2n<> S. VIII. July 23. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Pregnane}] a ground of Reprieve (2"'' S. viii. 29.) 

 — The ground for the "reprieve" under the cir- 

 cumstances respecting which Ache inquires, was 

 that bare humanity forbade the extinction of a 

 guiltless life, along with that of the criminal. But 

 the following, from Hudibras (Part iii. canto i. 

 11. 883, 884.), will show that the " vulgar error" 

 (if it be one, in the strict sense of the term), is of 

 wide spread and long standing : — 



" Who, therefore, in a strait, may freely 

 Demand the clergy of her belly." 



B. B. WOODW^KD. 

 Haverstock Hill. 



Bull and Bear (2"^ S. vii. 585. &c.) — Your 

 correspondent has probably mistaken ray mean- 

 ing. I do not say that the terms were not known, 

 but he will pardon if I doubt still whether they 

 were very generally used. Swift, it is true (loc. 

 cit.), says Curll sold the Thirty-nine Articles to 

 the Jews, who converted him " for a Bull ; " but 

 here it is evident the phrase applies to the trans- 

 action, and not to the person. Again, it is very 

 curious that in Foote's Mayor of Garratt (written 

 in 1763), although one of the principal characters 

 is a stockbroker, and though, on account of his 

 bearishness, he is called Bruin, yet there is not 

 the slightest allusion to Bulls and Bears in con- 

 nexion with the Stock Exchange throughout the 

 piece ; and, when we think how irresistible a 

 pun always was to Foote, it seems impossible to 

 believe that these phrases were familiar to him. 

 I hope your correspondent Mr. Wylie will not 

 lose sight of the subject. It is not only curious 

 in itself, but, as he suggests, it may assist us much 

 in judging how far to rely on Horace Walpole's 

 knowledge, or rather affected ignorance, of things 

 of the day. A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



John Bedmayne (2""* S. viii. 46.) — John Red- 

 mayne was of Caius College, Cambridge; B.A. 

 1644-0, M.A. 1648, D.D. by royal mandate, 1661. 

 In the printed Graduati he is called Redman, and 

 his college is not given. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Herhert Knowles (2°* S. viii. 55.) — Herbert 

 Knowles was born at Gomersall, near Leeds, in 

 1798. Brother of J. C. Knowles, an eminent 

 barrister on the Northern Circuit, and Q. C. 

 Destined for the ledger at Liverpool ; was placed 

 in the Grammar School at Richmond ; lauded by 

 Montgomery in " The Christian Poet." Died at 

 Gomersall, Feb. 17, 1817. He left behind him a 

 manuscript volume of poems, the earliest of which 

 was published in the Liteixiry Gazette for 1824. 

 His " Three Tabernacles " is a fine composition. — 

 Carlisle's Hist, of Endoxved Grammar Schools. 



J. S. 



John Heylin (2"* S. viii. 46.) — John Heylin 

 was of Emmanuel College, Cambwdge, B.A. 

 1622-3, M.A. 1626. C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Sflt3cenauc0tiS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Camden jUiscellany, Volume the Fourth. (Camden 

 Society.) 



The volmnes of The Camden 3Iiscellany have always 

 been among the most popular of any issued by the 

 Society; and our readers may judge from the curiosity 

 and interest of the contents of the present volume how 

 far it is likely to equal its predecessors in the favour of 

 the Members. It contains seven articles : — I. A London 

 Chronicle during the Reigns of Henry VII. and Henry 

 VIII., edited from the Original 3fS. in the Cottonian Li- 

 brary by Mr. Hopper. II. The Expenses of the Judges of 

 Assize riding the Westerri and Oxford Circuits temp. 

 Elizabeth, 1596^1601, from the MS. Account Book of 

 Thomas Walmysley, One of the Judges of the Common 

 Pleas, edited by Mr. Durrant Cooper. III. The Skryce- 

 ner's Play : The Incredulity of St. Thomas ; from a MS, 

 in the Possession of John Sykes, MI)., of Doncaster, 

 edited by Mr. Collier. IV. The Childe of Bristow, a Poem 

 by John Lydgate, edited, from the Original MS. in the 

 British Museum, by Mr. Hopper. V. Sir Edward Lake's 

 Account of his Interviews luith Charles I., edited by Mr. 

 Langmead. VI. The Letters of Pope to Atterbury ichen 

 in the Tower of London, edited by Mr. J. G. Isichols. 

 And the last article is, VII. Supplementary Note to the 

 Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell in March, 

 1627-8, edited by Mr. J. G. Nichols, who contributed the 

 original paper on the subject in the second volume of 

 The Caniden Miscellany. 



Diary of the 3Iarches of the Royal Army during the 

 Great Civil War, kept by Richard Symonds; now First 

 Published from the Original MS. in the British Museum. 

 Edited by Charles Long, M.A. (Camden Society.) 



This Diary of an officer who, at the outbreak of the 

 Civil Wars, joined the Royal standard — and who, during 

 the various operations in which he was engaged, seems 

 never to have lost sight of his ruling passion — the love 

 of topography, genealogy, and heraldry — but to have 

 marched, note-book in hand, ready to jot down whatever 

 he saw in old churches or mansions illustrative of his 

 favourite studies, has long been known to antiquaries as 

 a valuable record of much that is now lost, and which but 

 for Symonds' notes would be altogether forgotten. Parrj-, 

 Shaw, Hutchins, Nichols, L3'sons, and Walpole, have all 

 made use of the original MS. This is now placed at the 

 service of all interested in the pursuits which occupied 

 the attention of Richard Symonds ; and their thanks are 

 due to the Camden Societj' for undertaking the publica- 

 tion of this curious volume, and in an especial degree to 

 ]Mr. Long for the trouble bestowed on its editorship. We 

 ought to add, that it is accompanied by that great essen- 

 tial to a work like the present — a full and well-compiled 

 Index of Names and Places. 



The Quarterly Revieiv, No. 211., July, 1859. (Murray.) 

 The present Quarterly, if somewhat less political than 

 usual, is, if possible, more varied and amusing. Its only 

 political article. The Invasion of England, is devoted to 

 the important subject which is at last engaging, as it 

 ought to have done long since, the attention of all par- 

 ties, the defences of the country. The Progress of Geology, 

 and The Islands of the Pacific, are articles calculated to 

 interest the man of science. Two capital biographical 



