Jan. 5. 1850.] 
of the Tottenham Street, Regency, Royal West 
London, and Queen’s Theatre. ‘The architect 
was, I believe, Michael Novosielski. 
Epwarp F. Rimeattr. 
ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, No. 3. 
The poet Cartwright is a remarkable instance of 
fugitive celebrity. He was esteemed, says Wood, 
“a fair copy of practic piety, a rare example of 
heroie worth, and in whom arts, learning, and lan- 
guage made up the true complement of perfection.” 
On the publication of his Comedies, tragi-comedies, 
with other poems, in 1651, they were recommended 
to the public by more than fifty copies of verses ! 
After all this flourish of trumpets, the volume 
never reached a second edition. 
The peculiarities of certain copies of this volume 
have been described by the learned editor of the 
Athene Oxonienses, 1815, etc. I shall state those of 
my owncopy. Sig. **7., which contains the verses 
of H. Davison and R. Watkins, is marked as a 
cancel, but has escaped destruction. The verses, 
however, re-appear, and those of Watkins are 
augmented. 
In the poems, there are three additional leaves 
after sheet T, which contain verses on the return 
of queen Henrietta Maria from Holland in 1643, 
and on the death of Sir Bevill Grenvill in the 
same year; both in a mutilated state. Now, the 
verses on the queen were printed in the Oxford 
collection on that occasion. The authorship of 
those lines is certain. The verses on Sir Bevill 
Grenvill were also printed in the collection of 
1643, but without the imprint of Oxford, and with 
the initials only of the contributor. ‘The name, 
however, was given in a re-publication of the 
pamphlet in 1684, which was dedicated to the earl 
of Bath by Henry Birkhead, the only surviving 
contributor, with the exception of Peter Mew, 
successively bishop of Bath and Wells, and of 
Winchester — who lived till 1706. 
The passages in question seem to have been 
omitted as too applicable to other persons, and 
to more recent times. Bouton Corner. 
CARTWRIGHT’S POEMS: 
R. is enabled to inform Investicator (p. 108.) 
that the poems On the Queen’s Return from the 
Low Countries and On the Death of Sir Bevill 
Grenvill were certainly written by Cartwright; the 
former having been originally printed, with his 
name, in a collection of complimentary verses, in 
Latin and English, addressed to Henrietta Maria, 
entitled “ Musarum Oxoniensium émarfpia sere- 
nissime Reginarum Marie ex Batavia feliciter 
reduci J Net voto D.D.D. Oxonia, excudebat 
Leonardus Lichfield, Academie typographus. 1643.” 
4°. The contributors are Dr. Samuel Fell, Dean 
of Christchurch, Jasper Maine, R. Meade, &c. I 
imagine that the “ Cow Marcy” refers to the 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
151 
Earl of Strafford. The other poem also made its 
first appearance in a complete state in the collec- 
tion published by the Oxford royalist poets as 
before, the title of which is as follows : —‘“ Verses 
on the Death of the Right Valiant S* Bevill Gren- 
vill, Knight, who was slaine by the Rebells on 
Lansdowne Hill, neare Bath, July 5. 1643. Printed 
[at Oxford] 1643.” This work was published on 
the 12th August, little more than a month after the 
battle was fought. The initials of each contributor 
are attached to this performance, but the names 
are given in full in the reprint of 1684 at London, 
which has an engraving, by Faithorne, of the 
brave hero of Lansdowne, who 
« Rush’d into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.” 
The blank in the line, “ Either a or his Ex- 
cellence,” is here supplied by the word “traitor,” 
a compliment certainly never intended for Crom- 
well, who was not the “great generall” at this 
time, but would seem rather to belong to the Earl 
of Essex or Sir William Waller. The various 
peculiarities that occur in different copies of 
Cartwright’s Poems, 1651, have been noticed in 
Bliss’s edition of Wood’s Athene, under the Life 
of Cartwright. Of four copies in the British 
Museum, the Grenville copy is the only one which 
contains both the cancelled and _ uncancelled 
leaves. 
MISCELLANIES. 
[Many of our communications assume a form which 
render them very difficult to be classed under either of 
our customary divisions. We shall in future throw 
such papers together under this head. ] 
Oliver Cromwell's Birth. — As a pendant to the 
certificate of Cromwell’s baptism, printed in No. 9., 
p- 136., it may be as well to lay before our readers 
the following entry of the time of his birth, which 
oceurs in John Booker’s Astrological Practice Book, 
Ashmole MS. 183., p. 373.: — “ Oliver Cromwell 
born 25 Apl. 1599, about 3 o'clock a.m., at Hunt- 
ington.” 
Tn another Ashmole MS. 332. 11 b., which is a 
collection of figures set by Ashmole himself, Oliver 
Cromwell’s birth is assigned to 22nd April, 1599. 
The figure is designated by Ashmole, in a spirit 
very different from that of the annotator of the 
Baptismal Register, “ Nativitas illa magna.” 
Another minute fact in the history of Cromwell 
is registered in the same MS. 332., fo. 105.: Oliver 
Cromwell “received the sword in Westminster 
Hall, 16th December, 1653, 2° 17’ p.m.” 
These facts are mentioned in Mr. Black’s recent 
catalogue of the Ashmole MSS. pp. 142. 222. 
The Lawyers’ Patron Saint.—“ And now because 
I am speakeing of Pettyfogers, give me leave to tell 
you a story I mett with when I lived in Rome. 
Goeing with a Romane to see some Antiquityes, he 
showed me a chapell dedicated to one St. Evona, a 
