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NOTES AND QUERIES. LH s. ix. JUNE 27,

of them, but as yet without results. The Library will, I believe, shortly be arranged afresh, and, if in the course of the rearrangement I should find any such papers or information about them, ft will communicate with you. The College MSS. are now in the Bodleian, but I understand that the Catalogue there contains no traces of such papers. H. L. HENDERSON."

Turning next to the Bodleian for furthe r information, Mr. F. Madan replied thus two days later :

" I do not think that New College received any of Bishop Jewel's Papers. Neither his name nor Garbrand's is in the published full Catalogue of the New College MSS. or in the History of New 'College by Dr. Rashdall. I hardly know how to get farther. Of course the Bursary or the Warden of New College might have some bundle of papers which escape catalogues and notice. But that is blind work. Personally I never knew of any Jewel collections of any size. I assume that you have searched the British Museum and the Indexes of the Reports of the Historical MSS. Commission."

Application to Mr. J. A. Herbert of the British Museum resulted as follows :

" Bishop Jewel's papers are certainly'not here. In fact, all we have of his directly (apart from official ecclesiastical documents of which he was one of the signatories) are the few letters noted on the enclosed slip."

On the said slip is written :

" Jewel (John), Bishop of Salisbury. 1. Letters to E. Nicholas [of Salisbury, grandfather of Sir Edward Nicholas, the Secretary of State to Charles I. and Charles II.], 1560, 1563. Egerton 253'*, ff. 1-6. 2. Letter to Lord Leicester, 30 Jan., 1564. Add. 19,400, f. 87."

Mr. Herbert further suggests that as Je\vel was a Corpus man (Oxon), some- thing might there be known of the papers. Jewel was at C.C.C., Oxon, from 1539 to 1555 in various capacities, and was also ordained and graduated there. But, as the Rev. C. Plummer informs me, no papers of Jewel are to be found among the College MSS. :

" We have two copies of an ' Oratio contra Jihotoricam ' delivered by him in Corpus Hall (MS. 257, No.-O, and No. 304, No. IA) : the former of these is one of Brian Twyne's ' Collectanea ' ; the latter one of Fulman's ' Collectanea.' In the former there is also No. 10 ' Oratiuncula de discossu suo.' "

But it is not said that these are either in Jewel's handwriting or had belonged to him.

Application to Canon Wordsworth of "Salisbury has also brought a negative result ; and all that I could gather from an inspection of the ' Indexes of the Reports of the Historical MSS. Commission ' (8th Report, Appendix III. p. 18, 1881) was that No. 17 of the Ashburnham MSS. consisted of ""Six Quarto Volumes containing 'Apology

of the Church of England ' by Bp. Jewell," &c.

With the above by no means meagre information on Jewel's papers we must at present rest content until light shall be forthcoming as abundant as that shed upon his library. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

BYRON'S " LAY " AGAIN. Scott's naive words on Lord Byron, who " manages his pen with the careless and negligent ease of a man of quality," gave Matthew Arnold his well-used chance against his great " bar- barian." But the critic's belabouring the poet for " there let him lay " was uncalled for ; more even than one would judge from Mr. Murray's recalling (in a recent issue of The Times) Gladstone's citing of the ' Senti- mental Journey ' example, against Brown- ing's abuse of Byron for the same bit of " bad grammar." "

Was it not a commonplace for long years ? E.g. :

(a) The day shall come, that great avenging day. When Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay. Pope's ' Iliad, iv.

(&) " Delusions which seem to toy ^ in

ambush for the hours of sickness and distress.' Shelley's 1822 letter to Moore protesting his regret that he had not influence against Byron 8 " delusions " about, or hankerings after, Chris- tianity.

(c) " The woman and her child laid down on some dirty linen on the floor." * Annual Register, 1831, p. 332.

(d) " The bearing of this observation lays in the application ofj it." ' Dombey and Son, 1848.

W. F. P. STOCKLEY. Univ. Coll., Cork.

[See also the examples cited at 8 S. v. 71, 296, 458, under "Sunset."]

" TOUCHING " FOB THE KING'S EVIL. I have lately come across a curious little pamphlet with the following title :

" Some Observations made upon the Malabar Nutt imported from the Indies showing its admirable Virtues in curing the Kings-Evil beyond anything yet found out. Written by a Doctor of Physic." London, 1694.

The author, who, according to a MS. note in a contemporary hand, was John Pechey, M.D., gives two instances of effective cures with the Malabar nut. One case was that of a young lad in his own town who was grievously afflicted with scrofulous tumours under his throat, and

" had been touched by the Royal Hand, and worn Gold, and that a long time, but the distemper returned spring and fall,"