Jan. 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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of this translation, observes : "Perhaps the sailors 

 from this book call their sea charts Wagenars." 

 He was the son of a merchant-captain, and passed 

 his life as a ship chandler in Wapping : I need not 

 search for a better witness. With regard to the 

 ■word Quarter, it seems to be an abbreviation 

 of quarter-deck ; and if so, Quarter Waggoner 

 would mean the quarter-deck charts, or the charts 

 which were supplied to the commander of a ship 

 for the use of himself and the other officers. 



BoiiTON Cornet. 



Gibber's Lives of the Poets (Vol. v., p. 25.). — Mr. 

 Crossley says that none of Johnson's biographers 

 appear to have known that the prospectus which he 

 has sent you was furnished by Dr. Johnson ; but of 

 this fact he gives no other proof than his own opinion 

 that " the internal evidence is decisive." Now I 

 really must say, that to my poor judgment nothing 

 can be less like Johnson's peculiar style ; and, more- 

 over, Mr. Crossley, who quotes Mr. Croker's 

 note (p. 818., ed. 1848) on this subject, has cer- 

 tainly not read that note accurately, for the object 

 of tliat note was to endeavour to account for 

 Johnson's having frequently and positively asserted 

 that Cibber had nothing to do with these lives, of 

 which Mr. Crossley would have us suppose he 

 wrote the prospectus for Cibber. If Mr. Crossley 

 will read more carefully the note referred to, which 

 is half Boswell's and half Croker's, and also ano- 

 ther note (also referred to), p. 504., he will see 

 that it is impossible that Johnson could have 

 wi'itten this prospectus. 



As I happen to be addressing Mr. Crossley, I 

 take the liberty of asking whether he has yet been 

 able to lay his hands on Pope's Imitation of Horace, 

 printed by Curll in 1716 (see " N. & Q.," Vol. iv., 

 pp. 122. 139.), and which he tells us he possesses. 

 I wonder and should be sorry that such a curiosity 

 should be lost or even mislaid. C. 



Poniatowski Gems (Vol. v., p. 30.). — A.O.O.D. is 

 informed that a portion of these gems were sold 

 by Christie and Manson about the second week in 

 June of last year, under an order of the Court of 

 Chancery, on account of the estate of the late Lord 

 Monson. The contents of one cabinet were alone 

 put up, and the auctioneers can, no doubt, supply 

 the particulars that A. O. O. D. requires ; or more 

 general information might possibly be obtained 

 from the solicitors, Messrs. Pooley and Beisly, 

 i. Lincoln's Inn Fields. M n. 



Dial Motto at Karlsbad (Vol. iv., pp. 471. 507.). 

 — I do not think it difficult to throw light upon 

 the Karlsbad inscription sent to you by Hermes. 

 I believe that there is a mistake either by the 

 inscriber or the transcriber, and that the word 

 CEdIt ought to be written CeDIt. The chrono- 

 grammatic letters or numerals would then be 

 mccvvvviiiiiiiiii=:mdccxxx = 1730. There are, 

 however, as you have printed it, three other capital 



letters, but I' observe they are not in the same 

 type as the numerals. The question then arises, 

 how do they appear in the original inscription? 

 do they all appear there, or only the first two. 

 It is possible that they, i.e. h. h. t., may be the 

 initials of the name of the then owner of the house. 

 I should like this explanation better if the only 

 C9.pitals, not numerals, were h. h., the initials of 

 the first two words of the inscription, and un- 

 mingled with the numerals. It would then be 

 H. H. MDccxxx, or as it would appear upon a house 

 of the present day : 



H. H. 



1730. 

 It is probable that by inquiry at Karlsbad, if it 

 were worth while, the name of the owner and date 

 of the house might affijrd a certain solution of his 

 difficulty. The doubtful letters may be the initials 

 of the maker of the dial. Griffin, 



P.S. Upon what authority does your correspon- 

 dent E. H. D. D. (Vol. iv., p. 507.) assert that 

 " E in such compositions stands for 250 ? " 



Passage in Jeremy Taylor (Vol. iv., p. 435.). — 

 I have to thank your correspondent F. A. for call- 

 ing my attention to a passage in the present edition 

 of Jeremy Taylor, in which the bishop cites a 

 " common saying" concerning Repentance. I had 

 already discovered the error which F. A. alludes 

 to, my attention having been called to the words 

 in question, by finding them quoted by Jackson 

 (Sermon on Luke, xiii. G.etseq.) ; and a MS. note 

 in the margin by a former possessor of the volume 

 gave me the true account of the sentence. 



I am living at a distance from libraries, and 

 without the opportunity of examining questions ; 

 but I believe F. A. will find that he has slightly 

 misunderstood L'Estrange ; the sentence in ques- 

 tion not being found in Coverdale's translation of 

 the Bible. C. P. E. 



A7ie Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi (Vol. i., pp. 215. 

 267.). — These two nuns belonged to the convent 

 of St. Margaret at^Gouda. In '.1714 there still 

 existed in the library of that city a book entitled 

 Collxx^itarius (Commentarius) supra Psalmos.* This 

 work, written by Peter Por of Floref, and dedi- 

 cated to John of Arcksl, bishop of Utrecht, was 

 transcribed on parchment in the year 1454 by 

 seven nuns of the above convent, these were : 



Maria Joannis, 



Geza Yzenoude, 



Aua Trici, 



Jacoba Gerardi, 



Agatha Nicolai, 



Maria Martini, 

 en Maria Gerardi. 

 On the back of the MS. is a list of the books 



* Sic in MSS. Le<;eridumae cointarius ? 



