na then

teare the

he flesh

wish to warm your hands it shews a horrible want of CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS.—The following letter tells "ton" to thrust them into the flame, and when you go its own tale, and a sad tale it is. R. C. into a room when there is meat on the fire it is a very Sir, --It is with no small diffidence that I take the uncomely to put your foot thereon to warm it.” From liberty of addressing this letter to you, but the former the many directions given respecting spitting, it would instances I have received of your liberal friendship to seem that in those days we were about a match for the me, encourage me to hope you will not be offended at it. Yankees. You must not spit in the fire, nor on the wall, Snatched from happier days, and the enjoyment of nor on the windows, “but not far off thee, but aside, a plenty by the false deceptions of others, I have been little distant and not right before thy companion.” now near seven years confined within the walls of this

Here are a few regulations for the dinner-table. prison, a long time of unhappy woe, and though many “One ought not to cast under the table, or on the ground,

highly respectable friends, who knew me in my prosbones, parings, wine or such like things, notwithstanding if perity have convinced me by their generosity that they one bee constrained to spit something which was too hard to I have not forgot me, and I have too, by a frequent supchew, or which causeth irksomness, then may one throw it port by my literary labours, contrived to subsist to the forth dextrously upon the ground, taking it decently with present time, yet I am now, by my length of imprisontwo fingers, or with the left hand half shut, so that it be not ment and other untoward circumstances happening, at a liquid thing." "Suck no bones, at least in such wise that this moment driven to the utinost extremity of woe. I one may heare it. Take them not with two hands, but with have sacrificed, Sir, the best part of my life in the one

labour of my History of Kent for the benefit of the from the bones as dogs doe, but make use of thy knife,

public but most ruinous to myself. My attention to it holding them with one hand. Knock no bones upon thy

at that time, before I had the pleasure of knowing you, bread or trencher to get out the marrow of them, but get out the marrow with a knife. To speake better, it is the

has in a great measure led to all my misfortunes counsell of the most wise, that it is not fit to handle bones

since, and of bringing me to my present crisis of disand much less to mouthe thein."

tress; a dreadful crisis, Sir, to be destitute as I am now, Covetousness is another vice to be avoided.

of common necessaries and cornfort at my advanced

years of life, and in the walls of a prison. May I, Sir, “ Cast not thine eyes upon the trenchers of others, and fix

| in this trying situation, without too great an intrusion them not wistly upon the meat on the table, and lift them not ap whilst thou drinkest, or whilst thou puttest the

on your goodness, solicit you to assist me with a small meat in thy mouth.”

token of your remembrance of me, and of those feelThe reader is further counselled not to “ put a morsel

ings which I am certain you possess for the afflicted,

and more especially for those whom you have been in in his mouth until the former bit be swallowed,” and

and the habit of friendship with; thus by the kindness of they are not to be of such a size as to "puffe up the my friends I shall be enabled to weather out this crisis cheekes notably." All things considered, the table cloth

oth of woe till the worst of the storm of it is passed away. is not the article to cleanse the teeth with, and to

My acknowledgements to you, Sir, will ever remain, and

M attempt the same office with the fork is “much worse."

in return may Providence continue to bless you with It is not praiseworthy to plunge the digits into the soup

every plenty of comfort and happiness, which is the sinon a privateering expedition for a bonne bouche,

cere wish of, Sir, your most obliged humble servant, neither when drawn out is it comely to wipe the fingers

EDWARD HASTED. on a whole loaf- though it may be done on one's own

King's Bench, Southwark, Sept. 19th, 1801, piece of bread and afterwards polished off with the

Addressed John Latham, Esq. Dover, Kent, napkin. It is likewise not seemly to make great * shives" of the bread ; it must be cut even, and “with Rococo.-A correspondent begs for information on out framing a tub thereof.” Salt spoons are not yet the meaning and derivation of the word rococo, a term discovered, and the knife if not a very greasy' is to which has found its way, within the last ten years he serve instead,- which, however must not be held upright believes, into the English language, on what authority in the hands like a truncheon, for that is the fashion of he is anxious to learn? He observes the word used in * cuntrey clounes.” Only snobs pitch the cherrystones the June number last year, of the Quarterly Review, upon the floor ; they ought to be carefully taken out of in an article on Lady Theresa Lewis's Clarendon Galthe mouth with the left hand and arranged in a row lery. The sentence occurs at p. 201—“ The sins of the round the edge of the trencher. A formal dinner party father are visited on the children, and our Niobes in now-a-days is a terribly dull affair, but in A.D. 1646 it calico, all tears, yet mourn over rococo designs and must have been even worse, for Dr. Hawkins tellus, colours," &c. The sense of the word in this sentence

" It is peculiar to the chiefest of the company to be the does not seem at all apparent to the inquirer. Doubtfirst to unfold his napkin and fall to the meat, and therefore less, some of your readers will be able to justify it, or to it is the dutie of others to attend patiently without setting furnish a few notes which may tend to its elucidation. hand upon anything before him."

E. B. If your readers are interested in these curiosities of BATTLE OF CHEVY CHASE. --- Who was the author of etiquette, I may send you some more. V. T. S. this popular ballad ?

N.

ALBUMS.--The fashion of keeping albums, according 1 Sa naturelle grace, sa divine beauté to Nichols, “ appears to have originated in Gerniany Qui tout autre surpasse, en tout honnesteté towards the close of the sixteenth century." Humphrey Me faict croitre le courage de J'aymer toujours Wanley, describing one still preserved among the Harl. Vive l'amour du Village ! Vive mes amours ! MSS. says, “they are much used by the young travel Les Dames visagoige ayment perfaictement, lers of that nation, who commonly ask a new acquaint Mais l'amour de bourgoige ce n'est que changement; ance (even at the first meeting) to write some sentence Ce n'est que fard tout leur langage et tout leur discours, therein, with a compliment to the owner's learning,

Vive l'amour du village ! Vive mes amours ! good sense, &c. Which done, the names gotten are laid Mes Dames, Damoiselles, Princesses de la Cour! before the next new face, and the young man, upon all

Et vous mes gentishommes qui coures alentour ! occasions, especially at his return, by these hands de

Entreprennent leur querrelle, le defendes tous monstrates what good company he has kept." From

Vive l'amour de la Belle! Vive mes amours ! the autographs of distinguished persons, which they often

The splendid Album of Sir Philibert Vernatti is precontain, these dlba Amicorrim' become exceedingly served among the Sloane MSS. No. 2035. It bears the interesting. Amongst those in the British Museum date 1615, and is of vellum, bound in crimson velvet, is one dated 1579. It was the property of Marie de and contains several royal autographs, and arms beautiMarnix, a French lady, and is filled with autographs, fully emblazoned. It afterwards fell into the hands of mottoes, chansons, and sonnets. “It commences with Mr. George Willingham, a correspondent of Oliver the signature of the Duc d'Alençon, the suitor of our

Cromwell, Prynne and Bastwick,- he has enriched it Virgin Queen. He has attempted to sketch something with their letters to him, and numerous signatures cut like a fire, under which is written, Fovet et disqutit. from original documents. Among them will be recogFrancoys." • Una sola aurora, ha de vencer mi noche.' | nised the autographs of Laud, Wentworth, Bacon, is the motto of CAARLOTTE DE BOURBON, PRINCESSE

Queen Elizabeth, and Henrietta Maria, queen of D'ORANGE, with the date 1580. HENRY DE BOURBON Charles I. John Bastwick has written a significant PRINCE DE CONDE has contributed ‘Pro Christo et patria

| allusion to his own fate, . Patientia omnia vincit, May dulce periculum.' Another scribbler has inserted these

21, 1650. There is also a very characteristic letter Verses

from Oliver Cromwell to Mr. Storie, dated 1635. It Qui du tout son coeur mect en Dieu,

has been printed in Carlyle's Letters and Speeches of Il a son cœur, et si a Dieu;

Cromwell; though that author is incorrect in stating Et qui le mect en autre lieu

that the original " is not now to be found in the British Il perd son cæur, et si perd Dieu.

Museum, a search of three hours through all the cataA despairing lover has written :

logues assisted by one of the clerks reports itself to me Belle! que voy j'en ta face,

as fruitless." He would have found it on reference to Pense tu rendre mon cæur

the present volume. Plus agréable ta grace

The Sloane MS. 2597, has this title in a clever pen L'accompagnant de rigeur.

and ink drawing, · Hortus Fautorum et Amicorum CasNe me soys cruelle !

pari Sibelii a Goor Daventria Trans Isalano. “It Et je te seray

is an album of humble pretensions," remarks Nichols, Tant que vivray fidelle.

“ with a few drawings but no illuminations." It howBelle ! tu ne dois pas craindre

ever contains the autographs of several learned men Du manque en ma loyauté,

between 1668 and 1671, amongst whom we find Frederic Mais aussi tu devrois joindre

Spanheim, Francis Burmann, John George Gravius, Plus de doux à ta beauté.

the celebrated Latin scholar, and John Frederic GroNe me soys cruelle, &c.

novius, the eminent naturalist. Belle ! si jamais abuse

No. 679 of the Egerton Collection, is the Album of D'aucune tienne faveur

John Breijsgen. The signatures dating from 1572-77 Pren les yeux d'une Meduse

are of no particular interest, but the arms of the writers Et change en roche mon coeur.

are neatly emblazoned on each page. GUILLAUME. Ne me soys cruelle, &c.

GALLINI THE OPERA DANCER.- Where can I obtain The following sparkling effusion was the composition

any account of him? He was I believe for many years of some Béranger of the sixteenth century.

manager of the Italian Opera House. A la seson nouvelle du printemps gracieux,

À THEATRICAL AMATEUR. Un amoureux fidelle, de ses champestre lieux, Vient chantant dans un bocage, J'aymeray toujours Old English Games.-- In the 13th year of Henry Vive l'amour du Village ! Vive mes amours !

VIII., the Benchers of the Temple made an crder, J'ayme bien ma metresse de celle qu'a mon cæur, that “none of the Society shall within this house exerCar elle me caresse, brulant de mesme ardeur :

cise the play of .shoffe-grotte or slyp-grotte,' upon Mes amours ne sont volage, j'aymeray toujours : pain of six shillings and eight pence.” How was this Vive l'amour du Village! Vive mes amours !

game played

RUSTICUS.

LILLY THE ASTROLOGER.—The “fair black marble' GENTLEMAN Jones.-A neat tablet has been erected stone” which Ashmole placed over his grave, was origi- in St. Peter's, Pimlico, to the memory of Richard nally on the left side of the Communion table in Walton (“Gentleman”) Jones; a memoir of whom appeared in Church, but it was long ago removed to its present the Current Notes for Sept., Oct, and Nov. 1851. A situation in front of the South entrance to the Chancel. copy of the Tablet is given in the “ Dramatic Register" Inscription.

for 1852, and it will doubtless prove an exceedingly Ne Oblivione conteretur Urna

welcome memento. GULIELMI LILLIT

HERALDRY.--Who was the author of “ The Booke of
Astrologi peritissimi

Honor and Armes, wherein is discovered the causes of
Qui fatis cessit
Quinto Idus Junii, anno Christi Juliano

Quarrel, and the nature of Injuries, with their Repulses,

at London, printed by Richard Jhones, dwelling at the MDCLXXXI. Hoc Illi posuit amoris Monunientum

signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holburne Conduit, Elias Asbmole

1590. 4to." It is a very singular work, and gives an Armiger.

entertaining account of certaine combats for Triumph, See Brayley's Surrey, vol. 2, p. 327. Viator. | Honor, and Love of Ladies, brought before the Kings of

England." Shakspere in As You Like It,' has ridi

culed all the punctilios' of a gay courtier,' and we . MICHAEL WOHLGEMUTH.-.“ In the (Praunisth) Mu- might imagine has made an allusion to this code of seum at Nuremburg, so celebrated for its antiquities, honor' where Touchstone says to Jaques, “0 Sir, we remains a pleasing memorial of this artist-his portrait, quarrel in print by the book; as you have books for painted by Albert Durer, in honour of his master."

good manners."

HERALDICUS. See Divers Works of Early Masters,' vol. i. p. 22. The subjoined sketch may be interesting to your correspon

Avouries. This word may be occasionally met with dent D.

Pictor.

| in our old English writers.

“ We er pouer freres, that haf nought on to lyve,

In stede of messengeres, save-condite us gyve,
Thorgh thi lond to go in thin avowrie,
That non us robbe, ne slo, for thi curteysie."

Langtoft's Chronicle. " Therefore away with these avouries ; let God alone be our avourie. What have we to doe to runne hether or thether, but onely to the Father of Heaven ?"- Latimer's Sermons.

" Why name ye more the patron of your order in your Confiteor when ye begin masse then other saints, apostles, or martyrs, that holy Church hold more glorious than hem, and clepe,' hem your patrons and your avowries ?""

Jacke Upland. “ Wee wol tabernacles be graven and filled with ymages of our avouries."-Will of Henry VII.

“Our lexicographers,” observes Brayley,“ do not appear to have understood its proper signification. In the Glossary to Urry's Chaucer, it is explained as, religious professions. In Nares' Glossary avoury is

declared to be an old Law Term, nearly equivalent to JOHN HULL. B.D. was the author of " The Unmask- justification. Boucher, voce avoure, says this is coning of the Politike Atheist.” 2nd Edition, 12mo. 1602. Ijectured to have been a banner borne in funeral proSt. Peter's Prophecie of these last daies, 4to. 1610. cessions.” Christ his Proclamation to Salvation, 8vo. 1613. An From the passages we have quoted it is evident that Exposition upon part of the Lamentations of Jeremic, an Avourie was a Patron Saint, and in this sense is used 4to. 1618. Can any of our Readers oblige Novocąs

in Henry's Will. “It is derived from the French Avoué, trensis with any particulars relative to him?

namely, a champion, “ celui qui se bat," says Carpentier, " pour un autre.” The saint depicted on the banner

was the avoure, not the banner itself. Though the word CONVERSING WITH THE FINGERS. — When was this has grown obsolete, its derivative, advowson, is still curart, employed with such success in Deaf and Dumbrent with us; the owner of an advowson is in legal proInstitutions, first introduced into this country? In the ceedings, held to be the patron and guardian of its Academy of Compliments printed in the reign of Queen Church." In the quotation from Langtoft, “in thin Anne, it is called “The silent language, and some avowrie," evidently signifies under thy patronage or woodcuts are given to illustrate the method. V. A. N. I protection.

piece."

BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. The earliest instance I CHRISTENING PRESENTS.-Can any of your Corcan find or record is in the palmy days of our · Virgin respondents point out the origin of this custom? In a Queen,' when the house “ finding that a simple fellow, MS. of Sir R. Lestrange, who quotes the authority of one Thomas Long, bad been returned for the borough of Dr. Donne, is an amusing anecdote of Shakspere being Westbury, they inquired of him how the electors came to godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children. “After the choose him; and he being very candid, informed them very christening being in a deepe study, Jonson came to cheere readily, that he had given the Mayor of Westbury, Mr. him up, and askt him why he was so melancholy. No, Anthony Garland, and a Mr. Watts, four pounds for his faith, Ben (says he), not i; but I have been considering place in Parliament. The House were highly indignant at what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my the Mayor's baseness, and summoned him to the Bar of the god-child, and I have resolv'd at last.'-'I pr’ythee what?' House, and fined the Corporation twenty pounds."

says hc. l'faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a douzen of For this curious piece of Parliamentary intelligence, Latten spoons, and thou shalt translate them.” I am indebted to the author of the Life of Coke; it In Stowe's Annals, continued by E. Howes, 1631, we proves that Beresfords were not unknown in the days of are told (speaking apparently of Elizabeth's reign), that Shakspere and Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, and that “At this time, and for many years before, it was not the use the modern family of Coppocks flourished in the reign and custom (as now it is), for Godfathers and Godmothers of slashed doublets, rapiers, and trunk hose. But generally to give plate at the baptism of children (as spoons, though the Corporation were fined, was Mr. Long un cups and such like), but only to give christening shirts, seated ? Mr. Harrington who sat in the Long Parlia- with little bands and cuffs wrought, either with silk or blue ment, 1640, has left an equally singular diary of his

thread; the best of them for chief persons wear edged with personal canvass among the electors of Bath.

a small lace of black silk and gold ; the highest price of "Saturday, Dec. 26. Went to Bath, and dined with the

which, for great men's children, were seldom above a noble, mayor and citizens, conferred about my election to serve in

and the common sort two, three, or four and five shillings a Parliament, as my father was helpless and ill able to go any

D. more. Went to the George Inn at night, met the bailiffs

Burton on Trent. and desired to be dismissed from serving; drank strong beer and metheglin ; expended about three shillings, went

THE THALIA OF ARIUS TOE HERETIC. - Is this work home late, but could not get excused.

known to be in existence, either in print or manuscript ? "Thursday 31. Dined at the George Inn with the

K. P. D. E. mayor and four citizens ; spent at dinner six shillings in wine. Laid out in victuals at the George Inn 118 4d, laid ELISE BONAPARTE. - A very brief memoir of the out in drinking 78, laid out in tobacco and drinking vessels, Princess Elise Bacciochi, eldest sister of Napoleon, and 38 4d.

ex-Queen of Lucca, Carrara and Tuscany, is given in January 1. My father gave me £4 to bear my expences the “Court and Camp of Bonaparte,” (Murray's Family to Bath. Laid out in all 88 for victuals, drink, and horse Library); and a few notices of her appear in Mrs. hire, together with divers gifts.”

Histed's “ Byeways of Italy." Can any of your readers In these primitive days, honourable members were refer to further biographical particulars of the soi-disant paid by their constituents; and besides the usual pre

“ Semiramis of Lucca ?"

T.W.B. sent of a horse to ride to Parliament, were entitled by a statute of Edward II., to four shillings a day if

JOE MILLER'S JEST Book. - When was the first they represented a shire, and balf that sum for a edition published, and by whom was it really written ? borough. The famous Andrew Marvell, member for Hull in 1661, is said to have been the last to receive Parliamentary wages. Occasionally the electors were

THE SHADOOF.-Referring to the remarks made by able to strike an economical bargain. As an instance,

your correspondents W. G., in vol. i. p. 96, and your

N. Y. ES-pecial Reporter in vol. ii. p. 12, about the we are told that “ John Strange, the member for Dunwich in 1463, agreed with the prudent burgesses of that

Shadoof; I beg to inform you that I have seen machines, town to take his wages in red herrings.” We are

answering exactly to the description given, in general further informed, that“ in the same reign the citizens

use in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg, and in other of York being anxious that the dignity of that ancient

parts of Russia. I believe they are also used in other Corporation should be properly represented, unanimously

places on the Continent, though I do not remember to agreed that their members should be allowed four

have noticed any out of Russia. It is curious to obshillings a day if they kept a house in London during

serve how Eastern manners and customs abound amongst the session, but only two shillings if they went

the Russians, many of them extending even to the far to

"

C. W.J. board.'”

North.

J. S. A.

Old Broad Street. JOHN WARD OF HACKNEY, M.P., was convicted of forgery, expelled from the House, and suffered in the INQUIRY.-- Will any of your readers inform me whepillory, 1727. Where can I find a biographical sketch ther“ British Galleries of Art," London: printed for of this worthy ? Among his papers is said to have been G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, 1824, is by found the well known Miser's prayer. J.P. Westmacott or Hazlitt ?

D. Leicester.

EGYPTIAN ROYAL CARTOUCHE.-If Mr. E. S. Taylor TEMPORA MUTANTUR, &c.-Sibthorpe, p. 24, will had not appealed to me by name, it is very probable that find this hacknied piece of modern Latinity introduced I should have left the interpretation of his valuable into Beaumont and Fletcher's play of Wit at several signet to some hieroglyphist more celebrated than my Weapons.' The original line (substituting the word self, and have avoided the unpleasantness of differing Omnia for Tempora) is cited in the Deliciæ Poetarum from his interpretation, as far as it goes, and probably Germanorum,' 1612, under the Poems of Matt. Borfrom by far the greater number of the learned in Egyp- bonii Collin. vol. 1. p. 685. The question has been tian hieroglyphs. Gliddon, however, in his “Ancient already answered in the Notes and Queries, vol. 1. p. Egypt," p. 29, “ Sun offered to the world,” has made 234, and Sharpe's Magazine, vol. 5. p. 208. an attempt in the right path. I pronounce the characters in this signet to be symbolical, excepting two,

POPULAR DREAM Books. Few superstitions are which are phonetic.

morely deeply rooted in the human mind than a belief The horn serpent is the type of the Agathodæmon, in dreams, and some singular interpretations have been the Messiah. The two phonetic characters at the top

written of these recondite vagaries of the brain. In of the shield are the same as in the famous Rosetta

“ Wit and Mirth Improved, or a New Academy of stone, and read, af, fuit, denoting that the Messiah

Compliments, 1715," we are gravely informed that to hath appeared. The others, according to Gliddon, will | dream you hear music signifies mirth and jollity,' but read, A Sh DDD ; according to some others. A M TTT. the cackling of geese betokens troublesome visions; to They are not put here as phonetics, but express the dream you see a man or woman go to be hanged decreed, if I may so call it, of the possessor of the notes you will be importuned by some friend for your signet, viz. A, the all-seeing eve of God.-Sh, the assistance. To dream of finding small pieces of silver heaven.-D, or more properly İ, God: therefore the is ominous of disappointment in trade or business. three T's are put for the Trinity of the Godhead. The

One's teeth or eyes falling out signifies the loss of some whole of the signet may be thus read, “ The Messiah dear friend; fire betokes anger; and to dream of flyhath appeared - He is the all-seeing God from heaven,

ing portends hasty news of strange things. Can any the Trinity.''

lovers of folk lore point out any early written works of N.B. T'he Scarabæus was worshipped by the Egyp- a similar charact

WILLIAM Hutchison. tians as the emblem of the Creator of the world, “étoit ! Richmond. un Dieu adoré par les Egiptiens." Furetiere. The

LOTTERIES.-- In that very useful and amusing volume, Coptic skhalouks, seems to be a compound Sanscrit word,

ord; the Etymological Compendium,' $. N. will find that signifying, the ox-insect that collects dirt into a round

the first Lottery is said to have been drawn in 1569, and mass.

T. R. Brown.

the authority of Stowe is given as cited in Maitland's Southwick Vicarage, near Oundle.

History of London. The Retrospective Review, N. S. RICHARD BAXTER AND DANIEL DE FOE.- Where

vol 1. p. 431, gives an extract from Lord Burghley's can K. P. D. E find complete lists of their works?

Diary, as follows. “1567, March. A Lottery in Lon

don granted to Geo. Gilpyn and Peter Grimaldy," and GENEALOGY OF MARY QUEEN OF Scots.- A para- | the Loseley MSS. p. 185, gives some notices and copies graph in the “Times,” Feb. 15, 1828, states : “ T'here of various papers relating to the same Lottery. Hone, is a curious document drawn up in 1823 by the late Lord in the Every Day Book,' vol. 2. p. 1403, has an Ashburton, in existence. It is an abstract of a genealogical amusing account of Lotteries, and the tricks, frauds, tree of the descendants of the ill-fated Mary Queen of and impositions connected with them; in illustration of Scots, from which it appears that at that period every which he has introduced many woodcuts, ballads, puffs, crowned head in Europe was included in the number, ex. and anecdotes. The last of these mischievous projects, cept the King of Portugal (but bis Queen however is there) as a source of revenue, was in October, 1826. Some and the King of Bavaria and Bernadotte the King of account of them, I believe, is furnished in the recent Sweden. The entire number of her descendants then living Chronicles of the Exchange."

F. R. A. was 316, and they are all including the Duke of Reich

Oak House. stadt (young Napoleon) within the line of succession to the British throne." Where is this singular document to be LOTTERIES.-Shakspere in the • Merchant of Venice,' found?

W. B l. has introduced the beautiful scene of a Lottery for Dorset Square.

the hand of Portia, where the three suitors decide their “ Auld Robin Gray.”-A Correspondent in the

fate by choosing the caskets of gold, silver and lead.

| Windsor. “ Times,” 1828, asserted that the Rev. W. Leeves, Rector of Wrington, Somersetshire, who died in 1828, LOTTERIES. — The following entry occurs in the at the advanced age of eighty, declared to him he was MS. Diary of Mr. Whiteway. “August 28, 1619. The the composer of the music and words of this popular Lottery for the Virginia Company began to be opened, song. Others have ascribed it to Lady Lindsay. Who consisting of 50,000 blanks, 1750 prizes, worth £1259, is the rightful claimant ? A LOVER OF OLD BALLADS. for one shilling a lot.

Westminster.