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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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I cannot say I have been a diligent student of 

 Dibdin's songs, though I am a very near kinsman 

 to him ; but I have always been a lover of justice 

 and truth, the claims of which have hardly been 

 extended by S. H. M. to these " so-called sea- 

 sons." I need say nothing of the implied censure 

 upon all those who have ventured to think differ- 

 ently as to their merits. Fairplay. 



Raper. — Cau anybody tell me anything re- 

 specting M. Raper ? Is he known as an editor 

 or commentator on Shakspeare ? N". B. 



R. Willis. — Can you give me any account of 

 the author of Mount Tahor, or Private Exercises 

 of a Penitent Sinner, by R. W., Esq., published in 

 the yeare of his age seventy-five, Anno Dora. 

 1639, 12mo.?* In the catalogue of the library of 

 Dr. Bliss, the author is said to be R. Willis. 



R. Inglis. 



Heraldic. — Can I be informed through " N. 

 & Q." of the following arms on a tomb in Exeter 

 Cathedral? viz. three bars between ten bells — 

 four, three, two, and one. Anon. 



The Tragic Poet. — 



" When the tragic poet drew the revengeful elder bro- 

 ther pursuing the younger from youth to old age, dis- 

 covering him through his disguise, and, about to put him 

 to death, setting out in a long speech the signs by which 

 he knew him, it was a great stroke of art to make the 

 younger brother reply briefly : ' And I knew you by our 

 family wickedness.'" — Preface to The Cid, translated 

 from the French of M. Corneille, by T. BE,, Gent. : London, 

 1704. 



Who is the poet ? And what is the tragedy ? 



W. D. 



Rev. George Watson (2 ud S. viii. 396.)— Can 

 any of your readers give me any information con- 

 cerning the birth, parentage, and early education 

 of the Rev. George Watson, before 'he became a 

 Fellow of University College, Oxford ? I cannot 

 find his name in any biographical work that I 

 have consulted. His life was short ; but his writ- 

 , as both Mr. Jones and Bishop Home state, 

 were extraordinary for taste or classical literature, 

 and all works of genius, and for a deep knowledge 

 of the inspired writings, &c, &c. My inquiry re- 

 specting his works has been satisfactorily answered, 

 and is another proof of the value of obtaining in- 

 formation through the medium of " N. & Q." 



J. M. Gutcii. 



Worcester. 



"Jack." — Can you or any of your numerous 



readen explain the origin of the above term as 



'1 to a flag; as, hoist the "Jack?" Why 



Sack < G. B. 



sUnkspeare's Plays, by Malone and Boswcll, 

 1821, vol. iii. p. 28., for a'.long extract from this ex- 

 tremely ran and curious book. — Ev. ] 



Joseph Clarke. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents in Hull give me any biographical particu- 

 lars regarding Joseph Clarke, Esq., an eminent 

 literary antiquary of that town ? I am not certain 

 of the date of Mr. Clarke's death, but I think it 

 must have been within the last thirty years. 



R. Inglis. 



Cornwal Family. — Can any correspondent 

 of " N. & Q." say what was the maiden surname 

 and paternal residence of Elizabeth, the wife of 

 Humphrey Cornwal of the city of London, Salter? 

 She died in 1711, and was buried at Waltham 

 St. Lawrence, Berks : or give any information 

 about Thomas, their eldest son ? he was born in 

 1684. On Mr. Humphrey Cornwal's grave with 

 the arms of Cornwal (erm. a lion rampant re- 

 gardant gu. crowned or, within a border sa. be- 

 zantee) ; on the sinister side of the shield are 

 quartered a bend between three roundels, colours 

 not shown. R. Ward. 



Cattle Toll at Chetwode. — In Chetwode, 

 co. Bucks, the lord of the manor exercises a sin- 

 gular privilege of taking toll at the rate of 2s. 

 per score of all cattle driven through the parish of 

 Chetwode and several of the adjoining parishes 

 between the 30th of November and the 7 th of 

 November annually. 



Tradition relates that this privilege was be- 

 stowed on an ancestor of the family in recom- 

 pense for his having killed a wild boar. Can any 

 of your readers throw light upon this, or mention 

 similar customs ? Bucks. 



Berthold's Political Handkerchief. — Can 

 any of your readers inform me how many num- 

 bers were published of Berthold's Political Hand- 

 kerchief, a weekly sheet of which at least three 

 numbers (I have the third) appeared in or about 

 September, 1831. It was printed on calico to 

 evade the paper duty. G. M. G. 



" His people's good," etc. — 

 " His people's good before his eyes, 



The pious Emperor, mild and wise, 



Health of their souls and bodies studying, 



Dragooned the dealers in black-pudding ; 



Put salt and cowich in their beds, 



And scourged their backs and shaved their heads, 



Confiscated their goods, and sent 



Them to perpetual banishment." 



From Allantapolides, a Sequel to the Oxford 

 Sausage, London, 1778, pp. 16. 



Does the above relate to fact or fiction ? E. C. 



Portrait of "Sir Henry Morgan, the Buc- 

 caneer. — In the account of Jamaica by Charles 

 Lesley, published at Edinburgh in 1740, is the 

 following passage : — 



" I have seen here," viz. in Jamaica, " a curious pic- 

 ture of Sir Henry, done at his own desire ; he is drawn at 

 length, and there appears something so awful and ma- 

 jestic in his countenance, that I'm persuaded none can 



