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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»»4 S. VIII. Dec. 17. '69. 



may possess interest enough to insure their pre- 

 servation in the columns of "N. & Q." 



Attached to Joshua, chap. xxii. v. 22.*, is the 

 following : — 



" Mr. John Welsh his text 22 Jun. 1679, the morning 

 befor Bothwell bridg." 



The second note is attached to Psalm cxlix., and 

 is as follows : — 



" Mr. John Welsh his lectur 22 Jun, 1G79, att bodwill 

 bridg, from 4"» verse to ye end." 



Both these passages of Scripture are highly ap- 

 propriate to the then circumstances of the Cove- 

 nanters, as rebels against their king for the sake 

 of their religion ; and they are admirably adapted 

 to infuse that religious fervour and confidence in 

 the righteousness of their cause, so necessary to 

 nerve them for the struggle in which they were 

 about to engage. Doubtless Mr. John Welsh 

 would draw most comforting assurances of vic- 

 tory from the fact that, though in rebellion 

 against the king, they were, as they believed, 

 fighting the Lord's battles. 



Query, was Mr. John Welsh the original of 

 Habakkuk Mucklewrath in Old Mortality f 



W. D. 



Ancient Entry. — The following curious entry is 

 copied from the churchwardens' account book of 

 Bray. The earliest entry in the book is 1602. 



" Money laide out by the Constables, anno 1620. 



«. d, 



♦• Imprms for mendinge of the locke house") .. 



and makinge it cleane - - - j 

 Ite laide out by the justices prepte for a ) ... .. 



whipinge poste - - - - j" * 

 Ite laide out to discharge a prepte for the^ 

 kinge mat'" hownde of Hij q»ters of oate, f_ 

 viii trusse of haye, xii trusse of strawe, ( ^ "'•' 

 the SO'" of June - - - - J 

 Ite layde out to discharge a prepte for the^ 

 princes hownde, the 8"» of Sept*"^, 1620, > viij vj 

 two q»ters of oate - - - J 

 Ite laide out vpon the rogues when they"! 



weare had before justices in bread and SO xj 

 drinke - . ... J 

 Ite for havinge the rogues to the howso of ^ ...; 



correction ----- j "U 



Ite to William Markam the tjthinge man "l 

 for goinge w*** the rogues at tliat time >• ij 

 to Readinge . - - - J 

 Ite for makinge of a whipinge coate and ) (^ 



hoode i " ^'"J 



Ite for an elle of canvas to that coate - vj 

 The coate ■w«'> was for him that did whipp 

 the rouges [s/c] is now delivered this 

 v"> d. of May, 1622, to Thomas Wynch 

 by Richard Martine." 



A. 



Epitaph of Lieutenant John Western in Dor- 

 drecht Cathedral. — The following epitaph is re- 



• » The Lord God of Gods, the Lord God of Gods, he 

 knoweth, and Israel himself shall know, if by rebellion or 

 transgression against the Lord we have done it, save us 

 not this day." 



corded in Dr. G. D. T. Schotel's Een Keizerlijk, 

 Stadhouderlijk en KoninUijk Bezoeh in de O. L. 

 Vrouwe-Kerk te Dordrecht, Met Platen en het 

 Portret van den Schrijver. (Amsterdam, J. C. 

 Loman Jr., 1859), p. 75.: — 



" To TiiK Lamented Memory 

 of 

 JOHN WESTERN, Esq. 

 Lieutenant of His Britannic Majesty's Frigate Syren, 

 and 

 As a Testimony of the gallant services performed by Him, 

 This Monument is erected, 

 by order of 

 His Royal Highness the Duke of York. 

 Lieutenant Western, 

 After distinguishing himself by his Conduct and Intrepi- 

 dity, 

 With which he assisted 

 The Garrison of Williamstadt 

 (in that time besieged bj' the French), 

 Fell early in the career of Glor}', 

 Having been unfortunately killed by the Enemy, 



off the Moordvck, 



On the Twenty-first Day of March, a.d. 1793, 



In the Twenty-second year of his Age, 



In the service of His Countrj', 



and in Defence of Holland. 



His Remains 



Were deposited near this place, 



Attended b}' his Royal Highness the Duke of York, 



By the Officers and Seamen of the Royal Navy, 



The Companions of his 



Meritorious exertions. 



And by 



The Brigade of His Britannic Majesty's Foot Guards 



In Garrison at Dordrecht." 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 

 Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Book-stalls. — The great lawyer, Francis Har- 

 grave, amassed his extensive and valuable library 

 merely by " picking up" at book-stalls, seldom or 

 ever purchasing a volume at what is called a 

 "regular" bookseller's. Parliament granted 8000Z. 

 for the purchase of his library for the British 

 Museum. Charles Butler was also a hunter after 

 book-stalls, and many a rare book he has secured 

 for a few shillings, worth as many pounds. This, 

 was his frequent boast, and his friend, Serjeant 

 Hayward, caught the mania of him. Some years 

 since a very early MS. of the Pentateuch, for- 

 merly belonging to the learned Ludolph, was 

 picked up at a book-stall for a trifling sum. It 

 is now in the library of Sion College. I remem- 

 ber a book-slaughterers, as it was called, at the 

 Drury Lane end of Wych Street, where the most 

 valuable books were constantly being cut up for 

 the buttershops and other waste paper marts. 

 There are many opera desiderata wanting in the 

 British Museum. It is to be regretted that its 

 management does not secure the services of some 

 indefatigable bookworm, who knows thoroughly 

 these preserves of literature, so that rare and 

 curious works might be added at a small cost. It 

 would be money laid out to advantage. 



Abracadabra. 



