Jan. 18. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



43 



possible toextract a meaning from "Rab. Surdam" 

 by any stretch of Latinity. ^- F. G. 



Edinburgh. 



" Fronte Capillatd" S)-c. (Vol. iii., p. 8.). — The 

 hexameter cited vol. iii., p. 8., and rightly inter- 

 preted by E. H. A., is taken (with the slight al- 

 teration of est for the original es) from " Occasio : 

 Drama, P. Joannis David, Soc. Jesu Sacerd. 

 Antv. MDCV.," appended to that writer's Occasio, 

 Arrepta, Neglecta ; m which the same implied 

 moral is expressed, with tliis variation : 

 " Fronte capillitium gerlt, ast glabrum occiput illi." 



G. A. S. 



This verse is alluded to by Lord Bacon in his 

 Essay on Delays : 



" Occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a 

 bald noddle after she hatli presented her locks in front, 

 and no hold taken ; or, at least, turneth the handle of 

 the bottle first to be received, and after the belly, which 

 is hard to clasp." 



L. 



Taylors Holy Living. — I should be obliged by 

 any of your readers kindly informing me whetlier 

 there is any and what ibundation for the state- 

 ment in the Morning Chronicle of Dec. 27th last, 

 that that excellent work, Holy Living, which I 

 have always understood to be Bishop Taylor's, 

 " is now knoivii" (so says a constant reader) " not 

 to be the production of that great prelate, but to 

 have been written by a Spanish friar. On this 

 account it is not included in the works of Bishop 

 Taylor, lately printed at the Oxford University 

 Press." I do not possess the Oxford edition here 

 mentioned, so cannot test the accuracy of the 

 assertion in the last sentence; but if the first part 

 of the above extract be correct, it is, to say the 

 least, singular that Mr. Bohn, in his recent edition 

 of tlie work, should be entirely silent on the sub- 

 ject. I should like to know who and what is this 

 "Spanish fri.ar?" has he not " a local habitation 

 and a name?" W. R. M. 



[A fraud was practised on the memory of Bishop 

 Jeremy Taylor soon after his death, in ascribing to him 

 a work entitled Cnntemplatiotis of the State nf Man in 

 this Life, and in that which is to come, and'which Arch- 

 deacon Churton, in ^ Letter to Joshua Watson, Esq., 

 has shown, with great aculeness and learning, was iu 

 reality a compilation from a work written by a Spanish 

 Jesuit, named John Eusebius Niercmberg. The 

 treatise Holt/ Living and Li/inr; is unquestionably 

 Bishop Taylor's, and forms Vol. III. of his works, 

 now in the course of publication under the editorship 

 the Uev. Charles PageEdeii. ] 



Portrait of Bishop Henchman (Vol. iii., p. 8.). — 

 Your correspondent Y.Y. is informed, tiiat there 

 is in the collection of the Fy.ul of Clarendon, at 

 the Grove, a full-length portrait of Bishop Hench- 

 man, by Sir Peter Lely. This picture, doubtless, 

 belonjied to the Chancellor Clarendon. Lord 



Clarendon, in his History of the Rebellion, b. xiii. 

 (vol. vi. p. 540. ed. Oxford, 1826), describes the 

 share which Dr. Henchman, then a prebendary 

 of Salisbury, had in facilitating the escape of 

 Charles II., after the battle of Worcester. Dr. 

 Henchman conducted the king to a place called 

 Heale, near Salisbury, then belonging to Serjeant 

 Hyde, afterwards made chief justice of the King's 

 Bench by his cousin the chancellor. L. 



Lijies attrihded to Charles Yorke (Vol. ii., p. 7.). 

 — The editor of Bishop Warburton's LiterartJ 

 Remains is informed, that the lines transcribed by 

 him, " Stript to the naked soul," &c., have been 

 printed lately in a work entitled The Sussex Gar' 

 land, published by James Taylor, formerly an 

 eminent bookseller at Brighton, but now removed 

 to jSTewick, Sussex. The lines appear to have 

 been written on Mrs. Grace Butler, who died at 

 Rowdel, in Sussex, in the 86th year of her age, 

 by Alexander Pope, but, according to Taylor, 

 not inserted in any edition of Pope's works. The 

 lines will be found in the 9th and 10th Nos. 

 of The Sussex Garland, p. 285., under " Warming- 

 hurst." w. S. 

 Richmond, Surrey. 



Rodolph Gualter (Vol. iii., p. 8.).— 

 " Rodolph Gualter naquit a Zurich en 1519, et y 

 mourut en I 5SC. II fit ses dtudes dans sa ville natale, 

 a Lausanne, a Marbourg, et en Angleterre. Rodolph, 

 son fils, mort en 1577, avait fait de tres bonnes etudes 

 a Geneve, en Allemagne, et a Tuniversite d'Oxford." 



The above I have extracted from the account of 

 him given in the Biographic Universelle, which 

 refers°as .authority to "J. B. Huldrici Gualtherus 

 redivivus sen de vita et morte Rod. Gualtheri 

 oratio, 1723," in theBiblioth.Bremens., viii. p. 635. 

 In this memoir I find it stated : 

 " quod Gualtherus noster una cum Nicolao Partrigid 

 Anglo in Angliam iter suscepit. Quatuor iilud men- 

 sibus et aliquot diebus finitum est, inciditque in annum 

 seculi trigesimuni." 



But neither in this, nor in the account of his life 

 by Melchior Adam, nor in that contained in Rose's 

 Biographical Dictionary, can I find any trace of 

 the opinion that he was a Scotchman ; and as 

 Huldricus was himself a professor in the Athenosura 

 at Zurich, he would probiibly be correctly in* 

 formed on the subject. Tyro. 



Dublin. 



"Annoy" used as a Noun (Vol. ii., p. 139.). — 

 Your correspondent CH. will find three good in- 

 stances of the use of the word annoy as a noun (in 

 addition to the lines cited by him from Words- 

 worth) by Queen Elizabeth, George Giiscoigne, 

 and Mr. Kcble : 



" The doubt of future woes exiles my present joy, 

 And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten 



mine annoy." 

 Sec Ellis' Specimens of Early English Poets, ii. p. 1 ^6. 



