2''dS. VIII. Jolt 16. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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N». 185. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES - — Archbishop T.eishton's Works, 41 —faxton : Pinson, &c. 

 bv B H. Cowper.44— RobKerandtheFashionsof 17I9.45--1 robntion 

 Lists of vlercliant Taylors' School, by Rev. Charle< J. Robinson, M. A . 

 lb — Henry IV., hy Philip Phillipson, lb. — A Mus^'Ulman s \ lew of 

 iCneiand : A Fragment, 47 — Andrew Marvell's Letter to John Mil- 

 ton, by CI. Hopper, 76. 



Minor Notes :_ Gat-toothed — Nomination of a Member of Parlia- 

 ment by a Bishop _ A Snuff box of the First Napoleon —Dutch GuQ- 

 founts for a Kins of England in 1413 — Kiding-coat : "Redingute — 

 Eliot Warburton,48. 



QUERIES : — Elizabethan Poems in Sion College, 49. 



Minor •.Iukkifs : — Meanin? rf "Cadewoldes" — Harpoys et Fysshe- 

 ponde " — Antiquities at Wrexham— Nostrad»mu8 — Miller's " Lec- 

 tures on the Greek Lancruage " — " Kem aeu tetisisti "-Irish Stamps 



— Chaltertoh Manuscript — Boydell's Shakspeare Gallery _ James 

 Thomson — Ad. nborou^h— Birth and Death-years of British and 

 American Authors— The Pretender — Saclieverell, 49. 



Minor Queries with A nswfrs : — Cardinal Howard, Sic — "To sleep 

 like a top " — Kev. Richurd l.ufkin —Coal, when first used in England 

 for Domestic Purposes — Elizabeth Woodville, S3. 



REPLIES : — " The Style is the Man Himself," 54. 



Repmbs to Minor QrnRiEs : — Fisures of King Henry VI. — Herbert 

 Knowles— Wife of Archbishop PuUiser — The Gulf-Stream and Cli- 

 mate of England _ Cromwell's Ciildren—Catnlogue of Shakspeariana 



— Barnstapli-: Barum — Elizabeth Long _ Hill; Harley; Jennings 



— Spicial Licences— John Jones- Aldrynton, &c.,55. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON's WORKS. " 



Few men have been so loved and honoured by 

 all who knew them as the saintly Robert Leigh- 

 TON ! "And indeed our Author go lives in his 

 Works" (to use the e.xpression of Dr. Fall, his 

 first editor), that he still inspires a personal re- 

 gard, and fascinates alilce a Burnet and a Cole- 

 ridge.* 



Dr. Fall declares : — 



" The Author was the deh'ght and wonder of all that 

 knew him; his Thoughts were noble and hi.s Expressions 

 beautiful ; his Gesture and Pronunciation (peculiar to 

 himself) had a Gravit}', a Majesty, and yet a Sweetness 

 in them, that manj' severe judges have often said, were 

 bej'ond all that they had ever seen at home or abroad." 

 — Fref. to Eighteen Sermons. 1G92. 



He is happy and thankful to be among the 

 number of those — 



" Who do, and must own, to their great comfort, that 

 they find a Sweetness in this divine Author's Thoughts 

 and way of Writing, peculiar to him, which make these 

 Scriptures, thus treated by him, drop sweeter to their 

 Souls than Honey and the Honej"-comb. While they 



* Coleridge's celebrated (one cannot say well-known) 

 work. Aids to Reflection, Lond. 1824, is for the most part a 

 Commentary on passages selected from Leighton's Works. 

 See also Coleridge's Notes 071 English Divines, Lond. 1853, 

 vol. ii. pp. 120 — 144. His Notes on Leighton commence 

 thus : — 



"Surely if ever work not in the Sacred Canon might 

 suggest a belief of inspiration, — of something more than 

 human, — this it is. When Mr. Elw\-n made this asser- 

 tion I took it as the hyperbole of affection ; but now I 

 subscribe it seriously, and bless the hour that introduced 

 me to the knowledge of the evangelical, apostolical Abp. 

 Leighton. April, 1814. 



"Next to the inspired Scriptures stands Leighton's 

 Commentary on the 1st Epistle of St. Peter." 



Who was " Mr. Elwyn ? " 



enlighten their Understanding, at the same time they 

 purify and rejoice their Hearts; while they make wise 

 the Simple, they convert their Soul." — Fref. to Com. on 

 St. Feter, 1st vol. 1st ed. 



Dr. Miles writes to the same effect : 



" There is a spirit in Archbishop Leighton I never met 

 with in any human writings; nor can I read many lines 

 in them without being moved." * 



Bp. Burnet's admiration for him was un- 

 bounded ; he constantly speaks of him as " that 

 anjjelic man," or " that apostolical man Leigh- 

 ton ; " and records that he " was accounted a 

 saint from his youth up." I may extract part of 

 the portraiture Burnet has given in the Hist, of 

 His own Time : — 



" He had great quickness of Parts, a lively Appreben- 

 sion, with a charming Vivacity of Thought and Expres- 

 sion. He had the greatest command of the purest Latin 

 that ever I knew in anj' man. He was a master both of 

 Greek and Hebrew, and of the whole compass of Theo- 

 logical learning, chiefly in the study of the Scriptures. 

 But that which excelled all the rest was that he was 

 possessed with the highest and noblest sen.se of Divine 



things that I ever saw in any man Ihere was a 



visible tendency in all he said to raise his own mind, and 



those he conversed with, to serious reflection His 



Thoughts were lively, oft out of the way and surprising, 

 yet just and genuine. And he had laid together in big 

 memory the greatest treasure of the best and wisest of all 

 the ancient Saj'ings of the Heathens as well as Christians, 

 that I have ever known any man master of; and housed 

 them in the aptest manner possible." 



We may sum up all criticism on the works of 

 Abp. Leighton, with Mr. Pearson's remark, that 

 " There are not many theological writers in whose 

 volumes are more of ' the Seeds of Things.' " 



The above passages may suffice to show that 

 Leighton's rare merit has been 4ipprecialed, and 

 that by not a few ; and yet, strange to say, there 

 is not (so far as I am aware) a really satisfactory 

 edition of his Works to be had. Abp. Leighton 

 has not been particularly happy in his editors 

 from first to last — from Dr. Fall to Mr. Pearson. 

 The only attempt at a careful editing of Leighton 

 that I am acquainted with, is to be found in the 

 second edition of the Eighteen Sermons. At the 

 same time, few writers stand more in need of a 

 careful and learned editor, — and that, because 

 none of his MSS. were intended for tlie press. 

 His diffidence was so great that throughout his 

 lifetime he steadily resisted the most urgent in- 

 treaties of his friends who importuned him to 

 publish. In fact — 



" Some words that dropt from him occasionally, some 

 time before his death, against the publishing of his papers, 

 put those in whose hands they were, under no small diffi- 



* Dr. Doddridge, in his Preface to Leighton's Exposi- 

 tory Works, Edinb. 1748, extracts this from a letter 

 written to him in April, 1740, by " The Rev. Dr. Henry 

 Miles, F.R.S. ; " whom he styles " A considerable philo- 

 sopher and eminent divine." Query, Who was this Dr. 

 Miles? [A dissenting minister at Tooting. See Gent's 

 Mag. for June, 1793, p. 497., for some account of him, — 

 Ed.J 



