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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. X. Aug. 18. '60. 



tlculars from memory. Curiously enough, how- 

 ever, I met with the following a few days ago in 

 the Durham County Advertise7' for Friday, 20th 

 July, I860: — 



" Fact in Natural History. — Twenty-three years ago 

 Mr. Wra3', of the Duchy Farm, Pendleton, in the presence 

 of Mr. Birch, put a frog into an old pint pot, covered it 

 with a piece of plate, united them by plaster of Paris, and 

 buried all about two-and-a feet under ground, wet clay 

 being rammed closely round. On Tuesday week the 

 creature was exhumed ; the frog was alive, but died in a 

 f^yr minutes after exposure to the air." — Salford Wethli/ 

 News. 



This seems to have been a more successful ex- 

 periment than that of the French Academy re- 

 ferred to at p. 10. J. A. Pn. 



Cardinal Mazabin (2"^ S. x. 68.) — For the 

 fullest and most satisfactory list of the collection 

 of pieces known by the name of Mazarinades, I 

 beg leave to refer your correspondent J. M. to the 

 following work : Bihliographie des Mazarinades, 

 puhliee pour la Societe de VHistoire de France, par 

 C. Moreau, 3 tomes, Paris, 1850-1. This publi- 

 cation contains not only a list of the complete 

 titles of 4082 of these pamphlets, with an appen- 

 dix comprising an addition of 229 more, but 

 interesting bibliographical details, both in the in- 

 troduction and in the body of the work ; besides, 

 at the end of the 3rd volume, " Liste Alphabe- 

 tique des Imprimeurs et Libraires qui ont public 

 des Mazarinades," " Liste Chronologique " (of the 

 Mazarinades themselves), and " Table des Noms 

 propres et des Anonymes." 'Axuvs. 



Dublin. 



Oliver Cromwell's Letter (2"^ S. x. 64. 95.) 

 — Lord Monson's reading is perfectly correct : it 

 should have been printed Monson instead of 

 Moriso7i, but for a clerical error in the transcript. 

 As doubtless your correspondent feels an interest 

 in papers connected with his family, [ have much 

 pleasure in having been enabled to discover a 

 subsequent letter relating to the same subject, 

 (enclosing a copy of the Protector's letter,) which 

 runs as follows : — 



" Gentlemen.. — The Ire of the Lo. Generalls to S'. 

 Henrie Vane concerninge S''. John Monson's case to bee 

 reported to the house (wherof a copie is here inclosed) 

 so fuUie expresseth his Lop». sence of his sufferings, and 

 how much the parliaments and Armies hono"" is. con- 

 cerned therin touching his just separacon, that I shall 

 forbeare to trouble you with anie addicon onelie as to that 

 seeminge refleccOn upon my selfe that the report of his 

 case (ordered by the Com", concerning the breach of 

 articles to bee made by mee to the Parliament) hatli bin 

 long in my hands. I doe confesse it, but w* all that the 

 want of an opportunity, and not of my endero", hath bin 

 the cause thereof. However, as the case and condicon of 

 S'". John Monson now stands I referre it to yo'' owne 

 judgment whether you will thinke fit to proceed upon j'O'' 

 JResequestracon of him for the non-payment of y® re- 

 maj-nder of his fine being (as hec alleadgeth) about 

 920" (hee stronglie insisting for the abatement thereof as 

 some recompence for his damages susteyned (contrary to 



the agreement and engagement of the publique faith of 

 the army unto him upon the Treaty for y« surrender of 

 Oxford) or whether to accept in lieu thereof the setle- 

 ment of 90" per ann. out of his Tythes of Owersby in the 

 county of Lyncolne upon the Ministry -W^^ I heretofore 

 offered to you in his behalfe, and hee still offers, wherby 

 as I conceive no disadvantage will redound to the state, so 

 all further prejudice wilbe fairly removed w'^'' otherwise 

 may befall him, and v/'^ will enforce him to trouble the 

 Parliament and Generall with more importunate ad- 

 dresses. I leave it to yo"^ judicious consideracon and rest, 

 " Gentlemen, 



" Yo'' humble servant, 

 " Inner Temple, « Edm. Prideaux." 



16 Martii 

 1650." 

 (^Addressed) " For my honored freind 

 Samuell Moj'er Esq. and the rest of 

 the worthy gentlemen Com" for 

 Compounding 



At Haberdashers' Hall." 



Ithuriel. 

 Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond (2""* S. 

 ix. 446.) — These lines are taken, but rather in- 

 correctly, from Warner's Albion's England, 4to. 

 1602. They occur in the 41st chapter of the poem, 

 which contains the story of Fair Rosamond, and 

 are as follow : — 



" With that she dasht her on the lippes, so dyed double 

 red : 

 Hard was the heart that gane the blow, soft were those 

 lips that bled." 



The tale of Argentile and Curan in the second 

 volume of Fercys Reliques forms the 20th chapter, 

 and the tale of the Patient Countess, in the first 

 volume, the 42nd chapter of the poem. 



In the remarks prefixed to the tale of Argentile 

 and Curan, Bishop Percy says — 



" Though now "Warner is so seldom mentioned, his 

 contemporaries ranked him on a level with Spenser, and 

 called them the Homer and Virgil of their age. But 

 Warner rather resembled Ovid, whose Metamorphosis 

 he seems to have taken for his model, having deduced a 

 perpetual poem from the deluge down to the sera of 

 Elizabeth, full of lively digressions and entertaining 

 episodes. And though he is sometimes harsh, affected, 

 and obscure, he often displays a most charming and pa- 

 thetic simplicity ; as where he describes Eleanor's harsh 

 treatment of Rosamond : — 



' With that she dasht her,' " &c. 



Warner's poem is reprinted in the fourth volume 

 of Chalmers' collection. R. Gr. 



Taafe and Gordon Families (2"<* S. x. 90.) 

 — In my recently published Illustrations of King 

 James's L-ish Ai^my List, 1689-90, will be found 

 a memoir of the " Taafe " family, extending over 

 six pages ; as also memoirs of those of Clinton and 

 Jones, with notices of Gordons and Lowes. 



John D'Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



Mary Wiltshire (2°* S. ix. 502.) — Inquiry 

 has been made for this person. She was removed 

 to a lunatic asylum about two years ago. J. 



