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CONTENTS. 



Notes r — Page 



M.idrignis in praise of Queen Elizabetli, by Dr. E, F. 



Kimh:iult 1R5 



JIS. Notes in a Copy of TJbPr Sententiarum - - 188 



Classification of Literary Oirticulties _ _ _ 183 



Minor Notes : — iNIeaning of " Riiell " — Curious Facts 



in Natural History - - - - - 189 



Queries : — 



Papal RuUs, &c. ----- - 



Sir Walter llaleigh in Virginia, by Henry H. Breen 

 Minor Queries: — Wife of St. Patrick — Meaning of 

 Mop — William Lovel of Tarent Rawson — Cagots — 

 Execution under singular Circumstances — RliynsauU 

 and Sapphira — Mallet's Second Wife — Proverb, what 

 conuitutes one ? — Presant Family — Tlie Serpent 

 re[)resented with a human Heai — Dr. Wotton — . 

 KoAoco5as:rt/Xor — Essex's Expedition to Ireland — 

 Decretorum Doctor — Grimsdyke or Grimesditch — 

 Passage in Luther — Lirite-amina and Surplices 

 MisoK Queries Answeued; — Kllrake or Hellrake — 

 Francis Clerke — NTine Days' Wonder — Streso — The 

 Willow Garland — Name of Nun — " M. Lominus, 

 Theologus " ------ 



Replies : — 



Remarks upon some recent Queries, by H. Waltsr 

 Domingo Lonielyne, by W. D'Oyly Bayley 

 Petty Cury --..-.. 

 The Dauphin ------ 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Visiting Cards — Sardonic 

 S'niles — Darby and Joan — Marriage of Bishops — 

 Winifreda — George Chalmers — Tlie Three Estates 

 of the Real-n _ " You Friend drink to me Friend " — 

 Broad Halfpeiuiy Down — Horner Family — The Man 

 of Law — Riddle — Speculative Difficulties _ St. Paul 

 — Commissioners on Officers of Justice in Englaml — 

 Noble and Workhouse Names — Poulster — Judges 

 styled Reverend — The Ring Finger - . . 



MlSCBLLJlNEOIIS : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Cat.alogues, &c. - - - 



Books and Odd Vcdutnes wanted - - - - 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - - 



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MADRIGALS IN PRAISE OP QUEEN ELIZABETH. 



At the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a 

 musical work of an extraordinary character issued 

 from the y)ress of tliat industrious printer Thomas 

 Este, tiic history of whi(;h it wilt be my endeavour 

 to eluci(hite in the present communication. The 

 title-page runs as follows : — 



" Madrioales. The Triumphes of Guiana, to 

 5 and G voices : composed by divers severall auc.hors. 

 Newly |)iil)lisliC(l by Tboinis Morley, IJatulieier of 

 Musick, and one of the gentlemen of hir Majesties 

 honorable Cliappell, 1601. In London, Printed by 



Thomas Este, the assijrne of Thomas JNIorley. Cum 

 priDitegio Rey!(E Mojestatis." 



The dedication is addressed — 



" To the Right Honorable the Lord Charles Howard, 

 Earle of Notingham, Baron of Effingham, Kniglit of 

 the Noble order of the Garter, Lord High Atlmirall 

 of England, Ireland, and Wales, &c., and one of her 

 Majesties most honorable Privie Counsell." 



As .all that is known, with ceitaintij, of the origin 

 of this work consists in. the title-p.age and the 

 dedication, I shall make no apology fur quoting 

 the latter at length : — 



" Right Honorable, 

 " I have adventured to dedicate these few discordant 

 tunes to be censured by the ingenious disposition of 

 your Lordship's Honorable rare perfection, perswading 

 my selfe, that these labours, composed by me and 

 others (as in the survey hereof, your Lordship may 

 well perceive), may not by any meanes passe, without 

 the malignitie of some malitious Momm:, whose malice 

 (being as toothsome as the adder's sting), couched in 

 the progres of a wayfayring man's passage, might make 

 him retire thougli almost at his journeyos end. Two 

 speciall motives have imbouldened me (Right Honor- 

 able) in this my proceeding. First, for that I consider, 

 that as the body cannot bee witliout the shadow, so 

 Homer (the Prince of Poets) may not be without a 

 Zoilist : The second and last is (the most forcible mo- 

 tive), I know (not onely by report, but also by experi- 

 ment) your Lordship to bee not onely P/iihmusus, a 

 lover of the Muses, and of learning ; but Philomathes, 

 a personage always desirous (though in all Arts suffi- 

 ciently skilfull) to come to a more high perfection or 

 Suinmum boitum. I will not trouble your Lordship 

 with to to [sic] tedious circumstances, onely I humbly 

 intreat your Lordship (in the name of many) to patro- 

 nage this work with no lessc acceptance, then I with a 

 willing and kinde hart dedicate it. So shall I think 

 the initiuin of tliis worke not onely happely begun, but 

 to bee Jinited with a more liappie period. 



" Your Honour's devoted in all dutie, 



" Thomas Morlev." 



The Triumphs of Oriana consists of twenty-five 

 madrigals, set by the most eminent musicians of 

 the day, and edited (as the title-page and dedica- 

 tion show) by Thomas Morley, a most " rare and 

 cunning musician," and moreover an especial 



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