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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Was he a brother of Sir John Locke and James 

 Locke, eminent Turkey merchants and jiovernors 

 of the South Sea Company, of whom Sir John, 

 also a director of the East India Company, died 

 1746, and James in 1756 ? G. R. C. 



Minox «attnte^. 

 Jacob the Paper- seller. — 



" There is now in the press, and will speedily be pub- 

 lished by half-penny subscriptions, 



The Life and odd Humours 



of 

 JACOB the Paper-seller. 



Giving an exact and true Account of all his Blunders, 

 Kicks^ Cuffs, and Saucy Sayings, said of, and Receiv'd 

 from his Superiors. 



" LIKEWISE his Misfortune of becoming a State Jest, 

 and how he had like to have died for Vexation at his 

 being Lampoon'd in a Publick Advertisement. 



"AH carefully Collected by an Ingenious Person, who 

 is now almost "burst with Laughing to think how this 

 Paper will fret him." 



Among a quantity of political and miscellaneous 

 papers recently sold at an auction I found a 

 printed hand-bill of duodecimo size, which I have 

 copied verbatim, and send in the hope some reader 

 of "N. &Q." may explain its object. Was it 

 meant as a squib on Jacob Tonson ? M> 



The Feria MS. — Lingard, in his account of 

 Queen Mary, makes frequent reference to a MS. 

 life of the Duchess of Feria, formerly Jane Dor- 

 mer, one of the queen's maids of honour. Query, 

 Where is it to be found ? Is it %orth publishing 

 by the Camden Society ? T. F. 



Rights of Tithe Impropriators in Chancels. — 

 Will any correspondent kindly direct me to 

 sources of information on this point. Naturally 

 it would seem that the repair of chancels was 

 simply a burden imposed on those who farmed the 

 revenue of the rectory, but conferring no rights 

 whatever. In practice tithe impropriators fre- 

 quently claim the sole regulation of this part of 

 the building — receiving the fees for interments 

 therein (now, happily, a rare occurrence) assign- 

 ing the sittings at their pleasure, and acting pre- 

 cisely as if it were their private property. 



In one example I could name, this, the part 

 properly assigned to the clergy and none other, is 

 filled with ugly pews, occupied by the impropri- 

 ator, his friends, and their servants — benches 

 (back to the altar) are placed, solely by his au- 

 thority, within a few feet of the rails — their oc- 

 cupants using the priest's door for their ingress 

 and egress. Has this practice any authority at 

 all, or does it rest upon some complicated and 

 questionable decision of the Jenner-Fust and 

 Lushington kind ? It seems monstrous that any 

 part of the clerical office can be delegated, toge- 



ther with the money part of the affair, to a mere 

 layman (in some cases a Dissenter), and that 

 priest and churchwardens, the legal administra- 

 tors of church matters, should be powerless in 

 this respect. I may add, from experience, that in 

 no case are the chancels in worse repair, or less 

 decently kept, than when they are in these hands. 



E. S. Taylor. 



" Don Juan''' ■ 

 of Don Juan ? 



-Where is the first presentation 

 Curiosus. 



Mrs. Jackson. — Can you give me any infor- 

 mation regarding Mrs. Jackson of Turville Court, 

 authoress, besides other works, of Dialogues on 

 the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity, in 2 vols. 

 8vo., published in 1806? There are several let- 

 ters addressed to Mrs. Jackson in the Letters of 

 Miss Anna Seivard, published in 1811. 



R. Inglis. 



'•'■The Poplar Grove.'' — Who is the author of 

 The Poplar Grove, or the Amusements of a Rural 

 Life, a collection of poems published in 1743, Svo., 

 by J. W. ? R. Inglis. 



Quotation. — Would any of your readers inform 

 me where the following lines are to be found, and 

 give a translation of the last clause ? — 



" Cantus et e curru lunam deducere tentat 

 Et faceret, si non cera repulsa sonent." 



Ignoramus. 



Admiral Duquesne. — Where shall I find an ac- 

 count of Admiral Duquesne, in the French ser- 

 vice in the time of Louis XIV., which gives any 

 information about his ancestry or descendants ? 



G.C. 



Thomas Lord Fairfax. — Can any correspondent 

 give me the name of the engraver of a portrait of 

 this general which has three words of Hebrew 

 in the inscription? with the words following in 

 English, " His Integrity hath broken the wilde 

 Ass." 



Bromley mentions a portrait with " HebreV 

 inscription," but gives no farther information. If 

 some (Edipus could also unravel the full meaning 

 of the inscription itself, it would be a farther 

 obligation. Fairfax's integrity is well vouched 

 for in Buckingham's epitaph on him : — 



" He might have been a King, 

 But that he understood 



How much it is a meaner thing 

 To be unjustly great, than honourably good." 



Also, — 



" So blest of all he died, but far more blest were we, 

 If we' were sure to live till we could see 

 A man as great in war, as just in peace, as he." 



Lethrediensis. 



MS. Survey of West Meath. — In October last, 

 as I was walking in company on the King's Road, 

 Brighton, my attention was drawn to a boy passing 



