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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 176. 



need look no farther than this very edition of 

 Marlowe for an illustration of the possibility of 

 such a combination of circumstances as I have 

 supposed. In the earliest known edition of the- 

 play of Dr. Faustus is found an allusion to a cer- 

 tain Dr. Lopez, who did not attain notoriety (by 

 beino; hanged) till after Marlowe's death; but 

 Mr. Dyce very justly only infers from this that the 

 particular passage is an interpolation. According 

 to the reasoning applied to Lusfs Dominion, Faus- 

 tus also should have been expelled summarily, 

 upon this objection : and yet, in the case of that 

 play, we know that such a conclusion from such 

 premises would have been erroneous. I am un- 

 ■willing to lay much stress on the internal evidence 

 to be drawn from the language and conduct of the 

 play itself, because I am aware how little reliance 

 can be placed on reasoning drawn from such ob- 

 servations ; but no one, I think, will deny that 

 there are many passages which at least might have 

 been written by Marlowe : and, on the whole, I 

 submit that it would have been more satisfactory 

 if Mr. Dyce had included it in this edition. 



He has changed his practice since he printed 

 among Middleton's works (and rightly) the play 

 of the Honest Whore, a play generally — I believe, 

 universally — attributed to Dekker alone, on the 

 authority of one single entry in Henslowe's Diary, 

 where the names of the two poets are incidentally 

 coupled together as joint authors of the piece ! 



I should mention, that I take the dates and 

 book-lore from Mr. Dyce himself. B. R. I. 



DOVER CASTLE : A NOTE TO HASTED. 



Lambard, Camden, and Kilburne all speak of 

 an accumulation of stores in Dover Castle, on the 

 origin of which various traditions and opinions 

 existed in their days. 



" The Castell of Doner (sayth Lidgate and Rosse) 

 was firste builded by Julius Ca-sar the Romane em- 

 perour, in memorie of whome, they of the castell kept, 

 till this day, certeine vessels of olde wine and salte, 

 whiche they affirme to be the remayne of suche pro- 

 uision as he brought into it, as touching the whiche (if 

 they be natural and not sophisticate), I suppose them 

 more likely to have beene of that store whiche Hubert 

 de Burghe layde in there." — Lambard. 



" In this castle likewise antiently was to be seen a 

 tower (called Caesar's Tower), afterwards the king's 

 lodgings (excellent for workmanship and very high ), — 

 a spacious hall (called King Arthur's Hall) with a faire 

 gallery, or entry, — great pipes and cashes (bound with 

 iron hoopes), wherein was liquor (supposed to be wine) 

 which by long lying became as thick as treackle, and would 

 cleave like bird-lime ; — salt congealed together as hard as 

 stone, cross bowes, long bowes, and arrowes to the same 

 (to which was fastened brass instead of feathers) ; and 

 the same were of such bigness as not fit to be used 

 by any men of this or late ages," — Kilburne, 



" Camden relates that he was shown these arrows, 

 which he thinks were such as the Romans used to 

 shoot out of their engines, which were like to large 

 crossbows. These last might, though not Cesar's, be- 

 long to the Romans of a later time ; and the former 

 might, perhaps, be part of the provisions and stores 

 which King Henry VIII. laid in here, at a time when 

 he passed from hence over sea to France ; but for many 

 years past it has not been known what is become of 

 any of these things." — Hasted. 



The following extract from an inventory fur- 

 nished by William de Clynton, Earl of Huntyng- 

 don, Lord Warden, on handing over the castle to 

 Bartholomew de Burghersh, his successor, dated 

 " die Sabati in vigilia sancti Thome Apostoll, anno 

 regni regis Edwardi tercel a conquestu Anglie 

 decimo septimo" (i.e. September 20, 1343), will 

 supply a satisfactory elucidation of what these 

 stores were : 



" Item in magna Turri ; quinque dolea et j pipam 

 mellis ; unde de j doleo deficiunt viij pollices ; et de 

 alio deficiunt iij pollices ; et de alio deficiunt xvj pol- 

 lices ; et de alio xv pollices ; et de quinto xj pollices ; 

 et de pipa deficiunt xx pollices. Item, j molendinum 

 manuale et ij molas pro eodem. 



" Item, in domo armorura iij springaldas magnas 

 cum toto atilo* preeter cordas. Item, quinque minores 

 springaldas sine cordis; et iij parvas springaldasf modici 

 valoris ; L arcus de tempore Regis avi ; clvj arcus de 

 tempore Regis nunc ; cxxvj arbalistas, de quibus 

 xxxiij arbaliste de cornu ad duos pedes, et ix de 

 cornu ad unum pedem, et iij nnagne arbaliste ad tur- 

 num.j: Item, xliij baudrys ; vij''^ et ix garbas sagit- 

 tarura ; Iviij sagittas large barbatas ; xxv haubergons 

 debiles et putrefactos; xxij basenettos debiles de veteri 

 tour ; xj galeas de ferro, de quibus vj cum visers ; xx 

 capellas de ferro ; xxij basenettos coopertos de coreo, 

 de veteri factura, debiles et putrefactos ; xxv paria 

 cirotecarum de platis nullius valoris ; xij capellas de 

 nervisde Pampilon depictas; xxx haketons§ et gambe- 

 sons II nullius valoris; ixpicos; ij trubulos; j cenovec- 

 torlum^ cum j rota ferro ligata ; j cuva ; iij instru- 

 menta pro arbalistis tendendis; cxviij lanceas, quarum 

 xviij sine capitibus ; j cas cum sagittis saracenorum ; 

 ciij targettos, quorum xxiiij-*nullius valoris ; j veterem 

 cistam cum capitibus quarellorum et sagittarum debi- 

 lem ; ij barellos ; vj bukettos cum quarellis debilibus 

 non pennatis ; j cistam cum quantitate capitum quarel- 



'•' Toto atilo ; quasi " attelage." 



f Springaldus; "veterum profectofuit balistcB genus, 

 et, recentis militiae, tormentum est pulverarium, non 

 ita ponderosum ut majoribus bombardis £equari possit, 

 nee ea levitate ut gestari manibus valeat." — Ducange. 



% Arbaliste ad turnum ; arballsts that traversed. 



§ Haukets ; " sagum militare." — Ducange. 



II Gambeson ; " vestimenti genus quod de coactlli 

 ad mensuram et tutelam pectoris humani conficitur, de 

 moUibus lanis, ut, hoc inducta primum, lorica vel cli- 

 banus, aut his similia, fragilitatem corporis, ponderis 

 asperitate non Isederent." — Ducange. 



\ Cenovectorium ; "a mudcart." — Ducange. 



