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No. 201.] 



Saturday, September 3. 1853. 



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CONTENTS. 

 ^OTES : — Page 



"Tliat Swinney" - - - - - - 213 



Monumental Inscription in Peterborough Cathedral, by 



Thos. Wake 215 



Folk Lore: — Superstition of the Cornish Miners — 



Northamptonshire Folic Lore ... - 215 



Shakspeare Correspondence . - - - 2IG 



Minor Notes: — I^mon-juice administered in Gout 

 and Rheumatism — Weather Proverbs — Dog Latin — 

 Thomas Wright of Duriiam — A Funeral Custom - 217 



■Queries : — 



Littlecott — Sir John Popham, by Edward Foss - 218 



Early Edition of the New Testament, by A. Boardmaii 219 



Minor Queuies : — Ravilliac: — Emblem on a Chimney- 

 piece — "To know ourselves diseased," &c. — " Paetus 

 and Arria" — Heraldic Query — Lord Chancellor 

 Steele — " A Tub to the Whale " — Legitimation (Scot- 

 land) — " Vaut mieux," &c Shakspeare First Folio 



— The Staffordshire Knot — Sir Thomas Elyot — 

 "Celsior exsurgens pluviis," &c. — The Bargain Cup 



— School- Libraries — Queert Elistabeth and her 

 "true" Looking-glass — Bishop Thomas Wilson — 

 Bishop Wilson's Works — Hobbes, Portrait of - 219 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Brasenose, Oxford 



— G. Downing — Unkid — Pilgrim's Progress — John 

 Krewen — Histories of Literature — " Mrs. Shaw's 

 Tombstone" - - - - - - 221 



Seplies: — 



Cranmer and Calvin, by the Rev. H. Walter - - 222 



Barnacles, by Sir J. E. Tennent and T. J. Buckton - 223 

 Dial Inscriptions, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. - - 224 



The "Saltpeter Maker" ----- 22r) 



Tsar, by T. J. Buckton, &c. - - - - 226 



" Land of Green Ginger," by John Richardson and 

 T.J. Buckton - - - - - - 227 



Photographic Correspondence :— Stereoscopic Angles 



— Protonitrate of Iron — Photographs in natural 

 Colours — Photographs by artificial Lights - - 227 



■Replies to Minor Queriks : — Vandyke in America — 

 Title wanted : Choirochorographia — Second Growth 

 of Grass — Snail-eating — Sotades — The Letter " h " 

 in "humble" — Lord North — Singing Psalms and 

 Politics — Dimidiation by Impalement — " Inter 

 cuncta micans," &c. — Marriage Service — Widowed 

 Wife— Pure— Mrs. Tigiie— Satirical Medal— " They 

 shot him dead at the Nine-Stone Rig" — Hendericus 

 du Booys : Hel-'na Leonore de Siev6ri — House- 

 marks, &c " Qui facit per alium, facit per se " — 



:Engin-Si-verge — Campvere, Privileges of — Humbug: 

 Ambages — "Goi.g to Old Weston" — Reynolds's 

 Nephew— The Laird of Brodie — Mulciber — Voiding 

 Knile — Sir John Vanbrugh — Portrait of Charles I. 



— Burial in an erect Posture — Strut-Stowers and 

 Yeathers or Yadders — Arms of the See of York — 

 Leman Family— Position of Font - - - 228 



Miscellaneous : 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - - - 234 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 234 



Notices to Correspondents . . - . 234 



Advertisements ----.- 235 



Vol. Vlir. — No.201. 



" THAT SWINNEY." 



Junius thus wrote to II. S. Woodfall In a private 

 note, to which Dr. Good has afBxed the date 

 July 21st, 1769 (vol. i. p. 174.*) : 



" That Swinney is a ■wretched but dangerous fool. 

 He had the impudence to go to Lord G. Sackville, 

 whom he had never spoken to, and to ask him whetlier 

 or no he was the author of Junius : take care of him." 



This paragraph has given rise to a great deal of 

 speculation, large inferences have been drawa 

 from it, yet no one has satisfactorily answered the 

 question, who was " that Swinney ? " 



That neither Dr. Good nor Mr, George Wood- 

 fall, the editors of the edit, of 1812, knew anything 

 about him, is manifest from their own bald note 

 of explanation, " A correspondent of the printers." 

 Some reports say that he was a collector of news 

 for the Public Advertiser, and subsequently a 

 bookseller at Birmingham, but I never saw any 

 one fact adduced tending to show that there was 

 any peison of that name so employed. Others 

 that the Rev. Dr. Sidney Swinney was the party 

 referred to : and Mr. Smith, in his excellent notes 

 to the Grenville Papeis, vol. iii. p. Ixviii., assumes 

 this to be the fact. I incline to agree with him, 

 but have only inference to strengthen conjecture. 

 What may be the value of that inference will 

 appear in the progress, of this inquiry, Who was 

 Dr. Sidney Swinney ? 



Reports collected by Mr. Butler, Mr. Barker, 

 Mr. Coventry, and others, say that the Doctor had 

 been chaplain to the Russian Embassy, chaplain 

 to the Embassy at Constantinople, and chaplain to 

 one of the British regiments serving in Germany. 

 Mr. Falconer, in his Secret Revealed, p. 22., quotes 

 a paragraph from one of Wray's letters to Lord 

 Hardwick with reference to the proceedings at 

 the Royal Society : 



" Dr. Swinney, your Lordship's friend, presented 

 his father-in-law Howell's book." 

 Swinney's father-in-law, here called Howell, was 

 John Zephaniah Holwell, a remarkable man, whose 

 name is intimately associated with the early his- 

 tory of British India, one of the few survivors of 

 the Black Hole imprisonment, the successor gf 



