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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°"» S. IX. Feb. 4. '60. 



(Calamy's Continuation, p. 699.). Among Dan. 

 Featly'sfriends were Simon Birckbeck {Protestant's 

 Evidence, 1657, Pref. §§ 1, 2.), and Sir H. Lynde 

 (Prynne's Canterburies Doome, p. 185.); among 

 his fellow-collegians Thomas Jackson (ibid. p. 

 356.) ; he was chaplain to Sir Thomas Edmonds 

 (ibid. p. 409.), and domestic chaplain to Abp. 

 Abbot (ibid. pp. 59. 62, 63.). He wrote an answer 

 to the learned Rich. Mountague (ibid. p. 159.). 

 These facts will suffice to mark his position with 

 regard to the controversies of his day, and to pre- 

 pare us to learn that his Sermons suffered con- 

 siderably from the censorship under the rule of 

 Abbot's successor at Lambeth. Prynne, with a 

 zeal worthy of Mr. Mendham or Mr. Gibbins, has 

 enabled us to judge for ourselves of the wisdom 

 of Laud's Literary Policy, by printing in extenso 

 the pages which offended " the cursory eyes," as 

 Milton has it, " of the temporizing and extempor- 

 izing licensers." (Ibid. pp. 108, 109. 170. 185. 

 254. 258. 269, 270. 279—282. 284. 293. 299. 308, 

 309. 315.) 



In the scarce Life of Bishop Morton (York, 

 1659), the hopes raised in Bp. Morton and other 

 hearers of Featly's act (for the degree of M.A.) 

 are said to have been abundantly fulfilled by the 

 learned labours of his riper years, and more par- 

 ticularly by his disputation at Paris with Dr. 

 Smith, titular Bishop of Chalcedon (pp. 28—30., 

 where is a notice of his death.) 



Farther information may be derived from the 

 indexes to Wood and to Hanbury's Historical 

 Memorials. J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Poems by B^rns (2 Qd S. ix. 24.) — It will 

 afford me pleasure to send to the care of your 

 publishers, or, if supplied with the address, di- 

 rectly to your inquiring correspondent, T. Simpson, 

 a letter written by Burns in 1788 for comparison 

 with the MSS. in his copy of the third edition of 

 the Poems, 1787 ; which may help to solve one 

 portion of the Query. 



The name of Adam Cardonnel, without the pre- 

 fix " De," occurs in a very early list of the mem- 

 bers of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 

 He was elected in 1781, and for some time held 

 the office of Curator. 



In 1786 he published Numismata Scotice, 4to., 

 Edinburgh ; and, 1788-93, in parts, London, 4to. 

 and 8vo., dedicated to his "kinsman Sir William 

 Musgrave, Bart., F.R.S.," Picturesque Antiquities 

 of Scotland, etched by Adam De Cardonnel. 



Gilbert J. French. 



Bolton, 18th January, 1860. 



Destruction or MSS. — The bump of destruc- 

 tiveness does really seem to have acquired in 

 some persons what the Ettrick Shepherd called 

 a " swopping organisation ;" and you have done 

 good service to the cause of literature and ec- 



clesiastical biography, by giving publicity to the 

 remorseless combustion of three large chests of 

 manuscripts (how interesting, how invaluable, we 

 may well suppose,) of the celebrated Dr. Hickes, 

 sometime Dean of Worcester. Allow me to place 

 on record, in " N. & Q," another very sad case 

 of destruction ; that of the official correspondence 

 of the Militai'y Chest attached to the Duke of 

 Wellington during his peninsular campaigns. A 

 writer now living, who served in that depart- 

 ment under the Duke in Spain, Portugal, and 

 the South of France, formed the design, some 

 twelve years since, of inditing a " Financial His- 

 tory of the Peninsular War." No matter how 

 he would have accomplished his task, well or ill ; 

 the subject itself was at any rate most in- 

 teresting, abundant in curious facts, and rich in 

 lessons of monetary admonition ; lessons which, 

 the next time we commit ourselves to continental 

 campaigning, we shall have to learn over again, 

 and perhaps again forget. Having formed his 

 plan, the intending author naturally turned his 

 thoughts to the valuable store of facts, dates, 

 sums total, and particulars, preserved, as he sup- 

 posed, in the aforesaid correspondence. Alas ! 

 some new arrangements had been made in a 

 public office ; and to his consternation he was in- 

 formed that, in the accompanying process of 

 routing out, the correspondence had been de- 

 stroyed ! 



Should others of your readers be acquainted 

 with similar acts of vandalism, I trust they will 

 take the present opportunity of communicating 

 them, while public attention is directed to the 

 subject. An Old Peninsular. 



Origin of " Cockney" (2 nd S. ix. 42.)— In his 

 newly published Dictionary of Etymology Mr. 

 Wedgwood says : — 



" The original meaning of cockney is a child too ten- 

 derly or delicately nurtured; one kept in the house, and 

 not hardened by out-of-doors life : hence applied to citi- 

 zens, as opposed to the hardier inhabitants of the country, 

 and in modern times confined to the citizens of London." 



He adds these quotations : — 



" Cochnay, carifotus, delicius, mammotrophus." "To 

 bring up like a cocknaye — mignoter." " Delicias facere, 

 to play the cockney." " Dodeliner, to bring up wantonly 

 as a cockney." ("Pr. Par., and authorities cited in notes.) 

 " Puer in deliciis rnatris nutritus, Anglice, a cokenay. — 

 Hal." (Halliwell's Diet, 1852.) " Cockney, niais, mignot. 



— Sherwood. 



The rest of his explanation is too long to ex- 

 tract ; this, however, may be cited : — 



" The Fr. cogueliner, to dandle, cocker, fedle, pamper, 

 make a wanton of a child, leads us in the right direction." 



R. F. Sketchlet. 



Sir John Dan vers (2 nd S. yiii. 171. 309. 338.) 



— Permit me to correct a mistake which I am 

 told exists in my communication relative to the 

 Danvers family (p. 338.). Sir Johu Danvers, the 



