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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 51. 



Scotch Prisoners at Woi-cester (Vol. ii., p. 297.). 

 — I cannot think that the extract from the ac- 

 counts of the churchwardens of St. Margaret's, 

 Westminster, at all justifies C. F. S. in supposing 

 that the Scotch prisoners were massacred in cold 

 blood. The total number of these prisoners was 

 10,000. Of the 1,200 who were buried, the greater 

 part most probably died of their wounds ; and 

 though this number is large, yet we must bear in 

 mind that in those days the sick and wounded 

 were not tended with the care and attention 

 which are now displayed in such cases. We learn 

 from the Parliamentary History (xx. 58.), that on 

 the 17th Sep. 1651, " the Scots prisoners were 

 brought to London, and marched through the city 

 into Tothill-fields." The same work (xx. 72.) 

 states that " Most of the common soldiers were 

 sent to the English Plantations ; and 1500 of them 

 were granted to the Guiney merchants and sent to 

 work in the Gold mines there." Large numbers 

 were also employed in draining the great level of 

 the Fens (Wells, History of the Bedford Level, i. 

 228 — 244.). Lord Clarendon (book xiii.) says, 

 "Many perished for want of food, and, being en- 

 closed in little room till they were sold to the 

 plantations for slaves, they died of all diseases." 



C. II. COOPEK. 

 Cambridge, Oct. 5. 1850. 



Scotcli Prisoners at Woi'cester. — The following 

 is Rapin's account of the disposition of these pri- 

 soners, and even this statement he seems to doubt. 

 (Vol. ii. p.585.) 



" It is pretended, of the Scots were slain [at M'or- 

 cester] about 2000, and seven or eight thousand taken 

 prisoners, who being sent to London, were sold tor 

 slaves to the plantations of tlie American isles." — 

 Authorities referred to: Pliillips, p. 608., Clarendon, iii. 

 p. 320., Burnet's Mem. p. 4a2. 



J.C.B. 



" Antiquitas ScBCuli Juventiis 3Iu7uli" (Vol. ii., 

 p. 218.). — A learned I'riend, who althongh in- 

 volved in the avocations of an active professional 

 career, delights " inter sylvas Academi quasrere 

 verum," has iavoured me with the following ob- 

 servation on these words: — "That the phrase 

 Antiquitas saculi juventus tnundi is in Italics in 

 Bacon's work does not, in my opinion, prove it to 

 be a quotation, any more than the words oi-dint 

 retrogrado in the subsec^uent passage. Italics 

 were used in Bacon's time, and long afterwards, 

 to mark not only quotations, but emphatic words, 

 yvwfxai, and epigrammatic sentences, of which you 

 will every where see instances. I have not the origi- 

 nal edition of the work, but we have here * the rare 

 translation into English by Gilbert Wats, Oxford, 



* Primate Marsh's library, St. Patrick's, Dublin, 

 which contains about 18,000 volumes, including the 

 entire collection of Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester. 



1640, folio, through which the references to authors 

 are given in the margin; but there is no reference 

 appended to this passage. I cannot of course de- 

 cide positively that the phrase in not a quotation, 

 but I incline to the opinion that it is not. It may 

 be an adaptation of some proverbial expression ; 

 but I prefer believing that it is Bacon's own mode 

 of expressing that the present times are more 

 ancient {i. e. full of years) than the earliest, and 

 thus to show that the respect we entertain for 

 authority is unfounded." 



Coleridge was of the same opinion (Introd. to 

 Encijcl. Met)-op., p. 19.). Had the phrase been a 

 quotation, would not Bacon have said, " Sane ut 

 vere dictum est," rather than " Ut vere dicamus." 



T.J. 



The Lass of Bichmond Hill (Vol. ii., p. 103.) 

 — In reply to Qu^ro, I beg to say that he will 

 find the words of the above song in the Morning 

 Herald of August 1, 1789, a copy of which I pos- 

 sess. It is here described as a " favourite song, 

 sung by Mr. lucledon at Vauxhall ; composed by 

 Mr. Hook." J.B. 



Walworth. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



The importance of Winchelsea as a convenient port 

 for communication with France, from the time of the 

 Conquest to the close of the fifteenth century, having 

 led to a wish for a more extended history of that town 

 than is to be found in any work relating either to the 

 Cinque Ports or to the county of Sussex, Mr. Dur- 

 rani Cooper determined to gather together the existing 

 materials for such a history as a contribution to the 

 Sussex Arch^ological Society. The industry, how- 

 ever, with which Mr. Cooper prosecuted his search after 

 original records and other materials connected with 

 the town and its varied history, was rewarded by the 

 discovery of so many important documents as to render 

 it impossible to carry out his original intention. The 

 present separate work, entitled The History of Win- 

 chelsea, one of the Ancient Towns added to the Cinque 

 Ports, is the result of this change ; and the good people 

 of Winchelsea have now to thank Mr. Cooper for a his- 

 tory of it, which has been as carefully prepared as it has 

 been judiciously executed. Mr. Cooper has increased 

 the amusement and information to be derived from his 

 volume, by the manner in which he has contrived to 

 make transactions of great historical importance illus- 

 trate his narrative of events of merely local interest. 



The new edition of the Pictorial Sha/ispeare which 

 Mr. Charles Knight has just commenced under the 

 title of the " National Edition " cannot, we think, 

 prove other than a most successful attempt to circulate 

 among all classes, but especially among readers of 

 comparatively small means, a cheap, well-edited, and 

 beautifully illustrated edition of the works of our great 

 poet. The text of the present edition is not printed. 



