Kov. 17. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



379 



— I'll get out of it 33 soon as I can. Adieu. My com- 

 pliments to Mr. Br [illegible]. 



" Thursday REorning, 8 o'clock." 



Addressed — 



" To Jlr. Pope, to be left with Mr. Pvne, the Post- 

 master, Bristoll." 



Pope's answer, the 61st (misplaced) in Roscoe's 

 series of " Letters to and from Martha and Te- 

 resa Blount," evinces his hearty sympathy with 

 his female friend, and his strong affection for her. 

 He was pained to find that she was still under 

 the roof of the Aliens, and dreads their pro- 

 voking her to any expression unworthy of her : 

 " even laughter would be taking too much notice." 

 The difficulties attendant on a lady then travelling 

 alone, or Martha's peculiar timidity, with an in- 

 dication perhaps of the state of the roads requir- 

 ing six horses, are seen in this passage : 



" If you would go directly to London, you may, with- 

 out the least danger, go in a coacli and six of King's 

 horses (with a servant on horseback, as far as Marlbo- 

 rough, writing to John [his man John Serle] to meet 

 you there), for 6/. or 11., as safe, no doubt, as in any 

 nobleman's or gentleman's coach." 



How poor Martha got out of her perplexity, is 

 not stated. Ralph Allen and Pope afterwards 

 met, but the rupture was never wholly made up ; 

 and the poet's will, if not " polluted with female 

 resentment" towards Mr. Allen, as Johnson al- 

 leges, at least bore marks of wounded pride and 

 a sense of injury. All Pope's quarrels realised 

 Coleridge's fine lines : 



" They stood aloof, the scars icuiaining, 

 Like clift's which had been rent asunder." 



11. Carruthebs. 



Inverness. 



Popo and Bathurst the Bookseller (Vol. xii., 

 p. 357.). — Mr. Woodman is pleased to say that 

 I have " fallen into several errors ; " but out of 

 tenderness and delicacy, I suppose, he is content 

 to point out one error — that Motte, the bookseller, 

 "died March 12, 1738, not 1758, as stated by 

 P. A. B." As I do not think it creditable that 

 vague charges and mere assertions should appear 

 in the pages of "N. & Q.," I request — at all sa- 

 crifice of my personal feelings — that he will spe- 

 cifically refer to these " several errors," that I 

 may justify, correct, or stand corrected. Mean- 

 while, in respect to my one specific error, I shall 

 take leave to refer you and your readers to my 

 letter (Vol. xii., p. (30.), the sole purport of which 

 was to draw attention to that very error, or other 

 errors, in certain statements in the Gent. Mag. 

 (date and pages were given). It had been there 

 stated that a letter from Pope, without date, 

 proved that he. Pope, continued to receive large 

 sums from Bathurst, Motte' s successor; whereas, 

 I observed. Pope died in 1744, and Motte, ac- 

 cording to the ivriter in the Gent. Maff. (p. 146., 



No. 316.] ^ ^^ 



there referred to), lived to 1758, My one error, 

 therefore, consists in having, as Mr. Woodman 

 asserts, pointed out an ei-ror in the Gent. Mag. ! 

 I saw there must be error somewhere., and threw 

 out a conjecture — could " only suppose " — that 

 Pope's letter must have been written many years 

 before, and addressed to Bathurst while he was 

 " the apprentice, servant, or partner of Motte." 

 Me. Woodman is evidently shocked at the idea of 

 his grandfather having been a " servant," calls it 

 " an amusing supposition," and tells us that 

 JNichols said "he was reputed a baronet, though 

 he did not choose to assert his title." Well, what 

 if he were ? Mb. Woodman does not, I suppose, 

 deny that he was a bookseller, and that is all we 

 are concerned to know. Being a bookseller, he 

 must have been an apprentice ; and if, as usual, 

 there was an interval between apprenticeship and 

 partnership, he was during that interval the ser- 

 vant of Motte ; and in the honest, wholesome sim- 

 plicity of those days, was, no doubt, so called. 



P. A. B. 



LAT prebendaries. 



Camden^ a Prebendary of Sarum. — 



" This distinguished scholar, antiquary, herald, and 

 historian, though a layman, was collated to this pre- 

 bendal stall [Ilfracombe] by his friend Dr. John Piers, 

 Bishop of Sarura, early in 1589. ' In the preceding June, 

 1588,' saj^s Wood, p. 409., Athena; Oxoii., * he took d 

 journey to Ilfracombe, in Devonshire, to obtain more 

 knowledge in the antiquities of that county and else- 

 Avhere, for the next edition of his Britannia ; and on the 

 6 February following, lie was made Prebendary of Ilfra- 

 combe, in the church of Salisbury, in the place of one 

 J. Hetman, which prebendary ship ne kept to the time of his 

 death. The said journey, and others that he took for that 

 purpose, the charges of them were defrayed by Dr, Ga- 

 briel Goodman, Dean of Westminster.* 



" His collation to the Prebend is not now to be dis- 

 covered in Bishop Piers's register. The truth is, the acts 

 of about four years of the register have peiished, viz. 

 from 3 March, 1584-5, until his translation to York, 19 

 February, 1588-9. Perhaps the loss may have been occa- 

 sioned by the indiscriminate havoc and spoliations during 

 the grand rebellion, when the Bishop's Palace was turned 

 into a tavern! But that Camden held the Prebend of 

 Ilfracombe until his death, is thus distinctly proved from 

 folio 19. of the register of Dr. John Davenant, Bishop of 

 Salisbury : 



" ' Vigesimo tertio die mensis Februaiii Anno Dni juxta 

 computacionera Ecclie Anglicane millesimo sexcentesimo 

 vicesimo tertio apud Westmonasterium antefatus Rev. 

 Pater Canonicatum in Ecclia sua Cathedral! Sarum et 

 Prebendam de Ilfracombe in eadem ab antiquo fundatam 

 per mortem naturalem Magistri WiUehni Camden ultimi 

 Canonici et Prebendarii eorundem nunc vacantes et ad suam 

 collationem pleno jure spectantes Edwardo Davenant, 

 clerico, in Artibus Magistro contulit, intuitu caritatis,' etc. 



" lie died at Chiselhurst, Kent, 9 November, 1623, aet. 

 seventy-three; was buried on 19 November, in West- 

 minster Abbey. I look in vain for any authority of his 



* Through the same patronage he had obtained his 

 mastership in Westminster School. 



