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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 34. 



S. C, in which there is a remarkable notice of Cleve- 

 land, Donne, and ' Bass Divine.' TTie latter name some- 

 body has ignorantly altered, not knowing, probably, 

 who ' Bass Divine ' was. The poem is in imitation 

 of Hudibras, both in style and metre." 



It is somewhat singular that the writer of this 

 notice never suspected that the author of the second 

 part, and the collector of the first part of the 

 volume, was Samuel Colvil, whose celebrated poem, 

 I'he JVhigg's Supplication, or the Scotch Hudibras, 

 went through so many editions, from 1667 to 1796. 

 This " mock poem," as the author terms it, turns 

 upon the insurrection of tlie Covenanters in Scot- 

 land in the reign of Charles the Second, An in- 

 teresting notice of it, and other imitations of 

 Hudibras, will be found in the Retrospective Re- 

 view, vol. iil. pp. 317-333. 



Edwabd F. Eimbault. 



HtJBERT LE SCEUR's SIX BRA.SS STATDES. 



In a curious MS. Diary of the early part of the 

 seventeenth century, lately come into my posses- 

 sion, I find the following entry concerning the 

 sculptor, Hubert le Soeur : — 



" March 7. 1628. Had an interview with y"^ fa- 

 mous and justly renowned artiste H. le Sueur, who, 

 being late come to this countrie, I had never scene 

 before. He showed me several famous statues in 

 brasse." 



This is probably the earliest notice of the cele- 

 brated pupil of John of Bologna after his settle- 

 ment in England. Dallawav, in his Anecdotes of 

 the Arts in England (p. 395.), after stating that 

 Hubert le Soeur arrived here about the year 1630, 

 says, — 



" If he was associated with Pierre Tacca, who finished 

 thehorse in the equestrian statue of Henry IV. in 1610, 

 left incomplete on the death of his master, John of Bo- 

 logna, two years preceding, he must have been far 

 advanced in life. Three only of his woiks in bronze 

 are now known with certainty to exist : the eques- 

 trian statue of Charles I. [at Charing Cross], a bust 

 of the same monarch with a casque in the Roman style 

 [now at Stourhead], and a statue in armour of William 

 Jtlerbert, Earl of Pembroke, Lord High Chamberlain 

 and Chancellor of Oxford. The last was given to the 

 University by T., Earl of Pembroke, about the time o: 

 the restoration." 



The " several famous statues in brasse" alluded 

 to by the writer of the Diary above quoted, were 

 probably those which afterwards ornamented the 

 gardens of St. James's Palace. Peacham, in his 

 Complete Gentleman (2nd edit., 4to. 1634), having 

 spoken of the collection of statues at Arundell 

 House, says : — 



" King Charles also, ever since his coming to the 

 Crown, hath amply testified a royal liking of ancient 



Statues, by causing a whole army of foreign Emperors, 

 Captains, and Senators, all at once to land on his coasts, 

 to come and do him homage and attend him in his 

 Palaces of Saint James and Somerset House. A great 

 part of these belonged to the great Duke of Mantua ; 

 and some of the old Greek marble bases, columns, and 

 altars were brought from the ruins of Apollo's temple 

 at Delos, by that noble and absolutely complete gen- 

 tleman. Sir Kenelm Digby, Kn'. In the garden of 

 St. James, there are also half a doztn brass statues, rare 

 ones, cast by Hubert le Sueur, his Majesty's servant, 

 now dwelling in St. Bartholomew's, London ; the most 

 industrious and excellent statuary, in all materials, that 

 ever this country enjoyed. The best of them is the 

 Gladiator, moulded from that in Cardinal Borghesi's 

 Villa, by the procurement and industry of ingenious 

 Master Gage. And at this present, the said Master 

 Sueur hath divers other admirable moulds to cast in 

 brass for his Majesty, and among the rest, that famous 

 Diana of Ephesus. But the great Horse with his Ma- 

 jesty upon it, twice as great as the life, and now well 

 nigh finished, will compare with that of the New Bridge 

 at Paris, or those others at Florence and Madrid, 

 though made by Sueur, his master John de Bologna, 

 that rare workman, who not long since lived at Flo- 

 rence. " 



The bronze statue of the Gladiator originally 

 stood (according to Ned Ward's London Spt/) in 

 the Parade facing the Horse Guards. Dodsley 

 {Environs, iii. 741.) says it was removed by Queen 

 Anne to Hampton Court, and from thence, by 

 George the Fourth, to the private grounds of 

 Windsor Castle, where it now is. Query, What 

 has become of the other five " famous statues in 

 brass ? " Edward F. Himbault. 



BISHOP JEWELL S library. 



Whatbecauie of Bishop Jewell's library? Cassan 

 mentions (Lives of Bishops of Salisbury, vol. ii. 

 p. 5.5.) that 



" He had collected an excellent library of hooks of 

 all sorts, not excepting the most im]>ertinent of the 

 Popish authors, and here it was that he spent the 

 greatest and the best part of his time," &c. 



Bishop Jewell died Sept. 22. 1571. 

 In the Account Books of Magdalen College, 

 Oxford, I find the following items : — 



" A.I). 1572. Solut. D°° Pra;sidi equitanti Sarisbur. 

 pro libris per billam, lij" xvi'. 



" Solut. pro libris D"'. cpiscopi Sar., c''. 



" A.D. 1574. Sulnt. per Dom. PrjEsidem pro libris 

 M" Jewell, xx'i." 



Whether these books were a portion only, or the 

 whole of the library of Bishop Jewell, I am unable 

 to discover ; nor am I aware at present whether 

 Bishop Jewell's autograph is in any of the books 

 of Magdalen College Library. The president was 

 Lawrence Humphrey, author of a Life of Jewell. 



Magdalenensis. 



