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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 263. 



The future upholding and preservation of this 

 institution, in the intended excellence of the 

 founder, therefore demands our instant, earnest, 

 and active solicitude. I venture to suggest to 

 his Honor the Master of the Rolls, to put in 

 operation the best and most effectual auxiliary 

 and guard the charity can have, the Press. I 

 humbly submit that he should order the act 

 18 Elizabeth, the report of the commissioners, 

 his own judgment and decree, to be printed in a 

 cheap and convenient pocket size, 12mo. or 8vo., 

 for easy reference, and copies placed in the ca- 

 thedral and college libraries, in the Guildhall, and 

 in all the parish churches of Winchester, Copies 

 should be supplied also to the clerks of the peace 

 for the counties of Hants, Wilts, Surrey, and 

 Sussex ; to the libraries of the cathedral churches 

 of Salisbury and Chichester, and to the town-halls 

 of those places, and of Southampton, Romsey, 

 Andover, and Portsmouth; one given to every 

 brother on his admission, and one sent to each of 

 the public libraries in the kingdom; — that the 

 requirements of the Charitable Trusts Act should 

 be insisted on, and the annual accounts made up 

 and published in the local newspapers, and in 

 some of the metropolitan journals. 



The expense to the hospital for printing would 

 be a mere trifle out of an income of near 16,000Z. 

 a year, reported to be the annual value of the 

 estates and tithes belonging to it ; the great good 

 to be produced by the publicity will be to give 

 effect to the decree, and by the dread of exposure 

 prevent a recui'rence of, and put an end to, the 

 system of mismanagement hitherto so frequently 

 and loudly complained of. The charity may then 

 be safely left to the watchful vigilance of the 

 public and the press. And in the 320th volume 

 of " N. & Q.," p. 4503., the readers will be con- 

 gratulated that the apprehensions of the Master 

 of the Rolls in 1853, as to the anticipated per- 

 versions and violations of the trust, had not been 

 realised, and that all had been, and then was, 

 going on prosperously and satisfactorily. 



Henbt Edwaeds. 



PURITAir SIMILES. 



I crave space for the following choice ideas, 

 culled from sermons and treatises of the Common- 

 wealth Puritans, none of which occur in Cawdrey's 

 Treasure Home. I jot them down with a simple 

 reference : 



1. " Indeed there is an ignorance that is no better than 

 a dancing-roome for the satyre." — Sydenham's Serm., 

 1637, p. 198. 



2. "Our Church is full crammed with Pastours, our 

 Pastours with the Worde, and our Congregations with 

 both, and our Parloures sometimes with all three" — Ibid., 

 p. 223. 



3. "That hande is ynshapen and little better than 



monstrous, where all the fingers are the same length." — 

 Ibid., p. 295. (^Touching the Degrees of Church Ministry.") 



4. " Between a toad under a sill, and the sunne in the- 

 firmament." — Baxter's Saints' Rest, 1649, p. 270. 



5. " When God will, he takes up whom He will amongst 

 the wicked and trusseth him up so or so, quarters him,, 

 and hangs up his quarters ; setts him up as a mark, and 

 shoots him clean thorow." — hockyev's England Watched^ 

 1646, p. 308. 



6. " Malice should be looked on as an implacable thing, 

 and the men in whose breasts it is, as fire shovels fetched 

 from hMV — Ibid., p. 402. 



7. " Vindiction of Conscience ! ah, what a thing 'tis ; 

 'tis a granado shot into the house in the night, when all 

 are abed and asleep : which awakens, breakes open, teares 

 open windows, doores, eyes, and bowels, and fetches the 

 sleeper oute piecemeal." — Ibid., p. 499. 



8. " As all the beastes tremble when the lion roreth, 

 soe let all men harken when God teacheth." — Smith's 

 Serm., 1622, p. 311. 



9. " But if they bee vsed as beautifull baites to couer a 

 barbed hooke, I will there lay a strawe, and reject them." 



— Frewen's Serm., 1612, c. 4. 



10. " They returned home with the same sinnes they 

 carried away ; like new moones, they had a new face and 

 appearance, but the same spots remained still." — Stilling- 

 fleet's Serm., 1666, p. 9. 



11. "Hell paved with skulls of children." — Watson's 

 Art of Contentment, 1653, p. 27. 



12. " His house made an habitation for Zim and Jim, 

 and every unclean thing." — Godly Man's Portion, 1663^ 

 p. 129. 



Who, or what, were " Zim and Jim ? " 



13. " A covenant with them is like a loose collar ahoute 

 an ape's neck, which they can put off and on at pleasure." 



— Calamy's Serm., p. 27. ; Gibson's Serm., 1645, p. 22. 



R. C. Waedb. 

 Kidderminster. 



(To he continued.') 



Minar ^attsl. 



A Boscohel Box. — Before me is a snuff-box 

 made from the original * Boscobel Oak, which box 

 has been in the family of the present possessor for 

 many generations. It is a very handsome oval box, 

 massively mounted in silver, and of large size. 

 The outer lid is inlaid with silver, on which is 

 engraved a representation of King Charles in the 

 oak. The figure of the king is a half-length, 

 dressed in his usual royal attire, and flowing 

 periwig in place of the short-cropped hair and 

 peasant's dress which he wore on the occasion. 

 The loyal engraver has represented the monarch 

 to be of such Brobdignagian dimensions, that the 

 absence of his legs can only he accounted for on 

 the supposition that they are concealed by the 

 trunk of the tree. Nevertheless, the king, like 

 Mark Tapley, has resolved "to be jolly under 

 creditable circumstances," and is smiling at his 

 personal discomforts. To console him, a winged 

 genius appears in the tree ; and offers him, what 



• The present oak is only a scion of Charles's oak. 



