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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. NO 105., Jan. 2. '68. 



tations of /rose paast offered b^ Sir Harris Nicolas 

 and myself, Mr. Blaauw proceeds to offer a third 

 conjecture, viz., that as the ornament in ques- 

 tion was probably one of frosted silver or tinsel, 

 "frose" was used in the sense of what is now 

 termed frosted. 



I have lately noticed, in the Privy Purse Ex- 

 penses of the Princess Mary, at p. 109., the fol- 

 lowing passage : — 



" (Feb. 1542-3.) Iten^ geven to maistres Vaughan('s) 

 servante of Calice, bringing Frees pastes from his maistres 

 to my ladies grace, vs." 



Upon which the editor (p. 231.) remarks, " A 

 froize was a species of pancake, according to our 

 old lexicographers." 



After so much vain conjecture, I think this 

 passage at last affords the correct interpretation 

 of the article doffed by the martyred Lady Jane. 

 We knew already that the^as^e was ahead-dress, 

 of more than ordinary splendour; for in 1540 the 

 churchwardens of St. Margaret's, Westminster, 

 " paid to a goldsmith's wife of London for a cer- 

 clett to marry maydens in, iijZi. x*. ;" and in their 

 inventory for 1564, the same circlet or its suc- 

 cessor is described as, " One past for brydes, sett 

 with perle and stone." But the puzzle was to 

 ascertain what was meant by a frose or frowes 

 paste. Frees pastes brought from Calais become 

 intelligible. They are evidently not pancakes, 

 but head-attires of foreign manufacture, and ori- 

 ginally invented by the modistes of Friezeland. 



John Gough Nichols. 



VTALPOLTANA. 



• Dr. Dodd's Simony and Marriage. — I forward 

 you a curious illustration of the following rich 

 passage in Walpole's Letter to Lady Ossory, dated 

 Jan. 29, 1774, vol. vi. p. 55., which may be con- 

 sidered by Mr. Cunningham worth adding to his 

 " Supplementary Notes " : — 



" So does King George who has ordered the pure pre- 

 cise Dr. Dodd to be strucl? off the list of his chaplains, 

 not for gallantry with a Magdalen, as you would expect, 

 but for offering "a thumping bribe to my Lord Chancellor 

 [Bathurst] for the fat living of St. George's (Hanover 

 Square). It is droll that a young comely divine should 

 have fallen into the sin, not of Mary the Penitent, nor of 

 her host, Simon the Pharisee, but of Simon Magus, the 

 founder of Simony. Perhaps as the Doctor married Lord 

 Sandwich's mistress, he had had enough of des fiUes repen- 

 ties." 



The attempt at bribery is thus described in a 

 cotemporary magazine, from which I transcribed 

 it: — 



" The valuable Rectory of St. George, Hanover Square, 

 having fallen to the disposal of the Lord Chancellor (by 

 virtue of the king's prerogative) in February, 1774, on 

 the translation of Bishop Moss, the former incumbent, to 

 the see of Bath and Wells, a most extraordinary offer of 

 three thousand guineas was made to Lady Apsley, in an 



anonymous letter, if Dr. Dodd could be presented to the 

 living. The letter' being traced, and its origin ascertained 

 beyond a doubt, the consequences were obvious and una- 

 voidable. Of such a proposal there could be but one 

 opinion. The public canvassed it with the utmost free- 

 dom. Mr. Foote introduced the doctor on his stage in the 

 character of Dr. Simonj', and his Majesty, justly resent- 

 ing this attempt on the integrity of the 'keeper of his 

 conscience,' ordered the name of the offender to be struck 

 out of the list of chaplains. All that he could urge, or 

 ever has publicly urged, in his defence, is contained in 

 the following letter to the printer of one of the evening 

 papers : — 



"^SlB,— 



" * Maj' I earnestly entreat, through the channel of 

 your paper, that the candid public will suspend their sen- 

 tence in my case? Under the pressure of circumstances 

 exceedingly adverse, and furnished with no proofs of in- 

 nocence but which are of a negative nature, there is left 

 for me at present no mode of defence but that of an 

 appeal to a life passed in public service, and an irre- 

 proachable attention to the duties of my function. How 

 impossible it is to oppose the torrent of popular invective, 

 the world will judge. It is hoped, however, that time will, 

 ere long, put some circumstances in mj- power which may 

 lead to an elucidation of this affair, evince to the satis- 

 faction of mankind my integritj'', and remove every ill 

 impression with regard to the proceedings, which have 

 justly incensed a most respectable personage, and drawn 

 such misfortunes upon me. William Dodd. 



" ' 10. Queen Street, 



« ' Feb. 10, 1774.' " 



I may add that Dr. Dodd married a Miss Mary 

 Perkins, a daughter of the verger of Durham 

 Cathedral. The marriage took place at St. Ann's 

 on April 15, 1751. What foundation there is for 

 Walpole's story I do not know, but I have seen 

 it said " he unfortunately married," &c. S. D. W. 



Who was Mrs. Quonf — In a letter to Mon- 

 tagu, dated May 19, 1756 (Cunningham's edit.^ 

 iii. 12.) Walpole writes : 



" I believe the French have taken the Sun. Amon'g 

 other captures I hear the King has taken another Eng- 

 lish mistress, a Mrs. Pope, who took her degrees in gal- 

 lantry some years ago. She went to Versailles with the 

 famous Mrs. Quon." 



Perhaps some of your readers can furnish some 

 particulars of Mrs. Quon, or give references to 

 mention of her in the French Memoires. Q. N. 



Arthur Moore. — The following story is told by 

 Horace Walpole in a letter to Sir Horace Mann, 

 dated September 1, 1750 : — 



" Old Craggs, who was angry with Arthur Moore, who 

 had worn a livery too, and who was getting into a coach 

 with him, turned about and said, ' Why Arthur, I am 

 always going to get up behind; are not you?' I told 

 this story the other day to George Selwjm, whose passion 

 is to see coffins, and corpses, and executions : he replied, 

 ' that Arthur Moore had had his coffin chained to that of 

 his mistress.^ — * Lord,' said I, ' how do you know ? ' — 

 ' Why I saw them the other day in a vault at St. Giles's.' " 



How is this statement fo be reconciled with the 



