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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



['2»d s. VIII. Oct. 15. '59. 



has agreed to elope •with her lover at midnight. He does 

 not come, and she goes to bed ; he enters through the 

 window at one, and finds her so sound asleep that he is 

 obliged to shout 'Wake up Elizabeth' several times in a 

 speech of fourteen lines before he can rouse her. In a 

 picture (of which there are many in the book) she is in 

 her night-dress, very fat and sleepy. Afterwards he kills 

 himself, and appears to her all over fire ; and she turns 

 nun, and as such is painted thin and graceful. In another 

 play the hero, Maximin, stabs himself six times, follow- 

 ing each stab with a comment of ten lines, and those 

 Alexandrines, except the last, when, after declaring in 

 the first that the sword has gone through his heart and 

 he feels it on the other side, he observes that it is no 

 wonder that the enemy never could kill him as he has 

 been put to so much trouble to kill himself, and he dies 

 at the sixth line." — Remarks upon Remarks, chiefly re- 

 lating to the Stage (pp. 64., London), p. 17. 



The date is defaced, but I think it is 1710. 



In some instances I observe that the author 

 prefers facetiousness to accuracy, though I cannot 

 accuse him of wilful falsification. As some of 

 your correspondents are conversant with Dutch 

 literature, perhaps they will inform me whether 

 the passages quoted above are genuine, and fair 

 e.\amples of Dutch tragedy. J.F.J. 



Memoir of Archbishop Newcome. — Stuart, in his 

 Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh (in his 

 account of William Newcome, D.D., Archbishop 

 of the diocese), p. 461., informs us that 



" It is said there is extant an interesting manuscript 

 memoir of the archbishop, written by himself, in which 

 lie details at some length the progress of his studies, and 

 points out the sources from which he had derived his 

 theological opinions," 



Can anyone tell me whether this Memoir, re- 

 ferred to by Stuart in 1819, is extant ? and if so, 

 where deposited? The archbishop's interleaved 

 copy of the Bible, in four volumes, is described in 

 the Catalogue of the Archiepiscopal Manuscripts at 

 Lambeth. Abhba. 



Cleanctus. — 



" Stingy Cleanctus *, softened by thy skill, 

 Of costless viands lets thee take thy fill ; 

 To other knaves, with visage stern and dull. 

 He turns, and shews the public tablets full." 



The above lines are from Early Verse and 

 Prose by George H. Dyer, Cambridge (U. S.), 

 1826, a small volume containing some good lines 

 and a display of very ordinary learning. The 

 sketch of a classical flatterer is about the best. I 

 cannot find " Cleanctus" in the Index to Theo- 

 phrastus, and shall be obliged by anyone who is 

 familiar with him saving me the trouble of a 

 search which may be fruitless. M. E. 



Eton. 



Biographical Queries. — I should be glad to 

 obtain any information relating to the under- 

 mentioned. 



* See Theophrastus. 



Timothy Willis ^ ambassador to Muscovy in the 

 reign of James I. 



Sir George Wright, Knt., Fellow of S. John's, 

 Oxford, 1600. 



Adrian Dee, Canon of Chichester, son of Bishop 

 Dee. Of what college ? 



Roger Racket, a divine, temp. Elizabeth, second 

 son of Sir Cuthbert Hacket, Lord Mayor of Lon- 

 don.* 



John Exton, Judge of Admiralty, 1664. 



C. J. Robinson. 



Sevenoaks. 



"Devil-may-care." — What is a "devil-may- 

 care expression"? And who first used so dis- 

 gusting a barbarism ? 



Job J. Babdwell Workard, M.A. 



Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports : Coroner. — 

 In the State Paper Office, Domestic Series, James 

 I. (vol. xxviii.) there is the opinion of one Dr. 

 Newman to the effect that the Lord Warden of 

 the Cinque Ports can be the only judge to act as 

 coroner in the case of a man drowned off Dover 

 pier. Is this the case now ? W. O. W. 



Colonel Thwachcell. — The great poet, Sir 

 Walter Scott, in a letter to his son, Lieut. Walter 

 Scott, 15th Light Dragoons (Hussars), dated 

 " Abbotsford, 4th April, 1825," writes : — 



" Touching Colonel Thwackwell, of whom I know 

 nothing but the name, which would bespeak him a strict 

 disciplinarian, I suppose you are now arrived at that 

 time of life you can take your ground from your observa- 

 tion, without being influenced by the sort of cabal which 

 often exists in our army, especially in the corps where 

 the officers are men of fortunes or expectations, against 

 a commanding officer." 



With regard to this officer, the editor has ap- 

 pended a note to the following effect : — 



" Sir Walter had misread, or chose to miswrite, the 

 name of his son's new commandant, Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Thackwell." 



Can any of your contributors Inform me whe- 

 ther this Col. Thackwell was the same officer who 

 died the other day, holding the rank of Lieut.- 

 General in the army, and who was also a Grand 

 Cross of the Bath and Colonel of the 16th Lan- 

 cers ? Also, who was his father ? Esquire. 



" Platonis Opera," Serrani, 1578, fol. — Brunei 

 gives 14 inches 8 to 10 lines as the size of 

 the largest copy he had seen. Query, Do not 



[* See Wood's Athena, ii. 317. (Bliss), for some ac- 

 count of Dr. Roger Hacket. In addition to what is there 

 stated respecting him, we may add that he was instituted 

 to the rectorj- of North Crawley, Bucks, April 7, 1590, 

 and buried in that church Sept. 16, 1621. His will is 

 dated August 21, 1621, in which are several legacies to 

 his children; to ^ew College, Oxford, several of his 

 books ; and a piece of ground to the town of about 40s., 

 in case they do not disturb his enclosures. Cole's MSS. 

 xxxviii. pp. 130. 136. — Ed.] 



