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KOTES AND QTORIES. 



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Materials for reference as to the seventeenth 

 century and part of the sixteenth are to be found 

 in various lists, which have been published, of city 

 officers, printers, serjeants-at-law and barristers, 

 physicians, tradesmen issuing tokens, &c. The 

 records of the city companies contain copious ma- 

 terials for what may be called the " Directorial " 

 matter of the chief trades. I have in my col- 

 lection a very copious MS. list of watchmakers 

 of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 



A class of books, of which no complete col- 

 lection exists, and which are condemned to de- 

 struction, consists of the little pamphlets issued 

 yearly by the several city companies, containing 

 lists of their liverymen, and in some cases of the 

 freemen. 



During the subsistence of the Levant Company 

 as a trading company, lists of the members were 

 yearly published, and I presume there are lists of 

 the Kussia Company. 



The administration of the city companies having 

 been very strict during the sixteenth, seventeenth, 

 and eighteenth centuries, their records and lists 

 furnish complete directories of nearly every trade 

 then subsisting. As some of the companies are 

 nearly extinct, it is very desirable their records 

 should be acquired for Guildhall, and that the 

 Library Committee of the Common Council should 

 see to the preservation of documents relating to 

 the trades of the City of London. 



All that has been said as to the preservation of 

 London directorial matter applies likewise to pro- 

 vincial directories, of which the remains in the 

 British Museum are very small. Hyde Clarke. 



Old Paintitig (2"'^ S. iii. 487.) — The " old paint- 

 ing " here described is a Madonna del Itosario : 

 the male kneeling figure probably S. Dominic, of 

 whom the lilies are emblematical, and the female 

 an abbess of the same order. 



The rosary, or chaplet of beads, was re-arranged 

 by S. Dominic during his stay in Languedoc, and 

 dedicated by him to the Virgin. P. 0. B, 



Th$ Wiccamical Chaplet (2"'J S. iii. 404 ) ^ I 

 see that a copy of verses in this work " On the 

 amphibious N, Elliot, of Oxford, shoemaker and 

 poet," p, 221,, 18 asoribed ("probably") to T, 

 Warton. 



In the year 1 793, when I was a lad, I boarded 

 for a few days in the house of Elliot, who was a 

 great oddity. And I remember going by water 

 to Godstowe with two members of his family, in 

 company with the then University Orator, Ci^owe, 

 who also was an oddity ; and to whom fifteen out 

 of the twenty- eight pieces are attributed. N. El- 

 liot was lively, facetious, and fond of quoting 

 Shakspeare ; one of whose passages he adapted in 

 a playful reply to his aged wife, who had shaken 

 her head at him reprovingly for one of his double 

 entendres at dinner — thus : " Shake not thy 



hoary locks at me." He wrote the Prophecies of 

 Merlin^ but I long ago mislaid the copy he gave 

 me. "The amphibious N. Elliot" was much 

 more than a "shoemaker and poet," as appears 

 from some doggrel verses written by one of his 

 schoolboys, which were in circulation at Oxford, 

 and some years afterwards were repeated to me 

 by a clergyman who had been a student there at 

 the time -— as follows : 



" Nathaniel ElUot liveth here, 

 A poet, coroner, and Auctioneer ; 

 He teacheth boys to read and spell ; 

 And mendeth old shoes very well." 



I have not seen a copy of the " Chaplet," but 

 though the above cannot Tie the verses written by 

 T. Warton, they may yet be acceptable to the 

 readers of " N. & Q., as relating to one whom it 

 is supposed that Warton "delighted to honour" 

 with his satirical notice. P. H. F. 



America and Caricatures (2°^ S. iii. 427.) -»• 

 C. Roberts has certainly not afforded a true 

 theory for the absence or deficiency of works of 

 caricature in the States. Licompetency for poli- 

 tical caricature is a characteristic of enslaved and 

 not of free countries. Nowhere in Europe has 

 caricature flourished as in England ; but though 

 caricature has not flourished in the States, it has 

 not been for want of idiosyncracy, but for want of 

 artists. In time of war and excitement, carica- 

 tures have been produced in the States ; and the 

 very fact to which he alludes, that various carica- 

 ture publications have been started, is an indioa- 

 tion of the disposition to enjoy them, though the 

 artistic talent has been wanting in a new country to 

 produce works such as the American public would 

 receive. The Americans show no want of appre- 

 ciation of Punch ; and with regard to the strange 

 assertion of Mr. Roberts, that it is a national 

 singularity that holding up public men to ridi- 

 cule, as is done in Punch, would not be tole- 

 rated in New York or Washington, I can only 

 say that he must be forgetful of the vituperation 

 to which every statesman has been subjected by 

 press and people, and of the execution in effigy of 

 many an eminent character. When our brethren 

 have their own Rowlandson, Gillray, H. B., Cruik- 

 shank, Doyle, and Leech, they will have a school 

 of caricature, and enjoy it. Hyde Ci4Arke. 



William Corker, M.A. (2"'» S. iii. 509.)— We 

 can add but little to Knight's account of William 

 Corker. He was one of the Proctors of the Uni- 

 versity, 1674 ; and has verses in the University 

 collection on the death of the Duke of Albemarle, 

 1670. A ludicrous mistranslation of Mr. Corker's 

 epitaph occurs in Carter's Hist, of Univ. of Camb,, 

 338. 



A list of Cambridge Doctors from 1500 to 

 [about 1575] is appended to Drake's edition of 

 Abp. Parker's Antiquitates Ecclesice Britannicce. 



