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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. x. DEC. 12, 191*.

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[Under the heading ' Concordances in Prepara- tion ' our correspondent kindly gives particulars of works of this kind now in progress on Dickens (' Pickwick '), Herbert, Jonson, Keats, Spenser, Walt Whitman (' Leaves of Grass '), and Scott (Poems).]

THE LITERARY FRAUDS OF HENRY WALKER THE IRONMONGER.

(See ante, p. 441.)

3. ' PERFUME,' &c. " BY JOHN SALTMARSH. "

JOHN SALTMARSH, THE INDEPENDENT, is a writer whose works are still read, yet his modern biographers, not excepting the 'D.N.B.,' concur in attributing to him this spiteful piece of scurrility. The tract ap- peared during the course of a controversy between the Presbyterian divine John Ley and Saltmarsh. The short titles of the tracts are as follows, and the dates are Thomason's :

16 Jan., 1645. " The Smoke in the Temple. By John Saltmarsh."

(6) 11 April, 1646. " Light for Smoke ; or, a cleare and distinct reply, by John Ley, one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, to a darke and confused answer in a booke made and entituled ' The Smoke in the Temple ' by John Saltmarsh,

&c Whereto is added, ' Novello-Mastix ; or,

a. Scourge for a scurrulous newsmonger.'. .. .By C. D. Master of Arts."

(c) 17 April, 1646. " An end of one Con- troversic. By John Saltmarsh."

It appears from Thomason's MS. notes that Henry Walker was at this time writing the Perfect Occurrences, under the general control of Saltmarsh, though Walker did not finally take over this new T sbook until January* 1647. He, therefore, was the newsmonger referred to in ' Novello-Mastix.' On 1 9 April, 1646, he answered this by the tract in question, of which I now set out the full title :

(d) " Perfume ; against the sulpherous stinke- of the snuffe of the light for Smoak called 'Novello-Mastix.' With a checke to Cerberus Diabolicus and a whip for his barking against the Parliament and the Armie. And an answer to the anti-quaeries annexed to the light against the Smoak of the Temple. Written by John Salt- marsh, Minister of God's Word."

On 5 June, 1646, appeared "An after reckoning with Mr. Saltmarsh. . . .by L. M. a student in Divinitie." Pp. 57-9 of this are devoted to

" A brief animadversion upon the mad pam- phletter, composer of the ' Perfume,' &c., who out of the letters ' C.D.' by a rare spel of Daemonology hath raysed Cerberus Diabolicus ; yet, withall, to- give the devill his due, a word of apology for him against the posted reproach put upon him by John Saltmarsh and Giles Calvert."

Starting with

" The unsavoury pamphlet called ' Perfume * came out with such a stinck that those who had not lost their sense of smelling cried out ' Fye upon it,' "

the " Student in Divinitie " goes on to sav that,

" for feare lest this worthy writer, Mr. John Saltmarsh, should receive reproach by such a senseless pamphlet, or Giles Calvert, his stationer,, sustain losse, by disreputation of his papers in times to come, this antidote was posted up in. severall places for publike view 'A pamphlet came out on Monday, April 19, called "A Per- fume against the sulpherous," &c., said in the- title to be written by John Saltmarsh, is put out wrongfully in his name and is none of his. Giles- Calvert.' "

The Moderate Intelligencer, No. 59, for 16-23 April, 1646 (last page), states :

" A pamphlet came out on Monday last called ' A Perfume against the sulpherous,' &c., said ia the title to be written by John Saltmarsh, is put out wrongfully in his name and is none of his- Shall we never be rid of these mountebanks and impostors, who, when they have not brainc.s to publish anything of worth, frame frothy titles, when no such thing is in the book, and put others names, who are in repute and honoured, to their simple stuffe. But to put the name aforesaid to so ridiculous a piece as this argued the author to- have needed long since to be cut of the simples."