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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 205. 



of Sextus Empiriciis, it is very intelligible. Indeed, 

 Mr. Butler, it is a most ingenious performance. But 

 mark me well : it is a mere lusus tngenii." 



Mr. Butler appends this note : 



" Mr. Fox assured the Reminiscent, that either he, 

 or Mrs. Fox to him, had read aloiid the whole, with a 

 small exception, of Sir Walter llaleigh's History." — 

 Butler's Remiiiiscences, vol. ii. p. 232. 



Balliolensis. 



Curious Advertisement. — The following genuine 

 advertisement is copied from a recent number of 

 the Connecticut Courant, published at Hartford in 

 America : 



" Julia, my v/ife, has grown quite rude. 

 She has left me in a lonesome mood ; 

 She has left my board. 

 She has took my bed, 

 Slie has gave away my meat and bread. 

 She has left me in spite of friends and church. 

 She has carried with her all my shirts. 

 Now ye who read this paper. 

 Since she cut this reckless caper, 

 I will not pay one single fraction 

 For any debts of her contraction. 



Levi Rockwell. 

 East Windsor, Conn. Aug. 4, 1853." 



G. M. B. 



Gravestone Inscription. — I send an inscription 

 on a gravestone in Northill churchyard, Bedford- 

 shire, which is now nearly obliterated, given me 

 by the Rev. John Taddy : 



" Life is a city full of crooked streets. 

 Death is the market-place where all men rncets. 

 If life were merchandise which men could buy. 

 The rich would only live, the poor would die." 



Julia R. Bockett. 

 Southcote Lodge. 



JSIonumental Inscription. — 



"Here lyeth the body of the most noble Elizabeth, 

 daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, own 

 sister to King Henry the Fourth, wife of John Holland, 

 Earl of Huntingdon and Duke of Exeter, after married 

 to Sir John Cornwall, Knight of the Garter, and Lord 

 Fanhope. She died the 4th year of Henry the Sixth, 

 Anno Domini 1426." 



The above is on a monument in Burford Church, 

 in the county of Salop, and will perhaps be inter- 

 esting to your correspondent Mr. Hakdy. 



Burford Church, in which there are several 

 other interesting monuments, is situated in the 

 luxuriant valley of the Teme, about eight miles 

 south-east of Ludlow. A Salopian. 



SIR PHILIP WARWICK. 



" A Discourse of Government, as examined by 

 Reason, Scripture, and the Law of the Land. WritteiY 

 in 1678, small 8vo. ; London, 1694." 



" Memoirs of the Reign of King Charles I., &c., 

 Svo. : London, 1 702." 



To one'or the other of these publications there 

 was prefixed a preface which, as giving offence to- 

 the government, was suppressed. I agree with 

 ]\Ir. Bindley, who says (writing to Mr. Granger), 



" The account you have given in your books of the 

 suppressed preface to Sir Philip Warwick's Memoirs, is 

 an anecdote too curious not to make one wish it authen- 

 ticated." — Letters to Mr. Granger, p. 389. 



The statement of Granger is adopted also by 

 the Ediojinrgh editor of the Memoirs in 1813. 

 (query, Sir W. Scott ?), who says in his prefiice, 



" These Memoirs were first published by the learned 

 Dr. Tliomas Smith, a nonjuring divine, distinguished 

 by oriental learning, and his writings concerning the 

 Greek Church. Tlie learned editor added a preface so 

 much marked by his political principles, that he was. 

 compelled to alter and retrench it, for fear of a prose- 

 cution at the instance of the crown." — Preface, p. ix. 



So far as concerns the Memoirs. But in a note 

 prefixed to a copy of the Discourse of Governmentj 

 now in the Bodleian among Malone's books, and 

 in his handwriting, it is stated, — 



" This book was published by Dr. Thomas Smith, the 

 learned writer concerning the Greek Church. The 

 preface, not being agreeable to the Court at the time it 

 was published (the 5th year of William III.), was sup- 

 pressed by authority, but is found in this and a few 

 other copies. Granger says (vol. iv. p. 60., vol. v. 

 p. 267., new edit.) that this preface by Dr. Smith was 

 prefixed to Sir P. W.'s Memoirs of Charles I. ; but this 

 is a mistake. Whether Smith was the editor of the 

 Memoirs I know not. — Edjiond Malone." 



The obnoxious preface is assigned to the Dis- 

 course of Government also, by a writer in the 

 Gentleman's Magazine for 1790, p. 509., where i* 

 a portrait of Warwick, and a notice of his life. 



The Edinburgh editor of the Memoirs gives the 

 original preface of that work, which presents no- 

 thing at which exception could be taken. But as 

 my copy of the Discourse is one of the fevf whlck 

 (according to Malone) retains the address of " the 

 publisher to the reader," I transcribe the following 

 passages, which perhaps will sufficiently explain 

 the suppression in 1694 : 



" As to the disciples and followers of Buchanan, 

 Hobbs and Milton, who liave exceeded their masters ia 

 downright impudence, scurrility, and lying, and the 

 new modellers of commonwealths, who, under a zealous 

 pretence of securing the rights of a fancied original 

 contract against the encroachments of monarchs, are 

 sowing the seeds of eternal disagreements, confusions. 



