April 30. 1853.] 



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For the above, vide Introduction to Amedee 

 Thierry's Histoire des Gaulois, SfC, 1828, p. 57. 



W. H. F. 



The Drummer's Letter. — The letter from the 

 drummer to the corporal's wife in The Sentimental 

 ■Journey (it is hardly possible to give a precise 

 reference to any part of this little work) ends 

 thus : 



" Je suis, Madame, 



" Avec toutes les sentimens les plus respectueux 

 ■et les plus tendres, tout a vous, 



" Jaques Rocquk." 



Why is the first of the adjectives agreeing with 

 'les sentimens in the wrong gender ? The blot 

 may be a trifling one, but I think I may say that 

 it defaces every copy of this well-known billet- 

 doux. I have seen many editions of The Senti- 

 .mental Journey^ some by the best publishers of the 

 time in which they lived, and I find the same 

 mistake in all : I do not know of a single ex- 

 ception. If Sterne wrote toutes, it must have 

 been by accident ; there is nothing to prove that 

 he wished to make the poor drummer commit the 

 solecism, for the rest of his letter is not only cor- 

 rectly, but even elegantly written. C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



The Cardinal Spider. — I have read somewhere 

 an account of a singular species of spider, which is 

 of unusually large size, and is said to be found 

 only in Hampton Court Palace. 



It is supposed by superstitious persons that the 

 spirits of Cardinal Wolsey and his retinue still 

 haunt the palace in the shape of spiders ; hence the 

 name "Cardinal." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me 

 where such an account is to be met with, as I 

 have forgotten the name of the book in which I 

 have seen it ? W. T. 



Norwich. 



New England Genealogical Society, Sfc. — Can 

 any of your correspondents inform me where I can 

 address a letter to, for Dr. Jenks, Secretary to the 

 New England Genealogical Society ? And where 

 can I see a copy of Farmer's New England Gene- 

 alogical Register, 1829, and The New England 

 Genealogical Register and Magazine for 1847, 

 mentioned by your correspondent T. Westcott, 

 *' N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 495. ? J. K. 



Dr. John Hartcliffe, Dr. Wm. Cohayne, Dr. 

 Samuel Kettilby. — Can any of your correspondents 

 tell me whether John HartclifTe, D.D., Fellow of 

 King's, Cambridge, and Head-master of Merchant 

 Taylors' from 1681 to 1686, is the Dr. Hartcliffe 

 vrhom James II. wished to instal illegally in the 



Provostship of King's, as he attempted to impose a 

 President on Magdalen, Oxon ? 



I should be glad also to know whether there is 

 any continuation of Ward's Lives of the Gresham 

 Professors, reaching to the present time ; and, m 

 particular, the dates of the appointments or deaths 

 of William Cokayne, D.D., Professor of Astro- 

 nomy, and William Roman, B.C.L., Professor of 

 Geometry ? 



Likewise, of what faculty was Samuel Kettilby, 

 D.D., Professor ; and when did he die ? 



James Hessbt. 



Merchant Taylors'. 



[It was Dr. John Hartcliffe, of Merchant Taylors', 

 that wished to become Provost of King's College: but 

 the mandate was obtained from King William, not 

 from James II. Hartcliffe's Discourse against Purga- 

 tory, 168.5, which Anthony a Wood thinks was publicly 

 burnt in France, was not likely to recommend him to the 

 favour of the latter king. The affair of the Provostship 

 is thus stated by Cole (^Hist. of King's College, vol. iv, 

 Addit. MSS. 5817.): — "On the death of Dr. Cople- 

 ston, Hartcliffe made a great stir, in order to become 

 Provost, and actually obtained a mandate of King 

 William to the society to choose him ; but he was far 

 from being agreeable to the Fellows of the college, 

 who, when they heard he was in town, and- upon what 

 errand he came, directly shut up the college gates, 

 and proceeded to an election, when Dr. Roderick was 

 chosen, with the odds of ten votes to one. This being 

 transacted in the infancy of King William's reign, he 

 chose not to stir much in it; but after having shown 

 the Fellows, by the very petition they made to him, 

 which was presented by Mr. Newborough and Mr. 

 Fleetwood, that he had a right to present, he dismissed 

 them." A biographical notice of Dr. Hartcliffe is 

 given in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. i. pp. 63, 64., 

 and in Wood's Athena: (Bliss), vol. iv. p. 790. 



No one appears to have continued Ward's Lives of 

 the Gresham Professors. Maitland, in his History of 

 London, has brought the history of the institution 

 down to 1755. Dr. Ward himself had prepared a new 

 edition, containing considerable additions, which was 

 presented to the British Museum by his residuary 

 legatee. Among the Additional MSS. also will be 

 found a large mass of papers and correspondence re- 

 lating to the Lives. From one document, entitled 

 "Minutes relating to the Lives of the Professors of 

 Gresham College, being Additions to the printed 

 Work," we extract the following notice of " Williaiu 

 Cokayne, who was the son of George Cokayne, of 

 Dovebridge in Devonshire, clerk. He was educated 

 at Merchant Taylors' School, in London, and from 

 thence elected probationer Fellow of St. John's College, 

 where he was matriculated 9th July, 1736. He com- 

 menced A.M. 9lh July, 1744; made Junior Proctor 

 1750; and B.D, 4th July, 1751." The date of his 

 appointment as Astronomy Professor is not given ; but 

 his resignation, in 1795, will be found in the Gentls' 

 man's Magazine, vol. Ixv. p. 711. He appears to have 

 died in 1798 (see lb., vol. Ixviii. p. 641.), when the 

 Rev. Joseph Monkhouse .succeeded him as Rector of 

 Kilkhampton, co. Cornwall. 



