Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 | Page 7

long shops
in Westminster Hall."
As to the book, and the name of the author, I may add (with reference
to Wood's Athen.), that in the copy before me, which is, like that
referred to by Dr. Bliss, of the first edition (not the second mentioned
by Aubrey as published in 1659), the author's name does not appear on
the title-page at all. There we find only "By W. R. of Gray's Inne, Esq.
Experto credo" [sic]; and really one seems as if one could believe any
thing from a man who had habitually used such medicines, for I have
said nothing of his infusion of tobacco, for which you must--
"Take a quarter of a pound of Tobacco, and a quart of Ale, White-wine,
or Sider, and three or four spoonfulls of Hony, and two pennyworth of
Mace; And infuse these by a soft fire, in a close earthen pot, to the
consumption of almost the one-half, and then you may take from two
spoonfulls to twelve [no tea-spoons in those days], and drink it in a cup
with Ale or Beer."
One could, I say, believe almost any thing from a gentleman who under

such a course of discipline was approaching the age of fourscore; but
though the title-page has only his initials, the Dedication to the
Marquess of Dorchester, and the letter to Sir Henry Blount, are both
signed "Will. Rumsey."
S. R. M.
[Footnote 3: See Vol. i. pp. 124. 139. 156. 242. 300. and 399.]
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Queries.
QUERIES CONCERNING OLD MSS.
I am very desirous of gaining some knowledge respecting the following
MSS., especially as regards their locality at the present time. Perhaps
some of your numerous readers can help me to the information which I
seek.
1. "Whitelocke's Labours remembered in the Annales of his Life,
written for the use of his Children." This valuable MS. contains a most
minute and curious account of the performance of Shirley's masque,
entitled The Triumphs of Peace. In 1789, when Dr. Burney published
the third volume of his History of Music, it was in the possession of Dr.
Morton of the British Museum.--Query, Was Dr. Morton's library
disposed of by auction, or what was its destiny?
2. "A MS. Treatise on the Art of Illumination, written in the year
1525." This MS. is said by Edward Rowe Mores, in his Dissertation
upon English Typographical Founders, to have been in the possession
of Humphrey Wanley, who by its help "refreshed the injured or
decayed illuminations in the library of the Earl of Oxford." The MS.
was transcribed by Miss Elstob in 1710, and a copy of her transcript
was in the possession of Mr. George Ballard. Where now is the
original?
3. "A Memorandum-book in the handwriting of Paul Bowes, Esq., son

of Sir Thomas Bowes, of London, and of Bromley Hall, Essex, Knight,
and dated 1673." In 1783 this MS., which contains some highly
interesting and important information, was in the possession of a
gentleman named Broke, of Nacton in Suffolk, a descendant from the
Bowes family; but I have not been able to trace it further.
4. "The Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinall." This valuable MS.
was in the collection of Dr. Farmer, who wrote on the fly-leaf,--
"I believe several of the Letters and State Papers in this volume have
not been published; three or four are printed in the collections at the
end of Dr. Fiddes' Life of Wolsey, from a MS. in the Yelverton
Library."
If I remember rightly, the late Richard Heber afterwards came into the
possession of this curious and important volume. It is lamentable to
think of the dispersion of poor Heber's manuscripts.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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Minor Queries.
Chantrey's Sleeping Children in Lichfield Cathedral.--In reference to a
claim recently put forth on behalf of an individual to the merit of
having designed and executed this celebrated monument, Mr. Peter
Cunningham says (Literary Gazette, June 5.),--"The merit of the
composition belongs to Chantrey and Stothard." As a regular reader of
the "NOTES AND QUERIES," I shall feel obliged to Mr. Cunningham
(whose name I am always glad to see as a correspondent) if he will be
kind enough to inform me on what evidence he founds the title of Mr.
Stothard to a share of the merit of a piece of sculpture, which is so
generally attributed to the genius of Chantrey?
PLECTRUM.
Viscount Dundee's Ring.--In the Letters of John Grahame of

Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, printed for the Bannatyne Club in
1826, is a description and engraving of a ring containing some of Ld.
Dundee's hair, with the letters V.D., surmounted by a coronet, worked
on it in gold; and on the inside of the ring are engraved a skull, and the
posey--"Great Dundee,