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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 37. 



Ogden Family (Vol. ii., p. -73.). — Perhaps the 

 representatives of the late Thomas Ogden, Esq., 

 and who was a private banker at Salisbury pre- 

 vious to 1810 (presuming he was a member of the 

 family mentioned by your correspondent Twy- 

 ford), might be able to furnish him with the 

 information he seeks. J. 11. Fox. 



Hrplic^ tn iKtnor CHucrt'oS. 



PorsoiUs Imposition (Vol. i., p. 71.) is indeed, I 

 believe, an imposition. The last line quoted (and 

 I suppose all the rest) can hardly be Porson's, for 

 Mr. Langton amused Johnson, Boswell, and a 

 dinner party at General Oglethorpe's, on the 14th 

 of April, 1778, with some macai-onic Greek "by 

 Joshua Barnes, in which are to be found such 

 comical Anglo-hellenisms as kAvSSoktiv (SxyxOi/v, 

 they were banged with clubs." Boswell's Johnson, 

 last ed. p. 591. C. 



The Three Dukes (Vol. ii., pp. 9, 46, 91.).— 

 Andrew Marvel thus makes mention of the out- 

 rage on the beadle in his letter to the Mayor of 

 Hull, Feb. 28, 1671 {Works, i. 195.) : — 



" On Saturday night last, or rather Sunday mortiing, 

 at two o'clock, some persons reported to be of great 

 quality, together with other gentlemen, set upon the 

 •watch and killed a poor beadle, praying for his life 

 upon his knees, with many wounds : warrants are out 

 for apprehending some of them, but they are fled." 



I am not aware of any contemporary authority 

 for the names of the three dukes ; and a difficulty 

 in the way of assigning them by conjecture is, that 

 in the poem they are called " three bastard dukes." 

 Your correspondent C. has rightly said (p. 46.) 

 that none of Charles II.'s bastard sons besides 

 Monmouth would have been old enougli in 1671 

 to be actors in such a fray. Sir Walter Scott, in 

 his notes on Absalom and Achitophel, referring to 

 the poem, gives the assault to Monmouth and some 

 of his brothers ; but he did so, probably, without 

 considering dates, and on the strength of the words 

 " three bastard dukes." 



Mr. Lister, in the passage in his Life of Claren- 

 don referred to by Mr. Cooper (p. 91.), gives no 

 authority for his mention of Albemarle. 1 shouh' 

 like to know if Mr. Wade has any other authority 

 than Mr. Lister for this statement in his useful 

 compilation. 



Were it certain that three dukes were engaged 

 in this fray, jmd were we not restricted to " bas- 

 tards," I should say that Monmouth, Albemarle, 

 and Richmond (who married the beautiful Miss 

 Stuart, and killed himself by drinking) would pro- 

 bably be the three culprits. As regards Albemarle, 

 he might perhaps have been called bastard without 

 immoderate use of a libeller's licence. 



If three dukes did murder the beadle, it is 



strange that their names have not been gibbeted 

 in many of the diaries and letters which we have 

 of that period. And this is the more strange, as 

 this assault took place just after the attack on 

 Sir John Coventry, which Monmouth instigated, 

 and which had created so much excitement. 



The question is not in itself of much importance ; 

 but I can suggest a mode in which it may possibly 

 be settled. Let the royal pardons of 1671 be 

 searched in the liolls' Chapel, Chancery Lane. If 

 the malel'actors were pardoned by name, the three 

 dukes may there turn u[). Or if any of your 

 readers is able to look through the Domestic Papers 

 for February and March, 1671, in the State Paper 

 Office, he would be likely to find there some in- 

 formation upon the subject. 



Query. Is the doggrel poem in the State Poems 

 Marvel's ? Several poems which are ascribed to 

 him are as bad in versification, and, I need not say, 

 in coarseness. 



Query 2. Is there any other authority for Queen 

 Catharine's fondness for dancing than the following 

 lines of the poem ? 



" See what mishaps dare e'en invade Whitehall, 

 This silly fellow's death puts oH' the ball, 

 And disappoints the Queen's foot, little Chuck ; 

 I warrant 'twould have danced it like a duck." 



CH. 



Kanfs Sdmmtliche Werke. — Under the head of 

 "Books and Odd Volumes "(Vol. ii., p. 59.), there 

 is a Query respecting the Xlth part of Kant's 

 Sdmmtliche Werke, to which I beg to reply that it 

 was published at Leipzig, in two portions, in 1842. 

 It consists of Kant's Letters, Posthumous Frag- 

 ments, and Biography. The work was completed 

 by a 12th vol., containing a history of the Kantian 

 Philosophy, by Carl Ilosenkranz, one of the editors 

 of this edition of Kant. J- M. 



Beckefs Mother (Vol. i., pp. 415. 490. ; vol. ii., 

 p. 78.). — Although the absence of any contempo- 

 raneous relation of this lady's romantic history 

 may raise a reasonable doubt of its authenticity, it 

 seems to derive indirect confirmation from the fact, 

 that the hospital founded by Becket's sister shortly 

 after his death, on the spot where he was born, 

 ])art of which is now the i\lercers' chapel in Cheap- 

 side, was called '"The Hospital of St. Thomas the 

 Martyr of Aeon." Erasmus, also, in his Pilgrim- 

 ages to Walsirigham and Canterbury (see J. G. 

 Nichol's excellent translation and notes, pp. 47. 

 120.), says that the archbishop was called " Tho- 

 mas Acrensis." Edward Foss. 



" Imprest" and " Debenture." — Perhaps the fol- 

 lowing may be of some use to D. V. S. (Vol. ii., 

 p. 40.) in his search for the verbal raw material 

 out of which these words were manufactured. 



Their origin may, I think, be found in the Latin 

 terms used in the ancient accounts of persons 



