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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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went out as if for a ride, and proceeding to the 

 end of the South Wall, one of the piers of the harbour 

 of Dublin, committed suicide by drowning himself. 

 His body was picked up on the Strand below 

 Ringsend, and was probably buried in the chapel 

 of that village. Might not this Baron Power, 

 found drowned close to Ringsend, be the person- 

 age known to Abhba as Lord Power who was 

 buried in Ringsend church ? 



C. Le Poee Kennedt. 

 St. Albans. 



SKELMUFEKY. 



(2"-^ S. viii. 431.) 

 The title of the book is : — 

 _ " SchelmufFskys wahrhaftige curiose und sehr gefahr- 

 liclie Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande, erster 

 Theil, und zwar die allervollcommeneste und accurateste 

 I'Mition, in hochdeutscher Frau Mutter Sprache, eigen- 

 haftig und sehr artig an den Tag gegeben, von E. S. 

 gedruckt in Schelmerode in diesera Jahr." 8vo. pp. 160. 



The second part is : " Gedruckt in Padua eine 

 halbe Stunde von Rom, bey Peter Marteau, in 

 diesem Jahr," pp. 104. 



There may be a covert satire in this book which 

 the King of Prussia found out, though to me it 

 seems extravagant and pointless. I supposed 

 that tbe fictitious places, date, and printer were 

 traps, as our disreputable booksellers fold over 

 the most decent part of a loose frontispiece, and I 

 almost suspect that the note about the author's 

 imprisonment was a pufl' collusive of an unsale- 

 able work. I have not seen the translation, but 

 " thrice deceived " in the poem shows that a third 

 part was published as promised at p. 84. of the 

 second. I have a copy which contains only the 

 first and second. At the end of the second is a 

 copious index to both. 



The "nosing" of John de Bart occurred, as 

 Schelmuffsky, on board a Spanish ship, was 

 chased by the great corsair (caper) Hans Barth. 

 The Spaniards would not fight : — 



"Ich war nun mit meinem vortreflichen Hau-Degen 

 welches ein RUckenstreicher war, auch nicht langsam 

 heraus und liber die Capers mit her. Da hatte man sollen 

 schon hauen und fechten sehen, wie ich auf die Kerl 

 hinein hieb, den Hans Barthe sebelte ich derTebelhol- 

 mer ein StUcke von seiner grossen Nase weg, dass er weit 

 in die See hinein flog, und wird die Stunde noch bey ihm 

 zu sehen seyn, dass er eine strumpfHgte Nase hat," i. 147. 



He killed fifteen corsairs, but, being unsup- 

 ported, was taken prisoner and carried into St. 

 Malo, whence, after much suffering, he got back 

 to his mother, "ragged and dirty " (i. 160.). 



His visit to the Great Mogul is told at i. 119. 



On landing in India he inquired for the Great 

 Mogul, and was directed to the residence at Agra 

 about a league off {eine Stunde hin). He was well 

 received, pressed to stay, and on departing the 

 Great Mogul's portrait was hung by a golden 

 chain round his neck. 



In the second part he tells how he visited Ve- 

 nice, Rome, and other places to the great increase 

 of his importance; but in passing through the 

 Black Forest he was robbed and stripped, and so 

 obliged to beg his way home again, " ragged and 

 dirty" (ii. 84.). 



Returning from India Schelmuffsky visited 

 London, and put up at " The Alamode Topfer's," 

 near the gate. He staid in England three years ; 

 Lord Toffel's daughter fell in love with him ; 

 and he saw Jacob's stone, and an axe which had 

 cut off the heads of many great persons, whose 

 names he could not remember. 



In Rome he kissed the Pope's toe, of which he 

 speaks in a very Protestant manner. Hearing 

 that Hans Barth was off the mouth of the Tyber, 

 where he had robbed a fishing-vessel (^Drech- 

 schute) of forty tons of herrings, Schelmuffsky 

 took the command of the ship, attacked Hans 

 Barth, and held him under water by the ears till 

 he was almost drowned and his ship emptied ; 

 and afterwards wrote an epigram upon him which 

 seems less punishing than the ducking. 



This is enough to show that the book which I 

 have described is that to which the author of The 

 Republic refers ; but there are chronological difli- 

 culties in the way of its having given offence to 

 the King of Prussia. The paper and print look 

 old," but that is no certain test in German books. 

 I do not find any direct means of fixing the 

 date; but at ii. 83. is a letter from Schelmuffsky's 

 mother dated "Schelmerode, 1 Januari, 1621." 

 Prussia was made a kingdom in 1700. Jean Bart 

 was born in 1651, and died in 1702. 



Possibly a modernised edition may have been 

 published, and the translation made from it. 

 Having answered F.'s Quei-y as far as my means 

 allow, I shall be much pleased if any other corre- 

 spondent of " N. & Q." can supply what is want- 

 ing, especially the date of any editions of the ori- 

 ginal, and of the translation. Fitzhopkins. 



Garrick Club. 



The epigram on Hans Barth is : — 



" Es mag der Rauber Barth mit seinen Capers prangen, 

 Wie er auf wilder Fluth viel Beute sich gemacht, 

 So wird er doch den Rubra bei weiten nicht erlangen, 

 Als wie durch Reisen es Schelmuffsky hoch gebrachL" 



DE. HEWETT S SON. 



(2°'' S. viii. 391. 455.) 



I have much pleasure in responding to Mb. 

 Denton's request concerning the family of Dr. 

 John Hewytt, although I am surprised at none of 

 your correspondents having mentioned the fol- 

 lowing works as containing notices of this divine : 

 Winstanley's Loyal Martyrologia (ed. 1665), 

 Lloyd's Mejnoires, and Lloyd's State Worthies. 



