July 7. 1855.] 



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inquires, belongs to a descendant of the judge, 

 now living at Amboise in France. Mr. Basil 

 Montagu has given Mr. Bruce and me, and I 

 have no doubt many other persons, a great deal of 

 unnecessary trouble in searching the different 

 libraries, by omitting to state where he found it. 

 Having been indulged with its perusal, I can truly 

 say that it is a most interesting record of the time ; 

 and contains some anecdotes quite as curious as 

 that extracted by Mr. Montagu, in his " Life of 

 Bacon," relative to Sir Henry Yelverton. 



Edward Foss. 



" Foundling Hospital for Wit (Vol. xi., p. 386.). 



To the series of parts and editions of the New 

 Foundling Hospital for Wit, furnished by Mr. 

 Hawkins, a volume may be added, though not 

 bearing this exact title. 



Mr. Hawkins's list commences with a work 

 published in 1768. I possess an octavo volume, 

 entitled — 



"The Foundling Hospital for Wit, intended for the 

 Keception and Preservation of such Brats of Wit and 

 Humour, whose Parents chuse to drop them. London, 

 printed 1743. Reprinted for W. Webb, near St. Paul's, 

 1763." 



The work was published In numbers, of which six 

 are here given, irregularly dated, viz. No. 2., 

 1749; No. 3., 1746; No. 4., 1763; No. 5., 1764; 

 No. 6., 1749. 



On the title-page of No. 4. alone is subjoined 

 to the publisher's name and address the following 

 paragraph : 



" Where may be had Nos. 1, 2, and 3, containing all 

 the Satires, Odes, Ballads, and Epigrams, by the Prime 

 Wits of this Age, since the change of the late Earl of 

 O d's administration." 



The contents of the volume consist almost ex- 

 clusively of politico-satirical poems, mixed with 

 many of an indelicate character. It may be men- 

 tioned that in the third part is a reply by Lady 

 Winchelsea to the " Impromptu addressed to her 

 by Pope, not in his works, occasioned by four 

 verses In the Rape of the Lock.'' 



The impromptu will be found in Mr. Carru- 

 thers' very useful and carefully-edited volumes of 

 Pope (vol. iv. p. 246.). The reply may possibly 

 have a place in Mr. Croker's forthcoming edition 

 of Pope, subjoined to the impromptu. 



J. H. Markland. 



Artificial Ice (Vol. x., p. 290.). —The artificial 

 ice to which J. P. O. alludes was a solid composi- 

 tion and not a freezing composition. It was in- 

 vented by Mr. Wm. Bradwell, the architect of the 

 Glytotheca, and Mr. Henry Kirk, and would have 

 been introduced at the Colosseum, but that litiga- 

 tion broke out between the patentees. It was, 

 however, exhibited for a short time on a small 

 scale at the Glaciarlum in Tottenham Court Road. 

 The composition had the appearance of ice, and 



No. 297.] 



took the mark of the skate like real ice. One 

 great object was to cultivate skating as a gym- 

 nastic exercise at all seasons. It received the 

 approval of Sir Wm. Newton and the Skating 

 Club. Its composition will be found described in 

 the patent. Hyde Clarke. 



Cathedral Registers (Vol. xi., p. 445.). — Mar- 

 riages and christenings are solemnized in cathe- 

 drals, and funerals also, unless burials have been 

 ordered to be discontinued in them by Her Ma- 

 jesty's order in council, under the recent burial 

 acts. Such marriages, christenings, and burials 

 are registered In the usual way, and in the same 

 manner as in parish churches. 



I had written the above when I saw the answer 

 of OxoNiENSis (Vol.xi., p. 496.), who gives as a 

 reason that marriages are not often celebrated in 

 cathedrals, that cathedrals, not being parish 

 churches, would require to be licensed for the 

 purpose, and that this being very seldom done, it 

 would require a special licence to have a marriage 

 celebrated in a cathedral. 



A cathedral is the parish church of the whole 

 diocese, and the diocese in ancient times was 

 therefore commonly called Parochia, Gibs. 171.; 

 Skin, 101. By 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 85. s. 26., the 

 bishop, with the consent of the patron and incum- 

 bent, is empowered to license certain chapels for 

 the solemnization of marriages. This of course 

 cannot apply to cathedrals. In which marriages 

 always were, and still are, solemnized under the 

 ordinary licence of the bishop of the diocese, or 

 by banns, or by the ordinary licence of the arch- 

 bishop, which he has power to grant throughout 

 his province. J. G. 



Exon. 



Earl of Galway or Galloway (Vol. xi., pp. 263. 

 413.). — The remarks which I took the liberty of 

 making upon this subject, are applicable to Henri 

 de Massne de Ruvigni, who was created Baron of 

 Portarlington, and Viscount of Galloway or Gal- 

 way, upon the 25 th of November, anno 4 Wil- 

 liam and Mary. As far as my researches have 

 extended, I find that by the public records of 

 Ireland he has been styled Viscount Galloway ; 

 but by a fac-simlle of his handwriting, which is to 

 be found in a recent number of the Ulster ArchcBO- 

 logical Journal, it appears that he spelt his name 

 Galway. James F. Ferguson. 



Dublin. 



" Thee" and ''thou" (Vol. x., pp. 61. 295.).—- 

 The use of " thee " for " thou " is an old practice 

 among the Quakers. A member of the society, 

 born in 1754, and who had associated with rela- 

 tives born in the seventeenth century, who was 

 familiar with high Quakers and low Quakers, and 

 had personal intercourse with American and Irish 

 Quakers, told me that he had always heard it. 



