2-x' S. X. Dec. 1. '60.] 



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that town until after it liad ceased. So also tlie 

 jackdaws and sparrows left JNIalmo, in Sweden, on 

 the appearance of cholera in 1834. W. H. B. 



Bath. 



Napoleon II. — How was the Duke of Reich- 

 stadt related to the royal family of England? 

 About thirty years ago was published a list of 

 the possible claimants of the IBritish crown, and 

 low down in it appeared the name of the former 

 king of Home. Bab-Point. 



Philadelphia. 



Phillis Court, near Henley. — Can any of 

 your readers refer me to any picture or engraving 

 of this mansion as it stood in 1770? It was gar- 

 risoned in 1642, and had a moat and drawbridge. 

 A gentleman residing at Burford in this county 

 bad a water-colour representation of the house, 

 but it has been lost. John S. Burn. 



ilenlej'. 



Busby. — Can anyone enlighten me as to the 

 derivation of the word Bushy, the cap used by the 

 Royal Artillery in full uniform ? Beta. 



Bbawn, — As this delicacy appears to be a fa- < 

 vourite at the Universities, where you have so 

 many correspondents, may I hope that some one 

 of them will afford a reply to this inquiry ? In the 

 shops it is ticketed " Cambridge Brawn," and the 

 mode of preparing it is said to be attended with 

 great cruelty to the animal which yields it — so 

 great indeed that I hesitate to believe it ; and 

 hence the present Query. The story is this : that 

 the rich and glutinous gristle in wiiich the brawn 

 is enveloped, and which forms in it one of its 

 choicest ingredients, is the cicatrice- of a wound 

 made in the pig's back by means of a board covered 

 with sharpened spikes, and kept open by their 

 daily puncture, till a chronic sore is maintained ; 

 and nature, in her persevering efforts to heal it, 

 produces the thickened cartilage which is so much 

 esteemed by the connoisseurs in brawn. I shall 

 be truly glad to learn that this story is untrue ; 

 but if the fact be as report represents it, then it 

 seems to me a legitimate case for the intervention 

 of the Animals' Protection Society. J. E. T. 



Philip Stubbs, M.A. — Information is de- 

 sired respecting the ancestors and descendants of 

 Philip Stubbs, reCtor of St. Alpha^e in 1699, 

 Archdeacon of St. Alban's, first chaplain of Green- 

 wich Hospital, and author of many published ser- 

 mons. There is a portrait of him and of the Rev. 

 Francis Higgins and of Dr. Sacheverel in mezzo- 

 tinto, all upon one sheet, dated 1710, and labelled 

 " The three pillars of y^ Church." His children 

 born at St. Alphagewere John, Philippa, William, 

 and Charles. Is it knoAvn whether he was of the 

 same family as Philip Stubbs, who in 1585 pub- 

 lished The Anatomie of Abuses, and in 1612 an 



account of The Godly Life and Christian Death of 

 Mistresse Katherine Stuhbes, his wife ? T. E. S. 



Sir Francis Hubert. — 



" Egj'pt's Favorite. The Historic of Joseph divided 

 into foure parts: ^1. Josephus in Puteo, or The nnfortu- 

 nate Brother ; 2. Josephus in Gremio, or The chaste Cour- 

 tier ; 3. Josephus in Carcere, or The innocent Prisoner ; 

 4. Josephus in Summo, or Tlie noble Favourite. Together 

 with old Israel's Progresse into the Land of Goshen. By 

 Francis Hubert, Knight, and some time one of the Six 

 Clarkes of his Majesties High Court of Chancerie. Lon- 

 don, Printed hy A. M. for L. Chapman, and are to be sold 

 at his shop at the Upper End of Chancery Lane next 

 Holborne, 1G31." 



The above is the title-page of (unless I am much 

 mistaken) a very scarce little volume. I am in- 

 clined to think that this poetical piece possesses no 

 inconsiderable merit, and should be glad to be in- 

 formed whether it has ever been reprinted, or if any 

 thing more is known of the author than what may 

 be gathered from the following passage in a prefa- 

 tory notice "from the Stationer to the Reader:" — 



" The Authour hereof (being my worthy Friend) ere hee 

 had fully perfited the same was himselfe translated to the 

 place of all perfection, and changed the Egj-pt of this 

 world for the full fruition of a celestiall Canaan. In his 

 life my desertlesse selfe was so endeared unto him that he 

 pleased to bestow upon me the Copie thereof, and I have 

 taken the paines to make that publique Avhich was 

 smoothered in silence, and perhaps might have beene 

 buried in oblivion. Many yeeres sitlicnce he writ a Worke 

 intituled 'The Historic and Raigne of Edward the Second 

 with his miserable and cruell Death ! ' But the same 

 being by suprearaest Authoritie forbidden to bee printed 

 was for a long time charily kept as a Jewell in his secret 

 Cabinet or rather (amongst divers other Workes of his 

 excellently well composed) as a chiefe ornament of his 

 owne private Librarie, till at length some Sacrilegious 

 hand (pardon mee if I so tearme it) stole this Wedge of 

 Gold, and for gaine without allowance of authority or 

 Knowledge of the Authour brought it to the Presse ; but 

 so much dross'e was mixt therewith, and such foule faults 

 escaped the correction, that it had almost quite lost its 

 first puritj'. To remedie this the Authour was induced 

 to use me as an Instrument to print the same as it was 

 originally composed, the which with his assistance 1 

 effected ; but the sale thereof was so hindered by the for- 

 mer Impression of the false Copie that the true one found 

 little or no successe." 



E. H. A. 



[Sir Francis Hubert's Egypt's Favorite has not been 

 reprinted ; whereas there have been four editions of his 

 Hisforie and Raigne of Edward the Second, 12mo. 1628, 

 (spurious); 12mo. 1629; 8vo. 1631; 8vo. 1721._ Curi- 

 ously enough Ritson (_BibliograpMa Foetica, p. 352.) has 

 attributed the latter work to Ralph Starkey, the Cheshire 

 antiquary. He was led into this error from finding a 

 copy of it in the Harl. MS. 558. in Starkey's hand-'vviit- 

 ing' See also another error in Nicolson's English Histo- 

 rical Libranj, ed. 1736, p. 80., where our author is called 

 " Richard Robert, a younger brother to Sir Henry ; " and 

 the editor of the edition of 1721 has adopted Nicolson's 

 blunder. See a curious letter on this author in the Gen- 

 tleman's Mag. for July, 1824, p. 19.] 



