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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1907.

CONTENTS.-No. 183.

JOSEPH KNIGHT, 501.

NOTES : Dr. George Rogers and Padua University, 503 Chertsey Monumental Inscriptions, 504 Tete-a-Tete Por- traits in ' The Town and Country Magazine ' " Dove- tailing": "Chigago" Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis Dickens and Homer, 505 Birch-Sap Wine : its Manu- facture Kennett Arms Epigram on Ferdinand I. Chatterton in London, 506 Trinity Tuesday Denton Family P. Hawke, Translator of Dante, 507.

QUERIES : " Hubbub" = Disturbance " Thiggyng " : "Fulcenale": "Warelondes" Fanshawe Papers and Portrait, 507 Queen Mary I. at Wormley, Herts Cox's Orange Pippins Authors of Quotations Wanted Jeffer- son of Westward, Cumberland Paul Spence Scott's ' Quentin Durward ' " Wy " in Hampshire Ford Church, c. 1670, 508 Sardana " Dowb " John Horne-Tooke Lincolnshire Poll-Book, 1723 " Fiteres "=Rags Dublin MS. Kemble Burial-places Camoys Pedigree, 509 Sir John Harington : Baron Frechvile " Awaitful," 510.

REPLIES: "Salutation" Tavern, Billingsgate, 510 Obsolete English Games, 511 The Octagonal Engine House on Hampstead Heath St. George : George as a Christian Name The Stones of London Masonry and Religion, 513 Authors of Quotations Wanted Avignon Society of Illuminati Engineers' Portraits Pawnshop "War" : its Old Pronunciation, 514 The Great Wheel at Earl's Court Court Roll Terms" Breese " in ' Hudibras ' "Amel.of Uj da ""Piccaninny": its Origin Curtain Lectures Wadsworth as a Yorkshire Name Scott's 'Black Dwarf ' Fifth-Monarchy Men, 515 Cowper's John Gilpin Epitaphs at Stratford-upon-Avon Hay- market, Westminster " Bawm 3 March" 'The Hebrew Maiden's Answer to the Crusader ' " Scivroogh " Shake- speariana at Douai, 516 The "Strawberry Hill" Cata- logue " Treats " : " Mullers " " Rime " v. " Rhyme," 517 "Ulidia" Lancelot Sharpe, 518.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Haklytus ' ' Poems of Tennyson ' Magazines ' Jamaican Song and Story.'

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DR. GEORGE ROGERS AND PADUA UNIVERSITY.

(See ante, p. 404.)

DR. GEORGE ROGERS published in 1682, " sumptibus Benj. Tooke ad insigne Navis in Coemeterio Divi Pauli," his Harveian oration of the previous October, and added thereto his Latin oration at Padua in 1646 " docturse gradu suscepto." The book- seller, Tooke, appended some verses " auc- tarium sive superpondium poeticum," origin- ally printed in 1646 " Patavii, typis Pauli Frambotti," which had been so runs the Latin note communicated to him by John Downes, M.D. John Evelyn records in his diary or memoirs that on 15 Aug., 1682, there came to visit him " Dr. Rogers, an acquaintance of mine long since at Padua. He was then Consul of the English Nation and student in that university, where he proceeded Doctor in Physic." Rogers presented him with a copy of this Harveian oration.

Rogers entered the University of Padua on 12 Nov., 1644, and on 1 Aug., 1645,

was elected Consul of the English for 1645-6. He took his degree of M.D. in 1646. The authors of the Latin verses were (1) Joan. Abdy, Cons. Nat. Angl. ; (2) Thomasius Croyden, Anglus ; (3) Joan. Euelinus,, Anglus ; (4) Alex. Falconer, Nat. Scot. Cons. (5) Richardus Danby, Angl. ; (6) Rich. Harris, Ang. Edm. Waller, Anglus, followed with a set of English verses.

The verses of Evelyn are apparently unknown to the editors of his diary. He- saw Padua for the first time in June, 1645, and returned to it next month, entering at the University on 30 July. On this visit he remarked that

"about y e court walls are carv'd in stone and painted the blazons of the Consuls of all the nations, that from time to time have had that charge and honour in the University, which at my being there was my worthy friend l)r. Rogers, who here took that degree."

Evelyn again returned to Venice, but, hearing that he had been elected Syndicus artistarum at Padua University, he hastened thither to free himself from that honour, somewhat to the annoyance of his country- men, who " had lab our 'd not a little to do me the greatest honour a stranger is capable of in that Universitie " (August, 1645). He was there for the greater part of the time between October, 1645, and March, 1646. At the close of the last month he travelled from Padua to Vincenza with Waller, Capt. (afterwards Sir William) Wray, and Mr. Abdy. In October, 1667, Evelyn made a present to the Royal Society of the " Table of veins, arteries, and nerves, which great curiosity I had caused to be made in Italy out of the natural human bodies by a learned physician and the help of Veslingius (professor at Padua), from whence I brought them in 1646." The table was the work of Fabritius Barto- letus, that professor's assistant. It was transferred in 1780 to the British Museum (' Diary,' ed. Wheatley, 1879, i. p. xxi). I cannot say whether it is still in existence. John Abdy, whom Evelyn calls " a modest and learned man," was elected on 3 Aug, 1646, Consul of the English for 1646-7. In J. A. Andrich's lists of the English and Scotch at Padua (1892) his name is misprinted on p. 146 as Cebdy. He was the third son of Anthony Abdy, alderman of London (who died in 1640) ; and on 22 June, 1660, he was created a baronet of Moores in Salcot, Essex. He died about 1662 without issue. Sir John Bramston in his auto- biography (Camden Soc., 1845) says that he "was at Cambridge, a schollar of Trinitie College, afterwards fellow there, and at last a Baronet alsoe : rarely seen 3 brothers aliue togeather Baronets."