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 ID. XL MAY i, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LOSDON, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1909.

CONTENTS.-No. 279.

2JOTES : An English Queen as Jezebel Coleridge as an Art-Critic, 341 Protestant Cemeteries at Naples : Eustace Neville-Rolfe-May Day, 343 May-Blossom : Knots of May OM Serjeants' Inn Naseby Field, 344 "I sit on a rock " Automata New Causes of Dise_ase, 345 " Aklress " Valle Crucis Abbots Roger Williams of Rh.Kle Island, 346.

QUERIES : ' Meinoires de M. de Lage de Cueilly' Coventry Patmore and Swedenborg Shakespeare's Descendants, 346 Daniel MaCartie, Sub-Sheriff of Cork - Duke of Wellington : a Strange Epitaph Jonathan Wild Bibliography T. Truman, Bookseller " Scrannel- pipedest " Mysterious Naval Foe Vagrants at Thorpe Salvin "Tudor" spelt "Tidder" Genealogical Com- pilations Missing, 347 Ringeldria Llangollen Registra- tion of Births and Deaths Blind Institutions Bishop Berkeley's Name James Preston of Hounslow B. W. L. Strasburg : Solomon Strasbourg Thornton Abbey : Abbot Thomas Gresham, 348 Shields Fretty and Ordi- nariesOliver Cromwell's Head Tankard with Coat of Arms "Gipsy of the sky" Fruzan, Female Christian Name Rear- Admiral Keeler H.M.S. Calliope, 349.

REPLIES : Sir Reginald Bray, 349 Eton College Names, 350 'Swiss Family Robinson,' 351 ''Seraskier" Turton Aspirine, 352 Tennyson Concordances M'lampus and the Saint "Saskatoon" Joanna Southcott's Passports, 353 Joanna and the Black Pig Spanish Money in Nubia

Etymology of Liverpool Macaulay and Thorns, 354 Author Wanted Lawrence the Wit Westminster Abbey Almsmen " Punt" in Football, 355 Seventeenth-Century

Quotations Mendez Pinto Prepositions in Place-Names Egg good in Parts St. Mary's, Shrewsbury Bonassus Names terrible to Children, 356 AnneSteele "Gaunox"

Fe'camp Abbey "Jack Robinson" St. Michael le Quern Briefs for Greek Christians Dickens's " Automa- ton Dancers "Jenny Wilkins James Corbridge, 357 "Earife" T. Weatherall Beachey Head Semaphores

" Sinews of war " Drayton on Valentine's Day Coffee- drinking in Palestine Higham-on-the-Hill, 358.

XOTES ON BOOKS: The Authorised Version, 1611 ' Tyburn Tree ' Milton and Dante at the Rylands Library ' L'lntennediaire."

Booksellers' Catalogues.

AN ENGLISH QUEEN AS JEZEBEL.

IT is so comparatively infrequent for Macaulay in his ' History of England ' to refrain from giving a precise reference for any of his statements of fact that the greater interest attaches to one such case, relating a story that has been told not only in various ways, but of different women. Record- ing in chap. xx. the death of Mary II., consort of William III., the historian writes : " It has often been repeated, and it is not at all improbable, that a nonjuring divine, in the midst of the general lamentation, preached on the text : ' Go : see now this cursed woman and bury her : for she is a King's daughter.' "

This story has passed into some historical textbooks and other works ; and its latest variant is to be found in the introduction to a recently issued cheap reprint of ' Gulliver's Travels,' where it appears in this form :

" Queen Anne was a bigoted supporter of the Church, and laid a heavy hand upon dissent.

A dissenting clergyman avenged the sufferings of his sect by preaching, when the queen died a sermon from the text"

and then is given the Jezebel reference, as before.

The writer of this version though ob- viously no authority upon ecclesiastical distinctions for a Nonconformist and a Nonjuror would seem to be much the same to him was probably nearer the mark as to the Queen to whom the insulting allusion is said to have been made than was Macaulay. It would be interesting to trace any con- temporary allusion to the text having been applied to Mary, but there certainly exists one for its having been alleged to have been applied to Anne ; and this is to be found in The Flying Post,; or, The Post-Master, a leading Whig organ of the time, and generally thought at the period to be " inspired," even if not edited, by Steele. In the number for 31 August-2 September, 1714 (and therefore only a month after Queen Anne's death), in the course of a strong attack upon the Tories, it is said :

" We find there's a Detachment of these im- placable Malecontents kept in Half-Pay to per- secute our Prelates and best Divines of the Church of England, with Lyes and Slander. One flagrant Instance of this we are here to take Notice of, and that is, the false and scandalous Report, that they have now spread thro' the Town and Country, in prejudice of the Eight Reverend and Pious Prelate, the Bishop of Sarum, viz. That his Lordship, on the second Sunday after the Queen's Death, preached at Bow Church in this City [London], and took his Text, 2 Kings 9, 34. ' Go see now this cursed Woman, and bury her, for she is a King's Daughter." Now, 'tis Notorious to Hundreds who heard his Lordship that Day at the said Church, that he was so far from naming such a Text, that he took it out of Acts 13, 38, 39, 40, and 41 verses. And the whole Auditory can witness that he never quoted any Proof out of the Book of Kings, or any other in reference to Jezebel, as his Lordship's and the Nation's enemys so industriously give out."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

COLERIDGE AS AN ART-CRITIC. (See ante, p. 181.)

I CONTINTTE my excerpts from the mar- ginalia written by Coleridge upon a copy of the first volume of Allan Cunningham's ' Lives of the Most Eminent British Sculp- tors, Painters, and Architects.' As before, I give first Cunningham's words, followed in each instance by Coleridge's comment. Obscure words I have denoted by a question mark ; unreadable ones by a dash.

A. C. Hogarth's portrait of Garrick (as Richard).