Feb. 1. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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If the fact is so, this stone, " of a circular form, 

 the diameter six inches and a quarter, its thick- 

 ness half an inch," must have been loose in the 

 world for 858 years from its exhumation to 1834, 

 when Mr. Douce's essay was read, and during that 

 time has lost only the least important part of its 

 inscription and ornaments. 



Can any one say where this stone now is ? 

 When and where Mr. Douce obtained it ? And, 

 I must add, what history was attached to it when 

 in his possession ? for he was not a person likely 

 to possess such an object without, at least, en- 

 deavouring to trace its history. On these jwints 

 the essay contains not a word. H. C. R. 



Coins of Bichard Cromwell. — Will any of your 

 ininiismatical readers inform me whether there are 

 any coins or medals known of Richard Cromwell, 

 either during his chancellorship of Oxford, or his 

 short protectorate of these realms ? Blower. 



Cataracts of the Nile. — Seneca (Nat. Quasi. 

 iv. 2.) tells a story of the natives suffering them- 

 selves to be carried down in sport, which Rollia 

 says is confirmed by niodern travellers ; but can 

 this be so? Can any one give the names of any 

 of these travellers, and supply the blank thus left 

 by the historian ? S. G. 



Paternoster Tackling. — Dancing Ti'enchmore. — 

 What is the origin and meaning of this term ? also 

 of the phrase " Dancing Trenchmore ? " S. G. 



Hymns. — Will some of your correspondents 

 favour me with a copy of " Queen Mary's La- 

 ment," a translation of which appeared in Coxe's 

 delightful Christian Ballads. Also Adam of St. 

 Victor's "exquisite poem" on the Cross, referred 

 to by i\lr. Trench in his Sacred Latin Poetry ? 



Jarltzberg. 



Camden and Curwen Families. — Camden, in 

 his Britannia., art. " Cumberland," mentions his 

 descent, by the mothei-'s side, from the Curwens 

 of Workington. Should any of your numerous 

 correspondents be able to trace their descent, he 

 would much oblige a member of that family. H. C. 



Jartuare. — Can any of your readers oblige me 

 with any account of a printed book c^\Qi\Jartmire ? 

 Its date would be early in the sixteenth century, 

 if not earlier. W. (1.) 



JOHN BUNYAN AND HIS PORTRAIT. — DID BUNTAN 

 KNOW UOBBES ? 



(Vol. ii., pp. 476. 518. ; Vol. iii., p. 70.) 

 The best portrait of John Runyaii was drawn 

 and engraveil by White, to the Ilohj War., 1682. 

 The origiiud drawing, and a fine impression of the 

 engraving, is preserv(Ml in the illustrated Grainger's 

 History of England, in the print-room at the 

 liritisii Museum. It was copied in folio for Bun- 

 yan's Works. It has been recently copied for Mr. 



Bogue's elegant edition of the Pilgr-im, and for 

 the first complete edition of Bunyan's Wor-As, 

 now publishing by Messrs. Blackie and Sons, 

 Glasgow. A fac-simile was engraved for an edition 

 of the Pilgrim, by ]\Ir. Pickering, 8vo. 1849. 



That the great allegorist was not the author of 

 Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble is perfectly clear, 

 not only that the style is very different, but from 

 the author being known. It was first published 

 in 1690, under the initials of J. B., and the Epistle 

 is dated " From the house of my pilgrimage, 

 March, 1690." Bunyan died in August, 1688. 

 Mr. Palmer, in his Calamy, vol. ii. p. 16., states 

 that the author was James Birdwood. 



AVhethor Bunyan was acquainted with Hobbes 

 depends upon the authority of a small volume of 

 Visions of Heaven and Hell, published under the 

 name of Bimyan. In this it is represented that he 

 saw poor Hobbes in hell, and recognised an old 

 acquaintance. 



The earliest edition of The Visions which I have 

 been able to discover, is at " London : printed for 

 Edward Midwinter, at the Looking Glass upon 

 London Briilge, price, bound, one shilling;" with- 

 out date. It was printed early in the reign of 

 George I. ; this is seen in an advertisement of 

 books at the end, among which is The Lives of the 

 Monarchs of England to his present Majesty King 

 George. It is entitled. The Visions of John Bim- 

 yan, being his last remains. There is no account of 

 either of this, or the Heart's Ease, in The Strnggler 

 for the Preservation of Mr. John Bunymis Labours. 

 This gives a list of forty-three works published by 

 him, and of seventeen left by hira at his decease for 

 publication. If T'he Visions were written by him, 

 it must have escaped the search of his widow and 

 surviving friends ; but the style at once proves that 

 it was not a production of his prolific pen. Bun- 

 yan's style was remarkably simple and plain. The 

 following phrases e.xtracted from The Visions will 

 carry conviction to every reader : — 



" Movmo's of a future state," "metempsychosis of 

 nature," " nefiindous viltanies," " diurnal and annual," 

 "iny visive faculty," "soul-transparent and diaplionous," 

 " translucid ray," "terrene enjoyments," "our minds 

 are clarified," "types lioth of the ante and post-diluvian 

 world," " tlie tenuity thereof," " the aereal heavens," 

 " effluxes of divine glory," '•all enigmas," "corrusca- 

 tions of liis divine nature," " Solomon's mysticlc epi- 

 thala-.nium," " thecpiphonema," "])ropinqnity in nature," 

 " diversified refractions," " too hright and too diaplio- 

 nous," " sweet odes and eniplialamics," " amaraiuine 

 crown," "bright corruscancy," "palinodies and elegies," 

 "no cataplasm," " eccentricks quite exterminate," 

 " mutual assassinates," &c. &c. 



Such phrases and terms plain John Bunyan ut- 

 terly despise<l. They prove, as does the whole 

 plan of the treatise, that it must have been a very 

 difliirent man to the author of the Pilgrim's Pro- 

 gress who wrote these Visiom. 



