Aug. 20. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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me to explain liow I fell Into the error. It was, 

 then, from using Mr. Knight's edition of the work ; 

 for though the orthography was modernised, which 

 I like, I never dreamed of an editor's taking the 

 liberty of altering the text of his author. 1 love 

 to be corre(!ted when wrong, and here express my 

 thanks to B. H. C. I inlbrm him that there is 

 another passage in Shakspeare with its in it, but 

 not having marked it, I cannot find it just now : I 

 think it is in Lear, 



I have said that I like modernised orthography. 

 We have modernised that of the Bible, and of the 

 dramatists ; why then are we so superstitious with 

 respect to the barbarous system of Spenser ? I 

 am convinced that the Fairy Queen, if printed In 

 modern orthography, would find many readers who 

 are repelled by the uncouth and absurd spelling 

 of the poet, who wanted to rhyme to the eye as 

 well as to the ear. Let us then have a " Spenser 

 for the People." Thos. Keightxey. 



Oldham, Bishop of Exeter (Vol. vil., pp. 14, 

 164. 189. 271.).— Mr. Walcott will be Interested 

 to learn, that Bishop Hugh Oldham was not a 

 native of Oldham, but was born at Crumpsall, In 

 the parish of Manchester ; as appeal's from Dug- 

 dale's Visitation of Lancashire, and the " Lanca- 

 shire MSS.," vol. xxxl. His brother, Richard 

 Oldham, appointed 22nd Abbot of St. Werburgh's 

 Abbey, Chester, in 1452, was afterwards elevated 

 to the Islshoprick of Man, and, dying Oct. 13, 1485, 

 was burled at Chester Abbey, Chester. 



T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Boom (Vol. vli., p. 620.). — This word, expi-es- 

 slve of the cry of the bittern, is also used as a 

 noun : 



" And the loud bittern from his bull-rush home, 

 Gave from the salt-ditch side his bellowing loom." 

 Crabbe, The Borough, xxii. 



Ebenezer Elliott is another who uses the word 

 as a verb : 



" No more with her will hear the bittern hooin 

 At evening's dewy close." 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



Lord North (Vol. vil., p. 317.). — If C. can pro- 

 cure a copy of Lossing's Pictorial Field-book of 

 the American Revolution, he will find in one of the 

 volumes a woodcut from an English engraving, 

 presenting to our view George III. as he appeared 

 at the era of the American Revolution. It may 

 serve to modify his present opinion as to the 

 king's figure, face, &c. M. E. 



Philadelphia, 



Dutch Pottery (Vol. v., p. 343. ; Vol. vi., p. 253.), 

 — At Arnhem, about sixty-five or seventy years 

 ago, there existed a pottery founded by two Ger- 



mans : H. Brandels, and the well-known savant 

 II. von Laun, maker of the planetarium (orrery) 

 described by Professor van Svvlnden, and pur- 

 chased by the Society Felix Mentis in Amsterdam. 

 The son of Mr. Brandels has still at his residence, 

 'No. 419. Rapenburgerstraat, several articles manu- 

 factured there : such as plates, &c. What I have 

 seen is much coarser than the Saxon porcelain, 

 yet much better than our Delft ware. Perhaps 

 Mr. Van Embden, grandson and successor of Von 

 Laun, could give farther information. 



S. J, Mulder. 



P. S. — Allow me to correct some misprints in 

 Vol. vi., p. 253. Dutch and German names 

 are often cruelly maltreated in English publica- 

 tions. In this respect " N. & Q." should be an ex- 

 ception. For " Lrchner " read Leichner ; for " Dorp- 

 ^eschryver" read Dorpieschryver ; for "Blasse" 

 read Blwsse ; for " Heeren " read Haeren ; for 

 "PallandA" read Pall an d ; for "Daenbar" read 

 Daewber. — From the Navorscher. 



Cranmers Correspondences (Vol. vli., p. 621.). — 

 Will Mr. Walter be so good as to preserve in 

 your columns the letter of which Dean Jenkyns 

 has only given extracts ? 



Two points are to be distinguished ; Cranmer's 

 wish that Calvin should assist In a general union 

 of the churches protesting against llomish error 

 — Calvin's offer to assist in settling the Church of 

 England. The latter was declined ; and the reason 

 is demonstrated in Archbp, Laurence's Bampton 

 Lectures. S. Z. Z. S. 



Portable Altars (Vol. vill., p. 101.). — I am not 

 acquainted with any treatise on the subject of 

 portable altars, from which your correspondent 

 can obtain more Information, than from that which 

 occupies forty-six pages in the Decas Disserta- 

 tionum Historico-Theologicarum, published, for the 

 second time, by Jo. Andr. Schmidt, 4to. Helrastad. 

 1714. R. G. 



Poem attributed to Shelley (Vol. vIII., p. 71.). — 

 The ridiculous extravaganza attributed to Shelley 

 by an American newspaper, was undoubtedly 

 never written by that gifted genius. It bears 

 throughout unmistakeable evidence of Its trans- 

 atlantic origin. No person, who had not actually 

 witnessed that curious vegetable parasite, the 

 Spanish moss of the southern states of America, 

 hanging down in long, hairy-like plumes from the 

 branches of a large tree, could have Imagined the 

 lines, — 



" The downy clouds droop 

 Like moss upon a tree." 



Who, again, could believe that Shelley, an En- 

 glish gentleman and scholar, could ever, either in 

 writing or conversation, have made use of the 

 common American vulgarism, " play hell ! " 



