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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vi. AUG. 17, 1912.

Unlesse you are pleased to Grant me yo r Order for some Money, I know not how to goe on, for I have been at great Expence, in the Person's Comeing over, and he has been 111 of a feavour at my House Ever since he came, and am daily at the Expence of Doctors & other helps for him : and when I was at Windsor last weeke, yo r Lordshipp was pleased to say I should heve Money to goe on. I now humbly Crave yo r Lordshipp's orders for it that I may sitt to worke without lossc of time and Dispach the Pictures that are wanted. I am, My Lord, Yo r Lordshipp's mos[t] Dutyfull Obedient Servant

CHARIVES BOIT.

Sep 1 *"- y 21, 1713.

[Addressed : } To the Right Ilono ble My Lord Treasurer These Pres[e]nt.

One of Bolt's pupils was John Milward, divers of whose letters to Humfrey Wanley (Lord Oxford's library-keeper) are at Wei- beck Abbey. Wanley had taken lessons with Boit, but these lessons had ceased before 20 March, 1694/5, on which date he writes from Coventry : " Every body here is glad to see me, and gladder that I have left Mr. Boit."

Milward did not prosper in his profession ; his price for a head was three guineas (letter, 22 Dec., 1698) ; but his sitters appear to have been few in number, and, in an undated letter, he asks Wanley for a loan of two guineas " uppon a present pinch."

" I am concern'd [he says] for y* trouble I give you, yett pretty well assur'd. (to help me out at a dead lift) you continue a ffreind."

He writes more cheerfully, 7 Sept., 1702 :

" Now I begin to have a few pictures about me, I shall (with my utmost endeavours) waite with patience for the good ffortune w ch is still behind : I am not without my hopes when I have so assured a ffreind as you are."

The following extracts from Milward's letters throw light upon Boit's movements :

[Without year, probably 1690] 17 August. Mr. Boite is gone lately for Holland and I suppose (besides y prospect he has of business) y 8 thoughts of getting his sallary invites him thither ; he returnes with the King.

1607, 24 Sept. I made to[o] little a stay in London to visitt Boit, or tell you how he did.

1098, 5 Nov., London. Direct for me at Mr. Boit's. 1698, 22 Dec., London. Mr. Boit and his wife give

their service, and if you have not forsworne writing to y* faire sex, send her a line or two.

1099, 9 Dec Boit continues yett in Holland, and it is some while since she [Mrs. Boit] went over to him. I wish him good ffortune, for I really beleive he is just to his power of serving all.

1699/1700, 18 Jan. Boit, I heere, is at y e Elector

Palatine's Court. 1700, 23 April. I hear Mi's. Boit is coming over,

and I fear y e warrs in y c North are a great

obstruction to Boit's business.

RICHARD W. GOULDING.

COBBETT BIBLIOGRAPHY. (See ante, pp. 1, 22, 62, 84.)

1813.

Porcupine Revived, or An Old Thing Made New ? being 1. An Argument against the Expediency of War with England. 2. An Exposition of the Absurdity of sending Albert Gallatin to- treat with the British. By William Cobbet [sic]. With Additional Notes and Comments. " Multum continetur in parvo." New- York r Printed for the Publisher. 1813. 8vo, pp. 24.

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1814.

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1815.

Letters on the Late War between the United States and Great Britain : together with other- miscellaneous writings on the same subject. By William Cobbett, Esq. New- York : Pub- lished by J. Belden and Co. : Van Winkle and Wiley, Printers. 1815. 8vo, pp. 407.

Paper against Gold and Glory against Prosperity,, or, An Account of the Rise, Progress, Extent,, and Present State of the Funds and of the Paper-Money of Great Britain ; and also the- Situation of that Country as to its Debt and other Expenses ; its Navigation, Commerce, and Manufactures ; its Taxes, Population and Paupers : drawn from Authentic Documents,, and brought down to the end of the Year 1814. In two Vols. By William Cobbett. Vol. I. [Vol. II.] London : Printed by J. M'Creery,. Black-Horse-Court. 1815. Retail Price, 20s.. in Paper-money.

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The Pride of Britannia Humbled ; or, The Queen of the Ocean Unqueen'd, " By the American Cock Boats," or " The Fir built Things, with bits of Striped Bunting at their Mast Heads." (As the Right Hon. Mr. Canning, in the British parliament, called our American Frigates.) Illustrated and Demonstrated by Four Letters- addressed to Lord Liverpool, on the late American War. By Wm. Cobbett, Esq.. Including a number of his other most Important Letters, and arguments, in Defence of The American Republic. To which is added, A Glimpse of the American Victories, on Land,, on the Lakes, and on the Ocean. With a Persuasive to Political Moderation. Most