June 10. 1854.] 



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lished ? I believe it was upon a mural tablet on 

 the chancel wall of a small village church in 

 Dorsetshire (Wyke Regis) ; but I have seen it 

 quoted as from a monument in some church in 

 the Isle of Wight. 



The tablet at Wyke, in Dorset, was erected 

 anonymously, in the night-time, upon the east end 

 of the chancel outer wall ; but whether they were 

 original, or copied from some prior monumental 

 inscription, I do not know, and should feel much 

 obliged could any of your readers inform me. 



S. S. M. 



[Snow, in his Sepulchral Gleanings, p. 44., notices 

 these lines on the tomb of Robert Scott, who died in 

 March, 1806, in Bethnal Green Churchyard. Prefixed 

 to them is the following line : " The grief of a fond 

 mother, and the disappointed hope of an indulgent 

 father." Our correspondent should have given the 

 date of the Wyke tablet.] 



" Off with his head" Sfc. — Who was the author 

 of the often-quoted line — 



" Off with his head ! so much for Buckingham ! " 



which is not in Shakspeare's Richard III. ? 



Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



[Colley Cibber is the author of this line. It occurs 

 in The Tragical History of Richard III., altered from 

 Shakspeare, Act IV., near the end.] 



" Peter Wilkins." — Who wrote this book ? and 

 when was it published ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



[This work first appeared in 1750, and in its brief 

 title is comprised all that is known — all that the cu- 

 riosity of an inquisitive age can discover — of the 

 history of the work, and name and lineage of the 

 author. It is entitled The Life and Adventures of 

 Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man. Taken from his own 

 Mouth, in his Passage to England, from off Cape Horn 

 in America, in the ship Hector. By R. S., a passenger 

 in the Hector; Lond. 1750, 2 vols. The dedication 

 is signed R. P. " To suppose the unknown author," 

 remarks a writer in the Retrospective Review, vol. vii. 

 p. 121., "to have been insensible to, or careless about, 

 the fair fame to which a work, original in its conception, 

 and almost unique in purity, did justly entitle him, is 

 to suppose him to have been exempt from the influence 

 of that universal feeling, which is ever deepest in the 

 noblest bosoms ; the ardent desire of being long re- 

 membered after death — of shining bright in the eyes 

 of their cotemporaries, and, when their sun is set, of 

 leaving behind a train of glory in the heavens, for 

 posterity to contemplate with love and veneration."] 



The Barmecides' Feast. — Can you tell me 

 where the story of the Barmecides and their 

 famed banquets is to be found ? J. D. 



[In The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called 

 The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Lane's edition, 

 chap. v. vol. i. p. 410. Consult also The Barmecides, 



1778, by John Francis de la Harpe; and Moreri, 

 Dictionnaire Historique, art. Barmecides.] 



Captain. — I shall feel greatly obliged by your 

 informing me the proper and customary manner of 

 rendering in a Latin epitaph the words " Captain 

 of the 29th Regiment." Ainsworth does not give 

 any word which appears to answer to " Captain." 

 Ordinum ductor is cumbrous and inelegant. 



Glericcs. 



[The words, " Captain of the 29th Regiment," may 

 be thus rendered into Latin : " Centurio sive Capitanus 

 vicesima? nonas cohortis." The word capitanus, though 

 not Ciceronian, was in general use for a military cap- 

 tain during the Middle Ages, as appears from Du 

 Cange's Glossary : " Item vos armati et congregati 

 quendam de vobis in capitaneum elegistis."] 



&CpIt£g. 



Coleridge's unpublished manuscripts. 



(Vol. ix., p. 496.) 



In an article contained in the Number of 

 "N. & Q." for May the 27th last, and signed 

 C. Mansfield Ingleby, an inconsiderate, not to 

 say a coarse attack has been made upon me, which 

 might have been spared had the writer sought a 

 private explanation of the matters upon which he 

 has founded his charge. 



He asks, " How has Mr. Green discharged the 

 duties of his solemn trust ? Has he made any 

 attempt to give publicity to the Logic, the ' great 

 work' on Philosophy, the work on the Old and 

 New Testaments, to be called The Assertion of 

 Religion, or the History of Philosophy, all of which 

 are in his custody, and of which the first is, on the 

 testimony of Coleridge himself, a finished work ? 

 . . . . For the four works enumerated above, 

 Mr. Green is responsible." 



Now, though, by the terms of Coleridge's will, I 

 do not hold myself "responsible" in the sense 

 which the writer attaches to the term, and though 

 I have acted throughout with the cognizance, and 

 I believe with the approbation of Coleridge's family, 

 yet I am willing, and shall now proceed to give 

 such explanations as an admirer of Coleridge's 

 writings may desire, or think he has a right to 

 expect. 



Of the four works in question, the Logic — as 

 will be seen by turning to the passage in the Letters, 

 vol. ii. p. 150., to which the writer refers as "the 

 testimony of Coleridge himself" — is described as 

 nearly ready for the press, though as yet unfinished ; 

 and I apprehend it may be proved by reference to 

 Mr. Stutfield's notes, the gentleman to whom it is 

 there said they were dictated, and who possesses 

 the original copy, that the work never was finished. 

 Of the three parts mentioned as the components of 



