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he will find the authority for Dr. Gower's state- 

 ment, which is given by the latter loosely and 

 •without acknowledgment. Fuller only mentions 

 a map of Cheshire, drawn " so exactly with his 

 pen, that a judicious eye would mistake it for 

 printing, and the graver's skill and industry could 

 little improve it." 



An engraving from this drawing will be found 

 in King's Vale Royal (1656), at p. 3. of Webb's 

 portion. It is dedicated to the memory of the 

 amateur artist mentioned, " qui banc totius Cestrie 

 mappam suo calamo designavit, et designatam suis 

 sumptibus exaravit." Lancastbiensis. 



" To lie at the Catch " (Vol. vi., p. 56. ; Vol. 

 vii., p. 132.). — Your correspondent M. D. seems 

 somewhat at a loss for the meaning of this ex- 

 pression, as used by Bunyan. It appears to me 

 that the meaning is, as we should say at the 

 present day, " You are trying to catch me trip- 

 ping ; " or, as you have stated in your explanation, 

 " You are trying to put a trick upon me, so as 

 to place me in a false position." I think it not 

 unlikely that the figure is derived from the position 

 of the fowler, lying perdu, with the cord in his 

 hand ready to close the spring or net upon the 

 unwary bird. There is a curious picture in the 

 Pia Desideria of Herman Hugo (from which 

 Quarles copied most of his emblems), representing 

 Death lying "on the catch," and inclosing the 

 worldly-minded man in his net, — Psalm xviii. 4., 

 "The snares of death overtook me," being the 

 motto under the picture. Henet T. Riley. 



The Herodians (Vol. x., p. 9.). — Very little is 

 known of the Herodians, as they are only slightly 

 mentioned in the Gospels, and do not appear at 

 all in Josephus. Prideaux (^Connection, vol. ii. 

 p. 396., Oxford, 1838) supposes them to have 

 been a religious sect favouring Herod, who wil- 

 lingly paid the Roman tribute, and complied with 

 him in many heathen customs. The following 

 list of ancient authors, who give any account of 

 the Herodians, is recorded in Greswell's^fiarmowy 

 of the Gospels, vol. ii. p. 323. : 



" Epiphan. Oper. i. 45. 

 Chrysostom. Oper. vii. 687. A. B. in Matthseum Homilia, 



Ixx. 1. 

 i Theophylact. Oper. i. 119. B. in Matt. xxii. 

 Ibid. 186. D. E. in Marc. iii. 



Ihid. 211. B. in Marc. viii. 



Ibid. 236. C. in Marc, xii." 



F.|M. MiDDLETON. 



" JPor he that fights and runs away," S^c. (Vol. 

 vii., pp. 298. 346.). — You are certainly mistaken 

 in withdrawing your assertion that these lines are 

 in the Musarum Delicice of Sir John Mennis, 1656. 

 There was a copy of this work in Sion College 

 Library, and I have a distinct recollection of 

 searching for these lines in 1841, and in that copy 



I found them. I presume that it is to be found 

 there still. Henbt T. Rilet. 



L'ish Characters on the Stage (Vol. vii., p. 356.). 

 — I would refer your facetious correspondent 

 Philobiblion (who inquires, by the bye, whe- 

 ther Shakspeare was an Irishman) to the Twin 

 Rivals, by Farquhar, where Teague, an Irish foot- 

 man, is introduced, with a patois very much re- 

 sembling that of the low Jew of the present day ; 

 and Love and a Bottle, by the same author, where 

 Roebuck, an Irish gentleman, figures, but speaks 

 respectable English. I do not at this moment 

 recollect any others of the old plays in which the 

 " Dear joys " (as Tom Brown and Fred Ward 

 delight to call the Irish) are introduced. 



Henry T. Riley. 



Leslie and Dr. Middleton (Vol. ix., pp. 324. 

 575.), — The Rev. John Henry Newman, who has 

 since separated from our Church, in his Essay 

 on Miracles, p. clxxxviii., prefixed to the first 

 volume of his translation of Fleury, refers to the 

 discovery of the relics of SS. Gervasius and Pro- 

 tasius, and the miracles wrought by them ; a fact 

 that completely fulfilled Leslie's "four condi- 

 tions." William Fbasee, B.C.L. 



Black Rat (Vol. x., p. 37.). — It may interest 

 one of your correspondents, Mb. Waddington, to 

 know that Bristol is said to be the last stronghold 

 of the black rat. It is, I believe, about ten years 

 since they have been extinct. Their last refuge 

 was in the great sewer of that city. J. J. C. 



View of Dumfries (Vol. ix., p. 516.). — Having 

 examined Gough's collections of topographical 

 prints in the Bodleian (as well as such volumes in 

 the portion of the Gough library which relates to 

 Scotland, as appeared likely to reward the search), 

 I beg to inform Balivus that no such engraving 

 as that respecting which he inquires can be found 

 amongst them. W. D. Maceay. 



New College. 



Chaucer and Mr. Emerson (Vol. vii., p. 356.). — 

 Is an OxFOED B. C. L. correct in his quotation 

 from Emerson's Representative Men ? " Chaucer, 

 it seems, drew continually, through Lydgate and 

 Caxton, from Guido di Colonna," &c. If so, it 

 passes my comprehension how Chaucer could draw 

 from Caxton, who was born about twelve years 

 after Chaucer's death, or even from Lydgate, who 

 was probably about twenty-five years of age at 

 that period, and unknown as a poet. I trust, 

 for the credit of literature, that Mr. Emerson 

 never penned such nonsense as this, and more 

 especially when engaged in so arduous an under- 

 taking as destroying old Geofirey's reputation as 

 the father of English poesy. He might just as 

 well attempt to bombard Sebastopol with oranges 

 or tennis-balls. Heney T. Riley. 



