your readers will 

 greatly oblige me by stating how the great ba- 

 ronial family of Braose became extinct. If In the 

 female line, what became of their vast estates In 

 Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, in which counties they 

 had seven or eight different places of residence, 

 some of them on a scale of great magnificence ? 



W. P. 



Slingshj Family. — Sir Henry Sllngsby, who 

 was beheaded for his loyalty, June 8, 1658, was 

 born January 14, 1601, and married, July 7, 1631, 

 Barbara, daughter of Thomas Bellasyse, first Vis- 

 count Falconberg, and by her had issue, 1. Thomas, 

 his successor ; 2. Henry, one of the gentlemen of 

 the Privy Chamber to King Charles II., and ap- 

 pointed In the letters patent Incorporating the 

 Royal Society one of the first council after Its in- 

 corporation ; 3. Barbara, married after the Re- 

 storation to Sir John Talbot, of Lacock, com. 

 Wilts. 



Query. Is anything further known of Henry, 

 the second son ? Was he ever married, did he 

 leave any issue, and where was he buried ? 



V. L. 



Sir Posthumous Hobby. — Mr. Halliwell, In his 

 Archaic Dictionary, under the word " Hobby " (2) 

 says, " Sir Posthumous Hobby, one very fantas- 

 tical In his dress, a great fop : " giving, however, 

 no authority or explanation Avhatever. In " N. 

 & Q.," P* S. vii. 626. (in a passage cited from 

 Camden's Remains, p. 44.), that author says, 

 " Two Christian names are rare in England ; and 

 I only remember . . . among private men 

 Thomas Maria WIngfield, and Sir Thomas Post- 

 humous Hobby." From the Dictionary, alone, I 

 should infer the knight to have been an Imaginary 

 one, — probably a character in some old play. But 



the quotation from the grave Camden makes it 

 evident that he really existed In the flesh. I ask 

 then, 1. Who was he? 2. Is there anything 

 known of him which justifies Mr. Halllwell's ap"- 

 plication of his name ? and 3. If so, where did 

 Mr. Halliwell, and where can I, find the account 

 thereof? Harbst Leeoy Temple. 



[It is evident that Sir Thomas-Posthumous Hobby (or 

 rather Hoby) formerly belonged to the human family, as 

 testified by the annals of Berkshire and Yorkshire. He 

 was connected with the Hobys of Bisham in Berkshire, 

 whose arms, portraits, &c., are noticed in our 1" S. 

 vols. vii. viii. ix. His father, Sir Thomas Hoby, married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, of ^idea Hall, 

 Essex, knight, by whom he had four children, Edward, 

 Elizabeth, Anne, and Thomas-Posthumous. On one oc- 

 casion. Queen Elizabeth being expected at Bisham, the 

 family seat, Thomas-Posthumous Hoby wrote to Mr. An- 

 thony Bacon on the 29th July, 1592, that Lady Hoby 

 was desirous of his and his brother Francis's company 

 there, where they might have an opportunity of waiting 

 upon Her Majesty. (Nichols's Progresses of Queen Eliza^ 

 beth, iii. 124., who has also given some account of the en- 

 tertainment to the Queen at p. 131.) Perhaps it was on 

 this occasion that Sir Thomas-Posthumous was "so nice 

 and whimsical in his dress," as Captain Grose has it. Sir 

 Thomas- Posthumous married the daughter of Arthur 

 Dakens, Esq., of Hackness, co. York, where he subse- 

 quently resided, and where he died in 1640. Three of 

 his letters are among the Birch MSS. in the British 

 Museum.] 



'■'■A Pappe with an Hatchet." — I met the other 

 day with a little book bearing this curious title, 

 and wish to obtain some information about it. 

 The full title is — 



" Pappe with an Hatchet, alias, A figge for my God 

 Sonne. Or, Cracke me this nut. Or, A Countrie CufFe ; 

 that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to 

 hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no Avarning." 

 N. p. or d. 



The " Martin," against whom the satire Is di- 

 rected. Is, I conclude, Martin Marprelate. I may 

 take this opportunity of observing that the library 

 bequeathed by the late Dr. Routh to the Univer- 

 sity of Durham contains a collection of most rare 

 tracts referring to the times of Elizabeth, the 

 Stuarts, the Commonwealth, and Restoration. I 

 shall be happy to furnish further Information to 

 such of your readers as are interested In those 



times. DUNELMENSIS. 



[The original edition of this tract in small quarto was 

 published in the latter half of the year 1589. It is men- 

 tioned with much commendation bj"^ Nash, in his First 

 Part of Pasquils Apologie, 1590: "I warrant j'ou the 

 cunning Pap-maker knew what he did when he made 

 choice of no other spoon than a hatchet for such a mouth, 

 no other lace than a halter for such a necke." Collier, in 

 his Eccles. Hist., ii. 606., gives the authorship to Thomas 

 Nash; but Gabriel Harvey ascribes it to John Lyly, 

 (Pierce's Supererogation.) It has been attributed to Nash 

 chiefly from the similarity which it bears to his style ; 

 and this opinion is somewhat strengthened by the fact, 

 that he wrote more than one tract on the same side. On 

 behalf of Lyly it ma}' be said, that the testimony of Ga- 

 briel Harvey is that of a contemporary, and therefore 



