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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 79., July 4. '57. 



Treatise upon Christian Perfection, indisposed him to re- 

 lish the profession selected by his parents. Being per- 

 mitted to follow the bent of his own inclinations, he was 

 sent to Oxford, where he was entered at Exeter College 

 in June, 1797. In Jlay, 1801, he was ordained deacon by 

 the Bishop of Winchester, and entered on the curacy of 

 Weston, near Bath. After serving several curacies he 

 finally settled at Colerne, near the above-named city. 

 He married, in 1805, his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of 

 W. Harding, Esq., of Liverpool. At Colerne Mr. Mayow 

 resided for four years ; thence removed to Rosthern, and 

 afterwards, for the space of five j'ears, officiated in the 

 chapel of E. B. Wilbraham, Esq., of Lathom, Lancashire, 

 and at length, three months previous to his death, he re- 

 moved to St. Thomas's Chapel, Ardwick, near Manches- 

 ter, where he died Jan. 8, 1817, set. 39.] 



Colonel John Howard Payne, Author of " Home, 

 sweet Home''' — I trust you will permit me to 

 record in the pages of " N. & Q." that the remains 

 of my late deceased friend, the well-known author 

 of Home, sweet Home, lie interred in the cemetery 

 of St. George at Tunis ; a ground supported by 

 contributions from the English, American, and 

 other Protestant countries. I would also add 

 that over the spot which marks the place of his 

 burial, the government of the United States have 

 very recently erected a monument, which bears 

 the following inscription : 



" In Memory 



of 



Colonel John Howard Payne, 



Twice Consul of 



The United States of America, 



For 



The City and Kingdom of Tunis, 



This stone is here placed. 



By a grateful Countrj'. 



He died at the American Consulate 



In this Citv after a tedious illness, 



April 1st, 1852. 

 He was born at the City of Boston, 



State of Massachusetts. 



His fame as a Poet and Dramatist 



Is well known wherever the English language 



is understood, through his celebrated Ballad of 



' Home, Sweet Home,' 



And his popular tragedy of ' Brutus,' and other similar 



productions." 



I remember to have read in a London publica- 

 tion a complimentary notice of Colonel Payne, 

 shortly after his decease. I think it appeared in 

 the Literary Gazette, and although I have re- 

 ferred to several volumes of this work for the 

 purpose of finding it, still I have failed in my 

 search, there being no index to guide me. 



Can I be favoured with this reference, as also 

 with the date of Colonel Payne's birth, the writer 

 of his epitaph having left a blank on the marble 

 for its insertion, so soon as it shall be correctly 

 known. - "VV. W. 



Malta. 



[According to the Memoirs of John Howard Payne, the 

 American lioscius, compiled from Authentic Documents, 

 London, 1815, this celebrated dramatist was born in the 

 city of New York, on June 9, 1792, and was soon after. 



while yet an infant, removed with his family to Boston. 

 A complimentarj' notice of him appeared in The Literary 

 Gazette of 1852, p. 517 ; but a more extended sketch 

 appeared in the New York Literary World, which was 

 copied into the Gentleman's Magazine of Julj', 1852, 

 p. 104. " Home, Sweet Home," first appeared in hia 

 Clari, the Maid of Milan."] 



JAMES HOWELI. AND THE " EPISTOLvE HO-ELIANJE." 



(2"'' S. iii. 167. 212. 315. 410. 489.) 



I should feel greatly obliged if some of your 

 correspondents would furnish a list of his works 

 and the dates of their publication, with any further 

 particulars of his life ; for it is very evident from 

 the letters themselves, that he was very intimate 

 with the royalists. Query, When was he ap- 

 pointed as one of the Clerks of the Council ? — to 

 which he alludes, September 7, 1641 (No. 46., 

 sect. 6.) : 



" To the Honorable Sir P. M. 



" Now that Sir Edward Nicholas is made Secretary of 

 State, I am put in fair hopes, or rather assurance, to suc- 

 ceed him in the Clerkship of the Council." 



With regard to the cause of his imprisonment, it 

 is equally evident that it was political ; as where 

 he relates the manner of his arrest, he says, that 

 upon being brought before the Close Committee^ 

 he was ordered to be forthcoming till his papers 

 were perused, and that Mr. Corbet was appointed 

 to examine them. Again, at the commencement 

 of the second volume, after the dedication (to 

 which I shall allude), comes, — 



" The Stationer to the Reader. 



" It pleased the Author to send me these ensuing letters 

 as a supplement to the greater Volume of Epistolce Ho- 

 EUancB, where they could not be inserted then, because 

 most of his papers, whence divers of these letters are de- 

 rived, were under sequestration. And thus much I had 

 in commission to deliver. 



" Humphrey Moseley." 



With regard to the time of his imprisonment, 

 he alludes to it in the Epistle Dedicatory to the 

 same volume, which is as follows : 



" To His Highness James Duke of York, a Star of the 

 greatest Magnitude in the Constellation of CHARLES- 

 IVAYN. 



« Sir, 

 " This Book was engendred in a Cloud, born a Captive, 

 and bred in the dark shades of Melancholy ; He is a true 

 Benoni, the son of sorrow, nay, which is a thing of won- 

 derment, He was begot in the Grave by one who hath 

 been buried quick any time these five and fifty months. 

 Such is the hard condition of the Authour, wherein he is 

 like to continue untiil some good Angell roll off the stone, 

 and raise him up, for Prisoners are capable of a double 

 Resurrection : mj- Faith ascertains me of owe, but my fears 

 make me doubtfuU of the other, for, as far as I see 

 yet, I may be made to moulder away so long among these 



