April 14. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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can be as wealthy as some -well-known bankers in 

 London, but as yet' he has not made his appearance." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Chatterton — General Fairfax. — The following 

 cuttings, from the book-catalogues of Mr. Kers- 

 lake of Bristol, are interesting : 



" Mr. Colston's Settlements, 4to. : 



" This copy appears to have belonged to the Nominator 

 of Colston's School who nominated Chatterton. At the 

 beginning is a MS. list of Nominators in 1748, and can- 

 celled and continued to 1770, at the head of which is a 

 ' Memdum,' that they ' Chuse Boys by Rotatitm ; ' at 

 the end is a list of 'Boys admitted into Mr. Colston's 

 Hospital on J. G[ardiner]'s Account,' from 1746 to 1763, 

 in which list is this entry : 



' Tho. Chadderton, at the Request of 

 Mr. Harris.' 



This entry supplies a fact unknown to all the Biographers 

 of Chatterton, who say, ' We are not informed by what 

 means or by what recommendation he gained admission 

 into Colston's Charity School.' " 



" Burrough's (Jere.) Gospel Remission, True Blessed- 

 ness consists in Pardon of Sin, 1668, 4to., with Autograph 

 of Thos. Lord Fairfax, 1668, and several IMS.* notes by 

 him." 



A. Challsteth. 



^^ Sending coals to Newcastle.''' — This phrase is 

 at least nearly two centuries old, as may be seen 

 from the following extract from a letter, dated 

 Amsterdam, June 29, 1682 : 



" To send you any news from hence were to little pur- 

 pose, ours being little else but the translation of English 

 or French ; and to send you our news from England, 

 were to carry coals to Newcastle." — Correspondence of 

 R. Thoreshy, 1832, vol. i. p. 16. 



• D. 



Leamington. 



©ucrftS. 



COACHING QUERIES. 



1. Which of the following statements is the 

 more correct ; and whence the original inform- 

 ation ? 



" In the 16th year of the reign of that monarch [King 

 Charles II.] was established the first turnpike road where 



toll was taken It long remained an isolated line of 



communication." — X^ardner's Museum of Science and Art, 

 "Locomotion and Transport," ch. ii. § 15. 



"They [turnpikes] were erected as early as a.d. 1267. f 

 .... A toll was also imposed in the reign of Edward III., 

 for repairing the road between St. Giles and Temple Bar. 

 The first act for the repair of the public roads was passed 



" * One note may be thought to be characteristic. In 

 the table occurs ' Many think their sins are pardoned, 

 because it is but little they are gviilty of.' The General 

 has interlined, ' A pistol kills as wel as a cannon.' " 



[t The authorit3' for this date is given in Pulleyn, viz. 

 The Index or Catalogue of the Patent Rolls, Hen, III. 51. 

 m. 21.] 



in 1698." — PuUeyn's Etymological Compeiidium, 3rd edit., 

 1853, p. 129. 



2. Nimrod says : 



"In 1G62 there were but six [stage coaches] ; and one 

 of the wise men of those days, John Crossell of the Char- 

 ter House, tried his best to write them down." — The 

 C/iase, the Turf, and the Road, 1837, p. 69. 



Pulleyn says : 



"In the year 1672, at which period throughout the 

 kingdom there were only six stage coaches constantly 

 running, a pamphlet was written and published by Mr. 

 John Cresset of the Charter House, urging their suppres- 

 sion."— £(. Com;?., p. 259. 



Which is correct, as to date and name ; and where 

 may this pamphlet be seen ? "■ 



3. " The omnibus .... originated in Paris in 1827. In 

 the latter part of 1831 and the beginning of 1832, omni- 

 buses began to ply in the streets of London." — Beck- 

 mann's Hist, of Invent, 4th edit., 1846, p. 82. 



Pulleyn says : 



"They were first introduced into Paris in 1825, whence 

 they were introduced into London, by Shillibeer, in 1829," 



uhi SMJB.f 



4. D'Israeli says : 



" The favourite Buckingham introduced sedan chairs." 

 — Cur. Lit, 1851, p. 184. 



Pulleyn says : 



" It was in 16.34 that Sir Saunders Duncombe first in- 

 troduced sedan chairs." He adds that Sir Savinders " had 

 seen these chairs at Sedan [where is that?] %, where they 

 were first invented." — P. 260. 



Surely from sedere ? 



5. At p. 259. of Pulleyn is repeated the hack- 

 nied error of deriving hackney coaches from "the 

 village of Hackney." 



6. "Mail coaches were first established to Bristol in 

 1784 ; to other parts of England in 1785." — lb. p. 117. 



" The first mail coach travelled from London to Edin- 

 burgh about 1786."— Knight's Nat Cyclop., 1848, vol. ir. 

 p. 676. 



7. In " N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 34., is given a 

 coach advertisement, dated 1678, and headed, 

 "York four days stage coach." In the coffee- 



[* According to Chronicles of Charter House, p. 112., 

 Edward Cressett, Esq., was master between 1650—1660. 

 We cannot discover that he wrote any pamphlet on stage 



[t Mr. Shillibeer, in his evidence before the Board of 

 Health, states that on July 4, 1829, he started the first 

 pair of omnibuses in the metropolis, from the Bank to the 

 Yorkshire Stingo, New Road ; copied from Paris, where 

 M. Lafitte the banker had previously established omni- 

 buses in 1819." — Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 559.] 



[J Sedan is on the Meuse, in France. See Haydn's 

 Diet of Dates, which agrees with Pulleyn's account. In 

 the Strafford Letters, vol. i. p. 336., date 1634, we read, 

 "Here is also another project for carrying people up and 

 down in close chairs, for the sole doing whereof Sir San- 

 der Duncombe, a traveller, now a pensioner, hath obtained 

 a patent from the king, and hath forty or fifty making 

 ready for use."] 



