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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 290. 



33. : ' Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the 

 Bank, that at my coming I might have required mine 

 own with usury?' By H. M. Licensed, June 'iS, 1694. 

 London, printed by T. VV. for Tho. Bever, at the Hand and 

 ^tar within Temple Bar, 1694," pp. 94.] 



George Ellis. — The Lamentation of the Lost 

 '..Sheepe, 4to. : London, printed by W. Jaggard, 

 1605. A copy of this book has lately come into 

 ray hands. It is a poem, unpaged, in eighty 

 stanzas, besides two of " conclusion." The dedi- 

 cation is to Sir Francis Castillion, Kniglit, fol- 

 lowed by another, in verse, on his name (an 

 acrostic). The first two stanzas are, — 



" Aboue the clouds, where spangled trcps of stars 

 Adorne the pretious bosome of the skie, 

 Where heauenly peace abandons breaking iars, 

 From whence sweet comfort comes in miserie : 

 And all the consort that is tun'de on high, 

 Send forth their delicate melodious sound. 

 That make those christal vaults with ioj' rebound. 



** Within the bright imperiall orbe of rest. 

 Where soules of saints on golden altars set, 

 And in the Lamb's sweet breath are onlie blest, 

 Wliere thousand graces, millions more beget ; 

 TVhere dales bright shine suffers no sunne to set, 

 There Mercie is enthron'de in blessed ehaire, 

 Most gorgeous in attire, most heauenlie faire." 



I can find no notice either of the poem or the 

 .author. Is the book rare or unique ? 



George Stephens. 

 Copenhagen, 



[There is a copy of this work in the British Museum, 

 wanting the leaf containing stanzas 49, to 52., which 

 seems to have formerly belonged to Dr. Farmer. On a 

 ' fly-leaf is written "No other copy known."] 



The MacCarthy Library. — What became of 

 the once famous MacCarthy Library at Toulouse, 

 for which the Duke of Devonshire offered 25,000Z. 

 in 1814? 



Can " N. & Q." give us any notice of its 

 .founders ? I think they were Irish Spaniards, 

 ^connected with Cardinal Wiseman's family, 



M. L, 



[The library of Count MacCarthy was dispersed at 

 Paris in 1817 ; the sale lasted from January 28 to May 6. 

 According to Dibdin, the Duke of Devonshire proposed 

 -giving 20,000Z. sterling for it ; but it did not realise that 

 'sum, as the total produce of the sale was 404,000 francs, 

 iOr 16,000 guineas. Dibdin, in his Bibliographical Deca- 

 ^neron, vol. iii. pp. 162 — 180., has given a long account of 

 "the dispersion of this matchless collection. He says, 

 ■" The MacCarthy library produced, in the gross amount, 

 404,000 francs. Of this production not less than a fourth 

 part (or 100,000 francs) came to London through the 

 agency of Messrs. Payne and Foss ; while the probable 

 amount of other purchases for England, through Mr. 

 Chardin at Paris, and Mr. Griffiths (champion of Pater- 

 noster Row), might have been somewhere upon 75,000 

 francs. Euge! In France, in the country where this 

 ■collection was acquired, purchases to the amount of about 

 •40,000 francs were nobly made by the king. The De 

 Bures (fine fellows ! though they talk of ' dispatching ' 

 -certain bibliographers with 'bare' bodkins ') expended to 

 JJie amount of about 60,000 francs, chiefly with the view 



of enriching the Royal Collection ; j'et a considerable por- 

 tion of that sum must be considered as arising from com- 

 missions given by the Grand Uuke of Tuscany, who 

 showed himself to be a thorough Helluo Librnrum o\\ this 

 occasion. Add to the foregoing about 6o,()00 francs for 

 the amount of French amateurs and booksellers (eheu!), 

 and you have then the respective items of which the ag- 

 gregate result, 404,000 francs, is composed."] 



^^All the Talents."' — Is the author of a satirical 

 poem under the above title, and carried on in the 

 form of a dialogue between " Polypus and Scri- 

 blerus," known ? It was published in or about the 

 years 1806-7, in ridicule of the Whig administra- 

 tion then formed, and which lasted but a short 

 time. A, B, R, 



Belmont. 



[By Eaton Stannard Barrett, Esq., a native of Ireland, 

 and a student of the Middle Temple. He died in 1820 of 

 a rapid decline, occasioned by the bursting of a blood- 

 vessel.] 



"■Life of Father Paul Sarpi." — Who is the 

 author of the Life of Father Paul Sarpi, which 

 was translated out of Italian by a person of qua- 

 lity, and published in London in 1651 ? fi. 



[The following is the title of the original: Vita del 

 Padre Paolo, deW Ordine tfe' Servi ; e Theologo delta sere- 

 nissima Repuhl. di Venetia. In Leida, 1646. It was written 

 by M. Fulgentio.] 



"new foundling hospital for wit." 

 (Vol, xl., p. 325.) 



" New Foundling Hospital for Wit. London, no pub- 

 lisher. MDCCLXViii. Written b}- Lords Chesterfield, Hard- 

 wicke, Lyttelton, Sir C. H. Williams, Mr. Wilkes, Mr, 

 Churchill, Mr. Garrick, Mr. Potter, Dr. Akenside, and 

 other eminent persons." 



(l.)"New Foundling Hospital for Wit. London, for 

 J. Almon. Third Edition, mdcclxxi." 



(2.) " New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Part the 

 second. London. No publisher, mdcclxix. No writers' 

 names." 



"New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Part the third, 

 London. No publisher, mdcclxix. Written by Earl 

 of Chesterfield, Earl of Carlisle, Earl Delawarr, Lord 

 Lyttelton, Lord Harvev, Lord Clive, Ladv M. W. Mon- 

 tagu, Sir C. H. William's, Sir Walter Raleigh, Right Hon. 

 C. Townsend, John Wilkes, Esq., D. Garrick, Esq., B, 

 Thornton, Esq., Mrs. Lenox, Mr. Rt. Lloyd, Mr. W. Ken- 

 rick, Mr. J. Cunningham." 



" New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Part the fourth, 

 London, for J. Almon, 1771. Written by Sir C. H. Wil- 

 liams, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Delawarr, Earl erf 

 Hardwicke, Earl of Carlisle, Lords Lyttelton, Harvey, 

 Capel, Lady M. W. Montagu, T. Potter, C. Townsend, 

 J. S. Hall, J. Wilkes, D. Garrick, B. Thornton, G. Colman, 

 R. Llovd, &c., &c." 



(3.) '" New Foundling Hospital for Wit. Part the fifth 

 (a new Edition). London, for J. Almon, 1776. Written by 

 Sir C. H. Williams, Earls of Chesterfield, Delawarr, Bath, 

 Hardwicke, Carlisle, Lords Lvttelton, Harvev, Cape), 

 Lady M. W. Montagu, Hon. C. Yorke, H. Walpole, C. 

 Morris, Sir J. Mawby, T. Potter, C. Townsend, Soame 



