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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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superintended may be rendered as perfect as pos- 

 sible, Wm. B. Turnbull. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



"AlciUa"--l9 it known who is the author of 

 Alcilia : Philoparthens Loving Folly ? It is pub- 

 lished in the same volume with Pigmalion's Image, 

 by John Marston, and The Love of Amos and 

 Laura, by S. P. [Who is he ?] London, 12mo. 

 1619. J- Y. 



Sir William Clifton. — Sir William Clifton, the 

 third baronet of the family, was of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, and has verses in the collection pub- 

 lished by the University on the marriage of the 

 Prince of Orange, 1677. He proceeded M.A. 

 1679. We shall be glad to be informed of the 

 date of his death, which does not appear in any of 

 the Baronetages. C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



The Pretender, and Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe.— 

 Can any of your correspondents give the particu- 

 lars of a story of the alleged substitution of a son 

 of Sir Theophilus for a son of James II. ? making 

 thereby, I presume, the first Pretender to have 

 been a son of Sir Theophilus. Two pamphlets 

 were published on this alleged transaction, in 1707 

 and 1745, 1 believe ; purporting to be the evidence 

 of a Mrs. Cooper, who had been a servant in the 

 family, and written. Manning says, in his History 

 of Surrey, in a very plausible style. 



Henry T. Riley. 



" That's the Ticket." — Can this vulgarism have 

 any reference to etiquette ?' " That's the ticket," 

 or the etiquette, i. e. the proper course of proce- 

 dure. A. S. A. 



Thomas Fettiplace and Thomas Blake. — I 

 should be obliged by a reference to any sources 

 of information about the above-named writers. 

 In a little work of considerable merit by the 

 former, now before me, entitled. The Sinner's 

 7'ears in Meditations and . Prayers, he is named 

 Tho. Fettiplace, Dom. Pet. Cantab. Darling's 

 Cyclopaedia (a good idea, by the way, inadequately 

 carried out) gives his name and the title of two 

 works, and nothing more. The date of the Sin- 

 ners Tears is the edition of 1692, dedicated to Lord 

 Keble. The other writer — Blake — is author of 

 a little volume entitled, Living Truths in Dying 

 Times, published in the memorable year 1665. 



Lethrediensis. 



Ancient Devotions. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me by whom the Hymns xxix. and xxxi. 

 in J. Austin's Devotions (see Hickes's Meformed 

 Devotions, xxix. and xxxi.), 



" Jesus, who from thy Father's throne," 

 and 



" Jesus, whose grace inspires thy priests," &c. 

 were composed ? J. A. E. 



The " Widkirh Miracle Plays." — Are the Wid- 

 kirk Miracle Plays in print, and if so, where are 

 they to be procured ? J. W. 



Temple. 



" The Picture of Parsonstown." — Can you give 

 me any particulars respecting an octavo volume 

 printed in Dublin in 1826, and entitled The PiC' 

 tare of Parsonstown ? Who was the author ? It 

 has a character for rarity, and when a copy is pre- 

 sented for sale a tolerably high price is asked. 



Ahhba. 



Anthony Higgens. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents give me information of the antecedents of 

 this divine, who became Dean of Ripon in the 

 year 1608, and died Nov. 17, 1624 (Query, 

 where ?) I suppose him to have been connected 

 in some way with the Cecil family, either with 

 Lord Burleigh or with his son, the first Earl of 

 Exeter, or it may have been with John Neville, 

 the last Lord Latimer, whose co-heiress Dorothy 

 married the first Earl of Exeter. 



There was an Anthony Higgins installed a pre- 

 bendary of Gloucester, June 30, 1577 ; but he is 

 said to have died in the following year. 



Patonce. 



Times Articles. — Can any of your readers refer 

 me to a magnificent literary article in The Times 

 of somewhere about Christmas 1854-5, subject, 

 Oliver Cromwell ? Also to a letter in the same, 

 during the Russian war, short, and of heterodox 

 moral tone ; but remarkable for the vigour with 

 which it peeled the question of the coating of 

 humbug with which our modern sensitiveness 

 deems it necessary to invest all our political con- 

 duct ? G. P. 



^^ Report of Unhnowne Fowles." — Can any of 

 your readers give me any information respecting 

 the following very curious tract : 



" A most wondevfull and true Report, the like never 

 hearde of before, of diverse imknowne Foules, having the 

 Fethers about their heads ^d neckes like to the frysled 

 foretops, Lockes and great Ruffes now in use among men 

 and women, lately taken at Crowley, in the Countie of 

 Lincolne, 1586," 



Representations of these birds are said to have 

 been made " by one Blackborne, a Paynter in 

 Yorke, at the procurement of the Right Worship- 

 full Sir Henry Lee, Knight." 



The tract appears to be a satire on the dress of 

 the age, and the author wishes "the strange 

 foules" he describes to be considered as " frysled 

 and ruffed Divels, intended to admonish Rufflers 

 that themselves are monstrously men." Yk. 



Henry Atherton, ilf.Z). — Under date Nov. 21, 

 1693, Narcissus Luttrell {Brief Hist. Relation, iii. 

 228.) states that Dr. Atherton, a physician of 

 Newcastle, is fined 501., and his wife 200 marks in 

 the King's Bench Court for words against the go- 



