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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VIII. JuLTf 30. '59. 



The History of the Indian Hevolt, by VV. & R. Chambers, 

 1859, p. 42., and The Sepoy Revolt, hy Henry Mead, 1857, 

 p. 57.] 



Eev. Thomas Harrison. — Wanted information 

 regarding Thomas Harrison, author of Belte- 

 sJiazzar, a dramatic poem, also of Sermons. What 

 was the date of his death ? Z. A. 



[Nichols (^Leicestershire, iii. 382.) has the following 

 note: "Mr. Harrison had been a dissenting minister, 

 but conformed. He was inducted into the vicarage of 

 Katcliffe, April 15, 1729, and was buried in St. Peter's 

 churchyard, St. Alban's, with the following epitaph: 

 * Here lieth the body of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Harrison, 

 late Vicar of RatclifFe in Leicestershire, who departed this 

 life 30 March, 1745, aged 62. Mrs. Mary Harrison, his 

 mournful relict, who died 29 August, 1747, aged 53.' "] 



RoideMap of Switzerland. — I shall be glad to 

 learn through the medium of your pages what 

 map of Switzerland is to be preferred by an in- 

 tending pedestrian, in point of accuracy and com- 

 pleteness, the size of course not being such as to 

 encumber the pocket or knapsack. T. M. 



[Our correspondent will of course provide himself with 

 Murray's Handbook for Switzerland, and from that he 

 ■will learn that " the New Map of Switzerland, scale xooW> 

 published by the Federal Government, under the direc- 

 tion of General Dufour, and sold by all the booksellers, is 

 by far the best. This map contains not only every road 

 and every path of importance, but even every single 

 house and barn, but is too large for pedestrians." Mur- 

 ray's Handbook is accompanied with a Clue Map of Swit- 

 zerland for travellers.] 



R. Roxby and J. Shield. — Could you give me 

 some account of these two Newcastle poets, and 

 the titles of their works ? Z. A. 



[Robert Roxby was born at Needless Hall, Reeds- 

 dale, Northumberland, and led a rambling kind of life 

 imtil his twenty-fifth year, when he became a banker's 

 clerk. In 1808, he published The Lay of the Reedwater 

 Minstrel, a ballad poem. In 1822, in conjunction with 

 Mr. Doubleday, he published a series of lyrics, entitled. 

 The Coquetdale Fishing Songs. Several copies of verses, 

 contributed by him, will be found in Richardson's Table 

 Book, and other local works. He died on July 30, 1846, 

 in Newcastle, aged 79. There is a portrait of him, exe- 

 cuted in 1838, by Nicholson, from a sketch by Train. 



John Shield was formerly an extensive grocer in 

 Newcastle. His local songs have considerable excellence 

 for their humour and imagination, especially his comic 

 production " My Lord 'Size," written on the accidental 

 fall into the Tyne of Mr. Baron Graham. Of a serious 

 character his song of " Poor Tom, the Blind Boj'," and 

 the verses he addressed to Greathead, one of the inven- 

 tors of the life-boat, sufficiently prove the versatility of 

 his talent. Mr. Shields died on Aug. 6, 1848, at Broom- 

 haugh, near Hexham, aged 80. See Latimer's Local 

 Records, pp. 217. 249., 1857.] 



3Siepliti* 



SEAN CONTBEAEE's "ELEMENTARY LECTURES." 



(2"" S. vii. 505.) 

 Your correspondent R. C. asked whether a 

 work, entitled an Elementary Course of Lectures on 



the Criticism, hUerpretation and Leading Doctrines 

 of the Bible, by the late Dean Conybeare, first 

 published in 1834, had been reprinted? 



A note to that Query gives a reply in the nega- 

 tive ; but that statement I am glad to contradict, 

 agreeing cordially in opinion with your corre- 

 spondent as to the value of this little volume. 

 Some time ago I made inquiries as to the exist- 

 ence of a second edition, but unsuccessfully ; and 

 I therefore concluded with the editor of "N. & 

 Q." that the work had not been reprinted. At 

 length I ascertained that it had been republished 

 in 1836. The work appeared to me to be well 

 adapted for the use of readers of a humbler class 

 than the students to whom the Lectures were 

 originally addressed, viz. the intelligent, acute, 

 deep-thinking artisans, of whom a certain M.P., 

 intimately acquainted with them, remarked, " that 

 with much natural talent they are, alas ! too often 

 unbelievers." For such readers, portions of this 

 work are admirably suited, as it is indeed for men 

 in all ranks of life who are beset with religious 

 doubt — " doubt as to the reality of truth, or 

 doubt as to its application to ourselves." 



The excellent and learned author concurred in 

 this opinion ; and on the very eve of his death, he 

 expressed his willingness to revise the work with 

 the especial view of placing it in the hands of 

 those to whom allusion has been made. After his 

 death, and before the 2nd edition had been disco- 

 vered, the work was committed for revision to an 

 able divine and classical scholar, who has also gone 

 to his rest ; and the publication of the work, in 

 another form, has, for the present at least, been 

 abandoned. I may add that the later edition of 

 1836 was enlarged to the extent of nearly 200 

 pages. A lecture is prefixed, " On the right 

 Application of Classical and Scientific Education 

 to the Purposes of Theological Instruction." To 

 this lecture four Appendixes are subjoined : one 

 from the pen of the late Professor Blunt, " On the 

 probable History of the Successive Production of 

 the several Evangelical Narratives, and on the 

 undesigned Coincidences which they exhibit." 

 This masterly paper the Professor possibly ex- 

 panded into one of those admirable volumes for 

 which the Church of Christ is so deeply indebted. 



I have replied thus fully to the Query of your 

 correspondent R. C, believing that the work in 

 question may not be so generally known as it 

 deserves to be. As the production of a learned 

 divine — one also famed for his scientific know- 

 ledge — this manual is deserving a careful perusal, 

 and a wide circulation. J. H. Markland. 



"ANDREW MABVELl's LETTER TO JOHN MILTON. 



(2'"> S. viii. 47.) 

 This letter is given correctly in Symmons' Life 

 of Milton. Mk. HorPEE assumes, with Symmons 



