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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 91. 



Mostyn Hall in Flintshire), in order tliat I might 

 avscertaiu the contents ; and on looking at them, I 

 discovered a plav in the autograph of Anthony 

 Mundv, with his signature at the end, and the date 

 {supplied by another hand) of December, 1595. 

 This ])lay, entitled "4 Buoke of John a Kent and 

 John a Cumber,"" seems to have been hitherto un- 

 known to all the writers on the hist(n-y of the 

 stage; and its plot and dialogue appearing to me 

 sufficiently curious to deserve publication, I lost 

 iio time in communicating my discovery to Mr. 

 .J. Payne Collier, under whose able editorship I am 

 happy to lenrn that the work (by permission of Mr. 

 Mostyn) will shortly be printed by the Shakspeare 

 Club. The object I now have in view in making 

 these remarks, is to point out an error relative to 

 MuNDY (as he spells his own name) which, if not 

 corrected, may acquire greater circulation than it 

 possesses even at present. In Warton's History 

 ^f English Poetry, 4to. vol. iii. p. ■292. 7t. (printed 

 in 178"!), at the close of his biographical account 

 ■of Mundy, he makes the following statement: 

 "He [Mundy] collected the arms of the county of 

 INUddlesex, lately transferred from Sir Simeon 

 Stuart's library to the British Museum;" and 

 this paragraph is copied word for word by 

 Chalmers l^writing in 1812), and inserted in his 

 Biographical Dictionary under the article JNIcnday 

 (Antony). As no record exists in my depart- 

 ment of any such transfer, I was desirous to 

 trace the truth of this assertion, which the date of 

 Chalmers could hardly have enabled me to do, 

 had 1 not fortunately consulted Nichols's Literary 

 Anecdotes, vol. viii. p. 645., where I found a letter 

 from the Rev. Michael Tyson to Gough, dated 

 June 10, 1777, in which he mentions the manu- 

 scripts then recently sold at the seat of Sir Simeon 

 Stuart, in HampshLi-e, and adds — 



" A bookseller opposite the Exchange l)Ought an 

 heialdical lot of eighteen volumes, big and little, for 

 which he asks twenty guineas: among them is Hawes's 

 {read Harvey's] original Suffolk Church Is'otes, and a 

 beautiful Visitation of Cambridge.'''' 

 With this clue Iliad little dllliculty in ascertaining 

 that the eighteen volumes alluded to were pre- 

 served among the Additional Manuscripts in the 

 British Museum, Nos. 4960 — 4977., and were 

 probably purchased of the bookseller named above. 

 I can trace no copy of the sale catalogue of Sir 

 Simeon Stuart's library; but this library must 

 have belonged to the third baronet of that name, 

 of Hartley'-Maudit, eo. Hants, who succeeded to 

 the title in 1761. The manuscripts in question 

 all belonged in the reign of Charles II. to Samuel 

 Waker, painter-stainer, in whose handwriting 

 many of them are, among which is No. 4964., thus 

 entitled: "Collections of Descents and Amies of the 

 Gentry of Middlesex, whereof loas noe visitation 

 generall of the same County, before that made by 

 Sir Henry St. George, Richmond Herald [in 1634], 



except 7 descents of these are entered in the old 

 visitation of Hertfordshire made in a" 1572; all 

 the rest are the collections of mee. Rich. IMundt." 

 It is evident that this iE the volume referred to 

 by Warton and Chalmers ; and no less certain, 

 that, by a careless blunder, the playwright Anthony 

 Mundy has been confounded with his namesake 

 Bichard Mundy, the painter-stainer, whose volumi- 

 nous heraldic labours are recorded in the Catalogue 

 of the Hurleian MSS., Nos. 1529—1534., 1536— 

 1566., 1570. 1571. and 1577. The Add. MS. 4964. 

 is, in reality, only an incomplete copy by AVaker 

 of jMundy's original manuscript, preserved in 

 MS. Harl. 155L 



I bes leave to annex the three following Queries. 



1. i)id any relationship exist between Anthony 

 and Richard Mundy ? 



2. What is the name of the bookseller who lived 

 "opposite the Exchange" in 1777? 



3. Can any copy of the sale catalogue of Sir 

 Simeon Stuart's library be referred to in existence? 



F. Madden. 



iHtiiar caucn'cS. 



17. Margaret Maultnsch — Arms of Halle. — In 

 " Marcel de Serres' Journey in Bavaria and the 

 Tyrol" (printed in AyWss s Pocket Mag . 1825), in 

 describing the statues ranged round the mauso- 

 leum of the Emperor Mathias in the Franciscan 

 church at Innspruck, he says : 



" Amidst the Princesses, Margaret Maultasch may 

 easily be discovered by the hideous conformation of 

 her moutli, and her eyes which glow with sensual de- 

 sires. The singular arms which may be seen over the 

 gates of Halle, but too plainly betoken the shameful 

 and licentious character of this insatiable female." 



Where can 1 read the life of this " hideous" 

 personage ? And what are the arms alluded to ? 

 She was Duchess of Tyrol, and her portrait is in 

 the Chateau d'Eu ; but I have never seen an 

 ensjraving. G. Creed. 



IS. Test of Strength of a 2?oi«.— What is the 

 test of the strength of a bow ? 



Does the distance the bow throws tlie arrow in- 

 crease in ratio to its strength? 



What was the length of the bows tised in the 

 good old times ? Were the botes then made of more 

 than one piece f Is there any advantage iji having 

 a bow of moi'e than tv^o pieces ? 



AVhat wood icere tlic cu-rows made of? 



TOXOPHLLUS. 



19. Vox Populi. — I have a copper coin in my 

 cabinet (halfpenny size) which I shall be glad to 

 have explained. 



The obverse has a bust laureate in profile to the 

 left, with the letter " P." close to the nose. The 

 bust appears to be of some popular Irish leader in 

 1760, as it is not like either to George II.'s or 



