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Bishop Horsley's Sermons (2 nd S. ix. 197.) — 

 Your correspondent Alfred T. Lee must have 

 been misinformed respecting "the two Sermons 

 on the Syrophcenician woman." They were pub- 

 lished in 181*2 in the third volume of the Bishop's 

 Sermons, edited by his son the Rev. Heneage 

 Horsley, then residing at Dundee. In the " Ad- 

 vertisement " prefixed he distinctly ascribes them 

 all to his father, and they bear internal evidence 

 of the bishop's authorship. I heard him preach 

 both of them in the parish church of Bromley in 

 Kent. My first visit in that neighbourhood was 

 in the autumn of 1797; the bishop was translated 

 to St. Asaph in 1802. It must, therefore, have 

 been in one of my visits between those two periods 

 that I heard them preached. Edw. Hawkins. 



In answer to your correspondent's Query re- 

 garding the descendants of Bishop Horsley, the 

 George Horsley mentioned is the son of the 

 bishop's half-brother George Zachary Horsley. 

 Bishop Horsley's only child was the late Heneage 

 Horsley, Dean of Dundee, by whom all the edi- 

 tions of the bishop's works were prepared for pub- 

 lication. Any mistake in the MSS. is, therefore, 

 extremely improbable. M. C. II. 



Jesuit Epigram (2 nd S. ix. 161.) — In the 

 Sutherland "Clarendon," in the Bodleian Library, 

 torn. iii. pt. in. p. 198., is an engraving of the de- 

 capitation of Charles L; the head is falling off: 

 on which some Jesuit at the time wrote the fol- 

 lowing epigram : — 



"Projicis in ventum caput, Angla Eeclesia! ca>sum 

 Si caput est, salvum corpus an esse potest ? " 



See Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 98. sqq. 4to. E. 



King David's Mother (l rt S. viii. 539., ix. 42. ; 

 2 Dd S. ix. 82.)— The words of Jerome (on 2 

 Kings [Samuel] xvii. 25.), where Abigail is called 

 the daughter of Nahash, are " Est etiam Naas, qui 

 et Isai pater David, sicut in Paralipomenon de- 

 monstratur, ubi enumeratis filiis Isai, legitur 

 quorum sorores fuerunt Saruiee et Abigail." The 

 only authority, therefore, on which Jerome relies 

 for the identity of Nahash and Jesse is the pas- 

 sage (1 Chron. ii. 13. 16.) where Abigail is stated 

 to be the daughter of Jesse. And as he furnishes 

 no evidence, from tradition or otherwise, that 

 Jesse had two names, we may infer with Tremel- 

 lius and Junius, that Nahash was the mother of 

 Abigail. The fads stated in Scripture are that 

 Abigail was David's sister and Jesse's daughter 

 (1 Chron. ii. 13. 15, 16.), and she was also the 

 daughter of Nahash (2 Sam. xvii. 25.). Further, 

 the number of Jesse's children being not more 

 than eight sons (1 Sam. xvi. 10, 11., xvii. 12 — 14.) 

 Bad two daughters, when Samuel passed the sons 

 in review for the selection of one of them for king, 

 we may reasonably infer that .Jesse had only one 

 wife, and that wife was Nahash, consequently 



David's mother. This inference is preferable to 

 that of Jesse being also named Nahash. Kenni- 

 cott, in his instructions to Bruns for collating 

 Hebrew MSS. of the Old Testament, directed 

 special attention to the word Nahash (2 Sam. xvii. 

 25.) supposing that some copies might read Jesse 

 in the place of Nahash, but no such reading could 

 be found (Eichhorn's Repert. xiii. 221.). I cannot 

 discover in the Talmud or Koran any allusion to 

 David's mother. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Spiriting away (2 ad S. ix. 96.) — This prac- 

 tice appears to have prevailed even after the act 

 for its suppression was passed. The Beauties of 

 England (Oxon. p. 300.) quotes an anecdote on 

 the subject, to illustrate the integrity and good 

 talents of Sir John Holt as Lord Chief Justice of 

 the Court of King's Bench, to which he was ap- 

 pointed in the first year of William III. : — 



" There happened in his time a riot occasioned by the 

 practice of decoying young persons to the plantations, 

 who were confined at a house in Holborn [Query, which, 

 and to whom did it belong?] till they could be shipped 

 off. Notice of the riot being sent to Whitehall, a party 

 of military were ordered out, but before they marched 

 an officer was sent to the Chief Justice to desire him to 

 send some of his people with the soldiers. Holt asked 

 the officer what he intended to do if the mob refused to 

 disperse ? ' My Lord (replied he) we have orders to fire 

 on them.' 'Have you so? (said Holt;) then observe 

 what I say : if one man is killed I will take care that you 

 and every soldier of your party shall be hanged. Sir, ac- 

 quaint those who sent you, that no officer of mine shall 

 attend soldiers; and let them know likewise, that the 

 laws of this land are not to be executed by the sword. 

 These things belong to the civil power, and you have no- 

 thing to do with them.' So saying he dismissed the 

 officer, proceeded to the spot with his tipstaves, and pre- 

 vailed on the populace to disperse, on a promise that 

 justice should be done, and the abuse remedied." 



S. M. S. 



Mottoes of Regiments (2 nd S. ix. 221.) — 

 "Nee aspera terrent" is the motto of that noble 

 regiment the 3rd (or King's own) Light Dra- 

 goons. • They have, or had, it upon everything ; 

 standards, plate, table-linen ; even upon the wine 

 decanters; and I well remember, many years ago, 

 dining at their mess, where an ancient gentleman, 

 a guest, asked Captain Gubbins (a noble fellow, 

 killed shortly after at Waterloo, in the 13th Dra- 

 goons) very gravely, "Pray, Capt. G., what means 

 this motto on your glass ?" " It means, Sir," said 

 Gubbins, with equal gravity, " Never mind how 

 rough the port is." This was before the mess- 

 days of champagne and claret, which, amongst 

 other regimental follies, have created a scarcity 

 of cornets. <p. 



South Sea House and the Excise Office 

 (2 nd S. vi. 326.) — No satisfactory reply has as yet 

 appeared to my Query, Who were the architects 

 of these buildings ? I have the pleasure of stating, 

 however, that a gentleman connected with the 



