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Notes : — 



Cibbcr's I^ives of the Poets, by James Crossley 



Page 



Job, by the Rev. T. U. Browne 



A New Zealand Legend ..... 



Minor Notes : — A Dutch Commentary on Pope — Sati- 

 rical Verses on the Chancellor Clarendon's liownlall — 



Execution of Charles I Korn within the Sound of 



Bow Bell ...-.-- 

 Queries : — 



Are our Lists of English Sovereigns complete ? - 



Minor Queries:— Marriage Tithe in Wales — " Preached 

 in a Pulpit rather than a Tub" — Lord Wharton's 

 Bibles — Keed Family — Slavery in Scotland— Leslie, 

 Bishop of Down — Cliaplains to the Forces — John of 

 Horsill— St. Crispin's Day — Poniatowski Gems — Why 

 Cold Pudding settles one's Love? _ . . 



Minor Qi;ei!1es Answered: — Poem by Camden — 

 Marches of Wales and Lords Marchers - - . 



Replies : — 



Moravian Hymns ...... 



Wady Mokaiteu not mentioned in Num. xi. 2G., by the 

 Rev. Dr. Todd, mc. ..... 



Boiling to Death as a Punishment, by J. B. Colman 



The Roman Index Expurgatorius of 1U07 - . - 



llobbes's •• Leviathan" - . . _ . 



Major-Gen. James Wolfe, by Lord Braybrooke, Rev. M. 

 Walc'ott, &c. ----- - 



" There is no mistake," by C. Ross ... 



The Rev. Mr. Gay, liy Edward Tagart ... 



Parish Registers, Right of Search, uy John Nurse Chad, 

 wick .-..._. 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Proverbs — Infantry Firing 

 — Joceline's Legacy — Winifreda ; Stevens' "Rural 

 Felicity" — "Posie of other .Men's Flowers" — Abigail — 

 Legend of St. Molaisse — Collars of SS. — Pronuncia- 

 tion of Coke — Use of .Misereres — In^cription on a 

 Pair of Spectacles— John Lord Frescheville — Nightin- 

 gale and Thorn — Godfrey Higgins's Works — An- 

 cient Eg3pt — Crosses and Crucitixes — Rotten Row ^ 

 Borougii-Knglish — Tonge of Tonge — Queen Bru- 

 nehaut — "Essex Broad Oak" — Frozen Sounds and 

 Sir John MandeviUe, &c. - . - - . 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. ... 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 

 Notices to Corresjjondents .... 



Advertisements ...... 



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cibbee's lives of the poets. 

 It is rather e.xtraordinary that none of Dr. 

 Johnson's biographers appear to have been aware 

 that the prospectus of Gibber's Lives was furnished 

 by Johnson. In Mr. Croker's last edition of Boswell 

 there is a long note (see Edit. 1848, p. 818.) on the 

 claim of Theophilus Gibber to the authorship of the 

 Lives, or a participation in it : but though he re- 

 marks that the plan on which these iiwes are written 

 Vol. v. — No. 115. 



is substantially the same as that which Johnson long 

 after adopted in his own work, his attention does 

 not seem to have been directed to the prospectus 

 of Gibber's Lives. As, however, this prospectus 

 was not adopted as a preface to the work, but 

 merely appeared in the newspapers and periodicals 

 of the day, it is the less surprising that it has 

 hitherto remained unnoticed. The internal evi- 

 dence is decisive ; and, as it has never, that I am 

 aware of, been reprinted, and is of great intei-est 

 in connexion with Johnson's own Lives of the Poets, 

 of which admirable work it may be considered to 

 have " cast the shadows before," at the distance of 

 nearly thirty years, I trust, though rather long, it 

 may claim insertion in " N. & Q." It is extracted 

 from a London newsp-aper of the 20th February, 

 1753. James GaossLEr. 



"This Day [20th Feb. 1753] is published, 

 " lu Twelves (Price Six pence), 

 <' Number III. of 

 « The LIVES of the POETS, of Great-Britain 

 and Ireland, to the present Time. 



" Compiled from ample Materials scattered in a 

 Variety of Books, and especially from the MS. Notes 

 of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter, and others, col- 

 lected for this Design. 



" By Mr. CIBBER. 



" Printed for R. Griffiths, at the Danciad, in St. Paul's 



Church-yard. 



" Where may be had, No. I. and 11. 



" This Work is published on the following Terms, 



" I. That it shall consist of Four neat Pocket 

 Volumes, handsomely printed. 



" II. That it shall bo published in Numbers, at 

 Six-pence each, every Number containing Three 

 Sheets, or Seventy-two Pages; the Numbers to be 

 printed every Saturday without Intermission, till the 

 Whole is finished. 



"III. That Five Numbers shall make a Volume; 

 so that the whole Work will not exceed the Price of 

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" The Professors of no Art have conferred more 

 Honour on our Nation than the Poets. .All Countries 

 have been diligent in preserving the Memoirs of those 



