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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. jfo 42., Oct. 18. '56, 



1686. Being the second after Bissextile or Leap year, 

 and from the worlds Creation at tlie Spring 5G89 years 

 compleat. Amplified with many good things both for 

 pleasure and profit : and fitted for the Meridian of Saffron 

 Walden in Essex, where the Pole is elevated 52 degrees 

 and 6 minutes above the Horizon. 



" And may serve indifferently for any other place of 

 this kingdom. Cambridge, Printed by John Hayes, 

 Printer to the University, 1686." 



Both these last named books are full of MS. 

 notes, &c. Can any one give any account of the 

 Eichard Allestree above named, or of the " Pond " 

 who, I suppose, wrote the last named almanack ? 



While on this topic, allow me to ask who wrote 

 the Eclipse Races (addressed to the ladies). By 

 Philo-Pegasus, a Lover of Truth. London, 1764. 

 This is a quarto pamphlet of twenty pages only, 

 the end being lost. Its style is satirical, and it is 

 full of ridiculous things. B. H. Cowpeb. 



P.S. In a note by me in the present volume, 

 p. 232, line 12., for " Warden " read " Norden," 

 from whom the extract is made. 



Never having seen the Arithmetic, I am not able 

 to give an opinion as to whether it was the work 

 of Edward Cocker or not. But I possess a copy 

 of his Dictionary (Third edition, 1724), and al- 

 though it confesses to be "much enlarged and 

 altered by John Hawkins," yet from internal 

 evidence I am satisfied that it is, in the main, a 

 genuine production of the author whose name it 

 bears. 



In the first place, it seems to be an original 

 composition. I can trace no plagiarism from 

 Phillips's World of Words, or other old dictionary. 

 And it seems to me very probable that if Haw- 

 kins was trading upon Cocker's fame he would 

 not have scrupled to avail himself of the labours 

 of others. 



It also contains marks of being a posthumous 

 publication of a MS. left incomplete, not having 

 received the author's final corrections. The words 

 do not follow in strict alphabetical order. On 

 the previous hypothesis this is not unlikely to have 

 been the case, but surely a living author would 

 have corrected such errors as the work passed 

 through the press. 



Lastly, there are many indications of the author 

 having enlarged upon his plan as he proceeded : 

 for instance, Cardiganshire and Cornwall, and all 

 the counties beginning with the earlier letters of 

 the alphabet, are dismissed in two or three lines, 

 more lengthened descriptions of those counties 

 being found under the articles Shanbedern-Daur, 

 Leskerd, &c. (which it would have been easy for 

 an author, conscious of his change of plan, to have 

 placed under their proper heads while his work 

 was printing), while Norfolk, Suffolk, &c., among 

 later in the alphabet, are treated at full length 

 under those heads. 



For these reaso;ns among others, I conclude that 

 Cocker's English Dictionary is the work of Ed- 

 ward Cocker: a fortiori, it would appear that ihe 

 Arithmetic is his a.lso. Hawkins might have been 

 induced by the success of the Arithmetic to have 

 forged the Dictioihary ; but it is hardly probable 

 that he followed up the publication of a forged 

 arithmetic with a genuine dictionary. 



Cocker's birthpllace seems unknown. Does the 

 following passage.^ occurring under the artisjie 

 " Norfolk," show that he belonged to that county ? 

 " If the Scotch M«en laugh at our wing of a rabbit, 

 ive may smile at their shoulder of a capon." At 

 any rate, judging from his English Dictionary, in 

 any future " Worthies of Norfolk," he will not be 

 found among the literati. E. G. K. 



" CABMISTA QUADRAGESIMALIA." 



(2°* S. ii. 130. 197.) 



In fulfilment of my promise I send the names 

 of the authors of these poems contained in the 

 second volume, as they are assigned in the one 

 now in my possession. The number of poems in 

 this volume is 166. I have numbered them in 

 the margin of my book, and I have, as below, 

 placed these numbers against the names of the 

 respective authors. I have no doubt that the 

 testimony of Mr. Sissmore, the late possessor of 

 this volume, is to be relied on. He must have 

 been a contemporary of many of the authors, and 

 probably personally acquainted with some of them. 

 I abstain from any remarks on the authors, as I 

 have nothing trustworthy to communicate on this 

 point; and I would venture to express a wish 

 that some one may be found willing to tell us 

 something of men whose youthful etlbrts gave 

 such promise of future eminence. 



Marhham. 1. 3. 6. 12. 24. 31, 32, 33, 34. 37. 46, 47. 76. 85. 

 87. 90, 91, 92, 93. 97. 113. 141. 166. 



Keith. 2. 4, 5. 9, 10. 35. 39. 50. 64. 67. 69. 71. 73, 74, 75. 



Impey. 7. 11. 16. 21. 105, 106. 129. Four lines of 129., be- 

 ginning with "Gaudet" and ending with "aquilas," 

 are ascribed to Markham. 



Wilcox. 8. 29. 80, 81, 82, 83. 87. 100, 101, 102, 103. 111. 

 133. 136. 142. 155. 158. 



Harley. 13. 30. 35. 107. 



Lord Stormmt. 14. 17, 18. 109, 110. 112. 117, 118. 138. 



Bedingfield. 15, 79. 94, 95. 99. 



Thomas. 19, 20. 41. 140. 



Roberts. 26. 52. 



Hay. 27. 



Nash. 28. 64. 



Tid,b. 38. 49. 53. 84. 125. 142. 



Gilpin, 'ii. 152. 



Slade. 44, 45. 123. 130. 



Sharpe. 48. 77. 114. 



Crotchlty. 51. 69. 62. 119. 137, 



Dowdeswell. 67. 161. 



Friend. 58. 



Shields. 96. 



Bruce. 98, 



