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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 146. 



been ascribed to Francis Davison on the authority 

 of Sir Harris Nicolas, who printed it from tlie 

 Harleian MS. 6930., with many otliers by Francis 

 and Christopher Davison, as an appendix to the 

 Poetical rhapsody which he edited in 1826. He 

 admits tliat the signatures in that manuscript " are 

 not in the same autograph as the manuscript itself, 

 but appear to have been added some time after- 

 wards." It is therefore very questionable evi- 

 dence. 



The Poems of Donne were first collectively pub- 

 lished in 1633, 4to. On that edition much reliance 

 cannot be placed, as it includes An epitaph upon 

 Shakespeare which was certainly written by 

 William Basse. The editions of 1635 and 1639, 

 both in octavo, are not much superior to it, except 

 in the omission of that epitaph. It was in 1650 — 

 and not in 1635, «s Malone asserts — that John 

 Donne, the civilian, gave the first complete edition 

 of the poems of his father ; and as that edition 

 contains the psalm in question, the claim made for 

 Francis Davison must be set aside. Tlie edition 

 of 1650 is dedicated "To the right honourable 

 William lord Craven, baron of Hamsted-Mar- 

 sham." It was reprinted in 1669. 



Bolton Cornet. 



Henry Lord Dover (Vol. vi., pp. 10. 86 ). — It 

 may be interesting to your correspondent whose 

 inquiries relate to Henry Jermyn, first Baron 

 Jermyn of Dover, third Baron Jermyn of St. 

 Edmund's Bury and Earl of Dover by creation of 

 James II. after his abdication, to be informed that 

 a description of that nobleman's tomb (formerly 

 in the church of the Carmelite monks at Bruges) 

 will be found in a forthcoming number of The 

 Topographer and Genealogist. He died April 6, 

 1708, at Cheveley in Cambridgesliii-e, and his re- 

 mains were, by his desire, carried to Bruges for 

 burial. 



A drawing of the monument alluded to is pre- 

 served in the MS. " Sepultur der Stadt Brugge," 

 in the Bibliotheque Publique at Bruges, vol. vi. 

 f. 206., whence my descriptiim of it. 



Among the archives of Bruges in the Hotel de 

 VlUe is a commission signed by James 11., dated 

 Dublin Castle, December 17, 1689, appointing 

 Darby Morphy, Esq., Captain-Lieut, to Lord 

 Ilunsdon's regiment of foot. His name may, 

 therefore, occur in your correspondent's list of the 

 dethroned monarch's officers. A family of De 

 Morphy had previously to this date become located 

 at Bruges. G. Steinman Steinman. j 



'■'■ Experto crede Bolerto" (Vol.vi., p. 107.). — ' 

 The fact mentioned by J. H. M. is much too 

 modern. Before I asked for the origin of the phrase 

 (Vol. iii., p. 353.), I had seen an adaptation of it ! 

 to himself, in his own handwriting, by James I., 

 "Experto crede Jacobo;" and had also made a 

 note of it as occurring in a discourse of Ulricus 



Molitor, which he intituled De Laniis et Phitonicis 

 Midierihus, and addressed to Sigismuud, Archduke 

 of Austria, in a letter dated lOLh January, 1489. 

 He says in his first chapter : 



" Profecto experientia in decidendis cnusis con- 

 temptibilis non est . . . uiide tritura est apud po- 

 pulares proverbium experto crede ruberto." 



It was then a trite proverb. N. B. 



Vellum-hound Books (Vol. v., p. 607.). — In 

 answer to Mb. Coeney (although not " in search 

 of a vellum-bound Junius "), I beg to say that the 

 phrnse " vellum manner " is in common use with ■ 

 us bookbinders ; it is used to describe a particular 

 method of sewing and forming the back of a book, 

 without the hard projecting joints, wliicli are 

 formed by hammering the book while in the press. 

 The vellum manner is very strong and free in 

 opening ; account books are bound upon this prin- 

 ciple, it is also extensively used by the British and 

 Foreign Bible Society: the book is sewed upon 

 strips of vellum or tape, or on thongs as of old. 

 Books bound in vellum style are also much less 

 injured for rebindlng than when the back is cut in 

 for cords and hammered into joints ; perhaps the 

 advertiser had an eye to this point, he having been , 

 guilty of joining together that which the author 

 had intended should have been kept asunder. 



J. Leighton. 

 40. Brewer Street. 



Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore (Vol. vi., 

 p. 80.). — The parody on the monody referred ta 

 by your correspondents C. IL Cooper and T. H. 

 Kebslev is to be found in the first volume of In- 

 goldsby Legends, p. 111., where the author, the ' 

 llev. Thomas Barliam, says : 



" In the autumn of 182'I, Captain Medwin having 

 hinted that certain beautiful lines on the burial of this 

 callant officer might have been the production of Lord ■ 

 B\-ron's muse, the late Mr. Sydney Taylor, somewhat 

 indignantly, claimed them for their rigiitfui owner, the 

 late Rev. Charles Wolfe. During the controversy a 

 third claimant started up in the p?rson of a soi-disant 

 Doctor Marshall, wiio turned out to be a Durham 

 blacksraitli, and his pretensions a hoax. It was then 

 that a certain Doctor Peppercorn put forth his pre- 

 tensions to what he averred was the only ' true and 

 original ' version, viz. (here follows the parody as given 

 by IMk. Kersley) : 

 ' Hos ego versiculos feel, tnlit alter honores.' — Virgil. 



'I wrote the lines — i\I 1 owned them — he told' 



stories ! ' " — Thomas lagoldshj. 



The production of the parody had been asciibed 

 to Praed and others, until the admission of Barham ■ 

 was made that he was its author, as given .above. 



L. Jewitt. 



The Hereditary Standard Bearer (Vol. v., 

 p. G09.). — 'The present " Hereditary Royal Stan- 

 dard Bearer," Frederick Lewis Scry mgeour- Wed- 



