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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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QUERIES, 
DR. RICHARD HOLSWORTH AND THOS. FULLER. 
Can any of your readers inform me who was 
the author of Lhe Valley of Vision, published in 
1651 as the work of Dr. Richard Holsworth, the 
Master of Emmanuel College, and Dean of Wor- 
cester. In a preface to the reader, Fuller laments 
“that so worthy a man should dye issulesse with- 
out leaving any books behind him for the benefit 
of learning and religion.” He adds that the pri- 
vate notes which he had left behind him were 
dark and obscure; his hand being legible only to 
himself, and almost useless for any other. The 
sermon published as The Valley of Vision appears 
to have been prepared for publication from the 
notes of a short-hand writer. When Fuller pub- 
lished, about eleven years afterwards, his Worthies 
of England, he wrote thus :— 
« Pity it is so learned a person left no monuments 
(save a sermon) to posterity; for I behold that posthume 
work as none of his, named by the transcriber The Valley 
of Vision, a Seriptnre expression, but here misplaced. 
... This I conceived myself in credit and conscience 
concerned to observe, because I was surprised at the 
preface to the book, and will take the blame rather than 
clear myself, when my innocency is complicated with 
the accusing of others.” 
Tf, as is probable, Dr. Holsworth, in this in- 
stance, preached other men’s sermons, which the 
short-hand writer afterwards gave to the world as 
his, it is a singular fact, that in the preface of this 
supposititious volume, Fuller speaks of the abuse 
of printed sermons by some— 
“ Who lazily imp their wings with other men’s 
plumes, wherewith they soar high in common esteeme, 
yet have not the ingenuity with that son of the Prophet 
to confesse, Alasse ! it was borrowed.” 
A. B. R. 
QUERIES UPON CUNNINGHAM’S HANDBOOK OF 
LONDON. 
We promised to make a few Quzrrns on this 
amusing volume, and thus redeem our promise. 
Mr. Cunningham has been the first to point out 
the precise situation of a spot often mentioned by 
our old dramatists, which had baffled the ingenuity 
of Gifford, Dyce, and in fact of all the commenta- 
tors,— the notorious Picthatch. He thus describes 
it: — 
“ Picthatch, or Pickehatch.— A famous receptacle for 
prostitutes and pickpockets, generally supposed to have 
been in Turnmill Street, near Clerkenwell Green, but 
its position is determined by a grant of the 33rd of 
Queen Elizabeth, and a survey of 1649. What was 
Picthatch is a street at the back of a narrow turning 
called Middle Row (formerly Rotten Row) opposite 
the Charter-house wall in Goswell Street. The name 
is still preserved in ‘ Pickax Yard’ adjoining Middle 
Row.” 
Why then, among the curious illustrations which 
he has brought to bear upon the subject, has Mr. 
Cunningham omitted that of the origin of the 
name from the “picks upon the hatch ?” which is 
clearly established both by Malone and Steevens, 
in their notes upon “’twere not amiss to keep our 
door hatch’d,” in Pericles. 
The following is an excellent suggestion as to 
the origin of the — 
© Goat and Compasses. — At Cologne, in the church 
of Santa Maria in Capitolio, is a flat stone on the floor 
professing to be the Grabstein der Bruder und Schwester 
eines ehrbaren Wein- und Fass-Ampts, Anno 1693; 
that is, as I suppose, a vault belonging to the Wine 
Coopers’ Company. ‘The arms exhibit a shield with a 
pair of compasses, an axe, and a dray, or truck, with 
goats for supporters, In a country like England, 
dealing. so much at one time in Rhenish wine, a more 
likely origin for such a sign could hardly be imagined. 
For this information I am indebted to the courtesy of 
Sir Edmund Head.” 
Can Mr. Cunningham, Sir E. Head, or any of 
our correspondents point out any German “ Ran- 
dle Holme” whose work may be consulted for the 
purpose of ascertaining the arms, &c. of the 
various professions, trades, &e. of that country ? 
Why has not Mr. Cunningham, in his descrip- 
tion of St. James’ Street, mentioned what certainly 
existed long after the commencement of the pre- 
sent century, the occasional “steps” which there 
were in the foot-path—making the street a suc- 
cession of terraces. This fact renders intelligible 
the passage quoted from Pope’s letter to Mr. 
Pearse, in which he speaks of “ y® second Terras 
in St. James’ Street.” Why, too, omit that cha- 
racteristic feature of the street, the rows of sedan 
chairs with which it was formerly lined? The 
writer of this perfectly remembers seeing Queen 
Charlotte in her sedan chair, going from the 
Queen's Library in the Green Park to Bucking- 
ham House. 
Mr. Cunningham states, we dare say correctly, 
that Sheridan died at No. 17. Saville Row. We 
thought he had died at Mr. Peter Moore’s, in 
Great George Street, Westminster. Was he not 
living there shortly before his death ? and did not 
his funeral at Westminster Abbey proceed from 
Mr. Moore’s ? 
ON A PASSAGE IN MACBETH. 
If any of your correspondents would favour me, 
I should like to be satisfied with respect to the 
following passage in Macbeth; which, as at pre- 
sent punctuated, is exceedingly obscure :— 
“If it were done, when ’tis done, then ’twere well 
It were done quickly: If the assassination 
Could trammel up the consequence, and eateh, 
With his surcease, success; that but this blow 
Might be the be-all and the end-all here, 
