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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 44. 



11. lirownlnw Street, Holhnrn. This should be 

 " Brownlow Street, Drury Lane;'''' George Vertue 

 the engraver was living here in 1748. 



12. White Conduit House. The anonymous 

 author of llie Sunday Ramble, 1774, has left us 

 the following description of this once popular tea- 

 gardens : — 



" The garden is formed into several pleasing walks, 

 prettily disposed ; at the end of the principal one is a 

 painting, which serves to render it much larafer in ap- 

 pearance than it really is ; and in the middle of the 

 garden is a round tish-pond, encompassed with a great 

 number of very genteel boxes for company, curiously 

 cut into the hedges, and adorned with a variety of 

 Flemish and other painting; there are likewise two 

 handsome tea-rooms, one over the other, as well as 

 several inferior ones in the dwelling-house." 



"White Conduit Loaves" were for a long time 

 famous, and before the great augmentation in the 

 price of bread, during the revolutionary-war with 

 France, they formed one of the regular " London 

 cries." 



13. Vauxhall Gardens. A curious anil highly 

 interesting description of this popidar place of 

 amusement, "a century ago," was printed in 1745, 

 nnder the title of yl Sketch of the Sfiring- Gardens, 

 Vauxhall, in a letter to a ISfohle Lord, 8vo. My 

 copy is much at Mr. Cunningham's service tor any 

 future edition of his Handbook. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



DEVOTIONAL TRACTS BELONGING TO QUEEN 

 KATHERINE PARR. 



In your Number fiu- August 10th, I observe an 

 inquiry regarding a MvS. book of prayers said to 

 have belonged to Queen Katherine Parr. Of the 

 book in question I know nothing, but there has 

 lately come into my possession a voliuue of early 

 English printed devotional works, which undoubt- 

 edly has belonged to this Queen. The volume is 

 a small duodecimo, bound in red velvet, with gilt 

 leaves, aiul it has had ornamental borders and 

 clasps of some metal, as the inqjressions of these are 

 still distinctly visible upon the velvet covering. 

 The contents of this volume are as follows : — 



1. " A sermon of Saint Chrysostome, wherein besyde 

 that it is furnysshed with hcuenly wisedome and 

 teacliinge, he wonderfully proueth that No man is 

 hurted but of hym-selfe: translated into Englislie by 

 the floure of lerned mjnne in his tyme, Thomas Lup- 

 sete, Londoner, 1534." 



At the bottom of this title-page is written, in 

 the well-known bold hand of Katherine Parr, — 

 "Kateryn the Queue, K. P.," with the equally 

 well-known flourish beneath. 



2. " A svvete and devovte sermon of Holy Say net 

 Ciprian of mortalitie of man. The rules of a Christian 

 life made by Picus, erle of Miraudula, both translated 



into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyght. Lon- 

 dini. Anno verbi incarnati mdxxxix. 



3. " An exhortation to yonge men, &c., by Thomas 

 Lupsete, Londoner, I 534. 



4. "A treatise of charitie, 1534. 



5. " Here be the Gathered Counsailes of Saincte 

 Isidorie, &c., 1539. 



6. " A compendious and a very fruitful treatise 

 teaching the wave of dyenge well, written to a frende 

 by the floure of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas 

 Lujjsete, Londoner, late deceassed, on whose sowle 

 Jesu have mercy. 1541." 



Almost all these treatises are printed by Thomas 

 Berthelet. I know not if any of these treatises 

 are now scarce. On the fly-leaf opposite the tirst 

 pacre we find the foUowinji scriptural sentences, 

 which are, in my opinion, and in that of others to 

 whom I have shown the book, evidently written 

 by the hand of the queen. 



It will be only necessary to give the first and 

 last of these sentences : 



" Delyte not in y"^ multytude of imgodlv men, and 

 haue no pleasure in y"\ for they fare not God. 



" Refuse not y* prayer of one yt is in trouble, and 

 turne not away thy face from the nedye. " 



We need not quote more ; but on the opposite 

 side of the fly-leaf are some verses of a different 

 character, and which I suspect to be from the royal 

 pen of Henry VIII. The writing is imcommonly 

 diflicult to decy]iher, but it bears a strong resem- 

 blance to .nil that I have seen of Henry's hand- 

 writing. A portion of the verses, as far as I can 

 make them out, are here subjoined : 



Respect. 

 " Blush not, fayre nlmphe, tho (nee?) of nobell bled, 

 I fain avoutch it, and of manners good, 

 Spottles in lyf, of mynd sencere and sound. 

 In whoam a world of vertues doth abowend, 

 And sith besyd yt ye lycens giv witliall 

 Set doughts asyd and to some sporting fall, 

 Therefoor, suspyslon, I do banyshe thee " — 



Then follows a line I cannot decypher, and at 

 the bottom of the page is — 



" You will be clear of my suspysion." 



"* Are these verses from some old poet, or are they 

 composed as well as written by the royal tyrant ? 

 for no other would, I think, have addressed such 

 lines to " Kateryn the Queue." 



I have only to ;uld that the volume was given 

 me by the sister of the late President of the English 

 college at Valladolid, and that he obtained it during 

 his residence in Spain. It is not unlikely it may 

 have been carried thither by some of the English 

 Catholics, who resorted to that country for edu- 

 cation. In 1C25 it seems to have belonged to John 

 Sherrott. 



I should be glad of any information about the 

 verses. E. Charlton, M.D. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne, August 18. 1850, 



