Oct. 6. 1855.] 



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dedication is to the queen, but the author stu- 

 diously avoids subscribing his name. He states 

 in his preface 



" That he has divided his History into three parts, ac- 

 cording to the three remarkable periods of the Prince of 

 Orange's life. The first comprehends all the time from 

 his birth to the beginning of King James's reign ; the 

 second contains the reign of that unfortunate monarch ; 

 and the third that of King William." 



I may as well communicate to you all the in- 

 formation I have been able to gather respecting 

 the author of the above work, though at the same 

 time I do not vouch for the truth of the state- 

 ment. I have heard it stated that the author's 

 name was David Jones, captain in the King's Life 

 Guards ; that he was eye-witness of the principal 

 transactions recorded in the book ; that he is the 

 same David Jones who translated Mons. Pezron's 

 Antiquities of Nations from the French ; and that 

 he was native of a place called Llwynrhys, in the 

 parish of Llanbadarnodyn, Cardiganshire. Is this 

 statement correct ? or are there any authentic par- 

 ticulars on record respecting the life and writings 

 of the writer ? Evan Jones. 



Lampeter, Cardiganshire. 



[The author of The History of William III. was Abel 

 Boyer, a lexicographer and miscellaneous writer, who is 

 better known as compiler of the French Dictionary, 1699, 

 4to. He died at Chelsea, Nov. 16, 1729. David Jones 

 was author of The Secret History of Whitehall, 2 vols. 

 8vo., 1697; and Life of King James II., illustrated with 

 medals, 1702, 8vo.] 



Jewell and Hardinge. — What is a Jewell and 

 Hardinge ? It occurs in many entries of church 

 goods in olden times, and in churchwardens' ac- 

 counts. It was evidently a book in great request 

 at one time, as I have noticed it in many entries 

 about the year 1600, described as — 



" One boke . . . Hardinge and Jewell ; " 

 or,— 



" Payd for a Jewell and Hardynge." 



But I am not sufficiently versed in ecclesiastical 

 matters to know its contents. R. W. Hackwood, 



[This is one of the works published during the keen 

 controversy between Thomas Harding and the Apologist 

 of the Church of England. Harding was first called 

 forth by the challenge pronounced by Jewel from St. 

 Paul's Cross, in the Lent of 1560. The Answer of Har- 

 ding to that defiance was put forth in January, 1563 ; 

 and was followed, in about two j'ears and a half, by A 

 Reply to Mr. Harding's Answer to the Challenge of Bishop 

 Jewel, in Twenty-seven Articles, 1565 ; which produced a 

 rejoinder from Harding. A few months, however, before 

 the publication of this Reply, Harding had been again in 

 the field ; for his principal work, the Confutation of a 

 Booh called An Apology for the Church of England, had 

 come forth in April, 1665. The Confutation again gave 

 rise to Jewel's great performance, A Defence of the Apo- 

 logy of the Church of England against Harding, 1567. In 

 the course of the next year, 1568, Harding published the 

 following work: A Detection of Sundry foul Errors, Lies, 

 Slanders, Corruptions, and other false Dealings, touching 

 Doctrine, and other flutters, uttered and practised by Mr. 



No. 310.] 



Jewel, in a Booh entitled A Defence of the Apology, Sfc. 

 Jewel delayed all notice of this Detection till the appear- 

 ance of the second edition of the Defence. This edition 

 was completed in December, 1569, together with a Pre- 

 face, in which Harding's Detection is calmly refuted. 

 The paragraphs, or passages, from Harding's books are 

 always printed immediately before the answers to them ; 

 so that the reader is enabled to compare the disputants 

 with each other. See Strype's Annals, and Le Bas's Life 

 of Bishop Jewel."] 



Baldwin Harney, Phil- Evangelicus Medicus.^ 

 Can you give me any information concerning 

 Baldwin Hamey, Phil-Evangelicus Medicus, to 

 whom Adam Littleton addressed some verses 

 which are appended to his Latin Dictionary ? I 

 have looked in many biographical works for some 

 notice of him, but have not so much as found his 

 name mentioned. E. L. 



Highgate. 



[Dr. Baldwin Hamey, born April 24, 1600, was the son 

 of Baldwin Hamey, alias De Harae, doctor of physic of 

 Bruges in Flanders, by Sarah his wife, daughter and 

 heiress of Peter Oeyles, merchant, of Antwerp. Having 

 studied at Leyden, Baldwin the younger was incorporated 

 Doctor of Physic at Oxford, Februarj- 4, 1629. In the 

 year following he Avas admitted candidate of the College 

 of Physicians, London, afterwards fellow, censor, anatomy 

 reader, elector, register and consiliarius of this college. 

 He was a great benefactor to this college ; was the author 

 of a Treatise on the Quinsey ; and wrote some memoirs of 

 medical men, which he left behind him in MS. He re- 

 tired to Little Chelsea the year before the fire of London, 

 and thereby saved his library. At Chelsea he liberally 

 contributed towards the erection of the steeple, and gave 

 the great bell, which bore his name upon it. Dr. Hamey 

 declined a knighthood, and the offer of being first phy- 

 sician to Charles II. He died May 14, 1676, and was 

 buried in Chelsea Church. Faulkner (^Chelsea, vol. i. 

 p. 147.) speaks of a MS. Life of this amiable person, 

 written about a century ago, by his relation, Mr. Palmer. 

 For farther particularsof him, consult Wood's Fasti and 

 Lysons's E7ivirons.] 



The Soke. — Will Mr. Gunner, or any of your 

 Winchester correspondents, inform me what or 

 where The Soke in Winchester is ? The word 

 occurs in an inscription on a tablet to the me- 

 mory of a lady who died in the early part of the 

 eighteenth century, and who is described as for- 

 merly of that place. R. W. Hackwood. 



[Milner (History of Winchester, vol. ii. p. 198.) gives 

 the following account of The Soke :—" Having passed 

 over the bridge going to the city gate, we are in what is 

 called The Soke, or borough of Winchester, so called from 

 the Saxon word Soc, which signifies a free district or 

 domain, enjoying the privilege of having courts held and 

 justice administered in it. The Soke was formerly of 

 great extent and exceedingly populous. Even so late as 

 the days of Henrj^ VIII. and Elizabeth, it was very con- 

 siderable for the number of its inhabitants. Strictly 

 speaking, it comprehends all the streets and buildings to 

 the south, as well as the east of the city. Hence even 

 Wolvesey Palace and the college were described as being 

 within the district of The Soke. At present, however, it 

 is only taken for that part of Winchester which is situated 

 on the east side of the river."] 



