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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



Sir William Oascnigne, liy Edward Foss - 



An old Guy, b\ Dr. Bell - - - - ■ 



Folk Lore: — Folk Lore of South Northamptonshire, 



No. 2 Mice, Snakes, Poultry, Crows, Owls, Cuckoos 



*tc - 

 Minor Notes : — Hon A . Erskine — Gloves — Punish. 



ment of Death by Burning -. India Rubber - 



QUERIES : — 



The " Bar " of Michael Anpelo, by S. W. .Singer - 166 



Annotated Copies of Bishop Andrewes' Works ■. - 166 



Minor Queries : — Robert Innes, a Grub Street Poet — 

 Sicilian Vespers _ One Bell — Treasure Trove-Poeta 

 Anglicus — Hornbooks_Ben Jonson, or Ben Johnson 

 _^IS. Book of Prayers belonRinji to Queen Catherine 

 Parr — Waltheolf — De Combre Family — llda—" De 

 Male quaesitis"— Westminster Abbey— Haberdasher 

 — Martinet — " Querela Cantabrigiensis " — Long 

 Lonkin - - - •> - ' - I6S 



Beplies : — 



Treatise of Equivocation -. - - - - 16S 



Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy, by C. H. Cooper >69 

 Etymological Queries answered, by Albert Way - 169 



Ueplies to Minor Queries : — Solingen —Blackguard — 

 The Three Dukes — Bonnv Dundee — Was Quarles 

 pensioned? — Collar of Esses — The Story of the 

 Three Men and their Bag of Money —Will. PLobertson 

 of Murton — Long Meg of Westminster — Church- 

 wardens* Accounts of St. Antholin's — The Plant 

 " Harmony "— Mildew in Books — The Carpenter's 

 Magfiot — Martello Towers — Highland Kilts— Deri- 

 vation of Pennv — Scarf— Smokc-nioney — Common, 

 Mutual, and jieciprocal — Juice Cups — Curfew — 

 Derivation of Totnes, &C-. - - - - 176 



MiSCELLANEOl'S ! — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements - - . - 



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SIR WILT.IAM GASCOIGNE. 



Althomrli you and I no doubt unite in the admi- 

 ration, which all our fellow-countrymen profess, 

 and some of them feel, for our immortal bard, yet 

 I do not think that our zeid as Shakspearians will 

 extend so far as to receive him as an uiKiuestion- 

 able authority for the fads introduced into his his- 

 torii;al plays. The utmost, I a[)prehend, that we 

 shoulil admit is, that they represent the tradition 

 of tlie time in which he wrote, and even that ail- 

 missjon we should modiiy by the allowance, to which 

 every pool is entitled, of certain changes adopted 



for dramatic effect, and with the object of enhan- 

 cing- our interest in the character he is delineating. 



Two facts in his Second Part of Henry IV, al- 

 ways referred to in connection with each other, 

 notwithstanding the ingenious remarks on them 

 made by j\lr. Tyler in his History of Henry V., are 

 still accepted, and principally by general readers, 

 on Shakspeare's authority, as undoubtedly true. 

 The one is the incident of Prince Henry's com- 

 mittal to prison by Chief Justice Gascoigne ; and 

 the other is the magnanimous conduct of the 

 Prince on his accession to the throne, in continuing 

 the Chief Justice in the office, which he had sho.wu 

 himself so well able to support. 



The first I have no desire to controvert, es- 

 pecially as it has been selected as one of the illus- 

 trations of our history in the House of Lords. 

 Frequent allusion is made to it in the play. Fal- 

 staffs page says to his master, on seeing the Chief 

 Justice : ♦ 



" Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the 

 prince for striking him about Bardolph." 

 And Falstaff in the same scene thus addresses Gas- 

 coigne : 



" For the box of the ear that the prince gave you, — 

 he gave it like a rude prince, and you took it like a 

 sensible lord. I have checked him for it, and the 

 young lion repents." 



And Gascoigne, when Henry refers to the incident 

 in these words : 

 " How might a prince of my great hopes forget 



So great indignities you laul upon me? 



What ! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison 



The immediate heir of England 1 Was this easy ? 



May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?" 



thus justifies himself to the king : 



" 1 then did use the person of your father ; 

 The image of his power lay then in me : 

 And in the administration of his law, 

 Whiles 1 was busy for the commonwealth, 

 Your highness pleased to forget my place, — 

 The majesty and power of law and justice, 

 The image of the king wlioiu I presented, — 

 And, struck me in my very seat of judgment; 

 Whereon, as an olfeiider to yoiu- father, 

 I gave bold way to my authority. 

 And did commit you." 



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