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 io> s. v. FEB. 10, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1006.

CONTENTS.-No. 111.

NOTES : Fonseca's 'Devout Contemplations,' 1629, 101 A West Indian Military Burial-ground, 104 Guineas, 105

"Marmor" and the Sea in Latin Poets Dekker's 'Sweet Content' Townley House, Ramsgate, 106 St. Expeditus Stevenson's 'New Arabian Nights,' 107.

QUBHIBS:-" Pip " "Pious founder" The Waterloo Campaign, 107 -Sterne and Johnson at "the Cheshire Cheese " Authors of Quotations Wanted King : Joachin Cardoza ' Century of Persian Ghazels,' 1851 Laconic Letters Dublin Records Oxford University Volunteers Tatham's Life of Blake, 10-! Ernest Augustus Stephen- eo.i PASSOW'S Greek-German Lexicon Novel: Title Wanted Samuel Williams, Draughtsman Jenkyn, Liu.le John, &c. Spinola's Whale Hetman -. Ataman, lu9

Portmanteau Words and Phrases Dutch Epiphany Custom 'Poems of Early Years' Vamphorn Lustre Ware, 110.

REPLIES :-"Hoast," 110 "Jan Kees "Rockefeller Death-birds in Scotland and Ireland, 111 Line >lnshire Death Folk-loreJohn Dyer, Poet Semper Family- Suppression of Duelling in England "Bbl." Archbishop Kempe Reginald Fitz Urse Staines Bridge, 112 Major Richard Cromwell. 1648 'A Medley Finale to the Great Exhibition,' 113 Tower of London " Was you?" and " You was " " Brelan " The Condado " Diss." : an Abbreviation' Pancbaris' : ' Minerva,' 1735" Pin-iir" Trafalgar, 114 Bacteria : Early Notice -Ilafiz, Persian Poet Born with Teeth Gobesius : Sheeter Selling Oneself to the Devil Napoleon's Coronation Robe : its Gold Bees Mantegna's House, 115 " Quam nihil ad geitium, Papiniane, tuum ! "Pidgin or Pigeon English ' The Epicure's Almanack ' Bowes Castle, Yorkshire, 116 Fame 'Rebecca,' a Novel, 117.

NOTES ON BOOKS : The Enterlude of Youth ' ' Swin- burne's Tragedies' 'The Folk-lore of Women' 'Early Lives of Charlemagne and the Monk of St. Gall ' 'Brooches of Many Nations' 'Upper Norwood Athe- nscum' Reviews and Magazines.

FONSECA'S 'DEVOUT CONTEMPLATIONS,' 1629.

THE engraved emblematical title-page of this work is an excellent example of Thomas Cecill's handiwork, in the centre of which we have :

"Devovt Contemplations Expressed In two and Fortie Sermons vpon all y e QuadragesimallGospells Written in Spanish by Fr. Ch. deFonseca Englished by I. M. of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. London Printed by Adam Islip Anno Domini 1629."

The work is printed in small folio of 648 pages, excluding the table at the end, the title-page, and two preliminary leaves. It is dedicated

"To the Two Noble Knights, Sir lohn Strang- vvayes, and Sir LevvLs Dive ; and Their Vertvovs Ladies, the Lady Grace Strangwayes, and Lady Howard Dive. In Acknowledgment of his own true Loue and Respect, Don Diego Pvede-Ser Dedicateth these his Indeavovrs."

Following this dedication there is an address 4 To the Reader,' the only notable remark in it being an undertaking by the translator that if the present venture receives sufficient encouragement, he "will hereafter furnish thee with the Labors of the same Author

vpon all the Parables." The latter work has never appeared in an English dress, so far as I know ; and we may thus reasonably conclude that the expected encouragement from the publication of these ' Devout Contemplations' was not realized. Sir John Strarigwayes was the father-in-law of Sir Lewis Dive or Dy ve, who married Sir John's daughter Howarda in 1624. She was the widow of one Edward Rogers, of Bryanston. The 'D.N.B.' gives a very comprehensive account of the leading events in the life of Sir Lewis; and consulting Howell's 'Letters' in the edition of 1726, 1 find several references to him. There is one letter in which Dy ve is stated to have attended Prince Charles when he went to Madrid in connexion with what is known as the business of the Spanish marriage. The arrival of Charles and his companion Buckingham in that city was something of a mystery : the former passing himself off as Mr. John Smith, and the latter as Mr. Thomas Smith. By and by, however, the real character and mission of the travellers came to be known, and the little incident in which Dyve played a part I shall now quote in Howell's words (ed. 1726 p. 133):-

"And now it was publicldy known among the vulgar, that it was the Prince of Wales who was come ; and the confluence of People before my Lord of Bristol's House was so great and greedy to see the Prince, that to clear the way, Sir Lewis Dives went out and took coach, and all the croud of People went after him : so the Prince himself a little after took coach, wheriri there were the Earl of Bristol, Sir Walter Ashton, and Count Gon- domar ; and so went to the Prado, a place hard by of purpose to take the Air, where they staid tili the King pass'd by."

This letter is dated " Madrid, 27 Mar., 1623," and is addressed to "Sir Tho. Savage Kt and Bar."

In a letter without date, written bv Howell <: To Sir L. D. in Paris," there is a interesting reference to his forthcoming 'History of Naples' (p. 509) :

"I shall shortly byT.B. send you a new 'History of Naples, which also did cost me a great deal of oil and labour.

This 'History of Naples' appeared in 1654, and was dedicated by Howell " To the Right Honourable and High-born Peer William Lord Marquess of Hartford, fcc."

Of the author of the present work, Christopher de Fonseca, I gather from the meagre account given in Moreri's ' Grand Dictionnaire Historique' (Amsterdam, 1740 vol. iv.) that he was a native of Toledo, in Spain. Choosing a religious life, he entered the Order of the Augustines in 1566, as I take it, and afterwards came to have the