2»* S. VIII. Dtc. 3. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



457 



Thirty-two Divines (1677, a different book), pp, 

 136, 156, '^^^» 265, 405 ; and Clarke's Own Life 

 (before 'he same book), pp. 6, 7.; Calamy's Ac- 

 count p- 588. ; Heylin's Life of Laud, pp. 241, 

 sec; 246, 5^5'.; Stage Condemned, and the En- 

 Muragemeiits given to the Immoralities of the The- 

 atre, King Charles I.'s Sunday's Mask and Decla- 

 ration for Sports and Pastimes on the Sabbath, 

 largely related and animadverted upon. 1698. 8vo. 



Very instructive monographs might be written 

 on the various, for the most part singularly un- 

 fortunate, measures of the Stuart family in rela- 

 tion to the Church and Puritanism. With regard 

 to these declarations, it is certain that they must 

 be mentioned in not a few of our old parish re- 

 gisters. If your clerical readers will extract 

 such notices as they may find under the years 

 1618 and 1633 bearing on the Sabbatarian con- 

 troversy, they will throw light upon a period of 

 church history of which too little is known, and 

 upon a subject which certainly cannot be said to 

 have lost all interest for our time. 



J. E. B. Mator. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



BOTDELLS SHAKSPEABE GAtXERT. 



(2"^ S. viii. 50. 97. 313.) 



I have before me a plan of the Shakspeare 

 Lottery to which H. M. refers in his inter- 

 esting communication on the above subject. It 

 is too long to transcribe, consisting of four 8vo. 

 pages, but a few particulars from it may be ac- 

 ceptable, as conveying an idea of the cost of the 

 undertaking : — 



The number of tickets to be 22,000 at three 

 guineas each. 



The capital prizes are the sixty-two tickets first 

 drawn ; holders of undrawn tickets to receive 

 prints to the estimated value of one guinea. The 

 capital prizes and prints to be obtained by the 

 holders of the 22,000 tickets amount to upwards 

 of 69,300Z., according to the prime cost proved 

 before both houses of parliament; where evidence 

 was also given that the copper- plates, engraved 

 from the pictures and drawings that constitute 

 the following prizes, had cost Messrs. Boydell up- 

 wards of 300,000Z. 



The whole may be viewed at the Shakspeare 

 Gallery, — admittance one shilling — such exhibi- 

 tion being reserved to Messrs. Boydell by the 

 Act. 



The Catalogue of the Shakspeare pictures to be 

 had as above, at one shilling and sixpence each, 

 and the Alphabetical Catalogue at the same price. 

 Both Catalogues may be seen and inspected at the 

 Gallery, and at SO. Cheapside. 



The first twenty- six prizes consisted of a mis- 

 cellaneous collection of "pictures framed," amongst 



which were the Dfeath of Major Pierson by Cop- 

 ley, R.A., and Sigismonda by Hogarth ; and thirty 

 pictures painted from the large Shakspeare ones 

 for artists to engrave from. 



27. to 45. consisted of drawings. 



46. to 60. Prints, and books with prints. 



One of these lots consisted of Boydell's Shak- 

 speare, nine vols., with plates, and one imperial 

 folio vol. of the large plates, in Russia. 



61. Twenty-eight large drawings by Richard 

 Westall, R.A., in colours, for the poetical works 

 of Milton, and from which the plates were en- 

 graved. 



62. The whole of the large pictures now exhi- 

 biting, and from which the large plates have been 

 taken ; also the whole of the small pictures, from 

 which the plates have been engraved for the em- 

 bellishment of the great national edition of Shak- 

 speare in nine vols, folio ; also seven pictures of 

 the Ages by Smirke, R.A. ; together with all the 

 estate, right, and interest of Messrs. Boydell in 

 these premises, which were erected by them, and 

 in which they hold an unexpired term of sixty- 

 four years at a ground rent of 1251. per annum. 



The pictures are all framed, and are fully de- 

 scribed in the Shakspeare Gallery Catalogue, and 

 amount in the whole to 167 ; besides which there 

 are three supernumerary pictures which are not in 

 the Catalogue, and which have not been engraved. 



This prize will also include the alto-relievo in 

 front of the Gallery by T. Banks, R.A., and two 

 basso-relievos by the Hon. Anne Dormer. What 

 is given in this last prize for the sixty-second 

 drawn -ticket has cost the proprietors upwards of 

 30,000Z. 



The prints for holders of undrawn tickets to be 

 selected by William Morland, John Soane, and 

 David Davies, who, by the Act, were trustees of 

 the property. Charles Wyue. 



One of Northcote's pictures belonging to this 

 series — subject, Richard III., Act HI. Scene I. 

 — is in the County Hall in this town, it having 

 been presented to the county by the late Walter 

 Burrell, Esq., long one of the knights of the shire. 

 Mark Antony Lower. 



Lewes. 



JAMES ANDERSON. 



(2''<» S.viii. 169.217.) 



In reference to the inquiries relative to this 

 very meritorious but ill-used gentleman, it may 

 not be uninteresting to mention that from time 

 to time there appeared a few years ago, in a Kil- 

 marnock paper, a selection of letters written either 

 to or by James Anderson and his family. The 

 provincial journal has now ceased to exist ; but 

 in one of the later numbers occurs the following 

 abstract of the life of Anderson, by Mr. James 



