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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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our language. In Anthony h. Wood's Zt/e (under 

 A.D. 1649), he speaks of a certain Mr, Anthony 

 Hodges, who, " delighting himself in mirth, and in 

 that which was afterwards called buffooning and 

 bantering^ could never be brought to set pen to 

 paper," &c. (p. 43., edit. Bliss, Eccles. Hist. Soc). 

 Again, a.d. 1652 : 



" Tliomas was a good soldier, stout and ventrous, and 

 Laving an art of merriment called buffooning." — lUd,, 

 p. 53. 



Again, a.d. 1678 : 



" Tlie banterers of Oxford (a set of scholars so called, 

 some M.A,), who make it their employment to talk at a 

 venture, lye, and prate what nonsense they please; if 

 they see a man talk seriously, they talk floridly nonsense, 

 and care not what he says ; this is like throwing a cushion 

 at a man's head, that pretends to be grave and wise." — 

 Ibid. p. 204. 



Poor Anthony evidently spoke from a personal 

 experience of such hanterivg. Of these new words 

 we have retained one, and dispensed with the other. 



In the same work, a.d. 1645, we have the early 

 form of another common word : 



" The next great disturbance, whereby A. W. and his 

 fellow sojourners were alarum'd at Thame, was this." — 

 Ibid., p. 23. 



Again, in Wood Freshman's speech, made a.d. 

 1647, which plays on the new phrases and hu- 

 mours of the day, we have : 



" Neither was I ever admitted into the cabinet councils 

 of the Pyerian dames." — Ibid., p. 37. 



— the same word of which the original introduc- 

 tion seven years before is indicated by Clarendon, 

 who says {Hist. Rebell., book ii.), in speaking of 

 the ministry of Charles I., in 1640: 



" These persons made up the Committee of State, 

 which was reproachfully after called the junto, and en- 

 viously then in the Court the cabinet council." 



A. S. E. P. 



" SUICEBI THESAURUS." 



I should wish to ascertain, from some gentle- 

 man who has had an opportunity of comparing 

 the two editions of this valuable work, whether 

 there be any real and important superiority in 

 the second edition of 1728, over the first edition 

 of 1682 ? There is, I know, a considerable dif- 

 ference made between them in the booksellers' 

 catalogues, — the second edition being generally 

 double the price of the first. And yet I cannot 

 help thinking that there is no great difference 

 between them. A bookseller once showed me a 

 copy of the second edition, which he had marked 

 41. 10s. ; and when I inquired what could occa- 

 sion so great a difference of value between the 

 two editions, he pointed out two or three printed 



leaves at the end, which appeared to me to be 

 corrections, or curcB posteriores, certainly of no 

 great bulk, and perhaps of no very great im- 

 portance. Now this is the point which it is de- 

 sirable to know, from some one who has had an 

 opportunity and leisure carefully to compare and 

 examine the two editions. One would suppose 

 from the statement of Moreri, that such important 

 additions had been made to the second edition, in 

 1728, and the whole so remodelled, as to give it 

 the character of a new work. His words are : 



" II a et^ r^imprim^ k Amsterdam en 1728, avec beau- 

 coup de corrections, et un plus grand Nombre d'Augmen- 

 tations qui en font im ouvrage tout nouveau, et I'un des 

 plus utiles qui ait paru depuis long-temps." 



But when I consider that the first edition was 

 the result of twenty years' assiduous labour, and 

 that it was afterwards retained in his study, 

 under his revision and correction, for ten years 

 longer before it was sent to press, and that he 

 died within four years after its publication, it 

 does not appear probable this great work could 

 undergo such important change as the words 

 of Moreri would seem to indicate. And it would 

 be desirable to learn the opinion of some careful 

 examiner. Ignatius. 



Daniel Bellamy. — Could you give me any in- 

 formation regarding Daniel Bellamy, of St. John's 

 College, Oxford, author of a volume containing 

 Original Poems and Translations : London, 8vo., 

 1722; The Young Ladies' Miscellany, &c.. 1723. 

 He also published, in conjunction with his son, 

 Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 2 vols., 12mo., 

 1746. By Messrs. D. Bellamy, sen. and jun. 



Mr. B.'s son, the Rev. Daniel Bellamy, was 

 minister of Kew and Petersham, in Surrey, and 

 vicar of St. Stephen's, near St. Alban's, Herts. 

 The inscription on his tombstone (which I saw not 

 long since in Kew churchyard) records his death 

 in his seventy-first year, on February 15, 1788. 



R. Ingus. 



Blood Royal. — I dare say many will convict me 

 an ignoramus for the following Queries ; but I 

 cannot help it, and freely confess that I am an 

 ignoramus. 



1 want to know what it is that constitutes 

 " blood royal ?" How far does it ascend and de- 

 scend the genealogical tree ? 



If the present Duke of Cambridge, for instance, 

 should have any children (legitimate), would they 

 be considered " blood royal ? " 



Is Napoleon III. reckoned among the royal 

 blood ? If so, on what principle ? 



Does a mere title constitute Aristocracy ? If 

 so, to what class do the untitled beau monde be- 

 long ? 



