2 nd S. IX. JcjoS 16. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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N°. 233.— CONTENTS. 



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

 6., 457 — Shaksperiana : "Hamlet" Bibliography — Ety- 

 mology of Shakspere — Emendation of "Macbeth," 458 — 

 Country Tavern Signs, 459. 



Minoe Notes: — Original Letter of George Fox — The "Sil- 

 ver Trowel." and the Golden Spade — Coverdale's Bible — 

 Mind and Matter, 460. 



QUERIES : — Gowrie's Mother, 461 — Tame Ann Percy — 



— Henry Sneath — Proverbial Sayings — Campbell's " Bat- 

 tle of the Baltic" — "As a small acorn," &c. — Charles 

 Pigot. Esq. — Tyburn Gate — Anonymous, "A Discourse 

 vpon the Present State of France " — " Alberic "— Booters- 

 town, near Dublin — Seize Quartiers — " Mousquetaires 

 Noirs" — Westminster Hall — Single Supporter to Arms 



— "Win. Renuell — Rev. J. Leslie Armstrong — Rev. John 

 Walker — Stolen Brass, 461. 



Queries with Axswees: — "Logic: or, The Chestnut 

 Horse" — Henry Cantrell, M.A. — Numao — Bishops Jolly 

 and Kidder — Fanshaw's "II Pastor Fido" — Rappee — 

 Aristophanes : " The Lysistrates," 463. 



REPLIES: — The MAulays of Ardincaple, 465 — Nathaniel 

 Hookc,466— Dibdin's Songs, 468.— The De Pratellis Family, 

 lb. — Death of Charles II. — The Bunyan Pedigree— Joseph 

 Clarke — Hymn on Prayer — Rebellion of 1715 — The Psalter 

 of the Blessed Virgin — Pigtails — Sir John Bowring — Witty 

 Classical Quotations — "The Ancient" — Knap — Tyburn 

 Gallows— To Slang — Money Value, 1704 — Bavins and 

 Puffs — Judas Tree — The Lady's and Gentleman's Skulls 



— Mille Jugera — The Livery Collar of Scotland — "Rock 

 of Ages " — The Festival of the Ass — Fellowes' Visit to the 

 Monastery of La Trappe — The Nine Men's Morris — Date 

 of the Crucifixion — Garibaldi's Parentage — Tomb of Sir 

 Robert de Hungerford, &c, 470. 



Notes on Books. 



GLEANINGS FROM THE RECORDS OF THE 

 TREASURY. — No. VI. 



The following documents, comprised in a peti- 

 tion of Dr. Woodroffe, nre of considerable interest 

 as detailing the method by which, as it is stated, 

 certain youths of the Greek Church, who were 

 under the care and tuition of the Doctor, were 

 sought to be reconciled to the lloman Church, 

 and the means also by which they escaped the 

 alleged terrors of the Inquisition. 



" To the R« Hou bI = Sidney L d Godolphin, Ifi High Trea- 

 surer of England. 

 " A Memorial humbly presented by D r Woodroffe. 



" Whereas it is now neare 5 years since certain Youths 

 Of y" Greek Communion were brought over & committed 

 caw of U r Woodroffe in order to their receiving 

 siicli a liberal education in y° University, whereby they 

 might be qualified as Preachers, Schoolmasters, or other- 

 wise to serve their own Countrey at their returne. 



" Ami whereas y" i aid Youths were soon after their 

 arrival receiv'd into the Roial Protection, & Command 

 thereupon given y' some Fund should be found out, & 

 settled for their Maintenance, to y« Number of ten, which 

 said Fund is not yet found, Whereby the charges of pre- 

 paring, it furnishing Lodgeings, of Dyct, Cloaths, Books 

 & all other Conveniences as also of a person to assist in 

 their KdiK.it ion to y" value of at least 1100' (excepting 



onily 400 1 receiv'd of Royal Bounty) hath lain on y D' 



Besides his own pains & attendance, foi which He never 

 askt, nor receiv'd any reward, though y Roial Command 

 was twice given out for it. 



" And whereas y c D r being indebted to her Ma'r in 

 the summe of about 600 11 for y e Duty of Salt, He being 

 Proprietor of one of y c Salt-rocks in Cheshire, humhlv 

 peticon'ed her Ma'- V that in Consideration hereof some 

 favour might be shewn him with respect to y e said debt, 

 & was by y r Lp' mediation so far indulged, as to have 

 processe stop't till y e last day of this present Michaelmas 

 Terme. But by reason of more Greek Youths since 

 coming over, who being added to those already under his 

 care, made up y e full number of Ten y e charges have so 

 increased, y« He hath not as yet been able to pay offe y e 

 said Debt, for w ch if processs should now go out against 

 Him, He & y e good work itself must be utterly ruin'd. 



" For y e preventing whereof, Endeavours being now 

 useing to finde out a proper Fund without burdening y 

 Crown, It is humbly represented to y r Lp that some farther 

 respite ma}- be granted to y e D r for y e paying in the said 

 Debt by Sale of some part of his own Estate, if no other 

 way of Supply can be speedily found ; which is y e more 

 earnestly requested, for as much, as if He be herein dis- 

 countenanced, y e Honour of our Nation, & Religion must 

 suffer with Him, occasion being thereby given to y e scorn- 

 ings, & insultings of y» Enemies of our Faith, who are so 

 ready to snatch away y 6 Honour of so good a work from 

 us. As will appear by y e Schedule hereunto annext. 



" George & John Aptaloghi, two of the Greek Youths, 

 who were under y e care of D r Woodroffe in Oxford, hav- 

 ing y e last year been prevailed on to withdraw them- 

 selves from thence, upon pretence that they should have 

 much better provision made for them, and be sent into 

 their own Countrey, as they should desire; & coming to 

 London, were furnisht with money, for their Voyage, and 

 had Bills of Exchange to be receiv'd in Holland, as y 

 most Convenient place from whence to take ship for their 

 own Countrey. 



" As soon as they were landed in Holland several per- 

 sons were ready to receive & attend them, (whom after- 

 wards they knew to be priests of y c Romish Church,) 

 who treated them very kindlj-, carrying them from place 

 to place, till being at the Hague, they proposed to them to 

 take boat for Middleburg. 



" Being in the boat, they found they were steering a 

 quite contrary course, whereupon asking y> Master of y c 

 boat whither they were going, He told them, 'twas 

 whither he had orders to carry them, and so on they went 

 till the}' were brought to Antwerp ; going out of y e boat 

 the}' askt Stephen Constantine, (who was y e third who 

 had made his Escape from Oxford, & as it afterwards ap- 

 pear'd had long entertain'd a correspondence with Romish 

 Emissaries, having for above 3 years before sold himself 

 & his Brethren to them,) where they were, who bid them 

 feare nothing, for they were safe, & thereupon pulled out 

 of his pocket a passe from y e Govern r of Flanders, and 

 now they were sufficiently sensible, how they were be- 

 trayed, as they afterwards found in all places they went 

 thorow. 



" At their Landing at Antwerp, they were welcom'd 

 by 3 priests, who were to take care of them, -who attended 

 them to Mechlin, and thence to Louvain, where they 

 were presented to y Internuncio of y e Pope, who at y e 

 first view of them, said, Homer is not here, that is not 

 Homer, pointing at the eldest of them, It seems their 

 greatest aime was at him, & they were troubled He was 

 not with them. This Homer is he, who was 3 ,e eldest of 

 them all, & is now in London, in order to return into his 

 own Countrey, He being already appointed to he Drug- 

 german in y place of one lately Aeceas'd at Smyrna. 



" Here they were ask 1 w' money they had receiv'd, & 

 they answering, that they had receiv'd 50 Guineas, they 

 were told, more was return'd for them, nnmeing an 100 

 or 150 Guineas more; but they averring they had re- 



