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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 96. 



In the last line of the first page, Salhanas should 

 be Sathanas : 



" And so slew Jesu Sathanas," 



reminding us of the tradition mentioned by Dr. 

 lliMBAULT, " the Devil died when Christ sttffered" 

 not when he was horn. S. W. Singer. 



Mickleham, Auj?. 18. 1851. 



Hc})Ite^ to :^tnor cauertcig. 



Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest (Vol. iii., pp. 443. 

 522.; Vol. iv., pp. 44. 92. 108.). — Erza regrets 

 extremely the mistake she has made with regard 

 to the above poem. The person from whom, and 

 the circumstances iinder which she received it, all 

 tended to confirm her in her error till the last 

 moment — with which, if the authoress of this 

 beautiful poem were acquainted, Erza is sure she 

 would be forgiven. 



[To these regrets on the part of Eiiza we have to 

 add the expression of our own that our columns should 

 have been made the medium of a statement which it is 

 obvious originated in error. We regret also that, alter 

 the contradictions given to the first statement, Ekza 

 should, without a positive knowledge of the real facts 

 of the case, have reiterated in such strong terms the 

 claims of Lady Flora Hastings to the authorship of a 

 poem which it is now quite clear is really the pro- 

 ductiori of Miss Barber.] 



" The Right Divine of Kings to govern ivrong " 

 (Vol. iv., p. 125.). — i cannot concur in Mr. 

 Crossley's conjecture tliat the marks of quotation 

 affixed to this line in the eighteenth book of the 

 Dunciad may have been a mere error of the press ; 

 because, in the first place, I do not find that tlie 

 Dunciad is more negligently printed than other 

 works of the day. I should say ratlier less so ; but 

 (which is more important) any one who will look 

 at the successive editions will, I think, be satisfied 

 that the remarkable typography of the line, care- 

 fully reproduced in all, could not be accidental. 

 This matter is less trifling than it at first sight 

 may seem, because there are several lines in Pope's 

 works similarly marked as quotations, on which 

 questions have arisen ; and my belief is that 

 everything so marked will turn out to have really 

 been a quotation, though in this case, and in that 

 other, 



" No Lord's anointed but a Russian bear," 

 ■we have, as yet, failed to find the original. C. 



Fairlight Church (Vol. iv., p. 57.). — The old 

 church was Early English ; the original windows 

 were lancet-shaped. It was built, like all the 

 adjoining churches, of stone ; but it had been re- 

 paired with brick, and the roof of the tower had 

 been covered with tiles instead of shingles. The 

 earliest brick building in Sussex, after the Ro- 



man period, is Herstmoneeux Castle, built by Sir 

 Roger de Fynes, treasurer of the household to 

 Henry VI. AV. D. Cooper. 



Dogmatism and Puppyism (Vol. iv., p. 102.). — 

 The quotation your correspondent writes about is 

 to be found in Mr. Douglas Jerroi-d's A Man 

 Made of Money, p. 252. : 



" ' Robert, my dear,' said Jenny, with the deferential 

 air of a scholar, ' Robert, what did Mr. Carraways 

 mean when he said he hated dog — dogmatism?' Topps 

 was puzzled. ' Robert, my dear,' Jenny urged, 'what 

 ■ — what in the world is dogmatism?' Now it was the 

 weakness of Topps, never to confess ignorance of any- 

 thing soever to liis wife. ' A man should never do it,' 

 Topps had been known in convivial seasons to declare; 

 'it makes 'em conceited.' \Vliereupon Topps prepared 

 himself, as was his wont, to make solemn, satisfying 

 answer. Taking off his hat, and smoothing the 

 wrinkles of his brow, Topps said, ' Humph ! what is 

 dogmatism ? Why, it is this, of course : dogmatism 

 is puppyism come to its full growth.' " 



Ed. Steane Jackson. 

 Saffron Walden, Aug. 10. 



Was Stella Swift's Sister f (Vol. iii., p. 450. ; 

 Vol. iv., p. 110.). — That Swift was the son of Sir 

 William Tenqile seems to have been completely 

 disproved by Mason. Swift was born in Dublin, 

 30th November, 1667, in the house of his uncle 

 Godwin Swift, who, after the death of his younger 

 brother, Jonathan, in the preceding April, took 

 charge of his widow. Sir William Temple appears 

 from his letters to have been abroad in a public 

 capacity from 1665 to 1670. If, therefore, there 

 existed such consanguinity between Swift and 

 Stella as to be a bar to their marriage, it must 

 have arisen in some other way. Swift says that 

 Stella " was born at Riclnnond in Surrey, on 

 13th March, 1681 ; her father being the younger 

 brother of a good family in Nottinghamshire [Qy. 

 Sir Wm. Temple ? Sheen, where he resided, was 

 close by], her mother of a lower degree." There 

 can be little doubt that she was illegitimate. The 

 question arises, who was her motiier ? On this 

 point the Richmond registry might perhaps throw 

 some light. Has it ever been searched ? In order 

 that the supposed consanguinity should have ex- 

 isted, her mother must have been either Swift's 

 mother, Abigail Swift (jiee Erick) of Leicester- 

 shire, or (what seems more probable) an illegiti- 

 mate half-sister of Swift. It has been surmised, 

 however, that an impediment to Swift's marriage 

 of an entirely dilferent nature from consanguinity 

 may have existed ; or that, feeling himself to be 

 labouring under an hereditary disease, he may 

 have been unwilling to propagate it. I am much 

 inclined to think that the objection to the mar- 

 riage of Swift and Stella, which certainly must 

 have existed, was of this last description ; and that 



