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 12 B. ii. DEC. 2, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER :.', 1916.

CONTENTS. No. 49.

NOTES : Fieldingiana, 441 English Army List of 1740, 443 Bibliography of Histories of Irish Counties and Towns, 445 Sir Thomas Browne : Counterfeit Basilisks Walter or Walters Family of Pembrokeshire. 446 Addendum to Note on Dr. Robert Uvedale-The Decay of Dialect The Polish Word for " Resurrection " Seize- Quartiers, 447.

QUERIES : Byron's Travels Bull-baiting in Spain and Portugal, 447 De la Port* Family Derham of Dolphin- holme Statue of Queen Victoria William B. Parnell, a London Architect William Morris : ' Sigurd the Volsung' The "Old British Dollar," 448 -"Saint" Theodora Major Walter Hawkes " Public Houses " in London and Westminster in 1701 Samuel Petrie Payne Family Sir John Baker, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Henry VIII." Talking through one's hat" Hannafore, a Cornish Place-NameThomas Plumson, Watchmaker, 449 Western Grammar School, Brompton Plate-Marks Mew or Mews Mittan, Engraver Suffix "Kyn" J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Works, 450.

REPLIES : Fishing-Rod in the Bible or Talmud, 450 The Motto of William III. "To give the mitten" Employ- ment of Wild Beasts in Warfare, 454 National Flags: their Origins, 455 Unidentified M.P.s Sons of Mrs. Bridget Bendysh Epitaphs in Old London and Suburban Graveyards 'The I,and o' the Leal' "To weep Irish," 456 " Felon "Eyes changed in Colour by Fright- Village Pounds Rev. Richard Rathbone Hare and Lefevre Families Bombay Grab : Tavern Sign Influenza, 457 Eighteenth-Century Lead-Tank Lettering Portraits in Stained Glass Welthen Henry Fauntleroy, Forger, 458 Earl's Court, a London Suburb 'The Cheltenham Guide ' Headstones with Portraits of the Deceased, 459.

UOTE8 ON BOOKS : ' Tokens of the Eighteenth Century connected with Booksellers ' ' Greek Manuscripts in the Old Seraglio at Constantinople.'

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FIELDINGIANA.

I. IN his celebrated ' Essay en Conversation' (' Miscellanies,' 1743) Fielding supports one of his propositions by remarking, " as is sufficiently and admirably proved by my friend the author of ' An Enquiry into Happiness'"; and in advancing a further thesis he avers, " the truth of which is in- contestably proved by that excellent author of ' An Enquiry,' &c., I have above cited."

A search for this ' Enquiry ' was unsuccess- ful, no book or pamphlet with a like title from the pen of any contemporary of Fielding being discoverable. On turning to the first edition of the ' Miscellanies,' however, it is found that a foot-note is appended to these references stating that " the treatise here mentioned is not yet public." This observation, omitted from all reprints, affords a clue to the authorship, for in 1744 was published, in one volume, ' Three Treatises,' by James Harris of Salis- bury, the third treatise bearing the title ' Concerning Happiness : a Dialogue.' In 1801 James Harris's ' Works ' (with a short biography) were edited by his son, the Earl of Malmesbury. On the title-page of the reprint of the ' Treatise on Happiness ' there occur, within brackets, the words " Finished 15 December, 1741." This editorial com- ment (for the words do not appear in the original, or 1744, edition) would seem to solve the difficulty.

The point, though a small one, is of som e biographical interest, indicating as it does considerable intimacy between Fielding and Harris in 1742, and enabling us the more easily to appreciate their association in the case of Walton v. Collier in 1745 (' Fielding and the Collier Family,' ante, p. 104).

II. The ' Essay on Conversation ' (supra) provides incidental detail upon another matter. The date of birth of Dr. Thomas Brewster, Bathonian physician and trans- lator of Persius, is given in ' D.N.B.' as 1705, but no date of death is there recorded. Similarly Hyamson's ' Dictionary of Uni- versal Biography,' Routledge, 1916, gives no date of death. Brewster was alive in 1742 (' Fieldingiana,' 12 S. i. 483), but Fielding in the above essay, after quoting Persius in the original, adds : " thus excellently rendered by the late ingenious translator of that obscure author," and cites a passage beginning : Yet could shrewd Horace, with disportive wit. An examination of Brewster's translation of Persius shows that the quotation constitutes