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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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give you, Sir, some other half ludicrous, half 

 mournful specimens of monstrosities born of scis- 

 sors and paste. Cru den's Concordance contains 

 not a few. Look out Ice in the best 4to. edition. 

 Then turn to Newman's Concordance. 



Editionaeius. 



" Learnivg is Svfferi7ig." — MaOrifiara naO-rjixaTa 

 was some years ago given at Westminster School 

 as the subject for epigrams. One of the boys gave 

 up the following : 



" How the boys do stare 



At the dancing bear ! 

 But little thej' think how he's made so : 



To dance he doth learn 



By many a burn 

 On his little and also his great toe." 



J. W. Fabker. 



Superabundance of Salmon. — 



" There is a river at Macedon ; and there is also more- 

 over a river at Monmouth, — it is called Wye .... and 

 there is salmons in both." — Henry V, Act IV. Sc. 7. 



This is the remark of Fluellen to Gower, when 

 on the field of Agiucourt; and if you proceed 

 from Monmouth, the birth-place of our warlike 

 Henry V., to Gloucester, in thirty miles you will 

 cross those famous rivers the Wye and Severn, 

 both abounding with salmon, and formerly to a 

 degree even beyond satiety. In Counsel's Historij 

 of Gloucester, p. 157., speaking of St. Margaret's 

 Hospital, or " House of Lepers," in that city, he 

 has this remarkable paragraph : 



" It was formerly a standing condition in the inden- 

 tures of apprenticeship at Gloucester, that the apprentice 

 should not be obliged to eat salmon more than thrice a 

 week ; which was undoubtedly intended as a precaution 

 against this grievous disorder [leprosy]." 



But now tempoi'a mutantia; and the apprentice no 

 longer runs the risk of surfeit from bemg glutted 

 with this delicacy, which its excessive price and 

 scarceness alike protect him from. I have entered 

 on this subject to request some reader of " N. & 

 Q." to give me some extract from such inden- 

 tures, and to inform me how long such condition 

 has been discontinued. 



In a very intelligent and comprehensive work, 

 entitled A General View of the Agriculture of 

 Berivick, by llobert Kerr, London, 1813, it is re- 

 marked that " formerly, when salmon sold at 

 2s. the fish stone (of nearly nineteen pounds), 

 servants stipulated with their masters that they 

 should not be compelled to make frequent meals 

 of it;" but (when he wrote) he says it ranges 

 from 12s. to 36s., and sometimes two guineas the 

 stone, and this has been the cause of almost ban- 

 ishing this article from the inhabitants of the en- 

 virons of the fishery in Tweed. A gentleman, a 

 Mr. George Dempster, having about that time 

 suggested the packing the fish in ice, had ren- 

 dered its transport to London more advantage- 



ous, and consequently taken it out of the home 

 market. Phi. 



liichmoud, Surrey. 



&\xtvitg. 



BISHOP PHILIP ELLIS. 



Philip Ellis, one of six brothers, in the reign of 

 James II., who afterwards with distinction at- 

 tached themselves to the fortunes of tlie rival 

 kings, joined the Benedictine Order, was conse- 

 crated R. C. Bishop (I presume in partihus') at 

 St. James's, May 6, 1688 ; and after the Revo- 

 lution, leaving England for Italy, became Bishop 

 of Segni in the Pontifical States ; his brother, 

 Welbore Ellis, being about the same period suc- 

 cessively Bishop of Kildare and Meath, in the 

 Established Church of Ireland. 



I am very desirous of obtaining full particulars 

 of the life, death, and works of Bishop Philip. 

 Slight allusions are frequently made to his name 

 in the current histories of the day ; and a short 

 notice, with an engraved portrait, in the Ellis 

 Correspondence, published in 1829 by the Hon. 

 George Agar Ellis, a descendant of Bishop Wel- 

 bore ; but no separate memoir, that I am aware 

 of, has appeared. Would some of your corre- 

 spondents, conversant with the V.W\\ and eccle- 

 siastical history of the time, kindly give me the 

 desired information, or references to printed 

 works or MSS., where some could be obtained, 

 either by letter addressed to the Editor of " N. 

 & Q.," or to J. W. H. 



Saul Street, Downpatrick. 



[Some notices of Bishop Philip Ellis will be found in 

 « N. & Q." l«t S. vi. 125. 298. 400. ; vii. 2i2. ; and in Gent. 

 3Iag, for July, 1769, p. 328,] 



SouthwelVs Poems, edit, of 1817. — In the Sa- 

 turday Review of 25th April last, the critic of my 

 edition of the poetical works of Father Southwell, 

 makes mention of a " complete edition of them 

 published in 1817, unknown to Mr. 2\irnbtdl." As 

 the only edition (very far from complete) pub- 

 lished in 1817 with which I, or any of my literary 

 friends, are acquainted, is that by the late Mr. 

 Walter, and which is specifically referred to in my 

 preface, and included in the bibliographical por- 

 tion of my introduction, I applied to my censor, 

 requesting that he would have the goodness to 

 inform me by whom, or where, such edition of 

 1817 was published. Having received no re- 

 sponse, I beg the same favour from any of your 

 readers who may be aware of the alleged edition, 

 in order that the re-impression of that which I 



