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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 52. 



Mynde sc'." How, then, can Hogarth be said to 

 be 7nuch indebted to the designer of them, if we are 

 to believe the words on the plates themselves — 

 " W. Hogarth inv' " f 



It is clear that Mr. Lowndes supposes the de- 

 siiiner of these plates to have been some person 

 distinct from Hogarth ; and he was right in his 

 conjecture ; but he was ignorant of the name of 

 the artist alluded to. 



Whoever he was, he can have little claim to be 

 regarded as the original designer ; he was rather 

 employed as an expurgator ; lor these plates are 

 certaiidy copies of the two sets of plates invented 

 and engraved by Hogarth himself in 1726. 



All that this second designer performed was, to 

 revise the original designs of Hogarth's, in order 

 to remove some glaring indecencies ; and this, no 

 doubt, is what Mr. Lowndes means, when he says 

 that " Hogarth is much indebted to the designer of 

 them." 



The following passage in a letter from Dr. 

 Ducaral to Dr. Grey, dated Inner Temple, IMay 

 10th, 1743, printed in Nichols's Illustrations, will 

 furnish us with the name of the artist in ques- 

 tion : — 



" I was at Mr. Isnnc Wand's the painter, wlio showed 

 me the twelve sketches of Huilihrax, wliich he designs 

 for you. I think they are extremely well adapted to 

 the book, and that the designer shows how much he 

 was master of the suhject." 



In the preface to this edition. Dr. Grey ex- 

 presses his obligations " to the ingenious Mr. 

 Wood, painter, of Bloomshury- square." 



In the fourth volume of Nichols's Illustrations 

 of Litei-ature are some interesting letters from 

 Thos. Potter, Esq., to Dr. Grey, which throw 

 much light on the subject of this edition of 

 Hudihras. 



I cannot conclude these observations without 

 expressing my dissent from the praise bestowed 

 upon the engravings in this work. Mr. Lowndes 

 says '•'the cuts are heautifdly engraved." With 

 the excejition of the head of Buller by Vertue, 

 the rest are very spiritless and indifferent pro- 

 ductions. J. T. A. 



FOLK LORE. 



Ovary ssel Superstition. — Stolen bees will not 

 thrive ; they pine away and die. 



Jantjs Dousa. 



Death-bed Superstitions. — When a child is dying, 

 people, in some ])arts of Holland, are accustomed 

 to shade it by the curtains from the parent's gaze ; 

 the soul being supposed to linger in the body as 

 long as a compassionate eye is fixed upon it. Thus, 

 in Germany, he who sheds tears when leaning over 

 an expiring friend, or, bending over the patient's 

 couch, does but wipe them off, enhances, they say, 



the difficulty of death's last struggle. I believe 

 the same poetical superstition is recorded in Mary 

 Bar-ton, a Tale of Manchester Life. 



Janus Dousa. 



Popular Rhyme. — The following lines very for- 

 cibly express the condition of many a " country 

 milkmaid," when influence or other considerations 

 render her incapable of giving a final decision upon 

 the claims of two opposing suitors. They are well 

 known in this district, and I have been induced to 

 offer them for insertion, in the hope that if any of 

 your cori'espondents are possessed of any varia- 

 tions or additional stanzas, they may be pleased to 

 forward them to your interesting publication. 



" Heigli ho ! my heart is low. 

 My mind runs all on one; 

 W for William true, 

 But T for my lovu Tom." 



T. W. 

 Burnley, Lancashire. 



Death-bed Mystery. — It may, perhaps, interest 

 Mr. Sansom to be informed that the appearance 

 described to him is mentioned as a known fact in 

 one of the works of the celebrated mystic, Jacob 

 Behmen, The Three Principles, chap. 19, " Of the 

 going forth of the Soul." I extract from J. Spar- 

 row's translations., London, 1648. 



" Seeing then that Man is so very earthly, therefore 

 he hath none but tarlhly knowledge; except he be re- 

 generated in the Gate of Deep. He always supposeth 

 that the Soul (at the deceasing of the Body) goeth 

 only out at the Moutli, and he understandeth nothing 

 concerning its deep Essences above the Elements. 

 If'hen he secth a line Vapor go fnrtfi out of the Mouth of 

 a dyhig Man (which maketli a strong smell all over the 

 chamber), then he supposeth that is the Soul." 



A. RoFFE. 



Bradshaw Family. — There is a popular belief 

 in this immediate ]iart of the country, which was 

 formerly a stronghold of the Jacobites, that no 

 Bradshaw has ever flourished since the days of the 

 regicide. Tht-y point to old halls formerly in 

 possession of Bradshaws, now passed into other 

 hands, and shake their heads and say, " It is a bad 

 name, — no Bradshaw will come to good." I heard 

 this s]>eeeh oidy yesterday in connexion with 

 Ilalton Hall (on the Lune) ; but the feeling is 

 common, and not confined to the uneducated 

 classes. 



Haigh Hall remains in the possession of the de- 

 scendants of the fiimily from which Judge Brad- 

 shaw wasdescended, because, so said my informant, 

 the heiress married a "loyal Lindsay " (the Earl 

 of Balcarras). E. C. G. 



Lancaster. 



