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NOTES AND QUEEIES.

[2nd g. NO 20., MAY 17. '56.

" Trial of a Student" fyc. Can the editor, or any reader of " N. & Q." tell me who was the student, and what the college referred to, in a satirical pamphlet, without title, beginning: "The Trial of a Student in the College of Clutha, in the Kingdom of Oceana ?"

It is Scotch : an attack upon the Professors of said College, and of date subsequent to 1763.

J.D.

The Union. I have a small octavo, pp. 92., minus the title, beginning, " A Discourse upon the uniting of Scotland with England," and shall be glad if any reader of " N. & Q." can tell me to whom, among the many who wrote upon this sub- ject, my book is to be ascribed. The author was evidently a Scotsman, and I have pencilled " Ridpath ? " upon the fly-leaf, but know not upon what authority. J. O.

Quakers in the Army. In vol. ii. p. ^3. of Guizot's History of Richard Cromwell and the Restoration of Charles the Second, translated by And. R. Scoble, I find the following passage :

"Towards noon a great number of officers, mostly zealous Republicans, Anabaptists, or Quakers, came to dine with the General," &c.

Surely no followers of George Fox ever bore arms. The statement in the text is a very strange one, and I should be glad to see it explained.

JAYDEE.

Morning Dreams. Can any of your corre- spondents tell me where is to be found the line " For morning dreams, you know, come true."

Is it in Massinger, Ben Jonson, or Beaumont and Fletcher ?

Also, any information about this familiar notion of morning dreams will be acceptable to SAKTOB.

Belfast.

Bull Song at Stamford. At Stamford, in Lin- colnshire, whenever the theatre is open, it is cus- tomary for the orchestra to perform an air known in Stamford as "The Bull ;" and should its per- formance be delayed longer than the occupants of the gallery deem proper, a serious row is certain to occur. I believe that it is the name of a local song, and I should like to learn somewhat of its origin, and to see the words in your immortal pages. Is the music published, and where can it be obtained ? Who composed the air ?

EIN FBAGEB.

Fleming's "Rise and Fall of the Papacy." Is there any doubt of a book published in 1849 as a reprint of one'with the following title, The Rise and Fall of the Papacy, delivered in London

A.D. 1701, by Robert Fleming, V.D.M., being such P I have heard it insinuated that it was " made up " to meet the event of the French Re- volution of 1848, which it professes to predict; and, again, on the contrary, that the reprint of 1849 was the second, since the French Revolution of 1792.

It is desirable that the truth as to whether this remarkable work was really produced in 1701 or not should be known. There surely must be many of the original copies left of a book only 150 years old. To my mind the quaint style and extreme modesty of it carries with it conviction of its being of that period, and also that it is not a modern forgery.

The late learned and venerable G. S. Faber does not ignore Fleming's book, but names it (I feel grieved to say) with a sneer, in the little work he published not long before his death, en- titled The Revival of the French Emperorship an- ticipated from the Necessity of Prophecy. His words are :

" Mr. Fleming's case, or, w hat has been called his pre- diction, is well known. To mention the living were in- vidious ; but both Mr. Fleming, whose anticipation of the first revolution, at a specified time was confirmed, at least in a fashion, by events," &c.

Without raising a question as to the subject- matter of his book, on which there may be much controversy, surely " N. & Q." is a proper me- dium for recording the genuineness of, the book of 1701, if it can be established, for certainly a more remarkable uninspired book is not to be found. The author of it (ninety years before an event takes place) publishes his views of certain pro- phecies in God's word with regard to France, and predicts the occurrence of certain events in that country ninety years after, viz. in 1794. This prediction is fulfilled. Had this, however, stood alone, it might have been sneered at as happening (according to Faber) " in a fashion ; " but when the author states that another revolution would, according to his reading of the Scriptures, happen forty-eight years after the first event, viz. in 1848 (naming the very year), it is at least a most re- markable circumstance.

Many will doubtless be glad of the knowledge of the fact, whether We book of Fleming's of 1701 is genuine or not. Can this be affirmed by any of the readers of " N. & Q. ? "

GEBVAS K. HOLMES.

Budleigh-Salterton.

[We have before us the earliest edition of Fleming's Discourses, the first of which is entitled " A new Account of the Rise and Fall of the Papacy," London : printed by Andr. Bell, at the Bible and Cross Keys in Cornhil, 1701. This we have compared with the edition of 1848 (Houlston and Stoneman), entitled The Rise and Fall of Rome Papal, and find the latter to be a verbatim reprint of that of 1701, to which are added some editorial notes, preface, arid a memoir of the author. ]