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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1856. 
INEDITED NOTES FROM NEWSPAPERS. 
(Continued from p. 345.) 
The Governor of Massachusetts Bay, Samuel 
Shute, calls together the General Assembly of the 
proyince, to concert measures for its preserva- 
tion against the attacks of the rebellious Indians; 
and thus they agree to carry on the war: 
Those who go as Volunteers, without pay or Subsis- 
tence, shall receive 100/. for each Scalp of any Male In- 
dian of the Age of 12 Years or upwards. 
“ To the Volunteers without Pay, being subsisted and 
supplied with Ammunition, the Sum of 60/, for every Male 
Indian above the Age of 12. 
“To any Company or Troop issuing forth upon an 
Alarm against the Enemy, over and above the established 
Pay, 30/. per Scalp. 
“To the regular detached forces, in pay of the Go- 
vernment, 15/. per Scalp.”— Weekly Journal, October 
13th, 1722. 
We give, as a specimen of the style of quack 
advertisements, the following one; not because it 
is the most curious, but as being the only decent 
one we can find : — ' 
** At her House, at the ‘Red Ball and Acorm,’ over 
against the ‘Globe Tavern’ in Queen Street, Cheapside, 
near the ‘Three Crowns,’ liveth a Gentlewoman, the 
Daughter of an Eminent Physician, who hath practised 
upward of forty Years; who hath an Oyntment called 
the Royal Oyntment, that gives Ease in the violent 
Pains of the Gout, and infallibly Cures the Rheumatism, 
although reduced to Crutches. It had not been made 
Publick only by the Continuance and Importunity of 
those Persons who have found great Relief by it; and 
are to be had nowhere else, but at the House aboye men- 
tioned; and at the first House upon the Steps, a Potter’s 
Shop, over against St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn, by 
Doctor Reddlop Clare.” — Weekly Journal, October 13th, 
1722, 
The following is almost a last glimpse at Sir 
Christopher Wren : 
“On Thursday se’night, Sir Christopher Wren, Knt., 
was unanimously elected Vice-President of the Corpora- 
tion of Clergymen’s Sons, in the Room of Sir Gilbert 
Dolben, Bart., deceased; who left the said Corporation a 
Legacy of five hundred Pounds.” — Weekly Journal, 
Noy. 17th, 1722, 
The state of the prisons, and their unfortunate 
inmates, is next displayed : 
“ We hear that those unfortunate men, who have been 
27 years confined in Newgate by Act of Parliament, and 
exempted in all the Acts of Indemnity since, are reduced 
to such want, that they have nothing to live upon but 
the common Allowance of the Prison, Bread and Water.” 
— Weekly Journal, Nov. \7th, 1722. 
These, I presume, were the men arrested for 
the Jacobite plot of 1695. ; 
I think there were once some Queries in “ N, 
& Q.” relating to the “Good Old Cause,” but. I 
can find no clue to them in the Indices.* Will 
[* See 1* 8. vi. passim. ] 
the following be of any service in their solu- 
tion ? ' 
“ We hear from the same place (Boston, N. E.), that 
nine Dissenting Ministers have forsaken the Good Old 
Cause, and renounced the Errors of Fanaticism, to Em- 
brace the Doctrine of the Church of England; and have 
published a Declaration containing the Reasons which 
moy’d them to it.” — Weekly Journal, Dec. 18th, 1722. 
A thrice-a-week coach from Harrow is thus an- 
nounced : 
“ The Stage Coach that used to come from Harrow- 
on-the-Hill on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, to 
the ‘ Bell Inn’ in Holbourn, is now remoyed to the ‘ Bull,’ 
two doors nearer Hatton Garden, and returns as usual; 
and also goes to Garford, Pinnar, or any Place there- 
abouts. Performed (if God permit), By Issac Witp.”— 
Weekly Journal, Dec. 18th, 1722. 
A still later mention of Sir Christopher Wren. 
He died in 1723; 
“ We hear that Sir Christopher Wren has made an 
offer to the Sons of the Clergy, if they will purchase a 
Piece of Ground, to build them an House at his own Ex- 
pence for their Anniversary Meeting.” — Weekly Joyrnal, 
Dec. 22nd, 1722, 
Although the following statement is afterwards 
contradicted, I copy it; as it alludes to a singular 
practice, of which I never met with an example 
before : 
“ Mr. Layer is reprieved, we hear, for 99 years.” — 
Weekly Journal, Dec. 22nd, 1722. 
Can any correspondent of “N. & Q.” furnish 
me with other instances of this peculiar form of 
(virtual) pardon ? ; 
Here is the original advertisement of ‘“ Colonel 
Jack ;” 
“ This Day is published, 
“+l+ The History and Remarkable Life of the truly 
Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call’d Col. Jack, who 
was born a Gentleman, put ’ Prentice to a Pickpocket, 
and was six and twenty vears a Thief, and then kidnapp’d 
to Virginia. Came back a Merchant; was five times 
married to four Whores; went into the Wars, behav’d 
bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regi- 
ment, Came over, and fled with the Chevalier; is still 
abroad, compleating a Life of Wonders; and resolves to 
dye a General. Printed and sold by J. Brotherton, at the 
Royal Exchange; T. Payne, near Stationers’ Hall; 
Wellears at the ‘Lamb,’ and A. Dodd at the ‘ Peacock,’ 
without Temple Bar; W. Chetwood in Covent Garden; 
J. Graves in St. James’s Street; S. Chapman in Pall 
Mall; and J. Stagg in Westminster Hall.” — Weekly 
Journal, Dec. 22nd, 1722. 
An announcement which follows it, presents a 
delightful confusion of sentences. A maze of 
words, in which we are pulled up every now and 
then, and haye to start afresh : — 
“A Boy that is inticed from his Mother, and lately 
gone from her along with one that goes by the Name of 
Dorothy Brichitt; that he robb’d his Mother of severa 
things, that went away in a white riding Hood, and a 
striped Camlet Gown; and a young Child with her about 
3 years old. The Boy that she has enticed from his 
Mother is about 14 years of Age, named Thomas Mat- 
