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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 178. 



^'- 1 hear a lion" Sfc. (Vol, vii., p. 205.). — These 

 lines (corrupted by your correspondent Sagitta 

 into Jive) are two couplets in Bramstone's lively 

 poem of the Art of Politics. They are a versifi- 

 cation of a shrewd question put by Colonel Titus 

 in the debate on the celebrated bill for excluding 

 James Duke of York. C. 



The Art of Politics, by the Rev. Mr. Bramston, 

 contains the following lines, which will, I appre- 

 hend, give your correspondent the required in- 

 formation : 



" With art and modesty your part maintain ; 

 And talk like Col'nel Titus, not like Lane. 

 The trading knight with rants his speech begins. 

 Sun, moon, and stars, and dragons, saints, and kings : 

 But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, 

 "When the exclusion-bill was in suspense, 

 I hear a lion in the lobby roar ; 

 Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door 

 And keep him there, or shall we let him in 

 To try if we can turn him out again ? " 



Mr. Bramston's poem is in the first volume of 

 Dodsley's Collection. 



Perhaps some of your correspondents may be 

 able to refer to a cotemporary account of Colonel 

 Titus's speech on the Exclusion Bill. 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Fercett (Vol.vi., p. 292.). — The term Fercett 

 is probably intended as the designation of some 

 collection in MS. of family evidences and pedigrees. 

 It was usual among our ancestors thus to inscribe 

 such collections either with the name of the col- 

 lector, or that of the particular family to whom 

 the book related. Thus the curious MS. in the 

 library of the City of London, called Dunthome, 

 and containing ancient municipal records, is so 

 called from its collector, whose name was Dun- 

 thorne. Instances of such titles are to be found 

 in the collections of Gervase Holies in the Lans- 

 downe MSS., where one of such books is referred 

 to as Trusbutt. E. G. B. 



Old Satchells (Vol. vi., p. 160. ; Vol. vii., p.209.). 

 — Your correspondent J. O. seems not to be 

 aware that another and a fourth edition of Old 

 Satchells' True History (" with copious additions, 

 notes, and emendations," under the editorial su- 

 perintendence of William TurnbuU, Esq., F.S.A.) 

 is in course of preparation 'neath the fostering 

 care of Mr. John Gray Bell, the pro amore pub- 

 lisher of so many historical and antiquarian tracts 

 of interest. Mr. Bell has already given to the 

 world a Pedigree of the Ancient Family of Scott 

 of Slokoe, edited, with notes, by AVilliam Robson 

 Scott, Ph. D., of St. Leonard's, Exeter, from the 

 original work compiled by his grandfather, Dr. 

 William Scott, of Stamfordham, Northumber- 

 land, then (1783) representative of the family. 



The latter gentleman left behind him a large and 

 valuable collection of MSS. relative to the family, 

 which, as I learn from the prospectus, will be 

 called into requisition in the forthcoming reprint 

 of the Old Soiddier of Satchell. Possibly the 

 publishers of the second and third editions may 

 have been assisted in their labours by the learned 

 doctor in question, whose already quoted Pedigree 

 of the Scotts of Stolioe was issued only a few years 

 prior to the appearance of the Hawick edition 

 of 1786, not 1784, as accidentally misprinted in 

 J. O.'s interesting communication. T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



Curtseys awl Bows (Vol. vii., p. 156.). — In the 

 interlude of The Trial of Treasure, by Purfoote, 

 1567 (page 14. of reprint), Inclination says to 

 Gredy-gutte : 



" Ise teach you to speake, I hold you a pounde ! ] 

 Curchy, lob, curchy downe to the grounde. 

 Gre. Che can make curchy well enowe. 

 Inc. Lower, olde knave, or yle make ye to bowe 1" I 



For rationale of bows and curtseys, see " N. & 

 Q.," Vol. v., p. 157., though I fancy the hob curtseys 

 are the ones referred to. Thos. Lawrence. 



Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 



The Rev. Joshua Marsden (Vol. vii., p. 181.). — 

 This gentleman was born at Warrington in the 

 year 1777. In the year 1800 he offered himself, 

 and was accepted by the Wesley an Methodist Con- 

 ference, as a missionary to British North America, 

 where he laboured for several years. He removed 

 thence to Bermuda. In 1814 he returned to 

 England with a constitution greatly impaired, but 

 continued to occupy regular stations under the 

 direction of the Conference until 1836, when, worn 

 out by affliction, he became a supernumerary, and 

 resided in London, where he occasionally preached 

 as his health permitted. He died August 1 1, 1837, 

 aged sixty. John I. Dbedge. 



A memoir and portrait of the Rev. Joshua Mars- 

 den will be found in the Imperial Magazine, July, 

 1830. He was at that period a preacher among the 

 Wesleyan Methodists, having been for many years 

 previously a missionary in connexion with that 

 people. He was an amiable, ingenious, and worthy 

 man, and although not a powerful, a pleasing poet. 

 Among other things, he published Amusements of 

 a Mission, Forest Musings, and The Evangelical 

 Minstrel. J- H. 



Sidney as a Christian Name (Vol. vii., p. 39.). 

 — Your correspondent R. D. B., of Baltimore, is 

 informed that the name of Sidney is extremely 

 common in North Wales as a Christian name of 

 either sex, but more particularly of the female. 



There seems to be no tradition connected with 

 its use. In this part of the principality, the name 



