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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vn. JUNE 21, 1913.

Horton, button manufacturer, of a house (no number) in Portobello, Sheffield.

No button manufacturers of the name Horton occur in Sheffield in 1852.

(See Pigot & Co.'s ' National Commercial Directory,' 1829 ; ' History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County of York,' by Edw. Baines and W. Parson, 1822, vol. i. ; ' His- tory and General Directory of the Borough of Sheffield,' &c., by Wm. White, 1833, and the same for 1852.)

CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

COTTON'S 'ANGLER': ITS MOTTO (11 S. iv. 367 ; vii. 155). The first two lines of the quatrain given at the latter refer- ence are found, in a somewhat different form, in one of Erasmus's letters, lib. xxvii. 13, col. 1517, in the London edition. 1642 :

" Sunt quibus facile videtur Apophthegmata aut ProverMa scribere, sod libros <fe Chiliadas soribere difficile est : qua de re accipe distichon nostrum :

Perfacile est fateor Proverbia scribere cuivis, At perdifficile est scribere Chiliadas."

As far as I know, the quatrain is not

Prefixed to earlier editions of the ' Adagia.' have noted it in that of 1539. but not in the Aldine of 1508. or in the Frobens of 1513 and 1528. EDWARD BENSLY.

JOHN NOORTHOUCK (11 S. vii. 409). In Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, xxi. 82 (1908), the late Mr. E. L. Hawkins, M.A., Wrote :

" In Notes and Queries (1st Series, xii. 204) there is mention of an Autograph MS. life of John Noorthouck, ' author of the History of the Man after God's own Heart,' which MS. was offered for sale, in 1852, in a bookseller's catalogue issued by John Russell Smith in London, and was therein described as an unprinted auto- biography containing ma'ny curious literary anec- dotes of the eighteenth century. But Peter Annet (1693-1769) is more generally considered to have been the author of ' A History of the Man after God's own Heart,' and the work is attributed to him in the British Museum Cata- logue ; and I have been unable to trace the sub- sequent fate of the MS."

See ' N. & Q.,' 10 S. xi. 301, as to lite- rary material of Noorthouck' s recently discovered. W. B. H.

"-PLESHAM" (11 S. vii. 250, 297). I hope that LADY RUSSELL will excuse my suspicion of the genuineness of the name " Toplesham " as that of any " parish in Devonshire." If I am wrong, I should be glad if she would say~m what part of Devon it occurs. W. S. B. H.

Plymouth.

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Ireland under the Commonu'ealih : being < Selection of Documents relating to the Govern ment of Ireland from 1651 to 1659. Edited with Historical Introduction, by Rober Dunlop.- 2 vols. (Manchester, University Press.

STUDENTS and future historians of Ireland unde: the Interregnum will have reason to be ver^ grateful to Mr. Dunlop for this erudite work It is the result of much wearisome toil in tran scribing manuscripts of which we hitherto pos sessed no adequate account. We must confess to feeling surprise that the whole of the Stat< Papers of which Mr. Dunlop has made so carefu a selection were not included in the ' Calendar; of State Papers, Ireland,' in spite of the facl that they were in Dublin, and not in London One volume of the Calendars represents the whole period from 1647 to 1660, as against nc fewer than thirteen volumes for the corresponding period in the " Domestic " (England) Calendars.

Mr. Dunlop has supplied a long-felt need bj setting out in full the most important missing documents, and much in the " Thurloe " and other State Papers is now cleared up.

His two bulky volumes are a record of the attempt of Cromwellian Puritanism to stamp out, not merely the Irish religion, but also the Irish nation as well. We not only see the scheme foi transplantation at work, and hear of executions that were but thinly disguised murders, but have a grim picture of the slavery and bondage designed for the Irish when they were exported like cattle. Incidentally we are given glimpses o\ the hostility to Presbyterianisni and the proposed transplantation of the Ulster Scots. The last order in the book is one on 9 Dec., 1659, prohibit- ing the observance of " superstitious Christmas holidays." Within five months all was at an end. But the aftermath has been heavy.

In his Historical Introduction Mr. Dunlop has compressed the history of Ireland from 1541 to 1649 into 106 pages. Of course, much has had to be omitted in so limited a space, and he has simply sought to bring into relief the causes of the period of savage brutality over which the documents he has edited range. This is the sole part of Mr. Dunlop 's work likely to be sub- jected to adverse criticism, and for our part we will point out one mistake. It was not Pope Pius TV. who excommunicated Elizabeth, but Pope St. Pius V., and we can but regard Mr. Dunlop's assertion that " his main motive, there can be no question, was a political one " as distinctly curious. Nor has there ever been a Pope who, for a moment, would admit the " doctrine of ' cujus regio, ejus religio.' "

To his 700 pages of documents Mr. Dunlop has subjoined a large number of foot-notes. They are the result of the widest reading, and should be of great interest to the readers of ' N. & Q.,' owing to the numerous short biographies con- tained in them, to which the sources of the information arc always clearly added. Only in his references to the news-books is Mr. Dunlop obscure. For instance, " Several Proceedings, p. 1627," is almost useless. The week and year of each number cited should be given.