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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'><i S. VI. 137., Aug. 14. '58. 



there is nothing in their appearance or fabric that 

 would necessarily imply a later date. Nothing, 

 however, can at present be affirmed with certainty 

 as to the era when the Jewish coinage originated. 

 C. M. A. would do well to consult M. de Saulay's 

 work, and some remarks upon it in a late.number 

 of the Numismatic Chronicle. J. E. 



Swift Family (2"* S. vi. G9.) — Me. Peacock. 

 will find some very interesting details respecting 

 the grandfather of the Dean, his wife, family, &c., 

 in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy^ ed. 1714, 

 parf II., p. 361. This supplies some interesting 

 particulars of his ejection from Goodrich, of which 

 place he was vicar. The Bemdies of England and 

 Wales (for Goodrich, see the volume of Hereford- 

 shire), also furnishes farther details of the vicar, and 

 the anecdote of his humorous manner of present- 

 ing 300 broad pieces of gold to the king at Rag- 

 land. It also mentions that he was accustomed, 

 after ejection from his living, to travel about 

 among his former parishioners, administering the 

 eucbarist from a chalice he carried with him. 

 This afterwards was presented by his grandson, 

 the dean (1726), to the parish, and is used at the 

 present time in administration of the sacrament. 

 On the base of this cup is the following inscrip- 

 tion : — 



" Jonath. Swift, S. T. D. Decan. Eccles. S" Pair. Dubl°, 

 hunc Calicem Eccles. de Goderidge sacrum voluit." 



Underneath the base is the following : — 



"Tho. Swift hujus Eccles. Vica"' notus in historiis ob 

 ea qu* fecit et passus est pro Car" Imo. ex hoc calice 

 regrotantibus propiuavit. Eundem Calice Jonat" Swift, 

 S. T. D. Decan. Eccles. S" Paf Dubl° Thorn* e-x. filio 

 nepos huic Eccles. in perpetuam dedicat 

 1726." 



In the same parish, a house of old construction 

 is still associated with the family, and said to have 

 been built " soon after the troubles," and occu- 

 pied by one of the vicar's sons. S. M. S. 



Query as to a MS. Work by Milton (2"^ S. vi. 

 84.) — Milton, who " sung himself from 's cradle 

 to his tomb," is fast receiving the honours so long 

 ovei'due to his transcendent merits. In Dr. Adam 

 Littleton's Latin Dictionary (3th edition, 4to., 

 London, 1715), after acknowledging and enumer- 

 ating the authoi'ities employed in his laborious 

 compilation, it is said : — 



" We had by us, and raade use of, a manuscript collec- 

 tion, in three large Folios, digested into an alphabetical 

 order, which the learned Mr. John* Milton had made 

 out of TuUy, Livj', C«sar, Sallust, Quintus Curtius, Jus- 

 tin, Plautus, Terence, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, 

 Mauilius, Celsus, Columella, Varro, Cato, Palladius : in 

 short, out of all the best and purest Roman authors." 



He says also that he seldom omitted to name 



* Littleton dedicated his Dictionary/ to Charles II., but 

 does not appear by this expression to fear praising the 

 poor blind regicide, as the illustrious poet was after called. 



both the author and the place whence he fetched 

 his authorities : — 



" This," he saj's, '■ was known to be Stephens's method, 

 and the same may be seen in Mr. Milton's manuscript, 

 and the same may be seen by the curious or doubtful." 



This manuscript, though used by Littleton in 

 his Dictionai'y, must have been, even after his 

 using it, an invaluable Latin Lexicon, drawn from 

 such pure sources by such a scholar as Milton.* 

 Can any of your readers favour me with any in- 

 formation as to the whereabouts of this 'manu- 

 script ? James Elmes. 



Unluchy Days (P* S. vii. 232. ; viii. 305. ; xi. 

 203.) — A beautiful illuminated Latin MS., in the 

 library of W. H. Wade-Gery, Esq., at Bushmead 

 Priory, Bedfordshire, affords two or three various 

 readings. As to Jan., Feb., April, May, June, 

 and Nov., it agrees with viii. 305. ; as to March 

 and Dec, with vii. 232. ; as to Aug., with xi. 203. 

 July reads " TVedecimus ; " September, " Tertia 

 Septembris : et septima (ct bij.) fert mala mem- 

 bris;" October, "Tertius et denus virtutibus est 

 alienus." 



Is it known why these days, or any of them, 

 were deemed unlucky ? Josepu Rix. 



Madrigals (2"* S. vi. 90.)— It is surely to be 

 lamented, that in publishing such a query, J. M. 

 G. did not give his full name and address. 



I, too, possess "valuable information" which 

 my friend Mr. Pearsall left behind him ; but 

 should object to communicate it to any anony- 

 mous Querist. 



However, on the subject of madrigals, much 

 may be seen in Felix Farley s Newspaper, Jan. 2 • 

 and 9, 1858, written long ago by Mr. Pearsall ; 

 and also si.K very amusing and instructive letters 

 of his on musical composition in the Bristol Jour- 

 nal, May, 1839, addressed to the students of the 

 Royal Academy of Music. Why he assigned the 

 credit of these to William Cobbett's assumed name, 

 I know not. 



Mr. Pearsall was sixty-two when he died, 

 strangely omitted in the Gent. Mag : though it 

 appears in the slips I had worked off, as also the 

 names of his children by his wife Eliza, daughter 

 of William Armfield Hobday of London, Gent. ; 

 viz. Robert Lucas, who has served in the Austrian 

 army, and is lately married to a daughter of the 

 late Lieut. Hamilton Finney ; and two daughters, 

 Elizabeth Hill, married in 1839 to Charles WynJ- 

 ham Stanhope, Esq., and Philippa Swinnerton, 



lately married to Hughes, Esq., barrister. 



H. T. Ell.acombe. 



Clyst St. George. 



Interment in Church Walls (2°'^ S. v. 275.) — 

 These are said traditionally to be the tombs of 



[* Vide Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, v. 210. ; and " N. 

 & ti." i-"' S. iv. 183.— Ed.] 



