NOTES AND QUEIIIES: 



A MEDIUM OP INTER-COMMUNICATION 

 LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



""When found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttle. 



No. 69.] 



Saturday, February 22. 1851. 



J Price, SixpencR. 



I Stamped Edition., 'Jri. 



CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



The Rolliad, hy Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, &c. - - 129 



Note on Palaraon and Arcite . _ _ - 131 



Fulk Lore : — " Snail, Snail, come out of yonr Hole" — 

 The Evil Eve — " Millery, Millery, Dousty-poll," 

 &c. — " Nettle in. Dock out " ■ - - - 132 



The Scaligers, by Waldegrave Brewster - . - 133 



IneJited B^allad on Truth, by K. R H. Mackenzie - 134 

 Minor Notes: — Ayot St. La'wrence Church — Johannes 

 Secondus — Parnel — Dr. Johnson — The King's 

 Messengers, by the Rev. W. Adams — Parallel Pas- 

 sages — Cause of Rarity of William I V.'s Copper C<nn- 

 age— Buroet — Coleridge's Opinion of Defne — Miller's 

 " Pliilosophy of Modern History" — Anticipations of 

 Modern Ideas or Inventions — " Sun, stand thou still 

 upon Gibeon ! " — Langley's Polidore Vergile, &c - I.S5 



Queries : — 



Bibliographical Queries - - - . - 138 



Shakipeare's " Antony and Cleopatra" - - - 139 



Greene's " Groathsworth of Wilte," by J. O. Halliwell - 140 

 Mnior Queries: — Fronte Capillata — Prayer of Bishop 

 of Nantes — Advantage of a Bad Ear — Imputed Let- 

 ters of Sullustius or Sailustius — Rev. W. Adams — 

 Mr. Beard, Vicar of Greenwich — Goddard's History 

 of Lynn — Sir Anilrew Chadwick — Saiigaree — King 

 Jnhn at Lincoln — Canes lesi — Headings of Chapters 

 in English Bibles — Abbot Eustacius and Angodus de 

 I.indsei — Oration against Demosthenes — Pun — 

 Sonnet (query ny Milton ?) — Medal given to Howard 



— Withers' Devil at Sarum — Election of a Pope — 

 Battle in Wiltshire - Colonel Kell — Tennyson's " In 

 Memoriam " — Magnum Sedile — Ace of Diamonds : 

 tiie Earl of Cork — Closing of Kooras on accoinit of 

 Death — ^standfast's C')rdial Comforts — " Predeceased" 

 and"Designed"— Lady Fights at Athertoa, &;c. - 140 



Replies: — 



The Episcopal Mitre and Papal Tiara, by A. Rich, 

 Jun., .10. - - - - - - - 144 



Dryden's Essay upon Satire, by J. Crossley - - 146 



f onndation-stnne of St Mark's at l^enice - - 147 



Histoire des Sevarambes ----- 1,17 



Touching for the Evil, by C. H. Cooper - - - 148 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Forged Papal Bulls — 

 Obeism — Pillgarlitk — Hornbooks — Bacon — Lachry- 

 matories — Scnclal against Queen Elizabeth — Mean- 

 ing of Cefn — Poitrait of Atchb shop Williams — 

 Sir Alexander Cummnig — Pater-no. ler Tackling — 

 Welsh Words for W.iter — Early Culture of the 

 Imagination — Venville — Cum Grano .Salis — Hoops 



— Cranmer's Descendants — .Shakspeare's Use of tlie 

 Word " Captious " — Boiling to Death — Dozen of 

 Bread — Friday Weather — Saint Paul's Clock — Lu 

 nardi— Outline in Painting — Handbfdl before a (.'orpse 



— Brandon the Juggler — " Words are Men's Daugh- 

 ters " — "Fine by di'grees, and beautifully less" — 

 '• Ttie Soul's dark Cottage" — " B'autv Kctire" — 

 Mythology of the Stars — Simon Bache— Thesaurarius 

 Ilospitii — Winifreda — Queries on Costume — An- 

 tiquuas Specula Juventus Mimdi — Lady Bingham — 

 Prucianiationuf Langhuline Fair, &c. - - - 149 



Misccllaneouk : — 



Nutei on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. • • - V>S 



Books and Odd Vohnnes wanted - - - - 1.58 



NoiiciK to Correspondents ... - l.iS 



Advertisements ...... 159 



l^oteiS. 



THE ROLWAP. 



(22d Ed., 1812.) 



Finding that my copy of The Rolliad ("Notes 

 AND Queries," Vol. ii., p. 373.) contains fuller 

 information regarding tlie autliors tlian has yet 

 appeared in your valuable periodical, I forward 

 you a tmnscript of tiie MS. notes, most of which 

 are certified by the initial of Dr Lawrence, from 

 whose copy all of them were taken by the indi- 

 vidual who gave me the volume. 



W. C. Tkevelyan. 



Wallington, Morpeth. 



Advertisement. Dr. Lawrence. 



Advertisement to 4th Edition. Do. 



Explanation of Frontispiece and Title. Do. 



Dedication. Do. 



Rollo Family. E. T. and R. " This was the piece 

 first published, and the origin of all that followed." 



Extract from Dedication. Fitzpatrick. " The title 

 of these verses gave rise to the vehicle of Criticisms on 

 The Rolliad"— L. 



Criticisms. 



No. 1. Ellis. 'i'he passage in p. 2 , from "His 

 first exploit" to "what it loses in sublimity," "in- 

 serted by Dr. L. to preserve the parody of Virgil, and 

 break tliis number witli one more poetical passage." 

 — L. 



No 2. Ellis. " This vehicle of political satire 

 not proving immediately impressive, was here aban- 

 doned by its original projector, who did not take it up 

 again till the second part." — L. 



No A. Dr. Lawrence. Verses on Mr. Dundas by 

 G. Ellis. 



4. Richardson. 



5. Fitzpatrick. 



6. Dr. Lawrence. 



7. Do. 



8. Do. 



9. Fitzpatrick. 

 10. Richardson. 

 1 L Do. 



12. Fitzpatrick. 



13. Dr. Lawrence. 



14. Do. 



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