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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2«ds. N«81.,JuLYl8.'67. 



obtainable in this country ? If not, I should deem 

 it a favour if any of your correspondents could 

 furnish me with the inscription thei-eon ? 



J. B. Whitborne. 



[In Dr. Pulteney's Linnaeus, bj- Maton, 4to., 1805, 

 p. 491., is the following notice of this monument: "Lin- 

 nsBUs's monument was not completed until the year 1798. 

 It is described as being executed with great simplicity 

 and beauty, in the red porphyry of Elfsdahl. On the 

 upper part is a bronze medallion of Linnasus, modelled by 

 Sergei), with a wreath of laurel above; and below, the 

 following inscription in characters of gilt brass of ad- 

 mirable elegance and workmanship, placed in high relief, 

 on the polished surface of the porphyry, viz. : 



"Carolo a Linne 

 Botanicorum 

 Principi. 

 Amici et Discipuli 

 1798." 

 The expense of this monument, plain and simple as it 

 is, amounted to 2000 rix-doUars (upwards of 460?. ster- 

 ling), of which sum 400 (93/.) were expended upon the 

 letters alone. The reader will find an engraving of it 

 fronting the title-page of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zei- 

 tung, of Jan., Feb., Mar., 1805."] 



" To Post and Pair." — 



"January 1, Saturday (1687). The new year began 

 with very fair weather. I went to church. It being a 

 state daj' I dined in publick. My Lord Mayor and all 

 the aldermen (of Dublin) dined with me; and according 

 to the custom, when the cloth was taken away, they went to 

 post and pair ; and after a very little time sitting, I went 

 away and they all went into the cellar." — Diary of Lord 

 Clarendon. 



What is the custom 'to which the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant here alludes ? What is meant by the 

 mayor and aldermen going'fo post and pair ? 



E. H. A. 



\^Post and pair was an old game played with three 

 cards, wherein much depended on vying, or betting on 

 the goodness of your own hand. A pair of royal aces was 

 considered the best hand, and next any other three cards, 

 according to their order : kings, queens, knaves, &c., de- 

 scending. If there were no threes, the highest pairs 

 might win ; or also the highest game in three cards. It 

 would in these points much resemble the modern game 

 of commerce. This game was thus personified by J3en 

 Jonson, in a masque : 



" Post and pair, with a pair-royal of aces in his hat ; 

 his garments all done over with pairs and purs; his 

 squire carrying a box, cards, and counters." — Christmas, 

 a Masque. 



The author of The Compleat Gamester notices this game 

 as " very much played in the West of England." See 

 Dodsley's Old Plays, 1780, vii, 296. ; and Nares's Glos- 

 sary, s. ».3 



Robert Burton. — Can you inform me whether 

 any life of Burton, the author of the Anatomy of 

 Melancholy is published ? and if so, where it may 

 be obtained ? Ivr. 



North Wales. 



[There is a Life of Robert Burton prefixed to The 

 Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Du Bois, 2 vols. 8vo., 

 1806, also to the one-volume edition, 8vo., 1845. A long 



Memoir of him is given in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iii. 

 pt. i. p. 415., with a portrait. For many particulars re- 

 specting him see the General Index to 1»' Ser. of " N. & 

 Q." In vol. i. of the Works of Charles Lamb are some 

 " curious fragments extracted from a common-place book 

 which belonged to Robert Burton."] 



Dr. John Byrom. — It is stated in the Introduc- 

 tion to Molyneux's edition of Byrom's Short Hand, 

 that in 1743, Byrom obtained an Act of Parlia- 

 ment for his system. What was the nature, ex- 

 tent, and duration of this protection ? Essex. 



[B}' 5 Geo. II. it was enacted, that as John Byrom 

 cannot by the acts of 21 James I. and 8 Anne effectually 

 secure to himself the benefit of his invention of Short 

 Hand, which is liable to be divulged surreptitiously 

 otherwise than by printing, he and his executors, after 

 the 24th June, 1742, shall have the sole privilege of pub- 

 lishing his work for the term of twenty-one years. Sin- 

 gular as the act is, it is so in nothing more than the fact, 

 that it seems to have been obtained without costs, even 

 " the clerk of the House of Lords being with him again," 

 not with a long bill of costs, but to learn his system of 

 short-hand. The act is given in The Remains of John 

 Byrom (Chetham Society), vol. ii. pt. i. p. 324.] 



A Collection of Offices, 8fc. — I have a hand- 

 some book entitled (in red and black), A Collec' 

 tion of Offices, or Forms of Prayer in Cases 

 Ordinary and Extraordinary. Taken only of the 

 Scriptures and the Ancient Liturgies of several 

 Churches, especially the Greek. Frontispiece, 

 Our Saviour kneeling, with outstretched arms, 

 Svo., Lond. Flesher, 1658, with a very long and 

 interesting Preface in defence of Liturgies, par- 

 ticularly that of the Church of England. Is the 

 name of the compiler of my book known to the 

 editor or any reader ? J. O. 



[This is one of Bishop Jeremy Taylor's anonymous 

 works.] 



" Legacy of an Etonian." — Who is the author 

 of The Legacy of an Etonian, edited by Robert 

 Nolands, sole executor, 1846 ? E. Inglis. 



[This work is attributed to the Rev. Robert William 

 Essington, of King's College, Cambridge; Seatonian 

 prize, 1846; and now Vicar of Shenstone, in Stafford- 

 shire. ] 



Brooke's " History of Ireland." — In January, 

 1744, Henry Brooke, author of Oustavus Vasa, SfC, 

 proposed to publish, by subscription, The History 

 of Ireland from the Earliest Ages, in 4 vols. Svo. 

 Was the whole, or any part, of his design com- 

 pleted ? Abhba. 



[This History does not appear to have been published, 

 im it is not included in the list of Henry Brooke's Works 

 prefixed to the edition of his collected Poetical Works, 

 4 vols. 1792 ; nor is there any allusion to it in the Me- 

 moir of the Author, by his daughter. It seems that at 

 one period of his life he corresponded with some of the 

 most eminent men of the day ; but unfortunately all these 

 letters were consumed, with other valuable papers, by an 

 accidental fire. " Two of them, from Alex. Pope, are par- 

 ticularly to be lamented, wherein his character appeared 

 in a light peculiarly amiable. In one of them Pope pro- 



