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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»« S. X. Dec. 29. '60. 



petition to unseat the sitting member, Samuel 

 Smith, Esq. The alderman was also Colonel of 

 the West London Militia, and twice master of 

 his company. 



His business was that of a banker in Mansion 

 House Street; he resided in John Street, King's 

 Road, Bedford Row, where he died on the 26th 

 Dec. 1809, in his sixty-eighth year, being then the 

 Senior Alderman" except Sir Watkin Lewes. In 

 politics he was a Whig, and at one time a very 

 popular man, but he is said to have changed his 

 politics previously to his contest for Luggershall. 



See a Memoir of him in GentlemavLS Mag. vol. 

 Ixxx. pp. 91. and 179., where he is praised for his 

 sweetness of disposition, his generosity and bene- 

 volence, and the warmth and steadiness of his at- 

 tachments. 



H. S. G. will find the arms borne by Alderman 

 Newnham at Mercers' Hall ; and having the date 

 of his death, a reference to his will at Doctors' 

 Commons will doubtless furnish information re- 

 specting his family, at the cost of one shilling. 



Geo. R. Coenee. 



Olivee Ceomwell (2"* S. viii. 147.) — 

 Ithueiel asks if there is any corroboration of 

 Drury's statement, 1654, that the Protector 

 changed the Great Seal of England, calling him- 

 self thereon " Grand Emperor," &c. ? I should 

 doubt : for the two Great Seals for England, made 

 by the celebrated Thomas Simon for Oliver and 

 his son Richard, read on the obverse respectively, 

 Olivarius, or Richardus : " Dei. Gra. Reip. An- 

 gHa3 Scotiae et Hybernie, etc., Peotectob." And 

 though these have no date on them, a third made 

 by the same artist for Scotland for the Lord Pro- 

 tector Olivei", bears date on the reverse "1656." 

 And " 1654" would appear to be about the date 

 of Oliver's seal for England, as it was ordered to 

 be made shortly after Oliver Cromwell became 

 Lord Protector, in April, 1653. (See Simon's 

 Medals, Coins, and Great Seals, Vertue, 1753.) 



In my copy of this work is an entry, "nearly 

 the whole impression destroyed by fire." Query, 

 Was this so ? Jos. G. 



MOSHKIM AND MoEGA-N (2""* S. X. 145.) — 



Among the mottoes on the title-page of Collins's 

 Scheme of Literal Prophecy, London, 1727, is — 



" Est hominum quoddam genus, quod ex tenui quadain 

 vocabulorum adfinitate, reruin statim cognitionem odora- 

 tur ; ac, si voces modo faveant, Judaeorum inj media 

 Nova Zembla origines quaerit. — Moshehn." 



I do not know from what work of Mosheim the 

 above is taken. 



Thomas Morgan, satirised by Pope, died Jan. 

 14, 1743, so The Babylonish Captivity, 1746, if 

 by him, must be either a posthumous work or a 

 reprint. It is not among his writings noticed 

 by Lechler, GescMchte des Englischen Deismus, 

 Stutgard, 1841, nor by Noack, Die Freidenker in 



der Religion, Bern, 1853. M. Cooper published 

 many " freethinking" books, but I do not find 

 his name to any of Morgan's, who seems to have 

 had some difficulty in finding publishers, as the 

 first volume of The Moral Philosopher is " Printed 

 for the Author ; " the second, " Printed and sold 

 by the Booksellers of London and Westminster," 



and the third, " Printed for , and sold by T. 



Cox at the Lamb in the Royal Exchange." Lech- 

 ler gives a full account of Morgan's system, and 

 Noack freely appropriates Lechler. The style of 

 The Moral Philosopher is not inviting, and I 

 should not like to read the three volumes, but 

 the philosophy is as profound, and the theology 

 as orthodox as Pope's in the " Essay on Man." 



Whiston says that Morgan lost his employment 

 as a dissenting minister at Marlborough for be- 

 coming an Arian. 



" However, he soon fell upon the study of physic with 

 great pretences of nostrums, and with a great degree of 

 real skill in the Newtonian philosophy. When he came 

 to London things did not succeed with him ; though he 

 turned infidel, and with very little knowledge of the 

 Scriptures assailed them outrageously. Yet when he 

 was going to practise physic at Bristol among the rich 

 Quakers there, he wrote a pamphlet for such divine as- 

 sistance of good men as might recommend himself to 

 them." — Memoirs of Mr. IVilliatn Whiston, written bt/ 

 himself, p. 319. London, 1749. 



Is this pamphlet known ? I cannot find any 

 other trace of it. Fitzhopkins. 



Garrick Club. 



Smttanites (2°'» S. x. '457.)— Can S. B. B. give 

 me any farther particulars about the Smytanites, 

 and inform me whether the sect is still in exist- 

 ence ? Inquisition. 



Baenevelt (2°* S. X. 472.) — I am unable to 

 give F. H. any information about the Dutch play 

 of Barnevelt ; but if he is interested in the matter, 

 the following notice of the English play may be 

 of service to him. It is a curious subject; and if 

 F. H. cares enough about the matter, he might 

 give " N. & Q." an interesting paper on the affair. 



" Our players have found the means to goe through 

 with the play of Barnavelt, and it hath had many spec- 

 tators, and receaved applause, yet some say that (accord- 

 ing to the proverb) the Divell is not soe bad as he is 

 painted, and that Barnavelt should persuade Ledenberg to 

 make away w"» himself (when he comes to see him after 

 he was prisoner), to prevent the discoverie of the plott ; 

 and to tell him that when they were both dead (as though 

 he meant to do the like), they might sift it out of their 

 ashes, was thought to be a point strayned. When 

 Barnavelt understood of Ledenberg's death, he comforted 

 himself, which before he refused to do; but when he 

 perceaveth himself to be arrested, then he hath no rc- 

 medie, but with all speede biddeth liis wife send to the 

 F"" Amb', w'''* she did, and he spake for him," &c. — 

 " Lock to Carlton, Aug. 27, 1619 " (State Papers, Do- 

 mestic, James I., 110-37.) 



I am sorry that I have mislaid my note of its 

 exact place ; but F. H. will find the MS. of the 



