Nov. 20. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The Word "-Capable" in "-As You Like It" 

 (Vol. vi., p. 468.). — I interrupt myself in cor- 

 recting the proof of one of the last portions of 

 my volume of Notes and JEmendations, founded on 

 my folio, 1632, to do justice to Mr. Singer's sa- 

 gacity in reading palpable for " capable," in that 

 passage of Act III. Scene 5. of As You Like It 

 where Phoebe says : 



" Lean but on a rush, 

 The cicatrice and capable impressure, 

 Thy palm some moment keeps." 



The sheet containing the emendation of the old 

 correction of the folio, 1632, has been printed oif 

 several months, wherein I say that " capable 

 appears not to have been the poet's word ; and 

 the manuscript-corrector has it '■palpable impres- 

 sure' — an indentation that may be felt." In fact, 

 a pen is put through the letters ca, and pal sub- 

 stituted in the margin of the folio, 1632, which 

 was all that was necessary. 



This coincidence shows that two individuals, 

 one living about two hundred years after the 

 other, have proposed the same correction : the 

 earlier having resort perhaps to some indepen- 

 dent authority, and the later being indebted 

 merely to his own intelligence and knowledge. 

 This concurrence of testimony must be satisfac- 

 tory in a case like the present. 



J. Payne Coixiee. 



The Trusty Servant at Winchester (Vol. vi., 



{). 416.). — In one of John Aubrey's unpublished 

 etters to Antony Wood, in the Ashmolean Li- 

 brary at Oxford, from which I was lately making 

 some extracts, he speaks of " The Faithful Servant 

 at Winton, done by The Serjeant when he went 

 to school there." As I was not consulting Au- 

 brey's Letters with any view to this particular 

 point, and merely made this memorandum en 

 passant, I cannot say at this moment with cer- 

 tainty to whom he alludes. But, recollecting other 

 references to the same " Serjeant," I believe the 

 person he is speaking of to be the witty and sa- 

 tirical Sir John Hoskyns, of whom there Is a me- 

 moir in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary. From 

 that memoir it appears that Hoskyns was a Win- 

 chester scholar, and was elected to New College, 

 1584. Whether Sir John Hoskyns (presuming 

 him to be the person meant) was the original 

 painter or not, would of course be a point still 

 unsettled. But Aubrey's casual mention of the 

 circumstance supplies at all events the date of a 

 painting far enough back to make It certain that 

 the work done, according to the College accounts, 

 in 1637 (see Vol. vi., p. 12.), could only be a re- 

 painting. The date of Aubrey's letter is Oct. 27, 

 1 67 1 . J. E. Jackson. 



Major- General Benjamin Lincoln of the A7nerican 

 Army (Vol. vi., p. 99.). — Mr. Peacock inquires. 



whether this American revolutionary oflScer was 

 descended from an English family of the same 

 name wlio settled in Lincolnshire as late as 1651 ? 

 The probability is that he was not. He was born 

 in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1733. The town 

 was originally settled by emigrants from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Hingham, county Norfolk : six or 

 eight persons named Lincoln became settlers in 

 Hingham, Massachusetts, between 1636 and 1642. 

 Some of them, it Is known, came direct from 

 Hingham, Norfolk ; and the presumption is, that 

 all of them were from the same neighbourhood 

 and were relatives. Among the Lincolns admitted 

 freemen of Hingham, Massachussets, between the 

 years mentioned, was Thomas Lincoln, a cooper. 

 His son, Benjamin, was admitted a freeman in 

 1677. This Benjamin was the father of Col. Ben- 

 jamin Lincoln, who was the father to Maj.- General 

 Benjamin Lincoln, the subject of this notice. The 

 latter died in 1816, full of years and honours. 

 For further particulars, see Farmer's New England 

 Genealogical Register, edition 1829, and the New 

 England Genealogical Register, a magazine for 

 the years 1847 — 1852. T. Westcott. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 1852. 



John, Lord Barclay (Vol. v., pp. 275. 309.). — 

 Dr. Lake's Diary has accidentally fallen in my 

 way, and I am surprised that J. Y. failed to see 

 the explanation of the note which he quotes. 

 The diarist says : 



" I administered' the sacrament to the Lord John 

 Barclay (being not well), and his ladye discoursing 

 with Dr. Turner," &c. 



" Lord John Barclay," so styled, apparently, for 

 the sake of distinction from the Earl of Berkeley, 

 was no doubt John, Lord Berkeley, of Stratton ; 

 not, however, the person whom Tyro (Vol. v., 

 p. 309.) supposes, but his father, who died In 1678. 

 The remainder of the editor's note relates to Dr. 

 Turner, who was successively Bishop of Rochester 

 and Ely, and it ought to have been printed as a 

 separate note. J. C. R. 



Anglican Baptism (Vol. vl., p. 340.). — A con- 

 vert from the English Church to Romanism is not 

 required to submit to baptism. Where re-baptism 

 takes place it is, I believe, given in a hypothetical 

 form ; the administrator and the receiver affect- 

 ing to suppose that in the previous Anglican 

 baptism there may, through the negligence of the 

 minister, have been an omission of something 

 which the Anglican Church agrees with the Roman 

 in regarding as essential. J. C. R. 



Shakspeare Family (Vol. vi., p. 289.). — The 

 Order to which J. F. F. alludes is subsequent to 

 the Restoration, and of record in a repertory of 

 state papers and other documents, relating chiefly 

 to the acts of settlement and explanation. These 



