2«'» S. X. Dec. 15. '60.] 



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It ought, I think, to be remembered, " that it 

 was during bis imprisonment, and as a means of 

 subsistence that Baker wrote his Chronicle and 

 various other works, chiefly devotional ; a circum- 

 stance which should, perhaps, induce us to judge 

 leniently of their imperfections." — Nat. Cyclop, 

 {sub voce.) Henby W. S. Taylok. 



Dedications to the Deity (2°^ S. ix. 180. 

 266. 350.; x. 177. 217. 258. 418.) —In addition 

 to the works with the above dedication alluded to 

 in the various pages of " N. & Q.," I have to add 

 the following publication : — 



"Lingua Tersancta: ov, a most Sure and Compleat 

 Allegorick Dictionary to the Holy Language of the Spirit ; 

 Carefully and Faithfully expounding and illustrating all 

 the several Words or Divine Symbols in Dream, Vision, 

 and Apparition, &c. By W. F. Esq., Author of the New 

 Jerusalem. London, Printed for the Author, and sold by 

 E. Mallet near Fleet Bridge, 1705." 



The dedication commences at p. iii., and finishes 

 at p. v. : — 



" To the Eternal and Infinite Majesty of the Almighty 

 and most Glorious God. 

 " Most Just and Holy Lord : 



" If Prophecy and Foreknowledge," i&c. (And the'con- 

 cluding sentence is) : " To thee, and besides whom no- 

 thing is, much less may pretend to either of Glory or 

 Power, but at thy pleasure, be all Honour and Glory both 

 now and for ever more." 



The Allegorick Dictionary consists of 566 pages, 

 and a table of chapters and errata, two pages. In 

 the same volume are two other works by the same 

 author : — 



"The Fountain of Monition and Intercommunication 

 Divine ; by W. F., Esq. Master in the Holy Language, 

 and Author of the New Jerusalem" &c. 



The second : — 



" The Pool of Bethesda watch'd ; or some of the Vari- 

 ous Divine Monitions, Prophecies and Revelations of our 

 Author, Fairly and Carefully Expounded, with their 

 fullest Intents and Purposes." 



The last two works are together, printed in 266 

 pages in the year 1703, without any dedication. 

 Some former possessor has printed in a very neat 

 hand the author's name, William Freke. 



Can any of your readers inform me where this 

 William Freke lived ? * In his first df earn, June 

 86, he gives it as [" seeming at my Brother F.'s 

 House at Hannington "], and in the ninth dream, 

 Jan. 12, 9| [" seeming in my Old School at So- 

 merford, and in which I was formerly educated"], 

 from whence he appears to have gone to Oxford. 

 In another place he says, in explanation of a dream, 

 " Seeming in a large room with my brother F., 

 and my cousin F. of Shrawton, since dead." In 



[* There was a William Freeke, son of Thomas Freeke 

 of Hannington, Wilts, entered as a Gentleman Commoner 

 of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1677, who afterwards be- ' 

 came a barrister and an author ; but it is not clear that 

 he was the writer of The Allegorick Dictionary. Vide I 

 Wood's AthencB, iv. 740.— Ed.] 



fact the author appears to have been an extraor- 

 dinary dreamer altogether ; and no doubt if he had 

 been living at this time of day, his friends would 

 have sent him to dream in a lunatic asylum. P. 



Philip Stubbs, B.D. (2°«' S. x. 429.) — Arch- 

 deacon Stubbs was son of Philip Stubbs of London, 

 vintner. In 1682, at the age of seventeen, he pro- 

 ceeded from Merchant Taylors' School to Wadham 

 College, Oxford, of which house he became sub- 

 sequently scholar and Fellow. Admitted B.D. in 

 1722. He was sometime curate of St. Benet 

 Gracechurch and St. Leonard Eastcheap, and 

 afterwards held the rectories of St. Alphage and 

 St. James, Garlick Hill, No doubt the books of 

 the Vintners' Company would afford some infor- 

 mation respecting his father's family. 



C. J. Robinson. 



James Ogden (2"'*'S. x. 428.) — He was born 

 in 1718 at Manchester, and was by trade a fustian 

 shearer. Dissatisfied with this employment, he 

 afterwards became master of a school in connec- 

 tion with the Collegiate Church. He died August 

 17, 1802. One of his sons was William Ogden, 

 the once notorious radical reformer of Manchester. 

 His publications were — 



" The British Lion roused." Manchester, 1762. 



" The Revolution," an Epic Poem, in 12 Books, 1790. 



" Emanuel, or Paradise Regained." A Poem, 1797. 



" Sans Culotte and Jacobine," 1800. 



The above are all the publications of this author 

 mentioned by Mr. Procter in his Literary Re- 

 miniscences and Gleanings. Two other works 

 are, however, enumerated by Dr. Watt under the 

 name of James Ogden. 'kXn-lis. 



Dublin. 



H&iittVinvitavLi, 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Shakspere : his Birthplace and Neighbourhood. By John 

 R. Wise. Illustrated by W. J. Linton. (Smith & Elder.) 



No admirer of our great Dramatist need ever henceforth 

 wend on his pilgrimage of love to 

 " That shire which we the heart of England well mav 



call," 

 for the purpose of visiting. the birthplace of William Shak- 

 speare,"* and sauntering along the banks of the Avon in 

 the leafy month of June, without a suitable and most 

 instructive companion in this exquisitely got up little 

 volume, which is destined to become from this time forth 

 an indispensable Guide to Stratford-upon-Avon. But 

 the book has another interest for Shakspearian students 

 besides the pleasant gossip to be found in it about Shak- 

 speare, and the scenes among -which he moved and had 

 his being ; and that is, in the valuable illustrations of his 

 writings drawn from Warwickshire sources, which the in- 

 dustry and good judgment of Mr. Wise has here collected 

 together. 



The Tempest By William Shakspeare. Illustrated by 

 Birket Foster, Gustave Dor^, Frederick Skill, Alfred 

 Slader, and Gustave Janet. (Bell & Daldy.) 



The transition from the last book to the present is a 



