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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2n'J S. VIII. Nov. 19. '59, 



It is somewhat strange that Walter Harris, in 

 Ware's History of the Bishops, gives a very scanty 

 notice of the prelate's works ; and that in the His- 

 tory of the Writers of Ireland there is not even 

 mention of his name. An enumeration of his 

 writings is given in Chalmers' Biographical Dic- 

 tionary ; to which Archdeacon Cotton adds a list of 

 seven sermons, preached between the years 1685 

 and 1716. 



Can you refer me to any quarter for informa- 

 tion respecting the archbishop's eldest son, the 

 Rev. Joseph Nicolson, LL.D. ? * He was Chan- 

 cellor of Lincoln ; and his only child, Mary Nicol- 

 son, was married, 6th February, 1744, to George 

 Blacker, Esq. of Hallsmill, in the county of Down. 



Abhba. 



Minav ihutviti. 



Wreck of the Dunbar. — The ship Dunbar was 

 on the 26th August, 1857, wrecked on the rocks 

 entering Melbourne Harbour ; all on board were 

 lost, with the exception of one man ; he was very 

 accidentally discovered the next day on the cleft 

 of rock. At first it was supposed to be some 

 piece of apparel. A brave youth volunteered to 

 be let down some hundred feet by a rope, and 

 rescued from this perilous position a dying man, 

 in the greatest stage of exhaustion. Query, was 

 he a Dane? Is he living? Was his deliverer an 

 Orkney man ? Is he still alive ? It would be 

 satisfactory to learn their names. The inquirer 

 will be gratified by these individuals accepting 

 (from the investigator) of ten pounds sterling 

 each, supposing that they are not in independent 

 circumstances. C. F. 



Prisoner's Arraignment. — What is the origin 

 of the prisoner, when he is arraigned, holding up 

 hia right hand as be pleads guilty or not guilty ? 



NOTSA. 



Geology : Antiquity of Man on the Earth. — In 

 the present uncertain state of geological science 

 respecting the antiquity of man on the earth, it 

 may perhaps be useful to make a note of a book 

 which was published above two hundred years 

 ago, in which an attempt was made, on Scriptural 

 grounds, to prove that m«n were on the earth 

 before the creation of Adam. The title of the 

 book is as follows : — 



" Men before Adam ; or, a Discourse upon Romans v. 

 12 — 14., by which are proved that the First Men were 

 created before Adam, with a Theological System upon 

 that Presupposition. 8vo. Lond., 1656." 



The work is anonymous, but the author was 



r * Joseph Nicolson, D.D., was collated to a prebendal 

 stall in Lincoln cathedral, 24 May, 1714 ; and admitted 

 to the Chancellorship of Lincoln by the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury's (Wake's) option, 11 Feb. 1724-5. He died 

 Sept. 9, 1728, and was buried in the cathedral of Lincoln. 

 Two daughters survived him. — Ed.] 



Isaac la Peyrere, a French Protestant, who was 

 thrown into prison on account of his book. The 

 original was in Latin, and published in the year 

 1655. It caused considerable sensation, and 

 several answers to it were published. D. 



*^ Hockley i" tK Hole." — Where shall I find an 

 old ballad thus entitled elsewhere than in the 

 Bibliotheca Pepysiana f I should be obliged to 

 any correspondent for a transcript of it. 



W. S. Pinks. 



JEsop^s Fables. — I have a couple of mutilated 

 editions of ^sop, which I should like to have iden- 

 tified : — 



No. 1. A small octavo, with frontispiece: — 

 " Esop surrounded by his animals, &c. ; Reader, 

 good or bad, I believe thou art not such an ass as 

 to think that all in this book was really done and 

 said by Fowles and Beasts," &c. Signed, " X. Y. 

 Z." The fables and morals both in prose and 

 verse ; very rude cuts, ending at p. 348. 



No. 2. Same size, also without title. After 

 "Life of iEsop" — Apthonius, the sophist notion 

 of fable — and extract from Philostratus, then fol- 

 lows : " To his Ingenious Friend the New Trans- 

 lator of Esop," and "To the Juvenile Reader," 

 both in verse. Cuts : the morals both in prose 

 and verse. J. O. 



Sir Humpfrey Talbot. — Can any one tell who 

 Sir Humpfrey Talbot, sheriff of IBerks in 1480, 

 was, and his residence ? He is mentioned in 

 Berry's List of Sheriffs. Sbnex. 



The Book of Sports. — Arthur Wilson, in his 

 History of the Life and Reign of King James I. 

 (reprinted in Kennett's Complete Hist, of England, 

 ii. 709.), says that after the publication of the De- 

 claration of Sports by the king, in 1618, the Lord 

 Mayor of London, who disapproved of it, arrested 

 his majesty's carriages when they were passing on 

 a Sunday through the City. This statement has 

 often been repeated, on the sole authority of the 

 violent party-writer referred to, or, it may be, 

 of the unknown editor of his posthumous work. 



Can evidence of a more credible kind be pro- 

 duced for the alleged fact ? And can any law be 

 cited, under which the king's carriages could be 

 arrested at any time on the king's highway ? 



Wilson and his followers farther affirm that, in 

 1618, the Declaration " came forth, with a com- 

 mand, enjoining all ministers to read it to their 

 parishioners, and to approve of it ; and those that 

 did not were brought into the High Commission, 

 imprisoned, and suspended." There were such 

 proceedings when the Declaration was reissued by 

 Charles I. in 1633 ; but is there any proof of their 

 occurrence in 1618 ? Fuller and Collier agree in 

 representing that, in James's reign, it was pub- 

 lished only for the use of Lancashire; and that 

 even there, " no minister was enjoined to read the 



