2nd s. No 94, Oct. 17. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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distasteful to the ruling powers of his college, but 

 the following particulars are new. I give Baker's 

 remarks in italics, to distinguish them from his 

 extracts. 



(Baker's MS. xxxvli. 315.) 



"Dec. 15, 1643.] Isaacus Barrow Londinensis, in Hos- 

 pitii Suttoniani schola educatus, annum agens decimura 

 quartum examinatus et approbatus, admissus est Pension- 

 arius [^CoU. S. Petri'] ad priiuam Mensam Scholarium, 

 sub Tutela M" Barrow. — Regr. Coll. Petr. 



" Idem admissus in Coll. Trin. Cant. Febr 1646, 



an. 1648.] Isaac Barrow Coll. Trin. Art.'^ 



Bac. 



>Regr.Acad. 



an. 1C52.] Isaac Barrow Coll. Trin. Art. 

 M^ J 



"March 27, 1648.] Memorandum, that then by the 

 Vice-Master and the Seniors, Barrowe, Ricchant, Pens 

 and Jollie, jun., had Admonition, tending to expulsion, 

 for their rude Behaviour, upon the 24 of the same Month 

 after Supper." 



"From the Conclusion Book [^or Regr.'] Coll. Trin. In 

 the Vice-Mrs i>r 3Ietcalfs own hand. 



N.B.] Queen Eliz. died 24«A of March, and King James 

 ye 27"', so these two days were the Accession days of K. James 

 and Charles, and the crime, for W^^'^ Barrow, Ricchant, ^c, 

 were admnnish'd, seems to have been Malignancy, for they 

 were both Malignants, and afterwards preferred by ye King 

 in Church and State." 



" March 30, i.658.] Ordered, that M' Barrow's Licence 

 to Travail be Eenewed for three years more." — Ibid. 



" M>' Barrow Return'd to College, and was in Commons, 

 about the 20ft of September, 1659. See College Books." 



"Z)ec. 21, 1671.] Agreed by the Master and Seniors, 

 that D'" Barrow be chosen College Preacher. 



" Jo. Pearson." 



To the letters of Barrow which I before referred 

 to' as printed in the European Magazine, add one 

 which appeared (jibid.) June, 1789, p. 434. 



J. E. B. Mayoe. 



Minav ^atti. 



Anecdote of William III. : Destruction of Let- 

 ters of Queen Anne. — 



" June 14, 1754. Friday at M^ Wray'a House at Rich- 

 mond in Surrey, Lord Vise* Royston told me at dinner 

 the following story, as related by S' Geo. Clarke, that 

 when K. WiUiam came to his tent wounded in the 

 shoulder by a cannon-ball the day before the battle of the 

 Boyne, he said with some satisfaction, 'Now I shall not 

 be expected to wear armour tomorrow.' 



" His L""!' told me walking in the Kings gardens in the 

 evening, that the Earl of Egremont had assured him that 

 he could find no papers of the Percy family at Petworth, 

 except some relating to the Admiralty business vmder the 

 Lord Admirall in the reign of Charles I., and that a great 

 number of letters of Queen Anne to Lady Eliz. Percy, 

 first wife of Charles Duke of Somerset had been burnt by 

 his Grace's order, who directed likewise all his own 

 papers to be committed to the flames after his death." — 

 Birch, MS. Memoranda. 



Cli. HOPPEK. 



Lines attributed to Wolsey. — I copy the enclosed 

 verses from an old note-book bearing date nearly 

 150 yeara back, wherein they are ascribed to no 



less a person than Cardinal Wolsey. Perhaps 

 you may deem them worthy of insertion in " N. & 



" Did I but purpose to embark with thee. 

 On the smooth surface of a summer's sea. 

 Wide gentle Zephyrs play with prosp'rous gales, 

 And fortune's favours fill the swelling sails, 

 I should have watch'd whence the black storm might 



rise. 

 Ere I had trusted the unfaithful skies ; 

 Now on the rolling billows I am tost, 

 And with extended sails on the blind shelves am lost. 

 As when a weary traveller, that strays 

 By muddy shore of broad sev'n mouthed Nile, 

 Unweeting of the per'lous wand'ring ways, 

 Doth meet a cruel, crafty crocodile, 

 Which in false grief hiding his harmful guile 



Doth weep full sore, and sheddeth tender tears, 

 The foolish man that pities, all this while, 

 His sorrowful plight, is swallowed unawares. 

 Forgetful of his own, who minds another's cares." 



T. R. K. 



Notes on Books. — The notes would often be 

 valuable if their writers could be traced. I have 

 three books in which are notes, the writers of 

 which I should like to ascertain. 



1. In Nicolson's English Historical Library, 

 1714. The initials are T. F., the F. formed like 

 the T., with additional two strokes at right angles, 

 not crossing, but appended on the right ; the 

 handwriting a very clear sample of the scholar- 

 like hand of the seventeenth century. The writer 

 probably a Cambridge man, certainly a collector 

 of coins, and well able to annotate. 



2. In my copy of Morel's Aratus, 1559, are 

 copious notes by a writer who has written at the 

 beginning " oodcxvii. Gerardi Borrsei." Of him 

 1 can find nothing. 



3. Who was I. F., a mathematical collector who 

 was alive in 1802, and who bound many volumes 

 of mathematical tracts. A. De Mobgax. 



Overland Route to India. — 



" The Comte de Vergennes, knowing the possibility of 

 reviving the commerce of India in its antient course by 

 Alexandria and the Persian Gulph, has been seriously 

 engaged in realizing the means ... we are assured that 

 at length he has surmounted all obstacles. He has made 

 arrangements with the Beys of Egypt, and the Arabs, 

 that by means of a slight animal subsidj', they are to 

 furnish an adequate escort to the merchants over the 

 desert. We shall soon have an arret of council to give a 

 solid foundation to this enterprize, at the head of which is 

 to be placed the Sieur Samondi, a rich merchant at Mar- 

 seilles. The Baron de Tott has made a report of the places 

 in Egypt proper for commercial stations, and which proves 

 the importance and susceptible extent of this trade." — 

 Political Magazine, vol. ix. p. 231. mdcclxxxv. 



In the same magazine for December, 1783, 

 there is "a particular map of the route over the 

 Desert." R. Webb. 



Eastern Enormities. — Some (perhaps many) of 

 the atrocities lately practised in India seem to 

 have a precedent in Eastern story. In a letter. 



