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yet get admittance, the Commissioners are so busie set- 
ting Leases. The Bishop of Corke’s Case, which you will 
find in the Votes, and wherein the Parliament refused 
him Redress, was this: Several of his Tenants owed him 
arrears of Rent, the King seiz’d upon their Goods because 
they were absent; he desires to be paid his Arrears out 
of the Goods found on the Lands, which he desired leave 
to Distrain on; but he was told, he must Sue the Tenants 
on the Covenants of their Leases, and recover his Rent as 
he could. This is like to be a President, and no Creditor, 
Landlord, or Mortgagee, whose Tenant is absent, is like 
to get any thing, because the King has seiz’d the Goods 
and Lands which were his Security. I hear likewise 
where the Landlords are absent, Lessees are disturb’d 
and left to seek Redress from their absent Landlords. 
The Commons Quarrel to Judge Dally, for which they 
impeached him, was, upon some private Discourse he had 
with Sir Alick Bourk, and some other Gentlemen, in 
which he disapprov’d of the Commons Proceedings, and 
said, they were a kind of Massanello’s Assembly, and that 
it could not be expected that men from whom the King 
took Estates, would fight for him, or to this effect, 
FINIS.” 
POPIANA, 
Pope and Allan Ramsay.—To the edition of 
Allan Ramsay's Poems, printed by Thomas Rud- 
diman, Edinburgh, 1721, there is prefixed a long 
list of the names of the principal nobility and 
gentry of Scotland subscribers, among whom 
are “Mr. Alexander Pope, Sir Richard Steele, 
Savage,” &c. It would now be curious, if it could 
be ascertained what was the opinion of the great 
English poet, Mr. Pope, in respect of his Scottish 
brother Allan. The latter does him due honour 
by his quotations, but we never hear of the former 
in any shape repaying or acknowledging the 
compliment. G. N. 
Passage in Pope (1* S. xi. 65.; 2°28. i. 41.)— 
Iam obliged to G. R. S. for his kindness in at- 
tempting to answer my Query, but his explana- 
tion does not meet my object. In the first place, 
the text does not, I think, warrant his version ; 
and secondly, there is no difficulty as to the 
general meaning which G. R. S. understands as 
we all do; but the puzzle is, how Ben Jonson and 
Dennis could concur on the same affidavit, and 
why “The Lord's Anointed” should be contrasted 
with a “ Russian bear,” and why a“ Russian bear,” 
and what “ Russian bear?” Pope, as far as I have 
been able to trace his obscurities, never wrote at 
random. It is evident that an antithesis between 
Kings Charles and William and a Russian bear, 
probably the Czar Peter, is meant; and between 
royal dignity and royal taste, we all see that; but 
where have Ben and Dennis said anything about 
it? and how could they, who wrote an hundred 
years apart, have concurred in the same exclama- 
tion—given as a quotation, and as if ipsissimis 
verbis ? Cc. 
Pope's Ode for Music.—I agree with Mr. 
Botton Corney, that the Ode ought to be inserted 
in all editions of Pope’s Works; but not because 
it is a distinct ode from that in honour of St. 
Cecilia; or because recomposed twenty years later, 
and therefore exhibiting “the more mature taste of 
the poet.” It appears to me that the omissions and 
alterations were made to suit the requirements 
of the musical composer, and the time which only 
could be allowed for performance: in the same 
way that Hughes, in 1711, was asked by Steele to 
alter “ Alexander’s Feast,—“ Alter this poem for 
musick, preserving as many of Dryden’s words as 
you can” (Malone’s Life of Dryden, p. 302.). 
Such alterations and curtailments are, under like 
circumstances, matters of course. Fortunately, 
in 1730, Pope was living, and therefore altered 
the poem himself; but that he considered it a 
mere alteration to suit a special purpose is proved, 
I think, by the fact that in 1736, when he pub- 
lished his collected works, he neither substituted 
it for the “Ode to St. Cecilia,” nor published it at 
all. je 5 
Curll’s “ Corinna.” —Having just met with a 
passage in “N. & Q.” (1% S. xii. 277. 431.), signed 
W. M. T., in which an article in Chambers’s 
Edinburgh Journal, No. 131., New Series, for 
July 4, 1846, is supposed to have had no other 
source for its materials than a little book en- 
titled Pylades and Corinna, and to have been 
written without reference to any biographical 
dictionary, I beg to state that the little book was 
never seen by the writer of the article; and also 
that the twelfth volume, or Supplement to the 
General Biographical Dictionary, was consulted 
for some account of Mrs. Thomas; some pages 
from which may be found in Dodsley’s Annual 
Register for the year 1767. E. 
LONGHOUGHTON REGISTERS. 
“The short and simple Annals of the Poor.” 
The following extracts cannot be said to be 
historically interesting, except as they give some 
insight into the morals of the rural population in 
the place and at the period to which they relate ; 
but they are curious and singular. It is but just 
to remark that purity and simplicity of manners - 
are generally characteristic of the present genera- 
tion of the inhabitants of the same parish. 
J. My. 
“ Extracts from the Register of Marriages, Baptisms, and 
Bre in the Parish of Longhoughton, Northumber- 
and. 
“1699, Oct. 27. Jane, the wife of George Doncan (the 
Dr. of Mr. Brown, Dean Elect of Glasco), vic. of Long- 
houghton, buried. 
