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 10 s. VIII. JULY 13, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1907.

CONTENTS.- No. 185.

NOTES : Swift and Temple's Letters, 21 Cromwell and Milton : a Famous Picture, 22 Arrow-breaking : its Moral Lessons St. Peter-le-Poer Church, Old Broad Street, 25 - St. Thomas's Church, Bream's Buildings Moravian Chapel, Fetter Lane Greensted Church, Ongar - "Bloom" in Iron Manufacture, 26 - New-port, Essex - "Mink " : its Meaning - " Slink " : " Slinking," 27.

QUERIES : Southy's Authentic Memoirs of George III. - Packhorse Crooks - Hamilton Brown Library in St. Martin's Street Lieut.-Col. Valentine Jones-Graeme, 27 - "Devachan" - William Hogsflesh, Cricketer - Robert Grave, Printseller "Beau" as a Nickname - Gutteridge or Goodridge Family, 28 - George III.'s Daughters French-Canadian Literature " Palates "Panel Inscription Houses without Fireplaces or Chimneys Irish Pedigrees : Social Condition of Ireland under the Tudors Jamaica Records, 29 Barnaby Blackwell, Banker Major Roderick Mackenzie, 71st Regiment Louis Napo- leon : English Writings English Regiments in Ireland- Col. Cromwell, Royalist, 1646, 30.

REPLIES : Crosby Hall, 30 - Halesowen, Worcestershire "Fiteres"=Rags, 31 Authors of Quotations Wanted, 32 Cox's Orange Pippins ' Lincolnshire Family's Chequered History': Walsh Family Lowe and Wright "Wax and curnels " Musical Genius : is it Hereditary? Good King Wenceslaus The "Golden Angel "in St. Paul's Church- yardAdmiral Christ Epitaph, 33 Japanese and Chinese Lyrics "Life-Star" Folk-lore, 34 Kirkstead Chapel, Xmcs " Horssekyns "Princess Royal: Earliest Use of the Title" Gula Augusti," 35 B. V.M. and the Birth of Children Towns unlucky for Kings "Frittars or Greaves," 36" Bell-Comb " for Ringworm" Kidnapper" Tooke and Halley Families Echidna " Mulatto " "Passive Resister" "Fire": "Fire out" 'Sobriquets and Nicknames 'School for the Indigent Blind, 37.

INOTES ON BOOKS : ' The First Publishers of Truth ' ' Archseologia ^Eliana ' ' Dictionary of the Bible ' Reviews and Magazines.

SWIFT AND TEMPLE'S LETTERS.

Itf Sir Henry Craik's very full ' Life of Jonathan Swift ' it is stated that " to Swift the will of [Sir William] Temple left kittle beyond the doubtful privilege of editing his works. The provision was small, and the duty was

specially irksome The works, which were issued

in five volumes, at intervals of some years, seem to

have been well received Finally, Swift's duties

as editor brought him into violent and public collision with Lady GifTard, who assumed the part of defender of her brother's reputation against the neglect of Swift." Second edition, vol. i. pp. 95-6.

But it would seem from the advertisement columns of the contemporary London news- papers that there was something of " violent and public collision," though in another quarter, at the very start. Temple died on 27 Jan., 1698/9 : and on the eve of his departure to Ireland in the summer of the ame year, as chaplain and secretary to Lord Berkeley, Swift prepared for publica- tion the first volume of Temple's remains. It is, therefore, of special interest to find that in The Flying Post ; or, The Post- Master, " from Thursday, May 18, to Saturday, May 20, 1699," as well as in

The Post Man, and the Historical Account, &c., of the same date, appeared the following advertisement :

Yesterday was published,

his being Ambassador at the Hague, to the Earl of Arlington, and Sir John Trevor, Secretaries of State to K. Charles II. Wherein are discovered many Secrets hitherto concealed. Published from the Originals, under Sir William Temple's own Hand : And Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Littleton, Speaker of the House of Commons. By D. Jones, Gent. Printed and are to be Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwicklane.
 * Letters written by Sir William Temple, during

This was repeated in The Flying Post of May 23/25, and in The Post Man of June 1-3; but in the former journal of June 1-3 a revised advertisement ran thus :

The Letters Written by Sir William Temple, during his being Ambassador at the Hague, in the Reign of King Charles II. being lately published from the Originals by a Person ol undoubted Repu- tation, who has already and is still ready to pro- duce them of Sir William's own Hand Writing to any that are curious to see them. And the Book- seller having purchased the said Letters for a valuable Consideration, if any out of Malice or Interest reprints them (they having met with an extraordinary kind Reception) he must expect the first Undertaker will do himself Justice, either by a speedy Abridgement of any Copy, such a Pirate hath or shall hereafter print ; or, by printing the same in a very small Character, as he thinks it worth his while. The Originals may be seen where and in the manner the Preface directs. And the Genuine Letters was only sold by Anne Baldwin, near the Oxford Arms, in Warwick-Lane.

But simultaneously a counterblast was advertised in The Post-Boy and The Flying Post, both of June 1-3, in these terms :

I am directed by the Reverend Mr. Jonathan Swift (to whom Sir William Temple, Baronet, left the care of his Writings) to give Notice, that with all convenient speed he will publish a Collection of Letters from the Year 1665 to 1672. Written by Sir William Temple, Baronet, containing a com- pleat History of those times, both at Home and Abroad, which Letters were all Reviewed by the Author some time before his death, and digested into method by his Order. JACOB TONSON.

From this point no further trace of the dispute is to be found in the contemporary journals, and it may be concluded, therefore, to have been amicably arranged ; but it is of the more interest to find this early con- nexion of Swift with The Post-Boy, though only by means of advertisement, seeing that in ' Esmond ' (Book III. chap, v.) Thack- eray's hero,

" having writ a paper for one of the Tory journals,

called The Post-Boy. was sitting at the printer's,

when the famous Doctor Swift came in 'I pre- sume you are the editor of The Post-Boy, sir ? ' says the Doctor, in a grating voice that had an Irish

twang. 'I am but a contributor, Doctor Swift,'

says Esmond."