Oct. 23, 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



391 



•Thanksgiving ; " and that we may shew forth Thy 

 praise." Although it is not to be found in the 

 Sealed Book, as will be seen from Mr. Keeling's 

 Trainable reprint of its text compared with that of 

 previous editions, and is obviously superfluous, it 

 ■actually made its appearance in a folio edition 

 printed at London in the same year, 1662. We 

 find the intruder again in the London folio of 

 1669, and so repeatedly in subsequent editions, 

 that I think it is rather the rule than the exception 

 in those issued during the last century. 



Cheverblis. 



[Our correspondent will find a communication in the 

 British Magazine, vol. xix. p. 80., which ajipears deci- 

 •sive that the omission of the word " may " is not acci- 

 dental but intentional. On turning to Mr. Stephens' 

 reprint of the Scaled Book, he will find the word 

 marked through for erasure. There is clearly a mis- 

 print in the first lesson of the Evening Service for the 

 Martyr King, viz. Jer. xii. for xli. The twelfth 

 chapter has no reference whatever to the subject of the 

 day ; but the forty-first relates to the destruction of the 

 seed royal. Since writing the foregoing, we have re- 

 ferred to the first edition of the service, "printed by John 

 Bill, at the King's printing-office in Blackfriars, 1661," 

 which gives Zach. xii. as the first lesson for that service. 

 So that what we commenced as a Note resolves itself 

 into a Query : — Which is the first proper lesson for the 

 JEvening Service of the 30th January ?J 



Exchequer. — How is admission to be obtained 

 ^;o the Remembrancer's Ofiice for the purpose of 

 inspecting MSS. ? J. W. 



[In the First Report on Public Records, a.d. 1800, 

 p. 142., is a table of fees demandable for searches, 

 copies of, and attendance with records at this office. 

 Mr. John Trickey is the present court clerk and re- 

 cord keeper at the Queen's Remembrancer's Office, 

 22. Duke Street, Westminster.] 



African House. — Dr. Calamy's Life and Times, 

 vol. i. p. 481., says of Mr. Story, one of the few 

 ■who had tasted Judge Jefiery's mercy : 



" His family was then at Highgate, and he with 

 them, when business would allow it ; but his usual 

 residence was in the city at ' the African House,' where 

 he was housekeeper." 



Tewars. 



{^African House was in Leadenhall Street. See New 

 "View of LondoJi, vol. ii. p. 593.] 



The Tumbledown Dick. — About five miles to 

 ■the westward of Cardiff, on the side of the turnpike 

 Toad at a place called Rhiewa Cochon, there stands 

 an old public-house, which up to a very few years 

 back was called the Tumbledown Dick, and it is 

 still well known by that name, though the sign 

 has been altered to the Traherne Arms, the house 

 being the property of the Rev. J. Montgomery 

 Traherne, F.R.S. I was informed about forty 

 jears ago by an old man long since dead, that the 



name or sign of the Tumbledown Dick bad been 

 given to the house soon after the Restoration, in 

 derision of Richard, the son of Oliver Cromwell ; 

 but I do not know what authority he had for 

 saying so. Possibly there may be other public- 

 houses having the same sign, and, if so, some of 

 your numerous readers may be able to say whether 

 the above statement is correct or not. L. B. 



[This epithet has been frequently applied to Richard 

 Cromwell, owing to his short continuance in his high 

 station as Lord Protector. Butler {Hudibras, part iii. 

 canto ii. lines 231 — 236.) thus alludes to him : 



" Next him (Oliver) his son and heir apparent 

 Succeeded, though a lame vicegerent ; 

 Who first laid by the parliament, 

 The only crutch on which he leant ; 

 And then sunk underneath the state. 

 That rode him above horseman's weight." 



Again, in his Remains, in the tale of the " Cobbler 

 and the Vicar of Bray " : 



" What's worse. Old Noll is marching off, 

 ■ And Dick, his heir apparent. 

 Succeeds him in the government, 



A very lame vicegerent : 

 He'll reign but little time, poor tool. 



But sink beneath the state. 

 That will not fail to ride the fool 



'Bove common horseman's weight."] 



" THE GOOD OLD CAUSE." 



(Vol. vi., pp. 74. 180. 319.) ' 



Your correspondents who have replied to this 

 Query do not appear to have noticed one of the 

 most curious books connected with this once- 

 famous party cry. It is by the redoubted Henry 

 Stubbe, and is entitled An Essay in Defence of 

 the Good Old Cause; or a Discourse concerning 

 the Rise and Extent of the Power of the Civil 

 Magistrate in reference to Spiritual Affairs, and a 

 Preface concerning the Name of the Good Old 

 Cause, an equal Commonwealth, a co-ordinate 

 Synod, the Holy Commonivealth, published lately 

 by Mr. Richard Baxter, and a Vindication of the 

 Honorable Sir Harry Vane from the false Asper- 

 sions of Mr. Baxter, by Henry Stubbe, of Ch. Ch. 

 in Oxon. Vincat Veritas. London, printed in the 

 year 1659. 12mo. pp.200, inclusive of Preface. 



He observes in the Preface : 



" To write now, and for the Good Old Cause, is to 

 contend with all the discouragements that might terrify 

 one from becoming an author. Some there are who 

 (like to Alexander the coppersmith at Ephesus) decry 

 the goodness of what their interest leads them to con- 

 demn; others question the antiquity, and doubt whether 

 this Sumpsimus be more old than their Mumpsimus. 

 To the former I endeavour a reply in the treatise en- 

 suing. Of the latter sort of men, I desire they would 



