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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 75. 



siding in the citty of Yorke. By W'^^ letter he did 

 desire the sayd S"' Thomas Herhert to informe him of 

 such materiall passages, as he had observed toucliing 

 the late king Charles the first (of blessed memory) 

 during the time that he the sayd S' Thomas did 

 attend him in person; B' for the two last yeares of his 

 afflicted life." 



The other Mss. alluded to are preserved in the 

 Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The most im- 

 portant is No. 1141., which is minutely described 

 in the admirable catalogue compiled by JNIr. Black. 

 A transcript of the Tlirenodia Carolina by Ant. "A, 

 Wood, also in the Ashmolean Museum, is recorded 

 by riuddesford. 



As there were two recensions of the narrative, I 

 have added a specimen of each of the Haileian 

 Mss., which may serve as a clue to the nature of 

 other copies, whether in public libraries, or in 

 private hands. 



" The Lords ordered a girdle or circumscription of 

 Capitall Letters to be cutt in Lead and putt about the 

 Coffin, being onely these wordes 



King Cuaiii.es 

 1648. 

 The kings body was then brought from the chamber 

 to Saint Georges hall, whence after a Little pause, it 

 was w**" a slow pase & much sorrow carrye'd by those 

 gentlemen that were in mourninge : the Lords in 

 blacks following the royall Corpcs & many gentlemen 

 alter them, and their attendants." — 'I'urenodja Ca 

 KOLiNA, p. .36. Harleian MS. 7,396. 



" Tlie girdle or circumscription of Capitall Letters 

 in Lead putt about the Coffin had onely these wonls. 



King- Charles, 

 1648. 

 The Kings body was then brought from his Bed- 

 chamber, downe into S' Georges-hall ; whence after a 

 little stay, itt was with a slow and solemn pace (much 

 sorrow in most faces discernable) carryed by gentle- 

 men that were of some quallity and in mourning, the 

 Lords in like habitts followed the Royall Corps, the 

 Governor, and severall gentlemen, and officers, and 

 attendants came after." — Carolina Threnodia, p. 80. 

 Harleian MS. 4705. 



Bolton Corney. 



Sir Thomas Herberts Memoirs of diaries I. — 

 The question suggested by Mr. Gattt's first note 

 upon this subject was one of some importance, 

 viz., whether the original ISIS, in the possession of 

 his friend ct)ntained anything of Sir Thomas Her- 

 bert's not hitherto published? There is no doubt 

 that the " Memoir of the two last years of King 

 Charles I." was written by Sir Thomas Herbert, 

 after his retirement to his native city of York, at 

 the request of the author of the Athevce Oxonienses, 

 who made use of nearly the whole of it in compil- 

 ing that great work, adapting diifereut portions to 

 his biographical notices of the persons to whom 

 they principally related. The notices of Colonel 

 Joyce and Colonel Cobbet are chiefly composed of 



extracts from Herbert's Memoir; wliilst under the 

 name ol' Herbert liimsilf not more than about 

 one-third of his own communication will be found. 



The first edition of the Athena was not pub- 

 lished until 1691, several years after Sir Thomas 

 Herbert's death ; and the memoir in a complete 

 form, with the title of Threnodia Carolina, did not 

 aj)pear until the year 1702, when it was published 

 by Dr. Charles Goodall, jihysician to the Charter 

 House, together with other tracts relating to 

 Charles I. This is doubtless the volume desciibcd 

 by Mr. Bolton Cornet (Vol. iii., p. 157.), who 

 will, I hope, favour yuur readers with the infor- 

 mation requested by Mr. GattV (p 222.). 



The Memoir, as published in 1813 by G. and 

 \V. Nicol, Booksellei-s, Pall ]\Iall, })rol'esses to be 

 a faithful reprint of the former edition of 1702. 

 The couimencing and concluding ])aragraphs in 

 this reprint are j)recisely the same as those tran- 

 scribed by Mr. Gatty's friend from the MS. in 

 his possession. His idea, that an incorrect copy 

 of his MS. was improperly obtained, and published 

 in 1813, seems to be without foundation. A. 



JHtuor ^ntcS. 



Shahspeure's Venus and Adonis. — The following 

 extract from an advertisement in the St- James's 

 Chronicle, A))ril 15, 1779, is worth a note as il- 

 lustrative of the altered value of the book 

 referred to : — 



" If any person is possessed of an impression of 

 Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis, 'iio. Print d by Ricliard 

 Field for John Harrison, 1593, and will bring it to 

 Mr. Thomas Longman, bookseller, in Paternoster How, 

 he will receive one guinea for it." 



Malone gave 25/. for the copy in his collection 

 in the Bodleian. J. F. M. 



Moor fields in Charles TI.'s Time. — I copy this 

 from The New Help to Discourse, published about 

 1670: 



" .Two gentlemen of Stepney going homewards over 

 Moor-fields, about twelve of the clock at night, were 

 staid by an impertinent constable wi'li many frivolous 

 questions, more by half to show his office than his wit; 

 one whereof was, If tliey were not afraid to go home 

 at that time of the niglit? They answered, 'No.' 

 'Well,' said he, 'I shall let you pass at this time; 

 but if you should be knockt on tlie head before you 

 get liome, you cannot hut report that there was a good 

 watch kept in Moor-fields." 



Blowen. 



Yankee, Derivation of. — The word Yankee is 

 nothing more than the word English so trans- 

 formed by the imperfect pronunciation of the 

 natives of Massachusets — Yenghis, Yanghis, Yai- 

 kies. The orthography of this much-used epithet, 

 which is not given, we believe, in any English or 

 American work, was communicated to M. Philarcte 



