Feb. 26. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



203 



Mrs. Piozzi, was sold in Manchester in August, 

 1823, to an eminent bookseller in Bond Street. 



KlEKWALLENSlS. 



Borroiced Thoughts. — We often hear the man 

 who, from his more advanced position, looks with 

 contempt on the wisdom of past ages, likened to 

 the child mounted on his father's shoulders, and 

 boasting that he is the taller of the two. 



This is no new idea. It is probably derived 

 immediately from Mr. Macaulay, who in his Essay 

 on Sir James Mackintosh says : 



" The men to whom we owe it that we have a House 

 of Commons are sneered at because they did not suffer 

 the debates of the House to be published. The au- 

 thors of the Toleration Act are treated as bigots, be- 

 cause they did not go the whole length of Catholic 

 Emancipation. Just so we have heard a baby, 

 mounted on the shoulders of its father, cry out, ' How 

 much taller I am than Papa ! ' " 



But it may be traced farther; for hear what 

 Butler says {Hudibras, ii. 71.) : 



" For as our modern wits behold, 

 Mounted a pick-back on the old. 

 Much farther off, much further he, 

 Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see." 



Eeica. 

 Warwick. 



Suggested Reprints. — Acting on the suggestion 

 of J. M., I make a note of the following : 



" Joshua Sprigge's Anglia Eediviva, London, 1647, 

 gives a florid but authentic and sufficient account of 

 this new-model army in all its features and operations 

 by which England had come alive again. A little 

 sparing in dates, but correct when they are given. 

 None of the old books are better worth reprinting." — 

 Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Cromwell. 



I would remark, also, that there are very few 

 collections of maxims so good and profitable to 

 the present time as Francis Quarles' Enchiridion, 

 London, 1702, 12mo. A reprint would be very 

 useful. There is an article thereon in the Retro- 

 spective Review, vol. v. p. 180. K. P. D. E. 



^\xtviti. 



RIGBY COERESPONDBNCE. 



In looking over old family papers, I find a 

 bundle of letters, sixty-seven in number, some of 

 them very interesting, written to my grandfkther 

 by Richard Rigby, commencing in the year 1758, 

 and ending 1781. This Richard Rigby, it appears, 

 held the then sinecure office of "Master of the 

 Rolls in Ireland, but resided altogether in England, 

 and held office under several administrations as 

 Paymaster of the Forces. His letters from 1769 

 to 1781 are all dated from the Pay Office. He is 

 the Mr. Rigby whose awkward integrity is alluded 



to by Philo-Junius in his letter of 22nd June, 

 1769, and who is ironically styled " Modest " by 

 Atticus in letter of 14th November, 1768. My 

 object is to endeavour to ascertain from some of 

 your correspondents whether there is any repre- 

 sentative of Mr. Rigby who possibly might have 

 in his possession the counterpart of the corre- 

 spondence above alluded to, which to Irishmen 

 could not fail to be of interest, and probably of 

 historic value. The writer was a member of the 

 Irish House of Commons, and, it appears, was in 

 the habit of giving very graphic details of Irish 

 politics in general, and of the proceedings of the 

 House of Commons in particular. Under date of 

 8th December, 1769, Mr. Rigby thanks him 



" For your constant accounts of what passes in your 

 parliaments. If it was not for the intelligence I give 

 the ministers from you and the rest of my friends, they 

 would know no more of what is doing in the Irish 

 Parliament than in the Turkish Divan. F'or (neither) 

 the Lord Lieutenant nor his Secretary ever write a 

 line to the Secretary of State." 



Again, 2nd December, 1771 : 



" 1 am much obliged to you for your constant intel- 

 ligence, and so are greater persons than myself, for I 

 happened to be with Lord Rochford to-day when his 

 letters arrived from his Excellency, and he had sent no 

 despatches of a later date than the 26th, so that his 

 Majesty and his ministers would have known nothing 

 of a report having been made by that committee, but 

 for my information. Lord II. sent your letters with 

 my leave to the King. They will do no discredit to 

 the writer, especially when compared to that blotting 

 paper wrote by his Excellency." 



In another letter he talks of the reports of 

 speeches made by his correspondent being far 

 better than those of any note-taker ; so that if they 

 are forthcoming, I have no doubt they would be of 

 interest and value to the historian of Ireland of 

 that time. K. K. 



HERALDIC QUERIES. 



Can any of your correspondents furnish me 

 with the names to the following coats of arms ? 

 Some are entire, others are lost, from the glass » 

 having been cut to fit the divisions. These rem- 

 nants form part of the chapel and hall windows of 

 the old Bishop's Palace (now the Deanery) at 

 Worcester. 



I. Quarterly 1 and 4. Barry of 6, azure and or, 

 on a chief of 1st; 3 pallets between 2 gyrons of 

 2nd; over all an inescutcheon erm. 



Quarterly 2 and 3. Quarterly 1 and 4 a 

 chevron between 3 roses or cinquefoils ; 2 and 3, a 

 chevron between 3 martlets. (Colours obliterated.) 



II. Sable, 3 church bells or, impaling a shield, 

 per fess invecked (this last cut off"). 



III. A saltire voided between 12 cross cross- 

 lets. , 



