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NOTES AND QTJEKIES. 



who bad called upon him to the inn yard, and 

 having wished thern goodnight, had stepped into 

 the kitchen to have a gossip with the landlady. 

 Attracted by the uproar at the gate, he again went 

 out into the yard; and just at that moment, the 

 chamberlain of the inn opened the gate and ad- 

 mitted a magnate of that country, Mr. Augustine 

 Sotherton, accompanied by one Mr. Mileham. 

 The extract to which I now wish to draw atten- 

 tion will tell the remainder of the story : — 



" When the said Mr. Sotherton and Mr. Mileham were 

 come into the yard, and the said Paslew, seeing and 

 knowing them, did friendly salute them, asking them if 

 the}' pleased to drink a cup of wine, which the said Pas- 

 lew called for, and courteously put off his hat, and stood 

 still bare, and drunk to him, the said Mr. Sotherton, and 

 told him that he knew well his father, saying that he was 

 an honest gentleman and a merchant ; whereupon the 

 said Mr. Sotherton bodd the said Paslew leave prating 

 of his father; unto which the said Paslew answering, 

 said, ' I say nothing but well of your father.' ' No,' said 

 Mr. Sotherton, 'yon are a prating knave.' 'No,' said 

 Paslew, ' [ am no knave, I am the King's servant ;' and 

 therewith shewed him his Majesty's Scutcheon, hanging there 

 ■tpon the breast of the said Paslew. Unto which the said 

 Mr. Sotherton said: 'Are you the King's man? No! 

 you are a counterfeit, and a cheating knave.' Unto which 

 Paslew replied, and said: 'A better man than you would 

 not have said so. If your father had been alive, he would 

 not have said so.' With that the said Mr. Sotherton 

 drew out his Stillato, and struck the said Paslew there- 

 with upon the head, being still bare-headed, and broke 

 his head, so that the blood ran down about his face to 

 the quantity of a pint at least, and so continued bleeding 

 as that they had much ado to stanch it." 



Another witness describes the wound given to 

 Paslew as " a cut, of the length of an inch and a 

 half at the least, down to the skull." 



The circumstance of an English gentleman of 

 the reign of James I. wearing, and using, his stiletto 

 is one worthy of notice ; but I specially wish to 

 ask your correspondents whether they can refer 

 me to any example, either in reality or in en- 

 graving, of the kind of badge which is here 

 termed "the King's Scutcheon" (scutcliin in the 

 original), and is described as if hung round the 

 neck of Paslew. John Bkuce. 



ALEXANDER OF ABONOTEICHOS AND 

 JOSEPH SMITH. 



No one can read the graphic account which 

 Lucian gives of his contemporary the oracle-mon- 

 ger Alexander, — a little pamphlet in which the 

 author's keen sense and inborn hatred of charla- 

 tans are seen to the best advantage, — without 

 being struck by the marked resemblance which 

 the history bears to that of the founder of Mor- 

 monism. 



Thus in chapter ten we are told that Alexander 

 commenced his career by discovering brazen plates 

 in the temple of Apollo at Chalcedon, which pro- 

 mised the speedy advent of iEsculapius and his 

 father Apollo. Again, by appealing to ancient le- 



gends and by winning the support of existing oracles, 

 Alexander produced much the same effect upon 

 his Paphlagonian neighbours as Smith and his 

 successors have done among our Bible-reading 

 populations, by promising a city of the blessed in 

 the West, and by a caricature of Old Testament 

 institutions. In chapter forty-two we find hus- 

 bands ready to surrender their wives to be 

 " sealed " to the prophet, and, if he did but deign 

 to cast his eye upon them, rejoicing as though the 

 happiness of the house were thenceforth secure. 

 Alexander's jealousy of " the Atheists " (i. e. 

 Christians and Epicureans) has its parallel in the 

 Mormon treatment of " Gentiles," which, however, 

 it must be confessed, is but a natural result of the 

 cruel persecutions which broke up the settlement 

 at Nauvoo. The claim to the gifts of healing, of 

 tongues, and of revelations, is also common to the 

 two impostors, and in the followers of both we see 

 the same implicit obedience, even in matters which 

 would seem least of all to admit of external inter- 

 ference, the same surrender of fortune, and often 

 of an unspotted reputation, to a delusion openly 

 denounced by intelligent bystanders. Would that 

 we could add that the ends of the two were the 

 same ; would that Smith, like Alexander, had 

 been suffered to die in peace, and that his blood 

 had not been shed to become the seed of a spuri- 

 ous church ! 



To complete the parallel it need only be added 

 that the chief followers of Alexander the impos- 

 tor and of Smith disputed the succession to their 

 masters' inheritance of successful lying much as 

 the captains of Alexander of Macedon fought for 

 the dominion of the world. J. E. B. Matok. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



PEELE'S "EDWARD I." 



There are two passages in this play which show 

 in a remarkable manner how most glaring typo- 

 graphical errors may escape the notice or baffle 

 the sagacity of even the most acute critics. It 

 is well known that thi3 play has been edited by 

 Mr. Dyce, and criticised by Mr. Mitford, and 

 yet the passages in question are unnoticed or im- 

 explained. 



In p. 91. (Dyce's 2nd edit.) the Novice says to 

 the Friar, who had desired him to hie to the town 

 and return " with cakes and muscadine and other 

 junkets good and fine :" — 



"Now, master, as I am true wag, 

 I will be neither late nor lag, 

 But go and come with gossip's cheer, 

 Ere Gib our cat can lick her ear. 

 For long ago I learned in school 

 That lovers' desire and pleasures cool. 

 Saint Ceres' sweets and Bacchus' vine ; 

 Now, master, for the cakes and wine." 



It is so printed and pointed by Mr. Dyce, and 



