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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January
+1852, by Various
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+Title: Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852
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+    WILLIS'S
+    CURRENT NOTES:
+
+    A SERIES OF ARTICLES
+    ON
+
+    Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language,
+    Literature, Topography, Curious Customs, &c.
+
+    SELECTED FROM
+    ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS
+    ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR
+    1852,
+
+    TO THE PUBLISHER,
+
+    G. WILLIS,
+    GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.
+    MDCCCLIII.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+ENTERING as we now are upon the publication of a third volume of the
+"Current Notes," the Second Volume of which we have herewith the
+pleasure of presenting in a complete form to the Public, our first
+duty as it is our pleasure is to thank our Subscribers most cordially
+for the very liberal support we have received from them during its
+progress. It is so seldom that the productions of the Customer and the
+Tradesman form part of the same Periodical, that it is no wonder if
+the Publisher of the "Current Notes" feels a little elated by seeing
+his humble efforts for the entertainment of the Public in such good
+company. But this patronage, so far from dulling his exertions in his
+legitimate pursuit--that of promoting the diffusion of Books in their
+widest extent--will only stimulate him to fresh efforts, and while he
+continues to place before his Customers the best Books, he trusts that
+they will be as liberal as hitherto in their contributions of _Current
+Notes_.
+
+The _Price Current of Literature_, indeed, now occupies a position
+distinct from that of any other Bookseller's Catalogue ever presented
+to the public, for it not only furnishes a monthly list of the
+principal New Publications, followed by a constant succession of
+Standard Works in every department of Ancient and Modern Literature,
+selected with care and judgment, but it likewise presents a medium for
+Literary Inquirers to prosecute their researches and interchange their
+opinions. Nor is this correspondence confined to our own land. From the
+Colonies and America, over which it ranges in its wide circulation,
+we continue to receive gratifying testimonials to its usefulness, as
+well as accessions to its columns, and have reason to believe it is
+duly appreciated by those whose favour it is our study to deserve and
+interest to secure.
+
+The aim of the publisher has been to establish a literary organ of
+communication amongst his numerous Subscribers and Friends, by inviting
+their correspondence, and throwing open his columns to their inquiries
+and suggestions, and thus by propounding queries, solving difficulties,
+and eliciting new facts, rendering some slight service to the cause
+of Historical and Literary Truth. So cordially have they responded
+to this invitation, that the task of selection has been sometimes
+a difficult, though always a pleasing one. If there have been any
+communications from Correspondents which have not met with due regard
+and consideration, it must be pleaded in apology that this miscellany
+of curious information necessarily embraces so wide a field, that in
+gathering in the harvest it is not surprising if a few ears of corn
+escape the gleaner's hand. If it be said that occasionally too much
+notice has been taken of "unconsidered trifles," and that the objects
+regarded were too minute and insignificant to justify the patient
+attention bestowed upon them; the saying of Dr. Johnson may be adopted
+as a justification, that "the man who removes the smallest obstacle in
+the pathway of Literature becomes its benefactor." History is built up
+of fragments as the pyramid is formed of single stones; and if we have
+only laid bare one doubtful point, or elucidated one novel fact,--if we
+have but stripped off the moss clinging to some ruined archway of the
+past, or decyphered one mouldering inscription,--then our work has been
+accomplished, and our toil repaid.
+
+The publisher wishes it to be distinctly understood that he is not
+the author of any representations or opinions which may appear in the
+_Current Notes_. Every statement, therefore, is open to correction
+or discussion, and the writers of the several paragraphs must be
+considered alone responsible for their assertions. Holding himself
+aloof from the bias of all personal interest or party feeling, the
+publisher can make due allowance for difference of opinion, and
+like heralds in the tournament, after proclaiming the titles of the
+respective champions, quietly retires and awaits the issue of the fray.
+If in the heat of this literary joust of arms, the combatants have
+broken spears somewhat too hotly, let it be remembered that he is only
+a spectator of the chivalrous feud--which, after all, has for its sole
+object the rescue of Truth, in the words of the old knightly motto,
+"sans tache et sans reproche."
+
+It is a mournful task to record the death of the gifted--to follow
+Genius to its grave. Our Obituary of the past year chronicles the death
+of many who were giants in the realms of thought, and whom the world of
+science and learning could ill afford to lose. WELLINGTON, of whom (as
+was said of Cæsar) it is difficult to decide whether he fought or wrote
+with the greater spirit; Eliot WARBURTON, the Historian and Novelist;
+MACGILLIVRAY, the Naturalist; SCROPE, the Deerstalker; JOHANNOT, the
+Artist; the gay and accomplished COUNT D'ORSAY; LANDSEER, the Engraver;
+MANTELL, the Geologist--are now numbered with the dead. PUGIN, too,
+has passed away--he, whose whole life was but one continued aspiration
+after the Beautiful in Christian Art; the harp of MOORE is silent, and
+awakens no echoes in the tomb.
+
+Upon one occurrence of the past year, however, the publisher has
+particularly to congratulate his Subscribers; namely the Free Trade
+movement which has broken up the monopoly of the Booksellers'
+Association, increased the sale of books, and imparted new vigour
+and activity to the cause of literature. Cheapness in the price of
+books becomes an important auxiliary in the diffusion of knowledge.
+It is not merely a trade, but a social question, on account of the
+power it possesses of advancing intellectual improvement. The thirst
+for knowledge must be considerably influenced by the means we have
+at hand to supply and satisfy its craving. Long before Lord Campbell
+pronounced his judgment, the publisher was impressed with the truth
+of these views, and had steadily adhered to them as the basis of his
+business. The recent Postal Regulations have also tended to facilitate
+the purchase of books. By their means he has been enabled not only to
+forward the _Price Current_ to his Subscribers at a trifling cost, but
+to execute and transmit orders from a thin pamphlet to a ponderous
+volume. Facilities of a like nature now exist for sending books to
+the Colonies; and instead of being obliged to forward as heretofore,
+even the smallest book as a package at a high charge for conveyance,
+any moderate-sized volume, if left open at the ends, will reach its
+destination in the letter-bags, at a very trifling cost.
+
+The publisher thinks it not inappropriate to reprint in this place the
+following NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
+
+    G. WILLIS begs to express his acknowledgments for
+    the numerous interesting communications which have
+    been forwarded to him, and will feel obliged by the
+    receipt of any original articles on subjects, either
+    of a literary or an antiquarian nature. Woodcuts,
+    illustrative of subjects requiring them, will be
+    executed at his expense.
+
+    All communications intended for insertion in the
+    "_Current Notes_" must be accompanied by the Writer's
+    real name and address, which are merely required as a
+    guarantee of his good faith, and not for publication,
+    except at his desire.
+
+While cordially reiterating the sentiments expressed in the first of
+the preceding paragraphs, the publisher can assure his Subscribers that
+the work, intended as a boon to themselves, has proved an equal source
+of gratification to him; and so, with mutual good wishes, trusts they
+may long continue, in the words of Milton, "with plain and lightsome
+brevity to relate well and orderly things worth the noting."
+
+
+
+
+INDEX.
+
+(_The Articles marked thus * are illustrated by wood engravings._)
+
+
+    Abracadabra, 22.
+    Adelgitha, 78, 88.
+    Advertisements, 56.
+    Albums, _see_ Hood, Hook, Shee, Southey.
+    Alchemists, 64, 75, 88.
+    Allegory of Mortality, 90.
+    American Eloquence, 69.
+      ----Go-a-Headism, 69, 87.
+      ----Improvement of English Language, 63.
+      ----Free Libraries, 96.
+      ----Shaksperian Club, 38.
+      ----Testimonial, _see_ Clarke.
+    *Antiquities, sale of, 27.
+    Apograph, 75.
+    Archæological Associations, 22, 58.
+    Archæological Publications, 6, 12, 25, 34, 35.
+      ----Societies, 29, 34.
+    Architectural Restorations, Ireland, 5.
+      *----Slang, 70.
+      ----Terms, 76.
+    Archiduc d'Autriche d'Este, 76.
+    Arctic Expedition, 32.
+    ****Arms of Isle of Man, 18, 79, 90, 91, 101, 102.
+    Ashbury, Joseph, 78, 93.
+    Assignats, 82, 83.
+    Athenæum, _see_ Eboracon.
+    Athens, _see_ Tomb.
+    Atlas of Epochs, 58, 71.
+    Auctions, Literary, 8.
+    *Author of Narrative of Transactions in British India, 75.
+    Autographic Biography, 6, 15, 31.
+    Autograph, _see_ Holograph.
+    *Autographs, Admiralty, 85.
+    Automaton Chess Player, 64, 71, 78, _see_ Advertisements.
+
+    Ballads, Rare, 100.
+    **Bawdrick, 5, 9.
+    Bibliomaniacs, _see_ Smith, Richard.
+    Blackwood's Magazine, 2, 12.
+    Blair's Monument, 31.
+    Bobart's Dragon, 53.
+    Boddington, Mrs. 31, 39.
+    Boccaccio's Decamerone, 31.
+    Bones, Fossil Human, 83.
+    Booksellers and Publishers, 38.
+      ----in Seventeenth Century, 97.
+    *Booth, Bishop, 67.
+      ----Family, 80.
+    Botany of the Bohereens, 88, _see_ Wild Flowers.
+    Brasses, Monumental, 2, 15, 29.
+    Brougham, Lord, on France, 39.
+    Brown, Dr. Thomas, _see_ Paradise of Coquettes.
+    Bruce, J. 8.
+    Burns's MSS. 96.
+
+    Campanalogia, 20.
+    Capping a story, 7.
+    Castle Cornet, 94.
+    Caussin's Holy Court, 2.
+    Cavendish, _see_ Wolsey.
+    *Chair, Ancient, 95.
+    Cheques, crossed, 58.
+    Chinese Literature, 87.
+    Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, 3, 13.
+    *Coins, 3, 21, 81, _see_ Phœnician--Hebrew Harp.
+    Coleridge, _see_ Penny Postage.
+    Copyright, American Opinion on, 34.
+    Coronation by a Pope, 98.
+    Cow Chase, 62.
+    Crabb, Mrs. 24.
+    Cromwell, Print of, 7, 15, 21, 30.
+    Current Notes and Americanisms, 7.
+
+    Daniel O'Rourke, 18, 55, 61, 73.
+    Darwin, _see_ Steam.
+    *Denham, W. 31, 36.
+    Dental Surgery, 6.
+    Devonshire Collection, _see_ Coins.
+    *Doorway in Woking Church, 33.
+    Dowden, Alderman, 79.
+
+    Earl St. Vincent's Motto, 73.
+    Eboracon, 69.
+    Eburacum, 58.
+    *Engraved portrait, 71, 75.
+    Engraving, 39.
+    Enquiry, 55.
+    Ethnology, 4, 9.
+    Evelyn, John, 90.
+    Execution of Charles I., Warrant for, 65.
+
+    Father Tom and the Pope, _see_ Blackwood.
+    Father Mathew, _see_ Hayes.
+    First Love, _see_ Scott.
+    Flags, _see_ Arctic Expedition.
+    Franks, 38, 74, 85, 98.
+    Fraser's Magazine, 2.
+    French Revolutionary Dates, 78, 82, 83.
+    **Fresco Paintings, 57, _see_ Mural.
+    Fribbleriad, 86.
+    F. W. W., To, 80.
+
+    *Gems, 63, _see_ Rhyming Legends.
+    Gent, Thomas, 94.
+    Gibson, Bishop, 22.
+    Gold Discoveries, 87.
+    **Golden Lion, Fulham, 28.
+    Grailey, John de, _see_ Enquiry.
+    Greene, General, 27.
+
+    Halliwell, _see_ Shakespeare.
+    Haunted House, 94, 99.
+    Hayes, Catherine, 4.
+    Healing the Sick, _see_ Rembrandt.
+    *Hebrew Harp, 25.
+    *Herbert, _see_ Massinger.
+    Heralds' College, _see_ Advertisements.
+    Highest Price for a volume, 20.
+    Hill, Rowland, 6.
+    Hoblyn, Richard, 11.
+      ----Robert, 7, 11.
+    Holograph, 55, 58, 72, 74, 75.
+    Holy Grahl, 7.
+    Hone, _see_ Parody.
+    Hood, Thomas, 2, 12, 66.
+    Hook, Theodore, 64, 94.
+    Human Progress, 68.
+
+    India, 71, 75, 84.
+    Information, 78.
+    Inscriptions, 23, 90.
+    Isle of Man, _see_ Arms.
+
+    Jewish Superstitions, 22.
+    Jokeby, 62.
+
+    Katy-did, 13.
+    Key, Ancient, 7.
+    Kilkenny Archæological Society, 34.
+    **King of Pamunkie, 99.
+
+    La Fayette, General, 27.
+    Laud, _see_ Ballads.
+    Lavers, the Bookseller, 11.
+    Lettres Cherakeesiennes, 72.
+    Liberty stone, Liverpool, 7.
+    Library, Jarvis, sale of, 4.
+    Lincolnshire, _see_ Brasses.
+    *Literary Residences, 49.
+    Lithography, 12, 23.
+    London Environs, _see_ Peel.
+    L'Orloge de Sapience, _see_ Auctions.
+    Lowth, W. _see_ Enquiry.
+
+    Mahon (Lord), 27, 70.
+    Mary, Queen of Scots, _see_ Ring.
+    Massinger, 54.
+    Meadley, G. W. 23, 37.
+    Methodists' Periodical Press, U. S., 4.
+    Middle Ages, 12.
+    Milton, _see_ Washington.
+    Mistletoe, 67.
+    Monogram, 23.
+      *----of Christ, 68.
+    Morris, General, _see_ Woodman.
+    Mummies, Mediæval, 17.
+    ***Mural Paintings, 66, 76, 77.
+    Museum, British, 6.
+
+    Nelson's Funeral, 83.
+    Noah, Sons of, 3.
+    Notes on the Notes, 71.
+    Notice to Correspondents, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 98,
+        104.
+      ----Subscribers, 1.
+    Nursery Rhymes, 76, 90.
+
+    Order of the Royal Oak, 33.
+    Obituary, Literary and Scientific, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72,
+        80, 88, 96, 104.
+
+    Packet Station, 58.
+    Paradise of Coquettes, 38, 55, 56.
+    Parody, 72, 95.
+    Pearle of Prayer, 62.
+    Peel, Sir Robert, Letter of, 1.
+    Penny Postage, 22, _see_ Hill.
+    Percy Society, 31, 39.
+    *Phœnician Coin, 51.
+    Pigmies, _see_ Ethnology.
+    *Pilgrim's Badge, 7, 53.
+    Popular Rhymes, 70.
+    Portland Castle, 65.
+    Prinsep, _see_ India.
+    Punch of the Commonwealth, 92.
+
+    Queries, 31.
+    **Querns, 59.
+    Records, Public Admission to, by literary Inquirers, 8.
+    Rembrandt, 38.
+    Rhyming Legends, 76.
+    Rhyming Tokens, 60, 80, 86.
+    Richard III., 3.
+    Richardson, Novelist, 63, _see_ Literary Residences.
+    *Ring of Mary Queen of Scots, 16, 23.
+    "Robbed between sun and sun," 6, 15, 62.
+    *Roman Remains at Ashtead, 21.
+
+    Saint Luke's Day, print of, 7.
+    Saldanha, Wreck of the, 35.
+    Sale of rare books, 16.
+    Scott's, Sir Walter, First Love, 95.
+    Scraps from America, 13.
+    *Seal of Whitgift's Hospital, 14.
+    Seasons, _see_ Arms of Isle of Man.
+    Segar, Sir W. 94, 103.
+    Sexagenarian, Beloe's, 87.
+    Shadoof, 12.
+    Shakespeare's Irishman, 31.
+      ----Bust, 38.
+      ----House subscription, 79.
+      ----lame, 87, 89.
+      ----New Edition, 57, 71, 82.
+      ----Society, 53.
+      ----Will, 38.
+    Shee, Sir Martin Archer, 78.
+    Sheridan, T. Verses by, _see_ Saldanha.
+    Shovel Board, 23, 37.
+    Signature Collectors, 75.
+    *Signet, ancient, 10.
+      ----*Punic, 38.
+    Slogans of the North, 6.
+    Smiths, History of the, 7.
+      ----James, 7, 20.
+      ----O., 20.
+      ----Richard, 103.
+      ----Roach, _see_ Pilgrim's Badge.
+    Smoking in the West of England, 95.
+    Snaith, F., to, _see_ Seasons.
+    Societies, Learned, 26, 64.
+    Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle, 6.
+      ----Scotland, 55.
+      ----Historical, of Lancashire and Cheshire, 5, 10, 19.
+    Southey on Albums, 55.
+    Sportsmen's Terms, 88.
+    Spunging House, 96.
+    State of France, _see_ Brougham.
+    Steam, Prophecy on, 87.
+    Sterne, 54.
+      ----*Autograph, 2, 12, 35.
+      ----Eugenius, 54, 61.
+    Superstitions: Cockney Land, 104.
+      ----Jewish, 22.
+    Sword, _see_ Wellington.
+    Symbol, 82.
+
+    Talavera, 83.
+    *Taw, 55, 62, 68.
+    Threlkeld, Dr., 63.
+    Tobacco, 19.
+    **Tokens, 11, 19, 30, 52, 76, 92;
+      _see_ Rhyming.
+    Tomb, English, at Athens, 40.
+      ----of St. Berichert, 3.
+    Travelling Name, 7, 16.
+    Treasure Trove, 36.
+    Tree at Pains Hill, 84.
+    Tristram Shandy, 35.
+    Tuckers of Lamerton, 103.
+    *Turkish Coin, _see_ Coin.
+    Turnbuckle, 5.
+    *Turner, Artist, 1, 10.
+
+    Uncle Tom's Cabin, 85.
+    Under the Rose, 58.
+    Union Jack, 20, 28, 29.
+
+    Veterans of Royal and Antiquarian Societies, 72.
+    Vincart, John, 55, 63.
+
+    Ward's Grand Rebellion, 2.
+    Warrant for Execution of Charles I., 65.
+    Washington, 94.
+    Waterloo, 84, 95, 99.
+    Wellbeloved, _see_ Eburacum.
+    Wellington, 84;
+      _see_ Tree.
+    *West Horseley Church, 86.
+    **Westons, 61, 67.
+    W(h)ig, 36.
+    Whitehall Reliques, 96.
+    *Wierx, 29, 39.
+    Wild Flowers, 70.
+    Wilkins, Sir Charles, 53, 78.
+    Wolsey, 15.
+    "Woodman, spare that tree," 4.
+    Worcester, Marquis of, 10.
+
+    Yankee Doodle, 26.
+
+
+
+
+
+  WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES
+  FOR THE MONTH.
+
+  No. XIII.]                               [JANUARY, 1852.
+  "I will make a prief of it in my Note-Book."--SHAKSPERE.
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
+
+TO THE "PRICE CURRENT OF LITERATURE."
+
+
+G. WILLIS gratefully acknowledges the various interesting documents
+and letters he has received. He is anxious that it should be perfectly
+understood that he is not the author of any statement, representation,
+or opinion, that may appear in his "Current Notes," which are merely
+selections from communications made to him in the course of his
+business, and which appear to him to merit attention. Every statement
+therefore is open to correction or discussion, and the writers of the
+several paragraphs should be considered as alone responsible for their
+assertions. Although many notes have hitherto appeared anonymously, or
+with initial letters, yet wherever a serious contradiction is involved,
+G. Willis trusts that his Correspondents will feel the necessity of
+allowing him to make use of their names when properly required.
+
+
+
+
+THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON.
+
+
+_Original Letter from the late Sir Robert Peel._
+
+                                            Whitehall, July 7th, 1840.
+
+MY DEAR SIR,
+
+Do not you think a very interesting work might be written, to be
+entitled an Historical Account of the celebrated Villas in the
+neighbourhood of London. I mean rather the Villas that have been--than
+those that now exist.
+
+Look at Horace Walpole's Song on Strawberry Hill. How many places are
+there mentioned which have historical recollections connected with
+them, which it would be worth preserving.
+
+There must be always great interest about the localities in the
+neighbourhood of the metropolis. In that song alone are mentioned
+
+    Gunnersbury,
+    Sion,
+    Chiswick,
+    Strawberry Hill,
+    Greenwich,
+    Marble Hill,
+    Oatlands,
+    Clermont,
+    Southcote,
+
+you might add Wanstead, Wimbledon, Holland House, and a hundred
+others--many with very curious anecdotes of local and personal history
+connected with them.
+
+Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a book would be read. I
+certainly do not, if it would equal that, with which I myself read the
+account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history,
+but the traces of which--many of which at least--are fast fading away;
+such as
+
+    Maisons,      Sceaux,
+    Meudon,       Chantilli,
+    &c.           &c.
+
+Hampton Court, the ancient Palace at Richmond, Kew, &c. &c. might enter
+into the work.
+
+                                         Very truly yours,
+                                                ROBERT PEEL.
+
+The County Histories would form a substratum for the work--but every
+thing would depend upon the liveliness and accuracy of the details.
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE J. M. W. TURNER, ESQ. R.A.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+SIR,--As it appears from the public Prints that the late eminent
+artist, J. M. W. Turner, never sat for his Portrait;--and the only
+likenesses of him were taken by stealth, I send you a rude sketch which
+I took of him in the same way, about the year 1805 or 6. He was then on
+a visit at Mr. Fawkes's, of Farnley, where a number of grouse shooters
+had assembled,--and Turner had adopted the garb of a sportsman. His
+appearance, as well as his exploits on the moors, were the subject of
+much mirth.
+
+One day we accompanied him on an excursion, for the purpose of taking a
+sketch of the magnificent scenery of Gordale, in Craven, from which he
+afterwards produced a finished painting.
+
+My rude sketch of his person was considered a characteristic
+resemblance at the time; and though it has the air of a caricature, yet
+was not meant as such when it was drawn.
+
+If you think it would interest the readers of your "Current Notes," you
+will perhaps give it as an illustration. If not, I will thank you to
+return it to me.
+
+                                             Yours, &c.
+                                                    I. T. A.
+
+
+
+
+MONUMENTAL BRASSES REMOVED FROM THE CHURCHES OF FULHAM AND CHELSEA.
+
+
+Mr. GEO. WILLIS,--Your Correspondent, under the head of "Antiquarian
+Sacrilege," (_Current Notes for December, p. 91,_) seems not to be
+aware that almost all Church Brasses, with very few exceptions, were
+torn from their places by the sectarian soldiers in Cromwell's time,
+who affected to consider such things idolatrous. They were for the
+most part sold for old brass, and some authority (I forget who at
+this moment), tells us that, in consequence of the number at one
+time brought into the market, the price of brass was decreased in
+proportion. There were very few Antiquaries in those days, consequently
+a very small number of these desecrated Brasses have been preserved,
+and for those we possess we are indebted to such men as Ashmole, Lilly,
+and others of that class, who, though sufficiently fantastic and
+visionary in their pursuits, were still men of some learning and taste.
+
+Some, if not the whole of the lots alluded to by your Correspondent,
+came into the possession of the late John Meyrick, Esq., through an
+ancestor of his wife, whose name was "Rush," and the only sacrilege
+committed by the late Mr. Meyrick seems to have been the preservation
+of these things from destruction.
+
+I have frequently heard the late Sir S. R. Meyrick mention these
+Brasses, and regret they were not in his possession.
+
+                                         ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS.
+
+
+
+
+STERNE'S AUTOGRAPH.
+
+
+MR. GEO. WILLIS,--I have never met with the fact in print, that some
+few of the first editions of Tristram Shandy have the autograph of the
+author at the head of the first chapter in some or one of the volumes,
+a facsimile of which, in the 7th volume of the copy in my possession, I
+send you.
+
+[Illustration: L. Sterne]
+
+Whether this was done for the gratification of Sterne's particular
+friends, or for what other purpose, I am ignorant; perhaps some of your
+correspondents can throw some light upon the subject.
+
+                                                          A. C. K.
+
+
+
+
+WARD'S "GRAND REBELLION."
+
+
+I was rejoiced at the first glance at F. C. B.'s communication (p. 88
+"Current Notes" for November), but doubts very soon arose, whether some
+oversight had not occurred in taking the portrait of _Robert_ Bertie,
+for that enquired after, which is _Montague_ Bertie. On turning to
+Granger I found this to be the case, for the portrait which F. C. B.
+has, is there given as _Robert_, so that I fear the right one remains
+yet _non est inventus_, for I do not consider "A Dealer," as speaking
+from any distinct recollection of such a portrait, which must be an
+8vo. one, whereas Faithorne's is in 4to.
+
+                                                              A.
+
+_Oak House._
+
+
+
+
+DATE OF THOMAS HOOD'S DEATH.
+
+
+    Dec. 26th, 1851.
+
+SIR,--I find, on referring to a biographical sketch added to an
+autograph of the late Thos. Hood, at the time of his death, that that
+event took place, as surmised by your correspondent C. ("Current
+Notes," p. 90), on 3rd May, 1845.
+
+                                         Yours obediently,
+                                                       S. S.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+Mrs. Fenwick observing in Willis's "Current Notes" that some one
+enquires when Hood died, she writes to say, he expired on the 3rd May,
+1845. The above information Mr. Willis may depend upon being correct,
+as it is from the late Mr. Hood's daughter, who is married to the Rev.
+S. Broderip, Rector of Cossington, Somersetshire.
+
+Three Rock Houses, Tenby, Jan. 15, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.--I. P. (Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851), writes to
+G. W.:
+
+
+"Can you tell me who contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1838,
+the pleasant paper, 'Father Tom and the Pope; or a Night at the
+Vatican?' The impression prevails here that it was written by Maginn."
+
+
+_It was understood at the time to be a Mr. Ferguson, a writer in some
+Dublin paper,--a Wexford man._
+
+                                                              F. M.
+
+
+
+
+FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
+
+
+SIR,--Your correspondent, A. K., ("Current Notes" for December, p.
+90), will find in Fraser's Magazine, No. 121, Vol. 21, a list of the
+portraits published in that periodical.
+
+                                                              A.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+CAUSSIN'S HOLY COURT.
+
+
+                                         Landscape Terrace, Cork,
+                                              Dec. 29. 1851.
+
+DEAR SIR,--For the information of your two correspondents, "A
+Subscriber," and "R. O. W." ("Current Notes" for December, p. 95),
+I beg to repeat my assertion that there was an edition of "The Holy
+Court," by N. Caussin, published in _Corke_. In fact, (if I mistake
+not), there were two editions, one in 1765, without plates; and one in
+1767, with very excellent plates. I can procure an imperfect copy of
+the former for either of your correspondents for one shilling; and a
+fine copy of the latter for thirty to thirty-five shillings, full calf,
+with plates.
+
+The work was printed in Broad-lane--(perhaps so called quasi "lucus a
+non lucendo," as the lane is certainly rather narrow)--and was very
+well got up. The date and place of printing are thus given in the first
+edition: Corke: "Printed anno Domini 1765."
+
+                                     I am, Sir, yours very truly,
+                                                       WM. C. NELIGAN.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE SONS OF NOAH.
+
+
+                                                        Dec. 22nd.
+
+SIR,--I have examined Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon with reference to O.
+S.--your correspondent's query, (see "Current Notes" for November, p.
+85), concerning Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and cannot discover the names
+to have any such primary meaning as was there ascribed to them; though
+perhaps by a little straining, and a few far-fetched ideas, such an
+interpretation might be given--but it is so wholly unworthy of any one
+to torture his imagination to suppose that the original signification
+of words should have been framed to suit a climate, that nothing more
+need be said.
+
+                                    I remain, Sir,
+                                         Your obedient servant,
+                                                           C. M. J.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+TURKISH COIN.
+
+
+    Southwick, near Oundle,
+    Jan. 1st. 1852.
+
+SIR,--In Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, vol. 2. p. 379,
+there is a coin illustrated thus: "5. supposed ancient Jewish coin,
+representing drums." Kitto gives his authorities at the end of the
+article on Musical Instruments.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Allow me to give the figure of the coin, and its interpretation:
+
+Read from left to right, the letters, or rather words, are: S F T R Ch
+N: in Turkish it reads, _The Boundary of the Turks_; and the two drum
+sticks ! are the pillars of Hercules, or the Calpe columna, and the
+Abyla columna.--_N.B._ The _S_ (for _sh_) is a Cuneiform letter.
+
+                                                T. R. BROWN.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+THE DEVONSHIRE COLLECTION.--In reply to the inquiry of Mr. Willis's
+correspondent, "A Young Numismatist," ("Current Notes" for December, p.
+95), he is informed that the Duke of Devonshire's Collection of Coins
+was sold by auction a few years ago, and produced a very inconsiderable
+sum, to the surprise of everybody. This was accounted for by the
+manner in which the Coins were catalogued. It was well known as "The
+Devonshire Collection."
+
+                                                       S. H. H.
+
+
+
+
+DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB OF ST. BERICHERT, OR, BERECHTUNE.--Mr. Windele
+the local historian of Cork, has circulated among his friends a
+Lithographic drawing of this very interesting monument, which he found
+at Tullilease, a small hamlet on the border of the Counties of Cork
+and Limerick, within a mile of Dromcolleher. The tomb is a much more
+highly ornate specimen of an ancient cross than any of those engraved
+in Dr. Petrie's work on the Round Towers of Ireland. At Tullilease
+there are the ruins of an old Romanesque church, which was dedicated to
+St. Berichert or Berihert, a Saxon, whose name is now Anglicised into
+Benjamin, and whose death is recorded at A.D. 839, in the Four Masters.
+The Legend on the stone is in Latin, (but very sorry Latin), and in
+the Irish character. It reads, "QUICUNQUE (for æ) HUNC TITULUM LEGERIT
+ORAT (for _orate_ or _oret_) PRO BERECHTUNE." On the upper part of the
+stone, in one corner, are the letters pp̄s or pps̄.
+
+
+
+
+RICHARD III.
+
+
+                                                 January 10th, 1852.
+
+SIR,--All our historians assert that Richard, Duke of Glo'ster paved
+his way to the crown by bastardizing, imprisoning, and assassinating
+his two nephews, Edward Prince of Wales and Richard Duke of York. How
+then are we to account for the provision made in the Wardrobe Roll
+for the Coronation of Richard III., July 3rd, 1483, (published in the
+Antiquarian Repertory, Vol. I. p. 29, 1807;) "_The deliveree of divers
+Stuff delivered for the use of Lorde Edwarde, son of late Kyng Edward
+the Fourthe, and of his Henxemen?_" Then follows a particular account
+of the materials for the "_apparaill and array_" of "_Prince Edward_"
+and his "_Henxemen_." Was he really present at his uncle's coronation?
+There is no mention of the Duke of York. The Declaration of Tyrrell and
+Dighton, published in the ensuing reign by Henry VII., says, the young
+princes were murdered in July, 1483. If the words did not expressly
+state "_Edwarde, son of late Kyng Edwarde the Fourthe_," I should have
+concluded that it meant Richard III.'s own son Edward, by Lady Ann
+Nivelle, at that time about nine years of age.
+
+                                          Yours, &c.      O. S.
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN TESTIMONIAL TO MRS. COWDEN CLARKE.
+
+
+                                       New York, 13th December, 1851.
+
+About the time you receive this, you will probably hear of an American
+testimonial to that amiable woman, Mrs. Cowden Clarke, to be presented
+to her by the American Minister, Mr. Abbot Lawrence, in the name of the
+subscribers, at the head of whom stands America's greatest and best
+statesman, Daniel Webster.
+
+This testimonial is in the shape of a magnificent Rosewood Library
+Chair, richly carved, and covered with the finest French Satin Brocade.
+It is at this moment _on_ the Atlantic, _in_ the "Atlantic," and
+insured by the Atlantic Insurance Company, for three hundred dollars.
+
+As THE FAME OF SHAKSPERE is world-wide, subscriptions of five
+dollars each came in from all parts of the American Union--from
+the most northerly of all, Maine,--to Mexico. From Wisconsin,
+in the _far_-far-FAR West, to the shores of the Pacific, at San
+Francisco--they are thousands of miles apart from each other.
+
+Why have you left it to us poor Yankees "to take the wind out of your
+sails," in presenting a testimonial to the authoress of the Concordance
+to Shakspere? Mr. Payne Collier, and such like dear fellows, who know
+so many eminent wealthy literati, ought, _now_ that we have set you the
+example, to get up a subscription, and present Mrs. Clarke with some
+better Shaksperean testimonial than a Chair! What say you to a 'FIRST'
+Best Bed? But if the hangings of it beat our satin brocade cover, why
+I'll hang myself in despair--no I won't, but I'll eat it--bed--feathers
+and all. The Chair was to have been covered with the richest silk Genoa
+velvet, of a regal scarlet or crimson, but the lady of our Secretary
+of State, Mrs. Daniel Webster, would have it, that velvet covers were
+quite old-fashioned; and as ladies best know what will suit ladies, she
+was asked the favour to select the cover, and _I guess_ you will admire
+it.
+
+Now for the _freedom_ of America. Collins gave the Chair _free_
+passage. Edwards, Sandford and Co. conveyed the case to the ship, and
+will convey it from Liverpool to London, _free_. They are Express men,
+and thus do we "go a-head."
+
+
+
+
+CATHERINE HAYES AND FATHER MATHEW.
+
+
+G. W.'s Correspondent adds:--
+
+"I receive your 'Notes' regularly. The story about Katy Hayes in your
+November Number, p. 88, is somewhat embellished by '_your New York
+Special Reporter_.' I regret to tell you that she, poor girl, has quite
+_put her foot in it_ here, and I am afraid will return poorer than
+when she came. She or her agent or agents, pursued a silly course by,
+_it is said_, keeping almost open house to her countrymen at the Astor
+house, a very expensive hotel, where she ran up an enormous bill, and
+being unable to pay, the sheriff's officers carried off the receipts
+at some of her concerts--particularly that which she gave for that
+humbug hypocrite Father Mathew. There has been a great deal about it in
+our papers. Doctor Joy returned to England some time ago in disgust.
+Mathew absolutely had the temerity to make it appear that he could work
+miracles, _publicly_, in the face of a large Catholic congregation, by
+restoring the sick and lame to health!"
+
+
+
+
+ETHNOLOGY.--"G.W.'s New York Special Reporter," whose embellished style
+has been questioned in the preceding paragraph, states, that he has
+forwarded a pamphlet, for which he will be duly thanked when it is
+received, "giving an account of a _pretended_ journey to the city of
+Eximaya, in Central America, by an Englishman and two Spaniards, who
+are all 'gone dead.'" Observing that, "It is a good Arabian Night's
+hoax. You will see," he remarks, "the pamphlet is dated 1850, but the
+children have only been exhibited here this week. There is _no mistake_
+about them, they are evidently children of a distinct and unknown
+race, come from whence they will. The recession of their foreheads
+is extraordinary. Their heads are wonderfully small, and in exact
+proportion to their bodies and limbs. They are not dwarfs but pigmies;
+about twelve years of age, lively and playful. They are not at Barnum's
+Museum, but at the rooms of the Society Library, and are exciting very
+great attention."
+
+
+
+
+THE JARVIS LIBRARY SALE.
+
+
+This Sale, which has so long attracted the attention of American
+Bibliopoles, commenced on Tuesday, Nov. 4th. It was the means of
+drawing together agents for the most prominent Libraries in the United
+States. Among others, the following Colleges and Institutions were
+represented:--Smithsonian Institution, Harvard College, Yale College,
+General Theological Seminary of New York, College of New Jersey,
+Brown University, Rochester University, Andover Theological Seminary,
+New York State Library, New York Society Library, and the Historical
+Society of New York.
+
+The sale being the largest that ever took place in America, of any
+private library, the books brought fair prices. A volume of Tracts,
+containing the American Whig, &c. sold for 22 dollars 75 cents, to
+Bancroft, the historian. Byzantinæ Historiæ Scriptores, a unique
+set, containing a beautiful MS. translation of the third volume of
+Nicephorus Gregoras, sold for 475 dollars, to Prof. Ticknor, of Boston.
+Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, being the celebrated COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOTT,
+130 dollars, to the Rochester University. The Paris Polyglott, 100
+dollars, to Geo. Livermore, Esq. Boston. Vetus Testamentum Græcum,
+40 dollars, Harvard College. Muratori, 37 vols. folio, 207 dollars,
+to the Theological Seminary, New York. Cranmer's Bible, 26 dollars,
+to Rochester University. Tyndale's Translation of the Pentateuch, 41
+dollars, to John Wiley. Duchesne's Historical Collections, 24 dollars
+50 cents, to Brown University, &c. &c.
+
+
+
+
+THE PERIODICAL PRESS OF THE METHODISTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+
+The _Christian Advocate and Journal_ has a circulation of from 25 to
+29,000 copies. The _Missionary Advocate_ circulates 20,000 copies, and
+the _Sunday School Advocate_ no less than 65,000 copies, with a yearly
+sale of Sunday School Books amounting to upwards of £1000, or 5000
+dollars.
+
+
+
+
+"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE."
+
+
+GENERAL Morris, who is associated with Mr. N. P. Willis as Editor,
+and publisher of the "Home Journal," in New York, was, as all the
+world knows--or at least, as the United States ought to know, for it
+is something to be proud of to be possessed of a real living poet
+in these days--was the author of the words of a charming ballad,
+entitled, "Woodman, spare that Tree," which was sung effectively by an
+illustrious scion of the house of Russell. The parentage of this lyric
+having been claimed by a respectable Boston paper, (_The Sunday News_),
+on behalf of a deceased literary gentleman named Woodward, who is said,
+in an unguarded moment, to have pawned his reputation upon the Woodman,
+to the gallant General, for a glass of grog; the General indignantly
+repudiates the whole statement; repeating that, "a slander well hoed
+grows like the devil;" and labours to establish the fact, that the
+American General Morris is not to be by posterity identified with the
+English Captain of the same name--as a song writer.
+
+                                                            FUSBOS.
+
+
+
+THE BAWDRICK OR BALDROCK. (_Illustrated._)
+
+
+                              The Rectory, Clyst St. George, Topsham,
+                                             Jan. 2, 1852.
+
+SIR,--You are publishing, in your "Current Notes," some nice little
+cuts of interesting relics of antiquity, for which all who delight in
+such things must feel thankful to you.
+
+May I ask you to put into your cutter's hands the rough sketch which I
+send with this; and will you allow it to be introduced to the notice of
+your readers, as an illustration of the Bawdrick, or Baldrock, which
+is the leather gear, with its appurtenances of the upper part of the
+clapper in old black-letter bells, and about which your readers may
+have seen a discussion, with extracts from old Churchwarden's accounts,
+in another valuable periodical of like character to your own, but in
+which at present no illustrations of any kind are admitted. You will
+oblige one of your subscribers.
+
+                                                        H. T. E.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+SKETCH OF THE GEAR OF AN OLD BELL CLAPPER.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A. Crown Staple.
+
+B. Bawdrick or Baldrock of old Churchwarden's books, viz. stout white
+leather straps, shewing how fitted with intervening piece of _hard wood
+and pin_.
+
+C. Clapper, with stirrup top.
+
+D. "_Busk Board_" which at the lower end is tied round the stem of the
+clapper, and by the pin above keeps the wood and leather all steady
+together, and the clapper works or swings on the _crown_ staple, having
+leather on the upper side, and hard wood _under_.
+
+                                                         H. T. E.
+
+
+
+
+TURNBUCKLE AND LATCH.--The figure you have engraved on p. 91 of your
+December "Notes," as a _Turnbuckle_, is the common casement _latch_
+of the 17th century; which may be found attached to the iron frame of
+casement windows in many old farm houses.
+
+A latch is not a turnbuckle, and no ironmonger's apprentice would
+confound the two. A latch is a bar moving up and down in a limited
+space--or, if backwards and forwards, as in some locks--it is called
+the latch-bolt. A turnbuckle, as its name implies, turns round, and
+is only limited by the notch, &c. by which it holds. They are chiefly
+of two kinds: one is a spindle, with a knob or ring at one end, and
+a tongue or buckle at the other; another is a handle with a tongue
+attached, moving together freely round, upon a pin or rivets. This
+latter kind has taken the place of the casement latch represented in
+your "Current Notes" in present use.
+
+                       ONE WHO HAS BEEN AN IRONMONGER'S APPRENTICE.
+
+
+
+
+ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATIONS IN IRELAND.
+
+
+A small subscription, which was raised for the purpose of sustaining
+the failing walls of Buttevant Abbey, in the County of Cork, is about
+to be followed by Mr. Thomas Tobin, of Ballincollig, taking measures to
+uphold the Castle of Buttevant.
+
+The same good spirit animates Mr. Odell, the proprietor of Ardmore, in
+the County of Waterford, who has determined to preserve the west gable
+of the Old Church, which is covered over with figures that, according
+to Ryland's History of Waterford, "with a good imagination, and some
+knowledge of the ancient Scriptures, may be made to exhibit an epitome
+of the history of the Old Testament."
+
+
+
+
+THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
+
+
+                                                16th January, 1852.
+
+SIR,--If your refer to your "Current Notes" for April last, you will
+find engraved, at p. 27, a tobacco pipe, found when the Golden Lion Inn
+at Fulham was pulled down in April, 1836. Now, Sir, it appears to me
+that this drawing of mine has been copied, without acknowledgment, from
+your Notes, in the Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire
+and Cheshire, Session iii. 1850-51, to illustrate a paper by Andrew
+James Lamb, Esq. Plate IV. No. 14. If not, I humbly conceive that Mr.
+Lamb, or the Rev. Dr. Hume, the Secretary, on behalf of the Society,
+is bound to state where the original pipe which figures in their
+Transactions exists, and how and when Mr. Lamb obtained his drawing
+or knowledge of it. This alone can disprove the charge which I make
+against the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, of _copying
+without acknowledgment_, my sketch _from Willis's Notes_.
+
+                                                           T. M.
+
+
+
+
+ARCHÆOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.--In addition to those enumerated in G. W.'s
+"Current Notes" for December (p. 93), the first Number of "_Reliquiæ_
+Antiquæ Eboracenses, or Remains of Antiquities relating to York," has
+appeared.
+
+In answer to W. B.'s communications, G. W. conceives that the best mode
+of making a local work of this nature known, would be by a circular
+letter addressed to the resident Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of
+Yorkshire, soliciting their countenance and support.
+
+The information desired respecting the publications of the
+Archæological Societies named, may be obtained by W. B. addressing
+himself to their respective Secretaries, _viz._
+
+    M. A. LOWER, Esq., Lewes.
+    REV. DR. HUME, Liverpool.
+    WILLIAM AYRTON, Esq., Chester.
+    SAMUEL TYMMS, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds, and
+    HENRY HARROD, Esq., Norwich.
+
+
+
+
+SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
+
+
+Mr. Willis is informed with reference to a paragraph which appeared
+in his "Current Notes" for December, p. 93, that the Society of
+Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, whose issues have been suspended
+since 1846, will forthwith resume publishing.
+
+
+
+
+THE SLOGANS OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND have been published by Mr. G. B.
+Richardson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
+
+
+
+
+THE BRITISH MUSEUM.--A recent resolution of the Trustees of this
+National Establishment has been considered, in certain Antiquarian
+circles, to present "_a fair specimen of double-dealing_."
+
+                                         AN IRISH NUMISMATIST.
+
+
+
+
+AUTOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY.
+
+
+                                                   January 3rd, 1852.
+
+SIR,--I trust I shall not trespass upon the limits of your courtesy, if
+I beg your assistance with regard to the accompanying list of names,
+about whom I am anxious to gain any information as to dates of birth,
+death, or any subject of interest connected with the individuals.
+
+As I live in the country and have not the facility of access to a
+library for reference, I avail myself of the medium of your instructive
+and valuable publication, and beg to subscribe myself, with all good
+wishes,
+
+                                        Your obedient servant,
+                                                           ELLEN F.
+
+    Symonds' Inn.    24th April, 1787. Edward Montagu.
+                        No date. Marquis de Spinola.
+
+    St. Petersburg.  24th Jan. 1805. C. A. Pozzo di Borgo.
+                        No date. Geo. R. Collier, Commodore.
+
+    London.          13th March, 1820. W. Plumer.
+                     20th May, 1829. Jno. Bruce.
+                        No date. P. P. Jacob.
+
+
+
+
+ROWLAND HILL AND THE PENNY POSTAGE.
+
+
+The following is the commencement of a leading article on the Penny
+Postage, contained in the "_Times_," of Saturday, 9th August, 1851:--
+
+    "A traveller sauntering through the Lake districts of
+    England some years ago, arrived at a small public-house
+    just as the postman stopped to deliver a letter. A
+    young girl came out to receive it. She took it in her
+    hand, turned it over and over, and asked the charge.
+    It was a large sum--no less than a shilling. Sighing
+    heavily, she observed that it came from her brother,
+    but that she was too poor to take it in, and she
+    returned it to the postman accordingly. The traveller
+    was a man of kindness as well as of observation; he
+    offered to pay the postage himself, and in spite of
+    more reluctance on the girl's part than he could well
+    understand, he did pay it, and gave her the letter. No
+    sooner, however, was the postman's back turned, than
+    she confessed that the proceeding had been concerted
+    between her brother and herself, that the letter was
+    empty, that certain signs on the direction conveyed
+    all she wanted to know, and that as they could neither
+    of them afford to pay postage, they had devised this
+    method of franking the intelligence desired. The
+    traveller pursued his journey, and as he plodded over
+    the Cumberland fells, he mused upon the badness of a
+    system which drove people to such straits for means
+    of correspondence, and defeated its own object all
+    the time. With most men such musings would have ended
+    before the close of the hour, but this man's name was
+    ROWLAND HILL, and it was from this incident and these
+    reflections that the whole scheme of Penny Postage was
+    derived."
+
+I should be glad to know if there is any doubt as to the truth of this
+statement, as I fancied it had been contradicted. Could any of your
+Correspondents oblige me by giving me information on the subject, I
+should feel obliged.
+
+                                                             I. E.
+
+
+
+
+ENQUIRY.
+
+
+                                            Boston, January 15th, 1852.
+
+SIR,--I send you a query for "Current Notes."
+
+    "Robbed between Sun and Sun."
+
+Can any of your communicants favor me with the origin of this
+expression? It was employed to describe the late Revolution in Paris,
+by the "Examiner," and I have seen it as a quotation in a work of old
+date.
+
+                                                          Y. S. N.
+
+
+
+
+DENTAL SURGERY.--In the observations on the progress of Geography and
+Ethnology, by Mr. John Russell Bartlett, read at the Meeting of the New
+York Historical Society in November and December, 1846, it is mentioned
+that in the exploration of a tumuli carried on by Dr. M. W. Dickeson,
+in the South-western States, chiefly in Mississippi, although in some
+instances extending to Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, he found that
+Dentistry had been extensively practised by this ancient people, as
+plugging the teeth and inserting artificial ones, were common. In one
+instance five artificial teeth were found inserted in one subject.
+
+                                                         T. C. B.
+
+
+
+
+CAPPING A STORY.--Rogers, the poet, was fond of telling the story
+of a gentleman who lost a shilling in Covent Garden Market, just at
+the corner of the Great Piazza, and on his return from India some
+five-and-twenty years afterwards, on passing the spot where he supposed
+the loss had taken place, remembered the circumstance, and looking
+about him on the pavement, picked up his shilling. Here Rogers, in his
+own inimitable way of telling a story, would pause, and then add--"IN
+HALFPENCE, _wrapped up in paper_."
+
+"I knew the man," said a witty friend to the poet, "but you have
+forgotten the most singular point of the story about the recovery of
+this lost shilling _just at the door of Willis the bookseller's place
+of business_."
+
+"I thought it sufficiently odd," replied the poetical banker, "our
+friend having found his shilling after so long a period, and only wish
+that my lost notes may turn up again in the same unexpected and amusing
+manner--_that notes turn up to me from Willis_."
+
+"Then you must have heard the whole story, and the very remarkable fact
+to which I refer? That in the paper which contained the four-and-twenty
+halfpence he found another filled with farthings, the exact amount of
+which when calculated, proved to be that of compound interest upon the
+shilling for five-and-twenty years one month and thirteen days."
+
+Mr. Rogers has never since told the story.
+
+
+
+
+ROBERT HOBLYN.
+
+
+SIR,--Through the medium of your publication, can you tell me anything
+about "Robt. Hoblyn;" and what works he has published? I believe they
+were of a classical nature; and he was living in 1825.
+
+                                           Yours truly,
+                                                      A. K.
+
+  Jan. 2, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+A TRAVELLING NAME.--I have heard or read somewhere of a story about one
+of the authors of the "Rejected Addresses"--indeed, I now remember that
+he told it to me himself--how that he once travelled in a stage coach
+with a very agreeable old lady, who was well acquainted with London
+society, and with whom he conversed for a considerable time about
+various mutual friends and circumstances that could only be known to
+them, or to their immediate circle, with so much familiarity, that the
+old lady's curiosity being roused, she ventured to inquire his name.
+"James Smith, madam," was the reply. "Oh, that's your travelling name,
+is it? But it won't do for me."
+
+                                                                J.
+
+
+
+
+SMITH.--Has not some one written, or is not some one going to write, a
+history of the Smiths? It really might be made a very amusing book, and
+some one--I forget who--actually told me that "the far-famed Ruffian of
+the Adelphi," (O. S.) was collecting materials for or from such a book.
+I subscribe my real name--identify, if you can, Mr. Willis.
+
+                                                       JOHN SMITH.
+
+
+
+
+PILGRIM'S BADGE?--A Correspondent has kindly transmitted to G. W. a
+rubbing from which the annexed woodcut has been made, of a small brass
+ornament, found at Launde Abbey, in Leicestershire, which abbey or
+priory was founded by Rd. Basset, in the reign of Henry III. dissolved
+by Henry VIII., and Cromwell, Earl of Essex, had a grant of it. In
+the Chapel (all that remains of the Priory) is a monument to his son
+Gregory, Lord Cromwell, of the date of 1551. The ornament is supposed
+to be a Pilgrim's Badge, brought from Rome, and probably was buried
+with him.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                                                       M. C. S.
+
+  1st January, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+ANCIENT KEY.--I. D. is thanked for the drawing of an Ancient Key found
+in October last, in the parish of Stoke Holy Cross, near Warwick; but
+as no particular interest attaches to this key in an antiquarian point
+of view, it is not worth engraving.
+
+
+
+
+THE LIBERTY STONE IN CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL.--T. B. B. (Burnley, 1st
+December) thanked, but the space at G. W.'s command does not permit of
+his inserting the extract forwarded to him from the _Liverpool Albion_.
+
+
+
+
+PRINTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL AND "ST. LUKE'S DAY."
+
+
+A "Young Print and Portrait Collector" would be obliged by any
+explanation respecting a portrait of Oliver Cromwell, of an allegorical
+nature, surrounded by various emblems and devices, which evidently bear
+upon the events of his life. He is represented standing between two
+columns, in armour, with a wreath of laurel in place of a helmet. This
+print has neither name or date of any kind upon it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Another print is one marked published 1816, by J. T. Smith, called
+"St. Luke's day," a "poor painter removing;" is this intended as a
+caricature upon some artist of the time?
+
+  Jan. 6th, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+D. E., 47, _Blessington Street, Dublin,_ thanked for his suggestions.
+The R. I. A.--T. C. D. and the Dublin Society, however, cannot in the
+slightest degree influence the conduct of G. W.'s "Current Notes."
+
+If these learned bodies regard their own situation, they will not
+object to "any slang, coarseness, or Americanisms." They should
+rather reflect how much America has and _probably_ will teach young
+Ireland--BUT NOT _through_ their agency, as publishers.
+
+
+
+
+THE HOLY GRAHL, Δ. as confessedly "made up of quotations,"
+is an article not suited to G. W.'s "Current Notes."
+
+
+
+
+ADMISSION OF LITERARY INQUIRERS TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS.
+
+
+Regulations under which permission will be given to Literary Inquirers
+to make searches among the Public Records, without payment of fees,
+contained in a letter addressed by the Right Honourable Sir John
+Romilly, Master of the Rolls to Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., the Deputy
+Keeper of the Public Records: dated at the Rolls House, 4th December,
+1851:--
+
+1st. That the individuals seeking to avail themselves of the permission
+shall address a letter to the Deputy Keeper, stating generally their
+objects of research, so as to show that the applications are really
+and _bonâ fide_ for literary purposes, and that the applicant shall
+also attend the Deputy Keeper personally thereon, and give such further
+explanation as may be required; and that thereupon the Deputy Keeper
+shall, if he be satisfied with the statement and explanation, authorise
+the Assistant Keepers to allow the applicant to inspect such Indexes
+of Records, and also such Original Records, and to make such copies or
+extracts in pencil required by the applicant as the Deputy Keeper may
+think advisable.
+
+  This mode of proceeding, which is equally required for
+    the security of the Records, and for the protection of
+    the business searchers, will in fact be beneficial to
+    Literary Inquirers; for the more fully they explain
+    their objects, the better will the Deputy Keeper and
+    the other officers be able to direct them to the
+    documents which may be useful to them.
+
+2ndly. That all the applications before mentioned be entered in a book,
+and be reported to the Master of the Rolls.
+
+3rdly. That a book be kept at each branch office, in which the
+Assistant Keeper shall enter a note or particular of the Rolls,
+Records, Books, or Documents, called for, inspected, or used by the
+applicant, nearly in the same manner, _mutatis mutandis_, as is
+practised with respect to Manuscripts in the British Museum.
+
+  But this book is to be considered as confidential,
+    and not to be shown to the public without express
+    permission of the Master of the Rolls or Deputy Keeper.
+
+4thly. That, in case of any impropriety or abuse of the privilege, the
+Assistant Keepers do forthwith report the same to the Deputy Keeper, in
+order that he may bring the same before the Master of the Rolls.
+
+It will be necessary also to explain to the Literary Inquirers that
+the time of the various officers and other persons employed in the
+Public Record Office is so wholly engrossed by the performance of
+their present duties, that it will not be possible for the officers to
+assist any Literary Inquirers beyond the production of the documents,
+and giving a general explanation, if needed, of their character and
+nature. No applicant ought to present himself who is not sufficiently
+acquainted with the hand-writing, abbreviations, and language of
+ancient documents, so as to be able to read and decipher their contents.
+
+The Literary Inquirer will have free access to the documents, but, this
+being done, he will have to conduct the inquiry from these documents
+in such manner as his own knowledge and capacity may best enable him to
+do.
+
+
+
+
+_G. W. is informed that the reading Public are indebted to John Bruce,
+Esq., the Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, for this important
+concession on the part of the Master of the Rolls; and it has been
+suggested that a suitable testimonial should be presented to Mr. Bruce
+by those historical inquirers who are likely to derive such valuable
+aid from his exertions._
+
+                                                        F. S. A.
+
+
+
+
+LITERARY AUCTIONS.--That there is no lack of enthusiasm among amateurs
+for the possession of rare and curious works, is evidenced by the
+prices which some books of this class brought at a sale just concluded
+by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, being the first sale of importance
+this season. Among them may be noticed the following:
+
+ORLOGE (l') DE SAPIENCE, folio, _nouvellement imprimée à Paris_, 1493.
+A VERY SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF PRINTING ON VELLUM, _from the celebrated
+Press of_ VERARD, _ruled with red lines, bound in red morocco extra,
+gilt edges, by Bauzonnet, with a well made pigskin case to contain it_.
+
+Of this singular Ascetical Romance, M. Van Praet states that six
+copies are known as being printed on vellum: of these three are in the
+National Library at Paris, all of which are more or less adorned with
+miniatures, two of them, like the present, having the summary of the
+chapters (left blank for the insertion of the miniatures) written in
+a contemporary hand on the margins. The Harleian copy, afterwards in
+the collections of Count Macarthy and Mr. Hibbert, was adorned with
+thirteen miniatures: the present beautiful volume has SIXTEEN, the
+additional ones being at the commencement of the chapters, in which the
+same subjects are treated in a different manner. THE whole of the fine
+miniatures are in the best style of French art. THIS LOT SOLD FOR £45.
+
+
+
+
+Literary and Scientific Obituary.
+
+
+    CHILDREN, John George. Science. Late Secretary R.S.
+      Halstead, Kent.
+
+    GRAEFE, Dr. Christian. Greek and Roman Antiquities. St.
+      Petersburgh. 11th December.
+
+    JACOB, William. F.R.S. Political Economist. 31, Cadogan
+      Place. 17th December. Aged 89.
+
+    LUTTRELL, Henry. Wit and Poet. Brompton Square. 19th
+      December. Aged 86.
+
+    SADLIER, Rev. Dr. Provost, Trinity College, Dublin.
+      14th December.
+
+    STEEL, James. Editor and Proprietor Carlisle Journal.
+      Carlisle. 16th December. Aged 55.
+
+    TURNER, Joseph Mallord William. R.A. 47, Queen Anne
+      Street (Chelsea?). 19th December. Aged 76.
+
+    WARBURTON, Eliot. Historian and Novelist. Lost in the
+      wreck of the Amazon. 4th January.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January
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+Title: Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852
+
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+
+
+    WILLIS'S
+    CURRENT NOTES:
+
+    A SERIES OF ARTICLES
+    ON
+
+    Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language,
+    Literature, Topography, Curious Customs, &c.
+
+    SELECTED FROM
+    ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS
+    ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR
+    1852,
+
+    TO THE PUBLISHER,
+
+    G. WILLIS,
+    GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.
+    MDCCCLIII.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+ENTERING as we now are upon the publication of a third volume of the
+"Current Notes," the Second Volume of which we have herewith the
+pleasure of presenting in a complete form to the Public, our first
+duty as it is our pleasure is to thank our Subscribers most cordially
+for the very liberal support we have received from them during its
+progress. It is so seldom that the productions of the Customer and the
+Tradesman form part of the same Periodical, that it is no wonder if
+the Publisher of the "Current Notes" feels a little elated by seeing
+his humble efforts for the entertainment of the Public in such good
+company. But this patronage, so far from dulling his exertions in his
+legitimate pursuit--that of promoting the diffusion of Books in their
+widest extent--will only stimulate him to fresh efforts, and while he
+continues to place before his Customers the best Books, he trusts that
+they will be as liberal as hitherto in their contributions of _Current
+Notes_.
+
+The _Price Current of Literature_, indeed, now occupies a position
+distinct from that of any other Bookseller's Catalogue ever presented
+to the public, for it not only furnishes a monthly list of the
+principal New Publications, followed by a constant succession of
+Standard Works in every department of Ancient and Modern Literature,
+selected with care and judgment, but it likewise presents a medium for
+Literary Inquirers to prosecute their researches and interchange their
+opinions. Nor is this correspondence confined to our own land. From the
+Colonies and America, over which it ranges in its wide circulation,
+we continue to receive gratifying testimonials to its usefulness, as
+well as accessions to its columns, and have reason to believe it is
+duly appreciated by those whose favour it is our study to deserve and
+interest to secure.
+
+The aim of the publisher has been to establish a literary organ of
+communication amongst his numerous Subscribers and Friends, by inviting
+their correspondence, and throwing open his columns to their inquiries
+and suggestions, and thus by propounding queries, solving difficulties,
+and eliciting new facts, rendering some slight service to the cause
+of Historical and Literary Truth. So cordially have they responded
+to this invitation, that the task of selection has been sometimes
+a difficult, though always a pleasing one. If there have been any
+communications from Correspondents which have not met with due regard
+and consideration, it must be pleaded in apology that this miscellany
+of curious information necessarily embraces so wide a field, that in
+gathering in the harvest it is not surprising if a few ears of corn
+escape the gleaner's hand. If it be said that occasionally too much
+notice has been taken of "unconsidered trifles," and that the objects
+regarded were too minute and insignificant to justify the patient
+attention bestowed upon them; the saying of Dr. Johnson may be adopted
+as a justification, that "the man who removes the smallest obstacle in
+the pathway of Literature becomes its benefactor." History is built up
+of fragments as the pyramid is formed of single stones; and if we have
+only laid bare one doubtful point, or elucidated one novel fact,--if we
+have but stripped off the moss clinging to some ruined archway of the
+past, or decyphered one mouldering inscription,--then our work has been
+accomplished, and our toil repaid.
+
+The publisher wishes it to be distinctly understood that he is not
+the author of any representations or opinions which may appear in the
+_Current Notes_. Every statement, therefore, is open to correction
+or discussion, and the writers of the several paragraphs must be
+considered alone responsible for their assertions. Holding himself
+aloof from the bias of all personal interest or party feeling, the
+publisher can make due allowance for difference of opinion, and
+like heralds in the tournament, after proclaiming the titles of the
+respective champions, quietly retires and awaits the issue of the fray.
+If in the heat of this literary joust of arms, the combatants have
+broken spears somewhat too hotly, let it be remembered that he is only
+a spectator of the chivalrous feud--which, after all, has for its sole
+object the rescue of Truth, in the words of the old knightly motto,
+"sans tache et sans reproche."
+
+It is a mournful task to record the death of the gifted--to follow
+Genius to its grave. Our Obituary of the past year chronicles the death
+of many who were giants in the realms of thought, and whom the world of
+science and learning could ill afford to lose. WELLINGTON, of whom (as
+was said of Cæsar) it is difficult to decide whether he fought or wrote
+with the greater spirit; Eliot WARBURTON, the Historian and Novelist;
+MACGILLIVRAY, the Naturalist; SCROPE, the Deerstalker; JOHANNOT, the
+Artist; the gay and accomplished COUNT D'ORSAY; LANDSEER, the Engraver;
+MANTELL, the Geologist--are now numbered with the dead. PUGIN, too,
+has passed away--he, whose whole life was but one continued aspiration
+after the Beautiful in Christian Art; the harp of MOORE is silent, and
+awakens no echoes in the tomb.
+
+Upon one occurrence of the past year, however, the publisher has
+particularly to congratulate his Subscribers; namely the Free Trade
+movement which has broken up the monopoly of the Booksellers'
+Association, increased the sale of books, and imparted new vigour
+and activity to the cause of literature. Cheapness in the price of
+books becomes an important auxiliary in the diffusion of knowledge.
+It is not merely a trade, but a social question, on account of the
+power it possesses of advancing intellectual improvement. The thirst
+for knowledge must be considerably influenced by the means we have
+at hand to supply and satisfy its craving. Long before Lord Campbell
+pronounced his judgment, the publisher was impressed with the truth
+of these views, and had steadily adhered to them as the basis of his
+business. The recent Postal Regulations have also tended to facilitate
+the purchase of books. By their means he has been enabled not only to
+forward the _Price Current_ to his Subscribers at a trifling cost, but
+to execute and transmit orders from a thin pamphlet to a ponderous
+volume. Facilities of a like nature now exist for sending books to
+the Colonies; and instead of being obliged to forward as heretofore,
+even the smallest book as a package at a high charge for conveyance,
+any moderate-sized volume, if left open at the ends, will reach its
+destination in the letter-bags, at a very trifling cost.
+
+The publisher thinks it not inappropriate to reprint in this place the
+following NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
+
+    G. WILLIS begs to express his acknowledgments for
+    the numerous interesting communications which have
+    been forwarded to him, and will feel obliged by the
+    receipt of any original articles on subjects, either
+    of a literary or an antiquarian nature. Woodcuts,
+    illustrative of subjects requiring them, will be
+    executed at his expense.
+
+    All communications intended for insertion in the
+    "_Current Notes_" must be accompanied by the Writer's
+    real name and address, which are merely required as a
+    guarantee of his good faith, and not for publication,
+    except at his desire.
+
+While cordially reiterating the sentiments expressed in the first of
+the preceding paragraphs, the publisher can assure his Subscribers that
+the work, intended as a boon to themselves, has proved an equal source
+of gratification to him; and so, with mutual good wishes, trusts they
+may long continue, in the words of Milton, "with plain and lightsome
+brevity to relate well and orderly things worth the noting."
+
+
+
+
+INDEX.
+
+(_The Articles marked thus * are illustrated by wood engravings._)
+
+
+    Abracadabra, 22.
+    Adelgitha, 78, 88.
+    Advertisements, 56.
+    Albums, _see_ Hood, Hook, Shee, Southey.
+    Alchemists, 64, 75, 88.
+    Allegory of Mortality, 90.
+    American Eloquence, 69.
+      ----Go-a-Headism, 69, 87.
+      ----Improvement of English Language, 63.
+      ----Free Libraries, 96.
+      ----Shaksperian Club, 38.
+      ----Testimonial, _see_ Clarke.
+    *Antiquities, sale of, 27.
+    Apograph, 75.
+    Archæological Associations, 22, 58.
+    Archæological Publications, 6, 12, 25, 34, 35.
+      ----Societies, 29, 34.
+    Architectural Restorations, Ireland, 5.
+      *----Slang, 70.
+      ----Terms, 76.
+    Archiduc d'Autriche d'Este, 76.
+    Arctic Expedition, 32.
+    ****Arms of Isle of Man, 18, 79, 90, 91, 101, 102.
+    Ashbury, Joseph, 78, 93.
+    Assignats, 82, 83.
+    Athenæum, _see_ Eboracon.
+    Athens, _see_ Tomb.
+    Atlas of Epochs, 58, 71.
+    Auctions, Literary, 8.
+    *Author of Narrative of Transactions in British India, 75.
+    Autographic Biography, 6, 15, 31.
+    Autograph, _see_ Holograph.
+    *Autographs, Admiralty, 85.
+    Automaton Chess Player, 64, 71, 78, _see_ Advertisements.
+
+    Ballads, Rare, 100.
+    **Bawdrick, 5, 9.
+    Bibliomaniacs, _see_ Smith, Richard.
+    Blackwood's Magazine, 2, 12.
+    Blair's Monument, 31.
+    Bobart's Dragon, 53.
+    Boddington, Mrs. 31, 39.
+    Boccaccio's Decamerone, 31.
+    Bones, Fossil Human, 83.
+    Booksellers and Publishers, 38.
+      ----in Seventeenth Century, 97.
+    *Booth, Bishop, 67.
+      ----Family, 80.
+    Botany of the Bohereens, 88, _see_ Wild Flowers.
+    Brasses, Monumental, 2, 15, 29.
+    Brougham, Lord, on France, 39.
+    Brown, Dr. Thomas, _see_ Paradise of Coquettes.
+    Bruce, J. 8.
+    Burns's MSS. 96.
+
+    Campanalogia, 20.
+    Capping a story, 7.
+    Castle Cornet, 94.
+    Caussin's Holy Court, 2.
+    Cavendish, _see_ Wolsey.
+    *Chair, Ancient, 95.
+    Cheques, crossed, 58.
+    Chinese Literature, 87.
+    Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, 3, 13.
+    *Coins, 3, 21, 81, _see_ Phoenician--Hebrew Harp.
+    Coleridge, _see_ Penny Postage.
+    Copyright, American Opinion on, 34.
+    Coronation by a Pope, 98.
+    Cow Chase, 62.
+    Crabb, Mrs. 24.
+    Cromwell, Print of, 7, 15, 21, 30.
+    Current Notes and Americanisms, 7.
+
+    Daniel O'Rourke, 18, 55, 61, 73.
+    Darwin, _see_ Steam.
+    *Denham, W. 31, 36.
+    Dental Surgery, 6.
+    Devonshire Collection, _see_ Coins.
+    *Doorway in Woking Church, 33.
+    Dowden, Alderman, 79.
+
+    Earl St. Vincent's Motto, 73.
+    Eboracon, 69.
+    Eburacum, 58.
+    *Engraved portrait, 71, 75.
+    Engraving, 39.
+    Enquiry, 55.
+    Ethnology, 4, 9.
+    Evelyn, John, 90.
+    Execution of Charles I., Warrant for, 65.
+
+    Father Tom and the Pope, _see_ Blackwood.
+    Father Mathew, _see_ Hayes.
+    First Love, _see_ Scott.
+    Flags, _see_ Arctic Expedition.
+    Franks, 38, 74, 85, 98.
+    Fraser's Magazine, 2.
+    French Revolutionary Dates, 78, 82, 83.
+    **Fresco Paintings, 57, _see_ Mural.
+    Fribbleriad, 86.
+    F. W. W., To, 80.
+
+    *Gems, 63, _see_ Rhyming Legends.
+    Gent, Thomas, 94.
+    Gibson, Bishop, 22.
+    Gold Discoveries, 87.
+    **Golden Lion, Fulham, 28.
+    Grailey, John de, _see_ Enquiry.
+    Greene, General, 27.
+
+    Halliwell, _see_ Shakespeare.
+    Haunted House, 94, 99.
+    Hayes, Catherine, 4.
+    Healing the Sick, _see_ Rembrandt.
+    *Hebrew Harp, 25.
+    *Herbert, _see_ Massinger.
+    Heralds' College, _see_ Advertisements.
+    Highest Price for a volume, 20.
+    Hill, Rowland, 6.
+    Hoblyn, Richard, 11.
+      ----Robert, 7, 11.
+    Holograph, 55, 58, 72, 74, 75.
+    Holy Grahl, 7.
+    Hone, _see_ Parody.
+    Hood, Thomas, 2, 12, 66.
+    Hook, Theodore, 64, 94.
+    Human Progress, 68.
+
+    India, 71, 75, 84.
+    Information, 78.
+    Inscriptions, 23, 90.
+    Isle of Man, _see_ Arms.
+
+    Jewish Superstitions, 22.
+    Jokeby, 62.
+
+    Katy-did, 13.
+    Key, Ancient, 7.
+    Kilkenny Archæological Society, 34.
+    **King of Pamunkie, 99.
+
+    La Fayette, General, 27.
+    Laud, _see_ Ballads.
+    Lavers, the Bookseller, 11.
+    Lettres Cherakeesiennes, 72.
+    Liberty stone, Liverpool, 7.
+    Library, Jarvis, sale of, 4.
+    Lincolnshire, _see_ Brasses.
+    *Literary Residences, 49.
+    Lithography, 12, 23.
+    London Environs, _see_ Peel.
+    L'Orloge de Sapience, _see_ Auctions.
+    Lowth, W. _see_ Enquiry.
+
+    Mahon (Lord), 27, 70.
+    Mary, Queen of Scots, _see_ Ring.
+    Massinger, 54.
+    Meadley, G. W. 23, 37.
+    Methodists' Periodical Press, U. S., 4.
+    Middle Ages, 12.
+    Milton, _see_ Washington.
+    Mistletoe, 67.
+    Monogram, 23.
+      *----of Christ, 68.
+    Morris, General, _see_ Woodman.
+    Mummies, Mediæval, 17.
+    ***Mural Paintings, 66, 76, 77.
+    Museum, British, 6.
+
+    Nelson's Funeral, 83.
+    Noah, Sons of, 3.
+    Notes on the Notes, 71.
+    Notice to Correspondents, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 98,
+        104.
+      ----Subscribers, 1.
+    Nursery Rhymes, 76, 90.
+
+    Order of the Royal Oak, 33.
+    Obituary, Literary and Scientific, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72,
+        80, 88, 96, 104.
+
+    Packet Station, 58.
+    Paradise of Coquettes, 38, 55, 56.
+    Parody, 72, 95.
+    Pearle of Prayer, 62.
+    Peel, Sir Robert, Letter of, 1.
+    Penny Postage, 22, _see_ Hill.
+    Percy Society, 31, 39.
+    *Phoenician Coin, 51.
+    Pigmies, _see_ Ethnology.
+    *Pilgrim's Badge, 7, 53.
+    Popular Rhymes, 70.
+    Portland Castle, 65.
+    Prinsep, _see_ India.
+    Punch of the Commonwealth, 92.
+
+    Queries, 31.
+    **Querns, 59.
+    Records, Public Admission to, by literary Inquirers, 8.
+    Rembrandt, 38.
+    Rhyming Legends, 76.
+    Rhyming Tokens, 60, 80, 86.
+    Richard III., 3.
+    Richardson, Novelist, 63, _see_ Literary Residences.
+    *Ring of Mary Queen of Scots, 16, 23.
+    "Robbed between sun and sun," 6, 15, 62.
+    *Roman Remains at Ashtead, 21.
+
+    Saint Luke's Day, print of, 7.
+    Saldanha, Wreck of the, 35.
+    Sale of rare books, 16.
+    Scott's, Sir Walter, First Love, 95.
+    Scraps from America, 13.
+    *Seal of Whitgift's Hospital, 14.
+    Seasons, _see_ Arms of Isle of Man.
+    Segar, Sir W. 94, 103.
+    Sexagenarian, Beloe's, 87.
+    Shadoof, 12.
+    Shakespeare's Irishman, 31.
+      ----Bust, 38.
+      ----House subscription, 79.
+      ----lame, 87, 89.
+      ----New Edition, 57, 71, 82.
+      ----Society, 53.
+      ----Will, 38.
+    Shee, Sir Martin Archer, 78.
+    Sheridan, T. Verses by, _see_ Saldanha.
+    Shovel Board, 23, 37.
+    Signature Collectors, 75.
+    *Signet, ancient, 10.
+      ----*Punic, 38.
+    Slogans of the North, 6.
+    Smiths, History of the, 7.
+      ----James, 7, 20.
+      ----O., 20.
+      ----Richard, 103.
+      ----Roach, _see_ Pilgrim's Badge.
+    Smoking in the West of England, 95.
+    Snaith, F., to, _see_ Seasons.
+    Societies, Learned, 26, 64.
+    Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle, 6.
+      ----Scotland, 55.
+      ----Historical, of Lancashire and Cheshire, 5, 10, 19.
+    Southey on Albums, 55.
+    Sportsmen's Terms, 88.
+    Spunging House, 96.
+    State of France, _see_ Brougham.
+    Steam, Prophecy on, 87.
+    Sterne, 54.
+      ----*Autograph, 2, 12, 35.
+      ----Eugenius, 54, 61.
+    Superstitions: Cockney Land, 104.
+      ----Jewish, 22.
+    Sword, _see_ Wellington.
+    Symbol, 82.
+
+    Talavera, 83.
+    *Taw, 55, 62, 68.
+    Threlkeld, Dr., 63.
+    Tobacco, 19.
+    **Tokens, 11, 19, 30, 52, 76, 92;
+      _see_ Rhyming.
+    Tomb, English, at Athens, 40.
+      ----of St. Berichert, 3.
+    Travelling Name, 7, 16.
+    Treasure Trove, 36.
+    Tree at Pains Hill, 84.
+    Tristram Shandy, 35.
+    Tuckers of Lamerton, 103.
+    *Turkish Coin, _see_ Coin.
+    Turnbuckle, 5.
+    *Turner, Artist, 1, 10.
+
+    Uncle Tom's Cabin, 85.
+    Under the Rose, 58.
+    Union Jack, 20, 28, 29.
+
+    Veterans of Royal and Antiquarian Societies, 72.
+    Vincart, John, 55, 63.
+
+    Ward's Grand Rebellion, 2.
+    Warrant for Execution of Charles I., 65.
+    Washington, 94.
+    Waterloo, 84, 95, 99.
+    Wellbeloved, _see_ Eburacum.
+    Wellington, 84;
+      _see_ Tree.
+    *West Horseley Church, 86.
+    **Westons, 61, 67.
+    W(h)ig, 36.
+    Whitehall Reliques, 96.
+    *Wierx, 29, 39.
+    Wild Flowers, 70.
+    Wilkins, Sir Charles, 53, 78.
+    Wolsey, 15.
+    "Woodman, spare that tree," 4.
+    Worcester, Marquis of, 10.
+
+    Yankee Doodle, 26.
+
+
+
+
+
+  WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES
+  FOR THE MONTH.
+
+  No. XIII.]                               [JANUARY, 1852.
+  "I will make a prief of it in my Note-Book."--SHAKSPERE.
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
+
+TO THE "PRICE CURRENT OF LITERATURE."
+
+
+G. WILLIS gratefully acknowledges the various interesting documents
+and letters he has received. He is anxious that it should be perfectly
+understood that he is not the author of any statement, representation,
+or opinion, that may appear in his "Current Notes," which are merely
+selections from communications made to him in the course of his
+business, and which appear to him to merit attention. Every statement
+therefore is open to correction or discussion, and the writers of the
+several paragraphs should be considered as alone responsible for their
+assertions. Although many notes have hitherto appeared anonymously, or
+with initial letters, yet wherever a serious contradiction is involved,
+G. Willis trusts that his Correspondents will feel the necessity of
+allowing him to make use of their names when properly required.
+
+
+
+
+THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON.
+
+
+_Original Letter from the late Sir Robert Peel._
+
+                                            Whitehall, July 7th, 1840.
+
+MY DEAR SIR,
+
+Do not you think a very interesting work might be written, to be
+entitled an Historical Account of the celebrated Villas in the
+neighbourhood of London. I mean rather the Villas that have been--than
+those that now exist.
+
+Look at Horace Walpole's Song on Strawberry Hill. How many places are
+there mentioned which have historical recollections connected with
+them, which it would be worth preserving.
+
+There must be always great interest about the localities in the
+neighbourhood of the metropolis. In that song alone are mentioned
+
+    Gunnersbury,
+    Sion,
+    Chiswick,
+    Strawberry Hill,
+    Greenwich,
+    Marble Hill,
+    Oatlands,
+    Clermont,
+    Southcote,
+
+you might add Wanstead, Wimbledon, Holland House, and a hundred
+others--many with very curious anecdotes of local and personal history
+connected with them.
+
+Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a book would be read. I
+certainly do not, if it would equal that, with which I myself read the
+account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history,
+but the traces of which--many of which at least--are fast fading away;
+such as
+
+    Maisons,      Sceaux,
+    Meudon,       Chantilli,
+    &c.           &c.
+
+Hampton Court, the ancient Palace at Richmond, Kew, &c. &c. might enter
+into the work.
+
+                                         Very truly yours,
+                                                ROBERT PEEL.
+
+The County Histories would form a substratum for the work--but every
+thing would depend upon the liveliness and accuracy of the details.
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE J. M. W. TURNER, ESQ. R.A.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+SIR,--As it appears from the public Prints that the late eminent
+artist, J. M. W. Turner, never sat for his Portrait;--and the only
+likenesses of him were taken by stealth, I send you a rude sketch which
+I took of him in the same way, about the year 1805 or 6. He was then on
+a visit at Mr. Fawkes's, of Farnley, where a number of grouse shooters
+had assembled,--and Turner had adopted the garb of a sportsman. His
+appearance, as well as his exploits on the moors, were the subject of
+much mirth.
+
+One day we accompanied him on an excursion, for the purpose of taking a
+sketch of the magnificent scenery of Gordale, in Craven, from which he
+afterwards produced a finished painting.
+
+My rude sketch of his person was considered a characteristic
+resemblance at the time; and though it has the air of a caricature, yet
+was not meant as such when it was drawn.
+
+If you think it would interest the readers of your "Current Notes," you
+will perhaps give it as an illustration. If not, I will thank you to
+return it to me.
+
+                                             Yours, &c.
+                                                    I. T. A.
+
+
+
+
+MONUMENTAL BRASSES REMOVED FROM THE CHURCHES OF FULHAM AND CHELSEA.
+
+
+Mr. GEO. WILLIS,--Your Correspondent, under the head of "Antiquarian
+Sacrilege," (_Current Notes for December, p. 91,_) seems not to be
+aware that almost all Church Brasses, with very few exceptions, were
+torn from their places by the sectarian soldiers in Cromwell's time,
+who affected to consider such things idolatrous. They were for the
+most part sold for old brass, and some authority (I forget who at
+this moment), tells us that, in consequence of the number at one
+time brought into the market, the price of brass was decreased in
+proportion. There were very few Antiquaries in those days, consequently
+a very small number of these desecrated Brasses have been preserved,
+and for those we possess we are indebted to such men as Ashmole, Lilly,
+and others of that class, who, though sufficiently fantastic and
+visionary in their pursuits, were still men of some learning and taste.
+
+Some, if not the whole of the lots alluded to by your Correspondent,
+came into the possession of the late John Meyrick, Esq., through an
+ancestor of his wife, whose name was "Rush," and the only sacrilege
+committed by the late Mr. Meyrick seems to have been the preservation
+of these things from destruction.
+
+I have frequently heard the late Sir S. R. Meyrick mention these
+Brasses, and regret they were not in his possession.
+
+                                         ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS.
+
+
+
+
+STERNE'S AUTOGRAPH.
+
+
+MR. GEO. WILLIS,--I have never met with the fact in print, that some
+few of the first editions of Tristram Shandy have the autograph of the
+author at the head of the first chapter in some or one of the volumes,
+a facsimile of which, in the 7th volume of the copy in my possession, I
+send you.
+
+[Illustration: L. Sterne]
+
+Whether this was done for the gratification of Sterne's particular
+friends, or for what other purpose, I am ignorant; perhaps some of your
+correspondents can throw some light upon the subject.
+
+                                                          A. C. K.
+
+
+
+
+WARD'S "GRAND REBELLION."
+
+
+I was rejoiced at the first glance at F. C. B.'s communication (p. 88
+"Current Notes" for November), but doubts very soon arose, whether some
+oversight had not occurred in taking the portrait of _Robert_ Bertie,
+for that enquired after, which is _Montague_ Bertie. On turning to
+Granger I found this to be the case, for the portrait which F. C. B.
+has, is there given as _Robert_, so that I fear the right one remains
+yet _non est inventus_, for I do not consider "A Dealer," as speaking
+from any distinct recollection of such a portrait, which must be an
+8vo. one, whereas Faithorne's is in 4to.
+
+                                                              A.
+
+_Oak House._
+
+
+
+
+DATE OF THOMAS HOOD'S DEATH.
+
+
+    Dec. 26th, 1851.
+
+SIR,--I find, on referring to a biographical sketch added to an
+autograph of the late Thos. Hood, at the time of his death, that that
+event took place, as surmised by your correspondent C. ("Current
+Notes," p. 90), on 3rd May, 1845.
+
+                                         Yours obediently,
+                                                       S. S.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+Mrs. Fenwick observing in Willis's "Current Notes" that some one
+enquires when Hood died, she writes to say, he expired on the 3rd May,
+1845. The above information Mr. Willis may depend upon being correct,
+as it is from the late Mr. Hood's daughter, who is married to the Rev.
+S. Broderip, Rector of Cossington, Somersetshire.
+
+Three Rock Houses, Tenby, Jan. 15, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.--I. P. (Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851), writes to
+G. W.:
+
+
+"Can you tell me who contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1838,
+the pleasant paper, 'Father Tom and the Pope; or a Night at the
+Vatican?' The impression prevails here that it was written by Maginn."
+
+
+_It was understood at the time to be a Mr. Ferguson, a writer in some
+Dublin paper,--a Wexford man._
+
+                                                              F. M.
+
+
+
+
+FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
+
+
+SIR,--Your correspondent, A. K., ("Current Notes" for December, p.
+90), will find in Fraser's Magazine, No. 121, Vol. 21, a list of the
+portraits published in that periodical.
+
+                                                              A.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+CAUSSIN'S HOLY COURT.
+
+
+                                         Landscape Terrace, Cork,
+                                              Dec. 29. 1851.
+
+DEAR SIR,--For the information of your two correspondents, "A
+Subscriber," and "R. O. W." ("Current Notes" for December, p. 95),
+I beg to repeat my assertion that there was an edition of "The Holy
+Court," by N. Caussin, published in _Corke_. In fact, (if I mistake
+not), there were two editions, one in 1765, without plates; and one in
+1767, with very excellent plates. I can procure an imperfect copy of
+the former for either of your correspondents for one shilling; and a
+fine copy of the latter for thirty to thirty-five shillings, full calf,
+with plates.
+
+The work was printed in Broad-lane--(perhaps so called quasi "lucus a
+non lucendo," as the lane is certainly rather narrow)--and was very
+well got up. The date and place of printing are thus given in the first
+edition: Corke: "Printed anno Domini 1765."
+
+                                     I am, Sir, yours very truly,
+                                                       WM. C. NELIGAN.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE SONS OF NOAH.
+
+
+                                                        Dec. 22nd.
+
+SIR,--I have examined Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon with reference to O.
+S.--your correspondent's query, (see "Current Notes" for November, p.
+85), concerning Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and cannot discover the names
+to have any such primary meaning as was there ascribed to them; though
+perhaps by a little straining, and a few far-fetched ideas, such an
+interpretation might be given--but it is so wholly unworthy of any one
+to torture his imagination to suppose that the original signification
+of words should have been framed to suit a climate, that nothing more
+need be said.
+
+                                    I remain, Sir,
+                                         Your obedient servant,
+                                                           C. M. J.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+TURKISH COIN.
+
+
+    Southwick, near Oundle,
+    Jan. 1st. 1852.
+
+SIR,--In Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, vol. 2. p. 379,
+there is a coin illustrated thus: "5. supposed ancient Jewish coin,
+representing drums." Kitto gives his authorities at the end of the
+article on Musical Instruments.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Allow me to give the figure of the coin, and its interpretation:
+
+Read from left to right, the letters, or rather words, are: S F T R Ch
+N: in Turkish it reads, _The Boundary of the Turks_; and the two drum
+sticks ! are the pillars of Hercules, or the Calpe columna, and the
+Abyla columna.--_N.B._ The _S_ (for _sh_) is a Cuneiform letter.
+
+                                                T. R. BROWN.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+THE DEVONSHIRE COLLECTION.--In reply to the inquiry of Mr. Willis's
+correspondent, "A Young Numismatist," ("Current Notes" for December, p.
+95), he is informed that the Duke of Devonshire's Collection of Coins
+was sold by auction a few years ago, and produced a very inconsiderable
+sum, to the surprise of everybody. This was accounted for by the
+manner in which the Coins were catalogued. It was well known as "The
+Devonshire Collection."
+
+                                                       S. H. H.
+
+
+
+
+DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB OF ST. BERICHERT, OR, BERECHTUNE.--Mr. Windele
+the local historian of Cork, has circulated among his friends a
+Lithographic drawing of this very interesting monument, which he found
+at Tullilease, a small hamlet on the border of the Counties of Cork
+and Limerick, within a mile of Dromcolleher. The tomb is a much more
+highly ornate specimen of an ancient cross than any of those engraved
+in Dr. Petrie's work on the Round Towers of Ireland. At Tullilease
+there are the ruins of an old Romanesque church, which was dedicated to
+St. Berichert or Berihert, a Saxon, whose name is now Anglicised into
+Benjamin, and whose death is recorded at A.D. 839, in the Four Masters.
+The Legend on the stone is in Latin, (but very sorry Latin), and in
+the Irish character. It reads, "QUICUNQUE (for æ) HUNC TITULUM LEGERIT
+ORAT (for _orate_ or _oret_) PRO BERECHTUNE." On the upper part of the
+stone, in one corner, are the letters p[=p]s or pp[=s].
+
+
+
+
+RICHARD III.
+
+
+                                                 January 10th, 1852.
+
+SIR,--All our historians assert that Richard, Duke of Glo'ster paved
+his way to the crown by bastardizing, imprisoning, and assassinating
+his two nephews, Edward Prince of Wales and Richard Duke of York. How
+then are we to account for the provision made in the Wardrobe Roll
+for the Coronation of Richard III., July 3rd, 1483, (published in the
+Antiquarian Repertory, Vol. I. p. 29, 1807;) "_The deliveree of divers
+Stuff delivered for the use of Lorde Edwarde, son of late Kyng Edward
+the Fourthe, and of his Henxemen?_" Then follows a particular account
+of the materials for the "_apparaill and array_" of "_Prince Edward_"
+and his "_Henxemen_." Was he really present at his uncle's coronation?
+There is no mention of the Duke of York. The Declaration of Tyrrell and
+Dighton, published in the ensuing reign by Henry VII., says, the young
+princes were murdered in July, 1483. If the words did not expressly
+state "_Edwarde, son of late Kyng Edwarde the Fourthe_," I should have
+concluded that it meant Richard III.'s own son Edward, by Lady Ann
+Nivelle, at that time about nine years of age.
+
+                                          Yours, &c.      O. S.
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN TESTIMONIAL TO MRS. COWDEN CLARKE.
+
+
+                                       New York, 13th December, 1851.
+
+About the time you receive this, you will probably hear of an American
+testimonial to that amiable woman, Mrs. Cowden Clarke, to be presented
+to her by the American Minister, Mr. Abbot Lawrence, in the name of the
+subscribers, at the head of whom stands America's greatest and best
+statesman, Daniel Webster.
+
+This testimonial is in the shape of a magnificent Rosewood Library
+Chair, richly carved, and covered with the finest French Satin Brocade.
+It is at this moment _on_ the Atlantic, _in_ the "Atlantic," and
+insured by the Atlantic Insurance Company, for three hundred dollars.
+
+As THE FAME OF SHAKSPERE is world-wide, subscriptions of five
+dollars each came in from all parts of the American Union--from
+the most northerly of all, Maine,--to Mexico. From Wisconsin,
+in the _far_-far-FAR West, to the shores of the Pacific, at San
+Francisco--they are thousands of miles apart from each other.
+
+Why have you left it to us poor Yankees "to take the wind out of your
+sails," in presenting a testimonial to the authoress of the Concordance
+to Shakspere? Mr. Payne Collier, and such like dear fellows, who know
+so many eminent wealthy literati, ought, _now_ that we have set you the
+example, to get up a subscription, and present Mrs. Clarke with some
+better Shaksperean testimonial than a Chair! What say you to a 'FIRST'
+Best Bed? But if the hangings of it beat our satin brocade cover, why
+I'll hang myself in despair--no I won't, but I'll eat it--bed--feathers
+and all. The Chair was to have been covered with the richest silk Genoa
+velvet, of a regal scarlet or crimson, but the lady of our Secretary
+of State, Mrs. Daniel Webster, would have it, that velvet covers were
+quite old-fashioned; and as ladies best know what will suit ladies, she
+was asked the favour to select the cover, and _I guess_ you will admire
+it.
+
+Now for the _freedom_ of America. Collins gave the Chair _free_
+passage. Edwards, Sandford and Co. conveyed the case to the ship, and
+will convey it from Liverpool to London, _free_. They are Express men,
+and thus do we "go a-head."
+
+
+
+
+CATHERINE HAYES AND FATHER MATHEW.
+
+
+G. W.'s Correspondent adds:--
+
+"I receive your 'Notes' regularly. The story about Katy Hayes in your
+November Number, p. 88, is somewhat embellished by '_your New York
+Special Reporter_.' I regret to tell you that she, poor girl, has quite
+_put her foot in it_ here, and I am afraid will return poorer than
+when she came. She or her agent or agents, pursued a silly course by,
+_it is said_, keeping almost open house to her countrymen at the Astor
+house, a very expensive hotel, where she ran up an enormous bill, and
+being unable to pay, the sheriff's officers carried off the receipts
+at some of her concerts--particularly that which she gave for that
+humbug hypocrite Father Mathew. There has been a great deal about it in
+our papers. Doctor Joy returned to England some time ago in disgust.
+Mathew absolutely had the temerity to make it appear that he could work
+miracles, _publicly_, in the face of a large Catholic congregation, by
+restoring the sick and lame to health!"
+
+
+
+
+ETHNOLOGY.--"G.W.'s New York Special Reporter," whose embellished style
+has been questioned in the preceding paragraph, states, that he has
+forwarded a pamphlet, for which he will be duly thanked when it is
+received, "giving an account of a _pretended_ journey to the city of
+Eximaya, in Central America, by an Englishman and two Spaniards, who
+are all 'gone dead.'" Observing that, "It is a good Arabian Night's
+hoax. You will see," he remarks, "the pamphlet is dated 1850, but the
+children have only been exhibited here this week. There is _no mistake_
+about them, they are evidently children of a distinct and unknown
+race, come from whence they will. The recession of their foreheads
+is extraordinary. Their heads are wonderfully small, and in exact
+proportion to their bodies and limbs. They are not dwarfs but pigmies;
+about twelve years of age, lively and playful. They are not at Barnum's
+Museum, but at the rooms of the Society Library, and are exciting very
+great attention."
+
+
+
+
+THE JARVIS LIBRARY SALE.
+
+
+This Sale, which has so long attracted the attention of American
+Bibliopoles, commenced on Tuesday, Nov. 4th. It was the means of
+drawing together agents for the most prominent Libraries in the United
+States. Among others, the following Colleges and Institutions were
+represented:--Smithsonian Institution, Harvard College, Yale College,
+General Theological Seminary of New York, College of New Jersey,
+Brown University, Rochester University, Andover Theological Seminary,
+New York State Library, New York Society Library, and the Historical
+Society of New York.
+
+The sale being the largest that ever took place in America, of any
+private library, the books brought fair prices. A volume of Tracts,
+containing the American Whig, &c. sold for 22 dollars 75 cents, to
+Bancroft, the historian. Byzantinæ Historiæ Scriptores, a unique
+set, containing a beautiful MS. translation of the third volume of
+Nicephorus Gregoras, sold for 475 dollars, to Prof. Ticknor, of Boston.
+Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, being the celebrated COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOTT,
+130 dollars, to the Rochester University. The Paris Polyglott, 100
+dollars, to Geo. Livermore, Esq. Boston. Vetus Testamentum Græcum,
+40 dollars, Harvard College. Muratori, 37 vols. folio, 207 dollars,
+to the Theological Seminary, New York. Cranmer's Bible, 26 dollars,
+to Rochester University. Tyndale's Translation of the Pentateuch, 41
+dollars, to John Wiley. Duchesne's Historical Collections, 24 dollars
+50 cents, to Brown University, &c. &c.
+
+
+
+
+THE PERIODICAL PRESS OF THE METHODISTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+
+The _Christian Advocate and Journal_ has a circulation of from 25 to
+29,000 copies. The _Missionary Advocate_ circulates 20,000 copies, and
+the _Sunday School Advocate_ no less than 65,000 copies, with a yearly
+sale of Sunday School Books amounting to upwards of £1000, or 5000
+dollars.
+
+
+
+
+"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE."
+
+
+GENERAL Morris, who is associated with Mr. N. P. Willis as Editor,
+and publisher of the "Home Journal," in New York, was, as all the
+world knows--or at least, as the United States ought to know, for it
+is something to be proud of to be possessed of a real living poet
+in these days--was the author of the words of a charming ballad,
+entitled, "Woodman, spare that Tree," which was sung effectively by an
+illustrious scion of the house of Russell. The parentage of this lyric
+having been claimed by a respectable Boston paper, (_The Sunday News_),
+on behalf of a deceased literary gentleman named Woodward, who is said,
+in an unguarded moment, to have pawned his reputation upon the Woodman,
+to the gallant General, for a glass of grog; the General indignantly
+repudiates the whole statement; repeating that, "a slander well hoed
+grows like the devil;" and labours to establish the fact, that the
+American General Morris is not to be by posterity identified with the
+English Captain of the same name--as a song writer.
+
+                                                            FUSBOS.
+
+
+
+THE BAWDRICK OR BALDROCK. (_Illustrated._)
+
+
+                              The Rectory, Clyst St. George, Topsham,
+                                             Jan. 2, 1852.
+
+SIR,--You are publishing, in your "Current Notes," some nice little
+cuts of interesting relics of antiquity, for which all who delight in
+such things must feel thankful to you.
+
+May I ask you to put into your cutter's hands the rough sketch which I
+send with this; and will you allow it to be introduced to the notice of
+your readers, as an illustration of the Bawdrick, or Baldrock, which
+is the leather gear, with its appurtenances of the upper part of the
+clapper in old black-letter bells, and about which your readers may
+have seen a discussion, with extracts from old Churchwarden's accounts,
+in another valuable periodical of like character to your own, but in
+which at present no illustrations of any kind are admitted. You will
+oblige one of your subscribers.
+
+                                                        H. T. E.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+SKETCH OF THE GEAR OF AN OLD BELL CLAPPER.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A. Crown Staple.
+
+B. Bawdrick or Baldrock of old Churchwarden's books, viz. stout white
+leather straps, shewing how fitted with intervening piece of _hard wood
+and pin_.
+
+C. Clapper, with stirrup top.
+
+D. "_Busk Board_" which at the lower end is tied round the stem of the
+clapper, and by the pin above keeps the wood and leather all steady
+together, and the clapper works or swings on the _crown_ staple, having
+leather on the upper side, and hard wood _under_.
+
+                                                         H. T. E.
+
+
+
+
+TURNBUCKLE AND LATCH.--The figure you have engraved on p. 91 of your
+December "Notes," as a _Turnbuckle_, is the common casement _latch_
+of the 17th century; which may be found attached to the iron frame of
+casement windows in many old farm houses.
+
+A latch is not a turnbuckle, and no ironmonger's apprentice would
+confound the two. A latch is a bar moving up and down in a limited
+space--or, if backwards and forwards, as in some locks--it is called
+the latch-bolt. A turnbuckle, as its name implies, turns round, and
+is only limited by the notch, &c. by which it holds. They are chiefly
+of two kinds: one is a spindle, with a knob or ring at one end, and
+a tongue or buckle at the other; another is a handle with a tongue
+attached, moving together freely round, upon a pin or rivets. This
+latter kind has taken the place of the casement latch represented in
+your "Current Notes" in present use.
+
+                       ONE WHO HAS BEEN AN IRONMONGER'S APPRENTICE.
+
+
+
+
+ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATIONS IN IRELAND.
+
+
+A small subscription, which was raised for the purpose of sustaining
+the failing walls of Buttevant Abbey, in the County of Cork, is about
+to be followed by Mr. Thomas Tobin, of Ballincollig, taking measures to
+uphold the Castle of Buttevant.
+
+The same good spirit animates Mr. Odell, the proprietor of Ardmore, in
+the County of Waterford, who has determined to preserve the west gable
+of the Old Church, which is covered over with figures that, according
+to Ryland's History of Waterford, "with a good imagination, and some
+knowledge of the ancient Scriptures, may be made to exhibit an epitome
+of the history of the Old Testament."
+
+
+
+
+THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
+
+
+                                                16th January, 1852.
+
+SIR,--If your refer to your "Current Notes" for April last, you will
+find engraved, at p. 27, a tobacco pipe, found when the Golden Lion Inn
+at Fulham was pulled down in April, 1836. Now, Sir, it appears to me
+that this drawing of mine has been copied, without acknowledgment, from
+your Notes, in the Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire
+and Cheshire, Session iii. 1850-51, to illustrate a paper by Andrew
+James Lamb, Esq. Plate IV. No. 14. If not, I humbly conceive that Mr.
+Lamb, or the Rev. Dr. Hume, the Secretary, on behalf of the Society,
+is bound to state where the original pipe which figures in their
+Transactions exists, and how and when Mr. Lamb obtained his drawing
+or knowledge of it. This alone can disprove the charge which I make
+against the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, of _copying
+without acknowledgment_, my sketch _from Willis's Notes_.
+
+                                                           T. M.
+
+
+
+
+ARCHÆOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.--In addition to those enumerated in G. W.'s
+"Current Notes" for December (p. 93), the first Number of "_Reliquiæ_
+Antiquæ Eboracenses, or Remains of Antiquities relating to York," has
+appeared.
+
+In answer to W. B.'s communications, G. W. conceives that the best mode
+of making a local work of this nature known, would be by a circular
+letter addressed to the resident Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of
+Yorkshire, soliciting their countenance and support.
+
+The information desired respecting the publications of the
+Archæological Societies named, may be obtained by W. B. addressing
+himself to their respective Secretaries, _viz._
+
+    M. A. LOWER, Esq., Lewes.
+    REV. DR. HUME, Liverpool.
+    WILLIAM AYRTON, Esq., Chester.
+    SAMUEL TYMMS, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds, and
+    HENRY HARROD, Esq., Norwich.
+
+
+
+
+SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
+
+
+Mr. Willis is informed with reference to a paragraph which appeared
+in his "Current Notes" for December, p. 93, that the Society of
+Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, whose issues have been suspended
+since 1846, will forthwith resume publishing.
+
+
+
+
+THE SLOGANS OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND have been published by Mr. G. B.
+Richardson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
+
+
+
+
+THE BRITISH MUSEUM.--A recent resolution of the Trustees of this
+National Establishment has been considered, in certain Antiquarian
+circles, to present "_a fair specimen of double-dealing_."
+
+                                         AN IRISH NUMISMATIST.
+
+
+
+
+AUTOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY.
+
+
+                                                   January 3rd, 1852.
+
+SIR,--I trust I shall not trespass upon the limits of your courtesy, if
+I beg your assistance with regard to the accompanying list of names,
+about whom I am anxious to gain any information as to dates of birth,
+death, or any subject of interest connected with the individuals.
+
+As I live in the country and have not the facility of access to a
+library for reference, I avail myself of the medium of your instructive
+and valuable publication, and beg to subscribe myself, with all good
+wishes,
+
+                                        Your obedient servant,
+                                                           ELLEN F.
+
+    Symonds' Inn.    24th April, 1787. Edward Montagu.
+                        No date. Marquis de Spinola.
+
+    St. Petersburg.  24th Jan. 1805. C. A. Pozzo di Borgo.
+                        No date. Geo. R. Collier, Commodore.
+
+    London.          13th March, 1820. W. Plumer.
+                     20th May, 1829. Jno. Bruce.
+                        No date. P. P. Jacob.
+
+
+
+
+ROWLAND HILL AND THE PENNY POSTAGE.
+
+
+The following is the commencement of a leading article on the Penny
+Postage, contained in the "_Times_," of Saturday, 9th August, 1851:--
+
+    "A traveller sauntering through the Lake districts of
+    England some years ago, arrived at a small public-house
+    just as the postman stopped to deliver a letter. A
+    young girl came out to receive it. She took it in her
+    hand, turned it over and over, and asked the charge.
+    It was a large sum--no less than a shilling. Sighing
+    heavily, she observed that it came from her brother,
+    but that she was too poor to take it in, and she
+    returned it to the postman accordingly. The traveller
+    was a man of kindness as well as of observation; he
+    offered to pay the postage himself, and in spite of
+    more reluctance on the girl's part than he could well
+    understand, he did pay it, and gave her the letter. No
+    sooner, however, was the postman's back turned, than
+    she confessed that the proceeding had been concerted
+    between her brother and herself, that the letter was
+    empty, that certain signs on the direction conveyed
+    all she wanted to know, and that as they could neither
+    of them afford to pay postage, they had devised this
+    method of franking the intelligence desired. The
+    traveller pursued his journey, and as he plodded over
+    the Cumberland fells, he mused upon the badness of a
+    system which drove people to such straits for means
+    of correspondence, and defeated its own object all
+    the time. With most men such musings would have ended
+    before the close of the hour, but this man's name was
+    ROWLAND HILL, and it was from this incident and these
+    reflections that the whole scheme of Penny Postage was
+    derived."
+
+I should be glad to know if there is any doubt as to the truth of this
+statement, as I fancied it had been contradicted. Could any of your
+Correspondents oblige me by giving me information on the subject, I
+should feel obliged.
+
+                                                             I. E.
+
+
+
+
+ENQUIRY.
+
+
+                                            Boston, January 15th, 1852.
+
+SIR,--I send you a query for "Current Notes."
+
+    "Robbed between Sun and Sun."
+
+Can any of your communicants favor me with the origin of this
+expression? It was employed to describe the late Revolution in Paris,
+by the "Examiner," and I have seen it as a quotation in a work of old
+date.
+
+                                                          Y. S. N.
+
+
+
+
+DENTAL SURGERY.--In the observations on the progress of Geography and
+Ethnology, by Mr. John Russell Bartlett, read at the Meeting of the New
+York Historical Society in November and December, 1846, it is mentioned
+that in the exploration of a tumuli carried on by Dr. M. W. Dickeson,
+in the South-western States, chiefly in Mississippi, although in some
+instances extending to Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, he found that
+Dentistry had been extensively practised by this ancient people, as
+plugging the teeth and inserting artificial ones, were common. In one
+instance five artificial teeth were found inserted in one subject.
+
+                                                         T. C. B.
+
+
+
+
+CAPPING A STORY.--Rogers, the poet, was fond of telling the story
+of a gentleman who lost a shilling in Covent Garden Market, just at
+the corner of the Great Piazza, and on his return from India some
+five-and-twenty years afterwards, on passing the spot where he supposed
+the loss had taken place, remembered the circumstance, and looking
+about him on the pavement, picked up his shilling. Here Rogers, in his
+own inimitable way of telling a story, would pause, and then add--"IN
+HALFPENCE, _wrapped up in paper_."
+
+"I knew the man," said a witty friend to the poet, "but you have
+forgotten the most singular point of the story about the recovery of
+this lost shilling _just at the door of Willis the bookseller's place
+of business_."
+
+"I thought it sufficiently odd," replied the poetical banker, "our
+friend having found his shilling after so long a period, and only wish
+that my lost notes may turn up again in the same unexpected and amusing
+manner--_that notes turn up to me from Willis_."
+
+"Then you must have heard the whole story, and the very remarkable fact
+to which I refer? That in the paper which contained the four-and-twenty
+halfpence he found another filled with farthings, the exact amount of
+which when calculated, proved to be that of compound interest upon the
+shilling for five-and-twenty years one month and thirteen days."
+
+Mr. Rogers has never since told the story.
+
+
+
+
+ROBERT HOBLYN.
+
+
+SIR,--Through the medium of your publication, can you tell me anything
+about "Robt. Hoblyn;" and what works he has published? I believe they
+were of a classical nature; and he was living in 1825.
+
+                                           Yours truly,
+                                                      A. K.
+
+  Jan. 2, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+A TRAVELLING NAME.--I have heard or read somewhere of a story about one
+of the authors of the "Rejected Addresses"--indeed, I now remember that
+he told it to me himself--how that he once travelled in a stage coach
+with a very agreeable old lady, who was well acquainted with London
+society, and with whom he conversed for a considerable time about
+various mutual friends and circumstances that could only be known to
+them, or to their immediate circle, with so much familiarity, that the
+old lady's curiosity being roused, she ventured to inquire his name.
+"James Smith, madam," was the reply. "Oh, that's your travelling name,
+is it? But it won't do for me."
+
+                                                                J.
+
+
+
+
+SMITH.--Has not some one written, or is not some one going to write, a
+history of the Smiths? It really might be made a very amusing book, and
+some one--I forget who--actually told me that "the far-famed Ruffian of
+the Adelphi," (O. S.) was collecting materials for or from such a book.
+I subscribe my real name--identify, if you can, Mr. Willis.
+
+                                                       JOHN SMITH.
+
+
+
+
+PILGRIM'S BADGE?--A Correspondent has kindly transmitted to G. W. a
+rubbing from which the annexed woodcut has been made, of a small brass
+ornament, found at Launde Abbey, in Leicestershire, which abbey or
+priory was founded by Rd. Basset, in the reign of Henry III. dissolved
+by Henry VIII., and Cromwell, Earl of Essex, had a grant of it. In
+the Chapel (all that remains of the Priory) is a monument to his son
+Gregory, Lord Cromwell, of the date of 1551. The ornament is supposed
+to be a Pilgrim's Badge, brought from Rome, and probably was buried
+with him.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                                                       M. C. S.
+
+  1st January, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+ANCIENT KEY.--I. D. is thanked for the drawing of an Ancient Key found
+in October last, in the parish of Stoke Holy Cross, near Warwick; but
+as no particular interest attaches to this key in an antiquarian point
+of view, it is not worth engraving.
+
+
+
+
+THE LIBERTY STONE IN CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL.--T. B. B. (Burnley, 1st
+December) thanked, but the space at G. W.'s command does not permit of
+his inserting the extract forwarded to him from the _Liverpool Albion_.
+
+
+
+
+PRINTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL AND "ST. LUKE'S DAY."
+
+
+A "Young Print and Portrait Collector" would be obliged by any
+explanation respecting a portrait of Oliver Cromwell, of an allegorical
+nature, surrounded by various emblems and devices, which evidently bear
+upon the events of his life. He is represented standing between two
+columns, in armour, with a wreath of laurel in place of a helmet. This
+print has neither name or date of any kind upon it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Another print is one marked published 1816, by J. T. Smith, called
+"St. Luke's day," a "poor painter removing;" is this intended as a
+caricature upon some artist of the time?
+
+  Jan. 6th, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+D. E., 47, _Blessington Street, Dublin,_ thanked for his suggestions.
+The R. I. A.--T. C. D. and the Dublin Society, however, cannot in the
+slightest degree influence the conduct of G. W.'s "Current Notes."
+
+If these learned bodies regard their own situation, they will not
+object to "any slang, coarseness, or Americanisms." They should
+rather reflect how much America has and _probably_ will teach young
+Ireland--BUT NOT _through_ their agency, as publishers.
+
+
+
+
+THE HOLY GRAHL, [Greek: Delta]. as confessedly "made up of quotations,"
+is an article not suited to G. W.'s "Current Notes."
+
+
+
+
+ADMISSION OF LITERARY INQUIRERS TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS.
+
+
+Regulations under which permission will be given to Literary Inquirers
+to make searches among the Public Records, without payment of fees,
+contained in a letter addressed by the Right Honourable Sir John
+Romilly, Master of the Rolls to Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., the Deputy
+Keeper of the Public Records: dated at the Rolls House, 4th December,
+1851:--
+
+1st. That the individuals seeking to avail themselves of the permission
+shall address a letter to the Deputy Keeper, stating generally their
+objects of research, so as to show that the applications are really
+and _bonâ fide_ for literary purposes, and that the applicant shall
+also attend the Deputy Keeper personally thereon, and give such further
+explanation as may be required; and that thereupon the Deputy Keeper
+shall, if he be satisfied with the statement and explanation, authorise
+the Assistant Keepers to allow the applicant to inspect such Indexes
+of Records, and also such Original Records, and to make such copies or
+extracts in pencil required by the applicant as the Deputy Keeper may
+think advisable.
+
+  This mode of proceeding, which is equally required for
+    the security of the Records, and for the protection of
+    the business searchers, will in fact be beneficial to
+    Literary Inquirers; for the more fully they explain
+    their objects, the better will the Deputy Keeper and
+    the other officers be able to direct them to the
+    documents which may be useful to them.
+
+2ndly. That all the applications before mentioned be entered in a book,
+and be reported to the Master of the Rolls.
+
+3rdly. That a book be kept at each branch office, in which the
+Assistant Keeper shall enter a note or particular of the Rolls,
+Records, Books, or Documents, called for, inspected, or used by the
+applicant, nearly in the same manner, _mutatis mutandis_, as is
+practised with respect to Manuscripts in the British Museum.
+
+  But this book is to be considered as confidential,
+    and not to be shown to the public without express
+    permission of the Master of the Rolls or Deputy Keeper.
+
+4thly. That, in case of any impropriety or abuse of the privilege, the
+Assistant Keepers do forthwith report the same to the Deputy Keeper, in
+order that he may bring the same before the Master of the Rolls.
+
+It will be necessary also to explain to the Literary Inquirers that
+the time of the various officers and other persons employed in the
+Public Record Office is so wholly engrossed by the performance of
+their present duties, that it will not be possible for the officers to
+assist any Literary Inquirers beyond the production of the documents,
+and giving a general explanation, if needed, of their character and
+nature. No applicant ought to present himself who is not sufficiently
+acquainted with the hand-writing, abbreviations, and language of
+ancient documents, so as to be able to read and decipher their contents.
+
+The Literary Inquirer will have free access to the documents, but, this
+being done, he will have to conduct the inquiry from these documents
+in such manner as his own knowledge and capacity may best enable him to
+do.
+
+
+
+
+_G. W. is informed that the reading Public are indebted to John Bruce,
+Esq., the Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, for this important
+concession on the part of the Master of the Rolls; and it has been
+suggested that a suitable testimonial should be presented to Mr. Bruce
+by those historical inquirers who are likely to derive such valuable
+aid from his exertions._
+
+                                                        F. S. A.
+
+
+
+
+LITERARY AUCTIONS.--That there is no lack of enthusiasm among amateurs
+for the possession of rare and curious works, is evidenced by the
+prices which some books of this class brought at a sale just concluded
+by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, being the first sale of importance
+this season. Among them may be noticed the following:
+
+ORLOGE (l') DE SAPIENCE, folio, _nouvellement imprimée à Paris_, 1493.
+A VERY SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF PRINTING ON VELLUM, _from the celebrated
+Press of_ VERARD, _ruled with red lines, bound in red morocco extra,
+gilt edges, by Bauzonnet, with a well made pigskin case to contain it_.
+
+Of this singular Ascetical Romance, M. Van Praet states that six
+copies are known as being printed on vellum: of these three are in the
+National Library at Paris, all of which are more or less adorned with
+miniatures, two of them, like the present, having the summary of the
+chapters (left blank for the insertion of the miniatures) written in
+a contemporary hand on the margins. The Harleian copy, afterwards in
+the collections of Count Macarthy and Mr. Hibbert, was adorned with
+thirteen miniatures: the present beautiful volume has SIXTEEN, the
+additional ones being at the commencement of the chapters, in which the
+same subjects are treated in a different manner. THE whole of the fine
+miniatures are in the best style of French art. THIS LOT SOLD FOR £45.
+
+
+
+
+Literary and Scientific Obituary.
+
+
+    CHILDREN, John George. Science. Late Secretary R.S.
+      Halstead, Kent.
+
+    GRAEFE, Dr. Christian. Greek and Roman Antiquities. St.
+      Petersburgh. 11th December.
+
+    JACOB, William. F.R.S. Political Economist. 31, Cadogan
+      Place. 17th December. Aged 89.
+
+    LUTTRELL, Henry. Wit and Poet. Brompton Square. 19th
+      December. Aged 86.
+
+    SADLIER, Rev. Dr. Provost, Trinity College, Dublin.
+      14th December.
+
+    STEEL, James. Editor and Proprietor Carlisle Journal.
+      Carlisle. 16th December. Aged 55.
+
+    TURNER, Joseph Mallord William. R.A. 47, Queen Anne
+      Street (Chelsea?). 19th December. Aged 76.
+
+    WARBURTON, Eliot. Historian and Novelist. Lost in the
+      wreck of the Amazon. 4th January.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h1>
+WILLIS'S<br />
+CURRENT NOTES:</h1>
+
+<div class='center'>A SERIES OF ARTICLES<br /><br />
+ON<br />
+<br />
+<b><big>Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language,<br />
+Literature, Topography, Curious Customs, &amp;c.</big></b><br />
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+SELECTED FROM<br />
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+ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR<br /><br />
+<b>1852,</b><br />
+<br />
+TO THE PUBLISHER,<br />
+<br />
+G. WILLIS,<br />
+GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.
+<small>MDCCCLIII.</small>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a><br /><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+
+<div>
+  <img class="drop-cap" src="images/fig003.png" width="349" height="282" alt="E" />
+</div>
+<p class="drop-cap">ENTERING as we now are upon the publication of
+a third volume of the "Current Notes," the
+Second Volume of which we have herewith the
+pleasure of presenting in a complete form to
+the Public, our first duty as it is our pleasure
+is to thank our Subscribers most cordially for
+the very liberal support we have received from
+them during its progress. It is so seldom
+that the productions of the Customer and the
+Tradesman form part of the same Periodical, that it is no wonder if the Publisher
+of the "Current Notes" feels a little elated by seeing his humble efforts for the
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+dulling his exertions in his legitimate pursuit&mdash;that of promoting the diffusion of Books
+in their widest extent&mdash;will only stimulate him to fresh efforts, and while he continues
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+<p>The <i>Price Current of Literature</i>, indeed, now occupies a position distinct from that
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+circulation, we continue to receive gratifying testimonials to its usefulness, as well as
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+
+<p>The aim of the publisher has been to establish a literary organ of communication
+amongst his numerous Subscribers and Friends, by inviting their correspondence, and
+throwing open his columns to their inquiries and suggestions, and thus by propounding
+queries, solving difficulties, and eliciting new facts, rendering some slight service to the
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+that the task of selection has been sometimes a difficult, though always a pleasing one.
+If there have been any communications from Correspondents which have not met with due
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+the saying of Dr. Johnson may be adopted as a justification, that "the man who
+removes the smallest obstacle in the pathway of Literature becomes its benefactor."
+History is built up of fragments as the pyramid is formed of single stones; and
+if we have only laid bare one doubtful point, or elucidated one novel fact,&mdash;if we
+have but stripped off the moss clinging to some ruined archway of the past, or
+decyphered one mouldering inscription,&mdash;then our work has been accomplished, and our
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+
+<p>The publisher wishes it to be distinctly understood that he is not the author of any
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+of this literary joust of arms, the combatants have broken spears somewhat too hotly,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span>
+let it be remembered that he is only a spectator of the chivalrous feud&mdash;which, after all,
+has for its sole object the rescue of Truth, in the words of the old knightly motto, "sans
+tache et sans reproche."</p>
+
+<p>It is a mournful task to record the death of the gifted&mdash;to follow Genius to its
+grave. Our Obituary of the past year chronicles the death of many who were giants in
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+<span class="smcap">Macgillivray</span>, the Naturalist; <span class="smcap">Scrope</span>, the Deerstalker; <span class="smcap">Johannot</span>, the Artist; the
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+Geologist&mdash;are now numbered with the dead. <span class="smcap">Pugin</span>, too, has passed away&mdash;he, whose
+whole life was but one continued aspiration after the Beautiful in Christian Art; the
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+
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+congratulate his Subscribers; namely the Free Trade movement which has broken up the
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+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The publisher thinks it not inappropriate to reprint in this place the following
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+
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+
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+
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+name and address, which are merely required as a guarantee of his good faith, and not for publication, except at his
+desire.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>While cordially reiterating the sentiments expressed in the first of the preceding
+paragraphs, the publisher can assure his Subscribers that the work, intended as a boon
+to themselves, has proved an equal source of gratification to him; and so, with mutual
+good wishes, trusts they may long continue, in the words of Milton, "with plain and
+lightsome brevity to relate well and orderly things worth the noting."</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>INDEX.</h2>
+
+<div class='center'>(<i>The Articles marked thus * are illustrated by wood engravings.</i>)</div>
+
+
+<div><br />
+Abracadabra, 22.<br />
+Adelgitha, 78, 88.<br />
+<a id="Advertisements"></a>Advertisements, 56.<br />
+Albums, <i>see</i> <a href="#Hood">Hood</a>, <a href="#Hook">Hook</a>, <a href="#Shee">Shee</a>, <a href="#Southey">Southey</a>.<br />
+Alchemists, 64, 75, 88.<br />
+Allegory of Mortality, 90.<br />
+American Eloquence, 69.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Go-a-Headism, 69, 87.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Improvement of English Language, 63.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Free Libraries, 96.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Shaksperian Club, 38.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Testimonial, <i>see</i> <a href="#Clarke">Clarke</a>.</span><br />
+*Antiquities, sale of, 27.<br />
+Apograph, 75.<br />
+Archæological Associations, 22, 58.<br />
+Archæological Publications, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, 12, 25, 34, 35.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Societies, 29, 34.</span><br />
+Architectural Restorations, Ireland, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">*&mdash;&mdash;Slang, 70.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Terms, 76.</span><br />
+Archiduc d'Autriche d'Este, 76.<br />
+<a id="Arctic_Expedition"></a>Arctic Expedition, 32.<br />
+****<a id="Arms_of_Isle_of_Man"></a>Arms of Isle of Man, 18, 79, 90, 91, 101, 102.<br />
+Ashbury, Joseph, 78, 93.<br />
+Assignats, 82, 83.<br />
+Athenæum, <i>see</i> <a href="#Eboracon">Eboracon</a>.<br />
+Athens, <i>see</i> <a href="#Tomb">Tomb</a>.<br />
+Atlas of Epochs, 58, 71.<br />
+<a id="Auctions"></a>Auctions, Literary, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.<br />
+*Author of Narrative of Transactions in British India, 75.<br />
+Autographic Biography, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, 15, 31.<br />
+Autograph, <i>see</i> <a href="#Holograph">Holograph</a>.<br />
+*Autographs, Admiralty, 85.<br />
+Automaton Chess Player, 64, 71, 78, <i>see</i> <a href="#Advertisements">Advertisements</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<a id="Ballads"></a>Ballads, Rare, 100.<br />
+**Bawdrick, 5, 9.<br />
+Bibliomaniacs, <i>see</i> <a href="#Richard">Smith, Richard</a>.<br />
+<a id="Blackwood"></a>Blackwood's Magazine, <a href="#Page_2">2</a>, 12.<br />
+Blair's Monument, 31.<br />
+Bobart's Dragon, 53.<br />
+Boddington, Mrs. 31, 39.<br />
+Boccaccio's Decamerone, 31.<br />
+Bones, Fossil Human, 83.<br />
+Booksellers and Publishers, 38.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;in Seventeenth Century, 97.</span><br />
+*Booth, Bishop, 67.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Family, 80.</span><br />
+Botany of the Bohereens, 88, <i>see</i> <a href="#Wild_Flowers">Wild Flowers</a>.<br />
+<a id="Brasses"></a>Brasses, Monumental, <a href="#Page_2">2</a>, 15, 29.<br />
+<a id="Brougham"></a>Brougham, Lord, on France, 39.<br />
+Brown, Dr. Thomas, <i>see</i> <a href="#Paradise_of_Coquettes">Paradise of Coquettes</a>.<br />
+Bruce, J., <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.<br />
+Burns's MSS. 96.<br />
+<br />
+Campanalogia, 20.<br />
+Capping a story, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+Castle Cornet, 94.<br />
+Caussin's Holy Court, <a href="#Page_2">2</a>.<br />
+Cavendish, <i>see</i> <a href="#Wolsey">Wolsey</a>.<br />
+*Chair, Ancient, 95.<br />
+Cheques, crossed, 58.<br />
+Chinese Literature, 87.<br />
+<a id="Clarke"></a>Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>, 13.<br />
+*<a id="Coins"></a>Coins, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>, 21, 81, <i>see</i> <a href="#Phoenician_Coin">Ph&oelig;nician</a>&mdash;<a href="#Hebrew_Harp">Hebrew Harp</a>.<br />
+Coleridge, <i>see</i> <a href="#Penny_Postage">Penny Postage</a>.<br />
+Copyright, American Opinion on, 34.<br />
+Coronation by a Pope, 98.<br />
+Cow Chase, 62.<br />
+Crabb, Mrs. 24.<br />
+Cromwell, Print of, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, 15, 21, 30.<br />
+Current Notes and Americanisms, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Daniel O'Rourke, 18, 55, 61, 73.<br />
+Darwin, <i>see</i> <a href="#Steam">Steam</a>.<br />
+*Denham, W. 31, 36.<br />
+Dental Surgery, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+Devonshire Collection, <i>see</i> <a href="#Coins">Coins</a>.<br />
+*Doorway in Woking Church, 33.<br />
+Dowden, Alderman, 79.<br />
+<br />
+Earl St. Vincent's Motto, 73.<br />
+<a id="Eboracon"></a>Eboracon, 69.<br />
+<a id="Eburacum"></a>Eburacum, 58.<br />
+*Engraved portrait, 71, 75.<br />
+Engraving, 39.<br />
+<a id="Enquiry"></a>Enquiry, 55.<br />
+<a id="Ethnology"></a>Ethnology, <a href="#Page_4">4</a>, 9.<br />
+Evelyn, John, 90.<br />
+Execution of Charles I., Warrant for, 65.<br />
+<br />
+Father Tom and the Pope, <i>see</i> <a href="#Blackwood">Blackwood</a>.<br />
+Father Mathew, <i>see</i> <a href="#Hayes">Hayes</a>.<br />
+First Love, <i>see</i> <a href="#Scott">Scott</a>.<br />
+Flags, <i>see</i> <a href="#Arctic_Expedition">Arctic Expedition</a>.<br />
+Franks, 38, 74, 85, 98.<br />
+Fraser's Magazine, <a href="#Page_2">2</a>.<br />
+French Revolutionary Dates, 78, 82, 83.<br />
+**Fresco Paintings, 57, <i>see</i> <a href="#Mural">Mural</a>.<br />
+Fribbleriad, 86.<br />
+F. W. W., To, 80.<br />
+<br />
+*Gems, 63, <i>see</i> <a href="#Rhyming_Legends">Rhyming Legends</a>.<br />
+Gent, Thomas, 94.<br />
+Gibson, Bishop, 22.<br />
+Gold Discoveries, 87.<br />
+**Golden Lion, Fulham, 28.<br />
+Grailey, John de, <i>see</i> <a href="#Enquiry">Enquiry</a>.<br />
+Greene, General, 27.<br />
+<br />
+Halliwell, <i>see</i> <a href="#Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>.<br />
+Haunted House, 94, 99.<br />
+<a id="Hayes"></a>Hayes, Catherine, <a href="#Page_4">4</a>.<br />
+Healing the Sick, <i>see</i> <a href="#Rembrandt">Rembrandt</a>.<br />
+*<a id="Hebrew_Harp"></a>Hebrew Harp, 25.<br />
+*Herbert, <i>see</i> <a href="#Massinger">Massinger</a>.<br />
+Heralds' College, <i>see</i> <a href="#Advertisements">Advertisements</a>.<br />
+Highest Price for a volume, 20.<br />
+<a id="Hill"></a>Hill, Rowland, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+Hoblyn, Richard, 11.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Robert, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, 11.</span><br />
+<a id="Holograph"></a>Holograph, 55, 58, 72, 74, 75.<br />
+Holy Grahl, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+Hone, <i>see</i> <a href="#Parody">Parody</a>.<br />
+<a id="Hood"></a>Hood, Thomas, <a href="#Page_2">2</a>, 12, 66.<br />
+<a id="Hook"></a>Hook, Theodore, 64, 94.<br />
+Human Progress, 68.<br />
+<br />
+<a id="India"></a>India, 71, 75, 84.<br />
+Information, 78.<br />
+Inscriptions, 23, 90.<br />
+Isle of Man, <i>see</i> <a href="#Arms_of_Isle_of_Man">Arms</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Jewish Superstitions, 22.<br />
+Jokeby, 62.<br />
+<br />
+Katy-did, 13.<br />
+Key, Ancient, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+Kilkenny Archæological Society, 34.<br />
+**King of Pamunkie, 99.<br />
+<br />
+La Fayette, General, 27.<br />
+Laud, <i>see</i> <a href="#Ballads">Ballads</a>.<br />
+Lavers, the Bookseller, 11.<br />
+Lettres Cherakeesiennes, 72.<br />
+Liberty stone, Liverpool, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</a></span>Library, Jarvis, sale of, <a href="#Page_4">4</a>.<br />
+Lincolnshire, <i>see</i> <a href="#Brasses">Brasses</a>.<br />
+*<a id="Literary_Residences"></a>Literary Residences, 49.<br />
+Lithography, 12, 23.<br />
+London Environs, <i>see</i> <a href="#Peel">Peel</a>.<br />
+L'Orloge de Sapience, <i>see</i> <a href="#Auctions">Auctions</a>.<br />
+Lowth, W. <i>see</i> <a href="#Enquiry">Enquiry</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Mahon (Lord), 27, 70.<br />
+Mary, Queen of Scots, <i>see</i> <a href="#Ring">Ring</a>.<br />
+<a id="Massinger"></a>Massinger, 54.<br />
+Meadley, G. W. 23, 37.<br />
+Methodists' Periodical Press, U. S., <a href="#Page_4">4</a>.<br />
+Middle Ages, 12.<br />
+Milton, <i>see</i> <a href="#Washington">Washington</a>.<br />
+Mistletoe, 67.<br />
+Monogram, 23.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">*&mdash;&mdash;of Christ, 68.</span><br />
+Morris, General, <i>see</i> <a href="#Woodman">Woodman</a>.<br />
+Mummies, Mediæval, 17.<br />
+***<a id="Mural"></a>Mural Paintings, 66, 76, 77.<br />
+Museum, British, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Nelson's Funeral, 83.<br />
+Noah, Sons of, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>.<br />
+Notes on the Notes, 71.<br />
+Notice to Correspondents, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 98, 104.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Subscribers, <a href="#Page_1">1</a>.</span><br />
+Nursery Rhymes, 76, 90.<br />
+<br />
+Order of the Royal Oak, 33.<br />
+Obituary, Literary and Scientific, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104.<br />
+<br />
+Packet Station, 58.<br />
+<a id="Paradise_of_Coquettes"></a>Paradise of Coquettes, 38, 55, 56.<br />
+<a id="Parody"></a>Parody, 72, 95.<br />
+Pearle of Prayer, 62.<br />
+<a id="Peel"></a>Peel, Sir Robert, Letter of, <a href="#Page_1">1</a>.<br />
+<a id="Penny_Postage"></a>Penny Postage, 22, <i>see</i> <a href="#Hill">Hill</a>.<br />
+Percy Society, 31, 39.<br />
+*<a id="Phoenician_Coin"></a>Ph&oelig;nician Coin, 51.<br />
+Pigmies, <i>see</i> <a href="#Ethnology">Ethnology</a>.<br />
+*<a id="Pilgrims_Badge"></a>Pilgrim's Badge, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, 53.<br />
+Popular Rhymes, 70.<br />
+Portland Castle, 65.<br />
+Prinsep, <i>see</i> <a href="#India">India</a>.<br />
+Punch of the Commonwealth, 92.<br />
+<br />
+Queries, 31.<br />
+**Querns, 59.<br />
+Records, Public Admission to, by literary Inquirers, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>.<br />
+<a id="Rembrandt"></a>Rembrandt, 38.<br />
+<a id="Rhyming_Legends"></a>Rhyming Legends, 76.<br />
+<a id="Rhyming_Tokens"></a>Rhyming Tokens, 60, 80, 86.<br />
+Richard III., <a href="#Page_3">3</a>.<br />
+Richardson, Novelist, 63, <i>see</i> <a href="#Literary_Residences">Literary Residences</a>.<br />
+*<a id="Ring"></a>Ring of Mary Queen of Scots, 16, 23.<br />
+"Robbed between sun and sun," <a href="#Page_6">6</a>, 15, 62.<br />
+*Roman Remains at Ashtead, 21.<br />
+<br />
+Saint Luke's Day, print of, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+<a id="Saldanha"></a>Saldanha, Wreck of the, 35.<br />
+Sale of rare books, 16.<br />
+<a id="Scott"></a>Scott's, Sir Walter, First Love, 95.<br />
+Scraps from America, 13.<br />
+*Seal of Whitgift's Hospital, 14.<br />
+<a id="Seasons"></a>Seasons, <i>see</i> Arms of Isle of Man.<br />
+Segar, Sir W. 94, 103.<br />
+Sexagenarian, Beloe's, 87.<br />
+Shadoof, 12.<br />
+<a id="Shakespeare"></a>Shakespeare's Irishman, 31.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Bust, 38.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;House subscription, 79.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;lame, 87, 89.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;New Edition, 57, 71, 82.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Society, 53.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Will, 38.</span><br />
+<a id="Shee"></a>Shee, Sir Martin Archer, 78.<br />
+Sheridan, T. Verses by, <i>see</i> <a href="#Saldanha">Saldanha</a>.<br />
+Shovel Board, 23, 37.<br />
+Signature Collectors, 75.<br />
+*Signet, ancient, 10.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;*Punic, 38.</span><br />
+Slogans of the North, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+Smiths, History of the, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;James, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, 20.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;O., 20.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;<a id="Richard"></a>Richard, 103.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Roach, <i>see</i> <a href="#Pilgrims_Badge">Pilgrim's Badge</a>.</span><br />
+Smoking in the West of England, 95.<br />
+Snaith, F., to, <i>see</i> <a href="#Seasons">Seasons</a>.<br />
+Societies, Learned, 26, 64.<br />
+Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle, <a href="#Page_6">6</a>.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Scotland, 55.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Historical, of Lancashire and Cheshire, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>, 10, 19.</span><br />
+<a id="Southey"></a>Southey on Albums, 55.<br />
+Sportsmen's Terms, 88.<br />
+Spunging House, 96.<br />
+State of France, <i>see</i> <a href="#Brougham">Brougham</a>.<br />
+<a id="Steam"></a>Steam, Prophecy on, 87.<br />
+Sterne, 54.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;*Autograph, <a href="#Page_2">2</a>, 12, 35.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Eugenius, 54, 61.</span><br />
+Superstitions: Cockney Land, 104.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;Jewish, 22.</span><br />
+Sword, <i>see</i> <a href="#Wellington">Wellington</a>.<br />
+Symbol, 82.<br />
+<br />
+Talavera, 83.<br />
+*Taw, 55, 62, 68.<br />
+Threlkeld, Dr., 63.<br />
+Tobacco, 19.<br />
+**Tokens, 11, 19, 30, 52, 76, 92;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>see</i> <a href="#Rhyming_Tokens">Rhyming</a>.</span><br />
+<a id="Tomb"></a>Tomb, English, at Athens, 40.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">&mdash;&mdash;of St. Berichert, <a href="#Page_3">3</a>.</span><br />
+Travelling Name, <a href="#Page_7">7</a>, 16.<br />
+Treasure Trove, 36.<br />
+<a id="Tree"></a>Tree at Pains Hill, 84.<br />
+Tristram Shandy, 35.<br />
+Tuckers of Lamerton, 103.<br />
+*Turkish Coin, <i>see</i> <a href="#Coins">Coin</a>.<br />
+Turnbuckle, <a href="#Page_5">5</a>.<br />
+*Turner, Artist, <a href="#Page_1">1</a>, 10.<br />
+<br />
+Uncle Tom's Cabin, 85.<br />
+Under the Rose, 58.<br />
+Union Jack, 20, 28, 29.<br />
+<br />
+Veterans of Royal and Antiquarian Societies, 72.<br />
+Vincart, John, 55, 63.<br />
+<br />
+Ward's Grand Rebellion, <a href="#Page_2">2</a>.<br />
+Warrant for Execution of Charles I., 65.<br />
+<a id="Washington"></a>Washington, 94.<br />
+Waterloo, 84, 95, 99.<br />
+Wellbeloved, <i>see</i> <a href="#Eburacum">Eburacum</a>.<br />
+<a id="Wellington"></a>Wellington, 84;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>see</i> <a href="#Tree">Tree</a>.</span><br />
+*West Horseley Church, 86.<br />
+**Westons, 61, 67.<br />
+W(h)ig, 36.<br />
+Whitehall Reliques, 96.<br />
+*Wierx, 29, 39.<br />
+<a id="Wild_Flowers"></a>Wild Flowers, 70.<br />
+Wilkins, Sir Charles, 53, 78.<br />
+<a id="Wolsey"></a>Wolsey, 15.<br />
+"<a id="Woodman"></a>Woodman, spare that tree," <a href="#Page_4">4</a>.<br />
+Worcester, Marquis of, 10.<br />
+<br />
+Yankee Doodle, 26.<br />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<div class='bbox'>
+<div class='maintitle'>WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES<br />
+<small>FOR THE MONTH.</small></div>
+<br />
+<div class='center'>No. XIII.] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; "I will make a prief of it in my Note-Book."&mdash;<span class="smcap">Shakspere.</span>  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  [<span class="smcap">January, 1852.</span><br />
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS</h2>
+
+<div class='center'><span class="smcap">To the "Price Current of Literature."</span></div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">G. Willis</span> gratefully acknowledges the various interesting
+documents and letters he has received. He is anxious
+that it should be perfectly understood that he is not the
+author of any statement, representation, or opinion, that
+may appear in his "Current Notes," which are merely selections
+from communications made to him in the course of
+his business, and which appear to him to merit attention.
+Every statement therefore is open to correction or discussion,
+and the writers of the several paragraphs should be
+considered as alone responsible for their assertions. Although
+many notes have hitherto appeared anonymously,
+or with initial letters, yet wherever a serious contradiction
+is involved, G. Willis trusts that his Correspondents will
+feel the necessity of allowing him to make use of their
+names when properly required.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2>THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON.</h2>
+
+
+<div class='center'><i>Original Letter from the late Sir Robert Peel.</i><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class='right'>
+Whitehall, July 7th, 1840.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">My dear Sir</span>,</p>
+
+<p>Do not you think a very interesting work
+might be written, to be entitled an Historical Account
+of the celebrated Villas in the neighbourhood of London.
+I mean rather the Villas that have been&mdash;than those
+that now exist.</p>
+
+<p>Look at Horace Walpole's Song on Strawberry Hill.
+How many places are there mentioned which have historical
+recollections connected with them, which it
+would be worth preserving.</p>
+
+<p>There must be always great interest about the localities
+in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. In that
+song alone are mentioned</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Gunnersbury,</li>
+<li>Sion,</li>
+<li>Chiswick,</li>
+<li>Strawberry Hill,</li>
+<li>Greenwich,</li>
+<li>Marble Hill,</li>
+<li>Oatlands,</li>
+<li>Clermont,</li>
+<li>Southcote,</li>
+</ul>
+
+<div class='unidnent'>you might add Wanstead, Wimbledon, Holland House,
+and a hundred others&mdash;many with very curious anecdotes
+of local and personal history connected with them.</div>
+
+<p>Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a
+book would be read. I certainly do not, if it would
+equal that, with which I myself read the account of
+places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in
+history, but the traces of which&mdash;many of which at
+least&mdash;are fast fading away; such as</p>
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="places in Paris">
+<tr><td align="left">Maisons,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left">Sceaux,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Meudon,</td><td align="left">Chantilli,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">&amp;c.</td><td align="center">&amp;c.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p>Hampton Court, the ancient Palace at Richmond, Kew,
+&amp;c. &amp;c. might enter into the work.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Very truly yours,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;"><span class="smcap">Robert Peel.</span></span><br />
+</div>
+
+<p>The County Histories would form a substratum for
+the work&mdash;but every thing would depend upon the liveliness
+and accuracy of the details.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">The late J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R.A.</span></h2>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 249px;">
+<img src="images/fig009.png" width="249" height="449" alt="Drawing: Standing man with paintbrush and palette" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;As it
+appears from the
+public Prints
+that the late
+eminent artist,
+J. M. W. Turner,
+never sat for
+his Portrait;&mdash;and
+the only
+likenesses of
+him were taken
+by stealth,
+I send you
+a rude sketch
+which I took of
+him in the same
+way, about the
+year 1805 or 6.
+He was then on
+a visit at Mr.
+Fawkes's, of
+Farnley, where
+a number of
+grouse shooters
+had assembled,&mdash;and
+Turner
+had adopted the
+garb of a sportsman.
+His appearance,
+as well as his exploits on the moors, were the
+subject of much mirth.</p>
+
+<p>One day we accompanied him on an excursion, for
+the purpose of taking a sketch of the magnificent scenery
+of Gordale, in Craven, from which he afterwards produced
+a finished painting.</p>
+
+<p>My rude sketch of his person was considered a
+characteristic resemblance at the time; and though it
+has the air of a caricature, yet was not meant as such
+when it was drawn.</p>
+
+<p>If you think it would interest the readers of your
+"Current Notes," you will perhaps give it as an illustration.
+If not, I will thank you to return it to me.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Yours, &amp;c.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">I. T. A.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Monumental Brasses Removed from the Churches
+of Fulham and Chelsea.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. <span class="smcap">Geo. Willis</span>,&mdash;Your Correspondent, under the
+head of "Antiquarian Sacrilege," (<i>Current Notes for
+December, p. 91,</i>) seems not to be aware that almost
+all Church Brasses, with very few exceptions, were torn
+from their places by the sectarian soldiers in Cromwell's
+time, who affected to consider such things idolatrous.
+They were for the most part sold for old brass, and
+some authority (I forget who at this moment), tells us
+that, in consequence of the number at one time brought
+into the market, the price of brass was decreased in
+proportion. There were very few Antiquaries in those
+days, consequently a very small number of these desecrated
+Brasses have been preserved, and for those we
+possess we are indebted to such men as Ashmole, Lilly,
+and others of that class, who, though sufficiently fantastic
+and visionary in their pursuits, were still men of
+some learning and taste.</p>
+
+<p>Some, if not the whole of the lots alluded to by your
+Correspondent, came into the possession of the late John
+Meyrick, Esq., through an ancestor of his wife, whose
+name was "Rush," and the only sacrilege committed by
+the late Mr. Meyrick seems to have been the preservation
+of these things from destruction.</p>
+
+<p>I have frequently heard the late Sir S. R. Meyrick
+mention these Brasses, and regret they were not in his
+possession.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span class="smcap">One of his Executors.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Sterne's Autograph.</span></h2>
+
+
+
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mr. Geo. Willis</span>,&mdash;I have never met with the fact
+in print, that some few of the first editions of Tristram
+Shandy have the autograph of the author at the head
+of the first chapter in some or one of the volumes, a
+facsimile of which, in the 7th volume of the copy in my
+possession, I send you.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 175px;">
+<img src="images/fig010.png" width="175" height="52" alt="Signature: L. Sterne" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Whether this was done for the gratification of Sterne's
+particular friends, or for what other purpose, I am ignorant;
+perhaps some of your correspondents can throw
+some light upon the subject.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+A. C. K.<br />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Ward's "Grand Rebellion."</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>I was rejoiced at the first glance at F. C. B.'s communication
+(p. 88 "Current Notes" for November),
+but doubts very soon arose, whether some oversight had
+not occurred in taking the portrait of <i>Robert</i> Bertie,
+for that enquired after, which is <i>Montague</i> Bertie.
+On turning to Granger I found this to be the case, for
+the portrait which F. C. B. has, is there given as <i>Robert</i>,
+so that I fear the right one remains yet <i>non est inventus</i>,
+for I do not consider "A Dealer," as speaking
+from any distinct recollection of such a portrait, which
+must be an 8vo. one, whereas Faithorne's is in 4to.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+A.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Oak House.</i></p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Date of Thomas Hood's Death.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+Dec. 26th, 1851.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;I find, on referring to a biographical sketch
+added to an autograph of the late Thos. Hood, at the
+time of his death, that that event took place, as surmised
+by your correspondent C. ("Current Notes," p. 90), on
+3rd May, 1845.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Yours obediently,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">S. S.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<p><small>Mr. Willis.</small><br /><br /></p>
+
+
+
+<p>Mrs. Fenwick observing in Willis's "Current Notes"
+that some one enquires when Hood died, she writes to
+say, he expired on the 3rd May, 1845. The above information
+Mr. Willis may depend upon being correct,
+as it is from the late Mr. Hood's daughter, who is married
+to the Rev. S. Broderip, Rector of Cossington,
+Somersetshire.</p>
+
+<p>Three Rock Houses, Tenby, Jan. 15, 1852.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">Blackwood's Magazine.</span>&mdash;I. P. (Philadelphia, Nov.
+18, 1851), writes to G. W.:</h2>
+
+
+<p>"Can you tell me who contributed to Blackwood's
+Magazine, May, 1838, the pleasant paper, 'Father Tom
+and the Pope; or a Night at the Vatican?' The impression
+prevails here that it was written by Maginn."</p>
+
+
+<p><i>It was understood at the time to be a Mr. Ferguson,
+a writer in some Dublin paper,&mdash;a Wexford man.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+F. M.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Fraser's Magazine.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;Your correspondent, A. K., ("Current Notes"
+for December, p. 90), will find in Fraser's Magazine,
+No. 121, Vol. 21, a list of the portraits published in that
+periodical.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+A.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><small>Mr. Willis.</small></p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">Caussin's Holy Court.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+Landscape Terrace, Cork,<br />
+Dec. 29. 1851.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>,&mdash;For the information of your two correspondents,
+"A Subscriber," and "R. O. W." ("Current
+Notes" for December, p. 95), I beg to repeat my assertion
+that there was an edition of "The Holy Court,"
+by N. Caussin, published in <i>Corke</i>. In fact, (if I mistake
+not), there were two editions, one in 1765, without
+plates; and one in 1767, with very excellent plates. I
+can procure an imperfect copy of the former for either
+of your correspondents for one shilling; and a fine copy
+of the latter for thirty to thirty-five shillings, full calf,
+with plates.</p>
+
+<p>The work was printed in Broad-lane&mdash;(perhaps so
+called quasi "lucus a non lucendo," as the lane is certainly
+rather narrow)&mdash;and was very well got up. The
+date and place of printing are thus given in the first
+edition: Corke: "Printed anno Domini 1765."</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span style="margin-right: 4em;">I am, Sir, yours very truly,</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Wm. C. Neligan.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<p><small>Mr. Willis.</small></p>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">The Sons of Noah.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+Dec. 22nd.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;I have examined Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon
+with reference to O. S.&mdash;your correspondent's query,
+(see "Current Notes" for November, p. 85), concerning
+Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and cannot discover the names
+to have any such primary meaning as was there ascribed
+to them; though perhaps by a little straining, and a few
+far-fetched ideas, such an interpretation might be given&mdash;but
+it is so wholly unworthy of any one to torture his
+imagination to suppose that the original signification of
+words should have been framed to suit a climate, that
+nothing more need be said.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span style="margin-right: 12em;">I remain, Sir,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-right: 4em;">Your obedient servant,</span><br />
+C. M. J.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><small>Mr. Willis.</small></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">Turkish Coin.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+Southwick, near Oundle,<br />
+Jan. 1st. 1852.<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 149px;">
+<img src="images/fig011.png" width="149" height="132" alt="Drawing: coin" />
+</div>
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;In Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature,
+vol. 2. p. 379, there is a coin illustrated thus: "5. supposed
+ancient Jewish coin, representing drums." Kitto
+gives his authorities at the end of the article on Musical
+Instruments.</p>
+
+
+<p>Allow me to give the figure of
+the coin, and its interpretation:</p>
+
+<p>Read from left to right, the
+letters, or rather words, are: S F
+T R Ch N: in Turkish it reads,
+<i>The Boundary of the Turks</i>;
+and the two drum sticks ! are
+the pillars of Hercules, or the
+Calpe columna, and the Abyla
+columna.&mdash;<i>N.B.</i> The <i>S</i> (for <i>sh</i>) is a Cuneiform letter.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span class="smcap">T. R. Brown.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<p><small>Mr. Willis.</small></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<p><span class="smcap">The Devonshire Collection.</span>&mdash;In reply to the
+inquiry of Mr. Willis's correspondent, "A Young Numismatist,"
+("Current Notes" for December, p. 95), he
+is informed that the Duke of Devonshire's Collection of
+Coins was sold by auction a few years ago, and produced
+a very inconsiderable sum, to the surprise of everybody.
+This was accounted for by the manner in which the
+Coins were catalogued. It was well known as "The
+Devonshire Collection."</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span class="smcap">S. H. H.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Discovery of the Tomb of St. Berichert, or,
+Berechtune.</span>&mdash;Mr. Windele the local historian of Cork,
+has circulated among his friends a Lithographic drawing
+of this very interesting monument, which he found at
+Tullilease, a small hamlet on the border of the Counties
+of Cork and Limerick, within a mile of Dromcolleher.
+The tomb is a much more highly ornate specimen of an
+ancient cross than any of those engraved in Dr. Petrie's
+work on the Round Towers of Ireland. At Tullilease
+there are the ruins of an old Romanesque church, which
+was dedicated to St. Berichert or Berihert, a Saxon,
+whose name is now Anglicised into Benjamin, and whose
+death is recorded at <small>A.D.</small> 839, in the Four Masters.
+The Legend on the stone is in Latin, (but very sorry
+Latin), and in the Irish character. It reads, "QUICUNQUE
+(for æ) HUNC TITULUM LEGERIT
+ORAT (for <i>orate</i> or <i>oret</i>) PRO BERECHTUNE."
+On the upper part of the stone, in one corner, are the
+letters pp&#773; or pps&#773;.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Richard III.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+January 10th, 1852.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;All our historians assert that Richard, Duke of
+Glo'ster paved his way to the crown by bastardizing,
+imprisoning, and assassinating his two nephews, Edward
+Prince of Wales and Richard Duke of York. How
+then are we to account for the provision made in the
+Wardrobe Roll for the Coronation of Richard III.,
+July 3rd, 1483, (published in the Antiquarian Repertory,
+Vol. I. p. 29, 1807;) "<i>The deliveree of divers
+Stuff delivered for the use of Lorde Edwarde, son of
+late Kyng Edward the Fourthe, and of his Henxemen?</i>"
+Then follows a particular account of the materials
+for the "<i>apparaill and array</i>" of "<i>Prince
+Edward</i>" and his "<i>Henxemen</i>." Was he really
+present at his uncle's coronation? There is no mention
+of the Duke of York. The Declaration of Tyrrell
+and Dighton, published in the ensuing reign by
+Henry VII., says, the young princes were murdered in
+July, 1483. If the words did not expressly state "<i>Edwarde,
+son of late Kyng Edwarde the Fourthe</i>," I
+should have concluded that it meant Richard III.'s
+own son Edward, by Lady Ann Nivelle, at that time
+about nine years of age.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Yours, &amp;c.  &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    O. S.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">American Testimonial to Mrs. Cowden Clarke.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+New York, 13th December, 1851.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p>About the time you receive this, you will probably
+hear of an American testimonial to that amiable woman,
+Mrs. Cowden Clarke, to be presented to her by the
+American Minister, Mr. Abbot Lawrence, in the name
+of the subscribers, at the head of whom stands America's
+greatest and best statesman, Daniel Webster.</p>
+
+<p>This testimonial is in the shape of a magnificent
+Rosewood Library Chair, richly carved, and covered
+with the finest French Satin Brocade. It is at this
+moment <i>on</i> the Atlantic, <i>in</i> the "Atlantic," and insured
+by the Atlantic Insurance Company, for three hundred
+dollars.</p>
+
+<p>As <span class="smcap">the fame of Shakspere</span> is world-wide, subscriptions
+of five dollars each came in from all parts of
+the American Union&mdash;from the most northerly of all,
+Maine,&mdash;to Mexico. From Wisconsin, in the <i>far</i>-far-<small>FAR</small>
+West, to the shores of the Pacific, at San Francisco&mdash;they
+are thousands of miles apart from each other.</p>
+
+<p>Why have you left it to us poor Yankees "to take
+the wind out of your sails," in presenting a testimonial
+to the authoress of the Concordance to Shakspere?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span>
+Mr. Payne Collier, and such like dear fellows, who
+know so many eminent wealthy literati, ought, <i>now</i> that
+we have set you the example, to get up a subscription, and
+present Mrs. Clarke with some better Shaksperean testimonial
+than a Chair! What say you to a '<span class="smcap">First</span>' Best
+Bed? But if the hangings of it beat our satin brocade
+cover, why I'll hang myself in despair&mdash;no I won't, but
+I'll eat it&mdash;bed&mdash;feathers and all. The Chair was to
+have been covered with the richest silk Genoa velvet, of
+a regal scarlet or crimson, but the lady of our Secretary
+of State, Mrs. Daniel Webster, would have it, that
+velvet covers were quite old-fashioned; and as ladies
+best know what will suit ladies, she was asked the favour
+to select the cover, and <i>I guess</i> you will admire it.</p>
+
+<p>Now for the <i>freedom</i> of America. Collins gave the
+Chair <i>free</i> passage. Edwards, Sandford and Co. conveyed
+the case to the ship, and will convey it from
+Liverpool to London, <i>free</i>. They are Express men, and
+thus do we "go a-head."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">Catherine Hayes and Father Mathew.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>G. W.'s Correspondent adds:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"I receive your 'Notes' regularly. The story about
+Katy Hayes in your November Number, p. 88, is somewhat
+embellished by '<i>your New York Special Reporter</i>.'
+I regret to tell you that she, poor girl, has
+quite <i>put her foot in it</i> here, and I am afraid will
+return poorer than when she came. She or her agent
+or agents, pursued a silly course by, <i>it is said</i>, keeping
+almost open house to her countrymen at the Astor house,
+a very expensive hotel, where she ran up an enormous
+bill, and being unable to pay, the sheriff's officers carried
+off the receipts at some of her concerts&mdash;particularly that
+which she gave for that humbug hypocrite Father
+Mathew. There has been a great deal about it in our
+papers. Doctor Joy returned to England some time ago
+in disgust. Mathew absolutely had the temerity to
+make it appear that he could work miracles, <i>publicly</i>,
+in the face of a large Catholic congregation, by restoring
+the sick and lame to health!"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<p><span class="smcap">Ethnology.</span>&mdash;"G.W.'s New York Special Reporter,"
+whose embellished style has been questioned in the preceding
+paragraph, states, that he has forwarded a
+pamphlet, for which he will be duly thanked when it is
+received, "giving an account of a <i>pretended</i> journey to
+the city of Eximaya, in Central America, by an Englishman
+and two Spaniards, who are all 'gone dead.'"
+Observing that, "It is a good Arabian Night's hoax.
+You will see," he remarks, "the pamphlet is dated
+1850, but the children have only been exhibited here
+this week. There is <i>no mistake</i> about them, they are
+evidently children of a distinct and unknown race, come
+from whence they will. The recession of their foreheads
+is extraordinary. Their heads are wonderfully small,
+and in exact proportion to their bodies and limbs. They
+are not dwarfs but pigmies; about twelve years of age,
+lively and playful. They are not at Barnum's Museum,
+but at the rooms of the Society Library, and are exciting
+very great attention."</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">The Jarvis Library Sale.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>This Sale, which has so long attracted the attention of
+American Bibliopoles, commenced on Tuesday, Nov. 4th.
+It was the means of drawing together agents for the
+most prominent Libraries in the United States. Among
+others, the following Colleges and Institutions were
+represented:&mdash;Smithsonian Institution, Harvard College,
+Yale College, General Theological Seminary of New
+York, College of New Jersey, Brown University, Rochester
+University, Andover Theological Seminary, New
+York State Library, New York Society Library, and the
+Historical Society of New York.</p>
+
+<p>The sale being the largest that ever took place in
+America, of any private library, the books brought fair
+prices. A volume of Tracts, containing the American
+Whig, &amp;c. sold for 22 dollars 75 cents, to Bancroft, the
+historian. Byzantinæ Historiæ Scriptores, a unique set,
+containing a beautiful MS. translation of the third
+volume of Nicephorus Gregoras, sold for 475 dollars, to
+Prof. Ticknor, of Boston. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, being
+the celebrated <span class="smcap">Complutensian Polyglott</span>, 130 dollars,
+to the Rochester University. The Paris Polyglott, 100
+dollars, to Geo. Livermore, Esq. Boston. Vetus Testamentum
+Græcum, 40 dollars, Harvard College. Muratori,
+37 vols. folio, 207 dollars, to the Theological
+Seminary, New York. Cranmer's Bible, 26 dollars, to
+Rochester University. Tyndale's Translation of the
+Pentateuch, 41 dollars, to John Wiley. Duchesne's
+Historical Collections, 24 dollars 50 cents, to Brown
+University, &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">The Periodical Press of the Methodists in the
+United States.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>The <i>Christian Advocate and Journal</i> has a circulation
+of from 25 to 29,000 copies. The <i>Missionary
+Advocate</i> circulates 20,000 copies, and the <i>Sunday
+School Advocate</i> no less than 65,000 copies, with a
+yearly sale of Sunday School Books amounting to upwards
+of £1000, or 5000 dollars.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2>"<span class="smcap">Woodman, spare that Tree.</span>"</h2>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">General</span> Morris, who is associated with Mr. N. P.
+Willis as Editor, and publisher of the "Home Journal,"
+in New York, was, as all the world knows&mdash;or at least,
+as the United States ought to know, for it is something
+to be proud of to be possessed of a real living poet in
+these days&mdash;was the author of the words of a charming
+ballad, entitled, "Woodman, spare that Tree," which
+was sung effectively by an illustrious scion of the house
+of Russell. The parentage of this lyric having been
+claimed by a respectable Boston paper, (<i>The Sunday
+News</i>), on behalf of a deceased literary gentleman
+named Woodward, who is said, in an unguarded
+moment, to have pawned his reputation upon the Woodman,
+to the gallant General, for a glass of grog; the
+General indignantly repudiates the whole statement;
+repeating that, "a slander well hoed grows like the
+devil;" and labours to establish the fact, that the American
+General Morris is not to be by posterity identified
+with the English Captain of the same name&mdash;as a song
+writer.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span class="smcap">Fusbos.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></span><br />
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">The Bawdrick or Baldrock.</span> (<i>Illustrated.</i>)</h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+The Rectory, Clyst St. George, Topsham,<br />
+Jan. 2, 1852.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;You are publishing, in your "Current Notes,"
+some nice little cuts of interesting relics of antiquity,
+for which all who delight in such things must feel
+thankful to you.</p>
+
+<p>May I ask you to put into your cutter's hands the
+rough sketch which I send with this; and will you allow
+it to be introduced to the notice of your readers, as an
+illustration of the Bawdrick, or Baldrock, which is the
+leather gear, with its appurtenances of the upper part
+of the clapper in old black-letter bells, and about which
+your readers may have seen a discussion, with extracts
+from old Churchwarden's accounts, in another valuable
+periodical of like character to your own, but in which
+at present no illustrations of any kind are admitted.
+You will oblige one of your subscribers.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+H. T. E.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><small>Mr. Willis.</small></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Sketch of the Gear of an Old Bell Clapper.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;">
+<img src="images/fig013.png" width="355" height="397" alt="Drawing: bell clappers" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A. Crown Staple.</p>
+
+<p>B. Bawdrick or Baldrock of old Churchwarden's books,
+viz. stout white leather straps, shewing how fitted with
+intervening piece of <i>hard wood and pin</i>.</p>
+
+<p>C. Clapper, with stirrup top.</p>
+
+<p>D. "<i>Busk Board</i>" which at the lower end is tied
+round the stem of the clapper, and by the pin above
+keeps the wood and leather all steady together, and the
+clapper works or swings on the <i>crown</i> staple, having
+leather on the upper side, and hard wood <i>under</i>.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+H. T. E.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<p><span class="smcap">Turnbuckle and Latch.</span>&mdash;The figure you have
+engraved on p. 91 of your December "Notes," as a
+<i>Turnbuckle</i>, is the common casement <i>latch</i> of the 17th
+century; which may be found attached to the iron
+frame of casement windows in many old farm houses.</p>
+
+<p>A latch is not a turnbuckle, and no ironmonger's
+apprentice would confound the two. A latch is a bar
+moving up and down in a limited space&mdash;or, if backwards
+and forwards, as in some locks&mdash;it is called the
+latch-bolt. A turnbuckle, as its name implies, turns
+round, and is only limited by the notch, &amp;c. by which it
+holds. They are chiefly of two kinds: one is a spindle,
+with a knob or ring at one end, and a tongue or buckle
+at the other; another is a handle with a tongue attached,
+moving together freely round, upon a pin or
+rivets. This latter kind has taken the place of the
+casement latch represented in your "Current Notes"
+in present use.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">One who has been an Ironmonger's Apprentice.</span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">Architectural Restorations in Ireland.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>A small subscription, which was raised for the purpose
+of sustaining the failing walls of Buttevant Abbey,
+in the County of Cork, is about to be followed by Mr.
+Thomas Tobin, of Ballincollig, taking measures to uphold
+the Castle of Buttevant.</p>
+
+<p>The same good spirit animates Mr. Odell, the proprietor
+of Ardmore, in the County of Waterford, who
+has determined to preserve the west gable of the Old
+Church, which is covered over with figures that, according
+to Ryland's History of Waterford, "with a good
+imagination, and some knowledge of the ancient Scriptures,
+may be made to exhibit an epitome of the history
+of the Old Testament."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">The Historical Society of Lancashire and
+Cheshire.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+16th January, 1852.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;If your refer to your "Current Notes" for
+April last, you will find engraved, at p. 27, a tobacco
+pipe, found when the Golden Lion Inn at Fulham was
+pulled down in April, 1836. Now, Sir, it appears to
+me that this drawing of mine has been copied, without
+acknowledgment, from your Notes, in the Transactions
+of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire,
+Session iii. 1850-51, to illustrate a paper by Andrew
+James Lamb, Esq. Plate IV. No. 14. If not, I humbly
+conceive that Mr. Lamb, or the Rev. Dr. Hume, the
+Secretary, on behalf of the Society, is bound to state
+where the original pipe which figures in their Transactions
+exists, and how and when Mr. Lamb obtained his
+drawing or knowledge of it. This alone can disprove the
+charge which I make against the Historical Society of
+Lancashire and Cheshire, of <i>copying without acknowledgment</i>,
+my sketch <i>from Willis's Notes</i>.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+T. M.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Archæological Publications.</span>&mdash;In addition to those
+enumerated in G. W.'s "Current Notes" for December
+(p. 93), the first Number of "<i>Reliquiæ</i> Antiquæ Eboracenses,
+or Remains of Antiquities relating to York," has
+appeared.</p>
+
+<p>In answer to W. B.'s communications, G. W. conceives
+that the best mode of making a local work of this
+nature known, would be by a circular letter addressed to
+the resident Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of Yorkshire,
+soliciting their countenance and support.</p>
+
+<p>The information desired respecting the publications of
+the Archæological Societies named, may be obtained by
+W. B. addressing himself to their respective Secretaries,
+<i>viz.</i></p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><span class="smcap">M. A. Lower</span>, Esq., Lewes.</li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Rev. Dr. Hume</span>, Liverpool.</li>
+<li><span class="smcap">William Ayrton</span>, Esq., Chester.</li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Samuel Tymms</span>, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds, and</li>
+<li><span class="smcap">Henry Harrod</span>, Esq., Norwich.</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>Mr. Willis is informed with reference to a paragraph
+which appeared in his "Current Notes" for December,
+p. 93, that the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
+whose issues have been suspended since
+1846, will forthwith resume publishing.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<p><span class="smcap">The Slogans of the North of England</span> have
+been published by Mr. G. B. Richardson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The British Museum.</span>&mdash;A recent resolution of the
+Trustees of this National Establishment has been considered,
+in certain Antiquarian circles, to present "<i>a
+fair specimen of double-dealing</i>."</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span class="smcap">An Irish Numismatist.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Autographic Biography.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+January 3rd, 1852.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;I trust I shall not trespass upon the limits of
+your courtesy, if I beg your assistance with regard to
+the accompanying list of names, about whom I am
+anxious to gain any information as to dates of birth,
+death, or any subject of interest connected with the individuals.</p>
+
+<p>As I live in the country and have not the facility of
+access to a library for reference, I avail myself of the
+medium of your instructive and valuable publication,
+and beg to subscribe myself, with all good wishes,</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Your obedient servant,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><span class="smcap">Ellen F.</span></span><br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="names and dates">
+<tr><td align="left" rowspan='2' valign='top'>Symonds' Inn.</td><td align="left">24th April, 1787. Edward Montagu.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">No date. Marquis de Spinola.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" rowspan='2' valign='top'>St. Petersburg.</td><td align="left">24th Jan. 1805. C. A. Pozzo di Borgo.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">No date. Geo. R. Collier, Commodore.</span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left" rowspan='3' valign='top'>London.</td><td align="left">13th March, 1820. W. Plumer.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">20th May, 1829. Jno. Bruce.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><span style="margin-left: 2em;">No date. P. P. Jacob.</span></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Rowland Hill and the Penny Postage.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>The following is the commencement of a leading
+article on the Penny Postage, contained in the "<i>Times</i>,"
+of Saturday, 9th August, 1851:&mdash;</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>"A traveller sauntering through the Lake districts of
+England some years ago, arrived at a small public-house
+just as the postman stopped to deliver a letter. A young
+girl came out to receive it. She took it in her hand,
+turned it over and over, and asked the charge. It was a
+large sum&mdash;no less than a shilling. Sighing heavily, she
+observed that it came from her brother, but that she was
+too poor to take it in, and she returned it to the postman
+accordingly. The traveller was a man of kindness as well
+as of observation; he offered to pay the postage himself,
+and in spite of more reluctance on the girl's part than he
+could well understand, he did pay it, and gave her the
+letter. No sooner, however, was the postman's back
+turned, than she confessed that the proceeding had been
+concerted between her brother and herself, that the letter
+was empty, that certain signs on the direction conveyed all
+she wanted to know, and that as they could neither of
+them afford to pay postage, they had devised this method
+of franking the intelligence desired. The traveller pursued
+his journey, and as he plodded over the Cumberland
+fells, he mused upon the badness of a system which drove
+people to such straits for means of correspondence, and
+defeated its own object all the time. With most men such
+musings would have ended before the close of the hour,
+but this man's name was <span class="smcap">Rowland Hill</span>, and it was from
+this incident and these reflections that the whole scheme of
+Penny Postage was derived."</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>I should be glad to know if there is any doubt as to
+the truth of this statement, as I fancied it had been
+contradicted. Could any of your Correspondents oblige
+me by giving me information on the subject, I should
+feel obliged.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+I. E.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Enquiry.</span></h2>
+
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Boston, January 15th, 1852.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;I send you a query for "Current Notes."</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+"Robbed between Sun and Sun."<br />
+</div>
+
+<p>Can any of your communicants favor me with the origin
+of this expression? It was employed to describe the
+late Revolution in Paris, by the "Examiner," and I
+have seen it as a quotation in a work of old date.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Y. S. N.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dental Surgery.</span>&mdash;In the observations on the progress
+of Geography and Ethnology, by Mr. John Russell
+Bartlett, read at the Meeting of the New York Historical
+Society in November and December, 1846, it is
+mentioned that in the exploration of a tumuli carried on
+by Dr. M. W. Dickeson, in the South-western States,
+chiefly in Mississippi, although in some instances extending
+to Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, he found
+that Dentistry had been extensively practised by this
+ancient people, as plugging the teeth and inserting
+artificial ones, were common. In one instance five
+artificial teeth were found inserted in one subject.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+T. C. B.<br />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Capping a Story.</span>&mdash;Rogers, the poet, was fond of
+telling the story of a gentleman who lost a shilling in
+Covent Garden Market, just at the corner of the Great
+Piazza, and on his return from India some five-and-twenty
+years afterwards, on passing the spot where he
+supposed the loss had taken place, remembered the circumstance,
+and looking about him on the pavement,
+picked up his shilling. Here Rogers, in his own inimitable
+way of telling a story, would pause, and then add&mdash;"<span class="smcap">In
+halfpence</span>, <i>wrapped up in paper</i>."</p>
+
+<p>"I knew the man," said a witty friend to the poet,
+"but you have forgotten the most singular point of the
+story about the recovery of this lost shilling <i>just at the
+door of Willis the bookseller's place of business</i>."</p>
+
+<p>"I thought it sufficiently odd," replied the poetical
+banker, "our friend having found his shilling after so
+long a period, and only wish that my lost notes may turn
+up again in the same unexpected and amusing manner&mdash;<i>that
+notes turn up to me from Willis</i>."</p>
+
+<p>"Then you must have heard the whole story, and the
+very remarkable fact to which I refer? That in the
+paper which contained the four-and-twenty halfpence he
+found another filled with farthings, the exact amount of
+which when calculated, proved to be that of compound
+interest upon the shilling for five-and-twenty years one
+month and thirteen days."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Rogers has never since told the story.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Robert Hoblyn.</span></h2>
+
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Sir</span>,&mdash;Through the medium of your publication, can
+you tell me anything about "Robt. Hoblyn;" and what
+works he has published? I believe they were of a
+classical nature; and he was living in 1825.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+Yours truly,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 9em;">A. K.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<p>Jan. 2, 1852.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<p><span class="smcap">A Travelling Name.</span>&mdash;I have heard or read somewhere
+of a story about one of the authors of the
+"Rejected Addresses"&mdash;indeed, I now remember that
+he told it to me himself&mdash;how that he once travelled in
+a stage coach with a very agreeable old lady, who was
+well acquainted with London society, and with whom he
+conversed for a considerable time about various mutual
+friends and circumstances that could only be known to
+them, or to their immediate circle, with so much familiarity,
+that the old lady's curiosity being roused, she
+ventured to inquire his name. "James Smith, madam,"
+was the reply. "Oh, that's your travelling name, is it?
+But it won't do for me."</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+J.<br />
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Smith.</span>&mdash;Has not some one written, or is not some
+one going to write, a history of the Smiths? It really
+might be made a very amusing book, and some one&mdash;I
+forget who&mdash;actually told me that "the far-famed
+Ruffian of the Adelphi," (O. S.) was collecting materials
+for or from such a book. I subscribe my real name&mdash;identify,
+if you can, Mr. Willis.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span class="smcap">John Smith.</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 181px;">
+<img src="images/fig015a.png" width="181" height="178" alt="drawing: ornament" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Pilgrim's Badge?</span>&mdash;A Correspondent has kindly
+transmitted to G. W. a rubbing from which the
+annexed woodcut has been
+made, of a small brass ornament,
+found at Launde
+Abbey, in Leicestershire,
+which abbey or priory was
+founded by Rd. Basset, in
+the reign of Henry III. dissolved
+by Henry VIII., and
+Cromwell, Earl of Essex,
+had a grant of it. In the
+Chapel (all that remains of
+the Priory) is a monument
+to his son Gregory, Lord Cromwell, of the date of 1551.
+The ornament is supposed to be a Pilgrim's Badge,
+brought from Rome, and probably was buried with him.</p>
+
+
+
+<div class='sig'>
+M. C. S.<br />
+</div>
+
+<p>1st January, 1852.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<p><span class="smcap">Ancient Key.</span>&mdash;I. D. is thanked for the drawing of
+an Ancient Key found in October last, in the parish of
+Stoke Holy Cross, near Warwick; but as no particular
+interest attaches to this key in an antiquarian point of
+view, it is not worth engraving.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">The Liberty Stone in Castle Street, Liverpool.</span>&mdash;T.
+B. B. (Burnley, 1st December) thanked, but
+the space at G. W.'s command does not permit of his
+inserting the extract forwarded to him from the <i>Liverpool
+Albion</i>.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><span class="smcap">Prints of Oliver Cromwell and "St. Luke's
+Day."</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>A "Young Print and Portrait Collector" would be
+obliged by any explanation respecting a portrait of
+Oliver Cromwell, of an allegorical nature, surrounded
+by various emblems and devices, which evidently bear
+upon the events of his life. He is represented standing
+between two columns, in armour, with a wreath of laurel
+in place of a helmet. This print has neither name or
+date of any kind upon it.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 54px;">
+<img src="images/fig015b.png" width="54" height="52" alt="Drawing T with an S over it" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Another print is one marked published 1816,
+by J. T. Smith, called "St. Luke's day," a
+"poor painter removing;" is this intended as
+a caricature upon some artist of the time?</p>
+
+<p>
+Jan. 6th, 1852.<br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<p>D. E., 47, <i>Blessington Street, Dublin,</i> thanked for
+his suggestions. The R. I. A.&mdash;T. C. D. and the Dublin
+Society, however, cannot in the slightest degree influence
+the conduct of G. W.'s "Current Notes."</p>
+
+<p>If these learned bodies regard their own situation,
+they will not object to "any slang, coarseness, or Americanisms."
+They should rather reflect how much
+America has and <i>probably</i> will teach young Ireland&mdash;<small>BUT
+NOT</small> <i>through</i> their agency, as publishers.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+<p><span class="smcap">The Holy Grahl</span>, &#916;. as confessedly "made up
+of quotations," is an article not suited to G. W.'s "Current
+Notes."</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h2><span class="smcap">Admission of Literary Inquirers to the Public
+Records.</span></h2>
+
+
+<p>Regulations under which permission will be given
+to Literary Inquirers to make searches among the Public
+Records, without payment of fees, contained in a letter
+addressed by the Right Honourable Sir John Romilly,
+Master of the Rolls to Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., the
+Deputy Keeper of the Public Records: dated at the
+Rolls House, 4th December, 1851:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>1st. That the individuals seeking to avail themselves
+of the permission shall address a letter to the Deputy
+Keeper, stating generally their objects of research, so as
+to show that the applications are really and <i>bonâ fide</i> for
+literary purposes, and that the applicant shall also
+attend the Deputy Keeper personally thereon, and give
+such further explanation as may be required; and that
+thereupon the Deputy Keeper shall, if he be satisfied
+with the statement and explanation, authorise the Assistant
+Keepers to allow the applicant to inspect such
+Indexes of Records, and also such Original Records, and
+to make such copies or extracts in pencil required by the
+applicant as the Deputy Keeper may think advisable.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>This mode of proceeding, which is equally required for
+the security of the Records, and for the protection of
+the business searchers, will in fact be beneficial to
+Literary Inquirers; for the more fully they explain their
+objects, the better will the Deputy Keeper and the
+other officers be able to direct them to the documents
+which may be useful to them.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>2ndly. That all the applications before mentioned be
+entered in a book, and be reported to the Master of the
+Rolls.</p>
+
+<p>3rdly. That a book be kept at each branch office, in
+which the Assistant Keeper shall enter a note or particular
+of the Rolls, Records, Books, or Documents, called
+for, inspected, or used by the applicant, nearly in the
+same manner, <i>mutatis mutandis</i>, as is practised with
+respect to Manuscripts in the British Museum.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>But this book is to be considered as confidential, and not
+to be shown to the public without express permission
+of the Master of the Rolls or Deputy Keeper.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>4thly. That, in case of any impropriety or abuse of the
+privilege, the Assistant Keepers do forthwith report the
+same to the Deputy Keeper, in order that he may bring
+the same before the Master of the Rolls.</p>
+
+<p>It will be necessary also to explain to the Literary
+Inquirers that the time of the various officers and other
+persons employed in the Public Record Office is so wholly
+engrossed by the performance of their present duties,
+that it will not be possible for the officers to assist any
+Literary Inquirers beyond the production of the documents,
+and giving a general explanation, if needed, of
+their character and nature. No applicant ought to present
+himself who is not sufficiently acquainted with the
+hand-writing, abbreviations, and language of ancient
+documents, so as to be able to read and decipher their
+contents.</p>
+
+<p>The Literary Inquirer will have free access to the
+documents, but, this being done, he will have to conduct
+the inquiry from these documents in such manner as his
+own knowledge and capacity may best enable him to do.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<p><i>G. W. is informed that the reading Public are indebted
+to John Bruce, Esq., the Treasurer of the
+Society of Antiquaries, for this important concession
+on the part of the Master of the Rolls; and it has
+been suggested that a suitable testimonial should be
+presented to Mr. Bruce by those historical inquirers
+who are likely to derive such valuable aid from his
+exertions.</i></p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+F. S. A.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Literary Auctions.</span>&mdash;That there is no lack of enthusiasm
+among amateurs for the possession of rare
+and curious works, is evidenced by the prices which
+some books of this class brought at a sale just concluded
+by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, being the
+first sale of importance this season. Among them may
+be noticed the following:</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Orloge</span> (l') <span class="smcap">de Sapience</span>, folio, <i>nouvellement imprimée
+à Paris</i>, 1493. <span class="smcap">A very splendid specimen
+of printing on vellum</span>, <i>from the celebrated Press
+of</i> <span class="smcap">Verard</span>, <i>ruled with red lines, bound in red morocco
+extra, gilt edges, by Bauzonnet, with a well made pigskin
+case to contain it</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Of this singular Ascetical Romance, M. Van Praet states
+that six copies are known as being printed on vellum: of
+these three are in the National Library at Paris, all of which
+are more or less adorned with miniatures, two of them,
+like the present, having the summary of the chapters (left
+blank for the insertion of the miniatures) written in a
+contemporary hand on the margins. The Harleian copy,
+afterwards in the collections of Count Macarthy and Mr.
+Hibbert, was adorned with thirteen miniatures: the present
+beautiful volume has <small>SIXTEEN</small>, the additional ones
+being at the commencement of the chapters, in which the
+same subjects are treated in a different manner. <span class="smcap">The</span>
+whole of the fine miniatures are in the best style of French
+art. <span class="smcap">This lot sold for</span> £45.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2>Literary and Scientific Obituary.</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Children</span>, John George. Science. Late Secretary R.S.
+Halstead, Kent.</div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Graefe</span>, Dr. Christian. Greek and Roman Antiquities.
+St. Petersburgh. 11th December.</div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Jacob</span>, William. F.R.S. Political Economist. 31, Cadogan
+Place. 17th December. Aged 89.</div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Luttrell</span>, Henry. Wit and Poet. Brompton Square.
+19th December. Aged 86.</div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Sadlier</span>, Rev. Dr. Provost, Trinity College, Dublin.
+14th December.</div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Steel</span>, James. Editor and Proprietor Carlisle Journal.
+Carlisle. 16th December. Aged 55.</div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Turner</span>, Joseph Mallord William. R.A. 47, Queen Anne
+Street (Chelsea?). 19th December. Aged 76.</div>
+
+<div class='hang1'><span class="smcap">Warburton</span>, Eliot. Historian and Novelist. Lost in the
+wreck of the Amazon. 4th January.</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class='tnote'><b>Transcriber's Note:</b>
+
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January
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+Title: Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852
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+Author: Various
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+[Transcriber's Notes: There are two letters with macrons above them.
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+
+
+    WILLIS'S
+    CURRENT NOTES:
+
+    A SERIES OF ARTICLES
+    ON
+
+    Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language,
+    Literature, Topography, Curious Customs, &c.
+
+    SELECTED FROM
+    ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS
+    ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR
+    1852,
+
+    TO THE PUBLISHER,
+
+    G. WILLIS,
+    GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.
+    MDCCCLIII.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+ENTERING as we now are upon the publication of a third volume of the
+"Current Notes," the Second Volume of which we have herewith the
+pleasure of presenting in a complete form to the Public, our first
+duty as it is our pleasure is to thank our Subscribers most cordially
+for the very liberal support we have received from them during its
+progress. It is so seldom that the productions of the Customer and the
+Tradesman form part of the same Periodical, that it is no wonder if
+the Publisher of the "Current Notes" feels a little elated by seeing
+his humble efforts for the entertainment of the Public in such good
+company. But this patronage, so far from dulling his exertions in his
+legitimate pursuit--that of promoting the diffusion of Books in their
+widest extent--will only stimulate him to fresh efforts, and while he
+continues to place before his Customers the best Books, he trusts that
+they will be as liberal as hitherto in their contributions of _Current
+Notes_.
+
+The _Price Current of Literature_, indeed, now occupies a position
+distinct from that of any other Bookseller's Catalogue ever presented
+to the public, for it not only furnishes a monthly list of the
+principal New Publications, followed by a constant succession of
+Standard Works in every department of Ancient and Modern Literature,
+selected with care and judgment, but it likewise presents a medium for
+Literary Inquirers to prosecute their researches and interchange their
+opinions. Nor is this correspondence confined to our own land. From the
+Colonies and America, over which it ranges in its wide circulation,
+we continue to receive gratifying testimonials to its usefulness, as
+well as accessions to its columns, and have reason to believe it is
+duly appreciated by those whose favour it is our study to deserve and
+interest to secure.
+
+The aim of the publisher has been to establish a literary organ of
+communication amongst his numerous Subscribers and Friends, by inviting
+their correspondence, and throwing open his columns to their inquiries
+and suggestions, and thus by propounding queries, solving difficulties,
+and eliciting new facts, rendering some slight service to the cause
+of Historical and Literary Truth. So cordially have they responded
+to this invitation, that the task of selection has been sometimes
+a difficult, though always a pleasing one. If there have been any
+communications from Correspondents which have not met with due regard
+and consideration, it must be pleaded in apology that this miscellany
+of curious information necessarily embraces so wide a field, that in
+gathering in the harvest it is not surprising if a few ears of corn
+escape the gleaner's hand. If it be said that occasionally too much
+notice has been taken of "unconsidered trifles," and that the objects
+regarded were too minute and insignificant to justify the patient
+attention bestowed upon them; the saying of Dr. Johnson may be adopted
+as a justification, that "the man who removes the smallest obstacle in
+the pathway of Literature becomes its benefactor." History is built up
+of fragments as the pyramid is formed of single stones; and if we have
+only laid bare one doubtful point, or elucidated one novel fact,--if we
+have but stripped off the moss clinging to some ruined archway of the
+past, or decyphered one mouldering inscription,--then our work has been
+accomplished, and our toil repaid.
+
+The publisher wishes it to be distinctly understood that he is not
+the author of any representations or opinions which may appear in the
+_Current Notes_. Every statement, therefore, is open to correction
+or discussion, and the writers of the several paragraphs must be
+considered alone responsible for their assertions. Holding himself
+aloof from the bias of all personal interest or party feeling, the
+publisher can make due allowance for difference of opinion, and
+like heralds in the tournament, after proclaiming the titles of the
+respective champions, quietly retires and awaits the issue of the fray.
+If in the heat of this literary joust of arms, the combatants have
+broken spears somewhat too hotly, let it be remembered that he is only
+a spectator of the chivalrous feud--which, after all, has for its sole
+object the rescue of Truth, in the words of the old knightly motto,
+"sans tache et sans reproche."
+
+It is a mournful task to record the death of the gifted--to follow
+Genius to its grave. Our Obituary of the past year chronicles the death
+of many who were giants in the realms of thought, and whom the world of
+science and learning could ill afford to lose. WELLINGTON, of whom (as
+was said of Caesar) it is difficult to decide whether he fought or wrote
+with the greater spirit; Eliot WARBURTON, the Historian and Novelist;
+MACGILLIVRAY, the Naturalist; SCROPE, the Deerstalker; JOHANNOT, the
+Artist; the gay and accomplished COUNT D'ORSAY; LANDSEER, the Engraver;
+MANTELL, the Geologist--are now numbered with the dead. PUGIN, too,
+has passed away--he, whose whole life was but one continued aspiration
+after the Beautiful in Christian Art; the harp of MOORE is silent, and
+awakens no echoes in the tomb.
+
+Upon one occurrence of the past year, however, the publisher has
+particularly to congratulate his Subscribers; namely the Free Trade
+movement which has broken up the monopoly of the Booksellers'
+Association, increased the sale of books, and imparted new vigour
+and activity to the cause of literature. Cheapness in the price of
+books becomes an important auxiliary in the diffusion of knowledge.
+It is not merely a trade, but a social question, on account of the
+power it possesses of advancing intellectual improvement. The thirst
+for knowledge must be considerably influenced by the means we have
+at hand to supply and satisfy its craving. Long before Lord Campbell
+pronounced his judgment, the publisher was impressed with the truth
+of these views, and had steadily adhered to them as the basis of his
+business. The recent Postal Regulations have also tended to facilitate
+the purchase of books. By their means he has been enabled not only to
+forward the _Price Current_ to his Subscribers at a trifling cost, but
+to execute and transmit orders from a thin pamphlet to a ponderous
+volume. Facilities of a like nature now exist for sending books to
+the Colonies; and instead of being obliged to forward as heretofore,
+even the smallest book as a package at a high charge for conveyance,
+any moderate-sized volume, if left open at the ends, will reach its
+destination in the letter-bags, at a very trifling cost.
+
+The publisher thinks it not inappropriate to reprint in this place the
+following NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
+
+    G. WILLIS begs to express his acknowledgments for
+    the numerous interesting communications which have
+    been forwarded to him, and will feel obliged by the
+    receipt of any original articles on subjects, either
+    of a literary or an antiquarian nature. Woodcuts,
+    illustrative of subjects requiring them, will be
+    executed at his expense.
+
+    All communications intended for insertion in the
+    "_Current Notes_" must be accompanied by the Writer's
+    real name and address, which are merely required as a
+    guarantee of his good faith, and not for publication,
+    except at his desire.
+
+While cordially reiterating the sentiments expressed in the first of
+the preceding paragraphs, the publisher can assure his Subscribers that
+the work, intended as a boon to themselves, has proved an equal source
+of gratification to him; and so, with mutual good wishes, trusts they
+may long continue, in the words of Milton, "with plain and lightsome
+brevity to relate well and orderly things worth the noting."
+
+
+
+
+INDEX.
+
+(_The Articles marked thus * are illustrated by wood engravings._)
+
+
+    Abracadabra, 22.
+    Adelgitha, 78, 88.
+    Advertisements, 56.
+    Albums, _see_ Hood, Hook, Shee, Southey.
+    Alchemists, 64, 75, 88.
+    Allegory of Mortality, 90.
+    American Eloquence, 69.
+      ----Go-a-Headism, 69, 87.
+      ----Improvement of English Language, 63.
+      ----Free Libraries, 96.
+      ----Shaksperian Club, 38.
+      ----Testimonial, _see_ Clarke.
+    *Antiquities, sale of, 27.
+    Apograph, 75.
+    Archaeological Associations, 22, 58.
+    Archaeological Publications, 6, 12, 25, 34, 35.
+      ----Societies, 29, 34.
+    Architectural Restorations, Ireland, 5.
+      *----Slang, 70.
+      ----Terms, 76.
+    Archiduc d'Autriche d'Este, 76.
+    Arctic Expedition, 32.
+    ****Arms of Isle of Man, 18, 79, 90, 91, 101, 102.
+    Ashbury, Joseph, 78, 93.
+    Assignats, 82, 83.
+    Athenaeum, _see_ Eboracon.
+    Athens, _see_ Tomb.
+    Atlas of Epochs, 58, 71.
+    Auctions, Literary, 8.
+    *Author of Narrative of Transactions in British India, 75.
+    Autographic Biography, 6, 15, 31.
+    Autograph, _see_ Holograph.
+    *Autographs, Admiralty, 85.
+    Automaton Chess Player, 64, 71, 78, _see_ Advertisements.
+
+    Ballads, Rare, 100.
+    **Bawdrick, 5, 9.
+    Bibliomaniacs, _see_ Smith, Richard.
+    Blackwood's Magazine, 2, 12.
+    Blair's Monument, 31.
+    Bobart's Dragon, 53.
+    Boddington, Mrs. 31, 39.
+    Boccaccio's Decamerone, 31.
+    Bones, Fossil Human, 83.
+    Booksellers and Publishers, 38.
+      ----in Seventeenth Century, 97.
+    *Booth, Bishop, 67.
+      ----Family, 80.
+    Botany of the Bohereens, 88, _see_ Wild Flowers.
+    Brasses, Monumental, 2, 15, 29.
+    Brougham, Lord, on France, 39.
+    Brown, Dr. Thomas, _see_ Paradise of Coquettes.
+    Bruce, J. 8.
+    Burns's MSS. 96.
+
+    Campanalogia, 20.
+    Capping a story, 7.
+    Castle Cornet, 94.
+    Caussin's Holy Court, 2.
+    Cavendish, _see_ Wolsey.
+    *Chair, Ancient, 95.
+    Cheques, crossed, 58.
+    Chinese Literature, 87.
+    Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, 3, 13.
+    *Coins, 3, 21, 81, _see_ Phoenician--Hebrew Harp.
+    Coleridge, _see_ Penny Postage.
+    Copyright, American Opinion on, 34.
+    Coronation by a Pope, 98.
+    Cow Chase, 62.
+    Crabb, Mrs. 24.
+    Cromwell, Print of, 7, 15, 21, 30.
+    Current Notes and Americanisms, 7.
+
+    Daniel O'Rourke, 18, 55, 61, 73.
+    Darwin, _see_ Steam.
+    *Denham, W. 31, 36.
+    Dental Surgery, 6.
+    Devonshire Collection, _see_ Coins.
+    *Doorway in Woking Church, 33.
+    Dowden, Alderman, 79.
+
+    Earl St. Vincent's Motto, 73.
+    Eboracon, 69.
+    Eburacum, 58.
+    *Engraved portrait, 71, 75.
+    Engraving, 39.
+    Enquiry, 55.
+    Ethnology, 4, 9.
+    Evelyn, John, 90.
+    Execution of Charles I., Warrant for, 65.
+
+    Father Tom and the Pope, _see_ Blackwood.
+    Father Mathew, _see_ Hayes.
+    First Love, _see_ Scott.
+    Flags, _see_ Arctic Expedition.
+    Franks, 38, 74, 85, 98.
+    Fraser's Magazine, 2.
+    French Revolutionary Dates, 78, 82, 83.
+    **Fresco Paintings, 57, _see_ Mural.
+    Fribbleriad, 86.
+    F. W. W., To, 80.
+
+    *Gems, 63, _see_ Rhyming Legends.
+    Gent, Thomas, 94.
+    Gibson, Bishop, 22.
+    Gold Discoveries, 87.
+    **Golden Lion, Fulham, 28.
+    Grailey, John de, _see_ Enquiry.
+    Greene, General, 27.
+
+    Halliwell, _see_ Shakespeare.
+    Haunted House, 94, 99.
+    Hayes, Catherine, 4.
+    Healing the Sick, _see_ Rembrandt.
+    *Hebrew Harp, 25.
+    *Herbert, _see_ Massinger.
+    Heralds' College, _see_ Advertisements.
+    Highest Price for a volume, 20.
+    Hill, Rowland, 6.
+    Hoblyn, Richard, 11.
+      ----Robert, 7, 11.
+    Holograph, 55, 58, 72, 74, 75.
+    Holy Grahl, 7.
+    Hone, _see_ Parody.
+    Hood, Thomas, 2, 12, 66.
+    Hook, Theodore, 64, 94.
+    Human Progress, 68.
+
+    India, 71, 75, 84.
+    Information, 78.
+    Inscriptions, 23, 90.
+    Isle of Man, _see_ Arms.
+
+    Jewish Superstitions, 22.
+    Jokeby, 62.
+
+    Katy-did, 13.
+    Key, Ancient, 7.
+    Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 34.
+    **King of Pamunkie, 99.
+
+    La Fayette, General, 27.
+    Laud, _see_ Ballads.
+    Lavers, the Bookseller, 11.
+    Lettres Cherakeesiennes, 72.
+    Liberty stone, Liverpool, 7.
+    Library, Jarvis, sale of, 4.
+    Lincolnshire, _see_ Brasses.
+    *Literary Residences, 49.
+    Lithography, 12, 23.
+    London Environs, _see_ Peel.
+    L'Orloge de Sapience, _see_ Auctions.
+    Lowth, W. _see_ Enquiry.
+
+    Mahon (Lord), 27, 70.
+    Mary, Queen of Scots, _see_ Ring.
+    Massinger, 54.
+    Meadley, G. W. 23, 37.
+    Methodists' Periodical Press, U. S., 4.
+    Middle Ages, 12.
+    Milton, _see_ Washington.
+    Mistletoe, 67.
+    Monogram, 23.
+      *----of Christ, 68.
+    Morris, General, _see_ Woodman.
+    Mummies, Mediaeval, 17.
+    ***Mural Paintings, 66, 76, 77.
+    Museum, British, 6.
+
+    Nelson's Funeral, 83.
+    Noah, Sons of, 3.
+    Notes on the Notes, 71.
+    Notice to Correspondents, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 98,
+        104.
+      ----Subscribers, 1.
+    Nursery Rhymes, 76, 90.
+
+    Order of the Royal Oak, 33.
+    Obituary, Literary and Scientific, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 72,
+        80, 88, 96, 104.
+
+    Packet Station, 58.
+    Paradise of Coquettes, 38, 55, 56.
+    Parody, 72, 95.
+    Pearle of Prayer, 62.
+    Peel, Sir Robert, Letter of, 1.
+    Penny Postage, 22, _see_ Hill.
+    Percy Society, 31, 39.
+    *Phoenician Coin, 51.
+    Pigmies, _see_ Ethnology.
+    *Pilgrim's Badge, 7, 53.
+    Popular Rhymes, 70.
+    Portland Castle, 65.
+    Prinsep, _see_ India.
+    Punch of the Commonwealth, 92.
+
+    Queries, 31.
+    **Querns, 59.
+    Records, Public Admission to, by literary Inquirers, 8.
+    Rembrandt, 38.
+    Rhyming Legends, 76.
+    Rhyming Tokens, 60, 80, 86.
+    Richard III., 3.
+    Richardson, Novelist, 63, _see_ Literary Residences.
+    *Ring of Mary Queen of Scots, 16, 23.
+    "Robbed between sun and sun," 6, 15, 62.
+    *Roman Remains at Ashtead, 21.
+
+    Saint Luke's Day, print of, 7.
+    Saldanha, Wreck of the, 35.
+    Sale of rare books, 16.
+    Scott's, Sir Walter, First Love, 95.
+    Scraps from America, 13.
+    *Seal of Whitgift's Hospital, 14.
+    Seasons, _see_ Arms of Isle of Man.
+    Segar, Sir W. 94, 103.
+    Sexagenarian, Beloe's, 87.
+    Shadoof, 12.
+    Shakespeare's Irishman, 31.
+      ----Bust, 38.
+      ----House subscription, 79.
+      ----lame, 87, 89.
+      ----New Edition, 57, 71, 82.
+      ----Society, 53.
+      ----Will, 38.
+    Shee, Sir Martin Archer, 78.
+    Sheridan, T. Verses by, _see_ Saldanha.
+    Shovel Board, 23, 37.
+    Signature Collectors, 75.
+    *Signet, ancient, 10.
+      ----*Punic, 38.
+    Slogans of the North, 6.
+    Smiths, History of the, 7.
+      ----James, 7, 20.
+      ----O., 20.
+      ----Richard, 103.
+      ----Roach, _see_ Pilgrim's Badge.
+    Smoking in the West of England, 95.
+    Snaith, F., to, _see_ Seasons.
+    Societies, Learned, 26, 64.
+    Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle, 6.
+      ----Scotland, 55.
+      ----Historical, of Lancashire and Cheshire, 5, 10, 19.
+    Southey on Albums, 55.
+    Sportsmen's Terms, 88.
+    Spunging House, 96.
+    State of France, _see_ Brougham.
+    Steam, Prophecy on, 87.
+    Sterne, 54.
+      ----*Autograph, 2, 12, 35.
+      ----Eugenius, 54, 61.
+    Superstitions: Cockney Land, 104.
+      ----Jewish, 22.
+    Sword, _see_ Wellington.
+    Symbol, 82.
+
+    Talavera, 83.
+    *Taw, 55, 62, 68.
+    Threlkeld, Dr., 63.
+    Tobacco, 19.
+    **Tokens, 11, 19, 30, 52, 76, 92;
+      _see_ Rhyming.
+    Tomb, English, at Athens, 40.
+      ----of St. Berichert, 3.
+    Travelling Name, 7, 16.
+    Treasure Trove, 36.
+    Tree at Pains Hill, 84.
+    Tristram Shandy, 35.
+    Tuckers of Lamerton, 103.
+    *Turkish Coin, _see_ Coin.
+    Turnbuckle, 5.
+    *Turner, Artist, 1, 10.
+
+    Uncle Tom's Cabin, 85.
+    Under the Rose, 58.
+    Union Jack, 20, 28, 29.
+
+    Veterans of Royal and Antiquarian Societies, 72.
+    Vincart, John, 55, 63.
+
+    Ward's Grand Rebellion, 2.
+    Warrant for Execution of Charles I., 65.
+    Washington, 94.
+    Waterloo, 84, 95, 99.
+    Wellbeloved, _see_ Eburacum.
+    Wellington, 84;
+      _see_ Tree.
+    *West Horseley Church, 86.
+    **Westons, 61, 67.
+    W(h)ig, 36.
+    Whitehall Reliques, 96.
+    *Wierx, 29, 39.
+    Wild Flowers, 70.
+    Wilkins, Sir Charles, 53, 78.
+    Wolsey, 15.
+    "Woodman, spare that tree," 4.
+    Worcester, Marquis of, 10.
+
+    Yankee Doodle, 26.
+
+
+
+
+
+  WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES
+  FOR THE MONTH.
+
+  No. XIII.]                               [JANUARY, 1852.
+  "I will make a prief of it in my Note-Book."--SHAKSPERE.
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
+
+TO THE "PRICE CURRENT OF LITERATURE."
+
+
+G. WILLIS gratefully acknowledges the various interesting documents
+and letters he has received. He is anxious that it should be perfectly
+understood that he is not the author of any statement, representation,
+or opinion, that may appear in his "Current Notes," which are merely
+selections from communications made to him in the course of his
+business, and which appear to him to merit attention. Every statement
+therefore is open to correction or discussion, and the writers of the
+several paragraphs should be considered as alone responsible for their
+assertions. Although many notes have hitherto appeared anonymously, or
+with initial letters, yet wherever a serious contradiction is involved,
+G. Willis trusts that his Correspondents will feel the necessity of
+allowing him to make use of their names when properly required.
+
+
+
+
+THE ENVIRONS OF LONDON.
+
+
+_Original Letter from the late Sir Robert Peel._
+
+                                            Whitehall, July 7th, 1840.
+
+MY DEAR SIR,
+
+Do not you think a very interesting work might be written, to be
+entitled an Historical Account of the celebrated Villas in the
+neighbourhood of London. I mean rather the Villas that have been--than
+those that now exist.
+
+Look at Horace Walpole's Song on Strawberry Hill. How many places are
+there mentioned which have historical recollections connected with
+them, which it would be worth preserving.
+
+There must be always great interest about the localities in the
+neighbourhood of the metropolis. In that song alone are mentioned
+
+    Gunnersbury,
+    Sion,
+    Chiswick,
+    Strawberry Hill,
+    Greenwich,
+    Marble Hill,
+    Oatlands,
+    Clermont,
+    Southcote,
+
+you might add Wanstead, Wimbledon, Holland House, and a hundred
+others--many with very curious anecdotes of local and personal history
+connected with them.
+
+Perhaps I overrate the interest with which such a book would be read. I
+certainly do not, if it would equal that, with which I myself read the
+account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris, remarkable in history,
+but the traces of which--many of which at least--are fast fading away;
+such as
+
+    Maisons,      Sceaux,
+    Meudon,       Chantilli,
+    &c.           &c.
+
+Hampton Court, the ancient Palace at Richmond, Kew, &c. &c. might enter
+into the work.
+
+                                         Very truly yours,
+                                                ROBERT PEEL.
+
+The County Histories would form a substratum for the work--but every
+thing would depend upon the liveliness and accuracy of the details.
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE J. M. W. TURNER, ESQ. R.A.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+SIR,--As it appears from the public Prints that the late eminent
+artist, J. M. W. Turner, never sat for his Portrait;--and the only
+likenesses of him were taken by stealth, I send you a rude sketch which
+I took of him in the same way, about the year 1805 or 6. He was then on
+a visit at Mr. Fawkes's, of Farnley, where a number of grouse shooters
+had assembled,--and Turner had adopted the garb of a sportsman. His
+appearance, as well as his exploits on the moors, were the subject of
+much mirth.
+
+One day we accompanied him on an excursion, for the purpose of taking a
+sketch of the magnificent scenery of Gordale, in Craven, from which he
+afterwards produced a finished painting.
+
+My rude sketch of his person was considered a characteristic
+resemblance at the time; and though it has the air of a caricature, yet
+was not meant as such when it was drawn.
+
+If you think it would interest the readers of your "Current Notes," you
+will perhaps give it as an illustration. If not, I will thank you to
+return it to me.
+
+                                             Yours, &c.
+                                                    I. T. A.
+
+
+
+
+MONUMENTAL BRASSES REMOVED FROM THE CHURCHES OF FULHAM AND CHELSEA.
+
+
+Mr. GEO. WILLIS,--Your Correspondent, under the head of "Antiquarian
+Sacrilege," (_Current Notes for December, p. 91,_) seems not to be
+aware that almost all Church Brasses, with very few exceptions, were
+torn from their places by the sectarian soldiers in Cromwell's time,
+who affected to consider such things idolatrous. They were for the
+most part sold for old brass, and some authority (I forget who at
+this moment), tells us that, in consequence of the number at one
+time brought into the market, the price of brass was decreased in
+proportion. There were very few Antiquaries in those days, consequently
+a very small number of these desecrated Brasses have been preserved,
+and for those we possess we are indebted to such men as Ashmole, Lilly,
+and others of that class, who, though sufficiently fantastic and
+visionary in their pursuits, were still men of some learning and taste.
+
+Some, if not the whole of the lots alluded to by your Correspondent,
+came into the possession of the late John Meyrick, Esq., through an
+ancestor of his wife, whose name was "Rush," and the only sacrilege
+committed by the late Mr. Meyrick seems to have been the preservation
+of these things from destruction.
+
+I have frequently heard the late Sir S. R. Meyrick mention these
+Brasses, and regret they were not in his possession.
+
+                                         ONE OF HIS EXECUTORS.
+
+
+
+
+STERNE'S AUTOGRAPH.
+
+
+MR. GEO. WILLIS,--I have never met with the fact in print, that some
+few of the first editions of Tristram Shandy have the autograph of the
+author at the head of the first chapter in some or one of the volumes,
+a facsimile of which, in the 7th volume of the copy in my possession, I
+send you.
+
+[Illustration: L. Sterne]
+
+Whether this was done for the gratification of Sterne's particular
+friends, or for what other purpose, I am ignorant; perhaps some of your
+correspondents can throw some light upon the subject.
+
+                                                          A. C. K.
+
+
+
+
+WARD'S "GRAND REBELLION."
+
+
+I was rejoiced at the first glance at F. C. B.'s communication (p. 88
+"Current Notes" for November), but doubts very soon arose, whether some
+oversight had not occurred in taking the portrait of _Robert_ Bertie,
+for that enquired after, which is _Montague_ Bertie. On turning to
+Granger I found this to be the case, for the portrait which F. C. B.
+has, is there given as _Robert_, so that I fear the right one remains
+yet _non est inventus_, for I do not consider "A Dealer," as speaking
+from any distinct recollection of such a portrait, which must be an
+8vo. one, whereas Faithorne's is in 4to.
+
+                                                              A.
+
+_Oak House._
+
+
+
+
+DATE OF THOMAS HOOD'S DEATH.
+
+
+    Dec. 26th, 1851.
+
+SIR,--I find, on referring to a biographical sketch added to an
+autograph of the late Thos. Hood, at the time of his death, that that
+event took place, as surmised by your correspondent C. ("Current
+Notes," p. 90), on 3rd May, 1845.
+
+                                         Yours obediently,
+                                                       S. S.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+Mrs. Fenwick observing in Willis's "Current Notes" that some one
+enquires when Hood died, she writes to say, he expired on the 3rd May,
+1845. The above information Mr. Willis may depend upon being correct,
+as it is from the late Mr. Hood's daughter, who is married to the Rev.
+S. Broderip, Rector of Cossington, Somersetshire.
+
+Three Rock Houses, Tenby, Jan. 15, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.--I. P. (Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851), writes to
+G. W.:
+
+
+"Can you tell me who contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1838,
+the pleasant paper, 'Father Tom and the Pope; or a Night at the
+Vatican?' The impression prevails here that it was written by Maginn."
+
+
+_It was understood at the time to be a Mr. Ferguson, a writer in some
+Dublin paper,--a Wexford man._
+
+                                                              F. M.
+
+
+
+
+FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
+
+
+SIR,--Your correspondent, A. K., ("Current Notes" for December, p.
+90), will find in Fraser's Magazine, No. 121, Vol. 21, a list of the
+portraits published in that periodical.
+
+                                                              A.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+CAUSSIN'S HOLY COURT.
+
+
+                                         Landscape Terrace, Cork,
+                                              Dec. 29. 1851.
+
+DEAR SIR,--For the information of your two correspondents, "A
+Subscriber," and "R. O. W." ("Current Notes" for December, p. 95),
+I beg to repeat my assertion that there was an edition of "The Holy
+Court," by N. Caussin, published in _Corke_. In fact, (if I mistake
+not), there were two editions, one in 1765, without plates; and one in
+1767, with very excellent plates. I can procure an imperfect copy of
+the former for either of your correspondents for one shilling; and a
+fine copy of the latter for thirty to thirty-five shillings, full calf,
+with plates.
+
+The work was printed in Broad-lane--(perhaps so called quasi "lucus a
+non lucendo," as the lane is certainly rather narrow)--and was very
+well got up. The date and place of printing are thus given in the first
+edition: Corke: "Printed anno Domini 1765."
+
+                                     I am, Sir, yours very truly,
+                                                       WM. C. NELIGAN.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE SONS OF NOAH.
+
+
+                                                        Dec. 22nd.
+
+SIR,--I have examined Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon with reference to O.
+S.--your correspondent's query, (see "Current Notes" for November, p.
+85), concerning Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and cannot discover the names
+to have any such primary meaning as was there ascribed to them; though
+perhaps by a little straining, and a few far-fetched ideas, such an
+interpretation might be given--but it is so wholly unworthy of any one
+to torture his imagination to suppose that the original signification
+of words should have been framed to suit a climate, that nothing more
+need be said.
+
+                                    I remain, Sir,
+                                         Your obedient servant,
+                                                           C. M. J.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+TURKISH COIN.
+
+
+    Southwick, near Oundle,
+    Jan. 1st. 1852.
+
+SIR,--In Kitto's Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, vol. 2. p. 379,
+there is a coin illustrated thus: "5. supposed ancient Jewish coin,
+representing drums." Kitto gives his authorities at the end of the
+article on Musical Instruments.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Allow me to give the figure of the coin, and its interpretation:
+
+Read from left to right, the letters, or rather words, are: S F T R Ch
+N: in Turkish it reads, _The Boundary of the Turks_; and the two drum
+sticks ! are the pillars of Hercules, or the Calpe columna, and the
+Abyla columna.--_N.B._ The _S_ (for _sh_) is a Cuneiform letter.
+
+                                                T. R. BROWN.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+
+THE DEVONSHIRE COLLECTION.--In reply to the inquiry of Mr. Willis's
+correspondent, "A Young Numismatist," ("Current Notes" for December, p.
+95), he is informed that the Duke of Devonshire's Collection of Coins
+was sold by auction a few years ago, and produced a very inconsiderable
+sum, to the surprise of everybody. This was accounted for by the
+manner in which the Coins were catalogued. It was well known as "The
+Devonshire Collection."
+
+                                                       S. H. H.
+
+
+
+
+DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB OF ST. BERICHERT, OR, BERECHTUNE.--Mr. Windele
+the local historian of Cork, has circulated among his friends a
+Lithographic drawing of this very interesting monument, which he found
+at Tullilease, a small hamlet on the border of the Counties of Cork
+and Limerick, within a mile of Dromcolleher. The tomb is a much more
+highly ornate specimen of an ancient cross than any of those engraved
+in Dr. Petrie's work on the Round Towers of Ireland. At Tullilease
+there are the ruins of an old Romanesque church, which was dedicated to
+St. Berichert or Berihert, a Saxon, whose name is now Anglicised into
+Benjamin, and whose death is recorded at A.D. 839, in the Four Masters.
+The Legend on the stone is in Latin, (but very sorry Latin), and in
+the Irish character. It reads, "QUICUNQUE (for ae) HUNC TITULUM LEGERIT
+ORAT (for _orate_ or _oret_) PRO BERECHTUNE." On the upper part of the
+stone, in one corner, are the letters p[=p]s or pp[=s].
+
+
+
+
+RICHARD III.
+
+
+                                                 January 10th, 1852.
+
+SIR,--All our historians assert that Richard, Duke of Glo'ster paved
+his way to the crown by bastardizing, imprisoning, and assassinating
+his two nephews, Edward Prince of Wales and Richard Duke of York. How
+then are we to account for the provision made in the Wardrobe Roll
+for the Coronation of Richard III., July 3rd, 1483, (published in the
+Antiquarian Repertory, Vol. I. p. 29, 1807;) "_The deliveree of divers
+Stuff delivered for the use of Lorde Edwarde, son of late Kyng Edward
+the Fourthe, and of his Henxemen?_" Then follows a particular account
+of the materials for the "_apparaill and array_" of "_Prince Edward_"
+and his "_Henxemen_." Was he really present at his uncle's coronation?
+There is no mention of the Duke of York. The Declaration of Tyrrell and
+Dighton, published in the ensuing reign by Henry VII., says, the young
+princes were murdered in July, 1483. If the words did not expressly
+state "_Edwarde, son of late Kyng Edwarde the Fourthe_," I should have
+concluded that it meant Richard III.'s own son Edward, by Lady Ann
+Nivelle, at that time about nine years of age.
+
+                                          Yours, &c.      O. S.
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN TESTIMONIAL TO MRS. COWDEN CLARKE.
+
+
+                                       New York, 13th December, 1851.
+
+About the time you receive this, you will probably hear of an American
+testimonial to that amiable woman, Mrs. Cowden Clarke, to be presented
+to her by the American Minister, Mr. Abbot Lawrence, in the name of the
+subscribers, at the head of whom stands America's greatest and best
+statesman, Daniel Webster.
+
+This testimonial is in the shape of a magnificent Rosewood Library
+Chair, richly carved, and covered with the finest French Satin Brocade.
+It is at this moment _on_ the Atlantic, _in_ the "Atlantic," and
+insured by the Atlantic Insurance Company, for three hundred dollars.
+
+As THE FAME OF SHAKSPERE is world-wide, subscriptions of five
+dollars each came in from all parts of the American Union--from
+the most northerly of all, Maine,--to Mexico. From Wisconsin,
+in the _far_-far-FAR West, to the shores of the Pacific, at San
+Francisco--they are thousands of miles apart from each other.
+
+Why have you left it to us poor Yankees "to take the wind out of your
+sails," in presenting a testimonial to the authoress of the Concordance
+to Shakspere? Mr. Payne Collier, and such like dear fellows, who know
+so many eminent wealthy literati, ought, _now_ that we have set you the
+example, to get up a subscription, and present Mrs. Clarke with some
+better Shaksperean testimonial than a Chair! What say you to a 'FIRST'
+Best Bed? But if the hangings of it beat our satin brocade cover, why
+I'll hang myself in despair--no I won't, but I'll eat it--bed--feathers
+and all. The Chair was to have been covered with the richest silk Genoa
+velvet, of a regal scarlet or crimson, but the lady of our Secretary
+of State, Mrs. Daniel Webster, would have it, that velvet covers were
+quite old-fashioned; and as ladies best know what will suit ladies, she
+was asked the favour to select the cover, and _I guess_ you will admire
+it.
+
+Now for the _freedom_ of America. Collins gave the Chair _free_
+passage. Edwards, Sandford and Co. conveyed the case to the ship, and
+will convey it from Liverpool to London, _free_. They are Express men,
+and thus do we "go a-head."
+
+
+
+
+CATHERINE HAYES AND FATHER MATHEW.
+
+
+G. W.'s Correspondent adds:--
+
+"I receive your 'Notes' regularly. The story about Katy Hayes in your
+November Number, p. 88, is somewhat embellished by '_your New York
+Special Reporter_.' I regret to tell you that she, poor girl, has quite
+_put her foot in it_ here, and I am afraid will return poorer than
+when she came. She or her agent or agents, pursued a silly course by,
+_it is said_, keeping almost open house to her countrymen at the Astor
+house, a very expensive hotel, where she ran up an enormous bill, and
+being unable to pay, the sheriff's officers carried off the receipts
+at some of her concerts--particularly that which she gave for that
+humbug hypocrite Father Mathew. There has been a great deal about it in
+our papers. Doctor Joy returned to England some time ago in disgust.
+Mathew absolutely had the temerity to make it appear that he could work
+miracles, _publicly_, in the face of a large Catholic congregation, by
+restoring the sick and lame to health!"
+
+
+
+
+ETHNOLOGY.--"G.W.'s New York Special Reporter," whose embellished style
+has been questioned in the preceding paragraph, states, that he has
+forwarded a pamphlet, for which he will be duly thanked when it is
+received, "giving an account of a _pretended_ journey to the city of
+Eximaya, in Central America, by an Englishman and two Spaniards, who
+are all 'gone dead.'" Observing that, "It is a good Arabian Night's
+hoax. You will see," he remarks, "the pamphlet is dated 1850, but the
+children have only been exhibited here this week. There is _no mistake_
+about them, they are evidently children of a distinct and unknown
+race, come from whence they will. The recession of their foreheads
+is extraordinary. Their heads are wonderfully small, and in exact
+proportion to their bodies and limbs. They are not dwarfs but pigmies;
+about twelve years of age, lively and playful. They are not at Barnum's
+Museum, but at the rooms of the Society Library, and are exciting very
+great attention."
+
+
+
+
+THE JARVIS LIBRARY SALE.
+
+
+This Sale, which has so long attracted the attention of American
+Bibliopoles, commenced on Tuesday, Nov. 4th. It was the means of
+drawing together agents for the most prominent Libraries in the United
+States. Among others, the following Colleges and Institutions were
+represented:--Smithsonian Institution, Harvard College, Yale College,
+General Theological Seminary of New York, College of New Jersey,
+Brown University, Rochester University, Andover Theological Seminary,
+New York State Library, New York Society Library, and the Historical
+Society of New York.
+
+The sale being the largest that ever took place in America, of any
+private library, the books brought fair prices. A volume of Tracts,
+containing the American Whig, &c. sold for 22 dollars 75 cents, to
+Bancroft, the historian. Byzantinae Historiae Scriptores, a unique
+set, containing a beautiful MS. translation of the third volume of
+Nicephorus Gregoras, sold for 475 dollars, to Prof. Ticknor, of Boston.
+Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, being the celebrated COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOTT,
+130 dollars, to the Rochester University. The Paris Polyglott, 100
+dollars, to Geo. Livermore, Esq. Boston. Vetus Testamentum Graecum,
+40 dollars, Harvard College. Muratori, 37 vols. folio, 207 dollars,
+to the Theological Seminary, New York. Cranmer's Bible, 26 dollars,
+to Rochester University. Tyndale's Translation of the Pentateuch, 41
+dollars, to John Wiley. Duchesne's Historical Collections, 24 dollars
+50 cents, to Brown University, &c. &c.
+
+
+
+
+THE PERIODICAL PRESS OF THE METHODISTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+
+The _Christian Advocate and Journal_ has a circulation of from 25 to
+29,000 copies. The _Missionary Advocate_ circulates 20,000 copies, and
+the _Sunday School Advocate_ no less than 65,000 copies, with a yearly
+sale of Sunday School Books amounting to upwards of L1000, or 5000
+dollars.
+
+
+
+
+"WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE."
+
+
+GENERAL Morris, who is associated with Mr. N. P. Willis as Editor,
+and publisher of the "Home Journal," in New York, was, as all the
+world knows--or at least, as the United States ought to know, for it
+is something to be proud of to be possessed of a real living poet
+in these days--was the author of the words of a charming ballad,
+entitled, "Woodman, spare that Tree," which was sung effectively by an
+illustrious scion of the house of Russell. The parentage of this lyric
+having been claimed by a respectable Boston paper, (_The Sunday News_),
+on behalf of a deceased literary gentleman named Woodward, who is said,
+in an unguarded moment, to have pawned his reputation upon the Woodman,
+to the gallant General, for a glass of grog; the General indignantly
+repudiates the whole statement; repeating that, "a slander well hoed
+grows like the devil;" and labours to establish the fact, that the
+American General Morris is not to be by posterity identified with the
+English Captain of the same name--as a song writer.
+
+                                                            FUSBOS.
+
+
+
+THE BAWDRICK OR BALDROCK. (_Illustrated._)
+
+
+                              The Rectory, Clyst St. George, Topsham,
+                                             Jan. 2, 1852.
+
+SIR,--You are publishing, in your "Current Notes," some nice little
+cuts of interesting relics of antiquity, for which all who delight in
+such things must feel thankful to you.
+
+May I ask you to put into your cutter's hands the rough sketch which I
+send with this; and will you allow it to be introduced to the notice of
+your readers, as an illustration of the Bawdrick, or Baldrock, which
+is the leather gear, with its appurtenances of the upper part of the
+clapper in old black-letter bells, and about which your readers may
+have seen a discussion, with extracts from old Churchwarden's accounts,
+in another valuable periodical of like character to your own, but in
+which at present no illustrations of any kind are admitted. You will
+oblige one of your subscribers.
+
+                                                        H. T. E.
+
+  Mr. Willis.
+
+
+
+SKETCH OF THE GEAR OF AN OLD BELL CLAPPER.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A. Crown Staple.
+
+B. Bawdrick or Baldrock of old Churchwarden's books, viz. stout white
+leather straps, shewing how fitted with intervening piece of _hard wood
+and pin_.
+
+C. Clapper, with stirrup top.
+
+D. "_Busk Board_" which at the lower end is tied round the stem of the
+clapper, and by the pin above keeps the wood and leather all steady
+together, and the clapper works or swings on the _crown_ staple, having
+leather on the upper side, and hard wood _under_.
+
+                                                         H. T. E.
+
+
+
+
+TURNBUCKLE AND LATCH.--The figure you have engraved on p. 91 of your
+December "Notes," as a _Turnbuckle_, is the common casement _latch_
+of the 17th century; which may be found attached to the iron frame of
+casement windows in many old farm houses.
+
+A latch is not a turnbuckle, and no ironmonger's apprentice would
+confound the two. A latch is a bar moving up and down in a limited
+space--or, if backwards and forwards, as in some locks--it is called
+the latch-bolt. A turnbuckle, as its name implies, turns round, and
+is only limited by the notch, &c. by which it holds. They are chiefly
+of two kinds: one is a spindle, with a knob or ring at one end, and
+a tongue or buckle at the other; another is a handle with a tongue
+attached, moving together freely round, upon a pin or rivets. This
+latter kind has taken the place of the casement latch represented in
+your "Current Notes" in present use.
+
+                       ONE WHO HAS BEEN AN IRONMONGER'S APPRENTICE.
+
+
+
+
+ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATIONS IN IRELAND.
+
+
+A small subscription, which was raised for the purpose of sustaining
+the failing walls of Buttevant Abbey, in the County of Cork, is about
+to be followed by Mr. Thomas Tobin, of Ballincollig, taking measures to
+uphold the Castle of Buttevant.
+
+The same good spirit animates Mr. Odell, the proprietor of Ardmore, in
+the County of Waterford, who has determined to preserve the west gable
+of the Old Church, which is covered over with figures that, according
+to Ryland's History of Waterford, "with a good imagination, and some
+knowledge of the ancient Scriptures, may be made to exhibit an epitome
+of the history of the Old Testament."
+
+
+
+
+THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE.
+
+
+                                                16th January, 1852.
+
+SIR,--If your refer to your "Current Notes" for April last, you will
+find engraved, at p. 27, a tobacco pipe, found when the Golden Lion Inn
+at Fulham was pulled down in April, 1836. Now, Sir, it appears to me
+that this drawing of mine has been copied, without acknowledgment, from
+your Notes, in the Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire
+and Cheshire, Session iii. 1850-51, to illustrate a paper by Andrew
+James Lamb, Esq. Plate IV. No. 14. If not, I humbly conceive that Mr.
+Lamb, or the Rev. Dr. Hume, the Secretary, on behalf of the Society,
+is bound to state where the original pipe which figures in their
+Transactions exists, and how and when Mr. Lamb obtained his drawing
+or knowledge of it. This alone can disprove the charge which I make
+against the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, of _copying
+without acknowledgment_, my sketch _from Willis's Notes_.
+
+                                                           T. M.
+
+
+
+
+ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS.--In addition to those enumerated in G. W.'s
+"Current Notes" for December (p. 93), the first Number of "_Reliquiae_
+Antiquae Eboracenses, or Remains of Antiquities relating to York," has
+appeared.
+
+In answer to W. B.'s communications, G. W. conceives that the best mode
+of making a local work of this nature known, would be by a circular
+letter addressed to the resident Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of
+Yorkshire, soliciting their countenance and support.
+
+The information desired respecting the publications of the
+Archaeological Societies named, may be obtained by W. B. addressing
+himself to their respective Secretaries, _viz._
+
+    M. A. LOWER, Esq., Lewes.
+    REV. DR. HUME, Liverpool.
+    WILLIAM AYRTON, Esq., Chester.
+    SAMUEL TYMMS, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds, and
+    HENRY HARROD, Esq., Norwich.
+
+
+
+
+SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
+
+
+Mr. Willis is informed with reference to a paragraph which appeared
+in his "Current Notes" for December, p. 93, that the Society of
+Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, whose issues have been suspended
+since 1846, will forthwith resume publishing.
+
+
+
+
+THE SLOGANS OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND have been published by Mr. G. B.
+Richardson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
+
+
+
+
+THE BRITISH MUSEUM.--A recent resolution of the Trustees of this
+National Establishment has been considered, in certain Antiquarian
+circles, to present "_a fair specimen of double-dealing_."
+
+                                         AN IRISH NUMISMATIST.
+
+
+
+
+AUTOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY.
+
+
+                                                   January 3rd, 1852.
+
+SIR,--I trust I shall not trespass upon the limits of your courtesy, if
+I beg your assistance with regard to the accompanying list of names,
+about whom I am anxious to gain any information as to dates of birth,
+death, or any subject of interest connected with the individuals.
+
+As I live in the country and have not the facility of access to a
+library for reference, I avail myself of the medium of your instructive
+and valuable publication, and beg to subscribe myself, with all good
+wishes,
+
+                                        Your obedient servant,
+                                                           ELLEN F.
+
+    Symonds' Inn.    24th April, 1787. Edward Montagu.
+                        No date. Marquis de Spinola.
+
+    St. Petersburg.  24th Jan. 1805. C. A. Pozzo di Borgo.
+                        No date. Geo. R. Collier, Commodore.
+
+    London.          13th March, 1820. W. Plumer.
+                     20th May, 1829. Jno. Bruce.
+                        No date. P. P. Jacob.
+
+
+
+
+ROWLAND HILL AND THE PENNY POSTAGE.
+
+
+The following is the commencement of a leading article on the Penny
+Postage, contained in the "_Times_," of Saturday, 9th August, 1851:--
+
+    "A traveller sauntering through the Lake districts of
+    England some years ago, arrived at a small public-house
+    just as the postman stopped to deliver a letter. A
+    young girl came out to receive it. She took it in her
+    hand, turned it over and over, and asked the charge.
+    It was a large sum--no less than a shilling. Sighing
+    heavily, she observed that it came from her brother,
+    but that she was too poor to take it in, and she
+    returned it to the postman accordingly. The traveller
+    was a man of kindness as well as of observation; he
+    offered to pay the postage himself, and in spite of
+    more reluctance on the girl's part than he could well
+    understand, he did pay it, and gave her the letter. No
+    sooner, however, was the postman's back turned, than
+    she confessed that the proceeding had been concerted
+    between her brother and herself, that the letter was
+    empty, that certain signs on the direction conveyed
+    all she wanted to know, and that as they could neither
+    of them afford to pay postage, they had devised this
+    method of franking the intelligence desired. The
+    traveller pursued his journey, and as he plodded over
+    the Cumberland fells, he mused upon the badness of a
+    system which drove people to such straits for means
+    of correspondence, and defeated its own object all
+    the time. With most men such musings would have ended
+    before the close of the hour, but this man's name was
+    ROWLAND HILL, and it was from this incident and these
+    reflections that the whole scheme of Penny Postage was
+    derived."
+
+I should be glad to know if there is any doubt as to the truth of this
+statement, as I fancied it had been contradicted. Could any of your
+Correspondents oblige me by giving me information on the subject, I
+should feel obliged.
+
+                                                             I. E.
+
+
+
+
+ENQUIRY.
+
+
+                                            Boston, January 15th, 1852.
+
+SIR,--I send you a query for "Current Notes."
+
+    "Robbed between Sun and Sun."
+
+Can any of your communicants favor me with the origin of this
+expression? It was employed to describe the late Revolution in Paris,
+by the "Examiner," and I have seen it as a quotation in a work of old
+date.
+
+                                                          Y. S. N.
+
+
+
+
+DENTAL SURGERY.--In the observations on the progress of Geography and
+Ethnology, by Mr. John Russell Bartlett, read at the Meeting of the New
+York Historical Society in November and December, 1846, it is mentioned
+that in the exploration of a tumuli carried on by Dr. M. W. Dickeson,
+in the South-western States, chiefly in Mississippi, although in some
+instances extending to Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, he found that
+Dentistry had been extensively practised by this ancient people, as
+plugging the teeth and inserting artificial ones, were common. In one
+instance five artificial teeth were found inserted in one subject.
+
+                                                         T. C. B.
+
+
+
+
+CAPPING A STORY.--Rogers, the poet, was fond of telling the story
+of a gentleman who lost a shilling in Covent Garden Market, just at
+the corner of the Great Piazza, and on his return from India some
+five-and-twenty years afterwards, on passing the spot where he supposed
+the loss had taken place, remembered the circumstance, and looking
+about him on the pavement, picked up his shilling. Here Rogers, in his
+own inimitable way of telling a story, would pause, and then add--"IN
+HALFPENCE, _wrapped up in paper_."
+
+"I knew the man," said a witty friend to the poet, "but you have
+forgotten the most singular point of the story about the recovery of
+this lost shilling _just at the door of Willis the bookseller's place
+of business_."
+
+"I thought it sufficiently odd," replied the poetical banker, "our
+friend having found his shilling after so long a period, and only wish
+that my lost notes may turn up again in the same unexpected and amusing
+manner--_that notes turn up to me from Willis_."
+
+"Then you must have heard the whole story, and the very remarkable fact
+to which I refer? That in the paper which contained the four-and-twenty
+halfpence he found another filled with farthings, the exact amount of
+which when calculated, proved to be that of compound interest upon the
+shilling for five-and-twenty years one month and thirteen days."
+
+Mr. Rogers has never since told the story.
+
+
+
+
+ROBERT HOBLYN.
+
+
+SIR,--Through the medium of your publication, can you tell me anything
+about "Robt. Hoblyn;" and what works he has published? I believe they
+were of a classical nature; and he was living in 1825.
+
+                                           Yours truly,
+                                                      A. K.
+
+  Jan. 2, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+A TRAVELLING NAME.--I have heard or read somewhere of a story about one
+of the authors of the "Rejected Addresses"--indeed, I now remember that
+he told it to me himself--how that he once travelled in a stage coach
+with a very agreeable old lady, who was well acquainted with London
+society, and with whom he conversed for a considerable time about
+various mutual friends and circumstances that could only be known to
+them, or to their immediate circle, with so much familiarity, that the
+old lady's curiosity being roused, she ventured to inquire his name.
+"James Smith, madam," was the reply. "Oh, that's your travelling name,
+is it? But it won't do for me."
+
+                                                                J.
+
+
+
+
+SMITH.--Has not some one written, or is not some one going to write, a
+history of the Smiths? It really might be made a very amusing book, and
+some one--I forget who--actually told me that "the far-famed Ruffian of
+the Adelphi," (O. S.) was collecting materials for or from such a book.
+I subscribe my real name--identify, if you can, Mr. Willis.
+
+                                                       JOHN SMITH.
+
+
+
+
+PILGRIM'S BADGE?--A Correspondent has kindly transmitted to G. W. a
+rubbing from which the annexed woodcut has been made, of a small brass
+ornament, found at Launde Abbey, in Leicestershire, which abbey or
+priory was founded by Rd. Basset, in the reign of Henry III. dissolved
+by Henry VIII., and Cromwell, Earl of Essex, had a grant of it. In
+the Chapel (all that remains of the Priory) is a monument to his son
+Gregory, Lord Cromwell, of the date of 1551. The ornament is supposed
+to be a Pilgrim's Badge, brought from Rome, and probably was buried
+with him.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                                                       M. C. S.
+
+  1st January, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+ANCIENT KEY.--I. D. is thanked for the drawing of an Ancient Key found
+in October last, in the parish of Stoke Holy Cross, near Warwick; but
+as no particular interest attaches to this key in an antiquarian point
+of view, it is not worth engraving.
+
+
+
+
+THE LIBERTY STONE IN CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL.--T. B. B. (Burnley, 1st
+December) thanked, but the space at G. W.'s command does not permit of
+his inserting the extract forwarded to him from the _Liverpool Albion_.
+
+
+
+
+PRINTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL AND "ST. LUKE'S DAY."
+
+
+A "Young Print and Portrait Collector" would be obliged by any
+explanation respecting a portrait of Oliver Cromwell, of an allegorical
+nature, surrounded by various emblems and devices, which evidently bear
+upon the events of his life. He is represented standing between two
+columns, in armour, with a wreath of laurel in place of a helmet. This
+print has neither name or date of any kind upon it.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Another print is one marked published 1816, by J. T. Smith, called
+"St. Luke's day," a "poor painter removing;" is this intended as a
+caricature upon some artist of the time?
+
+  Jan. 6th, 1852.
+
+
+
+
+D. E., 47, _Blessington Street, Dublin,_ thanked for his suggestions.
+The R. I. A.--T. C. D. and the Dublin Society, however, cannot in the
+slightest degree influence the conduct of G. W.'s "Current Notes."
+
+If these learned bodies regard their own situation, they will not
+object to "any slang, coarseness, or Americanisms." They should
+rather reflect how much America has and _probably_ will teach young
+Ireland--BUT NOT _through_ their agency, as publishers.
+
+
+
+
+THE HOLY GRAHL, [Greek: Delta]. as confessedly "made up of quotations,"
+is an article not suited to G. W.'s "Current Notes."
+
+
+
+
+ADMISSION OF LITERARY INQUIRERS TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS.
+
+
+Regulations under which permission will be given to Literary Inquirers
+to make searches among the Public Records, without payment of fees,
+contained in a letter addressed by the Right Honourable Sir John
+Romilly, Master of the Rolls to Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., the Deputy
+Keeper of the Public Records: dated at the Rolls House, 4th December,
+1851:--
+
+1st. That the individuals seeking to avail themselves of the permission
+shall address a letter to the Deputy Keeper, stating generally their
+objects of research, so as to show that the applications are really
+and _bona fide_ for literary purposes, and that the applicant shall
+also attend the Deputy Keeper personally thereon, and give such further
+explanation as may be required; and that thereupon the Deputy Keeper
+shall, if he be satisfied with the statement and explanation, authorise
+the Assistant Keepers to allow the applicant to inspect such Indexes
+of Records, and also such Original Records, and to make such copies or
+extracts in pencil required by the applicant as the Deputy Keeper may
+think advisable.
+
+  This mode of proceeding, which is equally required for
+    the security of the Records, and for the protection of
+    the business searchers, will in fact be beneficial to
+    Literary Inquirers; for the more fully they explain
+    their objects, the better will the Deputy Keeper and
+    the other officers be able to direct them to the
+    documents which may be useful to them.
+
+2ndly. That all the applications before mentioned be entered in a book,
+and be reported to the Master of the Rolls.
+
+3rdly. That a book be kept at each branch office, in which the
+Assistant Keeper shall enter a note or particular of the Rolls,
+Records, Books, or Documents, called for, inspected, or used by the
+applicant, nearly in the same manner, _mutatis mutandis_, as is
+practised with respect to Manuscripts in the British Museum.
+
+  But this book is to be considered as confidential,
+    and not to be shown to the public without express
+    permission of the Master of the Rolls or Deputy Keeper.
+
+4thly. That, in case of any impropriety or abuse of the privilege, the
+Assistant Keepers do forthwith report the same to the Deputy Keeper, in
+order that he may bring the same before the Master of the Rolls.
+
+It will be necessary also to explain to the Literary Inquirers that
+the time of the various officers and other persons employed in the
+Public Record Office is so wholly engrossed by the performance of
+their present duties, that it will not be possible for the officers to
+assist any Literary Inquirers beyond the production of the documents,
+and giving a general explanation, if needed, of their character and
+nature. No applicant ought to present himself who is not sufficiently
+acquainted with the hand-writing, abbreviations, and language of
+ancient documents, so as to be able to read and decipher their contents.
+
+The Literary Inquirer will have free access to the documents, but, this
+being done, he will have to conduct the inquiry from these documents
+in such manner as his own knowledge and capacity may best enable him to
+do.
+
+
+
+
+_G. W. is informed that the reading Public are indebted to John Bruce,
+Esq., the Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, for this important
+concession on the part of the Master of the Rolls; and it has been
+suggested that a suitable testimonial should be presented to Mr. Bruce
+by those historical inquirers who are likely to derive such valuable
+aid from his exertions._
+
+                                                        F. S. A.
+
+
+
+
+LITERARY AUCTIONS.--That there is no lack of enthusiasm among amateurs
+for the possession of rare and curious works, is evidenced by the
+prices which some books of this class brought at a sale just concluded
+by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, being the first sale of importance
+this season. Among them may be noticed the following:
+
+ORLOGE (l') DE SAPIENCE, folio, _nouvellement imprimee a Paris_, 1493.
+A VERY SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF PRINTING ON VELLUM, _from the celebrated
+Press of_ VERARD, _ruled with red lines, bound in red morocco extra,
+gilt edges, by Bauzonnet, with a well made pigskin case to contain it_.
+
+Of this singular Ascetical Romance, M. Van Praet states that six
+copies are known as being printed on vellum: of these three are in the
+National Library at Paris, all of which are more or less adorned with
+miniatures, two of them, like the present, having the summary of the
+chapters (left blank for the insertion of the miniatures) written in
+a contemporary hand on the margins. The Harleian copy, afterwards in
+the collections of Count Macarthy and Mr. Hibbert, was adorned with
+thirteen miniatures: the present beautiful volume has SIXTEEN, the
+additional ones being at the commencement of the chapters, in which the
+same subjects are treated in a different manner. THE whole of the fine
+miniatures are in the best style of French art. THIS LOT SOLD FOR L45.
+
+
+
+
+Literary and Scientific Obituary.
+
+
+    CHILDREN, John George. Science. Late Secretary R.S.
+      Halstead, Kent.
+
+    GRAEFE, Dr. Christian. Greek and Roman Antiquities. St.
+      Petersburgh. 11th December.
+
+    JACOB, William. F.R.S. Political Economist. 31, Cadogan
+      Place. 17th December. Aged 89.
+
+    LUTTRELL, Henry. Wit and Poet. Brompton Square. 19th
+      December. Aged 86.
+
+    SADLIER, Rev. Dr. Provost, Trinity College, Dublin.
+      14th December.
+
+    STEEL, James. Editor and Proprietor Carlisle Journal.
+      Carlisle. 16th December. Aged 55.
+
+    TURNER, Joseph Mallord William. R.A. 47, Queen Anne
+      Street (Chelsea?). 19th December. Aged 76.
+
+    WARBURTON, Eliot. Historian and Novelist. Lost in the
+      wreck of the Amazon. 4th January.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+
+
+
+
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