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crest, “a swan naiant.” Motto, “No sine peri- 
culo.” ‘ M. F. Faser. 
Early Printing at Norwich (2° 8, 1. 233.) — 
For the most full and detailed account of the pro- 
ductions of Antony Solempne’s press, in Norwich, 
consult Archdeacon Cotton’s Typographical Ga- 
zetteer. Oxford, 1831, p. 195—8. Z. 
Boyle Lectures (1% §, vii. 456.; x. 445. 531.; 
2-1 S. i. 291.) —If your correspondent, A Con- 
stant Reaper, will consult the pages referred to 
above in “ N. & Q.,” he will find replies to some 
of the points on which he desires information. 
As the writer of the communication to your work 
in 1* §. x. 445., 1 may be permitted to express 
my satisfaction at seeing that the subject has not 
lost its interest, although it might have been 
thought that A Constant Reaper would naturally 
have turned to the contents of your past volumes, 
so amply anatomised by means of your excellent 
Indices, before addressing himself to you. Several 
of his Queries, however, require a Reply, which 
Itrust some of your numerous readers may be 
able to communicate. MieeZe 
P.S. For the information of your correspondent 
Ihave copied the note below, which is prefixed 
to Bishop Van Mildert’s Boyle Lectures (London, 
1806). The work may be found in almost every 
good theological library : 
“The following list of those who have preached the 
Boyle’s Lecture since its first institution, may be accept- 
able to the theological student. It is not quite compleat 
(sic); but the author has been enabled to make it nearly 
so, by the obliging assistance of the Rev. Mr. Watts, 
librarian of Sion College.” , 
“ William and Margaret” (1* S. xi. 87.) —I1 
know of three different tunes to this ballad. The 
first is in Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, 1725 ; 
the second in the Village Opera, 1729; and a 
third, the composition of Mr. Stephen Clarke, of 
Edinburgh, in Johnson’s Scottish Musical Museum. 
The first is the old Scottish melody of Chevy 
Chace ; the second (which I apprehend is the one 
alluded to by your correspondent) is of unknown 
origin. Both tunes are printed in my Musical 
Illustrations of Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient 
English Poetry. 4to. 1850. 
Epwarp F. Rimgacrr. 
Niebuhr Anticipated (1* §. xii. 471.) — Philip 
Chiver, a native of Danzic, in his Italia Antiqua, 
published in 1624, rejected the account of the 
Trojan settlement in Latium, and of the founda- 
tion of Rome, and expressed an opinion that the 
history of the period before the capture of the 
city by the Gauls, was uncertain. M. de Pouilly, 
in his Dissertation sur 0 Incertitude de l Histoire des 
uatre premicrs Siecles de Rome, read before the 
French Academy in December, 1722, undertook 
to demonstrate the uncertainty of Roman history 
until the war with Pyrrhus. Other writers might 
be mentioned as predecessors of Niebuhr, as Bo- 
chart, Perizonius, and M. Levesque; but X. O. B. 
may be referred for further information to An In- 
quiry into the Credibility of Early Roman History, 
by Sir George Cornewall Lewis, the present En- 
glish Chancellor of the Exchequer. 
Tuomas Hoperns. 
Toronto, Canada, 
Porson (24 §. i. 300.) — The “ Imitations from 
Horace,” and the “Hymn to the Creator,” are 
printed in the Spirit of the Public Journals for 
1797, pp. 140. 248. The internal evidence is suf- 
ficient to prove that they proceed from Porson’s 
pen. Would Mr. Horr Waire favour your 
readers by stating the subjects of the other two 
squibs by Porson which he mentions, namely, 
“The Death of Agricola,” and “ Boxing Intelli- 
gence ?” L. 
Breeches, to wear (2 §. i. 283.) — A. F. B. 
asks if this phrase of “ wearing the breeches” is 
to be found except in English and French. I can 
add the Dutch, “ De vrouw draagd’er de broek ;” 
and the Germans, who say of a woman who rules, 
“Sie hat die Hosen,” ‘She has the breeches.” 
The Germans have also other ‘ breeches” pro- 
verbs, as e.g. “Das Hertz ist ihm in die Hosen 
gef allen.” B. H. C. 
Misceelaneous, 
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 
The History of Richard Cromwell and the Restoration of 
Charles II, by M. Guizot, translated by Andrew R. 
Scoble (2 vols. 8vo., Bentley,) is a book which every- 
body should read. In the long drama of our national 
history scarcely any incident is more remarkable than 
the Restoration of Charles II. Wearied and exhausted 
by an anarchy of almost eighteen years, the nation sud- 
denly threw itself at the feet of the representative of its 
ancient kings. The people welcomed him to the throne 
of his ancestors in a rapture of generous enthusiasm, and 
without a word of scruple or stipulation. M. Guizot’s 
object is to show how this event was brought about; how 
the sceptre slipped out of the hands of the weak incom- 
petent Richard Cromwell; and how, under the crafty 
pilotage of Monk, the vessel of the state drifted almost 
imperceptibly in the very way which was most agreeable 
to the Royalists. In telling the interesting tale, M. Guizot 
has taken advantage of the correspondence between the 
French ambassador in London, M. de Bordeaux, and 
Cardinal Mazarin. Many of their letters which passed 
in 1658 and the two subsequent years are here printed, 
and much use of them has been made in the narrative. 
They are new materials for the history of the period, and 
are unquestionably valuabie. M. Guizot draws special 
attention to eight letters from Mazarin to Bordeaux, 
printed apart at the end of the second volume, in which 
the Cardinal’s policy on this occasion is clearly developed. 
This correspondence stands M. Guizot in the place of 
illustration derivable from domestic sources, which would 
have been at the command of a competent writer, if the 
