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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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indignant as I well can be at the sneer in which 

 your correspondent Anon, has been pleased to in- 

 dulj^e at the expense of our own great Newton. 

 After an allusion to Malebranche, in which he is 

 said to have drawn his all " from one small rivulet " 

 of Behmen, Anon, tells us, " Of how many other 

 originals (the Italics are his) also may this be 

 truly said, from Newton, if not Harvey, to Hah- 

 nemann." Let poor Hahnemann's reputation be 

 left to the care of those who think it worth de- 

 fending. I do not. But, I cannot hold my peace 

 when I find an anonymous mystic assailing the 

 fame of Newton. Newton a borrower from Beh- 

 men ? The thing is supremely ridiculous. I 

 agree with Anon, in saying that " a magic under- 

 standing is needful " for the comprehension of 

 Behmen. Newton had no magic about his under- 

 standing. His was the strong vigorous English 

 common sense, and practical as well as theoretical 

 English genius. Some evidence, at least, will be 

 necessary to convince me that lie drew any of his 

 Principia from the vapours of the great mystic — 

 something more than the ipse dixit of Anon. Let 

 that correspondent either make good or retract : 

 let him cite from Behmen a statement of the law 

 of iniiversal gravitation, or let him sit on the 

 stool of repentance for having without evidence 

 uttered a sneer at the originality of Newton. 

 There is no middle course for a lover of truth. 



C. Mansfield Jngleby. 

 Binningham. 



Mayor of London in 1335 (2°" S. i. 353. 483.) 

 — In Stow's Survey of London, edited by Strype, 

 1720, Reginald at Conduit is stated to have been 

 mayor in 1334, and a note by Strype in the margin 

 of the entry says : 



" He served two years and impaired his estate thereby. 

 King Edward III. gave him a yearly rent of houses in 

 London. J. S." 



W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



Parochial Libraries (2"^ S. i. 459.) — In ad- 

 dition to those you have noticed you may insert — 



Parish of Crundal, Kent. (I do not know the 

 date.) 



Parish of Elhaofc Kent, founded by Lee Warly, 

 Esq., in 1808. EDwiiiD Foss. 



Numerous Families (2"'' S. i. 469.) — I have not 

 access to Thoresby's History of Leeds, and cannot 

 therefore ascertain whether he mentions the fol- 

 lowing particulars respecting the wife of Mr. 

 William Greenhill, cited by Mr. Hackwood. 



In a family paper, which must be about 100 

 years old, I find Mrs. Greenhill noticed as having 

 had thirty-nine children by one husband, all born 

 alive and baptized, and all single births, save one. 

 The last child was born after his father's death, 

 and lived to be o. surgeon, practising in King 



Street, Bloomsbury, and author of a work on 

 Embalming Human Bodies. The family took for 

 their crest, in commemoration of this singular fer- 

 tility, a gryphon with thirty-nine stars on its wings. 



Stylites. 



The following is a verbatim extract from the 

 Rejiister of Burials belonging to the parish of St 

 Mary the Pure Virgin, at Marlborough : 



" John Jones (had 31 children born and baptized) 

 buried 29 March, 1743." 



Patonce. 



Melrose Abbey (2"^ S. i. 510.) — I have reason 

 to think that no estimate was ever given for the 

 restoration of the Abbey of Melrose. A few years 

 since, the Duke of Buccleuch being anxious to 

 promote the erection of a church for the Episco- 

 palians of the neighbourhood, I considered whether 

 it might not be possible to restore one of the aisles 

 of the abbey church instead. The scheme was 

 however wisely abandoned, and I designed the 

 present small church, which was erected by sub- 

 scription, his grace contributing largely, as well 

 as giving the ground. Benj. Fibrey. 



English Translation of Aristotle's " Organon " 

 (2"d s^ jj 12.) — The only translation of Aris- 

 totle's Organon (excepting Taylor's, which is 

 worthless) is published in Bohn's Classical Library. 

 The translator, Mr. O. F. Owen, is said to have 

 done his work well ; and by his illustrations from 

 Whately and other logicians, has rendered the 

 book interesting, even to those who do not want 

 to " take it up." B. S. W. 



The Tune the Cow died of (2"'' S. i. 375. 500.) — 

 I see no casus mortis in either of the versions 

 given ; but the following, which is as common as 

 either, would explain the catastrophe well enough : 



" There was an old man, and he had an old cow, 

 And he had no fodder to give her, 

 So he took up his fiddle, and played her this tune, 



• Consider, good cow, consider, 

 This isn't the time for grass to grow, 

 Consider, good cow, consider.' " 



Probably by "the tune the cow died of" was ori- 

 ginally meant a satirical reference to a good 

 reason being no sufficient substitute for a good 

 dinner. M. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Although the words " Printed for Private Circulation 

 only " on a title-page may well serve to protect from un- 

 friendly criticism the work .so inscribed, they surely may, 

 without impropriety, be passed over unnoticed when they 

 appear in front of a volume of unquestionable value and 

 importance. Such is the goodly quarto, for a copy of 

 which we are indebted to the courtesy of the distin- 

 guished nobleman under whose auspices it has been pro- 



