Jan. 11. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES." 



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who printed two works there in his own hinguage, 

 lias fifteen six-line stanzas preceding Doiisa's col- 

 lection, and he subjoins to it a translation of a 

 copy of Doiisa's verses on the Earl of Leicester. 

 Of these I have a memorandum, and they are not 

 what I want ; but what I am at a loss for is a copy 

 of verses by Dousa, in the same volume, upon Sir 

 Philip Sidney. It is many years since I saw the 

 book, and I am not sure if there be not two copies 

 of verses to Sidney, in which he is addressed as 

 Princeps; and if your correspondent can furnish 

 me with either, or both, I shall be much obliged 

 to him. 



Will you allow me to put another question re- 

 lating to an old Dutch song-book that has lately 

 fallen in my way ; and though I can hardly expect 

 a man like Jaxus Dousa to know anything about 

 such a trifle, it is on some accounts a matter of 

 importance to me, in connection with two early 

 English songs, and one or other of your many 

 friends may not object to aid me. The book is 

 called De zingende Lootsman of de Vrohjke Soer, 

 and it professes to be the twecde druh : the imprint 

 is Te Amsteldam Bi/S.eii W. Koene, Boehdnikkers, 

 Boek en Papierverkoopers, op de Liiide Gragt. 

 The information I request is the date of the work, 

 for I can find none ; and whether M\y first part of 

 it is known in England, and where ? 



You are probably aware that the Dutch adopted 

 not a few of our early tunes, and they translated 

 also some of our early songs. These I am anxious 

 to trace. The Hermit of HoI/Tport. 



iHinor 0.\\tx[ci. 



Sir Cloudeslei) Shovel. — In Sirs, iilarkham's 

 Histoi-y of England it is stated that Sir Cloudes- 

 ley Shovel escaped from the wreck of his ship, 

 but was murdered afterwards by a woman, who 

 on her death-bed confessed it. 



Is there any authentic record elsewhere pub- 

 lished ? H. J. 



Christopher Flecamore. — "Walton says that Sir 

 H. Wotton wrote his well-known definition of an 

 ambassador at Augusta (Augsburg), in the Album 

 of " Christopher Flecamore." (Wordsworth, PJccl. 

 Biog., vol. iv. p. 86., ed. 1839.) Can any of your 

 correspondents tell me who this person was ? 



J. C. R. 



*^ Earth has no Rage," S,^c. — Can you, or any of 

 your contributors or readers, inform me where the 

 following couplet is to be found : 



" Earth has no rage hke love to hatred turn'd, 

 And hell no fury like a woman seorn'd." 



I do not trouble you idly, as I have a particular 

 rc;ison for desiring to kno.v the source of tiie lines. 



AV. T. M. 

 O. and C. Club. 



UOijlij and Barry Families. — Any authentic 

 information, original or not in the usual deposi- 

 tories, concerning the two great Norman races of 

 D'Otly and Barry, or De Earry (both of which 

 settled in England at the Conquest, and, singu- 

 larly, both coraiected themselves with mistresses of 

 King Henry I.), will be thankfully received if sent 

 to \Vm. D'Oyly Bayley (Barry), F. S. A., whose 

 histories of both races are still unfinished. 



Coatharn, near Redcar, Yorkshire. 



Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham. — A collector 

 of scraps and anecdotes relating to Nathaniel Lord 

 Crewe, Bishop of Durham, would be glad to know 

 whether, in the various MS. collections of our 

 public libraries, there are extant any letters either 

 written by that prelate or addressed to him ? 



E. 11. A. 



Epigram on the Synod of Dort. — In the Bio- 

 graphic Universelle, art. Grotids, it is stated that 

 the following singular distich against the Synod of 

 Dort was made iu England : — 



" Dordrechti synodus, nodus ; chorus integer, teger ; 

 Conventus, ventus ; sessio, strainen. Amen ! 



Query, By whom was it made ? L. 



Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth. — Several 

 years ago I met with a book bearing this, or a 

 similar title, upon one of the tables of the reading 

 room of the British Museum. A passing glance 

 made me anxious to refer to it at a future 

 opportunity. But, although I have again and 

 again searched through the Catalogues, and made 

 anxious inquiries of the attendants in the reading- 

 room, I have never yet been able to catch a 

 glimpse of it. Can any of your correspondents 

 furnish me with the correct title, and state whether 

 it ic still preserved iu this national library ? 



J. E. C. 



Invention of Steam Power. — The following dog- 

 gerel is the burden of a common street-ditty, 

 among the boys of Campden, in Gloucestershire. 



" Jonathan Hulls, 



With his paper skulls, 



Invented a machine 

 To go against wind and stream ; 



Cut he, being an ass, 



Couldn't bring it to pass, 

 And so was asham'tl to be seen." 



Now this Jonathan Hulls was the great grand- 

 father of a man of the same name, now residing in 

 Campden ; so that if there be any truth in the tra- 

 dition, the apiilication of steam power to the pro- 

 pulsion of hulls must be long prior to the lime of 

 Watts his name ! 



Can any reader of Notes and QuERiiiS throw 

 any li<'ht on the inventions of this man Hulls '( 



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Mythology of the Stars. — I want (in perfect 



