2 nd S. IX. May 5. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" The Portbeature of Dalilah." — Can any 

 correspondent of "N. & Q." give the author of 

 the following uncommon volume, unknown to 

 Watt*, Lowndes, Cooke, and Darling. The two 

 first works in the volume is mentioned by Ames, 

 p. 1150., without number of pages ; but no notice 

 is taken of the third and concluding pieces. 



" Two Fruitfull Exercises : The one, — A Christian 

 Discourse upon the 16 and 17 verses of the 16 Chapter of 

 the Booke of Judges, wherin are handled these Three 

 principal Heads : The Portreature of Dalila ; The Bridle 

 of Lust; The Seale of Secrets.— The other: A Godly 

 Meditation upon the 41 and 42 verses of the 10 Chapter 

 of Saint Luke, containing especially: The Profit of Re- 

 proofe; Together with the Necessitie and Excellencie of 

 God's Word. Also a Briefe Discourse intituled, A Buckler 

 against a Spanish Brag; written upon the first Rumor 

 of the intended Invasion, and now not altogether unmeet 

 to be published. Bv E. R. Londini Impensis G. Bishop. 

 1588." 8vo., pp. 176. 



Daniel Sedgwick. 



Sun Street, City. 



Rapin and Tindal's " History of England." 

 — The new style, as is well known, was adopted 

 in England in 1752. I shall be glad if any of your 

 numerous correspondents can inform me whether 

 the dates in Itapin and Tindal's History are cal- 

 culated according to the new style? The work is 

 always quoted as a standard authority, and I per- 

 ceive that Mr. C. Knight, in his new History, 

 often relies upon it to fix a date. The first volume 

 of the second edition was published in 1732, and 

 the last of the continuation in 1747. Could you 

 obtain a list of the best historians in which the 

 new style is rigidly followed, you would confer a 

 great benefit on students of history. G. R. 



"The Happy Way." — I have a battered copy 

 of this book, without a title. The Preface is 

 signed " R. C." From an allusion the work seems 

 to have been written before the death of Sir 

 Richard Baker. The author says he had written 

 " a former book, intituled The Way to Happiness 

 on Earth" in which he answers the objections 

 usually made " by the followers of Monuis and 

 Zoilus against printing of books in these times." 

 This curious little work contains the theory of a 

 Pilgrim's Progress; it is, however, anything but 

 allegorical. The object of this note is to inquire 

 what is known of The Happy Way, and who is its 

 author ? B. H. C. 



"Pountefreit," etc. — Henry III., about 1260, 

 built the first royal palace at Shene, on the Surrey 

 side of the Thames, nearly opposite the village of 

 Isleworth, appropriating it as a residence for his 

 son Edw. I., and it was occupied successively by 

 both Edw. II. and III. During the reigns of the 

 two last monarchs various documents are dated 

 from Shene and Istelworth, or Isleworth. One in 

 14th of Edward II. on Monday 2nd March (a.d. 



[' This work is noticed by Watt, Authors, vol. i. 116 r.] 



1321), of importance, respecting uniformity of 

 weights and measures. There are also four others : 

 one dated Saturday, 28th November, and three 

 more dated Monday, 30th November (in the same 

 year, a.d. 1321), or 15th of the king. I beg to 

 specify these last with a view to found a Query, 

 for which I request information from some reader 

 of your miscellany. They are from Rymer's 

 Fcedera of the " Record Commission" (vol. ii. part 

 i. p. 461.), signed : 



" Teste Rege, apud Pountefreit super Thamis' xxviii 

 die Nov bri », 1321. 



" Ditto, apud Pountfreyt super Thamis' xxx die 



N0V»rt', 1321. 



" Ditto, apud Pontem Fractum super Thamis' xxx die 

 Novbn., 1321. 



" Ditto, apud Pontem Fractum, xxx dieNov bri! 1321." 

 The precise locality of this " Pontefiact on the 

 Thames" I have for some time ineffectually en- 

 deavoured to ascertain ; but in No. 226., the last 

 of the Edinburgh Review, there is an article throw- 

 ing much light upon the nomenclature of places in 

 England ; and at p. 365., Pontes is designated as 

 the present Staines, which, being in the high road 

 of the metropolis to Salisbury, Exeter, and parti- 

 cularly to the mines of Cornwall, must have been 

 a place of some importance ; most probably with 

 a bridge over the Thames, and which might have 

 fallen into decay. I shall thank any reader of 

 "N. & Q." who will inform me if my conjecture 

 be right, or explain the subject." *. 



Weather Glasses. — A considerable number 

 of what are termed " Chemical Weather Glasses" 

 appear to be used in the West, and perhaps other 

 parts, of England ; which, on dit, are superseding 

 the barometer as a storm indicator, and which are 

 I believe merely camphor in some liquid prepara- 

 tion. 



I have seen the effects produced on these glasses, 

 which are apparently the result of an impending 

 change of weather, and certainly were, under any 

 circumstances, curious and interesting. The ques- 

 tion is, are these glasses at all what they profess 

 to be ? I fear this Query is one hardly in cha- 

 racter with your excellent publication ; but still 

 if any of your correspondents, who combine scien- 

 tific knowledge with leisure and kindness, would 

 inform me how far these glasses are to be relied 

 on, and on what principle they act, they would 

 greatly oblige Exon. 



St. Dunstan's School. — Malcolm, in his Lon- 

 dinium Redivivum, tells us that Sir Nicholas 

 Bacon and Sir William Cecil having petitioned 

 Queen Elizabeth that her majesty would grant 

 them a patent to establish and erect a "Free 

 Grammar School " for the education and instruc- 

 tion of the youth of the parish of St. Dunstan's, 



[* See "M. & Q..' - I s ' S. ii. 2Uo., where a correspondent 

 expresses his opinion that Kingston Bridge was the 

 Pomfret on the Thames. — Ed.] 



