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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[294 S, No 20, May 17.56, 
“ Trial of a Student,’ §c.—Can the editor, or 
any reader of “N. & Q.” tell me who was the 
student, and what the college referred’ to, in a 
satirical pamphlet, without title, beginning: “ The 
Trial of a Student in the College of Clutha, in the 
Kingdom of Oceana ?” 
It is Scotch: an attack upon the Professors of 
said College, and of date subsequent to 1763. 
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The Union. — LT have a small octavo, pp. 92., 
minus the title, beginning, “A Discourse upon 
the uniting of Scotland with England,” and shall 
be glad if any reader of “ N. & Q.” can tell me to 
whom, among the many who wrote upon this sub- 
ject, my book is to be ascribed. The author was 
evidently a Scotsman, and I have pencilled 
“ Ridpath ?” upon the fly-leaf, but know not upon 
what authority. J.0. 
Quakers in the Army.—In vol. ii. p. 13. of 
Guizot’s History of Richard Cromwell and the 
Restoration of Charles the Second, translated by 
And. R. Scoble, I find the following passage : 
“Towards noon a great number of officers, mostly 
zealous Republicans, Anabaptists, or Quakers, came to 
dine with the General,” &c. 
Surely no followers of George Fox ever bore 
arms. The statement in the text is a very strange 
one, and I should be glad to see it explained. 
JAYDEE. 
Morning Dreams.—Can any of your corre- 
spondents tell me where is to be found the line— 
“ For morning dreams, you know, come true.” 
Ts it in Massinger, Ben Jonson, or Beaumont and 
Fletcher ? 
Also, any information about this familiar notion 
of morning dreams will be acceptable to Sartor. 
Belfast. 
Buil Song at Stamford. — At Stamford, in Lin- 
colnshire, whenever the theatre is open, it is cus- 
tomary for the orchestra to perform an air known 
in Stamford as “The Bull;” and should its per- 
formance be delayed longer than the occupants of. 
the gallery deem proper, a serious row is certain 
to occur. I believe that it is the name of a local 
song, and I should like to learn somewhat of its 
origin, and to see the words in your immortal 
pages. Is the music published, and where can it 
be obtained ? Who composed the air ? 
Exy Fracor. 
Hlinor Queries With Answers, 
Fleming's “ Rise und Fall of the Papacy.” — 
Is there any doubt of a book published in 1849 as 
a reprint of one with the following title, The Rise 
and Fall of the Papacy, delivered in London 
a.v. 1701, by Robert Fleming, V.D.M., being 
such? I have heard it insinuated that it was 
“made up” to meet the event of the French Re- 
volution of 1848, which it professes to predict ; 
and, again, on the contrary, that the reprint of 
1849 was the second, since the French Revolution 
of 1792. 
It is desirable that the truth as to whether this 
remarkable work was really produced in 1701 or 
not should be known. There surely must be 
many of the original copies left of a book only 
150 years old. To my mind the quaint style and 
extreme modesty of it carries with it conviction 
of its being of that period, and also that it is not 
a modern forgery. 
The late learned and venerable G. S. Faber 
does not ignore Fleming’s book, but names it (I 
feel grieved to say) with a sneer, in the little 
work he published not long before his death, en- 
titled The Revival of the French Emperorship an- 
ticipated from the Necessity of Prophecy. His 
words are; 
“Mr. Fleming’s case, or, what has been called his pre- 
diction, is well known. To mention the living were in- 
vidious; but both Mr, Fleming, whose anticipation of the 
first revolution, at a specified time was confirmed, at least 
in a fashion, by events,” &c, 
Without raising a question as to the subject- 
matter of his book, on which there may be much 
controversy, surely “N, & Q.” is a proper me- 
dium for recording the genuineness of the book of 
1701, if it can be established, for certainly a more 
remarkable uninspired book is not to be found. 
The author of it (ninety years before an event 
takes place) publishes his views of certain pro- 
phecies in God’s word with regard to France, and 
predicts the occurrence of certain events in that 
country ninety years after, viz. in 1794. This 
prediction is fulfilled. Had this, however, stood 
alone, it might have been sneered at as happening 
(according to Faber) “in a fashion;” but when 
the author states that another revolution would, 
according to his reading of the Scriptures, happen 
forty-eight years after the first event, viz. in 1848 
(naming the very year), it is at least a most re- 
markable circumstance. 
Many will doubtless be glad of the knowledge 
of the fact, whether the book of Fleming’s of 
1701 is genuine or not. Can this be affirmed by 
any of the readers of “* N. & Q.?” ; 
Grrvas K. Hommes. 
Budleigh-Salterton. 
[We have before us the earliest edition of Fleming’s 
‘| Discourses, the first of which is entitled “ A new Account 
of the Rise and Fall of the Papacy,” London: printed by 
Andr. Bell, at the Bible and Cross Keys in Cornhil, 
1701. This we have compared with the edition of 1848 
(Houlston and Stoneman), entitled The Rise and Fall of 
Rome Papal, and find the latter to be a verbatim reprint 
of that of 1701, to which are added some editorial notes, 
preface, and a memoir of the author. ] 
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