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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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verse of the sixth chapter of St. Luke's Gospel : 

 'E7«J'6To 5e «V (ra€€dTCf>5evr*poiTpd>rci>Siairope{>e(T6ai atnhy 

 bia tSiv (nropifMecy, &C. 



The authorised version renders it thus : " And 

 it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the 

 first, that he went through the corn-fields," &c. 

 On this erroneous translation Whitby has some 

 observations in his Commentary. " This," says he, 

 " should have been rendered, In the first Sabbath 

 after the second day of the Passover, &c. 



In applying this rendering to the inscription on 

 the brass, the solution is still difficult. If Henry 

 Parsonius died in the second year after his first 

 climacteric, be died at eighty-three, if it were at 

 eighty-one; or at sixty-five, if it were at sixty- 

 three. Some will have it, that the first early cli- 

 macteric in childhood was seven, and others that 

 it was three, the number of the Trinity. If the 

 first, he died at nine ; if the second, at five years 

 old. 



These are my Notes : my Query is, How old 

 was the defunct when he died ? P. O. H. 



Sidmouth. 



Bernard Lintot. — I see it stated in The Drama, 

 or Theatrical Pocket Magazine, vol, i. p. 133., 

 1821, "that some portraits of the Lintot family 

 hung lately on the staircase of an inn at Cuck- 

 field." It would be worth inquiry what brought 

 them there, and what has become of them (1849). 

 The principal inns at Cuckfield are the " King's 

 Head," '* Talbot," " Ship," and " Rose and Crown." 



This celebrated bookseller, after having been 

 the rival, for some years, of Jacob Tonson, retired 

 about 1730 to the enjoyment of an easy fortune to 

 Horsham, not far from Cuckfield. 



In November, 1735, he was appointed High 

 Sheriff of the county, but died 3rd February fol- 

 lowing, before he bad actually entered on the 

 duties of the office, to which his son Henry Lintot. 

 was appointed in his room, Feb. 5, 1735-6. 



He died 1758, his widow 1763, and their only 

 daughter, Catharine, was married 1768, with a 

 fortune of 45,000^., to Captain Heni-y Fletcher, 

 afterwards Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart. 



G. Chbed. 



Museum Street. 



The Earl of Selkirk's Seat at St. Mary's Isle, N. 

 B. — Can any one point out to me an engraving, 

 either separate, or comprised in any work, of 

 St. Mary's Isle, the seat of the Earl of Selkirk, 

 near Kirkcudbright, N. B. ? This noble mansion 

 and demesnes had a visit d rimprovisfe fVom that 

 daring incendiary and predatory navigator Paul 

 Jones, on Thursday 23. April 1778, of whose ma- 

 rauding attempts and exploits (the work of a few 

 hours) the following is a brief outline : — On the 



morning of April 23, alluded to, he landed from 

 two boats, two hours before daylight, thirty armed 

 men of the "Ranger" privateer, at Whitehaven 

 (where he served his apprenticeship, and had been 

 most kindly treated), who set fire to the shipping 

 in the harbour, and then returned to their vessel ; 

 but most miraculously, with great efforts, this in- 

 fernal project was defeated. He after this sailed ; 

 and in a few hours, of the same morning, landed 

 at St. Mary's Isle, where he arrived just after the 

 family had breakfasted, and took away as plunder 

 the silver breakfast service, and all the plate be- 

 sides in the house. The following day (Friday 

 the 24th) he fell in with H. M. ship the " Drake," 

 which was ill-manned and inadequately equipped, 

 and after a slaughterous conflict she struck to 

 him. Further accounts of this hero may be found 

 in an interesting article in Colburn's United Ser- 

 vice Magazine, for January 1843, pp. 58 — 71. 



LoTAL. 



Anonymous Plays. -— - Could any of your New- 

 castle correspondents give me any information re- 

 garding the authors of the following plays ? 1st. 

 Easier Monday, or the Humours of The Forth, 

 This piece was published about 1781, and is said 

 in the Biographia Dramatica to be written by a 

 young gentleman of Newcastle. 2nd. Love in the 

 Country, or the Vengeful Miller, a new Rustic 

 Drama, written by a gentleman of Newcastle, 

 and acted at the Newcastle Theatre, about April, 

 1830. 3rd. Plumtree Park, a Farce, written by a 

 gentleman in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, 

 acted at the Newcastle Theatre, in November or 

 December, 1856. X. 



St. Anne, -r- Was St. Anne the patron saint of 

 all v/ells ? Why are there so many wells called 

 St. Anne's wells in diflferent parts of the country ? 



C. E. S. 



Song. — Can any of your readers tell me where 

 the (Indian ?) song is to be found, beginning —- 



" Bid me not tell who lit the flame, 

 Lips may not breathe the maiden's name ; 

 Musk in her locks, sleep in her eyes, 

 Who, without hope, looks on her dies." 



I have inquired in vain for it at most of the 

 music shops in London, though I have often heard 

 it sung. B. 



Carisbrohe Castle. -^ Who erected the tower of 

 Carisbroke Castle? It is attributed to Lord 

 Holmes in a recent journal. Byron Smyth. 



Sleater's ^^ Public Gazetteer." — ! have in my 

 possession a 4to. volume of Sleater's [Dublin] 

 Public Gazetteer, pp. 404, commencing with No. I. 

 published September 23rd, 1758, and ending with 

 No. LIL, published March 20th, 1759. It con- 

 tains much curious information, both foreign and 

 domestic ; and is, I believe, rather uncommon. 



