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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tion upon the custodians of one of our principal 

 government establishments, and naturally would 

 suggest some investigation. If Jardine be correct, 

 the date here pointed out would designate some- 

 where in the eighteenth century as the period of 

 their being taken away. Could they have been 

 destroyed in the fire which damaged the State 

 Papers when deposited in the Treasury Gallery ? 

 Or were they abstracted by some persons for 

 the purpose of being made away with ? Should 

 they be in existence at the present moment, per- 

 haps some one of your numerous correspondents 

 may say if he has met with any of these missing 

 documents in any private collection. Some pa- 

 pers connected with the Gunpowder Plot are to be 

 found scattered among the resources of the British 

 Museum. Cl. Hoppee. 



■ BAHET S AliVEABIE. 



That the second edition of Baret's Alvearie, 

 printed by Henry Denham in 1580 (see Herbert's 

 Ames, p. 949.), was published after the author's 

 death, appears from the titles to one of the copies 

 of Latin verses prefixed to it : " In Barretti Al- 

 uearium post mortem auctum, et nunc denuo ex- 

 cusura : Thomas Speghti Cantabr. decastichon." 

 From the interesting preface we learn that about 

 eighteen years before the appearance of tlie first 

 edition (1573), Baret was engaged in tuition at 

 Cambridge. Baker, in a MS. note on a copy of 

 the second edition, has added some additional 

 particulars : 



(Note on G. 3. 30. St. John's Library.) " Liber rai"us. 



" De Joanne Bareto (nostro ut opinor) hsec prodit Ba- 

 laeus. Angl. Heliad. MS. 



" Joannes Baretus, Lenniaj in NordovolgiS, natus, spec- 

 tatissimaque Indole clarus, in ejusdem Lenniae Suburbio 

 se Carmeiitarum condonavit Institutis, &e. Ilium non 

 latina modo, sed et grajca Literatura plurimum exorna- 

 bat. Ortliodox[orum] Theologorum choro Cantabrigias 

 tandem ascriptus, Ciceronis elegantiam atquejucunditatem 

 in dicendo ad Cleium egregie exprimebat, &c. llluces- 

 cente tandem Dei veritate sinistri voti mutavit decretum, 

 quoliberius instaret Christi verbo. — Arctissimo amicitiiB 

 vinculo mihi semper ab adolescentia conjunctus est, 

 maiicboque sui amantissimus, quoad corporis molem vivi- 

 ficus sustinebit flatus. Claret an. Dui quo hajc edidimus, 

 1536.' Atque hsec hactenus. 



" Idem de eodem in opere impresso an. 1559. Cent. 12. 

 Append, p. 112. 



" ' Joan. Baraetus — Linnse in NordovolgiS, &c. atque 

 inter Carmelitas sodales illic et Cantabrigiis ad Tlieologiaj 

 Doctoratum usque nutritus — nunc quo vertiginis spiritu 

 ductus nescio, tanquam vilissimus canis, ad vomitu.m est 

 reversus, Christique stabiles testes ac famulos fideles leta- 

 liter mordet. — Claruit senex anno Dfii 1556.' 



" Notand. autem quod hsec est posterior editio hujus 

 Libri, Auctore tunc defuncto, qui salva et florente amicitia 

 cum Baleo, Juvenis adhuc erat, potuitque (nee duro cal- 

 culo) facile attingere annum prioris Impressionis. 



" Erat quidam Barret electus Socius Aula Pembr. an. 

 1556, tunc A.B., ac proinde jetas non convenit. Obiit 

 brevi post Incept, in Artibus. Sin vero Auctor fuisset 



hujus Libri, non latuisset M. Wrenn Epum. Elien. qui tam 

 accurate scripsit de custodibus et sociis Pembrochianis. 



" Erat alter Barret admissus Socius Coll. Reginal. Cant, 

 an. 1559. 



*' Quidam Barrett Carmelitanus S. T. P. an. 1533. v. 

 MS. Buckmaster." 



The remainder of the note is merely a citation 

 from Ainsworth's Preface. 



J. E.B. Ma YOB. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



SHAKSPBARB AND HIS ADULTERATORS. 



" Const. Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth ! 

 Call not me slanderer ; thou and thine usurp 

 The dominations, royalties, and rights, 

 Of this oppressed boy : This is the eldest son's son, 

 Infortunate in nothing but in thee ; 

 Thy sins are visited in this poor child ; 

 The canon of the law is laid on him, 

 Being but the second generation 

 Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb. 



K. John. Bedlam, have done. 



Const. I have but this to say, — 

 That he's not only plagued for her sin. 

 But God hath made her sin and her the plague 

 On t/liis removed issue, plagued for her. 

 And with her. — Plague her son; his injury 

 Her injury, the beadle to her sin. 

 All punisli'd in the person of this child. 

 And all for her; a plague upon her ! " 



King John, Act II. Sc. 1. 



" This passage appears to me very obscure. Tiie 

 chief difficulty arises from this, that Constance 

 having told Elinor of her sin-conceiving womb, 

 pursues the thought, and uses si?i through the 

 next lines in an ambiguous sense : sometimes for 

 crime, and sometimes for offspring. He is not 

 only made miserable by vengeance for her sin or 

 crime ; but her sin, her offspring, and she, are 

 made the instruments of that vengeance on this 

 descendant; who, though of the second generation, 

 is plagued for her and with her ; to whom she is 

 not only the cause, but the instrument of evil. 



" The next clause is more perplexed. All the 

 editions read : — 



" ' plagued for lier. 



And with her plague her sin; his injury 



Her injury, the beadle to her sin. 



All punish'd in the person of this child.' 



"I point thus: — 



" ' plagued for her 



And with her. — Plague her son ! his injury 

 Her injury, the beadle to her sin.' 

 " That is, instead of inflicting vengeance on this 

 innocent and remote descendant, punish her so7i, 

 her immediate offspring ; then the infliction will 

 fall where it is deserved : his injury will be her in- 

 jury, and the misery of her sin; her son will be a 

 beadle or chastiser to her crimes, which are now 

 all punish'd in the person of this child." (Johnson.) 

 " Mr. Roderick reads : — 



" ' plagued for her, 



And with her plagued ; her sin, his injury.' 



