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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'i S. VIII. July 23. '69. 



Mr. Pearson gives what to ordinary eyes would 

 seem a very unpleasing Portrait of Leighton, 

 though be seems to think very differently of it 

 (p. civ.) : it is " Engraved by A. W. Warren from 

 a Portrait by White." Is there any other authen- 

 tic Portrait known to exist ? * Mr. Pearson says 

 the Archbishop had always a strong objection to 

 have his portrait taken, and that it was taken 

 clandestinely (p. cxlii.) 



With regard to Abp. Leigh ton's Death, it is to 

 be regretted that Mr. Pearson did not give Bp. 

 Burnet's exact words, instead of paraphrasing 

 them : — 



" He used often to say that if he were to choose a place 

 to die in, it should be an Jnn. It looked like a Pilgrim's 

 going Home, to whom this World was all as an Inn, and 

 who was weary of the noise and confusion in it. He 

 added that the officious tenderness and care of friends 

 was an entanglement to a dying man ; and that the un- 

 concerned attendance of those that could be procured in 

 such a place would give less disturbance. And he ob- 

 tained what he desired ; for he died at the Bell Inn in 

 Warwick-lane." 



To Burnet's account, I may append that of Dr. 

 Fall, who also was well acquainted with Leighton. 

 After a glowing eulogy on his holy Life and 

 " Heavenly Converse," he proceeds : — 



" Such a Life, we may easily persuade ourselves, must 

 make the thought of Death, not onlj' tolerable, but de- 

 sirable. Accordingly it had this noble effect upon him. 

 In a Paper left under his own hand [since lost] he be- 

 speaks that day in a most glorious and triumphant man- 

 ner: his Expressions seem rapturous and ecstatic, as 

 though his Wishes and Desires had anticipated the real 

 and solemn celebration of his Nuptials with the Lamb of 

 God .... He sometimes expressed his desire of not 

 being troublesome to his friends at his Death ; and God 

 gratified to the full his modest humble choice : he dj'ing 

 at an Inn t» his sleep. ... So kind and condescending a 

 Master do we serve, who not only enriches the Souls of 

 His faithful servants with His best Treasures, but often 

 indulges them in lesser matters [and giveth to His beloved 

 even in their Sleep.] " — Preface to Tracts, Lond., 1708. 



It will be remembered that Abp. Leighton 

 resigned his See in 1673, and retired to Broad- 

 hurst, a demesne in the parish of Horsted Keynes, 

 near Cuckfield, Sussex, belonging to his sister, 

 the widow of Edward Lightmaker, Esq. ; and 

 with her he continued till his death, in 1684. His 

 remains were conveyed to Horsted Keynes, which 

 is described as a picturesque village nestled in hills 

 and woods, in the rich country bordering the 

 South Downs, and were interred in an ancient 

 chancel, which has since been taken down. About 

 three years ago an Appeal was made for funds to 



* Lowndes mentions a Selection from Leighton's Works, 

 Lond. 1758, 8vo., which has a portrait, aet. 40. 1654, by 

 E. Strange. I may remark that in Mr. Pearson's edition, 

 as published by H. Bohn in two vols., Lond. 1846, there 

 is a much more pleasing portrait than that in the library 

 edition : the former was " Engraved by H. Adiard from a 

 Portrait by White ; and published bv James Duncan, 37. 

 Paternoster Row, March, 1829." 



raise a Memorial to Abp. Leighton. Those who 

 issued the Appeal proposed to erect a plain tomb, 

 bearing the original inscription, on the spot where 

 Leighton is interred ; as the slab which covered 

 his grave was broken, and the pieces built into 

 the adjacent wall.* Their next object was to raise 

 a fund for the support of the Horsted Keynes 

 Schools, which had been reduced by the loss of an 

 endowment which came from the Lightmakers. 

 I have never heard how this Appeal prospered, or 

 whether the thousand pounds solicited were col- 

 lected. EiRIONNACH. 



P. S. Since this paper has been in the Edi- 

 tor's hands I have had an opportunity ©f seeing 

 Lowndes. His bibliography of Leighton is very 

 imperfect, and, I trust, will be improved in Mr. 

 Bohn's reprint. I was surprised to find that, 

 though he places Mr. Pearson's Edition first, he 

 does not take the popular estimate of it. After 

 enumerating the editions of Pearson, Middleton, 

 and Jerment, he remarks of the last, viz. Dr. Jer- 

 ment's edit, of 1820, "By far the best Edition of 

 these most valuable Avorks. The former Editions 

 are extremely incorrect." By " former editions " 

 Lowndes refers not to time, but to the order in 

 which he places them. Let me ask in conclusion. 

 Is Dr. Jerment's " by far the best edition ? " and, 

 if so, is it a really good one ? 



PROHIBITION or PROPHECIES. 



Prophecies upon declaration of arms, fields, 

 names, cognizances, or badges, were made felony 

 without benefit of clergy by 33 Hen. VIII. c. 14. 

 The 5thEliz. c. 15. was directed against the same 

 mischief, but was less severe in its punishment, 

 which was only imprisonment. The latter statute 

 prohibited prophecies by writing, singing, or other 

 open speech or deed, by the occasion of any arms, 

 fields, beasts, badges, or other like things accus- 

 tomed in arms, cognizances, or signets, or by rea- 

 son of any time, year, or day, name, bloodshed, or 

 war, to the intent thereby to make any rebellion, 

 insurrection, dissension, loss of life, or other dis- 

 turbance within this realm, or other the Queen's 

 dominions. Upon these enactments Lord Coke 

 remai'ks, (3 Inst. p. 128.) : — 



" He that hath read our histories shall find what 

 lamentable and fatal events have fallen out upon vain 

 prophecies carried out of the inventions of wicked men, 

 pretended to be ancient, but newly framed to deceive true 

 men : and withal, how credulous and inclinable our coun- 

 trj'men in former times to them have been." 



Some instances of punishment inflicted on ac- 

 count of prophecies occur in history. Thus Do- 

 mitian put Metius Pomposianus to death, for 

 having an imperatorial nativity (i. e. an astrologi- 



r* S«e"N.&Q."l'tS. ix. 8.] 



