Nov. 2. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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It consists often leaves, exclusive of title-page, 

 and is signed with the initials J. R. No copy has 

 been traced in any public or private library. 



2. How many leaves does Nich. Breton s Fan- 

 tastiques contain? I have a copy, apparently of 

 a more recent date than the one alluded to in 

 " XoTES AND Queries" (Vol. i., p. 410.), wanting 

 the title, and probably introductory leaf; the 

 text, however, is quite complete. AVhere can a 

 perfect copy be found ? 



3. There is in my possession a poetical col- 

 lection, of which I can find no trace in any library 

 public or private. It is dedicated to "Edmond 

 Lord Sheffield, Lord President of his Maiesties 

 Council established in the north parts," and the 

 following is a copy of the title-jiage : — 



" Nortlierne Poems congratulating the King's 

 Maiestios most happy and p^'aceable entrance to the 

 crowne of England. 



' Sorrowe was ouer night 

 But joy came in the morning.' 



' Scro, quamvis serlo, 

 Sat cito, si sat bene.' 



' These "come too late, though they import thy love, 

 Nay, soone enough, if good enough they prove.* 



Printed at London by John Windet f<)r Edmund 

 Weaver, and are to be solde at the Great North doore 

 of Paules, I60i. Small 4to." 



Four leaves not numbered, and twenty-two pa?es 

 numbered. 



4. Can any account bo given of a sort of auto- 

 biograp'.iy by an individual whom Lord Orfbrd 

 sneers at in his Anecdotes of Painting ; it is 

 entitled : 



" A Manifestation by Sir Balthazar Gerbier, K'. 

 Job. xiii., ver. 18. ; ' Behold now, I have ordered my 

 cause, I know that I shall bee justified.' London, 

 Printed for the author, 1G5I.'' I'imo. 36 leaves and 

 title. 



This very singular production does not appear 

 to have been published, and I cannot trace it in 

 any catalogue. It gives the author's descent, 

 wiiich is noble, and contains many interesting per- 

 sonal details of Sir Baltliazar, which cannot be 

 found elsewhere. 



r>. In the Bibliographer a Manual, by Lowndes, 

 there occurs this entry : "Life and death of jNLijor 

 Clancic, tiie grandest cheat in this age," 1680, and 

 the full catalogue of the Hon. Mr. Nassau is re- 

 ferred to. Can any of your readers state where 

 a copy of this production may be found i* A brief 

 account of Clancii! is contained ir. the Memoirs of 

 Gamesters and Sharpers, by Theophilus Lucas. 

 He wrote, or there was written, under this name, 

 Tarious other works not noticed by Lowndes. 

 Can any information be given as to the assumed 

 or real author of these woiks ? 

 . Lowndes also mentions Cluncics Cheats, or the 



Life and Death of Major Clancie, 1687. Where 

 can access to this work be obtained? J. Mx. 



Edinburgh. 



History of Newspapers. — 



" The materials for a satisfactory history of news- 

 papers, lie scattered in facts known one to this person, 

 and one to that. If each London or provincial jour- 

 nalist, each reader, and each critic, who has an anecdote 

 and a date, would give it publicity, some future volume 

 might be prepared from the combined supi)ly, much 

 more complete than any to be fairly expected from a 

 comparatively unaided writer who ventures upon an 

 almost untrodden ground." 



The foregoing extract from the interesting 

 volumes recently publislied by Mr. Knight Hunt, 

 under the unpretending title of The Fourth 

 Estate: Contributions towards a History of A'ews- 

 papers, and of the Liberty of the Press, has been 

 very kindly recommended to our attention by The 

 Examiner. "We gladly avail ourselves of the sug- 

 gestion, and shall be pleased to record in our 

 columns any facts of the nature referred to by 

 Mr. Hunt. 



Steele'' s Burial-place. — Sir Richard Steele died 

 in the house now the "Ivy Bush" Inn, at Car- 

 marthen, on the 1st of September, 1729. 



Where was he buried ? 



Is there a monument or inscription to his 

 memory in any church in or near Carmarthen ? 



Llewellyn. 



Socinian Boast — In an allocution recently held 

 by Dr. Pusey, to the London Church Union, in 

 St. ISIartin's Hall, reported in The Times of 

 Oct. 17, the following passage occurs : 



" The Socinian boast miglit be a warning to us 

 against such declarations. The Socinian pictured 

 Calvin as carrying on the protest against Rome more 

 vigorously than Luther, himself than Calvin : 



" Tota jacet Babylon ; destruxit tecta Lutherus, 

 Calvinus muros, sed fundamenta Socinus." 



Query, By what Socinian writer are these two 

 hexameter verses used ? L. 



Descent of Edward IV. — Professor IMillar, in 

 his Historical View of the English Government 

 (ii. 174.), in discussing the claim of Edward IV. 

 to the English throne, speaks of "a pnpuhir 

 tiiough probably a grounillcss tradition, that by 

 his mother he was descended from Henry HI. by 

 an elder brother of Edwai-d I., who, on account 

 of his personal defcHMnity, had licon excluded from 

 the succession to the crown." "Wheie may I find 

 this tradition ? or where meet with any information 

 on the sul^jcct ? S. A. Y. 



