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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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versity Coll., Oxford, and afterwards Demy of 

 Magdalen. Of his family I have full particulars, 

 but is anything known of his literary attainments? 

 I believe he was the author of several pieces in a 

 work entitled Musce Anglicanm. 



I have in my possession some of his Sermons (in 

 MS.) and two MS. books full of English and 

 Latin verses in his handwriting. One has several 

 leaves torn out, as if spoiled in writing or not 

 worth preservation. In the margin of several 

 pages he has written against Latin subjects 

 (Magd.), sometimes adding a date, 1746, and 

 once Oriel, 1745. Against one is written "Battle 

 of the Books," under date Magd. 1746. To what 

 can this refer ? F. B. Relton. 



Lee, S.E. 



Sir John Hawkwood. — 



" The Honour of the Taylours, or the famous and re- 

 nowned History of Sir John Hawkwood," &c. cuts, 1687, 

 4to. 



This black-letter book of 55 pages and preface 

 is stated by Lowndes to have " suggested to Sir 

 Walter Scott the writing of Quentin Durward." 

 What say your correspondents to this statement ? 



Delta. 



Drti>en's Poems. — I lately purchased a small 

 quarto volume containing some early editions of 

 Dryden's separate poems, bound up together, and 

 lettered " Dryden's Works, Vol. I." It comprises 

 the following works : — 



1. A Poem upon the Death of his late Highness 

 Oliver, Lord Protector, &c. &c. "Written by Mr. Dry- 

 den. 1659, 



2. Annus Mirabilis. By John Dryden, Esq. 1688. 



3. Astraea Redux. By John Driden. 1688, 



4. On King Charles's Coronation. ' 1688. 

 •5. To my Lord Chancellor. 1688, 



6. Mac Flecknoe. No title-page or date. 



7. Absalom and Achitophel, a Poem, The seventh 

 edition, augmented and revised. 1692. 



8. The Medal. The third edition. 1692. 



9. Religio Laici. 1683. 



10. Threnodice Augvstalis. The second edition, 1685, 



11. The Hind and the Panther. The third edition. 

 1687. 



12. Britannia Rediviva. } t-;™!. „J!f;„„„o 1688. 



13. Eleonora. j First editions .' ^ggg. 



' I have not given the titles in full. 

 Sir Walter Scott, in his Life of Dryden, states 

 that the first edition of the Elegy upon Cromwell 

 (1659) "is extremely rare." Is this correct? 

 And are the other editions, or any of them, at all 

 valuable or curious ? I should suppose not, as I 

 gave only eighteenpence for the whole, I am 

 aware that only Nos. 1. 12. and 13, can be first 

 editions. Edward J. Sage, 



Windsor Registers. — In Windsor church, co. 

 Berks, is a monument bearing the subjoined in- 

 scription, but without date : — 



"In happie memorie of Edward Jobson and Elj'nor 

 his wyfe by whome the sayd Edward had issue vi sonnes 



vidz. Edward, Francis, Humfrie, James, William, Richard, 

 and iiij daughters, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Katherine, Sara." 



Above the inscription is a relievo of an altar, the 

 father in the attitude of prayer on one side, with 

 his five sons kneeling behind him in rotation. On 

 the other, the mother with her four daughters, 

 while at the foot of the altar is an infant swathed 

 up like a mummy. A coat of arms beneath is, 

 azure, three leopards' faces or, impaling, ermine, a 

 chevron gules. Can any of your readers give a 

 conjecture as to who Edward Jobson was ; when 

 he flourished, or the family name of his wife ? * I 

 fancy the tomb must be of the Elizabethan 

 period, or thereabouts. 



While mentioning Windsor, I may be permitted 

 to hint that the registers, which are In tolerable 

 preservation, laconically record the burial of 

 King Charles the First thus, under the date, 

 " King Charles In y" Castle." The registers con- 

 tain also several entries of a family of the name 

 of Milton, as we know they were in Berks. Might 

 not these be available to throw a light upon the 

 family of England's sublimest poet ? 



Abracadabra. 



Sugar. — I read In the Edinburgh Review that 

 In several provinces of France sugar is unknown. 

 Can any of your readers point out what influence 

 this has on the health of the Inhabitants, and if 

 they are exempted from any maladies to which 

 we sugar consumers are liable ? T. 



Red-hot Guns. — The following curious cutting 

 may be found worth a corner In " N. & Q.," and 

 obtain by that means some farther information as 

 to the truth or otherwise of the Doctor's state- 

 ments : — 



" At p. 262. of Dr. John M'CuUoch's Essay on Malaria^ 

 a work of authority and much value, published in 1827 

 by Longman and Co. of London, is the following passage i 

 ' That guns which had been reposing for a century at the 

 bottom of a deep sea, were red-hot when brought up to 

 the light of day, was as little believed and as much ridi- 

 culed as the limitations of the malaria in this case will 

 probably be by the sceptics in question. Yet the inves- 

 tigations of the same credulous person proved its truths 

 and added a new and interesting fact to chemical science.*^ 



" Of the curious matter alleged so positively but ob- 

 scurely in the foregoing quotation, he nowhere else in his 

 work offers either detail, or proof, or explanation ; and 

 yet from his character and position he was not a man to 

 make a gratuitous mistatement. If what he has so 

 enigmatically asserted is indeed a fact, it will well de- 

 serve to be added to the number of ' The Hot Contra- 

 dictions.' " 



T. S. L. 



Oxford Authors. — The two followmg dra- 

 matic authors are noticed in Wood's Athenoe 



* Two daughters bearing the same baptismal appella- 

 tion are recorded, who, to judge from the effigy, were both 

 living at the same period. I have met with this occur- 

 rence in old pedigrees sometimes ; a predilection to per- 

 petuate some family name may have been the cause, but 

 it must invariably crfeate confusion. 



