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be enabled to obtain a list of all the bars or clasps 
ever granted to the brave owners of either the 
naval or Peninsular war medal, A similar favour 
for the China and East India Company’s medals 
would be highly valued by W. B.C. 
Exeter. 
Geddes. — In Advice to a Young Oxonian, Ox- 
ford, 1781, are the following lines : 
“Let puzzled Geddes, in pedantic dream, 
Pother o’er that which ‘ seems yet does not seem,’ 
And pile up Absolutes, whose curious lot 
Is to be that which is and yet is not; 
While Like and Unlike are the same, and One, 
Embodies Many and amounts to None. 
Put uo such learned nonsence in thy stock, 
Master thy spelling-book — then study Locke.” 
The phraseology has a modern German sound, 
but the Kantian philosophy could hardly have 
reached Oxford in 1781. I should be glad to 
know who is the Geddes above mentioned, and to 
what work the lines apply ? 
“* Index.” —¥ shall be obliged if any of your 
correspondents can give me a motto or maxim for 
an Index, as I have a particular object in view. 
Joun Nurse Cuapwicx. 
King’s Lynn. 
Did Lord Bacon die 
Martin says : 
without Issue 2— Mr. 
“Most, if not all of Lord Bacon’s biographers, posi- 
tively assert that he died childless. Aubrey, however, 
who had good opportunities of informing himself on this 
head, both from the time in which he lived, and his posi- 
tion in society, expressly says that he left a daughter, 
who married her gentleman usher Sir Thomas Underhill, 
and was living after the beheading of King Charles I.”— 
Character of Lord Bacon: his Life and Works, by 
Thomas Martin, Barrister-at-Law, note (J.)7p. 358. 
Aubrey’s statement is utterly irreconcilable 
with Dr. Rawley’s: 
“ Children he had none; which, though they be the 
means to perpetuate our names after our deaths, yet he 
had other issues to perpetuate his name, the issues of his 
brain; in which he was ever happy and admired, as 
Jupiter was in the production of Pallas. Neither did the 
want of children detract from the good usage of his con- 
sort during the intermarriage, whom he prosecuted with 
much conjugal love and respect, with many rich gifts 
and endowments.” 
These passages imply that there never was any 
issue; and it is plain that Rawley’s testimony in 
this matter is conclusive. J. W. Puuutes. 
Haverfordwest. 
The Devil's Bible. —1I copy the following from 
the Rev. R. E, Hughes's Two Cruises with the 
Baltic Fleet. Speaking of the Royal Library at 
Stockholm, he says : 
“Tn the same room (with the “ Codex Aureus”) is the 
Deyil’s Bible, an enormous MS. folio, on ass’s hide; it 
contains, in addition to the Bible, a history in twenty- 
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four books, by St. Isidore Hispalensis. I could not get 
at the history of the book, or the cause of its strange 
title. All I could learn was, that Satan is in the habit 
of perusing its pages in the evening. I have no doubt 
that there is some interesting lexend connected with this 
strange and enormous work, and I greatly regretted that 
the crowd and the hurry rendered it impossible to get 
any information on the subject. The gentlemen whom 
we knew at Stockholm, and the chief booksellers, stuck 
to the story I have given; in which however they told 
me, with much gravity, that they did not believe.” 
Can any of your readers supply the information 
which Mr. Hughes was unable to obtain? The 
legend about such a “ strange and enormous work” 
could not fail to be interesting; and to English 
people, I believe quite new, 
Henry Kensrneton. 
Hoppus’s “ Practical Measurer.’ — What is the 
date of the first edition of this well-known work ? 
I have now before me the sixth, London, 1761. 
Hoppus has attained nearly as much celebrity as 
Cocker, and it is likely to continue; for, within 
the last six months, I have observed the an- 
nouncement of several new editions by different 
publishers. E. Tooc. 
Swansea. 
Bermuda.— Moore, in speaking of the inha- 
bitants of Bermuda, says : 
“The old philosopher who imagined that, after this 
life, men would be changed into mules, and women into 
turtle-doves, would find the metamorphosis in some de- 
gree anticipated at Bermuda.” 
Who is the philosopher here referred to, and in 
what part of his works does the passage occur ? 
IND: 
Drinking on Martyrs’ Tombs.—In Dryden’s 
Astrea Redux, I find the following : 
“ Nor could his acts too close a vizard wear, 
To ’scape their eyes whom guilt had taught to fear, 
And guard with caution that polluted nest, 
Whence Legion twice before was dispossest : 
Once sacred house, which when they entered in, 
They thought the place could sanctify a sin; 
Like those, that vainly hoped kind heaven would wink, 
While to excess on martyrs’ tombs they drink.” 
I doubt not [ shall be informed, through the 
pages of “N. & Q.,” to what superstition allusion 
is made in the last two lines. J.B. R. 
Quaker Settlement in Maryland.— There was a 
Quaker settlement in Maryland (U.S.) as early 
as 1676. Can any of the Society in England give 
any facts as to its origin? Among the names in 
its records are Powell, Howell, Christison, Dur- 
dan, &c. Is there any clue thus furnished ? The 
“ Society of Friends” began about 1650; and no 
doubt a correspondence was kept up between 
those in America and those who remained at 
home. Are there any letters in existence that 
would throw light on this inquiry ? 
MARYLANDER. 
