Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 1.djvu/457

 9 th S. I. JUXE 4, '<

NOTES AND QUERIES.

449

Genealogica et Heraldica, as one of the sponsors to Frances, daughter of John Rice, of Tooting, by Frances his wife, daughter of Samuel Plumbe by Frances his wife, daughter of Ralph Thrale. Is anything known of this family of Hotham or of that of his great-nephew William Knott ?

REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON. Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue.

PATTERNS FOR SAMPLERS. From what were old needlework samplers copied? In the early Victorian days, when crewel-work was in vogue, there were patterns printed in tiny squares showing design, colours, and stitches. Was there anything analogous at an earlier period ? ALICE TRESIDDER.

ROBERT McLiNTOCK. Any information con- cerning this author will be esteemed. He published at least one book of verse.

S. J.

PAMPHLET WANTED. I am very anxious to see a pamphlet by the late Count D' Albany or his orother Count Charles D'Albany, giving an account of their descent from Charles Edward Stuart (the Pretender); it was printed for private circulation a good many years ago. Would any of your readers who may possess the brochure allow me to see it, or is it likely to be found at the British Museum? H. STEUART.

15, Fernshaw Road, Chelsea.

BENEVENT. Where may " the fair city of Benevent," the scene of the wild, but romantic the twenty-sixth chapter of ' The Talisman,' be supposed to be 1 There is a Benevento, theBeneventum of Horace's immortal journey, in Italy ; arid a small town Benevent, in France, apparently not a great distance from Nohant, sacred to the memory of George Sand, but not in the same department or province. Is Scott's Benevent eitner of these ? Or is it an imaginary Benevent into the situation of which it is as vain to inquire as into that of Torelore or Pamparigouste ?
 * Lay of the Bloody Vest,' sung by Blondel in

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

Ropley, Hampshire.

JOHN WESLEY. Are John Wesley's journals published in full, and if so, where can they be seen 1 Information required about a visit Wesley is said to have made to Down- patrick in 1778. W. EGERTON TAPP.

Junior Constitutional Club, Piccadilly, W.

SPECTACLES FIFTY YEARS AGO. David Vedder, author of ' Orcadian Sketches ' and other works (1828-48), describes in an amusing lyric the itinerant " street auctioneer " of his

day. The second stanza refers to what seems to have been a curious fashion, and runs thus :

Here 's siller-mounted specks for age,

Frae Lon'on new come down ; For purblindism 's a' the rage Wi' half the fops in town ; An' youthful ladies sport them too,

It mak's them look Quite knowin' ; A sixpence for them Thanks to you, Agoin' ! goin' ! goin' !

Can readers tell anything of this rage for "purblindism"? THOMAS BAYNE.

Helensburgh, N.B.

' VENI, CREATOR SPIRITUS.' Proctor's 'His- tory of the Book of Common Prayer ' states (ed. 1881, p. 444) that the shorter translation of this hymn in the Ordinal of the Church of England was "probably made by Dryden." What is the evidence for this suggestion ?

Q.V.

THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKSPEARE. (8 th S. xii. 63, 222, 281, 413 ; 9 th S. i. 69.)

As Mr. Lilly has now been dead nearly thirty years, and those who knew him best are fast following him to the Silent Land, one who was well acquainted with him wishes to make a few remarks on some allusions lately made to him in connexion with the First Folio. The correspondent who said he had seen "shelves " full of First Folios in his shop must be labour- ing under some delusion. What became of them? Where are they? As was observed in ' K & Q.,' 8 th S. xii. 282, I once saw four copies (none perfect) in his shop all at once. On my remarking that I never saw four tolerably good together before, he did not point me to "shelves full" though he fre- quently unlocked his desk and drawers to show me his choicest treasures but he said, "And it is most probable you never will again." In the list in ' 1ST. & Q.' are described only such as had come under my notice during the last quarter of a century ; which did not comprise Lilly's, for he had been dead more than that time.

At the first sale of his books after his death there were three First Folios ; at the second there were two. None of these was fine or perfect. The best had a made-up title with doubtful verses, and measured 12 J x 8 in. It was bought by Quaritch for 14l. The next in quality had the verses, the title (including portrait), and the bottom part of the last leaf in facsimile ; it measured 12^ x 8j in., and was bought by Quaritch for 851. Another copy,