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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. VIII. Oct. 29. '69. 



case, he thought, aa additional volume would be 

 necessary. 



All the papers were carefully arranged by Carte 

 for publication ; and the first volume, containing 

 the Turkish negotiations, was published, with 

 some assistance from the Society in 1640, under 

 his able editorship. The printing of the second 

 volume was delayed in consequence of his absence 

 from England (Addl, MSS. 6185, 103.), and was 

 finally abandoned upon the dissolution of the So- 

 ciety in 1649. 



Can any of your readers inform me : — 



1st. Whether Roe's negotiations at the court of 

 the Mogul have ever been published, as supposed 

 by Carte ? And, 



2ndly. What has become of the papers which 

 were in the possession of Richardson ? 



With reference to the first question I should 

 observe that I am acquainted with the MS. 

 volume containing Roe's journal of the Mogul 

 embassy ; and with regard to the second, that Carte 

 specifically mentions, as being with Richardson's 

 papers, four long letters addressed to Roe during 

 the Mogul embassy, by the Earl of Totnes, " con- 

 taining a journal of occurrences, as well in England 

 as in other partes of Europe, from 1615 to 1617; 

 which containing," he observes, " short memorials 

 of facte, like Cambden's summary of King James' 

 reign, may by some be thought as curious." The 

 four letters to which allusion is here made have 

 been discovered in the State Paper Office, and are 

 now being printed for the Camden Society. From 

 the fact of their having been found in that na- 

 tional repository, it would naturally be concluded 

 that the bulk of Richardson's papers would be 

 found there also; but although there is an im- 

 mense mass of Roe's correspondence, which, for- 

 merly tied up in separate bundles, has now been 

 distributed according to the arrangement of the 

 Office, none can be identified as the papers which 

 belonged to Richardson. Carte mentioned having 

 placed a mark on some with reference to publica- 

 tion, but, having examined a considerable number, 

 I have not found one with any peculiar mark on 

 it ; and were it not for the discovery of the letters 

 of Lord Totnes there, I should conclude that 

 Richardson's papers might be still in private hands. 

 If this, however, be the case, how got the four 

 letters in question among the national archives ? 

 or how got any, or all, of Richardson's papers 

 there at all? I should mention that many of the 

 documents in the printed volume are found in the 

 State Paper Office. Counterparts might, how- 

 ever, have been used for publication. There is 

 also a memorandum in existence which shows that 

 a volume of Sir Thomas Roe's correspondence 

 was lent to the Earl of Oxford. This volume now 

 forms No. 1901. of the Harl. Collection, and con- 

 tains letters written by Sir Thomas ; whilst in 

 the bundles of correspondence for the same period 

 remaining in the Office, letters to him only are 



found. Carte says, that Sir Thomas Roe's " letters 

 and papers are a treasure which ought to be 

 communicated to the world," and any light 

 which can be thrown upon their existence will be 

 a desideratum. John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



Minav cauarttd. 



Boyle Lectures. — Can any of your readers en- 

 able me to discover who are the trustees of the 

 Boyle Lectureship ? Whether they have any re- 

 cords of the appointment of lecturers ? Whether 

 they have any accounts ? and to whom they are 

 responsible for the trust ? 



I am led to ask these questions, first, by the 

 many gaps, not merely in the names of lecturers 

 (when they appear to have been appointed), but 

 by the occasional occurrence of ten or twenty 

 years during which no lecturer seems to have 

 been appointed. 



Surely these things can be explained. It would 

 be interesting in a literary point of view to know 

 who the lecturers unnamed at present have been, 

 and it would be satisfactory to know that trust- 

 money has been applied to good purposes. 



It cannot be that a foundation which has pro- 

 duced works by Dr. Richard Bentley, Dr. W. 

 Derham, Dr. John Jortin, Bp. Van Mildert, and Mr. 

 F. D. Maurice, is quite extinct; but if not, where 

 are the recent fruits ? and why is the catalogue 

 so unsatisfactory in the respects which I have no- 

 ticed?* An Enquirer. 



Cooke of Oideu Hall. — Will one of your he- 

 raldic readers inform me Avhat were the arms 

 borne by the ancient family of Cooke of Geddy 

 or Gidea Hall, near Romford, in Essex ? ' Mo- 

 rant says, " Argent a chevron coupone argent and 

 azure, between three cinquefoils azure." Wright 

 copies Morant. Ogborne is silent. Lysons gives 

 " Or a chevron cheeky azure .and gules, between 

 three cinquefoils of the second." While the Visi- 

 tation of Essex, made 1634, diffijring from all, 

 shows this coat for Cooke, " Or a chevron cheeky 

 azure and argent, between three cinquefoils of the 

 second." Which is right? E. J. S. 



The " 3'e Deian" interpolated. — Can you in- 

 form me of the locality of a criticism to the fol- 

 lowing effect upon alleged interpolations in the 

 " Te Deum ?" I retain a vivid recollection of 

 having read it ten or twelve years ago, but I have 

 been unable to find it. It is not noticed by the 

 latest writers on the Liturgy. 



1. The versicles enumerating the Three Per- 

 sons of the Trinity are interpolated, and interrupt 

 the regular sequence of the hymn. 



2. " Te Deum iaudamus" means "We praise 



[* See « N. & Q." l»t S. vii.-456. ; x. 445. 531. ; 2"'! S. 

 i. 291. 343. Consult also Melmoth's Religious Life, by 

 Cooper, pp. 280— 285.— Ed.] 



