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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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from sources to which he naturally looked for- 

 ward for comfort and felicity, and after sur- 

 viving three excellent daughters," he died in his 

 seventy-fifth year. It is easy, of course, to- 

 imagine many circumstances which may have in- 

 duced Wooll to write in this mysterious way ; 

 but no purpose can now be answered by conceal- 

 ment, and no feelings hurt by disclosure. Can 

 any Wykehamist or other correspondent explain 

 what was the cause of Collins's sorrow and 

 anxiety ? T. R. T. 



Heraldic Query. — On one of the fly-leaves of 

 my copy of the celebrated edition of Horace, 

 printed at Strasburg in 1498, by John Griininger, 

 alias Giirninger, alias Grieninger, is. pasted a 

 spirited book-plate, corresponding to the fol- 

 lowing description : — 



Arms. Azure, 3 stags proper courant, two 

 over one. 



Crest. On a royal or ducal helmet, a winged 

 stag salient naissant. 



Supporters. On the dexter side a griffin, on 

 the sinister a lion. 



Motto. Groeninghe velt. 



Query, the name of the possessor of these arms ; 

 the meaning of the motto ; the connexion, if any, 

 between the word groeninghe and the name of the 

 printer of the book. X. 



West Derby. 



Taylor the Water-Poet. — Taylor, at the 

 commencement of the rebellion in 1642, retired 

 from London to Oxford, where he kept a vic- 

 tualling house and wrote pasquils against the 

 Roundheads. But when the garrison at Oxford 

 surrendered, he came again to London, and kept 

 a publichouse in Phoenix Alley, near Long Acre ; 

 where, after the king's death, making his loyalty 

 apparent, he set up for a sign a mourning crown : 

 but this proving distasteful, he had it taken down, 

 and replaced with his own portrait with this 

 couplet underwritten : — 



" There's many a head stands for a sign, 

 Then, gentle reader, why not mine? " 



Doubtless for some of these pasquils, or some 

 other causes, he rendered himself obnoxious to 

 the ruling government : as the Council Book, 

 under date of Wednesday, Aug. 15, 1G49, affords 

 the following entry. It is addressed to Edward 

 Dendy, Sergeant-at-Arms. 



" These are to will and require you upon the sight 

 hereof to make yo r repaire to any place where you shall 

 understand the person of John Taylour, commonly called 

 the water-poet, to be, and him you shall apprehend and 

 shall seize upon all his papers, w cl > you shall seale up, 

 :mil shall bring both his person and his papers to the 

 Counsell, it being for keeping intelligence w"' the eue- 

 inies of this Commonwealth ; and all officers, as well civill 

 as military, and all souldiers and others, are hereby re- 

 quired to be assistant unto you in the execucon hereof, 

 whereof they nor you are not to fayle ; And for w* these 



shall be their and yo r sufficient warrant. Given at the 

 Counsell of state at Whitehall, this 15 tb of August, 16-19." 



If I am right in my conjecture that he made 

 his " Wanderings to see the wonders of the West" 

 in 1649, as he arrived at the conclusion of his tour 

 in London on the 4th of August, it would seem 

 that the usurper's bloodhounds did not suffer the 

 Royalist long to repose after his western journey 

 before they hunted him up. I am curious, how- 

 ever, to ascertain whether the poet was appre- 

 hended, or any ulterior proceedings taken upon 

 the above order. Ithuriel. 



Mary Glover— her Maiden Name ? — Can any 

 one tell me the maiden name of Mary, the wife of 

 Robert Glover, who was burnt at Coventry on a 

 charge of heresy, 19th September, 1555 ? Robert 

 Glover was of Newhouse-Grange, co. Leicester ; 

 and his wife, Mary, appears to have been a niece 

 of Bishop Latimer. J. Sansom. 



" Sketch of Irish History." — Who was the 

 author of A Sketch of Irish History, compiled by 

 way of Question and Answer, for the Use of 

 Schools, which was "printed in the year of our 

 Lord 1815," 12mo., pp. 55.? In Lowndes's Bib- 

 liographers' Manual (Rohris edit.), vol.iii. p. 1168., 

 it is said to have been suppressed. I have a copy; 

 and having examined it, I am not at all surprised 

 to hear that it was withdrawn from public view. 



Abhba. 



John Leyden. — Before leaving Britain for 

 India it is known that this delightful poet sat for 

 his portrait in London, which was to a gi-eat ex- 

 tent completed. Rumour says that it afterwards 

 found its way into the hands of the late Mr. 

 Heber, a friend of the poet, since which all traces 

 of it have been lost. As there is a very anxious 

 wish on the part of the poet's friends to recover 

 this portrait, if in existence, can any of your readers 

 assis f , them in the pursuit ? T. 



The Wit of Lane. — 



"Many count woman scarce a guinea's worth, 

 With Bouverie's figure, with Northumbrian birth, 



With Warren's grace and air ; 

 Kay, if you please to add to it, 

 With Beaufort's meekness, half Lane's wit, 

 Full half she has to spare," &c. 



(Temple Luttrell, Irregular Odes.) 

 " Her wit is like the generous wit of Lane, 

 Kather suppressed than uttered to give pain." 



Anon. 

 I wish to know something more about this lady. 

 It appears she had wit, which she used rather pro- 

 fusely, and not always in a good-natured way. I 

 conjecture she was one of the Fox-Lane, now 

 Lane-Fox family, who, in the last century, bore 

 the title" of Lords Bingley. The lady in question 

 must have been a distinguished member of fashion- 

 able society, as her name frequently occurs in the 

 publications of the day, both in prose and verse. 



W. D. 



