2»d S. N» 81., July 18. '57.] 



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paid the 600,000Z. which the Dutch charged us 

 for our emancipation — for the consumption of 

 tobacco at that time was above eleven million of 

 pounds' weight per annum from America alone — 

 according to my tables — which paid a duty of 

 one shilling per pound and 5 per cent, poundage 

 in addition ; thus clearly covering the sum named, 

 and leaving a surplus for the interesting 



« Servants of Charles II. ! though the duties on silks 

 and sugar (also ceded in the Grant) were more apjiropriate 

 for that class of pensioners. It may add to the interest 

 of the fact to state that most of our most eminent divines 

 and bishops at that time practically contributed to the 

 payment of the revolutionary debt by their large con- 

 sumption of tobacco. Dr. Barlow of Lincoln was as 

 regular in smoking tobacco as at his meals : he had a 

 very high opinion of its virtues, as had also Dr. Barrow, 

 Dr. Aldrich, and other celebrated persons who flourished 

 about this time, and gave much into that practice." — 

 Granger, vi. 90, 7iote. 



Nor is this the only reflection suggested by this 

 curious fact. Charles Lamb was forbidden to- 

 bacco by some " sour physician," as he states ; 

 and, in consequence, wrote his " Farewell to To- 

 bacco " — an eccentric poem, purposely irrational 

 and absurd where he " abuses " the weed, but 

 wonderfully lucid and reasonable where he sings 

 the praise of the " Plant divine, of rarest virtue." 

 Now, in this poem there is a verse of formidable 

 import. He says : 



"None e'er prospered who defamed thee !" 



King James I. most vilely "defamed" this 

 proud and time-honoured sacred plant — for thou- 

 sands of years venerated by the Red Men of 

 the West, whose most cherished virtue was the 

 observance of treaties and promises sanctioned 

 by the fuming pipe. King James vilified tobacco, 

 and how soon did his House — the House of 

 Stuart — vanish into smoke ! And why ? Be- 

 cause his House was always remarkable for faith- 

 lessness, fraud, and insincerity. I commend this 

 verse of the poet to the inward digestion of all 

 naisocapnists — 



" None e'er prospered who defamed thee I " 



Andrkw Steinmetz. 



JOHN BEADSHAW. 



" Honest Bradshaw, the President." 



Oliver Cromwell. 



There has been preserved an ancient book con- 

 cerning the affairs of the parish of Richmond, 

 Surrey, which commences 12 James I. For a 

 few years at the beginning it is not quite chrono- 

 logically kept, but shortly afterwards the entries 

 appear to have been regularly made: it is en- 

 titled " A Booke containing the Actes and Pro- 

 ceedings of j(* Vestry of Richmond." Under date 



of Miiy 14, 1649, there is an insertion that there 

 was lying in the parish chest — 



"A Bond bearing date the 2nd day of October, 1644, 

 wherein John Bradshaw of Gray's inn, Gentleman, 

 standeth bound in the sum of One Hundred Pounds, to 

 discharge the parish of Richmond of a female bastard 

 Child, begotten and born of the body of Alice Trotter of 

 Richmond." 



From some circumstances I am induced to 

 think this John Bradshaw to have been the Pre- 

 sident, and, in endeavouring to trace him, I find 

 that John Bradshaw of Tattenhall, Chester, was 

 admitted of Gray's Inn June 7, 1632 ; and the 

 same person, I believe, to have been Ancient, 

 June 23, 1645 ; Barrister, Nov. 24, 1645 ; and 

 Bencher, May 19, 1647 ; though I do not adduce 

 these gradations confidently. 



The President had considerable property in the 

 neighbourhood of Richmond. The Parliament 

 having confiscated Lord Cottington's estates at 

 Hanworth, &c., gave them to him ; and on a va- 

 cancy he presented Job Iggleton to the neigh- 

 bouring vicarage of Feltham, as appears by a 

 survey made by order of Parliament in 1650. 

 Bradshaw at his decease, Nov. 22, 1659, be- 

 queathed 250?. to the poor of Feltham, and also 

 the impropriation of the vicarage of Feltham " for 

 the use of a proper minister to be established 

 there." *. 



Richmond. 



Royal Visits to Ireland. — In Wilde's Beauties 

 of the Boyne and Blackivater, p. 93., is the follow- 

 ing paragraph, which I think worthy of a corner 

 in "N. & Q.": 



" In 1210 King John arrived in Ireland, and spent the 

 second and third days of July at Trim ; but althougli the 

 present castle is called after him, it does not appear that 

 he lodged at any castle at Trim, — if there was one at that 

 time fit for his reception ; and his writs ore dated * apud 

 Pratum subtus Trim,' — the field now called the King's 

 Park. What a volume might be written on royal visits 

 to Ireland; — by whom made, under what circumstances, 

 with what objects or inducements ; what was the condi- 

 tion of the country, what the mode of reception, what the 

 state of manners at the time of each ; from the days of 

 Henry II. to those of Queen Victoria in this present year, 

 1849." 



Abhba. 



Misprints. — I cannot forbear, though the sub- 

 ject is trite, quoting three misprints I have lately 

 met with, which alter or modify in a most ludicrous 

 manner the whole bearing of the context. The 

 first is from the seventh edition of Archdeacon 

 Welchman's Notes on the XXXIX. Articles, 

 where the last clause of Article XXV. runs thus : 



"The Sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be 

 gazed upon, or to be carried about, but that we should 

 dailt/ use them. , . . ," 



