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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2tt<« S. V. 122., May 1. '58. 



doe this yeare prove soe ill that ther is just occasion to 

 fear a dearthe to enseu ; and we well knowinge that those 

 ptes beyond the Seas, from whence we wer woont to be 

 supply'd w'th corne, ar att this psent soe wasted and 

 troubled by warrs and otherwise that we cannot reason- 

 ably expect the large supplyes from thence as formerly, — ■ 

 Have, therfore, by His Mat'^' expresse commande (whose 

 princely care and p'vidence herein for the good of his peo- 

 ple and Realmes we cannot but w*"" comfort acknowledge) 

 thoughte good for the better husbandinge and pVvinge 

 of the Grayne w"»in the kingdome, to recomende vnto 

 you these directions followinge, viz' : — 



" To take especiall care that noe corne of any kinde 

 whatsoever be exported out of yo'r jurisdicon into foraigne 

 p'ts. 



" That all possible restrainte bee made of makinge of 

 Maulte, to th'ende that that sorte of Grayne may be the 

 mor g''s'ved for bread corne, not onlye by suppressinge 

 the nombre of Maultsters, but lymittinge of those that 

 shalbe allow'd of, to converte onl^'e such pporcon of Bar- 

 ley into Maulte as shalbe needfull, and that two or more 

 of you take a weeklye accompte therof from them. 



" That the vnnecessar^'e nombre of Alehowses be care- 

 fully supprest in all places w'Wn yo'r jurisdicon, and that 

 Dependauntes, or Tenauntes, or Servants of Gent" (w'ch 

 is generally observed) give not any connivaunce hereon. 



" That the Lawes p'vided as well againste the brewe- 

 inge or spendinge of Stronge Ale or Beere in Inns or Ale- 

 howses be strictly put in execucon, as likewise against 

 Ingrossers, Forstallers of Corne, and for the regulatinge 

 of the Markett for the prices of Grayne ; And that you 

 cause the Grayneries of those to be visited or noted for 

 Ingrossers, to see that they supply Marketts accordinge 

 to the lawes, — and gen'ally that you vse all other fitt 

 courses and remedies, either p'vided by lawe, or w'ch you 

 hy yo'r experience knowe best, or can finde out for the 

 p'servacon and well-husbandinge of the Grayne w'Mn 

 y'or jurisdicon. 



" Lastly wee expect and require that you geve an ac- 

 compte of your doings and p'ceedings herein to the 

 Judges of Assize in their next Circuites, to whome his 

 Ma'i«'' plesure hath ben already signified, to call vppon 

 you for the same, and from whome likewise his Ma''« 

 and this Board will require an accompte. And soe 

 expectinge and not dowbtinge of y'or beste cares and 

 endeavors herein, as a matter highly importinge the pub- 

 lique good wherin yo'rselves ar not a little interested, we 

 bid you hartily farewell. 



" From Wflitehall, the xiii of June, 1630. 

 " Youre Lovinge freinds, 

 « Tho. Coventry, C. 

 Manchester, " Ruieston Conway, 



Dorchester, Tho. Suffolke, 



J. Coke. VV. Northampton, 



T. Edmonds, L. Strange. 

 « Citty of Wells. 



" To o'r Lovinge Freinds 

 " The Maior and Burgesses of the Cittie of Wells." 



Ina. 



EPIGRAM EERONEOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO 

 DEAN SWIFT. 



In the number of TAe AthencEum for March 27, 

 1858 (No. 1587) occurs the following passage re- 

 lative to an interesting sale which took place last 

 week in London : — 



" A curioas collection of papers, tracts, and broadsides 



relating to Irish history, collected by Mr. Monk Mason, 

 the historian of the Cathedral of St. Patrick, and the able 

 vindicator of Swift, is to be sold next week by Messrs. 

 Sotheby and Wilkinson. Among the MSS. of interest is 

 the following unpublished poetical epistle from the Dean 

 to Thomas Sheridan, written backwards, in 1718. It is 

 difficult to be deciphered without the intervention of a 

 looking-glass. — 



'"Delany reports it, and he has a shrewd tongue. 



That we both act the part of the clowns and j'e cow- 

 dung ; 



We ly \_sic'\ cramming ourselves, and are ready to 

 burst ; 



Yet still are no wiser than we were at first. 



Pudet hcec opprobria, I freely must tell ye, 



Et did potuisse, et non potuisse refelli. 



Tho' Delany advis'd you to plague me no longer, 



You reply and rejoin, like Hoadly of Bangor. 



I must now at one sitting pay ofi" my old score. 



How many to answer? here's one, two, three, four. 



But because the three former are long ago past, 



I shall, for method's sake, begin with the last. 



You treat me like a boy that knocks down his foe, 



Who, ere t'other gets up, demands one rising blow. 



Yet I knew a young rogue that, thrown flat on the 

 field, 



Would, as he lay under, cry out, Sarrah, yield. 



So the French, when our Generals soundly did pay 'um , 



Went triumphant to Church, and sang stoutly Te 

 Deum. 



So the famous Tom Leigh, when quite run aground. 



Comes off by out-laughing the Company round. 



In every vile pamphlet you read the same fancies ; 



' Having thus overthrown all our author advances.' 



My offers of peace you ill understood. 



Friend Sheridan, when will you know your own good? 



'Twas to teach yoxn in modester language your duty ; 



For were you a dog I could not be rude t'ye. 



As a good honest soul, who no mischief intends, 



To a quarrelsome fellow crj'es. Let us be friends. 



But we, like Antaeus and Hercules, fight ; 



The ofter you fall, the ofter you write. 



And I'll use you as he did that overgrown clown ; 



I'll first take you up, and then take you down. 



And 'tis your own case ; for you never can wound 



The worst dunce in your school, till he's heav'd from 

 the ground.' 



— Among other lots are the Dean's ' Books of Accounts 

 of Receipts and Expences for Seven Years, between 1702 

 and 1733, inclusive, and Statement of Debts and Mort- 

 gages due to him, 1736,' — his 'Account with the Poor 

 for the money received in the weekly collections, 1738- 

 1740, and Note of Dr. Lyon relating to the same, 1742,' — 

 and 'a Collection, in about 120 fi". 8vo., oi jeux d'esprit of 

 that particular class invented by himself, and designated 

 Anglo-Latin and Anglo-English ; in which Latin or Eng- 

 lish sentences are so contrived as, by adopting a different 

 combination of the syllables, to make other sentences in 

 English.' The following is an example of this mode of 

 writing, taken from the first page of the collection : — 



" ' Ire membri meta citi zeno fures at nans a citra velle do 

 verto I tali. 

 I remember I met a citizen of yours at Nantes as I tra- 

 velled over to Italy.' 



— We have also an epigram ' written upon a certain 

 space which had been left vacant in a monument erected 

 by Dr. Cox to the memory of his wife, and intended to 

 have been filled up with a' memorial of himself after his 

 decease.' The lines are as follows, for the full apprecia- 

 tion of which, however, it is necessary to observe that Dr. 



