Dec. 29. 1849.] 
Hanover Square,” which was decorated for the’ 
occasion with appropriate scenery —at least so 
says The Critic. He thus describes the solemnity 
(p. 174. 8th edit. 1798) : — 
«“ Lo, learned clerks in sable stole, 
Graceful in years, pant eager for the goal. 
Old Norbury starts, and, with the seventh-form boys, 
In weeds of Greek the church-yard’s peace annoys, 
With classic Weston, Charley Coote and Tew, 
In dismal dance about the mournful yew. 
But first in notes Sicilian placed on high, 
Bates sounds the soft preluding symphony ; 
And in sad cadence, as the bands condense, 
The curfew tolls the knell of parting sense.” 
The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. 
Norbury being apparently the “ conqueror :” — 
“« Nares rising paused; then gave, the contest done, 
To Weston, Taylor’s Hymns and Alciphron, 
And Rochester’s Address to lemans loose ; 
To Tew, Parr’s Sermon and the game of goose ; 
To Coote the foolscap, as the best relief 
A dean could hope; last to the hoary chief 
He filled a cup; then placed on Norbury’s back 
The Sunday suit of customary black. 
The gabbling ceased; with fixed and serious look 
Gray glanced from high, and owned his rival, Coox.” | 
W. 
Lincoln’s Inn, Dee. 17. 
Coffee, the Lacedemonian Black Broth. — Your 
correspondent “ R.O.” inquires what modern au- 
thor suggests the probability of coffee being the 
black broth of the Lacedemonians? The sug- 
gestion, I think, originated with George Sandys, 
the translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Sandys | 
travelled in the Turkish empire in 1610. He first | 
published his Notes in 1615. The following is | 
from the 6th edit. 1652, p. 52. : — 
“ Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have 
they their coffa-houses, which something resemble | 
them. There sit they, chatting most of the day, and | 
sip of a drink called coffa (of the berry that it is made 
of), in little China dishes, as hot as they can suffer it ; 
black as soot, and tasting not much unlike it (why 
not that black broth which was in use among the 
Lacedxzmonians?) which helpeth, as they say, digestion, 
and procureth alacrity,” &e. 
Burton also (Anatomy of Melancholy) describes 
it as “like that black drink which was in use 
among the Lacedemonians, and perhaps the 
same. i. B. Price. 
QUERIES. 
THE LAST OF THE VILLAINS. 
It would be an interesting fact if we could 
ascertain the last bondsman by blood —znativus de 
sanguine —who lived in this country. ‘The be- 
ginning of the seventeenth century is the period | 
usually referred to as the date of the extinction of | 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
139 
personal villenage. In the celebrated argument 
in the case of the negro Somerset (State Trials, 
vol. xx. p. 41.), an instance as late as 1617—18 is 
cited as the latest in our law books. (See Noy’s 
Reports, p.27.) It is probably the latest recorded 
claim, but it is observable that the claim failed, 
and that the supposed villain was adjudged to be 
afree man. I can supply the names of three who 
were living near Brighton in the year 1617, ‘and 
whose thrallom does not appear to have been 
disputed. Norden, from whose unpublished Survey 
of certain Crown Manors I have extracted the fol- 
lowing notice, adverts to the fact, but seems to 
think that the times were rather unfavourable to 
any attempt by the lord of the manor to put his 
rights in force. 
“There are three bondmen of bloude helonginge 
unto this manor, never known to be anie way mannu- 
missed, namely, Thomas Goringe, William and John 
Goringe. Thomas Goringe dwells at Amberley, Wil- 
liam at Piddinghow, and John Goringe at Rottingdean, 
What goods they have the Jurie know not. All poor 
men. Thomas hath the reversion of a cotage now in 
the tenure of William Jefferye. But mee thinkes this 
kinde of advantage is nowe out of season; yet, were 
they men of ability, they might be, upon some consi- 
deration, infraunchized.” (Survey of the Manor of 
Falmer, Sussex.) 
I shall be glad to know whether any more recent 
instance can be pointed out. E. Suirxe. 
THE DORE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. 
In Herbert’s edition of Ames’s Typographical 
Antiquities, 1785, vol. i. p. 492., is noticed The 
Dore of Holy Scripture, 12mo., printed by John 
Gowghe in 1536; and, at p. 494., a reprint of the 
same work is mentioned in 1540, by the same 
printer, and a description of a copy given from one 
then in the possession of Herbert himself. In the 
preface prefixed by the printer, he calls the work 
| “the prologue of the fyrste translatoure of the 
byble out of latyn in to Englyshe;” and at the 
end of the work is this note :—‘Perused by 
doctor Taylor and doctor Barons, Master Ceton 
and Master Tornor.” As I am much interested 
in the subject to which this publication refers, 
may LI ask for information on three points ?—1. 
What evidence is there of this edition of 1536, 
beyond the statement in Ames? 2. What has 
become of the copy of the edition of 1540, formerly 
belonging to Herbert? and, 3. Who are the per- 
sons who peruse and revise the latter edition ? 
There is no copy of either edition, as far as I can 
trace, in the British Museum, in the Bodleian, or 
at Lambeth. 
I may add to these queries the following re- 
marks : — 
1. Ames asserted that The Dore of Holy Scrip- 
ture was unong the books prohibited to be read 
