Oct. 20. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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induced, on an introduction to " N". & Q.," to re- 

 linquish his Sinope for a longer and more desirable 

 acquaintance. For a non-classical reader, there is 

 every temptation held out by some modern lexi- 

 cographers to shorten the penultima. The word 

 Sinople, which corresponds with our heraldic term 

 "vert," like Sinoper — familiar perhaps to many 

 of your readers as a pigment (so called from its 

 Pontic origin) — frequently has the accent thrown 

 back on i\\Q first syllable. Sinope, I think, occurs 

 in Byron, where, if I mistake not, the seat of the 

 accent is likewise the^rs^ syllable. I do not pre- 

 sume to dispute the propriety of such pi'onuncia- 

 tion, when sanctioned by modern usage ; but when 

 dealing with stern sticklers for classical correct- 

 ness, we must be confronted with more profane 

 authors. The only instance I have as yet met 

 with of its classic usage, occurs in the following 

 hexameters (Vol. Flacc, lib. v. 109-10., Argonau- 

 tica) : 



" . . Et magnae pelago tremit umbra Sinopes. 

 Assyrios complexa sinus stat opima Sinope." 



Its adjective may also be met with in Ovid : 

 ex. Ponto Epistolae, lib. i. Ep. iii. v. 67. : 



" Non doluit patria Cynicus procul esse Sinopeus." 



Will any of your correspondents oblige me with 



fiirther references to passages in Latin or English 



authors, in which this word occurs ? Its Greek 



form would, of course, determine its own quantity. 



F. Phillott. 



Minav ^mviti, 



" State of the Established Church^ — I have 

 before me an 8vo. pamphlet of 151 pages, of which 

 the following is the full title : 



" The State of the Established Church ; in a Series of 

 Letters to the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer, &c. &c. ' Quod vobis, omnibus dico — 

 viGiLATE.' Second edition, corrected and enlarged, with 

 an Appendix of Official Documents. London, printed for 

 J. Stockdale, 41. Pall Mall, 1810." 



I have seen this pamphlet attributed to Bishop 

 Tomline, and have heard it stated that, at one of 

 his Visitations, he presented a copy to every 

 clergyman in his diocese. Is there any founda- 

 tion for these statements ? If not, by whom was 

 the pamphlet written ? II. Maktin. 



Halifax. 



Cardinal Wolsey. — Anthony Wood states that 

 he became Bachelor of Arts in Magdalen College, 

 Oxford, at the age of fifteen, in 1485 ; — what be- 

 came of him from that time till his name appears 

 upon the college books in 1498, as Fellow, burser, 

 and schoolmaster ? Hearne, in his MS. Diary in 

 the Bodleian, says (Oct. 4, 1714) : 



" The first preferment Cardinal Wolsey had was a. post- 

 master s place between York and Edinburgh. Mr. Bagford 



No. 312.] 



had this out of an old council book. Cardinal Wolsey's 

 Diary was burnt by a foolish person upon a very silly 

 occasion." 



Can any light be thrown upon this passage ? 



Magdalenensis. 



Diike of Marlborough and Colonel Barnard. — 

 In some recent work, I have read of a mysterious 

 invitation to an interview in Westminster Abbey 

 sent to the Duke of Marlborough by a Colonel 

 Barnard. Can you guide me to the book where 

 an account of such a transaction is given ? 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



Dr. Bloxham. — a.d. 1 737, Wednesday, Nov. 9. : 



" Her Majesty (Queen Caroline) having walked to her 

 library in the park, and breakfasted there, after her return 

 was taken very ill with a pain in her stomach ; and was 

 let blood twice by the direction of Dr. Bloxham." — Gen- 

 tleman^s Mag., vol. vii. p. 699. 



A.D. 1748, July 25.: 



" You have seen in the papers that Dr. Bloxholme is 

 dead. He cut his throat. He was always nervous and 

 vapoured ; and so good-natured, that he left off his prac- 

 tice from not being able to bear seeing so many melan- 

 choly objects. I remember him with as much wit as ever 

 I knew. There was a pretty correspondence in Latin 

 odes that passed between him and Hodges." — " Horace 

 Walpole to George Montague," Correspondence, vol. i. 

 p. 118. 



Who was this Dr. Bloxham, or Bloxholme, sup- 

 posing them to be the same person ? 



Magdalenensis. 



Edition of Montaigne. — I have an edition of 

 Montaigne, in French, bearing the place, name, 

 and date of Amsterdam, Antoine Michiels, 1659. 

 It has a portrait of the author, signed " P. Chow- 

 let," with the " Que-scay-je," and the scales. On 

 the title-page this edition is said to be " exacte- 

 ment purgee des defauts des precedentes," &c. I 

 find from the bibliographical list, prefixed to 

 Hazlitt's English edition, that " this edition [the 

 Amsterdam one] is greatly esteemed and sought 

 after, on account of its typographical beauty ;" but 

 can any of your readers kindly tell me whether 

 the text is held to be generally correct, as boasted ? 

 Most of the editions of Montaigne are very faulty 

 in this respect. W. M. T. 



Barry CornwalVs " Return of the Admiral.^'' — 

 What is the meaning of the following lines in this 

 celebrated song? — • 



" Oh, would I were our admiral," &c. 

 " I'd shout e'en to yon shark, there, 



Who follows in our lee, 

 ' Some day I'll make thee carry me 



Like lightning through the sea.' " 



W. M. T. 



Memory -Middleton. — Who was this Mr. Mid- 

 dleton ? and why did he bear the appellation of 

 " Memory-Middleton " ? A NoBroLK Querist. 



