Sept. 4. 1852.] 



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Hon. A Colloquial and Familiar Rhapsody, re- 

 garding Prosaic, Poetic, and Dramatic Fiction, by 

 Quintin Queei-fellow, Gent. It is of between two 

 and three hundred pages of octosyllabic verse, 

 very spiritedly written, with all the "facility" of 

 that measure, and I think, here, not " fatal," very 

 amusing, and by no means uninstructive ; giving, 

 besides general thoughts on the subject, notices of 

 most of our writers, ancient and modern, and their 

 works. Having some thoughts of publishing it, 

 could you, or any of your correspondents, oblig- 

 ingly tell me the author ? to whom, in my opinion, 

 it would do no little honour. And it was evidently 

 written for publication, though there is nothing in 

 it to lead to the cause of its not having appeared ; 

 most probably the expense. 



The MS. was bought at an auction at Puttick's 

 sale-rooms in the spring. M. M. 



La Gazette de Londres. — Having lately met 

 with a journal styled La Gazette de Londres, 

 dated "Lundi 3, jusqu'au Jeudi 6 Mai, 1703, V. S.* 

 No. 3830.," permit me to ask, through the me- 

 diuni of the " N. & Q.," if it were customary to 

 publish the London Gazette in French at that 

 period ? I have never seen but that copy, which 

 I have ascertained to be a translation of the 

 London Gazette of Monday 3rd May to Thursday 

 6th May, 1703, No. 3911. Both are printed by 

 the government printer, Edward Jones, in the 

 Savoy. It will be remarked that they are differ- 

 ently numbered ; and if one might infer anything 

 from that, it would appear that the English copy 

 had published eighty-one numbers antecedently to 

 the French version of it. *. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



"iSTo^ serve two Masters." — 

 " Not serve two masters ? here's a youth will try it, 

 Would fain serve God, yet give the devil his due ; 

 Say grace before he doth a deed of villainy, 

 And give thanks devoutly when 'tis acted." 



I shall feel truly obliged if you will inform me 

 in what play the above lines may be found ? 



J. Hazelton. 



Chantry Chapels. —-M&ny of the small churches 

 destroyed at the Reformation as "Chantry 

 Chapels" were situated in hamlets remote from 

 the parish church, and were used for public wor- 

 ship as chapels of ease. Were any chapels so 

 situated, i.e. remote from other churches, ever 

 used exclusively as sepulchral chantries ? I have 

 not met with an instance of the kind. 



Where can an account of the destroyed chan- 

 tries be seen ? Is there any collected account of 

 them published ? W. H. K. 



* Le vieux style. 



Catastrophe. — Arthur Wilson, the historian, 

 referring (in his Autobiogruphy) to the period 

 when he was secretary to the Earl of Essex, says : 



" The winters wee spent in England. Either at 

 Draiton, my lord's grandmother's ; Chartley, his own 

 house ; or [at] some of his brother, the Earle of Hert- 

 ford's houses. Our private sports abroad, hunting j 

 at home, chesse or catastrophe. Our publique sports 

 (and sometimes with great charge and expence) were 

 masks or playes. Wherein I was a contriver both of 

 words and matter. For as long as the good old. 

 Countesse of Leicester lived (the grandmother to theise 

 noble families) her hospitable entertainment was gar- 

 nisht with such, then harmless, recreations." — Peck, 

 Desiderata Curiosa, lib. xii. No. v. chap. vi. sect. 2. 



Can any of your correspondent's elucidate the 

 term catastrophe in the above passage ? 



. . C. H. COOEEB. 



Cambridge. 



Judges' Robes. — During the court (" assize just 

 held in this town, the judge in the i awn Court, 

 Lord Campbell, had a robe of scarltL and ermine > 

 his brother judge in the Nisi Prius, Mr. Justice 

 Wightman, one o? plain black. 



Is this distinction caused by the courts in whicH 

 they sit, or by their official position as judges? '' 



A. a 



Liverpool. 



i^titor Queries ^n^toewW. 



Bishop of London, 1713. — Who was Bishop of 

 London, May 31, 1713? T. C. 



[Dr. Henry Compton, who died on July 7th, 17 13. J 



Peterman. — John Aubrey, in one of his MSS., 

 says of Kington Langley, near Chippenham : 



" Here was a chapel dedicated to St. Peter. The 

 Revel is still kept (1670) the Sunday after St. Peter's 

 day : it is one of the eminentest Feastes in these partes. 

 Old John Wastefield told me that he had been Peter- 

 man in the beginning of Her Majesty's Reign." 



It is probable from the above that the Peterman 

 was a sort of Master of the Ceremonies at the~ 

 Kevel. But is there any other instance of the use 

 of this word, and what is the accurate history of 

 it? J.E.J. 



[Phillips and Bailey explain Peter-men as " those, 

 who formerly used unlawful engines and arts in catch- 

 ing fish in the river Thames." See also Nares' Glos- 

 sary. Petermen, in the slang dialect, are those who 

 follow coaches and waggons to cut off packages. It 

 appears, however, to have another meaning in the 

 extract from Aubrey.] 



Official Costume of the Judges. — Is there any 

 work from which I can obtain information respect- 

 ing the history of the official costume of the judges 



