2»<» S. VIII. ifov. 6. '6JJ.] 



NOTES Alfl) QUERIES. 



369 



LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 185». 



N». 201. — CONTENTS. 



NOTfeS: — The Gunpowder Plot. &c.,369 — General Wolfeat Quebec, 

 by J. Noble, 370— Talbot Monuments, by Sir T. E. Winnington, 371 — 

 The New Te.-tainent in Modern Greek, by J. U. van Lennep, lb. — 

 Problem in Rhyme, by Professor De Morgan, 372 — Inscriptions and 

 Epitaphs. 373 — Hoop Petticoats and Crinoline, 374 — The Epitaph of 

 Dean Nowell, and Import of the Contraction " I.," by John Gough 

 Nichols, lb. 



Minor Notes : — Richmond and its Maids of Honour — Ancient Will 

 — Statistics of Letters sent by Post — Cromwell's Remains — An an- 

 cient Strilce, 375. 



QUERIES :-Stratford Family, by Thomas Nicholson, 376 - 

 to Seals, lb. 



Queries aa 



Minor QoERiES!— Mrs. Myddelton — Cashel Progresses — Unburied 

 Ambassadors _ "The Golden Botigh " — "The Wasp" — Papier 

 Moure — Kentish Longtails — Pm-kess Family — Welsh J udges — Col. 

 Johnes of Havod,&c., 377. 



MiNOK Queries with Answers:— Fuller and the Ferrars — Hammer- 

 cloth— Fisli wick— Scavenger's Daughter — John Baptist Jacksoii — 

 " An Help unto Deuocion '^— Stc Ampoule, &c., 380. 



REPLIES: — Napoleon's Escape from Elba, 382 — Titles conftrred by 

 Oliver Cromwell, lb. — Biblical Conjecture -Notes : the right Date 

 of the ICpistle to the Hebrews, by T. J. Buckton,383— Francis Bur- 

 gersdicius, by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, 384 — George Herbert and Theo- 

 critus, 385 — Oliver St. John, by John Maclean, 386. 



Rbpi,ies to Minor Queries : — Seals of Officers who perished in Aff- 



fhanistan — Louis the Fifteenth: Earl of Stirling — Cloven Foot — 

 caudal against Queen Elizabeth, &c.,386. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



flatti, 



THE GUNPOWDER Ptd'T. 



The following document is alluded to by Mr. 

 Jardine in his Criminal Trials, but, with the ex- 

 ception of the Latin words at the end being 

 quoted, no extract from it is given. In no other 

 work is it mentioned at all, and up to this day it 

 has remained unprinted. 



There is a quaintness and minuteness about it 

 which, coupled with its object and its curious 

 wording, renders it worthy of insertion in " N. & 

 Q." Moreover, it derives some additional interest 

 from being entirely in James I.'s handwriting. 



I perhaps may be doing some service by send- 

 ing it up to your columns. It was issued at noon 

 on the 6ih November, 1605 ; and it was under 

 the authority contained in it that the torture was 

 applied to f^awkes. That it was applied in no 

 lenient spirit will be evident to anyone who will 

 take the trouble of carefully examining his sig- 

 natures affixed to the examinations preserved in 

 the State Paper Office. 



It is in that repository that this document, 

 lying side by side with the wretched signatures of 

 the unhappy Fawkes, is still kept; and there 

 those who are curious in such matters may yet 

 see it. W. O. VV. 



"This examinate wolde nou be maid to ansoure to 

 formall interrogatories — 



1. as quhat he is for I can neuer yet heave of any man 

 that knowis him. 



2. quhaire he was borne. 



3. quhat uaire his parents names. 



4. quhat age he is of. 



5. quliaire he hath liued. 



6. hou he hath liued and by quhat trade of lyfe. 



7. hou he ressaued tliose woundes in his brieste. 



8. if he was euer in service with any other before percie 

 and quhat they uaire and hou long. 



9. hou came he in percies service by quhat meaiis 

 and at quhat tyme. 



10. quhat tyme was the house hyred by his roai'ster. 



11. and hou soone after the possessing of it did he be- 

 ginnc to his devillishe preparations. 



12. quhen and quhaire lernid he to speake frenshe. 



13. quhat gentlewomans letter it was that was found 

 npon him. 



14. and quhairfore doth she give him another name 

 in it than he gives to himself. 



15. if he was euer a papiste and if so quho broche hiiil 

 up in it. 



16. if other wayes hou was he conuerted, quhaire, 

 quhen, and by quhom ; this course of his lyfe I ame the 

 more desyrous to knou because I haue dyuers motives 

 leading me to suspect that he hath remained long be- 

 yonde the seas and ather is a preiste or hath long seruid 

 some preiste or fugitive abroad, for I cann yett (as I said 

 in the beginning heirof ) meite with no man that knowis 

 him, the letter found ujwn him giues him another name, 

 and those that best knowis his maister can neuer remem- 

 ber to haue seene him in his companie ; quhaire upon it 

 should seeme that he hath bene reccomendit by some 

 personnis to his maistersseruice.only for this use, qnhairein 

 only he hath seruid him : and thairfore he wold also bfe 

 asked in quhat company and shippe he went out of Eng- 

 land and the porte he shipped at and the lyke quasstions 

 wolde be asked anent the forme of his returne : as for 

 these trumpery waires founde upon him the signification 

 and use of euerie one of them wolde be knowin; and 

 quhat I haue obserued in them the Bearer will shou you : 

 nou haste; ye remember of the crewallie uillanous pas- 

 quill that rayted upon me for the name ofbrittain* if 

 I remember right it spake something of haruest and 

 prophecied my destruction about that tyme, ye maye 

 thinke of this for it is tyde to be the labour of such a des- 

 perate fellow as this is : if he will not otherwayes confess 

 the gentler tortours are to be first usid unto him and sic 

 per gradus ad ima tenditur and so god speede youre 

 goode worke. 



"James R." 

 Endorsed by Salisbury " The K's Articles." 



Discovery of Gunpowder Plot by the Magic 

 Mirror. — The celebrated painter, the late John 

 Varley, so well known for his attachment to the 

 study of astrology, used to say there was a tradi- 

 tion among the students of the Occult Sciences, 

 that Gunpowder Plot was discovered by Dr. John 

 Dee by means of a magic mirror : and he urged 

 the difficulty, if not impossibility, of interpret- 

 ing Lord Monteagle's letter without some other 

 clue or information ; the improbability of being 

 able to get powder into the House at all, at any 

 rate in sufficient quantity; the difficulty of dis- 

 charging it at the right time, and the knowledge 

 that friend and foe must in such a case perish 

 together, all would prevent the suspicion of the 

 existence of such a plot. I never certainly had 

 heard of such a tradition, and I could not think it 

 existed, but was very much surprised the other 

 day, on looking over the plates in an old Common 

 Prayer Book, 18mo., printed by Baskett, 1737, to 

 find an engraving of the following scene. In the 

 centre is a circular mirror on a stand, in which 



For assuming the title of King of Great Britain. 



