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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
June 10. 
Consider what service longeth thereto, 
And what quit rent thereout must go. 
And, if it be come of a wedded woman. 
Think thou then on covert baron ; 
And if thou may in any wise 
Make thy charter with warrantise, 
To thee, thine heirs, assigns also, 
Thus should a wise purchaser do. 
In 1570 lie published A New Year's Gift, dedicated to the 
Pope's Holiness, and all Catholics addicted to the sec of Rome ; 
preferred the first day of January, in the year of our Lord 
God, after the course and computation of the Romanists, one 
thousand, five hundredth, seventy and nine, by B. G., citizen of 
London : in recompense of divers singular and inestimable 
reliques of late sent by the said Pope's holiness into England, 
the true figures and representations whereof are hereafter in 
their places dilated. This is about the most scarce of Barnaby 
Googe’s works. It contains a letter written by Cutlibert 
Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, and John Stokesley, Bishop of 
London, to Cardinal Bole at Rome ; the lives of Topes 
Alexander II. and Gregory VII.; a comparison between 
Christ and the pope; a description of the pope’s mer¬ 
chandise, with an engraving of the rosaries, seals or bulls, 
and other articles for sale to those who would have faith in 
their efficacy; the poisoning of King John ; the Maid of 
Kent’s tragedy; an oration made by a Scotch bishop to the 
King of Scots, Ac. He gives in verse, according to his 
custom, “ the argument ’’ of the work. 
Th’ aspiring mind caus’d Reynold Poole to swerve, 
And to become a traitor to the king— 
Truth tries it out, and law and justice bring 
Unto his mates such death as they deserve: 
He quakes for fear, and through the seas doth carve 
To Rome, and there is by the holy Pope 
Made Cardinal, and obtains a larger scope. 
With might and main Poole then the Pope doth serve, 
And saith the King may not be supreme head. 
Two learned men, which do lament his fall, 
Send him this book, that folly to forbid ; 
Yet he (God wot) regards it not at all, 
Rut, like an ass, doth for a scarlet hat 
Forsake his God, his king, and country flat. j 
It is not to be supposed that Googe, the poet and the 
courtier, could be without his “ ladye love; ” but, having 
one, we could not have anticipated that he would have set 
Prime Ministers and high ecclesiastics to work to wrest her 
from her parents—yet so it was. In the Lansdowne MSS. 
(0, No. 81) there is a letter from Dr. Matthew Parker, 
Archbishop of Canterbury, dated November 20th, 1503, 
advising Sir William Cecil that lie had received his letters, 
“ wherein you wrought for your cousin and servant Eernaby 
Goge to have his matter heard according to law and equity.” 
He then states that he had had the young gentlewoman 
before him, and “ she remainetli firm and staple to stand to 
that contract she hath made.” Tie also had her father and 
mother before him, whom his grace adds, “ I find the most 
ernest parents against the bargain as I ever saw.” “ In 
fine,” says his grace, “ I have sequestered her out of both 
their hands into the custody of one Mr. Tuston, a right 
honest gentleman.” This was a tolerably strong proceeding, 
but the Archbishop resolved that a prime minister should 
not be thwarted; and, that there might be no mistake, lie 
adds that he will keep her sequestered “until the pre¬ 
contract which is by her parents alleged for one Leonard’s 
son, a pre-notary, be induced; but they may give occasion 
to bring it into the (Court of) Arches to spend money; 
howbeit, I mean to dull that expectation, and to go plain 
and summary to work, to spare expenses, which Leonard 
and his wife would fain enter to weary the young gen¬ 
tleman, peradventure not superfluously moneyed so to 
sail the seas with them.” We now see more clearly the 
cause for such energy, for a rich wife was not to be allowed 
to escape easily from a young poet “ not superfluously 
moneyed.” The father fought hard to do what he liked 
with his own daughter; but a prime minister, and an arch¬ 
bishop, and, we are glad to add, the lady’s own inclination, 
were odds not to be fought against successfully, and Mary 
Darell became the wife of Barnaby Googe. ( Gentleman's 
Magazine, 1837.) 
We have before us a list of the prizes to be offered at 
the fourth great annual Birmingham and Midland 
Counties Exhibition of Poultry, which is to be held in 
Bingley Hall, Broad-street, Birmingham, on the 14th, 
15th, 10th, and 17th of next December. In 1853, the 
exhibition is to be at Nottingham. 
The classification is excellent, bearing evidence of 
great care and judgment, and the prizes (1, 2, and 3,) 
are liberal, varying between two guineas and ten 
shillings. But why is the highest prize for Poland fowls 
limited to one guinea, whilst all the others, except 
Bantams, have a first prize of two guineas? We ask 
this question for information, because, though our own 
opinion is in favour of the Cochin-China, Dorking, and 
Spanish, just in the order we have named them, yet we 
know there are poultry-keepers who prefer some of the 
Polands to all others. There is a record of five hens of 
this breed (black with white crests) laying 503 eggs in 
eleven months, and only one of them wanted to sit 
during the time. 
Wo have but one objection to the regulations of this, 
and of all other poultry exhibitions, and that objection 
is to the putting on what is termed a prohibitory price 
to any pen of fowls. Why not say, “ Not to be sold ? ” 
Prohibitory prices lead to delusive conclusions and ex¬ 
pectations, for we have heard more than one poultry- 
keeper observe, “ Some of the Cochin-Chinas at Bir¬ 
mingham were valued at TOO, and even T'100 the pen.” 
if all those willing to sell were requested to affix the 
selling price, there would be plenty of exhibitors who 
would do so, and this would secure all desired advan¬ 
tages, and prevent all delusion. Moreover, not only is 
it of no use for an unwilling seller to name a prohibitory 
price, but it is discouraging to a genuine seller to have 
his “twenty shillings” appear by the side of “ twenty 
pounds.” It looks like an acknowledgment of infe¬ 
riority, and is so received by a majority of the spectators. 
The following is the classification adopted at Bir¬ 
mingham, and we recommend it to the attention of all 
Poultry Societies:— 
Spanish. 
Dorking; single-combed. 
Dorking; double or rose- 
combed. 
Dorking; white. 
Cochin-China; cinnamon and 
buff. 
Cochin-China; brown, and 
partridge-feathered. 
Cochin-China ; white. 
Malay. 
Game ; white and piles. 
Game; black-breasted, and 
other reds. 
Game; blacks, and brassy¬ 
winged, except greys. 
Game ; duck-wings, and other 
greys and blues. 
Golden-pencilled Hamburgh. 
Golden-spangled Hamburgh. 
Silver-pencilled Hamburgh. 
Silver-spa ngled Ham burgh. 
Poultry prizes are this year offered for a cock and three 
hens of any age, and for a cock and three pullets, chickens 
of 1852, in all the classes. In the classes for Spanish, 
Dorking, and Cochin, there are also, in addition, prizes for 
a cock and one pullet. 
Polands; black with white 
crests. 
Polands; golden, with ruffs 
or beards. 
Polands; golden, without 
ruffs or beards. 
Polands ; silver, with ruffs or 
beards. 
Polands ; silver, without ruffs 
or beards. 
Any other distinct breed. 
Bantams; gold-laccd. 
Bantams; silver-laced. 
Bantams; white. 
Bantams; black. 
Bantams ; any other variety. 
Pigeons. 
Geese. 
Ducks. 
Turkeys. 
Guinea Fowl. 
