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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[July 14. 1855. 



The foundation of the Order is usually placed 

 in 1210, and the saintship of its founder had of 

 course a still later date. 



Why does Sir Walter, both in the Tales of the 

 Crusaders and in loauJioe, always style a con- 

 spicuous personage in the fourth Crusade, Mar- 

 quis of " Montserrat," instead of " Montferrat ?" 

 Did the long f mislead him ? J. S. Vv'^a.rden. 



" Cliilde Harold'''' and the " Gerusalemmc Lihe- 

 rata.^' — The resemblance between the following 

 stanzas of Childe Harold and the Gerusalemme 

 Libei-ata has never, to my knowledge, been noted : 



" Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! 

 The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, 

 Lone mother of dead empires! and control 

 In their shut breasts their petty misery. 

 What are our woes and sufi'erance ? Come and see 

 The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way 

 O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye I 

 Whose agonies are evils of a day — 



A world is at j^our feet as fragile as our clay." 



Childe Harold, iv. 78. 



" Giace 1' alta Cartago : appena i segni 



Dell' alte sue mine il lido serba. 



Muoiono le citta, muoiono i rcgni ; 



Copre i fasti, e le ponipe arena ed erba; 



E 1' uom d' esser mortal par che si sdegni ! 

 • nostra mente cupida e superba ! " 



Gerusalemme Liherata, xv. 20. 



MS. Notes in Copy of " The Dsscription of the 

 Sector." — In an old book, described in the title- 

 page as The Description and Use of the Sector, 

 Crosse-Staff'e, and other Instruments, published in 

 London in lG-36, and dedicated to the Honourable 

 John Count of Bridgwater, Viscount Brackley, 

 and Baron of EUesmere, and on the first two blank 

 pages, there are the following entries : 



" 1. John Benbow, 163G. 



2. To hia son John Benbow, May 5, 1671. 



o. FromVice-Admiral Benbow to Captain, (afterwards) 

 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, Nov. oO, 1702. 



4. From Sir Thomas to Hear, (afterwards) Vice-Ad- 

 miral Jas. Mighells, ]\Iarch 28, 1717. 



5. From James to his young friend Lieut. Edwd. (after- 

 wards) Admiral Lord Edwd. Ilawke, April 4, 17.33. 



6. From Lord Edw. to his Friend Horatio Nelson, then 

 third Lieut, of the LowestofFe, (afterwards) Admiral Loi'd 

 Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, &c. &c. &c., May 26, 

 1777. 



7. From Lord Viscount Nelson to his dear friend Cap- 

 tain Hardy (now Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas), Oct. 21, 

 1805. 



8. From Admiral Sir Thomas to Captain Salusbury 

 Prj'ce Humphreys, June 11, 1813. 



9. From Captain Humphreys to Edwd. W. Lloj'd, 

 July 27, 1821. 



Edwd. W. Lloyd, July 27, N. S., 1821." 



This book is in good condition considering its 

 age, and the present owner purchased it in the 

 town of Stockport some thirty years ago at a book- 

 stall. The Edward W. Lloyd was,! think, the 

 first representative of Stockport in parliament 

 ■ No. 298.] 



after passing of the Reform Bill. Perhaps some 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." may throw some light 

 upon the fact of its passing through so many 

 hands. I may add that, on the first page, the 

 word Talavera is written in large Roman text 

 In letters three quarters of an inch long. 



John Goodwin. 

 Frances Street, Strangways, Manchester. 



^Vitxiti. 



WUO WAS HENRY SHIRLEY, THE AUTHOR OF " THE 

 MARTYr'd SOLDIER ? " 



In W^ood's Athena Oxonienses (edit. Bliss, iii. 

 741.), under the article on James Shirley, the 

 poet, is the following passage : 



" I find one Henry Shirley, gent., author of a play 

 called The Martyr'd Souldier, London, 1638; which 

 Henry I take to be brother, or near kinsman, to James." 



That this supposition of Wood is without found- 

 ation, I think will appear from the extracts which 

 follow : premising that on the parentage of James, I 

 can throw no light, it is true that he assumed the 

 arms of my family, which Wood also mentions, 

 with the expressive adjunct : " If he had a right 

 to them," — an assumption which has yet to be 

 made good. 



There is a passage in Tierney's History of the 

 Castle and Town of Arundel, vol. i. p. 67., which 

 gives some sanction to Wood's observation as to 

 the relationship with Henry, at least as regards 

 the popular notion of it ; it is taken from a news- 

 paper : 



"The Weekly Account of certain Special Passages, &c., 

 from Wednesdaj', Jan. 3, to the lOtli of the same Month, 

 lGd4." 



Mentioning that — 



" S'' Edward Bishop some years since embrued his wil- 

 ful] hands in the blood of Master Henry Shirley, kinsman 

 to 3Ir. James Shirley, the playwright, and who did excel 

 him in that faculty." 



And in another newspaper, called " Certain In- 

 formations from several Parts of ye Kingdom, 

 No. 52., Jan. 8 to Jan. 15, 1644," where the taking 

 of Arundel Castle and Sir Edward Bishop is men- 

 tioned as — 



" Once a member of the Honourable House of Commons, 

 untill he wilfully deserted his service there, who is also 

 stigmatised with blood, for hilling of a man that only de- 

 manded his due of him." 



That the same person is meant, there can be no 

 doubt. The circumstances as to the debt, which, 

 are here alluded to, we shall see afterwards. 



Again, in Prynne's Histriomast'ix, 1633, p. 553. b. 

 (for this extract I am obliged to the Rev. Joseph 

 Hunter), is the following, clearly connecting 



