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[2nd s. ifo 86., Aug. 22. '67. 



John Charles Brooke, F.S.A., Somerset Herald 

 (2""^ S. iv. 130.) — Besides the reference to Ni- 

 chols's Literary Anecdotes, another should have 

 been made to the sixth volume of the Literary 

 Illustrations, which contains the fullest memoir of 

 Mr. Brooke hitherto published, followed by 135 

 letters, being his correspondence with Mr. Gough 

 and Mr. Nichols. Nor should any time be lost in 

 contradicting the slander copied from Cole's MSS., 

 for it was surely wholly unfounded, as Mr. Brooke 

 continued to enjoy the esteem of a large circle of 

 friends throughout the year 1780, and until his" 

 unfortunate death, nearly fourteen years after; 

 when his funeral was attended, not only by his 

 brother heralds, but by the Earl Marshal (Duke 

 of Norfolk), the Presidents of the Society of An- 

 tiquaries and Royal Society (the Earl of Leicester 

 and Sir Joseph Banks), by John Topham, Craven 

 Ord, and Edmund Turnor, Fellows of the Royal 

 and Antiquarian Societies, the Rev. John Brand, 

 Sec. Ant. S., John Caley, James Moore, and John 

 Lambert, Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries — 

 most of them still very generally known for their 

 eminence and high character. His epitaph, in St. 

 Benet's, Paul's Wharf (which is printed, ibid. 

 p. 358.), was written by the late Norroy, Mr. 

 Lodge. John Gough Nichols. 



. Sutlers " Hudibras;' 1732 (2°'^ S. iv. 131.) — A 

 copy of Hudibras in my possession, 12mo. pp. 385, 

 printed by S. Powell, Dublin, 1732, is " Adorn'd 

 with a new Set of Cuts from the Designs of Mr. 

 Hogarth." These cuts are sixteen in number 

 (five of them folding plates), Phillip Simms, 

 Sculpt, appearing on a few, the remainder without 

 engraver's name ; also with a portrait of Butler 

 fronting the title-page. It is probable that the 

 plates of this Irish edition is a reproduction of the 

 plates of the English editions of 1726 and 1732 

 (the latter mentioned by " Dkva " as containing 

 only nine plates), and that Hogarth may have 

 provided additional new designs for the Irish 

 printer. The plates are also misplaced (as in the 

 English edition of 1732), corrected through an 

 index. Seme of them are in a much better style 

 of engraving than others, but in design the whole 

 do not belie the genius of the pictorial humourist. 



G.N. 



Oddities in Printing (2°'^ S. iii. 308.)— I have 

 copies of a 32mo. edition of the Book of Common- 

 Prayer, printed by Whittingham in 1806. Some 

 of them are priirted with black ink on buff, and 

 others on pink paper. T. P. 



Tiverton. 



Peter Pindar (2"^ S. iv. 103.) — Your corre- 

 spondent incorrectly spells the true name of this 

 witty writer, as " Walcot : " it should be " Wol- 

 cot," or " Wolcott." He was a native of Kings- 

 bridge, CO. Devon (see Murray's Handbook for 



Devon, p. 59.), and there is a family of the name 

 residing at Knowle House, which is of Norman ex- 

 traction. Watt spells the name " Wolcott ; " the 

 obituary notice in the Annual Register runs " Jan. 

 1819. At Somers' town in his 8P' year. Dr. John 

 Wolcot." A Roger Wolcott published some " Po- 

 etical Meditations." The arms of the two families 

 are essentially distinct. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Tynipan (2"'* S. iv. 135.) — The note there upon 

 the word tympan, seems to throw light upon the 

 following sentence of Horace Walpole. Speaking 

 of Lady Pomfret at Oxford, he says : 



"Do but figure her, lier dress had all the tawdry 

 poverty and frippery, with which you rememb«r her, and 

 I dare swear her tympany, scarce covered with ticking, 

 produced itself through the slit of her scowered damask 

 robe." -.- See the new edition of Horace Walpok's Letters, 

 vol. iii. p. 25. 



F. B. 



Ordination Query (2"*^ S. iv. 70.) — Your cor- 

 respondent M. W. D. may refer to Burns, sub 

 voce Dispensation, vol. ii. p. 165., edit. 1842. In 

 all probability he would be required to wait for 

 the following Ordination ; though under peculiar 

 circumstances his future diocesan might give hira 

 letters dimissory for some intermediate Ordina- 

 tion to another bishop. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Kirhham Families (2"'^ S. iii. 427.) — There is 

 and was no gentle Lancashire family of the name 

 ofKirkham. P.P. 



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