Minor Notes.
"Receipt" or "Recipe."—In one of Mr. Ryle's popular tracts, "Do you pray?" Wertheim and Mackintosh: London, 1853, occurs the following expression, p. 18.:
"What is the best receipt for happiness?"
Is the use of "receipt" for "recipe" to be admitted into the English language?
W. E.
Death of Philip III. of Spain.—D'Israeli, in his Curiosities of literature, states to the effect that this kings fatal illness was induced by the overheating of a brazier, whereof state etiquette forbad the removal until the person in regular attendance should arrive. For this statement he quotes no authority, and consequently Mr. Bolton Corney, in his Illustrations of the Curiosities of Literature (2nd ed., p. 87.), discredits the story.
It is singular that Mr. Corney should have forgotten that the anecdote is given by the Maréchal
de Bassompierre, who was at Madrid at the time of the king's death; the Maréchal's informant was the Marquis de Pobar, who was present at the scene. Is not this sufficient? (See Mémoires de Bassompierre, under the date of 11th of March, 1621, vol. i. p. 548. of the edition of Cologne, 1665.)
C. V.
Churchwardens.—In an old scrap-book in my possession, I met with the following, which, should you deem it of sufficient interest, I shall be glad to see inserted in "N. & Q." The print appears to be about sixty or seventy years old, and evidently from a newspaper: