132 



NOTES AND QUERIES. [2-* s. vi. 137., aug. i4. 'ss. 



der the master-piece of my Friend's genius and science. 

 For this admirable rroduction we appear to be indebted 

 to an accidental circumstance. The Doctor had agreed 

 to accompany some friends to the Theatre, on an evening 

 when a very popular Actor was to make his appearance ; 

 it therefore became necessary to obtain places on the 

 opening of the doors. To lose an hour, in waiting for the 

 commencement of the performance, was what my Friend 

 could not think of; and, contrary to his usual custom, ho 

 was without a book in his pocket. Seeing, therefore, a 

 second-hand volume of poems on a stall, he purchased it, 

 and found therein the following beautiful lines, that gave 

 rise to a composition, which, perhaps, may be called the 

 first of its class : — 



< snatch me swift from these tempestuous scenes, 

 To where life knows not what distraction means ; 

 To where religion, peace, and comfort dwell. 

 And cheer, with heartfelt rays, my lonely cell. 

 Yet, if it please Thee best, thou Power Supreme ! 

 My bark to drive thro' life's more rapid stream, 

 If low'ring storms my destin'd course attend 

 And ocean rages till my days shall end ; — 

 Let ocean rage, let storms indignant roar, 

 I bow submissive, and resigned adore,' " 



The title of the book was, it appears, Pleasing 

 Bejlections, and it was published in 1788.* A. R. 



" The Buke of Wellington's Despatches,"' ly 

 . Lieutenant- Colonel Gurwood. — At the commence- 

 ment of a review of these important volumes, in 

 BlachvoocTs Magazine for January, 1837,, is the 

 following note : — 



"We have been informed within these few days, 

 that Sir Frederick Adam has discovered three volumes of 

 his Grace's letters in his own handwriting in the Mysore 

 Eesidenc}'. Tliese letters embrace the period immedi- 

 ately subsequent to the Duke's taking the command of 

 Seri'ngapatam in 1799, up to his illness at Bombay in 

 1801. They are all addressed to Colonel Barry Close, 

 and there appears to be only one of them which has 

 found its way into print. Some of these are of the 

 highest interest and importance, and they all afford proof, 

 it is said, of the versatility and e3?tent of the Duke's ca- 

 pacit)-." 



Have these valuable documents been preserved? 

 In whose possession are they? Is the public 

 likely ever to be gratified witli their publication ? 



J. M. G. 



Saint Sunday. — In the collection of Wills, in 

 the Journal of the Surrey Arch(Bological Society, 

 p. 182., in one of Alice Nicoll, 1515, is this pas- 

 sage : — 



" Also I bequeth to the yraage of Seynt Sonday y pound 

 of wax for a tapier, to burne every Sonday in service time 

 as long as it will endure." 



Who is this saint, and what is his legend, and 

 how would bis name be latinised ? A. A. 



" Treatise on the Sacrament." — Who wrote A 

 Treatise, shewing the Possibility and Convenience of 



I[* The piece is taken from Pleasing Reflections on Life 

 and Manners, selected from Fugitive Publications, 12mo., 

 1787. It occurs at p. 292., and is entitled " The Wish of 

 a Man of Reflection: written in London," and makes 

 twenty -two lines.] 



the Reall Presence of our Savioxir in the blessed 

 Sacrament, &c , with a curious woodcut in the 

 title, small Svo., Antwerp, 1596. T. G. L, 



Mary's Abbey, Dublin. — Is there any plan or 

 map extant of the portion of Mary's Abbey, Dub- 

 lin, where the Irish Parliaments assembled ? 



AUHBA, 



Quotations Wanted. — 



" Time doth transfix the florish set on youth. 



And delves the parallels on beauty's brow, 

 Feeds on the rarities of Nature's truth, 



And nothing stands but for his scythe to, mow." 



Q. W. 



" Tlie world grew lighter as the monster fled." S. C. 



" There'll be wigs on the green." H. H. D. 



WJio first used these memorable words : 

 " Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe " ? 



Abhba. 



" Fortnight's Excursion to Paris." — Who is the 

 author of " Sketch of a Fortnight's Excursion to 

 Paris in 1788," in the Gent. Mag., 1797-98 ? 



R. Ingus. 

 Algarotti. — Who was the translator o^ An Essay 

 on the Opera, by Algarotti, 12mo., 1767 ? 



R. Inglis. 



William Tyndale. — Can you direct me to any 

 information or illustration of Tyndale or his times, 

 or of individuals connected with him, &c., de- 

 veloped since the publication of the Rev. C, 

 Anderson's Annals of the English Bible, which 

 supplies so much information on the subject ? 



S. M. S. 



daaiuar caucn'c^ to it!) SniStonsf. 



Hoohers " Ecclesiastical Polity." — Being the 

 possessor of the very rare first editions of the first 

 four, and also the fifth book of Hooker's famous 

 work, I was pleased the other day to lay my hand 

 on what seemed to be the first edition of the re- 

 maining three books, which it is well known from 

 honest Izaak's account were not published in the 

 lifetime of the author, but in 1648, some years 

 after his death. To my surprise, however, I 

 found the title-page running thus : The Laioes of 

 Ecclesiasticall Politic, the Sixth and Eighth Books, 

 SfC, with an apology in the introductory address 

 " to the Reader" for the non-appearance of the 

 seventh book : " the endeavours used " to recover 

 which " had hitherto proved fruillesse." This 

 work is in quarto, and does not therefore corre- 

 spond with the previously published volumes. 

 Can any correspondent say when and how the 

 seventh book was published ? Lowndes says 

 truly, that the first four books were published in 

 1594 (tliough the volume is undated) ; the fifth 



