Oct. 5. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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German history, who submitted to die rather than 

 reveal a secret committed to him in confession ? 



U. J. B. 



Scotch Prisoners at Worcester. — In Mr.Walcott's 

 Histoi'y of St. Margarefs Church, Westminster, I 

 find the following extract from the churchwardens' 

 accounts : — 



" 1652. P* to Thos. Wright for 67 loads of soyle 

 laid on the graves in Totliill Fields, wherein 1200 

 Scotch prisoners, taken at the fight at Worcester, were 

 buried ; and for other pains taken with his teeme of 

 horses, about mending the Sanctuary Highway, when 

 Gen. Iretoa was buried .... xxx'." 



I have taken the pains to verify this extract, and 

 find the figures quite correctly given. I wish to 

 put the Query : Is this abominable massacre in cold 

 blood mentioned by any of our historians? But 

 for such unexceptionable evidence, it would appear 

 incredible. C. F. S. 



Adamsoris Reign of Edward II. — 



" The Reigns of King Edward II., and so far of 

 King Edward III., as relates to the Lives and Actions 

 of Piers Gaveston, Hugh de Spencer, and Roger Lord 

 Mortimer, with Remarks thereon adapted to the pre- 

 sent Time: Humbly addressed to all his Majesty's Sub- 

 jects of Great Britain, &c., by /. Adamson. Printed 

 for J. Millar, near the Horse Guards, 1732, and sold 

 by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, price 

 One Shilling." 



The above is the title-page of a little work of 

 eighty-six pages in my possession, which I am in- 

 clined to think is scarce. It appears to be a de- 

 fence of the Walpole administration from the 

 attacks of the Craftsman, a periodical of the time, 

 conducted by Amhurst, who was supported by 

 Bolingbroke and Pulteney, the leaders of the op- 

 position. Is anything known of J. Adamson, the 

 author ? H. A. E. 



Sir Thomas Moore. — Can any of your readers 

 give any account of Sir Thoiiuis Moore, beyond 

 wiiat Victor tells of him in his History of the 

 Theatre, ii. p. 144., that " he was the author of an 

 abiurd tragedy called Mangora (played in 1717), 

 and was knighted by George I." 



In Pope's " Epistle to Arbuthnot," he writes — 

 " Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the laws." • 

 on which Warburton notes — 



" Arthur Moore, Esq." 



Who was Arthur Moore, Esq. ? and who was 

 the "giddy son ';*" Was the latter Jiawes il/oore 

 Smith a gc!illeman whose family name was, I 

 tliink, Moore, and who assumed (perhaps for a 

 fortune) the additional nauic of Smith ? This gen- 

 tleman J'upe seems to call indiscriniiiiatcly Moore, 

 Moor, and Mure: ami wln:ii he says that his good 

 nature towards the dunces was so great that he had 

 even "rhymed for Moor" {lb. v. 373.), I cannot 



but suspect that the Moor for whom he had 

 rhymed, was the giddy son whom Arthur accused 

 him of seducing from the law to the Muses. There 

 are many allusions to this JVIi". James Moore Smith 

 throughout Pope's satirical works, but all very 

 obscure ; and Warburton, though he appears to 

 have known him, affords no explanation as to who 

 or what he was. He was the author of a comedy 

 called The Rival Modes. C. 



Dr. E. Cleaver, Bishop of Cork. — I shall feel 

 much obliged to any of your correspondents who 

 will furnish me with the particulars of the conse- 

 cration of Dr. Euseby Cleaver to the sees of Cork 

 and Ross, in March, April, or May, 1789. Find- 

 ing no record of the transaction in the Diocesan 

 Registry of Cork, and not being able to trace it in 

 any other part of Ireland, I am induced to believe 

 that this consecration may have taken place in 

 England; and shall be very glad to be correctly 

 informed upon the point. H. Cotton. 



Thurles, Ireland. 



Gwymis London and Westminster. — Mr. Thomas 

 Frederick Hunt, in his Exemplars of Tudor Ar- 

 chitecture, 4to. London, 1 830, in a note at p. 23., 

 alludes to London and Westminster improved, hy 

 John Gywnn, London, 1766, 4to., and has this re- 

 mark: 



" It is a singular fact, that in this work John Gwynn 

 pointed out almost all the designs for the improvement 

 of I.iondon, which have been devised by the civil and 

 military architects of the present day." 



And Mr. Hunt concludes by observing, that — 

 " This discovery was made by the Literary Ga- 

 zette." 



Will you permit me, through the medium of 

 your usel'ul publication, to solicit information of 

 the number and date of the Literary Gazette which 

 recalled public attention to this very remarkable 

 fact ? § N. 



Coronet. — InNewbold Church, in the county of 

 Warwick, is a monument to the memory of Thomas 

 Boughton of Lawlbrd, and Elizabeth his wife, re- 

 presenting him in a suit of armour, with sword 

 and spurs, a coronet on his head, and a bear at his 

 feet, chained and muzzle<l. Query. — Can any of 

 your readers give an accurate descrii)tion of this 

 coronet? Or can any of tliem mention instances 

 of the monuments of esipiires having similar co- 

 ronets ? The date of his death is not given : his 

 wife died in the year 1454. Z. 



Cinderella. — Referring to Vol. ii., p. 214., allow 

 me to ask in what edition of Perrault's Fairy Talcs 

 tlie misprint of ven-e from voir first occurs? what 

 is the (late of their first publication, as well as that 

 of the translation uniler the title of Mother Goose it 

 T'ldesf whether Perrault was the originator of 

 Cinderella, or from what source he drew the tale? 



