2° d S. IX April 7. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. 1800. 



N°. 223.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Gleanings from the Records of the Treasury.— 

 No. 1., 257 — Suffolk Folk-lore, 259 — A Want in Heraldic 

 Literature, 260. 



Minor Notes :— Junius, Boyd, and Lord Macartney— Bug: 

 Daisy : Feat — English Mercantile History : the Levant — 

 Longevity — The Feminine Affix "Ess"— Lord Hailes, 

 261. 



QUERIES : — Rev. D. H. Urquhart — Daniel Coxe — Latin 

 Versions of the Book of Common Prayer — Heraldic Query 



— Athanasian Creed— "Soup House Beggars" — John 

 Colms — A Book printed at Holyrood House — Rev. F. J. 

 H. Ranken — Perronet's "Hymns" — The Cognizance of 

 the Drummonds — Physician alluded to in " The Specta- 

 tor " — Nelsonics — Hon. Charles Boyd, 262. 



Queries with Answers: — John Gisborne — Fleet Street 



— Searcher— "Sing old Rose and bum the Bellows"— 

 " Shagreen," 264. 



REPLIES: — The Te Deutn, 265 — Thomas Ady: Books de- 

 dicated to the Deity, 266— Medal for the Siege of Gibral- 

 tar, 1779-17S3, 267 — Shakspeare's Jug, 268 — Burghead : 

 singular Custom: Clavie: Durie, 269 — Bishop Horsley's 

 Sermons — Jesuit Epigram — King David's Mother — 

 Spiritingaway — MottoesofRegiments — South Sea House 

 and the Excise Office — London Riots, 1780 — Medal of 

 James III. — Naval Ballad — Pets de Religieuses — Chalk- 

 ing the Doors — Earthquakes in the United Kingdom — 

 "High Life below Stairs " — Dominus regnavit a ligno — 

 Cockade — Bocaso Tree — Tipcat — Rev. N. Bull — Identity 

 of St. Radegunda and St. Uncumber — Bumptious and 

 Gumption — A Roste Terne — Celebrated Writer — He- 

 raldic Drawings and Engravings — Dinner Etiquette — 

 Holding up the Hand, 271. 



Notes on Books. 



GLEANINGS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE 

 TREASURY. — No. I. 



In the year 1664, the celebrated John Evelyn 

 was constituted one of the Commissioners for the 

 care of the Sick and Wounded in the Dutch War, 

 and in his Diary, under the date Oct. 27, we find 

 this entry : — 



" The same day a f Council, there being Commissioners 

 to be made to take care of such sick and wounded 

 and prisoners of war as might be expected upon occa- 

 sion of a succeeding war and action at sea, war being 

 already declared against the Hollanders, his Majesty was 

 pleased to nominate me to be one, with three other gen- 

 tlemen, parliament-men ; viz. Sir William Doily, Knt. 

 and Bart., Sir Thomas Clifford, and Bullein Rheymes, 

 1. |., with a salary of £1200 a year amongst us, besides 

 extraordinaries for our care and attention in time of sta- 

 tion, each of us being appointed to a particular district, 

 mine falling out to be Kent and Sussex, with power to 

 constitute officers, physicians, chirurgeons, provost-mar- 

 shaN, and to dispose of half of the hospitals through 

 England." * 



The next year provided no lack of employment 

 (at Evelyn in that service, as appears by several 

 iges in his Diary, but the fearful pestilence 

 which then swept over the face of the land ren- 

 dered liis occupation doubly onerous and perilous. 

 He refused, however, to desert his charge, and in 



• Diary, vol. i. p. 385. 



a spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice not often 

 matched, on his colleagues retiring from their 

 posts, and leaving him without assistance, under- 

 took the whole direction of this most trying duty. 

 For this we have the testimony of his Diary (Aug. 

 28, 1665), where he says : — 



" The contagion still increasing, and growing now 

 all about us, I sent my Wife and whole family (two or 

 three necessary servants excepted) to my brother's at 

 Wotton, being resolved to stay at my house m)'self, and 

 to look after my charge, trusting in the providence and 

 goodness of God." * 



By means of a document which I have recently 

 passed over among the Treasury Records now at 

 the Public Record Office, I am enabled to add to 

 these accounts a few particulars from the narrative 

 of John Evelyn himself; in fact, thereby to inter- 

 polate a page in his Diary, and a page too which 

 will shed additional lustre on the truly Christian 

 character of that excellent man. 



This document is a petition presented by Eve- 

 lyn to the Lords of the Treasury in March 170i 

 in reference to his salary as one of the commis- 

 sioners of sick and wounded, and also his travelling 

 charges. 



The following is a copy : — 

 " To the R' Hon" the L ds Com" of his Ma li « Treasury. 



" The humble Peticon of John Evelyn Esq r . 

 " Shewing 



" That haveing lately Exhibited to y* L d P" an Ace' 

 of 3' e charges incident to his Imploym' as one of the Com" 

 relateing to y e sick and wounded Seamen and Prisoners 

 at War amounting to the sum of - - £752 



" Dureing Six yeares Service and unex- 

 pectedly finding himselfe retrenched upon 

 the Article of Travelling charges the suihe 

 of - - - - - 226 



"And on that of his Sallary - - 225 



' Amounting in both to - - £451 



" And this being pass'd w ,h directions to the Clerks to 

 be drawn up in order to a Declaracon, w th out haveing the 

 favour of being called in to justify his p'tence and satisfie 

 y r Lp" upon any Exceptions,*w ch might occur (induceing 

 y r L d P» to cut off so considerable a sume from \ T Pef) he 

 thinks himselfe obliged (as well for his own Reputaeon 

 as y r L d P" Justice) to bespeake y r favorable p'mission of 

 laying before you, what he should have sayd, viva voce, 

 bad he ben so hapy to have ben call'd in before y r L d P s 

 were rissen & gon away. 



" May y r L d P s be "therefore pleased to cause a Paper 

 relateing to this his humble Peticon, to be read before y r 

 L°p». 



" And he shall pray, &c." 



" To the R« Hon We y° L da Com" of his Ma liM Treasury. 

 " May it please your Lot" 



" As to that of Travelling charges, a decent Coach w th 

 four horses out of Towne is a known stated price at 20". 

 a day to w ch your Lot™ have been pleas' 1 to reduce the 

 whole charge w"'out any allowance for lodging & diet for 

 himselfe and Serv' and oftentimes a Cleark with him, 

 besides other contingent Expences, upon y° coming of 

 Officers from the Ships, Hospitals & Prisons who had 

 continual buisiness w' h him, and w th out consideraeon of 

 his haveing ben as by the Paper annext to his 6 d ace' 



* Diary vol. i. p. 397. 



