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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 282, 



Yet reason, though far stronger, must giue place, 

 And law against reason carry cleare the case." 



Malone's own Notes in Copies of Peachanis va- 

 rious Publications. 



At the beginning of The Truth of our Times, 

 12mo., 1638 : 



" The author left young to the wide world, p. 13. Was 

 once schoolmaster, p. '26. The author appears to have 

 been married, and to have had children. See p. 14., &c., 

 irhere he says, ' I and mine,' &c. Since the above was 

 •rrritten, I have found in a subsequent page (47.) that he 

 was not married. The former is an odd expression for an 

 unmarried man. There is a great deal of good sense in 

 this little book. — E. M." 



" From a passage in p. 41., I suspect he went late in 

 life into Holy Orders. A school-boy when Tarlton acted, 

 i.e. before 1588,* so born probably in 1570, p. 103." [Ma- 

 lone's books in the Bodleian, No. 580.] 



" Henry Peachara was born about the year 1576, at 

 North Mims, near St. Alban's, Herts ; was of Trinity 

 Coll., Camb., where he took the degree of M.A. 1 suspect 

 that he was in Holy Orders, and preferred in Lincolnshire. 

 Edmund Peacham (who was tried and condemned for 

 ■writing a sermon which he never preached in 1616, 

 mentioned on his examination that he had shown it to one 

 Peacham — he does not name his Christian name), 'a 

 divine, a scholar, and a traveller,' who had been ordained 

 by Chadderton, Bp. of Lincoln (see the Cecil Correspon- 

 dence, by Sir David Dalrymple, p. 59., and Bacon's Letters 

 published by Birch, p. 47.). Chadderton was Bp. of Lincoln 

 from 1594 to 1608. Edm. P. describes his namesake as a 

 tall man. Henry P. says in this book ( Gentleman'' s E.rer- 

 eise, 1612), p. 7., that he translated King James's 5ast7icon 

 Doron into Latin verse, and presented it, 'with emblemes 

 limned in liuely colours,' to Prince Henry. In p. 167., that 

 he many a time and oft was a diligent observer of town 

 balls, church windows, old monasteries, and such places, 

 as the best receipt against melancholy, to which he was 

 much addicted. He died, I believe, soon after the year 

 1650." — On the fly-leaf of the Gentleman's Exercise, 4to., 

 1612. [Malone, 631.] 



From the fly-leaf of Peacham's Compleat Gen- 

 tleman, 3rd edit., 1661 (Bibl. Bod., Malone, 584.) : 



" He was entertained in the Earl of Arundel's service, 

 and attended him into the Low Countries, where he was 

 tutor to his children." 



In the postscript to his Worth of a Penny, re- 

 printed 1667, the stationer says that he was then 

 many years dead. 



In a copy of an earlier edition of the same work, 

 Malone has inserted the following (Bibl. Bodl., 

 Malone, 582.) : 



■" This is the first edition of The Compleat Gentleman. 



" The second edition, in 1627, has two additional 

 chapters. 



" Third in 1634, with Tlie Gentleman's Exercise in 

 Drawing, S^c. 



" Fourth in 1654, with the same. 



" Fifth in 1661, which yet in the title-page is called 

 the third edition." 



A letter from the Rev. H. Craven Ord informs 

 Malone that he had caused the registers of Mimms 



Tarlton died in September, 1588. 



to be searched for some notice of Peacham, but 

 without success, as they do not c;o back so far as 

 the period Malone had mentioned. He promises, 

 however, to ascertain the point by a personal 

 search. 



Such are the notices of Peacham, collected by 

 Malone and his friends. A farther illustration of 

 his foreign travel occurred to myself in Thalia's 

 Banquet, Epig. cviii., which is entitled : 



" A Lattin Distich, which a Frier of Shertogen Bosch, 

 in Brabant, wrote in my Greek Testament, while I was 

 busie perusing some Bookes in their Library." 



The aboTe may interest the lovers of our early 

 literature, and serve perhaps to elicit farther 

 notices of the accomplished author of The Com- 

 pleat Gentleman. The Epig. lxx., in particular, 

 opens a rich view of his varied acquirements ; at 

 the same time that it illustrates the amiability of 

 his temper as a tutor, and the harmonious flow of 

 his versification as a poet. 



My transcripts were hurriedly made many years 

 since from the Malone Collection in the Bodleian, 

 and, in the absence of opportunity to verify them, 

 I am unable to vouch for their entire accuracy. 

 Such, however, as they are, I have felt pleasure 

 in copying them for " N. & Q." John Besly. 



Long Benton, 



IRISH STATE RECORDS. 



Conceiving that a few words descriptive of the 

 publications which have been made in relation to 

 the State Records of Ireland might prove in- 

 teresting to many persons, I have here endea- 

 voured to describe, as briefly as the subject will 

 admit, tlie several places of deposit of tlie more 

 ancient of these records ; and also, how flir their 

 contents have been made publicly known by the 

 means of printed books of reference. 



The ancient Rolls, and other Records of the 

 Chancery, are deposited in the Rolls Office at the 

 Four Courts in Dublin. They principally consist 

 of the Statute and Patent and Close Rolls, Bills 

 and Answers, and other pleadings of Inquisitions, 

 and of the Records of the Palatinate of Tipperary. 

 The contents of the Statute Rolls are for the most 

 part unknown to the public, inasmuch as the 

 authorised portion of them, which has been printed, 

 contains scarcely one-fifth of the entire. Calen- 

 dars have been printed to the greater part of the 

 Patent and Close Rolls which commence in the 

 time of Edward I. The enrolments of the reigns 

 of Edward VI., Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth, 

 have not been printed ; and those of the reigns of 

 Henry VIII. and James I. have been long since 

 printed, but are not published. The Bills, An- 

 swers, and other pleadings commence in Henry 

 VIII.'s time : to these there are no printed books 

 of reference,* — and the MS. Bill-books, which 



