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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Sept. 29. 1855. 



Members of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 

 which enter fully into the subject. M. Vicat's 

 and General Pasley's Woi'ks are far-famed. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Milton s ^^ Letter to Hartop" (Vol. xii., p. 205.). 

 — The story of Milton having borrowed fifty 

 pounds from Mr. Jonathan Hartop, and writteii 

 an angry letter to him on repaying the loan, has 

 been chronological!}' disproved by Mr. Keightley 

 in his recent valuable Life of Milton. Mr. Hartop 

 died in 1791, at the patriarchal age of 138; he 

 was consequently born in 1653, and so must at 

 most have been only ten years old when he is said 

 to have made the loan to Milton. There is no 

 reason for supposing that Milton's circumstances 

 were ever so low as to require such a loan. D. 



. Oliver Cromwell's Watch (Vol. xii., p. 205.). — 

 The watch, said to have belonged to Oliver Crom- 

 well, of which an engraving is given in the Gen- 

 tlemarLS Magazine for 1808, is now in the British 

 Museum. 



It is exhibited in one of the private rooms, to 

 which admissioji can be gained on application. 



Mercator, A.B. 



CromwelVs Portrait (Vol. xii., p. 205.). — 

 Cestriensis asks : " Where is the portrait of Oliver 

 Cromwell by Cooper, which Mr. Jonathan Hartop 

 possessed?" I cannot answer for the original, 

 but I possess an exquisite miniature of Oliver 

 Cromwell, which I believe to be a faithful copy of 

 the portrait inquired for. It is so perfect, that 

 able judges have pronounced it undoubtedly an 

 original. This it is not, because 1 knew the artist 

 who painted it ; and eminent as he was in his 

 profession, he never produced a more elaborately 

 finished miniature than this. F. C. Husenbetu. 



" Perturbabantur" Sfc. (Vol. ix , pp. 452. 576.). 

 — One of your correspondents observes, "I never 

 heard of any more lines of the same description." 

 Rutilius has (^Itinerarium, v. 449.) : 



"Sic niraise bilis morbum assignavit Homerus 

 BellerophonteissoUicitudinibus." 



The following note is by Sitzmannus, in his 

 Animadversiones, in he. : 



" Duobus verbis pentametrum clausit, cujus exempluni 

 in omni Romana antiquitate non reperire potuit cl. Bar- 

 thius ad Claudian. Paneg. iv. Consulatu Honorii, v. 560., 

 ubi Rutilium nostrum, elegantem ultimae Romae poetam 

 indigetat." 



The line in Claudian here referred to as an imi- 

 tation is 



" Belleropbonteas indignaretur habenas." 



Here, then, is an untrodden field for the aspirant 

 to poetical fame, who, if he has the "mens divinior 

 atque os magna sonaturnm," may " render it so 

 smooth, so green, so full of lively prospects on 



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every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more 

 charming." 



" Nuji Se TTOirjeiTO'av ei? a.Kpu>peiav lovcri 

 Tpjjx«tai' /xaAa (xi)9ot aTapirLTOv iirpijvvav." 



Orpheus, De Lapidibtis. 



I hope the following attempt will be succeeded 

 by a Panegijricuni or Carmen triumphale : 



" Armagedonii cives a mojnibus altis 

 Occidentales obsidione diu 

 Circumdngente Augustopolin impediebant." 



BiBLIOTHECAR. ChETHAM. 



" Chronicle of the Kings of England" (Vol. xii., 

 p. 168.). — I have an edition of this work pub- 

 lished by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, 

 in 1812, with copious notes, extending the book 

 to 286 full -sized octavo pages. It has the Pre- 

 face, "Nathan Ben Saddi," &c. It carries the 

 Chronicle on to the accession of George IV., and 

 closes its fifty-first and last chapter thus : 



" Now these are the acts of all the Kings of England, 

 from William the Norman unto this day; and, behold, 

 here are their genealogies : 



" George the Third was the grandson of Gkiorge the 

 Second [and so on, down to, or up to] William Rufus, 

 who was the son of William the Conqueror, who was the 

 son of a W ." 



The title-page is merely as follows : 



" The Chronicle of the Kings of England, from William 

 the Norman to the Death of George III. Written after 

 the Manner of the Jewish Historians: with Notes, Ex- 

 planatory and Illustrative." 



Can Clericus (D.), or "JST. & Q.," tell me the 



name of the author of the continuation and notes ? 



A Desultory Reader. 



Jersey. 



[There was an edition of this work, published at Not- 

 tingham in 1800, in which the Chronicle is continued to 

 that year. It is without notes, but has added to it " The 

 Chronicle of the Derby Blues." We have not seen Fair- 

 burn's edition,] 



Sir Andrew do Ilarcla (Vol. xii., p. 145.). — 



« Sir Andrew de Harcla of Westmorland, Kt., for his 

 good service, and taking prisoner Thomas Earle of Lan- 

 caster, and other his abeUors, the king's enemies and dis- 

 loyal subjects, was by King Ed. II. in the sixteenth yeere 

 of his reigne made Earle of Carlie!, by girding him with 

 a belt and sword (for so was the order of making earles in 

 those times). Afterwards the same Andrew proved un- 

 gratefuU both to his king and country in his warres in 

 Scotland, receiving secretly from the Scotts a summe of 

 money for to betray his master, for which he was appre- 

 hended by Sir Anthonie Lucie, Kt., and had judgement 

 as foUoweth. Hee was led to the Barrc in habit of an 

 Earle, with a sword girt about him, hosed and spored. 

 At which time the Lord Geffrey Scroope, Justice, spake to 

 him in this manner, ' Sir Andrew, the King did unto you 

 much honour, and made you Erie of Cardoill, and thou 

 as a traytor unto thy Lord the King, laddest his people 

 of this countrey, that should have holpe him at the Bat- 

 taile of Beighland, away by the Countrey of Copeland, 

 and through the Erldome of Lancaster. Wherefore our 

 Lord the King was discomfited there of the Scotts, through 

 tiiy treasoun and falsenes, and if thou haddest come be- 



