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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-« S. VI. 144., Oct. 2. '58. 



tion — if discrepancy there be — in his amusing 

 Book of Beginnings. 



In a copy of the first edition, lately posse.ssed 

 by ^Ir. Lilly, the first stanza of the First Book or 

 Canto had, and now has, a slip pasted over it ; 

 presenting, in seemingly contemporaneous type, 

 the first stanza, since reprinted by Mr. Singer. 

 Underneath this printed slip is the first stanza, 

 continued in Mr. Knight's reprints of the first 

 edition; bearing date respectively 1817, 1844. 



In a magnificent large paper copy of the second 

 edition (1624) the stanza of the slip, adopted by 

 Mr. Singer, is written out on the broad margin of 

 the volume, and assigned to Dr. Atterbury be- 

 cause (as Mr. Lilly, the fortunate possessor of 

 this volume also, very fairly supposes,) signed 

 " F. Attby." 



The MS. stanza is thus introduced: "This 

 stanza was afterwards thus altered by Dr. Atter- 

 bury from Tas.io, viz.," &c. Then follows the 

 stanza. The epithet "scattered," in the last or 

 eighth line, standing underscored, with the word 

 "erranti" written under it, and the whole sub- 

 scribed (F. Attby). 



The Dublin (of 1726), an edition, the real 

 fourth, overlooked by Mr. Knight in his enumer- 

 ation of the issues preceding his own, and indeed 

 generally unnoticed by others, prints the stanza 

 in its usual form, and not after Dr. Atterbury's 

 and Mr. Singer's variation. 



I have not had an opportunity of seeing as yet 

 how Mr. Willmott treats this point in his new 

 edition ; nor, indeed, do I know in which shape 

 he prints the stanza in his te.xt, — supposing him 

 to take the first edition (1600) for his exemplar. 



I would beg leave on this showing to oflfer the 

 following threefold Query ; — 



1. Did Mr. Singer print from a copy of the 

 first edition (IGOO), which had his reproduced 

 version of the stanza in question (Can. i. stan. 1.), 

 standing as an integral part and parcel of the 

 printed text of the book ? If so — 



2. How comes it to pass that the stanza could 

 have been afterwards — as by the MS. annotator 

 of Mr. Lilly's second ed'tion it is — attributed to, 

 or appropriated by. Dr. Atterbury ? 



3. Are the printed texts of the copies of the 

 first edition known to differ in this important par- 

 ticular — the one set, or portion of the edition, 

 from the other ? Peter. 



:^ttt0r CSucrtc^. 



Whyte Family. — Can any correspondent of 

 " N. & Q." afford me information as to the an- 

 cestry of Capt. Solomon Whyte, who came to 

 England with William, Prince of Orange, fought 

 at the battle of the Boyne, and, dying early, left 

 two sons under the guardianship of General 

 Pearce ? These sons became pages to Queen 



Anne, and subsequently entered the Guards. 

 Richard was Governor of the Tower when the 

 Scottish Lords were executed. He died unmar- 

 ried. His brother left one son, Samuel, who be- 

 came somewhat celebrated in his time as the pro- 

 prietor of a large school in Dublin, and as the 

 companion of the wits and literary men of the day. 

 Sheridan's sons were educated in his school : Tom 

 Moore also, and, for a time, Arthur Wellesley, 

 afterwards Duke of Wellington. A considerable 

 number of the Irish nobility were instructed by 

 Mr. Whyte. He also published some books which 

 were afterwards republished by his son and suc- 

 cessor, Mr. Edward Athenry Whyte. 



Varlov ap Harry. 

 '■'■Memoirs of the Earl of Liverpool." — Who 

 was the author of Memoi?-s of the Public Life and 

 Administration of the Bight Hon. the Eai-l of 

 Liverpool, K.G., published at London in 1827, in 

 one vol. Svo. ? The work is inscribed, in a com- 

 l)limentary dedication, to Lord Eldon. In the 

 Preface the author says, that — 

 " acting -with no political party, he is not conscious of 

 possessing more than a general feeling of attachment and 

 gratitude to the men and measures which liave protected 

 the grey hairs and small possessions of his father, and 

 kept open the path of peace and prosperity for his 

 children." 



It is a respectable production, but the compiler 

 appears to have had access to no peculiar or pri- 

 vate sources of information. L. 



Lr eland and the Irish. — By whom has Ireland 

 been described as "that vulnerable heel of the 

 British Achilles ? " And who has written, " Les 

 Irlandois, que nous avons vu de si bons soldats en 

 France et en Espagne, ont toujours mal combattu 

 chez eux ? " Abhba. 



French Coin. — I should be obliged by infor- 

 mation on the following points, or by references 

 which would enable me to prosecute my inquiries. 



1. What has been (from the earliest time to 

 which our information extends) the standard of 

 fineness of French silver coin ? 



2. What relation did the French pound iveight 

 of silver bear : a. To the Toiver pound ; h. To the 

 pound Troy ? 



3. Was there ever a time when the lim-e was 

 worth a pound weight of silver ? 



4. Where can I find in a tabular form the suc- 

 cessive depreciations of the French coin ? 



Meletes. 



Comus Queries. — 1. Is there any evidence of 

 Charles I. having been present at the performance 

 of Conms at Ludlow Castle ? 



2. Whether Henry Lawes, the composer of the 

 music for Comus, had any arms ; and if so, what 

 were they ? 



3. Who acted the parts of Comus and Sabrina? 



G. II. K. 



