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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'J S. No 83., Aug. 16. '56. 



Eatoiis Sermon (2"'^ S. i. 516.; ii. 93.) — In 

 that singular book, Cotton Mather's Magnalia 

 Christi Americana (Lond. 1702, fol.), is a notice 

 of Mr. Samuel Eaton. As the work is rare, I 

 have transcribed the passage for Mr. Aspland : 



" He was the Son of Mr. Richard Eaton, the Vicar of 

 Great Burdtvorth in Cheshire, and the Brother of Mr. 

 Theophilus Eaton, the Renowned Govenour of New- Haven. 

 His Education was at the University of Oxford: And 

 because it will doubtless recommend to find such a Pen, 

 as that which wrote the Athence Oxoniensis thus Charac- 

 terising of him, Reader, thou shalt have the very Words 

 of that Writer, concerning him : After he had left the 

 University, he entred into the Sacred Function, took Orders 

 according to the Church o/* England, and was Beneficed in 

 his Country : But having been puritanically Educated, he 

 did dissent in some Particulars thereof. Whereupon finding 

 his Place too warm for him, he Revolted, and went into New- 

 England, and Preached among the Brethren there. But 

 let us have no more of this Wood! Mr. Eaton was a 

 very Holy Man, and a Person of great Learning and 

 Judgment, and a most Incomparable Preacher. But upon 

 his Dissent from Mr. Davenport, about the Narrow Terms, 

 and Forms of Civil Government, by Mr. Davenport, then 

 forced upon that Infant-Colony, his Brother advised him 

 to a Removal: And calling at Boston by the way, when 

 he was on his Removal, the Church there were so highly 

 affected with his Labours, thus occasionally enjoyed 

 among them, that they would fain have engaged him 

 unto a Settlement in that Place. But the Lord Jesus 

 Christ had more Service for him in Old-England, than he 

 could have done in New; and therefore arriving Tn Eng- 

 land, he became the Pastor of a Church at Duckenfield, 

 in the Parish of Stochfort, in Cheshire, and afterwards at 

 Stockport; and a Person of Eminent Note and Use, not 

 only in that, but also in the Neighbour- County. 



" A^iex \X\Q Restoration of K. Charles \\. he underwent 

 first Silencing, and then much other Suffering, from the 

 Persecution, which yet calls for a National Repentance. 

 He was the author of many Books, and especially of some 

 in Defence of the Christian Faith, about the God-Read 

 of Christ, against the Socinian Blasphemies : And his Help 

 was joined unto Mr. Timothy Tailors, in writing some 

 Treatises entituled. The Congregational Way Justified. 

 By these he Out-lives his Death, which fell out at Denton, 

 in the Parish of Manchester in Lancashire, (where says 

 our Friend Rahshakeh Wood, he had sheltered himself 

 among the Brethren after his Ejection) on the Ninth Day 

 of Januarv, 1664, and he was Buried in the Chapel 

 there." — Book iii. p. 213.* 



See also Wood's Athence Oxoniensis, by Bliss, 

 iii. 672. 382. ; iv. 4. ; Calamy's Ejected Ministers, 

 1713, p. 412. ; Continuation, 1727, p. 566. 



John I. Dredge. 



''Rand" (2"^ S. i. 213. 396. 522. ; ii. 97.)— Does 

 not the modern German word rand — such as meeres- 

 rand, seashore ^Jiussesrand, river's bank— suggest, 

 as this language I have so frequently found to do, 

 some old Saxon word of the same meaning ? The 

 locality mentioned by C. J. " between Trumfleet 

 Marsh and the north bank of the river Don," 

 seems to me to point to some such derivation for 

 the space between the edge of the marsh and the 

 bank of the river, being called the " rands," or 



* The Capitals and Italics in the above are Mather's. 

 —J. L D. 



" shores." It hardly appears as probable that the 

 benefactor of Fishlake, on the south side of the 

 river, should have had his name given to ground 

 on the north side, which may probably belong to 

 a different parish. E. E. Byng. 



See Johnson's Dictionary, " Rand, n. s. (rand, 

 Dut.), border, seam, as the rand of a woman's 

 shoe." In Scotland the selvage or border of a 

 web of cloth " list," a marginal border, is called a 

 rund, pronounced roond. J. Ss. 



Song hy Old Dr. Wilde (2°'5 S. ii. 57.) — This 

 song occupies pp. 51 to 53 in Iter Boreale, &c., 

 1670, being a parody on the older song of " Hallow 

 my fancie, whither wilt thou go ? " the burden 

 being " Alas, poor scholar, whither wilt thou go ? " 

 and the concluding verse is very characteristic of 

 the times : 



" Ho, ho, ho, I have hit it, — 



Peace goodman fool ; 

 Thou hast a trade will fit it ; 



Draw thy indenture. 



Be bound at adventure. 

 An apprentice to a free school ; — 



There thou mayest command 

 By William Lillye's charter ; 



There thou mayest whip, strip. 

 And hang, and draw, and quarter, 



And commit to the red rod 

 Both Tom, Will, and Arthur. 

 I, I, 'tis thither, thither Avill I go." 



More than twenty years have passed since I 

 cut several columns from Felix Farley's Bi-istol 

 Journal, headed " The Garland of Withered Ro- 

 ses." They were sent to that paper by your old 

 correspondent J. M. G., of Worcester. No. 1. 

 contained Cleland's beautiful ode of " Hallow my 

 fancie," with an introductory notice. The original 

 poem, as it appeared in the first edition of his 

 Poems, 1658, is blended with the additions made 

 in the second, 1697 ; it extends consequently to 

 sixteen stanzas, and, beautiful as it is, therefore it 

 is too long for your pages. These papers were 

 continued only to six numbers, but each contained 

 some gem of ancient poetry. Would J. M. G. 

 contribute them for preservation to your pages ? 

 The introductory remarks are in each notice too 

 good to be lost, G. D. 



Henley-on-Thames (2"'' S. i. 454. ; ii. 18.) — • In 

 addition to what I have already sent, I would ob- 

 serve that there are two separate notices of 

 Henley in the Rawlinson Collection of MSS. in 

 the Bodleian, consisting of copies of inscriptions 

 on tombstones principally. It may be of vise to 

 persons interested in topographical studies to 

 mention that there are notices of a similar kind of 

 many other places in the same collection. Some 

 for Sussex were made use of in Hastings Past and 

 Present, published last year. E. M. 



Oxford. 



