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[No. 155. 



can pronounce, I think, with confidence Hogarth's 

 share in such a work ; for Hogarth's book-plates 

 have many peculiarities. Francis Graves. 



6. Pall Mall. 



Autograph of Edmund Waller (Vol. vi., p. 292.). 

 ■^ 1 have a copy of the Commentaires de inessire 

 Blaise de Monilvc, mareschal de France, Paris, 

 1594, 8vo., with the autograph Edm. Waller. It 

 is very neatly written. The d and II have open 

 tops, and those of II are interlaced. The device 

 of the printer separates the baptismal and sur- 

 names. The same volume bears on the title-page 

 Deuonshire — perhaps William Cavendish, first earl 

 of Devonshire of that name ; and on a fly-leaf 

 ■ David Constable 1833. Bolton Coknet. 



" The Shift Shifted'' (Vol. vi., p. 315.).— In an- 

 swer to your correspondent who inquires as to 

 the nature of this publication, I may inform him 

 that the Shift Shifted was a continuation of a 

 Jacobite newspaper or periodical, entitled Robiiis 

 Last Shift, or Weekly Remarks and Political Re- 

 flections upon the most Material News, Foreign and 

 Domestic, by George Flint, Gent., Part I. : London, 

 printed for Isaac Dal ton in the year 1717, 12mo. 

 It commences Saturday, February 18, 1715-16, 

 land was continued every Saturday up to April 26, 

 1716, comprising eleven numbers, in 288 pages. 

 Robin's Last Shift was immediately succeeded by 

 The Shift Shifted, or Weekly Remarks and Political 

 Reflections upon the most Material News, Foreign 

 and Domestic, No. I., Part I., Saturday, May 5, 

 1716. It is printed in folio instead of the small 

 size first adopted, but is continued on the same 

 plan, and evidently by the same writer. The last 

 number in my copy is No. XX. (for Saturday, 

 Sept. 15, 1716), I do not think it was prosecuted 

 further. Robins Last Shift and The Shift Shifted 

 contain many interesting particulars not to be 

 found elsewhere of the Jacobite prisoners and the 

 rebellion of 1715, and attack with unsparing 

 severity the conduct adopted by the zealots for 

 the existing government. They do not appear to 

 have come under the notice of my late friend 

 Br. S. Hilbert Ware, who would have found them 

 useful in his Lancashire Memorials of 1715, pub- 

 lished for the Chetham Society in 1845, 4to. 



Jas. Cbosslet. 



Anecdote of Milton (Vol. vi., p. 294.).— P. C. S. S. 

 ventures to submit to Dr. E. F. Kimbault that 

 the pretty verses referred to do not relate to the 

 romantic incident recorded of Milton, but to the 

 well-known story of the French poet, Alain Char- 

 tier and the Princess Margaret of Scotland, first 

 wife of Lewis XL of France. The "Kiss," unhap- 

 pily for Milton, does not figure in the anecdote 

 reported of him. In that of the more fortunate 

 Frenchman, the whole story turns upon it. 



P.C.S.S. 



Muffs worn by Gentlemen (Vol. v., p. 560. ; 

 Vol. vi., passim.). — In Hogarth's picture of "The 

 Woman Swearing the Child," the husband wears a 

 muff, which appears to be fastened by a hook to 

 his girdle ; and in " Taste in High Life," the beau 

 has a large mufi*. " This gentleman is said to be 

 intended for Lord Portmore, in the habit he first 

 appeared in at court on his return from France." 



Robert J. Allen, 



In the Biographia Dramatica, vol. ii. p. 161., 

 edit. 1812, under the article "The Devil upon 

 Two Sticks," acted at the Haymarket, 1768, muffs 

 are thus mentioned : 



" The active part taken by Sir William Browne, 

 President of the College of Physicians, in the contest 

 with the Licentiates, occasioned his being introduced 

 by Foote into this comedy. Upon Foote's exact re- 

 presentation of him, with his identical wig and coat, 

 tall figure, and glass stiffly applied to his eye, Sir Wil- 

 liam sent him a card, complimenting the actor on 

 having so happily represented him, but as he had 

 forgotten his muff he sent him his own." 



Had the muff been so unusual as to attract 

 notice, Foote would not have forgotten it. 



H.B.C. 

 U. U. Club. 



In Letter X. of Anstey's New Bath Guide are 

 the following lines : 



" Thank Heaven ! of late, my dear mother, my face i& 

 Not a little regarded at all public places : 

 For I ride in a chair, with my hand in a muff. 

 And have bought a silk coat and embroider'd the 

 cuff," &c. 



The New Bath Guide was, I believe, first pub- 

 lished in 1766; but I am uncertain if this letter, 

 which is in the second part, appeared at the same 

 time. C. B. C. 



Mr. G. P. Harding copied, for General Dowdes- 

 well, a most curious drawing of Beau Fielding (or 

 Feilding) with a muff; and there is a very rare 

 print (a private plate) by Cardon, after Ed ridge, 

 of Alderman Harley with a muff. Was not Harley 

 father of the City ? and was he not the last En- 

 glishman who wore a muff? Francis Graves. 



6. Pall Mall. 



In an annual entitled The Bijou, published by 

 Pickering some years since, I recollect seeing an 

 engraving from one of Holbein's paintings, of the 

 family of Sir Thomas More, where the father of 

 the great Chancellor is represented as sitting with 

 his hands before him, in what appeared to be a 

 small muff, I think of fur. John Miland. 



Count Konigsmark (Vol. v., passim.). — There is 

 an interesting account of the character and execu- 

 tion of the principal murderer hired by him to 

 assassinate IMr. Thynne, in Capt. Alex. Smith's 



