July 19. 1851.] 



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The project now announced was formed by me, 

 as to its principal features, at the close of the year 

 1849; but not a line was written before the ap- 

 pearance of the advertisement of the 5th instant. 

 It had been communicated, however, in private, to 

 the editor of "jSTotes and Queries." To this 

 fact I have no doubt lie will cheerfully bear 

 witness. As the previous scheme of a Caxton 

 Testimonial was then almost forgotten, the idea 

 could not have been conceived in a spirit of ri- 

 valry. Nevertheless, if need be, I would oppose 

 to the utmost of my ability, and fearless of any 

 array of names which the rolls of literature may 

 furnish, the pekpetuation of a fiction. 



Bolton Coenet. 



Barnes Terrace, Surrey, July 15. 



SUPPOSED WITCHCRAFT. 



Cole, in his manuscript volume xlvi. p. 340. 

 gives the copy of a paper written at the begin- 

 ning of the seventeentii century, addressed to 

 some Justices in Quarter Sessions, though of what 

 county is not mentioned : — 



" Maye it please your worships to understand what 

 troubles, sicknesse, and losses the Petitioner hath suf- 

 fered, and in what manner theye happened, and by 

 plaine tokens and lyklyliood, by the meanes of this 

 woman and others ; but chiufly by her, as is gathered 

 by all conjectures. And first of all, a Boare which I 

 have, was in such ca>.e, tliat he could not crye nor 

 grunt as beforetyine ; neither could he goe, but creepe, 

 until we used some meanes to recover him ; but all 

 was to no purpose, untill such tyme as we sent for 

 Nicholas Wesgatc, who, when he saw him, said, ' He 

 was madd or bewitched ;' and my Wyfe using meanes 

 to give him some IMilke, he bit her by the hand, and I 

 fearing he was madd, sent after my wyfe, being toward 

 Norwich, that she might get something at the Apotlie- 

 caries to jirtvent the d;inger we feared : and th:it Horse 

 which my man did ryde upon after my wife, was taken 



lame as he returned back again, and suddenly after 

 was swollen lyke a Bladder which is blown, and died 

 within eight dayes. Nexte a Calfe was taken lame, 

 the legg turning upward, which was a strange sight to 

 them whoe did beholde the same. Suddenly after that 

 I had fyve Calves more, which would have sold for 

 xiijs. iiijrf. the Calfe, being sound and well in the 

 evening, and the next daye in the morning they were 

 in such case as wee could not endure to come nigh 

 them, by reason of a filthy noisome savour, theyre 

 hayre standinge upright on theyre backes, and theye 

 shakinge in such sorte as I never sawe, nor any other, 

 I suppose, lyveynge. Againe within a short space I 

 had another Calfe, which was taken so strangely, as if 

 the backe were broken, and much swollen, and within 

 the space of three or four dayes it dyed. And within 

 two or three dayes after, another Calfe was taken in 

 such sorte that it turned round about, and did goe as if 

 the backe were broken. Then was I wished to burne 

 it, and I carried the Calfe to burne it, and after it was 

 burned, 1 was taken with paynes and gripings, and soe 

 continued in such sort, uiityll slice came to my House ; 

 whereupon I did earnestly chide her, and said I would 

 beate her, and that daye, I prayse God, I was restored 

 to my former health." 



H.E. 



THE LATE SIR JOHN GRAHAM DALYELL, BARONET, 

 OF BINNS, N.B. 



This learned and accomplished gentleman was 

 born in 1776. He was educated for the Scottish 

 bar, to which he was called in the year 1797. 

 Within a year or two after he was enrolled as a 

 member of the Faculty, he produced his first 

 quarto. Fragments of Scottish History. This Avas 

 followed, iu the year 1801, by a collection of 

 Scottish Poems of the Sixteenth Century, in two 

 octavo volumes. In 1809 appeared a Tract chiefly 

 relative to Monastic Antiquities, ivith some Account 

 of a recent Search for the Remains of the Scottish 

 Kings interred in the Abbey of Dunfermline, the 

 first of four or five thin octavos, in which Mr. 

 Graham Dalyell called attention to those eccle- 

 siastical records of the north, so many of which 

 have since been printed by the Bannatyne, Mait- 

 land, and Spalding Clubs, under the editorial care 

 of j\Ir. Cosmo Iiines. A later and more laborious 

 work -ivas his Essay on the Darher Superstitions of 

 Scotland; a performance which einbodies the fruit 

 of much patient study in rare and little read works, 

 and affords many curious glimpses of the poi)ular 

 mythology of the north. The long list of the pro- 

 ductions of Sir John Graham Dalyell closes with 

 his Musical l\Iemoirs of Scotland, published little 

 more than a twelvemonth ago. The deceased 

 baronet was distinguished also by his acquaintance 

 with mechanical science, and still more by his 

 knowledge of Natural History. Of the ZL'al with 

 which he jirosecuted this last pursuit, lie has left 

 a i!i"[ual monument in his Itarc and licmarkaUe 



