Mar. 6. 1852.] 



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to proclaim Lady Jane queen . , . The duke sent for 

 Doctor Sandys, being vice-chancellor, for Doctor 

 Parker, for Doctor Bill, and Master Leaver to sup 

 with him. Amongst other speeches he said, Masters, 

 pray for us, that we speed well ; if not, you shall be 

 made bishops, and we deacons. And even so it came 

 to pass: Doctor Parker and Doctor Sandys were 

 made bishops ; and he and Sir John Gates, who were 

 then at the table, were made deacons, ere it was long 

 after, on the Tower-hill." 



I should be glad to know the allusion here, and 

 how men who were executed could be said to be 

 thereby made deacons. W. D — n. 



The Count de Vordac. — When did the Count 

 de Vordac, a general in the army of the Emperor 

 of Germany, die ? His memoirs are scarce ; the 

 copy which I have is printed at Paris in 1709. 

 He was an Italian, bred for the church, which he 

 relinquished for the profession of arms. He was 

 born about 1660 ; his memoirs break off abruptly 

 in 1695 when in midlife, and he was serving under 

 our William III. He closes his memoirs with an 

 account of his being at the siege of Namur, which 

 he says cost his own party dear, and himself more 

 particularly. It Is very probable he fell at this 

 Biege If he continued his narrative while in the 

 camp. His memoirs are curious aad very enter- 

 taining. I find there that he was much esteemed 

 at Vienna, and his conduct in rescuing the wife of 

 one of the German nobility from a horrible Im- 

 prisonment with the corpse of the man of whom 

 her lord was jealous, is full of interest as well as 

 horror, from tiie mode In which It was accomplished. 

 He was personally acquainted with William III., 

 who entrusted him with important commands. 

 His narrative makes the reader anxious to know 

 something of his subsequent history, If he were not 

 a victim to the sword before the close of the war 

 of which he spoke. Cyrus Redding. 



:^tn0r €i\xtxiti ^it^tocrclf. 



Hoares Charity. — Inside the cover of a copy 

 of The Whole Duty of Man (8vo., London, 1727, 

 John Baskett) now before me, Is pasted a slip of 

 paper, containing a coat of arms, " Sable, a double 

 eagle expanded or (?) in a bordure argent," sur- 

 .I'ounded by mantling, and surmounted by helmet 

 and crest ; below this Is the following : — 



" The gift of Henry Hoare, Esq., who died March 

 12, 1724-5, aged forty-seven, and by his last Will and 

 Testament hath vested the sume of two thousand 

 pounds in trustees, who are to apply the yearly interest, 

 rents, and profits arising out of the said sume to the 

 purchasing, dispensing, and giving away, yearly, Bibles, 

 Common Prayer- Books, and such other books as are 

 intirely agreeable to the principles and doctrine of the 

 Church of England, as now by law established, and 

 most conducive to the advancement of Christian faith 

 and piety in the world." 



I shall be glad to learn whether this charity Is 

 still bestowed, and where : any particulars relative 

 to the original donor will be acceptable. Permit 

 me to add the Query, — Is mine the first edition 

 of The Whole Duty of Man ? If not, when was it 

 first published, and who was the author ? 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



[ Mr. Henry Hoare was a son of Sir Richard Hoare, 

 Lord Mayor of London, and an intimate friend of 

 that worthy man, Robert Nelson, author of the Com- 

 panion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of 

 England ; a work which Dr. Johnson recommends as 

 being a most valuable help to devotion, and as having 

 had the greatest sale of any book ever printed in 

 England, except the Bible. Mr. Hoare's name occurs 

 in several parts of Robert Nelson's will, viz. " I give 

 and bequeath to Mr. Henry Hoare, of London, gold- 

 smith, one of my executors, 200/., upon trust to dis- 

 tribute 100/., part thereof, in such manner as shall be 

 directed by the Society for Promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge; and the other 100/. to be employed by him in 

 promoting parochial libraries .... I give and bequeath 

 to Mrs. Jane Hoare, wife of the said Mr. Henry Hoare, 

 two pair of little silver candlesticks for her closet." It 

 is also worthy a note in our pages that the first legacy 

 received by the Society for Promoting Christian 

 Knowledge was that of Robert Nelson's, which is thus 

 entered on the minutes of the Society : — " 3d Feb, 

 1714-15. Mr. Hoare reported, that Mr. Nelson, lately 

 deceased, had ordered him by his will, as one of his 

 executors, to pay 100/. to the Society for promoting 

 (heir designs ; and also 50/. towards supporting the 

 charity-school at St. George's Chapel." The name of 

 Mr. Henry Hoare occurs among the list of subscribers 

 in the first volume of Jeremy Collier's Ecclesiastical 

 History, fol. 1708 ; and some of his letters to John 

 Strype, the historian, will be found among the Addi- 

 tional MSS. in the British Museum, No. 5853. No 

 biographical notice of Mr. Henry Hoare appears to 

 have been preserved. See Herbert's History of the 

 Twelve Great Livery Companies, vol. ii. p. 285., for a 

 notice of his gift to the Goldsmiths' Company. 



The first edition of The Whole Duty of Man was 

 published in 1657. Like the enigmatical Junius, its 

 authorship still remains a problem ; but we believe it 

 is now generally supposed to be written either by 

 Lady Packington or Archbishop Sterne. Our corre- 

 spondent will find the question discussed in the Rev. 

 W. B. Hawkins's Introduction to Pickering's edition of 

 this work, published in 1842 ; as well as in the valu- 

 able communication of J. E. B. Mayor, Esq., of Marl- 

 borough College, in our second volume, p. 292.] 



Dr. SacheverelV s "^ Sermon at Derby." — Can any 

 of your correspondents furnish me with Information 

 as to the various editions which were published 

 of Dr. Henry Sacheverell's Sermon at Derby In 

 1709? I am anxious to ascertain how many 

 editions were Issued, with their dates and other 

 particulars. L- J- 



[We think our correspondent will not be able to 

 obtain the information he requires, owing to the great 

 demand at the time for the two Sermons for which the 



