2°* S. IX. ArniL 21. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 18G0. 



N°. 225.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Gleanings from the Records of the Treasury, No. 

 B>, ^97 — Mrs. Alison Cockburn, -29S — Manuscript Key to 

 Beloe's " Sexagenarian," 300. 



Mixes Notes: — Annexation — Royal Academy — Bells in 

 the Fidgi Islands — Flock of Starlings — Shaw, the Life 

 Guardsman : his County, Notts, 302. 



QUERIES:— The Book of Common Prayer,. 304 — Leete 

 Family, co. Cambridge — John Ury — Berwickshire Sandy 



— Whipping for the Ladies — Milbournc Family, co. So- 

 merset—The Rev. Alex. Colden — Titler — James Dalton 



— The Window Tax— Seals of Lord Hastings of Aberga- 

 venny— Pamela— Dibdiu at the Nore — Chettle's Welsh 

 —Voltaire — Hale the Piper — Red Gold — Search War- 

 rants, how executed — Napoleon III., 301. 



Qcekies with Answees : — Peter Finnerty — " Nouveau 

 t ament par les Theologiens de Louvain " — Dr. Thomas 

 ■ iber — The Christian Advocate, 306. 



REPLIES:— Anthony de Solemne, 308— Thomas Ady: 

 Books dedicated to the Deity, 309 — Boiled, lb. — Wreck 

 of the Dunbar — " Comparisons are odorous " — Maria 

 or Marta — Anglo-Saxon Poems — Witty Classical Quota- 

 tions — The, Sinews of War — Raxlands: Mistakes in 

 reading Old Documents — Splinter-bar — Carnival — A 

 Jew Jesuit — Donnybrook, near Dublin — "Case for the 

 Spectacles " — Wright of Plowland — Holding up the Hand 



— Dilettanti Society — The Tourmaline Crystal — Hymus 



— Devotional Poems — Bug — Eudo de Rye — Robert 

 Seagrave — Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary — Dinner Eti- 

 quette — Pigtails and Powder — Paul Hiffernan — " My 

 Eye and Betty Martin," 310. 



Notes on Books. 



GLEANINGS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE 

 TREASURY. — No. II. 



The documents which I shall now bring to the 

 DOtice of the readers of " N. & Q." are principally 

 on scientific subjects — astronomy, and the like : 

 and wherein the well-known names, Halley, Flam- 

 i, Maskelyne, and others, pass rapidly before 

 us. And first Edmund Halley, who is prosecuting 

 his inquiries concerning the theory of the mag- 

 netical direction : — 



their Excellencecs (sic) the Lords Justices of England. 

 " The humble Peticon of Edmund Halley 

 etb, 

 " That yo r Peticon' conceiving that he hath discovered 

 the true cause of the Variation of the Compass; hath 

 obtainM a small Vcssell from the E' Hon"' the Lords of 

 idmiralty to make experiments in remote parts, pro- 

 per to ascertain the Theory of the Magneticall Direction, 

 as being a matter of the greatest moment in the Art of 

 Navigation. But yo r Peticon' having occasion in his 

 je to make use of the Ports of Foreign Nations, as 

 i take with him severall chargeable Instruments, as 

 •■scopes, &<■., proper lor tin- aforesaid porpose 



i, no also for other Geographical! and Astronomical] 

 . which charge* may probably amount to about LOO 

 pounds in tin- whole: 



" Vniir Peticon' therefore humbly cravei your Kx- 



uragemeut in allowing him the said 



t Instruments and Port Charges ; for the 



expence whereof he will be accountable, as to yo r 

 Excell. great wisdome shall seem meet. 

 . " And j'O r Peticon' shall ever pray, &c." 



Attached to the preceding petition is this 

 letter : — 



" Whitehall, 20"» September, 1698. 

 " My Lords 



" The Petition of M r Edmund Halley having been read 

 to the Lords Justices, and their Excell"" being desirous 

 to give him all due Encouragement in an undertakeing 

 that may be so usefull to the Publick, do referr the same 

 to your LordP" to consider of the same and to give him 

 such assistance as vour Lords' shall thinke proper. 

 " I am, 

 " My Lord?, 

 '" Yo r LordP 8 



" most humble and 



" most obedient Servant, 

 " R. Yard." 

 " Lords Coin™ of the Treasury." 



This petition of Halley's was read to the Trea- 

 sury Board on the 11th October, 1698, and they 

 ordered the sum of 100/. to be paid him, which 

 was done a few days after (" Treasury Minute 

 Book," No. 8. p. 256.). 



" To the Right Hon ble the Lords Commissioners of his 

 Ma" Treasury. 

 " The humble Peticon of Margaret Flamstead 

 " Sheweth 



" That His Majesty was graciously pleased in the year 

 1715, to bestow on your Pet™ late husband M r John 

 Flamstead his Ma ls Astronomer 300 Copies of the Astro- 

 nomicall Observations made by him and Comprized in a 

 Book Entituled Historia Caelestis which was Printed at 

 the Expence of the late Prince George of Denmarke and 

 were designed by his Royall Highness for the benefit of 

 the Author. • 



" That the said M r Flamstead has since that time been 

 at a very great expence in printing 340 Copies of another 

 part to perfect the aforemenconed Book without which 

 the Petitioner is humbly of opinion it ought not to go 

 abroad as a performance of her deceased husband's. 



" That your Pet r being informed the remaining Thirty - 

 nine Copies are now in the Treasury and at the disposall 

 of your Lordships 



" She therefore humbly desires your LordP" direc- 

 cons for the delivery of the said Copies, that she 

 may by the addicon of the other part, render the 

 Books perfect, your Pet r being obliged to deliver 

 perfect Books to the Universitys, &c, according to 

 act of Parliament these with his other perform- 

 ances being already Entred in the Hall Book of 

 the Company of Stationers. 

 " And your Pet r shall ever pray," &c. 



This petition was read on the 9th March, I7i£, 

 and it was ordered that Mrs. Flamstead do send 

 to the Treasury thirty-nine copies of Historia 

 Ccelestis corrected by her late husband, " and then 

 my Lords will redeliver her the 39 copys which 

 she terms incorrect." 



We next come to nn unsuccessful adventurer, 

 who thus introduces himself: — 

 " Sir. 



" Having form'd an imagination there is a piece of 

 mony allow'd by the government, or other ways, for the 

 incouragement of any parsone that shal produce a ma- 

 chine tending to the discovery of the Longitude upon 



