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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"'JS. VI. 149., Nov. 6.'68. 



serve better from him, because in the Queen's 

 time I spent a great part of my credit in preserv- 

 injj your people from losing their employments. 

 But I shall trouble his Grace no more, and it is 

 time to give you a Release. I know not whether 

 it is francking Season, and therefore I will avoyd 

 the ceremony of an envelope to save Expense. I 

 cannot blame you for carrying your Son to Engl'd, 

 which hath been chiefly your home as it was many 

 years mine, and might still be so had the late 

 Queen lived two months longer. 



" I am, with very great esteem, 



" Your Lordship's most Obed' 

 "humble Servant, 



"J. Swift. 

 " Dublin, Dec'. 24, 1736. 



" I heartily give you all the Complements and 

 Wishes of the Season." 



In my transcript I have reason to believe I was 

 attentive to the spelling, and the use or disuse of 

 Capital initials. Monson. 



Burton Hall. 



[In Scott's Swift, xix. 17., edit. 1824, there is a letter 

 from Lord Castledurrow to Dean Swift, dated Dec. 4, 173G, 

 to which this letter, kindly forwarded by Lord Monson, 

 seems to be a reply : and in the same volume, p. 30., is 

 another letter from Lord Castledurrow, dated Jan. 18, 

 1736-7, which is clearly his repl}- to the letter printed 

 above.— Ed. " N. & Q."] 



THE liATIN GKAMMAB ISSUED BY KOTAL AU- 

 THORITY IN 1540. 



Ames, in his Typographical Antiquities, first 

 edition, 1749, p. 173., gives an account of the 

 contents of a volume which was then " in the 

 possession of my learned friend Mr. Henry New- 

 corn," who, in Ames's list of subscribers, is de- 

 signated as Henry Newcome, M.A. of Hackney. 

 Herbert, in his edition of Ames, i. 442., repeats 

 the same description, unaltered ; and so does Dr. 

 Dibdin in his edition, iii. 317., adding, " The 

 preceding from Herbert" (though really Ames's 

 own). I have discovered the same volume now 

 in the Library of the British Museum (C. 21. 6.), 

 and beg to offer some further notice of it. It is 

 a quarto, and all its contents are printed on 

 vellum. The first four leaves, without a title, 

 contain the Alphabet, Lord's Prayer, Creed, and 

 Ten Commandments, &c. Next follows : — 



" An Introduction of the Eyght Partes of Speche, and 

 the Construction of the same, compiled and sette forthe 

 by the commaudement of our most gracious soueravne 

 lorde the King. AnnoM.D.xui." 



Printed by Berthelet, and consisting of thirty- 

 eight leaves, unpaged. 

 After which is added : — 



" Institutio Compendiaria tolius Grammaticae, quam et 

 eruditissimus atq; idem illustrissimus Rex noster hoc 

 nomine euulgari iussit, ut non alia q* haec una per totam 



Angliam pueris prselegeretur. Londini, anno m.d.xl. Co- 

 lophon, Londini, Ex officina Thomae Bertheleti typis ira- 

 pres. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno 

 Verbi Incarnati m.d.xl." 



Eighty numbered leaves, and six preliminary 

 thereto. 



This Latin Grammar is stated by Watt, in his 

 Bihliotheca, and by Lowndes, in his Bibliograpfier's 

 Manual, to be dated m.d.xlit.; but the figures ii. 

 are added in the title-page with a pen, — appa- 

 rently because that date appeared in the title- 

 page of the pamphlet bound up before it. Watt 

 and Lowndes place the Grammar under the name 

 of William Lily, but Lily died in 1523 ; and this 

 was apparently put forth as a new work in 1540. 



Has any bibliographer or other literary histo- 

 rian given any particulars of this attempt to 

 establish an act of uniformity for the Latin 

 Grammar ? 



It will be interesting to add that the whole 

 book is not only printed on vellum, but in various 

 places illuminated with colours : as if for some 

 person of high rank. It contains the autograph 

 of an early owner. Art. Maynwaringe ; and in 

 1789 it belonged to Dr. C«sar de Missy. 



It appears not improbable that the volume was 

 prepared for the use of the king's son, afterwards 

 King Edward VI. There is, however, in the 

 library at Lambeth Palace another copy of the 

 same Latin Grammar, and of the same date, which 

 was certainly that prince's. This book (which 

 contains the Grammar only) is bound in crimson 

 silk. It is, like the other copy, on vellum, and 

 richly illuminated on the title-page and other 

 places. After the title is inserted a limning of 

 the prince's plume of ostrich feathers, with the 

 initials E. P. and motto hic den, placed on a field 

 party per pale azure and gules, encircled with 

 rays of gold. 



I should be glad to know where any other 

 copies of the same Grammar are preserved, whether 

 upon vellum or on paper. 



John Gough Nichols. 



JOHN MARSTON S WORKS, BY J. O. HALLTWELL. 



Mr. Halliwell, in concluding the Preface, says : 

 — " The Dramas now collected together are re- 

 printed absolutely from the early editions, which 

 were placed in the hands of our printers, who thus 

 had the advantage of following them without the 

 intervention of a transcriber. They are given as 

 nearly as possible in their original state," — and so 

 on. This is all very well ; but in the edition 

 which forms the subject of the present note, it 

 would appear that the editor has failed to correct 

 the typographical errors of the " original editions," 

 the only notice taken of which is in a note (p. 332. 

 vol. iii.), viz. : " This, like many of the other stage 

 directions, is clearly erroneous." 



