is preserved in the British Museum, MS. Eg. 1324. The owner was Professor of History at Nuremberg, and his Album contains the autographs of many of the University Professors in various parts of Germany and the Low Countries, in the years 1649–1672, but also includes some others collected during a residence in England in 1651. The entry signed by Milton occurs at f. 85., and is thus worded: Ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ τελειοῦμαι. "Doctissimo viro, meoque fautori humanissimo, D. Christophoro Arnoldo, dedi hoc, in memoriam cum suæ virtutis, tum mei erga se studii. Londini, An. D. 1651. Novem. 19. "JOANNES MILTONIUS." The signature is larger than the one in the printed copy of ARATUS (see "N. & Q." 2nd S. iv. 459.), now also in the British Museum, but has a great similarity in the form of the letters. This Album contains also the autographs of the following persons resident in London, Oxford, or Cambridge, in 1651: John Selden, James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, Francis Junius, Sir William Petty, Jeremy Collier (recently Fellow of St. John's Coll. Cambr.), John Dury, John Rous (University Librarian, Oxford), Victorinus Bythner (Professor of Hebrew, Oxf.), R. Watkins, Thomas Smith, M.A. (of Ch. Ch. Cambr.), Abraham Wheloc (University Librarian, Cambridge), Edw. Dickenson (Fellow of Jesus Coll. Cambr.), Robert Austen (Fellow of King's Coll. Cambr.), F. MADDEN. and J. Sadler. JUNIUS' LETters. I should be glad to learn the name of the individual alluded to in the following passage, which occurs in a note to the History of Ceylon, by Philalethes, A.M. Oxon. Philalethes was, I believe, the Rev. W. Bisset*, who accompanied Sir Robert Brownrigg when appointed governor of Ceylon, and published the above volume in 1817. After speaking of Hugh Boyd, who, in 1782, had been sent on a mission to the Court at Kandy, he alludes to that gentleman in the following terms: "Mr. Boyd, who conducted the above-mentioned embassy, was a man of genius and talents, and has been believed by some, though I think without any sufficient reason, to have been the author of the celebrated Letters under the signature of Junius. During six years and a half of a laborious literary life, from July, 1807, to December, 1813, my attention was, on several occasions, called to the examination of this subject; but I remember to have been much less impressed by the pretensions of Mr. Boyd, than by those of another gentleman whose name has been seldom mentioned during the discussion of this interesting point of literary curiosity. The letters which have been recently published, proving a late prime minis [* In the Bodleian Catalogue this work is attributed to Robert Fellowes, M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford.-ED.] ter to have been Junius,' do not, I think, establish the authorship of the Duke of Portland; but they still render it highly credible that the Duke of Portland must have known who Junius was, and that Junius must have derived some of his information from the duke. Now no proof has been adduced to show that the duke himself had sufficient literary capacity for the authorship of the Letters; but there is certainly very strong presumptive evidence that at least some of them must have been written under his cognizance and inspection. Who then was the powerful agent, whose pen served to vindicate the claims of the duke, and to vilify both the sovereign and his ministers? Shall I invoke the names of C****** L**** to reveal the disputed name?"-Hist. Ceylon, &c. c. xvii. p. 139. J. EMERSON TENNENT. [This was "Charles Lloyd," of whom Dr. Parr wrote, "The writer of Junius was Mr. Lloyd, Secretary to George Grenville and brother to Philip Lloyd, Dean of Norwich. This will one day or other be generally acknowledged." Lloyd's claims have been supported at great length, and with considerable ingenuity, by the late E. H. Barker of Thetford, in his (1.) Claims of Sir P. Francis to the Authorship of Junius' Letters disproved; (2.) Some Enquiry into the Claims of the late Charles Lloyd, Esq. to the Composition of them." London, 1828.] "Who was Junius ?" (2nd S. i. 185, 186, 187.)"Who was JuAs a note to W. W. J.'s paper, nius," I send this scrap. W. W. J. particularly refers to the edition of Junius's Letters, with Anecdotes of the Author, published in 1771, which was subsequently reprinted at Southampton, "with the King's Reply." A copy of the above work (ed. 1771) belonged to the late Sir J. H. Rose; and the following note from it, in the baronet's autograph, may appear of sufficient interest to warrant its preservation in "N. & Q.” : the last hands which might be supposed to have ever held it. George the Third was more than once my father's guest for a day or two at Weymouth; both were early men, and they met one morning in the Library. The King said to my father: Mr. Rose, you have “ Junius”'; and he desired him to give it to him. My father sought it, and gave it to him. The King sought out a particular passage, doubled down the page, and carried the book away." "This particular volume was once for a short time in I think W. W. J.'s interesting paper may almost as safely be regarded a list of those who have been, from time to time, identified with Junius, as an enumeration of the works which have appeared on the subject. Tooke, Boyd, General Lee, Chatham, Wilmot, Burke, Glover, De Lolme, Duke of Portland, Francis, Gibbon, Chesterfield, Sackville, Lloyd, Wray, Temple, and Rich, pass, like Shakspeare's line of phantom kings, before the reader. Lord Holland, in his Memoirs of the Whig Party, states that George III. always regarded Lord LOUGHBOROUGH, previously Mr. Wedderburn, and afterwards Lord Rosslyn, as Junius. I think Lord Holland adds that King William IV. was his informant. When George III. heard of Lord Loughborough's death, he exclaimed: "He has not left a greater rogue behind him." I remember meeting, some time since, in the Examiner for 1813 (p. 431.), a letter offering to verify on oath, that a Mr. Hewitt had revealed the authorship on his death-bed. The letter may be a quiz, but there are persons whom it might amuse to see it. WILLIAM J. FITZ-PATRICK. Almon, in the 1st volume of Anecdotes, published in 1797 (pp. 15, 16, 17.), speaking of the Papers of Junius, says: "They were occasionally attributed to Lord Sackville, Rt. Hon. W. G. Hamilton, the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, John Dunning, and many others, but without the least ground or foundation in truth. During their original publication the writer lived in Norfolk Street in the Strand; not in affluent circumstances, but he did not write for pecuniary aid. He was a native of Ireland, of an honourable family, and of Trinity College, Dublin. He was at one time intended for the army, and at another for the bar; but private circumstances prevented either taking place. . . . . He frequently attended Parliament and the Courts in Westminster Hall, and sometimes he committed to paper the speeches he had heard. When the public discontents concerning the Middlesex election.. had abated, he ceased to write, which was about the close of the year 1771. However, towards the end of 1779, he resumed his pen, and wrote a number of political essays or letters, which he entitled The Whig. in the year 1791, he went to Madras with Lord Macartney, to whom he had been known in Ireland, and there he died." Who was the person thus described? R. G. T. [Hugh Macaulay Boyd, whose Miscellaneous Works were published in two volumes in 1800. In the preliminary Memoir, the editor, Mr. Campbell, endeavoured to prove that Boyd was Junius. Boyd's claim was afterwards advocated by Almon in the Preface to the edition of Junius' Letters published by him in 1806. George Chalmers supported Boyd's claim in his Appendix to the Supplemental Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare Papers, which he reprinted with new facts, &c. in 1817, and again with farther additions in 1819, under the title of The Author of Junius ascertained, &c. See "N. & Q." | 2nd S. i. 185, 6.] SIR ROBERT WALPOLE AND QUEEN CAROLINE. No historical anecdote is better known than that of Sir Robert Walpole's accidental discovery of the true nature of Queen Caroline's disease, which she took so much pains to conceal from the world. Horace Walpole is the authority for the story, the original version of which is in Lord Orford's Reminiscences. Lord Orford says: "It was great shrewdness in Sir Robert Walpole, who before her distemper broke out discovered her secret. On my mother's death, who was of the Queen's age, her Majesty asked Sir Robert many physical questions; but he remarked that she oftenest reverted to a rupture, which had not been the illness of his wife. When he came home he said to me, 'Now, Horace, I know by possession of what secret Lady Sundon has preserved such an ascendant over the Queen."" Though Walpole was but a youth when his mother died, and therefore not very likely to be made the depository of a secret so delicate and important, the story is circumstantial — even a conversation being remembered, and the exact words quoted. Nevertheless it is certain that no Such discovery was made by Sir Robert, and that consequently no such conversation could have taken place. This, I think, is proved by the following extract from a letter from Sir Robert to his brother Horace, written only three days before the Queen's death, but nearly three months after the death of Lady Walpole. The letter will be found in Coxe's Life of Sir Robert Walpole (4to. edit. iii. 500.): "London, Tuesday, November 15th, 1737, 12 o'clock at noon. "The queen was taken ill last Wednesday . . . It was explicitly declared and universally believed to be the gout in her stomach. The case was thought so desperate that Sir Hans Sloane and Dr. Hulse were on Friday sent for, who totally despaired. Necessity ut last discovered and revealed a secret which had been totally concealed and unknown. The queen had a rupture, which is now known not to have been a new accident. But will it ever be believed that a life of this importance (when there is no room for flattery) should be lost, or run thus near, by concealing human infirmities?" The life of the Queen was of the utmost importance to Walpole, and if he had known of her disease since his wife died, he would of course have long before taken care to inform her physicians of its true character; but it is evident from this extract, and the remainder of the letter, that Walpole had been as much in the dark concerning the Queen's secret as was every one else; and as much thrown into consternation at the sudden W. MOY THOMAS. discovery, as the rest of his party. ENGLISH MORALS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. I have often thought of bringing before the notice of the readers of "N. & Q." a statement made by Bishop Goodman of Gloucester, which I have not seen anywhere except in Newcome's Memoir of Dean Goodman. That writer says: "In the Library of Trin. Coll. Camb. there is Pontificale Romanum, impress. MDCXXVII., sometime Godfrey Goodman's own book." And, after giving a copy of some manuscript notes which the Bishop had written on a spare leaf at the beginning of the book, he adds (Appendix T, sig. y, for the Appendix is not paged) : — 66 Upon another blanc leaf, at the end of the book, is this Note in his own hand : "I. H. S. - "I was Parson of Stapleford Abbots in Essex, A.D. 1607, where I continued neer 13 years. Then I was Parson of West Ildesley in Berks, where I continued near 30 years; and in neither of my parishes (I prayse God for it) I had (1°) not a beggar. (20) Not an Ale house. (3°) Not a suite in law. (4) Not a quarrell. (5°) Not a spenthrift. (6°) In the weeke dayes noe labouring man ever wanted a dayes worke. (7°) On the Sunday noe poor man dined at his owne Howse, but was ever invited. (8°) Noe man was ever presented for fornication, or any great crime. (9°) Noe murder, robbery, or Felonie ever committed in the Parish. (100) Noe man ever came to a violent death. (11°) I never had any houses burnt in my Parish. (12°) I never had two men that dyed of the plague in my parishes, until Mr Newbery had his sequestration, and then a plague came, and a fire burnt all my Parish in effect, and when I gave him orders ther, he brought the small pox there. 666 [Signed] GODfr. Goodman, Glouc'.'" I do not know what may have been the population of Stapleford Abbots and of West Ildesley respectively in the days of Bishop Goodman; but I see that the Clergy List for 1856 assigns to the former place 492, and to the latter 406 inhabitants. The statement seems to me to be well worthy of consideration, and one which it is almost as hard to believe as to disbelieve. S. R. MAITLAND. THE CHAPEL ROYAL HYMNS, AND HINTS FOR THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH HYMNODY. Metrical psalms and metrical hymns are not to be classed together, and although Dr. Richard Watson inveighed against "the sacrilegious use of metrical psalins," and John Muirhead and others have written sharply on the metrical psalter of Isaac Watts, no scholar has denounced the use of the hymn. The celebrated Keach and Marlowe controversy was rather a question who should sing, than what should be sung; and although Bradbery, when compelled to use Watts's hymns against his inclination, insisted on announcing "Let us sing one of Dr. Watts's whims," it was the dislike rather to the specimen than the genus. The history of British psalmists has been well done by Mr. Holland, but as yet there is no history of English hymns, for the little work by Mr. Gadsby can hardly claim that distinction. Mr. Blew, in his recent work on Hymns and Hymnbooks, has, with his usual erudition, pointed out the sources of the hymn. The hymnbook of the English gentleman would be, as a matter of course, the hymnbook of his forefathers; and unless he could find better, this he would be in no hurry to resign. The publications by Norman, Chambers, Christie, Marriott, Trench, Newman, Neale, Caswell, and Blew, have put our ancestors' church songs in the foremost place, and as a whole the modern hymnbook is a sad affair in comparison with the old hymnbook. It is generally supposed that the hymn went out of the church on the appearance of our Prayerbook, but a reference to the words of the music sung in the Chapel Royal shows that the fact is not so with respect to the order before the Sovereign. The work of James Clifford in the reign of Charles II. contains some very curious and unknown hymns, the authorship of which would be an interesting inquiry, and so also by what means, and by whom, they were excluded from the later editions of the Words book. last edition edited by Dr. Charles Wesley has them not, nor does the preface allude to them, although they are far more in character with the hymns of Charles Wesley, his grandfather, than anything of the kind now in the book. The Our early Orariums and Tudor office manuals will offer specimens of English hymns, and after such as those by Cosin, Wm. and John Austin, these the different works on "Private Devotion," Sir George Wheler, Dr. George Hickes, Nicholas Ferrar, and others. Nor must George Wither be forgotten. There is a rare hymnbook, entitled, Lyra Davidica; a collection of Songs and Hymns, partly new composed, partly translated from the High German and Latin tunes." This appeared with the music in 1708, and as it contains our Easter Hymn tune, it is manifest Dr. Worgan can no longer be thought the composer of this bold melody. The Foundry-books of the Wesleys and the Watts and Lady Huntingdon collections were the stock books until the appearance of those by Williams and Jones of Southwark. But mention should be made of those strange medleys the metrical Songs for the Magdalen, of which some of the editions are very curious and remarkable. The list of our hymn-makers is a long one, and I subjoin the names of those whose compositions form the contents of two modern hymnbooks now in considerable use: Adams, Addison, Ainslie, Bradbery, Balfour, Berridge, Bowring, Boyce, Barbauld, Burn, Burder, Barton, Bathurst, Bowles, Beddome, Bulmer, Blackmore, Beck, Boden, Brewer, Browne, Carr, Cowper, Collyer, Cawood, Campbell, Clark, Cruttenden, Cottle, Cennick, Cobbin, Cotterill, Conder, De Courcy, De Fleury, Dale, Doddridge, Drummond, Davies, Doane, Duncan, Dryden, Deacon, Edmeston, Evans, Francis, Fawcett, Fry, Ford, Fountain, Glenelg, Grinfield, Gerhard, Greville, Gilbert, Greene, Gibbons, Gregg, Giles, Groser, Heber, Horne, Hart, Haweis, Hawksworth, Hammond, Hodgson, Hemans, Hyde, R. Hill, Huie, Heginbotham, Jesse, Ken, Keble, Kelly, Kirkham, Logan, Lawson, Lyte, Leech, Longford, Madan, Milman, Merrick, Morell, Mason, March, Masters, Mackay, Marriott, Maxwell, Mont gomery, Medley, Newton, Noel, Needham, Norman, Oliver, Opie, Pope, Pearce, Perronett, Peacock, Pratt, Raffles, Ryland, Reed, Rees, Russell, Roscommon, Rippon, Robinson, Steele, Scott, Southey, Strachan, Stennett, Serle, Stogden, Swain, Shrubsole, Sigourney, Straphan, Slatter, Searle, Stallybrass, Sutton, Saffery, Sweetner, Tate, Thompson, Taylor, Turner, Urwick, Voke, H. K. White, Williams, C. Wesley, J. Wesley, Wallin, Watts, Wardlaw, Waterbury, and Young. There is a curious anecdote connected with the hymn, "Beyond the glittering starry sky," the joint production of the brothers Berridge; the elder was a preacher under Wesley, the younger a humble porter. The elder called on his brother to request him to take a letter to some friend, and fourth verse. the porter pleaded a negative, for he was making Clapp'd their triumphant wings and cried, of thin gutta percha, a little larger than the coin; press this down on the wax, and the result will be a copy in relief, which may be sent by post with perfect safety. J. Y. AKERMAN. 66 Richard Savage. — MR. THOMAS, in a Note to the first of his articles on "Richard Savage" in “N. & Q.” (2nd S. vi. 364.), tells us that the house in which the Countess of Macclesfield's child the alleged Richard Savage-was born “stood at the southern corner of Fox Court in Gray's Inn Lane;" and he adds, "the other corner is, I think, still an alehouse with the sign of the Fox." I have, after reading MR. THOMAS's articles, paid alehouse or public house at the northern corner a visit to the spot, and I find that there is still an of the court in Gray's Inn Lane, but its sign is "the Havelock Arms." I learnt, however, on inquiry at the bar, that the house had only changed its sign nine months ago, up to which time it was still called the Fox. It is a modern built house, but no doubt adopted the sign of its predecessor. As this house helps us to fix the precise locality of the Countess's hiding-place, these facts may be worth recording before the little fox-head, still over the doorway, is removed, and the old sign forgotten. GRAY'S INN. St. Thomas the Apostle.—Osorius says that when Martin Alonzo de Sousa was Viceroy, some brazen I think Southey somewhere remarks that the tables were brought to him inscribed with unhymn by Charles Wesley, "Stand the omnipotent decree,” usual characters, which were explained by a learned Jew, and imported that St. Thomas had is one of the finest lyrics in our language. Nor built a church at Meliapore. And by an account is the noble hymn, "The God of Abraham praise," written by a very humble man of the name of Oliver, much its inferior. One word as to the foreign hymns. Although Arevalo, Clichtovie, Cassander, Tommasi, Guyet, and Daniel give the old; De Vintemille, D'Orleans de la Motte, De Lavergne de Tressan the new (see Mr. Blew's work), yet there is room for a little volume showing when and whence came the new hymns into the different dioceses, their authors and authority. To these might be added the out-door semi-secular hymns of the fourteenth century, and the quasi-comic carols of the fifteenth. H. J. GAUNTLETT. Minor Notes. Caution against sending Ancient Coins by Post.Never send ancient coins by post. If lost there is no redress. For all the purposes of inquiry the following plan may be adopted. Carefully take an impression of the coin in sealing-wax. When the sealing-wax is perfectly cool, warm, by immersion in boiling water, a piece, sent to Cardinal Henrico by the Bishop of Cochin, in 1562, when the Portuguese repaired the ancient chapel of St. Thomas, there was found a stone cross, with several characters upon it which the Portuguese antiquaries could not interpret; till at last a Bramin translated it, that, in the reign of Sagam, St. Thomas was sent by the Son of God, whose disciple he was, to teach the law of heaven in India; that he built a church, and was killed by a Bramin at the altar. E. H. A. Curious Charge of Treason. Most of your readers are no doubt acquainted with the story of Walter Walker, a publican, being indicted under Edward IV. on a charge of high treason, for saying he would make his son “Heir to the Crown," meaning his inn so called. In looking over Mrs. Green's third volume of Calendar of State Papers, p. 489., I find a somewhat similar attempt to found a charge on a like perversion of words in King James's time, which you will perhaps think worth recording in "N. & Q." One Woolridge accused Sandis, a constable, with concealing "treasonable words spoken by Wm. Lavor, who, in a drunken quarrel with James King, declared he would kill him if he could get at him; which words Woolridge pretended to mean he would kill King James, and accused Sandis for not reporting them." The Grand Jury, however, were wise and honest enough to throw out the bill. EDWARD FOSS. Publishers' Catalogues. I purchased at a stall, a few days ago, an interesting volume. It is a copy of Parnell's Poems, edited by Pope, and published by Bernard Lintot, 1726. Its chief charm to me is in having the autograph and book-plate of Mary Lady Hervey: — "Youth's youngest daughter, sweet Lepell." But it contains at the end a catalogue of all the books published by Bernard Lintot, with their original prices. This catalogue extends over two sheets, or 32 pages. It has struck me that a most useful and valuable book might be made by binding up the various catalogues of the old publishers, frequently found at the end of their books, and indexing them. Such a volume would be of extreme use to literary men, and throw light on many a point in literary history. I intend myself to commence this plan, and I trust that some of the readers of "N. & Q." may find it also an amusing occupation. Many a neglected odd volume would supply materials, and the butterman only deprived of a leaf or so. R. H. Sion College. Upon the recovery of George III., in 1789, the librarian and others connected with Sion College were at a loss what device, or motto, to select for the illumination of the building, when the following happy choice was made by a worthy divine from the Book of Psalms : "Sion heard of it, and was glad." Queries. FIRST EDITION OF COWPER'S " J. Y. TABLE TALK." The first edition of Cowper's Table Talk, and other poems, was published in one octavo volume, in 1782, with the following title: "Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72. St. Paul's Churchyard. 1782." There are, also, upon the title-page mottoes from Virgil and Caraccioli, which I need not transcribe. After some copies of this work had been issued, a very important alteration was made in the poem entitled "Expostulation." Twenty-four lines were omitted by Cowper, and other lines, newly written for the occasion, were substituted. This alteration occasioned the cancellation of a leaf, being that on which were printed the pages 123. and 124. The substituted leaf of course bears the same pagination; but so far as regards those twenty-four lines, is totally dissimilar in substance. There are in existence probably many copies of this book as it was first published, but I have not yet been able to light upon one. I possess a copy, and have seen several others, which contain the substituted leaf, but have searched in vain for a copy which contains that leaf which was cancelled. Is it in the power of any of your readers to assist me, either by directing me to a copy public or private library, or by lending me a copy, for a brief period, for the purpose of collation? I have not, I should state, been able to discover a copy in the library of the British Museum. in any I want the book in order to correct the text of a new edition of Cowper's Works, and shall feel myself much indebted to anyone who is kind enough to assist me. Southey had access to a copy, and has printed the cancelled lines, but I doubt the perfect accuracy of his transcript. JOHN BRUCE. 5. Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square. P.S. I may add that the several copies of the edition of 1782 may be distinguished by reference to the third line of page 123. In the copies as first issued, which is the book I want to see, that line will be found to stand thus: "Hast thou admitted with a blind, fond trust," In the copies which contain the substituted passage, the third line stands: "Hast thou, when Heaven has cloath'd thee with disgrace," I should be willing to purchase a copy of the book as first issued at a fair price. Minor Queries. J. Gailhard. Could you give me any information about J. Gailhard, Gent.? He wrote a work on The Present State of the Republick of Venice, 1669. It is dedicated to "The Right Honble Sir John Trevor, one of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State." In the preface he states: "And also I am obliged to answer a challenge I received from some persons of Note, to perform a conditional kind of promise I made in my book of The Present State of Italy, in the place where I treat of this Republick to give a Relation of it," &c. &c. There is also a work by J. Gailhard, Character of Socinianism, 1699, 8vo. Are these works by the same author? Any account of the life and writings of J. Gailhard will greatly oblige BELATER-ADIME. |