for Dibdin, to be let off on the next fifth of November." What in the name of Guido Fawkes have we here! Thinking that the explosion in "NOTES AND QUERIES" would do no harm, but perhaps some good, a note was kindly permitted to be taken of it for that publication. It was evidently written soon after the appearance of the Library Companion.

"Sundry Errors discovered in the Library Companion, recently put forth by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, F. R. S., A. S. This work exhibits the most extraordinary instance of gross negligence that has appeared since the discovery of the profitable art of bookmaking. Iu two notes (pp. 37, 38.), comprised in twelve lines, occur fifteen remarkable blunders, such as any intelligent bookseller could, without much trouble, have corrected for the Rev. and learned author.

"Henry's Exposition of the Old and New Testaments first appeared collectively in 17101, five 2 vols, folio; but the recent edition of 18103, in six vols. 4to., is the best, as the last volume contains additional matter from the author's MSS. left at his decease.-Dr. Gill's Exposition of the New Testament was published in 1746, &c., three vols. folio; of the Old, in 17486, &c., nine? vols. folio; but the work advancing in reputation and price, became rare, so as to induce Mr. Bagsters to put forth a new edition of the whole, in ten vols. 4to. I recommend the annotations of Gill to every theological collector, and those who have the quarto edition will probably feel disposed to purchase Gill's Body of Practicallo Divinity, containing some account of his life, writings, and character, in two13 volumes 4to, 1773.18 two volumes are worth about 1l. 158.15 "

11

1 Instead of 1710, read 1707.

2 This edition is in six volumes.

5 It bears the date of 1811.

These

4 The best edition of Henry's Commentary was elegantly printed by Knapton, in 5 vols. folio, 1751; known as the fifth edition,

5 This new edition is respectable, except the plates, which had been well worn in Bowyer's Cabinet Bible. The Commentary is printed verbatim from the former editions, and has no additional matter from the author's MSS. left at his decease; no mention of anything of the kind is made in the title, preface or advertisement, until Mr. Dibdin so marvellously brought it to light upon what authority he makes the assertion remains a mystery. A very considerable number of

sets remain unsold in the warehouse of a certain great bookseller. Query. Was the Rev. gentleman's pen dipped in gold when he wrote this puff direct?

6 Not 1748, &c.: it first appeared in 1763, &c. 7 Nine volumes folio should be six volumes folio. 8 It was not Mr. Bagster, but Messrs. Matthews & Leigh of the Strand, who put forth the new edition of Dr. Gill's Exposition.

9 It was completed in nine volumes, 4to.

10 The title is A Boty of Doctrinal Divinity.

11 Dr. Gill's Body of Divinity was published by himself, and has no account of his life, writings and charac

ter.

12 It was in three vols., 4to, not in two.

13 Instead of 1773, it was published in 1760-70; nor did any new edition appear for many years, until those recently printed in 3 vols. 8vo., and I vol. 4to. 14 These two vols. should be three vols.

15 Dr. Gill's Body of Divinity is introduced under the head of English Bibles!"

These glaring errors are made with regard to modern books, and may seriously mislead the bibliomaniacs of the next generation; but what can be expected from an author who, in giving directions for the selection of Hebrew Bibles, forgets the beautiful and correct editions of Vanderhooght and Jablonski; who tells us that Frey republished Jahn's* edition of the Hebrew in 1812; and who calls Boothroyd's incorrect and ugly double-columned 4to. admirable. †

"The Rev. gentleman fully proves, in the compilation of his volume, that he can dip his pen in gall, as well as allow it to be guided by gold. Dr. Warton's History of English Poetry, a very beautiful and correct edition, greatly enlarged from most interesting materials at a very considerable expense, has just issued from the press in 3 vols., 8vo. But 'Can any good come out of Nazareth?' It was not published by any of the favored houses; hence, the following omnious notice of it: Clouds and darkness rest upon it!' Gentle reader, they are the clouds and darkness of Cheapside. It may be possible that some propitious golden breeze had driven all the clouds and darkness from Cornhill, Paternoster Row, the Strand, Pall-Mall, and Bedford street.

Hoxton.

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J. Y.

William Penn.-Will Mr. HEPWORTH DIXON, or some of your correspondents, be so good as to send a reply to this Query?

What was the name, and whose daughter was the lady to whom William Penn (the son of William Penn and Miss Springett) was married? A. N. C.

Yankee, Derivation of (Vol. iii., p. 260). -In Webster's American Dictionary, and in the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific, J. M. will see the etymology of Yankee, which M. Philarete Charles supposes not to be given in any work American or English.

NORTHMAN.

Frey republished Vanderhooght's Hebrew Bible in 1811.

† Note on page 24. Note on page 667.

In reply to your correspondent, A. N. C., William Penn, eldest son of the famous Quaker, married Mary Jones, by whom he had three children, Gulielma Maria, Springett, and William. The latter had a daughter by his first wife, Miss Fowler, who married a Gaskill, from which marriage the present Penn Gaskill's of Rolfe's Hould, Buckinghamshire, are descended. While writing on this subject, allow me to send you two other "notes."

Hugh David, a Welshman, who went out to America in the same vessel with William Penn, used to relate this curious anecdote of the State founder. Penn, he says, after watching a goat gnaw at a broom which lay on deck, called out to him, Hugh, dost thou observe the goat? See what hardy fellows the Welsh are; how they can feed on a broom! However, Hugh, I am a Welshman myself, and will relate by how strange a circumstance our family lost their name. My grandfather was named John Tudor, and lived on the top of a hill or mountain in Wales. He was generally called John Penmurith, which in English is-John on the top of the hill. He removed from

Wales into Ireland, where he acquired con

siderable property. Upon his return to his own country he was addressed by his friends and neighbors, not in the former way, but as Mr. Penn. He afterwards removed to London, where he continued to reside under the name of John Penn, which has since been the family name." David told this story to a Quaker, who wrote it down in these words, and gave the MS. to Robert | Proud, the historian of Pennsylvania. The same David, in a copy of doggrel verses presented to Thomas Penn, on a visit to Philadelphia, in 1732, made an allusion to the descent. I quote four of the lines:

"For the love of him that now descended be, I salute his loyal one of three, That ruleth here in glory so serene, I branch of Tudor, alias Thomas Penn." This is at least curious. But I attach little credit to Mr. David's report. He certainly mistook or ill remembered Penn's words; as his grandfather was Giles Penn, and his ancestors for two generations before Giles are known to be William.

The second note refers to Penn's decendants, and may claim a corner in your chronicle on more than one ground. William Penn was born in 1644: in 1844 his grandson, Grenville Penn, well known as a writer on classical subjects, was still alive! The descendants of his first marriage with Miss Springett, six yeats ago were in the fifth and sixth generation after him; those by his second wife, Hannah Callowhill, in the second. HEPWORTH DIXON.

Derivation of the Word "Yankee" (Vol. iii., p. 260.-Your correspondent J. M., and Philarète Charles, are both incorrect in saying that this derivation is not given in any English or American work. In the Poetical Works of John Trumbull, LL.D., published at Hartford (U. S.), 1820, in two volumes, in the Appendix, appear the following Note:

"Yankees.-The first settlers of New England were mostly emigrants from London and its vicinity, and exclusively styled themselves the Engliah. The Indians, in attempting to utter the word English, with their broad gutteral accent, gave it a sound which would be nearly represented in this way; Yaunghees; the letter g being pronounced hard, and approaching to the sound of k joined with a strong aspirite, like the Hebrew cheth, or the Greek chi, and the suppressed, as almost impossible to be distinctly heard in that combination. The Dutch settlers on the river Hudson and the adjacent country, during their long contest concerning the right of territory, adopted the name, and applied it in contempt to the inhabitants of New England. The British of the lower class have since extended it to all the people of the United States. This seems the most probable origin of the term. The pretended Indian tribe of Yankees does not appear to have had an existence; as little can we believe in an ethmological derivation of the word from ancient Scythia or Siberia, or that it was ever the name of a horde of savages in any part of the world."

I some time ago thought of sending you a copy of this "Note,' " but had forgotten it, until recalled to my memory by reading J. M.'s extract.

T. C. KEARSLEY, A. B. King William's College, Isle of Man.

Yankee. Yankee-doodle (Vol. iii., p. 260.)-In a curious book on the Round Towers of Ireland (I forget the title), the origin of the term Yankee-doodle was traeed to the Persian phrase “Yanki dooniah," or "Inhabitants of the New World." Layard, in his book on Ninevah and its Remains,

also mentions "Yanghi-dunia as the Per

sian name of America.

Birmingham.

BENBOW.

Yankee. The following lines from a poem, written in England by the Rev. James Cook Richmond, of Providence, Rhode Island, and dated Sept. 7, 1848, gives the derivation of this word:

"At Yankees, John, beware a laugh,
Against yourself you jobe:
For Yenghees English' is, but half

By Indian natives spoke."

M. Philarète Charles then has too hastily concluded that this etymology is not given in "aucun ouvrage américain au anglais," and has supplied us with a surprising coincidence, since he appears to have fairly translated the first two lines, viz.: "Les Anglais, quand ils se moquént des Yankies, se moquent d'eux-mêmes."

W. DN.

Prophecy respecting the Discovery of America (Vol. i., p. 107).-Your correspondent C, quotes the following passage from Seneca:

"Venient annis secula seris,

Quibus Oceanus vincula rerum
Laxet, et ingens pateat tellus,
Tethysque novos detegat orbes;
Nec sit terris ultima Thule."

Medea, Act II., ad finem. v. 375.

and he says that some commentator describes these lines as "vaticination of the Spanish discovery of America." I believe, however, that Lord Bacon may claim the merit of having been the first to notice this vaticination. In his essay "Of Prophecies" he

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