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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of Aston, fifth baronet ? He was, with his brother, 

 educated at Magdalen College School, circa 1723. 

 Afterwards barrister-at-law, constituted one of 

 the judges of the Court of King's Bench in 1765, 

 and received the honour of knighthood. He mar- 

 ried, first, Miss Eldred ; and, secondly, the relict 

 of Sir David Williams, Bart. 



Magdalenensis Oxon. 



Sherry. — The following notes on the subject 

 of sack are from Malone's Shakspeare, vol. xvi. 

 p. 272. : 



" Dr. Warburton does not consider that sack in Shak- 

 speare is most probably thought to mean what we now 

 call sherry, which, when it is drank, is still drank with 

 sugar." — Johnson. 



"Rhenish is drank with sugar, but never sherry." — 

 Steevens. 



If Dr. Johnson had only recorded his individual 

 taste we should not be surprised that he con- 

 sidered " sherry with sugar in it " a suitable be- 

 verage to allay the thirst which " an insatiable 

 appetite for fish sauces, and veal pie with plums," 

 might occasion ; but we may infer, from his as- 

 sertion, that till 1765 (when his edition of Shak' 

 spear e appeared) sherry was very rarely met with. 

 In his later years he abstained altogether from 

 wine, and in those times when he did indulge, 

 port seems to have been " his particular vanity." 



Steevens rescues our ancestors from the charge 

 with regard to sherry, but hardly mends matters, 

 according to our notions, when he transfers the 

 sugar to Rhenish wine. 



However great our respect for these com- 

 mentators, we should not, in American phrase- 

 ology, have chosen " to liquor " with either of 

 them. 



When did sherry come into general use in Eng- 

 land ? Charles Wylie. 



" Travels in Andamotfiia." — The following is 

 from the Introduction to Travels in Andamothia, 

 London, 1799, a feeble satire on the French revo- 

 lutionary governments, and things in general, but 

 showing some learning and taste. Can any of your 

 correspondents tell me who is the writer so exor- 

 bitantly praised ? — 



" The love of fame impels me to leave something which 

 posterity may approve, and I am suited to fiction, as 

 nothing worthy of note has really occurred to me. So 

 though the only truth which I tell is that I lie, in telling 

 it I hope to escape censure for narrating those things 

 which I did not see, nor do, nor suffer, nor hear from 

 others, and which neither were nor could be. So said a 

 finer wit than Sterne, and a sounder philosopher than 

 Plato." 



W. M. J. 



" The Book of Common-Prayer." — 



" The Book of Common- Prayer, and Administration of 

 the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the 

 Church, according to the Use of the Church of England ; 

 Illustrated by Notes and Annotations on the whole Li- 

 turgy, explaining the difficult, and vindicating the ob- 



jectionable Parts of it ; and Containing the whole Service 

 so transposed and methodized, as that all the Prayers 

 may be found in the same Order they are publickly read, 

 and the whole appear in one regular and continued Point 

 of View. By W. Lewis, A.M., Rector of Barnsdale, and 

 other Divines. Newark-upon-Trent : Printed and Sold 

 by J. Tomlinson and S. Creswell, 1778." 



Is there anything remarkable in the appearance 

 of this book in the provinces, and in such a shape ? 

 if so, is it an early instance ? Who are the " other 

 Divines ? " It contains illustrations which appear 

 to be copies from those of Queen Anne's Prayer- 

 books. S. F. Creswell. 



Radford. 



Reading of the Sentences : Public Fires : Assigna- 

 tions. — Anthony a Wood, Athena Oxon., ii. 341. 

 (2nd edit., 1721, by Tanner), speaking of Jeremy 

 Stephens, says, "in 1628 he was admitted to the 

 Reading of the Sentences." Can any of your readers 

 inform me what this implied, at that period, at 

 Oxford ? 



Also, what does Wood mean in his Preface, 

 when, regretting that the execution of his work 

 had not fallen into better hands, he says : — 



" It had been a great deal more fit .... for one who 

 frequents much society in Common Rooms, at Public 

 Fires, in Coffee houses, Assignations, Clubbs," &c. 



What do "Public Fires" and "Assignations" 

 mean in this sentence ? L. H. 



Oxford. 



Bnmpfylde- Moore Carew.— Who was the author 

 of An Apology for the Life of Mr. Bampfylde- 

 Moore Carew ?"* I have now before me what is 

 called the third edition, London, printed for R. 

 Goadby and W. Owen, bookseller, at Temple Bar. 

 It is without date, in 6s. The Preface to the 

 Reader is dated Feb. 10, 1750. Is this the date 

 of the first edition ? 



There seems a peculiarity about this edition 

 worth noting : pp. 17, 18. are printed in very 

 much smaller type than the rest of the work, 

 which is the case also with pp. 35—38. : both ap- 

 pear to be insertions after the book was printed, 

 and in both there is some hearty abuse of Field- 

 ing and his hero Tom Jones. This part of it 

 taken away would leave about sufficient of the 

 true narrative, with slight alterations, to be printed 

 in the ordinary type. Could Fielding have of- 

 fended, or in his judicial capacity have punished 

 the author in any way ? for there is an allusion to 

 "devoting a fellow-creature to misery, want, &c., 

 for springing of hares." In the dedication to the 

 "Worshipful Justice Fielding," is a parallel drawn, 

 after the manner of Plutarch, between Mr. Bamp- 

 fylde-Moore Carew and Mr. Thomas Jones ; and 

 at the end, after the glossary of gipsy-words, 

 " The Full and True History of Tom Jones, a 



[* See«N, &Q."2'«iS, iii.4,] 



