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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July 21. 1855. 



reduced silver has the appearance of a plate whitened by- 

 bichloride of mercury, and these plates are free from this 

 yellowish deposit. When the plate has not been exposed 

 to light, the stain first appears at the end of from thirty- 

 five to sixtj' seconds after pouring on the developer, and 

 almost immediately after extends over the whole plate. 

 The collodion was iodized with 1 drachm of iodide and 1 

 of bromide of silver, each dissolved in 2 ounces of absolute 

 alcohol ; and the solutions used in the proportion of 1^ 

 drachm of iodide to J drachm of bromide, with collodion 

 added to complete the ounce. The developer is a 1 -grain 

 pyrogallic solution with a drachm of acetic and J a 

 drachm of formic .acid to every 3 ounces. 



The baths are 30-grain silver solutions and have been 

 in use about two months. The glass plates were cleaned 

 first with ordinary liquor potassse, and, upon the stains 

 appearing, secondly, with dilute nitric acid and tripoli, 

 and left in the acid for eight hours. 



There was a violent thunderstorm on Saturday morn- 

 ing : could it have affected the bath ? P. 



3Rcj)IteS t0 Minav <lEintvlti, 



The Jersey Muse (Vol. xli., p. 6.). — Mr. Cun- 

 ningham says he " can fill up the blank" in Cow- 

 ley's verse. But the blank, as he has shown, was 

 filled up more than a century since by Pope ; and 

 the question with me has always been- whether 

 Pope was right. Either Pope or Cowley was 

 wrong. Prynne, whom Pope assumed to have 

 been meant, had indeed been sentenced in 1633 

 for writing Histriomastix ; but a like atrocious 

 sentence was passed on him in 1637 for publish- 

 ing News from Ipsioich, including perpetual im- 

 prisonment in Caernarvon Castle. On August 27 

 of that year (1637), says Rushworth, " it was or- 

 dered by his Majesty, with the advice of his Privy 

 Council," that Prynne should be removed " to 

 which of the two castles of the Isle of Jersey the 

 governor should think fit," and he was in con- 

 sequence removed to Jersey, and confined in 

 Mount-Orgueil Castle. While there, Prynne 

 wrote a volume of poems, which, on his libera- 

 tion, he published (1641), entitled : 



_" Mount-Orgueil : or Divine and Profitable Meditation, 

 raised from the Contemplation of these Three Leaves of 

 Nature's Volume: 1. Rockes; 2. Seas; 3. Gardens; di- 

 gested into Three distinct Poems. To which is prefixed, 

 a Poeticall Description of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the 

 Isle of Jersy. By William Prynne, late Exile, and close 

 Prisoner in the sayd Castle." 



The "rough crabbed hedge ryhmes" of this 

 volume are well described by Cowley, and justify 

 his laugh at the "Jersey Muse" — "the Homer of 

 the Isle." But here is the difficulty. Cowley 

 says: 



" Written by Esqui-re the 



Year of our Lord, Six hundred thirty -three." 



Now Prynne, as I have shown, was not removed 

 to Jersey until after August 2, 1637, and he dis- 

 tinctly tells us, in a note to the poems : " I arrived 

 in Jersey, January the 17, 1637"— 1637-8. I can 



No. 299.] 



only suppose, therefore, that Cowley was in error ; 

 and had assumed that this Jersey imprisonment 

 was a part of the first sentence (1633) for pub- 

 lishing the Histriomastix. T. J. M. 



Prynne (Vol. xii., p. 6.). — The blank is filled 

 up in Grey's Notes to Hudibras, pt. ii.c. i. 1. 646., 

 where also is cited '■'■ Dunciad Varior., 1729, note 

 on V. 101, book i." 



Hume (^History of Great Britain^ ch. Iv. vol. vi. 

 p. 417.), describing the triumphant return of the 

 Puritans, says : 



" By an order of Council, they had been carried to re- 

 mote prisons ; Bastwic to Scilly,' Prynne to Jersey, Burton 

 to Guernsey." 



H. B. C. 



Cambridge Jeux d" Esprit. — The Oxford jeux 

 d'esprit having met with more than one champion 

 (Vol. xi., pp. 127. 349.), I venture to stand up for 

 the Cambridge productions of the same kind : 

 when we can show Vla9r},uaToyoyia, Mother Hub- 

 bard cum notis variorum, Fragmentum ex ^HdiKocfiv- 

 a-iKo\7}p(iiv, The Cambridge University Steeple Chase 

 (1847), together with sundry epigrams, &c., we 

 need not fear comparison. If this hint brings 

 forth some matured plan for a permanent col- 

 lection of Cambridge jeux d'esprit, none will be 

 more pleased than the present writer. 



P. J, F. Gantillon. 



" Nine hundred and three doors out of the world " 

 (Vol. xii., p. 9.). — Me. Offor is informed, in 

 answer to his Query, that the authority for the 

 nine hundred and three kinds, or doors, of death 

 is to be found in the Babylonian Talmud, Bera- 

 choth, p. 8., and in Jalkud Schimoni on Ps. Ixviii. 20. 

 It is said, " Nine hundred and three are the kinds 

 of death made in this world ; for says Ps. Ixviii. 

 21., niO^ niXSin, the issues from death." The 

 numerical value of the word niXVin, " issues," is 

 nine hundred and three, thus : 



n 400 



) . - . . - 6 



^f 90 



N 1 



1 6 



n 400 



903 

 Leopold Dukes. 



" Struggles for Life" (Vol. xii., p. 9.) is ascribed 

 to Rev. \Vm. Leask, of Kennington, a congre- 

 gational minister. B. H. C. 



Almanacs of 1849, SfC. (Vol. xi., p. 323.; 

 Vol. xii., p. 19.). — Surely your correspondent 

 M. cannot have examined the Calendar before he 

 wrote to you, affirming that the Almanac of 1860 

 will be the same as that for 1855. 1860 is a leap- 

 year, which 1855 is not ; and up to the interca- 



