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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 80. 



Disinterment fo7- Heresy (Vol. iii., p. 240.). — 

 Mr. Tracy's will, dated lOtli October, 2-2d Henry 

 VIII. [1530], is given at length in Hall's Chronicle 

 (ed. 1809, p. 79G ), where will be found the par- 

 ticulars of the case to which Aeun alludes. See 

 also Burnet's History of the Refo/mation (ed. 1841, 

 vol. i. pp. 125. 657, 658. 673.), and Strype's Annals 

 of the Reformation, vol. i. p. 507. Slrype states 

 that Mr. Tracy's body was dug \\p and burnt 

 "anno 1532." William Tyndale v.'rote Exposition 

 on Mr. Will. Trades Will, published in 8vo. at 

 Nuremburgli, 1546. (Wood's Athen. Oxon., vol. i. 

 p. 37.) C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, April 2. 1851. 



" AVilliam Tracy, a worshipful esquire in Glou- 

 cestershire, and then dwelling at Todington," made 

 a will, which was thought to contain heretical sen- 

 timents. His executor having brought in this 

 will to be proved two years after Tracy's death 

 (in 1532), "the Convocation most cruelly judged 

 that he should be taken out of the ground, and 

 burnt as an hcretick," which was accordingly done; 

 but the chancellor of the diocese of Worcester, to 

 whom the commission was sent for the burning, 

 was fined 300/. for it by King Henry VIII. Such 

 is the story in Fox's Martyrs, anno 1532 (vol. ii. 

 p. 262. ed. 1684, which I have before me). 



ExoN. 



The date and some particulars of the exlnimatiou 

 of tlie body of W. Tracy, Esq., of Toddington 

 Park, ancestor of the ])resent Lord Sudeley, Arun 

 will find in Foxe's Acts and Monuments, vol. v. 

 p. 31. ed. 1843, and the note in appendix will 

 point out other sources. Novus. 



The Vellum-hound Junius (Vol. iii., pp. 262. 307.). 

 — In the Number dated April 19, 1851, p. 307., is 

 a request for information relative to the "Vellum- 

 bound copy of Junius;" also a reference to the 

 subject in a prior number of the " Notes and 

 Queries." Not being in England, and not having 

 the prior numbers, it is not possible to make my- 

 self acquainted with the subject contained in that 

 reference, but I will endeavour to throw some light 

 on the Query in the Number which has been for- 

 warded to me. The writer of the Letters of 

 Junius was the secretary of the first JNIarquis of 

 Lansdowne, better known as Lord Shelburne. 

 From his Lordship he obtained all the political 

 information necessary for his compositions. The 

 late Marquis of Lansdowne possessed the copy 

 bound in vellum (two volumes), witli many notes 

 on the margin in Lord Shclburne's handwriting; 

 they were kept locked up in a beautiful ebony 

 casket bound and ornamented with brass. That 

 casket has disappeared, at least so I have been 

 told, and not many years ago inquiry was made for 

 it by the present head of that house. JMaclean 

 was a dark, strong-featured man, who wore his hat 



slouched over his eyes, and generally a large cloak, 

 lie often corrected the slips or proofs of his letters 

 at Cox's, a well-known printer near Lincoln's Inn, 

 who deemed himself bound in honour never to 

 divulge what he knew of that publication, and was 

 agitated when once suddenly spoken to on the 

 subject near the door of the small room in which 

 the proofs were corrected, and with a high and 

 honourable feeling requested never to be again 

 spoken to on the subject. The late President of 

 the Royal Academy, Eenjamin West, knew Mac- 

 lean; and his son, the late Raphael West, told the 

 writer of these remarks, that when a young man 

 he had seen him in the evening at his father's in 

 Newman Street, and once heard him repeat a 

 passage in one of the letters which was not then 

 published. A more correct and veracious man 

 than Mr. R. West could not be. Jlaclean stam- 

 mered, and was consequently of no use to Lord 

 Shelburne as a debater and supporter in parlia- 

 ment. A place in the East Indies was obtained 

 for him, and he sailed in the Aurora frigate for 

 that dependency, and was lost in her at the 

 same time with Falconer, the author of the poem 

 entitled The Shipwreck. The able tract published 

 by Mr. Pickering, Piccadilly, would constitute a 

 fair foundation on which to build the inquiry. 



^GROTUS. 



Pursuits of Literature (Vol. iii., p. 240). — I 

 trust that the following notes may be useful in 

 assisting your correspondent S. T. D. to ascertain 

 " how the author of the Pui-suits of Literature 

 became known." The first edition of the first 

 part of the Pursuits of Literature appears to 

 have been published in quarto, by J. Owen, 168. 

 Piccadilly, in 1794. In a volume of pamphlets I 

 have the above bound up with the following : — 



" The Sphinx's Head Broken : or a Poetical Epistle, 

 with notes to Thomas James M*th»*s, Cl*rk to the 

 Q.***n's Tr**s*r*r. Proving him to be the author of 

 ihe Pursuits of Literature : a Satirical Poem. With 

 occasional Digressions and Remarks. By Andrew 

 Qidipus, an injured Author. London : Printed for 

 J. Bell, No. 148. Oxford Street, opposite New Bond 

 Street, mdccxcviii." 



This epistle is a very severe casligation for 

 Mathias, whom (Edipus styles the " little black 

 jogging man," whose 



" Politics and religion are very well, but he is a de- 

 testable ])edant, and his head is a lumber-garret of 

 Greek quotations, which he raps out as a juggler does 

 ribbands at a country fair." 



And speaking of " Chuckle Bennet," he calls him 

 in a note, 



" A good calf-headed bookseller in Pall Mall, the 

 intimate confidant and crony of little M*th**s, and 

 who, upon Owen's bankruptcy, published Part IV. of 

 Pursuits nf Literature himself." 



Of Owen, who published Part I., our author says ; 



