Minor Notes.
The Rights of Women.—Single women, who were freeholders, voted in the State of New Jersey as late as the year 1800. In a newspaper of that date is a complimentary editorial to the female voters for having unanimously supported Mr. John Adams (the defeated candidate) for President of the United States, in opposition to Mr. Jefferson, who was denounced as wanting in religion.
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
Green Pots used for drinking from by Members of the Temple.—During the summer of 1849, when the new part of Paper Buildings in the Temple was being built, the workmen, in making the necessary excavations, dug up a great number of pots or cups, which are supposed to have been used for drinking from by the students. I have recently met with the following letter from Sir Julius Cæsar to Sir W. More, which may be interesting to some of your readers:
"After my hartie commendac'ons, &c. Whereas in tymes past the bearer hereof hath had out of the Parke of Farnham, belonging to the Bishopricke of Winchester, certaine white clay for the making of grene potts usually drunk in by the gentlemen of the Temple, and nowe understandinge of some restraint thereof, and that you (amongst others) are authorized there in divers respects during the vacancye of the said Bishopricke; my request, therefore, unto you is, and the rather for that I am a member of the said house, that you would in favoʳ of us all p'mytt the bearer hereof to digge and carrie away so muche of the said claye as by him shalbe thought sufficient for the furnishinge of the said house wᵗʰ grene potts aforesaid, paying as he hath heretofore for the same. In accomplishment whereof myself with the whole societie shall acknowledge oʳselves much beholden unto you, and shalbe readie to requite you at all times hereafter wᵗʰ the like pleasure. And so I bid you moste heartilie farewel.
"Inner Temple, this xixᵗʰ of August, 1591.
"To the right worshipful Sir W'm More, Knight, geve these."
This letter is printed in the Losely Manuscripts, p. 311.
B.
Bristol.
Quarles and Pascal.—In Quarles' Emblems, book i. Emblem vi., there is a passage:
"The world's a seeming paradise, but her own
And man's tormentor;
Appearing fixed, yet but a rolling stone
Without a tenter;
It is a vast circumference where none
Can find a centre."
And Pascal, in one of his Pensées, says:
"Le monde est une sphère infinie, dont le centre est partout, la circonférence nulle part."
Here we have two propositions, which, whether taken separately, or opposed to each other, would seem to contain nothing but paradox or contradiction. And yet I believe they are but different modes of expressing the same thing.
Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.
Offer to intending Editors.—I had hoped that some one would accept Mr. Crossley's offer of Ware's MS. notes for a new edition of Foxes and Firebrands. I myself will with pleasure contribute a copy of the book to print from (assuming that it will be properly executed), and also of his much rarer Coursing of the Romish Fox, which should form part of the volume.
If any one is disposed to edit the works of Dr. John Rogers, the sub-dean of Wells, I will, with the same pleasure, supply his Address to the Quakers, of which I possess Mr. Brand's copy, which he has twice marked as extra rare; and Rodd, from whom I purchased it, had never seen another copy. The entire works might be comprised in two volumes octavo.
It is to be regretted that Mr. Flintoff has not yet published Wallis's Sermons on the Trinity, to accompany his excellent edition of Wallis's Letters, 1840. Would it not be possible to obtain so many names as would defray the expense of printing?
S. Z. Z. S.
Head-dress.—The enormous head-dresses worn in the time of Charles I. gave rise to the following lines:
"Hoc magis est instar tecti quam tegminis; hoc non
Ornare est; hoc est ædificare caput."
Clericus (D.)