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authority for thia ; and whether the Hannah 

 "Glasse of Bridges Street can be shown to be 

 anything more than an accidental similarity of 

 name ? To those who are acquainted with the 

 getting-up of books, it will appear far more pro- 

 bable to assign that compilation to the " multo- 

 ^ribbling" Dr. Hill than to a dressmaker engaged 

 in business. Dunics. 



Arabic Poem. — A few days ago I was shown a 

 book which belonged to the King of Delhi, and 

 which it was reported that he was reading when 

 taken. It contained a qacidah, or rhj'med poem, 

 beautifully written in the illuminated style. I 

 observed that the last word of the first couplet 

 was hdhid; the last words of the first line of this 

 •couplet, and of the second line of every other 

 couplet, rhyming with this. 



Can any of your correspondents inform me 

 ■whether there is any known Arabic poem which j 

 answers to this description ? and, if so, what is its 

 subject, its age, and the name of its author ? | 



E. H. D. D. I 



Debating Societies. — Can any of your readers i 

 supply the following information ? The names | 

 and principal features of all the "Debating So- | 

 cleties" which have existed in this country for 

 the last century ; or the name of any work con- 

 taining such information ? 



We know that Burke, Sheridan, Johnson, and 

 other celebrities were members of a debating 

 <;lub, and that many other such societies have 

 existed, such as the famous " Robin Hood Club," 

 but are their histories chronicled ? I should feel 

 greatly obliged to any of your readers who could 

 inform me upon the subject. C. J. B. 



Whitelock Pedigree. — Can any of your readers 

 give me the particulars of the marriage, death, 

 &c. of Bulstrode Whitelock. of Phillis Court, 

 Henley (great-grandson of Sir Bulstrode), who 

 was born about 1700, and sold the manor of 

 Henley in 1723. I wish also to see the act of \ 

 parliament (ante 1675) for settling the estates of 

 Sir Bulstrode on his three sons, Bulstrode, Wil- 

 loughby, and Carlton. John S. Bukn. 



Henley. 



Efford. — Two adjoining fords on a small stream 

 in Hants bear the names of Efford and Wains- 

 ford, the latter higher up and the former lower 

 down the stream. One is obviously " the wag- 

 gon-ford," the other, I have been informed, means 

 *' the horse-ford." Can this be substantiated by 

 its etymolog)', or Is It more probably from Avon- 

 ibrd ? Edward Kikg. 



" The Royal Slave."— W. Cartwrlght's play. The 

 Royal Slave, was acted by the students of Christ 

 Church, Oxford, on 30th August, 1636, before 

 King Charles I. and his queen. Dr. Busby, after- 



wards Master of Westminster, performed one of 

 the principal parts in the play. Have the names 

 of the other performers been preserved ? A. Z. 



George Lesly. — Can you give me any inform- 

 ation regarding George Lesly, author of Divine 

 Dialogues, published (2nd edition) in 1C84. The 

 author was rector of Whittering, Northampton- 

 shire. What was the date of his death ? A. Z. 



Shakspeare. — Can any of your readers inform 

 me whether any of the plays of Shakspeare have 

 been translated into the Welsh language ? A. Z. 



The Lord Mayor of Dublin, 1764. — In No. 96. 

 of the Dublin Freemans Journal (Aug. 4, 1764), I 

 find the following notice : — 



" Whereas freqaeiit attempts have been made, by wicked 

 and evil-minded persons, to deprive the Chief Magistrate 

 of the City Sword on the day of perambulating the Fran- 

 chises thereof, I do give this public Notice, that I am 

 determined to support the rights of this Citj^ and not to 

 suffer any infringement of my authority ; and do require 

 the Citizens to be aiding and assisting therein, as I am 

 resolved to punish the offenders with the utmost severity'. 

 Dated the 4th day of August, 1664. 



" William Forbes." 



To what Is reference made ? And where may I 

 ascertain particulars ? I cannot find any in the 

 FreemarCs Journal. Abhba. 



^tn0r ^uerteiS toft!) Sitdtntr^. 



Yorhshire Worthies, by Hartley Coleridge. — 

 I have in my possession an 8vo. volume extending 

 to upwards of 700 pages, lettered Wo?-thies of 

 Yorkshire. It has no title-page, but the Initials 

 H. C. are at the end of the preface, which mean 

 Hartley Coleridge, who was the son of the cele- 

 brated Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Hartley was a 

 poet as original in his writings as his father, and 

 he was as original a thinker, and excellent a 

 prose-writer, without his father's mysticism. I 

 knew him when a probationary Fellow of Oriel 

 College, Oxford. He was an eccentric character; 

 In truth, like Beattie's Minstrel, " he was a wan- 

 dering, strange and wondrous boy." Tiie value of 

 these excellent ZiY'es of the Yorkshire Worthies, as 

 written by the younger Coleridge, have never, I 

 think, been duly appreciated. My volumes contain 

 those of Andrew Marvell ; Dr. Bentley ; Lord Fair- 

 fax; James Earl of Derby; Anne Clifford, Countess 

 of Pembi'oke; Roger Ascham; John Fisher, Bishop 

 of Rochester; William Mason, the poet; Sir 

 Richard Arkwright ; William Roscoe ; Captain 

 James Cook ; and William Congreve, the drama- 

 tist. The characters of these Yorkshire Worthief , 

 as depicted by Hartley Coleridge, show him to 

 have been possessed with a singularly compre- 

 hensive knowledge of History, Politics, Poetry, 

 and the Fine Arts; and, as in the case of Sir 

 Richard Arkwright, of the construction and na- 



