2" d S. IX. May 19. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LOXDON, SATURDAY, HAY 19. I860. 



N°. 229.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Gleaniners from the Becords of the Treasury, 

 No. ■*., 377 — "Hamlet" Bibliography, 378 — Folk Lore, 

 380 _ Biography and Hero-worship, 381 — Speeches of 

 Bacon and Yelverton in the Debate on Impositions, 1610, 

 382. 



Misoe Notes:— A New Mode of Canonisation — Bunyan's 

 Pilerim's Progress — Tobacco, its Tercentenary, &c. — 

 Philological Changes : the Vowel A., 383. 



QUERIES:— The Bev. Thomas Collins — Heraldic Query 



— Taylor the Water-Poet — Mary Glover: her Maiden 

 Name? — "Sketch of Irish History " — John, Leyden — 

 The "Wit of Lane — Mrs. Dugald Stewart — "The Death of 

 Herod " — Fisch of Castlelaw, Berwickshire, 1720 — Oli- 



Ehant — " The Triumph of Friendship " — " Do you know 

 >r. Wright of Norwich?" — Dick Turpin — Eynsham 

 Cross — Polwhele's " Devon," &e. — The Judas Tree — 

 Baron von Westerholt — Hampton Court Bridge — More's 

 Dramas— Rodney and Keppel — "Bock of Ages," Ac- 

 Archer — Arms, whose ? — Bhike Family — Shirley — Wil- 

 liam de A'ernon — John Wythers, 384. 



Qijkbies with ASWEES : — Bible, 1641 — " An Essay of 

 Afflictions " — The Castle and Town of Haverford — 

 Idioms — Poet quoted by Seneca — St. Govor's Well — 

 Style of a Marquess, 388. 



REPLIES : — Dibdin's Songs, 389 — Sir Jonas Moore, 391 — 

 " Nouveau Testament," lb. — Leonard Mac Nally — *' Man 

 to the Plough"— "My Eye and Betty Martin" — Sing 

 " Si dedero " — Seal of John Lord Hastings of Abergavenny 



— The Cruikston Dollar — Maids of Honour — Pamela — 

 "Bide" v. "Drive" — Boiled — Passage in Menandor — 

 Coronation, when first introduced, Ac, 392. 



Hate*. 



GLEANINGS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE 

 TREASURY. — No. IV. 



The following account of a suit which was in- 

 stituted by the Attorney- General against the re- 

 presentative of Dr. Bradley, the astronomer, for 

 the recovery of certain volumes of observations, is 

 interesting, as it enters into details concerning his 

 professional career at Greenwich during the time 

 he served that office : — 



" To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of 

 his Majesty's Treasury. 



" The Memorial and humble Petition of John Geach of 

 Tbeescomb in the County of Gloucester, 



" Humbly sheweth unto your Lordships, 

 " That the late James Bradley, D.D., and Uncle to your 

 Memorialist was in or about the year 1742, appointed by 

 his late Majesty Astronomical Observator at Greenwich, 

 with a Salary of 100/. a year, and was required to apply 

 himself with the most exact care and diligence to the 

 rectifying the Tables of the Motions of the Heavens and 

 Places of the fixed Stars in order to find out the so much 

 desired Longitude at Sea for the perfecting the art of 

 Navigation. 



" That the said Dr. Bradley did continue to receive the 

 •aid yearly Salary, being the same which had been an- 

 nexed to the Office in the time of his Predecessors Mr. 

 John Flamstead and Dr. Edmund Halley, until the time 

 of his decease, which happen'd in 1702; and during his 

 Continuance in the said Office did make sundry Observa- 

 tions with Indefatigable pains and application, which 

 Observations are contained and Registred in 13 volumes 



in Folio, and upon the Death of the said Dr. Bradley were 

 taken Possession of by his Executors among other Goods 

 and Effects of the Deceased for the use of his Daughter 

 Susannah Bradley, then a Minor. 



M That the said Susannah Bradley, when she came of 

 age, knowing that her Father had always considered the 

 said Observations as his Sole Right and Propertj', and no 

 Claim or Demand whatever having been made of them 

 either in her Father's lifetime or in five years after his 

 Decease, did of her own free will, and for divers good 

 reasons and Considerations, make a Gift of them to her 

 late Uncle Mr. Samuel Geach, Father to your Memorialist. 



" That by the Decease of the said Samuel Geach, the 

 said Observations are now in the Possession of your Me- 

 morialist as Executor to his Father, against whom, to- 

 gether with the said Susannah Bradley, now Susannah 

 Geach, and Mr. William Dallaway, who was joint Exe- 

 cutor with your Memorialist to the Will of the said Dr. 

 Bradley, an Information hath been Filed at the Suit of 

 the Attorney General in his Majesty's Court of Exche- 

 quer for the Recovery of the said Observations to his 

 Majesty's Use. 



" That your Memorialist hath not nor ever had any 

 Inclination or design to withhold the said Observations 

 from his Majesty, or to Deprive the Publick of the Bene- 

 fit of the Ingenious Labours of his Late Uncle, upon a 

 Reasonable Compensation being made to hiin for the 

 Property which the said Dr. Bradley did always in his 

 Life time Conceive himself to have in the said Observa- 

 tions as by Sufficient Testimony can be made appear, and 

 which your Memorialist doth now Conceive to be vested 

 in him as Representative of his Father and Uncle, for the 

 following among other weighty reasons and Considera- 

 tions. 



" First, That in the warrant whereby the said Dr. 

 Bradley w'as appointed to the office of Royal Astrono- 

 mical Observator no Condition or Obligation of delivering 

 up any Papers or Observations is specified, or so much as 

 hinted, but the contrary may fairly be presumed from the 

 Inadequate Salary annexed to it ; since no Ingenious and 

 Learned Man can Possibly be supposed to accept an office 

 which required such Immence pains, application, and 

 constant Attendance both by night and Day for so tri- 

 fling a consideration, unless with a Prospect of some 

 future advantages to be derived to himself or his Pos- 

 terity from the Result of his Labours. 



" Secondly, That tho' the said Dr. Bradley did from 

 »nd after the year 1751 actually Enjoy a Pension from 

 the Crown of 250/. a year, yet doth it Sufficiently appear 

 that the said Pension was not given to him as Royal 

 Astronomical Observator, nor had any Connexion with or 

 Relation to that office, but on the contrary was bestowed 

 upon him by the free bounty of his Late Majesty, and 

 partly in consideration of his Extraordinarj" Merit and 

 Ability's, and for Important Discoveries made by him in 

 astronomical matters, the most considerable of which, 

 Namely, The Aberration of Light from the fixed Stars 

 and the Nutation of the Poles, were made before his 

 Appointment to the said office, and Independant thereof, 

 and neither at his Majesty's Royal Observatory nor with 

 any Apparatus or Instruments belonging to his Majesty 

 or the Publick ; but in a course of Twenty years Previous 

 Study and Application, and partly in consideration of his 

 having been Employed with others in the year 1750, and 

 taken great pains in Constructing and adapting the 

 Kalender to the Gregorian or New Stile, about that time 

 Established by Act of Parliament, for which Merit and 

 Services he was then offerred the valuable Living of 

 Greenwich in Kent, but Declined it from Consciencious 

 Principles, and had the before-mentioned Pention con- 

 ferred upon him instead thereof. 



" Thirdly, That upon the death of Mr. Flamstead and 



