2-4 S. IX. Feb. "18. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 18G0. 



No. 216. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Letter of John Bradshaw, 115 — Witty Quota- 

 tions from Greek and Latin Writers, 116— Scotish Ballad 

 Controversy, 118 — Old London Bridge, 119 — Tablets for 

 Writing: Wax and Maltha, 120 — Archers and Riflemen, 

 lb. 



Minob Notes:— Lord Eldon a Swordsman — Tinted Paper 

 —; Eleanor Gwyn — First Coach in Scotland — Fore- 

 shadowed Photography, 121. 



QUERIES :— Maria, or Maria, 122 — Archbp. Whateley 

 and "the Directory," lb. — Rubrical Query — Dutch 

 Clock with Pendulum by Christiaan Huyghens— Songs and 

 Poems on several Occasions — Chalk Drawing — Allitera- 

 tive Poetry — Archbishop King's Lectureship — Judge 

 Buller's Law — Family of Havard — Songs wanted — Glou- 

 cester Custom — Col. Hacker— Clergy Peers and Com- 

 moners—Sir W. Jennings — Hospitals for Lepers — Mr. 

 Lyde Browne — Tumbrel — William Pitt's Portrait — 

 Arms, 125. 



Queries with Answers: — Old Welsh Chronicles — 

 " Gumption " — Wm. Stuart, Abp. of Armagh — Gender of 

 Carrosse — Anonymous Ballad Opera, 125. 



REPLIES : — Dominus regnavit a Ligno : Psalterium Grse- 

 cum Veronense, 127 — Rev. Alexander Kilham, lb. — Dr. 

 Hickes's Manuscripts, 128 — Scottish College at Paris, lb. 



— Philip Rubeus — Cockade — Dinner Etiquette — Sepul- 

 chres — The Prussian Iron Medal — " The Voyages," 4c, 

 of Captain Richard Falconer — Ballads against Inclosures 



— Donkey — The Label in Heraldry, &c, 129. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



$0tes\ 



LETTER OF JOHN BRADSHAW. 



[The subjoined curious and interesting letter by the 

 President of the High Court of Justice which tried and 

 condemned Charles I. is valuable as containing some par- 

 ticulars of the early life of this celebrated man not 

 generally known. John Bradshaw was the third son of 

 Henry Bradshaw of Marple in Cheshire, living in Wy- 

 berslegh, 1606, and buried at Stockport, 3rd Aug. 1654. 

 In the register of Stockport, the baptism of John is thus 

 entered : "John, the sonne of Henrye Bradshaw of Mar- 

 pie, was baptized 10th Dec. 1602." Opposite to this the 

 word Traitor is written in another hand. The President 

 relates in his will that he had his school education at 

 Bunbury in Cheshire, and Middleton in Lancashire ; and 

 tradition adds that he was also for some time at Mac- 

 clesfield, and while there wrote the following sentence on 

 a stone in the churchyard : — 



" My brother Henry must heir the land, 

 My brother Frank must be at his command ; 

 Whilst I, poor Jack, will do that 

 That all the world shall wonder at." 



Bradshaw served his clerkship with an attorney at Con- 



fleton; was admitted into the society of Grav's Inn, loth 

 I), LC20, and called to the bar 23d April, 1027. Sir 

 Peter Lcgh of Lyme, knight (Bradshaw's correspondent) 

 i was sheriff of Cheshire, 1595, M. P. 1601, and died in 

 i.— Ed.] 



1 find amongst my papers the inclosed copy of 



:i letter written when he was a student at Gray's 



by John Bradshaw, afterwards President of 



l Ligh Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I. 



It w.is criveri to me by an antiquarian friend, who 



■1 it from tlic original, which I think he stated 



Iwas in the possession of the descendants of the 



•»n to whom it was addressed. If you think 



it would interest the readers of " N. & Q." it is 

 at your service. 



John P. Powell. 



" Worthy Sub — I receyved yo r Answer to my 

 last Ire by yo r servant Birchenhalgh ffor w ch I 

 humblie thanke you, assuring my self thereby of 

 yo r continued ffavor in theise my troublesome 

 stormes, towards me so meane & unworthy of the 

 least expression of yo r love : But for all this yor 

 goodness I . shall p'myse you this payment, to 

 wryte it w th a pen of brasse in the tables of my 

 heart, w ch can as yet resound onelie prayse & 

 thanksgyving. Concerning my Ire to my flather 

 I will onelie say thus much, It had too much 

 Reason on my syde, for so impartiall a Justice as 

 he knew yo'self was to see & arbitrate my cause, 

 ffor the ballance of neutralise wherein he sup- 

 posed he held you would questionles on his part 

 be y r by ov r turned. But let him do what he please, 

 he shall soon r be wearie of aflicting, then I will be 

 of suffering, and by the grace of God I will shew 

 myself a sonne, though he cease to be my ffather. 

 But to end this uupleasing argu mt , I will onelie in 

 conclusion ppound this one Dilemma unto yo r 

 noble Construction. What ffruit that ffather may 

 expect to come of his sonnes studyes that wit- 

 tinglie doth suppresse the instrument of his la- 

 bors, and wittinglie keepe in ffetters the freedom 

 of his mynd, w ch is that chosen toole appoynted 

 for the fynishing of all such high attemptes, and 

 whether the worke imperfect by reason of such 

 Restraynt, be layd to his charge that assumed it, 

 or to him that was the Impediment, and yet was 

 bound to have helped the Accomplishing of the 

 Enterpryse. I know S r you understand, and by 

 this short question, you may gesse what may 

 furth r be urged, but I leave all to y r judgm', and 

 reposing myself on yo r worth I feare no dis- 

 astrous censure. 



" ffor neglecting the Exercyses of the howse, 

 it is a fryvolous objection. Himself hath been 

 satysfyed in it, and Mr. Damport will justify me, 

 knowing I never neglected but one Exercyse of 

 myne own, w ch was to argue a case w ch according 

 unto course another should have done for me at 

 my first coming to the house, and I by ffeeing the 

 Butler did of purpose neglect it, onelie deferring 

 the tyme, that after I had been heere a whyle, I 

 might plead the case for myself; w ch is so far 

 from a fault, that, contrarywise the best students 

 have ever taken this course, and is and hath been 

 contended of those that understand it, and hereof 

 I very well know my ffather cannot be ignorant, 

 having been acquaynted therew th . But it seemeth 

 how prone he is to take exceptions agaynst me, 

 when fynding nothing blameworthy, he returnes 

 that for a fault w ch deserveth allowance and 

 prayse. Concerning Mr. Damport, he is a worthy 

 gentleman ; his love to me doth cause me to re- 

 spect him and his worth, in honestie to regard 



