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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST tk, 1901.

CONTENTS. No. 191.

NOTES Sedlev's Escapade, 157 Authorship of British Apollo,' 158 Bevis Marks Synagogue, 159 " Pitcher,"

J^Q Stuart Relic Thomas Newcomb John Potenger

Shakespeariana Shakespearian Relic, 161 'N. & Q ' = a Motto " Week end " " Providing "=Provided Glare and Heine-Marquess of Bute Chalice as Race Cup, 162- " Meeting," 163.

QUERIES -Portrait by Dighton Richardson Arms of Richmond Pope and Arbuthnot Scott Quotation Eros' and ' Anteros 'Mural Paintings, 163 Wilhelmine

Glorious uncertainty of the game " Marshalsea and

King's Bench Prisoners Ornamented Lace Sticks Shifting Pronunciation, 164" Jack among the maidens " Robert Southam Jacobite Letter Huguenot Russells of Aylesbury Fox Family-Painter's Name C. S. Pul- teney, 165.

REPLIES : Lamb as a Journalist, 166 Sweeny Todd Kipling Stories, 168 Family Likeness " Galloglass" Crest and Motto' Burial of Sir John Moore,' 169 Rural Selfode" " Sawney " Kyrie Eleison Pall

Wheat" Stinger" ' Coronation Anecdotes,' 170 Malt and Hop Substitutes Artists' Mistakes " Toucan " Neptune and crossing the Line, 171 "Gentlier" ' The

A Ladle, 174. NOTES ON BOOKS -.Singer's 'Jewish

Vol. I. Macaulay's 'Works of John Grower,' Vols. II. and

III.' Quarterly Review.' Notices to Correspondents.

gain.

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY'S ESCAPADE.

READERS of Samuel Pepys will the virtuous horror which overtook that good man when he first became acquainted with the misdoings of Sir Charles Sedley, a youn Kentish baronet, then in the twenty-fift

become him to have been at his prayers begging God's forgiveness, than now running into such courses again."

Johnson, in his ' Life of Dorset,' tells the story, on the authority of Anthony a Wood, in rather a different way :

Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock, in Bow Street, by Covent Garden, and, going into the balcony, exposed themselves to the populace in very indecent postures. At last, as they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the populace in such profane language, that the public indignation was awakened ; the crowd attempted to force the door, and, being repulsed, drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of the house. For this mis- demeanour they were indicted, and Sedley was fined five hundred pounds : what was the sentence of the others is not known. Sedley employed Killi- rew and another to procure a remission from the _Ling ; but (mark the friendship of the dissolute !) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to the last groat."

For many years this escapade of Sir Charles Sedley served as an "awful example " U evil- doers, and in June, 1749, Henry Fielding, when charging the grand jury of West- minster, drew special attention to it, and quoted as his authority Siderfin's 'Reports.' As none of Sedley's biographers appears ever to have consulted this official record of his offence and punishment, it may be interest- ing to quote it in full. The reference is 1 Sid. 168, Mich. 15 Car. II. B.R. :

"Le Roy versus Sr. Charles Sidney.* Sr. Ch. S. fuit indict al common Ley pur several Misdemeanors encounter le Peace del Roy et que fueront al grand Scandal de Christianity, Et le cause fuit quia il monstre son nude Corps in un Balcony in Covent Garden al grand Multitude de people et tiel choses et parle tiel parolls &c. (monstrant

11 of a late triall of Sir Charles Sydly the other day, before my Lord Chief Justice Foster and the whole bench, for his debauchery a little while since at Oxford Kate's, coming in open day into the Balcone

and abusing of Scripture and as it were from

thence preaching a mountebank sermon from the

Sulpit, saying that there he had to sell such a pow- er as should make all the women in town run after him, 1000 people standing underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he took a glass of wine, and then drank it off, and then took another and drank the King's health. It seems my Lord and the rest of the Judges did all of them round give him a most high reproof ; my Lord Chief Justice saying that it was for him, and such wicked wretches as he was, that God's anger and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many times. It 's said they have bound him to his good behaviour (there being no law against him for it) in 5,000. It being told that my Lord Buckhurst was there, my Lord asked whether it was that Buckhurst that was lately tried for robbery ; and when answered Yes, he asked whether he had so soon forgot his deliver- ance at that time, and that it would have more

Iuy per les Justices que coment la ne fuit a eel temps ascun Star-Chamber uncore ils voil fair Iuy de scaver que cest Court Est Gustos Morum de touts les Subjects [sic] le Roy, Et est ore haut temps de Punnier tiels profane Actions fait encounter tout modesty queux sont cy frequent sicome nient sole ment Christianity. Mes auxy morality ad estre derelinquy, Et apres que il ad e6 continue in Court

' recogn' del Terme de Trin. al Fine del Terme de t. Mich. Le Court Iuy demand daver son Triall pur eel al Barr, Mes il aiant advise submit Iuy mesme al Court, et confesse L'indictment. Pur que le Court consider quel Judgment a doner, Et pur ceo q' il fuit Gent'home de trope aunc' Family (ore del pays de Kent) et son Estate incumber (nient intendant son Ruine mes pur Iuy reforme) ils fine Iuy forsque 2000 Marks et que serra imprison pur un Weeke sans Baile et del bone port pur 3 ans."f

" Sidley."
 * So spelt in the report, but in the index

f The original report is, of course, in black Jetter, except a few words in transcribed in italics.

, roman type, which I have