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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. G5. 



2. In feudal times Hnzlewood was a fortified 

 castle, having its i-ejiular retainers, &c. 



3. Hazlewood Chapel was the only Roman Ca- 

 tholic parish church in England which did not 

 become a Protestant church at the Reformation. 



Chas. D. Markiiam. 

 Jan. 10. 1S5!. 



'■^Breeches" Bible (Vol.iii., p. 17.). — In quoting 

 from specimens of curly printing, correclness of 

 orthography, even in trivial matters, is desirable, 

 and therefore I venture, in allusion to the in- 

 teresting communication from ot on the subject of 

 the Geneva or " Breeches " Bible, to state that the 

 edition of 1576, in my possession, is " Imprinted 

 by Christopher Barkar " (not Barker), " dwelling 

 in Paternoster Howe, at the signe of the Tvgres 

 Head." 



The text quoted varies also in two or three 

 words from my copy, and it is probably from tlie 

 Geneva edition. The English edition of 1576 

 runs thus, (Gen. iii. 7.) : " Then the eyes of them 

 loth were opened, and they hieiv that they were 

 naked, and they sewed Jigge tree leaves together, 

 and made them selues breeches." I am, sir, yours 

 truly, S. il. II. 



Histoire dcs Sevarambes (Vol. iii., p. 4.). — On 

 the subject of the authorship of this work I will 

 transcribe a note which I subjoined to a short 

 account of Isaac Vossius (Worthingtou's Diary, 

 p. 125.):- 



" Whether the History of the Sevarites, or Sevarambi, 

 by Captain Thomas Liden, published in two parts 

 (London, 1675-9, 12mo.), which is one of the ablest 

 of the fictions written after the model of More's Utopia, 

 and which has been ascribed to Isaac Vossius by J. A. 

 Fabricius, be his, is a point yet unsettled. On a care- 

 ful consideration of the internal evidence, and a com- 

 parison with his avowed publications, so far as such a 

 comparison can be made between works so dissimilar 

 in character, I incline to the conclusion that this tract 

 is justly ascribed to Isaac Vossius." 



On a reconsideration of the subject, I see no 

 reason to alter this opinion. Morhof, who al- 

 ways attributed it to Isaac Vossius (see Polyhistor, 

 vol. i. p. 74., edit. 1747), was thoroughly versed in 

 the literary history, including the English, of the 

 period, and was not likely to have been mistaken. 

 Vossius lived in England from 1670 to 1688, when 

 he died. I have seen several English letters of 

 his, though his general correspondence was in 

 Latin or French, and he seems quite aiile to have 

 written it, as far as the language is concerned. 

 Vairasse appears to have translated it into French, 

 but to have had no other part in it. I may observe, 

 that the publication in English, London, 1738, is a 

 retranslation from the French, not a reprint of the 

 original work of 1G75-9. James Crossi.ky. 



Verses attributed to Charles Yorke (Vol. ii., p. 7. ; 

 and Vol. iii., p. 43.). — These lines, "Stript to the 



n.iked soul," have been frequently printed, indeed 

 so lately as in Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chan- 

 cellors, at the end of the Life of Charles Yorke, 

 as his, but without any observation. What is 

 most singular is, that the excellent editor of 

 Bishop ^Varburton's Literary Remains has over- 

 looked the fact that they are given in that prelate's 

 correspondence with Bishop Hurd as Pope's. (See 

 Letters, p. 362., edit. 1809, 8vo.) Warburton ob- 

 serves, ''The little poem is certainly his." He 

 remarks in a letter to Yorke — 



" You have obliged me much (as is your wont) by 

 a fine little poem of my excellent and endeared friend, 

 Mr. Pope, and I propose to ])Ut in into use." — Letters 

 from Warburton to C. Yorhe. IS 12, 4lo. p. 64. 



Warburton then gave them to EufFhead, who 

 inserted them in his Life of Pope, from which 

 they were transferred in Bowles's edition of Pope's 

 Works (vol. ii. p. 406), and in the supplementary 

 volume to Pope's Wo>-ks (1807, 4to.). The ex- 

 traordinary circumstance is, that they had appeared 

 as far back as 1753 in the miscellaneous works of 

 Aaron Hill, published in 1753, in 4 vols. 8vo., and 

 are included in tliat collection as his own. Roscoe 

 observes (Life of Pope, in vol. i. of his edition of 

 Popes Works, p. 361., edit. 1824), without, how- 

 ever appearing to have been fully acquainted with 

 the facts of the case : 



" These verses are not the production of Pope, as 

 might indeed readily have been perceived, but of Aaron 

 Hill." 



I must confess I cannot agree with the remark. 

 If the point be to be decided by internal evidence, 

 the verses are surely Pope's. The collection of 

 A. Hill's miscellaneous works was a posthumous 

 one for the benefit of the family, and includes 

 sever.al other poems, which were certainly not 

 written by him. Little stress, therefore, can be 

 laid upon the fact of the lines being included in 

 this collection, which seems to have comprised 

 whatever was found amongst Hill's papers, with- 

 out any nice examination or scrutiny. My con- 

 clusion is, that the verses are Pope's ; and it is 

 .at all events certain that they are not Charles 

 Yorke's. James Crossley. 



Aixhbishop Bolton of Cashel (Vol. iii., p. 39.). 

 — He was born at Bin-rishool, in the county of 

 Mayo, about 1678 ; graduated at Trinity College, 

 Dublin; was ordained deacon in 1702; priest in 

 1703 ; became a prebendary of St. Patrick's, Dub- 

 lin, in 1707; chancellor of that cathedral in 1714; 

 vicar-general of the diocese of Dublin in 1720; 

 vicar of Finglas, near Dublin, in the same year ; 

 prajcentorof Christ Church, Dublin, inl722; bishop 

 of Clonfert in the same year; bishop of Eljihiu 

 in 1724 ; archbisliop of Cashel in 1729; to which 

 diocese he bequeathed his valuable library. 



He died in January, 1744, and was buried at 

 St. Werburgh's Church, in Dublin. 



