July 1. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



May 25, 1657, a joke occurs about the office of 

 Scout-master General, held by Downinnj under 

 Cromwell. Cromwell was coming to his House of 

 Lords to signify his consent to the " Petition and 

 Advice," and his carriages passed by as the House 

 of Commons was debating. Mr. Downing espied 

 them, and said his Highness was passed by. Some 

 called out, " Scout, scout," and altiim risum. — 

 (Burton's Diary, ii. 122.) 



Jan. 9, 1659-60. "Muddiman . . . owns 

 that though he writes new books for the Parlia- 

 ment." New books should surely be news books. 



Jan. 17, 1659-60. "I went to the Coffee 

 Club, and heard very good discourse; it was in 

 answer to Mr. Harrington's answer*, who said 

 that the state of the Roman government was not a 

 settled government, and so it was no wonder that 

 the balance of prosperity was in one hand, and 

 the command in another," &c. Pi'ospeinty should 

 be properly. That the government should follow 

 the balance of property is a fundamental principle 

 of Harrington's Oceana. "And so it was no 

 wonder that the balance," &c. I think there is 

 probably something wrong here in the decipher- 

 ing. The meaning is, " And so was no wonder, 

 for that the balance," &c. 



Jan. 25, 1659-60. " Heard that in Cheapside 

 there had been but a little before a gibbet set up, 

 and the picture of Huson hung upon it." Hewson 

 had lately made himself obnoxious in the city, by 

 suppressing a rising of the apprentices against the 

 Committee of Safety, just before the Committee 

 of Safety was deprived of power. (Clarendon's 

 History of the Rebellion, book xvi.) 



Feb. 1—3, 1659-60. The meeting of the 

 troops ordered to leave London to make way for 

 Monk's army. See a valuable letter giving some 

 interesting additional particulars in Lister's Cla- 

 rendon, ill. 83. 



March 2, 1659-60. "Great is the dispute 

 now in the House, in whose name the writs shall 

 run for the next parliament, and it is said that 

 Mr. Prin, in open house, said, 'For King 

 Charles's.'" — Compare letter of Mr. Lutterell to 

 Ormond, March 9, 1660, in Carte's Letters, ii. 

 312. " Yesterday there was a debate about the 

 form of the dissolution, when Mr. Prynne asserted 

 the king's right in such bold language that I think 

 he may be styled the Cato of this age." 



March 28, 1660. (note.) There is a slip of 

 the pen in this note, where Sir E. Montagu's 

 eldest son is said to have been candidate for 

 Huntingdon. Lord Braybrooke has correctly 

 stated, in note to March 14, 1660, that it was the 

 Earl of Manchester's eldest son. 



April 21, 1660. Mr. Edward Montagu. Pepys 

 says, " I do believe that he do carry some close 



[* Query, for answer read Oceana, which seems to 

 be an error in the deciphering Ed.] 



business on for the king." Pepys's guess at E. 

 Montagu's business is confirmed by Clarendon's 

 account of his employment of him to negotiate 

 with Lord Sandwich on behalf of the king. 

 (Hist, of Rebellion, book xvi.) 



May 4, 1660. Lord Sandwich's letter to the 

 king, which Pepys gives from memory, is printed 

 in Lister's Clarendon, ill. 104., and a reference to 

 the letter will show the accuracy of Pepys's 

 memory.* 



May 15, 1660. " Among others, he [Sir Samuel 

 Morland] betrayed Sir Richard Willis, . . . 

 who had paid him lOOOZ. at one time, by the Pro- 

 tector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intel- 

 ligence that he sent concerning the king," Who 

 had paid him, if the deciphering is correct, re- 

 quires explanation. It must mean, who received. 

 See a curious letter about Sir Richard Willis, 

 mentioning Morland as privy to his quackery, in 

 Lister's Clarendon, ill. 87. 



May 18, 1660. " So we took a scout." Lord 

 Braybrooke explains " scout," " a kind of swift 

 sailing boat." The " scout" took Pepys from the 

 Hague to Delfe, doubtless by canal, and would 

 probably be similar to the trek schuyts, which 

 have only been abandoned as a general mode of 

 travelling In Holland on the Introduction of rail- 

 ways. But the trek schuyts were not, and from 

 the nature of the case could not be, swift. Scout 

 should be schuyt, probably. 



June 6, 1660. "Sir Anthony Cooper, Mr. 

 HoUIs, and Mr. Annesley, late Presidents of the 

 Council of State." Presidents should be President. 

 It applies only to Annesley, soon after Earl of 

 Anglesey. C. H. 



MATHEMATICAL BIBLIOGRAPHT. 



At p. 7. of Professor De Morgan's References 

 for the History of the Mathematical Sciences, there 

 are two trifling inaccuracies, which, occurring in so 

 valuable a tract, it is desirable to correct. The 

 Histoire of Bossut bears date 1802, not 1810, and 

 it has not a list of mathematicians at the end. 

 The list is appended to the English translation 

 (London, 1803) of Bossut's work. 



The English " Editor's Preface" (from pp. xlii. 

 — xlv. of which It appears that the list in question 

 was added by him) is somewhat remarkable. As 

 far as p. x. it is in some places a reproduction, 

 with slight variations, in the rest a literal transla- 

 tion of portions of Montucla's preface to his own 

 Histoire (compare, for example, the remarks on 

 Proclus, at pp. viii. and v. of the respective pre- 

 faces, &c.). 



The English editor having (p. x.) brought 

 Montucla upon the stage, his previous plagiarism 



[* Noticed by Lord Braybrooke in the new edi- 

 tion. — Ed.] 



