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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. V. 129., June 19. '68. 



and opinion, in whatever related to printing, pamphlets, 

 and libels. That for a very extraordinary job, of which 

 he gave an account, Sir Robert Walpole had given him 

 with his own hands a bank bill for 50/. ; that he after- 

 wards sent him to his brother Townshend, who gave him 

 another bank bill for 50/. for the very same job : that Sir 

 Robert was the best customer he had ; that he owed him 

 a bill at that very time ; that he could see him whenever 

 he pleased, and could persuade him almost to do anj' 

 thing. Mr. Budgell was so shocked and amazed at this 

 discourse, which he Avas sure contained either the most 

 infamous falsehoods, the basest treacheries, or a mixture 

 of both, immediately left the room without making him 

 any answer. He told the lady who followed him, that he 

 was very sure, if she knew the character of the fellow in 

 the next room, she would never admit him over her 

 threshold. He asked her, ' What she could think of the 

 stories she had just now heard him tell?' He told her, 

 for his own part, that though he was no great admirer of 

 my Lord Townshend or Sir Robert Walpole, yet that he 

 oonld not think them so very weak, as to put them- 

 selves in the power of Curll ; but that whether the stories 

 were true or false, he thought that the fellow ought to be 

 hanged who could tell them in company." — Ibid. 1418. 



After entering into some details as to what had 

 passed between Budgell and Mr. Tindal, and de- 

 claring that the writer " meant nothing under this 

 article as a reflection upon any person except 

 Curll the bookseller," the article thus concludes : — 



"We conceive this Fellow's character ought to be 

 known for the good of mankind. Mr. Budgell says, that 

 as he thinks there is a debt, which every gentleman owes 

 to another, he is ever ready to acquaint either the Lord 

 Townshend or Sir Robert Walpole, if either of them de- 

 sire it, with the scandalous story which Curll tells of 

 them, and for what a shameful job he has the impudence 

 to affirm he received a bank note of 60/. from the hands 

 of each of them." 



S. N. M. 

 {To be continued.') 



RELIGION UNDBBSSEI). 



Among the German enthusiasts or fanatics of 

 the sixteenth century, there was a sect of Anabap- 

 tists, who, in spite of morals, manners, and magis- 

 trates, persisted in appearing in the streets, on the 

 Sabbath, without clothing of any description. They 

 had proclaimed religious freedom, and they pro- 

 tested against any interference with the enjoyment 

 of that liberty, according to their own fashion and 

 ideas. When offenders belonging to this sect 

 were taken before the civil authorities, they 

 deemed that they gave sufficient answer to any 

 accusation by the remark, " We are the naked 

 truth ! " The following excerpt from the Wash- 

 ington Evening Star of January 13, 1858, will 

 show that this nakedness of truth not only crossed 

 the Atlantic, but that it is said to be the still 

 light and easy fashion of manifestation adopted 

 by a religious society in Boston, M. : — 



" Spiritual Indecencies. — A few years since, there was 

 a sect in Vermont calling themselves ' Puritans,' who 

 left the churches because of their alleged want of spiritual 



life. These people professed entire purity of heart and 

 conduct, and complete emancipation from the control of 

 human passions; and, to demonstrate and exhibit their 

 beatific condition, men and women stripped themselves 

 naked in the public assemblies, and gloried in their 

 shame. Men of considerable intelligence and good sense 

 were swept awav by this foul fanaticism, and participated 

 in its heathenish orgies. Such consequences as might 

 have been anticipated followed this crisis of the fanaticism, 

 and, having accomplished the ruin of many families, it 

 became a stench in the nostrils of society, and soon re- 

 lieved the world of its vile presence. A similar history 

 was that of the Cochranites in Massachusetts within the 

 present centurj'. Their public exhibitions were even 

 more gross than those of the ' Puritans,' and the civil 

 power was in some instances obliged to intervene for the 

 vindication of public decency. The Mormons have fol- 

 lowed in the same track. Polygamy was not an original 

 article in their faith. It has crept in gradually, through 

 the absolute power granted to their unscrupulous and 

 beastly spiritual guides, and it is not unlikely to prove, 

 in a very brief period, the dispersion and destruction of 

 the sect. It is said that there are actually companies of 

 Spiritualists in Boston who sit in circles, perfectly undis- 

 guised with clothing — that is to say, in puris naturalibus, 

 men and women indiscriminately 1 " 



J. DOEAN. 



VERSES BY LELAND. 



In the Life of John Leland the antiquary (Lioes 

 ofLeland, Hearne, and Wood, Oxford, 1772, vol. i. 

 p. 5.), is a copy of Latin elegiac verses, ad(lressed 

 by Leland to jj Mr. Myles, by whom he was brought 

 up, describing the places of his education, and 

 some of the events of his early life. After having 

 stated that Lilly, the master of St. Paul's School, 

 was his first instructor, he proceeds thus : — 



" Tu me Socraticos juvenem post inter alumnos, 



Qua nitet eximie Granta beata, locas. 

 Deinde etiam Isiacam petii feliciter urbem, 



Extincto Iceno principe morte meo. 

 Postremo Henrici Regis mihi gratia multum 



Profuit octavi, munificseque manus. 

 Hinc mihi facta domus studiosa Lutetia ad unguem, 



Doctos qua colui sedulus urbe viros : 

 BudsBum, Fabrum, Paulum ^miliumque, Ruellum- 

 que, 



JEternis plane nomina digna cedris." 



The " Icenus princeps," whose death is alluded 

 to in the fourth verse of this extract, is Thomas 

 second Duke of Norfolk, who died May 21, 1524. 

 (See Collins's Peerage, by Sir E. Brydges, vol. i. 

 p. 80.) This fixes the date of Leland's entry at 

 Oxford. 



The four distinguished men with whom Leland 

 became acquainted at Paris, are, 1. Bade, the 

 most learned man of his age, who was born in 

 1467 and died in 1540 ; 2. Jacques le Febvre of 

 E'taples in the diocese of Amiens, who was born 

 about 1435, or more probably 1455, and who died 

 in 1536; he published numerous works on The- 

 ology ; 3. Paolo Emilio, who was born at Verona, 

 and died at Paris in 1529. He came to France 

 in 1499, and he received a pension as orateur and 



