Notices to Correspondents.
Although we have this week enlarged our paper to 24 pages, we are compelled to solicit the indulgence of many correspondents for the postponement of many interesting Notes, Queries, and Replies.
C. H. P. will find his query inserted. It was in type last week, but only postponed from want of room. We have omitted his comment called for by the omission of the words "fleet against the."
W. S. The fine lines commencing,—
"My mind to me a kingdom is,
Such perfect joy therein I find:"
were written by Lovelace.
F. B. Relton. The Satyr on the Jesuits was written by John Oldham, and originally published in 1679.
Salopian. The tragedy of The Earl of Warwick or The King and Subject, was translated from the French of De la Harpe by Paul Heffernan.
Cam. It appears from Brayley's Londiniana, iv. 5. on the authority of Strype's Stow. b. i. p. 287., that Sir Baptist Hicks, afterwards Viscount Campden, was the son of Robert Hicks, a silk mercer, who kept a shop in Cheapside, at Soper's Lane End, at the White Bear. See also Cunningham's Handbook of London, Art. Hicks' Hall.
O. P. The lines—
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have chang'd his doom,
Not forc't him wander, but confin'd him home."
are from Cleveland's Rebell Scott, and would be found at p. 52 of Cleveland's Poems, ed. 1654.
H., who asks whether any friend living in London would consult books for him at the British Museum, and let him know the result, had better specify more particularly what is the information he requires.
Rusticus will find the information he seeks in a Biographical Dictionary under the name Sarpi.
L. J. Blackstone (Book iv. cap. 25.; vol. iv. p. 328. ed 1778) supposes that pressing a mute prisoner to death was gradually introduced between 31 Edw. III and 8 Hen. IV. as a species of mercy to the delinquent, by delivering him sooner from his torment.
Replies Received. "Love's Labour's Lost"—Election of a Pope—Umbrellas—Signs on Chemists' Bottles—Christmas Day—Four Events—A Coggeshall Job—Denarius Philosophorum—Days of the Week—Hugh Peters—Sun, stand thou still—Master John Shorne—Boiling to Death—Wages in the last Century—Crossing Rivers on Skins—Election of a Pope—Origin of Harlequins—Thomas May—Prince of Wales' Motto—Ten Commandments—Tract on the Eucharist.
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