Nov. 9. 1850.] 



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representeil as wearing that ornament ; together 

 with a short statement of the position held by each 

 of these individuals in the court of the then reign- 

 ing monarch, seeming to warrant the assumption. 

 Some notices of this sort have been already given, 

 and your antiquarian correspondents will readily 

 supply others ; so that in a Utile time you will 

 have obtained such a list as will greatly assist the 

 inquiry. It may serve as a commencement if I 

 refer to the atchievement of Thomas ]\Iowbray, 

 Duke of Norfolk, in the reign of Richard II., a 

 representation of which is given in Archceologia, 

 vol. x.\ix. p. 387., where the Collar of Esses is 

 introduced in a very peculiar manner. 



Edward Foss. 

 [As we think the origin and probable meaning of 

 the Collar of Esses have now been discussed as far as 

 they can be with advantage in the present state of our 

 knowledge, we propose to adopt Mr. Foss's suggestion, 

 and in future to limit our columns to a record of such 

 facts as he points out.] 



DANIEL DE TOE. 



Having been much interested with Daniel De- 

 foe's description of a Gravesend Tiltboat in the 

 year 1724, as recorded by Alpha in Vol. ii., p. 209., 

 I think some of your readers may be pleased to 

 learn that it is quite possible that " it may be a 

 plain relation of matter of fact," as De Foe was 

 ensased in the business of brick and tile makinst 

 near Tilbury*, and must consequently have had 

 frequent occasion to make the trip from Gravesend 

 to London. That De Foe was so engaged at 

 Tilbury we learn from the following Proclamation 

 for his apprehension, taken from the London Ga- 

 zette, dated St. James's, January 10, 1702-3 : — 



" Whereas Daniel de Foe, alias Fooe, is charged 

 with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet, en- 

 titled The Shortest Wcuj with the Dissenters. He is a 

 middled siz'd spare man, about forty years old, of a 

 brown com])!exion, and dark brown-coloured hair, 

 but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey 

 eyes, and a large mole near his mouth ; was born in 

 London, and, for many years an hose-fiictor in Free- 

 man's Yard, Cornhill, and is now owner of the brick and 

 pantile works near Tilbury Fort, in Essex. Whoever 



• Traces of these tile- works are still discoverable 

 in a field some three or four hundred yards on the 

 London side of Tilbury. 



[Wilson, in liis lAfe nf Defoe, vol. i. pp. 228. et seq., 

 gives some interesting jjarticulars of Defoe's share in 

 these pantile works, and of his lossis in connexion 

 witli them. Pantiles had been hitherto a Dutch 

 manufacture, and brought in large quantities into 

 England ; the works at Tilbury were erected for tlie 

 purpose of superseding the necessity for such im- 

 portation, and providing a new channel fur the employ- 

 ment of labour Ed.] 



shall discover the said Daniel de Foe to one of Her 

 Majesty's principal secretaries of s.tate, or any one of 

 Her Majesty's justices of the peace, so as he may be 

 apprehended, shall have a reward of fifty pounds, wiiich 

 Her Majesty has ordered immediately to be paid on 

 such discovery." 



He soon g.ave himself up ; and having been tried, 

 he stood in the pillory with great fortitude : for 

 soon after he published his poem, entitled A Hymn 

 to the Pillory, in which are the following singular 

 lines : — 



" Men that are men, in thee can feel no pain. 

 And all thy insignificants disdain ; 

 Contempt, that false new word for shame, 

 Is, without crime, an empty name; 

 A shadow to annuse mankind. 

 But never frights the wise or well fix'd mind — 

 Virtue despises human scorn, 

 And scandals innocence adorn." 



Referring to a design of putting the learned 

 Selden into the" pillory for his History of Tithes, 

 he says smartly : — 



"^Even the learned Selden saw 

 A prospect of thee thro' the law; 

 He had thy lofty pinnacles in view. 

 But so much honour never was thy due. 

 Had the great Selden triumph'd on thy stage, 

 Selden, the honour of his age. 

 No man would ever shun thee more. 

 Or grudge to stand where Selden stood before." 



This original poem ends with these remarkable 

 lines, referring to himself: 



" Tell them, the men that placed him here, 

 Are scandals to the times. 

 Are at a loss to find his guilt, 

 And can't commit his crimes." 



De Foe, however, was afterwards received into 

 favour without any concessions on his part, and 

 proceeded straight onwards in the discharge of 

 what he deemed to be his duty to mankind. He 

 certainly was an extraordinary man for disinter- 

 estedness, perseverance, and industry. 



W. Crafter. 



Gravesend. 



"ANTIQUITAS SJ3CULI JUVENTUS MUNDI." 



(Vol. ii., pp. 218. 350.) 



T. J. and his Dublin friend (Vol. ii., p. 350.), 

 appear to refer, one to the Latin version, the other 

 to the original English text of Lord Bacon's In- 

 stauration ; and, oddly enough, the inference to 

 which either points, as a reason for disbelieving in 

 the previous existence of the phrase " Antiquitas " 

 &c., extends not to the authority consulted by the 

 other. Thus, the circumstance of " ordine retro- 

 gradii" being printed also in Italics, is true only in 

 respect of the English te.xt ; while, on the other 



