Mar. 29. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Giovanni Volpe or Master Wolfe (Vol. iii., 

 p. 188.). — This person was certainly never "phy- 

 sician to Queen Elizabeth," but ho may have 

 received from her Majesty the appointment of 

 apothecary, as he did from her successor. On 

 New-Year's day, 1605-6, John Vulp presented to 

 the king " a box of Indian plums," receiving in 

 return 7 oz. di. di. qr. of gilt plate ; he is then 

 named the last of five apothecaries who paid then- 

 votive offerings to royalty. (Xichols's Progresses, 

 Sf~c. of King James I., vol. i. p. 597.) In 

 1617 he had risen to be the king's principal 

 apothecary, and by the name of John \Volfg:ingo 

 Rumlero received " for his i'ee by the year 40 li." 

 as appears by the abstract of his iMajosty's revenue 

 attached to the pamphlet entitled TtKie brought to 

 Light by Time. From the name here given him, 

 it may be conjectured that he was rather from 

 Germany than Italy. However, he also went by 

 the {ilain English name of Master Yv'olfe. 



He is thus alluded to in the epilogue to Ben 

 Jonson's Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies, 

 when it was performed at Windsor in September, 

 1621: — 



" But, lest it prove like wonder to the siglit 

 To see a gipsy, as an ^-Etliiop, white, 

 Know th:it what dy'J our faces was an ointment 

 I\Iade and laid on by Master Woolfe's appointment, 

 Tile Count Lycanthropos." 



As lie was a man of such prominence in his 

 profession, probably many otlier notices of him 

 might be collected if didy " noted " as they occur. 



J. G. K 



^t^lie^ to iHtiinr (Eltin-tcS. 



Sir Andrew Chadwick (Vol. iii., p. 141.). — It was 

 stated in evidence, in a trial at Lancaster assizes, 

 Hilary Term, 1769, between Law and Taylor, 

 plaintiffs, and Duckworth and Vf ilkip.son, defend- 

 ants, I'espeeting the heirs at law of Sir Andrew 

 Chadwick, and their claim to his estates, that 

 " Ellis Ciiadwiclc married in Ireland a lady of 

 fashion, who had some connexion with her late 

 Majesty Queen Anne, and had issue by her the 

 late Sir Andrew Chadwick. Ellis, the father, 

 dying in his son's infancy, about the year 1693, 

 his widow brought her son Andrew over to England, 

 where lie was very early introduced at court, and 

 being contemporary with the young Duke of 

 Gloucester, became a great favourite with him, 

 was knighted, and had divers preferments." — From 

 the Attorney-General's JIS. Brief. The latter 

 part of this statement docs not appear to confa-m 

 the supposition recorded by Mr. J. N. Chadwick. 



F. K. 11. 



MuwLtcript of Bede (Vol. ii!., p. 180.). — The 

 volume in fpiestiou is entered in the Catalogue of 

 Tiioresby's MSS., No. 10. in the Ducatus Lcodicn- 

 nis, p. 72. 2d cd. 1816. The greater part of these 



MSS. came into the hands of Ralph Thoresby, 

 Jun., and, together with the coins, were disposed 

 of by public auction in March, 1764, by Whiston 

 Bristow, sworn broker. The MSS. were sold on 

 the third day, but the volume containing Bede 

 does not appear among them. The opinion 

 ibrmed by J. JM. of the age of this MS. is cer- 

 tainly erroneous, and being on paper it is more 

 probably of tiie fifteenth than the twelfth century. 

 The period of William Dadyngton, Vicar of Bar- 

 ton, might decide this. jn. 



MS. of Bede (Vol. iii., p. ISO.). — Your corre- 

 spondent will find a description of this MS. in the 

 catalogue of Th(U'esby's Sluseum, at the end of his 

 Ducatus Leodiensis, edit. 1715, fob, p. 515. He will 

 also, in Thoresby's Correspondence, 1832, 8vo. 

 vol. ii. p. 39., see a letter from Dr. John Smith, the 

 editor of Bede's History, respecting this manu- 

 script, the original of which letter is in my pos- 

 session. 



After many dismemberments, v.diat remained of 

 Thoresby's Museum, including his manuscripts, 

 was sold in Loudon in March, 1764, by auction. 

 Mr. Lilly, the bookseller of Pall Mall, had a priced 

 catalogue of this sale; and your correspondent, if 

 anxious to trace the pedigree of his MS. further, 

 can, I have no doubt, on application, get a reference 

 made to that catalogue. 



I take the present opportunity of mentioning 

 that, at Mr. Upcott's sale, when I became the 

 purchaser of the Thoresby papers, including his 

 LIS. diaries, his Album, and upwards of loOO 

 letters to him, a very small number of which were 

 printed in the collection, in two volumes, edited 

 by Mr. Hunter, one of the diaries, from May 14, 

 1712, to September 20, 1714, which was sold with 

 the lot, was after the sale found to be missing. It 

 subsequently came into the hands of a London 

 dealer, by whom it was sold to a Yorkshire gen- 

 tleman, as I understand, but whose name I have 

 not yet been able to trace. Should this meet his 

 eye, I will venture to appeal to his sense of justice, 

 entirely ignorant as I am sure he has been of the 

 " pedigree," to use your correspondent's ex- 

 pression, of his MS., whether he will allow it to 

 be longer separated from the series to which it 

 belongs, and which is incomplete without it. I 

 need hardly say, I can only expect to receive it on 

 the terms of repaying the price paid for it, and 

 which I should emlDrace with many thanks. 



Jas. Crossley. 



Manchester, I\Iarch 8. 1S5I. 



[The following advertisement of the missing IMS. 

 appeared in tlie Catalogue (No. 33., 184S) of Mr. 

 C. J. Hamilton, then of Castle Court, Biichin Lane, 

 now residing in the City Road, London : — '-Thoresby's 

 (llalph, antiquary of Leeds), Ditinj from May 14, 

 1712, to September a-J, 1714, an original unpublished 

 ]\I.S., containing much liighly interesting literary in- 

 formation, with autograph on fly-leaf, thick 8vo., 43S 



