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Minor Gueries ith Answers. 
Thomas Wotton. —Can any of your readers 
oblige me with some particulars of Thomas Wot- | 
ton, whose name is sometimes seen in books bound | 
about the year 1550; thus, “ Thomx Wottoni et | 
amicorum.” I have a volume of Stephens’s C7- 
cero, 1545, bound in the Grolier style, with the | 
above lettering on the covers. C. Musxer. 
[The individual noticed seems to be Thomas Wotton, 
of Boughton Malherb, Kent, born in 1521. He was 
sheriff of the county in the last year of Queen Mary’s 
reign, and part of the first of Flizabeth’s; and in July, 
1573, had the honour of entertaining at his mansion good 
Queen Bess, with her Court, in her progress through 
Kent. He died Jan. 11, 1587, having been remarkable 
for his hospitality and a cherisher of learning. Consult 
Hasted’s Kent, vol. ii. p. 429.; and Nichols’s Progresses 
of Elizabeth, vol. i. p. 334. ] 
“The Great Case of Tithes.” —Can any of 
your correspondents give me any particulars of a 
book entitled The Great Case of Tithes, said to 
have been written by Sir Anthony Pearson ? 
Fuir. 
| This treatise was first published in 1637, and seems to 
have been a popular work, as we find from the date of its 
first appearance, to the year 1762, it passed through six 
or seven editions. That of 1754, 4to., contains an ap- 
_ pendix, extracted frem Ellwood, and The Answer to the 
Country Parson’s Plea, that is, Lord Harvey. Prefixed to 
this edition is “A Premonition to the Reader,” giving 
some account of the work. “Anthony Pearson was for- 
merly a justice of peace in Westmorland, and being a 
zealous Protestant, and lover of liberty,” says J. M., the 
editor, “was excited to write on the’subject, by the 
numerous complaints of the people, at that time labouring 
under severe persecutions for tithes.” ] 
Mrs. Brownrigg. — Where is the best account 
to be found of the trial of Mrs. Brownrigg for 
cruel treatment of her apprentices? And are 
there any other similar trials, or any that illus- 
trate the shameful severity formerly practised in 
schools ? X.O.‘B. 
[Two pamphlets were published respecting Elizabeth 
Brownrigg. 1. A Narrative of the many horrid Cruelties 
inflicted by Elizabeth Brownrigg upon the Body of Mary 
Clifford, and for which the said Elizabeth received sen- 
tenee of death, Sept. 12,1767. By John Wingrave, one 
of the Constables of the Ward of Farringdon Without. 
Lond..1767, 8vo. 2%. Genuine and Authentic Account of 
the Life, Trial, and Execution of Elizabeth Brownrigg, who 
was executed Sept. 14, 1767, to which is prefixed a fron- 
tispiece of Mrs. Brownrigg in the Newgate cell; and the 
manner of her torturing the girls; with the dark hole 
where the girls were confined on Sundays, truly repre- 
sented. Lond., 1767, 8vo. ] 
Ouseley's “ Martyrdom of Polycarp.”—Is the 
Rev. Sir F. A. G. Ouseley the author of the 
words of this Oratorio, which was performed with 
much applause at Oxford, in Dec., 1854, as an 
exercise for a musical degree ? R. J 
[From the Dedication of this Oratorio, we learn that 
Sir F. A. G. Ouseley was indebted: for: the words to: the 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 13 
Rev. E. Stokes, M.A., stulent and tutor of Christ Church, 
Oxford, and to the Rey. G. W. Kitchin, M.A., student and 
tutor of Christ Church, Oxford. ] 
Trial of the’ Calas. — The story of Jean Calas, 
a Protestant of Toulouse, who was executed in 
1762, on the charge of having put his son to death, 
in order to prevent him from embracing the Ro- 
man Catholie faith, is doubtless familiar to most 
of your readers. His trial, at the time, excited 
great interest throughout Europe, and led to the 
publication of a host of pamphlets, tragedies, 
comedies and poems. I am anxious, if possible, 
to obtain alist of allthe contemporary publica- 
tions which appeared in England on this subject, 
and.I should feel greatly indebted to any reader 
of “ N. & Q.” who would aid me in'my researches. 
And if any of your readers could give me any 
information about Lewis Calas, whose name ap- 
pears on the title-page of a History of the Mus- 
fortunes of Jean Calas, printed by J. Cooper, 
Bow Street, Covent Garden, in 1789, I should be 
still more obliged. Lewis Calas»was the only one 
of the family who adopted the Catholic faith, and 
it seems strange that he should be the one to 
publish the narrative of his father’s persecution. 
I should like to know whether he ever residedjin 
London, and if so, under what circumstances. 
I may, perhaps, be allowed to add, that I make 
these inquiries for a friend in Paris, who is pre- 
paring a history of Calas and his trial, in reply to 
the attacks recently made on his memory. 
Anprew R. Scosrez. 
Temple. 
[For particulars respecting this tragical case, consuit 
the following works: The History of the Misfortunes of 
John Calas, a Victim to Fanaticism, to which is added a 
letter from M. Calas to his wife and children, written by 
M. de Voltaire, Lond., 1762, and 1772; Biographie Uni- 
verselle, tom. vi. p. 505., with its references to other works ; 
a long narrative in the Gentleman’s Mugazine, vol. xxXil. 
p- 509.; and other notices in vol. xxxiy. p. 154; yol. 
xxxv. p. 143.; vol. xliv. p. 118.; vol. lvii. p. 87,5. and 
vol. xi. p. 722.] 
Forms of Wills. —Is there any small and com- 
prehensible book in existence containing forms for 
the guidance of persons desirous of making their 
wills ? Custos. 
[The following is a small convenient book, Instructions 
for every Person to make a Will, 18mo., 1s. 6d., Wash- 
bourne, 1850. See also Eagles’s Instructions for the Mak- 
ing of Wills, 2s 6d. Allen’s, and Hayes and Jarman’s 
Forms are more expensive. But our correspondent should 
be reminded that the first toast:on the Northern Circuit 
used formerly to be “ Country Schoolmasters,” they being 
the great will-makers in that part of England, and con- 
sequently the great providers of materials for litigation. ] 
Portrait of Harrison, the Inventor of Chrono- 
meters. — Has any portrait of John Harrison, the 
| inventor of the chronometer, been published ? and 
where can it be met.with? (Is:there any full.ac- 
