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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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leaven, which is generally used on the Continent ? 

 The modern invention of aerated bread gives pe- 

 culiar interest to these Queries. A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



Family of Leighton. — As several communi- 

 cations have recently appeared respecting the 

 family of Leighton, I take the opportunity of 

 making the following inquiries : — 



1 . Where is any biographical notice to be found 

 of Sir Thomas Leighton, who, in 1591, was at the 

 siege of Rouen ? 



2. Am I correct in supposing that the name was 

 originally spelled Lay ton ? And if so, when and 

 by whom was the present mode of spelling first 

 adopted ? 



3. Did Sir Thomas Leighton leave any collec- 

 tion of MSS. ? And if he did, what is become"of 

 them ? 



4. How was Sir Thomas Leighton connected 

 with the Shropshire family of Wigmore ? 



5. Where is there to be found any genealogical 

 account of the Wigmore family ? P. S. C. 



Authorised Version. — Can you refer me to 

 any source for information respecting the Hebrew 

 and Greek MSS. or books used by the translators 

 of the Authorised Version of the Holy Scriptures ? 

 I want to know particularly what means the West- 

 minster Companies had of reference to original or 

 ancient MSS. George Lloyd. 



A Market Built without Money. — Can any 

 of your readers give any information about a 

 market being built at Guernsey without money ? 

 The Governor, as I understa,nd, issued market, 

 notes, as he called them ; with these he paid the 

 workmen employed, and when the market was 

 finished, these notes, when presented in payment 

 of rents of stalls in the market, were cancelled. 



If any Guernsey man can give his experience 

 of how this worked, it would be well. If it was 

 found unobjectionable in operation, it points to 

 a great revolution in money, finance, taxation, 

 and the employment of all seeking work and not 

 finding it. J. H. 



Charles Maetel. — Can the ancestry of Charles 

 Martel be traced, and where? Northants. 



Deere Family. — Wanted, the arms of Deere, 

 Glamorganshire, and of Maddocks in the same 

 county, date 1788. Y. Y. Y. 



Scottish Dramatic Authors. — Can any of 

 your readers give me any information regarding 

 the two following Scottish dramatic authors, nei- 

 ther of whom are noticed in the Biographia Dra- 

 matica ? — 



1. Thomas Nimmo, author of The Fatal Secret, 

 or Truth Disguised; a tragedy. Dundee, 1792. 

 The scene of the tragedy is Morocco. At the end 

 of the play there is a note by the author, in which 



he mentions his being about to publish a book 

 called " The Briton's glorious Effort for Liberty." 

 2. Logan Loveit, author of The Orphan of 

 China ; a tragedy, translated from Voltaire. Edin- 

 burgh, 1810. Published by subscription, and 

 dedicated to J. Hepburn of Sydserf, in Hadding- 

 tonshire. I think there is a translation of Tele- 

 machus by the same author. R. Inglis. 



Civil War Tract. — I have a tract or pam- 

 phlet of the year 1642, justifying the Parliament's 

 right to take up arms (then in contemplation 

 only), the title of which, on the outside page, 

 runs as follows : — 



" The Vindication of the Parliament, and their Pro- 

 ceedings, or their Military Designe proved Loj'all and 

 Legall. ' Pulchrum pro patriS, mori.' London, printed 

 in the yeare mdcxlii." 



Is the author of this pamphlet known ? R. W. 



[This tract is reprinted in TTie Harkian Miscellany, 

 viii. 47., edit. 1811, but without the author's name. The 

 editor has prefixed the following note: — "When King 

 Charles I. had, during the northern expeditions, issued 

 commissions of lieutenancy, and exerted some military 

 powers, which, having been long exercised, were thought 

 to belong to the Crown, it became a question in the Long 

 Parliament, how far the power of the militia did inhe- 

 rently reside in the King : being now unsupported by any 

 statute ; and founded onlj' upon immemorial usage. This 

 question, long agitated, with great heat and resentment 

 on both sides, became at length the immediate cause of 

 the fatal rupture between the King and his Parliament : 

 the two houses not only denying this prerogative of the 

 Crown (the legality of which perhaps might be some- 

 what doubtful), but also seizing into their own hands the 

 entire power of the militia, of the illegality of which 

 step (says Judge Blackstone, Comm. i. 412.) there never 

 could be any doubt at all. The design of this tract, how- 

 ever, is openly to vindicate the rationality at least, if not 

 the legalitj', of the measure. How far this is done must 

 be left to the judgment of the reader to determine."] 



Stratford- ON- A VON : IMiss Anne Clarke. — 



" On Avon's banks Subscription lingers long, 

 Commends my Muse, but pays not for her song ; 

 Her price reduced, usurped bookseller's trade. 

 Unlicensed sold, and praised but to degrade. 

 Oh, would great Shakspeare aid my injured Muse, 

 One raj' of his bright genius now infuse ; 

 A tale she'd paint — ' Subscription ' call its name, 

 And crown some wealthy wits with deathless fame ! " 

 Gent. Mag., July, 1814, p. 8. 



The lady complains that her subscribers at 

 Stratford do not pay their subscriptions ; also 

 that one of them, having received a copy of her 

 book, sold it again at a profit, without permission 

 from her. From these censures she excepts a 

 few, who had acted honestly and even liberally 

 by her. For the sake of these she adds, — 



" My Muse with gratitude records their aid, 

 And writes on memory's page ' Subscriptions paid.' 

 Anne Clarke." 



Who was Miss Anne Clarke, and what was her 



