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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 259. 



know not, but in 1813 she published The Life 

 of the Author of the Letters of Junius, the liev. 

 Jas. Wilmot, D.D.; unci subsequently, 1817, Sir 

 Philip Francis Denied. B. L. A. 



It is perhaps not auiiss to state, as some gua- 

 rantee for the accuracy of the notes in A Biogra- 

 phical Dictionary of Living Authors, 8fc., London, 

 1816, 8vo., that this work is the anonymous com- 

 pilation of that careful and industrious antiquary, 

 the late William Upcott. William Bates. 



Birmingliam. 



Forensic Jocularities (Vol. x., p. 253.). — The 

 following lines are extracted from An Historical 

 Account of (lie Blue Blanket, or Craftsmeu^s 

 Banner, containing the fundamental Principles of 

 the Good- Town, with the Powers and Prerogatives 

 of the Crafts of Editibw-gh, Sfc, 2nd edition, 

 Edinburgh, 1780, pp. 98-9. They may legitimately 

 enough be included under the head " forensic," in 

 so far as disputation is concerned, and must be 

 confessed as quite eclipsing anything that has 

 hitherto appeared in " N. & Q." emanating from 

 the law courts. The " Scottish Solomon " cer- 

 tainly shines peculiarly bright on this occasion. 



" So after his (James I.'s) accession to the throne of 

 England, and when he returned to liis native country, 

 Scotland, and made his entry into Edinburgh, 16th of 

 May, 1617, joy appeared in every one of their (the 

 citizens') countenances. . . . Xext day his majesty 

 "was pleased to honour the University with his presence 

 at a philosophical disputation in the oriental languages 

 by the professors of philosophy, Mr. John Adamson, Mr. 

 James Fairly, Mr. Patrick Sands, Mr. Andrew Young, 

 Mr. James lieid, and Mr. William King. When the 

 exercise was over, his majesty was pleased to compliment 

 the disputants in the following poem, which b}' them was 

 variously pain (perhaps payne or pagaii) Latin : 



" As Adam was the first of men, whence all beginning 



take. 

 So Adam-son was president, and first man of this act ; 

 The Thesis Fair-lie did defend,* which tho' they lies 



contain, 

 Yet were fair lies, and he the same right fairly did 



maintain. 

 The field first enter'd Mr. Sands, and there he made me 



see 

 That not all Sands are barren sands, but that some 



fertile be. 

 Then Mr. Young most subtilj' the Thesis did impugn. 

 And kythed old in Aristotle, altho' his name be Young. 

 To him succeeded Mr. Reid, who tho' Red be his name, 

 Need neither for his dispute blush, nor of his speech 



think shame. 

 Last enter'd Mr. King the lists, and dispute like a king, 

 How reason reigning like a queen, should anger under 



bring. 

 To their deserved praise have I thus play'd upon their 



names, 

 And will this college hence be called the College of 



King James." 



G.N. 



Tiplers (Vol. x., p. 182.). — This word occurs, 

 as at Boston, in the corporatioa records of the 



town and port of Seaford, co. Sussex. Various 

 persons in, and later than, the 26th of Elizabeth, 

 are presented at the quarter-sessions for engaging 

 in typlyng without the permission of the autho- 

 rities. Sometimes they are called communes tipu- 

 latores. The following bond is upon a loose paper 

 in the corporation chest : 



" Seffbrde. M*!. q^i. duodecimo die .Junii, anno regni 

 Regine Elizabethe, &c. xxvi., coram Rico Smithe balliv* 

 de Sefibrde p'dic' et jurat' eiusdem ville, tunc et ib'm 

 venit, Symone Collingham de Seffbrde p'dic', Tiplek, et 

 manucepit p' serp'o, sub pena quinque librar', levand' ad 

 usu' dee Dne Regine, de bonis et catallis terr' et ten't suis, 

 ubicumque, &c. 



" The Condicon of this Recognizance is suche that the 

 above-bounden Symon Collingham from liensforth duringe 

 the time that he shal be a tipler w^'in the towne of Sef- 

 forde, do well, honestly, and orderlj' use gov'ne and dis- 

 pose himself and his householde in all thinges belonginge 

 to his office accordinge to the intencon, forme, and mean- 

 ing of the queen's ma"«^^ lawes in that case p'vided. And 

 also hereafter do maintaine, or kepe, or suffer to be kepte 

 and used no unlawfull games nor evill rule Avithin the 

 p'cinctes of his house, garden, or orchardes, duringe the 

 said time of his tiplinge," &c. 



Since the days of the maiden queen the word 

 has undergone a total change of meaning ; and 

 " tippler " has become a good Johnsonian ex- 

 pression for the consumer rather than the seller 

 of beer. 



Tippler as a surname still exists in the county 

 of Essex. Mark Antony Lovvek. 



Lewes. 



" Credo, Domine," Spc. (Vol. x., p. 163.). —The 

 author of this justly esteemed prayer was Pope 

 Clement XL, who filled the papal chair from 1700 

 to 1721. It finds a place in most Catholic Prayer 

 Books under the title of the " Universal Praver." 



F. C. PL 



Stanzas in " Childe Harold" (Vol. iv., p. 223. et 

 passim). — In your Notices to Correspondents in 

 No. 220., 14th January, 1854, you invite Mb. 

 Kebslake to send an extract from his Catalogue, 

 illustrating this corrupted passage. As it has not 

 appeared in your columns, I presume he has not 

 sent it, and I now supply his omission, thinking 

 that a reading so very different to any suggested, 

 will not be unacceptable to those correspondents 

 who took an interest in this question when it was 

 first mooted by your correspondent T. W. 



" 189. Byron's Childe Harold, canto iv., 1818, 1st edit. 



" The fourth canto contains transcripts of Lord Byron's 

 own manuscript notes and corrections from his own copy. 



" These corrections lio not appear to have come under 

 the notice of any of the editors of Childe Harold's Pil' 

 grimage. 



" In the line — 



' Thy waters wasted them while they Avere free,' 



the two words ' wafted power ' are written in the margin, 

 and ' wasted them ' underlined, and this note is annexed : 

 ' Wasted, not in the MS., but is some interpolation of Mr. 

 Murray's printers.' At the beginning of the volume is 



