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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 219. 



the second edition of which was published in 

 small 4to., in 1703, entitled : 



" The Secret History of the Calves' Head' Club, 

 or, the Republican Unmasqu'd, wherein is fully 

 shewn the Religion of the Calves- Head Heroes in 

 their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thir- 

 tieth of January, by their Anthems," &c. &c. 



We are told in the latter part of the long title- 

 page that the work was published "to demonstrate 

 the restless, implacable spirit of a certain party 

 still among us," and certainly the statements 

 therein, and more than all the anthems at the end, 

 do show the bitterest hatred — so bitter, so intense 

 and malignant, that we feel on reading it that 

 there must be some exaggeration. 



The .author professes to have at first been of 

 opinion " that the story was purely contrived on 

 purpose to render the republicans more odious 

 than they deserv'd." Whether he was convinced 

 to the contrary by ocular demonstration he does 

 not tell us, but gives us information he received 

 from a gentleman — 



" Who, about eight years ago, went out of meer 

 curiosity to see their Club, and has since furnish'd ma 

 with the following papers. I was inform'd that it was 

 kept in no fix'd housa, but that they remov'd as they 

 saw convenient ; that the place they met in when he 

 was with 'em was in a blind ally, about Morefields ; 

 that the company wholly consisted of Independents 

 and Anabaptists (I am glad for the honour of the 

 Presbyterians to set down this remark) ; that the 

 fa nous Jerry White, formerly Chaplain to Oliver 

 Cromwell, who no doubt on't came to sanctify with 

 his pious exhortations the Ribbaldry of the Day, said 

 Grace; that after the table-cloth was removed, the 

 anniversary anthem, as they impiously called it, was 

 sung, and a calve's skull fill'd with wine, or other 

 liquor, and then a brimmer went about to the pious 

 memory of those worthy patriots that kill'd the tyrant, 

 and deliver' d their country from arbitrary sway ; and 

 lastly, a collection made for the mercenary scribler, to 

 which every mm contributed according to his zeal for 

 the cause, or the ability of his purse. 



" I have taken care to set down what the gentleman 

 told me as faithfully as my memory wou'd give me 

 leave; and I am persuaded that some persons that 

 frequent the Black Boy in Newgate Street, as they 

 knew the author of the following lines so they knew 

 this account of the Calves' Head Club to be true." 



The anthems for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 

 1696, and 1697, are given; but they are too 

 long and too stupidly blasphemous and indecent 

 to quote here. They seem rather the satires of 

 malignant cavaliers than the serious productions 

 of any Puritan, however politically or theolo- 

 gically heretical. Edward Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Cahtype Process. — T have made my first essay 

 in the calotype process, following Dr. Diamond's 

 directions given in " N. & Q,.," and using Turner's 

 paper, as recommended by him. My success has been 

 quite as great as I could expect as a novice, and sa- 

 tisfies me that any defects are due to my own want of 

 skill, and not to any fault in the directions given. I 

 wish, however, to ask a question as to" iodizing the 

 paper. Dr. Diamond says, lay the paper on the solu- 

 tion ; then immediately remove it, and lay on the dry 

 side on blotting-paper, &c. Now I find, if I remove 

 immediately, the whole sheet of paper curls up into a 

 roll, and is quite unmanageable. I want to know, 

 therefore, whether there is any objection to allowing 

 the paper to remain on the iodizing solution until it 

 lies flat on it, so that on removal it will not curl, and 

 may be easily and conveniently laid on the dry side to 

 pass the glass rod over it. As soon as the paper is 

 floated on the solution (I speak of Turner's) it has a 

 great tendency to curl, and takes some time before the 

 expansion of both surfaces becoming equal allows it to 

 lie quite flat on the liquid. May this operation be per- 

 formed by the glass rod, without floating at all? 



Photographers, like myself, at a distance from prac- 

 tical instruction, are so much obliged for plain and 

 simple directions such as those given by Dr. Diamond, 

 which are the result of experience, that I am sure he 

 will not mind being troubled with a few inquiries rela- 

 tive to them. C. E. F. 



HockiiCs' Short Sketch. — Mr. Hockin is so well known 

 as a thoroughly practical chemist, that it may suffice 

 to call attention to the fact of his having published a 

 little brochure entitled How to obtain Positive and 

 Negative Pictures on Collodionized Glass, and copy the 

 latter upon Paper. A Short Sketch adapted for the Tyro 

 in Photography. As the question of the alkalinity of 

 the nitrate bath is one which has lately been discussed, 

 we will give, as a specimen of Mr. Hockin's book, a 

 quotation, showing his opinion upon that question : 



" The sensitizing agent, nitrate of silver in crystals, 

 not the ordinary fused in sticks, is nearly always con- 

 fessedly adulterated ; it is thus employed : 



" The silver or nitrate bath. — Nitrate of silver five 

 drachms, distilled water ten ounces ; dissolve and add 

 iodized collodion two drachms. 



" Shake these well together, allow them to macerate 

 twelve hours, and filter through paper. Before adding 

 the nitric acid, test the liquid with a piece of blue 

 litmus paper; if it remain blue after being immersed 

 one minute, add one drop of dilute nitric acid*, and 

 test again for a minute ; and so on, until a claret red is 

 indicated on the paper. It is necessary to test the 

 bath in a similar manner, frequently adding half a 

 drop to a drop of dilute acid when required. This 

 precaution will prevent the fogging due to alkalinity 

 of the bath, so formidable an obstacle to young hands." 



Photographic Society's Exhibition. — The Photo- 

 graphic Society opened their first Exhibition of Pho- 



* " Dilute nitric acid.— Water fifty parts, nitric acid 

 one part." 



