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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2. 18G0. 



N°. 231. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Notes on Books and Men by Edward Harley, 

 Earl of Oxford, 417 — An Irish Tenant Gala, 421 — "The 

 Civil Club," 422. 

 Minob Notes: — A Heathen Illustration of a Christian 

 Formula — The Dutch Giant Daniel Cajanus, and the 

 Dutch Dwarf Simon Jane Panp — Epigram on Marriage — 

 Cromwell and the Mace — Sacheverell and Hoadly— Ur- 

 chin, 422. 

 QUERIES : —Peter Basset, a Lost Historian of the Reign of 

 Henry V., 424 —Irish Celebrities : Garibaldi, &c, lb. — 

 Dudley, Earl of Leicester — Vaticinium Stultorum : the 

 Talbot Family — Boleyn and Hammond — Mural Burial — 

 Money Value in 1704 — Land Measure — Dublin Society — 

 Landlord — "Eyelin" —George II. Halfpenny — Concur : 

 Condog: Cockeram's English Dictionary — "Caledonia" 

 — Yellow-hammer — Vant — A Father's Justice — Went- 

 worth Lord Roscommon — The North Atlantic Submarine 

 Telegraph — "Withered. Violets"— "N. & Q." Cuttings 

 — Illingworth's Lancashire Collections, 425. 



Qceeies with Answers: — Nathaniel Hooke — Lord Nel- 

 son and Lady Hamilton — Passage in Bede — Laystall — 

 Prideaux — Asmodeus, 427. 



REPLIES : — Excommunication, 428 — The Wit of Lane, 430 



— Tap Dressing — Flambard Brass at Harrow, 431 — Lewis 

 and Lotska, 432 — An Essay on Afflictions — Dick Turpin 



— Judas Tree — Notes on Regiments — Oliphant — " Rock 

 of Ages" — William Robinson — Helmsley — "The Throw 

 for Life or Death" — Exeter Domesday — Poor Belle — 

 "Filles d'Honneur" — Herb John-in-the-Pot — Crab's 

 "English, Irish, and Latin Dictionary" —Three Kings of 

 Colon — Jack, &c, 432. 



Notes on Books. 



NOTES ON BOOKS AND MEN 



BY EDWARD HARLEY, EARL OF OXFORD. 



Edward Harley, the second Earl of Oxford, 

 was eminently distinguished for his disinterested- 

 ness both in public and private life, and re- 

 spected as one of the best patrons of the age for 

 his encouragement of literature and learned men. 

 He made a most valuable addition to the rich 

 magazine of manuscripts collected by the Lord 

 Treasurer, his father, especially in the history and 

 antiquities of England, both ecclesiastical and 

 civil. He obtained likewise an invaluable trea- 

 sure of original letters and papers of state, written 

 by the greatest princes, statesmen, and scholars, 

 as well of foreign nations as of Great Britain. His 

 printed hooks, reckoned above 40,000 volumes, 

 were the most choice and magnificent that were 

 ever collected in this kingdom. These were pur- 

 chased by Thomas Osborne of Gray's Inn Gate 

 for 13,O0OJ. — a much less sum than had been ex- 

 pended on the binding of a portion. The Earl de- 

 parted this life in his forty-second year at his house 

 in Dover Street, on Tuesday, June 16, 1741, and 

 was buried in Westminster Abbey. Just before this 

 lamented event, George Vertue had issued pro- 

 posals for a very valuable series of historic prints, 

 and had copied for the Earl " Queen Elizabeth's 

 Progress to Hunsdon" in water-colours, and re- 



ceived for it a handsome present in plate. He 

 was now at the summit of his humble wishes ; but 

 his happiness was suddenly dashed by the loss of 

 his noble friend the Earl. " Death," says he, em- 

 phatically, "put an end to that life that had been 

 the support, cherisher, and comfort of many, 

 many others, who are left to lament — but none 

 more heartily than Vertue !" 



The following bibliographical notes in the hand- 

 writing of the Earl are in a thick quarto volume, 

 Harl. MS. 7544, and labelled at the back, "Notes 

 on Biographies, by Edward Harley, Earl of Ox- 

 ford." They are alphabetically arranged; and 

 those books which have no remarks on them by 

 the Earl are omitted in the subjoined list. 



Annesley (Dr. Samuel). A Short Account of his Life, 

 with his Funeral Sermon by Daniel Williams, 12mo. 

 1697. Dedicated to his Flock, as Dan. Williams calls it. 

 John Dunton printed it, or rather it was printed for him. 

 This John Dunton married Annesley's daughter, as did 

 the Rev. Samuel Wesley, father of Samuel Wesley, usher 

 at Westminster School. 



Ashmole (Elias), Esq. 3Iemoirs of his Life, wrote 03' 

 himself by way of Diarj': said to be published by one 

 Charles Burman, Esq., 1717. Thin, and a very silly im- 

 pertinent book. 



Bates (William), D.D. Bis Funeral Sermon preached 

 by John Howe, 8vo. 1699. This Bates was by much the 

 best man and most gentleman-like in his behaviour of all 

 that set of men. 



Baxter (Richard). He wrote A Narrative of his own 

 Life and Times. This was published in a folio volume by 

 Matthew Silvester from the original manuscript. Lond. 

 1696. In the j'ear 1702, Edmund Calamy, Edm.fil et ne- 

 pos, as he is pleased affectedly to call himself, puts out an 

 Abridgment of Baxter's History of Himself and Times, in 

 one vol. 8vo., to which he adds an account of those worthy 

 ministers that were ejected after King Charles II. was 

 restored. He dedicates this work to the Lord Harting- 

 ton. In the year 1713, he makes a new edition of this 

 work, and swells it to two thick volumes, 8vo. : the first 

 volume contains 726 pages, with what he calls The Re- 

 formed Liturgy, which is 82 pages. This is dedicated to 

 his old patron, who was now become Duke of Devonshire. 

 Vol. II. contains chiefly the account of the worthy mi- 

 nisters outed after the year 1660 : pages 864, with the 

 Index of Names. 



In the year 1727, Edmund Calamy, D.D., as he out of 

 vanity and pride styles himself, having that title sent 

 him from Scotland, when some more of that fraternity 

 were dubbed. He publishes two vols, in 8vo. as a farther 

 Continuation of the Account he had formerly published of 

 the Dissenters that were ejected and silenced after the 

 Restoration, 1660. To this book is prefixed a long Dedi- 

 cation to the Protestant Dissenters. In this work he 

 falls upon Dr. John Walker's Account of the Sufferings of 

 the Clergy of the Cliurch of England from 1640 to 1660. 

 This work is in folio, printed in the year 1714. 



Mr. Thomas Long, B.D., one of the prebendaries of 

 St. Peter's in Exeter, published in 8vo. 1697, A Review 

 of Mr. Richard Baxter's Life, wherein man)' mistakes are. 

 rectified, some false relations detected. He dedicates it 

 to Jonathan Trelawney, Bishop of Exeter. 



In 1096 came out in 12nio. a book called Vindicia 

 Anti-Baxteriana, or Some Animadversions on a Book, in- 

 tituled Reliquiae Baxierianm, or the Life of Mr. Richard 

 Baxter, dedicated to Mr. Silvester: the author one 



