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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. X. July 14. '60. 



pensioned off his mistress and married Miss Wrot- 

 tesley, daughter of a Staffordshire baronet, a young 

 lady in every respect worthy of the rank to which 

 she was raised. 



Miss Parsons, Miss Reay, and many others, are 

 examples that ladies do not universally, when they 

 lose one virtue, bid adieu, at the same time, to all 

 the rest. W. D. 



Simon Paap, the Dutch Dwaef. —• There 

 must be some mistake in the account of this indi- 

 vidual's height furnished by Mr. Van Lennep (2'"» 

 S. ix. 423.), where it is said that at full growth 

 he did not exceed 16 inches and a half. I saw 

 Simon at Oxford in the year 1818, when he was 

 exhibiting himself in this country ; and his cus- 

 tom was to present his visitors with his autor 

 graph. I have the one he gave me (written in my 

 presence) now before me, upon a scrap of paper 

 measuring 3^X2 inches. I transcribe it literatim : 

 " Mr. Simon Paap, 

 Age 28 years, in height 28 inches, 

 Weighs only 27 lb." 



It is written in a rather small but distinct 

 hand, and the capital letters are very much 

 flourished. 



Query : is there any record of an adult human 

 being whose height did not exceed 16 inches and 

 a half? , E. V. 



John Gkeenhalgh, of Sidney College, B.A. 

 1630-1, was admitted a Fellow of S. John's Col- 

 lege, on Mr. Ashton's foundation, 23 March, 

 1631-2; commenced M.A. 1634; was one of the 

 Proctors of the University, 1639-40, and pro- 

 ceeded B.D. 1641. He was ejected from his 

 fellowship by the Earl of Manchester, 8 April, 

 1644 ; married before the Restoration, and was 

 created D.D. 1672. We suppose him to have 

 been the Mr. Greenhalgh who attended James 

 Earl of Derby at his execution, 15 Oct. 1651, 

 and drew up an account of his speech upon the 

 scaffold, and of some remarkable passages in his 

 going to and being upon it. (Peck's Desiderata 

 Curiam.) We hope that some of your corre- 

 spondents can give information as to Dr. Green- 

 halgh's preferments, and the date of his death. 



C. H. & TaoMrsoN Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



The Fruit of the Forbidden Tree Poi- 

 sonous. — Could any of your readers inform me as 

 to the originator of this opinion ? In a work, re- 

 cently published, on Metaphysics (by the Rev. 

 John H. Mac Mahon), the author, whose note 

 (p. 2.) on the above point displays considerable 

 research, tells us that he has been unable to dis- 

 cover the name of any particular theologian es- 

 pousing it, though the opinion itself is mentioned 

 by Josephus, Theophilus, and several of the 

 Fathers, Eugubinus Steuchus, Le Clerc, and 

 others. Even Ludovicua Vives — a man well 



versed in such questions — acknowledges his ig- 

 norance in this matter, as appears from a quota- 

 tion, given in the note referred to, taken from his 

 Commentary on St. Augustine's De Civitate t)ei. 



axciphrox. 

 Amsterdam Theatre burnt. — 



"At Amsterdam, Neyts was playing in the grand 

 theatre, when, on the 11th May, 1772, during the repre- 

 sentation of The Deserter, this superb building became a 

 prey to the flames. This terrible accident cost several 

 persona, their lives, and caused the ruin of the actor Punt, 

 who, as well as Neyts, resided in the building." — Dele- 

 pierre, History of Flemish Literature, p. 178. 



Those who are interested in Dutch literature 

 are much indebted to Mr. Delepierre for his excel- 

 lent outlines ; but as a supplement to Hallam it 

 is incomplete for want of references. Can any of 

 your correspondents tell me where to find a fuller 

 account than the above ? In all the books which 

 I have consulted the fact of burning with loss of 

 life is all that I can find. A great theatre was 

 burned at Venice in 1780 or 1781. Any infor- 

 mation upon the fact will much oblige. F. 



" A Collectioner : " what? — In the register 

 of the parish of Great Hampden, Bucks, which 

 commences 23 October, 1557, and is very curious, 

 this word is often used. Thus, in the record of 

 burials, we find, — 



" 1741-42. Jany 2B^. Sarah Etherop — a Collectioner. 



1762. July 20">. Jno. Apsalon of y« psh of Hitchenden, 

 Collectioner." 



The poor are generally entered as paupers, and 

 the tramps as travellers. If collectioner meant 

 beggar in any shape they would have been buried 

 in their own parish of Hitchenden (which is close 

 by). I cannot find that the word is used now, nor 

 is there any tradition relative thereto. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Babtlon. — I shall be greatly obliged by any 

 references to works affording information of any 

 kind as to this town, and the laws, customs, habits, 

 &c. of its inhabitants : such information will be 

 very acceptable, however slight it may be. X. L. 



Miss Edwards. — Wanted some particulars of 

 Miss Edwards, author of Otho and Rutha, a dra- 

 matic tale, 8vo. 1781. A volume of Miscellanies 

 was published at Edinburgh in 1776 by a Miss 

 Edwards. Are these two books by the same au- 

 thor ? * jR" Inglis. 



The Father Rector at Burells. — I have 

 before me the copy of a letter f, extending over 

 six folio pages, evidently written by a Jesuit, and 

 addressed " To the father Rector at Burells, 1628." 



[♦ These works are by the same lady. — Ed.] 

 f In a MS. volume of " Historical Collections " in the 

 library of the University of Cambridge, marked Mm. 



V. i. 



