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valuable manuscripts and books, in the library at 
Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, the seat of the Tolle- 
mache family. aq. 
Golden Frog.— Ingenious as is the suggestion 
of “R.R.” (No. 18. p. 282.), that Sir John Poley 
stuck a golden frog in his ear from his affection for 
tadpoles, I think “ R.R.’s” “ Rowley Poley” may 
be dismissed with the “‘gammon and spinach” of 
the amorous frog to which he alludes. 
Conceiving that the origin of so singular a badge 
could hardly fail to be commemorated by some 
tradition in the family, I have made inquiry of one 
of Sir John Poley’s descendants, and I regret to 
hear from him that “they have no authentic tra- 
dition respecting it, but that they have always be- 
lieved that it had some connection with the service 
Sir John rendered in the Low Countries, where 
he distinguished himself much by his military 
achievements.” To the Low Countries, then, the 
land of frogs, I think we must turn for the so- 
lution of the enigma. GASTRAS. 
Cambridge, March 9. 
Sword of Charles I.—Mr. Planché inquires 
(No. 12. p. 183.), “When did the real sword of 
Charles the First’s time, which, but a few years 
back, hung at the side of that monarch’s eques- 
trian figure at Charing Cross, disappear ?” — It 
disappeared about the time of the coronation of 
Her present Majesty, when some scaffolding was 
erected about the statue, which afforded great 
facilities for removing the rapier (for such it was) ; 
and I always understood it found its way, by some 
means or other, to the Museum, so called, of the 
notoriously frolicsome Captain D—, where, in 
company with the wand of the Great Wizard of 
the North, and other well-known articles, it was 
carefully labelled and numbered, and a little ac- 
count appended of the circumstances of its acqui- 
sition and removal. JOHN STREET. 
[Surely then Burke was right, and the “ Age of 
Chivalry is past !”— Otherwise, the idea of disarming 
a statue would never have entered the head of any Man 
of Arms, even in his most frolicsome of moods. | 
John Bull.—Vertue MSS.—I always fancied 
that the familiar name for our countrymen, about 
the origin of which “R. F. H.” inquires (No. 21, 
p- 336.), was adopted from Swift's £Zistory of John 
Bull, first printed in 1712; but I have no autho- 
rity for saying so. 
If the Vertue MSS. alluded to (No. 20. p. 319.) 
were ever returned by Mr. Steevens to Dr. Raw- 
linson, they may be in the Bodleian Library, to 
which the Doctor left all his collections, including 
a large mass of papers purchased by him long after 
Pepys’ death, as he described it, “ Thus et odores 
vendentibus.” 
These “ Pepys papers,” as far as I can recollect, 
were very voluminous, and relating to all sorts of 
subjects; but I saw them in 1824, and had only 
then time to examine and extract for publication 
portions of the correspondence. BRAYBROOKE. 
Audley End, March 25. c 
Vertue’s Manuscripts.— The MS. quoted under 
this‘ title by Malone is printed entire, or rather 
all of it which refers to plays, by Mr. Peter Cun- 
ningham, in the Papers of the Shakspeare Society, 
vol. ii. p. 123., from an interleaved copy of Lang- 
baine. Since the publication of that paper, the 
entries relating to Shakspeare’s plays have been 
given from the original MS. in the Bodleian 
Library, in Halliwell’s Life of Shakspeare, p. 272. 
8. L. 
Vertue’s MSS. (No. 20. p. 319.) were in Horace 
Walpole’s possession, bought by him, I think, of 
Vertue’s widow; and his Anecdotes of Painting 
were chiefly composed from them, as he states, 
with great modesty, in his dedication and his pre- 
face. Ido not see in the Strawberry-Hill Cata- 
logue any notice of “Vertue’s MSS.,” though some 
vols. of his collection of engravings were sold. C. 
Lines attributed to Tom Brown. —Yn a book en- 
titled Liber Facetiarum, being a Collection of cu- 
rious and interesting Anecdotes, published at New- 
castle-upon-Tyne, by D. Akenhead & Sons, 1809, 
the passage attributed to Tom Brown by your 
correspondent “J.T.” is given to Zacharias Boyd. 
The only reference given as authority for the 
account is the initials H. B. 
“ Zacharias Boyd, whose bust is to be seen over the 
entrance to the Royal College in Glasgow, while Pro- 
fessor in that university, translated the Old and New 
Testament into Scotch Metre; and, from a laudable 
zeal to disseminate religious knowledge among the 
lower classes of the community, is said to have left a 
very considerable sum to defray the expense of the said 
work, which, however, his executors never printed.” 
After a few specimens, the account goes on — 
« But the highest flight of his Muse appears in the 
following beautiful Alexandrine :— 
« And was not Pharaoh a saucy rascal ? 
That would not let the children of Israel, their wives 
And their little ones, their flocks and their herds, go 
Out into the wilderness forty days 
To eat the Pascal. 
FORA.” 
Speaking of Zachariah Boyd, Granger says 
(vol. ii. p. 379.) :— 
“ His translation of the Scripture in such uncouth 
verse as to amount to burlesque, has been often quoted ; 
and the just fame cf a benefactor to learning has been 
obscured by that cloud of miserable rhymes. Candour 
will smile at the foible, but applaud the man. 
“ Macure, in his account of Glasgow, p. 223., in- 
forms us he lived in the reign of Charles I.” 
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Sheffield, March 9, 1850. 
