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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 50. 



sources of information to wliich Erdeswick liad 

 access, and also with any biographical notices of 

 Bishop Durdent besides those which are recorded 

 in Godwin and Shaw ? The bishop had the privi- 

 lege of coining money. (See Shaw's Staffordshire, 

 pp. 233. 265.) Are any of his coins known to 

 numismatists ? F. E.. E,. 



Pope and Bishop Burgess. — To what passage in 

 Pope's writings does the conclusion of the following 

 extract refer ? * 



" Digammatica> doctrinx idem aceklit. In his 

 Popiiis earn in ludibrium vcrtlt, &c. Sed eximius 

 Poeta neque in veteribus suas ipsius linguae, nedum 

 Gia;c<E nionumentis versatus, t.Tntum scilicet de antiqiia 

 ilia litera vidit, quantum de Shakespearii Sagittakio." 



w. w. 



Daniel's Irish iVezc Testament — F. G. X. will 

 be much obliged for information ou the following 

 points : — 



1. Which is the most coi-rect edition, as to 

 printing and orthography, of Daniel's Irish New 

 Testament ? 



2. Does the edition now on sale by the Bible 

 Society bear the character for incorrectness as to 

 these points, which, judged by itself, it appears to 

 deserve, or is it really, though " bad, the best ? " 



3. F. G. X. is far advanced with an Irish Testa- 

 ment Concordance. Can any one possessed of the 

 requisite information give him hope of the accept- 

 ableness of such a publication ? He should ex- 

 pect it to be chiefly useful to clerical Irish students 

 in acquiring a knowledge of words and construc- 

 tion ; but the lists of Irish Bibles disposed of of 

 late years would lead to the supposition of its 

 being desirable also as pointing out the place of 

 passages to the native reader. 



4. Does the Cambridge University Library 

 contain a copy of the fii'st edition of Daniel's 

 translation ? 



Ale Draper — Etigetie Aram. — In Ilai'grove's 

 well-known history of Eugene Aram, the hero of 

 Bulwer's still better known novel, one of the guilty 

 associates of the Knaresborough murderer is de- 

 signated as an " Ale Draper." As this epithet 

 never presented itself in my reading, and as I am 

 not aware that draper properly admits of any other 

 definition than that given by Johnson, "one who 

 deals in cloth," may I ask whether the word was 

 ever in "good use" in the above sense? 



My main pui-pose in writing, is to propound the 

 foregoing Query ; but while I have the pen in hand 

 permit me to ask, — 



1. Whether it be possible to read the celebrated 

 " defence," so called, which was delivered by Aram 

 oil his trial at York, without concurring with the 



* ."d ed. of Dawes's Mis. Critic, p. xviii., note x. 



jury in their verdict, and with the judge in his 

 sentence ? In short, without a stronsr feelincr that 

 the prisoner would not have been hanged, but for 

 that over-ingenious, and obviously evasive, address, 

 in which the plain averment of "not gviilty" does 

 not occur. 



2. Has not the literary character, especially the 

 philological attainments, of this noted malefactor 

 been vastly over-rated ? And 



3. Ought not the "memoirs" of "this great 

 man " by Mr. Scatcherd to be ranked among the 

 most remaikable attempts ever made, and surely 

 made 



" in vain, 



To wash the murderer from blood-guilty stain?" 

 Rotherfield. 



D. 



Latin Epigram. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me who was the author of the 

 following epigram : — 



IN HEMORIAM G. B. M. B. 



" Te tandem tuns Orcus habet, quo civibus Orci 

 Gratins baud unquam inisit Apollo caput; 

 Quippe tuo jussii terras liquere, putnntque 

 Tartara se jussu linquere posse tuo." 



The person alluded to was Sir W. Browne, 

 M.D., the Ibunder of the Browne medals in the 

 University of Cambridge. Some old fellow of 

 King's College may be able to inform me. 



The medals were first given about the year 

 1780, and in the first year, I presume, out of 

 respect to the memory of the donor, no subject 

 was given for Epigrams. It has occurred to me, 

 that perhaps some wag on that occasion sent the 

 lines as a quiz. W. S. 



Richmond, Surrey. 



Couplet in De Foe — 



" Restraint from ill is freedom to the wiser. 

 And good men wicked liberties despise." 



Tliis couplet is at the end of the second letter in 

 De Foe's Great Laio of Suhordination, p. 42. Is 

 it his own ? If not, where did he get it ? N. B. 



Books ivanted to refer to. — 



" HoUard's Travels (1715), by a French Protestant 

 Blinister, aftern'ards suppressed by the author." 



" Thomas Bonnell, Mayor of Norwich, Life of" 



" Canterbury, Letters and Memoirs on the Excom- 

 munication of two Heretics, 169S." 



" The Book of Seventy-seven French Protestant 

 Ministers, presented to Will™ III." 



If any of your readers can refer me to the above 

 works I shall be glad. They may be in the British 

 ■Museum, although I have searched there in vain 

 for them. J. S.B. 



Water-marhs in Writing-paper. — Can any of your 

 correspondents indicate any guide to the dating of 



