May 28. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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It seems to have been pawned (if I rightly under- 

 stand the report in the newspapers) to a Mr. 

 Broughton of the Foreign Office, who had ad- 

 vanced money to the prince to enable him to pro- 

 secute his claim to the dukedom. It has now 

 been ordered by Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood 

 to be offered for sale as part of Mr. Broughton's 

 estate, for the benefit of that gentleman's creditors. 

 It was stated in court, that on a former occasion, 

 when the late Archbishop of Canterbury wished to 

 purchase it, 1500Z. was asked for it. I was much 

 obliged to H. W. for the information he gave me, 

 as I took some little interest in Philip D'Auvergne 

 from having heard that he was a friend of my 

 grandfather. They were, I find, both of them 

 officers in the Racehorse during Lord Mulgrave's 

 discovery voyage to the North Pole. E. H. A. 



Rhymes on Places (Vol. vii., p. 143.). — North- 

 amptonshire : 



" Armston on the hill, 



Polebrook in the hole, 

 Ashton turns the mill, 

 Oundle burns the coal." 

 Repeated to me by poor old drunken Jem 

 White the sexton, many years since, when on the 

 "battlements" of Oundle Church; Oundle being 

 the market town for the three villages in the 

 rhymes quoted. Bbick. 



Serpents' Tongues (Vol. vi., p. 340. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 316.). — May I be allowed to inform Mr. Pin- 

 KEKTON that the sharks' teeth (fossils), now so 

 frequently found imbedded in this tufa rock, and 

 cheaply sold, are not known as " the tongues of 

 vipers," but, on the contrary, from time imme- 

 morial, as the " tongues of St. Paul." In proof of 

 this, I would refer Mr. Pinkerton to the follow- 

 ing extract, which I have taken from an Italian 

 letter now in the Maltese Library ; which was 

 published on August 28, 1668, by Dr. Francis 

 Buonamico, a native of this island, and addressed 

 to Agostino Scilla of Messina. Page 5., the writer 

 remarks : 



" Che avanti de partire da questa isola dovesse farle 

 una raccolta di glossopietre, O lingue come que le chia- 

 miamo di S. Paolo." 



w.w. 



Malta. 



Consecrated Roses, 8fc. (Vol. vii., pp. 407. 480.). 

 — An instance of the Golden Rose being conferred 

 on an English baron, will be found related in 

 Davidson's History of Newenham Abbey in the 

 County of Devon, ]^. 208. J. D. S. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



That well-worn quotation, "who shall decide when 

 doctors disagree," must, we should think, invariably 



suggest itself to the reader of every new book upon the 

 subject of Shakspeare's text. A few months since Mr. 

 Collier, gave to the world a volume of Notes and 

 Emendations from Early Manuscript Corrections in a 

 Copy of the Folio 1632*, which was hailed by many, 

 ourselves among the number, as a most valuable con- 

 tribution to Shakspearian literature. From this fa- 

 vourable view of these manuscript emendations, many 

 whose opinions upon such matters deserve the highest 

 respect at once avowed their dissent ; and we now find 

 that we have to add to this number Mr. Singer, who 

 has given us the result of his examination of them in a 

 volume entitled The Text of Shakspeare vindicated from 

 the Interpolations and Corruptions advocated by John 

 Payne Collier, Esq. , in his Notes and Emendations. No 

 one can put forth higher claims to speak with authority 

 on any points connected with Shakspeare than Mr. 

 Singer, who has devoted a life to the study of his 

 writings; and none can rise from a perusal of his 

 book without recognising in it evidence of Mr. 

 Singer's fitness for editing the works of our great dra- 

 matist, and feeling anxious for his revised edition of 

 them. But we think many will regret that, while 

 pointing out the Notes and Emendations from which 

 he dissents, Mr. Singer should not have noticed those 

 which he regards with favour ; and that, in his anxiety 

 to vindicate the purity of Shakspeare's text from the 

 anonymous emendator, he should have embodied that 

 vindication in language, which, though we are quite 

 sure it is unintentional on his part, gives his book 

 almost a personal character, instead of one purely 

 critical. 



Books Received, — Records of the Roman Inquisition. 

 Case of a Minorite Friar who was sentenced by S. Charles 

 Borromeo to be walled up, and who, having escaped, was 

 burned in effigy : edited, with an English Translation, 

 Notes, 8fc., by Rev. Richard Gibbings. Published 

 from one of the MSS. conveyed from Rome to Paris 

 by order of Napoleon, at tha close of the last century, 

 as a challenge to the defenders of the papacy to acknow- 

 ledge its truth, or to controvert it. — The History of 

 England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Ver- 

 sailles, by Lord Mahon, Vol. III. The third volume 

 of this new and cheaper edition of Lord Mahon's 

 valuable history comprehends the period from 1740 to 

 1748. — English Forests and Forest Trees; Historical^ 

 Legendary, and Descriptive, with numerous Illustrations. 

 This volume, one of the Illustrated London Library, is 

 a pleasant chatty compilation on a subject which will 

 interest many of our readers and correspondents by 

 furnishing them with a series of notices of old forests, 

 remarkable trees, &c., which have never before been 

 gathered together. — The Shakspeare Repository, edited 

 by J. H. Fennell, No. II. The second part of this 

 periodical, the only one exclusively devoted to the 

 Elizabethan writers, contains, among other interesting 

 articles, a long one on the medical practice of Shak- 

 speare's son-in-law, Dr. John Hall. 



[* Since this was written we have heard that Mr. 

 Collier has traced back the history of his Folio 1632 

 for upwards of a century. — Eu.] 



