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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 65. 



prosecuted in 1684 for printing " Lord Russell's 

 Speech," and died in 1704. The Woodfall, the 

 printer, is understood to have been Henry Wood- 

 i'all, afterwards "Woodfall without Temple Bar," 

 grandfatlier of Henry Sampson, the printer of 

 Junius' Letters, and great-great-grandfather of the 

 present excellent printer of the same name. 

 ^ J. D. Y. 



Did Bumjan know Hohhes ? (Vol. ii., p. 51S.). — 

 Before this cpiestion, put by Jas. H. Fkiswell, can 

 be answered satisfactorily, it should be shown that 

 Bunyan was the author of the Visions of Hell. In 

 Chamhers Journal for Sept. 7. 1833, n., it is taken 

 for granted that he was, and the passage alluding 

 to Hobbes is noticed. Your correspondent more 

 justly questions the fact. 



A very intelligent friend of mine, who has de- 

 voted much research into the supposed origin of the 

 Pilgrim's Progress, the result of which I hope ere 

 long will appear, tells me that he is decidedly of 

 opinion that the Visions in cpiestion are not the 

 production of the "prince of dreamers." 



He believes the Visions first appeared as Bun- 

 yan's in a stereotyped collection or selection ^ of 

 his works, about 1820-8. Some time afterseein^ 

 this, my friend was surprised at meeting with the 

 following littlevohimc, which is now before me: The 

 World to Come. The Glories of Heaven, and the 

 Tej-rors of Hell, lively displayed under the Siniili- 

 tude of a'Vision. Bv G. L., Sunderland. Printed 

 bv R. AVetherald, for H. Creighton, 1771. 12mo. 

 The running title, as far as p. 95., is, The World 

 to Come; or, Visions of Heaven ; and on that page 

 commence the Visions of Hell, and of the Torments 

 of the Damned: and here it is the author has 

 charitahhj placed Hobbes, with whom the colloquy 

 alluded to by your querist occurs. 



I sliall not occupy your papers with any re- 

 marks on the ignorance betrayed by (i. L. (who- 

 ever he may be), both of the writings and 

 character of Hobbes ; but I shall be glud if 1 can 

 lead to the elucidation of what ye^ remains a 

 literary obscurity, and obtains the name of G. L 

 ^ F. R. A. 



Mythology of the Stars (Vol. iii., p. 23.).— 

 G. I. C. is recommended to study the ordinary 

 celestial globe, and to make himself familiar with 

 its me, in order to enhance the interest of the 

 spectacle of the sidereal heavens as seen by the 

 naked eye. He is also particularly referred to the 

 Celestial Cycle, by Capt. Smyth, published by 

 Parker and Co., West Strand, in 2 vols. 8vo., 

 price 2Z. 2s. ; a book full of astronomical and my- 

 thological gossip. 



G.l. C. will find books on Astrology for sale at 

 Maynard's, No. 8. Earl's Court, Crnnbourn Street, 

 Leicester Square, more readily, perhaps, than any 

 where else in London. Robert Snow. 



6. Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, Jan. 13. 1851. 



Dodo Queries (Vol. i., pp. 261, 262.). — Mr. 

 Strickland is informed, that in the list of Pingre's 

 works, as given in Querard's France Litteraire, 

 there is one with the following title : — 



" Memolre sur les Decouvertes faites dans la Mer du 

 Sud, avant les dernlers Voyages des Fran^ais autour du 

 Monde, lu a TAcademie des Sciences, 1766, 1767, 

 1778, in. 4." 



I have not read Pingre's works, but if they 

 contain any mention of Solitaires, it will probably 

 be found in the Memoire above referred to. 



Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia, W. I , Nov. 1 850. 



Holland Land (Vol. ii., pp. 267. 345. ; Vol. iii., 

 p. 30.). — In an ancient charter, in my possession, 

 bearing date 19 Edw. I. : " Gilebertus dictus ate 

 Vorde, de Farlegh," and "James, son of the late 

 Philip de Essche," quitclaim to James, son of 

 Paulinus de Wynchelse : 



"dimidiam acram terre Flandreiisis .... in villa de 

 Ickcleshani," 

 to have and to hold 



" una cum redditu et servitio mibi (sic') pertinentibus 

 de alia dimidia acra terre Flandrensis." 



The j)olders of Holland are familiar to all tra- 

 vellers, as lands lying below the level of the sea, 

 once a mere morass, redeemed from that state, 

 and brought into cultivation by embankments, 

 &c., &c. 



In another charter, somewhat earlier in date 

 and relating to the same district, viz. the neigh- 

 bourhood of Winchelsea, Ilamo de Crevecour 

 speaks of lands in La more in Ideun, which the 

 monks of Robertsbridge, with consent of his father 

 Hamo, " a mari incluserunt." 



I have always supposed that the " terra Flan- 

 drensis" of my charter signified land of the same 

 description as the Dutcli polders ; the art of thus 

 redeeming land being probably introduced from 

 the Low Countries. It is not unlikely that, in 

 that day, hinds so brought into cultivation were 

 designated as " terre FLindrenses," and the term 

 afterwards anglicised into " Holland Land." 



L. B. L. 



Swearing by Swa7is (Vol. ii., p. 392.). — Sym* 

 bolog)' of the swan. 



" Tunc allati sunt in pompatica gloria duo cygni, 

 vel olores, ante regein, &c. &c., — vindicaturus."* — ■ 

 MntlhcEus IVcstmonasteriensis, 



Dr. Lingard states that " the vows of chivalry 

 were not taken on the gospels, but, ri<liculaus as 

 it may appear, in the presence of a peacock, or 



* With tins solecism in the printed Flares Histo- 

 riarum I find that a MS. in the Clietham Library 

 agrees, the abbreviative mark used in tbe Hundred 

 Rolls of Edward I. for the terminations «s and er 

 having been affixed to this particiiile. 



