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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



1:2nd g. No 88., Sept. 6. '57. 



novel divertisement," &c. This would naturally 

 induce a belief that the writer was a Huntingdon 

 man. He tells us moreover that the drama was 

 " never designed to be duly modelled into the 

 dimensions of acts and scenes as ought to become 

 a theatre, but only for a small fascicle of Rustick 

 drollery." 



This piece is very scarce. With the copy be- 

 fore me is bound up " The Female Wits, or the 

 Triumvirate of Poets at rehearsal — a comedy," 

 written by Mr. W. M. ; and the former possessor 

 has noted that " the initials, W. M., subscribed to 

 the dedication of the first of these pieces and in- 

 serted in the title-page of the second, seem to 

 designate them as the work of the same author. 

 The Female Wits appears from the Biogruphia 

 Dramatica to have been first published in 1697." 



This conjecture may be correct, but the latter 

 play is very different in every respect from the 

 former. The satire is biting, and there is much 

 humour in it, whereas the Huntington divertise- 

 ment is very crude and nonsensical. Mrs. Manly, 

 Mrs. Pix, and Mrs. Trotter are the female wits, and 

 are shown up by Mr. W. M., for the amusement 

 of the public. If any of the three ladies had got 

 hold of the Huntingdon Divertisement they might 

 have turned the tables with a vengeance. J, M. 

 Edinburgh. 



Mental Condition of the Starving (2"^ S. ii. 288.) 

 — In Dr. Kane's Arctic Explorations in 1853, 4, and 

 5, in the instance of his attempt to rescue an ex- 

 hausted exploring party, together with the docu- 

 ment of the same date by the surgeon, in the 

 Appendix of vol. ii., will be found a tragico-comical 

 example (the page I cannot now give). Indeed 

 the book throughout bears on the subject in ques- 

 tion. Df. Kane says of his men when prostrated 

 by scurvy and starvation, — 



"Some were intensely grateful for every little act of 

 kindness . . . . : some querulous ; others desponding ; 

 others, again, only wanted strength to become mutinous." 

 —Vol. ii. p. 68. 



The result of his experience is thus expressed : 



"The number is unfortunately small of those human 

 beings whom calamity elevates." — Vol. ii. p. 176. 



J. P. 



Rue at the Old Bailey (2"'» S. ii. 351.) — In 

 Lawrence's Life of Fielding it is stated that this 

 custom arose after a contagious disease which had 

 been engendered by the foul atmosphere there, 

 upwards of a hundred years ago. J. P. 



Quotation Wanted : " Dingle and Berry " (2"'' 

 S. iv. 171.) — Abhba will find the quotation he 

 wants in a reprint in the Kerry Magazine of a 

 poem published, with others, by Maurice Connor 

 of Aughnagraun, Dublin, 1739. It is entitled 

 " A Kerry Pastoral," written apparently to ac- 

 knowledge the author's gratitude to the Provost 



and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, for pro- 

 tecting him from the persecution of Ms landlord, 

 their immediate tenant. It will be found in the 

 number for Sept. 1855, of the Kerry Magazine, 

 a local periodical of great antiquarian interest, 

 which closed with the third volume in 1856. R. 



Old Ballad of the Mearns (2"* S. iv. 170.) — 

 The hole in K.'s old ballad is too large to be filled 

 up through the pages of " N. & Q ," extending as 

 it does to eighteen eight-line stanzas. He will, 

 however, find it in Whitelaw's Book of Scottish 

 Song, Glasgow, 1844 ; where it is said " this 

 diverting ditty was at one time very popular 

 among the country people of Scotland. It can be 

 traced no farther back than to the New British 

 Songster, a Collection published at Falkirk in 

 1785." In the chap form it is yet common enough 

 as " Captain Wedderburn's Courtship." My copy, 

 in this shape, is bound up with others, or 1 would 

 give it to K. ; but he will easily procure it at any 

 depot of literature for the million. J. O. 



Cardinal Campeggio (2"-^ S. ill. 486.) — Mb. 

 Denton asks whether Lingard may not have sup- 

 posed the cardinal to have been a widower when 

 ordained, merely out of a wish to vindicate his 

 memory ? I kjiow Lingard to be unreliable, when 

 his religious prejudices are in the way : but in 

 this case he has good authority. The rare and 

 accurate work of De la Roche-posai, Bp. of Poi- 

 tiers, Nomenclator Sanctcs Romance Ecclesice Car- 

 dinalium, published at Toulouse in 1614, gives the 

 epitaph as found in the church of S. Maria in 

 Trastevere : 



" Lauren tii tituli S. Mariae trans-Tyberim patris, et 

 Alexandri S. Luciae in Silice filii, ex legitimo raatrimonio 

 ante Sacerdotium suscepti; ex nobili Compegiorum \_sic^ 

 Bononiensium familia S. R. E. Cardinalium ossa ex erai- 

 nenti loco anno salutis 1571 hue translata in unum re- 

 quiescunt." 



Laurence Campegio read in civil law at Padua 

 at the early age of nineteen. He died at Rome 

 in 1539. W. 



Baltimore, U. S. A. 



Gravestones and Church Repairs (2"'' S. iv. 136.) 

 — In many churches repairs were done by masons 

 for their own convenience and profit, by using 

 tombstones from the churchyard. 



In the porch of Lyme Church were the oolitic 

 slabs of the tomb erected to the memory of 

 William Hewling, executed for his connexion 

 with the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion. All 

 these were used just for the masons' benefit about 

 fifty years ago, after having been stored away in 

 the great porch by Dr. Tucker, the curate and 

 minister of the parish. 



A large tomb to the memory of Arthur Tucker, 

 at the head of the churchyard, disappeared about 

 thirty years since. The slabs of Portland stone 



