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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 208. 



of the Will Office at Lincoln have no entries of 

 the name of Amcotts between 1670 and 1753. 



Tewaks. 



Blue Bell — Blue Anchor. — A bell painted blue 

 is a common tavern sign in this country (United 

 States) ; and the blue anchor is also to be met 

 with in many places. As these sigirs evidently 

 had their origin in England, and one of them is 

 alluded to in the old Scotch ballad " The Blue 

 Bell of Scotland," it seems to me that the best 

 method to apply for information upon the subject 

 is to ask " N. & Q." Are these signs of inns 

 heraldic survivors of old time ; are they corrup- 

 tions of some other emblem, such as that which 

 in London transformed La Belle Sauvage into the 

 Bell Savage, pictorialised by an Indian ringing a 

 hand-bell; or is the choice of such improper 

 colour as blue for a bell and an anchor a species 

 of symbolism the meaning of which is not gene- 

 rally known ? 2123^. 



Philadelphia, 



" We've parted for the longest time." — Would 

 you insert these lines in your paper, the author of 

 which I seek to know, as well as the remaining 

 verses ? 



" We've parted for the longest time, we ever yet did 

 part, 

 And I have felt the last wild throb of that enduring 



heart : 

 Thy cold and tear-wet cheek has lain for the last 



time to mine, 

 And I have pressed in agony those trembling lips of 

 thine." 



R. Jermyn Coopek. 



/ The Rectory, Chiltlngton Hunt, Sussex. 



Matthew Lewis. — Allow me to solicit inform- 

 ation, through the medium of " N. & Q.," where 

 I can see a pedigree of Matthew Lewis, Esq., De- 

 puty Secretary of War for many years under 

 the Right Hon. William Windham, then M.P. for 

 Norwich, and other Secretaries-at-War. I rather 

 think Mr. Lewis married a daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Sewell, Kt., Master of the Rolls from 1764 to 

 1784 ; and had a son, Matthew Gregory Lewis, 

 known as Monk Lewis, who was M.P. for Hindon 

 at the close of the last century : a very clever but 

 eccentric young man. I also believe Lieut.-Gen. 

 John Whitelocke, and Gen. Sir Thos. Brownrigg, 

 G.C.B., who died in 1838, were connected by 

 marriage with the Sewell or Lewis families. 



C. H. F. 



f Paradise Lost. — In A Treatise on the Dramatic 

 Literattire of the Greeks, by the Rev. J. R. Darley, 

 I read the following remark : 



" In our own literature also, the efforts of our early 

 dramatists were directed to subjects derived from reli- 

 gion ; even the Paradise Lost is composed of a series 



of minor pieces, originally cast in the dramatic form, of 

 which the creation and fall of man, and the severai 

 episodes which were introduced subordinately to these 

 grand events, were the subject-matter." 



This statement being at variance with the re- 

 ceived opinion, that Milton, from his early youth, 

 had meditated the composition of an epic poem, I 

 would inquire whether there is any evidence to 

 support Mr. Barley's view ? Milton has been 

 charged with having borrowed the design of' 

 Paradise Lost from some Italian author ; and this 

 allegation, coupled with that made by Mr. Darley, 

 would, if founded, reduce our great national epic 

 to what Hazlitt has described as " patchwork and 

 plagiarism, the beggarly copiousness of borrowed 

 wealth." Henry H. Bheen. 



St. Lucia. 



Colonel Hyde Seymour. — Who was " Colonel 

 Hyde Seymour ? " I find his name written in a 

 book, The Life of William the Third, 1703. 



H. T. Ellacombe. 



Vaidt at Richmond., Yorkshire. — In Speed's 

 plan of Richmond, in Yorkshire, is represented 

 the mouth of a " vault that goeth under the river, 

 and ascendeth up into the Castell." Was there 

 ever such a vault, and how came it to be destroyed 

 or lost sight of? One who knows Richmond well 

 tells me that he never heard of it. O. L. R. G. 



Poems pullished at Manchester. — Can any con- 

 tributor to " N. & Q." inform me who was thfr 

 author of a volume of Poems on Several Occasions, 

 published by subscription at Manchester ; printed 

 for the author by R. Whitworth, in the year 1733 ? 

 It is an 8vo. of 138 pages; has on the title-page 

 a line from Ovid : 



" Jure, tibi grates, candide lector, ago," 



and begins with an "Address to all my Sub- 

 scribers ; " after which follow several pages of 

 subscribers' names, which consist chiefly of Staf- 

 fordshire and Cheshire gentry. _ My copy (for 

 the possession of which I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Dr. Bliss, the Principal of St. Mary's 

 Hall, Oxford) was formerly in the library of Mr. 

 Heber, who has thus noted its purchase on the 

 fly-leaf, "Feb. 1811, Ford, Manchester, 7.?. 6rf." 

 Dr. Bliss has added, on the same fly-leaf, " Heber' s- 

 fourth sale, No. 1908, not in the Bodleian Cata- 

 logue." The first poem in the book is " A Pasto- 

 ral to the Memory of Sir Thomas Delves, Baronet." 

 It is probably a scarce book ; but possibly some 

 of your book-learned correspondents may help me 

 to the author's name. W. SnEyi*. 



Denton. 



HandeVs Dettingen Te Deum. — Any inform- 

 ation as to the circumstances under Avhich Handet 

 composed this celebrated Te Deum., and the place 



