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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d S. VIII. Nov. 5. '59. 



B.A. 1648-9; was admitted Fellow of St. John's 

 College, by command of the Visitors, 2nd April, 

 1650, and commenced M.A., 1652. He has com- 

 mendatory verses prefixed to Gayton's Art of 

 Lojigeviti/, 1659. Is he identical with Sir John 

 Heath, Knt., who, in 1670, was patron of the 

 vicarage of Horninghold, Leicestershire ? 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



Nelsoris Car. — What has become of the funeral 

 car of Nelson ? When I was a youth it used to 

 stand at the upper end of the Painted Hall, 

 Greenwich. Delta. 



Campbeltoii, Argyleshire. — Is there any engraving 

 extant of the ancient and very perfect cross, now 

 standing in the market-place of Campbelton, and 

 said to have been brought there from lona ? I 

 could not ascertain this fact on the spot, nor could 

 I meet with any published record of it. 



When Burns' "Highland Mary" died at Green- 

 ock, she was returning to Coilsfield from Camp- 

 belton, whither she had been to announce her 

 approaching marriage to her parents. Was she 

 bor7i at Campbelton ? and if so, is it known when 

 and where ? Cuthbekt Bede. 



Ives of Oxford. — Where can I find the pedi- 

 gree or crest of the family of Ives of Oxford ? 

 In an old paper of 1758, a person is described as 

 "William Ives, Esq., one of the Aldermen of the 

 City of Oxford." And I have been informed that 

 the family of Ives were landed-proprietors to a 

 considerable extent in Oxfordshire, especially 

 about Great Milton. Kya Rubber. 



Philip Kynder, born 1 597, was of Pembroke Hall, 

 B.A. 1615-6. He practised physic, and resided 

 in Derbyshire, and at Leicester and Nottingham. 

 We find him living at the latter town in August, 

 1665. He was the friend of Selden and Charles 

 Cotton; and, in 1656, published a book called 

 The Surfeit. We shall be obliged if any of your 

 correspondents can furnish the date of his decease. 

 We have references respecting him to Lysons' 

 Derbyshire, iv. v. clxxxix. 1. ; Cough's Topo- 

 p-aphy, i. 289.; Bibl. Avgl.-Poet, 199.; Black's 

 Cat. of Ashm. MSS.; and Wood's Fasti (ed. 

 Bliss), i. 162. Any farther informati9n will be 

 acceptable. C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



CambridKe. 



Fuller and the Ferrars. — It is a singular cir- 

 cumstance, and deserving investigation, that the 

 " Short Histories drawn up by Mr. Ferrar, and 

 adapted to the purpose of moral instruction," 

 among the recluses of Little Gidding, of which a 

 ^ist is given in Dr. Peckard's MewoiVs of Nicholas 



Ferrar, perfectly corresponds with the titles of 

 the chapters and the list of instances adduced in 

 Fuller's Holy State, SfC. Nor is there in that 

 work but one character [that bearing the title of 

 " the Traitour "] which is not in Peckard's list. 

 The date of the Holy State, the whole credit of 

 which, though somewhat covertly too, is assumed 

 to himself in Fuller's address "to the Reader," is 

 1648, and yet John Ferrar was then alive. Com- 

 pare The Holy and Profane State with Peckard's 

 Life of Ferrar, in vol. v. p. 168. of Wordsworth's 

 Ecclesiastical Biography. The identity of " the 

 series of histories" is noted in vol. vii. p. 554. 

 of the Beauties of England and Wales, article 

 " Huntingdonshire," where a notice of the Fer- 

 rars is given. Any explanation of this coincidence 

 will oblige Y. B. N. J. 



[A similar Query respecting the authorsbip of these 

 " Short Histories" appeared in our 1" S. ii. 119., which 

 failed to elicit a repl.v. After an examination of the 

 biograpliies of Nicholas Ferrar, we can find nothing that 

 would lead us to deprive Dr. Fuller of their authorship. 

 The first edition of his Holy and Profane State was pub- 

 lished at Cambridge in 1642. In the Prefiicg Fuller in- 

 forms us, that " the characters I have conformed to the 

 then standing laws of the realm (a twelvemonth ago were 

 they sent to the press), since which time the wisdom of the 

 king and state hath altered many things." It is not cer- 

 tain that the MS. copy of these " Short Histories" found 

 at Little Gidding was in the handwriting of Nicholas 

 Ferrar. Dr. Peckard says, " These Lives, Characters, 

 and Moral Essays would, I think,' fill two or three volumes 

 in octavo, but they are written in so minute a character 

 that I cannot form any conjecture to be depended upon." 

 {Life of 3Ir. Nicholas Ferrar, 1790, p. 194.) We find 

 Dr. Wordsworth has added the following note to this 

 passage; "The probabilit.v is, that the greater part, if 

 not the whole, of this Catalogue [of Short Histories] 

 were not original, but extracts; as Dr. Peckard would 

 have been able to satisfy himself by consulting Fuller's 

 JIoli/ State, where many of the titles of the chapters ex- 

 actly correspond with those in this Catalogue." {Eccles. 

 Biog. iv. 193. edit. 1853.) Nicholas Ferrar died Dec. 2, 

 1637 ; Fuller's work, as stated, was published in 1642 ; 

 and the establishment at Little Gidding was not destroyed 

 by the Puritans till 1648; so that it is probable that the 

 MS. possessed by Dr. Peckard was a transcript by one of 

 the family made after the death of its pious founder. 

 Another MS. of these " Short Histories," formerly be- 

 longing to the Gidding establishment, has since been dis- 

 covered, as we learn from The Two Lives of Nicholas 

 Ferrar, edited by the Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, M.A. 1855: 

 " Some five and "twenty years ago an old house in Mid- 

 gate Street, Peterborough, was pulled down : the work- 

 men, knowing Mr. Buckle to be ' a curious gentleman,' 

 brought him some papers, which they had found in a 

 recess in the wall; these turned out to be the Collett 

 letters, together with a transcript (in a difl'erent hand) 

 of Fuller's Holy and Profane State, of which Peckard had 

 a copy." — Appendi.v, p. 292.] 



Hammer- cloth. — I do not think any of our 

 lexicographers have given us the true origin of 

 the word hammer-cloth. The name, I should 

 say, is a corruption of armour-cloth, because, in 

 former times, and not unfrequently now, the cloth 

 in question has affixed to it, or woven into it, the 



