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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 23. 1859. 



No. 186. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Archbishop Leighton's "Works, 61 — Prohibition of Prophe- 

 cies, 64 — Memorials to the Treasury, by William Henry Hart, 65 — 

 Inedited Letter of Bishop Patrick, 60— Witchcraft in Churning, &c., 

 67. 



MiKoR Notes : — Dr. Johnson's Chair — A long disputed Point settled 



— OiirNavy Two hundred Years ago — The "Minerva" Library, 68. 



Minor Qoeries : - Lyster Family — Richard Woodroffe — Early Eng- 

 lish Printing andPresses — Old Graveyards in Ireland — Barum Top 

 _ Stonehenge — Quotation wanted — Le contrat Mohatra — Residence 

 within the Tower of London — Sir Thomas Lawrence: Linley — 

 Cromwell and Scotland — Shelley and Barhamwick — Shooting 

 Soldiers — "An History of British Worthies"— MS. Question in 

 Paraphrase of Erasmus — County Voter's Qualification —Wink- 

 James Read, D.D., 69. 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Paintings at Vauxhall — Henry 

 William Bunbury —" Scraping an Acquaintance " — Wrotham, co. 

 Kent — Places in Surrey — English Translations of" Don Quixote" 



— A Pair of Gloves preferred to the Bible, 70. 



REPLIES : _ British Anthropophagi, by T. Stephens, &o., 71 — Lilac, 

 Syringa ; or Philadelphus, 73 — Cambridge Costume, 74. 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Michael Drayton's Poems, Lj-rick and 

 Pastorall — Cardinal Howard — Watsou Family — Gravediggers — 

 Nathaniel Ward — "Urban" as a Christian Name— Scotch Para- 

 phrases—Knights made by Cromwell — Richard Pepys — Woodroof 

 (Asperula odoratal — Inn Signs by Eminent Artists— "Englishry" 

 andt" Irishry," — Watermarks in Paper — John AUington — Tooth 

 and Egg Metal, Tutenag, &c., 75. 



Notes on Books, sc. 



Haiti* 



ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON's WORKS. 



(^Concluded from p. 44.) 



In considering Leighton's language, I may ob- 

 serve that he never uses the corrupt phrase averse 

 to, sometimes used in his day, and almost univer- 

 sally at the present day, but always writes " averse 

 from." 



Abp. Leighton, from his learned and allusive 

 style, and the imperfect state of his MSS., pecu- 

 liarly requires annotation. While this want is 

 admirably supplied, as regai'ds the Eighteen Ser- 

 mons, by the second editor ; Mr. Pearson, on the 

 other hand, does not attempt to verify the quota- 

 tions, develop the allusions, or explain what is 

 obscure. While directing attention to the Notes of 

 Rivington's edition, I do not include the Appendix 

 or Addenda, which extend from p. 297. to p. 347. 

 inclusive, and contain a number of separate trea- 

 tises, which, however excellent in themselves, 

 would doubtless be considered as undesirable in a 

 reprint. 



Having thus tested the modern standard edition 

 of Abp. Leighton's Works, so far as the Eighteen 

 Sermons go, by a comparison with the original 

 text, I must leave it to others, who have the ne- 

 cessary books within reach, to apply a similar test 

 to the remaining works. 



Mr. Pearson gives thirty-three Sermons, but 

 does not inform us when the last fifteen were first 

 published. Along with an Exposition on the 

 Creed, &c.. Dr. Fall published, in 1701, two Ser- 

 mons (Nos. 29. and 30. in Pearson) : one on 

 Matt. xxii. 37—39., the other on Heb. viii. 10. 

 A third Sermon, viz. one delivered " before the 

 Parliament at Edinburgh," was published in 1708 



along with Leighton's Rules for a Holy Life, and 

 Short Catechism — this is No. 28. in Pearson. 

 Ten- new Sermons were published by Wilson in 

 1746 : two Sermons then remain which I cannot 

 account for. 



On the last fifteen Sermons, as they stand in 

 Pearson, I shall make a few Notes and Queries. 



_ " As that luxurious King who caused to be painted on 

 his tomb two fingers as sounding one upon another, with 

 that word. All is not worth so much, Non tanti est." — 

 Serm. XIX. p. 304. 



Who was "that luxurious King," who thus 

 snapped his fingers at the world he had to leave ? 



" That Rabbin who lived twelve years in a dungeon in 

 Francis's time, called a book he wrote The Polar Splen- 

 dour ; implying that he had then seen most intellectual 

 light when he had seen least sensible light." — Serm. 

 XXXII. p. 448. 



Who was that illuminated Eabbi ? Again, Who 

 was Zopyrus ? * 



" If that Persian Prince could so prize his ZopjTus, 

 who was mangled for his service," &c. — Serm. XXXIII. 

 p. 473. 



Whose words are referred to in the following 

 passage ? — 



" As he said of ' golden cups and wooden priests,' so we 

 may say of that Church which values them so much, 

 They are well looked to, neatly adorned, but their priests 

 grossly ignorant." — lb, p. 464. 



To be at a point with, meaning I suppose to he 

 at daggers drawn, as we may say, is a phrase 

 I have not met before. It occurs in Sermon 

 XXVI., '■''that thou art at a point with all the 

 world, and hast given up all to wait on Him," p. 

 399. 



To run the back-tt'ade is another phrase new to 

 me : — 



" But that we may imitate Him in his Life, we must 

 run the back-trade, and begin with His Death, and must 

 die with Him."— Serm. XXVIII. p. 416. 



" Brangled," meaning shaken, occurs in the same 

 Sermon : — 



" Will the pillars be brangled, because of the swarm of 

 flies that are about them ? " p. 414. 



"As shuffles and hot quarrels." — Serm. XIX. p. 306. 

 Is not " shufiies " a misprint for scuffles ? 

 " Distorted or violented." — Serm. XXIV. p. 367. 



Is the latter word genuine, or a misprint for 

 violenced ? Should not " affront " in the following 

 passage be assent ; implicit obedience (even though 

 the consequence be injurious), being preferred to 

 and contrasted with " a profitable breach " of 

 orders ? 



" We know how heinously Kings take the presumption 

 of their Ambassadors in this kind ; though reason be pre- 

 tended, and perhaps justly, yet even thet/ account Obedi- 

 ence better than Sacrifice : yea, some of them have been 

 so precise and tender of their Prerogative, that they have 



[* See the story of Zopyrus in Herodotus, iii. c. 153., &c.] 



