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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 124. 



The Judge alluded to by South. — South, in a 

 note in his first Sermon on Covetousness (vol. iv. 

 p. 448., 4th edition, 1727), tells us of a lawyer, "a 

 confident of the rebels," who recommended that 

 the Duke of Gloucester, the youngest son of 

 Charles I., should be bound " to some good trade, 

 that so he might eat his bread honestly." He then 

 expresses wonder that Charles II. made this lawyer 

 a judge; a practice, he adds, and doubtless with 

 a meaning, " not unusual in the courts of some 

 princes, to encourage and prefer their mortal ene- 

 mies, before their truest friends." 



Can any of your correspondents tell us more on 

 the subject, and the name of the judge ? 



The recommendation was probably given at the 

 time when the Duke and the Princess Elizabeth 

 ■were removed from Penshurst to Carisbrooke, 

 where, according to instructions, they were not to 

 be treated as royal children. 



I may refer your readers to Lord Clarendon's 

 Hist. (vii. 84.), and to a letter and interesting 

 note in Sir II. Ellis's Collection of Letters., iii. 

 .329. Evelyn describes the Duke as "a prince of 

 extraordinary hopes," 



Did South, in his reflection on princes, refer to 

 himself? Wood, his bitter foe, tells us that "he 

 could never be enough loaded with preferment ; 

 while others, who had been reduced to a bit of 

 bread for his Majesty's cause, could get nothing." 

 In 1660 he "tugged hard," adds Wood, to be 

 Can of Ch. Ch., but failed : in ten years afterwards 

 he succeeded. J. H. M. 



Bath. 



English Translation of the Canons. — In the 36th 

 canon the record of the subscriptions is. Quod 



liber publicce Liturgies nihil in .<se contineat 



qxvod verbo Dei sit contrarium ; quodque eodem 

 taliter uti liceat. This is copied from Bishop 

 Sparrow's collection. The English translation, to 

 which subscription is now made, has the following 

 rendering of the second clause — and that the same 

 inay be lawfully used. The word taliter seems to be 

 not rendered at all. Without wishing to provoke 

 theological controversy, I should ask, by what 

 authority, and at what date, was the English 

 translation imposed upon the clergy and gradu- 

 ates, all of whom understand Latin ? Is it affirmed 

 that the English renders the Latin fully, or is the 

 English translation avowedly intended to fall short? 

 I will not ask the meaning of the word taliter in 

 the minds of those who imposed the Latin sub- 

 scription, because answers might provoke the in- 

 admissible kind of controversy. M. 



Snuff-boxes and Tobacco-pipes. — In which book 

 can I find the best account of the manufacture 

 of snuff-boxes, particularly of those manufactured 

 in Mauchliue and Laurencekirk, Scotland? 



Also of the manufacture of cigars in London, | 



the number of persons engaged in the trade, and 

 general statistics thereof? 



Also of the manufacture of tobacco-pipes, and 

 of the " Incorporated Company of Tobacco-pipe 

 Manufacturers," and the statistics of the trade ? 



D. W. L. 



Cromwell. — Is it true that Oliver Cromwell held 

 the office of cup-bearer to King Charles I. ? I ask 

 this question, because at a recent sale of MSS. by 

 Messrs. Puttick and Simpson occui's this lot : 



" 226. Committee for Public Revenue. Order for the 

 payment of arrears of annual salary of 66/. 13s- 4d„ 

 due Christmas last, to Major Oliver Cromwell, for 

 his attending the late King as Cup-bearer. Signed 

 Ed. Howard (Lord Howard of Escrick, co. York) ; 

 Sir H. Vane; H. Edwardes; John Trenchard ;. 

 and Cor Holland : the receipt dated July 2, signed 

 O. CROMWELf,. Thomas Fauconberge subsequently 

 became Cromwell's son-in-law ; at the corner is hi* 

 autograph order, for the amount to be promptly 

 paid. July 2, 1649." 



G. W. J. 



Meaning of Wallop. — In the article of Collins' s- 

 Peerage which narrates the history of the " Wal- 

 lops, Earls of Portsmouth," great and deserved' 

 praise is bestowed upon Sir John Wallop, a most 

 valorous and successful military commander. 



Not to trouble you with more, I make one ex-^ 

 tract, which is, for more reasons than one, likely 

 to be interesting : 



" Sir John Wallop, in 6 Henry VIII., was sent as 

 Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the fleet, to en- 

 counter Prior John, the French Admiral, who, landing 

 in Sussex, had burnt the town of Brighthelmstone.. 

 The French getting into their own ports, Sir John 

 Wallop sailed to the coast of Normandy, and there 

 landed and burnt twenty-one villages and towns witb 

 great slaughter, and also the ships and boats in the- 

 havens of Treaport, Staple, &c., wherein he acquitted 

 himself with such conduct and valour, ti)at all our 

 historians have mentioned this expedition much to his 

 honour." 



The Query which I desire to ask is, whether the- 

 significant, but somewhat coarse phrase of " to 

 wallop," have its origin in the exploits of this 

 gallant ancestor of the Earl of Portsmouth ? 



E. S. S. ^Y. 



Winton, 



The '■'• MistraV — There is an old French pro- 

 verb which says : 



" Trois fleaux en Provence, 

 Le Parlement, le JMistral, la Durance." 



The first of these scourges has disappeared : the* 

 third will probably last for ever : but what of the 

 second ? 



The Mistral is a kind of whirlwind (partaking 

 of the character of the African simoon, or of the 

 West Indian hurricane), which pays its annual 

 visits to Provence, and causes the most frightful 



