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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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known. Though now * the play-thing of children,' it was 

 once in high repute. Meres mentions it in his Palliidis 

 Tamia, or Wit's Treasury, fol. 268., 1598, and Bishop 

 Hall, in his Satires, published in 1597, ranks 



* St. ^eorge's sorrell, and his cross of blood," 



among the most popular stories of his time. The earliest 

 edition extant of this celebrated romance {what edition 

 the title-page does not indicate) was printed, in two parts, 

 in 1608, 4to. ; but the Rev. A. Dyce has pointed out two 

 entries of it in the Stationers' books in 1696. The first is 

 to J6hn Danter, on the 20th April ; and the second to 

 Cuthbert Burbj' (by assignment from John Danter) on 

 the 6 til Sept. Vide notes on Kemp's Nine JDaies Wonder, 

 p. 35." The earliest edition noticed by Lowndes is one 

 of 1592, 4to.] 



Great Events from Small Causes : the Planet 

 Neptune (2°* S. ii. 43. 152.) — England lost the 

 glory of the discovery of the planet Neptune, and 

 Mr. Adams the gold medal of the Astronomical 

 Society, through the accident of a cloud. 



" On continuing," says Professor Challis, " the com- 

 parison of the observations of July 30 and August 12, 

 I found that No. 49., a star of the eighth magnitude in 

 the series of August 12, was wanting in the series of July 

 30. According to the principle of the search, this was 

 the planet. It had wandered into the zone in the interval 

 between July 30 and August 12. I had not continued the 

 former comparison bej'ond No. 39., probably from the ac- 

 cidental circumstance that a line was there drawn in the 

 memorandum-book in consequence of the interruption of 

 the observations by a cloud." 



This was on October 1, 1846, after Dr. Galle 

 had detected the incognito. But for this cloud 

 the wanderer would have been discovered by 

 Pr. Challis (who searched under the instructions 

 of Mr. Adams), before France had carried off the 

 glory. I say the glory, and that only : for as far 

 as merit is concerned, Adams is as much the dis- 

 covei'er of the new planet as Leverrier ; and that 

 the rights of our countryman have been respected 

 by all nations is proved by their concurrence in 

 naming the new planet, not Leveerier, but Nep- 

 tune. C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Quotations in Montaigne's Essays (2""* S. v. 

 30.) — 



" Et sua sunt illis incommoda, parque per omnes 

 Tempestas." — B. iii. c. 10. 



Dr. Payen was probably prevented from recog- 

 nising this passage of Virgil by the alteration 

 which Montaigne has made in the words, in order 

 to adapt it to his context, 



" Sin et Trojanis cum multo gloria venit 

 Sanguine, sunt illis sua funera, parque per omnes 

 Tempestas."— .^n. xi. 421—3. 

 "Che ricordarsi il ben doppia la noja." — B. xii. cap. 



This seems to be a proverbial adaptation of the 

 verses in the fifth canto of Dante's Inferno : 

 " Nessun maggior dolore 

 Che ricordarsi del tempo felice 

 Nella miseria." 



L. 



Hugh Bishop of Lincoln (2°'* S. v. 33.) — I 

 copy the following entry from my English Epis- 

 copate, which, I may mention, will now be pub- 

 lished monthly, in Dioceses, in The Church of the 

 People Magazine : — 



« 1209. Hugh de Wells consecrated Dec. 20. bv the 

 Primate. He was brother of Bishop Jocelyn of Wells ; 

 archdeacon of Wells 1204; Bath 1215; prebendary of 

 Lincoln, 1203; King's Chaplain; co-founder of St. 

 ■John's Hospital, Wells; Justice Itinerant 1219. He wa^ 

 deprived of his temporalities during four years, because 

 he refused to be consecrated by the Archbishop of Rouen. 

 He sided sometimes with the barons, and again with Louis 

 of France until he was excommunicated; but was ab- 

 solved on paying 1000 marks to the Pope and 100 to the 

 Legate. He was present at Runnimede. In 1225 he 

 went as an Envoy to France. He died Feb. 8, 1234, and 

 was buried at Lincoln." 



S. Hugh de Grenoble was bishop 1186—1220. 

 Mackenzie Walcott, M, A. 



" Essay on Woman." — In the first paper I 

 addressed to you on this subject (2"* S. iv. 1,), I 

 gave it as my opinion that not a single copy of the 

 edition printed at Wilkes's press was in exist- 

 ence. At the same time I felt bound to add, I 

 had been assured by a friend that he had, some 

 years since, seen a copy of that edition ; which, 

 however, I doubted for reasons then given. My 

 friend, zealous for the truth, immediately set him- 

 self to find out not only where he had seen it, but 

 where it was now ; and he succeeded in both in- 

 quiries. The copy to which he referred was part 

 of Lot No. 8046. of Hibbert's books sold May, 

 1829. It was purchased by a gentleman who 

 still possesses it, and who has obligingly favoured 

 him with a tracing of the title-page. This title- 

 page is in itself proof that it is not a genuine copy 

 — it is not engraved — it has not, as declared in 

 the indictment, "a sculpture" or vignette — and 

 the name of Warburton is not " printed at length." 



The Catalogue, as I am informed, described the 

 work as " very rare (attributed to Cleland)." I 

 may add that, in the same year, June 25, there 

 was sold, in Wellington Street, the following : — 



" Lot 219. The original MS. of the Essay on Woman, 

 for printing which Wilkes was expelled the House of 

 Commons ; but the MS. is by Cleland, who was the real 

 author. Two leaves of The Woman of Pleasure, also in 

 the handwriting of Cleland." 



I am in no way interested as to who was the 

 author — my sole purpose was to show that all the 

 evidence we have tends, at least, to prove that 

 Wilkes was not. At the same time I admit that 

 handwriting does not prove authorship ; there 

 were, I fear, many copies in different handwritings, 

 and, I will add, other poems under the one title. 



D, 



Bros Family (2""^ S, iv. 454.) — Your corre- 

 spondent is probably aware of a pedigree of the 

 family of Brus, in S. Wilton Rix's Fauconberge 

 Memorial, pp. 62, 63. Unfortunately this pedi- 



