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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July 14. 1855, 



'■^Legend of Captain Jones ^'' — Can you or any 

 of your correspondents furnish a little information 

 as to the book entitled Legend of Captain Jones ; 

 relating his strange and incredible Adventures iy 

 Land and Sea, 12mo., Lond., 1670 ? It is written 

 in verse, and in a recent bookseller's catalogue 

 has the following note appended to it : 



"A gravely ironical burlesque: the hero of it was a 

 distinguislied commander in the days of Q. Elizabeth : 

 priced in the Bib. Ang. Poet., 21. 12s. 6d." 



Who was its author ? Whom was it Intended to 

 ridicule ? 



I may mention that my copy has a curious fold- 

 ing plate at the commencement engraved by 

 Marshall. H. C. 



Paddington. 



[The poem is by David Lloyd, Dean of St. Asaph, " a 

 person," says Anthony k Wood, " who was always es- 

 teemed an ingenious man, and poetically given." It is a 

 very good burlesque in imitation of a Welsh poem, en- 

 titled Owdl Rich. Greulon. " The said Captain Jones," 

 says Wood, " on whom the legend was made, lived in tiie 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was in great renown for 

 his high exploits, when Sir John Norris and his noble 

 brethren, with Sir Walter Raleigh, were endeavouring 

 for the honour of their nation to eternize their names by 

 martial exploits." Andrew Marvell, in The Rehearsal 

 Transprosed, edit. 1776, vol. ii. p. 19., speaking of the 

 Legend of Captain Jones, says, " I have heard that there 

 •was indeed such a captain, an honest brave fellow : but a 

 wag, that had a mind to be merry with him, hath quite 

 spoiled his history." The facetious Dean, it seems, by his 

 generosity and loyalty having run himself much into debt, 

 some wag, or perhaps himself, has thus memorialised him : 



" This is the epitaph 

 Of the Dean of St. Asaph, 

 Who by keeping a table 

 Better than he was able, 

 Run into debt 

 Which is not paid yet."] 



Charles Vt/se. — Can you give me any account 

 of Charles Vyse, the author of several well- 

 known school-books? If I am not mistaken, 

 Mr. Vyse was the master of a school at Mitcham, 

 about seventy years ago. R. J. 



Glasgow. 



[Very little seems to be kno'>.\Ti of Charles Vyse. TTie 

 JBiographical Dictionary of Living Authors, 1816, states 

 that he was formerly master of an academy in Portland 

 Street, and since a private teacher at Vauxhall. And in 

 a letter from an old bookseller to his son in The Aldine 

 Magazine, p. 134., it is farther stated, that "in the sale of 

 Mr. Robinson's stock, the copyright alone of Vyse's Spell- 

 ing, price one shilling, sold for 2,500/., besides an annuity 

 of fifty guineas per annum to poor old Vj'se, to whom 

 your brothers went to school in Walnut-tree Walk, Lam- 

 beth, in the year 1805."] 



Condarius. — One of the attesting witnesses to 

 an undated deed of Philip de Belmeis, circa 1155, 

 is " Petrus, Conda7-ius mens." What was the 

 office described by the word ? And can any other 

 instance be cited in which it occurs ? Was it 



No. 298.] 



Chandler ? I should have thought It an error of 

 the transcriber for Camerarius, had not Richard 

 Camerarius occurred as a witness to the same 

 deed. Thomas Rossell Potter. 



[From a passage in Du Cange it seems that this was a 

 legal officer, whose duties were the same as those of the 

 referendary, one to whom all royal or papal ])etitions were 

 referred : " Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Dornino- 

 Domino Johanni de Montemirali, Papoe Prothonotario et 

 Condario," &c. — Glossary, in voce. The same authority 

 informs us, that this John de Montemirali was the Pope's- 

 referendary : " Hie Johannes de Jlontemirali summa 

 Pontifici referendarius erat, anno 1470."] 



Seal Engravers' Seals. — I am collecting Im- 

 pressions of seals, and I have obtained some on 

 red sealing-wax, which have been made by en- 

 gravers, having the face entirely dulled, as if by 

 Vermillion, and the edges left the natural colour 

 of the wax. Can any one inform me of the pro- 

 cess of taking such impressions ? 



Adrian Adninan. 



Great Grimsby. 



[One way, and perhaps the usual way, is to powder the 

 seal with vermillion; and when the wax is quite hot, 

 make the impression. The powder upon the stamp causes 

 the dulness.] 



EepIt'eS. 



THEOBALD liE BOTILLER. 



(Vol. vlli., p. 367. ; Vol. ix., p. 336.) 

 At the time of the dissolution of the Irish Re- 

 cord Commission, considerable progress had been 

 made In the transcription and printing of ancient 

 charters relating to Ireland. It appears to have 

 been the intention of the commissioners to publish 

 transcripts of the various bulls, charters, &c., of 

 ancient date, which are to be found in various 

 places of deposit ; but the sudden termination of 

 their commission, has prevented the completion of 

 this most useful work. The printed, but still un- 

 published, portion of these " chartas antiquae," 

 consists of ninety-two pages large folio : the 

 earliest charter bearing date the 18(h of Hen. II. ; 

 and amongst them I find, at p. 11., the transcript 

 of a grant whereby Theobald Walter, the king's 

 butler of Ireland, grants certain lands to the Ab- 

 bey of Abbey Owney, situate in the county of 

 Limerick. It commences in these terms : 



" Omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filiis tarn presentibus 

 quam futuris Theobaldus Walteri pincerna Hibernie salu- 

 tem Sciatis me pro amore Dei et beate Dei geuitricis 

 3Iarie et pro anima domini mei H. Regis Anglie et Ri- 

 cardi regis Anglie filii ejus et pro salute domini mei 

 Johannis Comitis Moretonie et domini Hibernie et pro 

 salute H. fratris mei Cantuar' archiepiscopi et pro anima 

 chari mei Ranulfi de Glanvilla et pro anima Hervci Wal- 

 teri patris mei et pro anima Matilde de Waltines matris 

 mee et pro salute anime mee et pro salute Matilde spouse 

 niee et pro salute animarum omnium amicorum et ante- 

 cessorum et successorum meorum." 



