2°^ s. VIII. Sept. 17. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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specting the White and Black Jews at Cochim, after the 

 most recent Advices from Mr. Moens." This last part 

 includes a full analysis of the Memoir, which Mr. Moens 

 had had to leave to his successor, when quitting 

 the JIalabar Coast, and which is dated April 18, 1781, 

 It is this Memoir Mr. Van Lennep alludes to in his query. 

 Mr. Moens had communicated his record to the Directors 

 of the East India Company, and, through the medium 

 of Mr. C. Kien Van Citters, Mr. 's Gravezande was fur- 

 nished with a copy of the part referring to the Cochim 

 Jews. 



" ' I do not think it unlikely that 's Gravezande's 

 treatise, in the sixth volume, was translated into Portu- 

 guese by order of Moens, and that it was then shown by 

 him to Ezechiel Rabby. 



" ' As for the rest I must add that the several objects 

 mentioned by "s Gravezande, as : Ezechiel Kabby's por- 

 trait ; the piece of wood, with the inscription INAZR- 

 REXIVDE (the letters read from right to left); the 

 Malabar olla, cset., are to this day preserved in the 

 Zealand Society's Museum, whilst some manuscripts — as 

 three letters written by John Collet, one of which is di- 

 rected to the Cochim Jews, and some papers, descending 

 from A. Moens, which 's Gravezande made use of — are 

 also kept in the same repository.' " 



J. H. Van Lenwep. 



Huis te Leiduin, near Haarlem, 

 August 31, 1859. 



THE PRBTENDEK. ' 



(2"'' S. viii. 51. 99.) 



Mrs. Frances Shaftoe's Narrative is quoted at 

 great length, and the truth of its statements as- 

 serted, in a tract, now before me, bearing the 

 following title : — 



" More Memoirs : or, the Pretendek, what He Really 

 Pretends to be : Some Explications of His Birth Re- 

 viv'd : and Reasons for Questioning His Title Set Aside. 



In a Letter to a Right Reverend L London : 



Printed, and Sold by J. Baker, at the Black Boy in 

 Pater-noster-row. 1713. Price 6c/." — Pp.40. 



Besides the above two pamphlets, I have also 

 the following upon the same subject: — 



1. " The Pretender an Ihfoster : Being that part 

 of the Memorial, From the English Protestants to their 

 Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Orange, con- 

 cerning their Grievances, and the Birth of the Pretended 

 Prince of Wales. Which is more than a sufficient Answer 

 to the Old Depositions about that Matter lately Pub- 

 lished. London, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers. 

 1711. Price Sixpence." — Pp. 40. 



2. " The Several Declarations, Together with the 

 several Depositions made in Council on Monday, the 

 22d of October, 1688. Concerning the Birth of the Prince 

 of Wales. N.B. Those Marked with this Mark* were Ro- 

 man Catholicks. London : Printed, and Sold by the 

 Booksellers of London and Westminster." Pp. 40. At 

 the end : " Published by His Majesties special 



COJIMAND." 



3. " A Full Answer To the Depositions, And to all 

 other the Pretences and Arguments whatsoever. Con- 

 cerning the Birth of the Pretended Prince of Wales. 

 The Intrigue thereof detected. The whole Design 

 being set forth, with the Way and Manner of doing 'it. 

 Whereunto is annex'd, A Map, or Survey, Engraven on 

 Copper, of St. Jameses Palace, and the Convent there : 



Describing the Place wherein it is suppos'd the true 

 Mother was Deliver'd : With the particular Doors and 

 Passages, thro' which the child was convey'd to the 

 Queen's Bed-Chamber. Printed in the year 1711." 

 Pp. 56. The map referred to has been abstracted from 

 my Copj'. 



4. " Some New Proofs, By which it appears that the 

 Pretender is Truly James the Third. London : Printed 

 for J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row. 

 1713. Price 6d." Pp. 28. 



5. " A Full Demonstration that the Pretended 

 Prince of Wales was the Son of Mrs. Mary Grey, Un- 

 deniably prov'd by Original Letters of the late Queen 

 and others; And by Depositions of several Persons of 

 Worth and Honour, never before publish'd ; and a par- 

 ticular Account of the Murther of Mrs. Mary Grey at 

 Paris. Humbly recommended to the Consideration of 

 both Houses of Parliament. By William Fuller, Gent. 

 London: Printed for the Author, and sold by A. Bald- 

 win, at the Oxford Arms in Warwick lane. 1702.** Pp. 

 40. 



6. " The Great Bastard, Protector of the Little One. 

 Done out of French. And for which a Proclamation, with 

 a Reward of 5000 Lewedores, to discover the Author, 

 was Published, London, Printed in the Year 1701." 

 Pp. 15. 



Some of the above tracts are referred to, and 

 much interesting information, from contemporary 

 sources, on the subject of them is given, in the 

 Oxford edition of Bishop Burnet's History of his 

 Own Time, 1833. 



I can scarcely agree with C. D. E. that if Bp. 

 Lloyd's* "notes on this subject could be found, 

 probably little more could be desired," because, 

 equally so with his brother bishop, he was not 

 only a warm and busy stickler for the interests 

 of the Prince of Orange, but also a thorough- 

 paced hater of the Stuart dynasty, and, as it 

 appears, ever ready to yield a willing ear to, and 

 spread abroad, the cruel reports that were in 

 circulation respecting the " pretended " delivery 

 of James's queen, heedless of the maxims, that 

 the receiver is as bad as the thief, and the re- 

 tailer of slander as the inventor of it. But see, 

 in reference to his " great collection," the note 

 to Burnet, as above, vol. iii. p. 258. As to the 

 latter's own private thoughts in this matter, the 

 editor of his Own Time remarks (Preface, x.) : 

 that, "notwithstanding the idle stories told by 

 him, on the authority of others, concerning the 

 birth of the Prince of Wales, he nowhere, in the 

 present time at least, explicitly avows an opinion 

 of his illegitimacy." Wm. Matthews. 



Cowgill. 



[* As there were two Bishops at this time of the name 

 of William Lloyd, our correspondents should distinguish 

 them by their respective sees. Of course, the bishop al- 

 luded to was William Lloyd, consecrated Bishop of St. 

 Asaph, and translated to Coventry and' to Worcester, ob. 

 1717. The other William Lloyd was consecrated Bishop 

 of LlandafF, translated to Peterborough and Norwich, and 

 deprived at the Revolution : ob. Jan. 1, 1709-10.— Ed.] 



