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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 129. 



Jacobite Toast. — 

 " God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender. 

 God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender; 

 Who that Pretender is. and who is King, 

 God bless us all — that's quite another thing." 

 Can any of your readers say who is the author 

 of the above ? O. M. B. 



[The above lines, " intended to allay the violence of 

 party spirit ! " were spoken extempore by the celebrated 

 John IByrom, of Manchester, a Nonjuror, but better 

 known as the inventor of the Universal Short Hand. 

 They will be found in his Miscellaneous Poems, vol. i. 

 p. 342. edit. 1773.] 



Rev. Barnabas Oley. — The part played by this 

 active and loyal clergyman, who was deprived of 

 his vicarage of Great Gransden in Huntingdon- 

 shire during the interregnum, is generally known 

 to readers of the eai'ly history of that period. 

 Walker, who has a notice of him {Sufferings of the 

 Clergy., p. 141.), says he died in 1684, but does 

 not tell us whether he was married or not. I be- 

 lieve he was, and left descendants ; and the object 

 of this Query is to ascertain what were the names 

 of his children, and with whom they intermarried. 



D. 



Rotherfield. 



[We do not think Barnabas Oley was ever married, 

 as his will, preserved among Bishop Kennett's Col- 

 lections, does not mention either wife or children among 

 the legacies to " his near kindred and blood His 

 will, with its codicils, are curious documents, and 

 ought to be printed. See the Lansdowne MSS., 

 No. 988. fol. 94.] 



Sweet-singers. — Swift says, in his Abstract of 

 Collins, " Why should not William Penn the 

 Quaker, or any Anabaptist, Papist, Muggletonlan, 

 Jew, or Sweet-singer^ have liberty to come into 

 (St. Paul's church ? " Wanted, some historical no- 

 tice of the Sweet-singei's. A. I^T. 



[Timperley, in his Dictionary of Printing, has the 

 following note respecting them : " May 27, 1681. The 

 Sweet-singers of the city of Edinburgh renounce the 

 printed Bible at the Canongate tolbooth, and all un- 

 chaste thoughts, words, and actions, and burn all story 

 books, ballads, romances, &c."] 



'■'■Philip Qnai'll.''' — Did a Mr. Bicknell write 

 Philip Quarll ? Was he the author of any other 

 books ? Is there a recent edition of Philip Quarll ? 

 and, if not, why not ? E. C. R. 



Sunderland. 



[Lowndes states that this work has been " frequently 

 reprinted." The only editions known to us are the first 

 in 1727, and the one published in a series by Harrison 

 and Co. in 1781. The editor's initials are P. L.] 



Dedication of Middleton Church. — What is the 

 dedication of the little church at Middleton, Essex 

 (near Sudbury, Suffolk) ? I cannot find it in the 



Liber Regis, in Wright's Essex, nor in Lewis's 

 Topographical Dictionary. 



W. Sparrow Simpson. 



[The indefatigable Newcourt, in his Repertorium, 

 vol. ii. p. 418., was unable to give the dedication, and 

 has left a blank for it to be supplied by some future 

 antiquary.] 



Lunatic Asylum benefited by Dean Swift. — 

 Which of the lunatic asylums benefited by the 

 " will " of Dean Swift ; either founded or endowed 

 by the bulk of his property ? — Vide Memoirs. 



Sampson Low, Jun. 

 169. Fleet Street. 



[St. Patrick's, or Swift's Hospital, for the reception 

 of lunatics and idiots, situated near Dr. Steevens's 

 Hospital, adjoining to James Street, Dublin. It was 

 opened in 1757. For some account of it see Scott's 

 " Memoir of Dean Swift," Works, vol. i, pp. 438. 527.^} 



ST. CHEISTOPHEH. 



(Vol. v., p. 295.) 



Some years ago I remember meeting with the 

 following explanation of the beautiful legend of 

 St. Christopher, and unfortunately forgot to take 

 a Note of it. It recurred to my mind on lately 

 reading Mr. Talbot's work on English etymologies, 

 the writer of wliich appears to take a similar view 

 of the allegorical meaning. 



Part of the legend is founded on the meaning of 

 the Greek XpiaTOipepav, coupled with a circum- 

 stance in the original legend, which is of German 

 origin, and is an allegorizing of our blessed Lord's 

 bearing the sins of the world, and offering himself 

 up on the altar of the cross. In a Latin docu- 

 ment of A. D. 1423, the name is abbreviated into 

 X'poferu^ ; in an English one of the same date it 

 is spelt Christopfore ; and in French, Christopfre. 

 Christopfcr signifies Christ's sacrifice : that is, the 

 sacrifice of the cross continually offered up in the 

 sacrament of the altar, or the mass, the messopfer, 

 so named from the German opfer, a sacrifice j 

 Welsh offeiriad, a priest ; offrwm, a sacrifice ; 

 offeren, the mass ; Irish, oifrionn, or aifrionn. 



The perfection of our blessed Lord's humanity, 

 His resistance of evil, and mighty strength dis- 

 played in bearing tlie sins of the universe, are 

 shadowed out in the great stature and vast 

 strength of the giant Christopher. According to 

 the legend, when he had succeeded in reaching 

 the shore, and had set down his burden, he said : 

 " Chylde, thou hast put me in grete peryll, thou 

 wayest alle most as I had had the world upon me ; 

 I might here no greater burden;" and the child 

 answered, " Christopher, marvel thou nothing, for 

 thou hast not only borne all the world upon thee, 

 but its sins likewise." 



