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JOHN MILAND.
DIBDIN'S TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES.
Yours, &c.
S.R. MAITLAND.
QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 2
MADOC THE SON OF OWEN GWYNED.
Did Madoc, son of Owen Gwynedd, prince of Wales, discover America? Stimulated by the importance of the question, and accustomed to admire the spirit of maritime enterprise, at whatever period it may have been called into action, I have sometimes reflected on this debatable point--but can neither affirm nor deny it.
Carmina Meredith filii Rhesi mentionem facientia de Madoco filio Oweni Gwynedd, et de su? navigatione in terras incognitas. Vixit hic Meredith circiter annum Domini 1477.
Madoc wyf, mwyedic wedd, Iawn genau, Owen Gwynedd; Ni fynnum dir, fy enaid oedd, Na da mawr, ond y moroedd.
Madoc I am the sonne of Owen Gwynedd With stature large, and comely grace adorned; No lands at home nor store of wealth me please, My minde was whole to searche the ocean seas.
The title prefixed to this paper would be a misnomer, if I did not add a list of books which it may be desirable to consult:--
BOLTON CORNEY.
MADOC--HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA.
ANGLO-CAMBRIAN.
MADOC'S EXPEDITION.
QUERIES
"CLOUDS" OR SHROUDS, IN SHAKESPEARE.
I quite agree with your correspondent D.N.R., that there never has been an editor of Shakespeare capable of doing him full justice. I will go farther and say, that there never will be an editor capable of doing him any thing like justice. I am the most "modern editor" of Shakespeare, and I am the last to pretend that I am at all capable of doing him justice: I should be ashamed of myself if I entertained a notion so ridiculously presumptuous. What I intended was to do him all the justice in my power, and that I accomplished, however imperfectly. It struck me that the best mode of attempting to do him any justice was to take the utmost pains to restore his text to the state in which he left it; and give me leave, very humbly, to say that this is the chief recommendation of the edition I superintended through the press, having collated every line, syllable, and letter, with every known old copy. For this purpose I saw, consulted and compared every quarto and every folio impression in the British Museum, at Oxford, at Cambridge, in the libraries of the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Ellesmere, and in several private collections. If my edition have no other merit, I venture to assert that it has this. It was a work of great labour, but it was a work also of sincere love. It is my boast, and my only boast, that I have restored the text of Shakespeare, as nearly as possible, to the integrity of the old copies.
"With deafening clamours in the slippery clouds,"
J. PAYNE COLLIER.
MEDAL OF THE PRETENDER.
B. NIGHTINGALE.
ROGER DE COVERLEY.
Can any one inform me--
ANGLO-CAMBRIAN
THE REVEREND THOMAS LEMAN.
Mr. Editor,--Amongst the later authorities on subjects of British-Roman antiquity, the Rev. Thomas Leman is constantly referred to, and in terms of great commendation.
I believe the MS. of the work was all in Mr. Hatcher's handwriting; some of your readers may possibly have the means of knowing in what way he used the materials thus given, or to what extent they were adapted or annotated by himself.
A.T. Coleman Street, Nov. 13.
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.
R. VINCENT. Winchester, Nov. 12.
KATHERINE PEGG.
At vol. iv. p. 435. of the new edition is the following entry:--
"7 May, 1668. Here I did kiss the pretty woman newly come, called Pegg, that was Sir Charles Sedley's mistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems modest."
On this Lord Braybrooke has the following note:--
"Pegg must have been Margaret Hughes, Prince Rupert's mistress, who had probably before that time lived with Sir Charles Sedley."
Katherine Pegg has escaped Lord Braybrooke. Can any of your correspondents tell me who she was?
PETER CUNNINGHAM
QUERIES IN MEDIAEVAL GEOGRAPHY.
MYLES BLOOMFYLDE AND WILLIAM BLOMEFIELD'S METRICAL WRITINGS ON ALCHYMY.
Were there two metrical writers on alchymy of the name Bloomfield, temp. Eliz. and connected with Bury?
BURIENSIS.
THYNNE'S COLLECTION OF CHANCELLORS.
COLD HARBOUR
Mr. Editor,--In examining the Ordnance Survey of Kent, I was quite surprised at the recurrence of the name "Cold Harbour;" and again, in Wyld's Map of London in 1550.
I believe the point has been explained before, but perhaps some of your readers could give some information as to its origin.
G.H.B.
Nov. 8. 1849.
STATISTICS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
E.E.
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