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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 134. 



sion of Earl Spencer, copies of which may be 

 found in Janson's JEssai sur TOrigine de la 

 Gravure, and in Ottley's work. Being as fully 

 convinced as Mr. Way that the symbols he ob- 

 served on the effigy of llichard at Kouen were 

 never introduced without design^ but that they were 

 meant to convey some esoteric signification, I 

 have for many years consulted both books and 

 friends to obtain an explanation of this allegorical 

 device, but without success. As a last resource, 

 I address myself to the " N. & Q.," in hopes, from 

 their having now obtained so wide a circulation, 

 that I may receive through their medium, and the 

 kindness of a more learned correspondent, a so- 

 lution of this enigma. 



P.S. — In addition to the above /o?ir instances of 

 the device of a rabbit occurring in ancient sculp- 

 ture and wood-engraving, a French writer, M. 

 Th. Gautier, in the feuilleton oi La Presse of the 

 27th September, 1851, describes the Madonna of 

 Albert Durer as being "presque toujours accom- 

 pagnee d^un lapin" derived (in his opinion) from 

 a "vague ressouvenir du pantheisme Germanique." 



SrMBOii. 



IS WVLD S GREAT GLOBK A PLAGIARISM FROM 

 MOLENAX ? 



(Vol, v., p. 467.) 



Some time ago I made the following Notes, 

 which, though they throw some light on the sub- 

 ject of Molineux's globe, yet they do not bear 

 out Mr. Eastwood's conjecture. The first is 

 from Richard Hakluyt's Address to the Reader 

 in The Principal Navigations, Voiages, and Dis- 

 coveries of the English Nation, folio, 1589 : 



*' Nowe, because peraduenture it would bee expected 

 as necessarie, that the descriptions of so many parts 

 of the world would fane more easily be conceiued of 

 the Reader, by adding Geographieail and Hydrogra- 

 phicall tables thereunto, thou art by the way to be 

 admonished that I haue contented myselfe with insert- 

 ing into the worke one of the best general! mappes of 

 the world onely, vntill the comming out of a very large 

 and most exact terrestrial! Globe, collected and re- 

 formed according to the newest, socretest, and latest 

 discoueries, both Spanisli, Portugall, and English, 

 composed by M. Emmerie Molliaeux of Lambeth, a 

 rare Gentleman in his profession, being therein for 

 divers yeeres greatly supported by the purse and 

 liberalitie of the worshipful! marchant M. IFilliam 

 Sanderson." 



My second Note is from the rare little volume 

 by John Davis, entitled, The Worlde's Hydro- 

 graphical Discription, 12ui0., London, 1595 : 



" The cause wliy I vse this particular relation of all 

 my proceedinges for this discouery, is to stay tliis obiec- 

 tion, why hath not Dauis discouered this passage [the 

 North-west] being thrise that waies imploied, and how 

 far I proceeded, and in what fourme this discouery lyeth, 



doth appeare vpon the Globe which Master Sanderson 

 to his verye great charge hath published, whose labour- 

 ing indevour for the good of his countrie deserueth 

 great fauour and commendations, made by Master 

 Emery Mullineux, a man wel qualited, of a good iudge- 

 ment and verye expert in many excellent practises, iu 

 myselfe being the onely meane with Master Sanderson 

 to imploy Master Mullineux therein, whereby he is 

 no we growne to a most exquisite perfection." — P. 25. 



And here a Query may not be out of place. 

 Whose account of Iceland does Nash refer to ? 



In the writings of our early navigators, there is 

 frequent allusion to terrestrial globes. This of 

 Mollineux's, for instance, contains Davis's own 

 discoveries, and should therefore be of some im- 

 portance. In the tract just quoteJ, Davis says : 



" It is yre\ knowne that we liaue globes in the most 

 excellent perfection of arte, and liaue the vse of them 

 in as exquisite sort, as Master Robert Hues in his book, 

 of the globus vse, lately published, hath at large made 

 known." — P. 41. 



And in an unpublished MS. relating to Sir Thomas 

 Button's voyage, addressed to King James I. in 

 1610, the writer says : 



" I haue left w*'' Mr. Wright in yo"" librarie att S' 

 James, a hand globe terrestriall for demonstracon of 

 these." 



Do any of the globes exist, and where ? 



As I am about to reprint Davis's tract with 

 additional illustrations, including the MS. above 

 referred to, I shall be glad to receive any particu- 

 lars of the life of Davis, and of his connexion with 

 that great patron of discovery, William Sanderson; 

 of his death, any reference to his autograph, and 

 to any authentic portrait of him. 



John Petheram. 



Poem on the Bwning of the Houses of Parlia- 

 ment. — On the 17th of October, 1834, the houses 

 of parliament were burnt down, and I believe you 

 will recollect that very soon afterwards a long 

 serio-comic poem was published, detailing the 

 event ; the following stray morsels of which just 

 occur to me : 



" And poor Mrs. Wright, 

 Was in a great fright, 

 For she swore that night, 

 She saw a great liglit." 



Again — 



" Slie felt a great heat 

 Come thro' to her feet, 

 As she sat lierself down 

 In the black rod seat." 



I wish very much to find out this poem, or 

 whatever else it may be called ; can you assist me ? 

 I am told it was published in one of the weekly 



