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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



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No. 164.] 



Saturday, December 18. 1852. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Tiie Townshend MSS., by R. C.Warde - - - 573 



Dr. South versus Goldsmith, Talleyrand, and the 



Morning Chronicle . . - - . 575 

 Chronogram on the Beheading of King Charles I., by 



B. H. Cowper, &c. - - - - - 575 



Minor Notes : — Sir Gammer Vans and Foote'< Story of 

 the She-Bear — Lord Nelson — Corruptions and Altera- 

 tions of French Names — Curious Epitaph — Aa Old 

 Soldier -..-.-. 576 



Queries :— 



" Letter ^o David Garrick " - . - - 577 



Minor Queries: — " Oh ! spare my English subjects" 

 —Single-Speech Hamilton : Home — Tipperary, Lines 

 on— Margaret and Pearl — Magnetic Force — Passage, 

 in " The Boldon Buke " — Lady Catherine Grey — 

 Mrs. Mackey's Poems— Miniature Ring of Charles I. 

 — Manucaptor — The University Cap — Obsolete Words 

 —The Reprint, in 1808, of the First Folio Edition 

 of Shakspeare — New England Hymns - - 577 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Puritan Corruption 

 of Scripture — Adamson's " England's Defence; or 

 Treatise concerning Invasion" — The Abbotsford, Ban- 

 natyne, Maitland, and Spottiswood Societies, &c. - 579 



Replies:— 



Rufus's Oak and Stone, by Sir F. Madden - - 580 



Ricardo's Theory of Rent . - . - . 582 

 Martial Law - - - - - -582 



Kichard III., by George Munford ... .583 



Shakspeare Emendations, by S. W. Singer - - 584 



Wellesley Pedigree, by G. R. Adams ... 685 



The Vatican Press - - - - - - 585 



Dancing the Bride to Bed, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - 586 



Photographic Correspondence - . - . 587 



Replies to Minor Queries : — The Irvingites — Blifil 

 and Black George — The Oak of Reformation — Fune- 

 ral Custom — Erethenus, the River — Hovellers — Me- 

 inoires d'un Homme d'Etat — Uncertain Etymologies 



— Father Petre — Shakspeare Emendations: "lam 

 put to know " — The Redbreast — Lady-day in Harvest 



— Dr. Robert Clavering — Bishops' Marriages — 

 Mistletoe — Wife of Stanislaus Augustus II. of Poland 



— Sending to Coventry — Highlands and Lowlands — 

 Admiral Vernon — Ancient Dutch Allegorical Picture — 

 Wit referred to by Coleridge— Ireland's Freedom from 

 Reptiles — Don of Pitfichie, Monymuk, Aberdeen- 

 shire — Tumble-down Dick — Rhyming Rats to Death 

 — Exterior Stoups — Christopher Harvie, Author of the 



" Synagogue," " School of the Heart," &c Trafal- 



par — Arms of Robertson — Portrait of Collins — 



• Churchill's Death — Imperfections in Books — Friday at 

 Sea — Bishop Juxon's Account of Vendible Books in 



England — " Thirty days hath September," &c Lease 



for Ninety-nine Years, &c. .... 588 



Miscellaneous : — ;; 



Notes on Books, &c. - ... - 593 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . - - - 593 



Notices to Correspondents .... 594 



Advertisements - - - *• - .594 



Vol. VL — No. 164. 



THE TOWNSHEND MSS. 



The following extracts I take from a MS. note- 

 book in my possession, written by one Henry 

 Townshend, Esq., of Elmley Lovatt, co. Wore). 

 The book (which is a thick octavo of some 500 

 pages) is bound up and interleaved with The Corn- 

 pleat Justice (1661), and the MSS. vary in date 

 from 1638 to 1683-4. I have carefully selected 

 those that appear of the greatest histrionic or anti- 

 quarian value : 



" At Lent Assiz. Wore. 8° Marc. 1660, one 

 Vrsula Corbett condemned to be burnt and exer 

 done for poysoning her husband. So at Lent 

 Assiz. 1661, another wooman burnt for stabbing 

 her husband." (MS. leaf to face p. 195.) 



" One Ch. Chapman hangd at Wore. 20"^ Marc. 

 1640, for only breaking a hole in the wall of the 

 howse, and putting his arm in to open the doore, 

 and toke nothing out, of An** Artin's house in 

 Elmley Lovatt." (MS. leaf to face p. 38.) 



" One Eliz. Mayney being imprisoned for mur- 

 thering her bastard childe, and one Wm. Shipmau 

 for felony, they both brok prison. And being re- 

 taken : being indited for murther, and anothr bill 

 for breaking of prison, was acquitt of the murther 

 and founde guilty of breach of prison : and because 

 she was found guilty by Comon Law and not of 

 felony by Statut, she had iudgmt of death and 

 exerc pformed. At Lent Assiz, 11° Mar. 1662, 

 before Sr. Kob. Hyde. As for Shipman, he should 

 have had his booke, but being willing to be trans- 

 ported, was resptd." (MS. to face p. 230.) 



T beg to offer the above curious cases to the 

 notice of your correspondent W. W. (Malta). 

 Touching witchcraft, I find the following : 



" Mem''" Q. ? Whether this be not as great witch- 

 craft : 



1 . To try whether one be a witch or no (mearly P) 



this offer — 



2. To take a Bible, and putt in one scale, and the 



witch in another : and the Bible shall draW 

 vp the witch. 



