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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the " caricature prints " mentioned in the follow- 

 ing extract from Caulfield's Remarkable Persons, 

 1819? — 



"About thirty years since two characters, equally 

 singular in their way, resided in Cambridge; Paris, a 

 well-known bookseller, and Jackson, a bookbinder, and 

 principal bass singer at Trinity College Chapel in that 

 University. These two gentlemen, who were both re- 

 markably corpulent, were such small consumers in the 

 article of bread, that their abstemiousness in that parti- 

 cular was generally noticed ; but to make amends, they 

 gave way to the greatest excess and indulgence of their 

 appetites in meat, poultry, and fish, of almost every de- 

 scription. And one day having taken an excursion, in 

 walking a few miles from home, they were overtaken by 

 hunger, and on entering a public-house, the only pro- 

 vision they could procure was a clod of beef, weighing 

 near fourteen pounds, which had been a day or two in 

 salt, and this these two moderate bread consumers con- 

 trived to manage between them broiled, assisted by a due 

 proportion of buttered potatoes and pickles. The land- 

 lord of the house having some knowledge of his guests, 

 the story got into circulation, and the two worthip5 were 

 ever after denominated the ' Cambridge Clods ! ' Several 

 caricature prints made their appearance on the occasion ; 

 but the best likeness of Mr. Jackson is from a drawing 

 taken by Silvester Harding, representing him, when ad- 

 vanced in years, seated in a large wicker chair." 



Henry Kensington. 



Miles the subject of an Acrostic. — Of what 

 " Miles " was the following acrostic written, when, 

 and by whom ? 



" Magnanimus in adversitate, 

 Ingenuus in consanguinitate, 

 Largifiuus in honestate, 

 Egregius in curialitate, et 

 Strenuus in virili probitate." 



Threlkeld. 



George M. Hvnter. — Is anything known re- 

 garding an author of the name of George M. 

 Hunter, who published Louis and Antoinette, a 

 tragedy, in 1794? R.J. 



*' Earl Haroldr — Who is the author of Earl 

 Harold^ a tragedy, published by Fraser in 1837 ? 



R.J. 



Suffrages at End of Litany. — Before the last 

 two suffrages at the end of the Litany in Book of 

 Common Prayer are prefixed respectively the 

 words Priest and Answer. No such prefix occurs 

 in the case of the other suffrages here. In the 

 previous editions of the Litany Versicle and An- 

 swer are similarly placed here, but not before the 

 other suffrages. Why is this ? Was there ori- 

 ginally any distinction in the manner of singing 

 the words " O Lord, let Thy mercy be shewed 

 upon us ; " " As we do put our trust in Thee," 

 from that of the other versicles and responds in 

 this place ? A. A. D. 



The Lord Dean of York. — In a letter written 

 by Rogers, suffragan of Dover, to Mr. Bois, the 

 civilian, dated " Sothewark, the 7th of December," 



the year uncertain, but published by Strype {An- 

 nals of Reformation, vol. iv. p. 432., Oxford, 1824), 

 sub an. 1597, the year of Rogers's death, I find 

 the following passage : 



" I could allege an old suffragan, Dean of York ; by 

 whom the Dean of that church came to be first called 

 Lord Dean ; whose leases of things appertaining to that 

 deanery," &c. 



Upon this passage I should be glad to ask two 

 questions, viz. : 



1. Who was the "old suffragan, Dean of 

 York?" 



2. For how long a period did the York Chapter 

 decorate its dean with this borrowed plume ? 



Possibly the last edition of Strype may have a 

 note at this place ; but in the country I have not 

 access to that edition. 



Might it not be worth inquiry also, whether 

 Rogers is correct in ascribing the origination of 

 this honorary title to the bishop-dean in question ? 

 Or whether it was not, in fact, a title assumed as 

 early as when the primacy was a subject of dis- 

 pute between the two archbishops, and when the 

 Mayor of York first rivalled his brother of London 

 in the like distinction ? J. Sansom. 



Fenton of Milnearne, Perthshire. — Looking 

 over the pedigree of a Scotch family some time 

 ago, I met with the name of this family. Can 

 any of your readers inform me if this was a family 

 of any standing or importance in Perthshire ? 

 what arms they bore ? or where I can find any 

 account of them ? Sigma Theta, 



Greek and English New Testament. — Edward 

 Nares, in the preface to his remarks on the Im- 



E roved Version of the New Testament, says he 

 ad met with a Greek and English New Testa- 

 ment, published in 1715 and 1718, the text of 

 which he had collated more than once with what 

 Griesbach afterwards published in his second 

 edition, and found nothing but the most trivial 

 differences. What edition does Nares mean ? 



M. 

 ChattertorC s Portrait. — In the Life of Gains- 

 borough, by G. W. Fulcher, it is related that 

 during the interval between 1768 and 1773, when 

 he declined sending specimens of his paintings to 

 the Royal Academy, that wonderful youth Chat- 

 terton, " the sleepless soul that perished in his 

 pride," sat to Gainsborough for his portrait, and 

 that it was a masterpiece. As I consider myself 

 to have been a Bristolian of forty years' standing, 

 and possessor of a very extensive collection of 

 MSS. and books relative to the Chattertonian 

 controversy, may I be allowed to inquire with 

 some anxiety, whether any of the descendants of 

 Gainsborough, or your correspondents, can give 

 me any information into whose hands this portrait 

 may have fallen ? There is an engraving of Chat- 



