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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"<i S. IX. June 16. '60. 



ceiv'il no more, y e person who put y e Question, said, 

 there must be an account taken of w« moneys his Holi- 

 nesse had ordered for their Use, for 'twas above 3 years 

 since money had been order'd for them, & thereon y e per- 

 son [viz. ] * was named, who was appointed to 

 manage that affair. 



" And now they began to deale plainly with them, 

 greately exclaiming against the English, as y e worst of 

 Hereticks, & telling them that they were to renounce all 

 their Errors, & to be instructed, that they might be re- 

 ceiv'd into the true Catholic Church. In order wher- 

 unto they were put into the Irish Colledge, and often 

 disputed with to be convinced of their Errors; but that 

 not prevailing they were told that his Holinesse had a 

 desire to see them, & to Rome they must goe, where they 

 should find what it was to offend an Apostolick Minister. 

 And so they were sent on to Paris, where y° Pope's Nun- 

 cio entertam'd them beyond w' they had ever seen, & 

 to soften what had been said to them at Lovain, He told 

 them of y° great Love his Holinesse had for them, & a 

 letter of Grace came to them from his Holinesse written 

 in Greek to confirm them therein. 



" They had desired to have had some new Cloaths, but 

 'twas denyed, they being told, y l his Holinesse had a 

 great desire to see them in their own Countrey habit, 

 meaning y c habit, they wore herein England, & had tra- 

 velled in,"& are now re turn 'd in y e same to London. 



" From Paris they are sent to Avignon & from theuce 

 to Marseilles, where they were shipt for Civita. Vecchia ; 

 But y° Master touching at Genoa, & giving them Leave 

 to walk about the Streets, they found out y c English Con- 

 sul relating to him, How they had been decoyed from 

 England, where they were under her Ma" 3 ' Protection, & 

 how they had been "since treated, and that they were now 

 sending to Koine to be put in y Inquisition, & therefore 

 begging his Protection, who accordingly undertook to 

 protect them, & having withstood all y e Endeavours of 

 the Romanists to recover them, shipped them for Leg- 

 horn, from whence by y e favour of y c Consul there ; they 

 were put on board an English Ship in w ch about a Month 

 since they arrived at v° Port of London. 

 " Nov. 23, 1703. " 



" Whereas D r Woodroffe Govern r & Tutor to y° youths 

 of y Greeke Communion now residing in Oxon hath 

 most humbly petition'd her most Gracious Ma'r. 



" 1. That some lasting establishment may be made for 

 y c said Youths, & such others of y c said Communion to 

 y° number of (10) who shal from time to time come over 

 to receive their education according to y c Church of 

 England. 



" 2. That several of y e said youths being arrived, & 

 having been already for above 3 years last in Oxon under 

 y° care, & at y e sole charges of D r Woodroffe (excepting 

 200 1 receiv'd by Royal Bounty) there may be some pre- 

 sent supply granted toward y e said charges, y° same 

 amounting to about 1100 1 as appears by a Schedule given 

 in w th y c Petition presented to her Ma 1 ?. As also 



" 3. That, for as much as y e said D r Woodroffe as Pro- 

 prietor of one of the Salt-rocks in Cheshire (the Duty 

 whereof comes to many thousands per Annum) is at pre- 

 sent indebted to her Ma'y in or near y e like sume of 

 1100 1 for y e said Duty, y° paiment whereof is very much 

 pressed by the Comissioners, Prosecution may be .stopt, y" 

 said D r Woodroffe being very ill able to raise such a 

 sume, & bear y° growing charges of y° maintenance & 

 education of y° said youths of y e Greek Communion 

 which cannot be lesse than between three, & four hun- 

 dred pounds per Ahum & will be likewise upon him, 

 unless assisted therein by her Ma ticl Royal Bounty, or 



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w'ever other Provision her Ma'y shall in her great Wise- 

 dome, and princely piety judge most fit. 



" To which her Ma'y hath return'd a very gracious 

 answer by y c R' Reverend y e L d Bp of London, 

 who attended her Ma'y on y° said Petition, viz. : 



" 1. That such a lasting Establishment should be made 

 for y° said Youths of the Greek Communion. 



" 2. That a present supply should be made toward y» 

 charges at w ch y e said D r Woodroffe hath already been. 



" 3. That Prosecution for y e said 1100 1 should be stopt, 

 till such a Supply, or other Provision should be made. 



" Which being referred to y° R* Hon w<l y e L d High 

 Treasurer, It is humbly praied, That, w'ever her most 

 Gracious Ma'y shall grant by way of Royal Bounty, or 

 otherwise may be applied towards y° paying offe, what 

 the said Doctor is indebted to her M'y for y° Duty of 

 Rock-salt, And as to y e Remainder, that y° R' Hon bl ° ye 

 L d High Treasurer would be pleas'd to order that Prose- 

 cution against y e said Doctor be at present stopt, till 

 6ome farther Provision shall be made, as her Ma'y hath 

 pleased graciously to declare." 



I shall be glad to learn from other sources the 

 subsequent career of these Greek youths, if any 

 of the correspondents of " N. & Q." can oblige me 

 with information concerning them. 



William Henry Hart. 



Folkestoae House, Roupell Park, Streathara. 



SHAKSPERIANA. 



"Hamlet" Bibliography. — The thanks of 

 all Shakspearians, and my own special thanks, 

 are due to Mr. Bates for his help in "posting 

 up " the list of .HamfeMiterature (2" d S. ix. 

 378—380.). If I had known that a fellow- 

 townsman had compiled so large a list, I should 

 very gladly have asked his aid in completing 

 my own. While I thank him for several addi- 

 tions, and for his appreciation of what he knows 

 is a troublesome and thankless task, I must re- 

 mind him that I intentionally omitted several of 

 the works he has included in his list. In the 

 Preface I said that my object was "to show the 

 greatness of the drama by the books it had 

 brought forth ; and to form, as far as practicable, 

 an Index of the works (excluding only three 

 German and two English travesties and pictorial 

 illustrations) which have appeared in the literary, 

 dramatic, and personal history of this great 

 drama." The German travesties are not men- 

 tioned by Mr. Bates, but their titles will be 

 found in Karl Elze's admirable Hamlet. The 

 pictorial illustrations are so numerous, and so 

 scattered, that I feared, and still fear, it would be 

 impossible to compile any satisfactory list ; and 

 any such attempt should certainly include great 

 paintings also, as tributes' to the noble drama. I 

 also added in the Preface that the " Folio editions 

 (1623, 1632, 1664, 1683,) are not mentioned in 

 the list, nor the editions of the complete works in 

 which of course the tragedy is contained." I 

 mention these things, not to disparage the value of 



