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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[and S. X. Dec. 22. "eO. 



Some of his contemporaries, however, were not satisfied 

 with this defence of his orthodoxy. Hence we find Charles 

 Leslie replied in the following work: The Charge of So- 

 cinianism against Dr. TiVotson Considered, in Lxamina- 

 tion of some Sermons he has lately published on purpose 

 to clear himself from that imputation, 4to., Lond., 1695. 

 Dr. Hickes, speaking of this work, saj's : " In it will be 

 found that Dr. Tillotson's vindication of himself is but a 

 shuffling vindication, which hath much of Arian cunning 

 and reserve in it." — Some Discourses upon Dr. Burnet 

 and Dr. Tilhtson, §-c., p. 54., 1795, 4to.] 



Cecil's " Mbmoiks." — Who was the author of 

 Memoirs of the Life and Administration of William 

 Cecil, Baron Burleigh, Sfo. : including a parallel 

 between the state of government then and now, 

 with Preface and Appendix of original papers, 

 small 8vo. ? This book is dedicated to the " Right 

 Honourable Edward Walpole, Esq., Secretary to 

 bis Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland," &c., and is signed " R. C." It 

 • was printed at London, " for the author," 1738. 



J. M. 

 [The compiler of this work was Raphael Courteville, 

 Jan., " Organ-blower, Essayist, and Historiographer," as 

 he is styled in the Westminster Journal of Dec. 4, 1742. 

 He was the reputed author of The Gazetteer, a paper 

 written in defence of the administration of Sir Robert 

 Walpole, and by the writers on the side of the opposition 

 stigmatised with the name of the Court-Evil. Courte- 

 ville is also the author of a pamphlet. Arguments respect- 

 ing Insolvency, 8vo., 1761. He was married on Sept. 14, 

 1735, to Miss Lucy Green, who brought him a fortune of 

 25,000Z.] 



" Pitch defileth," etc. — ^' Where can I find 

 the quotation running thus, or nearly so ? 

 " Can a man touch pitch, and not be defiled ? " 



G. M. 



[In Ecclesiasticus, xiii. 1. : 

 shall be defiled therewith."] 



' He that toucheth pitch, 



T^e^liti* 



" THE CAUSIDICADE." 

 (2°'» S. X. 412. 453.) 



In compliance with your suggestion I send you 

 the following Notes ; but as there are no less than 

 thirty-four lawyers who are quizzed in this amus- 

 ing satire, I shall confine myself (that I may not 

 unnecessarily try the patience of your readers) to 

 those characters who are better known to the 

 world as then existing or future Judges ; of the 

 former of whom there are five, and of the latter 

 seven. 



The principal of the first of these classes is of 

 course the President of the supposed Court, the 

 Lord Chancellor, Lord Hardwicke, whom the au- 

 thor calls 



" The son of Good-Luck, 



Whom Fortune wrapt early up close in her Smock ;" 



and gives us some idea of his person and manner 

 by speaking of " his Lilly-white Hands," and de- 

 scribing him thus : — 



" So handsome he look'd, thus equipt, on the Bench, 

 You'd have sworn 'twas Lord Fanny *, or -some pretty 



Wench. 

 He open'd the Cause why they met, with a Voice 

 So wond'rously sweet and peculiarly choice, 

 That charming himself, he quite charm'd all the Bar." 



The author's opinion of the Chancellor may be 

 seen by the following sly hits. He makes him 

 say: — 



" The man, he declared, whose pretensions were best, 

 Shou'd enjoy the Inquisitor's Office and Vest ; 

 And, not to discourage th' (Jnlearn'd or the Dunce, 

 He said he'd been honour'd himself vfith them once." 



An insinuation which is reiterated in the speech 

 of one of the candidates : — 



" The man who presides in fair Equity's Seat, 

 Unread in Law Civil, can ne'er be compleat : 

 One only excepted, for all must concede 

 He was born to preside, so 'twas needless to read." 



By-the-bye, the Chaucellor is described as dain- 

 tily wielding 



" A nosegay, compos'd of the flow'rs of the fields. 

 And eke of the gardens." 



I know not whether this custom is continued, 

 but it was in full operation during the first quar- 

 ter of the present century. 



The second of the existing Judges, who is 

 sketched by the author's satirical pen, is Sir 

 Thomas Parker, who from being a Baron of the 

 Exchequer, and afterwards a Judge of the Com- 

 mon Pleas, had been in the previous May (1742) 

 promoted to be the Chief of the former Court. 

 Him, whom he specially despises, he describes as 



," . . . . The Dunce P - - r, at last made Ch - - B - - - n, 

 Your fav'rite, my Lord ; indeed a most rare one ! 

 A name once detested in the eye of the law, 

 But your Lordship is grateful." 



What fact is implied in the last allusion I do 

 not know ; but the author afterwards sums up his 

 character thus : — ■ 



" But he who can bend 

 Like a Reed, or T — m P r, ne'er wants a good friend." 



Of the third Judge, Sir John Willea, he only 

 notices a personal peculiarity : — 



" When strait a weak voice was heard crj'ing out, 

 Like some poor old woman's pent up in a butt ; 



All took it for granted 'twas Ch J — st — ce W— — , 



But who should it be but my good Master M — Us?" 



Sir John had presided in the Common Pleas since 

 January, 1737, and was evidently a favourite. 



The two other existing Judges, Sir William For- 

 tescue, the Master of the Rolls, and Sir Thomas 

 Abney, a Baron of the Exchequer, then about to 

 be transferred to the Court of Common Pleas, he 

 demolishes with the mere adjectives - — " Goody 

 F — t — sc-e," and " the contemptible A . ' .«,. ." 



Of the barristers whose elevation to the Bench 

 was yet in the unopened pages of the Book of 



* This was Lord Hervey, son of the Bari of Bristol, j 



