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"I well intended to have written from Ireland, but alas! as some stern old divine says, 'Hell is paved with good intentions.' There was such a whirl of laking, and boating, and wondering, and shouting, and laughing, and carousing--" "so much to be seen, and so little time to see it; so much to be heard, and only two ears to listen to twenty voices, that upon the whole I grew desperate, and gave up all thoughts of doing what was right and proper on post-days, and so all my epistolary good intentions are gone to Macadamise, I suppose, 'the burning marle' of the infernal regions."
J.M.G
Hallamshire.
THE EARL OF NORWICH AND HIS SON GEORGE LORD GORING.
As in small matters accuracy is of vital consequence, let me correct a mistake which I made, writing in a hurry, in my last communication about the two Gorings . The Earl of Norwich was not under sentence of death, as is there stated, on January 8, 1649. He was then a prisoner: he was not tried and sentenced till March.
"Mr. Goring's army is broken and all his men in disorder. He hates the council here, and I find plainly there is no love lost; they fear he will seize on the Prince, and he, that they will take him: what will follow hereupon may be foretold, without the aid of the wise woman on the bank. Sir John Colepeper was at Court lately to remove him, to the discontent of many. In short, the war is at an end in the West; each one looks for a ship, and nothing more.
"Lord Digby and Mr. Goring are not friends; Prince Rupert yet goes with Mr. Goring, but how long that will hold, I dare not undertake, knowing both their constitutions."
The Earl of Norwich's second son, Charles, who afterwards succeeded as second earl, commanded a brigade under his brother in the West in 1645.
Mr. Warburton, by the way, clearly confounds the father with the son when he speaks of the Earl of Norwich's trial and reprieve . Three letters printed in Mr. W.'s second volume , and signed "Goring", are probably letters of the father's, but given by Mr. Warburton to the son.
"Lord Hopton in the meanwhile has been appointed to the command in Cornwall, superseding Goring. Also has been sent off on several negociations to France."
"I have now my lameness so much renewed that I cannot come to clear myself; as soon as the bath has restored me to my strength, I shall employ it in his Highness's service, if he please to let me return into the same place of his favour that I thought myself happy in before."
I should expect that this letter was written from France after Goring's abrupt retreat into that country. It is stated that the letter comes from Mr. Bentley's collection.
The Earl of Norwich was in Flanders in November 1569, and accompanied the Dukes of York and Gloucester from Brussels to Breda.
CH.
If the following account of the Goring family given by Banks is correct, it will appear that the father and both his sons were styled at different times. "Lord Goring," and that they may very easily be distinguished.
BRAYBROOKE.
July 1, 1850.
QUERIES
JAMES CARKASSE'S LUCIDA INTERVALLA, AN ILLUSTRATION OF PEPYS' DIARY.
I met lately with a quarto volume of poems printed at London in 1679, entitled:
W.B.R.
MINOR QUERIES.
The sting of the first, if I recollect right, is directed against the university to which the books were sent, the king--
"--right well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning."
The reply which this provoked, is an attack on the other university, the innuendo being that the troops were sent there--
"Because that learned body wanted loyalty."
I quote from memory.
Can any of your readers, through the medium of your valuable paper, favour me with the correct version of the epigrams, and with the particular circumstances which gave rise to them?
J. SWANN.
Norwich.
J. SANSOM.
A.M.
J. SANSOM
J.M. BASHAM.
"Plutarch informs us," says Rollin , "that the god did not compose the verses of the oracle. He inflamed the Pythia's imagination, and kindled in her soul that living light which unveiled all futurity to her. The words she uttered in the heat of her enthusiam, having neither method nor connection, and coming only by starts, to use that expression from the bottom of her stomach, or rather from her belly, were collected with care by the prophets, who gave them afterwards to the poets to be turned into verse."
If the Pythian priestess was really a ventriloquist, to what extent was she conscious of the deception she practised?
J. SANSOM.
"O la belle statue! O le beau Piedestal! Les Vertus sont ? pied, le Vice est ? cheval!"
AUGUSTINE.
J. SANSOM.
W.J.
Havre.
Can any learned clerk inform me where a copy of such Homilies can be seen?
J. SAMSON.
"Communis mundo superest rogus, ossibus astra Misturus?"
J. SAMSON.
What were the circumstances of the rise of William of Wykeham, respecting which Lowth is so very scanty and unsatisfactory?
Where did William of Wykeham get the wealth with which he built and endowed New College, Oxon, and St. Mary's, Winchester; and rebuilt Winchester Cathedral?
What are the present incomes of New College, and St Mary's, Winchester?
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