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QUERIES:-- Catacombs and Bone-houses, by Rev. A. Gatty Contradictions in Don Quixote, &c., by S.W. Singer Ancient Alms-Basins Minor Queries:--Cupid Crying--Was Sir G. Jackson Junius?--Ballad of Dick and the Devil--Erasmus' Paraphrase--Iland Chest--Court of Wards--Ancient Tiles--Pilgrimage of kings--Anthony Bek--Welsh Custom--Fall of Rain--Metal for Telescopes--Colonel Blood's House--Lucas's MS.--Theophania--MS. Account of Britain

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements

SIR EDWARD DERING'S HOUSEHOLD BOOK, A.D. 1648-52.

About ten years since, I remember seeing, in the hands of a London bookseller, a curious MS. purporting to be the "Household Book of Receipts and Expences of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., of Surrenden Dering, Kent, from Lady-Day, 1648, to April, 1652." It was a think folio, in the original binding, entirely in the hand-writing of the distinguished baronet.

Sir Edward was the only son of Sir Edward Dering, the first baronet, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir John Ashburnham, of Ashburnham, Sussex, Knt. He succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father, in 1644, and married Mary, daughter of Daniel Harvey, Esq., of Combe, Surrey, who was brother of the famous Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulations of the blood.

Independently of the frequent notices of relatives, almost serving as a family history, there are entries of high interest to the general historian and the antiquary. The costs of every article of use and virtue are set down in full, and a few of the items will serve as a specimen of the general contents:--

"Madam,--I have consider'd, but could not finde it lay in my power, to offer this Book to any but your Ladiship. Not only in regard of that honour and esteem you have for Musick, but because those Songs which fill this Book have receiv'd much lustre by your excellent performance of them; and some, which I esteem the best of these ayres, were of your own composition, after your noble husband was pleas'd to give the words. For I beg leave to declare, for my own honour, that you are not only excellent for the time you spent in the practice of what I set, but are yourself so good a composer, that few of any sex have arriv'd to such perfection. So as this Book is not Dedicated, but only brought home to your Ladiship. And here I would say , how pretious to my thoughts is the memory of your excellent Mother , whose pious meditations were often advanc'd by hearing your voice. I wish all prosperity to your Ladiship, and to him who is made up of Harmony; to say nothing of the rest of his high accomplishments of wisdome and learning. May you both live long, happy in each other, when I am become ashes; who, while I am in this world, shall be ever found, Madame,

"Your Ladiship's humble Admirer "and faitnful Servant, "HENRY LAWES."

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

BAYSWATER AND ITS ORIGIN.

We may therefore fairly conclude, that this portion of ground, always remarkable for its springs of excellent water, once supplied water to Baynard, his household, or his cattle; that the memory of his name was preserved in the neighbourhood for six centuries; and that his watering-place now figures on the outside of certain green omnibuses in the streets of London, under the name of BAYSWATER.

E.S.

EVA, DAUGHTER OF DERMOT MACMURROUGH.

Oxford.

J.G.

Kilkenny.

JOHN POWERS.

SELEUCUS.

PLAGIARISMS, OR PARALLEL PASSAGES

"While Memory, with more than Egypt's art, Embalming all the sorrows of the heart, Sits at the altar which she raised to woe, And feeds the source whence tears eternal flow!"

suggested to his mind, "by an unaccountable and incomprehensible power of association," the thought--

"Memory, the mirror which affliction dashes to the earth, and, looking down upon the fragments, only beholds the reflection multiplied."

"Even as a broken mirror, which the glass In every fragment multiplies; and makes A thousand images of one that was, The same, and still the more, the more it breaks."

Turn to Burton, and you will find the following passage:--

"And, as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it to pieces, but for that one, he saw many more as bad in a moment."--Part 2. sect. 3. mem. 7.

MELANION.

BILLINGSGATE.

If "WILLIAM WILLIAMS" will examine the map of London in 1543, lately engraved from a drawing in the Bodleian Library, he will perceive the "Water Gate,", about which he inquires, defended on the west side by a lofty hexagonal machicolated tower.

C.S.

NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. 4.

"In Mr. Hutton's Catale P. 65. N. 1552. this strange composition is ascribed to one Dixon. There was a Robert Dixon, an author about the time, and D.D. , but it surely must not be given to him! Qu.? This is the only copy I have seen, 1785."

"Translated into English by Richard Washington, Esq., of the Middle Temple."

On another page, however, he has written,

To this is added, in the handwriting of the late Mr. Ford, bookseller, formerly of Manchester--

"The note on the opposite side, signed J.B., stands for James Bindley, who may be considered as good authority for what is here asserted. Some curious information will be found relative to the original work in 'Diction. des Livres Condamn?s,' &c., par Peignot. tom. ii. p 319."

"See the lines at the end by Francis Quarles, which are ingenious and poetical. This curious and very rare volume I purchased out of Longman's celebrated catalogue of old English poetry, called 'Bib. Ang. Poet.,' where it will be found marked ?2 12s. 6d., which is what it cost me. Mr. Montgomery, the poet, styles this poem a fantastical allegory describing the body and soul of man, but containing many rich and picturesque passages But there is a most excellent critique upon it in the 'Retrosp. Rev.' for Nov. 1820 , but see also Headley, who highly praises it. The name of Fletcher ranks high in the list of our poets. He was born in 1584, and was the son of Dr. Giles Fletcher, who was himself a poet; the brother of Giles Fletcher, the author of 'Christ's Victory;' and the cousin of John Fletcher, the celebrated dramatist."

This edition is not noticed by Lowndes, nor is another edition , of which I have a copy, the date of which is 1605 . Of course this date is a mistake, but query what is the real date? Probably 1665. The volume concludes with the 70th page, being identical with the 72nd page of the edition of 1668.

"Thomas Cornish, in 1421-2, was made Suffragan Bishop to Rich. Fox, Bp of Bath and Wells, under ye title of 'Episcopus Tynensis,' by wh I suppose is meant Tyne, ye last island belonging to ye republick of Venice in ye Archipelago. See more of him in 'Athenae Oxoniens,' vol. i. p. 555."

On another page he has written:

"This is perhaps the most successful imitation of Pope's ethic poem which has been produced. Lord Paget has had the credit of composing it."

In another handwriting there is written:

"From Mr. Newton, a valuable present, June 25. 1760."

Under which Mr. Park has added:

"Qu. from Newton to Cowper, whose handwriting resembles the above."

"Auld Robin Gray; a ballad by the Right Honourable Lady Anne Barnard, born Lady Anne Lindsay of Balcarras; Edin. printed by James Ballantyne and Co. 1825, qto. This is the first authentic edition of this beautiful Scottish ballad, and forms one of the publications by Sir Walter Scott as a member of the Bannatyne Club. The publication gives an interesting account of the authoress--of the origin of the ballad--the ballad--continuation of Auld Robin Gray, all from the same hand; it is to be regretted it is not published for wider circulation. It will, it may be expected, find a vent for the publick at some future period, and some of the gatherings in this volume swell a note or two, if not a page.--See 'Cens. Lib.' vol. ix. p. 323. for another ballad called, 'Continuation of Auld Robin Gray.' Auld Robin gray's Ghaist begins 'Right sweetly sang the nightingale,' among my Scotch songs. The sequel to Auld Robin Gray begins, 'Full five long years' in do."

J.F.M.

OPINIONS ON ENGLISH HISTORIANS.

"This great historian is always too free with his judgments. But the piety is more eminent than the superstition in this great man's foibles."--Bishop Warburton, note, last edition, vol. vii. p. 590.

MISCELLANIES.

A. ASHER. Berlin. Dec. 1849.

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