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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, VIII. Aug. 27. '59. 



are Rooms and Apartments to be Lett, from whence you 

 may walk clean to Church in the worst Weather. In- 

 quire at Will's Coffee House, Whitehall." 



These buildings, I believe, are now pulled down, 

 though standing about the beginning of the pre- 

 sent century. 'W, p. 



Booh burned and whipped hy the Hangman. 

 —The correspondents of "N. & Q." have from 

 time to time furnished lists of books burned by 

 the hangman. I am enabled to add the following 

 from the pages of The Historical Magazine and 

 Notes and Queries of Amei'ica : — 



" A pamphlet, called The Monster of Monsters, printed 

 in Boston in 1754, was ordered by the General Court of 

 Massachusetts Bay, 'to be burnt by the hands of the 

 common hangman in King Street, Boston.'" — Vol. iii. 

 p. 89. March, 1859. 



In the Connecticut Gazette for Nov. 29th, 1755, 

 printed at New Haven, I find the following ac- 

 count : — 



" Milford (in Connecticut), 

 Nov. 21, 1755. 

 " After perusing a false and scurrilous letter, printed at 

 New York, signed Edioard Cole, it was tho't proper that 

 the same should be publicly whipt, as tending to beget 

 111 Will, and brushing a Disunion in the several Govern- 

 ments in America, the contrary of which at this Time and 

 present Situation of our Affairs is much wanted : Accord- 

 ingly it was here, at 4 of the clock this Afternoon, after 

 proper notice by beat of Drum, publicly whipt, according 

 to Moses' Law, Forty stripes save one, by the common 

 whipper, and then burnt. . . . ' . 

 "J. W. 

 Middletown, Ct., 1859.' 

 (Vol. iii. p. 121., April, 1859.) 



Edward Peacock. 

 The Manor, Bottesford, Brigg. 



A Novel Bace. — The following amusing para- 

 graph is from Parker's London Neivs of Monday, 

 June 8th, 1724 : — 



" On Wednesday in the Whitsun, a race was run at 

 Northampton for 5 guineas between two bulls, four cows, 

 and a calf; the first were rid by men, and the last by a 

 boy. The cows threw their riders, and the calf tumbled 

 down with his, and was thereby distanced, so that one of the 

 bulls won the wager before a vast concourse of people." 



W. J. Pinks. 

 The Handel Centenaries. — My father was pre- 

 sent at Westminster Abbey in 1784 at the com- 

 memoration of the centenary of Handel's birth, 

 and I was present at the Crystal Palace in 1859, at 

 the commemoration of the centenary of Handel's 

 death. How 'many of your readers can say the 

 same ? A Subsceibeb. 



THE BED BIBBON OF THE OBDEB OF THE BATH. 



The following lines in ridicule of the red ribbon 

 from which the badge of the Order of the Bath 

 is suspended, written upon the revival of that 



Order by George I. in 1725, after it had been 

 dormant for nearly three-quarters of a century, 

 are to be found in manuscript on the maro^in of 

 No. 1033 of the Whitehall Evening Post, April 

 22-24 (newspapers, vol. i. 1725, in Brit. Mus.), be- 

 neath an advertisement of " Observations Intro- 

 ductory to an Historical Essay upon the Order of 

 the Bath, by John Anstis, Garter Principal King- 

 of- Arms : " — 



" Quoth King Robin, our Ribbons I see are so few, 

 St. Andrew's the Green, and St. George's the blew ; 

 I must find out a Red one, a colour more gay, 

 Which will tye up mj' Subjects with Pride to obey. 

 Th' Exchequer may Suffer by prodigal Donors, 

 The King has ne'er Exhausted the fountain of Honours ; 

 Men of more Witt than money our pensions will fitt. 

 But these will Bribe those of more Money than Witt ; 

 Who with Faith most implicit obey my commands, 

 Tho' empty as Young and as saucy as Sandys, 

 Who will soonest leap over a Stick for the King 

 Shall be qualified best for a Dog in a String." 



Of the revival of the Order of the Bath, the 

 honours of which the king liberally bestowed, 

 thirty-seven noblemen and gentlemen being in- 

 vested with them at the first installation, June 

 17, 1725, Edmondson gives the following ac- 

 count : — 



" King Charles II. previous to his coronation created 

 no less than sixty-eight Knights of Bath, from which 

 time no knights of that degree were created until King 

 George I. by letters patent .bearing date at Westminster 

 on the 18th of May in the 11th year of his reign insti- 

 tuted, erected, and constituted a military order, to be for 

 ever then after to be called by the name of the Order of 

 the Bath," 



By whom was this political satire written ? 



W. J. Pinks. 



Minor ^auertesf. 



Editha Pope. — We know so little of Pope's 

 family, that even a name may be suggestive. 

 Pope's mother was Editha Turner, and she became 

 Editha Pope. Pope's father had certainly an elder 

 brother, as we learn from the poet's letter to Lord 

 Hervey, of whom we positively know nothing. 

 Neither the name of Editha nor of Pope are com- 

 mon. I therefore, when hunting over the regis- 

 ters at Doctors' Commons, made a note — that 

 administration of the goods of Editha Pope, of 

 Crosby Magna, in the county of Wiltshire, was 

 granted, Feb. 1699, to Daniel Pope of the city of 

 London. The administration entered in the search- 

 books has the word "London" at the side; and 

 this, as explained to me, meant that London was 

 the last place of abode of the deceased. 



As Magdalen, the first wife of Pope's father, 

 died in 1679, the above Editha, if named after 

 his second wife, could not have been more than 

 seventeen or eighteen at her death. At such an 

 age, it is probable that she would not have made 

 a will ; although, to obtain possession of any pro- 



