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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. No 113., Feb, 27. '58. 



John Clevely (2°'> S. iv. 478.) — This artist was 

 born in London about 1746, and in early life at- 

 tached to the dockyard at Deptford in some 

 official capacity. Here he acquired considerable 

 skill in painting ships and marine views. He at- 

 tended Lord Mulgrave as draughtsman in a voy- 

 age of discovery in the North Seas, and afterwards 

 accompanied Sir Joseph Banks in his tour to Ice- 

 land. He is chiefly celebrated for his drawings 

 in water-colours, which have a freedom and cha- 

 racter not to be found in his oil paintings. My 

 late father had a fine collection of the former, 

 which was dispersed by auction, after his death, by 

 Mr. Christie. Clevely died June 25, 1786. I 

 never heard of Robert Clevely ; but the former 

 might have had a son of that name. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Beacon Fires (2°'^ S. iv. 369. 438. 475.) — The 

 following account of the ancient provision made 

 for the transmission of signals by beacon-fires is 

 given by Lord Macaulay in his description of the 

 social state of England in 1685 : — 



" On the capes of the sea-coast, and on many inland 

 hills, were still seen tall posts, surmounted hy barrels. 

 Once those barrels had been filled with pitch. Watch- 

 men had been set round them iu seasons of danger ; and, 

 within a few hours after a Spanish sail had been disco- 

 vered in the Channel, or after a thousand Scottish moss- 

 troopers had crossed the Tweed, the signal fires were 

 blazing fifty mile% off, and whole counties were rising in 

 arms. But many j-ears had now elapsed since the beacons 

 had been lighted ; and they were regarded rather as curi- 

 ous relics of ancient manners than as parts of a machinery 

 necessary to the safety of the state."— jEfw<. of England, 

 vol. i. p. 290, 



L. 



Mazer Bowls (2°* S. iv. 58.) — It has generally 

 been considered that these were bowls made of ma- 

 ple wood, and so it is stated by Skinner {Etymolog. 

 sub voce): Du Cange seems to doubt its being so, 

 and certainly a cup described as of pretious mazer 

 — "scyphura pretiosi mazeris" (Wibertus's Life 

 of Pope St. Leo IX., cap. 6.), could not have 

 been of such common wood. Du Cange cites 

 many other examples which would lead us to 

 think it must be of some very valuable] material ; 

 and he shows that " mazarinus," " mazerinus," 

 '• madrinarius," and " mardrinarius " are conver- 

 tible terms. May it not be the same as " made- 

 rinus," " madre di perla," or mother-of-pearl ? 



A. A. 



Poets' Comer. 



Muscipula (P' S. viii. 229. 550.) — 



"The Honourable Benedict Leonard Calvert wrote me 

 a long letter from thence (America), dated at Annapolis, 

 March 1728-9, and at the same time sent me Holds- 

 worth's Muscipula in Latin and English, translated by 

 R. Lewis, and dedicated to Mr. Calvert, and was printed 

 at Annapolis that year, and was one of the first things 

 ever printed in that country."— ReliquicB Hearniatm, p. 

 768. 



E. H. A. 



Edinburgh Pamphlets (2"^ S. v. 130.) — I have 

 much pleasure in answering the question of your 

 correspondent Aliquis. Upon a reference to my 

 copy of the Sale Catalogue of Lord Cockburn's 

 library, which was sold here in November, 1854, 

 I find as follows : — 



No. 909. Collection of Tracts relating to the City of 

 Edinburgh. 1752—1852. In 66 vols. Sold for 21Z. 



931. Series of Pamphlets in connection with articles in 

 the Edinburgh Review. 1801—52. In 64 vols. Sold for 

 6/. 16s. Gd. 



938. Ditto ditto relating to Scotch Courts and Law. 

 1716—1852. In 51 vols. Sold for 8/. 18s. 6d. 



936. Collection of Scotch Trials, Civil and Criminal. 

 1753—1852. In 38 vols. Sold for 10/. 10.9. 



938. Series of Pamphlets on Scottish Politics and Af- 

 fairs. 1744—1833. In 32 vols. Sold for 61. 6s. 



939. Ditto ditto on Scottish Ecclesiastical Aftairs. 1780 

 —1849. In 25 vols. Sold for IIZ. lis. 



941. Ditto ditto on Scottish Educational subjects, &c. 

 In 26 vols. Sold for 8Z. 18s. 6d. 



The purchaser of all of these various lots was 

 Mr, James Toovey, Bookseller, Piccadilly, London. 



T. G. S. 

 Edinburgh. 



Dogs driven Mad by Cold (3"^ S. v. 88.) —I 

 know not whether hydrophobia be here meant or 

 not, but I refer J. B. S. to Kane's Arctic Explor- 

 ations, vol. i. p. 156., for an interesting account of 

 the morbific influence of an Arctic winter on dogs 

 of the Newfoundland breed. They were seized 

 with a fatal disease of the brain, very much re- 

 sembling in its symptoms those of hydrophobia, 

 and which might perhaps, under other circum- 

 stances, have been mistaken for it. W. S. 



Hastings. 



In Canada, Quebec, for instance, the fact is of 

 constant occurrence. D. A. 



Lvther and GerJ/elius (2°"' S. v. 116.) — S. D. 

 concludes that fourteen months had elapsed be- 

 tween March, 1521, and May, 1522. But if the 

 year then commenced March 25, it was only two 

 months. The title-page to that rare edition of 

 the Greek Testament by Gerbelius is in Latin, 

 and not in Greek, as S. D. supposes. I agree with 

 him that it was not the edition used by Luther ; 

 but my point is, that it was not possible for it to 

 have been so used on account of the short time 

 between its publication and that of Luther's com- 

 plete translation of the whole of the New Testa- 

 ment into German. George Offor. 



Dr. Samuel Brady. — In "N. & Q." (2"^ S. iv. 

 475.), I find an inquiry and answer respecting the 

 maiden name of Dr. Nicholas Brady's mother. 

 Now I should be exceedingly obliged if your cor- 

 respondent H. G. D. can afford me any informa- 

 tion respecting the place and date of birth of Dr. 

 Samuel Brady, his son, or brother, who entered 

 the navy under the patronage of Admiral Sir 



