2»'i S. X. Aug, 11. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Ill 



" See little Davy strut and puff — 

 ' P — on the Op'ra and such stuflF, 

 My house is never full enough, 

 A curse on Nancy Dawson ! ' 



" Though Garrick he has had his day, 

 And forc'd the town his laws t' obey ; 

 Now Johnny Rich * is come in play. 

 With help of Nancy Dawson."] 



" Cassandra." — Can you give some account of 

 a book entitled Cassandra, the Famed Romance. 

 R. Moseley, 1667, large 4to.? John James. 



[The author of Cassandra is G. de Costes, Seigneur de 

 la Calprenbde, who published it at Paris in 1642. It was 

 " rendered into English " by Sir Charles Cotterell, at the 

 time he was Steward to the Queen of Bohemia. The 

 translator's Dedication to Charles II. is dated from the 

 Hague, June 5, 1653; but there is an English edition 

 (perhaps of a portion) dated Lond. 1652, 8vo. The best 

 edition we have met with is in folio, Lond. 1676. There 

 is also another in five vols. 12mo. 1725. Granger states 

 that this work " is a medley of history and fable, and as 

 much beyond ordinary life and manners, as the Panta- 

 gonians are bej'ond the size of ordinary men." (^Biog. 

 Hist. iv. 318., ed. 1775.) Pepj's, however, was better 

 pleased with Cassandra than he was with Hudibras: 

 " Nov. 16, 1668. I did call at Martin's, my bookseller's, 

 and there bought Cassandra, and some other French 

 books for my wife's closet ; and so home, having eat no- 

 thing but two pennj-worths of oysters, opened for me by a 

 woman in the street." Again, " May 5, 1669. Thence 

 home to my wife, and she read to me the Papistic of Cas- 

 sandra, which is very good indeed ; and the better to her, 

 because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, and to 

 bed."] 



The Pool at Aphaca. — 



" Sozomen tells us of the pool at Aphacity in which 

 the offerings of the pure sunk and were accepted, and 

 those of the impure, though of gold or silver, floated 

 and were refused. This is not to be accounted for on 

 natural causes, but we do not know what tests were ap- 

 plied to the offerings before thej' were thrown in, and we 

 may be sure that if real gold and silver were got back 

 from the priests, that would not have been less wonderful 

 than their floating on the water. "-r-P. 24. (^Letter to the 

 Rev. H. Dodwell on Miracles in the Primitive Church, by 

 a Layman. 8vo. pp. 164. Loudon. 1751.) 



A reference to the place in Sozomen, or any 

 other writer who mentions this pool, will oblinje 



C.E. 



[The pool in question was not far from Aphaca in Syria, 

 and was sacred to Venus Aphacitis, who had a temple not 

 far off. We think the learned author of the " Letter to 

 the Rev. H. [ ? W.] Dodwell " must have intended to refer 

 to Zosimus. not to Sozomen. Zosimus, i. 58., describes the 

 pool or lake in question as occasionally floating articles 

 made of the precious metals, and of other materials which 



USUall}' sink (at? ^vai^ ovx aliopeladai, effl toC vSaros aKKa 



(caTafiveo-flai). Sozomen, ii. 5., gives some account of the 

 destruction of the temple at Aphaca by Constantinc. 

 Seneca says (Nat. Quast. iii. 25.) "Erat in Sicilia, est 

 adhuc in Syria stagnum, in quo natant lateres, et mergi 

 projecta non possunt."] 



William Wogan. — Where was William Wo- 

 gan, author of the Essay on the Proper Lessons, 



* Alias Harlequin Lun, 



living and officiating as churchwarden in July, 

 1733 ? John Allen. 



[William Wogan was in 1733 settled at Ealing in Mid- 

 dlesex. See his Life bj' James Gatliff, prefixed to the 

 third edition of his Essay, 4 vols. 8vo. 1818, and "N. & 

 Q." l^t S. xi. 244.] 



" KING'S PREROGATIVE IN IMPOSITIONS." 

 (2»<» S. X. 39.) 



I hasten to comply with Mk. Foss's request. 

 As his only object is to compare the reporter's 

 notes with the printed speech, with a view to 

 deciding the question of authorship, I take it for 

 granted that it will be sufficient if I transcribe the 

 first page of Whitelock's speech.* The whole of 

 it occupies eight closely written pages : — 

 «' M' Whitlock 



2 Julii 



3 m"' moved 

 in this p'liament 

 of great weight 



~ 1 The name of great bry- 

 tayne 

 2 The Union 



8 This questio An — ? ali- 

 quid habeat vel ni- 

 hil. 



" Whither wee be tenants of what wee have at the 

 kings will or noe. 



" By the booke of rates and leters p'tent theise imposs 

 are sett for Y\\m and his ae3'res and successors. Whereas 

 all former imposs were sett but for a tyme. 

 "Theise Impositions against ■) 1 Against the established 

 law for 4 reasons. | frme of govermt. 



12 Against Jus privatu. 

 [3 Against acts of par- 



liamt. 

 J 4 Contra more maiorO. 

 " He argues that in this state the sovraigne power rests 

 in the kinge. 



"But he hathe power {Jllt^^/j^^linit. 



"The first power controllable by the later. As if he. 

 grantes letters patents of hymself he cannot controlle it, 

 but he may in parliamt. 



" In parliamt he may reverse that Judgint w<='' he hym- 

 self gave in the kinges benche." 



It would surely be useless to copy any farther. 

 Yelverton's speech f being altogether unknown, I 

 proceed to give the whole of it. He was the 

 second speaker on the 29th June : — 



" M'' Yelverto. In poynt of right the king may im- 

 pose. He wished wee would iudge of hym in colde 

 bloude. 



" No act of pari* yet made, nor an}- cann be made but 

 the kinge may impose. 



" 2 things considerable. 



" Lrt hym impose upo what cause he will the reaso and 

 cause thearof will never come in question. 



"4 Cases. 1 He may impose to mayntaine equality 

 amongst the merchants theymselves. If one merchant 

 ingrosse all the trade the king may impose upo hym. It 

 is not fitt that all the rest should starve. 



" Imposs upo Harvy and S'' Jo: Spenser All sonnes of 

 the same priue [ ? prerogative] 



* Sl.MS. 42l0„fol. 78. b. 



t Fol. 64. b. 



