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NOTES AND QUERIES. : 
[No. 
to “dissipanda” in the will itself. I once had | 
occasion to take a copy of this will, and found the 
variations between the two copies trifling. 
J. E. B. Mayor. 
[We shall be obliged by our correspondent forward- 
ing, at his convenience, the proposed copies of Baker’s 
MS. notes.] 
THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE, 
Many years ago, the satirical poem, entitled 
The Pursuits of Literature, engaged public atten- 
tion for a very considerable time ; the author con- | 
cealed his name; and from 1796 at least to 1800, 
the world continued guessing at who could be the 
author. Amongst the names to which the poem 
was ascribed were those of Anstey, Colman, Jun., 
Coombe, Cumberland, Harry Dampier, Goodall, 
Hudderford, Knapp, Marntas, Mansell, Wrang- 
ham, Stephen Weston, and many others, chiefly 
Etonians. George Steevens, it is believed, fixed 
upon the real author at an early period: at least 
in the St. James's Chronisle, from Tuesday, May 1. 
to Thursday, May 3. 1798, we find — 
‘THE PURSUER OF LITERATURE PURSUED. 
“ Hic niger est. 
“ With learned jargon and conceit, 
With tongue as prompt to lie as 
The veriest mountebank and cheat, 
Steps forth the’ black * * * * * * *, 
« At first the world was all astounded, 
Some said it was Elias: 
But when the riddle was expounded, 
*T was little black * * * * * * *, 
«“ This labour’d work would seem the job 
Of hundred-handed Gyas ; 
But proves to issue from the nob 
Of little black * * * * * * *, 
«“ Through learned shoals of garbled Greek 
We trace his favourite bias, 
But when the malice comes to speak, 
We recognise * * * * * * *, 
«© What strutting Bantam, weak but proud, 
Ever held his head so high as 
This pigmy idol of the crowd, 
The prancing pert * * * * * * *, 
“ Touvto To Bi6Awoy, he "Il swear, 
Is rAnpov THs coptas, 
But men of sense and taste declare 
*Tisittleiblack +7 ** ** *, 
«Oh! were this scribbler, for a time, 
Struck dumb like Zacharias, 
Who could regret the spiteful rhyme 
Of little black * * * * * * *, 
“ Small was his stature who in fight 
O’erthrew the great Darius, 
But small in genius as in height, 
Is little black * * * * * * *, 
“ Say, could’st thou gain the butt of sack 
And salary that Pye has, t 
Would it not cheer thy visage black, 
Thou envious rogue * * * * * * *, 
“ When next accus’d deny it not ! 
Do think of Ananias ! 
Remember how he went to pot, 
As thou may’st, friend * * * * ***, 
“ Baracuias.” 
H. E. 
Tam, &c., your humble servant, 
QUERIES. 
BARRYANA. 
The inquiries of “‘ Dramaticus,” and others 
in your number for Nov. 10., prompt me to say 
that should any of your correspondents happen 
to possess information answering the followin 
queries, or any of them, I shall be thankful to 
share it. 
1. What became of the natural child of Elizabeth 
Barry, the actress, who died 1713; and whether 
the Earl of Rochester, its father, was really Wilmot 
(as Galt assumes) or Hyde, on whom that title 
was conferred at Wilmot’s death? The former 
mentions a natural daughter in his last will; but 
he names it “ Elizabeth Clerke,” and does not 
allude to its mother. Mrs. Barry’s will mentions 
no kindred whatever. But Galt describes her as 
daughter of Edward Barry, Esq., a barrister of 
Charles I.’s reign. — Who was he? Spranger 
Barry, the actor of fifty years later, Sir William 
Betham and myself have succeeded in connecting 
satisfactorily, and legitimately, with the noble 
house of Barry, Lord Santry ; but I cannot as yet 
show that Mrs. E. Barry inherited her theatrical 
talent from an identical source. 
2. Of what family was Mr. Barry, the Secretary 
to the Equivalent Company, who died about 1738? 
I possess immense collections on the name of 
Barry, but I cannot identify any London will or 
administration as this individual’s. 
3. Whether Sir Robert Walpole’s Secret Go- 
vernment Lists of the Pretender’s adherents, 
agents, and emissaries in London (who were sup- 
posed to be under the evil-eye of Jonathan Wild) 
still exist, and are accessible ? 
Wur1am D’Oyry Baytey. 
Coatham, Yorkshire, Jan. 1849-50. 
NINE QUERIES. 
1. Book-plate. —Whose was the book-plate 
with the following device : — An eagle or vulture 
feeding with a snake another bird nearly as large 
as herself; a landscape, with the sea, &e. in the 
distance: very meanly engraved, in an oval, com- 
passed with the motto, “ Pietas homini tutissima 
virtus” ? 
2. Addison's Books. — I have two or three 
volumes, bound apparently at the beginning of 
