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approbation; and on the 12th of December following, certain articles and orders were agreed on "to be observed and performed by every person that shall be admitted into the friendly Society of the Exercisers of Armes within the Citty of Bristoll." No person was to be admitted into the society until he had produced a certificate under the hands of two of his majesty's justices of the peace, purporting "that such person had before them taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and the Declaration in the statute." quis, on the 1st of March, 1679-80, appointed his "dear Son, Charles Lord Herbert, to be Captain and Leader of the said Artillery Company." Their other officers were a lieutenant and ensign, appointed probably by the same authority, with a drum-beater, marshal, and armourer. The Institution was probably intended as a royalist or high-party association. They met every Friday for exercise, and on the first Friday in every month they were

"to appear in the habits, and to be provided as followeth : Every Pikeman habitted in a gray cloth coat lined with scarlet, a scarlet pair of breeches and stockings, and a white hat, a shoulder buff belt, a silk crimson scarf with a good pike, and a sword or rapier; every Musketteer with a gray cloth coat lined with scarlet, a scarlet pair of breeches and stockings, and a white hat, buff collar of bandeliers, buff girdle and frog, with a good muskett and four and twenty charges of powder, and a good hanger or cutting sword."

These particulars were extracted from the original paper (signed by 101 members) by the late Rev. Samuel Seyer of Bristol. ANON.

Epitaphium super Puerulos meos dilectos, Samuel
et Sarah Moon.

My Children Dear, whom God to me did give;
God here alloted you few days to live.
Unerring Wisdom see it best for you;
And we your Parents ought to think so too:
For God, whose word's infallible and true,
Hath promised unto all Believers true,
That he unto their infant Seed will be
A Covenant God, as we in Scripture See.*
No matter then, what, though you Lived not long:
If fit for God and Christ, it is all one,
As if a hundred years or more you'd Seen;
Death's the Conclusion of the longest Scene.
And though your Bodies unto dust resolve;
Being united unto Christ your head,
The Grave shall not for ever them involve,
You with his Saints at Last being gathered."†

If the above is deemed worthy of insertion in "N. & Q.," I shall be induced to send you several other extracts from fly-leaves of old books in my possession worth making "a note of." J. N. Bangor, N. Wales.

Uffington Family.-I have in my possession an old Bible, "imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1610." This must have belonged to a respectable family: there are many of the names and birth-dates of the family of Uffingtons of Woodford, co. of Northon, I suppose Northamptonshire. It is a very curious book, with a great number of plates. If this should meet the eye of any of the family, they may communicate to you if they wish to possess it. GEORGE SEARLE.

18. Lower Baggot Street, Dublin.

Queries.

PORTRAITS OF MARY STUART.

Amongst the numerous and valuable portraits of Queen Mary now on view at the apartments of the Archæological Institute, 26. Suffolk Street, there is none equal in singularity of design to that noticed in the Hawthornden MSS., to which Mr. Peter Cunningham has kindly called my at

tention :

"Queen Marie having sent upon ane brode the portrait of her Husband Henry and her owne, wt the portraite of David Ricci in prospective, to the Cardinall of Lorraine her Uncle, he praised much the workmanship and cunning of the Painter; but having asked what he was that was drawen by them, and hearing it was her Secretarye, 'Je voudrois (said he) qu'on oistoit ce petit Vilain de là! Qu'a il à faire d'estre si pres?' After the slaughter of Ricci, one told him that the Scots had done what he desired: Car ils avoyent osté le petit Vilain auprès de la Royne.'

Can any of your readers supply a clue to this singular "brode," signifying, of course, a painting on panel? ALBERT WAY. Reigate.

Minor Queries.

George Washington an Englishman. — An article, under the above heading, appeared a short time since in the correspondence of the Morning Post, in which the writer, after alluding to a statement in Stars or Stripes, or American Impressions, that "General Washington never went to England," proceeds to show that he had good grounds for "wishing to do so, because he was born in England," viz. " at Cookham in Berkshire, nineteen miles from Windsor," where, he says, "he was assured that the books of the parish have been destroyed by Americans." He further adds, "The case was slightly mentioned at the time of the election of Mr. Washington to the Presidency,

"sweeping" is metaphorically applied to the persecution of some individual or family by an evil demon ?

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Ballad of "Puir Mary Lee." The gifted authoress of Shirley alludes to the above as being of uncertain origin, "written," she says, "I know not in what generation or by what hand." Are these inferences correct, or is anything known of the writer? The burden of the song or lament seems an imprecation of "Black Robin à Ree," who, from the digest given of it in the work above quoted, had worked woe and desolation in poor Mary's lot; one verse only is given as a specimen: "Oh ance I lived happily by yon bonny burn, The warld was in love wi' me;

But now I maun sit 'neath the cauld drift and mourn,
And curse Black Robin a Ree."

"She recalls every image of horror, the yellow wymed ask,' . . . . the ghaist at e'en,' the sour bullister,' the milk on the taeds back,' as objects of intense hatred,

but waur she hates Robin a Ree.""

I apprehend if the above had been of easy reference, its origin would at least have been hinted at. Perhaps some of the readers of "N. & Q." may be able to supply the deficiency. Some explanation also of the "images of horror," as given above, and others to be found in the volume, would be acceptable. HENRY W. S. TAYLOR. Southampton.

William Collins, Ord. Præd.-A book with the following title is in the library of Trinity College, Dublin:

"Missa Triumphans, or, The Triumph of the Mass; wherein all the sophistical and wily Arguments of Mr. de Rodon against that thrice Venerable Sacrifice, in his funestuous Tract, by him called, The Funeral of the Mass,' are fully, formally, and clearly Answered. Together with an Appendix by way of Answer to the Translator's Preface. By F. P. M. O. P. Hib. Lovain,

1675. 8vo."

In a dedicatory epistle "to the Queen's most excellent Majesty," subscribed by "your Majestie's most Loyal and Devoted Beadsman, W. "C.," the dedicator speaks of the book as his own production. All this, however, may be known to any one who has access to a copy of the book. But what renders this particular copy interesting is the following passage, probably in the handwriting of the author, on a fly-leaf:

"This is the very same booke which the author dedicated to the Queene, and presented into her hands, which being accidentally returned unto him, he sends as a memoriall to the convent of Bornhem, whereof he was formerly a son, fr. William Collins, Ordis Præd. S. T. Mgr." Can any of your readers give me information respecting this William Collins? 'Axeús. Dublin.

J. C. Frommann. - Any information that you or any of your numerous correspondents could

Early Harvests. As this promises to be an early year, perhaps some of your correspondents residing in different parts of England can say the date of the month and year in which they recollect the earliest wheat rick to have been put up. A neighbour of mine, who farms 2000 acres, informs me that in 1828 he had a wheat rick set up on July 18, and finished harvest, with the exception of beans, on the 28th of the same month. The yield was not Н. Т. heavy, but it was of excellent quality.

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Quotation wanted: "Second thoughts not always Can any correspondent refer me to a pasI think, somewhere in Bishop Butler's works, to the effect that, in moral questions, a man's first and third thoughts (which usually agree together) are more to be depended on for his guidance than his second thoughts? Асни. Pickersgill's "Three Brothers." A literary friend of mine in the country, who is a perfect helluo librorum, but who really digests his mental food with the power of a hippopotamus, in spite of its quantity, asks me if I remember a strange romance called The Three Brothers, which he thinks "I must have read when a boy" (I have a glimmering recollection of the book), “and which Lord Byron studied. The author was a lad, Joshua Pickersgill, Jun.,* if I remember right, much under age. I thought this was a fictitious name, but it was a real one; and the author entered the East India Company's service, was Adjut.-Gen. in Gen. Ochterlony's army in the Nepaul war, and died soon after.

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"I want to know something more about him, and if he ever wrote anything else? The book itself is full of faults and deformities, but showed much talent and great imagination in so young a man. Lord Byron's Deformed Transformed is founded on the story."

Was the author of the family of Pickersgill the distinguished portrait painter ?

G. HUNTLY GORDON.

John Lake, Bishop of Chichester. - I should feel obliged to any of your correspondents who could afford me information respecting the family connexions of Bishop Lake, one of the seven pro

* I find in Watt's Bib. Br., "The Three Brothers, by Joshua Pickersgill, Esq., 4 vols. 12mo., 1803."

testing bishops in the reign of James II. His will was proved at Doctors' Commons in Aug. 1689, from which it seems he had two sons, James Lake, citizen and haberdasher; and William Lake, Fellow of St. John's Coll., Cambridge. He died seised of lands in Pontefract, in Yorkshire. Judith Lake, his widow, was his executrix. What was her maiden name? JOHN BOOKer.

Prestwich.

Moravian Query. Walpole, in his Memoirs of the Reign of George II. (vol. iii. p. 97.), speaking of the year 1758, says:

"There were no religious combustibles in the temper of the times. Lurzendorffe plied his Moravians with nudities, yet made few enthusiasts."

What scandal does Walpole allude to? M. N. Kitchenham Family. Wanted any information respecting the Kitchenham family, one of the ancestors of which (Baron Kitchenham of Wadhurst) obtained a grant from the Crown (temp. Edw. IV.) for military services at Leeds Castle, in Kent. Any information as to the pedigree and descendants of Baron Kitchenham would be very acceptable, especially with reference to the abovenamed grant, as to where the original may be seen, or a copy of the same obtained. G. P. Nathaniel Mist. Nathaniel Mist, the publisher, died at Boulogne. What took him there? Had he fled from a prosecution? WISSOCQ.

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Dutch Protestant Congregations. The descendants of the Dutch Protestant refugees, who settled in the city of Norwich to avoid the fierce and bloody persecutions of the Duke of Alva, retain to this day estates bequeathed to the Dutch congregation in that city, and have the choir of the Black Friars' Conventual Church assigned to them for their use.

Service is performed only once a year: the sermon being preached first in Dutch, and afterwards in English, by the Rev. H. Gehle, D.D., chaplain to the Netherlands ambassador, and minister of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London. It is always held on a Sunday near Midsummer Day; and this year took place on Sunday, June 28.

The congregation possess a series of valuable registers and old books, including a large folio Bible in Dutch for the use of the minister, printed at Leyden by Louys and Daniel Elzevier, and bearing the following imprint: "Tot Leyden. By de Weduwe ende Erffgenamen van Johan. Elzevier, Boeckdruckers van de Academie, 1663."

Does a similar congregation exist, and is a similar service held at the present time in any other part of the United Kingdom? THOMAS ROBINSON TALLACK.

St. Andrew's, Norwich.

Minor Queries with Answers.

John Rule, A.M.-There was published a work, entitled The English and French Letter Writer, by the Rev. John Rule, A.M., Master of the Academy at Islington, 12mo., Lond. 1766. Can you oblige me with some biographical notices of the author? R. INGLIS.

[More seems to be known of the celebrated dramatic recitations of Mr. Rule's pupils than of his own personal history. A comedy called The Agreeable Surprise, translated from the French of De Mariveux, was published in a volume entitled Poetical Blossoms, or the Sports of Genius; being a Collection of Poems upon several Subjects, by the Young Gentlemen of Mr. Rule's Academy at Islington, 12mo, 1776. In the Public Advertiser of Dec. 30, 1766, appeared the following notice: "On the 10th, 11th, and 12th December, a Lecture of Heads, with several poetical pieces, were delivered by the Young Gentlemen of Mr. Rule's Academy, Islington, and a Comedy presented, called The Agreeable Surprise, followed by the entertainments of the Lying Valet and the Miller of Mansfield, with the Prologues and Epilogues suited to the occasion, in presence of a numerous, polite, and genteel company." Again in the same paper of Dec. 20, "We hear the Young Gentlemen of Mr. Rule's Academy, Islington, acted the tragedy of Cato with suitable entertainments, prologues, &c., on Wednesday and Thursday last, at Sadler's Wells, to the entire satisfaction of a numerous and polite audience." Mr. Rule's academy was in Colebrooke Row, on the banks of the New River, and memorable as the residence of William Woodfall, the

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friend of Garrick, Goldsmith, and Savage. Here lived and died, too, Colley Cibber, poet-laureate to George II.; James Burgh, author of Dignity of Human Nature; Political Disquisitions, &c.; and the Rev. George Burder, author of Village Sermons, &c. Charles Lamb, in a letter to Bernard Barton, dated Sept. 2, 1823, thus graphically describes his residence in this locality: "When you come Londonward, you will find me no longer in Covent Garden: I have a cottage in Colebrooke Row, Islington — a cottage, for it is detached; a white house, with six good rooms in it; the New River (rather elderly by this time) runs (if a moderate walking pace can be so termed) close to the foot of the house; and behind is a spacious garden, with vines (I assure you), pears, strawberries, parsneps, leeks, carrots, cabbages, to delight the heart of old AlciYou enter without passage into a cheerful dining room, all studded over and rough with old books; and above is a lightsome drawing-room full of choice prints. I feel like a great lord, never having had a house before." Poor Charles Lamb's cottage was subsequently occupied by Master John Webb, of soda-water celebrity! Sic transit gloria mundi!]

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Treatise upon Christian Perfection, indisposed him to relish the profession selected by his parents. Being permitted to follow the bent of his own inclinations, he was sent to Oxford, where he was entered at Exeter College in June, 1797. In May, 1801, he was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Winchester, and entered on the curacy of Weston, near Bath. After serving several curacies he finally settled at Colerne, near the above-named city. He married, in 1805, his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of W. Harding, Esq., of Liverpool. At Colerne Mr. Mayow resided for four years; thence removed to Rosthern, and afterwards, for the space of five years, officiated in the chapel of E. B. Wilbraham, Esq., of Lathom, Lancashire, and at length, three months previous to his death, he removed to St. Thomas's Chapel, Ardwick, near Manchester, where he died Jan. 8, 1817, æt. 39.]

Colonel John Howard Payne, Author of " Home, sweet Home." -I trust you will permit me to record in the pages of "N. & Q." that the remains of my late deceased friend, the well-known author of Home, sweet Home, lie interred in the cemetery of St. George at Tunis; a ground supported by contributions from the English, American, and other Protestant countries. I would also add that over the spot which marks the place of his burial, the government of the United States have very recently erected a monument, which bears the following inscription:

"In Memory

of

Colonel John Howard Payne,

Twice Consul of

The United States of America,
For

The City and Kingdom of Tunis,
This stone is here placed,

By a grateful Country.
He died at the American Consulate
In this City after a tedious illness,
April 1st, 1852.

He was born at the City of Boston,
State of Massachusetts.

His fame as a Poet and Dramatist
Is well known wherever the English language
is understood, through his celebrated Ballad of
'Home, Sweet Home,'

And his popular tragedy of Brutus,' and other similar productions."

I remember to have read in a London publication a complimentary notice of Colonel Payne, shortly after his decease. I think it appeared in the Literary Gazette, and although I have referred to several volumes of this work for the

purpose of finding it, still I have failed in my search, there being no index to guide me.

Can I be favoured with this reference, as also with the date of Colonel Payne's birth, the writer of his epitaph having left a blank on the marble for its insertion, so soon as it shall be correctly known. W. W.

Malta.

[According to the Memoirs of John Howard Payne, the American Roscius, compiled from Authentic Documents, London, 1815, this celebrated dramatist was born in the city of New York, on June 9, 1792, and was soon after,

while yet an infant, removed with his family to Boston. A complimentary notice of him appeared in The Literary Gazette of 1852, p. 517; but a more extended sketch appeared in the New York Literary World, which was copied into the Gentleman's Magazine of July, 1852, p. 104. "Home, Sweet Home," first appeared in his Clari, the Maid of Milan.]

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JAMES HOWELL AND THE EPISTOLÆ HO-ELIANÆ.” (2nd S. iii. 167. 212. 315. 410. 489.)

I should feel greatly obliged if some of your correspondents would furnish a list of his works and the dates of their publication, with any further particulars of his life; for it is very evident from the letters themselves, that he was very intimate with the royalists. Query, When was he appointed as one of the Clerks of the Council?-to which he alludes, September 7, 1641 (No. 46., sect. 6.):

"To the Honorable Sir P. M.

"Now that Sir Edward Nicholas is made Secretary of State, I am put in fair hopes, or rather assurance, to succeed him in the Clerkship of the Council."

With regard to the cause of his imprisonment, it is equally evident that it was political; as where he relates the manner of his arrest, he says, that upon being brought before the Close Committee, he was ordered to be forthcoming till his papers were perused, and that Mr. Corbet was appointed to examine them. Again, at the commencement of the second volume, after the dedication (to which I shall allude), comes,

"The Stationer to the Reader.

"It pleased the Author to send me these ensuing letters as a supplement to the greater Volume of Epistolæ HoEliana, where they could not be inserted then, because most of his papers, whence divers of these letters are derived, were under sequestration. And thus much I had in commission to deliver. "HUMPHREY MOSELEY."

With regard to the time of his imprisonment, he alludes to it in the Epistle Dedicatory to the same volume, which is as follows:

"To His Highness James Duke of York, a Star of the greatest Magnitude in the Constellation of CHARLESWAYN.

"Sir,

"This Book was engendred in a Cloud, born a Captive, and bred in the dark shades of Melancholy; He is a true Benoni, the son of sorrow, nay, which is a thing of wonderment, He was begot in the Grave by one who hath been buried quick any time these five and fifty months. Such is the hard condition of the Authour, wherein he is like to continue untill some good Angell roll off the stone, and raise him up, for Prisoners are capable of a double Resurrection: my Faith ascertains me of one, but my fears make me doubtfull of the other, for, as far as I see yet, I may be made to moulder away so long among these