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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 35. 



then take drink to drive it down ; then eat and drink, 

 and walk, and use the Instrument as before." p. 19. 



Should any reader wish to test the efficacy of 

 the learned Judge's prescription, I am afraid he 

 must make an "instrument" for himself, or get 

 one made for him ; though when the Organon 

 Salutis was published, tliey were " commonly sold 

 in London, and especially at the long shops in 

 Westminster Hall." 



As to the book, and the name of the author, 1 

 may add (with reference to "Wood's Athen.), that 

 in the copy before me, which is, like that referre<l 

 to by Dr. Bliss, of the first edition (not the second 

 mentioned by Aubrey as published in 1G59), the 

 author's name does not appear on the title-page at 

 all. There we find only " By W. R. of Gray's 

 Inne, Esq. Experto credo" [sic] ; and really one 

 seems as if one could believe any thing from a 

 man who had habitually used such medicines, for 

 I have said nothing of his infusion of tobacco, for 

 which you must — 



" Take a quarter of a pound of Tobacco, and a quart 

 of Ale, White-wine, or Sider, and three or four spoon- 

 fulls of Hony, and two pennyworth of Mace ; And in- 

 fuse these by a soft fire, in a close earthen pot, to the 

 consumption of almost the one-half, and then you may 

 take from two spoonfulls to twelve [no tea-spoons in 

 those days], and drink it in a cup with Ale or Beer." 



One could, I say, believe almost any thing from 

 a gentleman who under such a course of discipline 

 was approaching the age of fourscore ; but though 

 the title-page has only his initials, the Dedica- 

 tion to the Marquess of Dorchester, and the letter 

 to Sir Henry Blount, are both signed " AVill. 

 Eumsey." S. R. M. 



CSttcricS. 



QUERIES CONGE^INIIJCJ OLD MS8. 



I am very desirous of gaining some knowledge 

 respecting the following MSS-, especially as re- 

 gards their locality at the present time. Perhaps 

 some of your numerous readers can help me to the 

 information which I seek. 



1 . " Whitelocke's Labours remembered in the An- 

 nates of his Life, written for the use of his Children." 

 This valuable MS. contains a most minute and 

 curious account of the performance of Shirlej's 

 masque, entitled The Triumphs of Peace. In 

 1789, when Dr. Burney published the third volume 

 of his History of Music, it was in the possession of 

 Dr. Morton of the British Museum —Query, Was 

 Dr. Morton's library disposed of by auction, or 

 what was its destiny ? 



2. " A MS. Treatise on the Art of Illtimination, 

 written in the year 1525." This MS. is said by 

 Edward Rowe Mores, in his Dissertation upon 

 English Typographical Founders, to have been in 

 the possession of Humphrey Wanley, who by its 



help " refreshed the injured or decayed illumina- 

 tions in the library of the Earl of Oxford." The 

 MS. was transcribed by Miss Elstob in 1710, and 

 a copy of her transcript was in the possession of 

 Mr. George Ballard. Where now is tlie original ? 



3. " A Memorandum-book in the handwriting 

 of Paul Bowes, Esq., son of Sir Thomas Bowes, of 

 London, and of Bromley Hall, Essex, Knight, and 

 dated 1673." In 1783 this MS., which contains 

 some highly interesting and important information, 

 was in the possession of a gentleman named Broke, 

 of Nactou in Suffolk, a descendant from the Bowes 

 family ; but I have not been able to trace it 

 further. 



4. " The iSTegotiations of Thomas Wolsey, Car- 

 dinall." This valuable MS. was in the collection 

 of Dr. Farmer, who wrote on the fly-leaf, — 



" 1 believe several of the Letters and State Papers 

 in this volume have not been published ; three or foui" 

 are printed in the collections at the end of Dr. Fiddes 

 Life of Jfolsei/, from a MS. in the Yelverton I,lbrary." 



If I remember rightly, the late Richard Heber 

 afterwards catue into the possession of this curious 

 and important volume. It is lamentable to think 

 of the dispersion of poor Heber's manuscripts. 



Edward E. Rimb.^ult. 



Chautrcys Sleeping Children in Lichfield Co.' 

 thedral. — In reference to a claim recently put 

 forth on behalf of an individual to the merit of 

 having designed and executed this celebrated mo- 

 nument, ]\Ir. Peter Cunningham says (^Literary 

 Gazette, June 5.), — " The merit of the composition 

 belongs to Chantrey and Stothard." As a regular 

 reader of the " Notes and Queries," I shall feel 

 obliged to Mr. Cunningham (whose name I am 

 always glad to see as a correspondent) if he will 

 be kind enough to inform me on what evidence he 

 founds the title of Mr. Stothard to a share of the 

 merit of a piece of sculpture, which is so generally 

 attributed to the genius of Chantrey ? 



Plectrum. 



Viscount Dundee's Jling. — In the Letters of 

 John Grahame of Clave?-house, Viscouiit of Dun- 

 dee, printed for the Bannatyne Club in 1826, is 

 a description and engraving of a ring containing 

 some of Ld. Dundee's hair, with the letters V. D., 

 surmounted by a coronet, worked on it in gold ; 

 and on the inside of the ring are engraved a skull, 

 and the posey — " Great Dundee, for God and m6, 

 J. Rex." 



The ring, which belonged to the family of Gra- 

 ham of Duntrune (representative of Viscount 

 Dundee), has for several years been lost or mis- 

 laid; perhaps, through some of the numerous 

 readers of the "Notes and Queries," information 



