May 4. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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ject, by an amusing passage of a speech of Gover- | 
nor Johnstone in a debate in the House of Com- 
mons on the Mosquito country in 1777 :— 
« T see the noble lord [Lord North] now collects his 
knowledge by piecemeal from those about him. While 
my hon. friend [some one was whispering Lord North] 
now whispers the noble lord, will he also tell him, and the 
more aged gentlemen of the House, before we yield up 
our right to the Mosquito shore, that it is from thence 
we receive the greatest part of our delicious turtle? 
May I tell the younger part, before they give their 
consent, that it is from thence comes the sarsaparilla to 
purify our blood ?”— Parl. Hist. vol. xix. p.54. Cy 
NOTES ON BACON AND JEREMY TAYLOR. 
In his essay “On Delays,” Bacon quotes a 
“common verse” to this effect: — “ Occasion 
turneth a bald noddle after she hath presented 
her locks in front, and no hold taken.” As no 
reference is given, some readers may be glad to 
see the original, which occurs in an epigram on 
Kaods (Brunck’s Analecta, ii. 49.;  Posidippi 
Epigr. 13. in Jacob’s Anthol. il. 49.). 
“H Be Koun, Tl Kar dw; bmavtidcayTi AabZcOat, 
vn Ala. Tatomev & ets Ti parakpa TéAEL; 
Toy yap Grak mrnvoiot mapabpétaytd we Toco 
obris 20° tuetpwy Spakerar e&dmier. 
In Jeremy Taylor’s Life of Christ (Pref. § 29. 
p- 23. Eden’s edition), it is said that Mela and | 
Solinus report of the Thracians that they believed 
in the resurrection of the dead. The passage of 
Mela referred to is, 1. ii. c. ii. § 3., where see 
Tzschucke. 
In the same work (Pref. $20. p.17.), “ Elian 
tells us of a nation who had a law binding them 
to beat their parents to death with clubs when | 
they lived to a decrepit age.” See Allian, Var. 
Hist. iv. 1. p. 330. Gronoy., who, however, says 
nothing of clubs. 
In the next sentence, the statement, “the Per- | 
sian magi mingled with their mothers and all their | 
nearest relatives,” is from Xanthus (Fragm. 28., | 
Didot), apud Clem. Alexandr. (Strom. iii. p.431.). 
See Jacob’s Leet. Stob. p.144.; Bahr, On Hero- 
dotus, iii. 31. 
In the same work (Part I. sect. viii. § 5. note x, | 
p- 174.) is a quotation from Seneea, “ O quam con- 
tempta res est homo, nisi super humana se erex- 
erit!” which is plainly the original of the lines of | 
Daniel, so often quoted by Coleridge (“ Epistle to 
the Countess of Cumberland”) :— 
“ Unless above himself he can 
Erect himself, how mean a thing is man!” 
Perhaps some of your readers can supply the 
reference to the passage in Seneca, which is want- 
ing in Mr. Eden’s edition. 
n Part IIL. sect. xv. § 19. p. 694. note a, of the 
Life of Christ, is a quotation from Strabo, lib. xv. 
Add, p.713., Casaub. 
As the two great writers on whom I have made 
these notes are now in course of publication, any 
notes which your correspondents can furnish upon 
them cannot fail to be weleome. Milton also, and 
Pope, are in the hands of competent editors, who, 
doubtless, would be glad to have their work ren- 
dered more complete through the medium of 
“ Nores AND QUERIEs.” J. E. B. Mayor. 
Marlborough Coll,, April 8. 
DUKE OF MONMOUTH’S CORRESPONDENCE, 
Thomas Vernon, author. of Vernon's Reports, 
was in early life private secretary to the Duke of 
| Monmouth, and is supposed to have had a pretty 
large collection of Monmouth’s correspondence. 
| Vernon settled himself at Hanbury Hall, in Wor- 
cestershire, where he built a fine house, and left a 
large estate. In course of time this passed to an 
heiress, who married Mr. Cecil (the Earl of Exeter 
of Alfred Tennyson), and was divorced from him, 
Lord Exeter sold or carried away the fine library, 
family plate, and nearly everything curious or va- 
Iuable that was not an heirloom in the Vernon 
family. He laid waste the extensive gardens, and 
sold the elaborate iron gates, which now adorn the 
avenue to Mere Hall in the immediate neighbour- 
| hood. The divoreée married a Mr. Phillips, and 
dying without surviving issue, the estates passed 
to a distant branch of her family. About ten years 
ago — made a careful search (by permission) at 
Hanbury Hall for the.supposed Monmouth MSS., 
but found none; and; L ascertained by inquiry 
that there were none. at Enstone Hall, the seat of | 
Mr. Phillips’s second wife and widow. The MSS. 
might have been carried to Burleigh, and a friend 
obtained for me a promise from the Marquis of 
Exeter that search should be made for them there, 
but I have reason to believe that the matter was 
forgotten. Perhaps some of your correspondents 
may have the means of ascertaining whether there 
are such MSS. in Lord Exeter’s library. I confess 
my doubt whether so cautious a man as Thomas 
Vernon would have retained in his possession a 
mass of correspondence that might have been 
fraught with danger to himself personally ; and, 
had it been in the Burleigh library, whether it 
could have escaped notice. This, however, is to 
be noted. After Vernon’s death there was a 
dispute whether his MSS. were to pass to his heir- 
at-law or to his personal representatives, and the 
court ordered the MSS. (Reports) to be printed. 
This was done very incorrectly, and Lord Kenyon 
seems to have hinted that private reasons had been 
assigned for that, but these could hardly have re- 
lated to the Monmouth MSS. Scotus. 
PARNELL. 
The following verses by Parnell are not included 
in any edition of his poems that I have seen, 
