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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. J8G0, 



N*. 246.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES:— Stray Notes on Edmund Curll, hia Life, and 

 Publications, 201 — Dr. Bliss's Selections from the Old 

 Poets, 204 — Oliver Goldsmith, 200 — Mention of Painting 

 in the Old Testament, 207. 



Minor Notes : — Prevention of Rain — The Duke of Wel- 

 lington and Ireland— Garibaldi a Canadian — Bracton, a 

 Judge of the Common Pleas —Wit, 207. 



QUERIES : — Cranmer's Correspondence with Osiander, 208 



— The American Standard : Henry Laurens, &e. — Pedi- 



free of Evans of Loddlngton, Co. Northampton —Pabian 

 'hillips, Esq., of the Inner Temple—" Le Bureau d'Esprit " 



— Richard Woodward, Bishop of Cloyne — Yepsond, Deri- 

 vation of— John a, Lasco : Cranmer — Alphabet of Arms — 

 Family of Gary, Co. Devon — Volow=to baptize — Kilpir- 

 nie — Execution of Lord Kilmarnock — Margaret Vaughan 



— St. Paul's School, Number of its Scholars — Missing 

 Scriptures, 211. 



Queries with Ans'wees:— Old Restoration Song — The 

 tvfo Sides of a River — Snoring of Owls, 212. 



REPLIES : — Bishop Hickes v. Archbishop Leighton, 213 — 

 "Tooth and Egg" Metal, 214 — Marat, lb. — Derivation of 

 Artillery, 215 — Jacobite Honours : Lord Caryll, lb. — Rev. 

 P. Rosenhagen — Beattie the Poet — The Maori Language 



— Per Cent — Dedications to the Deity — Bible by Barker 

 dated 1495— Family of ap Rhys— The Rommany or Gypsies 



— American Rivers — The Four Georges : George II.— Sir 

 Dudley Djggs — Longevity — Windsor Registers — BuflP — 

 Confessions in Verse — Country Tavern Signs — Oxford 

 Authors — Witty Classical Quotations — " The Cloak 

 Knavery " — Magnetic Declination — Political Poem by 

 Cavming — Hereditary Alias — Baronetage of James I,, &c., 

 216. 



STRAY NOTES ON EDMUND CURLL, HIS LIFE, 



AND PUBLICATIONS. 



No. 11. — Curll before the House of Lords for 



publishing Pope^s Letters. 



The year 1735 saw Curll once more summoned 

 before the House of Lords, and that at the insti- 

 gation of Pope. But although Pope took this 

 step for the avowed purpose of annoying Curll, 

 there can be little doubt that it was only a part 

 of Pope's grand scheme of mystification for the 

 purpose of inducing the world to believe that the 

 publication of an authentic edition of his Corre- 

 spondence was a step which he was compelled to 

 take.* 



The " True !N'arrative of the Method by which 

 Mr. Pope's Letters have been published," — as 

 Pope's account of the transaction is called — albeit 

 the epithet " True " is sadly misapplied to it, is so 

 familiar to the readers of Pope, being reprinted in 

 all the collected editions of his Works, that it is 



[* This article has been in tj'pe for many months. Its 

 appearance at the present moment may serve to illustrate 

 the very interesting " Search into the History of the 

 Publication of Pope's Letters,"' now appearing in The 

 AthencBum, and which unquestionably clears away most 

 thoroughly the mj'stery with which the ingenuity of 

 Pope had contrived to envelope the facts connected with 

 the publication of his Correspondence. — Ed. " N. & 

 Q."l 



unnecessary to occupy the pages of "N. & Q." with 

 a recapitulation of the facts set forth in it. 



But it may be of interest to the readers of " N", 

 & Q.," and of value to future editors of Pope, to 

 put on record (which it is believed has never yet 

 been done) a correct report of what took place 

 in the House of Lords, undoubtedly at Pope's sug- 

 gestion, and on the application of Lord Islay. 



On the 12th May, 1735, Curll advertised'in the 

 Daily Post Boy the publication on that day of 

 Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence, and on the 

 Lords Jourruds of that very same day we find the 

 following entry : — . 



"Die Lunffi, 12° Maij, 1735. 



" Books Printed for Curll to be seized. — Notice was 

 taken to the House of an Adv^ertisement printed in the 

 Newspaper intituled, The Daily Post Boy, Monday, May 

 12, 1735, in these words, (videlicet) : 



" ' This day are published, and most beautifully 

 printed, price 5s., Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence 

 for Thirty Years, from 1704 to 1734, being a collection 

 of Letters, regularly digested, written bj' him to the 

 Right Honourable the late Earl of Halifax, Earl of 

 Burlington, Secretary Craggs, Sir William Trumbull, 

 Hon. J. C, General * * * *^ Hon. Robert Digby, Esquire, 

 Hon. Edward Blount, Esquire, Mr. Addison, Mr. Con- 

 greve, Mr. Wycherley, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Steele, Mr. Gay, 

 Mr. Jarvas, Dr. Arbuthnot, Dean Berkeley, Dean Par- 

 nelle, &c. Also Letters from Mr. Pope to Mrs. Arabella 

 Fermor, and many other Ladies. With the respective 

 answers of each Correspondent. Printed for E. Curll in 

 Rose Street, Covent Garden ; and sold by all Booksellers. 



" ' N.B. The original manuscripts (of which affidavit 

 is made) may be seen at Mr, Curil's House, by all who 

 desire it.' 



"And the said Advertisement being read by the 

 Clerk : 



" Ordered, That the Gentleman Usher of the Black 

 Rod attending this House, do forthwith seize or cause to 

 be seized the impression of the said Book ; and that the 

 said E. Curll, together with J. Wilford, at The Three 

 Flowers de Luces behind the Chapter House near St. 

 Paul's, for whom the said News Paper is said to be 

 Printed, do attend this House Tomorrow." 



The books were duly seized, and on the follow- 

 ing day Curll and Wilford appeared at the Bar. 

 The proceedings are thus recorded in the Lord£ 

 Journals : — 



"Die Martis, 13° Maij, 1735. 



" Curll and Wilford, Sfc, examined. — The Order made 

 Yesterday, upon the Complaint of a Printed Advertise- 

 ment in the News Paper, intituled the Daily Post Boy, 

 giving notice ' That there was that day published, Mr. 

 Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years,' being 

 read. 



" Mr. Wilford, for whom ike said News Paper is men- 

 tioned to be printed, attending (according to Order), was 

 called in, and examined as to his being the Printer or 

 Publisher thereof. 



" Also a servant of Mr. Redmaine, the Printer of the 

 said News Paper, was examined, in relation to the said 

 Advertisement. 



" Then Mr. Curll was called in, and likewise examined 

 touching the same advertisement, as also the contents of 

 the Book advertised ; and concerning a note in the said 

 Book, mentioning something of letters that would be in- 

 serted in a Second Volume. 



" And then he was directed to withdraw. 



