Dec. 21. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



497 



Dr. Bramston, Mr. Charles Butler, and Mr. Gajje 

 Rokevvoode. S. D. 



3acplic^ to i$ltu0r caufn'esf. 



Cardinal Aliens Admonition (Vol. ii., p 463.). — 

 In the Grenville Library, at the British Museum, 

 there is a copy of this work, which I happen to 

 have seen only a iew hours before I read Mr. 

 Bliss's Query. Mr. Mendhani's rejirint of the 

 Admonition, published by Duncan in 1842, ap- 

 peared to me to be I'emarkably accurate, from a 

 hasty collation which I made of some parts of it 

 with the original. The Grenville copy was for- 

 merly Herbert's, and may possible be the same 

 which was sold for 3.3«. in Mr. Culdecott's sale in 

 18."52. Connected with this Adinoidtion of Cardi- 

 nal Allen, there is another question of some inte- 

 rest. In Bohn's Guinea Catalogue, No. 16,568., 

 was a broadside, there said to be unknown and 

 tmique, and entitled A Declaration of the Sentence 

 and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper and pre- 

 tended Queen of England. This was drawn up by 

 Cardinal Allen, and printed at Antwerp ; and 

 co[)ies were intended to be distributed in England 

 upon the landing of the Spanish Armada. Can 

 any of your readers inform me who is the present 

 possessor of tlie document referred to, or whether 

 it has ever been reprinted, or referred to by any 

 writer ? Antony Wood, I am aware, refers to the 

 document, but it is plain that he never saw it. 



H. P. 



Boltons Ace (Vol. ii., p. 413.). — Ray's anec- 

 dote concerning the proverb, " Bate me an ai'e, 

 quoth Bult(m," is perhaps more correctly told in 

 the Witty Auiisweres and Saiengs of Englishmen 

 (Cotton MS. Jul. F. x.) : 



" William Paulett, Marques of Wyiichester and 

 Highe Treasurer of Engu'laiule, l)eing presented by 

 Jol\n Heywoode witli a booke, asked liyni what yt 

 conteyned ? and when Heywoode told him ' all the 

 proverbs in Englishe.' 'What all?' quoth my Lorde ; 

 ' No, Bute iHfi an ace, qriiilh Bn/lon, is that ill youre 

 booke ? ' ' No, by my faith, my Lorde, I thinke not,' 

 annswered Heywoode." 



The " booke" presented by Heywoode to the 

 Marquis of Winchester was A Dialogue contayn- 

 ing in Effect the Nuinljer of all the Proverbes in the 

 English Tongue compact in a Matlfr concerning 

 two Marriages; first printed by Uerlhelet in 1.546. 

 In 1556 it was " Newly overseen and somewhat 

 augmented." A copy of the latter is in the British 

 Museum. 



John Bolton, from wliom the proverb derives 

 its origin, was one of Henry VIII.'s "diverting 

 Viigabonds." He is aevi.'ral times mentioned as 

 winning money iVom ihi' king at cards and dice in 

 one of the Royal ilousehold Boohs. 



It is but right that I should give this informa- 



tion to your correspondent "T. Cr.," as I have 

 omitted to "note it" in my reprint of Hutton's 

 curious tract. Edwaru F. Rimbault. 



Cardinal Beaton (Vol. ii., p. 433.). — In Smith's 

 Iconographia Scotica. is a portrait of Beaton said 

 to be painted by Vandyke, and evidently the one 

 engraved in Lodge. It is accompanied by a 

 memoir, which would probably be of use to Scotus, 

 as it contains references to a great number of 

 authorities used in its compilation. If Scotus 

 has not met with this, and will send me his address, 

 I will forward to him the leaves containing the 

 life. John I. Dredge. 



I Pateley Bridge. 



Portrait of Cardinal Beaton (Vol. ii., p. 433.). 

 — In No. 57. allusion is made to the portrait of 

 Cardinal Beaton, now at Blairs College, near Aber- 

 deen. In Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, where one 

 of the copies of this portrait, from the easel of 

 James Giles, Esq., R.S.A., now is, there are some 

 manuscripts of Abbe Macpherson (who sent the 

 Blairs picture to this country), jiurchased at the 

 sale of the late Mr. Chalmers, author oi Caledonia. 

 Among them there might possibly be some which 

 might tend to confirm the authenticity of the 

 original painting. S. P. 



'•jSfe that runs may read" (Vol. ii., pp. 374. 439.). 

 — It is idle to prolong this controversy. I think it 

 is no interpretation of part of ver. 2., chap, ii , 

 Ilabakkuk. Nor do I believe that it has any re- 

 ference to it. But it is obviously a favourite 

 poetic quotation, and your readers will find it at 

 line 80, in Cowper's Tirocinium, or A Review of 

 Schools. J. G. II. 



Pimlico. 



Sir George Downing (Vol. ii., p. 464.). — Par- 

 ticulars resj)ecting the first Sir George Downing 

 may be found in Wood's Athena: Oxonienses, ii. 

 27. 758, 759. ; ^Votton's English Baronetage, iv. 

 415.; Purliamentary History of England, xix. 

 41 1. 465. 499. ; Continuation of the Life of Edward 

 Earl of Clarendon, royal 8vo. edit., 1116, 1117. 

 1165-1170; Burnet's History of his own Time, 

 ed. ]8.ji8, 136.; Heath's Chronicle, 2nd edit., 448. 

 528, 529, 530. 582.; Personal History of Charles II. 

 (at end of Bohn's edition of Gramniont), 431.; 

 Lister's Life of Clarendon, ii. 231-255. 258-271. 

 311-315. (Mr. Lister's third volume contains 

 numerous letters to and from Sir George Down- 

 ing) ; Vaughan's Protectorate of Cromwell, i. 227. 

 255, 256. 264. 266. 268., ii. 299. 317. 433 ; Cour- 

 tenay's Memoirs of Sir JC IVmple, i. 117. 264. 

 269- ; Pepys's Diui-y ; and Evelyn's Diary. 



AVotton wiis not acquainted witii the fact stated 

 by your correspondent, that " the family is of 

 most aninent origin m Devonshire." Wotton 

 states, and apparently on good authority, that the 

 first of the family of whom he had tiiund mention, 

 was Godfrey Downing, of the county of the city of 



