Sept. 18. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and Richard Hooker, mercers who left off trade) are 

 to he sold at very low Rates, at the Golden Sugar 

 Loaf, up one pair of Stairs, over against the Horse at 

 Charing Cross, the price being set on each. Catalogues 

 of the above said gowns to be had at the place of sale." 



— 1762. 



2. " This animated equestrian statue was cast in 

 brass by Le Soeur, in the year 1633, by the order of that 

 munificent encourager of the Arts, Thomas Howard, 

 Earl of Arundel. On the King's decollation, the Par- 

 liament ordered it to be sold, and broken to pieces ; 

 but John River, the brazier, who purchased it, having 

 more taste than the sellers, seeing, with the prophetic 

 eye of good sense, that the powers which were would 

 not remain long, dug a hole in his garden in Holborn 

 and buried it unmutilated. To prove his obedience, 

 he produced to his masters several pieces of brass 

 which he told them were pieces of the statue. M. De 

 Archenholz adds further, that the brazier, with the 

 true spirit of trade, cast a great number of handles for 

 knives and forks, and offered them for sale as the brass 

 which had composed the statue. They were eagerly 

 sought for, and purchased by the loyalists from affec- 

 tion to their murdered monarch ; by the other party, as 

 trophies of the triumph of liberty over tyranny!" — 

 1792. 



3. " Saturday morning early, the sword, buckler, 

 and straps fell from the equestrian statue of King 

 Charles the First at Charing Cross. The appendages, 

 similar to the statue, are of copper ; the sword, &c. 

 were picked up by a man of the name of Moxam, a 

 porter belonging to Golden Cross, who deposited them 

 in the care of Mr. Eyre, trunk maker, in whose pos- 

 session they remain till that gentleman receives the 

 instructions from the Board of Green Cloth at St. 

 James's Palace relative to their former reinstatement." 



— April, 1810. 



E.F. 



JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT. 



A late aoquisition to my collection of the hym- 

 Hologists of Great Britain, is a little square volume 

 entitled : 



" Hymns, or Spiritual Songs, composed from the 

 Prophetical Writings of Johanna Southcott. By 

 P. Pullen, and published by her order : 



' And I saw an Angel,' &c — Rev. xx. 1, 2. 

 London. Sold by W. Tozer, &c., n. d. pp. 223., 

 172 Hymns." 



The " Little Flock " are thus addressed by their 

 " Poet Laureat : " 



" Fellow Labourers in Christ's Vineyard, 

 " By permission of our ' spiritual mother,' Johanna 

 Southcott, I have composed the following Hymns from 

 her prophetic writings ; and should you feel that plea- 

 sure in singing them to the honour and glory of God, 

 for the establisliment of His Blessed Kingdom, and the 

 destruction of Satan's power, as I have felt in the 

 perusal of her writings, I am fully persuaded that they 

 will ultimately tend to your everlasting happiness, and 



I hope and trust to the speedy completion of what we 

 ardently long and daily pray for, namely, 'his kingdom 

 to come, that his will may he done on Earth as it is in. 

 Heaven, and that we may he delivered from evil:' that 

 that blessed prayer may be soon, very soon, fulfilled, is 

 the earnest desire of your fellow-labourer, Phillip 

 Pullen, London, 16 Sept. 1807." 



The vagaries of this sect date a little before 

 my day, and 1 shall be glad to be directed to the 

 best source of information regarding them, their 

 " spiritual mother," and peculiar views. 



The reader of these hymns will not feel the 

 spiritual elevation spoken of by Mr. Pullen, 

 unless, perhaps, he has, like him, drunk at the 

 fountain-head, i. e. studied the " prophetic writ- 

 ings:" the songs for the now "scattered sheep" 

 being rhapsodical to a degree, and intelligible 

 only to such an audience as that some of your 

 sexagenarian readers may have found assembled 

 under the roof of " The House of God." The 

 leading titles to these hymns are, " True Explana- 

 tions of the Bible ;" " Strange Effects of Faith ;" 

 "Words in Season;" "Communications" and 

 Visions, not published ; " Cautions to the Sealed;" 

 " Answers to the Books of Garrett and Brothers ;" 

 "Rival Enthusiasts ;" and such like. Pullen, their 

 poet, " was formerly a schoolmaster, and after- 

 wards an accountant in London," and is called by 

 Upcott, in his Diet, of Living Authors, 1816, with 

 reference to a commercial publication of his, " an 

 empiric," which, I take it, applies equally to his 

 poetical pretensions as here displayed. 



A couplet in the first hymn bears an asterisk, 

 intimating that it is published at the particular 

 request of Johanna Southcott ; it is short, and will 

 afford at once a specimen of the poetical calibre of 

 the volume, and the pith of the "spiritual mother's" 

 views : 



" To FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST, 



One GOD in power three. 

 Bring hack the ancient world that's lost 

 To all mankind — and me." 



J. 0. 



NAPOLEON S BIRTHDAT. 



At page 80. reference is made to the very Ill- 

 directed hoax, by which a medical gentleman was 

 represented as the author of the pathetic " Monody 

 on the Death of Sir John Moore," the universally 

 recognised production of the Rev. Charles Wolfe, 

 who died in this neighbourhood, at Cove, now 

 called Queenstown, the 21st of February, 1823, 

 only thirty-one years old. A circumstance simi- 

 larly characterised as a hoax, in a leading journal. 

 Induces me to submit it to your readers ; and 

 let them detei'mlne how far the epithet is fah*ly 

 applied. 



In The Times of the 28th ult. the celebration of 

 Napoleon's anniversary on the 15th of August, as 



