Feb. 18. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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author's works, and that they be sold collectively 

 or separately at the purchaser's option. Thus few 

 would encumber themselves with the entire works 

 of Dryden, but many would gladly purchase some 

 of his poems if they could be had separately. 



These remarks are still more applicable to 

 encyclopaedias. The Hncycl. Metropol. was a step 

 in the right direction ; and henceforth we may 

 hope to have each article sold separately in octavo 

 volumes. Is there no chance, amid all these re- 

 prints, of our seeing Hey wood, Crashaw, Southwell, 

 Habington, Daniel, or Drummond of Hawthorn- 

 den ? Mabiconda. 



Uhland, the German Poet. — Mr. Mitchell, in 

 his speech at New York, is said to have stated that 

 Uhland, the German poet, had become an exile, 

 and was now in Ohio. This is a mistake ; for 

 Uhland is now living in his native Wlirtemberg, 

 and is reported in the papers to have quite recently 

 declined a civic honour proposed to be conferred 

 on him by the King of Prussia at the suggestion 

 of Baron Humboldt. J. M. 



Oxford. 



Virgilian Inscription for an Infant School. — 



". . Audita* voces, vagitus et ingens, 

 Infantumque animae flentes, in limine primo." 



JEn. vi. 426. 



Anon. 



eRuert'pg. 



THE SHIPPEN FAMILY JOHN WHITE. 



The Historical Society of Pennsylvania having 

 requested me to edit certain MSS., I should be 

 very much indebted to any one for information, 

 either through your columns, or addressed to me 

 directly, concerning the following persons or their 

 ancestry. 



Edward Shippen, son of William, born in York- 

 shire, near Pontefract or Wakefield, as supposed, 

 1639 ; emigrated to Boston 1670, was a member 

 of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Com- 

 pany, afterwards turned Quaker, was publicly 

 whipt for his faith (see Thomas Story's Journal, 

 quoted in Southey's Common-Place Book), re- 

 moved to Philadelphia, elected Speaker 1695, first 

 mayor 1701, &c, died 1712. His son's family 

 Bible entries (now in possession of Colonel Jno. 

 Hare Powel) say that his (the son's) relations in 

 England were his " uncle William's children," 

 viz. Robert Shippen, Doctor of Divinity ; Wil- 

 liam Shippen, Doctor of Laws and a parliament 

 man ; Edward, a physician ; John, a Spanish mer- 

 chant. 



The uncle William thus mentioned is conjec- 

 tured to have" been the Rector of Stockport, and 

 the "parliament man" to have been his son, 



" downright Shippen " (Lord Mahon's Hist. Eng., 

 three vols.) — a conjecture strengthened by an- 

 other mem., " John, son of the Rector of St. 

 Mary's parish, Stockport, was baptized July 5, 

 a.d. 1678." 



Edward Shippen's daughter, Margaret, married 

 John Jekyll, collector of the port of Boston, said 

 to have been a younger brother of Sir Joseph ; 

 and a descendant, daughter of Chief Justice 

 Shippen, married General Benedict Arnold, then 

 a distinguished officer in the American army. 



Mr. Shippen lived in great style (Watson's 

 Annals, &c), and among his descendants were, 

 and are, many persons of consequence and dis- 

 tinction. 



Besides information as to Mr. Shippen's an- 

 cestors, I should be glad to learn something of 

 his kinsfolk, and of the Jekyll and Arnold 

 branches. Sabine's (Loyalists) account of the 

 latter is imperfect, and perhaps not very just. 



John White, Chief Justice Shippen, whilst a 

 law student in London, writes, 1748-50, as though 

 Mr. White was socially a man of dignified position. 

 He was a man of large fortune ; his sister married 

 San. Swift, who emigrated to this state. His 

 portrait, by Reynolds, represents a gentleman 

 past middle age, whose costume and appearance 

 are those of a person of refined and elegant edu- 

 cation. His letters were destroyed by fire some 

 years since. The China and silver ware, which 

 belonged to him, have the following arms : " Gules, 

 a border sable, charged with seven or eight es- 

 toiles gold ; on a canton ermines a lion rampant 

 sable. Crest, a bird, either a stork, a heron, or 

 an ostrich." The copy inclosed is taken from the 

 arms on the china ; but our Heralds' College (i. e. 

 an intelligent engraver, who gave me the foregoing 

 description) says, that on the silver the crest is 

 " a stork close." Thos. Balch. 



Philadelphia. 



BOOKS ISSUED IN PAETS AND NOT COMPLETED. 



From time to time various productions, many 

 valuable, others the reverse, have issued from the 

 press in parts or numbers ; some have been com- 

 pleted, while others have only reached a few num- 

 bers. It would be desirable to ascertain what works 

 have been finished, and what have not. I have 

 therefore transmitted a note as to several that 

 have fallen in my way, and should be happy for 

 any information about them : 



« 1. John Bull Magazine, 8vo., London, 1824. Of 

 this I possess four numbers. A friend of mine 

 has also the four numbers, and, like myself, 

 attaches great value to them, from the ability 

 .\ of many of the articles. One article, entitled 



" Instructions to Missionaries," is equal to any 

 thing from the pen of T. Hood. May it not 

 have been written by him ? 



