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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2na s. J^o 42., Oct. 18. '5G. 



Southwell MSS. — The Southwell MSS. were 

 sold by the late Mr. Thorpe, of Bedford Street, 

 London, in or about the years 1834-5. They 

 were all of great historical and antiquarian im- 

 portance, but some of them related almost exclu- 

 sively to the county of Down, Ireland. The 

 writer, for antiquarian purposes, is most anxious 

 to ascertain where the after-described volumes ai-e 

 now deposited, and trusts some of your readers 

 ■will be kind enough to supply him with the de- 

 sired information. The Nos. and titles are taken 

 from Thorpe's Catalogue. 



" 194. Cromwell Barony Papers, 4 vols, folio. 



105. Cromwell Family Papers. 



354. Downe Estate. Memorial and other Papers re- 

 lative to the Lands at Downe-Patrick, the Pro- 

 perty of the Cromwells, Southwells, and the 

 late'Lord de Clifford. Folio. 



356. Rent Rolls of the Downe Estate of the Hon. Edw. 

 Southwell for 1743-4-5-G. 



367. Constat of the Patent for the Lands of Moyrach 

 to Murtogh, McTurlogh, O'Lauvry, &c. Folio. 



433. Ireland. Oflicial Copies of the Letters, Orders in 



Council, &c., relative to the Office of Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, from October 1710, to August 

 1717. 2 vols. fol. 



434. Irish State Papers. Official Copies of Letters 



from the Lords Justices of Ireland, from July 

 1711, to Sept. 1713. Fol." 



DUN-I>A-LETHGLAS. 



[Our correspondent will find many of the Southwell 

 papers in the British Museum ; among others, " Historical 

 Collections relating to Ireland from the Southwell Papers, 

 1576—1751, 4 vols, folio." See Addit. MSS. 21,135 to 

 21,138.] 



" 77*6 Tarantula.'" — A correspondent, a few 

 days since, forwarded me this note, " The Taran- 

 tula, or Dance of Fools, a Squib;" and adds, that 

 he is informed that it was a prize essay, written 

 by the late Sir R. Peel when at college, and that 

 ten copies only were printed. I am unable to 

 give any information about it ; but should be glad 

 to know if it be authentic, and the circumstances 

 which called it forth ? It bears a curious title for 

 a prize essay. Tke Bee. 



[We advise our correspondent to keep a sharp eye 

 upon Eaton Stannard Barrett, the facetious writer of All 

 the Talents, 1805, as we feel more inclined to attribute the 

 authorship of The Tarantula (1809) to him than to Sir 

 Robert Peel. The writer of the latter work published 

 two years before. The Risivg Sun, a Serio-Comic Satiric 

 Romance, by Cervantes Hogg, F.S.M. [ ? Fellow of the 

 Siviiiish Multitude!'] in two vols. 12mo., 1807. Both 

 works contain humorous satirical prints, allusive of the 

 times. 1 



Rustington Church, Sussex. — Can any of your 

 Sussex correspondents give me any information 

 respecting the parish church of Rustington (a 

 small village about one mile east of Little Hamp- 

 ton) ? Walking through that district a few days 



ago, and finding the church open, I strolled in : 

 the interior gave unmistakeable signs of its anti- 

 quity, and is well worthy of a description in your 

 valuable paper. Charles McCharles. 



[Dallaway, in his Western Sussex, edit. 1832, vol. ii. 

 pt. i. p. 25., has given the following account of this 

 church : " This church is more spacious than others in 

 this district, consisting of a nave, two aisles (as is usual 

 in this county, under the roof of the nave), and a small 

 chapel, probablj' sepulchral, attached to that on the north 

 side, Avhich was rebuilt at the same period. The tower 

 at the west end, and part of the nave, are decidedly of 

 the Norman style. The chancel is of the time of Ed- 

 ward I. There is no satisfactorj' account of the founder 

 of the additional chapel, nor of its original destination. 

 The register has its first entry in 1568."] 



^' Muggy." — Query, Derivation as applied to 

 the weather ? FuiT. 



[Dr. Ogilvie gives the following derivation: " Mx;g- 

 GiSH, Muggy ; Welsh mtccan, a cloud of fog ; mwg, smoke, 

 or from the root of Muck. Moist ; damp ; close ; warm 

 and unclastic ; as muggy air." See also the word Mokv, 

 in Todd's Johnson.'] 



JlcpTt«3. 



NOTES CONCERNING EDWARD COCKER AND HIS 

 WORKS. 



(P' S. xi. 57. ; 2"'! S. ii. 252.) 



The following curious extracts are copied from 

 the MS. note-book of " John Massey of Wands- 

 worth, A.D. 1747." They furnish some minute 

 particulars of this old worthy and his works, and 

 may be read with interest by some of your readers. 

 I should add that the MS. is in my possession. 



" In the year 1657, Cocker published his Plumce 

 Triu7nphus ; in some title-pages it is The Pen's Triumph, 

 invented, written, and engraved by himself; he lived then 

 on the south side of St. Paul's church, over against 

 Paul's chain, where he taught the art of writing ; which 

 perhaps was his first Avork from the rolling press ; at least 

 I have seen none older, that is dated. His picture is in 

 the front, with this inscription over it, 'jEtatis sua;,26;' 

 from which I conjecture that he was born in 1631. It 

 contains 26 plates, in a small quarto, so that it seems 

 as if he had a design, in this his first book, to write 

 just as many leaves, as he avus j-ears old ; but I advance 

 this only as a conjecture, for in a copy of verses prefixed 

 to this book by S. IL, he mentions The Pen's Experience 

 (which I have not seen) as Cocker's _^rs< work; Art's 

 Glorij, the second ; The Pen's Transcendency, the third ; 

 and The Pen's Triumph, the fourth. 



" In the same year (t. e. 1657), he published his Pen's 

 Transcendencie, or Fair Writing's Labyrinth. It contains 

 32 small oblong folio plates, besides his picture at the 

 beginning; and a large plate at the end, informing 

 the reader that he then lived in St. Paul's church- 

 yard, where he kept school, and taught writing and 

 arithmetic. There is another edition of this book in 

 1660, which was then augmented, containing 43 leaves, 

 including letter-press work." 



"Anno Dom. 1659, he set forth The Artist's Glory, or 

 the Penman's Treasury ; with directions, theorems, and 

 principles of art in the letter-press work. It contains 25 



