Nov. 19. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and the beginning of the third, as far as the seventeenth 

 year after Christ, were composed by Thomas Lanquet, 

 a young man of twenty-four years of age. Owing to 

 his early death, Bisliop Cooper finished the work ; and 

 his part, which is the third, contains almost thrice as 

 much as Lanquet's two parts, being taken from Achilles 

 Pyrminius. When it was finished, a surreptitious edi- 

 tion appeared in 1559, under the title of Lanquet's 

 Chronicle; whereupon the bishop protested against "the 

 vnhonest dealynge" of this book, edited by Tliomas 

 Crowley, in the next edition, entitled Cooper's Chroni- 

 cle, "printed in the house late Thomas Berthelettes," 

 1560. The running title to the first and second 

 parts is, " Lanquet's Chronicle ; " and to the third, 

 " The Epitome of Chronicles." The other editions 

 are, "London, 1554," 4to., and "London, 1565," 4to. 

 We should think the edition of 1560 rare : it was in 

 the collections of Mr. Heber and Mr. Herbert. In 

 this work the following memorable passage occurs, 

 under the year 1542 : — " One named Johannes Faus- 

 tius fyrste founde the crafte of printynge in the citee of 

 Mens in Germanic,"] 



" Our English Milo." — Bishop Hall extols in 

 his Heaven upon Earth the valour of a country- 

 man in a Spanish bull-fight (see p. 335., collected 

 ed. Works, 1622). Of whom does he speak? 



R. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



[If we may offer a conjecture, in the passage cited 

 the bishop seems to refer to that " greatest scourge of 

 Spain " Sir Walter Raleigh, and not so much to a 

 bull-fight as to the Spanish Armada. The bishop is 

 prescribing Expectation as a remedy for Crosses, and 

 says, " Is it not credible what a fore-resolved mind can 

 do — can suffer? Could our English Milo, of whom 

 Spain yet speaketh, since their last peace, have over- 

 thrown that furious beast, made now more violent 

 through the rage of his baiting, if he had not settled 

 himself in his station, and expected ? " Sir Walter's 

 " fore-resolved and expectant mind " was shown in the 

 publication of his treatise. Notes of Direction for the 

 Defence of the Kingdom, written three years before the 

 Spanish invasion of 1588.] 



" Delights for Ladies." 

 small volume entitled — 



I lately picked up a 



" Delights for Ladies ; to adorne their Persons, 

 Tables, Closets, and Distillatories, with Beauties, Bou- 

 quets, Perfumes, and Waters. Reade, practise, and 

 censure." London, Robert Young, 1640. 



Who is the author of this interesting little work ? 

 Some one has written on the fly-leaf, " See Douce's 

 Illustrations of Shakspeare, vol. i. p. 69., where 

 there is a reference to this curious little book ; " 

 but as I cannot readily lay my hand on Douce, I 

 will feel obliged for the information sought for 

 from any of your valued correspondents. 



Geokge Lloyd. 

 Dublin. 



[The author was Sir Hugh Plat, who, says Harte, 

 ^ not to mention his most excellent talents, was the most 



ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in. In a 

 word, no man ever discovered, or at least brought into 

 use, so many new sorts of manure." The Delights for 

 Ladies first appeared in 1602, and passed through se- 

 veral editions. Douce merely quotes this work. Plat 

 was the author of several other works : see Watt and 

 Lowndes.] 



Burton's Death. — Did Burton, author of Ana- 

 tomy of Melancholy, commit suicide ? C. S. W. 



[The supposition that Robert Burton committed 

 suicide originated from a statement found in Wood's- 

 Athena, vol. ii. p. 653. (Bliss). Wood says, " He, the 

 said R. Burton, paid his last debt to nature in h\& 

 chamber in Christ Church, at or very near that time 

 which he had some years before foretold from the cal- 

 culation of his own nativity ; which, being exact, se- 

 veral of the students did not forbear to whisper among 

 themselves that, rather than there should be a mistake- 

 in the calculation, he sent up his soul to heaven through 

 a slip about his neck."] 



Joannes Audoenus. — I shall be obliged by any 

 notices of the personal or literary history of John 

 Owen, the famous Latin epigrammatist, in addi-^ 

 tion to those furnished by the Athence Oxonienses. 

 Wood remarks, that " whereas he had made many 

 epigrams on several people, so few were made on 

 or written to him. Among the few, one by Strad- 

 ling, and another by Dunbar, a Scot." I have met 

 with one allusion to him among the epigrams of 

 T. Bancroft, 4to., Lond. 1639, signat. A 3. : 



« To the Reader. 



Reader, till Martial thou hast well survey'd, 

 Or Owen's wit with Jonson's learning weighed, 

 Forbeare with thanklesse censure to accuse 

 My writ of errour, or condemne my Muse." 



As translators of Audoenus, Wood mentions,, 

 in 1619, Job. Vicars, usher of Christ's Hospital 

 school, as having rendered some select epigrams, 

 and Thomas Beck six hundred of Owen's, with 

 other epigrams from Martial and More, under tbe^ 

 title of Pamassi Puerperium, 8vo., Lond. 1659. 

 In addition to these I find, in a catalogue of Lilly,. 

 King Street, Covent Garden, No. 4., 1844 : 



" Hayman, Robert. Certaine Epigrams out of the 

 First Foure Bookes of the excellent Epigrammatist 

 Master John Owen, translated into English at Harbor 

 Grace in Bristol's Hope, anciently called Newfoundland, 

 4to., unbound; a rare poetical tract, 1628, 10s. 6d." 



Balliolensis. 



[The personal and literary history of John Owen 

 (Audoenus) is given in the Biographia Britannica, 

 vol. v., and in Chalmers' and Rose's Biographical Dic- 

 tionaries. ] 



Hampden s Death. — Was the great patriot 

 Hampden actually slain by the enemy on Chalgrove 

 Field? or was his death, as some have asserted. 



