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carious subsistence by mendicancy and composition. His 
poem, Zhe Deity, published in 1739, was written while 
his condition was wretched in the extreme; but it was 
fortunately noticed by Hervey, author of Meditations, as 
well as by Fielding. It passed through several editions. 
Consult Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, and Chalmers’s 
Biographical Dictionary. | 
Fairfax Correspondence. — Where are the 
Fairfax letters and correspondence ? 
KE. Harstone. 
[The Fairfax Correspondence has been published under 
the editorship of George W. Johnson, Esq., two vols. 8vo., 
1848. The history of these letters would make an 
amusing chapter of Literary Curiosities. It wasin Leeds 
Castle, in Kent, that this correspondence was discovered. 
Mr. Wykeham Martin, the present occupier, having oc- 
casion to make some alterations in the castle in 1822, 
swept away among the lumber an old oaken chest, filled 
apparently with Dutch tiles. It was purchased by a 
shoemaker for a few shillings, who found an enormous 
quantity of MSS. carefully arranged beneath the Dutch 
tiles. It was fortunately suggested to the shoemaker to 
offer the MSS. to Mr. Newington Hughes, a banker at 
Maidstone; and by this lucky accident the whole col- 
lection was preserved, Mr. Hughes becoming their pur- 
chaser. In addition to the correspondence published in 
these two volumes, there will be found among the Civil 
War Tracts in the British Museum, 140 letters of Sir 
Thomas Fairfax. See also Addit. MS. 11,325. for original 
letters and papers relating to the Fairfax family. ] 
Tupper on the “Probability of Sensation in 
Vegetables.” —Is this the correct title of a book 
published some time since? If not, what was its 
true title, its publisher, and can it now be pro- 
cured ? G. E. Frere. 
[This work is entitled An Essay on the Probability of 
Sensation in Vegetables; with Additional Observations on 
Instinet, Sensation, Irritability, &c., by James Perchard 
Tupper. Published by White, Cochrane, & Co., Fleet 
Street. 8yo. 1811.] 
Reading of the Psalms (2"4 §. i. 213.) — Where 
can one obtain the necessary information for train- 
ing a clerk and body of school-children to respond 
in monotone ? cis 
| The best publication for the accentuation and rhyth- 
mical division of the Morning and Evening Services is 
Dr. Gauntlett’s Choral Use, published by Masters. ] 
Glass Painters.—Any information respecting 
William Price the elder, and William Price the 
younger, and Joshua Price, who all flourished as 
“eon painters in the last century, will be thank- 
ully accepted by Macpatenensis. 
Notices of these artists are extremely meagre in the 
ordinary books of reference. William Price, Sen., painted 
the window in Merton Chapel, Oxford, 1700, and died 
in 1722. His brother Joshua finished the windows at 
Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1717; and the coloured glass 
in the east window of St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn, was 
executed by him in 1718. William Price, Jun., stained 
the windows in Westminster Abbey in 1735; and those 
at Queen’s New College and Magdalen, Oxford, “ whose 
colours,” says Walpole, “are fine, whose drawings good, 
and whose taste in ornaments and mosaic is far superior 
to any of his predecessors, is equal to the antique, to the 
good Italian masters, and only surpassed by his own 
singular modesty” (Dallaway, vol. il. p. 38.). He died 
a bachelor at his house in Great Kirby Street, Hatton 
Garden, July 16, 1765; and his library was sold by 
Benjamin White, in 1766.] 
Dr. Adam Littleton. — What is the ancestry of 
Dr. Adam Littleton, the celebrated author of the 
Latin Dictionary 2 He was born at Halesowen, in 
Shropshire, anno 1624, and died in 1694. Did he 
leave any issue? if so, who is his present repre- 
sentative ? C. J. Dovenas. 
[The pedigree of the family of Dr. Adam Littleton is 
given in the Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1801, p. 511.] 
Copper Plates of 1652. — Having recently pur- 
chased some old copper-plates at a sale, under the 
designation of “old engraved copper,” Lam anxious 
to obtain some information respecting them. 
There are twenty-three plates, post 4to. size. 
No. 1. bears the following inscription : 
“1652. ’rIs AL VERWART— GAEREN.” 
With the imprint: 
“ Pet. Quast. Inventur C. Fisscher excudit cum privile.” 
The subject appears to be either a history of im- 
posture, or a history of mendicancy, and the work 
is treated in a bold and masterly manner. On 
the right corner of each plate the initials G. R. 
appear. I shall be much indebted to any reader 
of “N. & Q.” for information as to the work to 
which these singular plates belong. 
Cuarzes REEp. 
Paternoster Row. 
[These plates are from designs by Peter Quast, a Dutch 
painter and engraver, born at the Hague in 1602. His 
pictures usually represent drolls, beggars, and assemblies 
of boors merry-making, which he treated with much 
humour and some vulgarity. In the list of his prints 
given in Bryan’s Dictionary, is a set of twenty-six plates 
of beggars, boors, &c. ; these are probably the old copper- 
plates purchased by our correspondent, ] 
Replies. 
THE GOLDEN ROSE AND OTHER PAPAL GIFTS. 
(22 §, i, 252.) 
Mr. Tuoms will find a reference to the filings 
Srom St. Peter's chain and the keys in Dupin, who 
tells us that 
“St. Gregory promised the Empress Constantina some 
of the filings of the chain of St. Peter, if the priest who is 
appointed to file them could have any; for this file will 
not take hold, when those who desire them do not de- 
serve to receive them.”— 
A very awkward test! Dupin adds, that “ the 
Pope sent everywhere some of these filings en- 
chased in keys.’ — History of Ecclesiastical Writers, 
