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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Sept. 22. 1855. 



1000 bills " for vote and interest for Islington." 

 These were certainly different persons, for the 

 ledger contains " a list of debts to the end of 

 Dec. 1742," in which both the reverend and the 

 poet figure, and against both is written the ex- 

 pressive monosyllable " bad." I do not find any 

 clue to these names in "Watt, unless, indeed, the 

 reverend was Leonard Howard, DD., subse- 

 quently of St. George's, Southwark, who ])ub- 

 lished several works, and amongst them a volume 

 of Thirteen Sermons. 



In May, 1739, \Voodfall appears to have printed, 

 for Millar, Thomson's play oi Edtvard and Eleanora. 

 The only fact of interest is, that 3500 common 

 and 1000 fine royal copies were published of the 

 first edition. Brave times those for dramatic 

 writers ! Even of a tragedy by one less cele- 

 brated, the numbers printed would startle our 

 degenerate public. Thus of Armenins, by W. 

 Paterson, March, 1739-40, no less than 2000 

 common and 400 fine copies were struck off for 

 a first edition ! It must, however, be admitted 

 that a factitious interest attached to both these 

 plays. As is well known, the chamberlain refused 

 to license Edward and Eleanora, in consequence 

 of Thomson's connexion with the opposition and 

 the court of the Prince of Wales ; and it was said 

 that Paterson having acted as a friendly amanu- 

 ensis to Thomson, the copy of Edward and 

 Eleanora read by the censor was in Paterson's 

 handwriting, and therefore, and for no other 

 reason, a licence was refused to Armenius. 



I find also in the ledger an account of a tragedy 

 not mentioned in the Biog. Dram., but I know 

 not whether the party charged was author or 

 . bookseller, 



" Mr. R. King, in Basinghall Street. 



To printing the tragedy of £ s. d. 

 Themistocles and Aristides, 

 3 sheets of Longprimer, 

 12mo., No. 1500 - -550" 



II. Woodfall, Jun., appears to have printed a good 

 deal for Dr. Webster, and Webster, I think, pub- 

 lished often on his own account. Webster was a 

 voluminous writer, who, says Chalmers, " was not 

 entitled to much more respect than he received," 

 for though he himself said that " he deserved to 

 have his statue set up in every trading town in 

 England" for his pamphlet on the woollen trade, 

 yet " when the demand for that pamphlet sub- 

 sided, he actually publislied an answer to it," 

 under the title of The Di'apers Reply. This was 

 not a very grave offence, and I suspect not the 

 only instance in which tiie Doctor replied to his 

 own pamphlets. Some of the following tracts are 

 not mentioned by AVatt. In October, 1740, 

 Woodfall printed for the Doctor Consequences of 

 Trade, and Nov. 18 a third edition of same work ; 

 and in December the Doctor replied to his own 

 Draper s Reply, and printed The D?-aper Confuted; 

 2\o. 308.] 



in February, 1740-1, his Scheme to prevent the 

 Exportation of Wool; in October, 1741, Reply to 

 Remarks on Consequences; in March, 1741-2, 

 Seasonable Thoughts on Wool; and in June, 1742, 

 2000 Proposals for Treaties on Trade. 



" Thomas Carew, Esq.," appears to have taken 

 part in this controversy, as I find him charged 

 with " printing a pamphlet concerning the ex- 

 portation of wool." 



When an edition of Francis's Horace was first 

 published in London does not appear either in 

 Clialmers or Watt; indeed, the first London 

 edition mentioned by Watt is the eighth, that of 

 1778. Chalmers says that the translation of 

 Horace first made Francis known in England 

 about 1743, and that some time after he came 

 over to England, and in 1753 published a trans- 

 lation of part of the Orations of Demosthenes. 

 Considering the large inferences which have been 

 drawn from an assumed connexion between the 

 son of the Doctor and the son of H. Woodfall in the 

 great Francis-Junius theory, it may not be with- 

 out interest to show that the fathers were probably 

 acquainted before the sons met at St. Paul's School. 



" Mr. A. Millar, Dr. 

 174G, Aug. 20. To printing eight sheets of £ s. d.\ 

 Francis' Horace, No. 2000, 

 &c., with Brevier Notes - 18 0" 



I presume that in 1742 Sir Theodore Janssen, 

 the South Sea Director, must have been too old 

 to figure as an author, as he died in 1748, aged 

 ninety-four. Yet, old as he must have been, we 

 find him in the ledger : 



" Sir Theodore Janssen, Bart. 



£ s. d. 

 Mar. 9, 1741-2. Discourse on Banks, No. 500 1 12 (> 

 (Extra price, done in great hurry.) 



April 16. To printing an account of 



Great Man, No. 200 - - 110 0"' 



We have also a separate account with ;the son, 

 afterwards Sir Stephen, and an alderman : 



" Stephen Theodore Janssen, Esq. 

 1741-2, Mar. 16. To printing 2000 quarto £ s. d, 

 pages of Pacific Cardinal 

 [Page torn.] 

 To 2000 4to. pages about 



Guildford Election. 

 200 Eemarkable Speech of 

 K. William III. - - 15 

 „ Three advertisements - 6 

 „ 206 halfpenny stamps - 8 7" 



Some of the entries are not very easily under- 

 stood. We know that for years after 1740, news 

 letter-writing still continued a trade ; and it is 

 probable that Woodfall, from his connexion with 

 a London newspaper, would have been a desirable 

 correspondent ; but I find but one entry like the 

 following : 



" Mr. Craighton, of Ipswich. 



£ s. d. 

 1740-1, Feb. 2. To writing one year's news 5 5 0" 



