May 0. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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* London, St. Botolph, Aldersgate Street. Sir John Pack- 



ington and lady (mural), 1563. 



* London, St. Dunstan. Date of Henry Dacres, &c., 1530. 



* London, St. Giles without Cripplegate. Two late mural 



* London, Westminster Abbey. Sir Thomas Vaughan, 



date 1483. 



* London, British Museum. Head of small female figure, 



c. 1520. 



* London, British ]\Iuseum. Head of bishop, with portion 



of very fine canopy and saints, formerly in possession 

 of A. W. Pugin, c. 1350. 



* Isleworth. Also, Edward Holland. 



* Isleworth. William Chase, Esq., in armour, 1544. 



* Isleworth. Figure, c. 1450. 



* Isleworth. Two chrisom children. 



* Chelsea. Lady Guilford (mural). 

 Riselip. John Hawtree and wife, 1598. 



W. Sparrow Simpson. 



(To be continued.') 



Prophecies of the Plague and Fire of London. — 

 Among the examples under this head which have 

 appeared in the " N. & Q.," I think the ease has 

 not been mentioned of the Dorsetshire fanatic, 

 John White of South Perrott, who travelled to 

 London in Dec. 1646, with a view to destroy the 

 effigy of the Earl of Essex, then lying In state in 

 Westminster Abbey ; and having hidden himself 

 in a pew till midnight, set to work with a hatchet. 

 His prediction of the coming vengeance " for the 

 sins and wickedness of London " was very explicit, 

 being revealed to him by an angel, who described 

 the plagues as " so great that they should not be 

 able to bury one another, or else he, the angel, 

 would fire it as he did Sodom and Gomorrah." 



J. W. 



Shuttlecock. — ■ 



" The play at shuttlecocke is become soe much in re- 

 quest at court, that the making shuttlecockes is almost 

 grown a trade in London. Pra3stat otiosum esse qua 

 nihil agere. I heard that about this last Christmas, the 

 Lady Efiingham, as shee was playing at shuttlecocke, 

 upon a suddein felt hir selfe somewhatt ill, and presently 

 retiring hir selfe into a chamber, was brought to bed of a 

 child, without a midwife, shee never suspecting that shee 

 had bin with child." — From a 3IS. Diary in theHarleian 

 Library, date 1603. 



Z. z. 



" Infortunate " and " Unfortunate'"' — 



"Two men have been going through the city of Boston 

 taking in persons in the following manner. They go 

 into a store and inquire for shirt buttons, handkerchiefs, 

 or other articles, and one says to the other, ' I was Unfor- 

 tunate enough to lose my handkerchief,' or other article 

 called for. The other says there is no such word as Unfor- 

 tunate, it is Mnfortunate; and thereupon they get up a bet 

 with the storekeeper. The dictionary is looked up, and 

 the bet decided always in favour of the sharper, as the 

 word may be found there, though now in disuse." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



The Hon. Mis. Nortoji v. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. 

 — I have lately been reading the popular Ameri- 

 can tale of Fashion and Famine (by Mrs. Ann S. 

 Stephens), in the twenty-second chapter of which 

 is the following sentence : 



" But Julia had been guarded in her poverty by prin- 

 ciple so firm, by love so hoh', that neither the close neigh- 

 bourhood of sin, nor the gripe of absolute want, had power 

 to stain the sweet bloom of a nature that seemed to fling 

 off evil impressions as the swan casts off water-drops from 

 its snowy bosom, though its whole form is bathed in 

 them." 



If, as seems most probable, the American au- 

 thoress had borrowed the above striking and 

 beautiful simile from an English authoress, she 

 might have acknowledged the obligation. The 

 Hon. Mrs. Norton, in the dedication of her poems 

 to the Duchess of Sutherland, thus addressed her 

 fair and kind patroness, who had befriended her 

 " when cowards lied away " her name ; and had 

 given her, " what woman seldom dares," — 



" Belief — in spite of many a cold dissent — 

 When, slander'd and malign'd, I stood apart 

 From those whose bounded power hath wrung, not 

 crush'd, my heart. 



But, like a white swan down a troubled stream. 

 Whose ruffling pinion hath the power to fling 



Aside tlie turbid drops which darkly gleam 

 And mar the freshness of her snowy wing — 



So thou, with queenly grace and gentle pride. 



Along the world's dark waves in purity dost glide." 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



"ITINEBARIUM AD WINDSOR" " WHITELOCKE's 



DIARY " " WHITEFIELD's DIABX." 



Will any of your readers oblige me with assist- 

 ance in reference to the following " wants ?" 



'■'■ Itinerarium ad Windsor." — I want to find a 

 complete manuscript of this work, which Is at- 

 tributed to Fleetwood, the Recorder of London, 

 in the only manuscript I am acquainted with, 

 Harleian, 168. fol. 1. That MS. is unfortunately 

 incomplete. It begins thus : 



" In the moneth of Nisann, in the seavententh yeare of 

 the most happie raigne of the virtuous and most noble 

 ladie Queene Elizabeth." 



" Diary of Judge James Whiteloeke, Father of 

 Bulstrode Whiteloeke." — Basil Montagu, in his 

 "Life of Bacon" (Works, vol. xvi.), quotes (in 

 a note at p. cccvlil.) from a Diary of this judge. 

 I want to know whether this Diary exists only in 

 MS., or has been published ? If the former, where 

 the MS. may be found ; and if the latter, when 

 and where it was published ? 



" Diary ofWhitefield."— I some time ago picked 

 up on a stall a volume of the original MS. of this 



