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 11 S. X. DEO. 5, 1914.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

441

LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER .', 19U.

CONTENTS. No. 258.

TfOTES: The Literary Frauds of Henry Walker the Ironmonger, 441 Holcroft Bibliography, 442 The Ortega in Nelson's Strait, 444 The Refugees in the Eighteenth Century, 44"> Snakes drinking Milk Germans as Gordon Highlanders, 446 Marching Tunes Scots Guards The Anns of Iceland " Platoon," 447.

tjl'KRIES : Dreams and Literature, 447 Skottowe Pococke Thomas Vincent of Westminster School Biographical Information Wanted Oudh " A bolt from the blue "Lord : Use of the Title without Territorial Addition, 448 Candlesticks at the Duke of Wellington's Funeral The " Kingdom " of Fife Eighteenth-Century Kentish Tokens" Tarts "A Thanksgiving in Negatives The Italian Goat: its Colour Lieut.-Col. T. Carteret Hardy, 449 " Goal - Money " Insectivorous Plants St. Mary's, Soho Early Steam-Engines : Abraham and Humphrey Potter Rosa Bonheur's ' Duel ' " Ephe- sians " : a Shakespearian Term, 450.

REPLIES : Dene Holes, 450 " Kultur " The Gardner Collection of London Prints Law against cutting Ash Trees Thomas Skottowe, 452 Jane Austen and Columella, 453 " Boches "" Table of Peace "Dickens and Wooden Legs Mourning Letter-Paper, 454 Helmet worn at Flodden The Pronunciation of "ow," 455 Walter Scott : Piracies and Attacks Modern Advocate of Druidism Przemysl : Language of Galicia, 456 Floral Emblems of Countries Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold Robert Leyborne Author Wanted Dud Dudley, 457 Earls of Derwentwater : Descendants Clocks and Clockmakers France and England Quarterly, 458.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Piscatory Eclogues of jacopo Sinnazaro ' ' The Fellowship of the Mystery ' 'A Picture Book of British History '' The Berks and Bucks Archseological Journal 'Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

THE LITERARY FRAUDS OF HENRY WALKER THE IROXMOXGER.

1. " TAYLOR'S PHYSICKE HAS PURGED THE DlVELL. BY VOLUNTAS AMBULATORI A. "

STRICTLY speaking, this tract (the rest of whose title and the illustration alike are not reproducible) is not a fraud, since it was well kn<, \\-ii that Walker was the writer, but I have commenced my list with it because it is nowhere catalogued under Walker's name. The controversy between Walker and John Taylor, the " water poet," in 1641, ra 1 1 as follows :

(a) ' A swarm of sectaries and schismatiques,' &c. By John Taylor.

An Answer,' &c. By Henry Walker, or " V. R, Heavenly, K. R."

(c) ' A Reply as true as steele. To a Rusty, Ravi ing, Ridiculous Lying Libell, which was lati'-iy \\ritten by an impudent unsodered iron- monger,' &c. By John Taylor.

(d) 'Taylor's physicke has purged the Divell,'. &c.

(c) ' The Irish Footman's I'm-try. .the- author George Richardson, an Hibernian i-d< -u-ian,' &c. By John Taylor.

2. " A TERRIBLE OUTCRY AGAIXST THE

LOYTERING EXALTED PRELATES .... BY

WILLIAM PRYNNE."

This is always catalogued to Prynne, tho title-page apparently having been tak-n seriously. The full title of this tract runs as follows:

" A terrible outcry against the loytering exalted Prelates. Shewing the danger and unfit- nesse of conferring them in any temporal office or dignity. Wherein the Devill is proved to be a more diligent Prelate then any of our English bishops are ; leaving them to the consideration of the King's Majestie and the High Court of Parliament. By Mr. Prinne, a fait hf nil witnesse of Jesus Christ and a sufferer under them. Lon- don. Printed for Richard Smethurst. 1641."

" Smethurst," 1 think, is either a false name or an anagram (Smithers ?). Xo books -Il<-r of this name is known. In his life of Prynne (' Athenae,' iii. 858) Anthony a Wood says :

" This book is not his nor like his language, nor is it in the catalogue of his books, tho' his name be to it, with his picture in a wooden cut."

Michael Sparke, Prynne's publisher, issued a catalogue of Prynne's writings in 1643, anil in his Preface to this states that he did so

" to free the author from those spurious im- postures which have been injuriously fathered upon him by Walker the ironmonger and others, to his dishonour and the reader's delusion."

In 1649, and again in 1659, several fraudulent tracts professed to have been written by Prynne ; and in a disclaimer published by him on 31 May, 1659, and ntitled ' The New Cheater's Forgeries detected, disclaimed,' &c., Prynne com- mences his broadside by saying :

" Whereas not only one Walker, Bates and others heretofore, for their own private lucre, tiave printed sundry illiterate pamphlets in my name to cheat the people, but likewise one Chap- man in Pope's Head Alley, as I am credibly in- formed by those who will prove it, on the 30th of this instant May hath printed and dispersed a japer entituled ' A sheet ; or, if you will, a \\ in<l- ng sheet for the Good Old Cause. By W. P. Philopolites.' "

Prynne then goes on to add that Chapman lad issued yet another tract, entitled Mola Asin&ria,' also professing to be by limself. Both are to be found among the Thomason tracts.

It will be useful to point out that Livewell Chapman, to whom Prynne alludes, was a No one of those who fabricated and published the " forged ' Speeches and Prayers ' of the