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(as if it had been with an iron hammer) given ; to the 

 great amazing of me and my two servants, Fulcis and 

 Nilkton." 



D. Jakdine. 



Bond a Poet, 1642, O. S. — In the Perfect Di- 

 wnall, March 29, 1642, we have the following 

 curious notice : 



" Upon the meeting of the House of Lords, there 

 ■was complaint made against one Bond, a poet, for 

 making a scandalous letter in the queen's name, sent 

 from the Hague to the king at York. The said Bond 

 attended upon order, and was examined, and found a 

 delinquent ; upon which they voted him to stand in the 

 pillory several market days in the new Palace (Yard), 

 Westminster, and other places, and committed liim to 

 the Gatehouse, besides a long imprisonment during the 

 pleasure of the house : and they farther ordered that 

 as many of the said letter as could be found should be 

 burnt." 



His recantation, which he afterwards made, is in 

 the British Museum. E. G. Ballakd. 



The late Harvest. — In connexion with the pre- 

 sent late and disastrous harvest, permit me to 

 conti'ibute a distich current, as an old farmer 

 observed to-day, "when I was a boy :" 



" When we carry wheat o' the fourteenth of October, 

 Then every man goeth home sober." 



Meaning that the prospect of the "yield" was not 

 good enough to permit the labourers to get drunk 

 upon it. R. C. Wabde. 



Kidderminster. 



Misquotation. — In an article entitled " Popular 

 Ballads of the English Peasantry," a correspondent 

 of "N. & Q." (Vol. v., p. 603.) quotes as "that 

 spirit-stirring stanza of immortal John" the lines : 



"Jesus, the name high over all," &c. 

 These lines were not written by John, but by 

 Charles Wesley. Here is the proof: 



1st. A hymn of which the stanza quoted is the 

 first, appears (p. 40.) in the Collection of Hymns 

 published by John AYesley in 1779 ; but in the 

 preface he says, " but a small part of these hymns 

 are of my own composing." 



2nd. In his Plain Account of Christian Per- 

 fection., he says : 



" In the year 1749, my brother printed two volumes 

 of Hymns and Sacred Poems. As I did not see them 

 before they were published, there were some things in 

 them which I did not approve of; but I quite ap- 

 proved of the main of the hymns on this head."— IForks, 

 vol. xi. p. 376., 12mo. ed. 1841, 



3rd. The_ lines quoted by your correspondent 

 form the ninth stanza of a hymn of twenty-two 

 stanzas (wliich includes the six in John Wesley's 



Collection), written " after preaching (in a church)," 

 and published in " Hymns and Sacred Poems, In 

 two volumes. By Charles Wesley, M.A., Student 

 of Christ Church, Oxford. Bristol : printed and 

 sold by Felix Farley, 1749." A copy is in my 

 possession. The hymn is^ No. 194.; and the 

 stanza referred to will be found in vol. i. p. 306. 



J. W. Thomas. 

 Dewsbury. 



Epitaph in Ireland. — The following lines were 

 transcribed by me, and form part of an epitaph 

 upon a tombstone or mural slab, which many 

 years past was to be found in (if I mistake not} 

 the churchyard of Old KilcuUen, co. Kildare : 



" Ye wiley youths, as you pass by, 

 Look on my grave with weeping eye : 

 Waste not your strenth before it blossom. 

 For if you do yotis will shurdley want it." 



J. F. Ferguson. 

 Dublin. 



Reynolds {Sir Joshua' s) Baptism. — I have been 

 favoured by the incumbent of Plympton S. Mau- 

 rice with a copy of the following entry in the 

 Register of Baptisms of that parish, together with 

 the appended note ; which, if the fact be not 

 generally known, may be of interest to your cor- 

 respondent A. Z. (Vol. viii., p. 102.) as well as to 

 others among the readers of " N. & Q." : 



"1723. Joseph, son of Samuel Reynolds, clerk, 

 baptized July the 30th." 



On another page is the following memorandum : 

 " In the entry of baptisms for the year 1723, the 

 person by mistake named Joseph, son of Samuel Rey- 

 nolds, clerk, baptized July 30th, was Joshua Reynolds, 

 the celebrated painter, who died February 23, 1792." 



Samuel Reynolds, the father, was master of 

 Plympton Grammar School from about 1715 to 

 1745, in which year he died. During that period 

 his name appears once in the parish book, in the 

 year 1742, as "minister for the time being" (not 

 incumbent of the parish) : the Rev. Geo. Lang- 

 worthy having been the incumbent from 1736 to 

 1745, both inclusive. 



Query, Was Sir Joshua by mistake baptized 

 Joseph f or was the mistake made after baptism, 

 in registering the name ? J- Sansom. 



Oxford. 



Tradescant.—T\xQ pages of "N. & Q." have 

 elicited and preserved so much towards the his- 

 tory of John Tradescant and his family, that the 

 accompanying extract from the register of St. 

 Nicholas Cole Abbey, in the city of London, should 

 have a place in one of its Numbers : 



" 1638. Marriages. — John Tradoskant of Lambeth, 

 CO. Surrey, and Hester Pooks of St. Bride's, London, 

 maiden, married, by licence from Mr. Cooke, Oct. 1." 



