2 nd S. IX. Mae. 31. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Gkub Street and John Foxe (2 nd S. ix. 163.) 

 — Among the notes upon the history of Grub 

 Street here given is the following passage : — "It 

 was in Grub Street that John Foxe the Martyro- 

 logist wrote his Acts and Monuments." Now, 

 seeing that the Book of Martyrs (as it is more 

 commonly called) was published in 1563, and the 

 second edition in 1570, the statement thus made 

 is directly in contradiction to the following pas- 

 sage of the Life of John Foxe (edit. 1841, p. 194.) 

 by Mr. Canon Townsend : — 



" Many letters in the Harleian collection illustrate the 

 influence of Foxe at this time. They are addressed to 

 him in Grub Street; and must therefore, though no date 

 appears on them, have been written after 1572. A letter 

 from Foxe to one of his neighbours, who had so built his 

 house as to darken Foxe's windows, is curious as a speci- 

 men of religious expostulation, for an injury which pos- 

 sibly he could not afford to remedy by law." 



In the next page Mr. Townsend inserts a letter 

 addressed " To the worshipfull and his singular 

 good frende Mr. Foxe, dwellinge in Grubb 

 Street, this be given with speed, from Oxford." 

 And this is dated, "From Oxford the xx. of No- 

 vember, 1571 ;" thus, on the other hand, dis- 

 proving Mr. Townsend's assertion, to which it 

 stands opposite. Indeed, that biographer does 

 not inform us why the letters addressed to Foxe 

 in Grub Street, " must have been written after 

 1572." As far as I can conjecture, that notion 

 may have been suggested to him by his imagining 

 that Fcxe was lodged in the mansion of the Duke 

 of Norfolk until that nobleman's disgrace and 

 execution in 1572. But such was not the fact ; 

 for, though lie was sheltered by the Duke- for a 

 time, he seems long before that date to have had a 

 house of his own. Altogether, it appears very 

 doubtful lohen Foxe went to Grub Street, and 

 how long he resided there.* 



John Gough Nichols. 



B. II. C. will find, in the Memoirs of the Society 

 of Grub Street, a good account of the origin and 

 progress of the literary notoriety of that street. 

 It is a singular work in two volumes, 12mo. 1737. 



G. Offor. 



Thb Music of "The Twa Corbies" (2 nd S. 

 ix. 143.) — It is to be found in Alexander Camp- 

 bell's musical work, Albyn's Anthology ; also in a 

 small privately-printed volume of It. Chambers's, 

 Twelve Romantic Scottish Ballads, with the Origi- 

 nal Airs arranged for the Pianoforte, 1844. 



Phii.o-Baledon. 

 Edinburgh. 



[• In our note on Grub Street we stated, on the au- 

 thority of Elmes's London, that " the name was changed 

 into that of Milton Street from a respectable builder so 

 called, who purchased the whole street on a repairing 

 lease." We are assured, however, by a gentleman who 

 was present at the meeting when its nomenclature was 

 discussed, that it was so named after the great poet, from 

 liis having resided in the localitv.— Ed.] 



Bolled (2 nd 9. ix. 28.)— The word &?3, gevol, 

 in Exodus (ix. 31.) translated bolled, does not 

 occur elsewhere in Hebrew, nor is it found in 

 other Shemitic languages ; but Andrew Mullet- 

 contends that it is an Egyptian word meaning 

 exire (Celsii, Hierob. ii. 283.). Although there is 

 extant no authority for such various reading, I 

 conceive that this word, idem sonans, may have 



been originally written >13|, gevool, meaning end, 



terminus, from the same root as 



-, jabil, in 



Arabic, meaning thick, large. The word boll or 

 bole in English appears, from Tyrwhitt's Glossary 

 to Chaucer, to be from the Anglo-Saxon bolleu 

 (passive participle of bolge), sivollen. There is a 

 general consent amongst the translators that it 

 means in this passage in seed. " The small blue 

 indented flowers [of flax] produce large globular 

 seed-vessels divided within into ten cells, each 

 containing a bright slippery elongated seed." 

 (Vegetable Substances, L. E. K. p. 8.) 



T. J. Buckton. 



LiSh field. 



Chevalier Gallini (2 nd S. ix. 147.) — I was 



personally acquainted with three members of this 

 family, persons of amiable and independent posi- 

 tion : two of them built a chapel, and did other 

 good works. The property also went through the 

 ordeal of a Chancery suit. Before supplying far- 

 ther details, I should like to see that the object 

 is legitimate, and not to satisfy a prurient curi- 

 osity, which too often prompts the publicity of 

 any remarkable details concerning a family to the 

 annoyance of its existing members. What right 

 has the public to personal matters as to a family, 

 whether of Gallini, or Beau Nash, or any other 

 private person ? Nash. 



Adelphi. 



Oliver Cromwell's Knights, &c. (2 nd S. viii. 

 passim.) — By way of addition to your correspon- 

 dents' communications on this subject, I have 

 noted a list of knights made by the Protector 

 upon a special occasion, which is to be found 

 among the Harl. MSS., where the arms and crests 

 are tricked : — 



" Theis fifteen knights made by Oliver as followeth 

 when he dyned at Guildhall, which" was 1653: — 



"Sir Tho. Vyner, Kt., Lord Mayor; Sir Chr. Pack, 

 Kt. ; Sir Rob. Tichborne, Kt. ; Sir Rich. Combs (Hertf.) ; 

 Sir Edw. Warde (Norff.) ; Sir Tho. Andrews; Sir Tho. 

 Atkin; Sir Tho. Foote; Sir Hen. Ingoldsby, Baronet; 

 Sir Rich. Chcverton, Lo. Mayor; Sir Hen. Pickering ; Sir 

 John Barksted (London); Sir John Dethick; Sir James 

 Drax (of Woodhall in Yorksh.) ; Sir Hen. Wright, Baro- 

 net (Essex)." 



The second part of the Florus Anglicus, by J. 

 D. Gent, contains (pp. 256, 257.) a list of sixty- 

 two persons who were by Cromwell created Peers 

 of the land. '|Cl<. Hopper. 



