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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 47. 



p. 287., from a manuscript of the time of Henry 

 VII., is given — 



" Tu dixisti de corpore Christi, crede et habes 

 Di; palefrido .sic tibi scribo, crede et habes." 



M. 



Grant to the Earl of Sussex of Leatie to he co- 

 vered in the Royal Presence. — In editing Heyljn's 

 Histori/ of the Ileformation, I had to renuirk of the 

 grant made by Queen Mary to the Earl of Sussex, 

 that it was the only one of Ileylyn's documents 

 which I had been unable to trace elsewhere (ii. 90.). 

 Allow me to state in your columns, that I have 

 since found it in AVeever's Funeral Alomiments 

 (pp. 635, 636). J. C. iloBEETsoN. 



Bekesbourne. 



The first Woman formed from a Rib (Vol. ii., 

 p. 213.). — As you have given insertion to an ex- 

 tract of a sermon on the subject of the creation of 

 Eve, I trust you will allow me to refer your cor- 

 respondent Ealliolensis to Matthew Henry's 

 connnentary on the second chapter of Genesis, 

 from which I extract the following beautiful ex- 

 planation of the reason why the rib was selected 

 as the material whereof the woman should be 

 ci'eated : — 



" Fourthly, that the woman was made of a rib out 

 of the side of Adam ; not made out of his head to top 

 him, nor out of liis feet to be trampled upon by him ; 

 but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm 

 to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved." 



Iota. 



Beau Brummel's Ancestry. — Mr. Jesse some 

 years back did amjile justice to the history of a 

 " London celebrity," George Brummeli; but, from 

 ■what he there stated, the following "Note" will, 

 I feel assured, be a novelty to him. At the time 

 that Brinumell was considered in everything the 

 arbiter elegantiarum, the writer of this has fre- 

 quently heard Lady ]\Ionson (the widow of the 

 second lord, and an old lady wdio, living to the age 

 of ninety-seven, had awonderful fund ot'interesting 

 recollections) say, that this ruler of fashion was 

 the descendant of a very excellent servant in the 

 family. Not long ago, some old papers of the 

 family being turned over, proofs corroborative of 

 this came to light. William Brummeli, from tin 

 year 1734 to 1764, was the faithful and confidential 

 servant of Charles Mon.=on, brother of the first 

 lord : the period would identity him with the 

 grandfather of the Beau ; the oidy doubt was, that 

 as Mr. Jesse has ascertained that AVilliam Brum- 

 meli, the grandfather, was, in the interval above 

 given, married, had a son William, and owned a 

 house in Bury Street, how far these facts were 

 compatible with his remaining as a servant living 

 with Ciiarles INIonson, both in town and country. 

 Now, in 1757, Professor Hemy INIonson of Cam- 

 bridge being dangerously ill, his brother Charles 



sent William Brummeli down, as a trustworthy 

 person, to attend to him ; and in a letter from 

 Bi'ummell to his master, he, with many otlier re- 

 quisitions, wishes that there may be sent down to 

 him a certain glass vessel, very useful for invalids 

 to drink out of, and whicli, if not in S[iring Gar- 

 dens, " may be found in Bury Street. It was used 

 when Billy was ill." From the familiarity of the 

 word " Billy," he must be speaking of his son. 

 These facts are certainly corroborative of the old 

 dowager's statement. M(2). 



©ucric^. 



GRAY S ELECT AND DODSLET POEMS. 



I have here, in the country, few editions of 

 Gray's works by me, and those not the best ; for 

 instance, I have neither of those by the Rev. J. 

 Mitford (excepting his Aldine edition, in one 

 small vohune), which, perhaps, would render my 

 present Query needless. It relates to a line, or 

 rather a word in the Elegy., which is of some im- 

 portance. In the second stanza, as the poem is 

 usually divided (though JMason does not give it in 

 stanzas, because it was not so originally written), 

 occurs, 



" Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight." 



And thus the line stands in all the copies (five) I 

 am able at this moment to consult. But referring 

 to Dodsley's Collection of Poems., vol. iv., where it 

 comes first, the epithet applied to " flight " is not 

 " droning," but drony — 



" Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight." 



Has anybody observed upon this difference, which 

 surely is worthy of a Note? I cannot find that 

 tiie circumstance has been remarked upon, but, 

 as I said, I am here without the means of con- 

 sidting the best authorities. The Elegy, I pre- 

 sume, must have been first sejiarately printed, 

 and from thence transferred to Dodsley's Collec- 

 tion ; and I wish to be informed by some person 

 who has the earliest impression, how the line is 

 there given ? I do not know any one to whom I 

 can appeal on such a point with greater confidence 

 than to Mr. Pbter Cunningham, who, I know, 

 has a large assemblage of the first editions of our 

 most celebrated \>o<2ls from the reign of Anne 

 downwards, and is so well able to make use of 

 them. It would be extraordinary, if drony were 

 the epithet first adopted by Gray, and subse- 

 quently altered by him to " droning," that no 

 notice should have been taken of the substitution 

 by any of the poet's editors. I presume, there- 

 fore, that it has been mentioned, aud I wish to 

 know where? 



Now, a word or two on Dodsley's Collection of 

 Poems, iu the fourth volume of which, as I have 



