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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 31. 



induced me to turn to the List of the Fellows of 

 the Society of Antiquaries, and I find it in my 

 power to exonerate the compiler of the list on one 

 point from the carelessness he imputes. "Brown 

 IIappee" says, "We see one or two D.D.'s de- 

 prived of their titles of ' Rev.' " I find but one 

 D.D. in that condition, and in that instance the 

 list is correct, and the usual prefix would have 

 been an error; the gentleman in question not 

 being in orders, although his services in Biblical 

 literature have been acknowledged with the de- 

 gree of D.D. Your correspondent does not seem 

 to be aware that this doctorate is, like all others, 

 an academical, and not a clerical, distinction ; 

 and that, although it is seldom dissociated from 

 the clerical office in this country, any lay scholar 

 of adequate attainments in thcokigy is competent 

 to receive this distinction, and any university to 

 bestow it upon him. Eye-Snuff. 



JS mancipation of (he Jeivs (Vol. i. p. 479.). — The 

 following extract from Tovey's Anglia Judaica, 

 p. 259., may be acceptable in connection with tiiis 

 subject : — 



" As soon as King Charles was murther'il, the Jews 

 petitioned the Council of War to endeavour a repeal of 

 that act of parliament which liad been made against 

 them ; promising, in return, to make them a present of 

 five hundred thousand pounds : Provided that they 

 could likewise procure the cathedral of St. Paul to be 

 procured them for a synagogue, and the Bodleian I.,i- 

 brary at Oxford to begin their traflic with, whicli 

 piece of service it seems was unde'taken by those hrmcst 

 ■men, at the solicitation of Hugh Peters and Henry 

 Masters, whom the Jews employed as their brokers, 

 but without any success." 



Afterwards, however, the Jews of Holland sent 

 a deputation, consisting of the famous Rabbi Ma- 

 nasseh ben Israel, and several wealthy Jewish 

 merchants. When Cromwell came into full power 

 their hoi)es v.'ere raised, for he was known to be 

 favourable to their re-admission ; but after much 

 discussion, the popular feeling, and the voices of 

 many infiuentinl preachers, were found to bo so 

 much against the measure that nothing was even- 

 tually done ; and Charles II. must be regarded as 

 the restorer of the Jews to this country. Tovey 

 says that the Rabbi Netlo, " the governor of the 

 synagogue" in his time, had searched the Jewish 

 registers at his request, and had found that, so late 

 as 1G63, there were but twelve Jews in England. 

 ' It seems that while these negociations were in 

 hand, all sorts of absurd and idle rumours were 

 afloat. Among these I incline to reckon the 

 alleged proposal to purchase St. Pa\d's for a syna- 

 gogue. It seems to be sufiiciently refuted by the 

 intrinsic absurdity of the thing. But beyond this, 

 we have the express denial, made on the s])ot, 

 and at the time, by Raljbi Manasseh ben Israel 

 himself. Oa turning to his Vindicice Judaorum, 



writteti in this country, I find that after recapitu- 

 lating various calumnies on his people — such as 

 their sacrificing Christian children, &c. — he thus 

 goes on : — 



" ' Love and hatred,' says Plutarch, ' corrupt the 

 truth of every thing;' as experience sufficiently declares 

 it, when we see that which comes to pass, that one and 

 the same thing, in one and the same city, at one and 

 the same time, is related in different manners. I my- 

 self, in my own negociation here, have found it so. 

 For it hath been rumoured abroad, that our nation had 

 purchased St. Paul's church, for to make it their syna- 

 gogue, notwithstanding it was a temple formerly 

 consecrated to Diana. And many other things have 

 been reported of us that never entered the thought of 

 our nation." 



J. K. 



Snech-vp or Snick-iip. — Surely this means no- 

 thing more or less than what we should write 

 Hiccup ! or Hiccough ! so, at least, I have always 

 suppo^■ed ; misled, perhaps, by Sir Toby's sur- 

 name, and his parenthetical imprecation on "pickle 

 herring." I do not pretend to be a critic of Shak- 

 speare, and must confess that I do not possess a 

 copy of the "Twelfth Night;" but after see- 

 ing your correspondent R. R.'s letter (Vol. i., 

 p. 467.), I resolved to write you a note. First, 

 however, I called on a neighbour to get a look at 

 the text, and he brought me down Theobald's 

 edition of 1773, where it stands, — 



" Sir To. \Vc did keep time, Sir, in our catches. 

 Sneck up !" [^Hiccoughs. 



The eflbrt necessary to pronounce the word 

 "catches" might help to produce a catch of 

 another sort in the stonnich of a gentleman op- 

 pressed with drink and pickle herring; and it 

 seems likely that some such idea was in the au- 

 thor's mind. Davus. 



■SB.\i(t\ln\\ta\\i. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, CATAI-OGUES, SALES, ETC. 



The readiness which many of our friends liave evinced 

 to illustrate that most curious, interesting, and valuable 

 of all gossiping histories, the recently completed edition 

 of The Diary of Samvel Pepys, for which the public is 

 indebted to our noble correspondent Lord Braybrooke, 

 tempts us to call their attention to the no less im- 

 portant work now in course of publication. The Diary 

 a lid Correspondence of John Evelyn. This we are the more 

 anxious to do, inasmuch as, although the two volumes 

 already issued complete the Diary, there remains still 

 an opportunity of introducing into the concluding 

 volumes such further notes and illustrations as any of 

 our readers may be enabled and disposed to furnish : 

 and who woidd not gladly so show his reverence for the 

 memory of such a man as John Evelyn ? 



A List of Printed Service Books accordinr/ to ilie An- 

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