2>"» S. VI. 137., Aug. U. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



131 



sleeve ; " i. e. I do not believe the evidence of his 

 sleeve, as to the party to which he belongs : hence 

 the common acceptation, " I do not believe the 

 fact on his evidence." E. G. B. 



An Aristocratic Handivriting : Doff. — The fol- 

 lowing extract shows that, in 1724, a badly- 

 written scrawl was considered an evidence of 

 gentle blood : — 



" The Badness of the Hand put me in Doubt at first, 

 wliether the Letter came from a Man of Wit, or a Man 

 of Quality; but by the Kood Sense and good Spelling he 

 cannot be a Lord." — ( The Humorist ; being Essat/s vpon 

 Several Suhjects. 3rd edition. 1724. p. 123.) 



At p. 184. in the same book we have the ety- 

 mology of doff, expressed by the way in which 

 the word is printed : — 



" I wou'd not d'off ray Hat, because they belong'd to 

 Popisli Idolatri/." 



CUTHBERT BeDE. 



An Obviojcs Misprint. — Permit me to point out 

 a remarkable instance of the above in my own 

 letter, published in "N". & Q." (2°'' S. vi. 95. 

 line 8. col. 1.), where I am represented as being 

 engaged in the extraordinary occupation oi "fram- 

 ing my views." I need scarcely say that the dis- 

 tinction of having my ^^ views" included in the 

 portfolio of " N. & Q." is quite suiBcient for my 

 ambition ; and that I had no idea of having them 

 "framed," — a sort of suspended ammztlon vih'ich 

 even the proofs that support them would scarcely 

 merit. What I wrote was, that I would have 

 " pressed my views " or opinions on the particular 

 subject under discussion with more confidence, 

 had I known they were in accordance with those 

 of the distinguished writer and critic to whom I 

 alluded. D. F. M'Caetht. 



Minat CSucriciS. 



Abp. Sharp : Lord Melfort. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me whether either of the two fol- 

 lowing MSS. are in existence, or accessible to the 

 student ? 



1. The MS. Diary of Archbishop Sharp (of 

 York), from which his Life was compiled by his 

 son, Archdeacon Sharp. 



2. The MSS. of Lord Melfort's Letters to 

 Robert Nelson, stated by Birch {Life of Tillot- 

 son) to be then in the possession of Philip Car- 

 teret Webb, Esq. C. F. Secretan. 



Westminster. 



Colonel Horton, the Parliamentarian. — Jeremy 

 llorton, a colonel in the Parliament's service, cer- 

 tainly died in the spring or summer of 1647, and 

 the probate to his will is dated December 2, 1647. 

 lie, I presume, is the Colonel llorton who, ac- 

 cording to Clarendon, attempted Donnington 

 Castle in 1644. But what relation cloes he bear 



to the Colonel Horton so conspicuous in South 

 Wales in May, 1648?— at whose death, in Ireland, 

 in 1649, Cromwell magnifies his "courage and in- 

 tegrity" (see Carlyle, and all the histories of the 

 time). Jeremy Horton appointed a nephew, Wil- 

 liam Horton, his e.xecutor. Was this William the 

 colonel who fought in Wales and Ireland, and 

 was nominated a " King's Judge? " 



Both the Hortons aforesaid are always spoken 

 of in the newspapers and histories as " Colonel 

 Horton" without a Christian name, which argues 

 that there were not two contemporaneously. Even 

 in the Common.^' Journals, where Colonel Horton's 

 services in 1648 are so particularly noticed, and 

 1000?. a-year settled on his brigade, the Christian 

 name never occurs. Pray illuminate me. J. W. 



John Bull. — Can any of your O.xonian readers 

 inform me of the college, degree, works, or any 

 particulars of an able biblical scholar who gives 

 his name to a MS., "John Bull, 1816"? 



Jakob Ulmen. 



Benselyn, Bensley. — Would R. T. (who commu- 

 nicated respecting the Rev. R. Talbot, 2°'' S. iii. 

 255.) be so kind as to inform me whether the 

 Institution Books to which he refers give any, 

 and what, further particulars respecting the two 

 individuals following ? — 



" John Benselyn, of Hapton, Priest, Rector of Thorp- 

 Parva, 1390 (March 8), ob. 1420." 



" Richard Bensley, instituted to the Rectory of Cavers- 

 field. Bucks, in 1582." 



Tee-Bee. 

 Queen's Picturer, 1642, Sec. — The following is 

 an extract from the Civil War Tracts, dated Wed- 

 nesday, August 17, 1642 : — 



" This day it was reported to the House that at the 

 Queen'c Picturer in London, hath been seene seueral 

 meetings of about forty persons at a time, and the house 

 by the trained band being begirt and entred, they pri- 

 uately conveyed themselves away; and narrow search 

 being made about the house, they found a private way 

 down into a vault under the ground, in which they might 

 goe a quarter of a mile, leading them to the Thames side, 

 where they might privately take boat and escape. That 

 they found a maid in a place hid in the house, and being 

 examined, she said she knew nothing of the cause of 

 their meeting there, if she should die therefor. Upon 

 which it was ordered strict watch should be kept about 

 the house night and day, and the passage to the water 

 underground stopped, which was done accordingly." 



This curious extract suggests the following 

 Queries : ] . Who was the Queen's Picturer ? 2. 

 Where was the house alluded to ? E. G. B. 



Dr. Callcotfs Glee, " O snatch me swift." — Is 

 there any clue to the authorship of the poetry of 

 this celebrated glee ? Mr. Horsley, in his memoir 

 of Dr. Callcott, (prefixed to a Collection of his 

 Glees, Cations, and Catches, published in 1824,) 

 thus relates the story of that composition : — 



" It now remains for me to speak of the Glee, ' O snatch 

 me swift from these tempestuous scenes,' which I cons;- 



