July 15. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



47 



It is an 18mo., has a map of Poland, and about 

 twenty panoramic views of the principal towns 

 therein, all perfect and in good condition ; it is 

 written in Latin in a very good and pure style. 



" Eegni Polonite, Magnique Ducatus Lituanias Omni- 

 umque regionum juri Polonico subjectorum, Novissima 

 Descriptio: Studio Andreffi Cellarii, Gymnasii Hornani 

 Eectore. Amstelodami, apud iEgidium Janssonium 

 Valckenier, anno 1659." 



A Constant Rbadee. 



Birkenhead. 



[This work by Andreas Cellarius, in a perfect condition, 

 is extremely rare. The Bodleian Library has no copy of 

 it; and the one in the British Museum is without the 

 panoramic views.] 



Richard Cidmer, alias Blue Dick. — Can you 

 furnish rae with any particulars relating to this 

 personage, who figured as an iconoclast during 

 the Commonwealth? Cpl. 



[Richard Culmer was born in the Isle of Thanet in 

 Kent, edudated in the Canterbury Grammar School, and 

 afterwards at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He be- 

 came minister of Goodneston in Kent, and was suspended 

 ab officio et heneficio for refusing to read the Book of 

 Sports on the Lord's Day. In 1635, being accused of 

 perjury, he was committed to the Fleet. After a sus- 

 pension of three years and a half, he became assistant 

 minister to Dr. Robert Austin at Harbledown, near Can- 

 terbury. In 1644 he published Cathedrall Newes from 

 Canterbury : showing the Canterburian Cathedrall to bee in 

 an Abbey -like, corrupt, and rotten condition, which calls for 

 a speedy reformation or dissolution, &c. " If I hold my 

 peace, the stones would immediately cry out." — Luke, 

 xix. 40. Two answers to the pamphlet soon followed, 

 The Razing of the Record, §-c., Oxford, 1644, and Anti- 

 dotum Culmerianum : or Animadversions upon a late 

 Pamphlet by Richard Culmer, who is here (^according to his 

 friend's desire, and his own desert^ set forth in his colours. 

 " The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped." — 

 Ps. Ixiii. 12. Oxford, 1644. « About 1644," says Whar- 

 ton ( Collect., vol. i. p. 77.), " he was thrust into the vicar- 

 age of Minster in the Isle of Thanet, on the ejection of 

 Dr. Casaubon, where he took down the cross from the 

 spire of the steeple, defaced the windows, and pulled down 

 the hall in the vicarage house. A man so odious for his 

 zeal and fury that the parishioners of Minster had pe- 

 titioned the parliament against his coming to that place, 

 where he lived till the Restoration." Culmer was one of 

 those appointed by the parliament to detect, and cause to 

 be demolished, the superstitious inscriptions and idolatrous 

 monuments in Canterbuiy Cathedral. " After the king's 

 restoration," says Wood (^Fasti, vol. i. p. 448., Bliss), 

 " he continued so zealous in his opinion as to engage (as 

 suspected) in that hellish plot for which Thomas Venner, 

 Rog. Hodgkin, &c., anabaptist and fifth-monarchy men, 

 suffered in Coleman Street, London, Jan. 9, 1660. But 

 the spirit of the man being as well known as his face, he 

 was taken posting up from Canterbury to London, riding 

 upon Chatham Hill. Whereupon being committed for a 

 time, he, among several examinations, was asked why he 

 brake down those famous windows of Christ Church in 

 Canterbury? To which he answered, he did it by order 

 of parliament. And being asked why in one window 

 (which represented the devil tempting our Saviour) he 

 brake down Christ, and left the devil standing ? he an- 

 swered, he had an order to take down Christ, and had no 

 order to take down the devil. Whereby was understood 



that those plotting brethren did mean when they in- 

 tended to set up King Jesus, to pull down Christ." Cul- 

 mer received the cognomen of " Blue Dick of Thanet," 

 because he wore blue in opposition to black, which he 

 detested. He died in the year 1662, and was buried in 

 the parish church of Monckton in Kent. His will, proved 

 May 13, 1662, is in the Prerogative Office, wherein he 

 styles himself Richard Culmer of Monckton, Clerk, and 

 mentions in it his eldest son Richard, then of Stepney, 

 gent. ; the time of his being possessed of the sequestration 

 of the vicarage of Minster ; his lands in Ireland ; his son 

 James ; his daughters Anne, Katharine, and Elizabeth ; 

 and his son-in-law. Roe, who married his daughter Eliza- 

 beth. For notices of this renowned iconoclast, see Dr. 

 Calamy's Abridgment of Mr. Baxter's Life and Times, 

 vol. ii. p. 388. edit. 1713, and Wood's Fasti. See his cha- 

 racter in the History of the Tryal ofAbp, Laud, p. 344.] 



Ducal Coronets. — ^What is the reason the Dukes 

 of "Newcastle" and "Sutherland" do not wear 

 the usual ducal coronets over their armorial 

 bearings ? Curio. 



[We believe that the Duke of Sutherland wears the 

 ducal coronet without the cap, and we presume from 

 our correspondent's note that the Duke of Newcastle 

 does the same. The reason for this rests with the noble 

 Dukes themselves.] 



MATHEMATICAL BIBLIOGEAPHT. 



(Vol. X,, p. 3.) 



I am glad to be able to assure Mb. Cockle 

 that I am quite correct on both points. Bossut's 

 Histoire generate des Mathematiques, depuis leur 

 Origine jusqv!d Vannee 1808, was not published in 



1802, but in 1810. It Ms a list of mathematicians 

 at the end, on which the fingers of my left hand 

 are placed (the little finger on Timasus, the thumb 

 on Waring) while I write this sentence. 



Bossut's first attempt at mathematical history 

 was the preface to the mathematical volumes of 

 the Encycl. Meth., which appeared in 1789. This 

 preface, enlarged, was republished by him in 1802, 

 not as Histoire, but as Essai sur F Histoire. This 

 is the work referred to by Mr. Cockle as Histoire. 

 I have never seen a copy of it ; I have only the 

 translation (by T. O. Churchill, under the name 

 of Bonnycastle, as noted in ray article on Bonny- 

 castle in the Penny Cyclopmdid), published in 



1803, with a list of mathematicians at the end. 

 When Bossut published his third and largest 

 work, the Histoire, Paris, 1810, two volumes oc- 

 tavo, he added this list, acknowledging where it 

 came from. Bossut does not call this a new 

 edition of the Essay, but a new work. In 1812 

 he published Memoires de Mathematiques, Paris, 

 8vo. This volume, besides his prize essay on the 

 arrimage (art of stowage) of vessels, contains 

 notes and explanations to his History, and a me- 

 moir of Pascal. In the preface he explains that 

 the Essai (as he calls it) was very well received, 



