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to supply. I hope the following gleanings may 

 draw forth some further notices. 



The verses on " Sleep " in Cleveland's Poems 

 were written by Thomas Sharp (see Calamy's Ac- 

 count, Sfc, ed. 2. p. 814.). Many of John Hall's 

 poems are also fathered upon the popular royalist. 



See for Cleveland's life, Cole in Brydges' Res- 

 tituta, iv. 256. seq. ; ReliquicB Hearniance, p. 341. 

 ji. ; The London Post of Feb. 4, 1644-5 (quoted 

 by Nichols, Leicest., vol. iii. Append, p. 40.) ; and 

 Aubrey's Lives, p. 289. 



I may add Aubrey's name to the authorities 

 quoted by Mr. Bolton Corney respecting Mil- 

 ton's Latin Lexicon. J. E. B. Mayor. 



John Hart, D.D. — In the Pepysian library at 

 Cambridge, in the series entitled " Penny Godli- 

 ness," p. 553., is a tract entitled The Charitable 

 Christian, published by a " Lover of Hospitality," 

 in 1682. To this is prefixed a wood-cut with the 

 name of John Hart, D.D. in letter-press, and on 

 the back of the title-page is an advertisement 

 containing a list of books written by John Hart, 

 " all very necessary for these licentious times, 

 and are to be sold by Jo. Wright, J. Clarke, W. 

 Thackery, and T. Passenger." I. Sermons : 

 1. Christian's Blessed Choice. 2. Christ's First 

 Sermon. 3. Christ's Last Sermon. 4. The 

 Christian's Best Garment. 5. Heaven's Glory, 

 and Hell's Horror. 6. A Warning Piece to the 

 Sloathful, Careless, and Drunken. All at three- 

 pence a-piece. IL Tracts: 1. England's Faith- 

 ful Physician. 2. Dreadful Character of a Drunk- 

 ard. 3. Doomsday at Hand. 4. The Father's 

 Last Blessing to his Children. 5. The Black 

 Book of Conscience. 6. The Sin of Pride ar- 

 raigned. 7. The Plain Man's Plain Pathway to 

 Heaven. 8. Death Triumphant. 9. The Charit- 

 able Christian. There is a notice that some of 

 these books have been published under the name 

 of other authors, which is confirmed by two other 

 tracts in the same volume, p. 185., Crumbs of 

 Comfort, by J. B. of Sandwich, 1679 ; and p. 712., 

 The Dying Mans Last Sermon, by Andrew Jones, 

 a Servant of Jesus Christ. To both these tracts, 

 the head of Hart is prefixed, but without the 

 name inscribed. The only work by a John Hart 

 noticed by Watt and Granger is The Burning 

 Bush not Consumed, 8vo. 1616. J. Y. 



Foreshadowing of the Electric Telegraph. — Does 

 not the following passage contain a sort of vague 

 foreshadow of the electric telegraph ? It is ex- 

 tracted from Dr. Johnson's account of Browne's 

 Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors, 1646 : 



" He appears to have been willing to pay labour for 

 truth. Having heard a flying rumour of sympathetic 

 needles, by which, suspended over a circular alphabet, 

 di.stant friends or lovers might correspond, he procured 

 two such alphabets to be made, touched his needles with 

 the same magnet, and placed them upon proper spindles : 

 the result was, that when he moved one of his needles. 



th« other, instead of taking, by sympathy, the same di- 

 rection, ' stood like the pillars of Hercules.' " 



The first electric telegraph was exhibited by M. 

 Lomond in 1787. Professor (Ersted's discovery 

 of the eflFect of an electric current in deflecting a 

 magnetic needle was made in 1819. X. X. X. 



The New Version of the Psalms. — From " A 

 Booke containing the Actes and Proceedings of y*^ 

 Vestry of Puchmond," (10 Will. III.) : 



" May 22, 1698, Present, Sir Chas. Hedges, Sir John 

 Buckworth, Sir Peter Vandeput, Thos. Ewer, Esq., Mr. 

 Nicholas Brady (Minister), and seven others. 



" Wee the Gentlemen of the Vestry, having seen a new 

 Version of the Psalmes of David, fitted to tlje Tunes used 

 in Churches, by Mr. Brady and Mr. Tate; together with 

 his Majesty's order of allowance in Council, dated at 

 Kensington, the 3rd Dec. 1696, doe willinglj' receive the 

 same, and desire that they may be used in our Congrega- 

 tion." 



The Rev. Dr. Nicholas Brady, who was minister 

 of Richmond and Rector of Clapham, died May 

 20, 1726. (Historical Register, vol. ii. 1726.) 

 His funeral sermon was preached at Richmond, 

 by the Rev. Thomas Stackhouse, author of the 

 History of the Bible, from 1 Corinthians, ch. iv. 

 ver. 1. Phi. 



Isaac Barrow. — As the edition of Barrow's 

 Works, announced by the Syndics of the Pitt 

 Press, is nearly ready for publication, the editor 

 will no doubt be willing to receive any contribu- 

 tion of materials for the author's Life, 



See Duport's Sylvce, p. 396. ; Life of Isaac 

 Milles, p. 19. ; Life of Assheton, pp. 79. 107. ; 

 Lives of the Norths (1826), iii. 319. 334. 365, 

 366. ; European Magazine for May, 1789, p. 354., 

 July and August, 1789, pp. 8, 9. 97. 



J. E. B. Mator. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



©uerfcif. 



JEAN DE BEAUCHESNE. 



Some fifteen years have passed away since I 

 briefly enumerated the principal impediments 

 which are met with by those who aspire to write 

 the history of literature, or even to give the public 

 a fragment of that vast and complicated subject. 



whatever was penned by me on that occasion, 

 or whatever impediment may have escaped me, it 

 is certain that embarrassing queries often arise as 

 to the identity of authors and editors who have 

 borne the same name, and have forborne to leave 

 a clue to their individuality. 



At a distance from my books and papers, I 

 must content myself with one example : 



" A booke containing divers sortes of hands, as well the 

 English as French secretarie with the Italian, Roman, 

 chancelry and court hands. Also the true and iust pro- 

 portio of the capitall Komae. Set forth by John de Beav- 



