2'xi S. VIII. Oct. 15. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



317 



Manning's institution in the church of Metting- 

 ham. It is certain that he was Suffragan Bishop 

 of Ipswich before that time. B. B. Woodwabd. 



Scotch Genealogies: Jerningham Family (2"^ 

 S. viii. 256.) — Under the first heading, a corre- 

 spondent, Wm. Matthews, asserts that " the 

 knightly predecessors of the Barons Stafford, of Cos- 

 tessey Hall, were for a long series of years known 

 by the designations of Sir George and Sir William 

 in alternate succession." This is not the fact. So 

 far from this being true, there have been only two 

 Sir Georges, and only one Sir William. The late 

 Lord Stafford was Sir George ; his father Sir 

 William, and his grandfather Sir George. The 

 present Lord's names are Henry Valentine. 



F. C. H. 



Carriage-hoot (2°'' S. viii. 238.) — A corre- 

 spondent refers to the word " boot" as an appen- 

 dage to a carriage. His observation has been 

 placed under Dean Trench's notice. In Oxoniana, 

 vol. iv. p. 220., is the following notice, enter- 

 taining in itself as a travelling anecdote, but 

 mentioned now from the statement underlined: — 



" Oxford Flying Coach. 

 1669. 

 " Mondaj', April 26, was the first day that the flying- 

 coach -went f™^ Oxford to London in one day. A. W. 

 went in the same coach, having then a boot on each side. 

 Among the six men that went, Mr. Richard HoUoway, a 

 counsellor of Oxford (afterwards a judge) was one. They 

 then (according to the Vice-Chancellor's order, stuclc up 

 in all public places), entered into the coach at the tavern 

 door against All Souls Coll., precisely at six of the clock 

 in the morning, and at seven at night they were all set 

 downe at their inn at London. The occasion of A. 

 Wood's going to London was to carry on his studies in 

 the Cottonian Library', and elsewhere." 



Francis Trench. 

 Islip. 



Cibher^s Apology (2°* S. viii. 269.)— Your cor- 

 respondent will find the passage he inquires for 

 in Joseph Andrews, Book I. Chapter i. : — 



" But I pass by these and many others (Histories of 

 Jack the Giant Killer, Guy of Warwick, fi^.), to mention 

 two books lately' published, which represent an admirable 

 pattern of the amiable in either sex. The former of 

 these, which deals in male virtue, was written by the 

 great person himself, who lived the life he hath recorded, 

 and is by many thought to have lived such a life only 

 in order to write it. The other is communicated to us 

 by an historian who borrows his lights, as the common 

 method is. from authentic papers and records. The 

 reader, I believe, already conjectures I mean the lives of 

 M"^. Colley Gibber, and M". Pamela Andrews. How 

 artfully doth the former, by insinuating that he escaped 

 being promoted to the highest stations in church and 

 state, teach us a contempt of worldly grandeur! how 

 strongly doth he inculcate an absolute submission to our 

 superiors ! Lastly, how completelj- doth he arm us against 

 so uneasy, as wretched a passion as the fear of shame ! 

 how clearly doth he expose the emptiness and vanity of 

 that phantom, reputation ! " 



F. S. will find other allusions to Colley Cibber 



and his Apology scattered up and down the above 

 quoted novel (Book I. Chaps, iii., vii. ; Book 

 III. Chap, vi., end of Chap. xii. and heading of 

 Chap, xiii.) ; but although pretty well up in 

 Tom Jones, I remember no allusion to Cibber in 

 that novel. Libya. 



Salford. 



The passage in Fielding which F. S. wants is 

 not in T,om Jones, but in the first chapter of 

 Joseph Andrews. It is as follows : " Who lived 

 the life he hath recorded, and is by many thought 

 to have lived such a life only in order to write it." 

 They are much deceived who take their idea of 

 Cibber from Pope or Fielding. The Apology is 

 a most interesting work, and has little, if any, 

 more egotism and vanity than autobiographies in 

 general, and Fielding in the drama never came 

 near " The Careless Husband." In the quarrel 

 between them, Fielding was, I believe, the ag- 

 gressor. T. K. 



Chatterton Manuscripts (2"^ S. viii. 234.) — 

 Having disdained a pseudonym in asking a ques- 

 tion of great literary interest, I find myself at a 

 disadvantage in replying to the rather strong 

 terms of your correspondent W. My Query re- 

 specting the Rowley papers was not quite so ex- 

 plicit as it ought to have been. No one could 

 reasonably doubt that Chatterton's father did ab- 

 stract from the Redcliff muniment room old deeds, 

 ancient copies of presentments and assessments, 

 &c., such documents as usually form the contents 

 of a parish chest ; but I have yet to learn that the 

 soil" ever exhibited a single scrap of literary mat- 

 ter, said to have been discovered there, which is 

 now believed to be genuine. The ingenious hy- 

 pothesis of W. has, however, effectually settled 

 the question, and " explained a thousand difiicul- 

 ties : " for, like Caleb Balderstone's celebrated 

 expedient to hide the Master of Ravenswood's 

 poverty, " this fire will settle mony things on an 

 honorable footing for the family's credit." 



Strangers visiting the venerable church of St. 

 Mary Redcliff are, I believe, requested to sign 

 their names ; but it was a new inference that this 

 custom, which is common in many other places, 

 has any connexion with the " art and malice of 

 Walpole," or the " hatred and persecution " of 

 Chatterton by the " Corporation of Bristol," a cen- 

 tury ago. 



As 1 am about to compare notes with Bristo- 

 LiENSis, in whom I have recognised a highly 

 valued acquaintance, a reply to his courteous 

 communication is unnecessary. Hugh Owen. 



" The Royal Slave " (2'"i S. viii. 207.) — A 

 quarto edition of this play was published at 

 Oxford in 1639. I am not able to refer to it, but 

 would it not give the names of the performers ? 



Cdthbert Bede. 



