Aug. 5. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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took place eighteen or nineteen years ago. It 

 consisted of MSS, and autographs, among which 

 were many original assignments of literary pro- 

 perty to the Dodsleys. Several names of writers 

 of works of established reputation, published 

 anonymously, then became known for the first 

 time, and among them, that of the author of 

 Peter Wilkins. 



I find the following note transcribed at the 

 time : — ■ 



" Robert Patlock, [not Pultock as Leigh Hunt 

 writes it, and Paltock as Southey calls him], of 

 Clement's Inn, assigned the MS. of the Life and 

 Adventures of Peter Wilkins^ a Cornishman, to 

 Dodsley, Jan. 11, 1749, for twenty guineas, 

 [Southey says ten] twelve copies, and the cuts 

 (or coppers used for the plates) of the first im- 

 pression." 



The first edition with the curious plates (1751) 

 is inscribed by the author to Elizabeth, Countess 

 of Northumberland; and there are some slight 

 personal allusions in this dedication, which, if 

 followed up, might lead to farther confirmation 

 about the writer. 



Southey has not only " somewhere recorded his 

 admiration" of the book, [notes to "Curse of 

 Kehama," Works, vol. x. p. 231.], but borrowed 

 from it the idea of his own " Glendoveers" ("the 

 loveliest race of all of heavenly birth"), far in- 

 ferior, however, to the Glums and Gawrys of 

 Patlock. 



There is a beautiful article on this work in the 

 Retrospective Rev., vol. vii. p. 120. See also 

 Coleridge's Table Talk, and Leigh Hunt's London 

 Journal, No. 32. p. 249. W. L. N. 



Bath. 



** De male qncesitis vix gaudet tertius hares " 

 (Vol. ii., p. 167. ; Vol. ix., p. 600.).— This line occurs 

 among the Adagia of Erasmus, s. v. Ultio Male- 

 dicti, p. 1865., fol., Aurel. 1606. 



AXiEXANDEB TATIiOR. 



Apparition which preceded the Fire of London 

 (Vol. ix., p. 541.).— In A View of the Invisible 

 World, or General History of Apparitions, 8vo., 

 London, 1752, at p. 228., is a chapter " of the ap- 

 parition that told his friend of the Eire of London 

 two months before it happened ; with some par- 

 ticular remarks upon the story with relation to 

 such appearances." 



The story seems to have been well known in 

 1752, as the author of the above work does not 

 say where it is to be found, but comments upon 

 rather than tells it. The apparition took the form 

 of a friend, was let in at the door by a servant, 

 joined the family in the parlour, and talked about 

 coming judgments ; and, among them, of the Great 

 Eire. The master of the house thought his visitor 

 prosy, and tried to change the conversation. ^The 



apparition was let out as it came in ; and no one 

 suspected, till after the fire, that it was not the 

 gentleman whose shape it took. He, however, 

 knew nothing about it ; and his own house was 

 burnt at the Great Fire, when he had not time to 

 save more than a quarter of his goods. 



Many apparitions predicted the fire : I can find 

 no other account of this. If one may suggest an 

 explanation of a story so imperfectly told, mine is 

 that it was the gentleman himself; who having, 

 according to the custom of that age, discoursed 

 upon coming judgments, when dangerous in- 

 quiries were made about the origin of the fire, 

 preferred losing his reputation as a prophet to 

 maintaining it at the risk of being treated as an. 

 incendiary. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



'^ A face upon a bottle" (Vol. ix,, p. 599.).— In 

 the passage here quoted from Secretary Winde- 

 bank's letter to Lord Strafford, the following 

 words occur : 



" There never appeared a worse face under a cork upon 

 a bottle, than your lordship hath caused some to make 

 in disgorging such church livings as their zeal had eaten 

 up." 



Since the appearance of my former note, a 

 gentleman versed in ceramic history has referred 

 me, in illustration of this phrase, to the earthen- 

 ware' bottle, figured, under the name of " Grey- 

 beard," in Marryat's History of Pottery and 

 Porcelain (London, 1850), p. 253. Bottles or 

 pots, with a hideous bearded mark on the neck, 

 immediately under the cork, were so designated. 

 Some of them are stated to have been called 

 " Bellarmines" in the reign of James, in derision 

 of Cardinal Bellarmine, whose letter respecting 

 the non-validity of the oath of allegiance of 

 Roman Catholic subjects to a Protestant sovereign, 

 was answered by the king. This agrees well with 

 the time of the letter. L. 



Thompson of Esholt and Lancashire (Vol. y., 

 pp. 468. 521.). — One of your correspondents in- 

 quired whether there was any family named 

 Thompson, bearing arms, seated in Lancashire ia 

 the early part of the seventeenth century. Now, 

 I find from a pedigree among the Harleian MSS. 

 (No. 1487. folio 310.), that Sir Henry Thompson 

 of Esholt, who was knighted for his military 

 services, had a son William, who married a 

 daughter of Christopher Anderton of Lostock, 

 Lancashire, about twelve miles from Preston. 

 This William Thompson, Esq., at one time a 

 notary, succeeded to the estate at Esholt, which 

 ultimately went to the Calverleys of Calverley, 

 through the marriage of Frances Thompson with 

 Walter Calverley, circa 1667. The sons of Wil- 

 liam were Christopher, seated at Esholt, and 

 Henry, who apparently settled at Preston ; and it 



