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 KS.H.JCLY22, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SAT( RDAY, JULY 22, 1916.

CONTENTS.-No. 30.

NOTES : Huntingdonshire Feasts in London, 61 Eigh teenth-Century Dentists, 64 Au Ancient Irish Manu- script : The Book of the Macgaurans or McGoverns, 65 The Records of the City Livery Companies, 67 Menageries and Circuses Ceremony of Degradmga Knight, 68 "On the fly " : a Prolonged Drunken Bout Steel in Medicine : the 'N.R.D.' H. S. Ashbee, 09.

QUERIES : -Thomas Congreve, M.D., 69 Bicheray, Artist Heraldic Query" Good-night " to the Dead Edmond Dubleday " Hat Trick " : a Cricket Term Samuel Parker : Buxton Family The Kingsley Pedigree John Locke Nicholas Lockyer Major Campbell's Duel, 70 Saruin Breviary : Verses in Calendar Marriage Lines Lion Rampant of Scotland-" Feis" W. Philips, Town Clerk of Brecon, Antiquary Picture : ' The Woodman of Kent' "Dolores" Statue at Drury Lane, c. 1794 Inscription at Poltimore Church Papal and Spanish Flags at Sea in Sixteenth Century, 71.

REPLIES : Thomson and Allan Ramsay, 72 The Side- SaddleRichard Swift Montagu and Manchester, 73 English Prelates at the Council of Bale Gunfire and Ram Richard Wilson, 74 Skull and Iron Nail English Army List of 1740, 75 British Herb : Herb Tobacco- William Mildmay, Harvard College " Theager's Girdle " Pace-egging, 76 W. Toldervy and the Word-Bpoks : " Mort " Fairfield and Hathbone, Artists Village Pounds Farmers' Candlemas Rime Wright Family Arms Patrick Madan Dorton-by-Brill, 77 Authors of Quotations Wanted Louis Martineau Fazakerley "Every Englishman is an island" " Pochivated," 78.

NOTES ON BOOKS : The Oxford Dictionary. Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Books. Notices to Correspondents.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE FEASTS IN LONDON.

FEAST No. 1, JUNE 20, 1678.

THERE was quite a large number of County Feasts held in London during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. I have not been able to ascertain when the first feast of any county was held in the City. The first Northamptonshire Feast took place, however, in 1684, as is indicated by the following :

" Sermon preached at the Northampton Shire Feast, being the first general meeting of such Citizens and Inhabitants in London, as were born within that County," 1684, 4to.

The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D.,give in the indexes long lists of County Feasts in London preceded by a sermon, including Buckinghamshire men, Dorsetshire men, Gloucestershire men, Hampshire men, Here- fordshire men, Suffolk men, Warwickshire

men, Worcestershire men, Y<>rk.-)iir- n . n. and others, as well as one of Huntingdonshire men, mentioned in our ' Feast No. 2.' The English Topographer,' 1720, by Rawlinson, gives only a short list of works referring to Huntingdonshire, but it includes one very interesting item called

" The Huntingdon Divertisement, or an Inter- lude for the general entertainment of the County Feast held at Merchant Taylors' Hall, June 20, 1678. ' '

Gough, in his 'Anecdotes of Briti.-h Topography,' 1678, also mentions it; and W. Carew Hazlitt, in the second series of ' Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, 1674-1700,' at p. 297, includes it. Cuthbert Bede wrote in a copy of Hatfield's ' Gazetteer ' which I possess :

" It is a curious proof of the scanty biblioifraphy relating to the antiquities of England given by Camden, that he only names one relating to this county, viz., ' The Huntingdon Divertisement.' See Gibson's edition of Camden's ' Britannia,' third edition, 1753."

The best account I have seen of County Feasts is by W'. H. HUSK at 3 S. ii. 392, where the subject is well discussed. MB. HUSK, in this article, states that

" The ' Biographia Drama tica ' mentions a piece entitled ' The Huntingdon Divertisement; or, an Enterlude for the general Entertainment at the County Feast held at Merchant Taylors' Hall, Tune 20, 1678,' the scene of which, it tells us, Jies in Hinchinbrooke grove, fields, and meadows. I have not had an opportunity of seeing this piece, but think it probable it is a musical entertainment, cast in a dramatic mould, but nevertheless intended for performance, not on the stage, but in an orchestra."

It is not surprising, it being so scarce that it is not mentioned in any of our local histories, and such well-known author! nV- as C. B., Brayley, R. C., Dr. Rix, and others, had never seen the book. For many years I have also been searching for a copy, and at last successfully. A collation of it at first hand may interest our biblio- graphical friends. The title is : HUNTINGTON

Dl VERTISEMBNT,

or, an

ENTERLUDE For the General! Entertainment at the County- Feast, Held at Merchant-Taylors Hall, Ju, 1678.

Licenced, May 16. 1678. ROGER L'ESTRANGK.

LOXDON. Printed by ./. Bonnet, 1678.

4to, A H, 2 in fours, first leaf blank.