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 9*s.v.JuB3o,i90o.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE SO, 1MO.

CONTENTS. No. 131.

NOTES : Identifying Junius, 509 The Log Azazel, 511 The " Boxers " Lafontaine's 'Oies de Frere Phillippe,' 512 "Kunagate " Theatrical " Kun " " Alexandered " =Hanged Parish and other Accounts " Thatfadeth not away" Wenlock Olympian Games, 513 Actresses Sir T. Wilson Cure for Shingles Dante's House Index to 'Notes and Queries,' 514.

QUERIES : " irony," 514 Drinking - Glass Liturgical Language Weir on Cats Iron Mines Lunebourg Table Sir E. Clarke Jews in Napoleon's Army Whitcombe John Moore Palmer's Portable Pens Warmiensem John Shadwell, 515 " Tyre "Gunpowder in China- Early Mention of Rifling Church of St. Saviour, South- wark ' ' Winchester Pipes ' ' Royal Fusiliers Registers in France Showers of Snakes, &c." Reporter," 516 Omar Khayyam Pekin or Peking, 517.

REPLIES : The Place-name Oxford, 517 " Messuage," 520 Lord Roberts and Suwarrow Costume, 1569 Goat in Folk-lore, 521 Stafford Family, 522 Ancient Dogs, 523 Vautrollier " Bummel " Arms of Merioneth ' 1'he Three Wise Men of Gotham,' 524 " Atlantic greyhound " Sir P. Maitland, 525-Cape Town in 1844 Punch ' Weekly Dinner" I '11 hang my harp," &c. " As busy as Throp's wife," 526" Coarsie "Authors Wanted, 527.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Van Dam's ' William Shakespeare : Prosody and Text ' Frazer's ' Pausanias and other Greek Studies ' Gardner's ' Studies in John the Scot ' Taylor's ' Story ology.'

Notices to Correspondents.

IDENTIFYING JUNIUS.

(Continued from 9 th S. iv. 202.)

24. Junius to Woodfall, 15 July, 1769 : "I beg you will tell me candidly whether you know or suspect who I am." And to Sir W. Draper, 7 February, 1769 : "I should have hoped that even my name might carry some authority with it."

Junius, conscious evidently of superior rank, would not have risked detection by writing on War Office paper had he been a War Office clerk like Francis, who, owing his appointment to the Prime Minister, George Urenville, would gladly welcome his patron's brother, Lord Temple, at his office, supply him with writing material (23), and the pre- cise information of which Junius availed him- self. When Francis was supplanted Junius warmly espoused his cause under the name of Veteran.

25. Junius wrote to Woodfall : " I am sure I should not survive the [my] discovery three days, they would attaint me by Bill. ; The idea of attainder would come naturally to a peer, and the expression was unguarded.

26. Junia to Woodfall, 5 Sept., 1769 :

"1 can't bear to see the men have it all to them- selves Who is this Junius? I have heard at

least twenty persons named. In spite of the

curiosity of the sex I declare sincerely that I would not give a pin for the secret. I throw down my glove in hopes he will take it up."

Some attributed this letter to Junius him- self. I rather attribute it to Lady Temple, who could " declare sincerely "that she" would not give a pin " to be told what she already knew.

27. Junius replied, 7 September, in a letter containing so much double entendre that he repented having written it, and, 10 September, begged Woodfall to explain it away :

" The truth is there are people about me whom I would not wish to contradict, and who had rather see J unius in the papers ever so improperly than not at all. I wish it could be recalled. Suppose you write and say," &c.

Accordingly, 11 September, the Public Advertiser professed reasons for suspecting the letter was a hoax. Junius might have written to his own wife, but not to a stranger, in the strain he condemned. That Lady Temple was not one to take offence at such pleasantries is proved by her poems. To Woodfall, who knew him neither as Benedick nor bachelor, he might confess " the truth " that he had a prompter at home, and was not what he represented himself " the sole depository of his own secret."

28. As Woodfall would not print 'Harry and Nan,' Junius sent his verses to Almpn, who certainly knew the author if any outside the family did. He was very intimate with Lord Temple for " many years." He suffered for printing the ' Letter to the King/ and once declared that Junius was a "noble peer." Afterwards (admonished, perhaps, like Wood- fall) he altered his story : Junius became a Master in Chancery, aided by Lord Camden, who also associated Lord Temple with Junius ; and then, in his edition of Junius, Almon pretended to suspect Hugh Boyd (twenty- three years old when the first letter by Junius appeared), whose portrait appears in vol. i., and, strangely, that of Lord Temple as frontispiece to vol. ii. Garrick suspected Boyd, and Junius directed Woodfall not to enlighten him.

Taylor, head of the Franciscans, says that Junius knew Lord Egremont intimately. True, Francis had been his secretary ; but his lordship's sister was Lord Temple's sister- in-law. Francis said (speech, 11 April, 1796):

" What I know is derived from the wisdom of great men whom 1 have known. Though too young to take part I was old enough to observe, and i had access to some of the greatest sources of instruction."

He said of Lord Chatham :

" He honoured me with repeated marks of his favour and protection. How warmly in return i