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 18 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vii. JULY 3, 1020. tarn Latinse quam Anglicanae Linguae sibi mutuo respondentes sub certis quibusdam Capitibus secunduin Alphabet! ordinem e regione collocantur. In usum tarn pere- grinorum, qui Sermonem nostrum Angli- canum, quam Nostratium, qui Latinum Idioma callere student.' Quinta Editio. Cui accessit istiusmodi Phrasium, &c., Idiomatum additio in Utraque Lingua ad minus trium Millium. Opera, Studio, In- dustria Gulielmi Walker, S.T.B. Londini, Typis W. Horton, impensis T. Sawbridg, sub Signo trium Iridum auratarum in Vico Vulgovocato Little Britain, 1690. The book is dedicated to Archbishop Sheldon, and is dated " Colsterworthise in agro Lincolniensi, Prid. Id. Mai. An. Dom. 1670." Some of the English phrases are curiously archaic, e.g. : " You will be whipt to dead" and "You deaf me," rendered : " ad necem usque operiere " and " obtundis " respectively, and the Latin equivalents are culled from classical authors. (2) This bears as title ' Delectus Senten- tiarum et Historiarum, ad usum Tironum accomodatus.' Londini : In .ZEdibus Val- pianis, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane, 1815. This volume is made up of classical passages and miscellaneous sentences. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. BOMBERS IN CHARLES II. 's NAVY (12 S. vi. 271). Chamberlayne's 'Present State,' 1708, gives seven bomb -vessels, Salamander, Basilisk, Blast, Carcass, Furnace, Granada and Starr, each having a complement of 30 men and 6 guns. Other ships were fire- ships, yatches, brigantines, sloops, hulks and hoys. In 1727 only three bombs, as they were then styled, were in 'commission, Basilisk, Furnace, and Thunder, each 30 and 6. In 1755, however, there were 11 bombs; Basilisk, 274 tonnage, 271 men, 6 carriage and 8 swivel guns ; Carcass 274, 274, 6 and 8 ; Comet 276, 100, 8 and 12 ; Firedrako 283, 60, 8 and 12 ; Furnace 273, 60 ; Granada 270, 100, 12 and 14 ; Lightning 275, 60, 8 and 14 ; Mortar 279, 100, 6 and 8 ; Serpent 275, 100; Terrible 263, 60; Terror 278', 100, the last three having 6 and 8 guns. W. R. WILLIAMS. PARKS (OR PERKS) FAMILY (12 S. v. 317). This name is mostly confined to the southern half of England occurring most frequently in Warwickshire and Worcester- shire. I noticed it in Bexhill churchyard, Sussex, some years ago. A certain Newton Parks, of Bexhill, died April 12, 1891, aged; 82, and his wife Elizabeth, March 20, 1871,. aged 62. I bought a few years back a MS. copy of the marriage register of Ospringe,. Kent, from 1561 to 1800, and find on Nov. 15, 1632, the marriage of "John Parks and Martha Pekock." These are the only two references to the name I have for the two- counties mentioned in the query. i^y CHAS. HALL CROUCH. SHAKESPEARE'S " SHYLOCK " (12 S- vi. 244). I have read the REV. J. B.. McGovERN's paper with keen interest. Nothing he says, however, refutes the criti- cism that Shylock is a travesty and a caricature ; not a genuine embodiment of one of the sons of Shem. The irremovable blot on Shakespeare' & portraiture is the gruesome business asso- ciated with the bond. Such a document were impossible, unless Shylock were a raving lunatic, or a merry andrew with a taste for jokes of a Mephistophelian order. No Hebrew in his seven senses would be a party to such a ghoulish proposal. His whole natural instincts would rise up in revolt against it. The emotions of a hundred generations would cry shame within his breast. His education, his reli- gion and his inherited sense of pain would forbid the sanction of such a wicked crime- laden transaction. That is the law of" Hebraic mentality, to which every great portrait of an Israelite must necessarily conform. Shylock, however, marks a definite stage in progress in its sincere desire to do justice to Judaism and its professors. That is Shakespeare's eternal claim on the gratitude of a grossly maligned nation. Shakespeare painted Shylock at least as a man, with the attributes, and the feelings of a mortal, and possessing a few of the finer sensations in common with his traducers. He was not an unmitigated enemy of mankind, crawling about by nights poisoning wells, practising necromancy, stealing infants, ruining homes and committing all manner of hideous absurdities such as Marlowe has conjured up in his monstrous Barabbas. A further stage in intellectual growth was reached when Lessing, the life-long friend of Moses Men- delssohn, astonished Berlin society with his noble delineation of a Jew in ' Nathan der Weise.' Between these two extremes of mon- strosity without humanity and philanthropy
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