Homepage
Login
Profile
BookClubs
dmBox
Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Number 52 October 26 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor
Font size:
Background color:
Text color:
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page
Ebook has 229 lines and 18166 words, and 5 pages
Page
NOTES:--
Address to our Friends 353
Shakspeare's Use of the Words "Captious" and "Intenible," by S. W. Singer 354
Oratories of the Nonjurors, by J. Yeowell 354
Folk Lore:--Overyssel Superstition--Death-bed Superstitions--Popular Rhyme--Death-bed Mystery--Bradshaw Family 356
Advice to the Editor, and Hints to his Contributors 357
Minor Notes:--Rollin's Ancient History and History of the Arts and Sciences--Jezebel--Clarendon, Oxford Edition of 1815--Macaulay's Country Squire--Miching Mallecho 357
QUERIES:--
The Inquisition: The Bohemian Persecution 358
Minor Queries:--Osnaburg Bishopric--Meaning of "Farlief"--Margaret Dyneley--Tristan d'Acunha--Production of Fire by Friction--Murderer hanged when pardoned--Passage from Burke--Licensing of Books--Le Bon Gendarme 358
REPLIES:--
Tasso translated by Fairfax 359
Ale-Draper--Eugene Aram 360
On the Word "Gradely," by B. H. Kennedy and G. J. Cayley 361
Collar of Esses 362
Replies to Minor Queries:--Symbols of the Evangelists--Becket's Mother--Passage in Lucan--Combs buried with the Dead--The Norfolk Dialect--Conflagration of the Earth--Wraxen 363
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 366
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 367
Notices to Correspondents 367
Advertisements 367
NOTES.
ADDRESS TO OUR FRIENDS.
We this day publish our fifty-second Number. Every Saturday, for twelve months, have we presented to our subscribers our weekly budget of "NOTES," "QUERIES," and "REPLIES;" and in so doing, we trust, we have accomplished some important ends. We have both amused and instructed the general reader; we have stored up much curious knowledge for the use of future writers; we have procured for scholars now engaged in works of learning and research, many valuable pieces of information which had evaded their own immediate pursuit; and, lastly, in doing all this, we have powerfully helped forward the great cause of literary truth.
In our Prospectus and opening address we made no great promise of what our paper should be. That, we knew, must depend upon how far the medium of intercommunication we had prepared should be approved and adopted by those for whose special use it had been projected. We laid down a literary railway: it remained to be seen whether the world of letters would travel by it. They have done so: we have been especially patronised by first-class passengers, and in such numbers that we were obliged last week to run an extra train.
At the end of our first twelvemonth we thank our subscribers for the patronage we have received. We trust we shall go on week by week improving in our work of usefulness, so that at the end of the next twelvemonth we may meet them with the same pleasure as on the present occasion. We will continue to do whatever is in our power, and we rely upon our friends to help us.
SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE WORDS "CAPTIOUS" AND "INTENIBLE."
It is not impossible that the poet may have had in his mind the fruitless labour imposed upon the Dana?des as a punishment, for it has been thus moralised:
"These virgins, who in the flower of their age pour water into pierced vessels which they can never fill, what is it but to be always bestowing over love and benefits upon the ungrateful."
S. W. SINGER.
Mickleham, Oct. 4. 1850.
ORATORIES OF THE NONJURORS.
As the nooks and corners of London in olden times are now engaging the quiet musings of most of the topographical brotherhood, perhaps you can spare a nook or a corner of your valuable periodical for a few notes on the Oratories of those good men and true--the Nonjurors. "These were honourable men in their generation," and were made of most unbending materials.
On the Feast of St. Matthias, Feb. 24, 1693, the consecrations of Dr. George Hickes and Thomas Wagstaffe were solemnly performed according to the rites of the Church of England, by Dr. William Lloyd, bishop of Norwich; Dr. Francis Turner, bishop of Ely; and Dr. Thomas White, bishop of Peterborough, at the Bishop of Peterborough's lodgings, at the Rev. William Giffard's house at Southgate in Middlesex: Dr. Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells, giving his consent.
Henry Gandy was consecrated at his oratory in the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, on the festival of St. Paul, Jan. 25, 1716.
Grascome was interrupted by a messenger whilst he was ministering to his little congregation in Scroope's Court, near St. Andrew's Church.
Jeremy Collier officiated at Broad Street, London, assisted by the Rev. Samuel Carte, the father of the historian.
Mr. Hawkes officiated for some time at his own house opposite to St. James' Palace.
On Easter-day, April 13, 1718, at the oratory of his brother, Mr. William Lee, dyer, in Spitalfields, Dr. Francis Lee read a touching and beautiful declaration of his faith, betwixt the reading of the sentences at the offertory and the prayer for the state of Christ's church. It was addressed to the Rev. James Daillon, Count de Lude, then officiating.
"I believe most of the books in Mr. Laurence's catalogue were really in his library. Most of his chapel furniture I had seen; but his pix, and his cruet, his box for unguent, and oil, I suppose you do not inquire after."
Dr. Welton's chapel in Goodman's Fields being visited by Colonel Ellis and other justices of the peace, with proper assistants, about two hundred and fifty persons were found there assembled, of whom but forty would take the oaths. The doctor refusing them also, was ordered to be proceeded against according to law.
This reminds me of another Query. What has become of Dr. Welton's famous Whitechapel altar-piece, which Bishop Compton drove out of his church. Some doubts have been expressed whether that is the identical one in the Saint's Chapel of St. Alban's Abbey. A friend has assured the writer that he had seen it about twenty years ago, at a Roman Catholic meeting-house in an obscure court at Greenwich. It is not there now. The print of it in the library of the Society of Antiquaries is accompanied with these MS. lines by Mr. Mattaire:--
"To say the picture does to him belong, Kennett does Judas and the painter wrong; False is the image, the resemblance faint, Judas, compared to Kennett, was a saint."
One word more. The episcopal seal of the nonjuring bishops was a shepherd with a sheep upon his shoulders. The crozier which had been used by them, was, in 1839, in the possession of John Crossley Esq., of Scaitcliffe, near Todmorden.
J. YEOWELL.
Hoxton.
"Best edition. Copies in fine condition are in considerable request. The cuts are beautifully engraved, and Hogarth is much indebted to the designer of them; but who he was does not appear."
It is clear that Mr. Lowndes supposes the designer of these plates to have been some person distinct from Hogarth; and he was right in his conjecture; but he was ignorant of the name of the artist alluded to.
Whoever he was, he can have little claim to be regarded as the original designer; he was rather employed as an expurgator; for these plates are certainly copies of the two sets of plates invented and engraved by Hogarth himself in 1726.
J. T. A.
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page