2°'^ S. VIII. Dec. 10, '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



469 



SOD, who had not disobliged him, he gives but eight hun- 

 dred a-year; the same to his grandson; all the rest to 

 his grandson's heir, and the savings. It is rather leaving 

 an opportunity to the Chancery to do a right thing, and 

 set such an absurd will aside. Do not doubt it. The law 

 makes no bones ©f wills. I have heard of a man who 

 began his will thus: 'This is my will, and I desire the 

 Chancery will not make another for me.' Oh! but it 

 did." 



Did " the Chancery " make another will for 

 Admiral Sir William Rowley ? 



John Pavin Phillips. 

 Haverfordwest. 



Provincial Printing Presses. — In Nichols's 

 Lit. Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 189., twenty-one English 

 towns having twenty-eight printing presses, in 

 1724, are named ; some of which are not men- 

 tioned in Cotton's Typograpliical Gazetteer, and 

 in vol. V. p. 495. a reference is given to Ballard's 

 Collection of MS. letters in the Bodleian, in which 

 is Dr. Rawlinson's "Account of Printing Presses in 

 England." Has this ever been published, or is 

 there any published account of presses existing 

 in the provincial towns ? H. J. 



Lingard's "England": Edinburgh and Quar- 

 terly Reviewers. — I have in my possession a book 

 labelled " Lingard Papers," consisting principally 

 of reviews of Lingard's England, cut out of the 

 Edinburgh and Quarterly, and bound up with the 

 5th edition of Lingard's Vindication of the 4th 

 and 5th volumes of his History (1827). I annex 

 a list of the articles, with the dates of the publi- 

 cation of such as I can ascertain, and will be* 

 obliged by some of your readers informing me, 

 through your columns, with the names of the 

 authors of these critiques ; also, whether any other 

 critical notices of Lingard's work appeared in 

 those journals, or in separate publications; in fact, 

 a short resume of this literary and historical con- 

 troversy. W. Allen was, I believe, the writer of 

 some of the articles in the Edinbu?gh, and I should 

 be glad to know if he made any reply to Lingard, 

 and of what works he is author? 



Edinburgh, Oct. 1815. Lingard's Antiquities of the An- 

 glo-Saxon Cliurch. 

 „ March 1824. Brodie's History of England and 



Corrections of Hume. 

 „ April 1825. Lingard's History of England. 



„ „ „ Alien Law of England. 



;, June 1826. Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 

 „ „ „ Icon Basilike. 



„ March 1831. Lingard's England. 



Quarterly, Vol. xxxn., No. lxiv., Art. 10. Icon Basilike. 

 „ Vol. xxxiiL, No. I.XV., Art. 1. The Reforma- 

 tion in England. 

 „ Vol. xxxvii.. No. LxxiiT. Hallam's Constitu- 

 tional History of England. 



T. V. N. 



Highland Regiment at Battle of Leipsic. — Can 



any of your military readers say whether a Scotch 



Highland regiment fought at the battle of Leipsic 



(in 1813) under the command of Bernadotte, 



Crown Prince of Sweden, and, if so, what corps 

 was it ? T. 



Edinburgh. 



Registration ivithout Baptism. — The following 

 entry occurs in the register of Sevenoaks parish 

 church : — 



" 1695. James Smith the anabaptist hath a child 

 borne." 



Was it usual at this date for the minister to act 

 as registrar also ? C. J. Robinson. 



Greek Dial. — In Rawlinson's translation of 

 Herodotus, vol. ii. p. 333., in one of the admirable 

 essays written by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, is the 

 following passage : — 



" The Greeks marked the divisions (of the dial) by the 

 first twelve lettei-s of the alphabet, and the last four of 

 these reading ZH0I, ' Enjo}- yourself,' are alluded to in 

 this epigram ascribed to Lucian (Epig. 17.) : — 



'Ef oipai ix.6xBoi<s iKaviorarai, o.l Si ixer avras 

 rpd/tju.a(7i &ei,KVviJ,evai., ^vjflt \tyovcn jSpdrois. 



Mr. Rawlinson's note 1. vol. iii. p. 204. giving 

 F as the sixth letter of the original Greek alpha- 

 bet, justifies the epigram ; but I am at a loss to 

 understand how the letters ZH0I are the last four 

 of the first twelve letters of the Greek alphabet. 

 I shall be much obliged by an explanation. 



J.W. F. 



Lightning and Fish. — Throughout the West In- 

 dies, on mornings after a display of sheet-lightning 

 immense quantities of needle-shaped fish, here 

 called Titeres, I presume spawn recently vivified, 

 are found congregated at the mouths of rivers. 

 The first day after the lightning they are caught, 

 and sold in the mai-kets, and are then a delicate 

 food. The second day they are still found, but 

 more developed, having become larger, coarser, 

 and having black heads. They are then but little 

 eaten. As the fact is undeniable that these crea- 

 tures appear after sheet-lightning, and at no other 

 times, I should be glad to see the matter ex- 

 plained. J. P. 

 Dominica. 



'^ The Misers," hy Quintin Matsys. — According 

 to Bryan, Smith, Reynolds, and other authorities, 

 there are several pictures of the Misers by Quin- 

 tin Matsys, all having the same claim to origin- 

 ality. Bryan, in his Dictionary of Painters, says, 



"The much-talked-of ilfzsers in Windsor Castle is one 

 of a numerous family, all claiming the same paternity, 

 and having only such slight differences as appear in the 

 children of one father." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me 

 which Is supposed to be the original or first con- 

 ception of the master ? Chas. Dean. 



Pilgrim Plowden. — Who was Pilgrim Plowden, • 

 who wrote Farrago, printed for the author and 

 sold only by Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head 



