Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850

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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 37. Saturday, July 13, 1850 A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 37.] SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS
NOTES:-- The Author of the "Characteristics" by W.D. Christie. 97 Caxton's Printing office, by R.F. Rimbault. 99 Sanatory Laws in other Days. 99 Folk Lore:--Midsummer Fires. 101 Minor Notes:--Borrowed Thoughts--An Infant Prodigy in 1659--Allusion in Peter Martyr--Hogs not Pigs. 101
QUERIES:-- A Query and Replies, by H. Walter. 102 Letters of Queen Elizabeth and Philip II. of Spain. 102 Minor Queries:--The New Temple--"Junius Identified"--Mildew in Books--George Herbert's Burialplace--The Earl of Essex and "The Finding of the Rayned Deer"--The Lass of Richmond Hill--Curfew--Alumni of Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester--St. Leger's Life of Archbishop Walsh--Query put to a Pope--The Carpenter's Maggot--Lord Delamere--Henry and the Nutbrown Maid. 103
REPLIES:-- French Poem by Malherbe, by S.W. Singer. 104 "Dies Ir?, Dies Illa." 105 Dr. Samuel Ogden, by J.H. Markland. 105 Replies to Minor Queries:--Porson's Imposition--The Three Dukes--Kant's S?mmtliche Werke--Becket's Mother--"Imprest" and "Debenture"--Derivation of "News"--Origin of Adur--Meaning of Steyne--Sarum and Barum--Epigrams on the Universities--Dulcarnon--Dr. Magian--America known to the Ancients--Collar of SS.--Martello Towers--"A Frog he would a-wooing go"--William of Wykeham--Execution of Charles I.--Swords--The Low Window--Brasichelli's Expurgatory Index--Discursus Modestus--Melancthon's Epigram. 106
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 111 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 111 Notices to Correspondents. 111 Advertisements. 112
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NOTES
THE AUTHOR OF THE "CHARACTERISTICS."
Lord Shaftesbury's _Letters to a young Man at the University_, on which Mr. SINGER has addressed to you an interesting communication (Vol. ii., p. 33.), were reprinted in 1746 in a collection of his letters, "_Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, author of the Characteristicks, collected into one volume_: printed MDCCXLVI." 18mo. This volume contains also Lord Shaftesbury's letters to Lord Molesworth, originally published by Toland, with an introduction which is not reprinted; a "Letter sent from Italy, with the notion of the Judgment of Hercules, &c., to my Lord ----"; and three letters reprinted from Lord Shaftesbury's life in the _General Dicionary_, which was prepared by Dr. Kippis, under the superintendence of Lord Shaftesbury's son, the fourth earl.
In my copy of the original edition of the _Letters to a young Man at the University_, two letters have been transcribed by an unknown previous possessor. One is to Bishop Burnet, recommending young Ainsworth when about to be ordained deacon:--
"To the Bishop of Sarum.
"Reigate, May 23. 1710.
"My Lord,--The young man who delivers this to your Lordship, is one who for several years has been preparing himself for the ministry, and in order to it has, I think, completed his time at the university. The occasion of his applying this way was purely from his own inclination. I took him a child from his poor parents, out of a numerous and necessitous family, into my own, employing him in nothing servile; and finding his ingenuity, put him abroad to the best schools to qualify him for preferment in a peculiar way. But the serious temper of the lad disposing him, as I found, to the ministry preferably to other advantages, I could not be his hindrance; though till very lately I gave him no prospect of any encouragement through my interest. But having been at last convinced, by his sober and religious courage, his studious inclination and meek behaviour, that 'twas real principle and not a vanity or conceit that led him into these thoughts, I am resolved, in case your lordship thinks him worthy of the ministry, to procure him a benefice as soon as anything happens in my power, and in the mean time design to keep him as my chaplain in my family.
"I am, my Lord, &c.,
"SHAFTESBURY."
The second letter inserted in my copy is to Ainsworth himself, dated Reigate, 11th May, 1711, and written when he was about to apply for priest's orders. But the bulk of this letter is printed, with a different beginning and ending, in the tenth printed letter, under date July 10th, 1710, and is there made to apply to