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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. 11. 1855. 



thoughts without form, order, or digestion, if I 

 have not shown my wit, I have at least shown my 

 obedience to your commands. Hannah More. 



PREDICTIONS OF THE FIRE OF LONDON. 



Upon the fly-leaves of a small anti-papal work 

 in my possession, entitled The Anatomy of Popery 

 (London, 1673), I find copies of certain letters in 

 MS. which are curious enough to claim a place in 

 " N. & Q." I transcribe them literally : 



« To M-- Sam. Tliorlton, a.d. 1666. 



" My friend, 

 " Y' presence is now more nesesary at London y" 

 whare y" are ; y' y" may determen how to dispose of y 

 estate in Soutliwarke: for it is determened by humen 

 counsell, if not frustrated by devine power that y« sub- 

 urbes will shortley be destroyd. Y"^ capacity is large 

 enogh to understand (what) precedes as y genius shall 

 instruct you.. 



" Cave. Cave. Fuge. Vale." 



The next is much defaced, rendering a perfect 

 transcript impossible ; but as It contains some 

 curious matter, I have waded through it, and 

 present it in the clearest state : 



" Yours of y 6* curent came to me, and broug al y® 

 tydinges of y" horning of London ; constantly exspected 

 and discoursd of amongst y" pa. To my knowledge for 

 these 18 yeares leyt past as to hapen this year, in w<^i» 

 they doe alsoe promis to yn>sels and others y« introduction 

 of y publick excersise of y^ Ca. Religion seated (?) in 

 W^'minster hall, and severall oth^ places about y^ city 



and elswhare in y kdom. 



{Four lines obscure.) 



continually reproeving their fuint-heartednes will rend 

 yra -yyth sQrow aud remors, and inflect torments vpon y™ 

 equall to y® damned in hell, and will make y™ endever to 

 find rest from this angush in y constant profession of y« 

 truthe w<^i> they have so unhapyly betrayd. And in case 

 of a relaps, tliey will be constrayned to drag you to y 

 place of execution : or els to seke to rid y»ss by a generall 

 massacre, w'^*' many good soules have so long disired. 

 I hope S'' y" will not be wanting in y most earnst prayers 



to beg of God y* he wold be plesed to take of thes 



misarable wretches, and make the heartes of our G. to 

 relent towards us, y* he wold convert those who in thaire 

 harts (?) think they do him service by puting us to deth. 

 " I am, S'', yors." 



Then followeth, as a note, the cruel torturing 

 of a young female for religion's sake ; detailed 

 with unpleasant distinctness, and wound up by a 

 metrical warning worth preservation : 



" Down y" must y haritickes, 

 For all J"" hopes in 66. 

 The hand ag'' y"- is soe stedy, 

 For Babylon is fain alredy. 

 The Divall a mercy is for those 

 Who holy mother church oppose. 

 Let not y clargy y betray, 

 Y"" eyes are opn — see y^ way, 

 Retorn in time, if y" would save 

 Y"" soules, V lives, or ought y have. 

 No. 302.] 



Andify^live till 67, 

 Confess y" have full warning given: 

 Then see in time, or ay be blind, 

 Short time will show w' is behind. 



" Dated y' 5'^ in y" yeare 1666, and y" first yeare 



of y» restoration of y« Court of Eome in Engld." 



G. E. R. 



Kidderminster. 



Minav ^atti. 



The Manor of Kennerleigh, near Crediton in 

 Devonshire, lost by a Game of Cards. — In the 

 year 184S I was staying with a friend at Kenner- 

 leigh, who knowing I was fond of old places and 

 old things, took me to Dowrlsh House, belonging 

 to Captain Clayfield, built in the time of King 

 John, the centre only remaining. It is approached 

 through a gate-house. Mrs. Clayfield showed tis 

 some porti'aits of the Dowrish family, and a 

 marble table inlaid witli cards and counters, show- 

 ing the two hands of Piquet held by Mr. Dowrish 

 and an ancestor of the present Sir Stafford North- 

 cote who were playing together, when Mr. Dow- 

 rish, thinking he had won the game, betted the 

 Manor of Kennerleigh, and lost it. The North- 

 cotes hold it at the present time. The marble 

 table was made to commemorate this event. 



Julia R. Bockett, 



Southcote Lodge. 



Pepys's Mother. — Samuel Pepys says, " My 

 father and mother marryed at Newington, in 

 Surry, Oct. 15, 1626." (Vide Diary, 1854, vol. ii. 

 p. 196.) The Rev. W. C. Moore, minister of 

 St. Mary, Newington, informs me that he has 

 searched the register of marriages belonging to 

 his church through the years 1625, 1626, and 

 1627, without finding the name of Pepys. We 

 have yet therefore to ascertain the family name 

 of the diarist's mother. G. Steinaian Steinman, 



The " French Book," printed by Wilkes. — 

 Grenville Papers, vol. ii. p. 81. Wilkes, in a 

 letter to Earl Temple, says, " The 'French Book' 

 is indeed most excellent, but is not published, nor 

 ever to be." 



The editor, in giving a list of the books printed 

 at Wilkes's private press in Great George Street, 

 says, "there is no account of the _' French Book ' 

 mentioned above." The work in question is, 

 Recherches sur V Origine du Despotisme oriental, 

 Ouvrage posthume de M. Boulanger, Lond., 1763, 

 12mo., pp. 239. John Martin. 



Woburn Abbey. 



Contemporary v. Cotemporary. — I have re- 

 marked nearly thirty places in which the word 

 cotemporary occurs in " N. & Q." It is also 

 uniformly adopted by the Rev. R. C. Trench. 

 Now, admitting " N. & Q." and Mr. Trench to be 



