Dec. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEllIES. 



537 



Dorchester, at or near the encampment known 

 and called by the name of " Maiden Castle," and 

 one of the most perfect encampments in the West 

 of England. In which barrow Mr. M. found the 

 remains of a portion of a skeleton, from which he 

 took a mass of matter containing raspberry seeds ; 

 a portion of which was sent to Dr. Lindley, who 

 placed them under the care of Mr. liar twig, then 

 employed in the gardens at Chiswick near London : 

 four of these seeds germinated, and produced the 

 common raspberry. Now, if we have as much 

 proof from Dr. Lindley that the seeds were actually 

 sown, and germinated and produced the raspber- 

 ries in question — as we have of Mr. Maclean 

 finding the mass of seedy matter, — the question as 

 to the vitality of raspberry seeds two or three 

 thousand years old is for ever a settled question. 



J. McLntosh. 

 5» Middle Street, Taunton, Somerset. 



" THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. 



(Vol. v., p. 229.) 



I have in my possession a copy of this work, 

 published in London in 1729, and printed by John 

 Baskett, " printer to the king's most excellent 

 majesty." Inside the cover there is written in a 

 legible hand, " Elizabeth Walker, her book, given 

 to her by Mrs. Jane Foxwell, Janiiury ye 27, 

 1748-9." Immediately after the title-page there 

 is a printed letter addressed to the bookseller, 

 which I do not copy at length, fearing that it 

 would occupy too much space in " N. & Q." It 

 terminates thus : " Your assured friend, H. Ham- 

 mond, and dated March 7, 1657." Dr. Hammond, 

 it appears, had been requested by a bookseller to 

 write a preface, and declined, saying that the first 

 chapter would well answer for an introduction to 

 the work, without his assistance. 



My object in calling attention to the Whole 

 Duty of 3fan, is for the purpose of informing 

 Mr. Simpson, that although his copy was printed 

 two years before mine, still the work had been 

 published seventy years before his edition was 

 known. This will have been seen by Dr. Ham- 

 mond's letter, to which I have just referred. 

 Again, Mb. Simpson asks who was the author? 

 This question was mentioned in an interesting 

 Note in the same column where the Query was 

 printed, and reference made for its solution to the 

 liev. Mr. Hawkins's introductory remarks to Pick- 

 ering's edition, and to a valuable communication 

 from J. E. B. Mayor, Esq., of Marlborough Col- 

 lege, in the second volume of " N. & Q." 



As all which relates to the author, or authoress, 

 whether he may have been Bishop Sterne, or any 

 other divine, or Lady Packington, or any other 

 lady, will be of interest, I beg to refer Mr. Simp- 

 son to the following extract, which I take from a 



catalogue of books printed for John Baskett, and 

 inserted in the end of the volume now before me : 

 " The Works of the Learned and Pious Author of 

 the Whole Duty of Man, published in a large folio. 



" The Duty of Man. 



" The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety ; or 

 an impartial Survey of the Ruins of the Christian Re- 

 ligion undermined by unchristian Practice. 



" The Gentleman's Calling. 



" The Lady's Calling : in Two Parts. 



" The Government of the Tongue. 



" Art of Contentment. 



" The Lively Oracles given to us ; or the Christian's 

 Birth Right and Duty, in the Custody, and Use, of 

 the Holy Scripture. 



" These seven by the author of the Whole Duty of 

 Man." 



As I am unable to find any of these works in 

 Malta, perhaps Mr. Simpson would give a search 

 in England. Is it not possible that in some one 

 of these publications the author's name may have 

 been mentioned, or something said by which the 

 writer could be discovered ? I hope to hear from 

 " N. & Q." on this subject again, for I hardly think 

 it probable that the author of so many well-known 

 works in his day should himself have remained 

 unknown. W. W. 



La Valetta, Malta. 



[Two editions have been published of The Complete 

 Works of the Author of The Whole Duty of Man : Ox- 

 ford, 1684, fol.; and 1726, fol. The documents froin 

 Baker's MSS., communicated by Mb. Mayor (" N. & 

 Q.," Vol. li., p. 292. ), were unknown to Mr. Hawkins, 

 whose Introductory Essay should be perused before 

 the inquiry respecting the disputed authorship is furj 

 ther pursued. Most of our readers are aware that these 

 works have been attributed to Lady Packington, Arch- 

 bishop Sterne, Abraham Woodhead, William Fulman, 

 and Archbishop Accepted Frewen, President of Mag- 

 dalen College, Oxford. (See Ballard's Memoirs of 

 Learned Ladies, p. 316. : 4to. 1752.) Thomas Hearne 

 at one time judged them to be the composition of Arch- 

 bishop Sancroft : Letters from the Bodleian Library, 

 vol. ii. p. 125. Whereas Evelyn in his Diary has the 

 following entry under July 16, 1692 : "I went to visit 

 the Bishop of Lincoln [Tenison], when, amongst other 

 things, he told me that one Dr. Chaplin, of University 

 College, in Oxford, was the person who wrote The 

 Whole Duty of Man ; that he used to read it to his 

 pupils, and communicated it to Dr. Sterne, afterwards 

 Archbishop of York, but would never suffer any of his 

 pupils to have a copy of it."] 



WALLER FAMILY. 



(Vol. v., p. 619. ; Vol. vi., p. 401.) 



I am obliged to your correspondent Tewars for 

 enabling me to coi'rect an error in ray comrauni - 

 cation at Vol. v., p. 619. 



