July 24. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIED 



6^ 



Dr. Meinhold, the professed editor of the 

 "Amber "Witch," is himself the author. Some 

 controversy in the German newspapers as to whe- 

 ther it was an authentic history or not was put an 

 end to by a letter from Dr. Meinhold (which ap- 

 peared in Ihe Allgemeine Zeiiung) distinctly avow- 

 ing himself as the author. 1 have heard tliat Dr. 

 Meinhold, beinjj; dissatisfied with the peremptory 

 manner with which tlie Tubingen reviewers, 

 Strauss and his followers, professed the unerring 

 certainty with which they could discover, from 

 internal evitlence, the degree of credulity to be 

 attached to any narrative whatever, determined to 

 put their infallibility to the test, by writing the 

 " Amber Witch." His success was complete. The 

 Straussites were completely taken in, and pro- 

 nounced in favour of tlie authenticity of the 

 "Amber Witch" with as little hesitation as they 

 had previously shown in deciding against the au- 

 thenticity of great portions of the sacred writings. 



il. C. C. 



Oxon. 



LINES ON SUCCESSION OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND. 



BeRaii 



to 

 Reign. 

 1066 

 1087 

 1100 

 1135 

 1154 

 1189 



1199 

 1216 



1272 

 1307 

 1327 



1377 

 1399 

 1413 

 1422 



1461 



1483 



1483 

 1485 



1509 

 1547 



1553 

 1558 

 1603 

 1625 



(Vol. iii., p. 168.) 



William the Norman conquers England's state ; 

 In his own forest, Rufus meets his fate ; 

 Though elder Robert lives, Henry succeeds; 

 Stephen usurps the throne, and Albion bleeds ; 

 Great Second Henry bows at Becket's shrine ; 

 Brave Richard's doom'd in foreign bonds to 



pine ; 

 Perfidious John submits bis crown to Rome ; 

 A long and troubled reign's third Henry's 



doom ; 

 Edward the first, her king to Scotland gives ; 

 Edward the second cruel death receives ; 

 Two captive monarchs grace third Edward's 



train ; 

 His grandson Richard is depos'd and slain ; 

 Domestic foes, fourth Henry's arms engage ; 

 France feels at Agincourt, fifth Henry's rage; 

 The sixth good Henry, realms and son must 



lose ; 

 While the fourth Edward love and fame pur- 

 sues; 

 Yet o'er his children's heads, the trembling 



crown 

 Uncertain hangs, till Richard pulls it down ; 

 Stain'd with their blood, the fell usurper reigns. 

 Till the seventh Henry, Bosworth's battle gains, 

 Unites the Roses, and dire faction quells ; 

 Henry the eighth both monks and Pope expels; 

 England laments sixth Edward's short liv'd 



bloom ; 

 Alary's short reign restores the faith of Rome ; 

 Eliza forms the church and humbles Spain ; 

 The crowns unite in James's peaceful reign ; 

 Charles, by the axe, his errors must atone; 



1649 

 1660 



1685 



1688 



1702 



1714 

 1727 



1760 



Cromwell, without the title, mounts the throne ; 

 False power, false pleasure flatter Charles re- 



stor'd ; 

 'Gainst James the second, freedom draws her 



sword ; 

 The sceptre given to William's patriot hand; 

 A bloodless revolution saves the land ; 

 William and Mary dead, Anne mounts the' 



throne ; 

 To her, first George succeeds, Sophia's son ; 

 Next George the second wore his father's 



crown ; ^ 



His grandson George now Britain's sceptre 



sways. 

 Whom God preserve, and bless with length of 



days. 



E. a 



DODO QUERIES. 

 (Vol. i., p. 261.) 



Mh. Strickland will find in L'Univers Pit- ^ 

 toresque, under the head " lies de L'Afrique," the 

 question of the discovery of the Mauritius, and ad- • 

 jacent islands, by the Portuguese, ably, and perhaps 

 as fully discussed as can be at present, until the^ 

 archives containing the hydrographical records of 

 the early Portuguese voyagers are opened to the 

 savans of Europe. A collection of old Portuguese 

 and other charts edited by Eugene de Froberville, 

 and published at Paris a few years ago, are well - 

 worthy of the attention of those curious on the , 

 subject. They are in the British Museum, may. 

 be found under " Africa, East Coasts," and their . 

 press or table mark is — 



" 69295. T. 20. 

 700. S. l7" 



Froberville, in his account of Rodriguez, in the 

 lies de VAfrique (ut supra), quotes freely from a 

 MS. written by Pingre, which contained "longues. 

 descriptions des animaux et des plantes de Rod- 

 riguez ; " and also states, apparently on the autho- 

 rity of this MS., that the Solitaire was in existence' 

 as late as the year 1761. ' 



Mr. Strickland, in his valuable work. The 

 Dodo and its Kindred, speaking of the MS. journal 

 of Sieur D. B., hopes It " will not be allowed to 

 remain much longer unpublished. As Mr. S. 

 ("N. & Q.," Vol.i., p. 411.) again alludes to the 

 MS. of D. B., I beg leave to mention that it was- 

 published at Paris, in 1694, under the following 

 title, Les Voyages fails parle Sieur D. B. aux 

 Isles Dauphine, ou Madagascar, Sf Bourhon, ou 

 Mascarenne, es annees 1669, 70, 71, Sf 72. The 

 dedication of this work is signed Dubois; and- 

 In the Bibliotheque Universelle des Voyages, by 

 Richarderie, Paris, 1808, the author's name is- 

 stated to be Dubois. W. Pinkekton. 



Ham. 



