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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LOXDOX, SATURDAY, MA11CII3. 1800. 



N». 218.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Richard Thomson of Clare Hall, 155 — Anderson 

 Papers, 157 — Pepys's Manuscripts, 158— Old Scotch Gen- 

 try, lb. — " Ullorxa," 159. 



Minob Notes: — Dr. Samuel Parr — The Coif— Baptismal 

 Names — The Rev. Christopher Love — The First Repor- 

 ters — Dock and Custom-house Business, 159. 



QUERIES : — George Fox's Will, 161 — Jesuit Epigram on 

 Church of England, temp. Car. I. — Fitzwilliam Family, of 

 Merrion — Fisher Family — Irish Kings Knighted — Geo. 

 Middleton's MSS. — Burrows Family — George Adams, 

 M.A. — Fletcher Family — Major Rogers — Field Family — 

 Fye Bridge, Norwich — Hiittner's Autographs — John 

 Furrington — Pig-tails and Powder — The Lady's and 

 Gentleman's Skulls — Bishop Gibson's Wife — Trinity 

 Corporation — Brighton Pavilion, 101. 



Qceeies with Answebs : — Grub Street — Saint Uncum- 

 ber — Ter-Sanctus — Roman Military Oath — Greek MS. 

 Flay — " The Female Volunteer," 103. 



REPLIES: — The De Hungerford Inscription and its In- 

 dulgences, 105 — Elucidation of Durie Clavie at Burghead, 

 109 — Playing Cards, lb. — " Vestigia nulla retrorsum" — 

 Dinner Etiquette — " Beauseant," Etymology of — Colonel 

 Frederick, son of Theodore, King of Corsica — Arms 

 Wanted — St. Thomas of Hereford — " My Eye and 

 Betty Martin" — Donnybrook near Dublin, 170. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



RICHARD THOMSON OF CLARE HALL. 



Among tLe Fellows of Clare Hull noted for 

 their profound knowledge of divinity in Nicholas 

 Ferrar's undergraduate days, Bp. Turner names 

 "Dutch Thomson, as we quote him still at Cam- 

 bridge" (Ruggle's Ignoramus, ed. Hawkins, p. ix. 

 n.). In a note on Two Lives of Nicholas Ferrar 

 (Cambridge, 1855, 8vo., pp. 171, 172.), I collected 

 a few notices of Thomson, but was not then 

 aware of the high opinion which the greatest 

 scholars of the age, the Scaliuers and Casaubons, 

 had expressed of his ripe scholarship. 



The literary character of King James's trans- 

 lators (Thomson belonged to the Westminster 

 class, to whom the early boolc9 of the Old Testa- 

 ment were assigned*) cannot be unimportant to 

 Englishmen. I have, therefore, gleaned some ma- 

 terials for a memoir of Thomson from the printed 

 correspondence of the time, and shall be glad to 

 learn more of him. As the whole number of 

 Englishmen eminent for classical learning is very 

 small, and this is, I believe, the first attempt to 

 claim fin- Thomson a place amongst them, I have 

 gone more into detail than the authors of Athena 

 Cantabrigienses can afford to do, and must beg 

 ■ permission to devote two or three papers to 

 the subject. 



' 1 uller's Church History, ed. Brewer, vol. v. p. 371. 



Bishop Andrewes, writing to Is. Casaubon, 

 Sept. 8, 1G12, says {Minor Works, p. xlv.) : — 



" Thompsonus valet, et novum magistratum meditalur, 

 in eoque tolus est." 



Air. Bliss, in his note, refers to Casaubon's let- 

 ters for a favourable character of Thomson. 



In Casauboni Epistolce, ed. Almeloveen, Itotc- 

 rodami, 1709, fob, the following are addressed to 

 Thomson, or refer to him. 



No. 12. p. 8., Geneva, Apr. 25, 1594. To 

 Thomson. This letter implies a previous fami- 

 liarity and correspondence, and speaks of Thom- 

 son's scholarship as on a level with the writer's. 

 Casaubon oilers assistance in an edition of Sextus 

 Enipiricus, acknowledges past services, and begs 

 for a continuance of them : — 



" Tu nihilominus aeternum me tibi devinxisti ; cujus 

 amoiem, fidem, et merita nunquam non praedicabo. Li- 

 bros nondum accepi quos mitti a te tua epistola aiebat. 

 . . . Quicquid mea causa impenderis, id cui refuudi velis 

 fac me certiorem : alioquin carebo hoc fructu amicitia; 

 tuas: tua enini opera non utar. . . . Ego nunc Arriani 

 Dissertationes publice expono. . . . O Philosophum! O 

 dignuni tuo excellenti ingenio campum ! quare si me 

 audis, rape mini banc palmam dum adhuc in medio est 

 posita. Offero tibi quicquid habuero, quod juvare te 

 possit. Moliebar ipse aliquid: sed melius hoc onus in 

 tuos valeutissimos humeros incumbet. . . . Suetonium 

 scis niihi esse ad manum: in cum si quid habes, qurcso, 

 adjuva. Procopii libellum, quern turn blande offers, si 

 semel pellegeio, remittam statim." 



The Dousas, Vulcanius, Lectius, and Paulus 

 Stephanus, also occur as friends of Thomson's. 

 He seems to have been a favourite with the 

 ladies : — 



" Uxor, soror mea, et sororcula tua [who is this?] te 

 ferunt oculis, et plurimum salvere jubeut." 



No. 13. p. 9. Geneva. Same day. To Scaliger. 



" Liteiis nonuullorum (imprimis autera Thomsonis 

 mei) intellexi, probari tibi nostra stadia." 



" Scripsit nuper ad me adolescens eruditissimus, et 

 mihi charissimus, Richardus Thomson, se isthic telam 

 nescio quam esse orsum," etc. 



No. 16. p. 11. Geneva. Aug. 21, 1594. To 

 Janus Dousa [Johan van dor Docs]. 



" Ricliardo [Tliomsoni, marg. note,"] nostro, quern ego 

 adolescentem juxta cum oculis meis amo, quid (actum sit, 

 et in qua ilium qitasram proseucha, ex te scire cupio: nam 

 post ejus Stada profectionem nihil mihi de eo comper- 

 tum." 



No. 17. p. 12. Geneva. Oct. 15, 1594. To 

 Scaliger. 



" Scribo etiarrj ad Thomsonem, studiosissimum mei vi- 

 rum, ut si quid potent me hie adjuvet: eas quoque literas 

 cures veliin." 



No. 29. p. 19. Geneva. May 19, 1595. To 

 Scaliger. 



" W[ottonus; ;'. e. Sir Hen. Wotton, for whom Casau- 

 bon had become surety — to his cost] satisfecit, meque 

 ea molestia liberavit, in quam, ut vere scribis, conjecerat 

 me axaipof mea facilitas. . . . Persuasus sum tuis niaxime 



