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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 93., Oct. 10. '67. 



Waldeschenes." Can any of your correspondents 

 refer me to any settlement of Waldenses in that 

 town ? J. S. Burn. 



Nottingham Wills. — In what office are the wills 

 of persons who resided in the parish of Blythe, in 

 the county of Nottingham, during the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth centuries to be found ? 



Edward Peacock. 



The Manor, Bottesford, Brigg. 



" Dr. Johisons Staircase." — Are you able to 

 specify the date of the above inscription, and what 

 "Master of the Bench," past or present, enjoys 

 the credit of having suggested that the " stair- 

 case" should be so designated. His name deserves 

 an honourable record in your pages, if only from 

 the exceptional character of such a manifestation 

 of unprofessional sentiment on the part of a 

 " Senior Counsel." 



The wonder is that the application of the pas- 

 sage of Cicero, "Movemur hcis ipsis in quibus 

 eorum quos adiniramur adsunt vestigia," to a re- 

 sidence not dignified by associations of special 

 pleading or Nisi Prius, was not scouted by the 

 "Parliamentary" conclave to which it was first 

 propounded. L. (1.) 



Temple. 



Colonel Joyce. — Wanted to know when and 

 ■where George Joyce, a cornet, and afterwards 

 colonel in the Parliamentary army, was born ? 

 and also what became of him after his imprison- 

 ment by Oliver Cromwell (Carlyle's Oliver Crom- 

 icell, vol. iii. p. xi. edit. 1846)? Wood {Athence, 

 vol. ii. p. 762., edit. 1696) says that Joyce "had 

 been a godly Taylor in London, and perswaded 

 and egg'd on by a godly Minister of that city to 

 take up arms for the righteous cause" &c. ; but 

 this does not quite tally with the account given of 

 him by Lilly, who says : 



" Many have curiously enquired who it was [Lilly, in 

 his examination before the Parliamentary Committee, 

 says it was Lieutenant-Colonel Joyce] that cut off his 

 [tiie King's ] head; I have no permission to speak of 

 such things ; only thus much I sa}-, he that did it is as 

 valiant and resolute a man as lives, and one of a compe- 

 tent fortune." 



Any references to works containing an account 

 of this person will be acceptable to M. (I.) 



Concentrated or Portable Beer for our Soldiers 

 in the East — Can any of your readers inform me 

 whether it is possible to manufacture such an ar- 

 ticle as the above, as it virould be invaluable to 

 our private soldiers in the East Lidies, where 

 such a tonic as beer is absolutely requisite ? 



" In Russia, the soldiers make use of the quass loaves 

 (their small beer), which are made of oat or rye meal 

 with ground malt and hops, made into cakes either with 

 plain water or an infusion of hops. Sometimes the Ex- 



tract of Malt is added, which is nothing more than sweet 

 wort evaporated to the consistence of treacle. The cakes 

 are then baked and kept for use. Lifused for 24 to 30 

 hours in boilintr water, they make a wholesome, nourish- 

 ing, and strengthening drink." 



A Soldier's Fribnd. 



Miviax caucrtcS tottl) ^niSinf nS. 



Hoppingius. — Ruddiman, in his Introduction to 

 Anderson's Diplomata Scotia, cites a work by this 

 author, being a treatise of ancient and modern 

 seals. I do not find any mention of it in Brunet, 

 or other bibliographical works to which I have 

 referred, and shall be obliged by any account of 

 the work — whether in one or more volumes ? 

 when and where printed? It is, I believe, in 

 Latin. Who was Hoppingius ? and was he the 

 author of any other works ? I have remarked his 

 being cited by Seeker in his MSS. upon armorial 

 bearings and coins. G. 



[The work cited by Ruddiman is in the British Mu- 

 seum and Bodleian, entitled De Sigilloruni prisco et novo 

 Jure tractatus practicus. Norib. 4to. 1642. Hopingius 

 also wrote Panegyricus Herriianno Vvlteio. Marp, 4to. 

 1631; De notis nuturalibus, genitivis et gentUitiis meditatio 

 historica. Marp. Catt. 4to. 1635. In the Museum Cata- 

 logue the name is spelt Theodorus Hopingk, in the Bod- 

 leian Theodorus Hopingius.] 



Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 

 Parts. — This Society is usually stated to have been 

 founded by Dr. Bray, &c., in the year 1701, but 

 it really seems to have originated in the days of 

 the Commonwealth. In Soames's Mosheim, iv. 24., 

 a note by the translator, Dr. Murdock, informs us : 



" In 1649 an ordinance was passed by the English Par- 

 liament for the erection of a corporation by the name of 

 The President and Society for tlie Pi-opagation of the Gospel 

 in New England ; and a general collection for its endow- 

 ment was ordered to be made in all the counties, cities, 

 towns, and parishes of England and Wales. Notwith- 

 standing very considerable opposition to the measure, 

 funds were raised in this manner, which enabled the So- 

 ciety to purchase lands worth from five to six hundred 

 pounds a year. On the restoration of Charles II. the 

 corporation became dead in law ; and Colonel Beding- 

 field, a Roman catholic, who had sold to it an estate of 

 322/. per annum, seized upon that estate, and refused to 

 refund the money he had received for it. But in 1661 a 

 new charter was granted by the king; apd the Hon. 

 Robert Boyle brought a suit in chancery against Beding- 

 field and recovered the land. Boyle was appointed the 

 first governor of the company, and held the office about 

 30 years. See Wm. Brown's Hist, of the Propagation of 

 Christianity, i. 62., New York, 1821 ; Neal's Hist, of the 

 Puritans, iv. 433. ; but especially the Connecticut Evan- 

 gelical Magazine, iv. 1." 



It is plain, then, that the existing Society is but 

 a continuation of the puritan corporation ; and it 

 is to be regretted that its real origin is not more 

 candidly admitted. If any American correspon- 

 dent would communicate the substance of the 



