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NOTES AND QUEEIES;

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1850. IHEDITED NOTES FBOM NEWSPAPERS.

(Continued from p. 345.)

The Governor of Massachusetts Bay, Samuel Shute, calls together the General Assembly of the province, to concert measures for its preserva- tion against the attacks of the rebellious Indians ; and thus they agree to carry on the war :

" Those who go as Volunteers, without pay or Subsis- tence, shall receive 100/. for each Scalp of any Male In- dian of the Age of 12 Years or upwards.

" To the Volunteers without Pay, being subsisted and supplied with Ammunition, the Sum of GO/, for every Male Indian above the Age of 12.

" To any Company or Troop issuing forth upon an Alarm against the Enemy, over and above the established Pay, 30/. per Scalp.

" To the regular detached forces, in pay of the Go- vernment, 151. per Scalp." Weekly Journal, October 13th, 1722.

We give, as a specimen of the style of quack advertisements, the following one ; not because it is the most curious, but as being the only decent one we can find :

"At her House, at the 'Red Ball and Acorn,' over against the 'Globe Tavern 1 in Queen Street, Cheapside, near the ' Three Crowns,' liveth a Gentlewoman, the Daughter of an Eminent Physician, who hath practised upward of forty Years ; who hath an Oyntment called the Royal Oyntment, that gives Ease in the violent Pains of the Gout, and infallibly Cures the Eheumatism, although reduced to Crutches. It had not been made Publick only by the Continuance and Importunity of those Persons who have found great Relief by it; and are to be had nowhere else, but at the House above men- tioned ; and at the first House upon the Steps, a Potter's Shop, over against St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, by Doctor Reddlop Clare." Weekly Journal, October 13th, 1722.

The following is almost a last glimpse at Sir Christopher Wren :

" On Thursday se'night, Sir Christopher Wren, Knt, was unanimously elected Vice-President of the Corpora- tion of Clergymen's Sons, in the Room of Sir Gilbert Dolben, Bart., deceased ; who lety the said Corporation a Legacy of five hundred Pounds." Weekly Journal, Nov. 17th, 1722.

The state of the prisons, and their unfortunate inmates, is next displayed :

" We hear that those unfortunate men, who have been 27 years confined in Newgate by Act of Parliament, and exempted in all the Acts of Indemnity since, are reduced to such want, that they have nothing to live upon but the common Allowance of the Prison, Bread and Water." Weekly Journal, Nov. 17th, 1722.

These, I presume, were the men arrested for the Jacobite plot of 1695.

I think there were once some Queries in " N. & Q." relating to the " Good Old Cause," but I can find no clue to them in the Indices.* Will

[* See I 8t S. vi. passim.]

the following be of any service in their solu- tion ?

" We hear from the same place (Boston, N. E.), that nine Dissenting Ministers have forsaken the Good Old Cause, and renounced the Errors of Fanaticisrn, to Em- brace the Doctrine of the Church of England ; and have published a Declaration containing the Reasons which mov'd them to it." Weekly Journal, Dec. 18th, 1722.

A thrice-ci'iveeh coach from Harrow is thus an- nounced :

" The Stage Coach that used to come from Harrow- on-the-Hill on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, to the ' Bell Inn ' in Holbourn, is now removed to the ' Bull,' two doors nearer Hatton Garden, and returns as usual ; and also goes to Garford, Pinnar, or any Place there- abouts. Performed (if God permit), Bv ISAAC WILD." Weekly Journal, Dec. 18th, 1722.

A still later mention of Sir Christopher Wren. He died in 1723 :

" We hear that Sir Christopher Wren has made an offer to the Sons of the Clergy, if they will purchase a Piece of Ground, to build them an House at his own Ex- pence for their Anniversary Meeting." Weekly Journal, Dec. 22nd, 1722.

Although the following statement is afterwards contradicted, I copy it ; as it alludes to a singular practice, of which I never met with an example before :

" Mr. Layer is reprieved, we hear, for 99 years." Weekly Journal, Dec. 22nd, 1722.

Can a.ny correspondent of "N. & Q." furnish me with other instances of this peculiar form of (virtual) pardon ?

Here is the original advertisement of " Colonel Jack : "

" This Day is published,

" tit The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was born a Gentleman, put ' Prentice to a Pickpocket, and was six and twenty years a Thief, and then kidnapp'd to Virginia. Came back a Merchant ; was five times married to four Whores ; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regi- ment, Came over, and fled with the Chevalier; is still abroad, compleating a Life of Wonders; and resolves to dye a General. Printed and sold by J. Brotherton, at the Royal Exchange ; T. Paj'ne, near Stationers' Hall ; Wellears at the ' Lamb,' and A. Dodd at the ' Peacock,' without Temple Bar; W. Chetwood in Covent Garden; J. Graves in St. James's Street; S. Chapman in Pall Mall ; and J. Stagg in Westminster Hall." Weekly Journal, Dec. 22nd, 1722.

An announcement which follows it, presents a delightful confusion of sentences. A maze of words, in which we are pulled up every now and then, and have to start afresh :

" A Boy that is inticed from his Mother, and latelj- gone from her along with one that goes by the Name of Dorothy Brichitt ; that he robb'd his Mother of several things, that went away in a white riding Hood, and a striped Camlet Gown ; and a young Child with her about 3 years old. The Boy that she has enticed from his Mother is about 14 years of Age, named Thomas Mat-