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verend author cited, " Accordingly I confess I do 

 incline to believe so." 



Another extract from Literary Gleanings, by 

 Mr. Malcom, may not be quite uninstructive, 

 given at the winding-up of his opinions on the 

 case : 



" The judgment thus delivered by Sir Thomas Millar 

 corresponded entirely with that which was delivered by 

 the Lord President of the Court (of Session), Dundas of 

 Arniston, who held that high oifice during seven-and- 

 twenty years; and certainly one would have thought 

 that the joint opinions of two such eminent men should 

 have been decisive of the cause, even in the last resort, 

 whether it were viewed as a question of law, or simply as 

 a question of common sense. Lord Mansfield, however, 

 thought proper to determine otherwise ; doubtless for the 

 very substantial reason mentioned in page 35. (see ext. 

 formerly quoted); and accordingh' the judgment of the 

 Supreme Court of Scotland was reversed, although not 

 without the remarkable accompaniment of a Protest by 

 Five Peers, at the head of whom stood the Duke of Bed- 

 ford, who had been Prime Minister, and who has since 

 been eloquently eulogised by Lord Brougham in his Po- 

 litical Sketches of the Reign of George the Third." 



" In conclusion the writer of these Notes thinks it not 

 inappropriate to mention that although the public in 

 Scotland were divided in opinion as to the soundness of 

 the ultimate decision given by the House of Peers in the 

 Douglas Cause, the public both in England and France 

 were nearly unanimous as to its iniquity; and all think- 

 ing men beyond the sphere of Scotch politics and Scotch 

 prejudices, thought of it then precisely as such men think 

 of it at the present day. Among the English and French 

 literary men, as well as lawyers, there was almost entire 

 unanimity, if we leave out the counsel for the respective 

 parties in the cause. With regard to the unanimity 

 which prevailed in the literary world, it may be stated 

 by way of illustration, that two of the most remarkable 

 men of the age, who differed in almost everything else, 

 agreed most cordially as to the injustice of the final 

 judgment of the Peers. JThese were David Hume, the 

 clear-headed, enlightened philosophical historian, and Dr. 

 Samuel Johnson, the equally clear-headed, learned, and 

 eloquent critic, moralist, dramatist, and poet. Neither of 

 those very eminent persons ever entertained the slightest 

 doubt of the imposture which had been perpetrated by 

 Sir John Stewart and his wife Lady Jane Douglas." 



G.N. 



fflirmv HattS, 



Savage, the Poet. — Mr. Gutch, it must be ad- 

 mitted, has made out his case satisfactorily, and 

 has clearly proved that Chatterton was buried in 

 London, not in Bristol, and that his body was not 

 removed to the latter city. With regard to the 

 burial of another unfortunate poet, also connected 

 with Bristol, no uncertainty can exist, and some 

 of your readers may be disposed to add the fol- 

 lowing Note to that " masterpiece of literary 

 biography," Johnson's Life of Savage. It is an 

 extract which I obtained from the burial register 

 of St. Peter's Church, Bristol : 

 "An. Dom. 1743. Aug. 2nd, Richard Savage the Poet." 

 No atone covers his grave, but I have been in- 



formed that the office of sexton of this church has 

 been held by the same family for a century ; and 

 the present official points out without hesitation 

 the precise spot which tradition has handed down 

 as the place of Savage's burial, viz. six feet from 

 the south door of the church. 



Johnson gives the date of Savage's death — 

 the 1st of August, and tells us that he was buried 

 at the expense of the keeper of the prison in 

 which he died. 



We see how short a time elapsed before the 

 body was consigned to the grave, a practice not 

 unusual probably in prisons. As no age is given 

 in the register, we may suppose that it was un- 

 known to the humane person who appears to have 

 sympathised in his unhappy fate, and protected 

 his bones from insult. J. H. M. 



Richard Crashaw. — Among Crashaw's poems 

 we find two " On the Frontispiece of Isaacson's 

 Chronology explained." It appears from llie 

 Life of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ediv. 

 Rainbow, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Carlisle 

 (London, 1688, written by Jonathan Banks), that 

 the first of these (beginning " If with distinctive 

 eye and mind you look ") was written by Rain- 

 bow. J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Misprints. — Some years ago, I remember one 

 item of a Yankee cargo landed at Calcutta was an 

 invoice of States-printed quarto Bibles, which 

 were, as customary, knocked down at public 

 auction, when a copy fell to the writer. The 

 book has long since, however, passed from my 

 hands, but I recollect it bore upon the title the 

 misprint wigth for with, and I have often thought 

 since what a promise that gave of a corrupt text, 

 and of a rich crop of false readings to the hunters 

 after such. J. O. 



The Militia in 1759.— The Devon, Lord Bed- 

 ford, 1600; the Dorset, Lord Shaftesbury, 640; 

 the Norfolk, Lord Oxford, 960 ; the Somerset, 

 Lord Paulet, 840 ; the Surrey, Lord Onslow, 800 ; 

 the Warwick, Lord Hertford, 640 ; and the Wilts, 

 Lord Pembroke, 800 ; were embodied to the num- 

 ber of 6280 men. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Jorevalle Abbey. — The pages of " N. & Q." 

 having been appropriated lately to some discus- 

 sion respecting this abbey, I send as a curiosity a 

 variety of corruptions which its name has under- 

 gone during the last three centuries. In the 

 original charters, and down to the Dissolution, the 

 name was spelt Jorevallis, Jorevalle, and Jorevall, 

 the form which we still see on the remaining tombs 

 of the abbats. In one instance I have met with 

 Jorevaulxensis in an early charter. In later 

 writings and in modern publications, the name has 

 been transmuted into Jorevaulx, Jorevaux, Jora- 



