Aug. 16. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Pope's Work?, published by Cooper: London, 

 1757, 12mo., and from thence to the Supplement- 

 ary Volumes to the later editions. The publica- 

 tion of it formed an article of impeachment agamst 

 Dr. Jos. Warton, by the author of the Pursuits of 

 Literature, as all who have read that satire will 

 well remember. J^s. CuossLEr. 



Brother Jonathan (Vol. iii., p. 495.). — The 

 origin of this term, as applied to the United States, 

 is '"ivea in a recent number of the Norwich 

 Courier. The editor says it was communicated 

 by a gentleman now upwards of eighty years of 

 age, who was an active participator in the scenes 

 of the revolution. The story is as follows ; 



« When General Washington, after beinj; appointed 

 commander of the army of the revolutionary war, 

 came to iMassachusetts to organize it, and make pre- 

 parations for the defence of the country, he found a 

 "real want of ammunition and other means necessary 

 To meet the powerfnl foe he had to contend with, and 

 great difficulty to obtain them. If attacked in such 

 condition, the cause at once might be hopeless. On 

 one occasion at that anxious period a consultation of j 

 the officers and others was had, when it seemed no I 

 way could be devised to make such preparations as were | 

 necessary. His Excellency .Tonithan Trumbull the 

 elder was then governor of the State of Connecticut, , 

 on whose judgment and aid the general placed the ! 

 greatest reliance, and remarked, 'We must consult 

 Brother Jonathan on the subject.' The general did 

 so, and the governor was successful in supplying many 

 of the wants of the army. When difficulties afterwards 

 arose, and the army was spread over the country, it 

 became a by-word, ' We must consult Brother Jo- 

 nathan.' The term Yankee is still applied to a portion, 

 but ' Brother Jonathan ' has now become a designation 

 of the whole country, as John Bull has for England." 



Dictionary of Americanisms, by John Russell Bartlett, 



1849. 



H.J. 



CromwelVs Grants of Land in Monaghan (Vol. 

 iv., p. 87.). — E. A. asks whether there are any 

 grants of land in the county of Monaghan recorded 

 as made by Cromwell, and where such records are 

 preserved? I fear I can give but a negative 

 answer to the question : but among the stores of 

 the State Taper Office are many books of orders, 

 letters, &c. during the Commonwealth. _ Among 

 them are two bundles dated in 1653, which relate 

 to the lands granted by lot, to the adventurers who 

 had advanced money tor the army, in tlie different 

 provinces of Ireland. Monaghan is not mentioned. 



Spec. 



Stanedge Pole (Vol. iii., p. 391.). — In answer 

 to your correspondent A. N., I beg to state that 

 StanedL'e Tole is between six and seven miles 

 from Siieflield, on the boundary line between 

 Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on a long causeway 

 which was in former times the road from York- 

 shire to Manchester. Its only antif^uity consists in 



having been for centuries one of the meers marking 

 the b"oundaries of Hallamshire. In Harrison's 

 Surveij of the Manor of Sheffield, 1637, appears 

 an account of the boundaries as viewed and seen 

 the 6th of August, 1574, from which the fol- 

 lowing is an extract : — 



" Item. From the said Hurkling Edge so forward 

 after the Rock to Stannedge, which is a nicer between 

 the said Lordsbipps (of Hallamshire and Hathersedge). 



" Item. From Stannedge after the same rock to a 

 place called the Broad Rake, which is also a nieer be- 

 t%veen the said Lordshlpps of Hallamshire and Ha- 

 thersedge." 



The situation is a very fine one, commanding a 

 very beautiful and extensive view of the sur- 

 rounding country.* H. J. 



Stanedge. 



Saskarville the Printer (Vol. Iv., p. 40.). — Bas- 

 kerville was interred in the grounds attached to 

 the house in which he lived, near Easy Row, Bir- 

 mingham. The land becoming valuable for build- 

 ing purposes, he was, after lying there about half 

 a century, disinterred and removed to the work- 

 shop of a lead merchant, named Marston, in Mon- 

 mouth Street, Birmingham. While tliere I saw 

 his remains. They were in a wooden coffin, which 

 was enclosed in one of lead. How long they had 

 been above ground I do not know, but certainly 

 not long. This, as far as T can recollect, is about 

 twenty-five years since. Tiie person who showed 

 me the body, and who was either one of the 

 IVIarstons or a manager of the business, told me he 

 had seen the coffins opened, and that the features 

 were then perfect. When exhibited to me the 

 nose and lips were gone, as were also two front 

 teeth, which had been torn from the mouth sur- 

 reptitiously and taken away. I understood that 

 it was known who had them, and that they would 

 be restored. The shroud w^as discoloured, I 

 presume from natural causes, being of a dirty 

 yellow colour, as thougli it had been drawn through 

 a clay pit. The texture and strength of the cloth 

 remained unaffected. Baskerville entertained pe- 

 culiar opinions on religious subjects. There was 

 a rumour of some efforts having been made to 

 deposit his remains in one of the church burial 

 grounds, but they were not successful. A year or 

 two ago, while in Birmingham, a snuff-box was 

 shown\ie, on the lid of which a portrait of Bas- 

 kerville was painted, which fully agreed with a 

 description of his person given me many years 

 previously by one who had known him. This 

 portrait had not, from its ajipearanee, been painted 

 very long. From its being there I infer that 

 there is in existence at least one original portrait 

 of this eminent printer. St. Johns. 



* Its elevation is, according to the Ordnance 

 Survey, H6.3 feet. 



