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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'i S, No 74., May 30. '57. 



Sainte Beuve ; 3 vols. imp. l2mo., Paris, 1 852, par C. Lou- 

 andre. See also Histoire de sa Vie et de ses Ouvrages, par 

 Taschereau, 8vo. Paris, 1828; Notice sur la Vie et les 

 Ouvraqes, Paris, 12mo., 1844 ; Select Comedies, with a life 

 in French and English, 8 vols. 12mo.,Lond., 1732-52. 

 His Works, French and English, with life by M. de la 

 Serre, 10 vols. 12mo., 1755.] 



Mary Tofts, tlie Rabbit Woman. — What was 

 the character of the rabbit-imposture by which 

 Miss Tofts deluded Whiston and St. Andre in 

 1 726 ? Where may I find the fullest narrative ? 



QuiNTIN. 



FA complete list of the works, tracts, squibs, plates, and 

 plays, connected with this curious imposture of rabbit- 

 breeding by the heroine of Godalming in Surrey, would 

 fill about two pages of our work. Some collector at the 

 time has filled a thick octavo volume of these fugitive 

 tracts and plates, which is now in the British Museum, 

 press mark 1178, h. 4. But for more accessible works 

 consult Mackav's Memoirs of Popular Delusions, 8vo., 

 1841 ; The Enqlish Rogue, or the Life of Jeremy Sharpe, 

 vol. iii. 1776 ; llogarth's Works, by Nichols and Steevens, 

 vol! ii.pp. 49—60 ; and Reliquice Hearniana, ii. 614.] 



TisdaWs Press. — Can you furnish me with a 

 copy of the title-page and date of a 12mo. black- 

 letter book, and its probable value and scarcity ? 

 It is somewliat of a concordance : the first chapter 

 is " Of Miracles showed by the Divine Power of 

 God;" next, "Of Goddes Prouidence and Se- 

 creat ludgementes ;" then, "Of the Benignitie of 

 God to hys Seruauntes;" in all, there are 134 

 chapters. The imprint at the end of the work is 

 as follows : " Imprinted at London by Jhon Tis- 

 dale, dwelling in Knyght Riders Streat, — 'Cum 

 priuilegio ad imprimendum Solum.' " T. B. 



[This work is entitled The Ensamples of Vertue and 

 Vice, gathered oute ofholye Scripture. By Nicolas Hanape, 

 patriarch of Jerusalem. Very necessarye for all Christen 

 men and women to loke upon, f And Englysbed by 

 Thomas Paynell. Anno 1561." Then follows the Epistle 

 Dedicatory : " To the moste noble, most excellent, and 

 mooste vertuous Lady Elizabeth, Queue of Englande, 

 Fraunce, and Irelande, defender of the faith, &c. Thomas 

 Paynell wisheth all felicity:" and "An Exhortation to 

 the study of holy scripture." See Ames's Typog. Antiq., 

 by Herbert, ii. 767. Lowndes states that it sold for 12s. 

 at Inglis's sale.] 



Rev. W. Adams. — Where can I find an account 

 of the Rev. W, Adams, M.A., author of The Old 

 Man's Home, The Shadow of the Cross (1842), 

 and other Sacred Allegories ? Rovillus. 



Norwich. 



[A Memoir of this accomplished author is prefixed to 

 "the collected edition of his Sacred Allegories, London, 

 1849; but the most interesting sketch of him, accom- 

 panied with a portrait, will be found in Bonchurch, Jsle of 

 Wight, 8vo., 1849. Mr. Adams died on January 17, 1848, 

 at the age of thirty-three, and reposes in the churchyard 

 he has so beautifullv described in The Old Man's Home. 

 See also " N. & Q.,"'l" S. iii. 135. 140. 249.] 



" Pennynged." — A paragraph has gone the 

 rounds of the High Church papers, in which a 

 certain letter is said to have been written by the 



bishop, by whom the twenty-eighth article was 

 " pennynged." This strange word is placed be- 

 tween inverted commas, as if it were a quotation ; 

 but is it really so ? Is it not an absurd blunder 

 of the writer of the paragraph ? The bishop 

 speaks of the twenty-eighth article as being of his 

 "pennynge ;" but the past participle correspond- 

 ing to this gerund would be " penned," not " pen- 

 nynged." E. H. D. D. 



[The blunder is that of the newspapers. The original 

 letter, in the State Paper Office, has no heading; but is 

 endorsed on the back, " From Geste, Bishop of Rochester, 

 to Sir Wilim Cecill, Knight, Principall Secretaire to y" 

 Queens Ma*'«." We believe the discovery of this re- 

 markable letter was owing to the publication of Mr. 

 Lemon's Calendar of State Papers, noticed in our present 

 volume, p. 80. ; and is only one of many similar cases. 

 We look forward with great anxiety to the other Calen- 

 dars, some of which, we hear, are rapidly approaching 

 completion. ] 



German Periodicals. — Is any periodical similar 

 to " N. & Q.," or the Gentleman s Magazine, pub- 

 lished in Germany ? If so, what is the price, &c.? 



ROVILLUS. 



[There is no work published in Germany similar to 

 " N. & Q." There are periodicals published in Germany 

 and Switzerland termed Jahrbucher, such as those of 

 Sinsheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, which treat of me- 

 diaeval and earlier Antiquities in a learned but unpopular 

 form ; but do not embrace the general scope of subjects 

 comprehended in the Gentleman's Magazine. The titles 

 and prices of these German periodicals will be found in 

 the Catalogues of Books which are published from time 

 to time at Leipzig, and by the principal German pub- 

 lishers. A new German periodical will shortly appear, 

 similar in its literary character to the London Athen(Eum.j 



"god save the king." 

 (2»'» S. iii. 137. 412.) 

 The reasons why I protested against the as- 

 sertio* that "no doubt can exist" of Dr. John 

 Bull's having been the composer of " God save the 

 King," are as follows. In the first place I am of 

 opinion that the manuscript of Dr. Bull's compo- 

 sitions has been tampered with, and the resem- 

 blance of the " ayre " to the national anthem 

 thereby so increased, that, whereas now essentially 

 the same (although not the exact notes), I think 

 it very questionable whether the similarity would 

 have been half so striking, or indeed more so than 

 to several other airs, in its original state. When 

 Mr. Clark played it over to me, with the book 

 before him, I thought it really to be the original 

 of the national anthem ; but, on examining the 

 manuscript, the sharps appeared to be in ink of a 

 very much darker colour, and I consider the dif- 

 ference as very perceptible, in spite of Mr. Clark's 

 having covered the face of those portions of the 

 manuscript with varnish. These alterations did 

 not seem to me of so much importance in changing 



