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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Not. 10. 1855. 



Mr. Motte, the celebrated publisher, died March 

 12th, 1738, not 1758, as stated by P. A. B. 



Mr. Motte was succeeded by Mr. Charles Bat- 

 hurst, who, for a short time previously, had been 

 his partner. Both these gentlemen had married 

 daughters of the Rev. Thomas Brian, Head Master 

 of Harrow. 



As your correspondent has ventured rather an 

 amusing supposition, that Mr. B. was the " ser- 

 vant " of Mr. Motte, I beg to refer him to the 

 following account of my grandfather, extracted 

 from Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ix. p. 783. : 



" Mr. Chai'les Batliiirst was generally reputed a baronet, 

 ttougli lie did not choose to assert his title. His only 

 son by his first marriage died before him, and late in life 

 he married a second Avife, by whom he had one daughter, 

 who inherited an ample fortune." 



Will you permit me to add, in reply to the sug- 

 gestion of the accurate and talented biographer 

 of Pope, R. Carruthers, Esq., in "N. & Q.," 

 Vol. xii., p. 198., that the autograph letters of 

 Swift, to which he i-efers as being in my posses- 

 sion, have been printed in the recent numbers of 

 the Gentleman! s Magazine, in which publication 

 it is probable that Pope's letters to Mr. Bathurst 

 will shortly appear. 



I have been requested to state, for the informa- 

 tion of those of your readers who are Interested 

 in literary localities, that the house from which 

 issued the works of Swift, &c., is that now occu- 

 pied by Mr. Painter, No. 27. Fleet Street. In 

 some old title-pages it is mentioned as " the Cross 

 Keys, opposite St. Dunstan's Church." The 

 present shop-windows and entrance in Fleet 

 Street were introduced when the premises were 

 afterwards devoted to other purposes. The 

 original entrance was by a door in the adjoining 

 passage. At the head of this passage still stands 

 the house. No. 26., which was formerly the private 

 residence. In this house. Pope, Swift, and the 

 literati of those days were accustomed to visit; and 

 I had it from one now no more, that in the back 

 sitting-room, the window of which looks out on 

 the Temple Churchyard, a portion of the cele- 

 brated Bampton Lectures of Dr. White was written 

 by the late Dr. Parr. 



CnARLES Bathubst Woodman. 



Bristol Road, Edgbaston. 



IIST OF THE NAMES OF TUB MEMBERS OF THE 

 HOUSE OF COMMONS THAT ADVANCED HORSE, 

 MONEY, AND PLATE FOR DEFENCE OF THE PAR- 

 LIAMENT, JUNE 10, 11, AND 13, 1642. 



(^Concluded from p. 338.) 



Mr. Heueinghan will bringe in three horses and one hun- 

 dred pownds in plate or money. 

 Mr. Nicholls will bringe in two horses. 

 Aid. Penington will bringe two hundred pownds in money. 

 No. 315.] 



Sir Jo. Harrison will bringe fower horses forhiaiselfe and 

 his Sonne. 



Sir Edw. Mentfort will bringe in two horses and main- 

 teyne them. 



Sir Harbottle Grimston will bringe in aa horse and will 

 give twenty pounds freely. 



Mr. llolle will bringe in an hundred pownds. 



Sir Ro. North will bringe in, in plate, an hundred pownds, 

 and give it freely to this service. 



Sir Thos. Woodhouse will bringe in two horses and two 

 hundred pownds in plate or monej'. 



Sir Edw. Hungerford will bringe in six horses. 



Sir Dud. North will freely give sixty pownds. 



Sir Rich'' BuUer will bringe in three horses for himself 

 and his sonne F. Buller. 



Mr. Rich. Trench of Plymouth will the next weeke pay in 

 five hundred pownds lent by the toivne, and five hun- 

 dred pownds more, which he lends to this service. Sir 

 Rich. Buller is appointed to return him thankes. 



Mr. Glyn will maintej'ne an horse, and bringe in an hun- 

 dred pounds in money or plate. 



Sir William Drake will mainteyne two horses, and bringe- 

 in two hundred pounds in money or plate, for the kinge 

 and parliament conjunctively. 



Mr. Drake will bringe iu an hundred pound fa plate, and 

 have in readynes one horse. 



Mr. Speaker* will maintej'ne an horse, and give fifly 

 pounds in mone3' or plate. 



* The amount of Lenthall's subscription, the " mainte- 

 nance " of a horse, and " fifty pounds in money or plate "■ 

 (no inconsiderable sum in those days), is perhaps' scarcely 

 open to remark one way or the other ; but it may never- 

 theless be observed, that the " condition " of his " estate " 

 at this period was certainly by no means " proportionable "" 

 to his " affections " to the public service. 



In a letter to Secretary Sir Ed. Nicholas, still preserved 

 in the State Paper Office, dated the December preceding, 

 he says, " I have now in this emploj'ment (that of 

 Speaker) 'spent almost fourteen months, which hath so- 

 exhausted the labours of twenty-five years, that I cannot 

 but expect a speedy ruin, and put a badge of extreme 

 poverty on my children," and he therefore requests the 

 king's permission, " to use my best endeavours with the 

 House of Commons to be quit of this employment, and 

 retire back into my former private life, whilst I have 

 some ability of body left," &c. Owing to this letter pro- 

 bably, on the report of a Committee (of which Hampden 

 was chairman) the House, at the King's recommendation, 

 shortly afterwards, " in consideration of his great and ex- 

 traordinary charges," voted him GOOOZ., " of which, to this 

 day," he writes, in 1660, " I have never received above 

 the one half. " 



His cousin. Sir Thomas Tempest, the King's Attorney- 

 General in Ireland, writing to him from Dublin the pre- 

 ceding August (1641), says, "Our worthy Sjwaker here 

 and I often remember you both very hartily and trndy 

 lovingly. His employment here is, and hath been, very 

 troublesome and extreamly chargeable both in cost andlostr 

 wherein I doubt you partake with him and exceed ; but, 

 God be thanked, you have both great estates to bear that 

 out, and truely they had need be so." {Tan. MSS., Bibl. 

 Bodl.) In a vindication of himself, published in 1660, 

 the " great estate," as well as the " cost and lost " of the 

 Speakership, to which Sir Thomas alludes, are thus more 

 fully explained : " When I was first called to be Speaker," 

 he says, " I think it is known to most I had a plentiful 

 fortune in land, and ready money too a good summe, and 

 if I had continued my way of practice, I might as well 

 have doubled my fortune as get what I did, because the 

 estate I had then gained was the profits of my beginnings; 



