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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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therefore, in the introduction to our Morning Service, we 

 say, ' We have erred and straj-ed from thy ways like lost 



Turn out a horse, or a dog, and they will find their 

 way home ; but a sheep wanders about ; he bleats here 

 and there, as much as to jay, ' dear stranger, shew me 

 my way home again : ' thus Christ's sheep are too apt to 

 wander from the fold; having their eye off the great 

 Shepherd, they go into this field and that field, over this 

 hedge and that, and often return home with the loss of 

 their wool." 



It is after a very considerable interval that the 

 next paragraph follows : — 



" I remember I heard good Dr. Maryat, who was a 

 good market-language preacher, once say at Pinner's- 

 hall (I hope that pulpit will always be filled with such 

 preachers), ' God has got a great dog to fetch his sheep back,' 



says he. So when Christ's sheep wander, he lets the 



devil go after them, and suffers him to bark at them, 

 who, instead of driving them farther off, is made a means 

 to bring them back again to Christ's fold." 



The closing sentence of Da. Rimbault's quota- 

 tion occurs (with slight variation) a little before 

 the conclusion, which is couched in these urgent 

 terms : — 



" that it may be a forewell-sermon to you : that it 

 may be a means of your taking farewell of the world, the 

 lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, and the pride of 

 life, O come, come, come, to the Lord Jesus Christ : to 

 him I leave you. 



" And you, dear sheep, that are already in his hands, 

 may God keep you from wandering : God keep you 

 near Christ's feet ; I do not care what shepherds keep you, 

 so you are kept near the great Shepherd and Bishop of 

 souls. The Lord God keep you, lift up the light of his 

 countenance upon you, and give you peace. Amen," 



C,W. Bingham, 



The Adventures of Wm. Bingfield (2"* S. v. 

 108.) — Your correspondent is mistaken in sup- 

 posing that Sir Walter Scott had not seen this 

 book, as the following extract . from Southey's 

 Common Place Book, iii. 711. will show : — 



" 'For the kitchen' is all the Monthly Review says of it. 



" Walter Scott showed me the book at Ashiestiel. It 

 had given him as much pleasure as Peter Wilkins had 

 given me." 



Of the same class of books is 



" The Narrative of the Life and astonishing Adventures 

 of John Daniel, a Smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, 

 containing the melancholy occasion of his travels; his 

 shipwreck on a desolate island; way of life there; his 

 accidental discovery of a woman for his companion ; their 

 peopling the island ; a description of an engine invented 

 by his son Jacob, on which he flew to the moon, with 

 some account of its inhabitants; his return, and acci^ 

 dental fall into the habitation of a sea-monster, with 

 whom he lived two j'ears ; his farther excursions in 

 search of England ; his residence in Lapland, and travels 

 to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough ; and 

 farther transactions till his death in 1711, aged 97. Illus- 

 trated with several copperplates, Lond., 1751, 12mo., 3s." 



Of this book the Monthly Review, vol. v. p. 518., 

 says, that " John Daniel has rather more nature 

 and morality than Peter Wilkins, and Petfer has 



rather better diction than John." I cannot find 

 either of these books of adventures in the British 

 Museum. Zeus. 



Perhin Warheck (2"^ S. v. 110.)— Mr. Hardy's 

 attention having been directed to the Query of 

 A. S. A. touching Perkin Warbeck, he has re- 

 quested me to reply to it. As I am at present 

 engaged in editing, under the directions of the 

 Master of the Rolls, Bernard Andre's " Life of 

 Henry VII.," and some other historical materials 

 relating to that reign, any such records as Mrs. 

 Shelley alludes to as being among the series for- 

 merly at the Tower would be of the greatest pos- 

 sible interest to me. But I cannot say that I have 

 met with them, nor can Mr. Hardy recall any such 

 to his remembrance. The nearest thing to deci- 

 sive evidence upon the point appears to me to be 

 the documents printed by Sir Frederic Madden 

 in the article alluded to by your correspondent 

 (ArchcBol xxvii. 153.), where it is shown that 

 Warbeck himself, on the supposition of his being 

 the true Duke of York, misstated his own age by 

 two years in a letter to the Queen of Spain. He 

 also in the same letter considerably weakens the 

 modern argument, that the murder of the princes 

 was not generally believed by contemporaries, for 

 he distinctly says that his brother Edward V. was 

 murdered, and that he himself was only saved 

 from the like fate by the intercession of a certain 

 lord, whose name he does not mention. I may 

 add that a contemporary poet, in an ode presented 

 to the king on the birth of Prince Arthur, and 

 therefore presumably written long before War- 

 beck's appfearance, asserts the murder of the 

 princes in the most unequivocal terms. Speaking 

 of Edward IV. he says — 



" Hie moriens fratri natos commisit utrosque : 



Hos male commissos perdidit ille ferox. 

 Atque ubi de medio dominos geminosque nepotes 



Sustulit, assumpsit non sua regna sibi." 



I perceive, indeed, that there are still some 

 writers who are inclined to credit Perkins's preten- 

 sions ; but for my own part, though I once be- 

 lieved in them myself, I confess I have long since 

 viewed the attempt of Warbeck in the same light 

 as that of Lambert Simnel. James Gaibbneb. 



Contrition of the Ancients at the point of Death 

 (2°"^ S. V. 109.) — Contrition for sin is a sentiment 

 alien to polytheism. The crimes recorded of the 

 classical deities were, in effect, motives for their 

 commission. (Terentii Eunuchus, iii. v. 34. ; Ovid, 

 Metam. ix. 789.; Trist. ii. 287.) Nevertheless, 

 Diogenes Laertius (v. 54.) relates of the atheistic 

 philosopher Bion, that on his death-bed he 

 changed his opinion, and repented of the sins he 

 had committed against God. Trfe notion of peni- 

 tence for offences against the gods scarcely ever 

 presents itself in polytheism. Their offerings and 

 prayers had regard to the conciliation of the del- 



