Feb. 15. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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a short time to follow the advice you have there 

 •riven to "superabundant brass-rubbers," of copy- 

 ing the inscriptions in the churches and church- 

 yards of the hundred of JManley. The plan I in- 

 tend to pursue is, to copy in full every inscription 

 of an earlier date than 1750; also, all more modern 

 ones which are in any way remarkable as relating 

 to distinguished persons, or containing any j)ecu- 

 liarity worthy of note. The rest 1 shall reduce 

 into a tabular form. 



The inscriptions of each church I shall arrange 

 chronologiciiUy, and form an alphabetical index to 

 each inscription in the hundred. 



By this means I (latter myself a great mass of 

 valuable matter may be accinnulated, a transcript 

 of which may not be entirely unworthy of a place 

 on the shelves of the British Museum. 



I have taken the liberty of informing you of my 

 intention, and beg that if you can suggest to me 

 any plan which is better calculated for the purpose 

 than the one I have described, you will do so. 



Would it not be possible, if a few persons in each 

 county were to begin to copy the inscriptions on 

 the plan that I have described, that in process of 

 time a cojiy of every inscription in every church 

 in England might be readv for reference in our 

 national library ? 



Perl)a[)S you will have the goodness, if you know 

 of any one who like myself is about to undertake 

 the task of copying inscriptions in his own neigh- 

 bourhood, to inform me, that I may communicate 

 with him, so that, if possible, our plans may be in 

 unison. Edw. Peacock, Jun. 



Bottesford Moors, Messingham, Kirton Lindsey. 



[We trust the example set by Mr. Hewett, and 

 now alioiit to be followed by our coi respondent, is 

 destinid to find many imitators.] 



eaucrt'c^. 



FIVE QUERIES AND NOTES ON BOOKS, MEN, AND 

 AUTHORS. 



1. Newhurgh Hamilton. — Can any of your reail- 

 ers inform me who Newlnirgh Hamilton was? He 

 wrote two pieces in my library, viz. (I.) PeUicoat 

 Plollvr^ a farce in two acts ; acted at Drury Lane 

 anil Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 1720, 12mo. 

 This has been mutilated by Henry Ward, a York 

 comedian, and actually printed by him as his own 

 production, in the collection of plays and poems 

 going under his name, puldished in 1745, 8vo., a 

 co[)y of which I purchased at Nassau's sale, many 

 years since. ("2.) Tlw Dodting Lovers., or thr: Li- 

 hertini; Tamed, a comedy in five acts ; acted in lAn- 

 coln's Inn Fields. It is declicalod to the Duchess 

 of Hamilton ami Brandon, whose " elegant taste 

 and nice ju<lgment in the nio-t polite entertain- 

 ments of the age," as well as her " piercing 

 wit," are eulogised. Accident gave me a copy of 



Mr. Hamilton's book-plate, which consists of the 

 crest and motto of the ducal race ot Hamilton in 

 a very curious framework, — the top being a row 

 of music-books, whilst the sides and bottom are 

 decorated with musical instruments, indicative, 

 probably, of the tastes of Mr. Hamilton. 



2. The Children's Petition. — I have also a very 

 extraordinary little book, of which I never saw 

 another copy. It formerly belonged to Michael 

 Lort, and is entitled 



" The Cliildren's Petition, or a Modest Remon- 

 strance of that Intoleral)le Grievance our Youth lie 

 under, in the accustomed Severities of the School Dis- 

 cipline of this Nation. Humbly presented to the 

 Consideration of the Parliament. Licensed Nov. 10. 

 1669, by Roger L'Estrange. London, 1669. 18mo." 



The object of this most singular production is to 

 put down the flagellation of boys in that particular 

 part of the body wherein honour is said to be 

 placed ; and the arguments adduced are not very 

 easily answered. The author, whoever he was, 

 had reason, as well as learning, on his side I am 

 not aware of any other copy north the Tweed ; 

 but there may be copies in some of the libraries 

 south of that river. 



3. Dr. Anthony Hornech. — Do any of the letters of 

 the once celebrated Dr. Anthony florneck exist in 

 any library, public or private ? His only daughter 

 married Air. Barneveldt ; and his son, who served 

 with IVIarlborough, left issue, which failed in the 

 male line, but still exists in the fenude line, in the 

 representative of Henry William Bunting, Esq., 

 the caricaturist. The writer of these Queries is 

 the direct descendant of Mrs. Barneveldt, and is 

 anxious to know whether any unpublished MSS. 

 of his ancestors still exist. There was a Philip 

 Horneck who in 1709 published an ode inscribed 

 to his excellency the Earl of Wharton, wherein lie 

 is described as LL.B., a copy of which 1 have. 

 There can be no doubt he is the individual intro- 

 duced by Po[)e in the Dunciad, book iii. line 152. ; 

 but what I wish to know is, whether he was a son 

 of Dr. Horneck, and a brother of the general. 



4. In Clirt'ord's History of the Paid of Tixall, 

 the name of the real author of Gandentio di Lucca 

 is given. E\ery reliance may be attached to the 

 accuracy of the information there given, not only 

 on ac(;ount of the undoubted respectability of the 

 author, but fi'om the evident means of knowledge 

 which he, as a Roman Catholic of distinction, must 

 have had. 



5. The Travels of Baron Mnnchavsen were 

 written to ridicide Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, 

 whose adventures were at the time deemed ficti- 

 tious. Bruce was a most upright, lioiu'st man, 

 and recorded nothing but what he had seen ; never- 

 tlieless, as is always the case, a host of detrai^tors 

 buzzed about him, and he was so much vexed at 

 the impeachment of his veracity, that he let them 

 get. their own way. Aluuchausen, a veritable 



