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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Sept. 15, 1855. 



MONUMENTAL BRASSES. 



(^Continued from p. 121.) 



I send yoii the remainder of the Devonshire 

 brasses, and shall be obliged to any one who will, 

 through the medium of your widely-circulated 

 paper, or privately to myself, add any information 

 to the very little this list contains. 



Ottery St. Mary. In this church are three figures in brass 

 of members of the Sherman family. The dates of two 

 remain, 1542 and 1583. 



Otterton. Here are two brass plates, on each of which are 

 arms with figures at the side, in memory of members 

 of the Duke famil_v. 1641. 



Petrockstow. In this church is a curious brass, containing 

 twelve male and eleven female children, all kneeling, 

 in memory of Henry Kolle and Mary his wife. 1591. 



Stoke-in- Teignhead. Here is a very fine brass of a priest, 

 without name or date remaining. It is engraved in 

 Mr. Boutell's work ; he assigns as a date circa 1375. 



Shillingford. Under an arch in this church is a brass 

 plate, on which is represented Sir \Villiam Hudders- 

 field and his wife Dame Kateryn and three children. 

 He is in armour, over which is an heraldic tabard 

 bearing his arms. The mantle of the lady is em- 

 blazoned with the bearings of the house of Courtenay. 

 One shield only of five remains, bearing Huddersfield 

 impaling Courtenay. 1499. This is lithographed in 

 Oliver's Ecclesiastical Antiquities. 



Sandford. Here is a curious though late brass, dated 

 1604, in memory of Mary Dowich. 



Stoke Fleming. In this church is the oldest brass in the 

 county. It commemorates John Corp, who is dressed 

 in a loose gown. Over the right shoulder is a richly 

 ornamented baldric, whence descends an umlace ; 

 the hair is long and curled, and the beard forked. 

 There is a female figure ; but the inscription is wanting 

 at the place which would describe her relationship to 

 the male ; the word Elj^enore alone remains. The whole 

 is surmounted by an elegant battlemented canopy with 

 lantern lights at the ends and in the centre. Date, 

 1391. 



Sampford Peverel. A late brass to the memory of Mar- 

 garet Lady Poulet, who died 1602. 



Thomcombe. Here is a very fine brass to the memory of 

 Sir Thomas Brooke and his wife. Date, 1437. 



Tiverton. In this church is the brass of John Greenway, 

 merchant, and Joan his wife. 1529. 



Washjield. Here is a late brass plate, on which are the 

 efiigies of a man and two women of the Worth family, 

 kneeling at a desk, on which lies an open book ; above 

 are the arms of Worth. 



Yeahnpton. In this church is a very well executed brass 

 to the memory of Sir John Crocker, Knt., cup and 

 standard bearer to King Edward IV. 1508. 



W. R. Ckabbe. 

 East Wonford, Heavitree, Exeter. 



SWIFT S COPYRIGHTS. 



The great additional light, which "X. & Q." has 

 been the means of throwing on the literary his- 

 tory of Pope, renders it very desirable that similar 

 attention should be paid to other eminent authors. 

 Mr. Forster is now engaged on a new edition of 

 Swift, and I would beg to suggest that our Editor 



No. 307.] 



should open his columns to a series of Swiftiana. 

 It has been assumed by Sir Walter Scott, Mr. 

 Roscoe, and others, that Pope was concerned in 

 the publication of Gulliver, and received for the 

 copyright a sum of 300Z., of which Swift generously 

 made him a present. I can find no authority for 

 this statement, nor does it appear that Pope was 

 connected with the mystification that accompanied 

 the publication of Gulliver. Erasmus Lewis was 

 the negotiator, and the sum demanded for the 

 copyright was only 200Z. The manuscript was 

 sent to Benjamin Motte, Swift's publisher ; with a 

 request that he should immediately, on under- 

 taking the publication, deliver a bank bill of 200Z. 

 Motte demurred to the immediate payment, but 

 offered to publish the work Avithin a month after 

 he received the copy; and to pay the sum de- 

 manded, if the success would allow it, in six months. 

 His terms were apparently accepted, for Gidliver 

 appeared in the latter end of October or begin- 

 ning of November, 1726. Arbuthnot mentions it 

 under the date of November 8, saying he believed 

 the Travels would have as great a run as John 

 Bunyan. At the expiration of the six months, 

 Motte seems to have applied for a longer period 

 of credit. Swift's answer is characteristic : — 

 " Mr. Motte, I send this enclosed by a friend, to 

 be sent to you, to desire that you would go to the 

 house of Erasmus Lewis in Cork Street, behind 

 Burlington House, and let him know that you are 

 come from me ; for to the said Mr. Lewis I have 

 given full power to treat concerning my cousin Gul- 

 liver's book, and whatever he and you shall settle 

 I will consent to," &c. — "Richard Sympson." 

 This is in Swift's handwriting, very slightly dis- 

 guised. The engagement was closed in about a 

 week afterwards, as appears from a memorandum 

 on the same sheet: '"London, May 4th, 1727. 

 I am fully satisfied. — E. Lewis." These docu- 

 ments, with others, were first published in 1840 

 by Dr. W. C. Taylor, in an illustrated edition of 

 Gulliver; and I have seen the originals in the 

 possession of the Rev. C. Bathurst Woodman, 

 grandson of Mr. Bathurst the publisher, who began 

 his career in partnership with Motte. Pope does 

 not appear in the transaction. Motte also pub- 

 lished the Miscellanies, and by this work Swift 

 received no pecuniary advantage. From unpub- 

 lished letters, in the possession of Mr. Woodman 

 (which it is to be ^hoped that gentleman will give 

 to the world), it appears that the copyright money 

 was divided between Pope, Arbuthnot, Gay, and 

 Swift ; but that Swift's portion was directed to be 

 sent to the widow Hyde, in Dame Street, Dublin. 

 Mr. John Hyde was a respectable bookseller in 

 Dublin, mentioned in Swift's printed correspon- 

 dence. He died in 1729 in Motte's debt; and it 

 was, no doubt, to relieve the widow, that Swift 

 thus disposed of his share of the copyright of the 

 Miscellanies. At all events, there is a positive 



