Feb. 17. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Aukborough, Lincolnshire ;" but I have omitted to 

 note the work from which it is taken. 1 believe 

 it is from some county history : 



" The places called Julian Bowers are generalh' found 

 near Roman towns. They are circular works made of 

 banks of earth, in form of a maze or labyrinth. Dr. Stukeley 

 thinks it was one of the old Roman games, which were 

 brought to Italy from Troy ; and that it took its name of 

 hotoer from borough, or earth-work, not bower or arbour ; 

 and Julian from Julus, son of .^Eneas, who introduced it 

 into Italy, according to Virg. ^n. v." 



J, R. M., M.A. 



[Julian's Bower is noticed in Stukeley's Itinerarium 

 Curiosum, p. 91. The passage quoted by J. R. M. occurs 

 iu Allen's LincolnsMre, vol. ii. p. 220. note.'] 



Dial (Vol. xi., p. 65.). —If Mr. Scribe will 

 search the old book-stalls for a book, called 

 Mechanick Dialling, or the New Art of Shadows, 

 by Charles Leadbetter, 1737, he will find his 

 question answered : for it professes to show how — 



" Any person, though a stranger to the art, with a pair 

 of compasses and a ruler only, may make a dial upon any 

 plane for any place in the world." 



He will also reap no small amusement from what 

 is called by Mr. Leadbetter " a choice collection 

 of mottoes in Latin and English," the transla- 

 tions being more distinguished for freedom than 

 accuracy. As for example : 



" Dies diem trudit. 

 * A day kicks me down ! ' " 



" Ita vita. 

 ' Such is life's half circle ! ! '" 



" Sic transit gloria mundi. * 

 * So marches the god of day.' " 



" Aut Caesar aut nihil. 

 ' I shine or shroud.' " &c. 



Let me take this opportunity of thanking very 

 sincerely those of your correspondents who have 

 contributed to the collection of genuine dial 

 mottoes. A very beautiful one might perhaps be 

 added to the list in the text — 



" Watch, for ye know not the hour." 



In these days of revival of old church architec- 

 ture, it seems a pity that the dial over the porch 

 should be totally forgotten. Hermes. 



See that most useful of all pocket-books, The 

 TAterary and Scientific Register and Almanac for 

 1854, p. 48. J. D. 



Doddridge and Whitejleld (Vol. xi., p. 46.). — 

 Mr. Bingham considers it an " astounding fact" 

 that one of Doddridge's sermons should appear in 

 a volume of Whitefield's as the production of that 

 celebrated preacher. He does not, however, say 

 whether Whitefield himself published, or rather 

 republished the sermon, or whether it was not 

 included in a posthumous collection of his dis- 

 courses? There have been several instances of 

 this last kind. A preacher borrows for an occa- 



sion a sermon by some good author ; which is 

 found accordingly, but unacknowledged, among 

 jjis manuscripts. His friends, in presenting the 

 world after his death with a specimen of his 

 method, select the best they can discover, and 

 inadvertently include, among the discourses pub- 

 lished, one or more not his own. The last example 

 that I remember of such an oversight occurred 

 in the posthumous publication of the sermons of 

 the late Mr. Suckling of Bussage. This error of 

 the first edition was detected, and subsequently 

 rectified. 



A much more striking instance of bold appro- 

 priation is mentioned by a modern author, giving 

 an account of the excellent commentary on the 

 Bible compiled by the famous and unfortunate 

 Dr. Dodd : 



" What is extraordinary," he says, " with respect to 

 it (the Commentary') is, that it was republished as an 

 original work by Dr. Coke the Methodist, with several 

 retrenchments, but with few, and those unimportant, 

 additions." 



That this statement contains no exaggeration is 

 evident, from the testimony of Dr. Adam Clarke, 

 contained in the " General Preface" of the last 

 edition (Tegg, 1844) of his Commentary on the 

 Bible : 



" The Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D., has lately published 

 a Commentary on the Old and New Testament, in 6 vols. 

 4to. This is, in the main, a reprint of the work of Dr. 

 Dodd ; with several retrenchments, and some additional 

 reflections .... Dr. Coke should have acknowledged 

 whence he collected his materials, but on this point he is 

 totally silent." 



S. A. 



7. Lower James Street- 

 Two Brothers with the same Christian Name 

 (Vol. X., p. 513.). — The younger son of James III. 

 of Scotland, who was created the Duke of Ross 

 and Marquis Ormonde, was christened James ; 

 though his elder brother, afterwards James IV., 

 bore the same name. Having determined on 

 becoming an ecclesiastic, he was nominated to the 

 primacy when not more than twenty-one years of 

 age, and died Archbishop of St. Andrew's in 1503. 

 (Vide Lyon's History of St. Andrew's, voL i. 

 p. 244.) 



Another instance occurs in the Seymour faauily. 

 The first Duke of Somerset, brother-in-law of 

 Henry VIII., and uncle of Edward VI., was twice 

 married. Sir Edward Seymour, ancestor of the 

 present Duke of Somerset, was the son of his first 

 wife. Edward, Earl of Hertford, who_ married 

 Lady ELatharine Grey, was the son of his second 

 wife". The dukedom of Somerset and barony of 

 Seymour reverted to the elder branch of the 

 family on the extinction of the younger branch, 

 according to the singular terms of the original 

 grant. (Vide Nicolas's Synopsis of the Peerage.) 



