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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 272. 



Reply to Leslie's '■'■ Case stated." — Can anyone 

 inform me who is the author of the following work, 

 which is a Koman Catholic reply to Leslie : 



" The Case stated between the Church of Rome and the 

 Church of England, in a Second Conversation betwixt 

 a Roman Catholick Lord, and a Gentleman of the Church 

 of England, [s. 1.] 1721. 8°"* 



'AAt6J;y. 



Dublin. 



fSiinnx ^vLtxiti iuttfi '^xi&azti, 



" Bridgewater Treatises." — In what year were 

 the Bridgewater Treatises established ? with what 

 object, and with what endowment? Were they 

 limited in number ? and by whom were the sub- 

 jects chosen ? Who were appointed as the judges 

 of them ? C. (1) 



[The Right Hon. and Rev. Francis Henry Egerton, 

 Earl of Bridgewater, died in Feb. 1829, and by his will, 

 dated Feb. 2o, 1825, he directed certain trustees, therein 

 named, to invest in the public funds the sum of 8000Z. — 

 this sum, with the accruing dividends thereon, to be held 

 at the disposal of the president for the time being of the 

 Royal Society of London, to be paid to the person or 

 persons nominated by him. The testator farther directed 

 that the person or persons selected by the said president 

 should be appointed to write, print, and publish one thou- 

 sand copies of a work, "On the Power, Wisdom, and 

 Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation; illus- 

 trating each work by all reasonable arguments ; as, for 

 instance, the variety and formation of God's Creatures in 

 the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms ; the 

 effect of Digestion, and thereby of Conversion ; the Con- 

 struction of the Hand of Man, and an infinite variety of 

 other Arguments; as also by Discoveries, ancient and 

 modern, in Arts and Sciences, and the whole extent of 

 Literature." The late president of the Royal Society, 

 Davies Gilbert, Esq., requested the assistance of the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, and of the Bishop of London, 

 in determining upon the best mode of carrying into effect 

 the intention of the testator. Acting with this ad\'ice, 

 and with the concurrence of a nobleman immediately con- 

 nected with the deceased, Mr. Davies Gilbert appointed 

 the following eight gentlemen to write separate treatises 

 on the different branches of the subject : — Rev. Dr. Chal- 

 mers ; John Kidd, M.D. ; Rev. Wm. Whewell ; Sir Chas. 

 Bell; Peter Mark Roget, M.D. ; Rev. Dr. Buckland; 

 Rev. Wm. Kirby ; and Wm. Prout, M.D. It is to this 

 Earl of Bridgewater that the nation is indebted for the 

 fine collection of manuscripts in the British Museum, 

 called the "Egerton Collection."] 



" Caucus" its Derivation. — Unde derivatur the 

 American electioneering word caucus ? Can it 

 possibly be from the midtlle age Latin and Greek 

 word caucus, kuvkios, KavKia, a cup or vessel? a 



[* We are inclined to think this work is by Robert 

 Manning, Professor of Humanity and Philosophy at 

 Douay College. About this time, Dodd states. Manning 

 published several books of controversy much esteemed 

 by the learned : see his Church History, vol. iii. p. 488. 

 Dolman, a few years since, republished most of Man- 

 ning's productions; and it is probable some clue to the 

 authorship of the work noticed by our correspondent will 

 be found in these reprints.] 



vessel for receiving voting papers? The Latin 

 word is used as early as by St. Jerome and by 

 St. Bede. {Eccles. Hist., ii. 16.) I fear this would 

 be refining in their terms to a greater degree than 

 is probable in America. But can any of your 

 correspondents give a better explanation ? 



John B. Cabdale. 

 Tavistock Square. 



[Mr. John Pickering, in his Vocabulary, or Collection 

 of Words and Phrases, which have been supposed to be 

 peculiar to the United States (Boston, 1816), calls caucus 

 a cant term, used throughout the United States for those 

 meetings which are held by the different political parties, 

 for the purpose of agreeing upon candidates for oifice, or 

 concerting any measure which they intend to carry at the 

 subsequent public or town-meetings. The earliest ac- 

 count he has seen of this extraordinary word is in Gordon's 

 History of the American Revolution, 1788, vol. i. p. 240. 

 Gordon says that more than fifty years previous to the 

 time of his writing, " Samuel Adams's father, and twenty 

 others, in Boston, one or two from the north end of the 

 town, where all ship-business is carried on, used to meet, 

 make a caucus," &c. From the fact that the meetings 

 were first held in a part of Boston " where all the ship- 

 business was carried on," Mr. Pickering infers that caucus 

 may be a corruption of caulkers, the word meeting being 

 understood. Mr. Pickering was afterwards informed that 

 several gentlemen had mentioned this as the origin of the 

 word. He thinks he has sometimes heard the expression 

 a caucus meeting (caulkers' meeting). Mr. Pickering says, 

 that this cant word and its derivatives are never used in 

 good writing ; although occasionally found in the news- 

 papers of the United States. ] 



Ballad quoted by Burton. — Burton (^Anatomy 

 of Melancholy, part iii. sec. ii. memb. 4.) quotes 

 from a ballad : 



" Thou honeysuckle of the hawthorn hedge. 

 Vouchsafe in Cupid's cup my heart to pledge," &c. 



The reference in the notes is " S. K.. 1600." What 

 does this mean ? A. Challsteth. 



[The reference is to one of the satires of Samuel Row- 

 lands, and will be found in The Letting of Hvmovrs Blood 

 in the Head- Vaine. With a new Morissco, daunced by 

 Seauen Satyres, vpon the bottome of Diogenes Tubbe. 

 Lond. ISmo! 1600, Satire iv., Sig. E.] 



Family Arms. — Can any of your readers give 

 me any information as to the arms of a family 

 " Manzy," and the arms of the family " Prevost." 



[The arms of Prevost are given in Robson's British 

 Herald: — "Prevost, Bart. (Belmont, Hants, 6th Dec. 

 1805) az. a dexter arm, in fesse, issuing from the sinister 

 fesse point, the hand grasping a sword, erect, ppr. pomel 

 and hilt or; in chief two mullets ar. Crest, a demi-lion 

 ramp. az. charged on the shoulder with a mural crown or, 

 the sinister paw grasping a sword, erect, as in the arms. 

 Supporters (assigned by Royal Sign-manual : vide Ga- 

 zette, 11th Sept. 1816) on each side a grenadier of the 

 sixteenth, or Bedfordshire, regiment of foot, each sup- 

 porting a banner; that on the dexter side inscribed 

 ' West Indies,' and that on the sinister, ' Canada.' Motto, 

 Servatum sincere." We cannot discover the arms of 

 Manzy.] 



