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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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woald now ask if any curious reader has the 

 English edition of the book printed hj Miles 

 FlesJier, and will give me a collation of it ? for, 

 besides wanting all between the 8th stanzas of the 

 duet between Masters Johnson and Withers, and to 

 the verse of the Beggar's Song beginning 

 " I pay for what I call for," 



mine does not answer to the 2nd edit. (1620) de- 

 scribed in the Bib. Anglo- Poetica. 



The " Song of the Beggar," in this little bopk, 

 is a very characteristic production ; and barring 

 the privilege he had of a pillar in Pauls, would 

 answer as a faithful picture of the tricky profes- 

 sional of the day ; but I suppose it is well known, 

 although upwards of an hour's search in the Brit. 

 Museum to-day satisfies me that the work in 

 which it is found is not to be met with there. 



Alexander Gabdyne. 



Akmorial (2"* S. ix. 484.; x. 38. 139.) —I 

 have to thank R. J. F. and Mb. Taylor for their 

 notices of my inquiry. Burke's Armoury is erro- 

 neous in assigning "arg. a chev. engr. betw. 3 

 crosses croslet fitchee sable" to Cooke of Darfield. 

 The arms of that family are the same as those 

 borne by the baronetical family of Cooke of Wheat- 

 ley, of%hich the former is a known branch. The 

 arms I inquired about appear on a book-plate of 

 one " John Cooke, Esq.," whom I take to be the 

 son of Henry Cooke, of Newark (by Charlotte 

 d. and c. of Dr. Darwin of Gainsborough), 3rd 

 son of John Cooke, of Doncaster (by Margaret, 

 d. of Rev. Francis Moseley, rector of Rolleston, 

 Notts). The arras of Moseley, viz. sable, a chev. 

 betw. 3 battle-axes arg., form one of the quarter- 

 ings ; the others I cannot appropriate. The names 

 suggested, in reply to my inquiry, do not seem to 

 clear up the matter so far. C. J. 



The To web Ghost (2°^ S. x. 145. 192. 236.)— 

 Is Colonel Swifte aware of the publication made 

 by Dr. Wm. Gregory in his Letters . . . on Animal 

 Magnetism, London, 1851, p. 494., &c.? There are 

 circumstances mentioned in this account, certainly 

 not obtained directly from Col. S. (as lie is called) 

 on which I think it very desirable, after his full 

 account, that his comment should be made. Such 

 are — the court-martial held on the soldier — his 

 acquittal by means of Colonel Swifte's evidence 

 that he was not asleep, but had been singing a 

 minute or two before the occurrence — the declar- 

 ation of the sergeant that such appearances were 

 not uncommon, &c. I should suppose that all 

 this is the additional snow which the ball has got 

 by rolling. A. De Morgan. 



WrrTON (2"'' S. x. 68. 119.) — The Rev. John 

 Hodgson, in describing the village of Nether- 

 witton, in the county of Northumberland, states — 



" That in the time of Edward II. it is written Wudton, 

 that is, Wood town, which I think gives the etymon of 



the name : for the village is seated on the banks of the 

 Font and the Ewesley burn, where these two streams 

 meet, and are still shaded with alder and other river- 

 side trees that spring up spontaneously. Indeed, this 

 place stands in pride of wood and water, and the 

 ground around it is, in the phrase of a villager here, who 

 described it to me, ' quite wood proud.' The woods of 

 Witton are of ancient celebritj'. In the time of Henry 

 VIII. the lord of Witton appointed a forester to his 

 woods. The valley of Netherwitton to this day is in 

 retirement and extent of woods the most unique "part of 

 Northumberland." 



The reverend- gentleman was especially happy 

 in his description of the scenery of this county. 

 He descants with equal eloquence upon the beau- 

 ties of a barren hill side and a fertile vale ; even a 

 tree of more than ordinary size does not escape 

 his observation. 



The scenery of a district is too often overlooked 

 by our county historians, the description of which 

 imparts an agreeable variation from a dull suc- 

 cession of genealogical details. 



Edward Thompson. 



Xewcastle-on-Tyne. 



I think it is Mr. Keightley who happily sur- 

 mises that if Ascanius had built his city of Alba 

 Longa on the great North road, instead of on the 

 classic Via Latina, its name would in that case 

 have been, the omen notwithstanding. Long Wit- 

 ton. Wm. Matthews. 



Cowgill. 



Joseph D. (2""* S. x.' 229.) — This is n% other 

 than Joseph Cottle. I believe that during his life- 

 time Lamb, out of consideration to the good old 

 man's feelings, alluded to him as D., or Joseph D., 

 whenever his poems were the topic of discourse. 



Clammild. 



Athenseum Club. 



"North Sea" (2«d S. x. 147.) — E. G. R. 

 could best obtain the information he seeks from 

 the hydrographer at the Admiralty, relative to the 

 tnonograph of the North Sea. The writer served 

 in the " Fairy," and recollects that her talented 

 and lamented captain was engaged in laying down 

 the specimens of the bottom of the North Sea 

 (obtained by soundings) in a large loft, or room, in 

 the Victualling Yard at Deptford. Each "speci- 

 men-sounding," showing the quality of the bottom, 

 was an inch square, and was placed in its exact 

 geographical position on a map, or chart, drawn on 

 the floor of the loft, upon a scale sufficiently large 

 to admit of the many thousands of " specimen- 

 soundings" being laid down, which Captain Hewett 

 had collected in the course of his professional ser- 

 vices in the North Sea. When completed, this 

 work would have formed a tesselated representa- 

 tion of the bottom of the North Sea. It was far 

 from complete when the writer saw it last in 1837, 

 and he does not know whether it was ever finished. 



J. S.E. 



