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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<iS. N«115., Mar. 13. '58. 



some friends, and buried in the church there. 

 His coffin bore the following inscription : — • 



" The Rev. William Dodd, 



Bora May 29, 1729, and 



Died June 27, 1777, in 



the 49* year of his age." 



Vide Appendix to An Account of the Life and 

 Writings of William Dodd, LL.D. (attributed to 

 Isaac Keed of Staple Inn), London, 1777. j3. 



Edinburgh Pamphlets (2"'» S. v. 176.) Ad- 

 ditional information for Aliquis. The lots men- 

 tioned as purchased at Lord Cockburn's sale bj 

 Mr. Toovey are now in the British Museum. 



H. F. 



Umbrage (2"^ S. v. 130.)— This word is found 

 in the first edition of Blount's Glossographia, 

 1656, and in Philips's New Wo7-ld of Words, 

 fourth edit. 1678. Edward F. Himbault. 



Korners Poems, ^c. (2"'> S. v. 31.) — The 

 translator of A Selection from the Poems and Dra- 

 matic Works of Theodor Korner, by the IVanslator 

 of the Nibelungen Treasure, 18.50, Williams and 

 Norgate, was a Miss Phillips, now Madame de 

 Pontes, by whom an original work, on the Poets 

 and Literature of Germany from the Middle Ages 

 to the present time, is announced to appear at 

 Messrs. Chapman and Hall's. X. Y. Z. 



*' Coke upon Littleton" turned into Verse (2"'' S. 

 V. 129.) — A story that is transmitted to us by 

 tradition, is almost necessarily varied according to 

 the memory, taste, or (if it be verse) the correct- 

 ness of the ear of the relator. Lord St. Leonards 

 names neither the judge who " indulged himself 

 in the euphonical phrases," nor the " learned Ser- 

 jeant" who burlesqued them. Your correspon- 

 dent, S. H. H., attributes the verses to Lord 

 Chancellor Hardwicke : and the version given by 

 each fails both in rhythm and rhyme. I believe 

 the following reading to be more genuine than 

 either : — 



" A man who is seized of his land in fee, 

 Need neither to quake nor quiver, — 

 I humbly conceive, — for, look d'j'e see, — 

 'Tis his and his heirs for ever." 



The judge who was in the habit of using these 

 phrases not being mentioned, some of your corre- 

 spondents will perhaps supply the deficiency. The 

 poet, as I have heard the story, was the Honour- 

 able Charles Yorke. D. S. 



Nelson Medal (2»* S. v. 48. 96.) — In the first 

 notice, for crest read bust. In the Jacobin Re- 

 view, 1799, vol. ii. p. 213., is a description of the 

 medal. Alexander Davison was appointed agent 

 for the sale of the ships taken in the Bay of Abou- 

 kir, August 1, 1798. The medal was engraved by 

 C. H. KucHi.ER, and struck by Boulton, Soho, in 

 gold, silver, and copper, gilt »nd bronzed. With 



it was given a printed paper (of which I have a 

 copy), headed with a naval crown and wreath of 

 oak and laurel, containing a " Description of the 

 Medal struck by Alexander Davison, Esq., as a 

 tribute of his respect for Lord Nelson, and the 

 Officers and Men who served in the Fleet under 

 his Lordship's command on the First of August, 

 1798." Then follows a detailed description of the 

 obverse and reverse. Dated " St. James's Square, 

 March 1, 1799." W. C. Tbevelyan. 



Wallington. 



Robertson's Sermons (2^^ S. v. 147.) — The 

 meaning of the passage, which forms a stumbling- 

 block to Jaydee, appears to me obvious enough. 

 In order to follow the metaphors, it may be neces- 

 sary to requote the passage in question : — 



" The conscientious churchman complains that his de- 

 licate scruples, or his bold truthfulness, stand in the way 

 of his preferment ; while another man, who conquers his 

 scruples, or softens the eye of truth, rises, and sits down a 

 mitred peer of Parliament." 



The " eye of truth" may be supposed to have a 

 stern, unhlenching aspect ; but when softened (by 

 what means it is needless to indicate), it would 

 wink at any tergiversation. 



John Pavin Piiilups. 



Haverfordwest. 



Bladworth Family (2"^ S. v. p. 48.) — Is not 

 BludwoTth meant ? Sir Thos. Bludworth was Lord 

 Mayor of London, 1666, and is in the "Middlesex 

 list of Knights of the Royal Oak." He bore, arg. 

 three bars, sable, in chief as many torteauxes, all 

 within a bordure, erm. Another branch of Blud- 

 worth, according to Robson, bears the bars gules. 



P.P. 



Portrait of Graham of Claverhouse (2"*^ S. v. 

 131.) — Painted likenesses of the celebrated John 

 Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, 

 are well known to be in existence in the collec- 

 tions of the Earl of Strathmore and the Earl of 

 Leven and Melville. There is also one in the 

 collection of Mr. Graham of Airtb, and another 

 which is said to be Dundee, in a court dress, 

 among those of the Duke of Buccleuch at 

 Dalkeith. 



The *' Strathmore portrait" has been engraved 

 for Lodge's Portraits, Sfc. ; the " Leven " one was 

 engraved from a sketch by C. H. Sharpe, Esq., for 

 the privately printed collections of Dundee's Let- 

 ters presented to the members of the Bannatyne 

 Club by Mr. Penythe of Methven. If there be at 

 Abbotsford a portrait of Dundee, it must just be 

 a copy from one or other of those that I mention ; 

 the engraving of which, with some verses thereon 

 by Sir Walter Scott, is I am afraid a mistake, as 

 none such is known to collectors here. 



While on the subject of Dundee, I may be ex- 

 cused for mentioning that there is in the press a 

 new work Uhsti'ative of the TJfe and Times of 



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