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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 97. 



commenced his immortal poem ? Hear Mr. Turner 

 on the subject : 



" Milton could not be wholly unacquainted with 

 Junius ; and if he conversed with him, Junius was very 

 likely to have made Ca;dinon the topic of his discourse, 

 and n^.ay have read enough in English to Milton, to 

 liave fastened upon his imagination, without his being 

 a Saxon scholar." — Turner's Anylo- Saxons, vol. iii. 

 p. 316. 



Both Mr. Turner and Mr. Todd, however, appear 

 to lean to the opinion that Milton was not un- 

 skilled in Saxon literature, and mention, as an 

 argument in its favour, the frequent quotations 

 from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which occur in 

 the History. It is also worthy of note that Alex- 

 ander Gill, his schoolmaster, and whoso friendship 

 Milton possessed in no small degree, had pursued 

 his researches somewhat deep into the " well of 

 English undefiled," as appears from that extremely 

 curious, though little known work, the Logonomia 

 Ariglica. Saxonicus. 



English Sapphics. — I admired the verses fiuoted 

 by II. E. H. (Vol. iii., p. 525.) so much that 

 I have had them printed, but unfortunately have 

 no copy by me to send you. I quote them from 

 memoiy : 



PSALM CXXXVII. 

 Vi/ a Schonlhoy. 

 " Fast by thy stream, O Babylon ! reclining, 

 Woe-begone exile, to the gale of evening 

 Only responsive, my forsaken harp I 



Hung on the willows, 



Gush'd the big tear-drops as my soul remember'd 

 Zion, thy mountain-paradise, my country ! 

 When the fierce bands Assyrian who led us 

 Captive from Salem 



Claim'd in our mournful bitterness of anguish 

 Songs and unseasonVl madrigals of joyance — 

 ' Sing the sweet-temper'd carols that ye wont to 

 Warble in Zion.' 



Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever 

 Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion, 

 Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee, 

 Land of my fathers !" 



O. T. Dobbin. 



Hull College. 



The Tradescants (Vol. iii., p. 469.).— It is to be 

 hoped that the discovery by C. C. 11. of Dr. Du- 

 carel's note may yet lead to the obtaining further 

 information concerning the elder Tradescant. It 

 may go for something to prove beyond doubt thrt 

 he was nearly connected with the county of Kent, 

 which has not been proved yet. Parkinson says 

 that " he sometimes belonged to . . . Salisbury 

 . . . And then unto the Right Honorable the Lord 

 Wotton at Canterbury in Kent." See Parkinson's 

 Paradisus Terrestris, p. 152. (This must be the 

 same with Dr. Rimbault's Lord Weston, p. 353., 

 which should have been "Wotton.") We may 



therefore, in the words of Dr. Ducarel's note, 

 "consult (with certainty of finding information 

 concerning the Tradescants) the registers of 

 — apham, Kent." I should give the preference 

 to any place near Canterbury approaching that 

 name. 



It is worth noticing that the deed of gift of 

 John Tradescant (2) to Elias Ashmole was dated 

 in true astrological form, being " December ] 6, 

 1657, 5 hor. 30 minutes post merid." See Ash- 

 mole's Diary, p. 36. Blowen. 



Monumental Inscription, English Versioii (Vol. 

 iv., p. 88.). — I have a Note on this very epitaph, 

 made several years since, from whence ex- 

 tracted I know not ; but there is an English ver- 

 sion attached, which may prove interesting to 

 some readers, as it exactly imitates the style of the 

 Latin : 



cur- f- w- d- dis- and p- 



" A -s^d -icnd -rought -eath ease -ain." 



bles- fr- b- br- and ag- 



E. S. Ta>:lor. 



Ladi/ Petre's Monument (Vol. iv., p. 22.). — AA'ill 

 the following passage, from Murray's Handbook to 

 Southern Germany, throw any light on the mean- 

 ing of the initials at the foot of Lady Petre's 

 monument, as alluded to in your Number of 

 July 12, 1851? 



" At the extremity of the right-hand aisle of the ca- 

 thedral of St. Stephen, is the marble monument of the 

 Emperor Frederick III., ornamented witli 240 figures 

 and 40 coats of arms, carved by a sculptor of Stras- 

 burg, Nicholas Lerch. On a scroll twisted around 

 the sceptre in the hand of the efhgy, is seen Frederick's 

 device or motto, the letters A. E. J. O. U., supposed to 

 be the initials of the words Alles Erdreich 1st Oester- 

 reich Untorthan ; or, in Latin, Austria; Est Imperare 

 Orbis Universi." — Murray's Handbook to SouUurn 

 German!/, pp. 135, 136. 



C. M. G. 



iHi^rcnaiirnttJ?. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Messrs. Longman have this month given a judicious 

 and agreeable variety to The Traveller's Lilrary by 

 substituting fur one of Sir. IMacaulay's brilliant poli- 

 tical biographies a volume of travels; and in selecting 

 Mr. Laing's Journal of a Jiesidence in Norway during 

 the Years 1834, 1835, anrf 1836 (which is completed in 

 Two Parts), they have shown excellent discretion. 

 For, as Mr. Laing well observes, "few readers of the 

 historicdl events of the middle ages rise from the 

 perusal without a wish to visit the country from which 

 issued in the tenth century the men who conquered the 

 fairest portion of Europe." But as, even in these loco- 

 motive times, all cannot travel, but many are destined 

 to be not only home-keeping youths but " house-keep- 

 ing men " also, all such have reason to be grateful to 

 pleasant intelligent travellers like Mr. Laing for giving 



