Dec. 14. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Nicholas Ferrar (Vol. ii., pp. 119. 407. 444.) — 

 The libellous pamplilet, entitled The Arminian 

 Nunnery at Little Gidding, is printed entire in the 

 Appendix to Hearne's Preface to Langtoft. One 

 of the Harmonies of the Life of Christ is in the 

 British Museum, and another at St. John's College, 

 O.xford (Qy.) (See the list of MSS. oiiee at Gid- 

 ding, Peckhard, p. 306.) N. Ferrar published 

 and wrote the preface to Herbert's Temple, 1633, 

 — and translated Valdesso's Divine Considerations, 

 Camb. 1646. W. P. 



Butchers' Blue Dress (Vol. ii., p. 266.). — A 

 blue dress does not show stains of blood, inas- 

 much as blood, when dry, becomes of a blue 

 colour. I have always understood this to be tlie 

 explanation of this custom. X. Z. 



Chancers Portrait by Occleve (Vol.ii., p. 442.). 

 — This portrait is engraved in Strutt's Regal and 

 Ecclesiastical Antiquities. J. I. D. 



[And we may add, in the edition of Tyrwhitt's Can- 

 terliuri/ Tales, published by Pickering. — Ed.] 



Chaucer's Portrait (Vol. ii., p. 442.). — His 

 portrait, from Occleve's poem, has been engraved 

 in octavo and iblio by Vertue. Another, from the 

 Harleian MS., engraved by Worthingtou, is in 

 Pickering's edition of Tyrwhitt's Chaucer. Oc- 

 cleve's poem has not been printed; but see liitson's 

 Bibliotk. Poetica, and Warton's //. E. P. A full- 

 length portrait of Chaucer is given in Shaw's 

 Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages ; 

 another, on horseback, in Todd's Illustrations of 

 Gower and Chaucer. W. P. 



Lady Jane of Westmoreland (Vol. i., p. 103.). — 

 I think your correspondent Q. D. is wrong in his 

 supposition that the two following entries in Mr. 

 Collier's second volume of Extracts from the Re- 

 gisters of the Stationers Company refer to a com- 

 position by Lady Jane of ^V'e.stmoreland : — 



" 1585-6. Cold and uncoth blowes, of the Lady 

 Jane of Westmorland." 



" 158G-7. A soiige of Lady Jane of Westmorland." 



My idea is, that the ballad (for Mr. Collier 

 thinks that both entries relate to one production) 

 was merely one of those metrical ditties sung about 

 the streets of London depicting the woes and suf- 

 ferings of some unfoi'tunate lady. The question is, 

 who was tliis "unfortunate lady?" She was the 

 wife of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, who was 

 attainted about tlie year 1570, and died in Flanders 

 anno 1584. I learn tliis fi-oui a MS. of the period, 

 now before me, entitled Some Account of the Sitf- 

 feringes of the Ladye June of Westmorlande, icho 

 dyed in Exile. By T. C. Perhajis at some fu- 

 ture time 1 may trouble your readers with an 

 account of this highly inti^rcsting MS. 



Fdwakd F. Rimuault. 



Gray and Dodsley. — As the Hehmit of Holt- 

 port has repeated his Queries on Gray and 

 Dodsley, I must make a second attempt to answer 

 them with due precision, assured that no man is 

 more disposed than himself to communicate in- 

 formation for the satisfaction of others. 



1 . Gi'ay : In the first edition of the Elegy the 

 epithet in question is droning; and so it stands in 

 the Poems of Gray, as edited by himself, in 1753, 

 1768, &c. 



2. Dodsley : The first edition of the important 

 poetical miscellany which bears his name was pub- 

 lished in 1748, in three volumes, 12mo. 



JioiTON Cornet. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



The New Classical Dictionary of Biography, My~ 

 Iholoyy, and History, may be considered as the third in 

 that important series of Classical Dictionaries, for 

 which the world is indebted to the learning of Dr. 

 Smith. As the present work is distinguished by the 

 same excellencies which have won for the Dictionary 

 of Greek and Roman Antujuities, and the Dictionary of 

 Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, the widely- 

 spread reputation they enjoy, we shall content our- 

 selves with a few words explanatory of the arrangement 

 of a work which, it requires no great gift of prophecy 

 to foretell, must ere long push Lempriere from its I 

 stool. I'he present Dictionary may be divided into 

 three portions. The Biographical, which includes 

 all the historical names ot importance which occur 

 in the Greek and Uoinan writers, from the earliest 

 times down to the extinction of the Western Em- 

 pire; those of all Greek and Roman writers, whose 

 works are either extant or known to have exercised 

 an influence upon their respective literatures ; and, 

 lastly, those of all the more important artists of anti- 

 quity. In the Mythological division may he noticed, 

 first, the discrimination, hitherto not sufficiently at- 

 tended to, between the Greek and Roman mythology, 

 and which in this volume is shown by giving an account 

 of the Greek divinities under their Greek names, and 

 the Roman divinities under their Latin names ; and, 

 secondly, what is of still more consequence, the care to 

 avoid as far as possible all indelicate allusions in the 

 respective histories ot such divinities. Lastly, in the 

 Geographical portion of the work, and which will 

 probably be tbund the most important one, very few 

 omissions will be discovered of names occurring in the 

 chief classical writers. 'J'his brief sketch of the con- 

 tents of this New Classical Dictionary will satisfy our 

 readers that Dr. Smith has produced a volume, not 

 only of immense value to those who are entering upon 

 their classical studies, but one which will be found a 

 most useful handbook to the scliolar and the more 

 advanced student. 



The Greek Church, A Sketch, is the last of the 

 Shilling Series in which Mr. Appleyard has described 



