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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>"i S. No 50., Dbc. 13. '56. 



The boots are not in themselves remarkable, 

 being such as the Horse Guards now wear. Is a 

 story connected with them ? 



Many pamphlets of that time are extinct : 

 others are deservedly scarce. I read lately, 

 though I have forgotton where, an article in 

 •which the writer regretted that he had not been 

 able to see a copy of Tentamen, An Essay towards 

 the History of Whittington, certainly one very well 

 worth preserving. From your answer to H. S. K.'s 

 Query (2"'^ S. ii. 373.), it is probable that more 

 than one work bore the title of Nero Vindicated. 

 The lines are a clumsy paraphrase on two cited 

 by Boxhorn-Zuerius, without the author's name, 

 in his notes to Suetonius, Lugd. Bat., 1672, p. 596. 

 as having been applied to Tiberius : 



" Fastidit vinum quia jam sitit iste cruorem 

 Tain bibit hunc avide, quatn bibit ante merutn." 



Those allusions which are best understood by 

 contemporaries are often the most obscure to 

 posterity. Few make notes of what everybody is 

 supposed to know. Nobody repeats last year's 

 imprinted jokes, avowing them to be of that age. 

 They drop out of conversation and into oblivion. 

 How many characters in Churchill's satires are 

 now unknown ! There is Whiffle in the fourth 

 book of The Ghost, one of the most perfect of 

 satirical portraits. I cannot ascertain who sat for 

 it, and Mr. Tooke's edition, as usual, where any 

 but the commonest information is wanted, has no 

 note. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Minav nhutvici. 



NorderCs " Sinfull Mans Solace." — There is an 

 old book, written by John Norden and printed in 

 black letter by Richard Jones in 1585, entitled 

 A Sinfull Man's Solace. I have a copy which 

 wants the title page and the first four leaves. 

 Will any one be so good as to give me a general 

 account of the book, and tell me where I am likely 

 to find a perfect copy of it ? Is it of any theolo- 

 gical or literary value ? Has it eVer been re- 

 printed ? * Hbney Kensington. 



What was the Temperature of the Weather at 

 the Birth of our Saviour ? — Was it similar to that 

 of a cold Christmas night in England ? I fancy 

 not ; although I believe, that, at some seasons of 

 the year, the nights in the Holy Land are exceed- 

 ingly cold. The Gospels tell us of the coldness of 

 the night preceding the Crucifixion ; but they 



[* John Norden is better known by his topographical 

 Surveys : all his devotional works are rare ; and we can- 

 not discover a copy of A Sinfull Man's Solace in any 

 public library. Two of his works were bought by the late 

 Mr. Pickering at the sale of the Rev. H. F. Ly te's library 

 in 1849 ; viz. A Pensive Man's Practise, 1623, and A Poore 

 Man's Best, 1631.— Ed.] 



say nothing as to the temperature of the weather 

 at the birth of our Saviour. Artists and writers 

 (but especially the latter) seem to prefer now-a- 

 days to represent the night of the Nativity as in 

 all respects similar to an English winter's night. 

 Is this correct ? Cuthbert Bbde, B.A. 



IVanslator of Terence's " Andrian." — There 

 was a translation cf the Andrian of Terence (Latin 

 and English), printed at Sherborne, about the 

 year 1772. Who was the translator ? R. Inglis. 



Compulsory Attendance at a Parish Chui'ch. — 

 In a treatise on Sir Matthew Hale's History of the 

 Pleas of the Crown, by Professor Amos, the fol- 

 lowing passage occurs under the section of " Re- 

 pealed Felonies," p. 235. : — 



" In the year 1817, at the Spring Assizes for Bedford, 

 Sir Montagu Burgoyne was prosecuted for having been 

 absent from his parish church for several months :' the 

 action was defeated by proof of the defendant having been 

 indisposed. In the Report of Prison Inspectors to the 

 House of Lords in 1841, it appeared that in 1839 ten 

 persons were in prison for recusancy in not attending 

 their parish churches. A mother was prosecuted by her 

 own son." 



Perhaps some of your readers may be able to 

 furnish particulars of Sir Montagu Burgoyne's 

 prosecution, or of some of the ten persons referred 

 to in the Report of the Inspectors of Prisons, 



W. H. Wills. 



Bristol. 



William Andrew Price, Esq., Governor of Sural 

 in 1774. — Will you or either of your readers be 

 so kind as to give any particulars as to William 

 Andrew Price, or where any information can be 

 obtained respecting him or his place of birth or 

 family, as some poor persons are searching out for 

 such ? and whether he was related to Andrew 

 Price, Esq., who died at Shad Thames in 1748 ? 



^ Glwysig. 



Corkscrews and Bottlescrews. — When were 

 corkscrews first invented ? and when first so 

 called ? At the beginning of the last century 

 they were generally called hottlescrues. The last 

 poem in Nicholas Amhurst's Poems on Several 

 Occasions is one called " The Bottle Scrue. A 

 Tale." And the writer, after lamenting that 



" Still unsung in pompous strains, 

 Oh ! shame ! the Bottle Scrue remains," 



proceeds to give the legendary origin of the inven- 

 tion, Bacchus is described in the jDoem ; and 

 among other things it is said of him, — 



" This hand a corh-scrue did contain. 

 And that a bottle of champaigne." 



Yet bottle scrue would seem to be the then name 

 of this useful instrument. S. N. M. 



Family of Jennens or Jennings, Co. Wai-wick and 

 Berks. — Any information touching the pedigree 



