sold to Jamaica; the customs of the young men at Poem by Sir E. Dyer (Vol. i., p. 355.).—"My mind to me," &c. Neither the births of Breton nor Sir Edward Dyer seem to be known; nor, consequently, how much older the one was than the other. Mr. S., I conclude, could not mean much older than Breton's tract, mentioned in Vol. i., p. 302. The poem is not in England's Helicon. The ballad, as in Percy, has four stanzas more than the present copy, and one stanza less. Some of the readings in Percy are better, that is, more probable than the new ones. "I see how plenty surfeits oft."-P. "I grudge not at another's gain.”—P. "No worldly wave my mind can toss."-P. contains engravings of no less than twenty-three on which it is to be found; as well as two examples without the usual appendages of collar, &c. In addition to these, the same work contains etchings of the following brasses: -Gunby, Lincoln., two dogs with plain collars at the bottom of the lady's mantle, 1405. Dartmouth, Devon., 1403. Each of the ladies here depicted has two dogs with collars and bells at her feet. The same peculiarities are exemplified on brasses at Iarpham, York., 1420; and Spilsby, Lincoln., 1391. I will not further multiply instances, as my own collection of rubbings would enable me to do. I should, however, observe, that the hypothesis of S. S. S. (as to "these figures" being "the private mark of the artist") is untenable: since the twenty-three examples above alluded to are scattered over sixteen different counties, as distant from each other as Yorkshire and Sussex. Two examples are well known, in which the dog so represented was a favourite animal: - Deerhurst, Gloc., 1400, with the name, "Terri," inscribed; and Ingham, Norfolk, 1438, with the name "Jakke." This latter brass is now lost, but an impression is preserved in the British Museum. The customary explanation seems to me sufficient: that the dog was intended to symbolise the fidelity These seem to me to be stupid mistranscrip- and attachment of the lady to her lord and master, tions. as the lion at his feet represented his courage and The Fenkle Street.-A street so called in Newcastleupon-Tyne, lying in a part of the town formerly much occupied by garden ground, and in the immediate vicinity of the house of the Dominican Friars there. Also, a way or passage inside the town wall, and leading between that fortification and the house of the Carmelites or White Friars, was anciently called by the same name. name of Fenkle or Finkle Street occurs in several old towns in the North, as Alnwick, Richmond, York, Kendal, &c. Fenol and finugl, as also finul, are Saxon words for fennel; which, it is very probable, has in some way or other given rise to this name. May not the monastic institutions have used fennel extensively in their culinary preparations, and thus planted it in so great quantities as to have induce the naming of localities therefrom? I remember a portion of the ramparts of the town used to be called Wormwood Hill, from a like circumstance. In Hawkesworth's Voyages, ii. S., I find it stated that the town of Funchala, on the island of Madeira, derives its name from Funcho, the Portuguese name for fennel, which grows in great plenty upon the neighbouring rocks. The priory of Finchale (from Finkel), upon the Wear, probably has a similar origin; sed qu. G. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 12. 1850. Collected for the redemption of ye English 8. Lines attributed to Lord Palmerston (Vol. i., p. 382.).—These lines have also been attributed to Mason. S. S. S. Shipster (Vol. i., p. 339.).—That "ster" is a feminine termination is the notion of Tyrwhitt in a note upon Hoppesteris in a passage of Chaucer £ d. (Knight's Tale, 1. 2019.); but to ignorant persons it seems not very probable. "Maltster," surely, is not feminine, still less "whipster;" "dempster," Scotch, is a judge. Sempstress has another termination on purpose to make it feminine. 04 05 06 Collected towards the redemption of English Captives out of their slavery and bondage in Algiers 3 16 0 Which sum was sent to Mr. Nicholas Browne, Registrar under Dr. Connant, Archdeacon of Norwich, Octr. 2d. 1680." Probably similar entries will be found in other registers of the same date, as the collections appear to have been made by special mandate, and paid into the hands of the proper authorities. E. S. T. l'assage in Gibbon (Vol. i., p. 348.).-The passage in Gibbon 1 should have thought was well known to be taken from what Clarendon says of Hampden, and which Lord Nugent says in his preface to Hampden's Life had before been said of Cinna. Gibbon must either have meant to put inverted commas, or at least to have intended to take nobody in. C. B. Borrowed Thoughts (Vol. i., p. 482.)-La fameuse La Galisse is an error. The French pleasantly records the exploits of the celebrated Monsieur de la Galisse. Many of Goldsmith's lighter poems are borrowed from the French. C. Sapcote Motto (Vol. i., pp. 366. and 476.).— Taking for granted that solutions of the "Sapcote Motto" are scarce, I send you what seems to me something nearer the truth than the arbitrary and unsatisfactory translation of T. C. (Vol. i., p. 476.). The motto stands thus: × pones." Adopting T. C.'s suggestion, that the initial and final s are mere flourishes (though that makes little difference), and also his supposition that c may have been used for s, and, as I fancy, not unreasonably conjecturing that the x is intended for dis, which is something like the pronunciation of the numeral X, we may then take the entire motto, without garbling it, and have sounds representing que toute disunis dispenses; which, grammatically and orthographically corrected, would read literally "all disunions cost,' or "destroy," the equivalent of our "Union is strength." The motto, with the arms, three dove-cotes, is admirably suggestive of family union. W. C. I wish we had a dictionary, like that of Hoogeven for Greek, arranging words according to their terminations. C. B. Miscellanies. Blue Boar Inn, Holborn.-The reviewer in the last "Quarterly" of Mr. Cunningham's Handbook for London, makes an error in reference to the extract from Morrice's Life of Lord Orrery, given Boar Inn, Holborn," and transcribed by the reby Mr. Cunningham under the head of "Blue Lord Orrery's biographer, relates a story which he viewer (Qu. Rev. vol. lxxxvi., p. 474.). Morrice, says Lord Örrery had told him, that he had been told by Cromwell and Ireton of their intercepting a letter from Charles I. to his wife, which was sewn up in the skirt of a saddle. The story may or may. not be true: this authority for it is not first-rate. The Quarterly reviewer, in transcribing from Mr. Cunningham's book the passage in Morrice's Life -"Crom-| of Lord Orrery, introduces it by saying, well, in a letter to Lord Broghill, narrates circumstantially how he and Ireton intercept, &c." This is a mistake; there is no letter from Cromwell to Lord Broghill on the subject. (Lord Broghill was Earl of Orrery after the Restoration.) Such a letter would be excellent authority for the story. The mistake, which is the Quarterly reviewer's, and not Mr. Cunningham's, is of some importance. CH. Lady Morgan and Curry.-An anecdote in the last number of the Quarterly Review, p. 477., "this is the first set down you have given me today," reminds me of an incident in Dublin society some quarter of a century ago or more. The good-humoured and accomplished Curry (shame to me to have forgotten his christened name for the moment!) had been engaged in a contest of wit with Lady Morgan and another female célébrité, in which Curry had rather the worst of it. It was the fashion then for ladies to wear very short sleeves; and Lady Morgan, albeit not a young woman, with true provincial exagge ration, wore none, a mere strap over her shoulders. Curry was walking away from her little coterie, when she called out, "Ah! come back Mr. Curry, and acknowledge that you are fairly beaten." "At any rate," said he, turning round, "I have this consolation, you can't laugh at me in your sleeve!" SCOTUS. Sir Walter Scott and Erasmus. Has it yet been noticed that the picture of German manners in the middle ages given by Sir W. Scott, in his Anne of Geierstein (chap. xix.), is taken (in some parts almost verbally) from Erasmus' dialogue, Diversoria? Although Sir Walter mentions Erasmus at the beginning of the chapter, he is totally silent as to any hints he may have got from him; neither do the notes to my copy of his works at all allude to this circumstance. W. G. S. Parallel Passages. A correspondent in Vol. i., p. 330, quoted some parallels to a passage in Shakspeare's Julius Cæsar. Will you allow me to add another, I think even more striking than those he cited. The full passage in Shakspeare is, "There is a tide in the affairs of man, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their lives Is bound in shallows and in miseries." In Bacon's Advancement of Learning, book 2, occurs the following: "In the third place, I set down reputation because of the peremptory tides and currents it hath, which, if they be not taken in due time, are seldom recovered, it being extreme hard to play an after game of reputation." and said, 'Apparemment ce livre est quelque chose de fanatique."" My informant tells me that the monk he saw was the same as the one mentioned by your correspondent, and that he had a motto from Lord Bacon over his cell. C. B. The Grand Style.-Is it not extremely probable that Bonaparte plagiarised the idea of the centuries observing the French army from the pyramids from these lines of Lucan? "Sæcula Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, Gracchus Babœuf, who headed the extreme republican party against the Directory, exclaimed, on his trial, that his wife, and those of his fellowconspirators, "should accompany them even to Calvary, because the cause of their punishment should not bring them to shame." Mignet's French Revolution, chap. xii. J. F. BOYES. Hoppesteris.-The "shippis hoppesteris," in Chaucer's Knight's Tale, 2019., is explained by Tyrwhitt to mean dancing, and that in the feminine a very odd epithet. He tells us that the corresponding epithet in Boccaccio is bellatrici. I have no doubt that Chaucer mistook it for ballatrici. C. B. Sheridan's Last Residence (Vol. i., p. 484.). — I wonder at any doubt about poor Sheridan's having died in his own house, 17. Saville Row. His remains, indeed, were removed (I believe for prudential reasons which I need not specify) to Mr. Peter Moore's, in Great George Street; but he was never more than a temporary, though frequent visitor at Mr. Moore's. C. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. The Devices and Mottoes of the later Middle Ages (Die Devisen und Motto des Späteren Mittelalters, von J. V. Radowitz), just imported by Messrs. Williams and Norgate, is one of those little volumes which such of our readers as are interested in the subject to which it relates should make a note of. They will, in addition to many novel instances of Devices, Mottoes, Emblems, &c., find much curious learning upon the subjects, and many useful bibliographical references. Messrs. 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Carter's Drawings of York Cathedral, by J. Britton Minor Queries:- "Imprest" and "Debenture"- Cosen's MSS. Barclay's Argenis - Clergy sold for SlavesMeaning of Pallet Tobacco in the East- Stephanus Brulifer Page Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. Free School there. He was a native of Dorsetshire; his father, who was in narrow circumstances, 33 living near Wimborne St. Giles's, the seat of Lord Shaftesbury, by whom the son seems to have been nobly patronised, on account of his inclination to learning and virtuous disposition. 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 40 41 42 42 42 43 47 47 47 The published letters are only ten in number; but I have an accurate manuscript transcript of fifteen, made from the originals by R. Flexman (who had been a pupil of Aynsworth) in 1768. The transcriber's account is as follows: "After Mr. Aynsworth's death, these letters remained in the possession of his daughter, and at her decease passed into the hands of the Rev. Mr. Upton, the then vicar of Cornhampton; by him they were lent to my brother John Baker, of Grove Place, in Hampshire, who lent them to me. It will be perceived that the ten printed letters are not given as they were written, every thing of a private nature being omitted, and passages only given of other letters, just as the editor judged proper." R. Flexman has made some remarks illustrative of the letters at the end of his transcript, and added some particulars relating to Lord Shaftesbury. He justly says, "I think these letters will show his lordship in a more favourable light with respect to the Christian religion than his Characteristics, which, though they may be condemned on that account, will ever remain a lasting monument of the genius of the noble writer. It is certain, too, the friends of Christianity are obliged to him for the publication of one of the best volumes of sermons that ever appeared in the English language. They are twelve in number, by Dr. Benjamin Whichcote. These sermons (as well as the preface, which is admirable) breathe such a noble spirit of Christianity, as I think will efface every notion that his lordship was an enemy to the Christian religion. In this preface he calls Dr. Whichcote (from his pleading in defence of natural goodness) the ' preacher of good nature." " What follows will, I think, be acceptable to your correspondents C. H. and C. R. S. "I have heard that the way in which Lord Shaftesbury got possession of the manuscript sermons was this: Going one day to visit his grandmother, the Countess Dowager, widow of the first Earl, he found |