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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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leaders in the rebellion. He goes on to say, " In 

 like manner as the King had done at Comprimbre, 

 he did at Canterbury, at Sandwich, and other 

 places in Kent." 



What town could this be ? It must have been 

 of importance as it had a mayor. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



" Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, 

 Esq.," ETC. — I have a small volume containing, 

 besides Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq., . 

 on the Present State of the Irish Stage, the follow- 

 ing : — 



1. " Tlieatrical Tears, a Poem, occasioned by ' Familiar 

 Epistles to Frederick J s, Esq.' Dublin, 1804." 



2. "An Answer to 'Familiar Epistles to Frederick 

 J-^s, Esq.' Dublin, 1804." 



3. " Tea-Table Conversation ; an Epistle to the Author 

 of ' Familiar Epistles.' Dublin, 1804." 



4. « A Few Reflections on ' Familiar Epistles to F 



J s, Esq.' Dublin, 1804." 



5. " A Modest Reply from F. J., Esq., to the Author of 

 ' Familiar Epistles, to the Manager.' Dublin, 1806." 



Can you oblige me with the names of the re- 

 spective authors of the foregoing publications ? 



Abhba. 



Wills. — Where would the original wills, or 

 copies of the wills, of the following persons be 

 likely to be preserved : — 



1. A landed proprietor in Lancashire, ob. 1710. 



2. A Perthshire clergyman, ob. 1770. 



3. A Kentish rector, ob. 1857; i.e. supposing 

 they left any wills ? 



Am I correct in supposing that all wills are re- 

 gistered in some public office ? What is the Com- 

 missary Court at Edinburgh ? What is the best 

 •work on the above subjects ? Sigma Theta. 



Farrendine. — In 1684 certain parties were 

 tried in the Court of King's Bench for a riot at 

 the election of Mayor at Nottingham. The cause 

 of the riot was the resistance to a new charter 

 which had been granted to that corporation. Mr. 

 Kippon, one of the Crown witnesses, deposed as 

 follows : — 



" I was fain to secure the charter ; and a farrendine 

 waistcoat that I had on was all rubbed to pieces to save 

 the charter, and I had much ado to save it." — Howell's 

 State Trials, x. 53. 



An explanation of farrendine is requested. 



C. H. Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



Bible bt Barker dated 1495. — A young 

 lady, Miss A. Rattenbury, has lately discovered, 

 and is now in possession of, an English Bible 

 Avhich professes to have been " Imprinted at Lon- 

 don by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Prin- 

 ter to the Queene's most excellent Maiestie," but 

 bears the date of 1495. 



Surely there must be a mistake in this figure ; 

 but a collation of tliis very curious Bible with the 



English bibles preserved at the British Museum 

 has led moreover to the result that the edition of 

 the former does not correspond with any of the 

 editions of the latter. At present it would seem, 

 therefore, that the copy in possession of Miss Rat- 

 tenbury is a unique copy. Could you kindly fur- 

 nish me some information concerning this Hterary 

 curiosity ? N. T. 



MS. or Hale's " Pleas of the Crown." — The 

 original MS. of Hale's " History of the Pleas of 

 the Crown " (in one large folio volume) is said by 

 Hargrave (in a note to the transcript in the Har- 

 grave collection) to have been bought by his 

 friend Mr. Henry Brown of Liverpool, at some 

 time after 1792 at a book-stall in Bell Yard. In- 

 formation as to who is the present possessor of 

 this volume would greatly oblige W. M. 



cauertcff tot'tib ^nixatxi. 



Naples founded on Eggs. — Mr. Buckle, in 

 his History of Civilisation in England, vol. i. p. 

 287., speaking of the corruptions of the historians 

 of the Middle Ages, tells us, — 



" It was well known that the citj' of Naples was founded 

 on eggs," and adds the following note : — " Mr. Wright 

 (^Narratives of Sorcery, 8vo., 1851, vol. i. p. 115.) says, 

 ' The foundation of the city of Naples upon eggs, and the 

 egg on which its fate depended, seem to have been le- 

 gends generally current in the Middle Ages;' and he 

 refers to Montfaucon, Monumens de la Man. Fr., vol. ii. 

 p. 329.," for proof, that by the statutes of the Order of the 

 Saint Esprit, ' a chapter of the knights was appointed to 

 be held annually in Castello ovi incantati in mirabili 

 periculo.' " 



As it would be interesting, ut the present mo- 

 ment, to know all we can respecting the Nea- 

 politan capital, perhaps some correspondent of 

 " N. & Q." may be able and willing further to 

 elucidate this subject. The legend, at least so 

 far as we learn above, does not inform us of what 

 species were the eggs. Doubtless they have long 

 since become addled. But although we may not 

 be able to discover the particular egg on which 

 the fate of Naples depends, I think I may (with-' 

 out any pretensions to being a prophet) predict 

 that the Bourbon yoke will, ere many days, be 

 overthrown by " Garibaldi." 



[The following extract from the story of " Virgilius " 

 reprinted in Thorns' Early Prose Romances, vol. ii. pp. 

 1 — 63., furnishes the legend in its most complete form : — 



" And Virgilius was sore enamored of that lady. (The 

 Sodan's dawghter.) Than he thought in his mynde howe 

 he myght mareye hjT, and thoughte in his mynde to 

 founde in the myddes of the sea a fayr towne with great 

 landes belongyng to it : and so he dyd by his cunnynge, 

 and called it Napells, and the fundacj'on of it was of 

 egges ; and in that towne of Napells he made a tower 

 with iiij corners, and in the toppe he set an apj'll upon a 

 yron yarde, and no man culde pull that apeJl without he 

 brake it ; and thorowghe that yron set he a hotel, and on 

 that hotel set he a egge ; and he henge the apell by the 



