2nd s. N» 42., Oct. 18. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Covent Garden ;" and an advertisement, 

 which he inserted in the daily papers on 

 the subject of that publication, is dated 

 " From Pope's Head, in Rose Street, Co- 

 vent Garden, July 20th, 1735." Hence 

 the allusion in The Dunciad: 

 " Down with the Bible, up with the Pope's Arms." 



And here he was living in 

 1741, when he published The Rape of Adonis. 



Some readers of "N. & Q." will probably be 

 enabled to enlarge this list. We trust that, if so, 

 they will give others the benefit of their know- 

 ledge ; for the object of these Notes is not less 

 that of procuring, than of affording information. 



S. N. M. 



GENEBAIi LITEBABY INDEX. 



" Canute, King of Denmark, surnamed the Great [Watt 

 refers only to Langebek]. Laws of C, Ecclesiastical and 

 Secular, v. VVilliins, Leges Anglo-Saxonicas. Thorpe's 

 Ancient Laws and Institutes of England. Ecclesiastical, 

 V. Spelman, Concilia, Lambarde, Archajonomia (eadem 

 qua? habetur in Bedae Eccles. Hist, ad calc. 1C44, Chroni- 

 con Brompton (in Hist. Angl. Script, x.), Howel's Sy- 

 nopsis, Wilkins' Concilia. — Military, Historia Legura 

 Castrensium C. v. Langebek, Rerum Danicarum Scrip- 

 tores, iii. To this translation into Latin of the Law of 

 Witherlag, referred to by Watt, add Jus Aulicum, 

 idiomate antiquo Danico Witherlags Itaett, v. Resenius, 

 Leges Antiquae, Pars ii. The history of this law is given 

 by Spelman, Glossar. Archseolog. s. v. Englecheria, and 

 by Bracton, 1. iii. tract 1. c. 15. 'The city of Worcester 

 was amerced five marks, and the manor of Wikebout two, 

 for a default of proving engleschery, when a murder had 

 been committed. It will be necessary to explain what 

 engleschery meant, being a remarkable circumstance in our 

 ancient law. To prevent the frequent murders of the 

 Danes by the English, the barons of England were sure- 

 ties to Canute the Great, upon his sending his Danish 

 army back to Denmark, that, when any person was mur- 

 dered, he should be supposed to be a Dane if he was not 

 proved to be an Englishman by his parents or kindred ; 

 and, in default of such proof, if the murderer was un- 

 known, or had made his escape, the townsliip in which 

 the man was slain was to be amerced for it sixty-six 

 marks to the king; or if, by reason of the poverty 

 of the township, that sum could not be raised from 

 thence, it was to be paid by the hundred. This agree- 

 ment was carried into a law; which, when the Nor- 

 mans had got possession of England, they applied to 

 themselves and all the other foreigners who had come 

 over with them, under the general name of French [De 

 Murdro Francigena; occisi, et homines hundredi non 

 prehendunt . et ducunt ad justitiam infra viii. dies ut 

 ostendat ob quam causam fecerit, reddant Murdri nomine 

 xlvii. Marcas, vol. iv. p. 332.]: but, by the record here 

 recited, it evidently appears, that amercements for default 

 of proving Engleschery were not near so high in the 

 times of which 1 write as under King Canute.' Lord 

 Lyttelton's History of the Life of King Henry the Se- 

 cond, vol. iii. 224,' 225. Cf. Hickes's Dissertatio, p. 95. 

 Macaulay's History, i. 13." 



For eulogies on the Laws of Canute, v. Langebek, 

 ut supra, ii. 45. 492. and iii. passim. There is a 

 new edition of his Laws by Jan. Laur. Andr. 



Kolderup Rosenvinger, Haun, 1826. It is ac- 

 companied, says Tliorpe, by some excellent re- 

 marks of the learned editor. 



Walccheria, 12 Edw. I. c. 3. did not enforce the 

 same penalties. But a learned correspondent of 

 " N. & Q." reminds me of 



" The old Irish pecuniary satisfaction (aTroii'a) for 

 homicide and other offences. It is related of O'Neal in 

 the sixteenth century that on the English chief governor 

 demanding leave to send a sheriff into his country, the 

 Irishman readily consented, but desired only to know at 

 what sum his Eric was fixed, so that if he happened to 

 be slain, the amount might be levied off the Clan — a 

 prospect not very seductive to the intended official." 



That " Murdrum " was not peculiar to England 

 is shown by Maurer in his Inquiry into Anglo- 

 Saxon Mark- Courts and their Relation to Manoi-inl 

 and Municipal Institidions, and Trial by Jw-y, 8vo., 

 London, 1855. Bibliothecar. Chetham. 



POETICAL WILLS. 



Mb. Blencowe (1" S. xii. 81.) has given some 

 curious specimens of poetical wills ; allow mo to 

 subjoin two which I have transcribed from cut- 

 tings of tijro old newspapers. G. 



No. 1. 



John Hedges, late of Finchley, Middlesex, Esq., proved 

 July 5, 1737. 

 " This Fifth day of May, 

 Being airj' and gay. 

 To hip not inclined, 

 But of vigorous mind. 

 And my body in health, 

 I'll dispose of my wealth 

 And of all I'm to have 

 On this side the grave. 

 To some one or other, 

 I think to mj' brother ; 

 But because I foresaw 

 That m3' brother-in-law. 

 If I did not take care, 

 Would come in for a share. 

 Which I no ways intended 

 Till their manners were mended — 

 And of that, God knows, there's no sign — 

 I do therefore enjoin 

 And strictly command. 

 As witness my hand, 

 That nought I have got 

 Be brought to hotch-pot ; 

 And I give and devise. 

 Be much as in me lies. 

 To the son of my mother, 

 My own dear Brother, 

 To have and to hold, 

 And my silver and gold, 

 . As the affectionate pledges 

 Of his brother 



John Hedges." 



No, 2. 

 William Jacket, late of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, 

 dec, proved July 17, 1789. 

 " I give and bequeath. 

 When I'm laid underneath. 



