Sod S. X. July 21. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUEtllES. 



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August, 1651, and incorporated at Oxford 8 May, 

 1652 (Wood's Fasti, ed. Bliss, ii. 172.) ; incor- 

 porated M.D. from Oxford at Cambridge, 2 July, 

 1673; author of a System of Anatomy, Lond. 

 2 vols. fo. 1 685 ; Censor of the College of Phy- 

 sicians 1700; mentioned in Garth's Dispensary; 

 died April, 1710, aged 92. To his memory is 

 inscribed the view of the interior of the nave of 

 St. Paul's in Dugdale's History of that church. 

 The plate being dated 1658 is calculated griev- 

 ously to mislead as to the time of the death of this 

 Dr. Samuel Collins. 



Granger makes the author of The System of 

 Anatomy identical with the author of The Present 

 State of Russia. Wood, Watt, and Lowndes 

 seem to have been well aware that they were dif- 

 ferent persons, although Wood is certainly mis- 

 taken in attributing the latter work to Samuel 

 Collins, M.D. of King's College, and probably so 

 in considering the author of the former work to 

 be the M.D. who was incorporated at Oxford in 

 1659. 



We have been led to make the investigations, 

 the results of which appear in this Note, in con- 

 sequence of a letter from a friendly correspondent, 

 who was under the impression that the System of 

 Anatomy was by the Registrar of the College of 

 Physicians. C. H. & Thompson Cooler. 



Cambridge. 



POEMS BY BURNS AND LOCKHART. 

 I forward for insertion in " N. & Q." a poem 

 attributed to Burns, on what authority I know 

 not ; nor do I know whether it has ever appeared 

 in print : — 



" The Jingler. 

 " It was you, Cristy, you 

 First warmed this heart, I trow ; 

 Took my stomach frae my food, 

 Put the devil in my blood, 

 Made my doings out of season, 

 Made my thinkings out of reason ; 

 It was you, Cristy lass, 

 Brought the jingler to this pass. 



" An' Cristy, faith, I see 

 By the twinkle o' thy ee 

 An' Cristy lass, I fin 

 By a something here within ; 

 That tho' j-e've ta'en anither, 

 An' tho' ye be a mither. 

 There's an ember in us yet, 

 Might kindle — were it fit. 



" Then fare ye weel, my fair one, 

 An' fare ye weel, my rare one, 

 I once thought, my bonnj' leddy, 

 That thy bairns would call me daddy. 

 But that bra' da3''s gone by — 

 Sae happy may ye lie ; 

 An' canty may ye be, 

 Wi' the man that sou'd been me." 



And also one by the lamented J, G. Lockhart, 

 which has never, I believe, been published. 



" Walton-on-Thames, August, 1842. 



" Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, 

 Who, with genius, wit, learning, life's trophies to win. 

 Had neither great Lord, nor rich cit of his kin, 

 Nor discretion to set himself up as to tin : 

 So his portion soon spent, like the poor heir of Lynn, 

 He turned author, 'ere yet there was beard on his chin ; 

 And whoever was out, or whoever was in. 

 For your Tories his fine Irish brains he would spin ; 

 Who received prose and rhyme with a promising grin, 

 ' Go a head, you queer fish, and more power to your fin,' 

 But to save from starvation stirred never a pin. 

 Light for long was his heart, though his breeches were 



thin. 

 Else his acting, for certain, was equal to Quin. 

 But at last he was beat, and sought lielp of the bin, 

 (All the same to the Doctor from claret to gin), 

 Which led swifih* to gaol, with consumption therein. 

 It was much, where the bones rattled loose in th« skin. 

 He got leave to die here, out of Babylon's din. 

 Barring drink, and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin. 

 Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn." 



THE DYVOUR'S HABIT. 



There has existed in Scotland, immemorially, 

 the action of Cessio Bonorum, by which, on sur- 

 rendering his property to his creditors, a debtor 

 gets liberation from imprisonment. It was of 

 old accompanied by the provision that the bank- 

 rupt, or dyvoir (devoi?-), as he was called in 

 Scotch law language, should wear a dress thence 

 named the dyvour's habit. The Court of Ses- 

 sion passed various enactments on the subject, 

 and prescribed in particular that it should be 

 " a coat or upper garment which is to cover 

 the party's clothes, body, and arms ; whereof the 

 one half is to be of a yellow and the other of a 

 brown colour ; and a cape or hood, which they 

 are to wear on their head, partie-coloured as said 

 is, with uppermost hose on his legs half brown, 

 half yellow, conform to a pattern given to the 

 Magisti-ates of Edinburgh." This dress was re- 

 quired to be assumed before the liberation was 

 allowed ; and it was provided that " the Magis- 

 trates cause take the Dyvour to the mercat cross 

 betwixt 10 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon with 

 the foresaid habit, where he is to sit upon the 

 Dyvour Stone the space of ane hour, and then to 

 be dismissed ; and ordains the dyvour to wear the 

 said habit in all time thereafter : and in case he 

 be found wanting or disguising the samen, he shall 

 lose the benefit of the Bonorum." 



These enactments were made at different periods 

 of the seventeenth century ; but by the latest (in 

 1688), the dress was allowed to be dispensed with 

 "in cases of innocent misfortune, liquidly (clearly) 

 proven." After this the enforcement of the law 

 was waved in all cases excepting three, which oc- 

 curred in the middle of lust century, where the 

 debtors had been engaged in smuggling. Up to 

 the reign of William IV., however, when the 



