2nd s. No 85., Aug. 15. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



131 



If Mr. Gough complies with his request, I think he will be 

 an accomplice, and answerable in some degree for any im- 

 posture or knavery he may be guilty of under that title. 

 He is a Yorkshire or Northern man, as I think he told 

 me, thin and well-shaped, pert, and a coxcomb, and has 

 a thing or two in the Archceologia." It will be remem- 

 bered that Mr. Brooke was suffocated on Feb. 3, 1794, 

 with fourteen other persons, in attempting to get into the 

 pit of the Haymarket Theatre.] 



Butler's " Hudibras" 1732. — I have in my 

 possession a 12mo. edition of Hudibras, The title 

 runs thus : 



" Hudibras, in three parts. Written in the time of the 

 late wars. Corrected and amended with Additions. To 

 which are added. Annotations, with an exact Index to 

 the whole. Adorn'd with a new set of Cuts. Designed 

 and engraved by Mr. Hogarth. London : Printed for 

 B. Moole, at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet Street, 

 1732. 



There is a portrait of Butler as a frontispiece, 

 and nine other plates, illustrating the poem, some 

 of them double pajje width. The plates have at 

 the bottom, W, Hogarth^ Invt. et Sculpt. The 

 book throughout is in excellent condition. There 

 are copious notes written in the margin in a very- 

 neat handwriting explaining the meaning of some 

 intricate passages, and in some instances a short 

 description of the character, &c. of the person 

 referred to. Can any of your readers oblige me 

 with answers to the following. 1. Are those 

 plates bond fide those engraved by William Ho- 

 garth, engraver of the Rake's Progress, &c. ? 

 They are much in his style. 2. Is the book 

 scarce ? and its probable value ? I have every 

 reason to think that it is an unique copy. Dbva. 



[We have examined an edition of Hudibras, 12mo., 

 1732, in the British Museum, and find that some of the 

 plates have the name of Hogarth, in others it is omitted. 

 Those with the name are the same as in the edition of 

 1726, but the impressions are much inferior, as if the 

 plates had already done good service ; those without his 

 name seem to have been re-engraved. Owing to a dif- 

 ference of the pagination in Part ii. of the two editions, 

 Hogarth's plates are misplaced in that portion of the 

 edition of 1732. We suspect this edition is somewhat 

 rare ; Lowndes mentions an edition of 1732, in 8vo., 

 without plates.] 



Jane Wenham, the famous Witch of Hertford. — 

 Any information respecting the above personage, 

 her parentage, birth, doings, and death, would be 

 very acceptable. I believe Dr. Jonathan Swift 

 published her life. Is this work to be had, and 

 where, price, &c. ? C, B. 



Hertford. 



[Jane Wenham, a poor woman residing in the village 

 of Walkern, was accused of having practised sorcery and 

 witchcraft upon the body of Ann Thorn, and committed 

 to Hertford Goal. She was tried at the assizes, March 4, 

 1711-12, before Mr. Justice Powell, and being found 

 guilty received sentence of death. The Queen, however, 

 granted her a pardon. She subsequently resided in the 

 village of Hertingfordbury, supported by the charity of 

 Col. Plumer, and after his death, by that of the fearl 

 and Countess Cowper. She died June 11, 1730, and was 



buried at Hertingfordbury on the Sunday following, when 

 her funeral sermon was preached by the Kev. Mr. Squire, 

 then Curate. (Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, ii. 461.) Her 

 case occasioned the publication of the following pamphlets : 

 An Account of the Tryal, Examination, and Condemna- 

 tion of Jane Wenham, 1 sheet fol., 1712. A Full and Im- 

 partial Account of the Discovery of Sorcery and Witchcraft, 

 practised hy Jane Wenham, also her Tryal. Curll, 8vo. 

 1712. Witchcraft Farther Displayed. Curll, 8vo. 1712. 

 A Full Confutation of Witchcraft, more particularly of the 

 Depositions against Jane Wenhhm, 8vo. 1712. The Case 

 of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Considered, 8vo. 1712. 

 The Impossibility of Witchcraft, in which the Depositions 

 against Jane Wenham are Confuted and Exposed, 8vo. 

 1712. All these pieces are in the British Museum.] 



" A feather in his cap^ — I find the following 

 in my note book : 



" In the British Museum are two MSS. descriptive of 

 Hungary in 1598, in which the writer says of the in- 

 habitants, * It hath been an antient custom among them, 

 that none should weare a fether but he who had liilled a 

 Turk, to whome onlie y' was lawful to shew the number 

 of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his 

 cappe.' " 



I do not now remember whence the above was 

 copied. Can any of your readers supply me with 

 the reference to the MSS. referred to ? 



T. Lam PRAY. 



[The passage will be found in Lansdowne MS. 775, 

 fol. 149, in "A Description of Hungary written to a 

 nobleman of this land, anno 1599." At the end of the 

 article it states that it was " Written by Richard Han- 

 sard."] 



KOBERT CHURCHMAN. 



(2°'> S. iv. 89.) 



" A story of the marvellous condition of one Robert 

 Churchman of Balsliam, some six or seven miles from 

 Cambridge, when he was inveigled in Quakerism ; how 

 strangely he was possessed by a spirit that spoke within 

 him, and used his organs in despight of him when he was 

 in his fits. And how he was regained from his error by 

 the devotions and diligence of Dr. J. Templar, still min- 

 ister of that place, as it is set down in a letter to a friend, 

 which is as follows." 



The above is the heading of Helation VI., in 

 Dr. Henry More's Continuation of Relations, 

 printed at the end of Glanvil's Saducismus Tri- 

 umphatus. The letter, dated Jan. 1, 1682, is by 

 Dr. Templar, whose trustworthiness is certified 

 by Dr. More. 



Churchman and his wife were persons of good 

 life and plentiful estate. They had leanings to- 

 wards Quakerism, and Dr. Templar feared that 

 their example might cause others to leave the 

 church : so he tended them with great care. They 

 were intimate with a Quaker family, but Robert 

 Churchman had become reserved, because he 

 found that the Quakers " did not acknowledge 

 scripture for their rule." 



"Not long after this the wife of the forementioned 



