2nd s. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Duke of Cumberland.' I judge it to be the same Fawk- 

 ner ; a man highly unmemorable now, were it not for the 

 young Frenchman he was hospitable to. Fawkner's and 

 Bolingbroke's are perhaps the only names that turn up in 

 Voltaire's Letters of this English period, over which ge- 

 nerally there reigns, in the French biographies, inane 

 darkness." 



Some of your readers versed in the history of 

 the periods of George I. and II. (1726-1728) 

 would perhaps oblige me by information regard- 

 ing Edward Fawkner. Who was he ? Was he 

 .afterwards Sir Edward Fawkner, and how came 

 he so? A.L. H. 



Mitxat ^uexiti. 



Open Sea at the North Pole. — The Literary 

 Gazette for 1836 (p. 145.) publishes a review of 

 The Royal Society of the 19 th Century ; being a 

 Summary of its Labours during- the last 35 Years, 

 ^'C, Sj-c., and a Plan for its Reform, by A. B. 

 Granville, M.D., F.R.A.S., &c, &c., 8vo., pp. 233. 

 London, 1836, Churchill. In this review extracts 

 are given from Birch's History of the Royal So- 

 ciety, and Selections from its Transactions, edited 

 by its Secretary, in four volumes, 4to., 1756, one 

 of which extracts is thus treated : — 



" We have been much amused by falling in with the 

 first original Sir John Ross in these old reports. Mr. 

 Grey, who had been to Greenland, is examined about the 

 marvels in those seas; and the following question and 

 answer occur : — 



" ' Question. How near hath any been known to approach 

 the Pole? 



" ' Answer. He told me that once, upon the coast of 

 Greenland, he met a Hollander that swore he had been 

 but half a degree from the Pole ; showing him his journaf, 

 which was also^attested by his mate, where they had seen 

 no ice nor land, but all water.' " 



It is pithily added : " This seems incredible." 



We think it a pity Mr. Grey did not give us 

 the polar Hollander's name ; and, with the fond 

 hope that some reader of " N. & Q." may still ac- 

 quaint us with it, we, in compensation, translate 

 the following from the Navorscher, vol. ii. p. 375., 

 and vol. viii. p. 124. : — 



" Captain Goulden, who had been in Greenland more 

 than thirty times, once told to King William HI. that, 

 on the Greenland shores, he had met with two Dutch 

 skippers who asserted they had penetrated to 89° North 

 Latitude, and had found there no ice, but a free and roll- 

 ing sea. It is said they proved their statement by pro- 

 ducing four maritime journals. See Prof. G. Moll's 

 Verhandeling over een'uje vrocgerc Zeetogten der Neder- 

 landers, 1825 ; and the work, by him referred to, of Dainea 

 Barrington, The Frobahilities of reaching the North Pole 

 discussed. London, 1775." 



J. H. Van Lennep. 



Zeyst, Nov. 9, 1858. 



Musical Instrument: Celestina. — Has not an 

 instrument been invented, played like a piano, 

 but the sounds of which are derived from the 

 vibrations of steel bars of unequal length or 



thickness ? Many years ago I remember hearing 

 an instrument played which was called a Celes- 

 tina, but I believe the sounds were there produced 

 from glass. Is either sort of instrument now made 

 for sale ? and where ? Sttutes. 



Scotfs Waverley. — 



" Scott's Waverley was oflfered, anonymously, to the 

 Editor of this Volume. The price asked for it was re- 

 fused. It then appeared as W. Scotfs ; but in a few days 

 the name and placards were withdrawn, and the author 

 said to be unknown." — From A Million of Facts ... by 

 Sir Richard Phillips, 8vo., London, 1825, coL 648. 



Is anything farther known of this ? A. G. 



Edinburgh. 



Dean Eedes^ Epitaph. — In the cathedral church 

 at Worcester is a monument to the Rev. Richard 

 Eedes, Dean of Worcester, the friend of Toby 

 Mathew, and the author of Iter Boreale, a Latin 

 poem preserved in the Bodleian Library.* 



The epitaph is one of the class denominated 

 punning, being a play upon the name of the de- 

 ceased ; but as I have met with copies containing 

 some slight variation, I should be glad if any 

 Worcester antiquary would verify or correct the 

 following, particularly as to the punctuation, by 

 collation with the inscription itself: — 



" Ede, quis hie ? Eedes. Cur hie ? Quia prsefuit .lEdi. 



Htec domino qualis visa ? Beata domus. 

 Ede gradum ? Doctor. Qualis ? Sacer Oxoniensis. 



Tamne pius vita quani fuit ore ? Fuit. 

 Cur lapis et loqueris ? Sub me jacet Orphea vincens : 



Iste facit plus quam, saxa movere, loqui. 

 Cur lapis et lacrymas ? Jacturam defleo tantam. 



Eja! viatorem me quoque flere facis." 



This epitaph is constructed in the form of a 

 dialogue between the monument (Lapis) and a 

 traveller (Viator) meditating among the tombs. 

 I subjoin an attempted literal translation : 



" (V.) Tell who lies here ? (L.) Eedes. (V.) Why is he 

 here? (L.) Because he presided over [tliis]- house [of 

 God.] (V.) What kind of a temple f seemed he to the 

 Lord? (L.) A blessed house. (V.) Tell his degree? 

 (L.) A Doctor. (V.) Of what kind ? (L.) Priest of Ox- 

 ford. (V.) Was he as pious in life as [is betokened] in 

 his appearance? X (L.) [such] he was. (V.) And why 

 thou [inanimate] stone dost thou speak? (L.) Under me 

 lies one that surpasses [even] Orpheus; [for] this man 



* " No two men were ever more intimate than Richard 

 Eedes and Tobj' Mathews, Dean of Christ Ch., for they 

 entirely loved each other for virtue and ingenuity sake ; 

 and when Mathews was to remove to the Deanery of 

 Durham in 1584, Eedes intended to have him on his 

 way thither for one day's journey ; but so betrayed were 

 they by the sweetness of each other's company and their 

 own friendship, that he not only brought him to Durham, 

 but for a pleasant penance wrote tlieir whole journey in 

 Latin verse, entitulcd Iter Boreale, several copies of which 

 did afterwards fl}' abroad." — Wood's .4MeH(c (Bliss), i. 

 749. 



f Note here the pun upon the name : what sort of an 

 aides (Eedes) or temple seemed he to the Lord? "Your 

 body is the tcmpk of the Holy Ghost," 1 Cor. vi. 19. 



X His elligy is over the monument. 



