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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n* S. No 76., June 13. '57. 



What right had Heinrich to them ? Had his as- 

 sumption of them anything to do with his having 

 had Richard I. his prisoner? The portrait of 

 Philipp, his brother and successor, is surmounted 

 by two shields, one bearing the eagle, the other 

 the lions as before, while he is represented as 

 leaning on a shield which bears, gules, a lion ram- 

 pant, argent. Benkard's description of the Kaiser 

 Saal gives no information on the subject. 



Rhos Gwen. 



Sir Charles Molloy. — Who was Sir Charles 

 MoUoy, buried at Shadoxhurst Church, Kent, and 

 by his monument there appears to have been in 

 the Navy, and rather a distinguished person, from 

 the time of William III. to George II. ? Who 

 were his progenitors, and who now represents 

 him ? D. E. C. 



[Sir Charles Molloy was born in 1684, and rose to the 

 rank of captain in the Royal Navy in 1742, being at the 

 time of his death Captain of the Koyal Caroline Yacht, 

 and one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinitj' House. He 

 was twice married : first to Anne, relict of Isaac Elton, 

 Esq., son of Sir Abraham Elton, Bart. ; and secondly, to 

 Ellen Cooke, eldest daughter of John Cooke of Swifts in 

 Cranbrook, Esq. By the latter marriage Sir Charles 

 Molloy became the possessor of the manor of Shadox- 

 hurst.' He died without issue on August 24, 1760, aged 

 seventy-six, and devised the manor to his wife for her 

 life. She died in 1765, upon which the manor came to 

 Charles Cooke, Esq., who, pursuant to his uncle's will, 

 took the name of Molloy. See Hasted's Kent, iii. 112.] 



Passage in " Paradise Lost." — Can you ex- 

 plain these lines in Paradise Lost, book iii. 528. ? 



" A passage down to the Earth, a passage wide ; 

 Wider by far than that of after -times 

 Over Mount Zion, and, though that were large, 

 Over the promised land to God so dear : " 



To what passage over Mount Zion, SfC, does 

 Milton allude, and what author is his authority ? 



L. (1.) 



[The " passage wide " alluded to by the poet, was that 

 which both God himself and his ministering spirits are 

 supposed to have travelled " over" in their frequent visits 

 to man before his fall. After that event it was neces- 

 sarily contracted, — limited in fact to Mount Zion, where 

 " He had placed His name," or where only He would be 

 worshipped. The poet's authority, therefore, is Holy 

 Writ.] 



Duplessi Bertaux In the sixth volume of 



Knight's Pictorial History of England, there are 

 very many portraits of those who figured in the 

 first French Revolution. Will some reader of 

 " N. & Q." refer me to a memoir of their painter, 

 Duplessi Bertaux ? Z. A. V. 



Dublin. 



[Consult Nouvelle Biographie GenSrdle, 1855, vol. v. 

 p. 694., and Le Bas, Dictionnaire Encydoped, de la 

 France.^ 



Oldys MSS. — Where can I find a complete list 

 of Oldys MSS., and the collections in which they 

 are severally deposited? Dunelmensis. 



[Some curious biographical notices of William Oldys, as 

 well as of his published works, and what was known of 

 his MSS. in the year 1784, will be found in the Geiith' 

 man's Magazine, vol. liv. p. 161. His Autobiography is 

 given in our 1'' S. v. 529. ; the original is in the library of 

 Charles Bridger, Esq. Probably some correspondent may 

 be able to furnish the required list.] 



Life of Paracelsus. — Is there any life of Para- 

 celsus in English, besides the sketches in Ency- 

 clopsodias and Biographical Dictionaries ? 



DUNELMENSIS. 



[There does not appear to be any separate Life of Para- 

 celsus in English. There is one by A. F. Bremer, De Vita 

 et Opiniombus Theophrasti Faracelsi, Haunise, 8vo. 1836.] 



^tpliti. 



THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM AND SHAKSPEAEE's 



SONNETS. 



(2"'^ S. iii. 267. 426.) 



The question by your correspondent Ignoto 

 did not meet my eye until this day. He may 

 rest assured that the sonnet beginning, — 



" If music and sweet poetry agree," 



is by Shakspeare. I printed it as his production 

 in my edition of his Works in 1843, but with a 

 note stating that Richard Barnfield had printed 

 it as his in The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, 1598. 

 I was therefore, at that date, disposed to think 

 that Barnfield's claim to it was superior to that of 

 Shakspeare. I am now of the contrary opinion, 

 because I find I was mistaken in supposing that 

 Barnfield had reprinted the sonnet in the second 

 edition of his Encomion, in 1605. He did not 

 reprint it, but excluded it and some other poems ; 

 and hence the fair inference that he was not the 

 writer of those excluded poems, which had in 

 fact been assigned to Shakspeare in The Passion- 

 ate Pilgrim, which came out the year after the 

 first edition of Barnfield's Encomion. How it 

 happened that they appeared in 1598 in a work 

 bearing Barnfield's name on the title-page, is a 

 point I shall be greatly obliged to anybody who 

 will solve. In my edition of Shakspeare now 

 going through the press, I shall not omit to state 

 the grounds on which I now feel satistied that 

 Shakspeare was the author of such poems in The 

 Passionate Pilgrim as have hitherto been plausibly 

 attributed to Barnfield. 



With respect to the second Query of Ignoto, 

 he need not doubt that there was but one early 

 edition of Shakspeare's Sonnets ; it appeared in 

 1609, and most of the copies have the imprint of 

 " At London, by G. Eld for T. T., and are to be 

 solde by William Aspley;" but very recently 



