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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 123. 



I may take this opportunity of saying that no 

 play in my volume is more patiently corrected than 

 Troilus and Cressida ; and that in a preceding 

 speech by Nestor it confirms a correction by 

 Theobald in the first line — godlike for " godly ; " 

 and by Sir Thomas Hanmer in the last line — 

 I'eplies for " retires." Malone printed returns 

 after Pope, which answers the sense very well, 

 but is hardly so probable a misprint. I am sorry 

 to say that I thought otherwise when I published 

 my Shakspeare; and I never can sufBciently re- 

 gret that this corrected copy of the second folio 

 did not fall into my hands until some years after I 

 bad completed that undertaking. 



J. Payne Collier. 



Nelson Famihj (Vol. v., p. 176.)- — If Fban- 

 ciscus will refer to the pedigree of the Nelson 

 family, in Hoare's History of Modern Wiltshire 

 (Downton Hundred), he will find that William 

 Nelson, who settled at Dunham parva in Norfolk, 

 and who was the great-grandfather of the naval 

 hero, was the son of Edmund Nelson of Scarning, 

 in the same county, and grandson of Thomas of 

 the same place, which Thomas, according to the 

 same pedigree, was the son of another William, 

 who Is stated to have been a Nelson of Mandesley, 

 the same family from which the Chuddleworth 

 Nelsons are derived in Burke's account. I have 

 tested the general accuracy of this pedigree, 

 which was, I believe, compiled by Mr. Matcham 

 from the parochial registers, but I much doubt the 

 assumed descent from the Mandesley family, as 

 I find Nelsons inhabiting the neighbourhood of 

 Scarning at a period prior to the supposed mi- 

 gration, G. A. C. 



. Maps of Africa (Vol. v., p. 174.). — I have 

 been intending for some time to write to you on 

 the same subject as PAXERFAMiLiiE, but the 

 Christian grace of laziness has been too strong 

 for me. pATERFAMiLiiE, however, has aroused 

 me. My case is this : five years ago I commenced 

 a map, for my own use, of the shores of the Medi- 

 terranean, and such countries as received Chris- 

 tianity up to the period of the Council of Nice ; 

 and 1 had a hope of eventually being able to carry 

 out the plan suggested by Dr. Maitland, in his 

 work on the Dark Ages, and an intention of making 

 mysterious marks to indicate the scene of any great 

 persecution, remarkable synod, or other notable 

 event. Well ! I got on very well, by the help of 

 Kiepert and Cramer, through Greece, Asia Minor, 

 and Italy. Indeed, I managed to be content with 

 all my sources, as far as Europe was concerned ; 

 but when I had advanced as far as North Africa, 

 I came to a dead stop. There really was abso- 

 lutely no map that I could find that I could trust 

 for the site of Carthage or Alexandria. There 

 "were no " N. & Q." when I found myself at a 

 stand-still ; but I asked all the friends about me. 



and I verily believe that to the majority of those 

 I spoke to it appeared an unreasonable thing for 

 any man to expect a map of the regions I wanted 

 described. There seemed a kind of feeling that 

 when a man had got a map of Caffraria and Egypt, 

 and perhaps knew where Algiers might be, he 

 knew quite as much about Africa as he ought. 

 Can any of your correspondents now help me ? Is 

 there no authentic French map of at least some 

 portion of the coast ; or is there any map in 

 existence among ourselves that is not palpably 

 a " fancy portrait ?" Ajax. 



Muggleton (Vol. v., p. 80.). — The Muggletonlan 

 sect probably still exists. I was surprised at find- 

 ing a shop for the sale of Its publications Imme- 

 diately within St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, about 

 five years ago. Perhaps R. S. may think It worth 

 while to look whether the same trade be still 

 carried on there. J- C. K. 



Passage in Hamlet (Vol. v., p. 169.). — I have 

 just read A. E. B.'s Notes on Shakspeare, No. II. 

 His long criticism, ending in his own suggestion 

 of a new reading of the passage In Hamlet, does 

 not convince me that he has found the true read- 

 ing yet. I suggest the following : 



" The dram of base 

 Doth all the noble substance often dull. 

 To his own scandal." 



This reading of mine only makes It necessary to 

 substitute the letters n and U, for a and o, In the 

 quarto of 1605. 



Dull is a favourite word of Shakspeare's ; and 

 surely It makes at least as good sense as any of the 

 other readings. It Is questionable whether the 

 lines are Shakspeare's; for the whole passage, from 

 " This heavy-headed revel," to " To his own scan- 

 dal," is omitted In the first and second folios, and 

 also in the first known quarto of " 1603." 



To prove how easy it is for printers, or copiers 

 from original manuscripts of authors, to make mis- 

 takes, I will call your attention to a serious blun- 

 der In the^rs^ edition of Ben Jonson's verses ad- 

 dressed to the Earl of Somerset, which are In the 

 Athencpum of Feb. 21st. The twenty-first and 

 twenty-second lines are thus printed : 



" So in theyr number tnay you neuer see 

 Mortality, till you a mortall be." 



Ben wrote '• immortall." 



H.F. 



Thcolonemn (Vol. v., p. 105.). — Theoloneura^ is 

 a toll, i. e. the payment made in markets and fairs 

 for goods bought and sold. It was the property 

 of the lord to whom the fair or market belonged 

 by patent from the crown. 



Henry III., by letters patent, dated at Windsor 

 15th May, In the thirty-first year of his reign, 

 grants to the abbot, &c. of Fecamp, the manors of 



