Dec. 17. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of tombstone is sufficient to sliow that be was a 

 person of some property, and yet he has not only 

 no " Esq." affixed to his name, but it is without 

 the prefix " Mr." One can scarcely doubt that 

 the name is not a real one. Browns, Blacks, 

 Whites, and Greens there are in abundance, but 

 nobody ever heard of a " Blue ;" nor, so far as I 

 know, did anybody ever christen his child " True." 

 Yet what could have been the incidents of a life 

 that required the fiction to be carried even to the 

 grave ? G. J. De Wilde. 



[The foregoing monumental inscription is given in 

 Lipscomb's Bucks, vol. iv. p. 76., to which is subjoined 

 the following note: — "The singularity of this name 

 has occasioned much curiosity; but no information 

 can be obtained besides that of True Blue having been 

 a stranger, who settled here, and acquired some pro- 

 perty, which after his decease was disposed of. It has 

 been conjectured that he lived here under a feigned 

 name. One Hercules True, about 1645, kept a house 

 at Windsor, to which deer-stealers were accustomed to 

 resort ; and he uttered violent threats against a person, 

 whose son, having been killed in attempting to resist 

 fhe deer-stealers in the Great Park, Thomas Shemonds 

 prosecuted the murderers, and True declared he would 

 knock his brains out, and is believed to have afterwards 

 absconded."] 



Charge of Plagiarism against Paley. — Has 

 any reply been made to the accusation against 

 Paley, brought forward some years ago in 

 ThelAthencEum ? It was stated (and apparently 

 proved) that his Natural Theology was merely a 

 translation of a Dutch work, the name of whose 

 author has escaped my recollection. I suppose 

 the archdeacon would have defended this shame- 

 ful plagiarism on his favourite principle of expe- 

 diency. It seems to me, however, that it is high 

 time that either the accusation be refuted, or the 

 culprit consigned to that contempt as a man which 

 he deserved as a moralist. Fiat Justitia. 



[We have frequently had to complain of the loose 

 manner in which Queries ar&-sometimes submitted to 

 our readers for solution. Here is a specimen. The 

 communication above involves two other Queries, 

 which should have been settled before it had been 

 forwarded to us, namely, 1. In what volume of the 

 Athenaum is the accusation against Paley made ? and, 

 2. What is the title of the Dutch work supposed to be 

 pirated ? After pulling down six volumes of the Athe- 

 nceum, we discovered that the charge against Paley ap- 

 peared at p. 803. of the one for the year 1848, and 

 that the work said to be pirated was written by Dr. 

 Bernard Nieuwentyt of Holland, and published at 

 Amsterdam about the year 1700. It was translated 

 into English, under the title of The Religious Philo^ 

 sopher, 3 vols. 8vo., 1718-19. The charge against 

 Paley has been ably and satisfactorily discussed in the 

 same volume of the Athenceum (see pp. 907. 933.), and 

 at the present time we have neither "ample room nor 

 verge enough " to re-open tlie discussion in our pages.] 



Weber's " Cecilia.'''' — Can you inform me 

 whether a work by Gottfried Weber, entitled 

 Cecilia, is to be had in English or in French ? I 

 find it constantly referred to in the said Weber's 

 work on the Theory of Musical Composition, and 

 in MUller's Physiology. 



For any information you can give me on the 

 subject I shall feel much indebted. 



Philhakmonicus. 



Dublin. 



l^CcBcilia is a musical art journal published in Ger- 

 many, and is thus noticed at page 12. of Warner's 

 edition of Godfrey Weber's Theory of Musical Compo- 

 sition : — " Since 1824 we have been laid under great 

 obligations to our distinguished mathematician and 

 writer on acoustics. Professor W. Weber, for most in- 

 teresting developments on all these points, which he has 

 arranged into an article in the journal Cacilia, vol. xii., 

 expressly for musicians and musical instrument manu- 

 facturers."] 



Andrew Johnson. — In the character of Samuel 

 Johnson, as drawn by Murphy, there is the re- 

 mark, " Like his uncle Andrew in the ring at 

 Smithfield, Johnson, in a circle of disputants, was 

 determined neither to be thrown or conquered." 

 Other allusions are made, in Boswell's Life, to 

 this uncle having " kept the ring," but I cannot 

 find out who he could have been. There was a 

 noted bruiser, Tom Johnson ; but certainly he was 

 not the person in question. I shall be glad if any 

 of your readers can inform me who this " Uncle 

 Andrew " was, and what authority there is for 

 believing that he was a pugilistic champion of 

 note. PuGiLLus. 



[In the Variorum, Boswell, i. e. Croker's ed., 1847, 

 p. 198., Pqgillus will find a note by the editor, stating 

 that Dr. Johnson told Mrs. Piozzi that his uncle An- 

 drew " for a whole year kept the ring at Smithfield, 

 where they wrestled and boxed, and never was thrown 

 or conquered."] 



MS. hy Glover. — Can Mr. Bolton Corkey, 

 or Mr. K. Sims, inform me whether the Lans- 

 downe MS. 205. is in Glover's handwriting ? 



H. M. 



[This volume (Lansdowne, 205. ) contains twenty-six 

 articles in different hands. Art. 3. contains pedigrees 

 hy Glover in his own hand. See MS. Harl. 807., and 

 an autograph letter in MS. Cot., Titus B. vii. fol. 14.] 



Gurney's Short-hand. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents inform me if there have been any 

 alterations in this system of short-hand since 1802 ? 

 Also, if it be now much used ? 



Wm. O' Sullivan. 



Ballymenagh. 



[This well-known system of short-hand is certainly 

 still in use, — in fact, is that employed at the present 

 time by the Gurneys, who are the appointed short- 

 hand writers to the Houses of Lords and Commons.] , 



