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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



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day, that the name implied that the " Bishop of 

 Sarum was anciently responsible for instructing 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury to sing, and hence 

 he was called ' Provincial Precentor of Canter- 

 bury.' " I am unwilling to expose the absurdity 

 of such a supposition, but I shall be glad to know 

 whether any of your ecclesiological readers can 

 explain the origin and duties of the office, or 

 refer me to an authority which shall satisfy my 

 curiosity. Has it not some reference to Convo- 

 cation ? Clericus Rusticus. 



[This office, attached to the See of Sarum, or Salis- 

 bury, is one belonging to the province of Canterbury, and 

 not to the archbishop individually. The dean of the pro- 

 vince is the Bishop of London ; the sub-dean, the Bishop 

 of Winchester; the chancellor, the Bishop of Lincoln; 

 the precentor, the Bishop of Sarum, or Salisbury ; and 

 the chaplain, the Bishop of Rochester. The Sarum Office 

 Books, such as the Breviaries, the Antiphonaria, the 

 Gradualia, Ilymnarii, &c. are of the highest authority, 

 because flowing from the source to which had been con- 

 fided the purity of the songs of the Church.] 



Bamboozle. — Would you, through the medium 

 of your delightful periodical, kindly assist me to 

 the origin or derivation of the not very elegant 

 word bamboozle ? It sounds very much as if it 

 belonged to the bamboo family, but the parti- 

 culars of the connection I am at a loss to discover. 



Philologus. 



[In Todd's Johnson it is stated to be a cant word, from 

 bam, a cheat; of which Richardson, in his Supplement, 

 gives the following example : 



" Prig. This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to 

 chowse me out of my money." — Foote, The Cozeners, Act 

 in. Sc. 1. 



Bouchier, in his Glossary, says, " This term bamboozle 

 has, with great propriety, long had a place in the Gipsy 

 or Canting Dictionaries, it being, in my opinion, the sole 

 invention of gipsies, or vagrants." It seems to have first 

 com9*into vogue during the earlv part of the last cen- 

 tury ; for in The Tatler, No. 230.', we read, " The third 

 refinement observable in the letter I send you consists in 

 the choice of certain words invented by some pretty 

 fellows, such as banter, bamboozle, country put, and kid- 

 ney, some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and 

 others are in possession of it."] 



" The World UnmasTied ; or, the Philosopher the 

 Greatest Cheat" 1736. — Who is the author? 



Anon. 

 [By some attributed to Bernard Mandeville.] 



LOBD HALIFAX AND MRS. BARTON. 



(2"'» S. i. 265.) 



If Professor De Morgan will consult another 

 of Mrs. Manley's disgraceful works, he will find an 

 allusion to these parties. It is entitled ^'■Memoirs 

 of Europe towards the close of the Eighth Cerdury. 

 Written by Eginardus, secretary and favourite to 



Charlemagne, and done into English by the Trans- 

 lator of the New Atalojitis:' My copy is "The 

 second edition, corrected, 1711." A Key is ap- 

 pended, entitled " A Key to the Third Volume of 

 the Atalantis, called Memoirs of Europe." The 

 pages given in the key frequently do not corre- 

 spond with the pages intended to be designated. 

 Lord H— 1— X is " Julious (sic) Sergius ; " " Bar- 

 tica " is " Sir Is. Ne?don's (sic) "Niece." At 

 p. 252. a pretended history of Lord Halifax is 

 given ; then follows an account of his palace, de- 

 voted to luxury and debauchery. At p. 268. the 

 name of Bartica is introduced, described by her 

 lover as " a Traitress, an inconsistent proud Bag- 

 gage," upon whom he had lavished " myriads," 

 " besides getting her worthy ancient Parent a good 

 post for connivance." Then she is described as 

 exacting marriage as the only terms of continued 

 intimacy with her lover. He professes that " if he 

 pined himself to death, he was resolved not to 

 marry her — while she was so saucy." 



The testimony of Mrs. Manley is of course 

 wholly valueless, except as an indication that 

 scandal was current. How utterly ignorant Mrs. 

 Manley was of the circle whom she calumniated 

 appears from her describing Sir Isaac Newton aa 

 the " worthy parent " of Bartica. If Professor 

 DE Morgan wishes to see the volume, my copy is 

 at his service. R. Beook Aspland. 



Dukinfield. 



I regret to disturb the conclusion to which Pro- 

 fessor De Morgan has arrived respecting this 

 work. His informant was right, for it does con- 

 tain " the current scandal relative to Lord Hali- 

 fax and Newton's niece," as he will find by con- 

 sulting the third volume of the edition of 1720. 

 That edition is provided with a key to the entire 

 work ; but, from the fact of its being appended to 

 the first volume, though separately headed, it 

 probably escaped the Professor's notice. In it 

 I find, under reference to page " 263. Bartica, Sir 

 Isaac Newton's Niece," and on turning to the page 

 in question, the following passage : 



" ' I think, my Lord Julius Sergius,'' continued I, ad- 

 dressing more closely to his Lordship, « 'tis hard, that of 

 all this heavenly Prospect of Happiness, your Lordship is 

 the only solitary Lover : What is become of the charming 

 Bartica ? Can she live a Day, an Hour, without you ? 

 Sure she's indisposed, dying or dead.' ♦ You call the Tears 

 into my Eyes, dear Count,' answered the Heroe sobbing, 

 ' she's a Traitress, an inconstant proud Baggage, yet I 

 Love her dearly, and have lavished Myriads upon' her, 

 besides getting her worthy ancient Parent a good Post for 

 Connivance. But, would you think it? She has other 

 Things in her Head, and is grown so fantastick and high, 

 she wants me to marry her, or else I shall have no more 

 of her, truly: 'Twas ever a proud Slut; when she pre- 

 tended most Kindness, when she was all over Coquet, and 

 coveted to engage me more and more ; when our Intimacy 

 was at the height, she us'd to make my Servants wait 



