196 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 98. 



" Isaac Newton" ou it. The names were all i 

 leritten on the back of common playing cards ; 

 and it is not improbable that one or more may still 

 be in the possession of IMr. Allison, 65. Quadrant. 

 The house in Dean Street was the residence of 

 either Hogarth or his father-in-law. A Mite. 



Sardonic Smiles (Vol. iv., p. 18.). — I beg to 

 refer such of your i-eaders as take an interest in 

 the discussion of " Sardonic Smiles" to a treatise \ 

 or memoir on the subject, by a learned scholar 

 and anti(juary in the St. Petersburgh Transactions 

 for 1851. The title of the memoir is as follows : 

 Die Talos-Sage unddas Sardonische Lachcn. Ein 

 Beitrag zur Geschichte Griechischer Sage und 

 Kiuist, von Ludwig Merchlin. The memoir is also 

 printed separately, from the Jlemoires des Savants 

 Etrangers. J. M. 



Oxford, August 4. 



Darby and Joan (Vol. iii., p. 38.). — As no one 

 has answered your correspondent by referring 

 him to a copy of this ballad, I have great pleasure 

 in calling his attention to A Collection of Songs, 

 Moral, Sentimental, Instructive, and Amusing, 4to. 

 Cambridge, 1805. At p. 152. of this volume, the 

 " j)leasant old ditty" of "Darby and Joan" is 

 given at length, accompanied with the music. The 

 editor, the Rev. James Plumptre, INI. A., tells us 

 that it is "attributed to Mathew Prior." As this 

 book is somewhat difficult to procure, your corre- 

 spondent is welcome to the loan of my copy. 



Edward F. Himbault. 



Marriage of Bishops (Vol.iv., pp. 57. 125.). — 

 In reference to the inquiry of your correspondent 

 A. B. C, for any instances of bishops and priests 

 who, during the first three centuries, were married 

 after ordination, I may suggest that the Council 

 of Nice in 325 declared it to be then " an ancient 

 tradition of tlie Church that they who were un- 

 married when promoted to holy orders should not 

 afterwards marry." — Socrates, Hist. EccL, lib. i. 

 cap. ii. ; Sozomen, Hist. EccL, lib. i. c. x.xiii. 



May not the proper translation in the text which 

 he quotes, 1 Cor. ix. 5., be " woman," instead of 

 " wile ;" and might not the passage be more accu- 

 rately rendered by the expression "sister- woman?" 

 Clemens Alexandrinus says {Stromal., lib. iii. 

 edit. Poterii, Ycuet. 1757, torn. i. p. 526.) : "Not 

 as wives but as sisters did the women go round 

 with the apostles:" and see also Matt, xxvii. 55., 

 Mark xv. 41., and Luke viii. 3. Dokfsnaig. 



Winlfreda (Vol. iii., p. 27.). — Lord Brat- 

 BROOKE has furnished your readers with a very 

 curious list of the various printed forms in which, 

 at different times, this popular song has been 

 given to the world ; but he has omitted one which 

 I think ought to be placed on record. I allude to 

 a copy contained in the tliird number of The 

 Foundling Hospital for Wit, a rare miscellany of 



" curious pieces," printed for W. Webb, near 

 St. Paul's, 8vo. 1746 (p. 23.). This work was 

 printed in numbers, at intervals, the first bearing 

 date 1743; and the sixth, and last, 1749. My 

 copy is particularly interesting as having the blank 

 names filled up in a cotemporary hand, and the 

 authors' names, in many cases, added. The song 

 of Winifreda is assigned to " Mr. G. A. Stevens ;" 

 so that, after all, the Edinburgh reviewer may 

 have confounded Geoi-ge Steevens, the "com- 

 mentator," with his earlier and equally facetious 

 namesake, George Alexander. 



George Alexander Stevens was born (if a MS. 

 obituar>" in my possession may be relied on) " in 

 the j)arish of St. Andrew's Holborn, 1710." He 

 died (according to the Biographia Dramatical "at 

 Baldock in Hertfordshire, Sept. 6, 1784." 



Edward F. Rimbaui-t. 



George Chalmers (Vol. iv., p. 58.). — The printed 

 books and MSS. of the late George Chalmers 

 were disposed of by auction in 1841 and 1842 

 by Mr. Evans of Pall IMall. The particular MS. 

 inquired after by J. O. occurs in tlie third part 

 of the printed sale catalogue, and is numbered 

 1891. It is thus described by Mr. Evans : 



" Chalmers's Bibliographia Scotica Poetica, or 

 Notices of Scottish Poets and their Works, from 

 1286 to 1S06, 4 vols. Chalmers's Notices of the Scottish 

 Poetry, Drama, and Songs, 2 vols., together 6 vols. 



%* These Volumes contain a great fund of In- 

 formation, and furnish very valuahle Materials 

 for a History of Scotch Poetry. They would 

 also he very useful to Collectors." 



Lot 1894. is also highly interesting. It is de- 

 sci'ibed as — 



" Ritson's Bibliographia Scotica, 2 vols. Un- 

 published. 



*^* A very Valuable Account of Scottish Poets 

 and Historians, drawn up with great care and 

 indefatigable Research hy Ritson. The Work 

 was intended for Publication. These Volumes 

 were purchased at the sale of Rit-on's Library 

 by IMtssrs. Longman and Constable for Forty- 

 three Guineas, and ])resciited to George Chal- 

 mers, Esq., who had edited Sir D. Lyndsay's 

 AVorks for them gratuitously." 



!My catalogue of Chalmers's library, unfortu- 

 nately, has not the prices or purchasers' names; 

 and the firm of the Messrs. Evans being no longer 

 in existence, I have no means of ascertaining the 

 present locality of the above-mentioned MSS. 



Edward F. Rimbault, 



The Three Estates of the Bealm (Vol. iv., 

 p. 115.). — AV. Eraser is quite right in repudiating 

 the cockney error of " Queen, Lords, and Com- 

 mons" forming the " three estates of the realm." 

 The sovereign is over the " realm ; " a word which 

 obviously designates the persons rided. "\V. F. 



