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NOTES AND QUERISS. 



[No. 274. 



;^{n0r CSuertcS iuttb ^n^torrS. 



FairchiJd Lecture at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. 

 — Thomas Faircbild, whose communication to 

 ■the Royal Society of Experiments on the Circula- 

 tion of the Sap is printed in the Philosophical 

 Transactions, 1724, and who died at Hoxton in 

 1729, bequeathed money to trustees, for a lecture 

 to be delivered in the church of St. Leonard, 

 Shoreditch, annually, on Whit- Tuesday. The 

 subject must be either " The wonderful works of 

 God in the Creation," or "The certainty of the 

 Resurrection of the Dead proved by the certain 

 changes of the animal and vegetable parts of the 

 Creation." Dr. Morell (T presume the author of 

 the Thesaurus that bears his name, and the friend 

 of Hogarth) preached this lecture for several 

 years. I am desirous of knowing whether it is still 

 delivered according to the will of the testator ; and 

 if so, at what hour on Whit-Tuesday I must 

 • attend at the church in order to hear it ? 



Geo. E. Feere. 

 Eoydon Hall, Diss. 



[Some celebrated men have preached this lectui'e, among 

 ■ others Dr. Denne, Dr. Stukeley, and Samuel Ayscough ; 

 but we never heard of Dr. Morell as one of the lecturers, 

 nor does his name appear in the list furnished by Sir 

 Henry Ellis, in his History of Shoreditch, p. 288. Mr. 

 'Ayscough delivered it from 1787 to 1804, and was suc- 

 ' ceeded by the Kev. J. J. Ellis, Eector of St. Martin's 

 Outwich, in 1805, who has continued lecturer until the 

 present time. Next Whit-Tuesday will be the 125th an- 

 niversary ; Divine Service commences at eleven o'cloclc. 

 There was a local periodical published in 1852, called the 



■ Shoreditch Herald, which if our correspondent could be 

 fortunate enough to pick up on any bookstall, he will find 

 an interesting account of the worthy founder of this lec- 



■ ture. See the number for July, 1852, p. 42.] 



" Penelope's Wehb." — I have a much mutilated 

 ■copy of a black-letter volume so entitled. I 

 should be glad to learn its date, exact title-page, 

 and degree of rarity. E.. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



[This work is by Robert Greene, and, from the prices 

 given in Lowndes, must be extremely rare : " Boswell, 

 985., 71. 15s. Roxburghe, 6656., 5/." It contains the 

 foUo'wing full title-page : " Penelopes Web : wherein a 

 Christall Mirror of Feminine Perfection represents to the 

 view of euery one those vertues and graces which more 

 curiously beautifies the mind of women, then eyther 

 sumptuous Apparel, or lewels of inestimable value : the 

 one buying fame with honour, the other breeding a kinde 

 of delight, but with repentance. In three seuerall dis- 

 courses also are three speciall vertues, necessary to be 

 incident in euery vertuous woman, pithely discussed : 

 namely. Obedience, Chastity, and Sylence. Interlaced 

 with three seuerall and Comicall Histories. By Kobert 

 Greene, Master of Artes in Cambridge. Omne tulit 

 punctum qui miscuit vtile dulce. London, printed for 

 lohn Hodgers, and are to be soldo at his shop at the 

 Flowerdeluce in Fleete Streete, neere to Fetter Lane end. 

 1601." See a list of Greene's innumerable pieces in Beloe's 

 Anecdotes of Literature, vol. ii. pp. 168. 196. 291. ; and 

 Censura Literaria, vol. viii. pp. 380 — 391. Dibdin, in his 

 Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 437., remarks, " There is more to 



be learnt of the express character of the times in the 

 pieces of Greene, Harvey, Decker, Nash, &c., than in the 

 elaborate disquisitions of learned historians. And yet, 

 after all — how singular! — in none of these cotempora- 

 neous productions is there the slightest mention of Shak- 

 speare, who was not only living but in high repute. One 

 would have thought that his very 'hose, doublet, and 

 jerkin' would have been described by some of this viva- 

 cious and talkative tribe. Who would wish to ' lose one 

 drop of that immortal man ? ' "] 



Pev. Dr. Gosset. — Can any of your readers 

 oblige me with any recollections they may have 

 of the Rev. Isaac Gosset, D.D., of bibliographical 

 celebrity, other than may be found in Clarke's 

 Pepertorium Bibliographicum, p. 455., or in the 

 Gentleman s Magazine, to which I have referred ? 

 I am also desirous of knowing where he was 

 buried, and if he has an epitaph. His father, 

 whose name also was Isaac, died at Kensington in 

 December, 1799, at the advanced age of eighty- 

 eight. F. G. 



[An interesting notice of Dr. Isaac Gosset will be 

 found in Dr. Dibdin's Decameron, vol. iii. pp. 5 — 8. 78., 

 and some passing notices in Dibdin's Reminiscences, vol. i. 

 pp. 205. 295. Gosset is described under the character of 

 Lepidus in the Bibliomania, and those amusing lines, 

 " The Tears of the Booksellers," on the death of Dr. 

 Gosset {Gent. Mag., vol. Ixxxiii. pt. i. p. 160.), are by 

 the Rev. Stephen Weston. Consult Home's Introd. to 

 Bibliography, vol. ii. p. 651., and the Classical Journal, 

 vol. viii. p. 471. &c., for some of the prices for which the 

 Gossetian tomes were sold. We cannot discover Dr. Gos- 

 set's burial-place.] 



Winchester Dulce Domum and Tabula Leguim 

 Pcedagogicamm. — Will any reader give, or direct 

 me to, the history of these ? J. W. Hewett. 



Bloxham, Banbury. 



[Dr. Milner, in his History of Winchester, vol. ii. 

 p. 130., edit. 1801, remarks: "That the existence of the 

 song of Dulce Domum can onlj' be traced up to the dis- 

 tance of about a century ; j'et the real author of it, and 

 the occasion of its composition, are already clouded with 

 fables." Some of these traditionary notices will be found 

 in Walcott's William of Wykeham and his Colleges, p. 266. ; 

 and in Gentleman^ Mag. for March, 1796, p. 209., and 

 July, 1796, p. 570.] 



Levinus Monk. — Who was Levinus Monk, whose 

 daughter and coheiress, Mary, married Thomas 

 Bennet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, created a 

 baronet in 1660 ? P. P— m. 



[Levinus Monk was clerk of the signet in 1611. His 

 signature is affixed to two documents in the British 

 Museum (Add. MSS. 5750. f. 134.; 5756. f. 161.), and is 

 there spelt Levinus Munck.] 



Quotation. — Who is the author of the line 



" The glory dies not, and the grief is past," 



quoted in Lockhart's Life of Scott, vol. vi. p. 224. ? 



LB. 



[This fine line is from a sonnet on Sir Walter Scott's 

 death, bj' the late Sir Egerton Brydges, as stated in the 

 one-volume edition of Lockhart's Life of Scott, edit. 1845.] 



