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JS^OTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 256. 



of bread, weighinjc five pounds each loaf when well baked, 

 provided by the Reeve for the like purpose. 



"The 'Jacks,' and their attendants, then sit down to a 

 dinner provided by the Reeve : consisting of the chine of 

 beef roasted, and the rump and round boiled, the belly 

 part of the fore quarter of the half pig rolled up, and 

 made up into a collar of brawn, scalded, and served up with 

 a sprig of rosemary, and powdered with flour; a hen with 

 the head and tail on, but the rest of the feathers, except 

 the tail, plucked off, a little boiled, anil served up on sops 

 of bread, and proper vegetables ; a large minced-pie, with 

 an effigy of King John in full in paste, properly painted 

 to represent a king, stuck up in the middle of it ; bread 

 and ale, and bread and cheese after. When tliey sit 

 down to dinner, two candles, weighing a pound each, are 

 lighted; and, until they are burnt out, the 'Jacks' and 

 their attendants have a right to sit drinking ale. 



" After dinner, the regular toasts are : ' To the immortal 

 memory of King John ;' 'The real Jack of Knapp;' 'The 

 real Jack of Slough.' Afterwards, other toasts are given. 



"The' Jacks' give away the bread, and the offal beef 

 and pork, to the second poor. When thej' have drunk as 

 much as they like, they depart: the 'Jack of Slough,' 

 or his deputy, holding the stirrup of the ' Jack of Knapp,' 

 or his deputy for him, to mount ; and receiving a shilling 

 as his fee. 



" The undersigned declare the above to be the imme- 

 morial customs of the feast held annually in the Manor of 

 North Curry; and as contributors thereto, or partakers 

 thereof, they make this recognition for better preserving 

 and keeping up the same." 



W. W. M. 



Wiltown, Curry Kivel. 



" The Dunciad" (Vol.x., p. 197.).— The Writer 

 OF THE Articles in the AthenjEum, in his late 

 communication to " N. & Q.," has quoted two im- 

 portant passages from unpublished letters of Pope, 

 but he has omitted to state the dates of those 

 letters, or to whom addressed, or how authenticated. 

 These are circumstances necessary to a fair ap- 

 preciation of the evidence, especially after the 

 stronj; and, I have no doubt, just opinion which 

 the AVriter entertains as to the juggling with 

 which Pope dealt with his letters. 



The Writer somewhat mistakes my inquiry as 

 to any edition prior to that of Gilliver (without 

 date), and reminds me of that of 1728, and the 

 4to. of 1729 ; but if he looks closer he will see 

 that I was aware of both these editions, and 

 specially described them ; but what I meant to 

 inquire about was any of the five editions stated 

 by Pope to have been published in Dublin and 

 London, prior to the quarto or the Gilliver, and 

 exclusive of that of 1728, of which Pope says 

 nothing (and by his silence disclaims it) in the 

 note to which the Writer refers me. 



The inclination of my own opinion is, with 

 Malone, that Dodd's edition of 1728 was the first 

 published (I do not say printed) ; but I cannot ac- 

 count for Pope's solemn and reiterated assertions, 

 that there vf ere Jive earlier — a falsehood, if it was 



one, apparently gratuitous, and for which there 

 seems no imaginable object. He had an obvious 

 one in garblini; the letters ; but what possible in- 

 ducement could there be to record and complain 

 of editions that never existed ? C. 



1 . James Moore Smyth. — To one who receives 

 " N, & Q." in monthly parts, and at a great dis- 

 tance from Fleet Street, it may, perhaps, be per- 

 mitted to go back on a few of the late Numbers. 

 In Vol. X., p. 102., C. solicits information relative 

 to James Moore, afterwards James Moore Smyth. 

 This object of Pope's implacable hatred and bitter 

 satire, was a son of Arthur Moore, of Fetcham, in 

 Surrey, a distiuguisheil politician, who was M. P. 

 for Great Grimsby, Commissioner of Trade and 

 Plantations, and a Director of the South Sea 

 Company in the time of Queen Anne. James 

 was educated at Oxford, wrote a comedy (Z%e 

 Rival Modes), for which Bernard Lintot is said to 

 have given one hundred guineas ; and he held, in 

 connexion with one of his brothers, the office of 

 Receiver and Paymaster of the Band of Gentle- 

 men Pensioners. He took the name of Smyth as 

 heir to a rich maternal uncle of that name, and 

 died unmarried In 1734. (Curll's " Key to The 

 Dunciad" Gent. Mag. for 1734 ; and Manning 

 and Bray's History of Surrey.) I have read 

 many of James Moore's unpublished letters ad- 

 dressed to Martha and Teresa Blount of Maple, 

 Durham, and they fullv bear out Pope's charges 

 of literary vanity, frivolity, and weakness. 



2. Warburton's Edition. — With respect to 

 Warburton's edition of Pope's Works, 1751, we 

 have no exact information to determine the point 

 whether It was partly or wholly printed off before 

 the poet's death. The Ethic Epistles, with War- 

 burton's conmients, were so printed, as we learn 

 from the published correspondence. Spence states 

 that Pope sent some of these epistles as presents 

 to his friends about three weeks before his death, 

 nnd the presumption is that they were copies of 

 the new corrected and annotated edition. And 

 then we have Bolingbroke's communication to 

 Marchmont, telling him that Pope had corrected 

 and prepared for the press, just before his death, 

 an editi(m of the Four Epistles; that he (Bollng- 

 broke) had a copy oHhe book, containing the cha- 

 racter of Atossa; and that Warburton had the 

 copyright of the work, which, by the terms of 

 Pope's will, he could not alter. No copy of the 

 volume or edition seen by Bolingbroke has been 

 discovered, 'inless It be included In Warburton's 

 edition of 1751, the publication of which is said to 

 have been long deferreil, lest it should Interfere 

 with the sale of Pope's Works remaining undis- 

 posed of, ami the property of other publishers. 

 (Quart. Review, vol. xxxii. p. 273.) It is not un- 

 likely that the volume or volumes printed before 



