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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 133. 



■was for some time chaplain, and probably tutor, to 

 the Foley family in Worcestershire ; but after the 

 Kestoration took his degrees in medicine, and 

 became an eminent practitioner in London, dying 

 at his residence in Surrey in the year 1698. An 

 engraved portrait of him, with the large flowing 

 .wig of the period, now lies before me, with this 

 inscription : 



« Rlchardus Morton, M. D. 



CoUeg: Med: Lend: Soc." 



I have not been able to discover whether this 



gentleman was related to the ^lortons of Severn 



.Stoke, CO. Worcester. J. B. Whitborne. 



Moravian Hymns (Vol. iv., pp. 30. 502. ; Vol. v., 

 pp. 113. 129.). — Your correspondents having met 

 with the third part only, I will describe the first 

 and second parts now before me. Both were 

 printed for James Hutton, London, 1746, who 

 printed also The Watchwords of the Covenant in 

 the Blood of Jesus for the Years 1743 and 1746. 

 They contain 403 hymns, and two supplements. 

 I have sought in vain for the hymn in the New 

 Sath Guide, but the two following will show that 

 .Anstey did not colour too highly. 



Many circumstances concurred to render these 

 books now very rare. The impression was un- 

 doubtedly limited, and the wear and tear of en- 

 thusiastic singers for above a century, of a 12mo. 

 book of nearly a thousand pages, very great. 

 Unless preserved in " N. & Q.," the existence of 

 such hymns might be doubted some years hence, 

 even by the religious fraternity for whom they 

 were compiled, and whose collection is now widely 

 different : 



" Jesu ! our joy, and loving friend. 

 Both thy dear wings around extend. 



Thy little chickens hide. 

 Would Satan seize us as his prey. 

 Then let the angels sing and say, 



This chick shall undisturb'd abide." 



P. 328. 

 " My Jesus is my love, 

 I am his little dove, 

 "Which flies upon his hands 

 ' And there her food demands ; 



AVhich wants herself to hide 

 In that his bleeding side," &c.— P. 548. 



E. D. 



Junius Humours (Vol. v., pp. 125. 159.). — In | 

 spite of the memorable declaration of Junius that 

 his secret should perish with him, and the hitherto 

 unsatisfactory attempts that have been made to 

 draw him from his hiding-place, I have ever felt 

 assured that he will eventually be unearthed. 

 After half a century's active exertion, the " Iron 

 Mask " was unveiled. 



I recollect that, somewhere inWoodfall's edition, 

 is a letter from Junius, requiring a copy of the let- 

 ters to be sent him, bound in a particular manner 



and colour, which, at the time that edition came out, 

 was thought likely to afford a clue to the detec- 

 tion : some such casual notice may not yet be un- 

 likely to lead to the discovery. Many years since, 

 in conversation with an old officer, then barrack- 

 master at Pendennis Garrison, Captain Hall, he 

 related a circumstance that occurred when he was 

 a boy, that curiously impressed itself on his 

 memory. His family and Woodfall's were inti- 

 mate, and when about ten years old he was taken 

 by his mother to see Woodfall, whilst in prison on 

 account of the publication of these redoubtable 

 letters. 



During this visit a tea-service of plate wns re- 

 ceived by Woodfall as a present from Junius, and 

 was exhibited with no small degree of pride and 

 gratification. Surely two such circumstances 

 could not occur without being known to more 

 than one or two persons ; and had the inquiry been 

 keenly followed up, I think, not unreasonably, that 

 a chance might be afforded for the solution of the 

 problem. James Cornish. 



Wyned (Vol. v., p. 321.). — The supposition that 

 the initial w of this word may have been a mis- 

 reading for pa, however ingenious, is not tenable. 

 Not having the MS. at hand (it is in the Uni- 

 versity Library, Cambridge), I wrote to a learned 

 friend there to request him to refer to the passage. 

 He assures me that the word is wyned, not payned. 

 Indeed, the precedent being fairly written in a 

 clerkly hand, there was little possibility of mis- 

 take. I beg, therefore, to leave the word in the 

 hands of your etymological reader for further sug- 

 gestion or explanation. C. W. G-. 



The Tradescants (Vol. iii,, pp. 119. 286.391. 

 393. 469. ; Vol. v., pp. 266. 367. 385.). — The en- 

 suing Note, although it has no reference to the 

 Tradescants who have been the subject of many 

 interesting communications in "N. & Q.," will, 

 perhaps, not be considered unacceptable ; for, in 

 conjunction with the mention made in the will of 

 the younger John Tradescant (p. 367.) of his 

 " two namesakes, Robert Tradescant and Thomas 

 Tradescant of Walberswick in the Countie of 

 Suffolk," to whom the testator, if his love is to be 

 estimated by the amount of their legacies, would 

 not appear to have borne much esteem, — it es- 

 tablishes the fact that there was, at that time, at 

 least one collateral branch of the Tradescant fa- 

 mily. I find in the town books of Harleston, in 

 Norfolk, the name of a John Tredeskin as a resident 

 in that town in the year 1682-83, and of Mr, 

 Robert Tredeskin from 1683-84 to 1688-89 in- 

 clusive, and from that time to 1691-92 Mrs. Tra- 

 deskin, widow, appears as the occupier, in the last 

 year the name being spelt Tradescant. The name 

 also occurs in the Court Books of the Manor of 

 Harleston. Robert Tradescant, and Martha his 

 wife, are mentioned in 1687, and it appears that 



