2»«S. N»80.,July11. '57.] 



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Jerusalem Letters. — 



" If heaven should ever bless me with more children, 

 said Mr. Fielding, I have determined to fix some indelible 

 mark upon them, such as that of the Jerusalem Letters, 

 that, in case of accident, I may be able to discover and 

 ascertain my own offspring from all others." — Brooke's 

 J'ool of Quality, chap. xi. 



What were these " Jerusalem Letters ? " 



C. FOBBES. 



Temple. 



Matthew Weavers. — Could you oblige me by 

 giving some information of Matthew Weavers, 

 Esq., of Friern Watch School, author o£ Agrippa 

 Potithumus, a Tragedy, and other Poems, pp. 142, 

 12mo., 1831 ? Edited by W. Weavers, the author's 

 brother. R. Inglis. 



Bow and Arrow Castle, Portland, Dorset. — In 

 about the centre of the south-eastern side of the 

 island of Portland are the ruins of an ancient 

 castle. Nothing is left standing, save the walls of 

 a single tower (apparently the keep), pentagonal 

 in form, and full of small loop-holes, from which 

 latter circumstance, says Mr. Hutchins, in his 

 Histoi'y of Dorset, it is vulgarly known as Bow 

 and Arrow Castle. It is said to have been built 

 by William II., and hence is sometimes called 

 Rufus's Castle. I remember reading some few 

 years since, I think in a county newspaper, a 

 legend (temp. Will. II. ?) relating to this castle. 

 Can any of your correspondents refer me to the 

 paper, or any source where I may meet with the 

 legend ? Any information about Bow and Arrow 

 Castle will be very acceptable to me. 



Mercatob, A.B. 



" Huntington Divertisement^^ — Can you give 

 me any information regarding the authorship of 

 The Huntington Divertisement ; or, an Enterlude 

 for the general Entertninment at the County Feast, 

 held at Merchant Taylors^ Hall, June 20, 1678, 

 4to., by W. M. Dedicated to the nobility and 

 gentry of the county. In the sale catalogue of 

 Mr. Heber's library, the author's name is said to 

 be L'Estrange. I presume this was Sir Roger 

 L'Estrange, but I do not know what reason there 

 is for supposing the piece written by him.* 



R. Inglis. 



Images set up in Moulton Church. — A duo- 

 decimo pamphlet of twenty-two pages has recently 

 come into my bands bearing the following title : 



" The Case concerning setting up of Images or Paint- 

 ing them in Churches, Writ by the Learned Dr. Thomas 

 Barlow, late Bishop of Lincoln, upon his suffering such 

 Images to be defaced in his Diocess. . . . Published upon 

 occasion of a Painting set up in White-chappel Church. 



r* It was simply licensed on May 16, 1678, by Roger 

 L'Estrange, as stated on the title-page.] 



London, Printed and Sold by James Roberts, at the Ox- 

 ford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1714." 



It seems that this tract was written by Dr. 

 Thomas Barlow in 1683-4, on the occasion of the 

 " Setting up of Images in the Parish Church of 

 Moulton," in the county of Lincoln. Unfortu- 

 nately the doctor treats of the law and theology 

 of the question, but gives no light as to the par- 

 ticulars of the case. We are not told the names 

 of the persons who caused the twelve apostles, 

 S. Paul, Moses and Aaron, &c., to be painted, and 

 the artist is only spoken of as " an ignorant 

 painter." The case seems to have been a very 

 strange one, for the legal authorities were by no 

 means unanimous. The Deputy Chancellor of 

 Lincoln approved and confirmed what had been 

 done ; but at length the Chancellor himself re- 

 versed the order. Many of the parishioners were 

 in favour of the pictures. Thirty-seven of them 

 protested against the " effigies," as they were 

 called. 



I am anxious to know where a full account of 

 these proceedings may be found. K. P. D. E. 



[In the year 1683, the parishioners of Moulton, when 

 beautifying the church, and by virtue of an order from 

 the Deputy Chancellor, set up the images of thirteen 

 apostles (St. Paul being one), and the Holy Ghost in form 

 of a dove over them. After this they petition Dr. Barlow, 

 the bishop of the diocese, for his approbation.' He denied 

 their petition : hereupon the Chancellor annulled the order 

 of his deputy, and the images were removed. Upon 

 which the persons concerned appeal to the Prerogative 

 Court ; the bishop was cited by the Dean of the Arches, to 

 show cause why he suffered such images to be removed. 

 On this occasion his lordship wrote a breviate of the case, 

 as published in the work quoted by our correspondent. 

 Upon reading this case the prosecution against the bishop 

 was immediately stopped. Bishop Barlow's Case was 

 particularly noticed when Dr. Welton set up his memo- 

 rable painting in Whitechapel Church. (See "N. & Q.," 

 1" S. ii. 355.), as well as the altar-piece introduced into 

 the church of St. James's, Clerkenwell, in 1735. All that 

 seems known of this case will be found in The Old Whig, 

 Sept. 30, 1736, and Gentleman's Magazine, vi. 597.] 



Richard Clitheroe. — In the New Monthly Ma- 

 gazine, 1821 (vol. i. p. 123.), there is an article 

 regarding Richard Clitheroe, an author of the 

 time of James I. He was the author of plays 

 printed in two vols. 4to. The names of the plays 

 are Crichton (of which some specimens are given), 

 Julius Ccesar, Fortune's Fool, The Unlucky Mar- 

 riage, Julian the Apostate, and Virginia, or Ho- 

 nours Sacrifice. " To these tragedies is prefixed 

 a history of the early part of the author's life, 

 which is curious for the quaint simplicity with 

 which it is written, and the interesting anecdotes 

 which it contains of contemporary poets." Can 

 any of your readers give me any information re- 

 garding the author ? R. Inglis. 



[The article in The New Monthly Magazine referred to 

 by our correspondent seems to be a transparent hoax ; 

 for not only are the plays and name of Richard Clitheroe 

 unknown in the annals of dramatic literature 3 but the 



