134 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 111., Feb. 13. '58. 



of Sylvester Daggerwood. Dr, Hessey records 

 the acting also of Ruggles' Ignoramus. On the 

 last occasion the satirical songs of Ruggles were 

 sung by the boys to sacred airs by Handel, Soper, 

 and Hasse I It is said that the mothers of some 

 of the singers had to regret, like Niobe, that the 

 gods had made their children vocal. 



A greater actor than Sylvester passed from 

 Merchant Taylors' School to the stage, namely. 

 Woodward ; inimitable Harry ! who kept the stage 

 during nearly fifty years of the last century, 1730 

 — 1777, and who never seemed older. Wood- 

 ward, like Liston, always thought that tragedy 

 was \x\s forte. Perhaps he too had been bitten by 

 Quin's Scipio. However this may be, Harry 

 could never speak a serious line in his life without 

 making the hearers laugh. His wit, his vivacity, 

 his drollery, and his unsurpassable impudence, 

 used to be the themes of old play-goers at the com- 

 mencement of the present century. His Bobadil 

 was, perhaps, never equalled ; and his Marplot 

 and Touchstone ranked next in degrees of perfec- 

 tion. Among the characters originally represented 

 by Woodward, many, preserving his " points" tra- 

 ditionally, have survived to within the recollec- 

 tion of the most of us. I will only mention Flash, 

 in Miss in her Teens, Dick in the Apprentice, 

 Mrs. Cole in the Minor, Lofty in the Good-natured 

 Man, and Captain Absolute in the Sivals. I trust 

 that Merchant Taylors will not despise the me- 

 mory of Harry Woodward as an old pupil. He 

 cannot claim equality with modest Bishop An- 

 drews, or learned Dove, or Archdeacon Wren, or 

 controversial Hutton, or pious Juxon, or Dave- 

 nant the commentator, or Will Quarles, or well- 

 read Calamy, or Peter Heylln, or earnest Wheatly, 

 or the physician Cline, or the conquering Clive ; 

 but he was a better fellow than Titus Oates, or 

 Ezekiel Hopkins, or Luke Milbourne, the antago- 

 nist of Dryden, the first and last of whom especi- 

 ally reflect no credit upon Merchant Taylors. 

 Harry Woodward, at least, was on the first rank 

 of the profession which he followed, and I hope a 

 word, to assert as much, is not misplaced in a 

 . Note touching on plays and players at public 

 schools. J. DORAN. 



EARLY ALMANACKS. 



(2"'^ S. iv. 106. ; V. 37.) 



I have before me the MS. Catalogue of the 

 library of a person of some local celebrity who 

 lived in the seventeenth century. It is most 

 methodically arranged, and shows the printed 

 volumes to have exceeded a thousand, besides 

 a large number of pamphlets, distinguishing their 

 respective sizes and the prices at which they were 

 either bought or published. As their owner was 

 an adept in astrological science, his large col- 

 lection Qf Almanacks, a separate li^t of which is 



appended to the Catalogue, may thus be ac- 

 counted for. As there seems to be some ques- 

 tion about the antiquity of works of this character, 

 I have transcribed the list for the benefit of those 

 who feel any interest in the matter. It is mani- 

 festly quite untenable that the first English al- 

 manack was published in 1G73 ; and it will be 



noticed that the Almanack by Swallow, 



alluded to as dated 1668, occurs in this list with 

 the date 1644. But with regard to the dates in 

 general, it is obvious that we cannot draw any 

 conclusions from them in 'reference to the time 

 when the works were first published. 



" Almanacks. 



8vo. Richard Allestree. 1621—40. 

 8vo. John Booker. 1638—67. 

 8vo. Thomas Bretnor. IGlo — 19. 

 8vo. Nicolas Culpeper. 1651 — 56. 

 8vo. John Gadbury. 1657 — 70. 

 8vo. Henrj' Jesse. 1646 — 67. 

 8vo. William Lillj'. 1645—81. 

 « 8vo. Nathaniel Nve. 1645. 



8vo. Fferdinirtido Parkhurst. 1648. 

 8vo. Edward Pond. 1605—43. 

 8vo. John Kussell. 1660—1. 

 8vo. Richard Sanders. lf65 — 71. 



8vo. Swallow. 1644—66. 



8vo. John Tanner. 1657—69. 

 16mo. Robert Triplet. 1611—28. 

 8vo. Vincent Winge. 1649—69. 

 16mo. Dirck Rembrantsz. 1664. 

 8vo. William Andrews. 1655—58. 

 8vo. Samuel Ashwell. 1646. 

 8vo. James Baston. 1657. 

 8vo. Ferdinand Beridge. 1654. 

 8vo. Joseph Blagrave. 1658 — 65. 

 8vo. James Bowker. 1668. 

 8vo. William Crooke. 1652. 

 8vo William Dade. 1634—63. 



8vo. Dove. 1646—66. 



8vo. Fly. 1657. 



8vo. William Foster. 1662. 

 12mo. Thomas Gallen. 1657. 

 8vo. William Gibbons. 1655. 

 8vo. Walter Gray. 1605. 

 8vo. Henry Harfleet. 1656. 

 8vo. Arthur Hopton. 1611. 

 8vo. Thomas Jackson. 1655. 

 8vo. Sarah Jinner. 1658—60. 

 8vo. G. Johnson. 1659. 

 8vo. George Markham. 1656. 

 8vo. Fr. Misson. 1660. 

 8vo. Robert Morton. 1662. 

 8vo. John Neve. 1634—43. 

 8vo. Jeffery Neve. 1624. 

 8vo. George Offorne. 1625. 

 8vo. Matthew Pierce. 1634. 

 8v-o. Samuel Perkins. 1634. 

 8vo. Francis Pigot. 1654 — 69. 

 8vo. Protestant Almanack, 1668—9. 

 12mo. Schardanus Riders, 1652 — 70. 

 8vo. J. S. 1669. 

 8vo. Arthur Sofford. 1634. 

 8vo. Thomas Street. 1653—56. 

 8vo. John Swan. 1657 — 64. 

 8vo. Thomas Trigge. 1662 — 69. 

 8vo. John Vaux. 1634—60. 

 avo. Samuel Westley. 1669. 



