2°d S. X. July 14, '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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cation of some atmospheric changes, and so will a 

 long strip of a common seaweed hung up dry in a 

 passage, but ihe nomenclature of a weather-gauge 

 with the definition of a regular scale cannot be 

 depended on — if for no other reason, because 

 of the irregularity of the crystalline surface. I 

 expect next time I go to Shoreditch to see only 

 one of the " glasses." Esukiens. 



DoMESPAY Book (2"'' S. ix, 386.) —The trans- 

 lation of the Exeter Domesday was mainly in the 

 hands of Kalph Barnes, Esq., but the government 

 gave lOOZ. to the late John Jones of Franklin, near 

 Exeter, Esq., to correct the MS., which proved to 

 be far from perfect. P. Hutchinson. 



" King's Prebogative in Impositions " (2°* 

 S. X. 9.) — In your editorial reply to Edw. Yobk 

 you state that the author of the argument on this 

 subject, designated . on the title-page as " a late 

 learned Judge," was Sir Henry Yelverton. Will 

 you allow me to ask whether you have any other 

 authority for speaking so decidedly than State 

 Trials, vol. ii. p. 477., where it is called " Mr. 

 Yelver ton's Argument"? 



The reason of my inquiry is, that in your last 

 volume, p. 382,, to which you yourself refer, your 

 correspondent S. R. Gardiner asserts, upon ap- 

 parently conclusive evidence, that the real author 

 of the Argument was Sir James Whitelocke ; and 

 shows from a letter of Dudley Carleton that 

 Yelverton argued on the other side, and that his 

 speech was " absolutely the worst " that was 

 delivered on the occasion. 



Sir James Whitelocke died in 1632, and Sir 

 Henry Yelverton in 1630; so that in 1641, the 

 date of the first edition of the Argument, the title 

 of " a late learned Judge " would apply to either. 

 The second edition was published in 1658, when 

 the name of Whitelocke was certainly more in- 

 fluential than that of Yelverton ; Bulstrode 

 Whitelock, the son of Sir James, having been for 

 many previous years First Commissioner of the 

 Great Seal, and having been reappointed to the 

 same place in January, 1658-9, and therefore very 

 likely to have had the compliment paid to him of 

 a republication of his father's tract. 



Sir James Whitelocke's Liber Famelicus has 

 been published by the Camden Society, under the 

 ' excellent editorship of Mr, Bruce, since the vo- 

 lume of my Judges of England which contains 

 the judge's life (vol, vi. p, 376.) ; and it confirms 

 the suggestion which I ventured to make, that " it 

 was probably some freedom of language in which 

 he indulged in Parliament that excited the king's 

 displeasure," and led to his temporary imprison- 

 ment. He says (^Liber Famelicus, p, 32,) that 

 Sir Humfrey May informed him " that the king 

 had taken otFence at my actions in pai'liament, in 

 maynteyning the cause of impositions so stifiiy," 

 and presaged the ill that afterwards befell him. 



This, there can be little doubt, was the identical 

 Argument so long attributed to Sir Henry Yel- 

 verton. 



Mb. Gardiner may make this more certain if 

 he will kindly add to his extracts from the Sloane 

 MS. an account of what he finds there of White- 

 locke's and of Yelverton's speeches, similar to 

 that which he has given of Lord Bacon's. 



Edwabd Foss. 



[We have also received a communication from our able 

 correspondent, Mr, S, E, Gardiner, relating to the au- 

 thorship of this work. Our authorities for attributing it 

 to Sir Henry Yelverton were the following: Hargrave's 

 State Trials, xi, 52, ; and his own cop}' of the work, with 

 the name of " Judge Yelverton " written on the title- 

 page ; Cobbett's State Trials, ii. 477, ; Foss's Judges of 

 England, vi. 391, ; the Catalogues of the British Museum 

 and the Bodleian; Watt's Bibliotheca and Lowndes's 

 Manual. But on more carefully reading our correspon- 

 dent's statements (see "N, & Q.," 2°d S, ix. 383,), we 

 must confess that he has made out a case in favour of 

 James Whitelock as the author of this celebrated produc- 

 tion, and we have since discovered that his conjecture is 

 confirmed by Mr. Thomason's copy of the first edition, 

 preserved among the Civil War Tracts in the BriJ;ish 

 Museum, in which he has written the name of " White- 

 locke " after the words " A late learned Judge."] 



Whistle Tankards (2"^ S. ix. 484.) —There 

 are more whistle-tankards in existence than F. T. 

 appears to suppose. Mr. John Holmes, of Meth- 

 ley, near Leeds, has a very fine old tankard of this 

 description, which he was recently exhibiting at a 

 public bazaar in our Town Hall. It is of earthen- 

 ware, about eight inches in height, of rather nar- 

 row circumference for its height, and is quaintly 

 ribbed or waved in an embossed pattern. The 

 whistle is at the foot of the pot, which is not 

 generally unlike some of the pint-pots still in use 

 in roadside public-houses. There is not, how- 

 ever, any handle to Mr. Holmes' curious tankard. 

 If F. T. is desirous of farther information, a note 

 addressed to Mr. Holmes, at the above address, 

 will procure him all the necessary details. 



George Tyas. 



Times Office, Leeds. 



F. T. does not seem to have adverted to the 

 Notes, 2""^ S. ii. 247., where a similar account is 

 given of Mrs. Dixon's tankard ; and 2"^ S. ii. 316,, 

 where it appears that Whistle Tankards are not of 

 the extreme rarity he supposes. My brother, AV, P. 

 Rix, 8, North Street, Brighton, told me a few 

 weeks ago that, in his avocation of a buyer and 

 seller of antique plate, he had one then in his 

 possession, as well as a Peg Tankard (P' S, vi. 

 410,) The connexion of these articles with the 

 vulgar phrases " whistle for it," " wet your whis- 

 tle," " take you down a peg," and " a peg too low," 

 is obvious. S. W. Kix. 



Beccles. 



Randle Cotgrave (2"* S. x. 9.) — It is possible 

 that your correspondents may not observe a state- 

 ment, in an article " Coqueliner," p. 1 1 . of the 



