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Vol. v.— No. 130.] 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



The Tredescants and Elias Aslimole —concluded, by 



S. W. Singer 



Ineditt'd Poetry, bvW. Sparrow Simpson 



Note on Virgil, bv" Kev. E. S. Taylor . . - 



MSS. of Dr. Whitby, and Petition of Inhabitants of 



Allington, Kent, by Rev. Richard Hooper 

 Bills for Printing and Binding " the King's Booke," by 

 Joseph Burtt ..-.-- 

 Sir Ralph Vernon, by W. Sneyd . - - - 



The Fallacy of Traditions .... 



On the Derivation of " the Rack," by Samuel Ilickson 

 Minor Notes : — Book-keepers — The Substitution 

 of the Letter " I " for " J " In the Names of " John, 

 James, Jane," &c Daniel De Foe — English Sur- 

 names: Bolingbroke — Waistcoats worn by Women 



— " Thirty Days hath September," &c, (Antiquity of) 391 



Folk Lore: — The Frog— An Oath in Court — St. 

 Clement's and St. Thomas's Day . - - 



QuEniEs : — 



Speaker Lenthall, by F. Kyffin Lenthall . - - 



Notte of Imbercourt, Surrey . . - . 



Minor Queries: —Suffragan Bishops — Poison — Dr. 

 Elizabeth Blackwell — Martha, Countess of Middleton 



— Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff" — Vikingr Skotar — 

 The Abbot of Croyland's Motio — Apple Sauce with 

 Pork — Oipsies — Breezes from Gas Works — The 

 Phrase "and tye" — Stunehenge, a Pastoral, by Johu 

 Speed " Buro • Berto • Beriora" — 'Prentice Pillars 



— Archer Rolls: Master of Archery — Witchcraft: 

 Mrs. Hicks and her Daughter— Antony Hungerford — 

 Rev. William Dawson — •' Up, Guards, and at them ! " 



— St. Botolph — Rental of Arable Land in 1333, Ace. - 



Minor Quehies Answered: — KaoUys Family — Em- 

 blematical Halfpenny — National Proverbs — Heraldic 

 Query — Chantrey's Marble Children— Autobiography 

 of Jlmour ----- 



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Replies : — 



The Earl of Erroll ...-.- 

 General Wolfe ------ 



James Wilson, M.D., by Professor De Morgan - 

 Oliver Cromwell : the "' Whale" and the " Storm " in 

 lb68, by A. Grayan - - - . - 



Authenticated Instances of Longevity . - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Haberdascher — Cou-bache 

 — Meaning of Groom — Grinning like a Cheshire Cat 

 — Mallet's Death and Burial — Town-halls, &c. 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - . - 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements . - . - 



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THE TREDESCANTS AND ELIAS ASHMOLE. 



(Continued from p. 368.) 



Whether it was Ashmole's influence, or that the 

 equity of the case was on his side, is uncertain ; 

 Vol. v.— Ko. 130. 



but the Court of Chancery decided in his favour, 

 and he was declared the proprietor of the Tredes- 

 cantian Museum. He obtained, without being 

 able to produce any written document which de- 

 clared his right to the possession, all that the two 

 Tredescants, father and son, had with inexpressible 

 trouble, and by means of many voyages, brought 

 together in their Museum and Botanic Garden. 



The judgment of the Lord Chancellor* (Claren- 

 don) was : 



"He, Ashmole, shall have and enjoy all and sin- 

 gular the bookes, coynes, medalls, stones, pictures, 

 mechanicks, and antiquities, and all and every other 

 the raryties and curiosities, of what sort or kind soever, 

 whether naturall or artificiall, which were in John 

 Tredescant's Closett, or in or about his house at South 

 Lambeth the 16th Deceml)er, 1659, and which were 

 commonly deemed, taken, and reputed as belonging or 

 appertaining to the said Closett, or Collection of Rari- 

 ties, an abstract whereof was heretofore printed under 

 the tytle of 'Museum Tredescantianum.'" 



Mrs. Tredescant was adjudged to have merely 

 during her life a kind of custody of, or guardian- 

 ship over the collection, " subject to the Trust for 

 the Defendant during her life." 



The Lord Chancellor further decreed that a 

 commission should be named to inquire whether 

 everything was forthcoming which was named in 

 the Catalogue; in order that if anything was 

 missing she should be constrained to replace it, and 

 give security that nothing should be lost in future. 

 The commissioners appointed to carry into effect 

 the Chancellor's decree were however two persons 

 with whom Ashmole must have been on terms of 

 intimate friendship, namely, Sir Edward Bysh and 



* " The means of exhibiting Lord Clarendon as an 

 equity judge," says Mr. Lister, "and of estimating his 

 efficiency, are very scanty. The political functions 

 of the Lord Chancellor then preponderated over the 

 judicial functions much more than at present." He 

 had for twenty years ceased to practise at the bar, and 

 the very different avocations of that long period may 

 have tended to unfit him. It is said tiiat he never 

 made a decree without the assistance of two of the 

 judges: this implies a consciousness of want of know- 

 ledge, but, as his biographer says, " does not prove 

 that the precaution was required." 



