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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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remains in its original state. Can yoix, or any of 

 your subscribers, inform me whereabouts in the 

 town it is situated ? Also, the date of erection of 

 the church ? Hazelwood. 



" Solamen miseris" S,'C. — Please to state in 

 what author is the following line ? No one knows. 

 " Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris." 



A Constant Reader. 



Soke Mills. — Correspondents are requested to 

 communicate the names of " Soke " or Manorial 

 Mills, to which the suit is still enforced. S. M. 



Second Wife of Mallet. — The second wife of 

 ■Jlallet was Lucy Elstob, a Yorkshire lady, 

 ■daughter of a steward of the Earl of Carlisle. 

 'Can any of your readers inform me at what place 

 in Yorkshire her father resided, and where the 

 marriage with Mallet in 1742 took place ? She 

 - survived her husband, and lived to the age of 

 'eighty years. Where did she die, and what family 

 <lid Mallet leave by his two wives ? F. 



Leamington. 



Boohs hurned hj the Common Hangman. — 



" Historia Anglo- Scotica : or an Impartial History 

 of all that liappen'd between the kings and kingdoms 

 of England and Scotland from tlie beginning of the 

 Reign of William the Conqueror to the Reign of Queen 

 Elizabeth, &c., by James Drake, M.D , 8vo., London, 

 1703." 



Of this work it is said, in a note in the Catalogue 

 of Geo. Chalmers' library (fourth day's sale, 

 Sept. 30, 1841), that — 



" On June 30, 1703, the Scotch parliament ordered 

 this book to be burned by the liands of the common 

 hangman, and that the magistrates of Edinburgh should 

 see it carried into effect at eleven o'clock on the fol- 

 lowing day." 



Will any correspondent of yours furnish me 

 with some notice of Dr. Drake, the author, and 

 also explain the ground of offence upon which his 

 book was condemned ? I confess to be unable to 

 discover anything to offend ; neither, as it seems, 

 could jNIr. Surtees, for he says : 



"I quote Drake's Historia Anglo- Scotica, 1703, a 

 book which, for what reason I never could discover, 

 was ordered to be burned by the common hangman." 

 — History of Durham, vol. iv. p. 55. note I. 



Any notices of books which have been signalised 

 by being subjected to similar condemnation, would 

 much interest me, and perhaps others of your 

 readers. Balliolensis. 



[The ground of offence for burning the Historia 

 Anglo- Scotica is stated in The Acts of the Parliaments of 

 Scotland, vol. xi. p. 66., viz. : " Ordered, that a book pub- 



lished by the title of Historia Anglo- Scotica, by James 

 Drake, M. D., and dedicated to Sir Edward Symour, 

 containing many false and injurious reflections upon 

 the sovereignty and independence of this crown and 

 nation, be burnt by the hand of tlie common hangman 

 at the mercat Cross of Edinburgh, at eleven o'clock 

 to-morrow (July 1, 1703), and the magistrates of Edin- 

 burgh appointed to see the order punctually executed." 

 It would appear from the dedication prefixed to this 

 work, that Drake merely pretended to edit it, for he 

 says, that "upon a diligent revisal, in order, if possible, 

 to discover the name of the author, and the age of his 

 writing, he found that it was written in, or at least not 

 finished till, the time of Charles I." But he says no- 

 thing more of the MS., nor how it came into his hands. 

 A notice of Dr. Drake is given in Chalmers's Biogra- 

 phical Dictionanj, and in the preface to The Memorial 

 of the Church of England, edit. 1711, which was also 

 burnt by the common hangman in 1705. See " N. & 

 Q.," Vol. iii., p. 519.] 



Captain George Cusach. — It appears by an 

 affidavit made by a Mr. Thomas Nugent in the 

 year 1674, and now of record in the Exchequer 

 Record Office, Dublin, that — 



" He, being on or about the 20th of September 

 preceding in London, was by one Mr. Patrick Dowdall 

 desired to goe along with him to see one George 

 Cusack, then in prison there for severall hainous of- 

 fences alleadgcd to have bccne by him committed, 

 which he could not do by reason of other occasions ; 

 but having within two or three days afterwards mett 

 with Mr. Dowdall, was told by him that he had since 

 their last meeting scene the said Cusack in prison 

 (being the Marshalsea in Southwark) v^ith bolts on, 

 and that none of Cusack's men who were alsoe in 

 prison were bolted : " 



that on the 11th of November Cusack was still in 

 restraint, and not as yet come to his trial : 



" That there were hookes written of the said Cusack's 

 offences, which he heard cryed about in the streets of 

 London to be sold, and that y'' generall opinion and 

 talke was that the said Cusack should suffer death for . 

 his crimes." 



By a fragment of an affidavit made by a Mr. 

 Morgan O'Bryen, of the Middle Temple, London, 

 it appears that this man was a Captain George 

 Cusack, who, I presume, was a pirate. May I 

 take leave to ask, are the above-mentioned books 

 in existence, and where are they to be found ? 



James F. Ferguson. 



Dublin, 



[In the British Museum is the following pamphlet: 

 — " The Grand Pyrate : or the Life and Death of 

 Captain George Cusack, the Great Sea- Robber, with 

 an Accompt of all his notorious Robberies both at Sea 

 and Land; together with his Tryal, Condemnation, 

 and Execution. Taken by an Impartial Hand." 

 London, 167G, pp. 24. 4to.] 



Si}- Ralph Wimoood. — I am particularly de- 

 sirous of obtaining some information respecting 



