May 19. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



395 



Artificial Teeth (Vol, xi., p. 264.)- — A corre- 

 spondent inquires what is the date of the intro- 

 duction of artificial teeth into England or Europe ? 

 and refers to an advertisement of John Watts, 

 "Operator, who applies himself solely to that 

 business," in 1709. 



I cannot answer your correspondent's inquiry, 

 but it suggested to my memory two passages in 

 Ben Jonson's play of the Silent Woman, which first 

 appeared in 1609, and which consequently carries 

 back the evidence of the use of artificial teeth in 

 England, more than a century beyond the date of 

 Watts's advertisement, as they refer to them in 

 terms which imply their common use. The first 

 passage referred to occurs in Act I. Sc. 1., and the 

 other in Act IV. Sc. I. In the latter passage 

 Otter, speaking of his wife, says : 



" A most vile face ! and j'et she spends me forty pound 

 a year in mercury and hog's bones. All her teeth were 

 made in the Slack-Friars," &c. 



w. 



Edgbaston. 



'^Deo parere, libertas est" (Vol. xi., p. 323.). — 

 The words in the Collect for Peace in the Book 

 of Common Prayer, " Whose service is perfect 

 freedom," are thus given in the Latin Praver- 

 book of Queen Elizabeth, published by Wolfius 

 in 1560 — "Cui servare, regnare est;" to which 

 the note of Lipsius would be even more appro- 

 priate than to the passage in Seneca, which is very 

 fine. J. G. 



Exon. 



Dr. Mulcaster (Vol. xi., p. 260.). — The follow- 

 ing two extracts from Herrick's Hesperides, §*c., 

 1648, are worth preserving in your pages, having 

 been with many others (equally elucidating former 

 customs and manners) unaccountably omitted in 

 the modern republication of his poems : 



" Upon Fone, a Schoolmaster, p. 41. 



"Fone says those mighty whiskers he does weare, 

 Are twigs of birch and willow growing there : 

 If so, we'll think too (when he does condemne 

 Boyes to the lash) that he does whip with them." 



" Upon Paget, a Schoolboy, p. 71. 



" Paget, a schoolboj', got a sword, and then 

 He vow'd destruction both to birch and men : 

 Who would not think the younker fierce to fight? 

 Yet coming home but somewhat late (last night), 

 ' Untrusse,' his master bade him, and that word 

 Made him take up his shirt, lay down his sword." 



E. D. 



Dr. Bushy (Vol. xi., p. 260.). —The same 



anecdote is related of Dr. Busby as that " of 



Monckaster, the famous pedagogue," in Hone's 



Every-Day Booh, vol. ii. col. 35. : 



" Dr. Busby was a severe, but not an ill-natured man. 

 It is related of him and one of his scholars, that during 

 the Doctor's absence from his studj', the boy found some 

 plums in it ; and being moved by lickerishness, began to 



eat some. First, however, he waggishly cried out, 'I 

 publish the banns of matrimony between my mouth and 

 these plums; if any here present know just cause or 

 impediment why they should not be united, you are to 

 declare it, or hereafter hold your peace.' But the Doctor 

 had overheard the proclamation, and said nothing till 

 the next morning ; when, causing the boy to b« 

 'brought up' and disposed for punishment, he grasped 

 the well-known instrument, and said, 'I publish the 

 banns of matrimony between this rod and this boy: if 

 any of you know just cause or impediment why they 

 should not be united, you are to declare it.' The boy 

 himself called out, ' t forbid the banns ! ' ' For what 

 cause?' inquired the Doctor. 'Because,' said the boy, 

 ' the parties are not agreed.' The Doctor enjoyed the 

 validity of the objection urged by the boy's wit, and the 

 ceremony was not performed." 



C. L D. 



Sir Stephen Fox (Vol. xi., p. 325.). — The fol- 

 lowing memorandum, copied from the Lansdowne 

 MSS. (and apparently contemporaneous), being a 

 highly satirical and biographical sketch of mem- 

 bers of parliament, would confirm the " humble 

 origin " of Sir Stephen Fox : 



" Once a link boy, then a singing boy att Salisbury, 

 then a serving man, and permitting his wiefe to be coTIion 

 bej'ond sea, att y« restauration was made pay m"". to y« 

 Guardes, where he has cheated 100,000", and is one of 

 y greene cloth." 



Cl. Hopper. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



If our notes on the volume which we are about to bring 

 before our readers are of more than ordinary length, we 

 trust those readers will not make that a ground of com- 

 plaint against us, inasmuch as the book itself can reach 

 the hands of very few of them. It is the first publication 

 of the Philobiblon Society, and is entitled Philobibhn 

 Society ; Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies, Vol I., 

 and contains no less than twenty-two articles contributed 

 by various members of the Society. As the work may be 

 considered as intended for private circulation only, and 

 therefore as not inviting criticism, although it might do 

 so without fear of depreciation, we shall confine ourselves 

 to a brief notice of these several papers. They are as 

 follows : — 1. Original Letter of Thomas James, Editor of 

 the Philabililon Ric. Dunelmensis, to Thomas, Lord Lumley, 

 1599, communicated by Mr. Stirling. 2. Notes sur deux 

 petites Bibliotheques Frangais du XV. Siecle, communicated 

 by the Due d'Aumale ; a most interesting bibliographical 

 resume, first, of a library commenced by Antoine de 

 Chourses, who lived in the second half of the fifteenth 

 century, and completed by his widow, Katherine de Coe- 

 tivy ; and, secondly, of a collection formed by Jean Du 

 Mas, Seigneur de I'lsle, &c., who died in 1495. 3. is a 

 curious contribution by the Dean of St. Paul's, Michael 

 Scott, almost an Irish Archbishop. 4, This is followed by 

 the Hon. Robert Curzon's valuable, although Short Ac- 

 count of some of the most celebrated Libraries of Italy. 

 5. The fifth article is from the pen of one of the honorary 

 secretaries of the Society, M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian 

 Minister, and is the first of a series of Lettres sur les 

 Anglais qui ont ecrit en frangais. Do any of our readers 

 know auglit of Thomas Hales, born in Gloucestershire 

 about 1740, the author of LeJugement de Midas, LAmant 



