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 τελειούμαι. "Doctissimo viro, meoque fautori humanissimo, D. Christophoro Arnoldo, dedi hoc, in memoriam cum sne 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." 24 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, ham Wheloc (University Librarian, Cambridge), Thomas Smith, M.A. (of Ch. Ch. Cambr.), AbraEdw. Dickenson (Fellow of Jesus Coll. Cambr.), Robert Austen (Fellow of King's Coll. Cambr.), F. MADDEN. and J. Sadler. JUNIUS' LETTers. 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, Junius's Letters, with Anecdotes of the Author, pubnius," 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 "This particular volume was once for a short time in guest for a day or two at Weymouth; both were early held it. George the Third was more than once my father's 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 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 fol-passage, doubled down the page, and carried the book lowing 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, 1818, 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.] away. 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, LOUGHBOROUGH, previously Mr. Wedderburn, and states that George III. always regarded Lord afterwards Lord Rosslyn, as Junius. I think Lord Holland adds that King William IV. was kie informant. When George III Lead of Lord Longinamngl's death, be excluimet: He has not left a greater pogia Milla ” I remeber meeting, some time disec, in the Exuminer for 1813 (0.431.), a letter offering to serify on outh, that a Mr. Hewitt bad revealed the animorelip on his death-bed, The letter may be a quiz, but there are persons wines it might Willow J. Fuz-Pakke, H wist scenet Lady Suzdos Las preserved such as surende sad over the Quee -eyer a Though Walpole was but a youth when Lis molar del, and therefore wat very likely to be made the depository of a secret a delicate and important, the story is circumstantial enversation being remembered, and the exact words quoted, Nevertheless it is certain that no sud, discovery was made by Sir Robert, and that consequently no sul exgeration could have taken place, This, I think, is proved by the folAlmon, in the 1st volume of Ancedotes, plowing extract from a letter from Sir Robert to Kded in 1797 Op. 15, 16, 17.), speaking of the His wrother Horace, written only three days bePapers of Junius, says : fore the Queen's death, but nearly three months *7 Ley were sechalotely attributed to Lord Sacrole, after the death of Lady Walpole, The letter will Rt. Hos. W. G. Hawl tow, the ku. Hop. Bów nad Burra, be found in Coxe's Life of Bir Robert Walpole doux braking, and many where, but without the leset (4%, edit. l. 9): — ground on fundados in trets.... During their or gask Judeation the water 564 is Durie boud i ve Purwad; man is #FLREST cingaistaakket, and we su KOL write for peoNNATY Kuk He was & Active of Ireland, $ at Autocrack fulllly, and of Trinity College, DZI He was at one time fåtaldet forthe arwy, and in another for the bar; but private erockatzades prevented alwH taxing www. He free wordly saveslet Keniassost and the Covina in Westbeler Hall, and sweetimes be cow witted to paper tie spoorLES DE $20 Mart When the prin Claowiteite outserting the Middlesex SIR ROBERT WALPOLE AND QUEEN CAROLINE, No Listorical anecdote is better known than that of Sir Robert Y'spole's seridental disoERY of the true nature of Queen Caroline's Disease, which the took so much paine to conceal from the world. Horse M'apple is the authority for the story, the org'usi version of which is in Lora Orford's Reminiscences, Lori Orford says: • It wis great sürew?test in Kir Rover Welpen, who before Ler Claretuper Truek ost diwcovered bør skurd, wy kaler's dealing, who was of the (qwan's age, nor Majasty wzad bia kwon many physical questionės vet je remaneat that the saund roverted we repaure, which but not meet the inest ofILLE wife. When he came home At said to me, “Now, Horme. I know by precabturato adf 47ie weet was takes last Wotuesday It was exykitty food and waites willing Vatsaed to be the ground in her dom The Cat Was sungas krzyktklæ that hir Hose Sisena and by. Hulse were on Friday shut for, whs totally tasgaret. D'acnerity of Viet discound andi verandad u send which had back trially mack,ZINTŰ MÁ makume. The queen kad a rupture, which is now knowAY but wil it ever ples obere as At to LeTE DOGC & Lew W.CALL be believed that a life of tale asportatoe The life of the Queen was of the utmost im- 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 Bistop Goodman of Gloucester, will. Į Lave Bot soch snywhere exteja in Devond's Memoir of Dean Goodman. That wiber says: "In we Library of Trin. Com Camb, there is Pontificale Itomaio, impress, MIXXXYII, SOME time Godfrey Goodman's own box? be giving a copy of some manuscript notes wilish the Batop had written on a spare leaf at the ber ginning of we book, be wide (Appendix T, ég, y, for the Appendix is ua pagoly : Upon another blank leaf, at the end of the wx, is this Note in his own hand: 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 ny 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. "[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 psalms," 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. The 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. Our early Orariums and Tudor office manuals will offer specimens of English hymns, and after these the different works on "Private Devotion," such as those by Cosin, Wm. and John Austin, 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 Take T, Taylor, TuLrwick, Vikes of thin guerrehua Fittle larger than the e Richard Karage Ma. Tino Note to fie article again (B, vi 264.) terrier that tiny name in which the Countess of Macclesfield's child. the Richard Savage - was born * stood atterns of Fit Cornt in ray's lon 1 thinkilalahome with the off the Vox!! I have, after reading Ma. Thomas's articles, paidī a visit to the I still an aoible honesth of the court in Gray's Inn Lane, but its sign is to tarot hit to take a lottare to autoudy f *the Havelock Arms." I learnst, however, ine Ceaded a negative, for he was making id to the art stily changed its Big Bite Baiths ago up to which tune it was St. Those the Apetlespite I think wouthey somewhere remarks that the tables were brought to him inscribed with une bymn by Charles Wesley, wo to the foreign Lynn Alt at Just a Brain translated it, that, in the reign Aterake Cinterior, it. Thomas was by the Hot of Datel give the : De Vinteranille, DO God, who disciple he was, toy teach the law off leans de la Motte, De Lavergne de Tresan the heaven in India that he built a church, and was tien Azoey Mr. Kiews work, yet there is reuss for killed by a Bramin at the altar. a little volute showing wha teenth HJ. GAUNTLE minor fittes. E. H. A. Most of you ori with the story Curious Charge of Treason. Walter Walker, a publican, being indicted under Pixed IV, es & charge of high ten, for saす! ing he would make his Hero C meaning his inn so called. In looking over Mrs. Grown's third volume of Calendar of Blate Papers, If art to on like pervon of works in Cantion against sowling Ancient Coins by Post- King James's time, which you will perhaps think Nanyany add try an if it this wothing in N.Q” Ote Woolridge F of inquiry the deadling a mortable, with reality stree loway te atopol by Wine Lavor, who, in Carefully take an impression of the coin in drunken quarrel with James King, declared he wWtacrt. that saling-wax is perfectly would higi tape could get at hinai which cool, warm, by immersion in boiling water, a piece 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. J. Y. FIRST EDITION OF COWPER'S "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 in any 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. 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. |