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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 285. 



There is a story told by many in the neighbour- 

 hood of Welshpool, which I have not heard else- 

 where, or seen mentioned in any book. It is 

 that the Duke of Richmond, when he passed 

 through Wales, stopped at Dolardyn. The house 

 and room in which the king slept are still shown ; 

 and before retiring to bed, he said : " Lloyd ! I 

 am told you are an astrologer, and wise man. Tell 

 me, shall I be successful ? " 



Now this reputation of being a wise man, in the 

 sense that his neighbours meant, was more than 

 Lloyd deserved or liked. He was consequently 

 taken aback, and did not know what to do. The 

 duke pressed him, and pooh-poohed his modesty, 

 and would have none of his excuses. " Well, well, 

 consult the stars to-night, and let me know in the 

 morning." 



When the duke had gone to bed, Lloyd went 

 also. He knew it was no good to look at the 

 stars ; and, for all I know, the night was cloudy, 

 or the metheglin had mystified his brains. That 

 night his fair wife found him a most restless bed- 

 fellow, and not all her entreaties to make him 

 quiet availed ; at last, she found out what preyed 

 on his mind, and " What a fool you are," said she ; 

 " of course you must tell the duke that he will 

 win the day ; for if he is beaten, he would come 

 back to abuse you or cut your head off ; and if he 

 wins, of course you will be promoted to great 

 honour." 



The morning soon came, and the duke was de- 

 lighted to hear that the host of heavenly bodies 

 smiled on him : " And Lloyd, as I shall win, lend 

 me your grey horse?" Lloyd would have said 

 "No!" but he dare not, so it was at the duke's 

 service ; and he rode the same horse in the battle 

 of Bosworth, and I never heard whether Lloyd 

 got his horse again or was promoted to honour. 



Anon. 

 Sea-sickness (Vol. xi., p. 221.). — For the sake 

 of Mr. Neale and his friend, I beg permission to 

 add to Mr. Bingham's quotations on the subject 

 of sea-sickness, the following lively one from 

 Juvenal : 



" Si jubeat conjux, durum est conscendere navim ; 

 Tunc sentina gravis, tunc summus vertitur aer : 

 Qui sequitur moechum, stomacho valet. Ilia maritutn. 

 Convomit : haec inter nautas et prandet, et errat 

 Per puppem, et duros gaudet tractare rudentes." 



Juv. VI. 98. 



Anoit. 

 The Episcopal Wig (Vol. xi., p. 131.). — It is 

 worthy of inquiry when the English bishops first 

 began to wear wigs. It must have been at a time 

 comparatively recent ; because, if we refer to a 

 book published after the accession of James I. to 

 the English crown, which contains the ceremonial 

 of his coronation, and the habits of all the persons 

 assisting thereat, we find that the bishops are not 

 represented in wigs. Although the younger sons 



of peers, boys of ten or twelve years of age ap- 

 parently, are dressed in full-bottomed wigs ; yet, 

 if I recollect rightly, the only bishops are the 

 persons assisting at the coronation, who are repre- 

 sented without wigs. It is strange that they 

 should now be the only persons who continue to 

 use them. 



I cannot give you the title of the book to which 

 I refer ; I believe it is a scarce book. I never saw 

 but one copy; it was a folio, and was in. the library 

 of the late Sir George Throckmorton at Weston, 

 and was shown to me by Sir George as being a 

 scarce book. Without doubt it will be found in 

 the library of the British Museum. T. L. 



Doddridge and Whitefield (Vol. xi., pp. 46. 

 114. 133.). —In The Works of the Rev. George 

 Whitefield, M.A. (6 vols. 8vo., London, 1772), 

 the sermon on Luke x. 42. is the thirty-first in 

 the fifth volume (p. 456.), and at the end of the 

 sixth volume is the following notice : 



" N. B. Sei-mon xxxi. on Luke x. 42. in vol. v., having 

 been printed in a former edition of Mr. Whitefield's Ser- 

 mons as his, was sent to press with the others ; but it now 

 appears not to be Mr. Whitefield's." 



It is strange that, after this announcement, 

 the sermon should be retained in any edition of 

 Whitefield's works. 



The supposition of S. A., that a copy of this 

 sermon might have been found after his death 

 amongst Whitefield's MSS., and therefore pre- 

 sumed to be his, is natural; but the sermon was 

 actually published as his during his lifetime. 

 How this happened I cannot explain ; but a gen- 

 tleman well acquainted with nonconformist litera- 

 ture (the Rev. John Cockin, author of Ueflections 

 after Reading, and more than forty years Inde- 

 pendent minister at Holmfirth, but now residing 

 at Halifax), assures me that he has seen this 

 sermon in a volume of Whitefield's Sermons, 

 published before Whitefield's death. He cannot 

 now remember the date of its publication, but 

 having entertained the same opinion as that ex- 

 pressed by S. A., he was surprised to find that it 

 had been published as one of Whitefield's sermons 

 during his lifetime. 



Instances of borrowed sermons being published 

 as the borrower's have occurred as noticed by 

 S. A., and the Rev. J. Cockin has mentioned one 

 to me. The Rev. J. King, of Hull, an evangelical 

 clergyman of the Church of England, was on 

 friendly terms with the Rev. G. Lambert, an In- 

 dependent minister of that town. The latter had 

 published a volume of sermons. The former, 

 being advanced in years, and not able to prepare 

 fresh discourses for his hearers, asked Mr. Lam- 

 bert to lend him a ?e^. The request was complied 

 with. After Mr. King's death, a volume of his 

 sermons was published for the benefit of his 

 family, and the editor included some of Mr. Lamr 



