Oct. 5. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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should like to see tbis more decidedly established. 

 I am aware that it is distinctly so stated by Cham- 

 bers and by Wilkinson : but a remark once made 

 to me by Jlrs. Glendinning (the wife of Glendin- 

 ning, the printer, of Hatton Garden) still leads me 

 to press the inquiry. 



P. 191.— 27(e Free Trade Club was dissolved 

 before the publication of this edition of the Hand- 

 bonk. 



P. 192. — And to Sir John Herschel, on his 

 return from the Cape of Good Hope. 



P. 210. Roijal Suciety. — From a letter of Dr. 

 Charles Hutton, in the Newcasde Magazine (vol. i. 

 2nd series), it ajipears that at the time of Dr. 

 Dodd's execution, the Fellows were in the habit 

 of adjourning, after the meetings, to Slaughter's 

 Coffee House, "to eat oysters," &c. The cele- 

 brated John Hunter, who bad attem]ited to resus- 

 citate the ill-fated Doctor, was one of them. " The 

 Royal Society Club" was instituted by Sir Joseph 

 Banks. 



P. 221. Hanover Square. — Blank date. 

 P. 3-37. Mdlhank Prison. — It was designed, not 

 by " Jeremy Bentham," but by his brother, the 

 great mechanist. Sir Samuel Bentham. In pass- 

 ing, it may ha rem.ai'ked that the lloyal Military 

 Academy, Woolwicii, is constructed on the same 

 principle, and, as was stated in the Mechanics' 

 Magazine, on authority, a year or two ago, by the 

 same engineer. General rumour has, however, 

 attributed the design to his gracious Majesty, 

 George III. : and its being so closely in keeping 

 with the known spirit of espionage of that monarch 

 certaiidy gave countenance to the rumour. It 

 may be as well to state, however, that, so designed 

 and so built, it has never yet been so used. 



P. 428. — Benhm\ not a native of Wapping, but 

 of Shrewsbury. A life of him was ])ublished nearly 

 forty years ago, Ijy that veteran of local and county 

 history, Mr. Charles Hulbert, in the Salopian 

 Magazine. 



P. 499. Jr7((7/zcZ£?.— Certainly not the founder 

 of the Methodists, iu the ordinary or recognised 

 acceptation of the term. John Wesley was at the 

 bead of that movement from the very first, and 

 George Whiifield and Charles Wesley were alto- 

 gether subordinate to him. Wesley and Whiifield 

 parted company on the giound of Ariuinianism 

 versv.s Calvinism. F<u- a while the two sects kept 

 the titles of " Armiiiian Meliiodists" and " Calvin- 

 istic Methodists." The latter made but little 

 ground afterwards, and the distinctive adjective 

 was dropped by the AVesleyans when the AVhit- 

 fiehlitcs had ceased to be a j)romineiil bo<ly. 



P. 51.5. Doctor Dodd. — 'I'lu; great interest ex- 

 cited in favf)ur of a commulalion of liis sentence, 

 led to tlie belief at tlie time, that his life liail not 

 been really sacrificed. I\I;iiiy plaiisilile stories re- 

 specting the Doctor having been subsecpiently seen 

 alive, were current; and as they may possibly in 



some future age be revived, and again pass into 

 general currency, it may be as well to state that 

 the most positive evidence to the contrary exists, 

 in a letter of Dr. Ilutton's before i-eferred to. 

 The attempt to resxiscilate him teas actually made, by 

 a no less distinguished surgeon than John Hunter. 

 He seemed then to attribute the I'ailure to his 

 having received the body too late. Wonderful 

 effects were at that time expected to result from 

 the discovery of galvanism : but it would have 

 been wonderful indeed if any restoration had taken 

 place after more than two hours of suspended 

 animation. John Hunter, according to the ac- 

 count, does not seem to have been very communi- 

 cative on the subject, even to his philosophical 

 friends at Slaughter's Oyster Booms. 



T. S. D. 

 Shooter's Hill. 



SATIRICAL SONG UPON GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF 

 BUCKINGHAM. 



In turning over some old bundles of papers of 

 the early part of the seventeenth century, I met 

 with the following satirical effusion upon "James's 

 infamous prime minister,"' George Villiers, Duke of 

 Buckingham. As an echo of the popidar feelings 

 of the people at the time it was written, it merits 

 preservation ; and althougli I have seen other ma- 

 nviscript copies of the ballad, it has never yet, as 

 far as I can learn, appeared in print. 



It appears to be a parody or paraphrase of a 

 well-known ballad of the period, the burden of 

 which attracted the notice of the satirist. It after- 

 wards became a common vehicle of derision during 

 tlie civil war, as may be seen by turning over the 

 pages of the collection entitled Bump Songs, and 

 the folio volumes of' the king's pamphlets. 



The original of these parodies has hitherto 

 eluded my researches. It is not among the Pe- 

 pysian, Eoxburghe, Wood, or Douce ballads, but 

 perhaps some of your readers may be able to point 

 it out in some public or private collection. 



" Come heare, I.ady Muses, and help raee to sing, 

 Conic love nice wlieie I lay; 

 Of a (liiko that deserves to be made a Icing — 

 The clcane contrary way, 

 O the clcane contrary way. 



" Our Kuckiiigliam Duke is the man that I meane, 

 Come love nice where I lay ; 

 On liisshouklcrstliewcaleoftliekingdomedotli Icanc — 

 The clcane contrary way, 

 O the cleans contrary way. 



' O hapjiicst kingdome tliat ever was kiiid. 

 Come love nue where 1 l:iy ; 

 And liappie the king that hiilh such a friend — 

 Tlie clcane contrary w:iy, 

 O the clcane contrary way. 



