Sod s, X. Dec. 22. '60.] 



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me to ■whom Moorfields belonged about the time 

 of Cromwell ? Any information on the subject, 

 especially as to whether it was ever the property 

 of a gentleman named Smith, a captain of horse 

 in the Protector's army, and who settled in a 

 town in the south of Ireland, would be thankfully 

 received by A. B. 



The Gipsy Language. — As I am preparing a 

 vocabulary of the English dialect of the gipsy 

 language, I shall be very jnuch obliged for any 

 help from readers of "N. & Q." I have already 

 collected several hundred words from gipsies in 

 the south of England, but a great many more 

 might be obtained. A. Gorgio. 



Balsham, Cambridgeshire. 



Oxford Statutes. — Many years ago I re- 

 member, as a nervous and overscrupulous under- 

 graduate at Oxford, to have received much 

 satisfaction and comfort from meeting with, at 

 the end of the Statute Book, an " Epinomis," or 

 explanatory appendix, in which the measures of 

 obedience to be rendered to that venerable, but 

 somewhat miscellaneous and perplexing code, were 

 propounded in a masterly and convincing manner. 



Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me, 1. 

 When this valuable addition was made ? and, 2. 

 By whom it was composed ? JMy suspicions point 

 to that admirable casuist Bishop Sanderson ; and 

 I should be glad to trace it to one to whom Ox- 

 ford is on other similar scores so much indebted. 

 I allude particularly to his Judicium Universitatis 

 Oxoniensis^ &c., which ought to be familiar to 

 every Oxford man. I am glad to see that the 

 " Epinomis " is retained in the new edition of the 

 Statutes. F. K. 



Captain ScHUYiiEE. — Information is requested 

 of a Captain Schuyler, who came over with Wil- 

 liam III., in whose invading army he was an 

 officer of cavalry. His crest (it is believed) was 

 a ship in full sail. B. 



Bibliomaniacs. — Who was the author of the 

 Dialogue in the Shades, and of Rare Doings at 

 Roxburghe Hall, which form an Appendix to 

 Clarke's Repertorium Bibliographicum (London, 

 1819, 8vo.), and who are the two bibliomaniacs 

 whose portraits are given in the vignette of the 

 first of those pieces ? C. 



Sydney. — After whom is the colony of Sydney, 

 in New South Wales, so named ? And what was 

 that person's Christian name? H. E. W. 



[Sydney was so named by its founder, Governor Phil- 

 lips, in 1788, out of compliment to Thomas, Lord Sydnej', 

 then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; and who was 

 created Viscount Sydney in 1789.] 



MuNDEN, THE CoMEDiAN. — A person who is 

 much interested in the life of the late Joseph 

 Munden, Esq., the celebrated comedian, would be 

 glad to learn particulars of his last years, and 

 when he died, and where ? This link is wanting 

 in a biographical sketch which it is wished to 

 complete. L. R. 



[Our correspondent does not seem to be acquainted 

 with the Memoirs of Joseph Shepherd Munden, Comedian, 

 by his Son, 8vo., 1844, where he will find authentic par- 

 ticulars of his latter davs. About the end of Jan. 1832, 

 this popular actor sufiered under a derangement of the 

 bowels, but his malady baffled the eminent skill of Dr. 

 Roots and Dr. Bright. He sank beneath a gradual decay 

 of nature at his house in Bernard Street, Russell Square, on 

 the 6th of February following, and was buried in the vaults 

 of St. George's, Bloomsbury. Most of the periodicals and 

 newspapers of that date contain a notice of him. Mun- 

 deu's valedictum was thus pronounced by the most face- 

 tious writer of the age, in an ode to Joe Grimaldi : — 



" And may be, 'tis no time to smother 



Our griefs, when two prime wags of London 

 Are gone : thou Joseph, one ; the other 

 A Joe ! sic transit gloria Munden ! " 



There are portraits of Joseph S. Munden, by J. Opie, 

 engraved by S. W. Reynolds ; De Wilde ; Shee ; Wood, 

 (miniature) ; De Wilde, as " Autoljcus " ; Wageman, as 

 " Sir F. Gripe " ; G. Clint (with Knight, Miss Cubitt, and 

 Mrs. Orger, in a Scene from Lock and Key), engraved by 

 T. Lupton. Also an early print, full length and coloured, 

 but without inscription, as ".Jemmy Jumps."] 



Episcopal Experiments. — 



" They should remeinber that, before this, a cardinal's . 

 hat had been offered to an Anglican archbishop ; while 

 there was also a time when a Socinian prelate had sat on 

 the episcopal bench." — (" Mr. Disraeli upon Church-rates :" 

 Times, Dec. 8, 1860.) 



Who were thej ? S. F. Creswell, 



Tonbridge. 



[The cardinal's hat was offered to Laud, a few daj's 

 before his translation to Canterbury, as we learn from his 

 own Diary : — " Aug. 4, 1633. That very morning, at 

 Greenwich, there came one to me, seriously, and that 

 avowed ability to perform it, and offered me to be a Car- 

 dinal : I went presently to the King, and acquainted him 

 both with the thing and the person." Again : " Aug. 17, 

 Saturday, I had a serious offer made me again to be a 

 Cardinal : I was then from Court, but so soon as I came 

 thither (which was Wednesday, Aug. 21,) I acquainted 

 his Majesty with it. But my answer again was, that 

 somewhat dwelt within me which would not suffer that, 

 till Rome were other than it is." We have also the tes- 

 timony of the pious John Evelj'n concerning the opinion 

 subsequentl}' had of the Arclibishop at Rome. In a let- 

 ter to Dr. Tenison, Bishop of Lincoln, Evelyn saj'S : " It 

 was ray hap to be at Rome in the company of divers of 

 the English fathers, when the news of the Archbishop's 

 sufferings, and the Sermon he made upon the scaffold, 

 arrived there ; which I well remember they read and 

 commented on, with no small satisfaction, and (as I 

 thought) contempt, as of one taken off who was an enemy 

 to them, and stood in their way : whilst one of the blackest 

 crimes imputed to him was his being popishly afiected." 



The Socinian prelate alluded to by Mr. D'Israeli is 

 probably Abp. Tillotson, as will be found on consulting 

 Dr. Birch's Life of that amiable prelate. The Archbishop 

 printed Four Sermons to clear himself of the charge. 



