2'"i S. N» 32., Ada. 9. ?§6.] 



NOTES AND QUEBIES. 



109 



say, his thumb. Is there any foundation for 

 either pf these statements? Henpeckej). 



Dr. Brays Libraries in 4^erica, ^c._ — The 

 inquiry made throi;gh your pages respecting pa- 

 rochial libraries in England, haying met with 

 much attention from many valuable correspond- 

 ents, permit me to extend the Query originally- 

 made in " N. & Q." from England to America, 

 where, we are informed *, Dr. Bray " begun and 

 advanced libraries more or less in all the pro- 

 vinces on the Continent (of America), as also in 

 the factories in Africa." Some of your American 

 correspondents will no doubt be hi^ppy to reply to 

 an inquiry which will show the present state of 

 these libraries, and their good effects in promoting 

 i-eligion and learning. I find tlie following places 

 mentioned as having had libraries established in 

 them by the care and exertions of Dr. Bray, who 

 received thanks on account of them ; Maryland, 

 Boston, Baintree, Newfoundland, Rhode Island, 

 New York, Piiiladelphia, North Carolina, Ber- 

 mudas, Annapolis, the Factories in Africa. 



J. M. 



Oxford. 



" Antonio Foscarini.''^ — Who is the author of 

 Antonio Foscarini, a historical drama, published in 

 1836 ? R. J. 



James Stringer. — Could any of your Cambridge 

 readers give me information regarding James 

 Stringer, author of A CantaVs Leisure, prose and 

 verse, published at London in 1829 ? I think the 

 author was of Emmanuel College. R. J. 



Queen Charlotte s DriTfiking Glass. — Can any of 

 your readers {authenticate the following? It is 

 extracted from a letter from one J£fmes Heming, 

 containing an account of George III.'s coronation : 



" Our friend Harry, who was upon the scaffold, at the 

 return of the procession, closed iu with the rear; at the 

 expence of half a guinea was admitted into the hall ; got 

 brimfull of his majesty's claret, and in the universal 

 plunder, brought off the glass her majesty drank in, which 

 is placed in the beaufet as a valuable curiosity." 



C. J. Douglas. 



Inscription for a Watch. — 



'' Could but our tempers move like this ijjachiqfi, 

 Not urg'd by passion nor delay'd by spjeej}} 

 And true to nature's regulatirig power. 

 By virtuous acts distinguish every hour : 

 Then health and joy would follow, as they ought. 

 The laws of motion and the laws of thought ; 

 Sweet health to pass the present pioifleijts o'ep, 

 4-nd eyerlastfiig joy, when tiijie sliall be np pioce." 

 Scots' Magazine, Oct. 1747. 



WbQ \s, lil^e).y t» t>e tlje ^utbpF of thesp fine 

 verses ? G". N. 



f Think of me.'* — Who is the author of the 

 lines " Think of me," givefn in iSir Roland Ashton, 



* Siog. Britan. 



and where were they originally published ? I 

 give the first stanza : 



" Go where the water glideth gently ever, 

 Glideth by meadows that tlie greenest be ; 

 Go forth beside our own beloved riv^r 

 And think of me." 



X.H. 



Charles Verral. — Could any of your readers 



give me any inforr^atipn regarding Charles Verral, 



.author (besides other works) of a poem called The 



Pleasures of Possession, published in 1810 ? R, J. 



Early Memoirs of Dn. Johnson, —r Is it known 

 who was the authov of a small 12mo. yolume, pub- 

 lished within a few months of Johnson's death, 

 under the title of — 



"Memoirs of tjie hifQ and Writings of the late Dr. Sf^r 

 muel Johijsop, containing many valuable original Letters, 

 and several interesting Anecdotes both of his Literary and 

 Social Connexions. The whole authenticated by living 

 Evidence. London, 1785." 



J. E. M. 



Prayer for Unity. — Is it known who wrote the 

 touching " Prayer for Unity," which appears in 

 our present office for the 20th of June, being the 

 day 01} which Her Majesty began her happy reign ? 

 It is not contained in the form of 1704, as printed 

 in Reeling's Liturgies Britannicce. A. A. D. 



Dream-Books. — Dr. Mackay tells us, in his 

 Popular lifl^sions, that the maxiips of the pseudo- 

 science of oneirology have been so imperfectly rer 

 membered, that at the present day they differ in 

 different countries, and the same dream which 

 delights the peasant in England terri^es him in 

 France or Switzerland; Can your readers put- 

 me in the way of obtaining a few of the dream- 

 books in circulation p^mong the credulous on the 

 Continent ? 



Notes are desired on the bibliography of dream- 

 books during the lasl; two centuries, to link the 

 works of Artemidorus, Astampsychus, and Ach- 

 niet, with the Seven Dials' publications of the 

 presept day. 



Communications through the medium of " N. & 

 Q.," or privately to the care of the editor, will 

 oblige R. T. Scott. 



Instrument of Torture. — 



" Late heavy rains at Jamaica have exposed an instrur 

 ment of torture made of iron hoops, with screws, and so 

 constructed as to fit the largest or smallest person ; atr 

 tajshpd to it are njanacjes for the hands. The inside of 

 the kneerbars, apd the resting-place for the soles of tk& 

 feet, are stijdded with spikes. When found, the perfect 

 siieleton of a negress Avas enclosed in the instrument." 



The ^bove statement comipg frqpi a reliable 

 source, it ifl^y be asked )f at any tiflae in the Ei}.- 

 gljs'h West Indj^ Islapd^ jnsfriijueftts pf ^torture 

 lyere app^jed fp playes? Apd \f so, for what 

 crimes ? ' W- W- 



Malta. 



