Oct. 16. 1852.] 



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of London, who married Joanna, one of the daugh- 

 ters of the, above-named William Methold, by his 

 will dated Jan. 3, 1658-9, and proved April 20, 

 1659, bequeaths 10/. to his dear friend Sir A. S., 

 and Mrs. Margaret S., his daughter. 



And whilst speaking of these wills, who was 

 Mr. William Cockayne, who is mentioned in both 

 of them as having married another of William 

 Methold's daughters? What relation was he to 

 Sir William Cockayne, living about this time, and 

 Lord Mayor of London ? 



Likewise, who were Arthur and Joanna Bar- 

 nardiston, whom Wm. Methold calls his " brother 

 and sister?" Who were John and Katherine 

 Goodwyn, and their son Mr. Deane Goodwyn, 

 whom he also speaks of as " brother and sister ? " 



I may mention this William Methold was repre- 

 sentative of the Metholds of South Pickenham, co. 

 Norfolk, who were a younger branch of the Me- 

 tholds of Langford, co. Norfolk, of which place 

 they had been lords since Henry III.'s reign. The 

 name is variously spelled : Methwolde, Methoulde, 

 and Methelwold. He was a merchant in London ; 

 was seised of very large estates in Middlesex, 

 Norfolk, Yorkshire, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire ; 

 and was founder of the Methold almshouses at 

 Ivensington. Tewaks. 



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NOTES FROM FI.Y-LEAVES : EIKON BASILIKE. 



The pages of " N. & Q." have already exhibited 

 some interesting MS. memoranda from the fly- 

 leaves of books. The following are from a copy 

 of the original edition of the Eilion Baxilike, which 

 has lately come into my possession. The copy in 

 question is a very fine one in old morocco, date 

 1648, with the royal arms on the sides, the same 

 as borne by the Stuarts before the union with 

 Scotland, encircled with the garter, and sur- 

 mounted by a crown. 



On the first fly-leaf is the following memoran- 

 dum twice written, in an apparently coteraporary 

 hand : — 



" Chronostichon anni 1 648. 



" ReX prVs et greX VerVs ConDemnantVr 



InlqVe." 



A little further on, in another and somewhat 

 later handwriting, on a blank half-page, — 



" Upon the Death of King Charles the First; Mont- 

 rosse ; written with the point of his sword : 



" Great, Good, and Just ! could I but rate 



■ My griefs, and thy too rigid fate, 

 I'de weep the World to such a strain, 

 As it should deluge once againe : 

 But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supply 

 More from Briareus hands than Argus eie, 

 I'll sing thy Obsequies with Trumpet's sounds, 



, And write thy Epitaph with Blood and Wounds." 



At the back of " An Epitaph upon King 

 Charles " is another memorandum, apparently in 

 the same antique hand as the first : 



" Chronostichon decollationis Caroli Regis, etc. tri- 

 ceslmo die Jan. anno a Creatione mundi ut inter non- 

 nullos computatur 5684. 



" Trlstla perCharl Deploro f Vnera Regis 

 Inferna Ingratse Oetestor IMCVnera pXiehls 

 ReX BeCoSiliatVr serVIs; qVIs talila Verbis 

 EXpIiICet aVt possit IiaChryWCIS aqVare la- 

 bores 

 HIC pletatis honos, sIC RegeJRX In sCeptra 

 reponVnt." 



The name of a former possessor appears on the 

 title-page — " Judith Echard, her booke ;" but she 

 is clearly not the writer of the memoranda. May 

 I submit the following Queries to your corre- 

 spondents ? 



1. Is mine (which appears to me identical with 

 that mentioned by Sir Henbt Ellis, Vol. i., 

 p. 137.) the editio princeps, of which 30,000 are 

 said to have been sold around the scaffold on which 

 the royal martyr suffered ? and is there any truth 

 in this latter report ? 



2. Plow many editions of the work are there? 

 and which has the disputed motto on the title- 

 page,— 



"TO XI OTAEN HA1KH2E THN nOAIN OTAE 

 TOKAnnA?" 



3. Is anything known for certain respecting the 

 royal arms being so frequently found on the covers' 

 of Eikon Basilike f Mr. E. B. Price (Vol. ii., 

 p. 255.) says vaguely, "It may have been, perhaps^ 

 not unusual to occasionally so distinguish works, 

 of this description, published in or about that 

 year (1660)." What more probable than that 

 they were presented by Charles II. to the old ad- 

 herents of his father, the gallant cavaliers ? I 

 have several copies of, and memoranda respecting, 

 this work ; and, as I take a great interest in it, 

 any additional gleanings would be most thankfully 

 received by E. S. Taylor. 



Formyl. — Will some of your chemical readers 

 tell me : 1. When formyl was discovered ; 2. By 

 whom ; and 3. Whence that term is derived ? I 

 can gain no information from Christieson and 

 Fereira. Anatol." 



Charlatans of the last Century. — Reading the 

 other day a work entitled Practical Philosophy of 

 Social Life, after the German of Baron Ivnigge, 

 1799, I met the following passage : 



" Although I cannot convince myself that all the 

 adventurers of that class {ghost-seers, alcliymists, and 

 viystic impostors), that the Cagliastros, Saint Germains, 

 Mesmers, and Consorts, are actuated by the same mo- 



