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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 113. 



In George's Wexterham Journal is a ciu-ious 

 account of Mrs. ^^'olr'e ailo])ting a young man 

 named Jacob ^V'ol^o, and of Lord Aniheist ob- 

 taining, by her representations, a place of 7001. 

 a-year for iiiai. It is extracted from Truster's 

 Memoirs ; but being too lengthy for insertion in 

 " Notes and Queries," I will copy it out, if 5- 

 wishes to have it. 



In Thackery's Life of the Earl of Chatham is 

 mentioned tlie following anecdote, which I have 

 often seen otherwise applied : George II. was once 

 expressing his admiration of Wolfe, when son:e 

 one observed that the (ieiieral was mad. " Oh ! 

 mad is he?" said the King; "then I wish he would 

 bite some of mv other generals." Other informa- 

 tion occurs in the same work. 



I have learnt that a family named Wolfe was 

 settled at Saffron Walden, Essex, in the last cen- 

 tury, and the obituary of Si/lvainis Urban for 

 1794, p. 770., records the death of the lady of 

 Thomas Wolfe, Es(i., of that place. Does this 

 eive a clue as to the countv in which George 

 Wolfe settled ? 



I had intended to have applied myself to "Notes 

 AND QuEKiEs" i-elative to our hero ; and though 

 I have been anticipated, I will still endeavour to 

 follow up my enquiries, and all I can obtain shall 

 be at the service ofy, in the ho])e that something 

 substantial may be done to rescue ironi the com- 

 parative oblivion the life of one of England's 

 greatest sons, H. G. D. 



"flemish account. 

 (Vol. i., p. 8.) 



The following examples may serve as further 

 illustrations towards determining the origin and 

 use of the expression. 



I. " Witliiu this hall neither rich nor yett poore 

 Wold do for me ought although 1 shold dye. 

 Which seeing, I gat me out of the doore, 

 Where Flemyiiiics began on nic for to ciy, 

 ' Master, what will you copen or by ? 

 Fyne fell hattos, or spectacles to reede? 

 Lay down your silver, and here you may speede.'" 

 Minor Potiiis of Ijydgate [H20]. London, 

 Laekpenny. Ed. Per. Soc. 1840, p. 105. 

 This is curious, as indicating that the word 

 " Eleming," in the fifteenth century, had become 

 almost synonymous with "trader." 



II. ^' Julia. I have heard enough of England : have 

 yon nothing to return upon the Netlicrlands ? 



" Bciimjut. Faitli, very little lo any purpose. He has 

 been l)eforehand with us, as his countrymen are in t/uir 

 Triidf, and taken up so many vices for the use of 

 England, that he has left almost none for the I,ow 

 Countries." — Drydeu's Dutch at Amboi/ua, .\i:t II. 

 Sc. 8. 



" Towerson. Tell 'em I seal that service with my 

 blood ; 



And, dying, wish to all their factories. 

 And all the famous merchants of onr isle. 

 That wealth their generous industry deserves. 

 But dare not hope it with Dutch part/icrsliip.' 

 Ibid. Act V. Sc. last. 



III. " Yet, Urswick, 



We'll not abate one pemiy, what in Parliament 

 Hatli freely been cuntril)uted ; we must not : 

 Money gives soul to action. Our competitor 

 T/ie F/einis/i counterfeit, with James of Scotland, 

 Will prove what courage need and want can nourish, 

 Without the food of fit supplies." 



Ford [1634], Perhin IVarbeck, Act IIL Sc. 1. 



" Cuddy. Yes, I was ten days together there the last 

 Shrove-tide. 



" 'znd C/owii. How could that be, when there are but 

 seven days in tlie week ? 



" Cuddy. Prithee, peace ! I reckon stila nova as a 

 traveller ; tlu)u understandest as a freshwater farmer, 

 that never saw'st a week beyond sea. As/t any soldier 

 that ever received his pay hut in the Low Countries, and 

 lie'll tell thee there are Eight days in the week there hard 

 by. How dost thou think they rise in High Germany, 

 Italy, and those remoter places?" — Rowley, Decker, 

 and Ford, Witch of Edmonton, Act III. Sc. 1. 



" This passage is explained by the following lines 

 of Butler : 



' The soldier does it every day. 



Eight to the week, for si, x pence pay.' " 

 Note by the Editor, Hartley Coleridge, in the 

 Glossary. Ed. London : Moxon, IS.Sg. 



IV. De Thou gives the following anecdote, when 

 speaking of a defeat, more disgraceful, however, 

 tluui disastrous, which bel'el the French on the 

 borders of Flanders, A. d. 1555, in which many 

 nobles and giMitry were ca])tured by the Flemings : 



" Ciun delectus illi ex cccc peditibus et Jicc equiti- 

 bus conflati, (|Uorum dux erat Jallius ex primaria in 

 Andibus nobilita'ffi vir, in hosticum excurrissent, et 

 magnas pradas abegissent, dum redirent solutis or- 

 dinibus homines ut pluiimum militia; ignari, inter Ri- 

 giacum Atrebatum et Bapalmam, ab Alsimontio loci 

 illius pra'fecto secus viam et oppositam silvam ac sub- 

 jectum rivum, insidiis exccpli stmt, et ab exiguo numero 

 ca?s!, ac majoreui partem, cum cffiigium non esset capti, 

 non sine verboruni ludibrio, nimirum, Sobiks Gallice 

 non nppensos a Belgis cupi ! Quod dicebatur allusione 

 facta ad Moncta? nurea; Anglicana; genus, tpiod viilgo 

 nobiliinn nomine indigitatur." — Thuani Hist. lib. xvi. 

 ad. a. 1555, tom. i. p. 494. ed. Genev. 16'_'6. 



" When these levies, made up of 400 foot soldiers and 

 1200 hui semen, whose leader was La Jaillc, one of the 

 principal nobility of Anjou, ban made a foray on the 

 enemy's border, and driven oif an immense booty; 

 upon their retreat, which, being men for the most part 

 utterly ignorant of military seivice, they conducted with 

 great disorder, between Arras and Bai)aume, they 

 were entrapped by Osmand, who commanded in those 

 parts, into an ambuscade set for them close to their line 

 of march, with a wood in their front and a river below 

 them. A few of them were slain, but the gieater part, 

 inasmuch as there was no way of escape, were taken 



