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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 18G0. 



No. 258.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Dean Smedloy, 441— His^hwaymeii, temp. Charles 

 I., 442 — College Life at Oxford, One Hundred and Thirty 

 Years ago, 443 — HiU Formation at Idle, 445— French 

 Testament of 1662, J6.— Curious Remains in Norwich, 

 416. 



MiNOE Notes: —Lord Brongliam the Discoverer of Pho- 

 tofrraphy — Bachaumont's M6moires Secrets, Londres, 

 1778: Anecdote Biography — Alliterative Inscriptions — 

 The Origin of Species — Anecdote of Di-. Johnson — Zinke 

 and the Prince of Wales— " Fire away, Flanagan," 446. 



QUERIES: — The Jacobites — Sclater Bacon's Diary — 

 Newnham Family— Commissioners for the Propagation of 

 the Gospel in Wales — Jackson, Arms and Pedigree of — 

 Brazil — Admiral Sir Thomas Dilkes — Charles Wesley — 

 Foreign Names of Playing-Cards — Witty Renderings — 

 West Indian Engineers — Turkish Baths in London — 

 Barret of Essex — Ben Jonson's Grave: Sir T. Vaughan's 

 Monument— Praed's Verses ascribed to Mother Shipton 

 —Oxford Honorary Degrees — Woollett's Monument — 

 " History of Jamaica," 448. 



QxTEEiES WITH Answees : — Cave Underhill — Pius IX. 

 — " Killing no Murder " —Apocrypha, 451. 



REPLIES : — Fees for Baptism. 452— Blank Verse, lb.— 

 " The Causidicade," 453 — Ale and Beer : Origin of Porter, 

 J6. — Colchicum autumnale — Savoy and Saxe-Cobourg 

 (Jotha- Canadian Song — Rev. John Hutton, B.D., Vicar 

 of Burton, &c. — Kendrick Family — Baptismal Names — 

 Allusion to Habakkuk — Cardonnel and the Duke of Mon- 

 mouth — Inscription — Pencil Writing — Clever — Sawney 

 Bean — Ebenezer Picken— Wit —Pun — Unintentional 

 Puns — Witty Classical Quotations — Beaus6ant — Irish 

 Bishops Translated to England —Yellow-hammer — Order 

 for the Burial of the Dead — Ride v. Drive — Poems by 

 Burns and Lockhart — Vicar and Curate — Quotations 

 Wanted, &c., 454. 



DEAN SMEDLEY. 



Dean Smedley, the " other Jonathan," as this 

 opponent of Dean Swift was sometimes designated, 

 has twice formed the subject of a Query in "N. & 

 Q." (P' S. X. 423.; xi. 65.), but without eliciting 

 any replies. The Querist (the late Right Hon. 

 J. Wilson Croker) mentioned that the Dean of 

 Clogher and Ferns is stated (see Scott's Swift, 

 xiv. 436.) to have gone to India — Fort St. 

 George — in 1728, leaving behind a kind of epi- 

 taph on himself in Latin, of which the most pro- 

 minent passage was that he prides himself on 

 "being the first who ventured to say " Patres sunt 

 VetilcB." 



Dean Smedley, like the " other Dean," was no 

 feeble satirist, as the following lines written by 

 him in 1713, and affixed to the doors of St. Pa- 

 trick's cathedral on the morning of Swift's instal- 

 lation as Dean, sufficiently testify : — 



" To-day this temple gets a Dean 

 Of parts and fame uncommon, 

 Us'd both to pray and to propharic, 

 To serve both God and Mammon. 



•• When Wharton reign'd a Whig he was : 

 When Pembroke — that's dispute, Sir; 

 In Oxford's time, what Oxford pleased, 

 Non-con, or Jack, or Neuter. 



" This place he got by wit and rhime. 

 And many waj's most odd. 

 And might a Bishop be in time. 

 Did he believe in God. 



" Look down, St. Patrick, look, we pray, 

 On thine own church and steeple ; 

 Convert thy Dean on this great day, 

 Or else God help the people ! 



" And now, whene'er his Deanship dies. 

 Upon his stone be graven, 

 A man of God here buried lies. 

 Who never thought of heaven ! " 



Smedley's opposition to Swift earned for him, as 

 is well known, a niche in The Dunciad : in the later 

 editions of which he takes a place originally as- 

 signed to Eusden : — 



" Now Smedley dived ; slow circles dimpled o'er 

 The quaking mud, that closed, and oped no more. 

 All look, all sigh, all call on Smedley lost ; 

 Smedley in vain, resovmds through all the coast." 

 Book II. 11. 291-4, 



And in a note Pope tells us, among other things, 

 that "the person here mentioned, an Irishman, 

 was author and publisher of many scurrilous 

 pieces, a weekly Whitehall Journal* in the year 

 1722 in the name of Sir James Baker, and par- 

 ticularly whole volumes of Billingsgate against 

 Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope, called Gulliveriana and 

 Alexandriana, printed in octavo, 1728." 



And now to the more immediate object of the 

 present Note, which is not only to ask for farther 

 information respecting Dean Smedley (of whom 

 so very little appears to be known), but to invite 

 attention to the following letter, which is found 

 among Dr. Birch's Correspondence in the British 

 Museum (Add. MS. 4318.). It is undated, but is 

 placed among those written in 1728. 



" Monday Morning. 

 " Dear Sir, 



" I shall be impatient till I receive the letter 

 for the Journal, which is in Wilkins's hands. The 

 best way to make money of The Booksellers'" Opera 



is to go to C 11 himself, and give him share of 



the profit, but to let him swear and say he knows 

 nothing of it. However, write it out, and send 

 my copy in a penny-post letter. 

 " I am, 



" Your most humble Servant, 



" Jonathan Smedley. 



" P. S. Show this to Mr. Roberts, and desire 

 him to give you half a dozen specimens to dispose 

 of as you please." 



Can any reader of " N". & Q." state whether The 

 Booksellers' Opera was ever published, or refer 

 me to any allusion to such work in the literature 

 of that day ? 



It is very probable that the specimens which 



* This was probably Baker's News, or The Whitehall 

 Journal, to be continued weekly, printed by John Baker 

 by Mercer's Chapel, of which, according to Timperley, the 

 first number was published 24th May, 1722. 



