Nov. 4. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



367 



will only ask: — 1. Who was the author of the 

 work ? 2. What is meant by the two index hands 

 in the dedication ? And 3. What are the titles 

 of some other works upon the same subject ? 



B. H. C. 



[This work is by Thomas Powell, Londino-Cambrensis, 

 as he calls himself. Nicolson, in his English Historical 

 Library, p. 198., edit. 1736, says, "Thomas Powell's Re- 

 pertory of Records will be of some use to our historian, as 

 well as to those practitioners in law, for whom they were 

 chiefly intended." When Carte published his " General 

 Account of the necessary Materials for the History of 

 England " ( Gent. Mag., vol. viii. p. 288.), he observed, 

 that " Powell, in his Repertory of Records, gives us a list 

 of the contracting powers, dates, &c., of above 400 treaties 

 of our kings with foreign princes, which are not in 

 Eymer." For a list of Powell's other works, see Watt's 

 Biblioiheca Britannica.'\ 



R. Dingley. — Can any reader of "K & Q." 

 give me information as to the parentage and 

 county of R. Dingley (query Richard or Robert), 

 a merchant of London, who contested the Middle- 

 sex election with Wilkes, and afterwards founded 

 by will a Magdalen Hospital ? D. R. S. 



[His Christian name is Robert, and we are inclined to 

 think he was a descendant of the Dingleys of Chilham in 

 Kent, originally of co. Worcester ; of whom there is a 

 pedigree in Philpot's Visitation of Kent, 1619 — 1621 

 (Addit. MS. 5507. p. 124., Brit. Museum). Robert Ding- 

 ley died at Lamb Abbey, Chiselhurst, August 9, 1781. 

 In 1758, at the time he founded the Magdalen House for 

 the reception of penitent prostitutes in Prescot Street, 

 Goodman's Fields, his town residence was in Little St, 

 Helen's, Bishopsgate.] 



" Nil actum reputans" Sfc. — 



'' " Nil actum reputans, dum quid superesset agendum." 



Where is this line to be found ? I had thought 

 it Juvenal's ; but the only approach to it that I 

 can find in him is : 



" Actum, inquit, nihil est, nisi Pceno milite portas 

 Frangimus, et media vexillum pono Subura." 



Sat. X. 155. 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



[This line occurs in Lucan, Pharsalia, lib. ii. line 657 : 

 *' Nil actum credens, quum quid superesset agendum."] 



Rev. Edward De Chair. — Can 'you give me 

 any account of the Rev. Mr. De Chair, 'cardinal 

 and vicar of St. Pancras, Middlesex ? He died 

 about the year 1749, I think at Kentish Town. 

 Why was he a cardinal and a Protestant vicar ? 



D. 



[Edward de Chair was appointed vicar of St. Pancras 

 and cardinal of St. Paul's in 1728, and died in 1749. The 

 official duties of the cardinals of St. Paul's choir have 

 been explained in our Third Volume, p. 304.] 



'■^ Clubs of London:^ — Who is the author of 

 The Clubs of London, published by Colburn in 

 1828 ? J. Craven. 



[This work is by Mr. Charles Marsh.] 



Pownall. — At the end of the " Corrections and 

 Additions" of Herbert's Ames, vol. iii. p. 1838.» 

 edit. 1786, I find the following : 



« *^» Wherever the name of Thomas Pownall, Esq., or 

 Governor Pownall, occurs in this work, read Mr. Thomas 

 Pownall." 



What does this mean ? 



G. M. B. 



[May not Herbert have confounded Governor Pownall 

 with a Mr. Thomas Pownall ? The latter appears in the 

 list of subscribers in vol. i.] 



Pappus. — Where can I find a notice of this 

 author ? He wrote upon church history or coun- 

 cils. He is alluded to by Cave in the Historia 

 Literaria ; and there is a work entitled Pappi 

 Contradictiones, Argent, 4to., 1597. A reference 

 to some authority will be a favour. B. H. C. 



[Notices of this learned Lutheran divine will be found 

 in Jocher, Gelehr ten- Lexicon, and Rose's Biographical Dic- 

 tionary. A list of most of his works is given in the Bod- 

 leian Catalogue.] 



l^t^Uzi* 



GBirriNS "riDESSA. 



(Vol. ix., p. 27.) 



Referring back to some Numbers of your publi- 

 cation for another purpose, my attention has been 

 attracted to the communication of your corre- 

 spondent J. M. G. 



He states his object to be merely to obtain any 

 particulars of B. Griflin, the author of Fidessa; 

 but he submits this simple Query at the end of a 

 criticism upon the authorship of a sonnet, to which 

 criticism I beg respectfully to demur. 



Surely it has not been reserved for the middle 

 of the nineteenth century to curtail the glories of 

 our immortal bard, and consign one of the fairest 

 flowers of his fame to the limbo of fraud and sus- 

 picion ! 



J. M. G. institutes a comparison between a 

 sonnet published in Griffin's Fidessa, 1596, and 

 the same published in Shakspeare's Passionate 

 Pilgrim, 1599, (I say the same, because the re- 

 semblance is too close to admit the possibility of 

 originality'in both,) and upon the mere fact of date 

 of publication, at once gives Griffin the palm of 

 authorship, tenderly exculpating Shakspeare from 

 gross plagiarism, and, oh, happy shade ! 



" Which since thy flight from hence hath moum'd like 

 night." 



now honourably acquits him of all participation 

 in the rascally piracy of W. Jaggard. 



The question is not simply whether Griffin or 

 Shakspeare wrote the sonnet in question ; because 

 if J. M. G.'s inference is conclusive against Shaks- 

 peare, some learned Theban must at once buckle 

 on his armour in defence of the whole of Shaks- 

 peare's sonnets and poems. 



