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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. VIII. Dec. 3. '69. 



following anecdote has not appeared in print, I 

 beg to say that I had it from the lips of my father, 

 a contemporary of Dr. Dodd, and that it was 

 communicate<l to my father by Lord Chesterfield's 

 solicitor, Mr. Manly of the Temple. In an inter- 

 view between that gentleman and the Doctor, 

 after the discovery of the forgery, Mr. Manly left 

 the room with the forged bond on the table, and a 

 bright fire in the grate. He staid long enough 

 for the obvious purpose of his retirement. On his 

 return he found matters as he had left them. 



The reader will draw his own inference. If 

 Dr. Dodd was the character, represented, the evi- 

 dence of his guilt would have been destroyed ; or 

 it may be that, stupefied by detected fraud, his 

 presence of mind had failed him ; or why may we 

 not charitably suppose that he refused to avail 

 himself of the opportunity on such conscientious 

 scruples as remained to him ? 



I think in one of Foote's farces the Doctor's 

 wife is introduced as offering for some purpose a 

 bank note, as a hymn of the "Doctor's own com- 

 posing." Hard measure of justice this — a rope 

 for his body, and gibbets for his memory ! Nix. 



An American Statesman's Library. — The Hon. 

 Rufus Clioate of Boston, Massachusetts, died a 

 few months ago : he was a very celebrated lawyer 

 and leading statesman, and long held a foremost 

 place in- the Senate of the United States. We find 

 the following notice of the sale of Mr. Choate's 

 library in the National Intelligencer of the 11th 

 Oct. Perhaps some of the readers of " N. & Q." 

 may be curious to know something about the 

 contents of an American statesman's library. 



" Mr. Choate's private library is to be sold at auction 

 on the 18th, 19tli, 20th, 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th of 

 October. The catalogue contains the names of 2,672 

 different worlts, embracing about 8,000 volumes. There 

 are full sets of Blackwood, the Gentleman's Magazine, the 

 Edinburgh, Quarterly, and North American Reviews, Chris- 

 tian Examiner, Hansard's Debates, Notes and Queries, 

 C3'clopaedias, dictionaries, and atlases of all sorts. State 

 papers, popular libraries, and the works of the standard 

 historians, novelists, and poets, with a great number of 

 classical books. There are 13 works under the head of 

 Thucydides, 16 under Herodotus, 26 under Homer, 9 under 

 Demosthenes, 5 under Euripides, 11 under Tacitus, 26 

 under Cicero, 5 under Livy, 14 under Aristotle, 6 under 

 Aristophanes, 11 under Virgil, 18 under Horace, and so 

 on. There are 4 editions of Shakspeare, 3 of Scott, 

 Dickens, and Cooper, complete, nothing of Thackeray's 

 but Pendennis and the English Humorists, and nothing 

 of Bulwer's but Athens, its Rise and Fall." 



PiSHEY ThOMPSOK. 



Stoke Newington. 



Overflowings of the Tiber. — In the Illustrated 

 Times of November 12th appeared an account of 

 a recent overflowing of the Tiber, to such an ex- 

 tent as to inundate the neighbouring streets, so 

 that the inhabitants were compelled to take refuge 

 in the upper stories of their houses. In 1688, at 

 the time Belgrade was taken from the Turks, the 



Tiber overflowed Its banks, and rose to the height 

 of seven feet in the Flaminian Way. A monument 

 was erected to mark the height of this inundation, 

 and to record the success of the Christian arms, 

 which bore the following inscription : — 



"Regalis vincitur Alba, 

 Belgradum captum est: 0! Tiberi quid facies? 

 L^etitife jam parce tuae: demergimur omnes 

 Si quoties Turcas vincimus, ipse redis." 



A hundred years after, Belgrade was again cap- 

 tured, and again did the Tiber overflow its banks. 

 This monument existed up to the end of the last 

 century. Does it still remain ? 



C. Le Poee Kennedy. 



St. Albans. 



Note about the Records, temp. Edward III. — 

 "A Justice seate being kept in the Tower by procla- 

 macOn all Record about London tempe E. 1. E. 2., and 

 these 14 yea res of E. 3. they should come into the Tower, 

 and then JnO de S<^' Paullo being a privy Counsello'' sent 

 in the Records of Chauncerie from Exeter House by 

 William Enielden 2 Decemb'' this yeare, and there re- 

 ceived in the Court by William de Kyldesby, keeper of 

 the privie scale, who kept them till th'end of Januarie. 

 And then by precept of Kildesby they were delivered to 

 Evsann for these in present use, if there were cause of 

 use for the Records of that yeare, there being then small 

 use of Records of that there is nowe. 



" This niayntayning the Kinges prerogative over his 

 treasurie, that when a privie counsello'" left his place, 

 that dale, not his sucesso"^ M"" of the Rolles but the Keeper 

 of the Kinges privie seale reserved them and kept them." 



Polecarp Cheneb. 



Boremav^s Gigantick Histories. — About the year 

 1740, Tbomas Boreman, who kept a book-stall 

 " near the Two Giants in Guildhall, London," 

 published in a little tome measuring 2 inches by 

 2^, The History of the Two famous Giants, and 

 other Curiosities in Guildhall, London. This proved 

 so successful, that he was induced to add The 

 Second Gigantich Volume, which completes the His- 

 tory of Guildhall, and other books of correspond- 

 ing size, on the Tower of London, St- Paul's Ca- 

 thedral, Westminster Abbey, &c. I beg to inquire 

 whether any bibliographer has described these 

 curious books, which are both remarkable in 

 themselves, and more particularly for the lists of 

 the little Masters and Misses who gave the pub- 

 lisher their names as subscribers. I should like 

 to know how many there were of them ; as, be- 

 sides the four I possess, there were at least five 

 more. John Gough Nichols. 



Manuscript Neios Letters. — It is well known 

 that, before printed newspapers were common, it 

 was usual to circulate intelligence by letters 

 written by professional scribes in London, and 

 sent by the post to those who were disposed to 

 subscribe for their reception. The country squire. 



