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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2>id S. X. Aug. 4. '60. 



Manchester, April, 1648, declared its injustice ; 

 and the Commons, in Sept. 1649, corroborate 

 this opinion, which, as I believe, is here repeated 

 in the letter of the Protector ; nevertheless the 

 Attorney- General did not make his report until 

 25 July, 1652, and then only was Sir John re- 

 lieved from the severity of the sequestration. 

 The petition of Sir John (alluded to, I conceive, 

 in this letter *) is among the Burton papers. 



Some notice was taken in the last volume of 

 " N. & Q." of a little book, An Essay on Afflic- 

 tiouy addressed by Sir John Monson to " his only 

 son from one of his Majesty's Garrisons," which 

 the date in the dedication shows to be Oxford. 

 A statement is made in that volume (p. 493.) of 

 copies of that and a contemporary tract, both very 

 rare, having been recently purchased for the Bod- 

 leian. On inquiry of the Librarian I discover that 

 statement to be erroneous ; no such copies have 

 been purchased. Monson. 



Burton Hall. 



Socrates (2"* S. x. 69.) — The curious book 

 about which Fitzhopkins inquires was written 

 by a physician named Lelut, and was published 

 at Paris in 1836. It has, I believe, long been 

 out of print. Here follows its title : — 



" Du D^moa de Socrate, Specimen d'une Application 

 de la Science Psychologique k celle de I'Histoire, aug- 

 ment^ d'ua Metnoire sur les Hallucinations au ddbut de 

 la Folie, d'Observations sur la Folic Sensoriale et de Re- 

 cherches des Analogies de la Folie et de la Eaison." 



G. M. G. 



The anecdote given by Fitzhopkins is founded 

 upon the play'ful banter of Charnides and the 

 rejoinder of Socrates as recorded in Xenophon's 

 Symposium. W. C. 



Antrobus (2'^'* S. X. 27.) — Without pretending 

 to throw light on the origin of this name, in 

 answer to Eleutherus, I beg to point out its 

 curious resemblance to &v9pamos. If this be its 

 origin, the founder of the family has intended, I 

 presume, that his descendants should keep in 

 view, and perpetually assert the dignity of man. 

 That is a noble name — for " a mon's a mon for a' 

 that." John Wii-liams. 



Arno's Court. 



Allow me to reply to the Query of Eledtherus 

 respecting the name of Antrobus by the following 

 counter-Queries: ]. What became of the Greek 

 colony settled during the seventeenth century in 

 Soho, which gave its name to Greek Street, and 

 of which a memorial exists in the Greek inscrip- 

 tion in the church now, or at all events recently, 

 used by the French Protestants for Divine wor- 

 ship in that neighbourhood? 2. Might not the 

 name "Antrobus" have belonged to some mem- 



• Would Ithuriel inform me where the original of 

 the letter he has communicated is preserved ? 



ber of this colony, absorbed afterwards into the 

 general mass of Englishmen ? It is true that 

 Antrobus, which represents with quite sufficient 

 fidelity the vernacular Greek accentuation and 

 pronunciation of &v&pcnros, is an appellative, and 

 not a proper name, but I cannot conceive what 

 other word, common or proper, can be found in 

 any current language adequately explaining this 

 curious name. Philhellene. 



Additions to Pope's Works (2"^ S. ix. 198.) 

 — On a fly-leaf in the second volume of my 

 copy of the above work, the following MS. note 

 occurs : — 



" This publication has been attributed to the late George 

 Steevens, Esq. ; but I heard from Mr. Isaac Reed that it 

 was culled by Baldwin from the communications of Mr. 

 Steevens to the St. James's Chronicle, and put forth with 

 a Preface by William Cooks, Esq." — Park in 8vo. ed. of 

 Warton's Hist, of Eng. Poetry, iii. A19. note 1. 



Another MS. note, but in a different hand, oc- 

 curs in the first volume at the termination of the 

 preface to the Essay on Human Life, which I 

 may as well append to the above. It is as fol- 

 lows : — 



" This Essay was really written by Thomas Catesby, 

 Lord Paget, son of Henry first Earl of Uxbridge, Lord of 

 the Bedchamber to George IL He died 1742." — V. 

 Park's ed. of The Boi/al aud Noble Authors, iv. 178. 



The compilers of the Catalogue in the British 

 Museum could scarcely have been aware of the 

 nature of the work when they attributed the 

 editing of it to " W. Warburton ; " for it contains 

 poems not only highly injurious to the memory of 

 his friend, but other articles which a person in the 

 position of Warburton would never have ventured 

 on publishing, even under the shadow an anony- 

 mous edition affords. T. C. S. 



Novel Weather Indicator (2"^ S, ix. 500, 

 501.) — I beg to refer your correspondent S. Red- 

 mond to the Life and Posthumous Writings of W. 

 Cowper, Esq., by William Hayley, Esq., vol. i., 

 Letter LXXV. pp. 252, 253. : — 



« To Lady Hesketh. 



"Nov. 10,1787. 

 " Yesterday it thundered ; last night it lightened, and 

 at three this morning I saw the sky as red as a cit}' in 

 flames could have made it. I have a leech in a bottle 

 that foretells all these prodigies and convulsions of na- 

 ture, &c. « W. C." 



I have kept a leech in my room for three years 

 past, and have noticed the same results as men- 

 tioned by the poet Cowper. Alfred Hill. 



" Regno delle due Sicilie " (2"^ S. x. 9.) — 

 The following is an extract from Peter Heylin's 

 Cosmographie, vol. i. p. 54., published 1652, which 

 you may perhaps think worthy of a corner in " N. 

 & Q. : "- 



" It (the Kingdom of Naples) hath been called some- 

 times the Realm Pouille, but most commonly the Realm 

 of Sicil on this side of the Phare, to difference it from 



