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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2a* S. N« 83., Aug. 1. '67. 



gurating the '■'■ Jirst" steam engine of the '^^ first'''' 

 railway in England may be considered accept- 

 able. I therefore send it, having copied it from 

 the Morning Post of a few weeks since : 



« The Stockton and Darlington railway, which is con- 

 sidered to be the oldest in the world, is still in possession 

 of its "No. 1." engine. . . . The Father of the railway, 

 Mr. Edw. Pease, a venerable gentleman far advanced in 

 his fifth score of years still continues a connexion with 

 the line, and live"s in Darlington, and advantage was 

 taken of the circumstance to inaugurate a pedestal on 

 -which the locomotive is to be placed." 



After a description of the peculiarities of this 

 " odd piece of mechanism," the account states 

 that festivities were given in honour of the occa- 

 sion by Mr. H. Pease, M.P., at his residence, Pier- 

 remount, and a photograph of the old engineman, 

 ■who also survives, was taken in commemoration 

 of the event. Henry W. S. Tayi.ob. 



Quotation by St. Paid from Aristotle. — Menan- 

 der (1 Cor. xv. 23.), Aratus (Acts xvii. 28.), and 

 Epimenides (Tit. i. 12.) are the three authors 

 usually mentioned as quoted by St. Paul ; but be 

 has also adopted the phraseology of Aristotle in 

 Galatians v. 23. and Romans ii. 2., where he says, 

 " Against such there is no law," and " they are a 

 law unto themselves." For, Aristotle {Pol. iii. 13.), 

 speaking of men " supereminent in virtue (Siacpe- 

 pwf kut' operas virepSo\-fiv)" says, " Kara Se tuv roiov- 

 Twv ovK iffri vojxos ' avToi yap fieri v6fj.oe.' And St. 

 Paul, enumerating the spiritual fruits of righteous- 

 ness, says in the same words, " Kara rwu toiovtwv 

 OVK effTi v6/j.os ;" as also, when speaking of Gentiles, 

 who, not having the law of Moses,- do by nature 

 the things contained in that law : these, says St. 

 Paul, in the words of Aristotle, " eavTo7s elcri vS/xos, 

 are a law unto themselves." The only difference 

 in the phraseology is the omission by St. Paul of 

 the particles Se and yap, and the substitution of 

 eavTo7s for avro't. Both are treating on the same 

 subject, although each contemplates it from very 

 different points of view. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield, 



Porter's or Trotman^s Anchor. — This was 

 patented a few years ago. The flukes are at- 

 tached to the shank by a pin, in which they move, 

 so that when' one bill catches the ground, the 

 other is brought over so as to touch the bend of 

 the shank, which gives better holding in the 

 ground, and prevents the vessel settling on the 

 fluke of her own anchor in a tideway. I was 

 much surprised the other day to find exactly such 

 an anchor delineated in the celebrated Polipholo, 

 printed by the Aldus in 1499, d, vij, recto. It 

 was considered a new and very valuable invention 

 at the time of the patent. A. A. 



The Plough, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. 

 — As a small contribution to the street topo- 

 graphy of London, I may mention that Browne 



Willis, writing from " Donstable, April 27, 1748, 

 Wednesday Night," to "John Duncombe, Esq., 

 att His Seat at Barley End, neer Ivinghoe, Buck., 

 ingham County," says, " If you will send me any 

 papers to London at the Plough Inne, Carey 

 Street," &c. 



I quote from the autograph letter before me ; 

 the Plough Inne, Carey Street, however respect- 

 able it may be in its present way, must have been 

 a very different place when Browne Willis, Esq., 

 of Whaddon Hall, co. Bucks, thus hailed from it. 



James Knowlks, 



Inscription on Clerkenwell Pump, a.d. 1800. 



" William Bound, } r<u u nr , 

 Joseph Bird, 'j Church Wardens. 



" For the better accommodation of the Neighbourhood 

 this Pump was removed to the spot where it now stands. 

 The Spring by which it is supplied is situate 4 feet East- 

 ward, and round it, as History informs us, the Parish 

 Clerks of London in remote ages annually performed 

 sacred Plays; that custom caused it to be denominated 

 Clerks Well, from which this Parish derived its name. 

 The Water was greatl}"- esteemed by the Prior and 

 Brethren of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the 

 Benedictine Nuns in the Neighbourhood." * 



The above may be worth preserving. 



R. S. Charnock. 

 Gray's Inn. 



aSiutvit^, 



LONDON " LOW LIFE, AND LONDON " DENS. 



A thin octavo, consisting of little better than a 

 hundred pages, purporting to be addressed to "Mr. 

 Hogarth," but not dated, has this title : Low- Life ; 

 or one Half of the World knows not how the other 

 Half Lives, Sec, and said to be " printed for the 

 Author," but whose name is not given. 



The copy before me is the second edition, 

 " with very large additions of near half the work," 

 and has this motto, from the Duke of Bucking- 

 ham, " Let your Fancy tell the rest." The book 

 is of real value as far as its subject goes, being a 

 description of the various methods of spending 

 Sunday in London upwards of a century ago. 

 The statement commences at twelve o'clock on the 

 Saturday night, and follows on to the same hour 

 on the Sunday night; each running out of the 

 time-glass getting a chapter to itself, and thus tha 

 whole forms twenty-four divisions. The time of 

 year chosen by the narrator is June, and a portion 

 of the details from ten to eleven o'clock is thus set 

 forth : 



"Link-boys who have been asking charity all the 

 preceding day, and have just money sufficient to buy 

 a torch, taking their stands at Temple Bar, London 

 Bridge, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Smithfield, the City Gates, 

 and other publick places, to light, knock down, and rob 



[* This inscription is not strictly correct. See Crom- 

 well's History of Clerkenwell, p; 263.] 



