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 CONTEXTS. 
 
 ESSAYS, NOTES, &c. PAOB 
 
 1. Milton's Country Residences 2 
 
 2. Prior's Chloe 6 
 
 3. The First Coffee Houses in England 15 
 
 4. The Origin of the Song, " Oh Nanny wilt 
 
 thou Gang with Me" 18 
 
 5. The Flemish Ballad of Old Hildebrand 21 
 
 6. Paying to See the Monuments an Old Custom 22 
 
 7. Baxter's Opinion of Some of the English Poets 30 
 
 8. Provencal Poets of France S3 
 
 '.). Who was Puttenham, the Author of " The 
 
 Arte of English Poesie?" 45 
 
 10. Dancing Taught by Written Characters, 
 
 termed " Orchesography" 47 
 
 1 1 . Charles the First and the Marquess of Wor- 
 
 cester 49 
 
 12. Singular Specimen of Orthography in the Six- 
 
 teenth Century 50 
 
 13. Oliver Cromwell's Love of State 60 
 
 14. Extraordinary Love- Letter, addressed to a 
 
 Lady of Maldon, in 1644 65 
 
 15. " *Tis Merry in Hall, when Beards Wag AIT 67 
 
 16. Jeremy Collier's Essay on Books 76 
 
 17. A Few Golden Sentences about Books, Selec- 
 
 ted from Wit's Academy, 1 635 79 
 
 18. Catalogue of Old Ballads among the King's 
 
 Pamphlets, British Museum 80, 128 
 
 19. Orator Henley, the Hero of the Gilt Tub ... 91 
 
 20. A Leaf from an Old Account Book 97 
 
 21. William DowBinsrV Journal 106 
 
 22. Old Almanacs 121 
 
 23. Notes on the Musical Libraries of Rome and 
 
 Naples 127 
 
 24. The Manner of Watchmen intimating the 
 
 Hours, at Herrnhuth, in Germany 129"
 
 ESSAYS, NOTES, &c. continued. VMF . 
 
 25. Mrs. Cornelys' Entertainments at Carlisle 
 
 House, Soho Square 136, 155, 170 
 
 26. Specimen of a Modern Glossary 139 
 
 27. Mr. William Miller's Collection 'of Pamphlets 151 
 
 28. Privy Purse Expenses of Charles II 166 
 
 NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY. 
 
 1. James Sibbald 7 
 
 2. David Herd 23 
 
 3. Robert Heron 36 
 
 4. Henry Lemoine 50 
 
 5. Andrew Jackson 69 
 
 6. Alexander Ross 83 
 
 7. John Cleland 99 
 
 8. Charles Avison 110 
 
 9. William Harrod 130 
 
 10. John Weaver 143 
 
 11. Rev. George Luellin 162 
 
 12. Rev. Arthur Bedford 176 
 
 MEMORIALS OF OLD LONDON. 
 
 1. The Parliamentary Fortifications of London 8 
 
 2. St. Martin's Lane 9 
 
 3. Peter's Court 9 
 
 4. Falconberg House, Soho Square 24 
 
 5. Cromwell's House, now the Jamaica Tavern, 
 
 Bermondsey 25 
 
 6. A Sign-Board of Shakespeare 25 
 
 7. Covent Garden 26 
 
 8. Jenny's Whim 38 
 
 9. Craven Buildings, Drury Lane ... 39 
 
 10. The Ceiling of Whitehall 39 
 
 11. Marylebone Gardens 39 
 
 12. The Conduit at Islington 53 
 
 13. Sadler's Wells 54 
 
 14. Doyley's Warehouse in the Strand 71 
 
 15. Dr. Arne's Residence, Craven Buildings 71 
 
 16. Charing Cross 84 
 
 17. Cheapside Cross 84 
 
 18. St. James's Square 101 
 
 19. Old Burlington Street 101 
 
 20. The Extension of London 102
 
 COM ! rii 
 
 MEMORIALS OK OLD LONDOX continued. rMn 
 
 21. Belsize House, Hampstead 112 
 
 22. Cromwell House, Old Brompton 114 
 
 23. Ancient Mod, ,, i Li-hting London 131 
 
 Jl. Horace Walpole's Account of Whitehall and 
 
 its Precincts 146 
 
 -'). Cavendish Square 145 
 
 26. Red Lion Square 146 
 
 27. Old House in Tothill St. Westminster 163 
 
 28. St. Giles's in the Olden Time 177 
 
 Jl>. Old House in Drury Lane 178 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTH i -. 
 
 1 . Warwick's (Sir Philip) Discourse of Govern- 
 
 ment, 8vo. 1694 10 
 
 2. The Muses' Library, being a Choice Collection 
 
 of the Best Ancient English Poetry, 8vo. 
 1738 :. 10 
 
 3. M. (J.) A Six-folde Politician, 8vo. 1C09 ... 10 
 I. Female Glory; or the Life of the Virgin 
 
 Mary, 8vo. lG:i:> II 
 
 5. Castlehaven, (James Lord Audley, Earl of) 
 
 Memoirs of the Wars of Ireland, 12mo. 
 1680 11 
 
 6. Bering (Sir Edward) The Most Excellent 
 
 .Maria, 8vo. 1701 11 
 
 7. Fanshawe's (Sir Ricuard) Embassies in Spain, 
 
 &c., 8vo. 1701 26 
 
 8. Hawkins' (John Sidney) An Inquiry into the 
 
 Principles of Thorough Bass, 8vo. 1817 ... 26 
 
 9. Parnell's (Archdeacon) Poems, 8vo. 1770 ... 26 
 
 10. Burges' (F.) Observations on Printing, 1701 27 
 
 11. Institutions of a Gentleman, 8vo. 1568 39 
 
 1-J. The Reformed Commonwealth of Bees, small 
 
 4to. 1655 .*. 40 
 
 13. Wheeler's (John) Treatise of Commerce, 
 
 tmalMto. 1001 40 
 
 14. Miwu-rs* (Robert) Account of Waterbeach, 
 
 8vo. 17!)5 40 
 
 1 5. Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, 8vo. 1773 40 
 It:. Ti.,- Tm. Loyalist, or < .ouritr, 
 
 l.'mo. i;7! 55
 
 NOTICES continued. PAGH 
 
 17. Humane Industry ; or a History of most Ma- 
 
 nual Arts, 8vo. 1061 56 
 
 18. Collier's (Joel) Musical Travels, 12mo. 1785 71 
 
 19. Hackett's (John) Collection of Epigrams, 
 
 12mo.l757 72 
 
 20. Short Explication of Musical Terms, 12mo. 
 
 1724 72 
 
 21. Suckling's (Sir John) Fragmeuta Aurea, 8vo. 
 
 1658 85 
 
 22. Barba's Art of Metals, 12mo. 1674 86 
 
 23. The Historic of Judith, Englished by Hudson, 
 
 8vo. 1584 86 
 
 24. Misselden (Edward) Free Trade ; or the Means 
 
 to Make Trade Flourish, 4to. 1622 102 
 
 25. Malynes' (Gerard) An Answer to a Treatise of 
 
 Free Trade, 12mo. 1622 102 
 
 26. Misselden (E.) The Circle of Commerce, 4to. 
 
 1623 103 
 
 27. Hart (John) Orthographic, 12mo. 1569 115 
 
 28. Bullokar's (William) Amendment of Ortho- 
 
 graphic, 4to. 1580 115 
 
 29. Mulcaster's (Richard) First Part of the Ele- 
 
 mentarie, 4to. 1582 115 
 
 30. -Gill's (Alex.) Logonomia Anglica, 4to. 1G19 116 
 81. Hodges' (Richard) Special Help to Orthogra- 
 phic, 4to. 1643 116 
 
 32. P. (0.) The Vocal Organ, 8vo. 1065 1)6 
 
 33. Jones' (J., M.D.) Practical Phonography, 4to. 
 
 1701 117 
 
 34. Elphinston's (James) Propriety ascertained 
 
 in Her Picture, 4to. 1770 117 
 
 35. Malcolm's (Alexander) Treatise of Musick, 
 
 8vo. 1721 132 
 
 36. Harvey's (Gideon) Family Physician, 12mo. 
 
 1678 132 
 
 37 Art of Curing by Expec- 
 tation, 12rno. 1689 132 
 
 38. Browne's (Richard) Medicina Musica, 12mo. 
 
 1729 133 
 
 39. Hall's (John) Observations on English Bodies, 
 
 12ino. 1657 133
 
 COST I iX 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES continued. TAOm 
 
 40. The Shrubs of Parnassus, 12mo. 1760 146 
 
 41. Ramsay's (Allan) NVw Miscellany of Scoto 
 
 Songs, 12mo. 1727 146 
 
 42. Price's (D.) Saul's Prohibition Staide, 4to. 
 
 1609 146 
 
 43. Lechford's (T.) Plaine Dealing ; or News from 
 
 New England, 4to. 1642 147 
 
 44. Tongue Combat, 4to. 1628 147 
 
 45. Eccho to the Book called a Voice from Hea- 
 
 ven, 8 vo. 1653 147 
 
 46. Carey's (Henry) Musical Century, in One 
 
 Hundred English Ballads, folio, 1740 164 
 
 47. Poems on Several Occasions, K'nio. 
 
 1720 179 
 
 SPECIMENS OK ANCIENT POETRT. 
 
 1. Four Madrigals, by Nicholas Breton 12, 13 
 
 2. A Curolby -Robert Southwell 27 
 
 3. Mournful ".Melpomene, a Ballad 41 
 
 4. Five Madrigals by Thomas Campion 56-7-8 
 
 5. Two Songs from Brittol Drollery, 1674 ... 73, 74 
 
 6. Satirical Poem on Booksellers 86 
 
 7. Specimens of Sacred Poetry, temp. James 1 . 
 
 [103, 117 
 
 8. A Defence for Musick, by T. Jordan 133 
 
 9. The Old Ballet of Shepheard Tom 147 
 
 10. Tobacco is an Indian Weed 165 
 
 11. The Praise of Ale 179 
 
 St KM'- \\i> SKETCHES. 
 
 1. The Bayeaux Tapestry 13 
 
 J. Ancient (Jloln- at Nuremberg: ... " 13 
 
 3. Camden's Britannia 14 
 
 4. Hiii.yan'* Hible .' 14 
 
 5. Whimsical Prints of tlit- Human Figure 14 
 
 6. Specimen of Minute Writing 14 
 
 7. Unpublished Poems by Queen Elizabeth 28 
 
 8. Inlaid Floors in England 28 
 
 9. Ancient Flemish Songs and Music 29 
 
 10. Archbishop Cranmer's Dietary 29 
 
 Jl. Early Theatrical Performance in Germany... 43
 
 CONTEXTS. 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES continued. 
 
 PAGI 
 
 12. Descendants of George Withers 43 
 
 13. Curious Card Advertisement 44 
 
 14. Yyse's Spelling Book 44 
 
 15. A Knowledge of Books 44 
 
 16. The Kind's Cock Grower 59 
 
 17. The Private Library of Charles II 59 
 
 18. Edmund Curll, the Bookseller 59 
 
 19. Origin of the Term " Humbug" 74 
 
 20. Vanderbank the Engraver 74 
 
 21. Ancient Prices of MSS 75 
 
 22. The Romance of Alexander 75 
 
 23. The Aulhor of the Whole Duty of Man 89 
 
 24. The Libraries of Mary Queen of Scots and 
 
 Elizabeth 89 
 
 25. King James's Knights 89 
 
 26. Drayton's Grave 89 
 
 27. Admonition to Spendthrifts 90 
 
 28. The Felton Letter 90 
 
 29. Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester 104 
 
 30. Historical Romances, written by Heralds ... 105 
 
 31. Daftey's Elixir 119 
 
 32. Epitaph on Peter Aretin 115 
 
 33. First Introduction of Coffee into France 119 
 
 34. Homer in a Nutshell 119 
 
 35. Italian Dramatic Library 120 
 
 36. Lady Politicians 135 
 
 37. Origin of the Term " Sending to Coventry" 135 
 
 38. The Bedford Missal 149 
 
 39. Origin of Newspapers 149 
 
 40. Kneeling to the King 150 
 
 41. Original Advertisement of Rowe's Shakes- 
 
 peare 166 
 
 42. Lines on a Printing Office 181 
 
 43. The Pendrell Family 181 
 
 44. The Chancery Court in the Time of Sir T. 
 
 More 181 
 
 45. Nancy Dawsou's Grave 181
 
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 'WHAT'S in a name?" Ask the booksellers, and they 
 will tell you, much in the title-page of a new book. In- 
 deed it has ever been the same, as a glance at our old 
 literature will convince the most sceptical. The making 
 up of a taking title page, seems to have been the peculiar 
 province of the bookseller, time out of mind. How else 
 can we account for those quaint and comical " frontis- 
 pieces" " Baxter' t Heavy Shove" "A Salve for Sore 
 Eye* " " Pins and Needles for the Ungodly" and a host 
 of others of the same description, that might easily be 
 adduced? 
 
 An appropriate name, and a taking name, are two 
 widely different things. How often in the present day is 
 the genuine book-reader taken in by a book that belies 
 its title-page ? The pretty, and the namby pamby now pre- 
 dominate, but they poorly compensate for the racy cogno- 
 mens of old. 
 
 We like a name that exactly expresses the nature of 
 the book to which it is prefixed. Accordingly we have 
 christened our brochure, " Fly Leaves," because its contents 
 are precisely of the character of those "Scraps and 
 Sketches" with which book-men delight in adorning the 
 spare leaves, margins, and sometimes the interior of the 
 covers of their favourite books. 
 
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 2 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 We do not lay claim to any originality of idea, or to 
 much order in the arrangement of our materials. But, 
 as Dr. Johnson says, " If a man must wait till he can 
 weave anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting 
 them, and get but few, in comparison of what we might 
 get." 
 
 The subjects which we treat of may be disposed under 
 the following heads : 
 
 1. Short Essays upon Literary and Antiquarian 
 Subjects. 
 
 2. Biographical Notices of " out of the way" Authors. 
 
 3. Memorials of Old London. 
 
 4. Bibliographical Notices of Old Books. 
 
 5. Specimens of Ancient Poetry from MSS. and rare 
 printed books. 
 
 6. Miscellaneous Scraps, Literary, Antiquarian, &c. 
 We do not pretend to any classical research, "small 
 
 Latin, and less Greek," adorn our pages. Our matter, 
 like our size, is confined. Dr. Franklin's words are appli- 
 cable in our case: 
 
 " Vessels large may venture more 
 But little boats should keep near shore." 
 
 MILTON'S COUNTRY RESIDENCES. 
 AMONG the " visits to remarkable places" which throw 
 a charm over our imagination, and carry us back to 
 that period of "other days" when the good and the great 
 struggled for political liberty, Sir William Jones' visit to 
 Milton's cottage, ought not to be forgotten. 
 
 " I set out (says Sir William Jones) in the morning, 
 in company with a friend, to visit a place where Milton 
 spent part of his life, and where, in all probability, he 
 composed several of his earliest productions. It is a small 
 village, situated on a pleasant hill, about three miles from 
 Oxford, and called Forest Hill, because it formerly lay
 
 8CEAP9 AKD SKETCHES. X 
 
 contiguous to a forest, which has since been cut down. 
 The poet chose this place of retirement after his first 
 Miarriage ; and he describes the beauties of his retreat in 
 that fine passage of the L'Allegro :' 
 
 ' Strait mine eye hath caught new pleasure*, 
 
 Whil.t the landicape round it measures ; 
 
 Runet lawns and fallows grey, 
 
 Where the nibbling flock* do stray ; 
 
 Mountain* on whose barren breast 
 
 The lab-ring clouds do often rest ; 
 
 Meadows trim with daisies pied, 
 
 Shallow brooks and rivers wide; 
 
 Towers and battlements it see*, 
 
 Bosom'd high in tufted tree*. 
 
 Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes, 
 From betwixt two aged oaks.' Jtc. 
 
 "It was neither the proper season of the year, nor 
 time of the day, to hear all the rural sounds, and see all the 
 objects mentioned in this description ; but, by a pleasing 
 concurrence of circumstances, we were saluted, upon our 
 approach to the village, with the music of the mower and 
 )ii> scythe; we saw the ploughman intent upon his labour ; 
 and the milkmaid returning from her country employment. 
 
 "As we ascended the hill, the variety of beautiful 
 objects, the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity of 
 the whole scene, gave us the highest pleasure. We, at 
 length, reached the spot where Milton, undoubtedly, took 
 most of his images: it is on the top of the hill, from which 
 there is a most extensive prospect on all sides. The dis- 
 tant mountains that seemed to support the clouds ; the 
 villages and turrets partly shaded with trees of the finest 
 verdure, and partly raised above the groves which sur- 
 rounded them ; the dark plains and meadows of a greyish 
 colour, where the sheep were feeding at large ; in short, 
 the view of the streams and rivers convinced us that there 
 was not a single useless idea or word in the above men- 
 tioned description, but that it was a most exact and lively 
 representation of nature. Thus, will this fine passage,
 
 4 FIT LEAVES ; OR 
 
 which has always been admired for its elegance, receive an 
 additional beauty from its exactness. After we had walked 
 with a kind of poetical enthusiasm, over the enchanted 
 ground, we returned to the village. 
 
 " The poet's house is close to the church ; the greatest 
 part of it has been pulled down, and what remains belongs 
 to an adjacent farm. I am informed that several papers, 
 in Milton's own hand, were found by the gentleman who 
 was last in possession of the estate. The tradition of his 
 having lived there is current among the villagers ; one of 
 whom shewed us a ruinous wall that made part of his 
 chamber, and I was much pleased with another, who had 
 forgotten the name of Milton, but recollected him by the 
 title of " The Poet." 
 
 " It must not be omitted, that the groves near the 
 village are famous for nightingales, which are so elegantly 
 described in the 'II Penseroso.' Most of the cottage 
 windows are overgrown with sweet-briars, vines, and 
 honey-suckles ; and that Milton's habitation had the same 
 rustic ornament, we may conclude from the lark bidding 
 him good morrow 
 
 ' Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, 
 Or the twisted eglantine,' 
 
 for it is evident he meant a sort of honey-suckle by 
 the eglantine, though that word is commonly used for the 
 sweet briar, which he could not mention twice in the same 
 couplet.'.' 
 
 Such is the graphic description left us by an accom- 
 plished scholar, in a letter to Lady Spencer, dated from 
 Oxford, Sept. 7th, 1769. 
 
 The tradition that Milton did reside at this beautiful 
 and beautifully retired village, is indeed general ; though 
 some of his biographers doubt the fact. Madame du 
 Bocage, in her entertaining Letters concerning England, 
 relates, that visiting in June, 1750, Baron Schutz and 
 lady, at their house near Shotover Hill, " they shewed me
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 5 
 
 from a small eminence .Villon' i house, to which I bowed 
 with all the reverence with which that poet's memory 
 inspires me." 
 
 Another spot, undoubtedly hallowed by the great poet's 
 residence, is the small cottage at Chalfont, St. Giles, 
 four miles from Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. Here 
 Milton found a refuge during the Great Plague of London. 
 
 Miss Mitford, in her charming Recollection* of a Liter- 
 ary Life, 1852, (Vol. i., p. 45) thus describes the cottage, 
 and the approach to it from Beaconsfield : 
 
 " The road wound through lanes still shadier and hedge- 
 rows still richer, where the tall trees rose from banks 
 overhung with fern, intermixed with spires of foxglove ; 
 sometimes broken by a bit of mossy park-paling, some- 
 times by the light shades of a beech-wood, until at last we 
 reached the quiet and secluded village, whose very first 
 dwelling was consecrated by the abode of the great poet. 
 
 " It is a small tenement of four rooms, one on either 
 side the door, standing in a little garden, and having its 
 gable to the road. A short inscription, almost hidden by 
 the fuliage of the vine, tells that Milton once lived within 
 those sacred walls. The cottage has been so seldom visited, 
 is so little desecrated by thronging admirers, and has 
 suffered so little from alteration or decay, and all about it 
 has so exactly the serene and tranquil aspect that one 
 should expect to see in an English village two centuries ago, 
 that it requires but a slight effort of fancy to imagine our- 
 selves the blind old bard, still sitting in that little parlour, 
 or sunning himself on the garden seat beside the well. 
 Milton is said to have corrected at Chalfont some of the 
 sheet* of the Paradise Lost. The Paradise Regained he 
 certainly composed there. One loves to think of him in 
 that calm retreat, to look round that poor room and think 
 how Genius ennobles all she touches ! Heaven forefend 
 that change in any shape, whether in embellishment or 
 of decay, should fall upon that cottage ! "
 
 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 PRICE'S CHLOE. 
 
 IN Southey's Common-Place Book, 1849, (p. 403) is the 
 following note : 
 
 " I heard my eldest brother say Her name [Prior's 
 Chloe] was Miss Taylor, that he knew her well ; and that 
 she once came to him in Dean's Yard, Westminster, 
 purposely to ask his advice. She told him, ' Sir, I know 
 not what to do. Mr. Prior makes large professions of his 
 love ; but he never offers me marriage.' My brother ad- 
 vised her to bring the matter to a point at once. She went 
 directly to Mr. Prior, and asked him plainly, ' Do you 
 intend to marry me, or no ? ' He said many soft and 
 pretty things: on which she said, 'Sir, in refusing to 
 answer, you do answer. I will see you no more.' And she 
 did see him no more to the day of his death. But after- 
 wards she spent many hours standing and weeping at his 
 tomb in Westminster Abbey." 
 
 This is evidently an extract from some older authority. 
 Southey has neglected to tell us whose " eldest brother " 
 was Miss Taylor's confidant, and the editor of the Common- 
 Place Book, as usual, does not help us in the difficulty. 
 
 But there is another version of " Prior's Chloe," of a 
 somewhat different character. 
 
 Dr. Arbuthnot, writing to a friend, Oct. 10, 1721, has 
 the following passage : " There is great care taken, now 
 it is too late, to keep Prior's will secret, for it is thought 
 not to be too reputable for Lord Harley to execute this will. 
 
 " Be so kind as to say nothing whence you had your 
 intelligence. We are to have a bowl of punch at Bessy 
 Cox's. She would fain have put it upon Lewis that she 
 was his Emma ; she owned Flanders Jane was his Chloe. 
 I have no security from these dotages in batchelors, but 
 to repent of their misspent time and marry with all speed." 
 
 J. T. Smith, in his entertaining Ramble in the Streets 
 of London, (edit. 1849, p. 175) says, "It is alleged of
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 7 
 
 Prior, the poet, that after having spent the evening with 
 Oxford, Bolingbroke, Pope, and Swift, he would go and 
 smoke a pipe, and drink a bottle of ale with a common 
 soldier and his wife in Long Acre, before he went to bed. 
 This woman, the soldier's wife some say a cobbler's, and 
 some an ale-keeper's wife was the beauty whom he cele- 
 brates under the name of Chloe." 
 
 Pope says, " Everybody knew what a wretch this woman 
 was;" and adds on another occasion, "Prior was not a 
 right good man ; he used to bury himself for whole days 
 and nights together with this poor mean creature, and 
 often drank hard." " As drunk as Chloe," has since become 
 proverbial. 
 
 llrglprtri Bingrapjjij. 
 
 No. I. JAMES SIBBALD. 
 
 UNDER this head, we propose giving, from time to time, 
 such pieces of " neglected" biography as have escaped the 
 notice of regular Dictionary makers, and at present lie 
 scattered in the out-of-the-way " nooks and corners " of 
 provincial papers, local magazines, &c., &e. 
 
 JAMES SIBBALD, of Edinburgh, was a man of general 
 learning and abilities. He was for many years a book- 
 seller and proprietor of the Edinburgh circulating library. 
 His productions in literature were numerous : but as his 
 extreme modesty prevented them from appearing in an 
 ostentatious manner or even in his name, they were not, 
 perhaps, generally known to be his beyond the circle of his 
 friends. The principal papers in the Edinburgh Magazine, 
 which commenced in 1783, and was conducted by him for 
 a good many years afterwards, bear sufficient testimony 
 to his taste and learning, and procured him the acquaint- 
 ance and attention of many of the first men of learning 
 in that part of the kingdom ; and in particular of Lord
 
 8 FLY LEAVES ; OK, 
 
 Hailes, who contributed largely to his magazine, and 
 whose approbation alone might have been sufficient to 
 establish his reputation. A short period before his death, 
 he published his principal work, A Chronicle of Scottish 
 Poetry ; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the 
 Crowns; to which he added a General Glossary of the 
 Scottish Language; which last alone, ought to be suffi- 
 cient to perpetuate his memory as a person of the greatest 
 attainments in the difficult field of Scottish antiquities. 
 
 The Chronicle was published in 1802 ; and Sibbald died 
 in May, 1803. 
 
 3Knnnrials nf d 
 
 THE PARLIAMENTARY FORTIFICATIONS OF LONDON. 
 Mr. Thompson, of Osuaburgh Place, Regent's Park, is in 
 possession of a number of interesting drawings exhibiting 
 the military preparations in and about London, at the 
 period of the civil war. They are said to have been drawn by 
 Captain John Eyre, of Cromwell's regiment, and to exhibit 
 faithful and exceedingly curious representations of some of 
 the localities of old London. As they have been engraved, 
 and are now in the course of publication, the following list 
 of the series may be of some service to the topographer 
 at any rate, it is worthy of being put upon record, as an 
 addition to the works of Gough and Upcott. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 Plan of the Fortifications of London. 
 2 A Redoubt, with two Flanks, nenr St. Giles' Pound; a small 
 
 Fort at East end of Tyburn Road ; a large Fort, with four 
 
 Half-bulwarks, across the Tyburn Road. 
 
 3 A small Bulwark at Oliver's Mount, against Tyburn Brook. 
 4 A large Fort, with four Bulwarks, on the Reading road, beyond 
 
 Tyburn Brook ; a small Redoubt and Battery on the hill 
 
 from St. James' Park. 
 5 A Court of Guard in Chelsea Road. 
 6 A Battery and Breastwork in Tothill Fields. 
 7 A Quadrant Fort, with four high Breastworks, at Foxhall. 
 8 A Fort, with four Half-bulwarks, in St. George's Fields. 
 9 A large Fort, with four Bulwarks, at the end of Blackman St.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCH'S. 9 
 
 10 A Redoubt, with four Flank*, at the end of Kent Street. 
 
 11 A Bulwark anil a half on the hill at the eml of Orayel Lane, 
 (the view up the river shewing London Bridge, it very In- 
 teresting.) 
 
 12 A Hon. work, near the Church, at Whitechapel Street. 
 
 IS A Redoubt, with two ri.n.K-, at Brick Lane. 
 
 14 A Redoubt, at the Hackney corner ol Shorediich ; a Redoubt, 
 at the corner of the Road to Edmonton, at Shoreditch. 
 
 15 A Battery and Breastwork, on the Road to Islington. 
 
 16 A Battery and Breastwork, at the end of St. John Street. 
 
 17 A View of London from the North, six-wins the Fortifications 
 from Whitechapel to Tothill Fields, also (he old Walls and 
 Gat** of London, from Tower Hill to Ludyate. Size, 40 
 inches by 8. 
 
 18 A Battery at Cray's Inn Lane. 
 
 19 Two Batteries at Southampton House. 
 
 20 Portrait of the Author, Captain John Eyre, of Col. Cromwell's 
 own Regiment. 
 
 ST. MARTIN'S LANE. The house No. 96 in this street, 
 is one of the oldest shops in London ; it has one of the 
 very few remaining shop-fronts, where the shutters slide in 
 grooves. The street door frame is of the style of Queen 
 Anne, with a spread-eagle, foliage, and flowers curiously 
 and deeply carved in wood over the entrance, similar to 
 those remaining in Carey Street, Great Ormond Street, 
 and a few other places about London. The staircase of 
 this house is curiously painted with a number of figures 
 viewing a procession. It was executed for the famous Dr. 
 Mi>;mliin, about the year 1732, by a French artist, named 
 Clermont. Behind the house there is a large room, the 
 inside of which Hogarth has given in his " Rake's Pro- 
 gress," introducing portraits of the doctor and his wife. 
 
 PETER'S COCRT, TURNING OUT OF ST. MARTIN'S LANE. 
 In 1710, the goods of Mrs. Selby, sword -cutler, are 
 advertised to be sold, at the dancing-school in Peter's 
 Court, against Tom's coffee-house in St. Martin's Lane." 
 This dancing-school was afterwards the first studio of 
 Roubiliac, the celebrated sculptor. There, among other 
 works, he executed the statue of Handel, for Yaurhall 
 Gardens. Upon his leaving the studio, it was fitted up as 
 a drawing academy, supported by a subscription raised by 
 numerous artists. M r. M k-hael Moser was the first keeper. 
 The site is now occupied by a Quaker's Meeting-house.
 
 FLY LEAVES J OR, 
 
 liMingraptfiral into. 
 
 WARWICK'S (SiR PHILIP) DISCOURSE or GOVERNMENT, 
 
 AS EXAMINED BY REASON, SCRIPTURE, AND LAW OF 
 
 THE LAND. 8vo. 1694. 
 
 Malone wrote the following note on the fly-leaf of his 
 copy: "This book was published by Dr. Thomas Smith, 
 the learned writer concerning the Greek Church. The 
 Preface not being agreeable to the Court at the time it 
 was published, (the fifth year of William III.) was sup- 
 pressed by authority ; but is found in this and a very few 
 other copies. 
 
 "Granger says (vol. iv. p. 66) that this Preface by 
 Dr. Smith was prefixed to Sir Philip Warwick's Memoirs of 
 Charles I., but this is a mistake. Whether Smith was the 
 editor of the Memoirs I know not." E. MALONE. 
 
 THE MUSES' LIBRARY, BEING A CHOICE COLLECTION OF 
 THE BEST ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY, FROM THE 
 TIME OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR TO THE REIGN OF 
 KING JAMES I. 8vo. 1738. 
 "This work was begun with fidelity and spirit by a 
 
 Mrs. Cowper, with the assistance of Mr. Oldys; only one 
 
 volume appeared, which has become very scarce." HEAD- 
 
 LEY. 
 
 The latter part of this statement is not correct ; the 
 
 book is of very common occurrence, and only produces a few 
 
 shillings. Its merit, for the period of its production, is 
 
 unquestionable. 
 
 M. (J.) A SlXE-FOLDE POLITICIAN ; TOGETHER WITH A 
 
 SIXEFOLDE PRECEPT OF POLICY. 8vo. 1609. 
 
 Warton, Steevens, and Caldecott, ascribe this work to 
 the father of the poet Milton ; but Hayley, Farmer, and 
 Reed, agree in assigning it to the pen of JOHN MELTON, 
 author of the Astrologaster. 
 
 John Melton is conjectured by the Rev. J. Hunter, to 
 have been the person of the same name, who was after- 
 wards Secretary to the Council of the North, or Keeper of 
 the Great Seal for the North of England, who died in 1640, 
 and was buried at Tottenham, with a monument to his 
 memory. (See New Illustrations of Shakespeare, Vol. ii., 
 p. 353.)
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 11 
 
 FEMALE GLORY ; OR, TIIE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN MARY. 
 8vo. London, Printed by Thomas Harper, 1635. 
 
 " The Epistle dedicatory to the Lady Theophila Coke," 
 is signed Anth. Stafford. Then follows an address " to the 
 Feminine Reader," and afterwards "to the Masculine 
 Header." This is followed by " Meditaciones Poetica; et 
 Christiame, in annunciationem beats Virginis, W. A." 
 After this comes "the Ghyrlond of the blessed Virgin 
 Maria," signed B. J. [query B. Jonson?] Then three 
 " Pannegyrtcks (in verse) upon the blessed V. M., M and 
 finally, the body of the work. 
 
 CASTLEUAVEN (JAMES, LORD AODLEY, EARL OF) ME- 
 MOIRS OF His ENGAGEMENT AND CARRIAGE IN THE 
 WARS or IRELAND, 1642-51. 12mo. 1680. 
 This edition was suppressed, and is now extremely rare. 
 It has the dedication to James II., which was cancelled 
 and disavowed, although the author expressly says, " I 
 lay these my Memoirs at your Majestie's feet, aud I pass 
 them on my word not to contain a lie, or a mistake, to my 
 knowledge." The edition of 1684 diners most materially 
 from this. 
 
 DERINO (SiR EDWARD) THE MOST EXCELLENT MARIA, 
 is A BRIEF CHARACTER OF HER INCOMPARABLE VIR- 
 TUES AND GOODNESS. 8vo. 1/01- 
 These Memoirs were privately printed; and from the 
 dedication to her " only surviving sister, Madame Anne 
 Edwin, of Hereford," it appears that the impression was 
 restricted to "a few copies," to prevent them being sur- 
 reptitiously printed after the author's decease. 
 
 nf 3nrifiit 
 
 THE following choice moreeaux are transcribed from a 
 small quarto volume of about 450 pages, containing 
 " Songs and Sonnets," by writers that flourished in the 
 reign of Elizabeth and her successor. It was formerly in 
 the possession of "John Hammond, 1615," and is now in 
 the collection of the Editor. We have classed the- four 
 Madrigals" together, because they are from the same 
 pen the prolific one of NICHOLAS BRETON.
 
 12 FLY LEAVES; OB, 
 
 I. 
 " There is a garden in her face, 
 
 Where Roses and white Lillies grow, 
 A heavenly paradise is that place, 
 Wherein these pleasant fruits do flow : 
 There cherries grow which none can buy, 
 Till cherry ripe themselves do crye. 
 
 " These cherries fairly do enclose 
 Of Orient Pearle a double rowe, 
 Which when her lovely laughter showes, 
 They look like Rose buds fild with snowe : 
 Yet them no peere nor prince may buy, 
 Till cherry ripe themselves do crye. 
 
 " Her eyes like angels watch them still, 
 Her brows like bended bowes do stand 
 Threatning with piercing shaftes to kill 
 All that presume with eye or hand 
 Those sacred cherries to come nie, 
 Till cherry ripe themselves do crye. NIC : BRE : " 
 
 II. 
 
 " Cupid in a bed of roses 
 
 Sleeping, chanced to be stung 
 
 Of a bee that lay among 
 The flowers, where he himself reposes : 
 
 And thus to his mother weeping 
 Told, that he this wound did take, 
 Of a little winged snake, 
 
 As he lay securely sleeping. 
 Cytherea smiling said, 
 
 That if so great sorrow spring 
 
 From a silly bee's weake sting, 
 As should make thee thus dismaid ; 
 What anguish feele they, think'st thou, and what paine 
 Whom thy empoysoned arrowes cause complaine ? 
 
 NIC: BRE:" 
 
 III. 
 
 " come againe my lovely Jewell, 
 That we may kindly kisse and play, 
 
 And sweetly passe the tyme away. 
 
 goe not, sweete, you are too cruell. 
 What now, you run away disdayning ? 
 And leave rnee heare alone complaining. 
 
 NIC: BRE:"
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 13 
 
 THE PLOWMAN'S SONG. 
 " In the merry month of May, 
 In a morne by breake of day, 
 Foorth I walked by the wood side, 
 Whereas May was in her pride : 
 Ther I spy'd all alone, 
 Pk&KdayVoA Cory don: 
 Much a doe ther was, god wot ! 
 He wold IOTC, and she wold not; 
 She sayd, never man was true, 
 He sayed, none was false to you ; 
 Hee sayed, he had lov'd her long. 
 She said, love should have no wrong. 
 Coridon would kiss her then, 
 She said, maids must kisse no men, 
 Till they did for good and all : 
 Then she made the shepherd call 
 All the heavens to witnes truth, 
 Never lov'd a truer youth. 
 Thus, with many a pretie oath, 
 Yea and nay, aud faith and troth, 
 Such as silly shepherds use 
 When they will not love abuse ; 
 Love, which had bene long deluded, 
 Was with kisses sweet concluded. 
 And Phillida, with garlands gay, 
 Was made the Lady of the May. 
 
 NIC: BRE: 
 
 rraps anil j?kttr|jM. 
 
 THB BAYEUX TAPESTRY. This celebrated piece of 
 workmanship has been removed from Luietix to the 
 Louvre, in execution of a decree for collecting into a central 
 museum, relics of Kings and Queens of France. This 
 decree is ill received in the localities which it strips of 
 historical monuments dear to the affections of the inha- 
 bitants. At Litienz, the departure of the tapestry, so long 
 the principal attraction of visitors to the town, produced an 
 agitation almost amounting to an etneule. 
 
 ANCIENT GLOBE. In the Town Library (Stadt Biblio- 
 thek) of Nuremberg is preserved an interesting globe
 
 ]4 FLY LEAVES. 
 
 made by John Schoner, professor of mathematics in the 
 Gymnasium there, A.D. 1520. It is very remarkahle that 
 the passage through the Isthmus of Panama, so much 
 sought after in later times, is, on this old globe, carefully 
 delineated. 
 
 CAMDEN'S BRITANNIA, Translated by Knottes. Ilearne 
 in one of his MS. Diaries in the Bodleian, (vol. Ixv. pp. 
 115, 116) says, "There is in the Ashmolean Museum 
 amongst Mr. Ashmole's books, a very fair folio Manu- 
 script, handsomely bound, containing an English Trans- 
 lation of Mr. Camden's Britannia by Richard Knolles, the 
 same that writ the History of the Turks. This book 
 was found, lock'd up in a Box, in Mr. Camden's study, 
 after his death. Mr. Camden set a great value upon it. 
 I suppose it was presented by the author to Mr. Cam- 
 den." This volume is now the MS. Ashmole, 849. 
 
 BUNYAN'S BIBLE. John Bunyan's Bible, (printed by 
 Bill and Barker) bound in morocco, and which had been 
 his companion during his twelve years' unjustifiable con- 
 finement in Bedford gaol, where he wrote his Pilgrim's 
 Progress, was purchased at the sale of the library of the 
 llev. S. Palmer, of Hackney, March, 1814, for the late 
 Samuel Whitbread, Esq., for the sum of 21 . This Bible, 
 and the Hook of Martyrs, are said to have constituted the 
 whole library of Bunyan during his imprisonment. See 
 the Heavenly Footman, page 128. 
 
 WHIMSICAL PRINTS OF THE HUMAN FIGURE. Some 
 few years ago, we remember seeing in the windows of the 
 print shops, a number of prints of human figures, formed 
 by the strangest materials, as diamonds, hoops, bladders, 
 pieces of carpentry, battledores, chains, culinary utensils, 
 &c. They were cleverly drawn, and the hand of the 
 master was visible through the whimsicality of the sub- 
 jects. The idea, however, was not newthe same things 
 may be seen in Giov. Bat. Bracelli's Bizare di Varie Figure, 
 8vo. Paris, 1624. A copy of this curious book was in the 
 Strawberry-Hill Collection. 
 
 SPECIMEN OF MINUTE WRITING. A drawing of the 
 head of Charles I., preserved in the library of St. John's 
 College, Oxford, is wholly composed of minutely written 
 characters, which, at a small distance, resemble the lines 
 of engraving. The lines of the head and the ruff contain 
 the Book of Psalms, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer.
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 01, 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 Eiferanj, Uiblingrapjjiral anil Ifiisrrllaurnns. 
 
 THE FIRST COFFEE HOUSES IN ENGLAND. 
 ME. CHARLES DICKENS, in the 127th number of his 
 Household Words, has an excellent paper entitled " A Cup 
 of Coffee;" to which the following particulars may be 
 added as notes and addenda. 
 
 It is observed by Anthony Wood that while Nathaniel 
 Conopius, a Cretan born, continued in Balliol College, 
 Oxford, which he left in 1648, he made the drink for his 
 own use called Coffee, and usually drank it every morning, 
 being the first, as the ancients of that house informed him, 
 that was ever drunk in Oxon. In the year 1650, we learn 
 from the same author, ''Jacob, a Jew, opened a coffey - 
 house at the Angel, in the parish of St. Peter in the East, 
 Oxon, and there it was by some, who delighted in noveltie, 
 drank. In 1654, Cirques Jobson, a Jew and Jacobite, 
 borne near Mount- Libanus, sold coffey in Oxon ; and in 
 1655, Arth. Tillyard, apothecary, sold coffey publicly in 
 his house against All-Soule's College. This coffey-house 
 continued till his majestie's returne and after, and then 
 they became more frequent, and had an excise set upon 
 coffey." 
 
 Mr. Dickens says, "Coffee entered Europe by Italy 
 (probably by Venice) in 1645, and in 1652 the first coffee- 
 house was established in London by a Greek, and in the 
 neighbourhood of Cornhill." Mr. Peter Cunningham (an 
 
 [No. C.]
 
 1 6 FLT LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 authority in these matters) says, at p. xxiv. of his Hand- 
 Book of London ; " The first coffee-house in London was 
 established in 1657, in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, near 
 the present Jamaica and Madeira coffee-house." Again, 
 the author of a small volume entitled Tavern Anecdotes, 
 p. 117, says; "The first coffee-house in the metropolis 
 was established in the Tilt-yard in 1652." So that it 
 appears the writers do not agree as to the precise date or 
 place, when and where this beverage was first vended in 
 London. 
 
 One of the oldest coffee-houses in the metropolis was 
 kept by a barber, named James Farr, at the sign of the 
 Rainbow, opposite Chancery-lane, which still goes by the 
 same name. In 1657, according to the New View of Lon- 
 don, this person ' ' was presented by the inquest of St. Duns- 
 tan in the West for making and selling a liquor called coffee," 
 as a great nuisance, and prejudicial to the neighbourhood. 
 " And who could then have thought" says the same author 
 " London would ever have had near 3000 such nuisances, 
 and that coffee would have been, as now (1708), so much 
 drunk by the best quality and physicians ?" The frequency 
 of coffee-houses at, and soon after the Restoration, is ap- 
 parent from several authorities. In the Kingdoms 
 Intelligencer, a weekly paper published in 1662, are inserted 
 several curious advertisements, one of which is as follows : 
 ' ' At the coffee-house in Exchange-alley is sold by retail 
 the right coffee-powder, from 4s. to 6s. 8d. per pound, as in 
 goodness ; that pounded in a mortar at 2s. 6d. per pound ; 
 and that termed the East India berry at I8d. per pound ; 
 also that termed the right Turkie berry, well garbled at 
 35. [per pound, the ungarbled for lesse, with directions 
 gratis how to make and use the same : likewise there you 
 may have chocolatta, the ordinary pound boxes at 2s. 6rf. 
 per pound ; the perfumed from 4s. to 10s. per pound ; also 
 sherbets made in Turkie of lemons, roses, and violets 
 perfumed; and tea according to its goodness. For all
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 17 
 
 which if any gentleman shall write or send, they shall be 
 sure of the best, as they shall order, and to avoid deceit, 
 warranted under the house seal, viz. Moral the Great. 
 Further, all gentlemen that are customers and acquaintance 
 are (the next New-year's day) invited at the signe of the 
 Great Turk, at the new coffee-house, in Exchange -alley, 
 where coffee will be on free-cost." 
 
 In the year 1665, appeared in 4to. a facetious poem, 
 with the title of The Character of a Coffee-house : wherein 
 it contained a description of the persona usually frequenting 
 it, tffitA their discourse and humours : at also the admirable 
 vertues of Coffee. By an Eye and Ear-witness. It begins : 
 
 " A coffee-house, the learned hold 
 It is a place where coffee's sold ; 
 This derivation cannot fail us, 
 For where ale's vended that's an ale-house." 
 
 In noticing the company, and the several liquors, the 
 author proceeds : 
 
 " The gallant he for tea doth call, 
 The usurer for nought at all ; 
 Pragmatic, he doth intreat 
 That they will fill him some Beau-cheat ; 
 The virtuoso he cries, hand me 
 Some coffee mixt with sugar candy ; 
 Phanaticus (at last) says, come, 
 Bring me some aromaticum : 
 The player bawls for chocolate: 
 All which the bumkin wond'ring at, 
 Cries Hu, my masters ! what d'ye speak, 
 D'ye call for drink in heathen Greek? 
 Give me some good old ale or beer, 
 Or else I will not drink I swear." 
 
 The rapid spread of coffee-houses in every part of Lon- 
 don soon attracted the attention of the court. Accounts
 
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 were "daily brought to the king (Charles II.) of the 
 treasonable and seditious discourses " held in these places, 
 and it was considered that they ought to be " put down." 
 Clarendon gives an account of a conversation which he 
 had with the king in 1666, concerning the "licence which 
 was assumed in the coffee-houses ;" upon which occasion 
 the Chancellor proposed either totally to suppress them, or 
 " to employ some spies, who being present in the conversa- 
 tion, might be ready to charge and accuse the persons who 
 had talked with most licence in a subject that would bear 
 a complaint." " The king," adds the noble historian, "liked 
 both the expedients." Whether the latter notable scheme 
 was ever put into practice we know not, but certain it is 
 that the court did not succeed in pulling down coffee-houses. 
 
 THE ORIGIN OF THE CELEBRATED SONG, OH 
 NANNY WILT THOU GANG WITH ME." 
 
 THE nationality and authorship of this charming ballad 
 have frequently been a matter of dispute. Of the former the 
 question ought never to have been raised ; as to the latter, 
 Bishop Percy is surely entitled to the credit. With regard 
 to its originality we will say nothing, because the following 
 elegant little poem, attributed to Sir William Davenant, 
 from a MS. dated 1682, evidently furnished the worthy 
 prelate with the idea : 
 
 THE ROYAL NUN. 
 " Canst thou, Marina, leave the world, 
 The world that is devotion's bane, 
 Where crowns are toss'd, and sceptres hurl'd, 
 
 Where lust and proud ambition reign? 
 Canst thou thy costly robes forbear, 
 
 To live with us in poor attire ; 
 Canst thou from courts to cells repair, 
 To sing at midnight in the quire ?
 
 SCRAPS AXD SKETCHES. 19 
 
 " Canst thou forget the golden bed, 
 
 Where thou might'st sleep beyond the morn, 
 On mats to lay thy royal head, 
 
 And have thy beauteous tresses shorn ? 
 Canst thou resolve to fast all day, 
 
 And weep and groan to be forgiven ; 
 Canst thou in broken slumbers pray, 
 
 And by afflictions merit heaven ? 
 
 " Say votaress, can this be done ? 
 
 Whilst we the grace divine implore, 
 The world shall lose the battles won, 
 
 And sin shall never chain thee more." 
 " The gate to bliss doth open stand. 
 
 And all my penance is in view ; 
 The world upon the other hand, 
 
 Cries out, ' do not bid adieu !' 
 
 " WTiat, what can pomp and glory do ; 
 
 Or what can human powers persuade, 
 That mind that hath a heaven in view, 
 
 How can it be by earth betray'd ? 
 Haste then, oh ! haste, to take me in, 
 
 For ever lock Religion's door ; 
 Secure me from the charms of sin, 
 
 And let me see the world no more." 
 
 The occasion of Bishop Percy's writing the ballad in 
 question, is thus related by Miss Hawkins, in her Memoirs, 
 Anecdotes, Facto, and Opinions, 1824 (vol. 1, p. 271, note)- 
 " Recollections of the tenderest kind are called up by the 
 mention of this exquisite ballad, (Ok Nanny, $c.) which 
 I have been told was Dr. Percy's invitation to his charm- 
 ing wife, on her release from her twelvemonths' confine- 
 ment in the royal nursery, in attendance on her charge, 
 Prince Edward, the late Duke of Kent. His Royal High- 
 ness's temper as a private gentleman did not discredit his
 
 20 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 nurse ; for his humanity was conspicuous. The best whole 
 length of the so often painted wife of Rubens will always 
 keep in remembrance what Mrs. Percy was, particularly 
 that in the engravings from the Luxembourg gallery, 
 where ' Lady Rubens ' appears under the character of 
 Mary de Medicis kneeling to receive the crown." 
 
 In the drawing-room at Ecton House, the residence of 
 S. IsteJ, Esq., at Ecton, a village about five miles from 
 Northampton, is still preserved a portrait of the wife of 
 Bishop Percy (father of Mrs. Isted) holding in her hand 
 a scroll on which is inscribed the words " Oh Nanny." 
 
 Miss Hawkins finishes her n&te: " I wish some person 
 of sufficient information could tell me that I err, in think- 
 ing that the air ot ' Oh ! Nanny,' applauded and doated 
 on as it is, has not obtained that celebrity for its author 
 lie merits. I suppose it the composition of Carter, but 
 who knows Carter? and what can better make a man 
 known than such a production ? " 
 
 Thomas Carter was a native of Ireland, but left that 
 country very young, and was patronised by the Earl of 
 Inchiquin. He finished his musical education in Italy ; 
 and while at Naples was much noticed by Sir William and 
 Lady Hamilton. Carter passed some time in India, where 
 he conducted the musical department of the theatre in 
 Bengal ; but the climate so greatly affected his health that 
 he was under the necessity of returning to England ; and 
 it is supposed that in India he imbibed a liver complaint, 
 which, at length, in the year 1804, terminated his existence. 
 Poor Carter did not always meet with that encouragement 
 to which his musical talents might have entitled him ; and, 
 as economy was not among the virtues which he cultivated 
 in early life, he was often reduced to those straits and 
 difficulties from which genius and talent can plead no 
 exemption. In one of those scenes of embarrassment, 
 his means and resources having been exhausted, he ran- 
 sacked the various species of composition he had by him,
 
 SCRAPS ASD SKETCHES. 21 
 
 but finding that none, nor all of them, would produce a 
 single guinea at the music-shops, he hit upon the following 
 expedient for the immediate supply of his most pressing 
 necessities. Being well acquainted with the character of 
 Handel's manuscript, he procured an old skin of parch- 
 ment, which he prepared for the purpose to which he 
 meant to turn it, and imitating as closely as he could the 
 hand-writing as well as the style and manner of that 
 great master, he produced in a short time, a piece, which 
 so well deceived a music-seller that ho did not hesitate to 
 give twenty guineas for it ; and the piece passes to this day, 
 amongst many, for a genuine production of Handel. 
 
 THE FLEMISH BALLAD OF OLD HILDEBRAND. 
 
 THE ancient ballad of HiMebrand, in alliterated verse, 
 was known as early as the eighth century. The verses 
 are short and of equal metre, which make them easily 
 sung. In the Netherlands it was so popular that a great 
 number of common songs are set to the tune of "Old 
 Hildebrand;" and M. Willem proves (Oude Vlaenuche 
 Litderen) that it was in very early times quoted by 
 preachers in their sermons. A manuscript teit, as the 
 ballad was sung in the sixteenth century, is still preserved 
 in the Burgundian Library at Brussels. 
 
 The analysis of the ballad of Hildebrand is as follows : 
 This knight has been absent from his castle for thirty-twu 
 years without once seeing his wife, Godeliva. On his way 
 home he is told not to pass by a certain wood where a 
 young warrior attacks every one who trespasses on his 
 grounds. The knight answers, that if the report be cor- 
 rect he shall punish the young man so severely that he 
 will never again exercise his power in that cruel manner. 
 He passes on, and soon falls in with the fierce and re- 
 doubtable youth. The latter demands the armour of
 
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 Hildebrand ; and after some sharp words, they begin the 
 fight. Hildebrand, more experienced than the youth, 
 seizes him by the waist and throws him on the ground. 
 " You have been too rash," says the old knight ; " but I 
 will forgive you if you will confess to what party in this 
 country you belong." The fallen combatant answers, 
 " I am a young warrior belonging to the Wolfs (the name 
 of a political party) ; my mother is Godeliva and my 
 father Hildebrand." "God be praised," exclaimed Hil- 
 debrand, " then you are my son !" " my dear father ! 
 the stroke which I have levelled at you will rankle in my 
 heart to the last day of my life." " Don't think of it, 
 my dear son ; let us go on towards the castle. But, not to 
 surprise your mother too violently, lead me to the dwelling 
 like a prisoner ; and if the inmates ask you who I am, tell 
 them I am the most depraved and wicked man upon the 
 face of the earth." On the Saturday evening they reach 
 the garden of the castle, and enter into the room 
 where Godeliva is sitting. Young Hildebrand places his 
 father at the head of the table. "What are you doing 
 my son," says the mother, "this man is your prisoner ?" 
 "Yes, my dear mother, this man is truly my prisoner; 
 but, my dear mother, he is your husband too!" The long 
 separated couple recognize each other. The wife takes her 
 husband in her arms, kisses him, and the whole family 
 kneel down and offer up their thanks to heaven for the 
 happy domestic reunion. 
 
 PAYING TO SEE THE MONUMENTS, 
 AN OLD CUSTOM. 
 
 THE custom of charging for the sight of our public monu- 
 ments is no new thing. Henry Peacham in his Worth of 
 a Penny, or a Caution to Keep Money, 1667, has the fol- 
 lowing passage :
 
 SCRAPS AXD SKETCHES. 23 
 
 " For a penny, you may hear a most eloquent Oration 
 upon our English Kings and Queens, if keeping your hands 
 off, you will seriously listen to David Owen, who keeps the 
 monuments in Westminster." 
 
 Again, in an old ballad, entitled The North Countryman i 
 Song on his View of London Sights: 
 
 " Now to zee the tombs was my desire, 
 
 Ize went with many brave fellows store, 
 Ize gave them a penny, that was their hire, 
 
 And he's but a fool that will give any more." 
 Phillips, (John Milton's nephew) has a stanza alluding 
 to the custom, in his song On the Tombs in Westminster 
 
 " For now the shew is at an end, 
 
 All things are done and said ; 
 The citizen payt for his wife, 
 
 The prentice for the maid." 
 Many other instances might easily be adduced. 
 
 The Monthly Magazine for October, 1831, sarcastically 
 and well observed, speaking of the hardship of making the 
 public pay for a view of their own property that they 
 have an undoubted right to see "the great men of England 
 on their monuments, without being perpetually reminded 
 of the little onet." 
 
 No. II. DAVID HERD. 
 
 LITTLE is known of this antiquary, who edited a curious 
 collection of Scots Songs, (2 vols. 12mo.) in the year 1772- 
 It has been ascertained, however, that he came from the 
 North of Scotland, having been born in the parish of St
 
 24 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 Cyrus, in Kincardineshire. He was for many years clerk 
 to Mr. David Russell, accountant, of Edinburgh. Though 
 usually termed " Writer," he was not a member of any of 
 the Corporations ; and if he conducted any business on his 
 own account, it must have been in the name of some pro- 
 fessional friend. In the Scots' Magazine for July, 1810, 
 the following notice of his death occurs: " Lately, at Edin- 
 burgh, Mr. David Herd, writer, at the advanced age of 78. 
 He was a most active investigator of Scottish literature 
 and antiquities, and enjoyed the friendship of nearly all the 
 eminent artists and men of letters, who have flourished in 
 Edinburgh, within these fifty years. Runciman, the 
 painter, was one of his most intimate friends ; and with 
 Ruddiman, Gilbert Stuart, Fergusson, and Robert Burns, 
 he was well acquainted. His information regarding the 
 history of Scotland was extensive. -Many of his remarks 
 have appeared in periodical publications ; and the notes 
 appended to several popular works are enriched by materials 
 of his own collecting. He was a man, truly, of the old 
 school, inoffensive, modest, and unambitious, and in an 
 extraordinary degree forming in all these respects a very 
 striking contrast to the forward, puffing, and ostentatious 
 disposition of the present age." 
 
 The sale of David Herd's collection of books commenced 
 on the 17th December, 1810, and continued during the six 
 following evenings ; the produce was 254 19s. 10J. Many 
 exceedingly rare volumes fetched but a few shillings ! 
 
 nf dMfr inuhnn. 
 
 FALCONBERG HOUSE, SOHO SQUARE. The celebrated 
 house in Soho-square, well known under the designation of 
 the White House, (now Crosse and Blackwell's) formed a 
 portion of old Falconberg House, the residence of Mary 
 Cromwell, the Protector's third daughter. At the back of 
 the east side of the square are still retained the names of
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 25 
 
 Falconberg-street, Falconberg Mews, &c. Satton -street 
 tako.s its name from Sutton Court, Chiswick, the country 
 seat of the family. Defoe mentions his having seen the 
 countess at that place "I saw here," he says, "that 
 curious piece of antiquity, the daughter of Oliver Crom- 
 well, still fresh and gay, though of great age." Lady 
 Falconberg died on the 14th of March, 1712, a few months 
 before her brother Richard, about the 76th year of her age. 
 She left everything in her power away from her husband's 
 relations, and, among other things, the London residence 
 of the family in Soho-square. 
 
 CROMWELL'S OLD HOUSE, NOW THE JAMAICA TAVERN, 
 BERMONDSEY. This building, of which only a moiety 
 now remains, and that very ruinous, the other having been 
 removed years ago to make room for modern adjacent 
 erections, presents very probably almost the same features 
 as when tenanted by the Protector. The carved quatre 
 foils and flowers upon the staircase beams, the old- 
 fashioned securings of the doors, "bolts, locks, and 
 bars," the huge single gable, which in a modern house of 
 the size would be double, even the divided section, like a 
 monstrous amputated stump imperfectly plastered over, 
 patched here and there with planks, slates and tiles, b 
 keep the wind and weather out, though it be very poorly 
 all are in keeping ; and the glimmer of the gas by which 
 the old and ruinous kitchen into which we strayed was 
 dimly lighted, seemed to "pale its ineffectual fires" in 
 striving to illume the old black settles, and still older 
 oaken wain> nt. T. B. A. 
 
 A Sins BOARD or SHAKESPEARE. *'Clarkson the 
 portrait-painter, was originally a coach-panel and sign- 
 painter; and he executed that most elaborate one of 
 Shakespeare, which formerly hung across the street, at the 
 north-east corner of Little Russel-street, in Drury-lane: 
 the late Mr. Thomas Grignon informed me, that he had 
 often beard his father say, that this sign cost five hundred 
 pounds ! I n my boyish days it was for many years exposed 
 for sale for a very trifling sum, at a broker's shop in Lower 
 Brook-strt-ct. (imsvenor-square. The late Mr. Crace, of 
 Great Queen-street, assured me that it was in early days 
 a thing that country people would stand and gaze at, and 
 that the corner of the street was hardly passable." 
 
 J. T. SMITH.
 
 2o FIT LEAVES; OR, 
 
 COVENT GARDEN. As late as Pope's time, this locality 
 retained its fashion, as may be seen by the following extract 
 from The Morning Advertiser, March 6, 1730: "The 
 Lady Wortley Montague, who has been greatly indisposed 
 at her house in Covent-garden for some time, is now 
 perfectly recovered, and takes the benefit of the air in 
 Hyde-park every morning, by advice of her physicians." 
 Mr. Cunningham does not notice Lady Wortley Mon- 
 tague's residence in Covent-garden. See the index to the 
 last edition of his Hand-Book. 
 
 liMingtttjiijiral 
 
 FANSHAWE'S (Sia KICHARD) EMBASSIES IN SPAIN AND 
 PORTUGAL, WITH THE LETTERS AND ANSWERS. 8 vo. 1 70 1 . 
 After the Preface in some copies are two leaves, entitled 
 "A Short Account of His Excellency, Sir Richard Fan- 
 shawe, and his Writings." A contemporary MS. note, 
 (printed in J. H. Burn's Catalogue for 1827) says, "These 
 two leaves were torn out by Mrs. Fanshawe, who is 
 mightily incensed at the Bookseller [Abel Roper] for print- 
 ing them without her knowledge. She thinks her father 
 is injured by this Account of him, and intends to publish 
 an advertisement of it, for which Roper threatens to sue 
 her, alledging 'twill spoil the sale of his books." 
 
 HAWKINS (JOHN SIDNEY) AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATUEE 
 AND PRINCIPLES OF THOROUGH BASS. 8vo. 1817. 
 J. S. Hawkins died August 12, 1842, in his 81st year, 
 at Lower Grove, Brompton. He was eldest son of Sir 
 John Hawkins, the Historian of Music. (See the obit, of 
 the Gentleman's Magazine for Dec., 1 842, p. 662, where a 
 lengthened notice of the author occurs, with a list of his 
 works, but omitting his Treatise on Thorough Bass.) 
 
 PARNELL'S (ARCHDEACON THOMAS, D.D.) POEMS, PUB- 
 LISHED BY MR. POPE, ETC. Small 8vo. 1770. 
 Dr. Parr wrote on the fly-leaf of his copy of this work, 
 "For the story of the Hermit, generally but erroneously 
 esteemed original, see Dr. Moore's Divine "Dialogues, p. 321, 
 and Howell's Familiar Letters, book iv. p. 435. Howell,
 
 SCRAPS AKD SKETCHES. -'7 
 
 in a Letter to the Marquis of Hertford, ascribes it to 'a 
 noble and speculative knight, Sir Percy Herbert, in hii 
 late Conceptions to hit Son.' " This is all very well, but 
 Dr. Parr ought to have known that the story of Parnell's 
 Hermit is as old as the Koran ! 
 SOME OBSEKVATIOXS ON THE USE AND ORIGINAL OP THE 
 
 NOBLE ART AND MYSTERY OF PRINTING, BY F. BURGES. 
 
 Norwich, 1701. 
 
 This is often mentioned as the first book printed at 
 Norwich; where it appears that the establishment of a 
 printing office, so late as in 1701, encountered a stern 
 opposition from its sage citizens. The author did not know 
 that as far back as 1570, a Dutch printer had exercised 
 the novel art by printing religious books for a community 
 of Dutch emigrants, who had taken refuge at Norwich. 
 (See Dr. Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer.) 
 
 of Snrinrt 
 
 A CAROL BY ROBERT SOUTHWELL. 
 
 THE reader will not be displeased with the following beau- 
 tiful " carol " by the Jesuit poet, Robert Southwell. Poor 
 Southwell was "hanged" in the year 1595. Ben Jonson 
 said of this poem, " So he had written that piece of his, 
 the Burning Babe, he would have been content to destroy 
 many of his." 
 
 It is taken from the edition of Southwell's Works, Lon- 
 don, 1636, 12mo. sign G. 6. 
 
 " As I in hoarie winter's night 
 
 Stood shivering in the snow, 
 SurprizM I was with sudden heat, 
 
 Which made my heart to glow ; 
 And lifting up a fearefull eye 
 
 To view what fire was neere, 
 A prettie babe, all burning bright, 
 
 Did in the aire apj 
 Who, scorched with excessive heat, 
 
 Such tlouds of teares did shed,
 
 28 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 As though his flouds should quench his flames, 
 
 Which with his teares were bred : 
 Alas ! (quoth he) but newly borne, 
 
 In fierie heats I frie, 
 Yet none approach to warm their hearts, 
 
 Or feele my fire, but I ; 
 My faultlesse brest the furnace is, 
 
 " The fuell, wounding thornes : 
 Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, 
 
 The ashes, shames and scornes; 
 The fuell justice layeth on, 
 
 And mercy blows the coales, 
 The metalls in this furnace wrought 
 
 Are Men's defiled soules : 
 For which, as now on fire I am, 
 
 To work them to their good, 
 So will I melt into a bath, 
 
 To wash them in my blood. 
 With this he vanisht out of sight, 
 
 And swiftly shrunke away, 
 And straight I called unto minde 
 
 That it was Christmasse Day." 
 
 anft I 
 
 UNPUBLISHED POEMS BY QITEEN ELIZABETH." I have 
 been informed, on the best authority, (says the late Mr. 
 Disraeli) that Queen Elizabeth exercised her poetical pen 
 more voluminously than we have hitherto known, for that 
 there exists a manuscript volume of her majesty's poems in 
 that rich repository of state papers the Hatfield Collec- 
 tion." Amenities of Literature, vol. ii, p. 373. 
 
 THE DATE OF INLAID FLOORS IN ENGLAND. In Cla- 
 vel's Catalogue of Books, &c., No. 8, June, 1676, is the 
 following curious advertisement : "There is now in the 
 Press, and almost finished, that excellent piece of Archi- 
 tecture written by Andrea Palladia, translated out of 
 Italian, with an Appendix touching doors and windows, 
 by Pier le Muet, architect to the French King, translated 
 out of French, by G. R. Also, rules and demonstrations,
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 29 
 
 with several designs for the framing any manner of roofs, 
 either above pitch, or under pitch, whether square or level ; 
 never published before : with designs of floors of variety of 
 small pieces of wood, lately made in the palace of the 
 Queen Mother at Sommerset House ; a curiosity never 
 practised in England." 
 
 AVCIKXT FLEMISH SONGS AXD Music. IntheBurgun- 
 dian Library at Brussels, is preserved two manuscript 
 volumes of songs and music, on vellum, believed to have 
 been written by Margaret of Austria, who died in 1530. 
 This princess was the daughter of Maximilian and Mary 
 of Burgundy. There is the most conclusive internal evi- 
 dence for supposing that the greatest part of these songs 
 were composed by the royal lady herself, who, it is well 
 known, was always surrounded by learned men, poets, and 
 musicians, from most parts of Europe. (See Willem's 
 Oude Vlaemsche Liederen, Brussels.) 
 
 ARCHBISHOP CRASHER'S DIETARY. In this curious 
 document, quoted by \Varton (Hist, of Poet, iii, 1/7, edit. 
 1840) an archbishop is allowed to have two swans or two 
 capons in a dish, a bishop one; an archbishop six black- 
 birds at once, a bishop five, a dean four, an archdeacon 
 two. If a dean has four dishes in his first course, he is not 
 mfterwards to have custards or fritters. An archbishop 
 may have six snipes, an archdeacon two. Rabbits, larks, 
 pheasants, and partridges, are allowed in these proportions. 
 A canon residentiary is to have a swan only on a Sunday ; 
 a rector of sixteen marks, only three blackbirds in a week. 
 A similar instrument is quoted in Strype's Life of Archl. 
 Parker, Appendix, p. 65.
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 OK, 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 literanj, tJiMmgrapjriral, anfr 
 
 BAXTER'S OPINION OF SOME OF THE 
 
 ENGLISH POETS. 
 
 THIS celebrated Nonconformist, in the Prefatory Address 
 to his Poetical Fragments, 1681, has given us an interesting 
 notice of some of " England's Poets," which well repays 
 the reading. 
 
 " These times have produced many excellent poets, among 
 whom, for strength of wit, Dr. [Mr.] Abraham Cooley, 
 [Cowley] justly bears the bell. I much value Mr. 
 Woodford's Paraphrase on the Psalms ; though his genius, 
 or somewhat else, expounds some of the Psalms so as the next 
 age will confute. A Woman's Poems, the Lady Catherine 
 Phillips, [the 'Matchless Orinda'] are far above con- 
 tempt ; but that is best to me which is most holy. 
 
 " Honest George Withers, though a rustic poet, hath 
 been very acceptable ; as to some prophesies, so to others, 
 for his plain country honesty. The vulgar were the more 
 pleased with him for being so little courtly as to say : 
 '"If I might have been hung, I know not how 
 To teach my body to cringe and bow, 
 And to embrace a fellow's hinder quarters, 
 As if I meant to steal away his garters : 
 When any bowed to me, with congees trim, 
 All I could do was stand and laugh at him. 
 Bless me ! thought I, what will this coxcomb do ? 
 When I perceiv'd one reaching at my shoe.' 
 [No. 3.]
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. SI 
 
 " Quarles yet outwent him : mixing competent wit with 
 piety ; especially in his poem against ' Rest on Earth.' 
 
 ' Silvester, or Dubartas, seems to me to outdo them 
 both. 
 
 " Sir Fulk Grevill, Lord Brook, a man of groat note in 
 his age, hath a poem lately printed (1670), for subjects' 
 liberty, which I greatly wonder this age would bear. There 
 are no books that hare been printed these twenty years 
 that I more wonder at that ever they were endured, than 
 Richard Hooker's eight books of Ecclesiastical Polity, 
 dedicated by Bishop Gaudeu to our present Kiug, and vin- 
 dicated by him, and these poems of Sir Fulk Grevill, 
 Lord Brook. 
 
 " Davies's 'Nosce Teipsum' is an excellent poem, in 
 opening the nature, faculties, and certain immortality of 
 man's soul. 
 
 " But I must confess, after all, that, next the Scripture 
 Poems, there are none so savoury to me, as Mr. George 
 Herbert's and Mr. George Sandys'. I know that Cowley 
 and others far exceed Herbert in wit and accurate com- 
 posure ; but as Seneca takes with mo above all his 
 contemporaries, because he speaketh things by words, 
 feelingly and seriously, like a man that is past jest ; so 
 Herbert speaks to God like one that really believeth a God, 
 and whose business in the world is most with God. Heart - 
 work and Heaven-work make up his books : and Dubar- 
 tas is seriously divine ; and George Sandys* ' Omne tulit 
 punctum, dum miscuit utile dulci.' His Scripture Poems 
 are an elegant and excellent paraphrase ; but especially his 
 Job, whom he hath restored to the original glory. that 
 he had turned the Psalms into metre fitted to the usual 
 tunes ! It did me good when Mrs. Wyat invited me to see 
 Bexley Abbey, in Kent, to see upon the old stone wall in the 
 garden, a summer-house, with this inscription, in great 
 golden letters, that ' In that place, Mr. G. Sandys, after his 
 travels over the world, retired himself for his poetry and
 
 32 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 contemplations.' And none are fitter to retire to God 
 than such as are tired with seeing all the vanities on 
 earth." 
 
 Richard Baxter, the writer of the above, was born in 
 1615, at Rowton in the county of Salop. Though his 
 education was much neglected, owing to the insufficiency 
 of his school-masters, he made up for it by his diligence, 
 and when only twenty-three years of age, was appointed 
 head-master of the endowed school at Dudley. In one of 
 his metrical " Fragments," the pious author thus speaks 
 of his early days : 
 
 "My parents here thy skilful hand did plant, 
 Free from the snares of riches and of want ; 
 Their tender care was used for me alone, 
 Because thy Providence gave them but one : 
 Their early precepts so possessed my heart, 
 That, taking root, they did not thence depart ; 
 Thy wisdom so contriv'd my education, 
 As might expose me to the least temptation ; 
 Much of that guilt thy mercy did prevent, 
 In which my spring time I should else have spent. 
 Yet sin sprung up, and early did appear 
 In love of play, and lies produced by fear ; 
 An appetite pleased with forbidden fruit ; 
 A proud delight in literate repute ; 
 Excess of pleasure in vain tales, romances ; 
 Time spent in feigned histories and fancies, 
 In idle talk, conform to company ; 
 Childhood and youth had too much vanity 
 Conscience was oft resisted, when it checked, 
 And holy duty I did much neglect." 
 
 In 1638, Baxter was ordained by the Bishop of Win- 
 chester, and two years after settled as minister at Kidder- 
 minster. On the breaking out of the war between Charles 
 I. and the Parliament, he accepted the office of chaplain
 
 SCRAPS AJtD SKETCHES. 31 
 
 in the parliamentary army ; but he opposed the usurpation 
 of Cromwell, and had the boldness to defend monarchy in 
 his presence. At the Restoration he was appointed one of 
 the chaplains to Charles II. and was offered the Bishoprick 
 of Hereford, which he declined. In 1685 he was tried 
 before the infamous judge Jefferies for some passages in 
 his paraphrase of the New Testament and imprisoned for 
 a short time. During this period, and while suffering from 
 illness at the house of a friend, he was led to meditate on 
 the "everlasting rest" which he apprehended himself to be 
 on the borders of. Within six months he produced a 
 Tolume of more than eight hundred pages, rich in Christian 
 sentiment, wonderfully correct in style, and beautiful in 
 its illustrations, which he entitled The Saint's Everlatting 
 Rut. " The marginal citations," he tells us, " I put in 
 after I came home to my books, but almost all the book 
 was written when I had no others but a Bible and Con- 
 cordance." After his release he continued writing and 
 preaching under constant bodily affliction, till his death in 
 1691. He was buried in Christ Church, Newgate Street. 
 His writings in all amount (it is said) to 145 treatises, 
 several of which hare an extensive circulation in the pre- 
 sent day. 
 
 Nichols tells us in a note to Dr. W. King's Works, 
 (vol. ii. p. 185) that several of these "treatises," viz 
 
 " A Shove to Heavy Christians," and " Eyes and 
 
 Hooks for Unbelievers' Breeches," were fathered on him 
 by L'Estrange. 
 
 PROVENCAL POETS OF FRANCE. 
 
 OLIVIER BASSKLIX, THE IHVENTOR OP TH TAUDEV1LLE. 
 
 OLIVIER Basselin seems to have been a rare old fellow of 
 
 the 14th century, a lover of Anacreon, and a consumer of 
 
 good drink ! The Tommy Moore of his time, he praised 
 
 D
 
 34 FLY LEAVES; OB, 
 
 red noses and Burgundy, and abused Adam for pampering 
 his tooth instead of emptying his bottle. Many titles had 
 he among the worthies who admired him, and the anti- 
 quaries who have looked into his history. Various writers 
 have called him by various names : Vasselin, Bchhelin, 
 Bisselin, Bosselin, &c. He was born in the suburbs of the 
 town of Vire, about the middle of the 14th century, and 
 died in 1418. To most of his songs he has given the title 
 of " Vau de Vire," literally a " Ballad of the Town of 
 Vire ; " whence the word " Vau-de-ville," " Song or Le- 
 gend of the Town," is supposed to be derived by those who 
 claim for Olivier the credit of inventing the " Vau-de-ville " 
 of theatrical and operatic memory and practice. He was 
 half troubadour, half balladmonger, and sang his Baccha- 
 nalian ditties amidst all the disorders of the wars then 
 raging between the English and French in his part of the 
 country. If he be the same person to whom La Croix du 
 Maine has devoted an article, he must have possessed a 
 knowledge of astronomy, and have been a scientific mariner. 
 The author in question calls him " homme expert a la 
 mer." It was long before his poems were collected : they 
 passed through two editions, the last of which was sup- 
 pressed. They have been since edited in various shapes, 
 and we are inclined to think much modernized in their 
 language. As Bacchanalian songs, a few of the compo- 
 sitions appear to us to be excellent, though some have 
 characterized them as mere drunken effusions, and others 
 have as much overpuffed their merits. The following, 
 however, is original and spirited : 
 
 LA FAUTE D'ADAM. 
 
 (VAU-DE-VIRE.) 
 " Adam (c'est chose tres notoire,) 
 Ne nous eust mis en tel danger 
 Si, au lieu du fatal manger, 
 II se fut plus tost pris a boire.
 
 8CKAP8 AND SKETCHES. 35 
 
 *'C*est la cause pour quoy jerite, 
 D'estre sur le manger gourmand, 
 II est rray que je suis friand, 
 De vin quand c'est Tin qui merite. 
 
 " Et pourtant lors'que je m'approcbe 
 Du lieus ou repaistre je TOUX, 
 Je Tais regardant curieux, 
 Plus tost au buffet qu'a la broche. 
 
 " L'oeil regarde ou le coeur aspire, 
 J'ai cecy par trop cell ado, 
 Verre plein, s'il n'est tros Tiride, 
 Ce n'est pas nn Terre de Vire ! " 
 
 The following translation by an anonymous writer in the 
 Mtuical World, is full of spirit : 
 
 THE FAULT OF ADAM. 
 
 (BALLAD.) 
 
 "Old Adam (the fact is now Tery well known) 
 
 Would never have brought us so near to sin's brink, 
 If instead of first EATING what wasn't his own, 
 He had taken a little bit sooner to DRINK ! 
 
 "And this is the reason, I always eschew, 
 
 The practice of being a gourmand of food ; 
 I am greedy of WINK, it is certainly true. 
 That is, greedy of wine when it's mellow and good. 
 
 "And therefore, whene'er to the board I may hie, 
 
 Where haply to make my repast I may sit, 
 I go first searching out with a curious eye. 
 The contents of the SIDEBOARD, and not of the SPIT ! 
 
 "The eye glances whereTer the fancy is bent, 
 
 M ine has often glanced so, till it could not see clear, 
 For the glass that once full is not pretty soon spent. 
 And turn'd over as empty, is no VERRE DE VIRE !"
 
 36 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 No. III. ROBERT HERON. 
 
 IN the year 1783, John Pinkerton (afterwards a well 
 known writer) published a volume entitled Letters on 
 Literature. On the title-page he used the name of Rohert 
 Heron, (the assumed name being that of his mother) but 
 finding a real Robert Heron in the field, he wisely aban- 
 doned this cognomen for his paternal one. 
 
 ROBERT HERON was born at New Galloway, in the 
 south-west of Scotland, 6th November, 1764. His father, 
 John Heron, was a weaver, generally respected for his 
 persevering industry and exemplary piety. At a very 
 early age he became remarkable for the love he shewed to 
 learning, which induced his parents to give him the benefit 
 of a liberal education, as far as their means would allow. 
 From his own savings out of a very limited income, and a 
 small assistance from his parents, he was enabled to enter 
 the University of Edinburgh, at the end of the year 1780. 
 His hopes of preferment at that time being centred in the 
 church, he first applied himself to the course of study which 
 that profession requires. Being well grounded in a know- 
 ledge of the French language, he found constant employment 
 from booksellers in translating foreign works, and the 
 money which he continued to receive was sufficient to 
 maintain him in a respectable manner, if managed with 
 prudence and discretion ; but his unfortunate peculiarity 
 of temper, and extravagant desire of supporting a style of 
 living which nothing but a liberal and certain income 
 would admit of, frequently reduced him to distress, and 
 finally to the jail. While in confinement, he engaged with 
 Messrs. Morrisons, of Perth, to write A History of Scot- 
 land, for which they were to pay him at the rate of three 
 guineas per sheet, his creditors at the same time agreeing
 
 SCRAPS AND 8KETCHM. 37 
 
 to release him for fifteen shillings in the pound, to be 
 secured on two-thirds of the copyright. Before this 
 arrangement was finally concluded, melancholy to relate, 
 nearly the whole of the first volume of the History of 
 Scotland was written in jail. It appeared in 1793, and one 
 volume of the work was published every year successively, 
 until the whole six were completed. In 1/99, finding his 
 views not likely to succeed any longer in Scotland, he was 
 induced to come to London, and where, for the first few years 
 of his residence, it appears he found good employment. 
 He conducted the political department of the Historical 
 Magazine^ and at a subsequent period he was the editor u f 
 the A'jrindtural Magazine. He was also a contributor to 
 the old Universal Magazine, Monthly Magazine, Antijacobin 
 Review, Oxford Review, and several other periodical publi- 
 cations. Being a good parliamentary reporter, he was 
 successively engaged by the proprietors of the Oracle, the 
 Porcupine, and the Morning Post. 
 
 About 1802-3, he obtained the editorship, with a share, 
 of the British Press and Globe, two papers then recently 
 established by the booksellers. He was next engaged upon 
 IAoyd"s Evening Post, and through the influence of an 
 under secretary of state, he received a respectable salary 
 as the nominal editor of a French newspaper published in 
 I .Mini. m. About the same time (1805) he undertook the 
 management of a weekly newspaper, called the British 
 Neptune. In 1806, having resigned both the French paper 
 and the British Neptune, he embarked in a literary specu- 
 lation of his own, the Fame newspaper, which failed, and 
 involved the projector in serious pecuniary difficulties 
 difficulties which, no doubt, hastened his early dissolution. 
 
 His former bad habits now returned his pen was laid 
 aside and until warned of his fate by the appearance of 
 his last shilling, he seemed altogether devoid of reflection. 
 Then he would betake himself to his work, as an enthusi- 
 ast in every thing, confining himself for weeks in his
 
 38 Ftr LEAVES; OR, 
 
 chamber, dressed only in his shirt and morning gown, and 
 commonly with a green veil over his eyes, which were weak, 
 and inflamed by such fits of ill-regulated study. His 
 friends and associates deserted him some were offended at 
 his total want of steadiness, others worn out by constant 
 importunities, and not a few disgusted at the envy and 
 vanity he displayed on too many occasions ; added to all 
 this, his employers found they could place no dependence 
 on his promises, as he would only resume his pen when 
 urged to it by stern necessity. Deep in debt, and harassed 
 by his creditors, who were all exasperated at his want of 
 faith, he was at last consigned to the jail of Newgate, 
 where he dragged on a very miserable existence, for many 
 months, and from whence he wrote a pathetic appeal to the 
 Literary Fund, which is preserved in D'Israeli's Calamities 
 of Authors. He died on the 13th April, 1807. His last 
 production was a small work (written in Newgate) called the 
 Comforts of Life, of which the first edition was sold in one 
 week, and the second had a rapid sale. 
 
 3Hpmnrial5 nf dMii Inniura. 
 
 JENNY'S WHIM. "This was a tea garden, situated, 
 after passing over a wooden bridge on the left, previous to 
 entering the long avenue, the coach way to where Rane- 
 lagh once stood. This place was much frequented, from 
 its novelty, being an inducement to allure the curious, by 
 its amusing deceptions, particularly on their first appear- 
 ance there. Here was a large garden, in different parts of 
 which were recesses ; and if treading on a spring, taking 
 you by surprize, up started different figures, some ugly 
 enough to frighten you ; a harlequin, a Mother Shipton, 
 or some terrific animal. In a large piece of water, facing 
 the tea alcoves, large fish or mermaids, were showing 
 themselves above the surface. This queer spectacle was
 
 CRAPS AXD SKETCHES. 39 
 
 first kept by a famous mechanist, who had been employed 
 at one of the winter theatres, there being then but two." 
 (Angelo's Pic Nic or Table Talk p. 16.) 
 
 Horace Walpole, more than once alludes to this place of 
 entertainment in his Letters ; and in 1755, a 4to. satirical 
 tract appeared entitled "Jenny's Whim; or a Sure Guide 
 to the \<>/>ility, Gentry, and other Eminent Person*, in thi* 
 Metropolit." 
 
 CRAVEN BUILDINGS, DRURY LAKE. The equestrian 
 portrait which formerly adorned the wall at the end of 
 Craven Buildings, was painted by Paul Van Somer, the 
 younger. The artist's name is not mentioned in Cun- 
 ningham's Hand-book. 
 
 THE CEILING or WHITEHALL. The celebrated paint- 
 ing on the roof of the Banqueting House, has been restored, 
 re-painted, and refreshed, not fewer than three times. 
 In the reign of James II., 1687, Parrey Walton, a painter 
 of still life, and the keeper of the King's pictures, was 
 appointed to re-touch this grand work of art, which had 
 then (as appears by the Privy Council Book) been painted 
 only sixty years. Walton was paid 212 for its complete 
 restoration, which sum was considered by Sir Christopher 
 Wren, " as very modest and reasonable." It was restored 
 a second time by the celebrated Cipriani ; and for the 
 third time by a painter named Rigaud. 
 
 MARTLEBONE GARDENS. The orchestra of this once 
 celebrated place of amusement stood upon the site of the 
 house, now No. 17, in Devonshire Place. 
 
 Uililingrapliiral Untirrs. 
 
 I.vsTiTtrrios OP A GEXTLEMAH. 8vo. Imprinted by Marshe, 
 1568. 
 
 " I can scarcely refer to any volume in my possession 
 of equal curiosity with this ; as it is an original work, and 
 the earliest I know in our language, upon the character
 
 40 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 and amusements of an English Gentleman." J. HASLE- 
 woon. 
 
 Gifford (Memoirs of Ben Jonson, cxxxi.) mentions 
 " HIGFORD'S Institutions of a Gentleman ;" probably the 
 same book as the above. 
 
 THE REFORMED COMMONWEALTH OF BEES, PRESENTED 
 IN LETTERS TO S. HARTLIB, WITH THE REFORMED 
 VIRGINIAN SILKWORM. Small 4to. 1655. 
 This book is exceedingly scarce. It is highly interesting 
 
 as containing a long Poem on the Virginian Silkworm, 
 
 by the learned and pious J. Ferrar, of Little Gidding, 
 
 Huntingdonshire. 
 
 WHEELER'S (JOHN) TREATISE OF COMMERCE. Small 
 
 4to. 1601. 
 
 This treatise contains a curious and interesting account 
 of the establishment and proceedings of the Society of Mer- 
 chant Adventurers, (to which the author was Secretary) 
 and is dedicated by him to " Sir Robert Cecill, Principall 
 Secretary to her Majestie," &c. 
 
 MASTERS' (ROBERT) SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH OF 
 
 WATERBEACH, IN THE DIOCESE OP ELY. 8vo. 1795. 
 
 " Of this book written by the late Rev. Mr. Masters, 
 
 formerly fellow and tutor of Benet College, Cambridge, 
 
 there were only five and twenty copies printed; which the 
 
 author gave among his friends." MS. note in Bindley's 
 
 copy. 
 
 A copy was sold in Hibbert's sale for 21*. 
 
 MEMOIRS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, BEING ORIGINAL 
 LETTERS OF STATE UNDER GEORGE THE SIXTH. 
 8vo. 1773. 
 
 A volume of extreme rarity. It was written by Dr. 
 Madden; "a name," says Johnson, "which Ireland ought 
 to honour." The work was scarcely finished, when the 
 author determined to destroy it. Only three copies are 
 said to have been preserved. See Nichols' Literary 
 Anecdotes, vol. ii., p. 29-33.
 
 SCRAPS AXD SKETCHES. 41 
 
 pprrinmis nf Snrifirt 
 
 THE following ditty is extracted from a rare little yolume, 
 (privately printed) entitled The Chevalier's Favourite, 1779, 
 1 2mo. pp. 69. It savours of the style of that prolific poet- 
 aster, Thomas Deloney. 
 
 "MOURNFUL MELPOMENE. 
 
 " Written by Princest Elizabeth, Daughter of Hit Mo ft Sacred 
 Majesty, King Charles I. of England, $c., Jfe. 
 
 " Mournful Melpomene, 
 
 Assist ray quill. 
 That I may pensively 
 
 Now make my will ; 
 Guide now my hand to write, 
 And senses to indite, 
 A Lady's last good night, 
 
 Oh ! pity me. 
 
 " I that was nobly born, 
 
 Hither am sent ; 
 Like to a wretch forlorn, 
 
 Here to lament, 
 In this most strange exile ; 
 Here to remain awhile, 
 Till Heav'n be pleas'd to smile, 
 
 And send for me. 
 
 " My friends cannot come nigh 
 
 Me in this place, 
 Nor keep me company, 
 
 Such is my case ; 
 Poor am I left alone, 
 Few to regard my moan ; 
 All my delights are gone, 
 
 Heav'n succour me. 
 
 " Each day with care and fears, 
 
 I am perplei'd ; 
 My drink is brinish tears, 
 With sorrow mix'd :
 
 42 FLY LEAVES; OB, 
 
 When others soundly sleep, 
 I sadly sob and weep, 
 Opprest with dangers deep : 
 Lord ! comfort me. 
 
 " When England flourished, 
 My parents dear 
 Tenderly nourish'd me 
 
 Many a year ; 
 
 I was advanc'd high, 
 
 In place of dignity, 
 
 With golden bravity, 
 
 They deck'd me. 
 
 " My garments dress'd with pearl, 
 
 Richly approved, 
 Ne'er was an English girl 
 
 Better belov'd. 
 
 Old and young, great and small, 
 Waited upon my fall, 
 I had the love of all, 
 
 That did know me. 
 
 " But from my former state 
 
 I am called back, 
 Through destiny and fate, 
 
 All goes to wrack ; 
 Fortune did lately frown, 
 And caught me by the crown, 
 So pull'd me headlong down ; 
 
 Oh ! woe is me. 
 
 " My dear friends are decay 'd 
 
 Who lov'd me best ; 
 Ne'er was a harmless maid 
 
 So much distrest : 
 
 My father he is dead, 
 
 My brother's banished, 
 
 All joy is from me fled : 
 
 Heav'n comfort me. 
 
 " How well are those at ease, 
 
 And sweetly blest, 
 That may go where they please, 
 And where they list :
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 43 
 
 To see their parents kind, 
 As nature doth them bind, 
 Such joys I cannot find, 
 Oh ! woe's me. 
 
 1 All earthly joys are gone, 
 I will and must 
 
 nly 
 
 Fir 
 
 irm put my trust. 
 Adieu to joy and ease, 
 I enjoy none of these, 
 Oh ! may it Heav'n please 
 To pity me." 
 
 jrrajis an& Ikrtrjits. 
 
 EARLY THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE IN GERMANY. In 
 1417, an English Mystery was exhibited before the Empe- 
 ror Sigismund, at the Council of Constance, on the usual 
 subject of the Nativity. The English Bishops had it re- 
 hearsed several days, that the actors might be perfect 
 before their imperial audience. We are not told in what 
 language their English Myttery was recited; but we are 
 furnished with a curious fact, that "the Germans consider 
 this play as the first introduction of that son of dramatic 
 performance in their country." Henry of Monmouth, by 
 the Rev. J. E. Tyler, vol. ii, p. 61. 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE WITHERS. It may not be 
 uninteresting to the reader, to know that the poet's name 
 is probably still in existence in his native place. When 
 the Rev. R. A. Wilmott (author of Lives of the Sacred 
 Poets) was at Bentworth, in the summer of 1833, he was 
 surprised, on ascending the steep path leading to the 
 church, to find the name of Withers upon the sign-board 
 of a little public-house by the road-side. On inquiry he 
 was informed that this individual came from the neigh- 
 bourhood of Farnham, in Surrey, and from the long resi- 
 dence of our poet in that part of the country, it is not 
 improbable that the host of the " Five Bells " was descended 
 from the author of the Shepherd's Hunting. The same
 
 44 FLY LEAVES; OR, SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 
 
 name also hangs before an humble inn in the quiet town 
 of Alton, and one of the keepers of the gate on the road to 
 Winchester owns the like appellation, 
 
 CURIOUS CARD ADVERTISEMENT. " Geographical Cards 
 printed from copper -plates, designed and fitted to all our 
 known English games at cards, faithfully representing the 
 several kingdomes, countreys, and parts of the whole 
 world, with the latitude and longitude of all places, 
 whereby Geography may familiarly and easily be learnt by 
 all sorts of people. Sold by Henry Brome, at the Gun at 
 the West-end of St. Paul's : the cards plain, are sold at 
 Is. the pack; gilt and embellished, at 2s. 6d.; bound in 
 books, and so serving for geographical tables, at 2s." 
 Clavel's Catalogue of Books, $c. No. 6, Feb. 1675. 
 
 VTSE'S SPELLING BOOK. At the sale of the Robinsons, 
 the copyright of Vyse's Spelling Book sold for the enormous 
 sum of two thousand two hundred pounds, with an annuity 
 of fifty guineas to the author. 
 
 A KNOWLEDGE OF BOOKS. Swift says, "Some know 
 books as they do lords ; learn their titles exactly, and then 
 brag of their acquaintance."
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 
 litrranj. jBiijlingrapljiral, an& 
 
 WHO WAS TOTTENHAM, THE AUTHOR OF 
 "THE ARTE OF ENGLISH POESIE?" 
 
 THIS question was asked by D'Israeli in his interesting 
 work on the Amenities of Literature, (vol. II, p. 279), but 
 the learned author has himself supplied all the information 
 which has descended to our times. 
 
 " The Arte of Enylish Poesie, contrived in three bookes 
 the firtt of Poets and Poesie the second of Proportion 
 the third of Ornament" was first printed in 1589 ; but we 
 gather from the book itself, that it was in hand at least 
 as early as in 1553. 
 
 The author remained unknown after the publication, for 
 Sir John Harrington, who lived in the circle of the court, 
 designated him as " the unknown god-father, that this 
 last year save one, (1589) sent forth a book, called The 
 Arte of English Poesie." About twelve years afterwards, 
 Carew, in his Survey of Cornwall, appears to have been 
 the first who disclosed the writer's name as " Master 
 Puttenham;" but this was so little known among literary 
 men, that three years later, in 1605, Camden only alludes 
 to the writer as " the gentleman who proves that poets are 
 the first politicians, the first philosophers, and the first 
 historiographers." Eleven years after, Edmund Bolton, 
 in his Jlypercritica, notices "this work, (as the fame if ) 
 of one of Queen Elizabeth's pensioners, Puttenham." 
 [Xo. 4.]
 
 46 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 Puttenham's name and writings are unnoticed by any 
 contemporary. Even the baptismal name of this writer has 
 been subject to contradiction. Ames appears first to have 
 called him Webster Puttenham. Possibly Ames might 
 have noted down the name from Carew, as Master Putten- 
 ham, which by an error of the pen, or the printer, was 
 transformed into the remarkable Christian name of Webster. 
 How else can we account for the misnomer ? Steevens, in 
 an indistinct reference to a manuscript, revealed it to be 
 George; and probably was led to that opinion by the 
 knowledge of a manuscript work in the Harleian collection 
 by a George Puttenham. It is a defence of Elizabeth in 
 the matter of the Scottish Queen. Ellis, our poetic anti- 
 quary, has distinguished our author as " Webster, alias 
 George." All this taken for granted, the last editor, 
 probably in the course of his professional pursuits, falls on 
 a nuncupative will, dated 1590, of a George Puttenham ; 
 already persuaded that such a name appertained to the 
 author of " The Arte of English Poesie," he ventured to 
 corroborate what yet remained to be ascertained. All that 
 he could draw from the nuncupative will of this George 
 Puttenham is, that he " left all his goods, moveable and 
 immoveable, moneys, and bonds," to Mary Symes, a 
 favourite female servant ; but he infers that " he probably 
 was our author." Yet, at the same time, there turned up 
 another will of one Richard Puttenham, a " prisoner in 
 her Majesty's bench." Richard therefore may have as 
 valid pretensions to " The Arte of English Poesie" as 
 George, and neither may be the author. 
 
 The following letter is an evidence of the uncertain 
 accounts respecting this author among the most knowing 
 literary historians. Here too, we find that Webster, or 
 George, or Richard, is changed into Jo ! 
 
 " What authority Mr. Wood has for Jo. Puttenham's 
 being the author of the Art of English Poetry, I do not 
 know. Mr. Wauley in his catalogue of the Harloy
 
 SCRAPS A.VD SKETCHES. 47 
 
 Library, says that he had been told that Edmund Spenser 
 was the author of that book, which came out anonymous. 
 But Sir John Harrington, in his preface to Orlando 
 Furioso, giTes so hard a censure of that book, that Spenser 
 could not possibly be the author." Letter from THOMAS 
 BAKER to the Hon. James We*/, printed in the Euro- 
 pean Magazine, April, 1/88. 
 
 DANCING TAUGHT BY WRITTEN CHARACTERS 
 TERMED "ORCHESOGRAPHY." 
 
 Is Nichols' edition of The Taller, (vol. iii, p. 147), the 
 editor, by an extraordinary oversight, has turned a learn - 
 ed priest into a French dancing master! The passage 
 occurs in No. 88, where the writers, Steele and Addisou. 
 ridicule the system of learning to dance, by icritten charac- 
 ters: "He was a dancing-master, and had been reading a 
 dance or two before he went out, which had been written 
 by one who taught at an academy in France." 
 
 The editor's note is^as follows : 
 
 " Thoinot Arbeau, a dancing-master at Paris, is here 
 justly celebrated, as the real inventor of the art of writ- 
 ing dances in characters, termed Orchesography, from two 
 Greek words, signifying a dance, and I write. The dis- 
 covery was recent at the time of the first publication of 
 this paper." 
 
 The date of No. 88 of the Taller is November 1st, 
 1/09, and Thoinot Arbeau's Orchetographie was printed 
 in 1589: 
 
 The full title of the work is this : " Orchuographie. a 
 traicte en forme de dialogue, par lequel toutes personnel 
 peuvent facilement apprende el practiquer Chonneste ezer- 
 cice det dances. Lenyres, 4to. 1389," and the author was
 
 48 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 Jean Tabourot, canon and official of the Cathredral of 
 Lengres, who published it under the anagrammatized 
 ame of Thoinot Arbeau. He died in 1595, at the age of 
 66. His work is equally curious and uncommon. 
 
 The dancing-master, "who taught at an academy in 
 France," alluded to by the writers of the Tatler, was 
 Mons. Feuillet, whose Orchesography was published in 
 Paris at the end of the seventeenth century, and transla- 
 ted and printed in London in 1707- The editor of the 
 English translation thus opens his Preface : " I perswade 
 myselfe that before so useful a curiosity as the following 
 Treatise, it would not be disagreeable to the reader to give 
 him an account of the origin and progress of the Art of 
 Orchesography. Furetier in his Historical Dictionary 
 tells us of a curious treatise of this art by one Thoinot 
 Arbeau, printed 1588, at Langres, from whom Monsieur 
 Feuillet, in his preface, supposes this art to date its first 
 rise and birth, though he could never procure a sight of it, 
 as not to be found in Paris. But this very book falling 
 into my hands, I took care to peruse it with some atten- 
 tion, but it was far short of that expectation, which such 
 recommendation had raised in me : for though it might 
 perhaps have given the hint to Mr. Beauchamp, yet it is 
 nothing but an imperfect, rough draught, nor is it con- 
 fined to dancing, since it treats besides of beating the 
 drum, playing on the pipe, and the like. 
 
 " But notwithstanding this blind hint of Arbeau, to do 
 justice to Mr. Beauchamp, we must attribute to him the 
 invention of this art, who in all probability, could no 
 more see the former book than Mons. Feuillet." 
 
 We leave Mr. Beauchamp and M. Feuillet to fight out 
 their respective claims to the invention, promising them 
 no intrusion on the part of the old canon of Lengres.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 49 
 
 CHARLES THE FIRST AND THE MARQUESS OF 
 WORCESTER. 
 
 J.\ the " Conference" which took place when Charles the 
 First visited the Marquess of Worcester, at Ragland 
 Castle, with his court, there is the following curious 
 anecdote respecting the poet Gower, which shows that the 
 sphere of a poet's influence is far wider than that of his 
 own age. 
 
 The marquess was a shrewd though whimsical man, 
 mul a favourite of the king for his frankness and his love 
 >f the arts. His lordship entertained the royal guest witli 
 extraordinary magnificence. Among the rare curiosities 
 was a sumptuous copy of Gower's Confessio Amantis. 
 
 Charles the First usually visited the marquess after 
 dinner. Once he found his lordship with the book of John 
 'iower lying open, which the king said he had never before 
 seen. "Oh!" exclaimed the marquess, "it is a book of 
 books ! and if your majesty had been well versed in it, it 
 would have made you a king of kings." 
 
 Why so, my lord?" 
 
 Why, here is set down how Aristotle brought up and 
 instructed Alexander the Great in all the rudiments and 
 principles belonging to a prince." And under the persons 
 of Aristotle and Alexander the marquess read the king 
 such a lesson, that all the standcrs-by were amazed at his 
 boldness. 
 
 The king asked whether he had his lesson by heart, or 
 spake out of the book? 
 
 "Sir, if you would read my heart, it may be that you 
 might find it there ; or if your majesty pleased to get it by 
 heart I will lend you my book." The king accepted the offer. 
 
 Some of the new made lords fretted and bit their thumbs 
 at certain passages in the marquess' discourse ; and some 
 protested that no man was so much for the absolute power
 
 j0 FIT LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 of a king as Aristotle. The marquess told the king that 
 he would indeed show him one remarkable passage to that 
 purpose, and turning to the place read, 
 
 " A king can kill, a king can save ; 
 
 A king can make a lord a knave; 
 
 And of a knave, a lord also." 
 
 On this several new-made lords slank out of the room, 
 which the king observing told the marquess, " My lord, at 
 this rate you will drive away all my nobility." 
 
 SINGULAR SPECIMEN OF ORTHOGRAPHY IN 
 THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 THE following letter was written by the Duchess of 
 Norfolk to Cromwell Earl of Essex. It exhibits a curious 
 instance of the monstrous anomalies of our orthography 
 in the infancy of our literature, when a spelling book was 
 yet a precious thing : 
 
 " My ffary gode lord, her I sand you in tokyn hoff the 
 neweyer, a glasse hoff Setyl set it Sellfer gyld. I pra you 
 tak hit in wort. An hy wer habel het showlde be bater. 
 I woll hit war wort a m crone." 
 
 Thus translated : 
 
 "My very good lord, Here I send you, in token of 
 the new year, a glass of setyll set in silver gilt ; I pray 
 you take it in worth. An I were able it should be better. 
 I would it were worth a thousand crown." 
 
 . No. IV.-HENRY LEMOINE. 
 THE remarkable subject of the present sketch was born in 
 tSpitalfields iu the year 1756, and educated at a free school
 
 ii EH. :>l 
 
 belonging to the French Calvinists in the same locality. 
 At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a stationer 
 and rag merchant in Lamb-street, Spitalfields. Here his 
 servitude was enlivened by the pursuit of letters at stolen 
 hours, and borrowed from the time of rest, when, with the 
 assistance of a lamp fitted to a dark lantern, he contrived 
 to read and digest some necessary works of history, poetry, 
 arts, aud sciences. 
 
 From the service of the " stationer and rag merchant," 
 Lemoine removed to a Mr. Chatterton's, whom, it appears, 
 was a " baker " and " bookseller." This person was well 
 known among the bibliopoles of the metropolis for his 
 knowledge in the old puritanical divinity of Charles and 
 Cromwell's time, and for a short distich over his window, 
 as follows: 
 
 " Two trades united, which you seldom find, 
 Bread to refresh the body, books the mind." 
 
 Lemoine shortly left the baking bookseller, and hired 
 himself as a foreigner to teach French in a boarding school 
 at Vauxhall. He succeeded so well in this occupation, 
 that neither master nor scholars suspected him capable of 
 speaking a word of English ; but the constraint was too 
 much for him long to bear, and imparting the secret of his 
 disguise to the maids in the kitchen, he received his dis- 
 missal, not, however, without the character of having ably 
 performed the duties of his situation. 
 
 An ardent love of books, and some knowledge of their 
 value, now induced the subject of our notice to turn book- 
 seller : and accordingly, in the year 1777. he opened a 
 book stall, (formerly kept by an aged woman named Bur- 
 gan) at the corner of the passage leading to the church in 
 the Little Minories. 
 
 In 1/80, he removed to Bishopsgate Churchyard, where 
 lie continued without interruption for fourteen years. He
 
 52 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 left his " sky-covered " shop in 1795, to commence pedestrian 
 bookseller. 
 
 During the period of his "shop-keeping" in Bishops- 
 gate, Lemoine produced the Conjuror s Magazine, a 
 monthly publication of which he was projector and editor. 
 This contained a translation of Lavater's famous work on 
 Physiognomy. Of the first numbers of the magazine, 
 10,000 copies were sold each month. During this time, 
 he brought out a collection of Ghost Stories, prefaced by an 
 ingenious argument endeavouring to convince the world of 
 the reality of " the visits from the world of spirits." He 
 also projected and carried on a considerable work on the 
 Medical Virtues of English Plants, and was the author of 
 numerous tracts on various subjects, published in the 
 latter part of the eighteenth century. 
 
 But perhaps the work of this " poor author " most in - 
 teresting to our readers, is that now before us, from which 
 we transcribe the full title : " Typographical Antiquities ; 
 History, Origin, and Progress of the Art of Printing, from 
 its First Invention in Germany, to the end of the Seven- 
 teenth Century ; and from its Introduction into England, 
 by Cazton, to the Present Time: including among a 
 variety of Curious and Interesting Matter, its Progress in 
 the Provinces, with Chronological Lists of Eminent Prin- 
 ters, in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Together with 
 Anecdotes of several Eminent and Literary Characters 
 who have Honoured the Art by their Attention to its Im- 
 provement : also a Particular and Compleat History of the 
 Walpolean Press, established at Strawberry Hill ; with an 
 Accurate List of every Publication issued therefrom, and 
 the exact number printed thereof. At the Conclusion is 
 given a Curious Dissertation on the Origin of the Use of 
 Paper ; also a Complete History of the Art of Wood-Cut- 
 ting and Engraving on Copper, from its First Invention 
 in Italy to its Latest Improvement in Great Britain ;
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 53 
 
 "concluding with the Adjudication of Literary Property, or 
 the Laws and Terms to which Authors, Designers, and 
 Publishers are Separately Subject ; with a Catalogue of 
 Kemarkable Bibles and Coinmon-Prayer-Books, from the 
 Infancy of Printing to the Present Time. Extracted 
 from the best Authorities by Henry Lemoine, Bibliop. 
 Lond. London, 1797 ; Printed and Sold by S. Fisher, 
 No. 10, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell: also Sold by Lee 
 and Hunt, No. 32, Paternoster Row." Pp. 156. 
 
 Poor Lemoine, in later life, was much reduced in cir- 
 cumstances. Industry was always a leading feature in 
 his character, and from morning till night he perambulated 
 the streets of London, with a bag under his arm, satisfied 
 if he gained enough to proTide for the day which flew over 
 his head. He died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, April 
 30th, 112, aged 56 years. 
 
 ftaorials nf <&& Irmfcun. 
 
 THE CONDCIT AT ISLINGTON. Formerly in the pleasant 
 fields of Islington (now Pentonrille) stood a large white 
 Conduit, which in ancient times supplied the monks of the 
 Carthusian Priory (now the Charterhouse) with water. 
 From some' old deeds now before us, we have been enabled 
 to make out the following. 
 
 <ith April [1429] 8 Henry VI. Feoffinent from John 
 Ferreby, esquire, and Margery his wife, to the Prior and 
 Convent of the House of the Salutation of the Blessed Mary, 
 of the Order of Carthusians near the City of London, of 
 the Spring in the meadow called Overmcad, in Iseldon, to 
 make a Conduit of Water therefrom, and a certain piece of 
 land there, rendering thereby yearly to them and the heirs 
 of the aforesaid Margery 12t/. yearly for all services. 
 
 10th April, 8 Henry VI. Deed Poll between the Prior 
 and Convent aforesaid, and John Ferreby and Margery his 
 wife, that after the making of the aforesaid Conduit, the 
 said John Ferreby and Margery his wife, and the heirs of
 
 54 FIT LEAVES ; OE, 
 
 the said Margery, should have the herbage and all the 
 profit yearly arising out of the aforesaid land for ever, 
 saving a right of entry to the said Prior and Convent to 
 do necessary repairs. 
 
 2nd Dec. [1430] 9 Hen. VI. Licence to John Ferreby, 
 esquire, and Margery his wife, that they may grant and 
 assign a certain spring and land in the town of Iseldon to 
 the said Prior and Convent, and that they may make an 
 aqueduct under the ground, from the spring aforesaid, 
 through the land aforesaid, and by the King's highway under 
 the aforesaid house, and to put leaden pipes for the said 
 aqueduct under the ground and the King's highway. 
 
 On the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary in 
 the year 1430, it was agreed by deed of covenant, between 
 William Hulles, Prior of the Hospital of St. John of 
 Jerusalem, and the co-brethren of the said Hospital, and 
 the said Prior and Convent of the said House of Carthu- 
 sians, that it should be lawful for the said Prior and 
 Convent of the said House of Carthusians to place leaden 
 pipes from the head of the aqueduct aforesaid, in the 
 meadow called Overmead in Iseldon, unto the House of 
 Habitation of the aforesaid Prior and Convent of the House 
 of Carthusians, without let or impediment of the Prior of 
 the Hospital aforesaid. 
 
 SADLER'S WELLS. "T. G., doctor in physic," published 
 in 1684 a pamphlet upon this place, in which he says, 
 "The water of this well, before the Reformation, was very 
 much famed for several extraordinary cures performed 
 thereby, and was thereupon accounted sacred, and called 
 Holy-well. The priests belonging to the priory of Clerk- 
 enwell using to attend there, made the people believe that 
 the virtue of the water proceeded from the efficacy of their 
 prayers; but at the Reformation the well was stopped, 
 upon the supposition that the frequenting of it was alto- 
 gether superstitious; and so by degrees it grew out of 
 remembrance, and was wholly lost until then found out ; 
 when a gentleman named Sadler, who had lately built a 
 new music-house there, and being surveyor of the high- 
 ways, had employed men to dig gravel in his garden, in 
 the midst whereof they found it stopped up and covered 
 with an arch of stone." After the decease of Sadler, 
 Francis Forcer, a musician of some eminence in his pro- 
 fession, became proprietor of the well and music-room ; he 
 was succeeded by his son, who first exhibited there the
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 55 
 
 diversions of rope-dancing and tumbling, which were then 
 performed in the garden. 
 
 The rural vicinity of the "Wells" long made it a 
 favourite retreat of the pleasure seeking citizens. In 
 1740, the following "New Song on Sadler's Wells," was 
 in high esteem. 
 
 "At eve, when Sylva's shady scene 
 
 Is clad with spreading branches green, 
 
 And varied sweets all round display'd, 
 
 To grace the pleasant flow'ry meads, 
 
 For those who're willing joys to taste, 
 
 Where pleasures flow and blessings last, 
 
 And God of Health with transport dwells, 
 
 Must all repair to Sadler's Wells. 
 "The pleasant streams of Middleton 
 
 In gentle murmurs glide along, 
 
 In which the sporting fishes play, 
 
 To close each weary summer's day ; 
 
 And music's charm, in lulling sounds, 
 
 With mirth and harmony abounds ; 
 
 While nymphs and swains, with beaux and belles, 
 
 All praise the joys of Sadler' 't Wells." 
 
 THE TRUE LOYALIST, OR CHEVALIER'S FAVOURITE ; 
 BEING A COLLECTION OP SONGS, NEVKR BEFORE 
 
 PRINTED. ALSO SEVERAL OTHER LOYAL COMPOSI- 
 TIONS, WROTE BY EMINENT HANDS. Printed in the 
 year 1779. 12mo. 
 
 This curious little volume, consisting of 144 pages, 
 appears to have been privately printed. A copy was 
 marked in Thorpe's Catalogue, 1825, 1 11*. 6J. The 
 Songs extend to p. 104; then follows a Tragi-Comedy, in 
 which the principal characters are The Pretender, The 
 Duke of Perth, Lord Elcho, Lady Wemyss, The Duke of 
 Cumberland, &c. The " Loyal Poems " commence at p. 
 1 19, and extend to the end of the volume. 
 
 Many of the Songs have escaped the notice of Hogg, 
 and the more recent editors of Jacobite Minstrelsy.
 
 >(; FLT LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 HUMANE INDUSTRY : OB A HISTORY OF MOST 
 ARTS ; DEDUCING THE ORIGINAL, PROGRESS, AND. 
 IMPROVEMENT OF THEM. 8vo. 1661. 
 Ascribed by Wood to Thomas Powell, D.D., Canon of 
 St. David's ; " who was," says lie, " an able philosopher, 
 a curious critic, and well versed in various languages.'^ 
 He died in London, December 31, 1666. (See an excellent 
 analysis of this work, in Oldy's Briti&li Librarian, pp. 
 42-59.) 
 
 nf 
 
 THE following madrigals, written by a sweet poet of whom 
 more ought to be known Thomas Campion, are taken 
 from a MS. volume of old poetry in the possession of the 
 Editor. (See No. 1 of FLY LEAVES, where some pieces of 
 Breton's are given from the same MS.) 
 
 Thomas Campion flourished as a poet and physician 
 during part of the reigns of Elizabeth and James the First. 
 He was educated at Cambridge, but no particulars of his 
 life or family can be found. From the " Admittances to 
 Gray's Inn," (Harl. MS., )912,) in which a Thomas. 
 Campion is stated to have been admitted a member of that 
 society in 1586, and who is in a great measure identified 
 as the poet, from his having composed a song for the 
 Gray's Inn Masque, it would appear that he was originally 
 intended for the profession of the law. By his contem- 
 poraries he was styled "Sweet Maister Campion;" and 
 he was famous as well for his musical as for his poetical 
 talents. 
 
 I. 
 
 " Thriee tosse these oaken ashes in the ayre ; 
 Thrice sit thou mute in this enchanted chayre ; 
 Then thrice three times tie up this true love's knot. 
 And murmur soft shee will, or shee will not. 
 
 " Goe burn these poys'nous weedes in yon blew fire, 
 These screech-owles feathers, and this prickling bryer. 
 This cypresse gathered at a dead man's grave ; 
 That all thy feares and cares an end may have.
 
 SCRAPS AXD SKETCHES. 
 
 4 Then come yon fayries, dance with me a round. 
 Melt her hard hart with your melodious sound : 
 In vaine are all the charms I can devise, 
 She hath an arte to break them with her eyes." 
 
 II. 
 
 " Fire: fire! fire! fire! 
 
 Loe here I burn hi such desire, 
 
 That all the teares that I can straine 
 
 Out of mine idle empty braine, 
 
 Cannot allay my scorching paine. 
 
 Come Trent, and Humber, and fayre Thames, 
 Dread ocean haste with all thy streaines ; 
 And if you cannot quench my fire, 
 drowne both me and my desire. 
 
 " Fire ! fire ! fire ! fire ! 
 
 There is no hell to my desire : 
 
 See all the rivers backward flye, 
 
 And the ocean doth his waves deny, 
 
 For feare iny heart should drink them drie. 
 Come heav'nly showers then pouring downe ; 
 Come you that once the world did drowne : 
 Some then you spar'd, but now save all. 
 That eke must burn, and with me fall." 
 
 III. 
 
 " Never love unlesse you can 
 Beare with all the faults of man : 
 Men sometimes will jealous bee, 
 Though but little cause they see, 
 And hang the head as discontent, 
 And speake what straight they will repent. 
 
 ' Men that but one saint adore, 
 Make a shew of love to more : 
 Beauty must be scorn'd in none, 
 Though but truely serr'd in one ; 
 For what is courtship but disguise ? 
 True hearts may have dissembling eyes. 
 
 " Men when their affaires require, 
 Mu-t awhile themselves retire ; 
 Sometimes hunt, and sometimes hawke, 
 And not ever sit and talk.
 
 58 FLY LEAVES ; CR, 
 
 If these and such like you can beare, 
 Then like, and love, and never feare." 
 
 IV. 
 
 " So sweet is thy discourse to me, 
 
 And so delightfull is thy sight, 
 As I taste nothing right but thee : 
 
 why invented nature light ? 
 
 Was it alone for beauties sake, 
 
 That her grac't words might better take ? 
 
 " No more can I old joyes recall, 
 They now to me become unknowne, 
 Not seeming to have beene at all. 
 Alas ! how soone is this love growne 
 To such a spreading height in me, 
 As with it all must shadow'd be." 
 
 V. 
 
 " Maydes are simple some men say, 
 
 They forsooth will trust no men ; 
 But should they men's wils obey, 
 Maides were very simple then. 
 
 " Truth a rare flow'r now is growne, 
 
 Few men weare it in their hearts ; 
 Lovers are more eas'ly knowne 
 By their follies, then deserts. 
 
 " Safer may we credit give 
 
 To a faithlesse wand'ring Jew, 
 Then a young mans vows beleeve, 
 When he sweares his love is true. 
 
 " Love they make a poore blinde childe, 
 
 But let none trust such as hee ; 
 Bather then to be beguiled, 
 Ever let me simple be."
 
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 srraps sn& f kitrjiw. 
 
 THE KING'S COCK GROWER. A singular custom, of 
 matchless absurdity, formerly existed in the English Court. 
 During Lent, an ancient officer of the crown, styled the 
 King's Cock Croicer, crowed the hour each night within 
 the precincts of the Palace. On the Ash Wednesday, 
 after the accession of the House of Hanover, as the Prince 
 of Wales (afterwards George II) sat down to supper, this 
 officer abruptly entered the apartment, and in a sound 
 resembling the shrill pipe of a cock, crowed past ten o'clock ! 
 The astonished Prince, at first conceiving it to be a pre- 
 meditated insult, rose to resent the affront, but, upon the 
 nature of the ceremony being explained to him, he was 
 satisfied. Since that period, this silly custom has been 
 discontinued. 
 
 THE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF CHARLES II. This King 
 collected about 1,000 volumes in his private library, most 
 of them having been dedicated or presented to him. A- 
 mong them was an exquisitely illuminated Breviary, given 
 by King Henry VII. to his daughter Margaret, Queen of 
 Scots, with his autograph annexed to a desire that she 
 would pray for his soul ; a curious MS. in High Dutch on 
 the Great Elixir ; and in French a MS., 300 years old, 
 with curious paintings of plants in miniature ; the Journal, 
 and a folio MS. of Themes, Orations, and Translations, 
 written and subscribed by the hand of Edward VI. 
 
 EDMUND CURLL, THE BOOKSELLER. This extraordinary 
 character lived at the Pope's Head, in Rose Street, Covent 
 Garden, and afterwards at the Bible and Dial, in Fleet 
 Street. He died in 1748. When at the Pope's Head, he 
 published a catalogue of books, of twenty -five pages, classed 
 according to the subjects. He also dealt in second-hand 
 books.
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 , Siblnrgrapjiirsl, ant 3Hisrfllaiinnis. 
 
 OLIVER CROMWELL'S LOVE OF STATE. 
 
 IF in the early part of his career, Cromwell was careless 
 of his personal appearance, and averse to the " pomps and 
 vanities " of this wicked world ; as he increased in power, 
 so he improved his dress, and gave way at least to some of 
 those " forms and shows of state," which possess no trifling 
 influence over the minds of men. 
 
 When Cromwell was selected to reduce the Irish people 
 to obedience, his departure, and the stateliness of his ca- 
 valcade, are thus announced in the Moderate Intelligencer, 
 July 10th, 1649 ; " This evening, about five of the clock, 
 the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland began his journey, by the 
 way of Windsor, and so to Bristol. He went forth in that 
 state and equipage as the like hath hardly been seen ; him- 
 self in a coach with six gallant Flanders mares, whitish 
 grey, divers coaches accompanying him, and very many 
 great officers of the army: his life-guard consisting of 
 eighty gallant men, the meanest thereof, a commander or 
 esquire, in stately habit, with trumpets sounding, almost 
 to the shaking of Charing Cross, had it been now standing : 
 of his life-guard many are colonels, and believe it, it's such 
 a guard as .is hardly to be paralleled in the world." 
 
 On the 16th of December, 1653, Cromwell was solemnly 
 installed Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England. 
 [No. 5.]
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 61 
 
 Scotland, aiid Ireland. The great ceremony of installa- 
 tion took place at Westminster Hall. After a " seeking of 
 the Lord," about one o'clock in the afternoon, the Pro- 
 tector issued from his apartments at Whitehall, and 
 entered his coach of state. He was surrounded by his 
 body-guard, and on each side of King-street was a line of 
 soldiers. Preceding him, in their several coaches, were 
 the two Lords Commissioners of the Privy Seal, the Barons 
 of the Exchequer, the Judges in their robes, the Council 
 of the Commonwealth ; the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, 
 and the Recorder of London, in their scarlet gowns ; the 
 chief officers of the Army ; and lastly, the Protector him- 
 self, in a black suit and cloak, with long boots, and a 
 broad band of gold round his hat. A chair of state, with a 
 splendid carpet and cushions, had been prepared for his 
 reception. He stood on the left side of it, between the two 
 Commissioners, uncovered, till the articles, by which he 
 bound himself to govern the three kingdoms, had been 
 read. After a short demur of affected humility, he so- 
 lemnly accepted and subscribed them, in the face of the 
 court. He then covered himself and sat down in the chair 
 of state ; the great officers of the Commonwealth, who 
 were arranged on each side, covered themselves also at the 
 same moment. The Commissioners then delivered to him 
 the great seal, and the Lord Mayor presented him with 
 the sword and cap of maintenance, all which he immedi- 
 ately returned to them. The court then rose, and, preceded 
 by the Lord Mayor, carrying the sword, he returned to 
 Whitehall. The procession again assembled in the Ban- 
 quetting-house, where an "exhortation" was given by 
 Lockyer, and they then dispersed to their own homes. 
 
 In February, 1654, the Protector was invited to dine 
 with the citizens of London. Dugdale, in his Short View 
 of the Late Troubles in England^ 1681, p. 417, thus records 
 the event: "And being invited by the Lord Mayor and
 
 62 ixr LEAVES; OR, 
 
 Aldermen of London, to dine at Grocer's Hall upon Ash- 
 Wednesday ; to the end he might have the greater venera- 
 tion from the people, it was contrived that he should ride 
 through the city in state to that feast, which was accord- 
 ingly performed as followeth : 
 
 " First, the several Companies of London, having order 
 within rayles hung with blew cloath ; the Citty banner, 
 and streamers belonging to the respective Companies, being 
 set before them. Then the Lord Mayor with his mace, 
 sword, and cap of maintenance, attended by the Aldermen 
 in scarlet, and their gold chains, rode to Temple Bar. 
 Where, meeting the Protector, with his military train, he 
 delivered up the sword to him, making a short congratula- 
 tory speech to his Highness. Which being ended, they 
 proceeded towards Grocer's-Hall, thus : 
 
 " First the City Marshall, and some other officers. Then 
 to meet at Guild-hall, in their liveries, went thence and 
 placed themselves, according to their superiority, in the 
 streets, from the lower end of Cheapside to Temple Bar, 
 six trumpets. After them, his Highness' Life-guard. 
 Then eight trumpets more. Next the city streamers red 
 and white. Then the Aldermen. After them the two 
 Shireeves. Next his highness' heraulds, with rich coats, 
 adorned with the Commonwealth's arms (viz., the Cross 
 and Harp.) Then the mace and cap of maintenance. 
 Next the Lord Mayor (bare-headed) carrying the sword. 
 After him two Gentlemen Ushers. Then his Highness the 
 Protector, with twelve footmen in gray jackets, laced with 
 silver and black silk lace. After him rode Major General 
 Skyppon, and the rest of the council. Then the officers of 
 the army. And lastly, divers others, on horseback and in 
 coaches," &c. 
 
 Immediately upon his installation as Protector, Crom- 
 well took complete possession of the classic residences of 
 royalty, Whitehall, Hampton Court, and Windsor, which
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 6 
 
 were severally fitted up with great magnificence for his 
 reception. 
 The contemporary notices of the removal of the Protec- 
 
 :o stately apartments of Whitehall are curious : 
 April 13, 1654. This day the bedchamber, and the rest 
 of the lodgings and rooms appointed for the Lord Protector 
 in Whitehall, were prepared for his Highness to remove 
 from the Cockpit on the morrow." " His Highness the 
 Lord Protector, with his lady and family, this day (April 
 14) dined at Whitehall, whither his Highness and family 
 are removed, and did this night lie there, and do there con- 
 tinue." "April 15. His Highness went this day to 
 Hampton Court, and returned again at night." 
 
 The event is also thus announced in the Weekly Intelli- 
 gencer (March 14th to 21st, 1654) : 
 
 " The Privy Lodgings for his Highness the Lord Pro- 
 tector in Whitehall are now in readiness, as also the 
 lodgings for his Lady Protectress ; and likewise the privy 
 kitchen, and other kitchens, butteries, and offices ; and it 
 is conceived the whole family will be settled there before 
 Kaster. The tables for diet prepared are these : 
 
 A table for his Highness. 
 
 A table for the Protectress. 
 
 A table for chaplains and strangers. 
 
 A table for the steward and gentlemen. 
 
 A table for the gentlemen. 
 
 A table for coachmen, grooms, and other domestic 
 servants. 
 
 A table for inferiors or sub-servants." 
 The public entertainments at Whitehall were frequent and 
 prodigal. Every Monday the Protector kept an open table 
 tor all the officers of his army who had attained the rank of 
 captain, besides a smaller table, every day of the week for 
 such officers as came accidentally to court. "With these" 
 
 ah," he seemed to disport himself, takingofl'his drink
 
 4 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 freely, and opening himself every way to the most free 
 familiarity. He did merely lie at the catch of what should 
 incogitantly, and with such unsuspected provocation fall 
 from their mouths, which he would be sure to record, and 
 lay up against his occasion of reducing them to the 
 speaker's memory." The insignificant author (some dis- 
 appointed scullion) of The Court and Kitchen of Mrs. Joan 
 Cromwell informs us, that in order "that he might not 
 appear so much a military governor, hut have something of 
 the prince in him, about noon time, a man might hear a 
 huge clattering of dishes and noise of servitors in rank and 
 tile, marching to his table, though neither sumptuously 
 nor extraordinarily furnished." The court entertainments, 
 however, if not extremely refined, appear to have been on 
 the largest scale. The Parliament was occasionally invited 
 to dine with the Protector in a body. Burton inserts, in 
 his Parliamentary Diary, 18th February, 1657, "Mr. 
 Speaker acquainted the House, that his Highness hath in- 
 vited all the members of this House to dine with his 
 Highness on Friday next, being the day of public thanks- 
 giving in the Banquetting House at Whitehall." Heath 
 also mentions the Parliament being "gaudily entertained" 
 by him in the Banquetting House in 1656. 
 
 The funeral of Cromwell, as well as the ceremony of 
 lying in state, were conducted with a pomp and magnifi- 
 cence which have rarely been exceeded. According to 
 Heath, the large sum of sixty thousand pounds were 
 expended on these obsequies. Noble, however, places the 
 real expenditure at twenty-eight thousand pounds ; and 
 Walker, in his History of Independency (pt. iv., p. 32), at 
 twenty-nine thousand pounds. 
 
 The effigy carried in the procession must have been a 
 strange fancy. " The shirt of fine Holland, laced,"" the 
 doublet and breeches of Spanish fashion with great skirts," 
 " the silk stockings, shoe strings, and gaiters, suitable,"
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 65 
 
 "the black Spanish leather-shoes," " the surcoat of 
 purple velvet, richly laced with gold lace," " the rich 
 crown," ' the stones of various colours," " the cordings 
 and bosses of purple and gold," " the bands and ruffs of 
 best Holland," and " the royal robe of purple velvet ! " 
 What availed all this gorgeous show ? Our ancient mon- 
 archs " they sleep well," but Cromwell rests beneath the 
 gibbet at Tyburn. 
 
 EXTRAORDINARY LOVE-LETTER 
 ADDRESSED TO A LADY OF MALDON, IN 1644. 
 
 THE following interesting epistle has been communicated 
 to the Editor by Charles Clark, Esq., of Great Totham 
 Hall, Essex. 
 
 " To the most choice Gentlewoman, and ornament of her 
 sexe, MT. Elizabeth Goode, daughter of Sebastian Goode, 
 Esquire, at Maldon. 
 
 " MRS. ELIZABETH, 
 
 " I have long beene an earnest suitor to your honour and 
 deserts, that I might be admitted an humble suitor to your 
 sweete selfe ; now, after many striveings and wrestlings, I 
 have almost prevailed. My next suit is, that your dearest 
 selfe would comply with your dearest parents' desires and 
 mine : they are most ready to part with a great part of 
 their estate for your sake, and I most willinge to place all 
 my joyes and delights in You alone. Nowe it is, or will 
 sodainely be, in your sole power to dash and frustrate, or 
 crowne all my indeavours : hereby you will make me a most 
 happy man, and your selfe (I hope) a no lesse happy 
 spouse. 
 
 " Well, sweete Mrs. Elizabeth, be not afraide to venture
 
 66 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 on me : as you have a most tender father, and a most in- 
 dulgent mother, so lett me, that I think Providence kept 
 for you, furnish you with a very, very lovinge husband. 
 Could you reade my most inmost thoughts, you would soon 
 answere love with love. I here promise you, and wilj 
 make good this promise againe (when that happy daye 
 comes) on holy ground, that I will love and honour you. 
 
 " Knowe, this is my virgin request, the first request in 
 earnest that ever came from my lippes or pen : my eyes 
 have seene many yonge gallants and virgins, but Mrs. 
 Elizabeth is the delight of my eyes. Others of your sexe 
 have been acceptable, and some precious in my eyes ; but 
 you, and you only, have been, and still are, the pearle in 
 my eyes. 
 
 " Amongst all the works of God, I delight most in behold- 
 inge (the sun excepted) an amiable countenance ; and such 
 is yours, or none in these parts of England. Your face is 
 a mappe of beauties, your gentle breast a cabinett of vertues, 
 and your whole selfe a cluster of all the choisest delicacies : 
 but, in plaine English, not your pleasinge aspecte, nor 
 well-featured person, nor admired excellencies, nor weighty 
 portion, fastened my affections on you, but your love (of 
 this I have beene long persuaded) to a man (myself I mean) 
 so undeserving it. 
 
 "As for myselfe, I am thought worthy of a good wife, 
 though unworthy of you. These pretty toyes, called hus- 
 bands, are such rare commodities in this age, that I can 
 woe and winne wives by the dozens. I know not any gen- 
 tlewoman in these parts, but would kisse a letter from my 
 hands, reade it with joye, and then laye it up next her hart 
 as a treasure ; but I will not trye their courtecies, except 
 I find you discourteous. 
 
 "My last request is this, take aturne iu private, then 
 read this letter againe, and imagine the penman at your 
 elbow. Next laye your hand upon your hart, and resolve
 
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 to saye Amen to my desires. If so, I shall accept your 
 portion with the left hand, but your lovely person with the 
 right. Portions I can have enoagh to my minde in other 
 places, bat not a wife to my minde in any place of the 
 wide world but at Maiden. I hope, therefore, no plac 
 shall furnish you with a husband but Kingstone, where 
 lives in hope 
 
 " Your most hearty Friend and Servant, 
 
 "THOMAS BOURMAN: 
 
 14 From my Chamber, Dec. 2, 1644." 
 
 "TIS MERRY IN HALL, WHEN BEARDS 
 WAG ALL." 
 
 THIS rhyming proverb may be traced back to the com- 
 mencement of the fourteenth century, when it occurs in au 
 inedited metrical romance, (attributed to Adam Davie) 
 entitled The Life of Alexander : 
 
 "Merrie swithe it is in halle 
 
 When the berdes waveth alle." 
 
 But it is much better known in the scrap of an old bal- 
 lad quoted by Shakespeare in the Second Part of Henry IV, 
 fact v., sc. 3.) 
 
 " Be merry, be merry, my wife has all, 
 For women are shrews, both short and tall : 
 ' Ti.i merry in hull, when beards wag all, 
 
 And welcome merry Shrove-tide." 
 Old John Heywood has it in his Epigrammet on Pro- 
 rerbes, printed before 1553. It occurs under the phrase 
 -wagging beards." (Epig. 2.) 
 
 " It it nury in hall, when beards wagge all ; 
 Husband, for this, these woordes to-night I call :
 
 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 This is ment by men in their merie eating, 
 Not to wag their beardes in brauling or threating : 
 Wyfe, the meaning hereof differth not two pinnes, 
 Between wagginge of men's beards, and women's chins." 
 
 In William Stafford's Briefe Conceipte of English Pol- 
 licye, 158], the author says, "Tis a common proverbe 
 Merry in hall, when beardes wag all." And a contempo- 
 rary" writer speaking of a banquet says, " The table taken 
 up, the plate presently conveyed into the pantrie, the hall 
 summons this consort of companions (upon payne to dyne 
 with Duke Humphfrie, or to kisse the hare's foot) to ap- 
 pear at the first call : where a song is to be sung, the 
 under song or holding whereof is, It is merrie in hall, where 
 beardes wag all." (The Serving-mans Comfort, 1598.) 
 
 This popular proverb forms the burden to a clever song 
 introduced some few years ago, on the Edinburgh stage, 
 by the veteran Murray. In the absence of anything older 
 it may be acceptable : 
 
 " Our ancient English melodies 
 
 Are banish'd out of doors, 
 And nothing's heard in modern days, 
 But Signoras and Signors. 
 Such airs I hate 
 Like a pig in a gate, 
 Give me the good old strain, 
 When 'twas merry in the hall, 
 The beards wagg'd all, 
 We shall never see the like again ! 
 
 ' On beds of down our dandies lay, 
 And waste the cheerful morn, 
 While our squires of old would raise the day, 
 With the sound of the bugle horn ;
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 
 
 And their wires took care 
 The feast to prepare, 
 For when they left the plain, 
 Oh! 'twas merry in the hall, 
 The beards wagg'd all, 
 We shall never see the like again ! 
 
 1 'Twos then the Christmas tale was told 
 
 Of goblin, ghost, or fairy, 
 And they cheer'd the hearts of the tenants old 
 
 With a cup of good canary. 
 And they each took a smack 
 Of the cold black jack, 
 'Till the fire burn'd in each brain ; 
 
 Oh ! 'twas merry in the hall, 
 
 The beards wagg'd all, 
 May we soon see the like again ! 
 
 No. V. A NDREW JACKSON 
 
 THE subject of this notice was well known as a dealer in 
 old books, and black-letter, for more than forty years, in 
 Clare Court, Drury Lane. Here, like another Maglia- 
 bechi, 'midst dust and cob-webs, he indulged his appetite 
 for reading. Legends and romances, history and poetry, 
 were, indiscriminately, his favourite pursuits. Unlike a 
 contemporary brother of the trade (John Ring, of Moor- 
 fields, whose library was sold by Barker in 1760), he did 
 not make the curiosity of his customers the foundation of 
 a collection for his own use, and refuse to part with an
 
 70 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 article, where lie found an eagerness in a purchaser to 
 obtain it. When he met with a rarity, he would retain 
 the same till he had satisfied his own desires in the perusal 
 of it, and then part with it agreeable to his promise. 
 Though placed in an humble rank in life, he was easy, 
 cheerful, and facetious. If he did not abound, his wants 
 were few, and he secured enough to carry him to his jour- 
 ney's end. He was a retainer to the Muses, but rather 
 traversed the plains, than ascended any steps up the hill 
 of Parnassus. In 1740 he published the first book of 
 Paradise Lost, in rhyme ; and ten years afterwards, with 
 somewhat better success, Matrimonial Scenes, consisting of 
 the Seaman's Tale, the Manciple's Tale, the Character 
 of the Wife of Bath, the Tale of the Wife of Bath and 
 her Five Husbands ; all modernized from Chaucer by A. 
 .lackson. 
 
 " The first refiner of our native lays 
 Chaunted these tales in second Kichard's days ; 
 Time grudg'd his wit, and on his language fed I 
 We rescue but the living from the dead ; 
 And what was sterling verse so long ago, 
 Is here new coined to make it current now." 
 
 The contents of his catalogues of the years 1756, 1757, 
 1759, and one without date, as specified in their titles, 
 were in rhyme. In 1751, in conjunction with Charles 
 Marsh, he published, as Shakespeare's, a tract, entitled 
 A Briefe Conceipte, touching the Commonweale of this 
 Realme of England, originally printed in 1581. 
 
 ANDREW JACKSON died July 25, 1778, having com- 
 pleted his eighty-third year the fourteenth of May pre- 
 ceding.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 
 
 Staorials nf 4Mft Ionium. 
 
 DOYLEY'S WAREHOUSE FOR WOOLLEN ARTICLES IN 
 THK .STRAND. The precise locality of this house was the 
 east corner of Upper Wellington Street, now No. 346. 
 The author of Wine and Walnuts (vol. 1, p. 149,) has the 
 following note : " Mr. Doyley, a very respectable ware- 
 houseman, whose family, of the same name, had resided 
 in the great old house, next to Hodsoll the banker's, from 
 the time of Queen Anne. This house, built by Inigo 
 Jones, which makes a prominent feature in the old engraved 
 views of the Strand, having a covered, up and down en- 
 trance, which projected to the carriage-way, was pulled 
 down about 1782. On the site of which was erected the 
 house now occupied in the same business. The dessert 
 napkins, termed Doyleyg, are so called, having originated 
 with this ancient firm." 
 
 CRAVEX BUILDINGS. Dr. Arne, the celebrated musi- 
 cian, resided here. One of his title-pages reads as follows : 
 "The Musick in the Masque of Comus, written by 
 Milton, as it was performed at the Theatre Royal in 
 Drury Lane, composed by Thomas Augustine Arne, 
 Opera Prima, London, printed by William Smith, at the 
 Musick Shop in Middle Row, neare Holborne Bars, and 
 sold by the Author at his house, No. 17, in Craven Build- 
 ings, Drury Lane." AH the copies have the doctor's sig- 
 nature at the right hand corner. 
 
 Unfirts. 
 
 MUSICAL TRAVELS THROUGH ENGLAND. BY THE LATK 
 
 JOEL COLLIER, LICENTIATE IN Music. A NEW 
 
 EDITION. London: Printed for O. Kearttey, at 
 
 Johntoris Head, Fleet-itreet. 12mo. 1785. 
 
 This clever little brochure is a burlesque of the musical 
 
 travels of the erudite Dr. Burney. It is dedicated " To 
 
 the Governors and Guardians of the Hospital for the 
 
 Maintenance and Education of exposed and deserted young
 
 72 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 Children." Alexander Bicknell was in part the author ; 
 the latter portion was by Peter Beckford. 
 
 A COLLECTION OF SELECT EPIGRAMS, IN WHICH ARE 
 MANY ORIGINALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED, BY THE 
 
 MOST EMINENT HANDS. PUBLISHED BY MR. HACKETT. 
 
 Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-noster-row ; 
 
 and for W. and I. Flackton. in Canterbury. 12mo. 
 
 1757. (pp. 151.) 
 
 Lowndes mentions Hackett's Collection of Epitaphs, 
 but does not allude to the present work, which appears to 
 be rare. It is dedicated to "William Baylies, Esq., by his 
 obliged friend, John Hackett." The authors' names are 
 given in most instances. 
 
 A SHORT EXPLICATION OF SUCH FOREIGN WORDS, AS 
 ARE MADE USE OF IN MUSICK BOOKS. London, 
 Printed for J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill, near 
 the Royal Exchange. 12mo. 1724. 
 This appears to be the first musical dictionary printed 
 in England. It consists of 96 pages, including a Preface, 
 in which the compiler thus states his reasons for the 
 publication: "As Italian and other Foreign Musick is 
 frequently made use of here in England, and as our 
 Masters have adopted most of the same words and terms 
 in their Musick and Compositions, as the Italians and others 
 do in theirs, it is humbly presumed that a short explica- 
 tion thereof will be acceptable to all those who stand in 
 need of such a help." At the end of the volume is a 
 valuable "Catalogue of Printed Musick for Instruments." 
 
 nf Sluririrt Jtotnj- 
 
 THE two following old songs are extracted from a rare 
 little volume in the Editor's Library, entitled Bristol 
 Drollery, Poems and Songs, London, Printed for Charles 
 Allen, Bookseller in Bristol, 1674. The compiler, at the 
 end of his address to " The Young Gallants," subscribes 
 his initials " N. C." probably Nathaniel Crouch.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 75 
 
 THE TOWN GALLANTS SONG. 
 
 " We are born, then cry 
 
 We know not for why ; 
 And all our lives long 
 Still but the same song. 
 
 " Our lives are but short, 
 " We're made Fortune's sport, 
 We spend them in care, 
 In hunting the hare. 
 
 "In tossing the pot, 
 
 In vent'ring our lot 
 
 At dice, when we play 
 
 To pass time away. 
 
 " We dress our selves fine, 
 
 At noon we do dine, 
 
 We walk then abroad, 
 
 Or ride on the road. 
 
 " With women we dally 
 Retreat and rally, 
 And then in the bed 
 We lay down our head. 
 
 44 And all this and more 
 We do o're and o're, 
 Till at last we all die, 
 And in the cold grave lie. 
 
 "Then let us be merry. 
 Send down to the ferry 
 
 A bottle for him, 
 
 Old Charon the grim, 
 
 A bribe for our stay, 
 Till we must away."
 
 74 FLY LEAVES; OR 
 
 THE ENJOYMENTS OF TOWN. 
 
 " The sports on the green we'l leave to the swains, 
 The rise of their loves, and reward of their pains ; 
 At the tavern we'l dine, then close up the day, 
 At night, at a Mask, a Ball, or a Play. 
 And when this is done, we'l laugh and lie down, 
 And our evening delights sweet slumbers shall crown. 
 
 "At the Pell we will play, or a race we will run, 
 We'l sport with the Racket, and when that is done, 
 At Cribbidge, at In, or at Hazard amain, 
 From Tick or Baggamon we will not refrain : 
 And when we have done, we'l laugh and lie down, 
 And our passed delights sweet slumber shall crown. 
 
 " Then we'l away to the gardens or park 
 With lures for the ladies, instead of the lark, 
 With graces attractive, are fetch'd from Love's mine, 
 And his darts shall secure us the prey we design. 
 And when we have done, we'l laugh and lie down, 
 And dream of our loves, enjoyment shall crown." 
 
 Straps anfr Ikiltjus. 
 
 ORIGIN OF THE TERM " HUMBUG." This, now common 
 expression, is a corruption of the word Hamburgh, and 
 originated in the following manner : During a period 
 when war prevailed on the Continent, so many false reports 
 and lying bulletins were fabricated at Hamburgh, that at 
 length, when any one would signify his disbelief of a state- 
 ment, he would say, "You had that from Hamburgh;" 
 and thus, " That is Hamburgh," or Humbug, became a 
 common expression of incredulity. 
 
 VANDERBANK, THE ENGRAVER. This excellent engra- 
 ver was born at Paris, and came to England about the 
 year 1674. The following advertisement, which appeared 
 in Clavel's Catalogue of Books, No. 6, Feb., 1675, contains 
 perhaps, the earliest notice of his residence here : 
 
 " A new, very large, and fine Print of the Effigies of
 
 SCRAPS AMD SKETCHES. 7-> 
 
 His Sacred Majesty, Charles II, King of Great Britain, 
 France, and Ireland, Curiously Engraven by Monsieur 
 Vanderbank ; printed in a sheet of imperial paper. Sold 
 by the Author, near Covent Garden Church, and Jo. Over- 
 ton, at the White Horse, without Newgate." 
 
 ANCIENT PRICES OF MSS. Before the invention of 
 printing, books were sold at an enormous price, as appears 
 by what Gaguin wrote to one of his friends who had sent to 
 him from Rome to procure a concordance for him. I 
 have not, to this day, found out a concordance, except one 
 that is greatly esteemed, which Paschasius, the bookseller, 
 has told me is to be sold, but the owner of it is abroad, 
 and it may be had for a hundred crowns of gold." 
 
 THE ROMANCE OF ALEXANDER. A copy of this ro- 
 mance, preserved in the Bodleian Library, reveals a secret 
 of the cost of time freely bestowed on that single and 
 mighty tome. The illuminator, by preserving the date 
 when he had completed his own work, compared with that 
 of the transcriber, when he had finished bis part, appears 
 to have employed nearly six years on the paintings which 
 embellish this precious volume. 
 
 This romance was composed about the year 1200: the 
 present copy was made in 1 338. There is also a splendid 
 manuscript, with rich and delicate illuminations, of the 
 ancient romance of Alexander, in prose, in the British 
 Museum, Bib. Reg. 15, E. 6.
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 OR, 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 literary fJiWragrapjjiral, ani 3HistpllaiiEnii5. 
 
 JEREMY COLLIER'S ESSAY ON BOOKS. 
 
 COLLIER quaint old Jeremy Collier, the violent opponent 
 of " stage-plays," and the mortal enemy of " immorality" 
 of all kinds, was a man of eloquence and learning, though 
 perhaps a little tinged with some of the prejudices of the 
 times in which he flourished. Dunton said of him " He 
 is a breathing library, and for metaphysical learning and 
 good oratory, he bears the bell from most that can be 
 named. I know of none that equal him in these respects, 
 except it be Dr. South, Dr. Stanhope, and Mr. Norris." 
 
 Collier's Essays upon Several Moral Subjects deserve to be 
 better known. Macaulay speaks highly of them, but not 
 higher than they merit. The following extract may be 
 taken as a fair sample of the rest. It is from the second 
 part of the Essays, third edit. 8vo. 1698, p. 97. 
 
 " OF THE ENTERTAINMENT OF BOOKS. 
 
 " The diversions of reading, though they are not always 
 of the strongest kind, yet they generally leave a better effect 
 than the grosser satisfactions of sense ; for if they are 
 well chosen, they neither dull the appetite, nor strain the 
 capacity. On the contrary, they refresh the inclinations, 
 and strengthen the power, and improve under experiment. 
 [No. 6.]
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 77 
 
 And what is best of all, they entertain and perfect at the 
 same time, and convey wisdom and knowledge through 
 pleasure. By reading, a man does as it were antedate his 
 life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past. 
 And this way of running up beyond one's nativity, is much 
 better than Plato's pre-existence ; because here a man 
 knows something of the state, and is the wiser for it, 
 which he is not in the other. 
 
 " In conversing with books, we may chuse our com- 
 pany, and disengage without ceremony or exception. 
 Here we are free from the formalities of custom and 
 respect. We need not undergo the penance of a dull 
 story, from a fop of figure ; but may shake off the haughty, 
 the impertinent, and the vain, at pleasure. Besides, 
 authors, like women, commonly dress when they make a 
 visit. Respect to themselves makes them polish their 
 thoughts, and exert the force of their understanding more 
 than they would, or can do in ordinary conversation : so 
 that the reader has as it were the spirit and essence in a 
 narrow compass, which was drawn off from a much larger 
 proportion of time, labour, and expense. Like an heir, 
 he is born rather than made rich, and comes into a stock 
 of sense, with little or no trouble of his own. Tis true, a 
 fortune in knowledge which descends in this manner, as 
 well as an inherited estate, is too often neglected and 
 squandered away, because we do not consider the difficulty 
 in raising it. 
 
 " Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for 
 age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from 
 being a burthen to ourselves. They help us to forget the 
 crossness of men and things ; compose our cares and our 
 passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we 
 are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who 
 have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design, in their con- 
 versation. However,
 
 78 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 " To be constantly in the wheel, has neither pleasure 
 nor improvement in it. A man may as well expect to 
 grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. 
 Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease 
 than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which 
 makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigour to 
 the mind. Neither ought we to be too implicit or resign- 
 ing to authorities, but to examine before we assent, and 
 preserve our reason in its just liberties. To walk always 
 upon crutches, is the way to lose the use of our limbs. 
 Such an absolute submission keeps us in a perpetual 
 minority, breaks the spirits of the understanding, and 
 lays us open to imposture. 
 
 " But books well managed afford direction and disco- 
 very. They strengthen the organs, and enlarge the pros- 
 pect, and give a more universal insight into things, than 
 can be learned from unlettered observation. He who 
 depends only upon his own experience, has but a few 
 materials to work upon. He is confined to narrow limits 
 both of place and time, and is not fit to draw a large 
 model, and to pronounce upon business which is compli- 
 cated and unusual. There seems to be much the same 
 difference between a man of meer practice, and another of 
 learning, as there is between an empirick and a physician. 
 The first may have a good receipt or two ; and if diseases 
 and patients were very scarce, and all alike, he might do 
 tolerably well. But if you enquire concerning the causes 
 of distempers, the constitution of human bodies, the dan- 
 ger of symptoms, and the methods of cure, upon which 
 the success of medicine depends, he knows little of the 
 matter. On the other side to take measures wholly 
 from books, without looking into men and business, is like 
 travelling in a map, where though countries and cities are 
 well enough distinguished, yet villages and private seats 
 are either overlooked, or too generally marked for a
 
 SCRAPS AKD SKETCHES. 79 
 
 strangor to find. And therefore he who would be a mas- 
 ter, must draw by the life, as well as copy from originals, 
 and joyn theory and experience together." 
 
 A FEW GOLDEN SENTENCES ABOUT BOOKS, 
 SELECTED FROM WITS ACADEMY, 1635. 
 
 " As those precious stones are more to be esteemed, which 
 not onely doe delight the eyes with a yariety of colours, 
 and the more with a sweet scent, but are also effectual! for 
 medicine ; so those bookes are most to be regarded, which 
 have not only the exornations of speech, but alsoe doe free 
 the minde from vices by wholesome precepts." 
 
 " As they that are wise, doe not forthwith drinke of 
 every fountaine, because some bring health, some bring a 
 seemely countenance, and others bring destruction ; so it 
 is not safe to read every booke, because as out of some 
 thou maist sucke a good disposition of minde, so out of 
 others, lust: out of others ambition is drawn." 
 
 As that worke is most laudable wherein the arte coni- 
 meudeth the matter, the matter commendeth the arte; 
 so that is the best booke, wherein the profitablenesse of the 
 argument commendeth the eloquence, and the eloquence of 
 the author commendeth the argument." 
 
 " As gold is tryed by the touch, so good bookes by their 
 worth." 
 
 As in sweete oyles, ointment and wines ; so in bookes, 
 antiquity doth adde estimation and price." 
 
 Bees abstaine from withered flowers ; so we should 
 abstaine from corrupt, vicious, and obscene bookes." 
 
 As in meates we doe not onely looke for pleasantnesse, 
 but for wholesomeness ; so in hearing and reading of 
 authors." 
 
 As we see ourselves in other men's eyes ; so in other
 
 80 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 men's writings wee may see what becometh us, and what 
 becometh us not." 
 
 " As a field too much dunged becometh parched, but if 
 it have no compost, it waxeth barren ; so by moderate 
 reading the wit groweth and is brought to good liking, for 
 the mind is no lesse fatted by reading, than the ground by 
 manuring." 
 
 " As meate eaten greedily, hath neither profit nor plea- 
 sure ; so authors read over too hastily." 
 
 " As little bees from every place bring home that which is 
 profitable; so a student doth except from every author 
 that which suits his purpose." 
 
 " Bees out of divers flowers draw divers juices, but they 
 temper and digest them by their own vertue, otherwise 
 they would make no hony ; so all authors are to be turned 
 over, and what thou readest is to be transposed to thine 
 own use." 
 
 " One tall tree is not wondered at where the whole wood 
 mounteth aloft ; so one sentence is not marked, where all 
 the whole booke is full of wisdom." 
 
 " Out of herbs and plants the best things are to bee 
 extracted ; so the best sayings are to be gathered out of 
 authors." 
 
 CATALOGUE OF OLD BALLADS AMONG THE 
 KING'S PAMPHLETS, BRITISH MUSEUM. 
 
 IT is not generally known, that among the above-named 
 pamphlets are preserved a number of old broadsides printed 
 during the Civil Wars. It is presumed that a list of these 
 will not be unacceptable to the readers of Fly Leaves. 
 The broadsides are all in folio, and the references to the 
 volumes are subjoined.
 
 M'R.U'S AND 8KKTC1IE3. 81 
 
 J. A Merric Ballad called Christ's Kirk on the Green. 
 Imprinted for Patrick Wilson upon the Malt 
 Marcat, anno 1643. (Vol. 3.) 
 
 2. The World is turned Upside Down. To the tune of 
 
 " When the King enjoys his own again." (Dated in 
 MS. 1(J4(J. Vol. 4.) 
 
 3. A Justification of our Brethren of Scotland. " Under 
 
 the Willow Tree." Anno 1674. (Vol.5.) 
 
 4. A New Ballad called a Review of the Rebellion, in 
 
 three parts. To the tune of " When the King 
 injoys his rights againe." (Dated in MS. 1647. 
 Vol. 5.) 
 
 5. Ler Talionis, or London Revived. To the tune of 
 
 " Prethy friend leave off this thinking." (Dated in 
 MS. 1G47. Vol.5.) 
 
 6. The Anarchic. To a rare new tune. 1648. (Vol. 
 
 70 
 
 7. Colonell Rainsborowe's Ghost, or a true relation of 
 
 the manner of his death, who was murthered in 
 his Bed Chamber at Doncaster by three Pontefract 
 Sonldiers, who pretended they had letters from 
 Leiutenant Cromwell, to deliver unto him. To the 
 tune of " My bleeding heart." Printed at London, 
 1648. (Vol. 7.) 
 
 8. A Coffin for King Charles : a Crown for Cromwell : 
 
 a Pit for the People : you may sing this to the tune 
 of " Fain I would." (Dated in MS. 1649. Vol. 8.) 
 
 9. The Character of a Time-serving Saint, or the Hypo- 
 
 crite Anatomized and thorowly Dissected. To the 
 tune of The three cheaters." (Dated in MS. 1652. 
 Vol. 10.) 
 
 10. Strange Predictions, or a Prophecy foretelling what 
 Alteration shall be in the year One-thousand, Six- 
 hundred, Fifty-three. The tune is " Packington's 
 Pound." 1652. (Vol. 10.) 
 o
 
 82 FLY LEAVES; cm, 
 
 1 1 . The Parliament Eouted ; or, Here's a House to be 
 Let. To the tune of " Lucina, or Merrily and 
 Cherrily." (Dated in MS. 1653. Vol. 1 1.) 
 
 12- The True Portraiture of a Prodigious Monster taken 
 in the Mountains of Zardana, the following des- 
 cription whereof was sent to Madrid, Octob. 20, 
 
 1654, and from thence to Don Alonzo de Cardines, 
 Ambassador for the King of Spain, now resident in 
 London. To the tune of " Summer Time." London, 
 
 1655. (Vol. 12.) 
 
 13. The Two Constant Lovers in Scotland, or a Pattern of 
 
 true Love. To a pleasant new tune. (Dated in 
 MS. 1659. Vol. 13.) 
 
 14. Roome for a Justice ; or the Life and Death of Jus- 
 
 tice Waterton. To the tune of " A Sunday bak'd 
 Pudding." (Dated in MS. 1659. Vol. 15.) 
 
 15. The Arraingnment of the Devil for Stealing away 
 
 President Bradshaw. To the tune of < ' Well-a-day, 
 well-a-day." (Dated in MS. 1659. Vol. 15.) 
 
 16. A Proper new Ballad on the Old Parliament. To the 
 
 tune of " Hei ho my honey," &c. (Dated in MS. 
 1659. Vol. 15.) 
 
 17- The Rump roughly, but righteously handled, in a new 
 Ballad. To the tune of " Cock Lorrel." (Dated in 
 MS. 1659. Vol. 15.) 
 
 18. A Hymne to the Gentle Craft ; or Hewson's Lamen- 
 
 tation. To the tune of "The Blind Beggar." (Dated 
 in MS. 1659. Vol. 15.) 
 
 19. The Gang, or the Nine Worthies and Champions, 
 
 Lambert, &c. To the tune of "Robin Hood.'' 
 (Dated in MS. 1659. Vol.15.) 
 
 20 Vanity of Vanities, or Sir Harry Vane's Picture. To 
 the tune of " The Jew's Corant." (Dated in MS, 
 1059. Vol. 15.)
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 83 
 
 21 A New Ballad to an old Tune, "Tom of Bedlam." 
 (Dated in MS. 1659. Vol. 15.) 
 
 22. Chipps of the Old Block ; or Hercules cleansing the 
 
 Augean Stable. To the tune of " The Sword." 1 659. 
 (Vol. 16.) 
 
 23. Roome for Cuckolds. To the tune " Is there no more 
 
 Cuckolds but I." (Dated in MS. 1659. Vol. 16.) 
 
 24. Saint George and the Dragon, Anglice Mercuriu.s 
 
 Poeticus. To the tune of " The Old Souldior of the 
 Queen's." (Dated in MS. 1659. Vol. 16.) 
 
 JfcglrrtA Si 
 
 \ VI. ALEXANDER ROSS. 
 
 ALEXANDER Ross was bora on the 13th of April, 1699, 
 in the parisli of Kincardine O'Neill, Aberdeenshire ; and 
 passed through a regular course of study at Marischal 
 College, where he took his degree of A.M., in the year 
 1J18. In 1726 he was appointed schoolmaster of Lochlee, 
 in the county of Angus ; and in this secluded and romantic 
 spot he continued in the humble discharge of that office 
 during the long period of fifty-six years. He died on the 
 20th of May, 1784, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. 
 
 Ross's principal work, Ihlennrt, or the Fortunate Shep- 
 herdess, a pastoral tale, was first published at Aberdeen, 
 1768, 8vo., and has passed through several editions. To 
 tlio latest edition, printed at Dundee, 1812, small 8ro., 
 there is prefixed a minute and interesting account of the 
 author's life, by his grandson, the Rev. Alexander Thom- 
 son, Minister of Lenthrathen. It is to be regretted, 
 however that Ross's Miscellaneous Poems had not been 
 the volume.
 
 84 FLY LEAVES; OE 
 
 ftintuirials nf dMfr 
 
 THE following interesting "Autobiographies" of the 
 Old London Crosses, are extracted from Henry Peacham's 
 Dialogue between the Crosse in Cheap and Charing Cross, 
 comforting each other, as fearing their fall in these uncertaine 
 times, four leaves, 4to. 1641. 
 
 "CHARING CROSS. I am made all of white marble 
 (which is not perceived of every one) and so cemented 
 with mortar made of the purest lime, Callis sand, whites 
 of eggs and the strongest wort, that I dene all hatchets and 
 hammers whatsoever. In King Henry the Eighth's daies 
 I was begged, and should have been degraded for that I 
 had : Then in Edward the Sixt, when Somerset-house 
 was building, I was in danger ; after that, in the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth, one of her footmen had like to have run 
 away with me ; but the greatest danger of all I was in, 
 when I quak'd for fear, was in the time of King James, 
 for I was eight times begged : part of me was bespoken 
 to make a kitchen chimney for a chiefe constable in Shore- 
 ditch ; an inn-keeper in Holborne had bargained for as 
 much of me as would make two troughes, one to stand under 
 a pumpe to water his guests' horses, and the other to give 
 his swine their meate in ; the rest of my poore carcase 
 should have been carried I know not whither to the re- 
 paire of a decayed stone bridge (as I was told) on the top 
 of Harrow-hill. Our royall forefather and founder, King 
 Edward the First you know, built our sister crosses, Liu- 
 colne, Granthame, Woburne, Northampton, Stonie-Strat- 
 t'ord, Dunstable, Saint Albanes, and ourselves here in 
 London, in the 21st yeareof his raigne, in the yeare 12JS9." 
 
 "CHEAPSIDE CROSS. After this most valiant and 
 excellent king had built me in forme, answerable in 
 beauty and proportion to the rest, I fell to decay, at 
 which time one John Hatherly, maior of London, having 
 first obtained a licence of King Henry the Sixt, anno 1441, 
 I was repaired in a beautiful manner. John Fisher, a 
 mercer, after that gave 600 markes to my new erecting or 
 building, which was finished anno 1484, and after in the 
 second yeare of Henry the Eighth, I was gilded over against 
 the commiiig in of Charles the Fift Emperor, and newly then 
 gilded against the coronation of King Edward the Sixt, 
 and gilded agaiiie anno 1554, against the coronation of
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. Jt.i 
 
 King Philip. Lord, how often havr> I lx*n presented by 
 juries of tho quest for incombranco of the street, aud hin- 
 dring of cartes and carriages, yet I have kept my standing ; 
 1 shall never forget how upon the 2 1st of June, anno 1581, 
 my lower statues were in the night with ropes pulled and 
 rent down, as in the resurrection of Christ the image of 
 the Virgin Mary, rxiward the Confessor, and the rest. 
 Then arose many divisions and new sects formerly unheard 
 of, as Martin Marprelate, ahat Penrie, Browne, and sun- 
 dry others, as the chronicle will inform you. My crosse 
 should have been taken quite away, and a Piramis errected 
 in the place, but Queen Elizabeth (that queen of blessed 
 memory) commanded some of her privie councell, in her 
 Majesties name, to write unto Sir Nicholas Moseley, then 
 Maior, to have me againe repaired with a crosse ; yet for 
 all this I stood bare for a yeare or two after: Her High- 
 ness being very angry, sent expresse word she would not 
 endure their contempt, but expressly commanded forthwith 
 the cross should be set up, and sent a strict command to 
 Sir William Rider, Lord Maior, and bade him to respect 
 my antiquity ; for that is the ancient ensigne of Christi- 
 anity, &c. This letter was dated December 24, anno 1 600. 
 Last of all I was marvellously beautified and adorned 
 against the comming in of King James, and fenced about 
 with sharp pointed barres of iron, against the rude and 
 villainous hands of such as upon condition as they might 
 have the pulling me downe, would be bound to rifle all 
 Cheapside- 
 
 'Bililingrajitjiral Jlntirrs. 
 
 KRAOMENTA AUREA; OH, A COLLECTION OF ALL TIIK 
 INCOMPARABLE PIECES WRITTEN IIY SIR JOHN SUCK- 
 US.;. 8vo. II. Mosely, IfwH. 
 
 This edition contains the Dedication by the publisher 
 ill. M,.sfly) to Lady Suuthcot; which is wanting in the 
 oarlii-r editions. It is also the most complete, having 
 _''JJ''rally appended, "His late Remains," pub. 1659.
 
 86 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 BARBA'S ART OF METALS, THEIR GENERATION AND 
 CONCOMITANTS; TRANSLATED IN 1669 BY EDWARD 
 EARL OF SANDWICH. 12mo. Printed for S. Mearne, 
 Bookbinder to the King's Majestie, 1674. 
 Barba was a curate at Potosi, in Peru, and this work, 
 
 which is very uncommon, contains instructions for the 
 
 refining of silver, &c., by quicksilver. 
 
 THE HISTORIE OF JUDITH. ENGLISHED BY THOMAS 
 HUDSON, FROM THE FRENCH OF Du BARTAS. 8vo. 
 Edinburgh, 1584. 
 
 Dedicated by command to James VI. In a list of the 
 king's household, " Mekill Thomas Hudsone " appears, 
 with three others of the same name, as Violaris. The 
 term " mekill," or large, may apply to his person. He 
 long continued at the Scottish court. On the 5th of June, 
 1586, he was appointed " Maister of His Hienes' Chappell 
 Royall." (See note in Alexander Montgomery's Poems, 
 p. 302, Edinburgh, 1821, 8vo.) Hudson's version of 
 Judith was afterwards reprinted at London in 1608, and 
 is attached to the subsequent editions of Sylvester's popu- 
 lar translation of Du Bartas, his Divine Weeks and Dayes. 
 
 spramras nf lnrintt fnrtri}- 
 
 SATIRICAL POEM ON BOOKSELLERS. 
 
 THE bookseller, for ready cash will sel 
 
 For as much profit as other traders will ; 
 
 But then you must take special care and look, 
 
 You no new title have to an old booke, 
 
 For they new title-pages often paste 
 
 Unto a book, which purposely is placed, 
 
 Setting it forth to be th' Second Edition, 
 
 Or Third, or Fourth, with 'mendments and addition. 
 
 But when you come for to peruse and look, 
 
 You will not find one word in all the book, 
 
 Put either in or out, no, nor amended, 
 
 For that's a thing which never was intended
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. I 
 
 Hy th* author ; but when a book begins to fail 
 
 This is their trick to quicken up the sale. 
 
 From all the old bookes they have, they then with speed 
 
 And if a New Edition comes indeed, 
 
 The title-pages oft pluck out and tear, 
 
 And new ones in their places fixed are, 
 
 Then have the confidence to put to sale, 
 
 Such bookes for new, they know are old and stale ; 
 
 And the buyer thus, if he does not descry, 
 
 Will have a cheat put on him purposely. 
 
 And when an author's book doth bravely sell, 
 
 And some deceased authors' works do well, 
 
 These traders then to gain a book a fame, 
 
 Will set it forth under such author's name ; 
 
 Prefixing an epistle to such tract, 
 
 Declaring to the reader, matter of fact, 
 
 How and by whom, the same was brought to light, 
 
 And who hath had the view thereof, and sight ; 
 
 How worthy the same book is of the press, 
 
 And reasons why its published in such dress, 
 
 With bantering stuff to make the copy sell, 
 
 Which fallacies they think, do wondrous well. 
 
 Such Bibliopolists are much to blame, 
 
 When a good author's dead, t* abuse his name ; 
 
 These tricks they play, and act without controul, 
 
 For money they'll appignorate their soul. 
 
 If you vendible books cull out, by such 
 
 You may suppose you cannot then lose much ; 
 
 But you're deceived, for if you come to try 
 
 And put them off, you'll find them very sine, 
 
 And nice ; they'll say, tho' at first coming forth, 
 
 Such books sold well, yet now they're little worth ; 
 
 So money to disburse they have no mind, 
 
 Cause when to get it in they do not find : 
 
 But after much ado, you may contrive 
 
 For twenty pounds laid out to get in five, 
 
 And this they'll give you merely for to show 
 
 What favour and respect they have for you. 
 
 If you'll exchange for other books, say they, 
 
 We can afford you then some better pay ; 
 
 Ten pounds in truck they will pretend is given, 
 
 Whereas the bookes you get will not yeild seven : 
 
 If to be bookly given be your fate, 
 
 You'd need to have a plentiful estate,
 
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 For when the itch of buying books grows strong, 
 
 Then you a prey to th' Bookseller e'er long 
 
 Become ; he'll send you bookes and trust so much, 
 
 Until you fail in keeping touch : 
 
 Then for his money he will call amain, 
 
 And if two parts you pay, he gets good gain, 
 
 His books are so high priced ; but all or none, 
 
 That is the only string he plays upon ; 
 
 He'll take no books again in part, curse ! 
 
 He must have ready money in his purse ; 
 
 And thus by him you shall be kept in awe, 
 
 By constant dunning, and threats of the law. 
 
 And if an author to the Bookseller bring 
 
 A copy for the press, altho' the thing 
 
 He knows will sell, yet he'll pretend and say, 
 
 Paper is dear, and trading does decay, 
 
 Money is scarce, and licensing is dear ; 
 
 So if he buy the copy, he's in fear 
 
 To lose by the bargain ; yet at length he'll come, 
 
 And condescend to give you some small sum, 
 
 In part of which, a parcel you must have 
 
 Of books, at his own price, and thus you starve 
 
 Yourself, beating your brains, and taking pains, 
 
 And this same greedy leech sucks up the gains ; 
 
 He's so in love with money, that he'd starve 
 
 Author and Printer too : if he can serve 
 
 But his own ends, and all the profit get, 
 
 He does not care how meanly they do sit : 
 
 Money's the she he courts, the only Miss, 
 
 In her does centre all his happiness. 
 
 [From Pecunice Obediunt Omnia : Money Masters all 
 Things, or Satyricall Poems shewing the Power and In- 
 fluence of Money over all Men of what Profession or Trade 
 soever they be, 8vo. Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of 
 London and Westminster, " "
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 89 
 
 THE AUTHOR or THE WHOLE DUTY OP MAN. This 
 celebrated work has been attributed to Dr. Chappell, 
 Bishop of Cork and Ross; the manuscript, in his hand- 
 writing, having been transmitted by Dr. Sterne to Dr. 
 Fell, dean of Christ Church, to publish ; which having 
 been read by him before-hand to his pupils, it occasioned 
 several to say, that the said Dr. Sterne wax the author ; as 
 others said, because a copy of the same manuscript was 
 fonnd in her study after her death, that iMdy Packington 
 wrote it. Other prelates, (Bancroft and Frewen,) and 
 many inferior persons have been named as the au- 
 thor. But see Dr. Lort's Enquiry concerning the author, 
 or rather who was not the author, of the Whole Duty of 
 Man. Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. ii., p. 597-604. 
 
 THE LIBRARIES OP MART QUEEN OP SCOTS, AND 
 ELIZABETH. The catalogue of the library of Mary Queen 
 of Scots, as delivered up to her son, James the Sixth, in 
 15/8, is very characteristic of her elegant studies; the 
 volumes chiefly consist of French authors and French 
 translations, a variety of chronicles, several romances, a 
 few Italian writers, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ariosto, and 
 her favourite poets Alain Chartier, Ronsard, and Marot. 
 This library forms a striking contrast with that of Eliza- 
 beth of England, which was visited in 1598, by Hentzner, 
 the German traveller. The shelves at Whitehall displayed 
 a more classical array; the collection consisted of Greek, 
 Latin, as well as Italian and French books. 
 
 KING JAMES'S KMGHTS. According to the author of a 
 Perfect Collection or Catalogue of all Knights Batchelours 
 made by King James since his coming to the crown of Eng- 
 land, 1660, James the First created 2,323 Knights, of 
 whom 900 were made the first year of his reign. " If," 
 says the editor, " you observe the history of those days, 
 you will find many knighted, who, in the time of the late 
 queen, had shewed small affection to that king of peace. 
 But he was wise, and best knew how to make op a breach." 
 
 The author of this curious compilation was "John 
 Philipot, Somerset Herald." A copy formerly belonging 
 to Oldys, is in the library of the Royal Institution. 
 
 DRAYTON'S GRAVE. Heylin informs us, that Drayton 
 the poet, was not buried in the south isle of Westminster
 
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 Abbey, near Spenser, where his monument is now to be 
 seen; but under the north wall, near a little door which 
 opens to one of the prcbundai houses. This Ileylin 
 affirms from his own knowledge, he being invited to 
 Drayton's funeral. Appeal of Injured Innocence, page 42, 
 part ii., subjoined to Fuller's Church History, edit. 1655. 
 
 ADMONITION TO SPENDTHRIFTS. On the fly-leaf of an 
 old volume printed in 1690, occurs the following excellent 
 precept. 
 
 " Spend not, nor spare too much ; be this thy case, 
 Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare ; 
 He that spends more, may want and so complain, 
 But he spends best that spares to spend again." 
 
 THE FELTON LETTER. The pedigree of the curious 
 document found in the hat of John Felton, after the 
 murder of the Duke of Buckingham, is clearly made out. 
 Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, who had the 
 first possession of it, was one of the persons before whom 
 the murderer was examined at Portsmouth. His daughter 
 married Sir Richard Browne, and the learned and philo- 
 sophic Mr. John Evelyn, married the only daughter of Sir 
 llichard Browne. Lady Evelyn the widow of his de- 
 scendant, presented it to Mr. Upcott. At the sale of Mr. 
 Upcott's effects this precious document was missing. Its 
 whereabouts, however, is guessed at, and probably, before 
 long, it will be offered to public competition.
 
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 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 littran;, ^iblingrapfjiral, anil 
 
 ORATOR HENLEY, 
 THE HERO OF THE GILT TUB. 
 
 AMONG the many " odd characters" of the last century 
 and they were not few the name of Orator Henley holds 
 a conspicuous place. This singular man, John Henley, 
 was born at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, in 1691, of 
 which place his father and grandfather were both vicar*. 
 Having passed his studies at Cambridge, he returned to 
 his native place ; and, from an assistant, became master 
 of the school there, which he raised from an obscure to a 
 flourishing state. Here he obtained much applause, from 
 his mode of improving elocution, by public orations, aud 
 repeating passages from the classics, every morning and 
 evening. He likewise commenced here his Universal 
 Grammar, in which he completed " ten languages, with 
 a proper introduction to every tongue." The eccentricity 
 of his mind did not, however, suffer him to remain long 
 in this state of retirement. After having obtained his 
 degree of M.A., he formed a speedy resolution of visiting 
 Londun ; and, as he say.-, l.-ti the lk-ld> and swains of 
 Arcadia to visit the great city." 
 [No 7.]
 
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 "When he was at Cambridge," says Warburton, "he 
 began to be uneasy ; for it shocked him to find he was 
 commanded to believe against his own judgment in points of 
 religion, philosophy, &c. ; for, his genius leading him 
 freely to dispute all propositions, and call all points to 
 account, he was impatient under these fetters of the free- 
 born mind." When he was admitted into priest's orders, 
 he thought the examination so short and superficial, that 
 he considered it not necessary to conform to the Christian 
 religion, in order either to be a deacon or priest. 
 
 With these quixotic sentiments he came to town ; and 
 after having for some years been a writer for the book- 
 sellers, he had an ambition to be so for ministers of state. 
 The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are 
 told, " was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained 
 of him, because he was not qualified to be a complete spaniel.' 
 However, he offered the service of his pen to two great 
 men, of opinions and interests directly opposite ; by both 
 of whom being rejected, he set up a new project, and 
 styled himself the restorer of ancient eloquence. He imme- 
 diately advertized, that he should hold forth, publicly, two 
 days in the week, and hired for this purpose, a large 
 room, over the market-house, in Newport Market, which 
 he called the oratory. The pulpit in which he preached (?) 
 was covered with velvet, and adorned with gold. It is 
 to this Pope alludes in the first couplet of his second book 
 of the Dunciad : 
 
 " High on a gorgeous seat, that far out -shone 
 HENLEY'S gilt tub ." 
 
 He afterwards removed the oratory to the neighbour- 
 hood of Clare Market, where he exhibited an altar, and 
 placed over it this extraordinary inscription, " The Pri- 
 mitive Eucharist." 
 
 Henley, in early life, had been a candidate for the lecture- 
 ship of Bloomsbury parish, but was rejected by the con-
 
 SCRAPS AHD SKETCHES. 93 
 
 ({rogation, because he threw himself about too much in 
 the pulpit. Rushing into a room where the principal 
 parishioners were assembled, he thus addressed them 
 " Blockheads ! are you qualified to judge of the degree of 
 action necessary for a preacher of God's word? Were 
 you able to read, or had you sufficient sense, you sorry- 
 knaves, to understand the renowned orator of antiquity, 
 he would tell you, almost the only requisite of a public 
 speaker was action ! action ! action ! but I despise and 
 defy you provoco ad populwn the public shall decide 
 between us." He therefore published his " sermon," to 
 show their ill-taste in rejecting him ; and when he held 
 forth in Clare Market, if one of his Bloomsbury friends 
 ventured into the room, he could not resist the opportu- 
 nity of having a fling at him. With a triumphant look 
 at the crowds by whom he was surrounded, he would fix 
 his eyes upon him and exclaim, " You see, sir, all man- 
 kind are not of your opinion. There are, you perceive, a 
 few sensible people in the world, who consider me not 
 wholly unqualified for the office I have undertaken." 
 Pope says of him, " that he would have been worthy of 
 ancient Egypt a decent priest where monkeys were the 
 gods." lie lectured upon divinity on Sundays, and de 
 omnibus rebus on Wednesdays and Fridays. 
 
 The following are specimens of his advertisements, 
 issued during the year 1/29: "At the Oratory, in 
 Newport Market, to-morrow, at half an hour after ten, 
 the sermon will be on the Witch of Endor. At half an 
 hour after five, the theological lecture will be on the con- 
 version and original of the Scottish nation, and of the 
 1'icts and Caledonians, St. Andrew's relics and panegyric, 
 and the character and mission of the Apostles. On Wed- 
 nesday, at six, or near the matter, take your chance, will 
 be a medley oration on the history, merits, and praise of 
 confusion and of confounders, in the road, and out of the 
 way. On Friday will be that of Dr. Faustus and Fortu-
 
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 natus, and Conjuration. After each, the ' Chimes of the 
 Times,' No. 23 and 24." 
 
 The following advertisement was issued for Sunday, 
 September 28th, 1?29 :- " At the Oratory, the corner of 
 Lincoln's Inn Fields, near Clare Market, to-morrow, at 
 half an hour after ten ; 1st. The postil will be on the 
 turning of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt. 2nd. The 
 sermon will be on the necessary power and attractive force 
 which religion gives the spirit of a man with God and 
 good spirits. At five o'clock ; 1st. The postil will be on 
 this point in what language our Saviour will speak the 
 last sentence on mankind. 2nd. The lecture will be on 
 Jesus Christ's sitting at the right hand of God, and where 
 that is : the honours and lustre of his inauguration : the 
 learning, piety, and criticism of that glorious article. 
 
 " The Monday's orations will shortly be resumed. On 
 Wednesday the oration will be on the skits of the fashions, 
 or a live gallery of flaming pictures in all ages, ruffs, 
 muffs, puffs manifold ; shoes, wedding-shoes, two-shoes, 
 slip-shoes, heels, clocks, pantofles, buskins, pantaloons, 
 garters, shoulder-knots, periwigs, head-dresses, modesties, 
 tuckers, farthingales, corkins, minnikins, slammakins, 
 ruffles, round-robins, toilet fans, patches ; dame, forsooth, 
 madam, my lady the wit and beauty of my grannum ; 
 Winifred, Joan, Bridget, compared with our Winny, 
 Jenny, and Biddy ; fine ladies and pretty gentlewomen ; 
 being a general view of the beau monde, from before Noah's 
 flood to the year 1729. On Friday will be something 
 better than last Tuesday. After each, a bob at the 
 times." 
 
 At the beginning of this year (1729) a presentment 
 was made by the grand jury of Westminster, against the 
 notorious John Henley. The orator, however, having 
 prudently obtained a licence under the act of toleration, 
 boldly maintained his post, and continued his accustomed 
 mode of lecturing, in open defiance of his enemies. The
 
 SCRAPS ASD SKETCHES. 95 
 
 spirit of Henley may be appreciated from his next adver- 
 tisement, after the presentment of the grand jury had 
 been published in the Gazette : " At the Oratory in New- 
 port Market, this evening, will be an oration on Elisha's 
 bears, and the whole criticism and nature of bear hun- 
 ting, and of bear gardens, to explain the text, and avoid 
 bears, whether the bears in the text were one and-twenty, 
 (the number of the jury,) and who was to speak for them ? 
 and all the bear-play, rough and smooth." 
 
 The audience of the Oratory was generally composed of 
 the lowest orders of the people. Henley once collected 
 together an infinite number of shoemakers, under the idea 
 of teaching them a speedy way of making shoes, which he 
 proved from the pulpit to be by cutting off the feet of 
 ready made boots. 
 
 On one occasion he parodied the text of a sermon, 
 preached on the 30th of January, 1730, by Dr. Croxall, 
 before the Commons. The text ran thus : " Take away 
 the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be 
 established in righteousness." The sermon gave so much 
 offence to the Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, that he pre- 
 vented the thanks of the house being presented to the 
 preacher. Of this circumstance Henley availed himself 
 as a public matter, and the following parody appeared aa 
 his motto for the next day : 
 
 " Away with the wicked before the King, 
 
 And away with the wicked behind him ; 
 
 His throne it will bless 
 
 With righteousness, 
 
 And we shall know where to find him." 
 As a further specimen of his treatment of theological 
 subjects, the reader will be amused with the following 
 rhapsody : 
 
 < " JEREMIAH xvi., 16. 
 
 " I will send for many f.sl.-r>, >uitli the Lord, and
 
 96 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 they shall fish them : and after will I send for many hun- 
 ters, and they shall hunt." 
 
 " The former part of this text seems, as scripture is 
 written for our admonition, on -whom the ends of the 
 world are come, (i. e., an end of all we have in the world,) 
 to relate to the DUTCH, who are to be fished by us accord- 
 ing to ACT OF PARLIAMENT : for the word HERRINGS in 
 the ACT has a FIGURATIVE MEANING, as well as a LITERAL 
 SENSE, and by a metaphor means DUTCHMEN, who are 
 
 the GREATEST STEALERS of HERRINGS in the WORLD ; SO 
 
 that the drift of the statute is, that we are TO FISH FOR 
 DUTCHMEN and CATCH THEM, either by NETS OR FISHING 
 RODS, in return for their repeated CATCHING OF ENGLISH- 
 MEN, then transport them in some of JONATHAN FOR- 
 WARD'S CLOSE LIGHTERS, and sell them in the WEST 
 INDIES, to repair the loss which our SOUTH SEA COMPANY 
 endure by the SPANIARDS denying them the ASSIENTO or 
 sale of NEGROES. According to which interpretation, 
 this prediction of Jeremiah tends to clear up many diffi- 
 culties relating to what the Mynheers owe to this nation 
 from Queen Elizabeth until this day. This is a much 
 better use and intent of prophecy, than MY GOOD LORD 
 OF LONDON was so GOOD as to give us in HIS BOOK, with 
 the GOLDEN cup at the end of it : and it is a LIGHT 
 SHINING in a DARK PLACE, a Bishop's understanding." 
 
 In the same whimsical style the orator goes on with 
 his discourse, confounding the meaning of the prophecy 
 throughout his text. 
 
 Henley was a public lecturer for nearly thirty years. 
 In one of his orations during the year of the rebellion in 
 Scotland, he uttered some expressions which were thought 
 seditious, and he was cited before the Privy Council. He 
 was asked why he turned the exertions of good citizens 
 into ridicule, when they were endeavouring to preserve 
 the peace of the empire, and especially why tie tried to 
 inflame the minds of the people, by his satires against
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 97 
 
 Archbishop Herring ? It should be remembered that the 
 Archbishop, in his zeal for the House of Hanover, had 
 proposed, or actually commenced arming the clergy, and 
 Henley's reply excited great laughter. " I thought there 
 was no great harm, my Lords," said he, " in cracking a 
 joke upon a red Herring ! " 
 
 In reply to several questions, and why he meddled with 
 affairs of state at all, he replied to the Earl of Chester- 
 field, " My Lords, I must live." The Earl rejoined, " I 
 see no kind of reason for that ;" at which the other lords 
 were observed to laugh. Henley appeared irritated, and 
 then said " That is a very good thing, my Lord, but it 
 has been said before." He was detained in custody for a 
 few days, and then dismissed as an impudent fellow, with- 
 out sufficient reason in him to be dangerous. 
 
 This extraordinary and eccentric character finished his 
 earthly career on the 14th of October, 1756. Samuel 
 Ireland's character of him, summed up in few words, is a 
 very just one. " He possessed a considerable share of 
 learning and knowledge ; but appears to have been, from 
 some latent motives, perhaps disappointment, carried far 
 beyond the dictates of good sense, religion, or morality, 
 and to have contributed more by his exhibitions to the 
 amusement of the vulgar and prophane, than to the judi- 
 cious and well informed of his time." 
 
 A LEAF FROM AN OLD ACCOUNT BOOK. 
 
 THK following curious items are from the Account Book 
 of Colonel Robert Walpole, (the grandfather of Horace 
 Walpole) ard relate to his expenses on his annual visits 
 to London when fulfilling his parliamentary duties. 
 
 ITEMS OF EXPENSE. j6 . d. 
 
 "Oct. 22, 1690. My passage to London [from 
 Houghton] and my expenses on 
 ye road . . . .378
 
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 t. d. 
 
 Oct. 23. My dinner and morning's drop . 2 6 
 Nottingham Ale . .016 
 
 24. My dinner . .016 
 Coach hire .026 
 Spent . . . .009 
 A writing booke . .006 
 
 25. Paid my boy for a week's board 
 
 from this day . .0 3 6 
 
 J}5. Paid for votes and ye King's 
 
 speech, and addresses from ye 
 
 beginning . . * . 
 
 Paid for a black pencill 
 Paid for a purse and booke 
 
 26. Paid for a paire of shoes 
 
 Lambeth ale 
 
 Coffee house, and paid ye boy 
 27. Coach hire 
 Dinner . 
 
 Rom Solis 
 
 ii 
 
 Nov. 22. Paid for 3 hatts for my sons . 1 
 Jan. 1, 1691. A glass of essence . . 
 
 26. Paid Mr. Stenton for a new hilt 
 
 and fixing my rapier . 150 
 
 Feb. 24. Penny post letters . .006 
 
 Joan's bill for oysters and 2 dinners 040 
 
 29. Lent Mr. Flatman . .016 
 
 Paid for 2 linkes . . 006 
 
 Given Bob . .050 
 
 To Mrs. Hackwell's maid . 026 
 
 Nov. 12. Paid for my brother Boyle's wig .015 
 
 Paid for 3 other wigs . . 2 12 6 
 
 1 5. Paid for carriage of hares, &c. from 
 
 Bishopsgate, and ye porter .030 
 18. Given at Mr. Folke's his chris- 
 tening . H 4
 
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 . d. 
 
 Dec. 3. Paid for Nottingham ale . .036 
 
 4. Lent Bob . .050 
 
 10. Paid Jack, besides the Nottingham 
 
 . 
 
 20. Paid for Mr. Pepys' booke . ft 
 29. Paid Jack for ale . . 
 
 Jan. 4, 1692. Given Mr. Negus his man .026 
 Feb. 20. Coach hire . 010 
 
 Mar. [-2. Paid for a bottle of uskybath 030 
 
 13. Giveu Bab and Horace . 050 
 
 27. A bottle of wine . . .016" 
 
 The frequency of the items for ale may surprise some 
 of our readers, but a jug of "good old ale" was not 
 despised, even by the court ladies of this period. Bob, 
 whose name often appears as receiving five shillings, was 
 afterwards the prime minister! " Mr. Pepys' book" was 
 the gossiping secretary's Memoir* of the Royal Navy, 
 published in 1690. 
 
 No. VII. JOHN CLELAND. 
 
 Tais gentleman was the son of Colonel Cleland, the well 
 known friend of Pope. He was born in the year 1711, 
 and in 1722 was admitted a scholar of Westminster 
 School. Upon his leaving that seminary of learning, he 
 joined the service of the East India Company, and about 
 1736 was at their settlement at Bombay. He quitted 
 this situation rather precipitately, and spent some years 
 in different parts of Europe. In 17*>5, he produced a 
 clever Essay entitled, The way to thing* by words, and to 
 words by things. This was followed in 1768, by Specimens
 
 100 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 of an Ethnological Vocabulary, or Essay by means of the 
 Analitic method, to retrieve the ancient Celtic, etc. "In 
 these curious publications," observes Mr. Nichols, (Anec- 
 dotes of Bowyer, p. 366) " Mr. Cleland has displayed a 
 large fund of ingenuity and erudition, not unworthy the 
 education he received in Westminster School, where he 
 was cotemporary with Earl Mansfield." 
 
 The subject of this notice was the author of the Memoirs 
 of a Coxcomb, and the well known immoral romance, en- 
 titled Fanny Hill ; or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. 
 The latter notorious book was sold to Griffiths the book- 
 seller, for twenty guineas, though its sale has produced as 
 many thousands. It was one of Griffiths's first adven- 
 tures in trade, and he had the assurance, as editor of the 
 Monthly Review, to recommend it to the public as a rival 
 to Tom Jones, in one of the early numbers of that work. 
 He was, however, apprehended under a general warrant 
 as the publisher ; but having contrived to remove the 
 copies out of his house by the back door in Paternoster 
 Row, while the officer was gone to get the warrant back- 
 ed by the Lord Mayor, he escaped the punishment which 
 otherwise would have befallen him. Cleland was called 
 before the Privy Council, and having pleaded poverty as 
 the cause of his offence, the Earl of Grenville procured 
 him a pension of 100 a year, on condition that he should 
 abstain from such kind of writing for the future. He 
 appears to have lived upon this pension iu a private man- 
 ner in London, where he died January 23, 1789, at an 
 advanced age. 
 
 Bishop South truly observes, " He who has vented a 
 pernicious doctrine, or published an ill book, must know 
 that his guilt and his life end together. No ! Such an 
 one- being dead, yet speaketh. He sins in his very 
 grave ; corrupts others while he is rotting himself ; and 
 has a growing account in the other world, after he has 
 paid nature's last debt in this ; and, in a word, quits
 
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 this life lite a man carried off by the plague, who, though 
 he dies himself, does execution upon others by a surviving 
 infection." 
 
 ftaurials nf 4Mb Ionium. 
 
 ST. JAMES'S SQUARE. The author of A Tour through tlif 
 Island of Great Britain (Daniel Defoe), second edition, 
 l?38i gives us the following particulars of this aristocratic 
 locality: "The alterations lately made in St. James's 
 Square are entitled to our particular notice. It used to 
 be in a very ruinous condition, considering the noble houses 
 in it, which are inhabited by the first quality. But now 
 it is finely pared all over with Heading-ttone ; a curious 
 oval bason full of water, surrounded with iron rails on a 
 dwarf wall, is placed in the middle, mostly 7 feet deep 
 and 1 50 diameter. In the centre is a pedestal about 1 5 
 feet square, designed for a statue of King William III. 
 The iron rails are octagonal, and at each angle without 
 the rails, is a stone pillar about 9 feet high, and a lamp 
 on the top. The gravel walk within the rails is about 26 
 feet broad from each angle to the margin of the basin. 
 It was done at the expence of the inhabitants by virtue of 
 an act of Parliament. The house that once belonged to 
 the Duke of Onnond, and since to the Duke of Chandos, is 
 pulled down and makes three noble ones, besides fine 
 stables and coach-houses behind, and two or three more good 
 houses in the street leading to St. James's Church. This 
 noble square wants nothing but to have the lower part of 
 it, near Pall Mall, built of a piece with the rest, and the 
 designed statue to be erected in the middle of the basin. 
 
 "His royal highness the Prince of Wales has taken 
 the Duke of Norfolk's house, and another adjoining to it, 
 which are now (October, 1737) actually repairing for his 
 town residence; Carlton-House being too small for that 
 purpose." 
 
 OLD BURLINGTON STREET. The large house on the left 
 hand from Burlington Garden was built on a design of the 
 Karl of that title, for Marshal Wade. The larger, at the 
 corner fronting the garden, was the residence of Charles 
 and the celebrated Catherine, Duke and Duchess of 
 Qneensbury. On their deaths it was purchased and im- 
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 THE EXTENSION OF LONDON. The author of the Tour 
 just quoted, gives us many curious and interesting details 
 of the progress of London in the last century. He thus 
 expresses himself in one passage: "That Westminster is 
 in a fairway to shake hands with Chelsea, as St. Giles's 
 is with Marybone: and Great Russel-Street by Montague- 
 House, with Tottenham-Court, is very evident : and yet 
 all these put together, may still be called London. 
 Whither will this monstrous city then extend? and whers 
 must a circumvallation or communication line of it be 
 placed?" 
 
 t&Mngrapjiiral 
 
 FREE TRADE; OR THE MEANS TO MAKE TRADE FLOU- 
 
 RISH; WHEREIN THE CAUSES OF THE DECAY OF 
 
 TRADE IN THIS KINGDOM ARE DISCOVERED, AND THE 
 REMEDIES ALSO TO REMOVE THE SAME ARE REPRE- 
 
 SENTED. BY E. MlSSELDEN, OF HACKKEY, MERCHANT, 
 
 London: 4to. 1622. 
 
 As one special cause, as well as effect, of the decay of 
 trade, this author assigns the want of money ; which want 
 he in a great measure accounts for "by the excess of the 
 kingdom in their consumption of foreign commodities, such 
 as the wines of Spain, France, of the Rhine, the Levant, 
 and the Islands, the raisins of Spain, the coriuts of the 
 Levant, the lawns and cambricks of Haunault and the 
 Netherlands, the silks of Italy," &c. 
 
 AN ANSWER TO A TREATISE OF FREE TRADE LATELY 
 PUBLISHED. BY GERARD MALYNES, MERCHANT. 
 London: 12mo. 1622. 
 
 Oldys in his British Librarian, p. 96, has given a full 
 account of this book. It seems that this author had pub- 
 lished a tract as early as 1601, entitled A Treatise of the 
 Canker of England's Commonwealth, which was chiefly 
 about exchange, and contained a passage relative to the 
 cloth trade, that drew forth the reflections of Misselden ; 
 on which occasion came forth the above answer. Missel- 
 den, had, it appears, omitted to handle the mystery of 
 exchange between us and other nations ; his only scope 
 being to have the monies of the kingdom enhanced in price,
 
 . MM -M> -KI : 103 
 
 and the foreign coins inconveniently made current in the 
 realm at high rates. 
 
 lilt. I'lUt'I.K OF COMMKHCK; OH nil. H.vl.l. V.M I. OP 
 
 J'nvDK: A Ki.i'i.v TO MALYMES. By E. MISSELDKN. 
 
 4to. 1 -:;. 
 
 Malynes had affirmed "that the makers of cloth beyond 
 the seas cannot make their cloth without our English 
 wool;" which was not true, and exposed him to this 
 reply. 
 
 iRiiriput 
 
 MS. consisting of 69 leaves of vellum, written at 
 the commencement of the seventeenth century. The 
 volume was formerly in Mr. Hn^ht'g possession, and has 
 lately been printed by the late Mr. Stokes of Colchester. 
 The history of the MS. before it came into Mr. Bright'* 
 hands is quite unknown. It contains 106 little poems, 
 chiefly sonnets, in the nsual form of fourteen lines, the 
 author or authors of which are entirely unknown. 
 
 Up, slu. 
 
 sluggish soule, awake! slumber no more! 
 'his is no time to sleepe in sin secure ; 
 If once the bridegrome passe, and shutte the dore, 
 u trance will be gain'd thou maist bee sure. 
 Now thou art up, fill up thy lamp with oile, 
 Haste thee and light it at the tire of Love: 
 Watch and attend! what is a little toile 
 
 To gaine thee entrance to the joies above ? 
 Go, meete the bridegrome with low reverence ; 
 Humbly with patience waite upon his grace ; 
 Follow his steppes with love and diligence : 
 
 Leave all for him, and only him embrace. 
 So shalt thou enter with him into r 
 And at his heavenlie table sit and feast. 
 
 What though I did possess the greatest wealth, 
 Tli-nigh 1 u-.T" clad with honour and a crowne, 
 
 \n.| all my few and trill .layos had health, 
 Though no <-alamitie did pluck me downe;
 
 104 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 What if in sensuall pleasures I did swym, 
 Which mortal men account their cheefest bliss ; 
 
 What good shal't be for me when death with him 
 Brings a divorce from life, t' have had all this ? 
 
 What plague wil't bee for me when, raised again 
 Out of the bed of death, I must accompt 
 
 For thousand thousand faults and errors vaine, 
 That will to a number numberless amount? 
 
 Before a judge, whose angry breathe can burne 
 This whole round globe of earth, fire, water, aire, 
 
 And all their glory into ashes turne 
 That had these things allotted to their share. 
 
 Words serve me not, nor thoughts, though infinite, 
 
 To write or to imagine sinners' paine, 
 Or the least torment that on them shall light, 
 
 That this world's love preferr before heaven's gaine. 
 Then covet not, mine eies, worldly delight, 
 
 Beautie, great riches, honor, and the rest, 
 Which, if you had, would but bereave my spright 
 
 Of the immortal joyes I am in quest. 
 
 I am a pilgrim warrior, bound to fight, 
 
 Under the Red Cross, 'gainst my rebel Will; 
 
 And with great Godfrey to employ my might 
 To win Jerusalem and Sion hill. 
 
 More glorious is it in that war to dye, 
 Than surfeit with the world's base delectation ; 
 
 Since this, when death shall shutt our mortal eye, 
 'Tis meede shall have eternal condempnation. 
 
 But that not death, but life a passage is, 
 
 Into a kingdome of perpetual bliss. 
 
 ELIZABETH'S EARL OF LEICESTER. Robert Dudley, 
 Earl of Leicester, died September 4, 1588. It had been 
 suspected he died of poison, and that his lady served him 
 as he is said to have served others ; but a passage in 
 Drummond's Conversations goes far to prove that it was 
 unintentional. "The Earl of Leicester gave a bottle of
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. III.') 
 
 liquor to bis lady, which he willed her to use in any faint- 
 ness ; which she, after his return from Court, not knowing 
 it was poison, gave him, and so he died." In the Jfaw- 
 thornden MSS. is the following Epitaph " of the Earle of 
 Leicester," probably communicated to Drummond by Ben 
 Jonson : 
 
 " Here lies a valiant warrior, 
 Who never drew a sword ; 
 Here lies a noble courtier, 
 
 Who never kept his word ; 
 Here lies the Earle of Leister, 
 
 Who govern'd the Estates ; 
 Whom the earth could never living love, 
 And the just heaven now hates." 
 
 HISTORICAL ROMANCES WRITTEN BY HERALDS. In 
 Worcester College Library, at Oxford, there is a beautiful 
 manuscript on vellum, written in short French verse, 
 describing the achievements of Edward the Black Prince. 
 It was composed by the Prince's Herald, who attended 
 him close by his person in all his wars, as was the custom. 
 This was the Chandois-Herald, and he is frequently men- 
 tioned in Froissart. The MS. is very fairly written, the 
 names of the Englishmen rightly spelled, the chronology 
 exact, and the epitaph of the Black Prince, which closes 
 the poem, is the same as the Prince ordered in his 
 will. It is an oblong octavo, and formerly belonged to 
 Sir William Le Neve, Clarencieux Herald. Many of the 
 Historical Romances of the middle ages were written by 
 Heralds. Vid. Le Pert Mcnettrier, Chevtlerit Ancienne, 
 $c. Paris, 12mo. 1683, ch. v. p. 225.
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 Ittcrarif, SSiWingrapljiral, anfr 
 
 WILLIAM DOWSING'S JOURNAL. 
 
 " IN August, 1641," says the Mercurius Rusticus, " there 
 was an order published by the House of Commons, for the 
 taking away all scandalous pictures out of churches, in 
 which there was more intended by the authors than at 
 first their instruments understood, until instructed by 
 private information how far the people were to enlarge 
 their meaning." Early in the following year, the Earl of 
 Manchester received his commission as General of the 
 Associated Eastern Counties, and under his warrant, the 
 subject of our notice the chivalric " William Dowsing, 
 of Stratford," commenced his crusade against the " su- 
 perstitious pictures and ornaments of churches." 
 
 The thing was not new. Dowsing had a precedent in 
 the annals of the preceding century. Hear the words of 
 quaint old Weever, in his Discourse on Funeral Monu- 
 ments : " Toward the latter end of the reign of Henry 
 VIII., and throughout the whole reign of Edward VI., 
 and in the beginning of Elizabeth, certain persons, of 
 every country, were put in authority to pull down, and 
 cast out of all churches, roods, graven images, shrines 
 with their relics, (to which the ignorant people came 
 [No 8.]
 
 U'S AND SKE1> 107 
 
 flocking in adoration,) or any thing else which (punc- 
 tually) tended to idolatry and superstition. 
 
 Under colour of this their commission, and in their too 
 forward zeal, they rooted up and battered down crosses in 
 churches and churchyards, as also in other public places ; 
 they defaced and brake down the images of kings, princes, 
 and noble estates, erected, set up, or pourtrayed for the 
 only memory of them to posterity, and not for any reli- 
 gious honour ; they cracked a-pieces the glass windows 
 wherein the effigies of our Blessed Saviour hanging on the 
 cross, or any of His saints, was depicted ; or otherwise 
 turned up their heels into the place where their heads 
 used to be died, as I have seen in the windows of some of 
 our country churches. They despoiled churches of their 
 copes, vestments, amices, rich hangings, and all other 
 ornaments whereupon the story or the portraiture of Christ 
 himself, or of any saint or martyr, was delineated, wrought, 
 or embroidered ; leaving religion naked, bare, and unclad. 
 
 But the foulest and most inhuman action of those 
 times, was the violation of funeral monuments. Marbles 
 which covered the dead were digged up and put to other 
 uses ; tombs hacked and hewn a-pieces ; images, or repre- 
 sentatives of the defunct, broken, erased, cut, or dismem- 
 bered ; inscriptions or epitaphs, especially if they began 
 with an orate pro anima, or concluded with cujus animcc. 
 propitietur Deiu, for greediness of the brass, or for that 
 they were thought to be anti-christian, pulled out from 
 the sepulchres, and purloined ; dead carcasses, for gain of 
 their stone or leaden coffins, cast out of their graves, not- 
 withstanding this request, cut or engraven upon them, 
 propter miterecordiam Jem requietcat in pace." 
 
 What was thought to be left unfinished by the sacri- 
 legious fanatics of the sixteenth century, the misplaced 
 zeal of the succeeding century pretty fully accomplished. 
 Dowsing, the parliamentary visitor for the county of 
 Suffolk, kept a diary or journal of his " smashings" and
 
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 " breakings," and a reference to this alone, is sufficient to 
 show how far the ignorance and obstinacy of selfish men 
 may be persisted in, and carried on, against the remon- 
 strances of sober and moderate reason. 
 
 We will now make a few extracts from this precious 
 record, without note or comment, for they require none 
 each entry speaks for itself. 
 
 "SuDBURY, SUFFOLK. Peter's Parish, Jan. the 9th, 
 1643. We brake down a picture of God the Father, two 
 crucifix's and pictures of Christ, about an hundred in all ; 
 and gave orders to take down a cross off the steeple, and 
 diverse angels, twenty at least, on the roof of the church. 
 
 " ALHALLOWS, Jan. the 9th. We brake about twenty 
 superstitious pictures, and took up thirty brazen inscrip- 
 tions, ora pro nobis, and ' Pray for the soul,' &c." 
 
 " HAVER L - Jan. the 6th, 1643. We brake down ab~out 
 an hundred superstitious pictures, and seven fryars hug- 
 ging a nun, and the picture of God and Christ, and diverse 
 others, very superstitious ; and two hundred had been 
 broke down before I came. We took away two Popish 
 inscriptions with ora pro nobis ; and we beat down a great 
 stoneing cross on the top of the church." 
 
 " CLARE, Jan. the 6th. We brake down one thousand 
 pictures, superstitious ; I brake down two hundred three 
 of God the Father, and three of Christ, and the Holy 
 Lamb, and three of the Holy Ghost, like a dove with 
 wings ; and the twelve Apostles were carved in wood on 
 the top of the roof, which we gave order to take* down ; 
 and twenty cherubims to be taken down ; and the sun 
 and moon in the east window, by the king's arms, to be 
 taken down." 
 
 " BARHAM, Jan. the 22nd. We brake down the twelve 
 Apostles in the chancel, and six superstitious more there ; 
 and eight in the church one a lamb, with a cross (+) 
 on the back ; and digged down the steps.
 
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 " DU.NSTALL, Jan. the 23rd. We brake down sixty su- 
 perstitious pictures, and broke in pieces the rails, and 
 gave orders to pull down the steps." 
 
 "CiiATsiiAU, Jan. the 29th. Nothing to be done." 
 
 " BRAMFORD, Feb. the 1st. A cross to be taken off the 
 steeple : we brake down eight hundred and forty-one 
 superstitious pictures ; and gave order to take down the 
 steps, and gave a fortnight's time." 
 
 " HELHINUHAM, Feb. the 29th. Brake down three su- 
 perstitious pictures, and gave order to take down four crosses 
 and nine pictures, and Adam and Eve to be beaten down." 
 
 "CocHiE, April the 6th. There was many inscriptions 
 of JESUS in capital letters on the roof of the church, and 
 cherubims with crosses on their breasts, and a cross in 
 the chancel, with diverse pictures in the windows, which 
 we could not reach, neither would they help us to raise 
 the ladders ; all which we left a warrant with the con- 
 stable to do in fourteen days." 
 
 UFFOBD, Aug. 31st. Thirty superstitious pictures, and 
 left thirty-seven more to break down. In the chancel we 
 brake down an angel, three orate pro aiiima in the glass, 
 and the Trinity in a triangle, and twelve cherubims on 
 the roof of the chancel, and nigh a hundred JESUS-MARIA, 
 in capital letters, and the steps to be levelled. And we 
 brake down the organ cases, and gave them to the poor. 
 In the church there was on the roof above a hundred 
 JESUS and MARY in great capital letters, and a crosier 
 stall' to be broke down, in glass, and above twenty stars 
 on the roof. There is a glorious cover over the font, like 
 a pope's tripple crown, with a pelican on the top, picking 
 its breast, all gilt over with gold. And we were kept out 
 of the church above two hours, and neither church- 
 wardens, William Brown nor Roger Small, that were 
 enjoyned these things above three months afore, had not 
 done them in May ; and I sent one of them to see it done, 
 and they would not let him have the key. And now,
 
 1 1 FLY LEAVES ; OR 
 
 neither the churchwardens nor William Brown, nor the 
 constable, James Tokelove, and William Gardener, the 
 sexton, would not let us have the key in two hours' time. 
 New churchwardens, Thomas Stanard, Thomas Stroud ; 
 and Samuel Canham, of the same town, said, 'I sent 
 men to rifle the church;' and William Brown, old 
 churchwarden, said, ' I went about to pull down the 
 church, and had carried away part of the church.'" 
 
 ' ELMSETT, Aug. the 22nd. Crow, a deputy, had done 
 before we came. We rent a-pieces there the hood and 
 surplice." 
 
 " WANGFOKD, Aug. the 28th. Sixteen superstitious pic- 
 tures,andonel brake. Fifteen still remain, and one of God." 
 
 " OCKOLD, Aug. 30th. Divers superstitious pictures 
 were broke. I came, and there was Jesus, Mary, and S. 
 Lawrence with his gridiron, and Peter's keys. 
 
 " RUSSINGLES, Aug. 30th. Nothing but a step. The 
 pictures were broke before. 
 
 " METTFIELD, Aug. 30th. In the church was Peter's 
 keys, and the Jesuit's badge in the window, and many on 
 the top of the roof. I for Jesus, H for ffominum, and S 
 for Salvator, and a dove for the Holy Ghost in wood, and 
 the like in the chancel; and there in brass, orate pro 
 animabus, and the steps to be levelled by Sept. the 7th." 
 
 No. VIII. CHARLES AVISON. 
 THE subject of this notice was born at Newcastle-upon- 
 Tyne in 1710, and at an early age visited Italy for the 
 purpose of improving himself in musical science. Upon 
 his return to England lie became a pupil of the celebrated 
 Geminiani.
 
 - I! Alt) AXD SKETt ! Ill 
 
 In the year 1736 lie was chosen organist of St. Nicholas' 
 Church, Newcastle, ami in 1752 he published his well 
 known Essay on Musical Expression. This work contains 
 -.'in" judicious reflections on music; but his division of 
 the modern authors into classes is rather fanciful than 
 just. In the ensuing year it was answered, anonymously, 
 by Dr. William Hayes, the Oxford Professor of Music, in 
 a pamphlet entitled Remarks on Mr. Avison's Essay on 
 Musical Expression. The author of this brochure points 
 out many errors against the established rules of composi- 
 tion in the works of Avison ; and infers, from thence, that 
 his own skill in the science was not very profound. He 
 then proceeds to examine the book itself, and seldom fails 
 to establish his point, and prove his adversary in the 
 wrong. Before the conclusion of the same year, Avison 
 republished his Essay, with a reply to these Remarks, and 
 A Letter to the Author, concerning the Music of the Ancients. 
 According to Nichols' Anecdotes of Bowyer, the author of 
 this learned letter was Dr. John Jortin. Mason in his 
 Essays on Church Music, says, " It abounds more with 
 f-ruditiun than taste, and seems to have been the gleanings 
 of that great scholar's common-place book." 
 
 Avison is said to have been assisted in his Essay by Dr. 
 Brown, and the poet Mason ; bat it is believed that he 
 merely sent his MS. to these gentlemen, who made some 
 trifling corrections in the style. Avison certainly was not 
 a profound scholar. He was however much esteemed by 
 the literary and musical men of his day. Geminiani and 
 Giardini both visited him at Newcastle, and the latter 
 played the first violin at his concert there. He died May 
 llth, 1/70, aged sixty, and was succeeded as organist of 
 St. Nir!i..!a>. Newcastle, by his son Edward.
 
 1 1 2 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 Stemnuls nf cDlfr IT 
 
 BELSIZE House, Hampstead, and Cromwell House, Old 
 Brompton, are now no more ! The rage for building in 
 the environs of London has doomed them to destruction. 
 Every passing month witnesses the demolition of some 
 vestige of antiquity. The moderns have no veneration 
 for the homes of their ancestors. Surely this is an " age 
 of bricks and mortar ! "* 
 
 BELSIZE HOUSE. Sir Roger le Brabazon, in the year 
 1317, gave an estate in Hampstead, consisting of a 
 messuage and fifty-seven acres of land, to Westminster 
 Abbey, for the purpose of founding a chantry at the altar 
 of St. John the Evangelist for the souls of Edmund Earl 
 of Lancaster, Blanch his wife, and the said Sir Roger. 
 This estate, which in ancient writings is called the Manor 
 of Belses, was in the year 1319, assigned to Reginald de 
 Hadham the prior, and his successors, to be held by lease 
 under the convent. The mansion on this estate, called 
 formerly Belseys, and afterwards Belsize House, was the 
 residence of Sir Armigal Waad, clerk of the council to 
 Henry VIII. and Edward VI., the first Englishman who 
 made discoveries in America- He died at Belsize, June 
 20, 1 568, and was buried in the parish church of Hamp- 
 stead. His son Sir William Waad was clerk of the council 
 to Queen Elizabeth, who employed him as her ambassador 
 to Spain ; he was afterwards lieutenant of the Tower. 
 Sir William resided also at Belsize, and is buried with his 
 father at Hampstead. Belsize was afterwards the seat of 
 Thomas Lord Wotton, whose eldest daughter and co-heir 
 married Henry Lord Stanhope, son of the first Earl of 
 Chesterfield. The estate is still held under the church of 
 Westminster, by the Chesterfield family. Both the man- 
 sion-house and park have long been in the occupation of 
 under tenants. The ancient house was pulled down and 
 rebuilt in the reign of Charles II., it was again partially 
 rebuilt at the beginning of the last century. The fine old 
 staircase (disposed of by auction last month) was of the 
 age of the second house. 
 
 In 1718, Belsize House was let on lease to Charles 
 Povey, a man of a scheming and speculative turn, who, in 
 a pamphlet called England's Inquisition, written in that 
 year, and dated from Belsize, inveighs bitterly against 
 the Whig ministry, and claims the merit (among other
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 113 
 
 services rendered to his country) of having refused to let 
 Belsize (anno 1712) to the Duke D'Aumout, the French 
 ambassador, who had offered him 10001. for the use of it 
 during his residence in this country, being induced so to 
 do by the conveniency of the chapel then newly erected 
 upon the premises. Kir. Povey being determined, as he 
 says, that a Protestant chapel should not be turned into 
 ft mass-house, refused the offer, however advantageous, 
 and afterwards made a tender of Belsize House to the 
 Prince of Wales as an occasional retirement, but it was 
 not accepted. 
 
 In the year 1720, Belsize House was opened as a 
 place of public entertainment, by one Howell, who appears 
 to have possessed a considerable share of low humour, 
 and to have been known by the name of the Welsh am- 
 bassador. This was the person alluded to in the following 
 singular passage in a letter from Countess Cowper to Mrs. 
 Clayton (afterwards Lady Sundon) dated June 21, 1/22: 
 " We are very dull here this summer ; for there have been 
 so many deaths in this neighbourhood, among the gay 
 part of it, that we have no sort of diversion. The man 
 that keeps Belsize is setting up a long room at North 
 Hall, and his music plays from sunrise to sunsetting, but 
 vainly, for nobody here care to go to him, especially since 
 they heard he intended to have forty beds for the accom- 
 modation of gentlemen and ladies from London." 
 
 The original advertisement of Belsize House as a place 
 of public amusement is curious. It appeared in Mitt's 
 Journal, April 16, 1720: "Whereas that the ancient 
 and noble house near Hampstead, commonly called 
 Bellasis House, is now taken and fitted up for the 
 entertainment of gentlemen and ladies during the whole 
 summer season, the same will be opened on Easter Mon- 
 day next with aa uncommon solemnity of music and 
 dancing. This undertaking will exceed all of the kind 
 that has hitherto been known near London, commencing 
 every day at six in the morning, and continuing till eight 
 at night, all persons being priviledged to admittance 
 without necessity of expence, &c. 
 
 In an old hand-bill quoted by Lysons, Belsize is 
 announced as being open for the season, " the park, 
 wild) mess, and gardens being wonderfully improved and 
 fitted with variety of birds, which compose a most melodi- 
 ous and delightful harmony. Persons inclined to walk and 
 
 I
 
 114 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 divert themselves, may breakfast on tea and coffee as 
 cheap as at their own chambers. Twelve stout fellows 
 completely armed do patrole between Belsize and London." 
 
 In Read's Journal, July 15, 1721, is the following 
 paragraph : " Last Saturday their Royal Highnesses the 
 Prince and Princess of \Yales dined at Belsize House near 
 Hampstead, attended by several persons of quality, where 
 they were entertained with the diversion of hunting, and 
 such others as the place afforded, with which they seemed 
 well pleased, and at their departure were very liberal to 
 the servants." Belsize continued to be a place of amuse- 
 ment until the middle of the eighteenth century ; since 
 which time it had been inhabited by several families of 
 eminence. 
 
 CROMWELL HOUSE, so called from a tradition that it 
 was the residence of Oliver Cromwell, was situated in the 
 pleasant lanes of Old Brompton. The proper name of the 
 ancient mansion was Hale House. There certainly is no 
 good authority for the tradition. Hale House was, during 
 Cromwell's time, and for many years before and afterwards, 
 the property of the Methwold family. William Methwold 
 purchased it of the executors of Sir William Blake in 
 1630, and died there in 1652. " If there are any grounds 
 for the tradition, " says Lysons, " it may be that Henry 
 Cromwell occupied it before he went out to Ireland the 
 second time. It is certain that he was married at Ken- 
 sington in 1653. Oliver Cromwell at this time, having 
 had his choice of the royal houses, resided either at 
 Whitehall or Hampton Court; nor have we the least 
 trace, either in history or in the more minute chronicles 
 and diurnals of that period, of his residence at Brompton ; 
 but it is by no means improbable, that Henry Cromwell 
 might hire a house there to be near his father's court. In 
 lGb'8, Hale House appears to have been inhabited by the 
 Lawrences of Shurdington, in Gloucestershire; in^!682, 
 it was in the occupation of Francis Lord Howard of 
 Effingham, whose son Thomas, the sixth Lord Howard of 
 that family, was born there. Hale House was sold by 
 the Methwolds, in 1754, to John Fleming, Esq., afterwards 
 created a baronet, and it was in 1800 the joint property 
 of the Earl of Harrington and Sir Richard Worsley, Bart., 
 who married his daughters and co-heirs." 
 
 The house had little in the shape of architectural 
 beauty to recommend it. It was a square brick building
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 115 
 
 devoid of all external ornament save an entrance porch, 
 which was slightly carved with implements of the chase. 
 One of the rooms in the interior was lined with Dutch- 
 tiles, with a Cromwellian looking portrait let in the panel 
 over the fire-place. The staircase and ceilings were of 
 the plainest description. 
 
 SJiblingrapljiral 
 
 HART, (JOHN) CHESTER HERALT: AN ORTHOT.RAPHIF, 
 CONTETNINO THE DUE ORDER AND REASON HOWE TO 
 WRITE OR PAINT TH' IMAGE OP MAN'S VOICE MOST 
 LIKE TO THE LIFE OR NATURE. 12mo. W. Seres, 1569. 
 
 The earliest attempt to amend English orthography, 
 by the introduction of additional letters. A copy sold in 
 Home Tooke's sale for 6 6*. 
 
 BULLOKAR'S (WILLIAM) BOOKE AT LARGE, FOR THE 
 AMENDMENT OF OKTIIOGRAPUIE FOB ENGLISH SPEECH. 
 4to. Lond., 1580. 
 
 Prefixed are " Bullokar to his Countrie." The " Pro- 
 loge" in alexandrines. The amendment of orthography 
 is on 54 pages. Then a table of the contents of the 13 
 chapters ; and the names of the letters according to this 
 amendment, on two leaves, printed on one side only. A 
 copy is in the British Museum. 
 
 MULCASTER (RICHARD) THE FIRST PART OP THE ELE- 
 
 MENTARIE, WHICH ENTKEATETH CHEFELIE OF THE 
 
 RIGHT WRITING OF OCR ENGLISH TUNG. 4to. Lond., 
 1582. 
 
 Mulcasterwas the learned master of St. Paul's School. 
 His design was to regulate orthography by orthoepy. 
 Dr. Drake calls it a work of considerable merit and 
 utility. A copy sold in J. Reed's sale for JE3 3a.
 
 116 FLY LEAVES; OH, 
 
 GILL'S (ALEXANDER) LOGONOMIA ANGLICA, QUA GEK- 
 TIS SEKMO FACILIUS ADDISCITUR. 4to. Land., 1619. 
 
 This work contains a singular proposition for a verna- 
 cular orthography. It is quoted by Dr. Johnson. A 
 second edition was printed in 1621. 
 
 BUTLER'S (CHARLES) ENGLISH GRAMMAR, OR THE IN- 
 STITUTION OF LETTERS, SYLLABLES, AND WORDS, IN 
 THE ENGLISH TONGUE, WHEREUNTO is ANNEXED AN 
 INDEX OF WORDS, LIKE AND UNLIKE. 4to. Oxford, 
 1633. (Also quoted by Dr. Johnson.) 
 
 HODGES' (RICHARD) A SPECIAL HELP TO ORTHOGRA- 
 PHIE : OR THE TRUE WRITING OF ENGLISH. CON- 
 SISTING OF SUCH WORDS AS ARE ALIKE IN SOUND, 
 AND UNLIKE, BOTH IN THEIR SIGNIFICATION AND 
 WRITING. As ALSO OF SUCH WORDS WHICH ARE so 
 NEER ALIKE IN SOUND, THAT THEY ARE SOMETIMES 
 TAKEN ONE FOR ANOTHER. WHEREUNTO ARE ADDED 
 DIVERSE ORTHOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS, VEKY 
 
 NEEDFULL TO BE KNOWN. 4tO. Lond., 1643. 
 
 This brochure, consisting of 32 pages, is of very uncom- 
 mon occurrence. The author was a schoolmaster, " dwel- 
 ling in Southwark, at the Middle-gate, within Montague 
 Close." Some of his proposals for the amendment of 
 spelling are now generally adopted. 
 
 THE VOCAL ORGAN: OR A NEW ARTE OF TEACHING 
 THE 'ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHIE, BY OBSERVING THE 
 INSTRUMENTS OF PRONUNCIATION, AND THE DIFFER- 
 ENCE BETWEEN WORDS OF LIKE SODND; WHEREBY 
 
 ANY OUTLANDISH OR MEER ENGLISH MAN, WOMAN, 
 OR CHILD, MAY SPEEDILY ATTAIN TO THE EXACT 
 SPELLING, READING, WRITING, OR PRONOUNCING OF 
 ANY WORD IN THE ENGLISH TONGUE, &C. COMPILED 
 BY 0. P., MASTER OF ARTS, AND PROFESSOR OF THE 
 ART OF PEDAGOGIE. Small 8vo. Oxford, 1665. 
 
 This curious tract consists of 84 pages. Prefixed is a 
 curious engraving, somewhat in the manner of Hollar, 
 containing a male and female head ; the one with twenty- 
 one consonants, and the other with five vowels issuing 
 forth, according to the several instruments or parts of 
 pronunciation employed. A short account of this work 
 may be seen in the Restituta, vol. iii. p. 338.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 117 
 
 JOKBS'S (J., M.D.) PRACTICAL PHONOGRAPHY, OR THE 
 NEW ART or RIGHTLY SPELLING AND WRITING 
 
 WORD8 BT THE SofND THEREOF, AND OP RlOHTLT 
 SOUNDING AND READING WORDS IN THE SlOHT 
 THEREOF, APPLIED TO THE ENGLISH TONGUE. 4tO. 
 
 ., 1701. 
 
 An account of this singular work may be seen in 
 Beloe's Anecdotes, vol. vi. p. 360. See also Disraeli's 
 Amenities of Literature, vol. ii. p. 252, where a tecond 
 work by the same author is spoken of ; but it is probably 
 only a new edition of the first named. 
 
 ELPHINSTON'S (JAMES) PROPRIETY ASCERTAINED IN 
 HER PICTURE; OR INGLISH SPEECH AND SPELLING 
 
 RENDERED MUTUAL GUIDES. 2 Vok. 4tO. Lond. [17/0.] 
 
 " This writer," says Lowndes, " who rendered himself 
 ridiculous by endeavouring to introduce a new mode of 
 spelling, published several works relative to language and 
 grammar." The above title is not recorded by Lowndes. 
 
 Sinciput 
 
 III. 
 
 Hence, hence, distracting care of earthly thing! 
 
 Hence, base distrust of God's great providence! 
 The little birds that can do nought but sing, 
 
 Have plenteous foode from his benificence. 
 Is Hf> to little birds so gratious Father, 
 
 And shall wee children want our daily foode? 
 We, that have means to sow, to reap, to gather, 
 
 Shall we make question of his bountihood ? 
 Nay, though means faile, yet will we not dispaire,- 
 
 Eagles have fed his children ; his elect 
 Eat manna in the deserts that were bare ; 
 
 He multiplied the oile of the Sarepte. 
 He gave us bodies, not to starve and perish ; 
 Be gave us life, which doubtless He will cherish.
 
 1 1 8 FLY LEAVES ; OK, 
 
 IV. 
 
 My sin, as red as scarlet, thou, oh Lord ! 
 
 Canst make far whiter than Riphean snow, 
 If of thy goodness thou woldst once afforde 
 
 To wash me in the streams that from thee flowe. 
 Oh. when shall I, poore wretch ! obtain such grace, 
 
 When shall my bondage turne to free estate ? 
 Lord, why not now, e'en in this time and place ? 
 
 Let pitty thy just rigor mitigate, 
 And, for thy only Son my Saviour's sake, 
 
 Purifie with thy spirit this sinful masse ! 
 thou, that all things didst of nothing make, 
 
 Show forth thy power, and let it come to passe 
 That of a sinner I may henceforth bee 
 A saint, and live and die to honor thee. 
 
 The birds that here so merrily do sing, 
 
 And make these woods with their sweet carols ring, 
 
 Methinks do meete to praise with one accord, 
 
 Th* almighty power of their most gracious Lord, 
 
 Who made them, and with plentie feeds them all, 
 
 From the great eagle to the nightingall. 
 
 Then rise my soule, my harpe and voice awake, 
 
 Before the day to God confession make ; 
 
 Sing a new song, extoll his providence, 
 
 And magnify his great beneficence. 
 
 Let both thy violl and thy lute resound 
 
 What grace in thy distresses thou hast found. 
 
 Begin thou first, and thou shalt quickly see 
 
 The cherubims and seraphims agree, 
 
 And join their voices to the spheres' sweet sound, 
 
 To make both heaven and earth God's praise resound. 
 
 joy ! when angells join with men to sing 
 
 The praises due to our immortal King.
 
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 Irraps an& Ikttrljrs. 
 
 DAFFET'S" ELIXIR. In the Postboy, Jan. 1, 1707-8, is 
 the following curious advertisement : " DAFFEY'S famous 
 Elixir Salutu by Catherine Daffy, daughter of Mr. Thomas 
 Daffy, late rector of Kedmile, in the valley of Belvoir, 
 who imparted it to his kinsman, Mr. Anthony Dally, who 
 published the same to the benefit of the community and 
 his own great advantage. The original receipt is now iu 
 my possession, left to me by my father. My own brother, 
 Mr. Daniel Daffy, apothecary in Nottingham, made the 
 Elixir from the said receipt, and sold it there during his 
 life. Those who know it, will believe what I declare ; and 
 those who do not, may be convinced that I am no counter- 
 feit, by the colour, taste, smell, and operation of my 
 Elixir. To be had at the Hand and Pen, Maiden-Lane, 
 Covent Garden." 
 
 EPITAPH ON PETER ARETIN. Sir John Reresby in his 
 Travels, says : " In the church of St. Luke, (Venice,) 
 lies interred Peter Aretin, that obscene profane poet, 
 with this epitaph, till the Inquisitors took it away, * Qui 
 jace Aretin, potto. Ttuco, qui dice mal d'ogni ttno fuora di 
 Dio ; scutandori decendo to no'l cognosce' Here Aretin, 
 the Tuscan poet, lies, who all the world abused but God, 
 and why? He said he knew Him not." 
 
 FIRST INTRODUCTION OP COFFEE INTO FRANCE. John 
 Thevenot, a native of 'Lorraine, (a great traveller in the 
 East,) first introduced the use of coffee in France. His 
 Travels in Asia were published in 1664, and have been 
 several times re-edited and translated. He died in Persia 
 in 1667. 
 
 HOMER IN A NCTSHELL. "When his Highness the 
 Dauphin was one day confined to his bed by a slight 
 illness, and we who stood round were endeavouring to 
 entertain him by pleasant conversation, mention was by 
 chance made of the person who boasted that he had 
 written Homer's Iliad in characters so minute, that the 
 whole could be enclosed in a walnut shell. This appear- 
 ing incredible to many of the company, I contended not 
 only that it might be done, but that I could do it. As 
 they expressed their astonishment at this assertion, that I 
 might not be suspected of idle boasting, I immediately put
 
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 it to the proof. I therefore took the fourth part of a com- 
 mon leaf of paper, and on its narrower side wrote a single 
 line in so small a character that it contained twenty verses 
 of the Iliad : of such lines each page of the paper could 
 easily admit 120, therefore the page would contain 2400 
 Homeric verses: and as the leaf so divided would give 
 eight pages it would afford room for above 19,000 verses, 
 whereas the whole number in the Iliad does not exceed 
 17,000. Thus by my single line I demonstrated my pro- 
 position." Autobiography of ffuet, Bishop of Avranches, 
 translated by Aikin. Vol. ii., pp. 176-7- 
 
 ITALIAN DRAMATIC LIBRARY. "In the year 1741," 
 says Baretti, " I saw in Venice a collection of old Italian 
 tragedies and comedies, made by the learned poet and 
 antiquarian Ap. Zeno, to the number, as he assured me, 
 of about four thousand. He had the best Italian library, 
 perhaps, in the world ; and as I was lately told, that he 
 left it at his death to the Gesanti, an order of monks 
 residing in Venice, where I suppose the comedies are still 
 kept united." It. Lib., p. 118.
 
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 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 Uihliugrapjjiral, fin& 
 
 OLD ALMANACS. 
 
 THE Prophetic Almanacs of the last two centuries, form a 
 curious chapter in the history of the "Books of the 
 People." The superstitious practice formerly observed 
 in all almanacs, but now almost exploded, of placing each 
 limb of the body under a particular sign of the Zodiac, is 
 of high antiquity, being attributed to Nechepsos, or 
 Nerepsos, an Egyptian, and author of several treatises on 
 astronomy, astrology, and medicine, who lired in the age 
 of Sesostris. His object, we are told, was to enable the 
 medical practitioners, (who are supposed to have been of 
 the priestly order,) to apply suitable remedies to diseases 
 affecting any particular member. From Egypt this super- 
 stition passed to the Greeks and Romans ; from them to 
 the Saracens ; and being by the latter transmitted to the 
 school of Salerno, it was acted upon in the medical prac- 
 tice of every European country. Such absurdities, as- 
 suredly, afford no very favourable indication of the vaunted 
 science of that extraordinary people among whom they 
 took their rise ; but it would be rash to conclude, that the 
 attestations of the highest ancient authorities to the pro-
 
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 gress of the Egyptians in the sciences, at a remote period, 
 are groundless, because their knowledge was mixed up with 
 superstitions inconsistent with truth and sound philosophy. 
 
 Our ancestors certainly exceeded us in the depth of their 
 predictions. In Shakespeare's day, for example, Leonard 
 Digges, the Francis Moore of that period, not only prognos- 
 ticated for the day, week, or year, but " for all time," as 
 the title-page of his almanac shows : " A Prognostication 
 everlastinge of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by 
 the auctor, contayning plaine, briefe, pleasaunte, chosen 
 rules to judge of the Weather by the Sunne, Moone, 
 Starres, Comets, Rainebow, Thunder, Cloudes, with other 
 extraordinarye tokens, not omitting the aspects of the 
 Planets, with a briefe judgement for ever, of Plenty, 
 Lucke, Sickness, Dearth, Warres, &c., opening also many 
 natural causes worthy to be known." (1575.) 
 
 It is singular how long the human mind will cling to 
 folly to which it is accustomed, long after the understand- 
 ing is satisfied of its want of truth. As far back as 
 1607, we find the following prohibition of prophetic alma- 
 nacs ; and yet even at the present day, some wretched trash 
 is published under the same title. " All conjurors and 
 framers of prophecies and almanacs, exceeding the limits 
 of allowable astrology, shall be punished severely id their 
 persons, and we forbid all printers and booksellers, under 
 the same penalties, to print, or expose for sale, any al- 
 manacks or prophecies, which shall not first have been 
 seen and revised by the archbishop, the bishop (or those 
 who shall be expressly appointed for that purpose,) and 
 approved of by their certificates signed by their own hand, 
 and, in addition, shall have permission from us or from 
 our ordinary judges." 
 
 We have a volume of old almanacs now before us, the 
 mere titles of which are worth enumerating, if they only 
 show the amount of credulity possessed by one individual
 
 SCRAPS ASD SKETCHES. 123 
 
 the binder of the said volume. The almanacs are all for the 
 same year, 1734, and they range as follows : The Woman's 
 Almanack Gadbury's Diary Wing's Almanack Par- 
 ker's Ephemerit, the five and fortieth impression John 
 Partridge's Merlinus Liberatiu Francis Moore's Vox 
 Stellantm William Andrews' News from the Stars- 
 Richard Saunder's Apollo Anglicanus Henry Coley's 
 Merlinut Anglicus Junior Salem Pearce's Celestial Diary 
 Edmund Weaver's British Telescope John Hartley's 
 Angelas Sideralu Henry Season's Speculum Anni Poor 
 Robin's Almanack after the Good Old Fashion, &c. 
 
 The lives of these worthy astrologers would form an in- 
 structive volume, but only some brief particulars of a few of 
 them are known. Sometimes indeed we meet with a conceited 
 fellow who prefaces his almanac with his autobiography 
 Henry Season, " Professor of Physick, and Student in the 
 Celestial Sciences," to wit. This Professor says, in his 
 Preface to the Candid Reader, " I was born at the place I 
 now live at, a village call'd Broomham, three miles from 
 the town of Devizes in Wilts, on January the 23rd, but 
 the year and hour I conceal, 'tis no point of prudence to 
 reveal that, as the learned in astrology and my own ex- 
 perience have informed me ; for should any one's nativity 
 fall into the hands of an artist in astrology that is his 
 enemy, he knows when to hurt him, because he knows 
 when bad directions take place ; cum multis aliis ways to 
 circumvent and mischief him." He then enters into some 
 particulars of his career and closes by saying, " Next year, 
 if I write, I shall in the place of this epistle, write a piece 
 of poetry ; an original copy in praise of the propagators 
 of learning." These old astrologers, or their readers, seem 
 fond of poetry, if we may judge from the volume before us. 
 Take a specimen from John Partridge : 
 
 " Want ye a servant, Sirs '( behold me here, 
 Prest at your back, to serve you all the year :
 
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 No wages will I ask ; ernest will do, 
 When others will have that and wages too. 
 No meat, nor drink, nor fuel will I spend, 
 Tour goods I will not squander, give or lend. 
 The coat wherewith you will me to be clad, 
 Shall not offend me be it good or bad. 
 When you consult me I shall speak most plain, 
 And when you please I silent shall remain. 
 What quiet in your houses would it cause, 
 Would but your wives conform unto such laws ! 
 But whither am I going ? Silly book ! 
 I shall be cast into some dirty nook 
 By some smart dame, if at this rate I talk, 
 Whilst her brisk tongue as currently doth walk, 
 As any thorough-pac'd lackey in the hall, 
 That by false pleadings get the devil and all." 
 
 Poor Robin rhymes much more sensibly : 
 
 " January. 
 
 Good fire, good victuals, and some good strong beer, 
 Are all good things at this time of the year. 
 But first consult the crop, for if that fail, 
 'Twill be in vain to think to buy strong ale." 
 
 "April. 
 
 This month is like a woman, fair and foul, 
 She frowns and smiles, and then again doth scoul. 
 Now the sun shines, then rains, and then fair weather, 
 So women laugh and cry, and all together." 
 
 " August. 
 
 Now country farmers to their tools betake, 
 And all a general expedition make ; 
 The labouring hand grows rich, but who are idle 
 In winter time must bite upon the bridle."
 
 SCRAPS AXD SKETCHES. 125 
 
 " October. 
 
 Sing, pettyfoggers, sing, let none complain. 
 
 For mounsieur term is come to town again ; 
 
 The lawyers now do at Westminster bawl, 
 
 But then at last the client pays for all." 
 " December. 
 
 December comes and closes up the year 
 
 With Christmas pyes, roast beef, and good strong beer ; 
 
 With that I wish you merry may remain, 
 
 Next year I hope to meet you here again." 
 
 Poor Robin's Almanac was first published in 1 663, the 
 title being assumed in ridicule of Dr. liobt. Tory, a rich 
 pluralist of the period. The celebrated poet, Robert Her- 
 rick, is said to hare had a hand in its compilation. It was 
 this almanac that gave the hint of a Peunsylvanian one, 
 published during a course of twenty-five years at Philadel- 
 phia, by Dr. Franklin, under the name of Poor Richard 
 launders. The Doctor took frequent occasion to introduce 
 into it short pithy sentences and memorable sayings in 
 recommendation of industry, frugality, and beneficence. 
 These prudential maxims, in the form of proverbs, which 
 Bacon calls " the philosophy of the Tulgar," were after- 
 wards re-published in a loose sheet, under the title of The 
 Way to Wealth. 
 
 John Partridge is well known from his having been the 
 butt of a celebrated wit in the reign of Anne, and from 
 his Life of John Gadbury. His almanac was first pub- 
 lished in 1679. 
 
 The name of Wing, says Granger, though he has been 
 dead for at least a century, continues as fresh as ever at 
 the head of our sheet almanacs. " I have found nothing 
 in chronology," says the same lively writer, " so proble- 
 matical and perplexing as assigning the date of the death 
 of an almanack-maker. Francis Moore has, according to
 
 126 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 his own confession, amused and alarmed the world with hi* 
 predictions and his hieroglyphics for the space of seventy- 
 five years. Before his almanack for 1771, is a letter 
 which hegins thus : ' Kind reader, this heing the 73rd 
 year since my almanack first appeared to the world, and 
 having for several years presented you with observations 
 that have come to pass to the admiration of many, I have 
 likewise presented you with several hieroglyphics, &c.' 
 John Partridge has been dead and buried more than once, 
 if the printed accounts of him may he credited. But his 
 almanack, like his ghost, ' magni nominis umbra,' continued 
 to appear as usual after his decease. Vincent Wing is 
 said to be now living, at Pickworth, in Rutlandshire, and 
 I am referred to a book-almanack for a proof of it. This 
 reminds me of what I have seen in one of Partridge's 
 almanacks, in which he very gravely affirms that he is 
 now living, and was alive when Bickerstaff published the 
 account of his death. It is with due deference proposed 
 to Mr. Vincent Wing, to affix this motto, for the future, 
 to his almanack, after his name : 
 
 Ilium aget PENNA metuente solvi Fama superstes. Hon." 
 The largest impressions of any single book, perhaps, ever 
 sold, have been those of Moore s Almanac, a proof of the 
 prevalence of superstitious error. For many years, during 
 the late wars, when political excitement was excessive, 
 the Stationers' Company sold from 420,000 to 480,000 of 
 Moore's Astrological Prophesying Almanac. About fifty 
 years since, the Company resolved no longer to administer 
 to this gross credulity, and for two or three years omitted 
 the predictions, when the sale fell off one half; while a 
 prognosticate^ one Wright, of Caton, near Woolstrope, 
 published another almanac, and sold 50,000 or 60,000. 
 To save their property, the Company engaged one An- 
 drews, of Royston, also a native of Woolstrcpe, to predict 
 for them, and their sale rose as before.
 
 SCRAPS ASD SKETCHES. 127 
 
 NOTES ON THE MUSICAL LIBRARIES OF 
 
 ROME AND NAPLES. 
 
 THE library founded by Cardinal Chigi at Rome in 1670 
 is rich in musical treasures. It contains an Epitome of 
 the History of Music in MS. by the learned Antonio 
 Liberati. 
 
 The Quirinal library contains about thirty volumes of 
 masses and motets, being all that were saved from destruc- 
 tion when the Duke of Burgundy stormed and plundered 
 Rome. This barbarian is said to have committed "cart- 
 loads of music " to the flames/ 
 
 The archives of the Vatican church contain a valuable 
 musical collection from the commencement of the sixteenth 
 century. In the year 1770 a dishonest librarian stole 
 nearly a hundred volumes. 
 
 The Church of S. Maria Maggiore contains a large 
 collection of ancient music. It is also reported to have 
 been robbed of about a hundred scores, at the commence- 
 ment of the present century. 
 
 The library of the Church of S. John in the Lateran, 
 contains a few choice specimens of the old school. 
 
 The Barberini and Angelica libraries are said to be rich 
 in musical treasures ; also the archives of S. Peter; S. 
 Maria in Yallicella; S. Giacomo de Spagnuoli ; the College 
 of the Propaganda ; and the libraries of the Vatican and the 
 Roman College. 
 
 The library of the Royal College at Naples contains the 
 original MSS. of Allessandro Scarlatti's operas and also 
 scores of most of the operas from the foundation of the 
 Royal theatre. 
 
 The archives of the Sacred Convent of Assisi at Naples, 
 contain some exceedingly rare musical works, many of 
 which were collected by the Abate Martini. The library 
 formed by this distinguished scholar was the most com-
 
 128 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 plete musical library ever got together. It consisted not 
 only of works, &c., on music, in all its various branches, 
 but also of every book wherein the subject was merely 
 incidentally mentioned. A single page concerning music 
 in a volume was a sufficient inducement for the learned 
 Abate to place it in his collection. 
 
 CATALOGUE OF OLD BALLADS AMONG THE 
 KING'S PAMPHLETS, BRITISH MUSEUM. 
 
 (Continued from page 138.) 
 
 25. The Rump reluctant, or Penitence per Force ; being 
 the Recantation of the old, rust, roguy, rebellious, 
 rampant, and now ruinous, rotten, rested, Rump. 
 To the tune of " Gerard's Mistress." (Dated in M.S. 
 1659. Vol. 16.) 
 
 26. The Second Part of St. George for England. To the 
 tune of " To Drive the Cold Winter away." (Dated 
 in M.S. 1659. Vol.17.) 
 
 27. The History of the Second Death of the Rump. To 
 the Tune of " The Parliament Sate as smugg as a 
 Cat." (Dated in M.S. 1669. Vol. 17.) 
 
 28. An Exit to the Exit Tyrannus. To the tune of " I 
 made a Voyage into France." (Dated in M.S. 1659, 
 Vol. 17.) 
 
 29. A Free Parliament Letany. To the tune of " An old 
 Souldierof the Queenes." (Dated in M.S. 1659. Vol. 
 17-) 
 
 30. Arsy Versy, or the Second Martyrdom of the Rump. 
 To the tune of the " Blind Beggar." (Dated in M.S. 
 
 1659. Vol. 17.) 
 
 31. Colonel John Okie's Lamentation, or a Rumper 
 Cashiered. To the tune of " A Begging we will go." 
 
 1660. (Vol. 17.)
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 129 
 
 32. A Dialogue betwixt Tom and Dick; the former a 
 Country-man, the other a Citizen ; presented to his 
 Excellency and the Council of State, at Draper's 
 Hall, in London, March 28, 1660. To the tune of 
 " I'll never love thee more." (Vol. 17-) 
 
 33. A Ballad of a Country Wedding, by King James the 
 Fifth of Scotland. (Dated in M.S. 1660. Vol. 18.) 
 
 34. A Pair of Prodigals Returned, or England and Scot- 
 land agreed, in a Conference between an Englishman 
 and a Scot, concerning the Restoration of Charles II. 
 to his Crown and Kiugdomes. To the tune of " Cook 
 Laurel." In the year 1660. (Vol. 18.) 
 
 35. The Phanatick Plot Discovered. To the tune of 
 " Packington's Pound." Printed for Samuel Burdet, 
 1660. (Vol. 18.) 
 
 36. The Cavalier's Complaint. To the tune of " I'll tell 
 thee Dick." Lond., 1661. (Vol.19.) 
 
 37- Bo-peep, or the Jerking Parson Catechising his Maid. 
 A pleasant Ballad to the tune of " Notcroft's Delight." 
 Printed for the Belman of Aldgate, by order of the 
 Ward. (Dated in M.S. 1660. Vol. 19.) 
 
 38. Hugh Peter's Last Will and Testament. To the 
 tune of " The guelding of the Divel." (Dated in M.S. 
 1660. Vol. 19.) 
 
 39. The Citie's Feast to the Lord Protector. To the tune 
 of "Cooke Lorrelle." London, 1661. (Vol 20.) 
 
 411. A Country Song Intituled the Restoration. (Dated 
 in M.S. May, 1661. Vol.20.) 
 
 THE MANNER OF WATCHMEN INTIMATING 
 
 THE HOUR, 
 AT HERRNHUTH, IX GERMANY. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 PAST eight o'clock ! Herrnhuth do thou ponder ; 
 Eight souls in Noah's ark were living yonder. 
 
 IX. 
 
 'Tis nine o'clock ! ye brethren hear it striking ; 
 Keep hearts and houses clean, to our Saviour s liking.
 
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 X. 
 
 Now, brethren, hear, the clock is ten and passing ; 
 None rest but such as wait for Christ's embracing. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Eleven is past ! still at this hour eleven, 
 The Lord is calling us from earth to heaven. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Ye brethren, hear, the midnight clock is humming ; 
 At midnight, our great Bridegroom will be coming. 
 
 i. 
 
 Past one o'clock ; the day breaks out of darkness : 
 Great morning-star appear, and break our hardness ! 
 
 ii. 
 
 'Tis two ! on Jesus wait this silent season, 
 Ye two so near related, will and reason. 
 
 in. 
 
 The clock is three ! the blessed Three doth merit 
 The best of praise, from body, soul, and spirit. 
 
 IV. 
 
 'Tis four o'clock when three make supplication, 
 The Lord will be the fourth on that occasion. 
 
 v. 
 
 Five is the clock ! five virgins were discarded, 
 When five with wedding garments were rewarded. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The clock is six, and I go off my station ; 
 
 Now, brethren, watch yourselves for your salvation. 
 
 Utgtortcfo 
 
 No. IX. WILLIAM HARROD. 
 
 THE subject of this notice was the son of a respectable 
 printer and bookseller at Market Harborough, Leicester- 
 shire, who was also master of the free school in that town. 
 William was bred to his father's profession ; and, after 
 having worked some time as a journeyman in London, 
 commenced business on his own account, at Stamford, 
 where he became an alderman, and published the History
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 131 
 
 and Antiquities of Stamford, compiled chiefly from the an- 
 nals of the Rev. Francis Peck, with notes ; to which is 
 added their present state, including Burghley, 1785, two 
 vols. 12mo. In 1788, he projected a republication and 
 continuation of Wright's History and Antiquities of Rut- 
 land; but the work was discontinued, after the appearance 
 of two numbers, for want of proper encouragement. Whilst 
 residing at Stamford, he also commenced a newspaper, of 
 which he was the editor and the sole working printer; but 
 the sale not being at all encouraging, he soon desisted. 
 He afterwards removed to Mansfield ; and published the 
 History of Mansfield and Us Environs, in two parts, 1804, 
 4to. On a smartly contested election for the town of Not- 
 tingham, Mr. Harrod compiled and published a very 
 facetious volume, under the title of Coke and Birch. On 
 the death of his father, which took place December llth, 
 1806, Mr. Harrod returned to Market Harborough, the 
 place of his nativity, and published the History of Market 
 Harborough, in Leicestershire, and its Vicinity, 1808. Here 
 he hoped to have ended his days with comfort, but a Moond 
 marriage embroiled him in difficulties, which at length 
 compelled him to relinquish his business, and his death took 
 place at Birmingham, in consequence of an apoplectic fit, 
 January 1st, 1819. Notwithstanding his eccentricities, 
 -Mr. Harrod was much respected. 
 
 of 4M& Innitnn. 
 
 AM 1 1 NT MOUK UK LIGHTING LONDON. John Wardall, 
 l.y will, dated 29th August, 1656, gave to the Grocers' 
 Company a tenement called the White Hear in Walbrook, 
 to the intent that they should yearly, within thirty days 
 after Michaelmas, pay to the churchwardens of St. Botolph, 
 Billingsgate, 4, to provide a good and sufficient iron and 
 glass lantern, with a candle, for the direction of passengers 
 to go with more security to and from the water-side, all 
 night long, to be fixed at the north-east corner of the 
 jurish church of St. Botolph, Irom the feast day of St. 
 Bartholomew to Lady Day; out of which sum 1 was 
 to be paid to the sexton for taking care of the lantern. 
 This annuity is now applied to the support of a lamp in 
 the place prescribed, which is lighted with gas.
 
 1 32 FLY LEAVES ; OR 
 
 John Cooke, by will, dated 12th September, 1662, gave 
 to the churchwardens, &c., of St. Michael's, Crooked Lane, 
 ,76 to be laid out to the most profit and advantage, for 
 various uses, and amongst them, for the maintenance of 
 a lantern and candle, to be eight in the pound at least, to 
 be kept and hanged out at the corner of St. Michael's 
 Lane, next Thames St., from Michaelmas to Lady Day, 
 between the hours of nine and ten o'clock at night, until 
 the hours of four or live in the morning, for affording 
 light to passengers going through Thames St., or St. 
 Michael's Lane. 
 
 SJibliograpljiral Hctirts. 
 
 MALCOLM, (ALEXANDER) A TREATISE OF MUSICK, SPE- 
 CULATIVE, PRACTICAL, AND HISTORICAL. Edinburgh, 
 printed for the Author. 8vo. 1721. 
 Sir John Hawkins speaks of this work in the highest 
 manner, and concludes by saying, " In a word, it is a 
 work from which a student may derive great advantage, 
 and may be justly deemed one of the most valuable trea- 
 tises on the subject of Theoretical and Practical Music to 
 be found in any of the modern languages." (Hist, of 
 Mus. v. 215.) Nothing seems to be known respecting the 
 author. In his Treatise on Book-keeping (not mentioned 
 by Lowndes) published in 1731, he styles himself, 
 " Teacher of Mathematicks, Aberdeen." An edition of 
 the Treatise on Music " corrected and abridged by an emi- 
 nent musician," appeared in London, in 1779. 
 
 HARVEY, (GIDEON) FAMILY PHYSICIAN, AND THE HOUSE 
 APOTHECARY. 12mo. 1678. 
 
 ART OF CURING DISEASES BY EXPECTATION. 
 
 12mo. 1689. 
 
 This author is not mentioned by Lowndes. A MS. note 
 of Dr. Haworth's respecting the first of the above works, 
 says, " This book contains a priced catalogue of the rate 
 medicines were sold at in 1678 ; and as such is curious 
 and valuable."
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 133 
 
 BROWSE, (RICHARD) MEDICINA MUBICA ; OR, A ME- 
 CHANICAL ESSAY ON THE EFFECTS OF SINGING, MITSICK, 
 \M> DANCING ON HUMAN BODIES. REVISED AND 
 CORRECTED. To WHICH is ANNEX'D A NEW ESSAY ON 
 THE NATURE AND CURE or THE SPLEEN AND VAPOURS. 
 J2mo. London, 1729. 
 
 The author, who calls himself "Apothecary in Oak- 
 am, in the County of Rutland," dedicates this brochurr 
 of 125 pages to " Baptist, Earl of Gainsborough." In the 
 preface, the author speaks of having concealed his name in 
 the first edition, not merely upon account of the humble 
 opinion he had of his labours ; but also on account of his 
 station in life, he being at that time in his apprentice- 
 ship." The work, however, has great merit, and is of 
 considerable rarity. 
 
 HALL, (JoiiN) SELECT OBSERVATIONS ON ENGLISH BO- 
 DIES; OR, CURES IN DESPERATE DISEASES. Englished 
 by James Cooke. 12mo. London, 1657. 
 
 Other editions in 1679 and 1683; the latter with a 
 portrait by White. ' Dr. John Hall, the author of this 
 work, married Susanna, the youngest daughter of our 
 immortal bard, SHAKESPEARE ; in it are the cases 
 of several of his patients living at Stratford about the 
 time of Shakespeare's death. Among others, those of 
 Mr-. Hall his wife, and Elizabeth his daughter; Mr. 
 Queeny, who married Judith, Shakespeare's eldest daugh- 
 ter ; Mrs. Nash ; Mrs. Combe ; Drayton, the poet ; &c., 
 &c."MS. note by Dr. JIaworth. 
 
 nf 3iirirnt 
 
 A DEFENCE FOR MUSICK, 
 BY THOMAS JORDAN, 1659. 
 
 EMPRESS of Order! whose eternal arms 
 Put Chaos into Concord, by whose charms 
 The Cherubims in anthem.- clear, and even, 
 Create a Consort for the King of Heaven :
 
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 Inspire me with thy Magick, that my numbers 
 
 May rock the never-sleeping soul in slumbers ; 
 
 Tune up my Lyre, that when I sing thy merits 
 
 My subdivided notes may sprinkle spirits 
 
 Into my auditory, whilst their fears 
 
 Suggest their souls are sallying through their ears. 
 
 What tropes, or figures can thy glories reach, 
 
 That art thy self the splendor of all speech? 
 
 Mysterious Musick! he that doth thee right 
 
 Must shew thy excellence by thy own light. 
 
 Thy purity must teach us how to praise, 
 
 As men seek out the Sun with his own rayes : 
 
 What creature that hath being, life or sense, 
 
 But wares the badges of thy influence ? 
 
 Musick is Harmony, whose copious bounds 
 
 Is not confined onely unto sounds : 
 
 Tis the eyes object, for (without extortion) 
 
 It comprehends all things that have proportion ; 
 
 Musick is Concord, and doth hold allusion 
 
 With every thing that doth oppose confusion : 
 
 In comely architecture it may be 
 
 Known by the name of uniformitie ; 
 
 Where piramids to piramids relate, 
 
 And the whole fabrick doth configurate 
 
 In perfectly proportiou'd creatures, we 
 
 Accept it by the title symmetrie. 
 
 When many men for some design convent, 
 
 And all concenter, it is called consent : 
 
 Where mutual hearts in sympathy do move 
 
 Some few embrace it in the name of love : 
 
 But when the soul and body do agree 
 
 To serve their God, it is Divinitie : 
 
 In all melodious compositions we 
 
 Declare and know it to be Symphonic : 
 
 Where all the parts in complication roll, 
 
 And every one contributes to the whole : 
 
 He that can set and humour notes aright 
 
 Will move the soul to sorrow, to delight, 
 
 To courage, courtezie, to consolation ; 
 
 To love, to gravity, to contemplation : 
 
 It hath been known (by its mysterious motion) 
 
 To raise repentance, and advance devotion i 
 
 It works on all the faculties, and why 
 
 The very soul it self is Harmony :
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 1.15 
 
 Mtuick! it is the breath of second birth, 
 
 The saints imployment, and the angels mirth ; 
 
 The rhetorick of Serapftimt, a gem 
 
 In the King's crown of new Jerusalem ; 
 
 They sing continually, the exposition 
 
 Must needs inferre, there is no intermission. 
 
 I hear some men hate Mustek, let them shew 
 
 In Holy Writ what else the angels do: 
 
 Then those that do despise such sacred mirth 
 
 Are neither fit for Heaven nor for Earth. 
 
 rora contemporary MS. in the poweuioo of the Editor.) 
 
 ?rra{i5 fliifo .? krtrjjts. 
 
 LADY POLITICIAXS. The following is from the Journals 
 of the House of Commons, 1648 : "June 14. Ordered, 
 that the Commander in Chief, and the guard that do guard 
 the House from time to time, do keep the clamorous 
 women from coming up the stairs leading to the House of 
 Commons door, and from coming into and clamouring in 
 Westminster Hall on the Speaker and Members of the 
 House." 
 
 OP THE TERM SEXDINO TO COVENTRY. The 
 
 day after King Charles I. left Birmingham, on his march 
 from Shrewsbury, in 1642, the Parliamentary party 
 seized his carriages, containing the royal plate and furni- 
 ture, which they conveyed for security to Warwick Castle. 
 They apprehended all messengers and suspected persons, 
 frequently attacked and reduced small parties of the 
 Royalists, whom they sent prisoners to Coventry. Hence 
 the proverbial expression respecting a refractory person, 
 "Send him to Coventry." Button's Ifatory of Bir- 
 mingham.
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 OB, 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 , -Bililingrapjriral, aufo 
 
 MRS. CORNELY'S ENTERTAINMENTS, 
 
 AT CARLISLE HOUSE, SOHO SQUARE.* 
 
 THE biographical facts, which have descended to posterity, 
 regarding this distinguished Priestess of Fashion, are un- 
 usually meagre, for one who has for so many years created 
 so vast a sensation in the world of gaiety. The only way 
 in which her career can be related and illustrated, has been 
 adopted in the present instance, by the introduction of 
 Newspaper Paragraphs and Advertisements, inserted 
 during the various epochs of her sway. These have been 
 chronologically arranged from her commencement till her 
 decline, and inspersed with the few lines of Narrative, and 
 occasional Anecdotes and Comments, render what is pre- 
 sented, a connected detail, and throw considerable light on 
 the manners and customs of the fashionable world of this 
 pleasuring-loving Metropolis, during each successive and 
 distant period. 
 
 Whether this lady's name of " Cornelys" was her maiden 
 name, or whether she obtained it by marriage, has not 
 been recorded ; nor has the year of her birth been stated, 
 or the spot of her nativity. She was by birth a German, 
 and during several years performed as a public singer both 
 in Germany and Italy. 
 
 1 Abridged from a Tract privately printed by T. Mackiiilay, Esq., Soho Square. 
 
 [No. 10.}
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCH KS. !.'{/ 
 
 Mr*. Cornelys is supposed to have arrived in England 
 about 1756 or 7; and possessing many natural advantages, 
 and considerable powers of address, together with capti- 
 vating manners, and what in common parlance is called 
 41 a knowledge of the world," her enterprising spirit sug- 
 gested to her to commence a series of fascinating and 
 elegant Entertainments, precisely in unison with the pur- 
 suits of the votaries of fashion of both sexes. 
 
 She accordingly, either at the close of the year 1762, or 
 the commencement of 1763, made choice of a large mansion 
 entitled " Carlisle House," in Soho Square, situated on the 
 East side the corner of Sutton Street where she suc- 
 ceeded in obtaining the most lavish patronage of every 
 high-born leader of ton and lover of gaiety, which clung to 
 her establishment for a number of years, and which estab- 
 lishment one of her contemporaries no doubt most accu- 
 rately describes when he states, that it was "so well 
 contrived for diversified amusement, that no other Public 
 Entertainments could pretend to rival its attractions." 
 
 The following first printed document, exhibits how well 
 qualified Mrs. Cornelys was, by tact, to rally round her, 
 and retain as patrons and patronesses, the influential per- 
 sonages appertaining to the Aristocracy : knowing well, as 
 an acute woman of the world, the influence possessed, 
 from time immemorial, by "the upper servants of persons 
 of fashion," she very judiciously gives them a Ball, and 
 >iurives, in the following paragraph, to compliment their 
 masters and miM 
 
 " On Saturday last, Mrs. Cornelys gave a Ball at Car- 
 lisle House, to the upper servants of persons of fashion, 
 as a token of the sense she has of her obligations to the 
 nobility and geutry, for their generous subscription to her 
 assembly. The company consisted of 220 persons, who 
 made up fourscore couple in country dances ; and as scarce 
 anybody was idle on this occasion, the rest sat down to 
 cards." February l!i, 17i:!.
 
 138 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 The next brief illustrative document, is extracted from 
 " The Public Advertiser," and which fixes the date of Mrs- 
 Cornelys' eleventh assemblage of the fashionable world to 
 have been the 12th of May, 1763. It also contains a soli- 
 citation for a continuance of favour for the ensuing (or 
 second year) of her speculation. 
 
 " Mrs. Cornelys begs leave to acquaint the Nobility and 
 Gentry, subscribers to the Society in Soho Square, that the 
 Eleventh Meeting will be Thursday, May 5. Mrs. Cor- 
 nelys also informs the Nobility and Gentry that have done 
 her the honour to subscribe this year, that the next year's 
 subscription is now open, and those that will be so good 
 to continue their favour, will, by sending for, have a prin- 
 ted proposal given them. It is also desired that there be 
 a Ball in favour of Mrs. Cornelys, on Thursday. Sub- 
 scriptions to be had at her house in Soho Square, by 
 subscribers to the present society, or by their order." 
 May 12, 1764. 
 
 Soon after this, Mrs. Cornelys appears to have been 
 tempted by her success, to try the effect of a Grand Con- 
 cert of Vocal and Instrumental Music and Ball, of which 
 the following Advertisement states the postponement. 
 
 " Mrs. Cornelys begs leave to acquaint the Nobility and 
 Gentry, Subscribers to the Society in Soho Square, that 
 the Sixth Meeting will be this day. The colour of the 
 Tickets is Purple, wrote upon the back, ' Sixth Meeting.' 
 Mrs. Cornelys hopes that those Subscribers that lend their 
 Tickets, will write the name of the person upon the back 
 of the said Ticket, to whom they have lent it, to prevent 
 any mistake. And the Grand Concert of Vocal and In- 
 strumental Mjusic and Ball, which was to have been on 
 Thursday, the 23rd instant, is (by particular desire) post- 
 poned till Friday the 24th. The Subscribers to the 
 Society may have Tickets of Mrs. Cornelys." Feb. 16, 1764. 
 Mrs. Cornelys appears at a very early period of her
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCH I". 139 
 
 career, to have got involved in quarrels and disputes, and 
 seems to have been threatened with having "The Alien 
 Act" put in force against her. Her fears produced tho 
 following humble appeal to the benevolent feelings of her 
 patrons. 
 
 " Mrs. Comelys begs leave to acquaint the Nobility and 
 ("iitry, Subscribers to the Society in Soho Square, that 
 (by desire) the Eleventh Meeting is postponed to the 1/th 
 day of May next. And whereas it has been industriously 
 reported, to the disadvantage of Mrs. Cornelys, that she 
 has expressed herself dissatisfied with a subscription now 
 on foot to build a large Room in opposition to hers, she 
 esteems it her duty in this public manner to declare, that 
 she never once entertained a thought so unjust and un- 
 reasonable. She let her house with the greatest willingness 
 and pleasure, fur the accommodation of the Nobility and 
 Gentry, for the Wednesday Night's Concert ; and so far 
 from presuming to make any complaint, she humbly begs 
 leave to return thanks for the honour done her already. 
 Her house and best services are at their command, until 
 they have compleated their own She humbly hopes she 
 has not been wanting in duty and gratitude to her pro- 
 tectors, and cannot sufficiently be thankful for the com- 
 forts she enjoys in this happy country, which she hopes 
 never to leave." 
 
 (To be continued.) 
 
 SPECIMEN OF A MODERN GLOSSARY 
 THK following clever piece of satire is taken from a 
 broadside, printed about the middle of the last century, in 
 the Editor's Collection. Its application is not at all 
 weakened, although " a hundred years" hare passed away 
 since its production. 
 Angel. The name of a woman, commonly of a very bad
 
 140 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 Author. A laughing stock. It means likewise a poor 
 fellow ; and in general an object of contempt. 
 
 Bear, A country gentleman ; or, indeed, any animal 
 upon two legs that doth not make a handsome bow. 
 
 Brute. A word implying plain-dealing and sincerity ; 
 but more especially applied to a philosopher. 
 
 Cotond' } Any Stick f w d with a head to it- 
 
 Creature. A quality expression, of low contempt, pro- 
 perly confined only to the mouths of ladies who are 
 right honourable. 
 
 Critic. Like homo, a name given to all the human race. 
 
 Coxcomb. A word of reproach, and yet at the same time 
 signifying all that is commendable. 
 
 Dress. The principal accomplishment of men and women. 
 
 Dullness. A word applied by all writers to the wit and 
 humour of others. 
 
 Eating. A science. 
 
 Fine. An adjective of a very peculiar kind, destroying, 
 or at least lessening the force of the substantive to 
 which it is joined, as fine gentleman, fine lady, fine 
 house, fine cloaths, fine taste ! in all which, fine is 
 to be understood in a sense somewhat synonymous 
 with useless. 
 
 Fool. A complex idea, compounded of poverty, honesty, 
 piety, and simplicity. 
 
 Gallantry. Fornication and adultery. 
 
 Great. Applied to a thing, signifies bigness ; when to a 
 man, often littleness or meanness. 
 
 Happiness. Grandeur. 
 
 Honour. Duelling. 
 
 Humour. Scandalous lies, tumbling and dancing on a 
 rope. 
 
 Judge. An old woman. 
 
 Knave. The name of four cards in every pack.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. Ill 
 
 Knowledge. In general means knowledge of the town. 
 
 Learning. Pedantry. 
 
 Love. A word properly applied to our delight in p:irti- 
 cular kinds of food ; sometimes metaphorically spoken 
 of the favourite objects of all our appetites. 
 
 Marriage. A kind of traffic carried on between the two 
 sexes, in which both are constantly endeavouring to 
 cheat each other, and both are commonly losers in 
 the end. 
 
 Modesty. Awkwardness, rusticity. 
 
 Nobody. All the people in Great Britain, except about 
 1200. 
 
 Nonsense. The writings of the ancients. 
 
 Patriot.**, candidate for a place at court. 
 
 Politics. The art of getting such a place. 
 
 Promise. Nothing. 
 
 Religion. A word of no meaning. 
 
 Riches. The only thing upon earth that is really desir- 
 able, or valuable. 
 
 jfo^ I A man of a different party from yourself. 
 
 Sermon. A sleepy dose. 
 
 Sunday. The best time for amusement. 
 
 Temperance. Want of spirits. 
 
 Teasing. Advice ; chiefly that of a husband. 
 
 !?<"' } S^J*** of ^course. 
 
 n'it. Prophaneness, immorality, scurrility, mimickry, 
 
 buffoonery ; abuse of all good men, and especially of 
 
 the clergy. 
 
 Worth. Power, rank, wealth. 
 Wisdom. The art of acquiring all three. 
 W'trlJ. Your own acquaintance.
 
 142 FLY LEAVES ; OK, 
 
 SIR JOHN HAWKINS'S HISTORY OF MUSIC. 
 
 SIR John Hawkins's History of the Science and Practice 
 of Music was published in five volumes, quarto, in 1776. 
 Immediately upon its appearance the worthy knight was 
 attacked in the St. James's Evening Post by Steevens, the 
 commentator on Shakespeare, in the most virulent and 
 uncandid manner ; and every engine was set in motion to 
 damage the reputation of the work. Subsequently it was 
 assailed by the ridicule of Dr. Lawrence in the Rolliad, 
 Probationary Odes, fyc. The consequence of these perse- 
 vering efforts to destroy a very learned and most useful, 
 though not well written, history, was that it fell nearly 
 dead from the press. Steevens and Lawrence were the 
 friends of Dr. Burney, it should be remembered, and their 
 conduct was less justifiable, as Burney had, in the pro- 
 gress of his own work, availed himself in the most un- 
 sparing, but unacknowledged manner, of Hawkins's 
 labours. 
 
 The fate of the work, however, was decided at last, like 
 that of many more important things, by a trifle, a word, 
 a pun. A ballad, chaunted by a fille-de-chambre, under- 
 mined the colossal power of Alberoni ; a single line of 
 Frederic the Second, reflecting not on the politics but the 
 poetry of a French minister, plunged France into the 
 seven years' war ; and a pun condemned Sir John Haw- 
 kins's sixteen years' labour to long obscurity and oblivion. 
 Some wag wrote the following catch, which Dr. Callcott 
 set to music 
 
 " Have you read Sir John Hawkins' History ? 
 
 Some folks think it quite a mystery ; 
 
 Both I have, and I aver 
 
 That Burney's History I prefer." 
 
 Burn his History, was straightway in every one's mouth ; 
 and the bookseller, if he did not follow the advice dpied de
 
 SCRAPS AM SKE'I M.'t 
 
 /a lettre, actually wasted, as the term is, or sold for waste 
 paper, some hundred copies, and buried the rest of the 
 impression in the profoundest depth of a damp cellar, as 
 an article never likely to be called for, so that now hardly 
 a copy can be procured undamaged by damp and mildew. 
 It has been for some time, however, rising, is rising, 
 and the more it is read and known, the more it ought to 
 rise in public estimation and demand. 
 
 frglntoi jBingrapliij. 
 
 X., X.-JOHN WEAVER. 
 
 TMH person was an eminent dancing master, who for a 
 long series of years resided in Shrewsbury. He was the 
 son of a Mr. Weaver, whom the Duke of Ormond, then 
 Chancellor of Oiford, licensed in 1676, to exercise the 
 same profession within that University. The son was ft 
 resident of Shrewsbury in 1712, when in a letter printed 
 in the S/'fctator (No. 334) he announced his intention of 
 piiMi>hing a book on the subject. It appeared under the 
 title of An Etmy towards an History o/*Dancing, crown 
 Itvo. pp. 172, and displays reading and good sense on a 
 subject to which they have not generally been thought 
 applicable. Steele introduces Mr. Weaver's letter above 
 mentioned, with some prefatory observations, and returns 
 to the subject in No. 466. From a subsequent publica- 
 tion (Anatomical and Mechanical Lectures upon Dancing, 
 crown 8vo., 1721, pp. 156) it appears that the author 
 at least, occasionally, in the metropolis, as he 
 n.i'l his lectures "at the academy in Chancery Lane." 
 Both these performances are dedicated to Mr. Caverley, 
 an * it inent dancing-master and keeper of a boarding- 
 school for young ladies, in Queen Square. Tradition says
 
 144 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 that Weaver was the first introducer of Pantomimes into 
 England ; and he has a long and learned chapter in his 
 first book, " of the mimes and pantomimes." But we are 
 not to understand by that name, the harlequin entertain- 
 ments of the present day. What the author meant were 
 'what are now called ballets, or, as he terms it, " scenical 
 dancing," i. e., a representation of some historical incident 
 by graceful motions ; and an exhibition of this kind, The 
 Judgment of Paris, was performed by his pupils in the 
 great room over the Market-house, Shrewsbury, about 
 1750. 
 
 John Weaver died Sept. 28, 1760, and was buried at 
 St. Chad's Church in that city. He wanted not a month 
 of having lived in the reigns of eight Sovereigns. 
 
 3tanrials nf (Olfr InniDit. 
 
 HORACE WALPOLE'S ACCOUNT OF WHITEHALL AND ITS 
 PRECINCTS. " The Admiralty was rebuilt under the 
 direction of Ripley, and is well concealed by the classic 
 screen designed by Robert Adam. The Pay Office and 
 Horse Guards were also built in the reign of George the 
 Second. The palace of the Duke of York was built by 
 Sir Matthew Fetherstone. The small dome, imitated 
 from the Pantheon, and entrance, were added by His 
 Royal Highness in 1789. On that circular top, and 
 the colonnade before Carleton House, it was said that the 
 king's sons were lodged in the round house and pillory.. 
 The secretary's house was part of the old palace, was 
 granted to the Earl of Dorset, was the residence of his 
 son, the first duke, and was resold to the crown by Lord 
 Sackville. The house of the India Boara of Controul was 
 the habitation of Horatio Lord Walpole, brother of Sir 
 Robert. I mention it for the following anecdote : Dr. 
 Gibson, Bishop of London, lived in Privy Garden; the 
 noted William Whiston intending to visit him, by mistake 
 knocked at the door of Lord Walpole, then just returned 
 from his embassy at Paris. He had a Swiss porter, who
 
 SCRAP* AND SKETCHES. MS 
 
 said his Excellence was not at home. Whiston not per- 
 ceiving his error, went to the Tilt Yard Coffee House, 
 where he inveighed against the pride of modern bishops, 
 who made their servants call them Excellence. 
 
 " In Privy Garden, the first house on the left was built 
 by Granville Leveson, Earl Gower, since Marquess of 
 Stafford. Further on by the river is the house and garden 
 of the Earl of Fife, commanding a most beautiful view. 
 In the inner part is the house of the Earl of Pembroke ; 
 and then two old houses, remains of the palace, and 
 granted by King William to the Earl of Portland. In 
 one resided his widow, governess to the three eldest 
 princesses, granddaughters of George the First, whom he 
 detained at St. James's, on his quarrel with his son, on 
 the decision of the lawyers, who declared them children of 
 the crown. On his death Queen Caroline thanked the 
 Countess, but said she would be governess to her daughters 
 herself. In the other house the Duchess Dowager of 
 Portland resided, and kept her fine collection, and there it 
 was sold at her death. Further on is the house built by 
 John, Duke of Montagu, when he quitted the vast man- 
 sion in Great Russell Street. H is daughter, Countess of 
 Cardigan and Duchess of Montagu, added the two large 
 rooms. Her widower, the Duke, left it. with its pictures 
 and curiosities, to his daughter, the Duchess of Buccleugh. 
 
 " Richmond House was part of the old palace, and was 
 granted by Charles the Second to the Duchess of Ports- 
 mouth and her successors. Her grandson, the second 
 Duke of Richmond, built a new house to part of the old, 
 which was designed by Lord Burlington, but so incon- 
 venient that the present Duke has had it considerably 
 improved and much enlarged by Wyatt. His Gracs 
 having bought the adjacent house, fitted up a small 
 theatre in it. where, for two winters, plays were performed 
 by people of quality. The house has since [Dec. 21,1791] 
 been burnt." Walpolet MS. Addition* to Pennant. 
 
 CAVENDISH SQUARE. The great house on the west 
 side was built by Benson, Lord Bingley, one of Queen 
 Anne's twelve peers. On the death of his only daughter, 
 Mrs. Fox Lane, Lady Bingley, it was bought by Simoi 
 first Earl of Harconrt, and has been improved by his son. 
 the second earl. The house at the north-west corner was 
 bought, on the death of George the Second, by his daughter 
 ft
 
 JJ6 FLV LEAVES; OR, 
 
 Princess Amelia, who died there. It was then sold to;, 
 and improved by, Hope, Earl of Hopetoun. HORACE 
 WALPOLE. 
 
 RED LION SQUARE. Sir John Prestwick, in his Re- 
 publica, tells us, " that Cromwell's remains were privately 
 interred in a small paddock near Holborn, on the spot 
 where the obelisk in Red-lion-square lately stood." 
 
 The author of A Tour through Great Britain, says : 
 "This present year, 1737, an Act was passed for beautify- 
 ing Red-Lyon-Square, which had run much to decay ; 
 and no doubt but Leicester-Fields, and Golden-Square 
 will soon follow these good examples.'' 
 
 liMiflgritpljiral Unta. 
 
 THE SHRUBS OF PARNASSUS, CONSISTING OF A VARIETY 
 
 OF POETICAL ESSAYS, MORAL AND COMIC. BY J. 
 
 COPYWELL, OF LINCOLN'S-!NN, ESQ. 12mo. London: 
 
 Printed for the Author, 1760. 
 
 Pp. 154, and a list of subscribers occupying seventeen 
 pages ! The volume is chiefly curious for an Elegy on 
 the Death of Admiral Byng, an Ode to the Memory of 
 General Wolf, and a Poetical Description of Bagnigge- 
 Wells. The author's real name is unknown. 
 
 A NEW MISCELLANY OF SCOTS SONGS. London : Prin- 
 ted for A. Moore, and Sold by the Booksellers of London 
 and Westminster. Small 12mo. 1727- Price, sticht, 
 2s. Bound, "is. M. 
 
 This is the first London edition of the celebrated Tea- 
 Table Miscellany. The metrical preface is dated " Edin. 
 Jan. 1, 1724," and subscribed "A. Ramsay." 
 
 PRICE'S (D.) SAUL'S PROHIBITION STAIDE, WITH A 
 REPROOFE OF THOSE THAT TRADUCE THE HONOURABLE 
 PLANTATION OF VIRGINIA. A SERMON PREACHED AT 
 PAUL'S CROSSE. 4to. Land., 1609. 
 This very curious sermon has escaped the notice of 
 Ant. Wood ; and the portrait appears to be equally un- 
 known to Granger and Bromley.
 
 SCRAW AND SKETCttSS. 14f 
 
 T. LECHFORD'S PLAINS DEALING; OR NEWBS PROM 
 
 NEW-ENGLAND. 4to. 7/ond., 1642. 
 
 This interesting tract gives a curious picture of the 
 domestic proceedings of the colonists, their intercourse 
 with the aborigines of the country, produce of land, 
 fisheries, Ax. 
 
 TONGUE COMBAT LATELY HAPPENING BETWKENE Two 
 
 I.MiUSII SoCLDIERS IN THE TlLT-BOAT OF GRAVES- 
 END, THE ONE GOING TO SEIiVE THE KlNG OF SPAINE, 
 THE OTHEK TUB STATBS-GKJJEKALL. 4tO. Loild., 1G23. 
 
 This curious tract is attributed by bibliographers to 
 Taylor, the Water-poet. But the real author (according 
 to a MS. note in a contemporary hand) was Henry 
 Heiham. 
 
 Eccao TO TUB BOOK CALLED A VOICB FROM HKAVBN, 
 BY ARISE EVANS, SHEWING HOW HE FORKWARNBD- 
 THE LATE KlNG AND COMMONS OP THE GKEAT RuiJJ 
 or THE NATIONS, AND THAT TUB KINO SUOULJJ as 
 PUT TO DEATH. 8vo. Lond., 1653. 
 'I'lii- singular volume is a journal of that celebrated 
 enthusiast Arise Evans's life, from his birth onward, 
 stating all the visions he saw, the times God spake to him 
 personally, how often the angel appeared to him* &c. 
 
 pwimrns of Siiritnt $nftrij- 
 
 THE following ballad is from a rare miscellany, entitled 
 Wit Ratored, by J.(amet] S.[mith.] 12mo. London, 1648. 
 
 THE OLD BALLET OF SHEPHEABD TOM. 
 
 As I late wandred over a plaine, 
 
 Upon a hill, piping, I spide a shephard's swaine: 
 
 His slops were of green, his coat was of gray, 
 
 And on his head a wreath of willow and of bay. 
 
 He sigh'd and he pip't ; 
 
 His eyes he often wip't ; 
 
 He curst and band the boy, 
 
 That first brought his annoy,
 
 148 FLY LEAVES; OB, 
 
 Who, with the fire of desire so inflamde his minde, 
 
 To doate upon a lasse so various and unkinde. 
 
 Then, howling, he threw his whistle away, 
 
 And heat his heeles agen the ground whereon he lay. 
 
 He swore and he star'd ; he was quite bereft of hope, 
 
 And out of his scrip he pulled a rope. 
 
 Quoth he, " The man that wooes 
 
 With me, prepare the noose ; 
 
 For, rather than I'll fly, 
 
 By hemp I'll choose to dy." 
 
 Then up he rose, and he goes streight unto a tree, 
 
 There he thus complaines of his lasses cruelty. 
 
 " A pox upon the divell, that ever 'twas my lot, 
 To set my love upon so wooddish a trot. 
 Had not I been better tooke Jone of the mill, 
 Kate of the creame house, or bonny bouncing Nell. 
 A proud word I speak, 
 I had them at my beck ; 
 And they on holydayes 
 Would give me pick and praise : 
 But Phillis she was to me dearer than my eyes, 
 For whom I now indure these plaguy miseryes. 
 " Oft have I wood her with many a teare, 
 With ribband for her head-tire and laces from the fayre, 
 With bone-lace and with shoone, with bracelets and with 
 And many a toy besides good God forgive my sins ! [pinns, 
 And yet this plaguy flirt 
 Would ding me in the dirte, 
 And smile to see mee tear 
 The locks from my haire, 
 
 To scratch my chops, rend my slops, and at wakes to sit 
 Like to a sot bereft both of reason, sense, and wit. 
 " Therefore from this bough Tom bids adew 
 To the shepherds of the valley, and all the jovial crew. 
 Farewell, Thump my ram, and Cut my bobtail curre ; 
 Behold your master proves his owue murtherer. 
 Goe to my Phillis, goe, 
 Tell her this tale of woe ; 
 Tell her where she may finde 
 Me tottering in the winde : 
 
 Say, on a tree she may see her Tom rid from all care, 
 Where she may take him, napping, as Moss took his 
 mare." 

 
 SCRAPS AXD SKETCHES. 149 
 
 11 is Phillis by chance stood close in a bush, 
 
 And as the clowne did sprawlc, she straight to him did 
 
 rush. 
 
 She cut in two the rope, and thus to him she said, 
 " Despairing Tom, my Tom, thou hast undone a maid." 
 Then, as one amaz'd, 
 Upon her face he gaz'd ; 
 And, in his woeful case, 
 She kist his pallid face ; 
 
 He whoopt amaine, swore, no swaine ever more should be 
 Sao happy in his lore, nor halfc so sweet as she. 
 
 TUE BEDFORD MISSAL. In January, 1786, when the 
 Bedford Missal was on sale, with the rest of the Duchess 
 of Portland's collection, King George III. sent for his 
 bookseller, and expressed his intention to become the pur- 
 chaser. The bookseller ventured to submit to his Majesty, 
 that the article in question, as one highly curious, was 
 likely to fetch a high price. " How high T' exclaimed the 
 King. " Probably two hundred guineas," replied the book- 
 seller. " Two hundred guineas for a Missal ! " exclaimed 
 the Queen, who was present, and lifted up her hands with 
 astonishment. " Well, well," said his Majesty, "I'll have 
 it still ; but since the Queen thinks two hundred guineas 
 so enormous a price for a Missal, I'll go no further." The 
 biddings for the royal library did actually stop at that 
 point ; and Mr. Edwards carried off the prize by adding 
 three pounds more. The same Missal was afterwards sold 
 at Mr. Edwards's sale, in 1815, and purchased by the 
 Duke of Marlborough, for 637 15*. 
 
 ORIGIN OF NEWSPAPERS. The Newspaper was long 
 stated to have originated in Venice, in 1 563, and to have 
 been called Oazetta, whence our appellation, Gazette. This 
 was, however, an error : for the Venetian Newspaper was 
 a written sheet, for hearing which read, each person paid 
 &gazetta, a coin no longer in use. Some etymologists 
 derive the term gazette from yazzerat, a magpie or chat- 
 terer: others from the Latin goto, which would colloquially
 
 ISO SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 
 
 lengthen into gazetta, and signify a little treasury of news. 
 The Spaniards derive it from the latter, and likewise their 
 gazetors and our gazetteer for a writer of the gazette, and, 
 what is peculiar to themselves, gazetors, for a lover of the 
 gazette. 
 
 KNEELING TO THE KING. John Taylor, the facetious 
 water poet, has the merit of interrupting the servile eti- 
 quette of kneeling to the King. " I myself (he says in one 
 of his multifarious publications) gave a book to King 
 James once in the great chamber at Whitehall, as his 
 Majesty came from the chapel. The Duke of Richmond 
 said merrily to me ; ' Taylor ; where did you learn the 
 manners to give the King a book, and not to kneel ! ' My 
 lord (says I,) if it please your grace, I do give now; but 
 when I beg any thing, then I will kneel."
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 oa, 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 , UibliDgrafrfjiral, HH& fltolianrons. 
 
 MR. WILLIAM MILLER'S COLLECTION 
 OF PAMPHLEIB. 
 
 TUB terms Tract and Pamphlet seem always to hare 
 possessed the same significant meaning, viz : that of a 
 short composition : the former, however, at one period, 
 meant a discourse delivered, whilst the latter implied a 
 small book. 
 
 The origin of the word Pamphlet cannot be traced to its 
 source. It occurs, however, in the Philobiblon, a treatise 
 concerning the love of books, written in the fourteenth 
 century ; from which period to the present time it is con- 
 stantly to be found. In the reign of Henry VI. Lydgate 
 employs the word to express a short narrative poem " trans- 
 lated from a pamflete in Frensche ; " and in the latter part 
 of the fifteenth century, about 148), Juliana Berners 
 remarkably uses the term plmtnfltt for such a book as 
 might be easily attained by inferior persons, at even that 
 remote period, in contradistinction to a larger and more 
 costly volume. But though the distinct signification of 
 the term was thus early established and understood, its 
 original derivation has, perhaps, never been so clearly 
 identified as to be quite natural and satisfactory. But for 
 all that can be brought forward upon the subject we refer 
 our readers to Oldys' learned Dutertation on 1'amphleU, 
 contained in Morgan's Phvcnix Britannicut : Lond., L732, 
 Jto. pages 553, 554. 
 fNo. J1J
 
 T52 FLY 'LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 We have now before us a very rare little catalogue ITS 
 12mo. of which we transcribe the title-page in fall : " The 
 Famous Collection of PAPERS and PAMPHLETS of all sorts, 
 from the year 1600, down to this day, commonly known by 
 the name of William Miller's Collection, is now to be sold, 
 by Retail, or otherwise, at the Acorn, in St. Paul's Church- 
 yard, turning down the Old Change. Being digested into 
 such an Order and Method, by way of Alphabet, and 
 Common-Place, that the Reader shall find, without any 
 difficulty, whatever he hath occasion for ; as in the fol- 
 lowing table will appear. Composed by Mr. Charles 
 Tooker. Catalogues may be had at Mr. Matth. Gilli- 
 flowers, at his shop in Westminster-hall, Mr. Chr. Bate- 
 man, Middle Row, Holbourn, Mr. Joseph Hindmarsh, over 
 against the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill, and at the 
 Guilded Acorn, in St. Paul's Church-yard, London. 
 Price Is." 
 
 The Catalogue, which consists of one hundred pages, is 
 inscribed "To the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of 
 Stamford," by his " Most Obliged and most obedient servant 
 W. Laycock." 
 
 Amongst the brief entries in this brochure are many 
 that gladden the heart of the Bibliomaniac of the present 
 age, and cause a sigh for the substance so dimly shadowed. 
 Take for example the following : 
 
 " Poems on divers miscellaneous subjects, on a vast 
 number of very select occasions, most written by the Wits 
 of the Times, alphabetically digested from A to the letter 
 Z." 
 
 " A large number of New-fashioned Songs and Ballads." 
 
 " Broadsides with brass-plates and explanations in print 
 at the bottom of them, Popish Damnable Plots, Mock- 
 Processions, Ridiculing the Pope, Earthquakes, several 
 Hereticks, Hunting for Money, with abundance such like." 
 
 " A very considerable number of Merry, Jocular, Saty-
 
 SCRAPS AHD SKETCHES. 153 
 
 rical, Whimsical, and Trivial Matters, most in single 
 sheets." 
 
 " A collection of Prodigies, which have been seen in the 
 Heavens, Earth or Water, wherein very extraordinary 
 wonderful things are treated off." 
 
 " A Bundle of Relations of Apparitiont and Visions in 
 divers likenesses of Beasts, Birds, Men, strange sights in 
 the air, wonderful and miraculous narratives of Comets, 
 Blazing Stars, Eclipses, &c." 
 
 William Miller, the collector of these oddities must have 
 been an eccentric, as well as an industrious man. John 
 Duuton in his Life and Errors gives us the following 
 character of him. 
 
 " Mr. William Miller. His person was tall and slender ; 
 he had a graceful aspect (neither stern nor effeminate) his 
 eyes were smiling and lively ; his complexion was of an 
 honey colour, and he breathed as if he had run a race. 
 The figure and symmetry of his face exactly proportionate. 
 He had a soft voice, and a very obliging tongue. He was 
 of the sect of the Peripateticks, for he walked every week 
 to Hampstead. He was very moderate in his eating, 
 drinking and sleeping ; and was blest with a great memory, 
 which he employed for the good of the publick, for he had 
 the largest Collection of Slicked Books of any man in the 
 world, and could furnish the Clergy (at a dead lift) with a 
 printed sermon on any text or occasion. His death was a 
 public loss ; and will never be repaired, unless by his in- 
 genious son-in-law, Mr. William Laycock, who, I hear, is 
 making a general Collection of Stitched Books; and as 
 Mr. Miller's Stock was all put into his hands, perhaps he 
 is tin- fittest man in London to perfect such a useful un- 
 dertaking." 
 
 That Miller's son-in-law intended forming a general 
 collection of pamphlets, we have evidence from a folio 
 sheet of four pages preserved among Bagford's Collection
 
 154 FLY LEAVES ; OR. 
 
 in the British Museum, (Harl. MS. 5946) but it does not 
 appear that the plan took effect. This prospectus is eu- 
 titled " The Proposal of William Laycock, of the Inner 
 Temple, London, Gent., Humbly recommended to all such 
 persons, who are generally inclined to encourage Arts and 
 Learning, and in order thereunto for raising a Fund for 
 the buying up of a Stock of Scarce Sticht Bookes and 
 Pamphlets ; amongst which all bookish Gentlemen well 
 know that there are to be found abundance of excellent 
 Tracts and Discourses, not treated of in larger books." 
 
 From the first paragraph in this rare sheet we learn 
 something of the history and fate of Mr. William Miller's 
 great Collection of Pamphlets. 
 
 " That the said Laycock (by marrying the daughter of 
 William Miller, late of London, Stationer) became intrus- 
 ted, in the year 1693, to dispose of the said Mr. Miller's 
 stock, which chiefly consisted of loose papers and pamph- 
 lets, and by the assistance of Charles Tooker, bookseller, 
 the said Laycock did digest the said stock of pamphlets 
 into such exact order and method, by way of common 
 place and alphabet, that the said Laycock could find with- 
 out any difficulty anything contained in the said stock, 
 though it was but a single sheet of paper in the said stock, 
 which did consist of above 2000 reams of sticht books, 
 or loose papers. And the said Laycock, having sorted and 
 digested the stock as aforesaid, met with that encourage- 
 ment from the public, that he did exercise the said trade 
 of selling books and pamphlets for the space of seven 
 years. But in the year 1699, or thereabouts, a creditor 
 of the said Mr. Miller's (by his illegal practices and se- 
 vere prosecutions, both in law and equity, against Susanna 
 Miller, administratrix to the said Wm. Miller) did rend 
 and tear all the said stock in pieces by virtue of two exe- 
 cutions illegally obtained against the said administratrix ; 
 by which means, the said employment is absolutely de-
 
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 troyed ; and so good an undertaking of the said Laycock, 
 of great expense and seven years' labour, totally blasted." 
 
 MRS. CORNELYS' ENTERTAINMENTS, 
 
 AT CARLISLE HOUSE, SOHO SQUAKE. 
 
 (Continued from page J3.) 
 
 TOWARD the close of May, 1764, Mrs. Cornells an- 
 nounced her intention of giving a Subscription JJall, for 
 which purpose she altered and re-ornamented her Asstm- 
 bly Rooms. The two following 1 paragraphs, inserted at 
 different periods of the year 1705, utibrd some idea of the 
 extent and expense of her projected embellishments. 
 
 " It is said, the alterations and additions to Carlisle 
 House in Soho Square, performing 1 by Messrs. Phillips and 
 Shakes]>eare, together with all the new embellishme nts and 
 furniture adding thereto by Mrs. Cornelys, will this year 
 alone, amount to little less than L.2000 and that, when 
 i!::i-ln-il, it will be, by far, the most magnificent place of 
 public entertainment in Europe." 17(55. 
 
 " \\e lire told that Mrs. Comely*, amongst her other 
 
 It-pant alterations, has devised the most curious, singular, 
 uml superlj cviling to one of the rooms that ever was exe- 
 cuted or even thought of." \ov. 17'>-V 
 
 II. r Advertisements at this period still manifest a most 
 praiseworthy regard for the comfort and health of her 
 Subscribers. In one of March -JI, 1705, she promim* 
 tlkem "Tea below Stairs and Ventilator* above, by winch' 
 as the eayt, " the present complaints of excessive heat will 
 !> obviated, without Mil.jrctiiiK the Subscribers to the least 
 
 lander of catching cold." And in an Advertisement ot 
 March 28th, she suggests a prt v. nt:itiv.- to the breaking of 
 glasses in the Ladies' Chairs, by the adoption of blinds or 
 Gutter*. 
 
 .Mrs. Corncly's exertions to amuse the Nobility and
 
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 Gentry were crowned with the most complete success. In 
 1766 her Concerts, under the direction of Messrs. Bach 
 and Abel, were well attended, while her " Society Nights" 
 were so numerously patronised, as to require the contriv- 
 ance of an additional door in Soho Square. 
 
 In January, 1769, a new Gallery for the Dancing 1 of 
 Cotillons and Allemandes, and a suite of New Rooms ad- 
 joining, were opened, at an additional expense of one 
 guinea per annum to the Subscribers. 
 
 On the 27th February, 1770, a Masquerade, unrivalled 
 in those days, in point of elegance and mag-nificence, took 
 place ; concerning which, the following interesting parti- 
 culars appeared a few days after the occurrence. 
 
 " Monday night the principal nobility and gentry of this 
 kingdom, to the number of near eight hundred, were pre- 
 sent at the masked ball at Mrs. Cornelys' in Soho-square, 
 given by the gentlemen of the Tuesday Night's Club, held 
 at the Star and Garter Tavern, in Pall-mall. Soho-square 
 and the adjacent streets were lined with thousands of 
 people, whose curiosity led them to get a sight of the per- 
 sons going to the Masquerade ; nor was any coach or 
 chair suffered to pass unreviewed, the windows being 
 obliged to be let down, and lights held up to display the 
 figures to more advantage. At nine o'clock the doors of 
 the house were opened, and from that time for about three 
 or four hours the company continued to pour into the as- 
 sembly. At twelve the lower rooms were opened : in 
 these were prepared the sideboards, containing sweetmeats 
 and a cold collation, in which elegance was more conspi- 
 cuous than profusion. The feast of the night was calcu- 
 lated rather to gratify the eye than the stomach, and 
 seemed to testify the conductor's sense of its being pre- 
 pared almost on the eve of Ash Wednesday. The richness 
 and brilliancy of the dresses were almost beyond imagina- 
 tion ; nor did any assembly ever exhibit a collection of
 
 SCRAPS AMD SKETCHES. 157 
 
 more elegant and beautiful female figure*. Among them 
 were Lady Waldegrave, Lady Pembroke, the Duchess of 
 Hamilton, Mrs. Crewe, Mrs. Hodges, Lady Almeria Car- 
 penter, &c. Some of the most remarkable figures were 
 a Highlander (Mr. R. Conway) ; a double man, half 
 Miller, half Chimney Sweeper (Sir R. Phillips) ; a Political 
 Bedlamite, run mad for Wilkes and Liberty and No. 45 ; 
 a figure of Adam in flesh-coloured silk, with an apron of 
 fig leaves; a Druid (Sir W. W. Wynne); a figure of 
 Somebody ; a figure of Nobody ; a running Footman, very 
 richly dressed, with a cap set with diamonds, and the 
 words 'Tuesday Night's Club' in the front (the Earl of 
 Carlisle) ; His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester in 
 the old English habit, with a star on the cloak ; Midas 
 (Mr. James the Painter) ; Miss Monckton, daughter to 
 Lord Gallway, appeared in the character of au Indian Sul- 
 tana, in a robe of cloth of gold, and a rich veil. The 
 seams of her habit were embroidered with precious stones, 
 and she had a magnificent cluster of diamonds on her 
 head ; the jewels she wore were valued at L.30,000. The 
 Duke of Devonshire was very fine, but in no particular 
 character. Captain Nugent of the Guards, in the charac- 
 ter of Mungo, greatly diverted the company. The Coun- 
 tess Dowager of Waldegrave wore a dress richly trimmed 
 with beads and pearls, in the character of Jane Shore. 
 Her Grace of Ancaster claimed the attention of all the 
 company in the dress of Mandane. The Countess of 
 Pomfret, in the character of a Greek Sultana, and the two 
 Mi-- Fredericks, who accompanied her as Greek Slaves, 
 made a complete groupe. The Duchess of Itolton, in the 
 character of Diana, was captivating. Lord Edg b, in the 
 character of an Old Woman, was full as lovely as his lady, 
 in that of a Nun. Lady Stanhope, as Melpomene, was a 
 Mrikin:,' fine figure. Lady Augustus Stuart, as a Vestal, 
 and Lady Caroline, as a FUle de Patmos, shewed that true
 
 158 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 elegance may be expressed without gold and diamonds. 
 The Chimney Sweeper, Quack Doctor, and a Friar, ac- 
 quitted themselves with much entertainment to the com- 
 pany. About two o'clock the company began to depart, 
 in effecting which there was great difficulty. We hear 
 that two Great Personages were complimented with two 
 tickets for Monday night's masquerade, which they very 
 politely returned. Most of the carriages that came to the 
 masquerade were chalked by the populace with ' Wilkes 
 and Liberty.' " 
 
 Mrs. Cornelys commenced the year 1771 by devoting a 
 portion of the profits of her First Harmonic Meeting to the 
 purchase of Coals for the Poor of the Parish in which she 
 resided. 
 
 The first week in February she announced a Masked 
 Ball on so grand a scale, that in consequence of the num- 
 ber of applications which were forwarded to her to view 
 the preparations, she was obliged to put Advertisements in 
 the Newspapers, refusing admissions to all. 
 
 Mrs. Cornelys' Masquerade on this occasion (February 
 7,) was attended by the whole of the fashionable portion 
 of the Aristocracy of both sexes. The house was illumi- 
 nated in the most splendid and picturesque manner with 
 nearly four thousand wax lights, and one hundred musi- 
 cians were dispersed throughout the rooms. 
 
 At length this distinguished Priestess of Fashion became 
 " the prey of the informer." Sir John Fielding, the pre- 
 siding Magistrate of Bow-street, was applied to for his 
 interference, and the result is thus related. 
 
 " At the trial of Mrs. Cornelys on Wednesday, before 
 the bench of Justices in Bow Street, Messrs. Hobart, 
 Simpson, Aylett, and Rupini were examined on the part 
 of the Informer. The Counsel for the Defendant exoepted 
 against the examination of the Overseer of the Parish aa 
 a Witness, oue half of the reward reverting to the poov
 
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 nnder his care. It was urged by Mr. Kenyon, counsel 
 for Mrs. Cornelys, that the proofs alleged n<ruinat hr 
 wn-e only presumptive, consequently inadmissible. Sir 
 .fohu Fielding- dwelt long on the number of Public Places 
 of Amusement, and said there were already sufficient. 
 The arguments were strong and nervous on both sides; 
 but on summing up the evidence, Sir John declared the 
 Defendant guilty of the facts laid to her charge. Her 
 Counsel agreed to stop any further performance of Dra- 
 matic Entertainments of what kind soever till an ap- 
 peal can be made to a higher Court, provided the Plain- 
 tirt's would not lay any fresh informations against her. 
 This was assented to, and Mrs. Cornelys was pronounced 
 guilty, and liable to the penalty, which, we are informed, 
 is 50." 
 
 The Circe of Soho Square, was also further persecuted ; 
 for " The Universal Magazine " furnishes the following 
 as " heads of two Bills of Indictment preferred to the 
 Grand Jury, February 24, 1771, against a certain Lady 
 not far from Sofia." 
 
 " That she does keep and maintain a common disorderly 
 house, and did permit and suffer diverse loose, idle, and 
 disorderly persons, as well men, as women, to be, and 
 remain during the whole night, rioting, and otherwise 
 misbehaving themselves. That she did keep and maintain 
 a Public Masquerade, without any licence by her first had, 
 and obtained for that purpose ; and did receive and harbour 
 loose and disorderly persons in masks in the said house ; 
 and did wilfully permit and suffer the last mentioned per- 
 sons in masks to make a great noise, and tumult." 
 
 As if to increase the tide of ill success that now appeared 
 to set in against Mrs. Cornelys, the annals of amusement 
 were rendered remarkable by the opening of " The Pan- 
 theon," one of the most splendid structures in the metro- 
 polis ; and the novelty, beauty, and variety of its attrac-
 
 160 PLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 tions withdrew from Mrs. Cornelys many of her most 
 influential patrons. She however persevered most hero- 
 ically in the struggle for supremacy; and although the 
 Pantheon attracted the whole of the votaries of fashion, 
 by the gaieties of its masquerades, Mrs. Cornelys gave a 
 Masked Ball in opposition. 
 
 It was about this period that a Fashionable Amusement 
 was instituted among Mrs. Cornelys' Lady Patronesses, 
 entitled " The Coterie," which, together with the Concerts, 
 Balls, and Masquerades, were not sufficiently profitable to 
 extricate her from the numerous pecuniary embarrassments 
 in which her necessarily great expenses had involved her ; 
 consequently, in July, 1772, there appeared the following 
 brief advertisement. 
 
 " The Creditors of Mrs. Cornelys, of Carlisle House, 
 Soho Square, are most earnestly requested to deliver forth- 
 with a particular Account of their several and respective 
 Demands on the said Mrs. Cornelys, to Mr. Hickey, in St. 
 Alban's Street." July, 1772. 
 
 This was succeeded by the announcement in the bank- 
 rupt list of " The London Gazette," of November, 1772, 
 "Teresa Cornelys, Carlisle House, St. Ann, Soho, dealer," 
 and finally, Mrs. Cornelys' Temple of Festivity, and all its 
 gorgeous contents, were advertised to be sold by public 
 auction. 
 
 In the ensuing August, " Carlisle House with or without 
 its Furniture," was advertised by Christie, the well-known 
 Auctioneer, to be sold by private contract ; and " Tickets 
 to View," admitting two persons, were charged five shil- 
 lings. 
 
 The two following documents concerning Mrs. Cornelys' 
 Entertainments in Carlisle House, in the year 1777, are 
 selected from several others, and evidence the great decline 
 of her attractions and popularity. 
 
 "MASQUERADE INTELLIGENCE. Though Carlisle House
 
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 opened last Tuesday night at ten o'clock, there were not 
 however, abovv fifty persons in the rooms till twelve, and 
 the whole company did not exceed three hundred, many of 
 whom were in their modern cloths, with M,i-Ls and sonic 
 without. There were several characters, but not any re- 
 markably striking: a Jew broker with hU policies, and an 
 old bawd, afforded some amusement ; a tall harlequin (for 
 there were three) in exhibiting his agility, tripped up the 
 heels of two or three persons ; one of whom thinking there 
 was no Masquerade-law for such liberty, resented it, but 
 the matter was soon made up; a tolerable Irishman, :m 
 old face there ;) a number of Sailors, Spaniards, and Old 
 English Male Hunters, Fruit Girls, and Haymakers. Not- 
 withstanding the admonition to the contrary, yet there 
 were several Dominoes. Tea, lemonade, orgeat, and ca- 
 pillaire were the only refreshments." July II, 17??. 
 
 " MASQUERADE INTELLIGENCE. On Tuesday evening 
 Mrs. Cornelys summoned the votaries of mirth and festivity 
 (for the first time this season) to an elegant and splendid 
 Entertainment in the tasteful Mansions of Soho. The 
 number of guests who obeyed the festive invitation was not 
 so great as might be expected- Mrs. Cornelys seems to have 
 taken Capulet's advice in the play, 'Look to the baked 
 meats ! and, good Theresa, spare not for cost ; ' indeed the 
 supper might have served three times the number of com- 
 pany. The black Dominos were, as usual, predominant, 
 and many assumed the appearance of the opposite sex ; 
 men in female habits, and Indies in men's hats and domino*, 
 whilst some actually wore the breeches. The supper was 
 over about four, when most of the Company went down to 
 the Ball Rooms, where they danced till seven, at which 
 hour several were still left, cooling themselves with ice, 
 or warming themselves with tea." November 21, 1/77. 
 
 Carlisle House, it appears, was still without a purchaser, 
 nnd on thn JUh March, 1??S, was again publicly adver- 
 1)0 *old by Private Pontr.ict, or "to Jv Ini. ! .* 
 ujual." 
 
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 162 FLY LEAVES J OK, 
 
 The year succeeding-, (1779) this Establishment appears 
 to have been under the management of a Mr. Hoffman, a 
 celebrated Confectioner of Bishopsgate-street, who, from 
 the following paragraph, seeins to have been still more 
 unsuccessful, than his ingenious and enterprising prede- 
 cessor, Mrs. Cornelys, in his endeavours to win back the 
 public patronage to Carlisle House. 
 (To be continued.) 
 
 Jfogtortrii -Bi 
 
 No. XI. REV. GEORGE LUELLIN. 
 THIS gentleman was in early life a " page of the back- 
 stairs" to Charles the Second. He afterwards entered 
 into holy orders, and had the living of Condover, near 
 Shrewsbury. Dr. Burney, in a note to his History of 
 Music, (vol. iii. p. 495) says " he was a lively Welshman, 
 and a man of wit and taste in the arts. He was so much 
 attached to the Stuart family, so fond of music, and so 
 active in all his pursuits, that he was often called by the 
 whigs 'a Jacobite, musical, mad, Welsh parson.' In the 
 year 1715, his parsonage house was known to have been 
 an asylum to his attainted friends. He was in long and 
 close intimacy with the sometime Shropshire member, 
 Corbet Kynaston, Esq., then at the head of the Tory 
 faction. His house was fitted up with great taste, and 
 had many good pictures in it. But he seems to have spent 
 more of his time in horticulture than in any other amuse- 
 ment ; yet in this, notwithstanding his antipathy to king 
 William, his taste was so peculiarly Dutch, that he 
 cherished ' the mournful family of yews ' to a visible de- 
 gree : having at each angle of his parterre, trees of that
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 163 
 
 species cut into the shape of almost every bird and beast 
 that had been preserved in Noah's ark ; with Satan, the 
 prince of the devils, in the centre, for which it was said 
 !iy the country people he had been offered a 1000 ; and 
 in a Sower bed, just under his parlour window, king David 
 playing on the harp, was cut in box." 
 
 The Rev. George Luellin is not known to have written 
 any work ; but he contributed the additional matter to the 
 second edition of Purcell's Orpheus Sritannicus, published 
 in 1J02. Purcell was "musician in ordinary" to Charles 
 II. ; it seems, therefore, probable that Luelliu's acquaint- 
 ance with the great composer commenced during the period 
 he held the situation of " page of the back-stairs" to the 
 same merry monarch. 
 
 The author of the History of Shrewsbury, 2 vols. 4 to. 
 1 823, fixes the date of his death in 1740. 
 
 5i'rinorial5 of <D1& Imifcun. 
 
 <>!,1. HorsE IN TOTIULL-STREET, WESTMINSTER. The 
 
 Cock" public-house in this street is traditionally said 
 to have been the pay-table where the workmen received 
 their wages at the building of the Abbey, in the time of 
 Henry 111. The rafters and timbers are principally of 
 cedar. It was formerly entered by an ascent of many 
 steps. In the parlour there is a massire carving of the 
 adoration of the Magi in solid oak, very ancient ; and an 
 alto-relievo of Abraham offering up Isaac, which i> In 
 into a slab, but has less of artistical design in it than the 
 furiner. There is a curious hiding place on the staircase. 
 "This ancient little hostelry," says the Rer. Mackenzie 
 Walcott, (Memorials of WutmiiuUr, 1849, p. 281) "bore 
 probably the sipn of the 'Cock' (of St. Peter) upon the 
 pillar. ' Most of the old signs were religious charge*, or 
 liit- arms of kings or noblemen in the neighbourhood: 
 such a:, the ' Salutation' (of the Blessed Virgin), in Bar-
 
 1G4 FLY LEAVES ; OK, 
 
 ton-street ; the ' Chequers,' in Abingdon-street, the 
 bearing of the Earls of Arundel, who at one time were 
 empowered to grant licenses to public-houses. We 
 also read in the old Parish books of the ' Bell,' perhaps 
 named after great 'Westminster Edward,' the 'Maiden 
 Head,' the bust of ' Our Lady ;' the ' St. George and the 
 Dragon,' the ' Swan' and the ' Antelope,' the badge of 
 King Henry V.; and the ' Sun,' that of King Richard II. 
 The ' Blue Boar ' was the cognizance of the Earls of 
 Oxford." 
 
 lililingrajijjiral Snlirrs. 
 
 THE MUSICAL CENTURY, IN ONE HUNDRED ENGLISH 
 BALLADS, ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS; 
 ADAPTED TO SEVERAL CHARACTERS AND INCIDENTS IN 
 
 HUMAN LIFE, AND CALCULATED FOR INNOCENT CON- 
 VERSATION, MIRTH, AND INSTRUCTION. THE WORDS 
 AND MlJSICK OF THE WHOLE WORK BY HENRf CAREY. 
 
 THE SECOND EDITION, 2 vols. folio, London, Printed by 
 the Author, and sold at the Mustek-shops, 1740. 
 
 Dedicated to the Eight Honourable Charles, Lord 
 Viscount Bruce, in eighteen lines of rhyme. Prefixed are 
 three long lists of subscribers, including the names of some 
 of the most eminent political and literary men of the day. 
 Part of the preface to the first volume is worth transcribing. 
 " As the entertainment of the publick has been the chief 
 pleasure and study of my life, and as I have had the good 
 fortune to succeed, I thought it incumbent on me to offer 
 this small testimony of my gratitude, in return for the 
 encouragement I have found from the generous and good 
 natured, which has supported me against the injuries of 
 stage tyrants whom 1 now have the pleasure to despise. * 
 
 "What retarded the publication thus long, was the 
 prospect I had from an act depending in Parliament, for 
 securing the right of copies to authors or their assigns, 
 &c. it being almost incredible how much I have suffer'd by 
 having my works pyrated ; my loss on that account, for 
 many years past, amounting to little less than 300 per
 
 SCRAPS A.NU SKETCHES. 165 
 
 annum, as I can easily make appear to any person, con- 
 versant in publication. 
 
 As the justice of such a law is self evident; and an 
 act already made in favour of engravers, I doubt not but 
 the wisdom and humanity of the Legislature, will one 
 time or other regulate this affair, not confining the property 
 of authors, \c. to one particular branch, but extending it 
 to the benefit of arts and sciences in general. 
 
 " Oh ! could I see the day !" 
 
 fliirirnt ftortnj- 
 
 TOBACCO IS AN INDIAN WEED. 
 
 The following version of this Ballad is from a MS. in 
 the possession of Mr. Collier. It has the initials "G. W." 
 (i.e. George Withers) at the end. 
 
 Like Milton, Withers indulged in the luxury of smoking ; 
 and many of his evenings in Newgate (during his long 
 imprisonment), when weary of numbering his steps, or 
 telling the panes of glass, were solaced with " meditations 
 over a pipe," not without a grateful acknowledgement of 
 God's mercy in thus wrapping up " a blessing in a weed." 
 
 " Why should we so much despise, 
 So good and wholesome an exercise, 
 As early and late to meditate : 
 Thus think, and drink tobacco. 
 
 " The earthen pipe so lily white, 
 >li,ws that them art a mortal wight, 
 Even such, and gone with a small touch ; 
 Thus think, and drink tobacco. 
 
 - And when the smoke ascends on high, 
 Think on the worldly vanity 
 Of worldly stuff, 'tis gone with a puff; 
 Thus think, and drink tobacco.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 
 
 ' And when the pipe is foul within, 
 Think how the souls denied with sin, 
 To purge with fire it doth require ; 
 Thus think, and drink tobacco. 
 
 1 Lastly, the ashes left behind, 
 May daily show to move the mind, 
 That to ashes and dust return we must 
 Thus think, and drink tobacco." 
 
 ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT OF HOWE'S SHAKESPEARE. 
 " Whereas a very neat and correct edition of Mr. William 
 Shakespeare's Works, in six volumes in octavo, adorned 
 with cuts, is now so near finished as to be published in a 
 month ; to which is designed to be prefixed an account of 
 the Life and writings of the said author, as far as can be 
 collected. If, therefore, any gentlemen who have materials 
 by them that may be serviceable to this design, will be 
 pleased to transmit them to Jacob Tonson, at Gray's Inn 
 Gate, they will be a particular advantage to the work, and 
 acknowledged as a favour by the gentleman who hath the 
 care of this edition." (March 17, 1708.)
 
 FLY LEAVES; 
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES, 
 literary ajialiagrajijfiral, aniK 
 
 PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES OF CHARLES II. 
 
 MA LONE, the well known editor of Shakespeare, possessed 
 a curious volume an account of the privy expenses of 
 Hiarles II. kept by Baptist May. A few extracts from 
 this MS., taken from Malone's transcripts, are here offered 
 to the readers of " Fly Leaves." 
 
 . ./. 
 "My Lord St. Alban'sbill . . . 17461811 
 
 For the pictures of Saturne and Venus . 
 Sir W Coventry 
 
 10 
 flOO 
 
 i 
 1 
 
 lady Castlemaine's debts . 
 Mr. Lilly 
 Sir Edm. Godfrey .... 
 Mr. Curson 
 Mr Talbot 
 
 1116 
 
 182 ( 
 
 ii4 
 
 530 
 
 409 
 
 i 
 
 Sir R. Viner, for plate 
 Mr.Dryden 
 Father Patrick 
 For grinding cocoa-nuts 
 Paid Lady C. play money . 
 For a band of music .... 
 To Mrs. Dakers for two landscapes 
 Two pictures of Mrs. Lemonde . 
 [Xo.12.] 
 
 850 
 100 
 21 
 5 
 300 
 50 
 M 
 10 
 
 .1 
 'i
 
 168 FLY LEAVES; OR, 
 
 Carriage of the model of Audley End to 
 
 London t . . . . . 1 13 6 
 
 For two pictures for Lady Castlemaine 400 
 
 To the footman that beat Teasjue . 576 
 
 To the King's loss on Teague's match . 50 
 To Mr. Pears, for the charges of a body 
 
 dissected before the king . . 510 
 
 Lady C. play money . . . 300 
 Paid in part, for the Duchess of Mon- 
 
 mouth's riding furniture . . 60 
 
 Mr. Ferret for a picture . . . 60 
 
 Mr. La Gouge, for" a jewel . . 40 
 
 Mr. Remegius, for a picture . . . 150 
 
 A Diamond Eing sent to France . 105 
 
 To the Morrice Dancers at Ely . 110 
 
 Sir C. Littleton for a gold chain . 200 
 
 Lady C. play money .... 300 
 
 Mr. Knight for bleeding the king . 10 10 
 
 Medals for the healing ... 660 
 
 Lady Cornwallis . . . 100 
 
 For a receipt of chocolate . . 227 
 
 Mr. Price for milking the asses . 10 
 
 To Sir John Shaw for M. . . t, 1000 
 
 To one that showed tumblers' tricks . 576 
 
 To the poor at Newmarket . . 0140- 
 
 For weighing the king ... 100 
 
 To the fiddlers, drummers and pipers . 2156 
 
 Paid Hall for dancing on the rope . 20 
 
 The Queen's allowance .... 1,250 
 Paid at the King's laying the first stone 
 
 of the Royal Exchange . 22 k 
 
 Lady Digby 1 00 
 
 Sir John Dcnhain for a thief taker . 10 
 
 To Lord Rochester . . . 200 
 
 To Mr. Mearn for taking a seditious press 50 (*
 
 SCRAl-S AND SKETCHES. 160 
 
 Paid Lord Laudcrdale for ballads . 500 
 
 A glass for Lady Castlemain's coach . 4)00 
 To a bone-setter attending the Duchess 
 
 of Monmouth . . . . 10 II 
 
 Paid Terry for waiting on the king swim- 
 
 ming ...... 10 
 
 Cutting the ditch at Newmarket . 12 
 
 Paid Mr. Jackson for three of the king's 
 
 pictures for three flag officers . . 1 _' ti 
 Paid Mr. Stone for a Copy of Venus and 
 
 Adonis ...... 25 
 
 For 3,685 ribbons for the healing . . 107 10 4 
 
 To Madame Defeins . . . . 150 
 
 Mrs. Blague, the king's valentine . . 218 
 
 Nell Gwyn ..... 100 
 
 Sig. Attrice's sister .... 250 
 
 Lady Gerard, the king's valentine . 212 
 To Mr. Kiilegrew, to buy habits for 
 
 Cataline ..... 400 
 
 Mrs. Behn ...... 10 
 
 Lost by the king at play on Twelfth-night 220 
 Mr. Ktheridge ..... 50 
 
 Sir H. Felton for a picture . 100 
 
 Paid what was borrowed for the Countess 
 
 of Castlemaine ,. 1,650 
 
 Paid Nan Capell, for fruit at the play . 7100 
 Lady Castlemain's footman, for lighting 
 
 the king three times . . . 1 10 
 
 Paid Mr. Lilly for pictures . . . 194 
 
 Sir John Shaw for Italian Music . 600 
 
 lx>rd Castlemain .... 5/0 
 
 Mr. Cooper for pictures . . . -.'isn o (> 
 
 Sir H. Felton for a picture . . 100 o (
 
 J70 
 
 MRS. CORNELYS' ENTERTAINMENTS, 
 
 AT CARLISLE HOUSE, SOHO SQUARE. 
 (Continued from page 162.) 
 
 " MASQUERADE INTELLIGENCE CARLISLE HOUSE. 
 From the thinness of Company at Monday night's Masked 
 Ball, it is pretty clear, that these kind of exotic amuse- 
 ments are so much on their decline, as to promise a total 
 and speedy extinction. There were not more than 200 
 persons present on the above occasion ; and none of these 
 brought the least originality of wit, or humour with them. 
 The same old worn-out dresses trailed along these now de- 
 serted regions of Pathos ; and scarce a mouth was opened 
 except to partake of a plentiful supper, which was 
 served up with great taste by the celebrated Mr. Hoffman, 
 of Bishopsgate-street. The whole suite of rooms was 
 opened, and elegantly illuminated ; and the grand supper 
 room decorated with palm trees, &c. in a very superb style 
 indeed ! We were sorry to see such spirited exertions so 
 poorly rewarded, as scarcely one person of distinction, or 
 onefille de joye of note was present, to give a ton to the 
 evening's entertainments." Feb. 17, 1779. 
 
 The Rooms, during this year, were mostly appropriated 
 to " Benefit Concerts :" amongst other distinguished Vocal 
 and Instrumental Performers who had their Benefits at 
 Carlisle House were, Cramer, Crosdil, Fischer, Giordani, 
 Gonetti, and Tenducci. 
 
 The year 1780 witnessed a great change in the Amuse- 
 ments of Carlisle House. A Debating Society called the 
 " School of Eloquence" then held their Meetings there. 
 Their Object, like " the Forums of more modern times," 
 was to discuss Questions, for the most part of Political 
 Interest. 
 
 The Proprietors of Carlisle House still endeavoured to
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 171 
 
 assemble within their walls tho Fashionable Votaries of 
 Pleasure, and being well aware they could not compete 
 with the Opera House Masquerades, they more than once 
 during the month of April opened their Suite of Rooms 
 for the reception of Company, previous to " The Masqued 
 Hidotto," at the Opera House. "The School of Elo- 
 quence" continued as heretofore ; the Managers of whom, 
 termed themselves, in their Public Advertisements, as 
 " The Socifty for improvement in Elocution, Composi- 
 tion, and Eloquence." 
 
 In the May following, Masked Balls and Concerts were 
 held ; and on the 23rd of the same month " The School 
 of Eloquence" met, and the Question, " Is not the hope of 
 reclaiming a Libertine, a principal cause of conjugal un- 
 happiness ? " was debated by Ladies only. 
 
 During June, July, and August, the spacious apart- 
 ments afforded " a Promenade," which took place not only 
 twice a week, but also on Sunday Evenings. The admis- 
 sion was three shillings, which included Tea, Coffee, Ca- 
 pillaire, Orgeat, and Lemonade. 
 
 Every effort seems to have been made by the Managers 
 of Carlisle House, to attract the Fashionable World to 
 this once popular resort of the pleasure-loving portion of 
 this Metropolis. During September and October, 1789, 
 the plan of "The School of Eloquence" was remodelled, 
 and various improvements suggested ; and in November, 
 Subscription Card Assemblies and Dress Balls were intro- 
 duced, under the conduct of William Wade, Esq., as 
 .Master of the Ceremonies. 
 
 A Morning Suite of Rooms, supplied with the News- 
 papers and Periodicals of the day, was also opened gratit 
 t'i tin- Subscribers. Masked Balls and the Sunday Even- 
 ing Promenades were also held as usual. The Advertise- 
 ments announcing " the Promenade," request that " No 
 "ntli man will insist on being admitted in Boots."
 
 172 FLY LEAVES; OR 
 
 " The School of Eloquence" opened for the season on 
 the 7th December. The Advertisements, after informing 
 the Public of the Questions to be discussed on that occa- 
 sion, and stating the improvements and additions that had 
 been made to the rooms, apprise their Patrons, that " No 
 Gentleman can be permitted to speak in Mask." 
 
 The Debating Society terminated its Discussions thsi 
 year. The Fortunes of Carlisle House struggling on with 
 varied but trivial success through the year 1781. 
 
 On the 3rd January, 1782, an Attempt was made to 
 introduce a Scientific Lecture, to be illustrated by Appa- 
 ratus ; the entire failure of which is thus described. 
 
 " INTELLIGENCE FROM SOHO. Yesterday evening the 
 Proprietors of Carlisle-House attempted, by introducing 
 a Course of Lectures, to add rational and elegant Amuse- 
 ment to the usual Entertainments of that House. For 
 this purpose a Gentleman of Profession and Science was 
 employed, but the Apparatus being imperfect, he was 
 thrown into some degree of Embarrassment. To render 
 this gentleman's situation more distressing, a young man, 
 who seemed to have been sacrificing to Bacchus, entered 
 the Rooms, and not only insulted the Lecturer, but the 
 whole Company, who to their discredit had not spirit 
 enough to give him due chastisement. The Lecturer 
 seemed in a state of astonishment at the rude attack of his 
 unmannerly assailant, and left the Pioom evidently afraid 
 of personal injury." Jan. 3, 1782. 
 In the June succeeding, Count Borawlaski, the'Polish 
 Dwarf, gave two Concerts. The Tickets were half a 
 guinea each, which the Advertisement stated, " entitled 
 the purchaser to see, and converse with that very extra- 
 ordinary personage." 
 
 An interval of three years now elapsed, during which 
 period it does not appear that any Amusements were pre- 
 sented for Public Patronage, at Carlisle House.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 173 
 
 An Advertisement, dated June 21, I7!l.'>, states that 
 tlie Property was then in Chancery, as pursuant to a de- 
 cree of the Court, Mr. Christie announced the House and 
 Furniture for Sale by Auction ; the Sale to take place be- 
 tween the hours of five and six in the afternoon, before 
 F.dward Leeds, Esq., Master in Chancery, at his Cham- 
 bers in Lincoln's Inn. 
 
 It was at this period that Mrs. Cornelys quitted the 
 gay and fascinating Arena of Fashionable existence, in 
 the excitement of which she so much delighted ; and com- 
 pelled by the persecutions of her Creditors, and other un- 
 toward circumstances, she retired into the obscurity of 
 Private Life : in this sequestered state she remained 
 " the world forgetting, by the world forgot" during seve- 
 ral years. 
 
 What was done within the walls of that once magnifi- 
 cent Resort of Beauty and Fashion Carlisle House 
 from 1782 to 1/97, has not been recorded. In the latter 
 year it still retained its Title, when was presented a Musi- 
 cal Entertainment, which occasioned the interference of 
 the Magistracy. The Particulars, together with a Plan 
 of the Concert, which was intended in support of " An 
 Infant School of Genius," is so graphically described, that 
 it cannot be abridged without detriment. 
 
 " CA.RUSLK HOUSE. This evening, Thursday the 15th, 
 will be a Town Ranelagh. N.B. The intended Enter- 
 tainment of a Concert of Ancient and Modern Music, in 
 support of au Infant School of Genius, having been inter- 
 rupted last Thursday by the interference of the Magis- 
 trate, on the construction of an act of Parliament, (by 
 which the politest class of people in this kingdom are 
 forced not only under the description of the lowest tort, 
 hut reduced to the like treatment) the Proprietors, tho' 
 resolved to try the question in behalf of the polite world, 
 not wishing to stand themselves in opposition to the re-
 
 174 FLY LEAVES ; OK, 
 
 spectable power of the Magistracy of this Metropolis, 
 have thought proper to defer such Concert till the above 
 question is determined by law ; but as the School of 
 Genius, instituted on a new system, to the improvement 
 not only of the Scholar, but of the science of Music in 
 general, was meant to be opened by Subscription, on the 
 1st of May next ; the Proprietors beg the indulgence of 
 the public to introduce to their attention, the perform- 
 ances of some of the Infant Scholars, and should have 
 thought themselves too presumptuous of the merit of their 
 plan, to have such juvenile productions prematurely for- 
 ward, if they did not think themselves bound to give 
 such proof of their general plan, in apology for the loss 
 of the higher entertainment of the public, by the above 
 interruption. Celebrated Masters will give lessons of in- 
 struction on the Harp, &c. to the Infant School. The 
 Urn of Minerva in the School of Genius will be opened to 
 receive the liberal productions of the ingenious, on the 
 plan of the Bath Easton Vase, which it is to be hoped, 
 will be an opportune addition of entertainment, Refresh - 
 ments, five shillings. Tea, capillaire, orgeat, lemonade, 
 and confectionary included. The Doors in Sutton-street 
 will be opened at eight o'clock, and the Rooms in succes- 
 sion as usual. Several of the Nobility and Gentry at the 
 last Assembly at Carlisle House, having expressed a de- 
 sire of supporting a Town Ranelagh once a week, the 
 Proprietors, to conduct the entertainment under the best 
 regulations, humbly propose to the Public, that Ladies 
 come accompanied with one or more Gentlemen, as the 
 highest confidence may be placed, that no Gentleman will 
 introduce any improper person under his sanction, in of- 
 fence of a numerous and respectable company." 
 
 To return to Mrs. Cornelys. It is a singular coinci- 
 dence, that this Lady should have died during the very 
 year in which, after such a long lapse of time, her former 
 Establishment should have been re-opened.
 
 SCRAPS .\)il> SKETCHES. 175 
 
 Two years previous to this period her active spirit 
 being unsubdued, and her thoughts requiring some occu- 
 pation, however unimportant she emerged from her ob- 
 scurity, aud again attempted to assemble round her some 
 of her former Patrons, as well as those of later date, 
 who might be attracted by the novelty of her trade. She 
 accordingly selected Knightsbridge, as a spot favourable 
 for her new pursuit, and having installed and advertised 
 herself as " a Vendor of Asses' Milk," she fitted up a Suite 
 of Rooms for the reception of Visitors to Breakfast in 
 Public, and to regale themselves with the milk of that 
 patient and useful animal. 
 
 Her ill success might easily have been conjectured. A 
 cotemporary very justly says, " The manners of the times 
 were changed, and her taste had not adapted itself to the 
 variations of fashion." After much expence employed in 
 gaudy and frivolous establishments, she was obliged to 
 abandon the scheme, and again seek an Asylum from her 
 Creditors. 
 
 The Fleet Prison at length received her, and here, in 
 this receptacle for the unfortunate and improvident, the 
 last scene of her eventful and varied career was enacted. 
 On the 19th of August, 1797, at a very advanced age, she 
 expired. 
 
 She had a Son and Daughter, on whom she wisely be- 
 stowed a good education. The Son was Tutor to Lord 
 Pomfret. He allowed his Mother an annuity till his 
 death, which happened a few years previous to her de- 
 cease. The Daughter was living in 1797, and having 
 adopted another name, was for many years patronised by 
 Families of Title, who knew her Mother during the 
 period of her prosperity. She subsisted principally by 
 the exercise of her Musical Talents ; and it is stated 
 that to her, the Lady Cowper, whose family had greatly 
 befriended her Mother, left an annuity.
 
 176 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 Such was the fate of Mrs. Cornelys, whose vicissitudes 
 of fortune and melancholy end, hold forth a warning to 
 the improvident of both sexes ; for, with common discre- 
 tion, she might have closed her career surrounded with 
 the comforts of life, if not in affluence. 
 
 It is not true (observes a Periodical Writer of the day) 
 that Mrs. Cornel ys subsisted upon the bounty of her fel- 
 low prisoners in the Fleet. She had a liberal allowance 
 from a Lady related to the Family of Earl Cowper, who 
 would have increased that Allowance, and settled it on 
 her for life, if she would have renounced her projecting 
 turn, which for ever flattered her with the delusive hope, 
 of reviving all her lost influence in the Fashionable World. 
 These Visionary Schemes, however, she was indissolubly 
 wedded to and never would resign, and the fatal result 
 was, that whilst she was dreaming of a Palace, she died 
 in a Gaol ! Thus realising the Poet's line : 
 
 " Hope, delusive hope, still points to distant good! " 
 
 lingrajiljij. 
 
 No. XII. THE REV. AETHUR BEDFORD. 
 
 THE biography of this pains-taking and learned writer, 
 who like another Collier thundered forth his invectives 
 against the immorality of the Stage, is more scanty than 
 usually falls to the lot of persons of his calling. We can 
 do little more than enumerate his works, which are as 
 follows :- 
 
 1. . Temple Musick ; or an Essay concerning the Method 
 
 of Singing the Psalms of David in the Temple. 8vo. 
 Land., 1706. 
 
 2. The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays. 8vo. Bristol, 
 1706.
 
 SCRAPS AND SKETCHES. 177 
 
 3. The Ur.-at AbiiM'of Musick. Hvo. 7,.>w/., I7U. 
 ; A NTI ;i, Uomonstrani-p against the Blasphemies used 
 in the Knglish Play-Houses. 8ro. Lond., 1719. 
 
 .pture Chronology demonstrated by Astronomical 
 Tabulations. Folio. Lond., 1/30. 
 j. The Excellency of Divine Musick ; a Sermon Preached 
 at St. Michael's, Crooked Lano. 8vo. Lond., 1733. 
 The Rev. Arthur Bedford was M.A. and Chaplain to the 
 Duke of Bedford. He first styles himself "Vicar of 
 Temple in the City of Bristol," and afterwards (1719) 
 i <>f Newton St. Loe, in the County of Somerset." 
 Latterly he resided in London as Chaplain to the Haber- 
 dashers' Hospital at Hoxtou. He died September 13th, 
 1746. 
 
 3l!f nmrials of <01& Iimitou. 
 
 >r. <MLKS'S IN OLDEN TIMKS. The Hospital ., M 
 (Jtles was founded in 1 1 17 by Matilda (or, a> >n.- is called 
 
 hi-torians, Maud), daughter of Malcolm. : 
 Scotland, Queen of King Henry I. It was of COMMI! Ar- 
 able extent, and was situated near to the pr. ~. -it clinrch. 
 a little to the west, and, according to Maitland. when 
 Court now stands, audits, gardens between lli^h 
 Street, aud Crown Street and the Pound, which stood 
 nearly opposite to where Mcux's Brewhouse has since 
 risen. 
 
 The hospital was dedicated to a Grecian Saint. U'ariii.- 
 the nai; - GUIvof tin- U-|K?rs : " it had a chapel 
 
 attached to it, a house for it* Ma-sier and oth-T 
 and continued under flourishing < -ircuinstances till ii> di-- 
 solution in the reign of Henry VIII. 
 
 On the removal i the nllowi from the elms in Smith- 
 
 li.-ld in tli..- t'u ry V. m;i. it was set up at 
 
 tin- north on, tal wall, betw.-<-n th- 
 
 t>Tiiiinati.'n of High Strwt ami Crown Street, at which 
 
 :miiii.-.l till it wa> I'vburn. 
 
 The capital mansion which Lord Lisle tilted up for hu 
 
 N
 
 FLY tEATES ; OK, 
 
 own accommodation, was situated on the site of the soap 
 manufactory (now occupied by Messrs. Cross and Black- 
 well) in a parallel direction with the church, but more 
 westward. It was afterwards occupied by the much cele- 
 brated Alice, Duchess of Dudley, who was buried there- 
 from in the reign of Charles II. anno 1669, aged 90. This 
 house was afterwards the town residence of Lord Whar- 
 ton ; and Strype notices it thus : " Lloyd's Court is di- 
 vided from Denmark Street by Lord Wharton's house 
 and Gardens, which fronts St. Giles's Church." The 
 house appropriated to the master of the Hospital, was 
 situated where Dudley Court has been since built, and is 
 mentioned as occupied by Dr. Andrew Boorde, in the 
 transfer from Lord Lisle to Sir W. Carewe. 
 
 One of the old minute-books of the parish contains the 
 following entry : 
 
 " 1637. To prevent the great influx of poor people into 
 this parish, ordered, that the beadles do present every 
 fortnight, on the Sunday, the names of all new comers, 
 wider-setters, inmates, divided tenements, persons that have 
 families in cellars, and other abuses." 
 
 " This," says Parton, in his History of St. Giles's, " is 
 the first mention of cellars as places of residence, and for 
 which the parish afterwards became so noted, that the 
 expression of a cellar in St. Giles's,' used to designate 
 the lowest poverty, became afterwards proverbial, and is 
 still used, though most of these subterranean dwellings 
 are now gone." 
 
 OLD HOUSE IN DRURY LANE. In Aggas's and Hogen- 
 burgh's plans of about 1570 and 1584, Drury-lane is re- 
 presented at the north end, as containing a cluster of farm 
 and other houses, a cottage, and a blacksmith's shop, and 
 the lane in continuity to Drury-place forms a separation 
 from the fields by embankments of earth, something like 
 those of Maiden-lane, Battle Bridge. It was, in fact, a 
 country road to Drury-place, and the Strand, and its 
 vicinage. Nearly opposite to Crown-buildings, is a low 
 public-house, bearing the sign of the Cock and Pye, which 
 two centuries ago, was almost the only house in the east- 
 ern part of Drury-lane, except the mansion, of the 
 Dr uries.
 
 WRAPS AND SKETCHES. 179 
 
 Hotirrs. 
 
 POEMS OM SBVKRAL OCCASIONS. BY H. CARET. 12mo. 
 . Aonrfon, printed in the year 1720. 
 
 This small volume, consisting of 88 pages, appears to 
 have been privately printed. It is not mentioned among 
 the author's works. The preface commences with this 
 passage : " The following pieces (being the offsprings of 
 my youthful genius) seem'd to complain against me for 
 letting them wander thro' the wide world forlorn ; nay, 
 almost driven to a constraint of seeking other fathers." 
 
 FROM a rare broadside, without date or printer's name, 
 published about the middle of the seventeenth century. 
 
 THE PRAISE OF ALE. 
 
 Come all you brave wights 
 That are dubbed ale-knights, 
 
 Now set yourselves in fight : 
 And let them that crack 
 In the praises of Sac*, 
 
 Know malt is of mickle might. 
 
 Though Sack they define, 
 To be holy, divine, 
 
 Vet is it but natural liquor ; 
 Alt hath for its part, 
 An addition of art 
 
 To make it drink thinner or quicker. 
 
 Sack's fiery fume 
 
 Doth waste and consume 
 
 Men's humidum radical* ; 
 It scaldeth their livers, 
 It breeds burning fevers, 
 
 Proves vinum
 
 180 FLY LEAVES ; OR, 
 
 But history gathers, 
 From aged forefathers 
 
 That Ale's the true liquor of life ; 
 Men liv'd long in health, 
 And preserved their wealth, 
 
 Whilst Barley-broth only was rife. 
 
 Sack quickly ascends, 
 And suddenly ends 
 
 What company came for at first : 
 And that which yet worse is, 
 It empties men's purses 
 
 Before it half quenches their thirst. 
 
 Ale is not so costly, 
 Altho' that the most lye 
 
 Too long by the oil of barley ; 
 Yet may they part late 
 At a reasonable rate, 
 
 Though they come in the morning early. 
 
 Sack makes men from words 
 Fall to drawing of swords, 
 
 And quarrelling endeth their quaffing ; 
 Whilst Dagger- Ale barrels 
 Bear off many quarrels, 
 
 And often turn chiding to laughing. 
 
 Sack's drink for our masters ; 
 All may be Ale-tasters ! 
 
 Good things the more common the better : 
 Sack's but single broth : 
 Ale's meat, drink, and cloth, 
 
 Say they that know never a letter ! 
 
 But not to entangle 
 
 Old friends, till they wrangle 
 
 And quarrel for other men's pleasure 
 Let Ale keep his place 
 And let Sack have his grace. 
 
 So that neither exceed the due measure.
 
 SI-RAPS AND SKETCHES. 181 
 
 anil krtrljrs. 
 
 LINES os A PRINTING OFFICE. 
 
 The world's a printing-house ; our words, our thoughts, 
 
 Our deeds are characters of sev'ral sizes : 
 Each soul is a compos'tor ; of whose faults 
 
 The Levites are correctors ; Heav'n revises : 
 Death is the common press ; from whence being driv'n, 
 
 We're gather'd sheet by sheet, and bound for Heav'n. 
 
 THE PENDHKLL FAMILY. The Annual Register of 
 1U27, has the following announcement : "Died, Decem- 
 ber loth, 1827, at Eastborne, aged 70, Mr. John Pend- 
 rell, the representative of the preserver of Charles II. 
 His son, who formerly kept the Royal Oak at Lewes, is 
 now clerk at the Gloucester Hotel, Brighton." 
 
 ORIGIN OF THE LAMPOON. These personal and scan- 
 dalous libels obtained the name of lampoons, from the es- 
 tablished burden formerly sung to them: 
 
 " Lampone, lain pone, camerada lampone." 
 
 THE CHANCERY COURT IN THE TIME OF SIR T. MORE. 
 It is said of More, that at his coming into the office of 
 Chancellor, " he found the Court of Chancerie pestered 
 and clogged with manie and tedious causes, some having 
 hung there almost twentie years." Before he left the 
 situation, he one day called " for the next cause ? " upon 
 which he was answered there was " none other upon the 
 lift" this, say his biographers, he caused "to be put 
 upon record, as a notable thing ! " When will this day 
 occur again ? At the present time there is one case, the 
 Jennens case or, as it is emphatically called the great 
 Jennens case which has fed the lawyers for more than 
 half a century ! 
 
 N \M Y DAWSON'S GRAVE. This famous hornpipe dan- 
 cer, and friend of Ned Shuter, died at Hampstead, 
 May -'7th, 1767. She was buried in the Chapel of St. 
 George the Martyr, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, where 
 there is a tombstone to her memory, simply stating, 
 " Here lies Nancy Dawson."
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Account Book, Leaf from an Old, 97 
 
 Ale, Song in Praise of, 179 
 
 Alexander, The Romance of, 75 
 
 Almanacs, Old, 121 
 
 Aretin (Peter) Epitaph upon, 1 19 
 
 As I in Hoarie Winter's Night, 27 
 
 As I late Wandred over a Plaine, 14? 
 
 Avison (Charles) Biographical Notice of, 110 
 
 Ballads, Catalogue of Old, in the King's Library, 80, 12 
 
 Barba's Art of Metals, (16/4,) 86 
 
 Basselin (Olivier) Ballad by. 
 
 Baxter (Richard) on the English Poets, 30 
 
 Bayeux Tapestry, \:i 
 
 Bedford (The Rev. Arthur) Biographical Notice of, 170 
 
 Bedford Missal, 1-19 
 
 Bees, Reformed Commonwealth of, (1655.) 40 
 
 Belsize House, Hampstead, 1 12 
 
 Books, a Knowledge of, 44 
 
 Golden Sentences about, 79 
 
 Booksellers, Jeremy Collier's Essay on, 76 
 
 Satirical Poem on, 86 
 
 Bourman (T.) Lore Letter by, 65 
 Breton (Nicholas) Poetry by, li. !:; 
 
 Browne .licina Musica, (1/29,) 1.13 
 
 Bullokar (William) Booke of Orthographic, 115 
 
 Bunyan's Bible, 14 
 
 Burges's Art of Printing, (1/01,) 27 
 
 Burlington Street, Old, 101 
 
 Butler (Charles) English Grammar, (1633,) 116
 
 J84 INDEX. 
 
 Camden's Britannia, 14 
 
 Campion (Thomas) Poetry by, 56-8 
 
 Card Advertisement, 44 
 
 Carey (Henry) Musical Century, (1740,) 164 
 
 Poems on Several Occasions, (1/20,) 179 
 Castlehaven, (James, Earl of Audley) Memoirs of Wars 
 
 in Ireland, (1642-51,) 11 
 Cavendish Square, 145 
 
 Chancery Court in the Time of Sir T. More, I 81 
 Charing Cross, 84 
 
 Charles I. and the Marquis of Worcester, 4& 
 Charles II., his Private Library, 59 
 
 His Privy Expenses, 167 
 
 Cheapside Cross, 84 
 
 Cleland (John) Biographical Notice of, 9& 
 Cock Grower, The King's, 59 
 Coffee Houses, First in England, 15 
 Coffee, its Introduction into France, 1 1 9 
 Collier (Jeremy) Essay on Books, 76 
 
 (Joel) Musical Travels, (1785,) 71 
 
 Come all you Brave Wights, 179 
 
 Conduit at Islington, 53 
 
 Copywell (J.) Shrubs of Parnassus, (1760,) J46 
 
 Cornelys' (Mrs.) Entertainments at Carlisle House, I3<ji, 
 
 155, 170 
 
 Coventry, Sending to, Origin of the Term, 135 
 Covent Garden, 26 
 Cranmer's (Archbishop) Dietary, 29 
 Craven Buildings, Drury Lane, 39, 71 
 Cromwell, his Love of State, 60 
 
 His House at Bermondsey, 25 
 
 Ditto at Brompton, 114 
 Curll (Edmund) the Bookseller, 5ft 
 Cupid in a Bed of Roses, 12 
 
 Daffey's Elixir, 119
 
 INDEX. 185 
 
 Dancing Tanght by Written Characters, 47 
 
 Dawson's, Nancy, Grave, 181 
 
 Dering (Sir Edward) Most Excellent Maria, (1/01,) II 
 
 Dowsing's (William) Journal, 106 
 
 Doyley's Warehouse in the Strand, 71 
 
 Drayton's Grave, 89 
 
 Drury Lane, Old House in, 1 78 
 
 Elizabeth (Queen) Unpublished Poems by, 28 
 
 Her Library, 89 
 
 Elphinston (James) English Speech, (1770,) 117 
 
 Empress of Order, 1 33 
 
 Evans (Arise) Eccho to the Book called a Voice from 
 
 Heaven, (1653,) 147 
 Explication of Foreign Words in Musick, (1/24) 72 
 
 Falconberg House, Soho Square, 24 
 
 Faiishawe's (Sir Richard) Embassies to Spain, (1701,) 26 
 
 Flton, The, Letter, 90 
 
 Female Glory, 1635, 11 
 
 Fire, Fire, 57 
 
 Flemish Songs and Music, 29 
 
 , Giles's (St.) in the Olden Time, 177 
 
 ill (Alexander) Logonomia, (1619.) 116 
 Globe, Ancient One at Nuremberg, 13 
 Glossary, Specimen of a Modern, 139 
 
 Hacketfs Select Epigrams, (1757,) 72 
 
 Hall (John) Observations on English Bodies, (1657,) 133 
 
 Harrod (William) Biographical Notice of, 130 
 
 Hart (John) Orthographie, (1569,) 115 
 
 Harvey (Gideon) Family Physician, (1678,) 139 
 
 Art of Curing by Expectation, (1689,) 139 
 
 Hawkius (Sir John) History of Music, 142 
 
 (J. S.) Inquiry into Thorough Bass, (18)7,) 216 
 
 Henley (Orator) Some Account of, 91
 
 186 INDEX. 
 
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 Herd (David) Biographical Notice of, 23 
 Heron (Robert) Biographical Notice of, 36 
 Hence, Hence Distracting Care, 117 
 Hildebrand (Old) a Flemish Ballad, 21 
 Hodges (Richard) Help to Orthographic, 116 
 Homer in a Nut Shell, 119 
 Human Figure, Whimsical Prints of, 14 
 Humane Industry, (1661,) 56 
 Humbug, Origin of the Term, 74 
 
 In the Merry Month of May, 13 
 Inlaid Floors in England, 28 
 Institution of a Gentleman, (1568,) 39 
 Italian Dramatic Library, 120 
 
 Jackson (Andrew) Biographical Notice of, 69 
 
 James I., Knights created by, 89 
 
 James' (St.) Square, 101 
 
 Jenny's Whim, 38 
 
 Jones (J.) Practical Phonography, (1701,) 117 
 
 Jordan (Thomas) Defence for Musick, (1659,) 133 
 
 Judith, History of, translated by Hudson, (1584,) 
 
 King's (The) Cock Grower, 59 
 
 Library, Ballads in, 80, 128 
 
 Kneeling to the King, 150 
 
 Lampoon, its Origin, 181 
 Lechford's Plaine Dealing, (1642,) 147 
 Leicester (Earl of) Epitaph upon, 104 
 Lemoine (Henry) Biographical Notice of, 50 
 Luellin (Rev. George) Biographical Notice of, 162 
 London, Ancient Mode of Lighting, 131 
 
 its Extension, 102 
 
 Parliamentary Fortifications of, 8 
 
 Love Letter, byT. Bourman, (1644,) 65
 
 187 
 
 Malcolm (Alex.) Treatise of Milsick, (1721,) 132 
 
 Malynes' (Gerard) Answer to Misselden, (1622,) 102 
 
 Martin's (St.) Lane, 9 
 
 Mary Queen of Scots, her Library, 89 
 
 Marylebone Gardens, 39 
 
 Maydes are Simple Some Men Say, 58 
 
 Melton or Milton's Sixe-folde Politician, 1609, 10 
 
 Memoirs' of the Twentieth Century, (1773,) 40 
 
 Masters (Robert) Account of Waterbeach, (1795) 40 
 
 Miller's (William) Collection of Pamphlets, 151 
 
 Misselden (E.) Free Trade, (1622,) 102 
 
 Circle of Commerce, (1623,) 103 
 
 Milton's Country Residences, 2 
 
 Missal, the Bedford, 149 
 
 Monuments, paying to see them, 22 
 
 Mournful Melpomene, a Ballad, 41 
 
 MSS. Ancient Prices of, 75 
 
 Mulcaster's (Richard) Elementarie, (1582.) 115 
 
 Muse's, The, Library, (1738,) 10 
 
 Musical Libraries of Rome and Naples, 127 
 
 Musick, a Defence for, 133 
 
 My Sin as Red as Scarlet, 118 
 
 Never Love unless, &c., 57 
 Newspapers, their origin, 1 49 
 
 come again my Lovely Jewell, 12 
 Orchesographie, or the Art of Writing Dances, 47 
 Orthography in the 16th Century, 50 
 " Oh Nanny," Origin of the Song, 18 
 
 Parliamentary Fortifications of London, 8 
 Pamphlets, Miller's Collection of, 151 
 Parnell's Poems, (1770,) 26 
 Past Eight o'clock, 129
 
 188" INDEX. 
 
 Peacham's Account of Charing Cross, 84 
 
 Account of Cheapside Cross, 84 
 
 Pendrell, The, Family, 181 
 
 Peter's Court, St. Martin's Lane, 9 
 
 Politicians, Lady, 135 
 
 Price p.) Saul's Prohibition Staide, (1609,) 146 
 
 Printing Office, Lines upon, 181 
 
 Prior's Chloe, 6 
 
 Provencal Poets, 33 
 
 Puttenham, Who was he ? 47 
 
 Ramsay (A.) New Miscellany of Scots Songs, (1727,) 146 
 
 Red Lion Square, 146 
 
 Romances, Historical, 105 
 
 Romance of Alexander, 75 
 
 Ross (Alex.) Biographical Notice of, 83 
 
 Rowe's Shakespeare, Advertisement of, 166 
 
 Sacred Poetry of the 17th Century, 103, 117 
 
 Sadler's Wells, 54 
 
 Shakespeare, Advertisement of Rowe's, 1 66 
 
 Sign-board of, 25 
 
 Shepheard Tom, a Ballad, 147 
 
 Sibbald (James) Biographical Notice of, 7 
 
 So Sweet is thy Discourse, 58 
 
 Southwell (Robert) A Carol by, 27 
 
 Spendthrifts, Admonition to, 90 
 
 Suckling (Sir J.) Fragmenta Aurea, (1658,) 85 
 
 Tapestry, The Bayeux, 13 
 
 The Birds that here so Merrily, 118 
 
 The Sports on the Green, 74 
 
 Theatrical, Early, Performance in Germany, 43 
 
 There is a Garden in her Face, 12 
 
 Thrice Tosse these Oaken Ashes, 56 
 
 Tobacco is an Indian Weed, 1 65
 
 189 
 
 Tongue Combat, (1C23,) 147 
 
 IV M.rry in Hall, 67 
 Town Gallant's Song, 73 
 
 The Enjoyments of, 74 
 
 Tothill Street, Westminster, Old House in, 163 
 True Loyalist, or Chevalier's Favourite, (1779,) .">. 
 
 Up Sluggish Soul.', hi:: 
 Vanderbank, the Engraver, 74 
 Vaudeville, its Origin, 34 
 Vocal Organ, The, (1665,) 116 
 Vyse's Spelling Book, 44 
 
 Walpole's Account of Whitehall, 144 
 
 Warwick (Sir P.) Discourse of Government, (1694,) 10 
 
 Watchmen at Herrnhuth in Germany, 129 
 
 We are Born, then Cry, &c., 73 
 
 Weaver (John) Biographical Notice of, 14." 
 
 Whitehall and its Precincts, 144 
 
 Ceiling of, 39 
 
 Wheeler (John) Treatise of Commerce, (1601,) 40 
 Whole Duty of Man, the Author of, 89 
 What though I did Possess, &c., 103 
 Withers (George) his Descendants, 43 
 
 Ballad by, 165 
 Why should we so much Desji. 
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