Sept. 22. 1855.] 



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of the author of The Judgment, Sfc, there is no 

 resemblance whatever to these writers. A me- 

 morandum in the Museum copy of The Judg' 

 ment, refers to Hollis' Memoirs for an account 

 thereof; but I have twice turned over these two 

 dreary indexless quartos without finding it, and 

 have not been more successful in another re- 

 ference to Chahners's Defoe.* The Tetter of Cas- 

 torius, above alluded to, tells us that the author 

 of The Judgment was early in the field as a 

 •writer in support of the revolution, and refers us 

 to his pamphlets in the State Tracts. Turning up 

 Tol. i. of the collection, I find " Political Apho- 

 risms ; or the True Maxims of God displayed," 

 which a very slight examination shows to be the 

 original draft of The Judgment, Sfc, and is intro- 

 duced by a preface, signed T. H. 



Whoever the author was, he has earned for 

 himself the character of a champion in the cause 

 of liberty ; and if the work of either Charles 

 Povey or John Dunton, it does seem inexplicable 

 why men, ever whining as they were about the 

 service they had rendered in putting down the 

 Jacobites, should have forgotten to claim the 

 best lance put forward in the cause of political 

 freedom. These men were unceasing in their 

 clamour for pensions for work done in paving the 

 way for the Hanover succession ; but neither the 

 first in all his self-glorifications, nor the last in his 

 Mordecais Memorial and Appeal, make the 

 slightest allusion to The Judgment, ^c. Povey 

 resting his merits for consideration upon his In- 

 quiry into the Miscarriage of the last Four Years' 

 Reign ; and Dunton urging the service rendered 

 by his Neck or Nothing. We therefore conclude 

 that these were the greatest guns they fired 

 against arbitrary government, and in support of 

 the happy constitution this pair of pamphleteers 



about. 



J. O. 



^tuor €Lutxit^, 



Cuneiform Characters Perhaps some of your 



readers can tell me whether, in deciphering these 

 peculiar characters, any use has been made of an 

 Arabic manuscript contained in the Bodleian ? 

 There is a notice of this MS., and a copy of the 

 alphabet, which corresponds to the Arabic, in the 

 Asiatic Journal for 1818 (vol. vi. pp. 342—345.), 

 •where each sign has placed over against it its 

 equivalent Arabic letter. It is called " The Al- 



[* In .George Chalmers's Life of Daniel De Foe, edit. 

 1790, p. 85., The Judgment, §-c. is placed in "a list of 

 books supposed to be De Foe's." Chalmers says, " This 

 has been ascribed to, and lately printed as a work of, Lord 

 Somers The title-page says^ it was written by a True 

 Lover of the Queen and Country, who wrote in the year 

 1689, in Vindication of the Revolution, and in 1690 against 

 absolute Passive Obedience, &c."] 



No. 308.] , 



phabet of the Zardashtians, or Fire Worshippers, 

 as introduced by Zardasht or Zoroaster, in the 

 latter part of the reign of Goshtasp, successor of 

 Lohrasp, and arranged according to the Abjad," 

 or alphabetically. The writer also calls it the 

 Istakharian or Persepolitan. Surely such a pro- 

 fessed clue to the interpretation of one class of the 

 arrow-headed characters has not been overlooked. 

 If not, is it of any value ? B. H. C. 



Bishop Duppa. — A MS. note on the fly-leaf of 

 the pious work described here attributes the whole 

 to that good prelate ; is this correct ? A New Year's 

 Gift, composed of Prayers and Meditations, SfC.^ 

 third edition, London, 1683. It Is in six distinct 

 parts, paged separately, with six title-pages, 

 12mo. (?), 4^ by 2 inches, If inch thick, evidently 

 a much, though carefully, used manual, being 

 bound in black velvet with old gilt leaves. E. D. 



'■'■Will WhimsicaVs Miscellany," 8\o., 1799. Who 

 is the author ? R. J. 



" White Horse" in Warwickshire. — In the good 

 old coaching days the accompanying doggrel 

 used to adorn the gateway of mine host of the 

 " White Horse" in some town, I forget exactly 

 where, in Warwickshire : 



" My ' White Horse ' will beat the * Bear,' 

 And make the ' Angel' fly; 

 Turn the ' Ship' with its bottom up, 

 And drink the ' Three Cups ' dry." 



I have not been on the old road since the days 

 when, "jolly companions every one," we slowly 

 made our way towards Oxford's classic shades, 

 and should exceedingly like to know whether the 

 "White Horse" has thus succeeded in accordance 

 with his boast in extinguishing his less illustrious 

 rivals. M. R. S. 



The Family of Swaine. — I wish to ascertain 

 at what date, and, if possible, under what circum- 

 stances, the Swaines came from the county of 

 Dorset Into Cambridgeshire. I mean that branch 

 of the family of Swaine which long resided at 

 Leverlngton, in the Isle of Ely. It must have 

 been at an early period, as in the fifteenth cen- 

 tury they were flourishing at Landbach, near 

 Cambridge, where John Swaine died May 14, 

 1439. (Vide Cole's MSS.) In 1564, about the 

 time the register commenced, the name of Henry 

 Swaine occurs in the register of Leveringtoa 

 Church. Probably a (complete) Cambridgeshire 

 Herald's Visitation would give part at least of the 

 information ; but I have vainly searched for that in 

 the Harleian MSS. S. 



Epitaph at Luss. — In happier days, when I was 

 touring in Scotland, I chanced to be at Luss, a 

 village on the west bank of Loch Lomond, in 

 company with a friend, of whom I can most con- 



