May 14. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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Shahspeares Monument, — When I was a young 

 man, some tliirty or forty years ago, I visited the 

 monument of Shakspeare, in the beautiful church 

 of Stratford-upon-Avon, and there copied, from 

 the Album which is kept for the names of visitors, 

 the following lines : 



" Stranger ! to whom this monument is shown, 

 Invoke the poet's curse upon Malone ! 

 Whose meddling zeal his barbarous taste displays, 

 And smears his tombstone, as he marr'd his plays. 



R, F. 



Oct. 2, 1810." 



This has just now been brought to my mind by 

 reading, in page 155. of the second volume of 

 Moore's Journal, the following account of a con- 

 versation at Bowo6d : 



" Talked of Malone — a dull man — his whitewashing 

 the statue of Shakspeare, at Leamington or Stratford (?), 

 and General Fitzpatrick's (Lord L.'s uncle) epigram 

 on the subject — very good — 



* And smears his statue as he mars his lays.' " 



I cannot but observe that the doubt expressed 

 in the Diary of Moore — whether Shakspeare's mo- 

 nument is "at Leamington or Stratford (?)" — is 

 curious; and I conceive my version of the last line, 

 besides being more correct, is also more pithy. It 

 is incorrect, moreover, to call it a stable, as it is a 

 three-quarters bust in a niche in the wall. 



The extract from Moore's Diary, however, satis- 

 factorily explains the initials " R. F.," which have 

 hitherto puzzled me. Senex. 



Archbishop Leighton and Pope : Curious Coin- 

 cidence of lliought and Expression. — 



" Were the true visage of sin seen at a full light, 

 undressed and unpainted, it were impossible, while it so 

 appeared, that any one soul could be in love with it, 

 but would rather flee from it as hideous and abomin- 

 able." — Leighton's Works, vol. i. p. 121. 



" Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, 

 As to be hated, needs but to be seen." — Pope. 

 James Cornish. 



Grant of Slaves. — I send you a copy of a grant 

 of a slave with his children, by William, the Lion 

 King of Scotland, to the monks of Dunfermline, 

 taken from the Cart, de Dunfermline, fol. 13., 

 printed by the Bannatyne Club from a MS. in the 

 Advocates' Library here, which you may, perhaps, 

 think curious enough to insert in " N. & Q." 

 " De Servis. 



" Willielmus Dei gracia Rex Scottorum. Omnibus 

 probis hominibus tocius terre me, clericis et laicis, sa- 

 lutem ; Sciant presentis et futuri me dedisse et conces- 

 sisse et hac carta mea confirmasse, Deo et ecclesie 

 Sancte Trinitatis de Dunfermlene et Abbati et Mo- 

 nachis ibidem, Deo servientibusin liberam et perpetuam 

 elemosinam, Gillandream Macsuthen et ejus liberos et 



illos eis quietos clamasse, de me, et heredibus meis, in 

 perpetuura. Testibus Walter© de Bid, Cancellario ; 

 VVillielmo filio Alani, Dapifero ; Roberto Aveneli 

 Gillexio Rennerio, Willielmo Thoraldo, apud Stri- 

 velin." 



G. H. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Sealing-wax. — The most careful persons will 

 occasionally drop melting sealing-wax on their 

 fingers. The first impulse of every one is to pull 

 it off, which is followed by a blister. The proper 

 course is to let the wax cool on the finger ; the 

 pain is much less, and there is no blister. Unbda. 



Philadelphia. 



^ntxiti. 



WAI.MER CASTLE. 



In Hasted's History of Kent, vol. iv. p. 172., folio 

 edition, we have as follows : 



" Walmer, probably so called quasi vallum maris, i. e. 

 the wall or fortification made against the sea, was 

 expressed to have been a member of the port of Sand- 

 wich time out of mind," &c. 



Again, p. 165., note m, we find: 



" Before these three castles were built, there were, 

 between Deal and Walmer Castle, two eminences of 

 earth, called 'The Great and Little Bulwark;' and 

 another, between the north end of Deal and Sandwich 

 Castle (all of which are now remaining) : and there 

 was probably one about the middle of the town, and 

 others on the spots where the castles were erected. 

 They had embrasures for guns, and together formed a 

 defensive line of batteries along that part of the coast;" 

 &c. 



To the new building of these castles Leland 

 alludes, in his Cygnea Cantio : 



" Jactat Dela novas Celebris arces 

 Notus Caesareis locus trophasis." — Ver. 565. 



There are clear remains of a Roman entrench- 

 ment close to Walmer Castle. (See Hasted, vol. iv. 

 p. 162., notes.) 



Any of your correspondents who could give me 

 any information tending to show that an old forti- 

 fication had existed on the site of Walmer Castle, 

 previous to the erection of the present edifice — or 

 even almost upon the same site — would do me a 

 very great kindness if he would communicate it, 

 through the columns of " N. & Q.," or by a private 

 letter sent to the Editor. C. Waymok. 



SCOTCHMEN IN POLAND. 



Can any of your readers throw any light on 

 this passage in Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir John 

 Denham ? 



" He [Sir John Denham] now resided in France, as 

 one of the followers of the exiled king ; and, to divert 



