2°^ S. X. Nov. 24. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES, 



407 



into a boat belonging to the " Thunder " Bomb. 

 Here, however, he was not so fortunate as in his 

 escape from the "Ajax :" his leg was so shattered 

 that immediate amputation was unavoidable ; his 

 collar bone broken, and his whole frame so se- 

 verely injured that he was for some time deprived 

 of sight. The Gazette reported him as ^^ since 

 dead of his wounds.^' 



The same officer subsequently commanded the 

 " St. Christopher" at the reduction of Guadaloupe, 

 and returned to England in the "Asp" in 1810. 



Capt. Rowe, who claimed descent from the poet, 

 was himself the author of a poetical work enti- 

 tled Sacred Beauties. Royalist. 



^tierieiS. 



MR. DAVID CULY. 



I shall be mdch obliged to any reader or cor- 

 respondent of " N. & Q." who will furnish me 

 with some information respecting Mr. David Culy, 

 who was a Nonconformist preacher at Guyhirn, 

 near Wisbeach, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridge- 

 shire, about a century and a half ago. A small 

 volume of his Works was published in 12mo. in 

 1787 *, by C. Preston, of Boston, Lincolnshire. 

 This book has become so scarce, that one of the 

 most experienced bibliopolists in London states 

 he never saw any copy of it except the one in my 

 possession. The book was sent to press by Mr. 

 Culy's friends many years after his death, which 

 occurred betweeu 1720 and 1730. The greater 

 part of the edition was unsold, and on Mr. Pres- 

 ton's hands at the time of his death (between 

 1790 and 1795), when it was used as waste paper. 



Mr. Bentham, in his History of Ely ^ says : — 



" Culy was a native of Guyliirn, where he lived about 

 the time of the Revolution in 1688," and that " he 

 established there a religious sect; most of the inhabit- 

 ants of the place becoming his followers." ..." These 

 people were called CuUmites, frorii the name of their 

 founder." . . . . " Many persons from Whittlesey, Wis- 

 beach, Outwell, and Upwell adopted his tenets, until his 

 flock was increased to 700 or 800." 



After Culy's death his followers very rapidly 

 diminished, until, in 1755, when a census of the 

 dissenters within the diocese of Ely was taken by 

 order of the bishop, not more than fifteen families 

 of this sect were then returned, all of whom re- 

 sided in Guyhirn and Wisbeach. 



" David Culy," saj's Mr. Bentham, " was held in such 

 esteem by his followers, that he was called ' the Bishop 

 of Guyhirn." ..." His doctrine differed very little, 1 

 believe, from that of the Anabaptists, to which sect, 1 

 have been told, he originally belonged." 



The volume of Culy's Works before me is di- 

 vided into three portions ; the first of which con- 



* [First published io 1726.] 



sists of a rhapsodical dissertation, called " The 

 Glory of the Two Crowned Heads, Adam and 

 Christ." It exhibits much earnestness and zeal, 

 and a great deal of intolerance, and displays con- 

 siderable talent. The second portion of the volume 

 consists of his Correspondence " with several 

 ministers of various persuasions," and shows that 

 both parties were masters of the vulgar tongue. 

 The third part of the volume contains " Forty- 

 two Hymns, composed on weighty Subjects." 

 Some of them evince considerable poetical feeling, 

 and a flow of easy and smooth versification. 



These are all the particulars I can collect re- 

 specting David Culy. I am anxious to learn 

 more. Care must be taken not to blend the 

 CuUmites with the Kilhamites, as the New Con- 

 nexion Methodists are, or were, sometimes called, 

 from their principal head and founder, Alexander 

 Kilham. 



The Culimites were well known in Lincolnshire, 

 and must have been, at one time, very numerous 

 there, since, even at the present day, the name is 

 very frequently applied to all dissenters. 



Whilst inquiring about one of the minor 

 " Worthies of Lincolnshire," I will hazard a 

 question concerning another. Who was Eliza- 

 beth Teft, of Lincoln, who in 1747 published a 

 thin 8vo. volume of poems under the fanciful 

 title of Orinthia's Miscellanies ? The work has 

 very little merit ; but the poetical faculty has 

 been so rarely exhibited in the county of Lincoln, 

 that we cannot afford to allow any portion of it, 

 however small, to be neglected and unknown. 



PisHEY Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



SILVER PLATE — THE MONTETH. 



As my inquiries respecting College Pots and 

 Maudlen Cups have been admitted into these 

 pages, I am encouraged to make some remarks 

 upon the vessel called a Monteth. I am aware 

 that this has already formed the subject of some 

 correspondence in the First Series of " N. & Q." 

 (ix. 452. 599 ; xi. 374), but I think the inquiry 

 may be pursued to a more satisfactory result. 



In Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, from the earliest 

 edition (in folio, 1755,) down to the quarto edition 

 in four vols. 1818, and Webster's English- Ame- 

 rican Dictionary, 1828, a Monteth is explained as 

 "a vessel in which glasses are washed," and is 

 exemplified by this couplet — 



" New things produce new words, and thus Monteth 

 Has by one vessel sav'd his name from death." 



" King." 



But this oft-repeated explanation of Dr. John- 

 son is not so good as that of his predecessor N. 

 Bailey, who defines a Monteth as " a scalloped 

 basin to cool glasses in ;" or so complete as that of 

 Dr. Ash (in 1775), who says that it was used both 



