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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 94. 



the last object of dissipation ! the expiring evidence 

 of combustion! the lingering cloudiness of solution ! 



Pseudo MSS. — The Devil, Cromicell and his 

 Amours. — It is too bad! In Vol. iii., p. 282., 

 there is a good page and a half taken up with a 

 verbatim extract from Echard, which has either 

 been alluded to or quoted by every writer on 

 Cromwell irom Echard's time down to a few months 

 arfo, when it appeared in Chambei-ss Papei's for 

 the People, No. 11. Again, in Vol. iv., p. 19., 

 there is another page and a half relating to Crom- 

 well, which, I fearlessly assert, I have seen fre- 

 quently in print, but cannot at present tell wdiere ; 

 and moi-e important avocations forbid me to search. 

 As if that w-as not enough, in Vol. iv., p. 50. there 

 is another half page respecting the preservation of 

 these precious MSS.! Is it not too bad? Do, 

 worthy I\Ir. Editor, make the amende honorahle 

 by publishing the true characters of the MSS. 

 forwarded by S. 11. II., which you have so inad- 

 vertently published as original. W. Pixkerton. 



[Our correspondent seems to doubt that the com- 

 munications to which he refers were really printed from 

 contemporary MSS. The Editor is rfl)le to vouch foi 

 that having been certahily the fact. They are not 

 printed from transcripts from Echard, but from real 

 MSS. of the time of Charles II., or thereabouts; 

 while the fact of these early transcripts having been 

 printed surely does not furnish any argument against 

 the valuable suggestion of S. H. H. as to llie preserva- 

 tion of similar documents for the use of the public, and 

 in the manner pointed out in his communication. — Ed.] 



Anonymous Bavennas (Vol. i., pp. 124. 220. 368.; 

 Vol. iii., p. 462.). — Your correspondents have ne- 

 glected to observe that this authors Chorography 

 of Britain was published by Gale, " ad calcem 

 Antonini Iter 13ritainiiarum," viz., BritannicB 

 Chorographia cum Aittographo Regis Gallia; Ms°. 

 et Codice Vaticano collafa; Adjiciuntiir conjecturcc 

 pluriniCB cum nominihus locorum Anglicis, quotquot 

 Us assignnri poturrint : Londini, 1709, 4to. 



A copy of the edition of Annmjnd Ravennatis 

 Geographim Lihri Quinqxie (of the last of which 

 the Chorography of Britain forms a part) noticed 

 by J. 1. (Vol. i., p. 220.) is now before me; as also 

 a later edition, published by the editor's son, 

 AbramGronovius: Lugduni Batavoriun, 1722, 8vo. 



Horsley's Britannia Romana, book iii. chap, iv., 

 contains " 1. Some account of this author and his 

 work ; 2. The Latin text of this writer * ; 3. Re- 

 marks upon many of the places mentioned by him, 

 and more particulai-ly of such as seem to be the 

 same with the stations per lineam valli in the 

 Notitia." His remarks are diametrically opposite 

 to the conjectures of Camden and Gale. T. J. 



* The Chorography from Gale's edition. 



Margaret Maultasch (Vol. iv., p. 56.). — Your 

 correspondent who inquires where he can meet 

 with the particulars of the life of Margaret, sur- 

 named Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, will find 

 them in the Supplement of the Biographic Uni- 

 versclle, vol. l.xxiii. p. 136. 



The great heiress in question, though a monster 

 of ugliness, was twice married: first to John 

 .Henry, son of "Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia 

 (1331), from whom she procured a divorce on 

 the plea of his incapacity; and, secondly (1341), 

 to Louis of Bavaria, eldest son of the Emperor 

 Louis IV., by whom she had a son, Mainard, who 

 died without issue during his motlier's lifetime. 



I know not upon what authority rest the im- 

 puted irregularities of her life, but her biographer, 

 in the article above mentioned, casts no such slur 

 upon her cliaracter. Nor can I discover that the 

 armorial bearings of the town of Halle, in Tyrol, 

 have any such significant meaning as has been 

 hinted at. They are to be found in Matthew 

 jMerian's Topograpliia Provinciarum Austriacarum, 

 printed at Frankfort on the ilaine in 1649, en- 

 graved on the view of Halle, at p. 139., and ap- 

 pear to be a cask or barrel, supported hj two lions. 

 There is no statue of jSIargaret Maultasch among 

 those which surround the mausoleum of Emperor 

 Maximilian (not Matthias} in the Franciscan 

 church at Inspruck ; but her ludicrously hideous 

 features may be found amongst the historical por- 

 traits engraved in the magnidceut work descrip- 

 tive of the Museum of Versailles, published a few 

 years ago at Paris, under the ausi)ices of King 

 Louis Philippe. AV. S. 



Denton, July 28. 



Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace 

 (Vol. i., p. 2.30. ; Vol. iv., p. 58.). — Ts your cor- 

 respondent C. correct in attributing A true Cha- 

 1-acter of Mr. Pope and his Writings, in a Letter to 

 a Friend, printed for Pop[)ing, 1716, to Oldmixon? 

 In the Testimonies of Authors, prefixed to the 

 Dunciad, and the Appendix, and throughout the 

 Notes, Dennis is uniformly quoted and attacked as 

 the autlior. Oldmixon's I'eud with Pope was 

 hardly, I think, so early. 



Assuming your correspondent's quotation from 

 the pamphlet to be correct, the terms made use of 

 will surely refer to Pope's Imitation of Horace 

 (S. ii. L. i.), a fragment of which was published by 

 Curll about this time (1716). It was afterwards 

 republished in fulio about 1734, printed for 

 J. Boreman, under the title of Sober Advice from 

 Horace to the young Gentlemen aboid Town, but in 

 an enlarged state, and with some of the initials 

 altered, and several new adaptations. Mrs. Old- 

 field and Lady IMary are not introduced in the 

 first edition. I have both, but at present can only 

 refer to the second one in folio. From this the 

 Imitation was transferred to the Supplement to 



