Sept. 1. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



161 



would then know who was the patron of a 

 " vicarage." 



4. Let the incumbents of all similarly formed 

 parochial districts, the patronage of which may 

 be vested in any other hands than the rector's — 

 such as the crown, the bishops, trustees, &c, — 

 be termed curates, as having the charge of the 

 said parishes. 



5. Let the stipendiary assistants of any church 

 or chapel be termed clerks in orders, instead of 

 curates ; the term " clerk in orders " being now 

 used in some churches to denote a clergyman, 

 who can be required to act as a curate. And let 

 the parish clerks be termed lay clerks, the name 

 at present given to the singing clerks of cathe- 

 drals. 



6. Let the minister of any proprietary chapel 

 without cure of souls be termed a chaplain ; or if 

 a permanent incumbent of such a chapel, duly 

 consecrated, then a perpetual chaplain. 



These names would surely carry their meaning 

 with them, and be both appropriate and intelli- 

 gible to the most ordinary capacity. 



I would add one word as to the archdeacon 

 being a clergyman in priest's orders. The arch- 

 deacon is in fact the bishop's deacon, the bishop's 

 assistant in the government of his diocese. He 

 bears the same kind of relation to a bishop, that a 

 deacon bears to a priest. And as he rules over 

 certain presbyters, so the term " archdeacon " 

 well describes his office. 



The word dean (from decanus) originally im- 

 plied the chief of ten {Mant, p. xviii.J. Should 

 our cathedral establishments be fixed at four 

 canons, four minor canons, and a head and second 

 master, the name and office would then* corre- 

 spond. And if the honorary canonries were an- 

 nexed to certain benefices, they would then some- 

 what resemble the almost obsolete prebends. 



C. H, Davis, M.A., Oxon. 



ANOTHER EDITION OF " THE DUNCIAD :" AND 

 WEBB THERE TWO KEYS TO THAT POEM ? 



I am enabled by the kindness of a friend to 

 bring under the notice of the readers of " N. & Q." 

 an early edition of The Dunciad, which, as it 

 diifers in some slight particulars from any of those 

 already recorded, I will shortly describe. I will 

 call it, for the sake of future reference, edition 

 (DD.) 



(DD.) THE DUNCIAD. AN HEROIC POEM. XN 

 THREE BOOKS. THE THIRD EDITION, (Here a 



woodcut ornament, different from that in the first 

 and also from that in the second edition.) 

 DUBLIN Printed ; London Reprinted for a. dodd, 

 1728. 12mo. 



The copy which I am describing is imperfect. 



No. 305.] 



It has no frontispiece ; but as a leaf has obviously 

 been torn out from before the title, I have no 

 doubt that it had one, viz., the usual owl frontis- 

 piece. 



The Preface commences on p. iii., and ends on 

 p. viii. 



Then a bastard title. 



Book the first commences on p. 1. The wood- 

 cut scroll, at the top, being the same as that at 

 the commencement of book ii. of edition A. This 

 book ends on p. 14. 



Book the second commences on p. 15. ; the 

 scroll at the top being the same as that at com- 

 mencement of book the third of edition A. 



Book the third commences on p. 36. ; and the 

 present copy reaches no farther than p. 48., which 

 ends with 1. 232. : 



" Their annual trophies, and their monthly wars." 



At p. 46. is a note which is neither in edition A. 

 nor edition D.; although the line 185. is printed 

 in both with an asterisk, to show that a note ought 

 to be there : 



" He look'd and saw a sable * seer arise." 



The missing note, which is however supplied in 

 this third edition, is as follows : 



" Dr. Faustus, the subject of a sett of Farces, which, 

 with Fluto and Proserpine, &c., lasted in vogue two or 

 three seasons at both Playhouses, in the years 1726, 

 1727, and 1728. All the extravagancies in the sixteen 

 lines following were actually introduced on the Stage, 

 and frequented by the first Quality of England, to the 

 twentieth and thirtieth time, 'till they were all swallow'd 

 up in the Beggar's Opera." 



This copy is bound up in a miscellaneous volume 

 containing other cotemporary productions. On 

 the back of one of these, a tract to which I pro- 

 pose to refer in a future communication, we have 

 an allusion to what I believe has been already 

 suspected by those who have paid attention to the 

 subject : namely, the fact that two Keys to The 

 Dunciad were given to the world — one friendly, 

 and another altogether the reverse. 



The following is at all events sufficiently curious 

 to justify reprinting, more especially as I think 

 the subject has never been thoroughly examined. 

 This I say, however, subject to correction, as I am 

 writing without means of reference to my books. 



" Covent Garden, June 8, 1728. 



" Yesterday a Gentleman sent a Servanf with the fol- 

 lowing Direction, viz. Go to Mr. Lewis the Bookseller for 

 Mr. Curll's Key to the Dunciad. If he has it not, go to 

 Mr. Curll's own shop. 



" Lewis on the back of the Gentleman's Paper writes 

 this answer : 



" ' Sir, Mi/ Boy has got a Key in Manuscript, he is gon 

 into the City ; when he comes home I'll send it. 



" ' That printed for Curll is worth nothing.' 



" The Gentleman sent Lewis's Note to Mr. Curll, 

 and adds : * Fray your Answer to Mr. Lewis's Imper- 

 tinence.' 



