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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" For by the Dacyan Goddes, and Welkyn's Kynge, , 

 Ye have benymm'd me of mye Faie and Fame ; 

 For never may ye hear the Mynstrelle synge, 



But live the Jeste of every Doltadrame. 

 Then Hart preestes ! entombed may ye be, 

 Within that moltring Kist, which erst yu hilten'd me." 



J. M. GUTCH. 



WABBANT OF CHARLES II. 



I send you enclosed a copy of a document in 

 my possession bearing the sign manual of King 

 Cliai'les II., and which I think may prove inter- 

 esting to your readers, in which case it is very 

 heartily at your service to publish. A Query 

 arises from it which I would be glad to have an- 

 swered, — Is there a corresponding office in our 

 own Sovereign's court ? and if so, what title or 

 style does it bear ? Edwabd J. Lowne. 



" Charles R. 

 " Rigt trusty and Right wel beloved Cousin and 

 Councello'', wee greet you well. Whereas Robert Jossej', 

 yeoman of the Robes to our late deare Father of ever 

 blessed memory, had severall yearly allowances out of 

 the great Wardrobe for ayring, cleaning, and keeping 

 our said Father's Apparell, as also his Rarliament and 

 CoronacOn Robes ; and for sundry necessaries employ'd- 

 in that service. Our Will and pleasure is, and wee doe 

 hereby will and command you, that you giue the like 

 allowances unto our trusty and welbeloved servant To- 

 bias Rustat, yeoman of our Robes, as the said Robert 

 Jossey yearly had and receaved out of the said Ward- 

 robe. 



"Given under our signe manuall at our Court at 

 Whitehall, this 21st day of Septerab'', in the 12th yeare 

 of our Reigne. 

 "To our Right 'Trusty and Right wel 



beloved Cousin and Councello"^ Ed- 

 ward, Earle of Sandwich, Master of 



our great Wardrobe now being, and 



the Master of the same that hereafter 



for the tyme shal be." 



N.B. The document is endorsed thus : 



" By the King. A Warrant for severall allowances for 

 Mr. Rustat, yeoman of his Ma'^ Robes. 

 "21'"of Septemb', 



1660. Entred." 



Minor ^atti^ 

 Inscription at Brougham. — In the little village 

 of Brougham there is a house with an inscription 

 which has not, I believe, been recorded either in 

 " N. & Q." or any history of the county. It is, -r 

 « 1678, 

 Omne solum forti Patria, 

 H. P." 

 the last letters being the initials of Henry Pat- 

 tison, or Patterson, by whom the house was built, 

 and who was probably a refugee from the Lau- 

 derdale tyranny in Scotland ; for the house stands 

 just within the Westmoreland border. This in- 

 scription will remind the reader of that on Lud- 

 low's house at Versoy, — 



" Omna solum forti Patria 

 Quia patris." 



On which Addison remarks that " the first part is 

 a piece of a verse in Ovid, as the last is a cant of 

 his own. The passage in Ovid is of course that in 

 the Fasti, i. 493-4. : 



" Omne solum forti patria est ; ut piscibus aequor ; 

 Ut volucri, vacuo quidquid in orbe patet." 



E.G. 



Bishop Joseph Butler. — Every reader of But- 

 ler's Analogy must be grateful to Mr. Bartlett and 

 Di*. Steere for their diligent search after the too 

 scanty remains of its author's writings. I wish to 

 call the attention of the future editor of Butler to 

 three letters addressed by him to Dr. Samuel 

 Clarke, which were printed from the originals, to- 

 gether with the rough drafts of Clarke's answers, 

 in vol. xli. of the European Magazine (Jan. and 

 Feb. 1802, pp. 9, 89.). The letters are dated 

 from Oriel College, Sept. 30, Oct. 6, Oct. 10, 

 1717, and principally consist of inquiries and sug- 

 gestions on the subject of freedom ; but they also 

 supply a fact in Butler's history unknown to Mr. 

 Bartlett, namely, his intention of entering at Cam- 

 bridge under the tutorship of Mr. Laughton, and 

 of taking the degrees of B.A. and B.C.L. in that 

 university. One extract (p. 9.) will interest the 

 reader : 



" We are obliged to misspend so much time here in at- 

 tending frivolous lectures and unintelligible disputations, 

 that I am quite tired out with such a disagreeable way of 

 trifling ; so that if I can't be excused from these things 

 at Cambridge, I shall only just keep term there." 



J. E. B. Mayor. 

 Our Ships. — 



" Behold from Brobdignag that wondrous fleet, 

 With Stanhope Keels of thrice three hundred feet I 

 Be Ships or Politics, great Earl thy theme, 

 Oh ! first prepare the navigable stream." 



Shade of Alex. Pope. 1799. 



Thus sung Mathias in derision of the then Earl 

 Stanhope, who appears to have been endowed with 

 the second sight ; for while the drones about him 

 were going the old jog-trot, he was more than half 

 a century in advance of his age, and evidently 

 foresaw the Brohdignagian strides of his country, 

 even then looming, although perceptible only to 

 such master spirits. 



The satirist has, no doubt, highly exaggerated 

 the naval projects of the great Stanhope ; but 

 who will now. say that " keels of thrice three hun- 

 dred feet " will not be before long a patent fact ? 

 I venture to say that the Great Eastern is a craft 

 far beyond the dreamings of Earl Stanhope, — 

 and will, we hope, be safely afloat shortly, and 

 that without any other preparation than what our 

 present noble stream affords. J- O. 



John Cleveland : MiltorCs " Latin Lexicon." — 

 Bishop Percy's Life of Cleveland (Biogr. Brit., 

 ed. Kippis) has left much for future biographers 



