2°<» S. X. Dec, 1. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1. 18C0. 



No. 257.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES:— "Drunken Barnabee's Journal," 421 — Date of 

 Contest for "the AVTiistle," 423 — Ancient Writings of 

 lona, lb. — Thomas Carey, " A Poet of Note," 424 — Stany- 

 hqrst's "Virgil," 423 — The Cholera in Ireland: "Holy 

 Ashes," Jb. 



Minor Notes : — Yankee Doodle — "Pro aris et focis" — 

 Orig:in of the Druses — Vicar and Cui"ate — Lord Chester- 

 field's Opinion of Music, 426. 



QUERIES: — Scorchats, Scrochats, Scrochettes — Lines to 

 S. Gosse — Barricades — Andrew Henderson — Quotation 

 Wanted — The La\7rences of Chelsea— "The Thunder 

 Ode" — Calderon's "Life's a Dream " — Sir Wm. Bartley 

 — Ogden, a IManchester Poet — Brede Lepe — Early MS. 

 discovered at Cambridge — A Cambridge Ceremony — Ar- 

 morial — Richard Rauthwell — Birds fly from Cholera — 

 Napoleon II. — Philhs Court, near Henley — Busby — 

 Bi-awu- Philip Stubbs, MA., 427. 



QuKEiES WITH Answees: — Sir Francis Hubert — Latin 

 Bible — John Fletcher, Poet — Sanskrit MSS. — Letter 

 to Preachers, 1548, 429. 



REPLIES : — Chancels. 430 — Trigueros, Writings of, 432 — 

 The Felbrigg Brass, lb. — Confession in Verse, 433 — 

 Hutchins Query — Kempenfelt Family — " Too wise to eiT, 

 too good to be unkind" — Mode of concluding Letters — 

 Furmety— Platty— College Pots— For Youngth is a Bub- 

 ble, &c. — Stoope-gallant Age— The Viscountess Fitzwilliam 

 — Blackstone's Portrait — Pavement — Canadian Song — Al- 

 leyne of Barbadoes — LordPenrhyn: Hodges — Hesiod v. 

 Milton — Goldeji Verses of the Pythagoreans — Cockpenny 

 — Portrait — Captain Rich — Asteroids — Arsenal — Para- 

 phernalia—Ancient Stained Glass from Cologne — Armo- 

 rial Bearings : Right to Quarter Arras — Meaning of 

 Ordinary — Nautical Heraldry — Merchant Adventurers, 

 433. 



Notes on Books. 



« DRUNKEN BAEXABEE'S JOURNAL." 



Although this celebrated and jocular poem was 

 fix'st published in the middle of the seventeenth 

 century, it was not till the year 1818 that the in- 

 defatigable Joseph Haslewood convincingly esta- 

 blished Richard Brathwait's right to it as the 

 author. This long-forgotten poet was born in 

 1588, and died in 1673, aged eighty-five, and his 

 various productions bear date from 1611 to 1665. 

 Tradition reports that this frolicsome itinerant 

 was one of the handsomest men of his day, re- 

 markable for ready wit and humour, and charita- 

 ble to the poor in the extreme. He commonly 

 wore a light grey coat, red waistcoat, and leather 

 breeches. His equals in life bestowed on him the 

 cognomen of Dapper Dick, a name by which he 

 was familiarly called and universally known. 



It cannot be doubted that such persons as 

 Eichard Brathwait and dear Izaak Walton, who 

 were always innocently cheerful and good hu- 

 moured, are really very useful in this world of 

 ours ; they maintain peace and diffuse happiness, 

 by spreading around them a joyous temper and a 

 kind-hearted benevolence. Who has not admired 

 the felicitous posy which encircled the ring of good 

 Bishop Hacket, " Serve God and be cheeeful;" 

 and happy is he who with a light heart and smil- 



ing countenance endeavours to observe this golden 

 maxim during the whole tenour of his life. 



On the publication of the seventh edition of 

 Barnabee's Journal in 1818, Mr. Haslewood re- 

 ceived the following amusing letter from the late 

 Dr. Bliss, which is well worthy of a niche in the 

 pleasant pages of " N. & Q. : " — 



" St. John's College, Oxford, Feb. 27, 1818. 



• " Mt dear Haslewood, 



" I did not thank you for your kind and un- 

 merited present of Barnahee, because I was un- 

 willing you should suppose I intended again to 

 put off the execution of your commission. But 

 now that I can send you £ome little account of 

 Panarete, I may express my obligations to you for 

 your remembrance, and my admiration at your 

 forgiving temper. Truly, if you could but know 

 bow I was hurried" and harassed, plagued, tor- 

 mented, interrupted, and busily employed when I 

 received your letters, you would readily excuse 

 my not fulfilling your wishes ; and I can produce 

 (miserable me !) twenty witnesses to prove that 

 you only suffered in common with all my friends, 

 to wit, John Nichols, Mr. Markland, and above 

 all, one printer named Davison could tell a sad 

 tale of my being deaf to entreaties, unmoved by 

 reproaches, regardless of threats or promises. 

 HoAvever, I am now a little more on my legs 

 again, and ready and willing to do all you may 

 need, and to do that all speedily. 



" Brathwait's Anniversaries on his Panarete 

 contain very little, if anything, towards his per- 

 sonal history. The book consists entirely of an 

 affectionate tribute to the memory of his wife, 

 whom he seems to have loved with an ardent af- 

 fection, which her virtues and accomplishments 

 appear to have well deserved. Real woe admits 

 of no detail ; and though there are many very 

 good, and some very striking passages in his poem, 

 they relate more to her merit and his distress, 

 than to those minute particulars of family and 

 situation which you are in search of as a biogra- 

 pher. If, however, you think longer extracts ne- 

 cessary, remember I am but too happy in aiding 

 your researches and fulfilling your wishes. 



" When I first read that portion of your Pre- 

 face, in which you state the first edition of the 

 Journal to be without date, I was very well con- 

 vinced in my own mind that I had seen a copy 

 with a year printed in the title-page, and I thought 

 I remembered it to be 1648. After some racking 

 of brain, I called tp mind the sale at which, in my 

 very younger days, I beheld this book, and can 

 now give you a clue, which by following it up 

 from Sotheby's book of purchasers' names may 

 lead you to the identical volume. 



" In John Woodhouse's Catalogue, sold by 

 Leigh & Sotheby, Dec. 12, 1803, No. 24. is Bar- 

 nabee's Joiavml, with Bessie Bell, tirst edition, 



