Kov. 25. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Board of Ti-ade and Plantations of those days in 

 the State-Paper Office, or where else ? Who was 

 "my Lord Taif ? " and who were Colonels Doughty 

 and Carew ? Eric, 



Hochelaga. 



[This is a very loose way of putting a Query. The 

 writer should have sent his authority with the extract. — 

 Ed. "N.&Q."] 



Dean Smedley. — Can any one give us any ac- 

 count of Jonathan Smedley, Dean of Clogher and 

 Ferns in Ireland, and celebrated as the diver in 

 The Dnnciad. It is stated (see Scott's Swift, 

 xiv. 436.) that he went to India (Fort St. George) 

 in 1728, leaving behind a kind of epitaph on him- 

 self in Latin, of which the most prominent passage 

 was, that he prides himself as being the first who 

 ventured to say Patres sunt Octulce. Is anything 

 more known of him ? C. 



Dryden and Addison. — In Addison's versified 

 account of the greatest British poets we read, — 



" But see where artful Dryden next appears, 

 Grown old in rhyme, but charming even in years. 

 Great Dryden next, whose tuneful Muse affords 

 The sweetest numbers and the fittest words," &c. 



And then follow a dozen more lines on Dryden. 

 But is there not here some mistake in the first 

 mention of Dryden ? Was not some other poet 

 meant, after whom " Great Dryden next appears ?" 

 The text appears, as I have cited it, in all the 

 editions of Addison that I have been able to see. 



C. 



Song of the Revolution, 1688. — Some seventy 

 years ago, before dyspepsia came in fashion, a 

 club, composed of the finest specimens of the 

 country gentleman then flourishing, was wont to 

 meet annually on November 5 in our town ; and 

 after signalising the day by a consumption of 

 viands perfectly alarming, used to wind up with a 

 Bong bearing especial reference to the Revolution, 

 of which I can learn only a single terminal 

 oouplet. Can any reader help me ? It ran thus : 



" The gods adored were gods of wood, 

 Sign posts carved and painted." 



It could not have been purely local. 



E. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



Anastatic Printing. — Who is the publisher of a 

 pamphlet on Anastatic Printing, by C. J. Jordan ? 



J. P. 



Taverner's Testament. — I possess a few leaves 

 of the rare octavo edition of Tindale (revised 

 by Eychard Taverner), 1539. Mr. Offor, to 

 whom I have submitted them, is only aware of 

 one other copy existing. My object is to ascertain 

 if any other copy is known : the one Mr. Offor 

 mentions was formerly in the Harleian Collection. 

 The leaves (a portion of St. John's Gospel) formed 



part of the paper lining of an oak chest temp. 

 Eliz., from which they were taken. R, C. Warde. 

 Kidderminster. 



Manor of Old Paris Garden. — There is, 'or 

 used to be, a ditch or dyke running across Great 

 Surrey Street, Blackfriars Road ; but for some 

 few years past it has been covered and built upon. 

 All buildings thereon are subject to a ground-rent, 

 payable to the steward of the "Manor of Old 

 Paris Garden," and collected half-yearly. If you 

 could give me any information respecting this 

 old manor, you would greatly oblige. 



J. Edmunds. 



Dr. Adam darkens MSS. — I have in my pos- 

 session a rather interesting quarto volume in MS., 

 comprising about six hundred very carefully 

 written pages, and entitled " The Lives of the 

 English Martyrs Epitomised ; containing a Par- 

 ticular and Circumstantial Account of the Lives, 

 Sufferings, and Deaths of the Protestants in 

 the Reign of Queen Mary the First," &c. As 

 appears from a note in pencil, it belonged to 

 Dr. Adam Clarke, and is mentioned in p. 58. 

 (No. 94.) of the Catalogue of Dr. Clarke's MSS., 

 published by his son. Not having access to a copy 

 of the Catalogue"* in question, and wishing to know 

 particulars of the book (which is one hundred 

 years old, and has no author's name), may I apply 

 to you, or to some of your correspondents, for the 

 required information ? Abhba. 



Halfpenny of George II. — Some ten or twelve 

 years ago a workman in my employment, at 

 Rathmines, near Dublin, dug up a curious coin, 

 which I have. On the obverse is the head of 

 George II., with the words and figures " georgius 

 11. rex;" the reverse bears the crowned harp of 

 Ireland, with " hibernia, 1789." The date is 

 perfectly plain. It appears to be a coin from the 

 mint, milled at the edges, and evidently in con- 

 siderable circulation. I fear your readers will 

 call it a truly Irish coin, bearing as it does a date 

 twenty-nine years after George II.'s death. I 

 have hitherto been unable to obtain any explana- 

 tion of it. Y. S. M. 



'■'■ The Political Register, and Impartial Review of 

 New Books." — Information is desired as to the 

 origin, length of time for which published, prin- 

 cipal writers of, and, in short, general history of 

 this periodical, of which the 34th monthly Num- 

 ber, being the 1st Number of Vol. vi., was that 

 for January, 1770. Is it the first periodical, or 

 only periodical, of that name ? M. N. S. 



[* The Catalogue merely notices it as follows: "Fox's 

 Martyrology Epitomised. 4to. bound, pp. 602." — Ed.] 



