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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>"i S. V. 126., May 29. '58. 



Roger Maisterson, eldest son of this younger 

 Thomas, continued the Cheshire line ; which is 

 supposed to be even now not extinct, notwith- 

 standing their connexion with the county has long 

 since ceased. The second son of the above 

 Themas Maisterson the younger was Sir Thomas 

 Maisterson, Knt., seneschal of Wexford, and cap- 

 tain of its castle. He married Cicely Clere, of 

 Kilkenny, and had issue Sir Richard Maisterson, 

 and other sons, who settled in Ireland ; in which 

 country, too, their uncle Richard, next younger 

 brother to their father, had been previously killed 

 in battle. T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Anonymous Worhs (1" S. ix. 245.) — Lights, 

 Shadoics, and Rejections of Whigs and Tories, by 

 a Country Gentleman. London, 1841, 8vo. This 

 work has been ascribed to the late William 

 Fletcher, Esq , of Merrion Square, Dublin, and 

 Garr, in the King's County (son of the judge of 

 that name), a gentleman of great literary taste, 

 and the possessor of a fine library, particulai-ly 

 rich in classics and large-paper copies. After his 

 death (Feb. 184.')) it was sold in London, by 

 Messrs. L. Sotheby & Co. The sale took place in 

 March, 1846, and occupied nine days; the books, 

 with few exceptions, realising good prices. 

 F. R. Stewart, 

 Assist. Lib. Hon. Soc. King's Inns. 



Dublin. 



Schubert and his Ahasuerus (2°'' S. iv. 208.) — 

 My edition of Schubert is Frankfurt, 1787, and, 

 like that of 1802, does not contain the lines quoted 

 by P. G. A. The slovenly reference, " Gothe in 

 a letter to Wieland," renders it difficult to prove 

 that the American critic is wrong, but warrants 

 doubts as to his accuracy. Der Ewige Jude, ii. 68. 

 is in a different metre, and I do not see how the 

 lines could have been inserted in, or appended to 

 it. Moreover they look like a bad translation of 

 Id's speech on leaving Prometheus : — 



Ytto fL aC (Ti^aKeAof koX <j>pevoTr\.T]y€ii 

 Mavi'ai ddKirov^', oicrTpov S' apSts 



Xpt'ei ft,' airupos, 

 KpaSCa Se <^6|3cii ^piva Aaxrifei* 

 Tpoxo5tv€tTai 5' oiiixa.6' iKiy&r)v, 

 Ef ft) fie &p6p.ov <j>epoiJ.ai,, Ai/<rcr))9 

 Tlvevp-ari. fidpyio, ykuxrtrf)^ aKparfji' 

 ©oXepol 6e Adyoi Trai'ovcr' eifcij 

 "Xrvyvyji Trpbt Ku/aatrtc arTjs." 



Prom. Vinct, 1. 884. ed. Schutz. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Passports (2'"i S. v. 233. 284.): Cha, Tea (Idem, 

 p. 275.) — Whatever may have been the origin of 

 passports in Europe they had, like many other sup- 

 posed modern inventions, their prototype in the fur 

 East, Ebn Wahab, who visited China in the 

 tenth century, and wrote an account of his travels, 

 which was afterwards translated and published by 

 the Abbe Renaudot, thus describes the passport 



system, and confers on it the same eulogy which 

 its modern advocates think it deserves : — 



" If a man travel from one place to another he must 

 take two Passes with him, the one from the Governor, 

 the other from the Eunuch or Lieutenant. The Go- 

 vernor's pass permits him to set out on his journey, and 

 takes notice of the name of the Traveller and of those of 

 his Company; the age and family of the one and the 

 other. And this is done for the information of the 

 Frontier places, where these two passes are examined : 

 for whenever a Traveller arrives at any of them it is re- 

 gistered, That such a one, the Son of such a one, of such a 

 Family, passed throxigh this place on such a day, §'c. And 

 by this means they prevent any one from carrying off the 

 money or effects of other persons, or their being lost." — 

 See the English translation, ed. 1733, p. 25. 



Cha, Tea. — The same early writer also men- 

 tions the infusion of this plant as the ordinary 

 drink of the Chinese. He calls it cha, which, as 

 his annotator observes, " comes nearer to the true 

 Chinese name, chah or chaw, than the name we 

 have for it." — Idem. p. 72. Anon. 



Occasional Forms of Prayer (P* S. passim ; 2"* 

 S. i. 247. ; iii. 393.) — In the last place referred to 

 is an extract from Sotheby's Catalogue witb re- 

 spect to a copy of — 



" Order for Prayer and Thankes-giuing (necessary to 

 be vsed in these dangerous times) for the safetie and pre- 

 servation of her Maiesty and this Realme. (Black letter.) 

 Extremely rare, if not unique. 4to. Deputies of C. 

 Barker, n. d. (1580)." 



Then follows an extract from Mr. Clay's Litur- 

 gical Services of Queen Elizabeth, which I have 

 sought in vain in that work. 



I am now writing with a copy of this form of 

 prayer (from Bp. Cosin's lib.) before me. The 

 title-page agrees precisely with that given above, 

 except that the date is printed 1594 ; and I think 

 it will be found that the forms are identical. 

 When did the Deputies of Christ. Barker com- 

 mence printing ? I have never seen their name 

 upon any book earlier than 1588, and much doubt 

 whether it can be found in 1580. 



For Mr. Taylor's benefit I add a list of Occa- 

 sional Forms not mentioned in his or Mr. Clay's 

 List, which are in Bp. Cosin's library : — 



1. " Certaine Praj-ers collected out a forme of Godly 

 Meditations, set foorth bj' his Maiestie's Authoritie : and 

 most necessarie to be used at this time in the present 

 Visitation of God's heauy hand for our manifold sinnes. 

 R. Barker. 1603." 



2. " A short forme of Thanksgiuing to God for staying 

 the contagious sickenes of the Plague. R. Barker. 1604." 



3. " Prayers for the Queene's safe Deliuerance. It. 

 Barker. 1604." 



4. " Thankesgiuing for ditto. 9 April, 1605." 



5. " A Fourme of Prayer with Thankesgiuing to be 

 used, &c., the 24 of March (Accession). R. Barker, n. d."'' 



7. " A Fourme of Prayer with Thankesgiuing to be 

 used on 5"» of August. (Gowrv Conspiracy.) R. Barker. 

 1606." 



8. *' Prayers and Thankesgiuings to be used the 5 of 

 November. R. Barker, n. d." 



