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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. 1859. 



No. 191. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES ! — Gleanings for the History of Bartholomew Fair, No. 2, 

 by Dr. Rirabault, 161 — General Wolfe at Quebec, by J. Noble, 163 — 

 An Irish Junius, by S. Kedmond, 166 — Probation Lists of Merchant 

 Taylors' School, ^fo. 2., by C. J. Robinson, 167. 



Minor Notbs: — The Skull of Robert Bruce — A Curious Advertise- 

 ment, March, 1717 — Books burned and whipped by the Hangman — 

 A novel Race — The Handel Centenaries, 167. 



QUERIES: — The Red Ribbon of the Order of the Bath, by W. J. 

 rinks, 168. 



Minor Qorries : — Editha Pope — Portrait of Archbishop King — Pro- 

 vincial Words: "Shim " — Last Wolf in Scotland — Bishop Murphy's 

 Irish MSS. — Dr. Maginn and Mr. Harrison Ainsworth — J. Ander- 

 son— Journal of the First Earl of Bellomont — Capt. Cobb and 

 Lieut.-Col. Fearon — Ballad on Sir John Eland, of Eland, co. York 

 -Beer and its Strength — Thomason's " Memories " — Innismurray— 

 Winkley Family— Dr. Donne's Seal — the Skeletons at Cuma with 

 Wax Heads, &c. 168. 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Lady Rous — Sing si diderum — 

 Sir John Dan vers — Song — Blewman — Lady Capel, 171. 



REPLIES: -" Molly Mog," by J. Yeowell, &c., 172 — 1 John v. 7., by 

 T. J. Buckton, 175. 



Replies to Minor Queries ; — C. J. Hare's Orthographical Peculiari- 

 ties — Torture — Blodins — Qnalitied : Fansens— " Then push about 

 the flowing bowl "— St. Dominic— John Lord Cutts- '"The Young 

 Travellers, or a Visit to Oxford " — Bacon on Conversation — Biblio- 

 graphical Queries — Gauntlope — Etoccutum — Quotations Wanted — 

 Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., &c., 176. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



GLEANINGS FOB THE HISTORY OF BARTHOLOMEW 

 FAIR. 

 NO. II. 



In glancing over Mr. Mobley's Memoirs of 

 the Bartholomew revels, one cannot but regret 

 many important omissions. If, when he under- 

 took the history of the Smithfield saturnalia, Mr. 

 MoRLEY thought it beneath him to make re- 

 searches among the lives and chronicles of "rogues 

 and vagabonds," he should have left the task to 

 other hands. 



Among the books which Mr. Morley most 

 certainly ought to have seen are the two fol- 

 lowing, but no mention of them is to be found in 

 his pages : — 



1. " The Wits, or Sport upon Sport : being a curioas 

 Collection of several Drolls and Farces acted at Bar- 

 tholomew Fair. 8vo. 1660." 



2. " The Stroller's Pacquet Open'd, Containing Seven 

 Jovial Drolls, calculated for the Meridian of Bartholomew 

 and Southwark Fairs. 8vo. 1741." 



These two little volumes are invaluable to the 

 historian of the fair ; and there are many other 

 works, perhaps equally important, unknown or 

 at least unmentioned by Mr. Morley. I may 

 name at once — 



1. " Smithfield Groans, or the horrid Wickedness com- 

 mitted and connived at in Bartholomew Fair. (In 

 rhyme.) 4to. 1707." 



2. « Bart'lemy Fair, or an Enquiry after Wit. 8vo. 

 1709." 



3. " The Cloister, a Poem on Bartholomew Fair. 12mo. 

 1707." 



4. " Judith and Holofemes, as Acted at Bartholomew 

 Fair. To be sold in the Booth of Lee and Harper, &c. 

 n. d." 



5. " The Suppression of Drolls at Bartholomew Fair. 

 (Contained in A Pacquet from Will's. 8vo. 1701.)" 



&c. 



Having in my first paper given some curious 

 notices of actors at the Fair, I shall proceed to 

 name a few of the dancers, harlequins, posture- 

 masters, &c., either imperfectly described or 

 omitted in Mr. Morley's volume. 



About the year 1689 a Dutch woman made 

 her appearance in this country : 



" And when," says Granger, " she first danced and 

 vaulted upon the rope in London, the spectators beheld 

 her with pleasure mixed with pain, as she seemed every 

 moment in danger of breaking her neck." 



She was speedily engaged for the Fair, and, 

 as one of the hand- bills has it, — 



" You will see the famous Dutch Woman's side-capers, 

 upright- capers, cross-capers, and back-capers on the tight 

 rope. She walks too on the slack rope, which no woman 

 but herself can do." 



Gildon says : — 



" Oh, what a charming sight it was to see Madam 

 what d'j'e call her, the High German woman, swim it 

 along the stage between her two gipsy daughters ; they 

 skated along the ice so cleverly, you might have sworn 

 they were of right Dutch extraction." 



This was the Dutchwoman whom the author 

 of the London Spy saw at a somewhat later date. 

 Two prints of her, by Lawson and Tempest, are 

 extant, one representing her dancing on a strained 

 rope, the other vaulting on a slack rope. 



Another of Mb. MorlSy's omissions is Cad- 

 man, the famous " flyer " on the rope, immor- 

 talised by Hogarth, and who broke his neck 

 descending from a steeple in Shrewsbury. He 

 was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary Friars. 

 The following homely l^^es on a little tablet let 

 into the church wall over his grave perpetuate 

 the event : — 



" Let this small monument record the name 

 Of Cadman, and to future times proclaim 

 How, by an attempt to fly from this high spire. 

 Across the Sabrine stream, he did acquire 

 His fatal end. 'Twas not for want of skill, 

 Or courage, to perform the task, he fell : 

 rNo, no, — a fault}' cord, being drawn too tight, 

 •< Hurried his soul on high to take her flight, 

 (.Which bid the body here beneath, good night." 



Poor Cadman was a constant exhibiter at Bar- 

 tholomew and Southwark Fairs from 1720 to 

 1740, the period of his death. I have several of 

 his handbills, but they are too long for quotation 

 in the present paper. 



Under the year 1688, Mb. Mobley says : — 



" The most famous of the Merry Andrews of that day 

 was William Phillips, of whom there are several en- 

 gravings. It would be pleasant if we could identify this 

 jester with the unknown William Phillips, by whom a 

 tragedy was written. It was published in 1698 as ' The 

 Eevengeful Queen.' " 



Under the following year, after attempting to 



