"This is the day when right or wrong, I COLLEY BAYS, Esquire, Must for my sack indite a song, "Not he who ruled great Judah's realm, Was wiser than Our's at the helm, "He raked up wealth to glut his till, "His head with wisdom deep is fraught, "For, in his heart he loves a drum, "The Queen, I also pray, God save! Who, just as he is wise and brave, "She's courteous, good, and charms all folks, Of Arian and of Orthodox Alike the nursing-mother. "Oh! may she always meet success In every scheme and job; And still continue to caress That honest statesman, BOB.* "God send the P[rince]†, that babe of grace, (or string), which he wore as one of the Knights of the * The Queen had such unbounded confidence in the political integrity of Walpole, that she not only prevailed upon the King to make him his prime minister, but at her death formally consigned his majesty to his care. Gay attributed, most unjustly, his ill-success at court to the opposition of Walpole. † Prince Frederick of Wales (father of George III.), who died, after a very brief illness, on the 20th March, 1751, had other enemies besides those in his father's house; and amongst them none so bitter, perhaps, as the Jacobites. One of the last-mentioned penned the following epitaph upon him: "Here lies Prince Fred, Gone down among the dead: Had it been his mother, Few would have miss'd her; Had it been the whole generation, "Heav'n spread o'er all his family "All marry gratis, boy and miss, And shall be ever more.' "But ob! e'vn Kings must die, of course, So shall the Crown and Laurel, too, The following notices of this eminent man_are from the History of the Officers of Arms, by Garter Anstis*, who, to avoid repetition of particulars in his life, refers to the accounts of Anthony Wood, Dr. Smith, and the Life prefixed to the English edition of the Britannia, by Gibson, in 1695. Since Anstis wrote, upwards of a century has passed; and the only further account of Camden which has been given to the public is that of Noble, in his History of the Coll. of Arms; that in the Britannia, extended and prefixed to the last edition of that work by Mr. Gough in 1789 (4 vols. folio); and some notice by Sir Henry Ellis, in his Preface to the Huntingdon Visitation, printed by the Camden Society, No. 43. -a Gough's edition of the Britannia, from its size and expense, is accessible to the few, and not very frequently to be found in private libraries, circumstance to be regretted, since a Life of Camden is often inquired for. name, and which has in some degree been a passThe Society which has done honour to his port for their numerous and valuable publications, could perhaps be induced so far to deviate from their general rule of printing inedited manutheir annual publications to a reprint of the Life scripts only, as in this instance to devote one of of the great "Nourice of Antiquitie" from Gough's last edition of the Britannia. It would form a singular and very acceptable exception to the rule, son. George II. was distinguished for the prominency of his eyes and nose, as well as for the smallness of his perCoxe, in his Life of Walpole, has preserved a stanza of a ballad, entitled "The Seven Wise Men," in which the diminutive stature of the King is thus ridiculed: "When Edgecumb spoke, the prince in sport Laugh'd at the merry elf; Rejoic'd to see within his court One shorter than himself. 'I'm glad (cry'd out the quibbling squire) My lowness makes your highness higher." + MS. in College of Arms. in compliment to the memory of the Pausanias of the British Isles. G. "Clarenceux. - William Camden, Richmond, the Pausanias of the British Islands, and the illustrious ornament of the College of Heralds, had this office by patent, dated 6th of June, 41 Eliz. 1599, with a salary from Michaelmas preceding. An account will be given hereafter of his being made a titular or nominal Herald by the title of Richmond. There hath been justice done to his memory by Anthony à Wood, Dr. Smith, and the editor of his Britannia, in English; so that there is no occasion to repeat the particulars of his life, but only to observe that Sir Henry Spelman was misinformed when he ascribes his creation to be Clarenceux to the year 1595, the 39th of Queen Eliz., which was certainly not till after the death of Lee, and performed (as we are assured) on Sunday the 23rd of October, 1597, which indeed was in the 39th of Eliz.; to which office he was promoted without any application made by him, upon the recommendation of his great abilities and deserts by Sir Foulke Grevil to the Queen whereon the Lord Burgley, his great patron, and who had a design to have brought him into the Heralds' Office, expressed his uneasiness that he had not applied to his Lordship for his interest, who was then Lord Treasurer, and one of the Commissioners for the office of Earl Marshal, till he understood the same was purely a thought of Sir Fulke Grevill's, and conferred upon him without his knowledge. He enjoyed this office above 26 years, and having made his will on the 21st of May, 1623, wherein he gives a remembrance to his fellow officers, and to Sir Fulke Grevil, who (as the words are) preferred me gratis to my office, and what he doubtless intended should have been a public service to all his successors in the following ages, He devises all his printed books and manuscripts to Sir Robert Cotton, except such as concern arms and heraldry, the which with all my ancient seals (these are the terms) I bequeath unto my successor in the office of Clarenceux, provided that whereas they cost me much, that he shall give to my Cousin John Wyat, Painter, such sum of money as Mr Garter and Mr Norroy for the time being shall think meet, and also that he leave them to his successor in the office of Clarenceux.' The collector hath not hitherto seen any Catalogue of these books and seals, but Mr. Camden, the best judge of their value, expressly saith that they cost him considerably, and we know that one single parcel were bought by him of the executors of Nicholas Charles, Lancaster, for 901.; and these must have been improved by the additions he made to them, and also by his own collections, and by his own visitations and transactions in the office for so long a time. These came to Sir Richard St. George, his successor; and being many of them (among which the collector hereof was once permitted to inspect a great volume of the pedigrees of the ancient barons, wrote by Mr. Camden himself), in the custody of the late Sir Henry St. George, who had the good fortune to go through the three Kingships of Arms; who being shewn this devise of Mr. Camden was pleased however to insist that he bought them of Mr. Owen, York Herald, who had married his aunt, the daughter of the said Sir Richard St. George; and that he had the opinion of counsel that this legacy (for it seems this will was drawn up by Mr. Camden himself, who was unacquainted with the chicanery of law,) did not now oblige him, though he well knew these books must come into the family by virtue thereof; and though he frequently promised to leave these books to the College, yet for want of a particular disposition they went with the other of his personal estate to his residuary legatee and executor, who was an entire stranger in blood to him. "His will is printed at large by Mr. Hearne in the end of his Collections of Curious Discourses wrote by the Antiquaries.' "If we believe the recital in a patent granted in the year 1670, Mr. Camden was in his time Poet Laureat and Historiographer, or at least one of them; but the latter he could not be, if the inscription in the Middle Temple church on James Howell be true: so then, if credit may be given to this recital, he must have been Poet Laureat, which was indeed an ancient office in the household of our kings, and also in that of some of the nobility. He died on the 9th of November, 1623, at Chiselhurst, and was buried in Westminster Abbey with ceremony, having a handsome monument of white marble with his effigies to the middle, with the draught of the crown of his office placed by him, and his own arms impaled on the sinister side of his office. His will was dated 21st of May, 1623, and proved the 10th of November following. Mr. Farnaby characterises him Præco famæ, Oraculum Natalium, Armorum Sacerdos, Stemmatum Hermes, Temporum vindex, rei Antiquariæ consultus, Regum Fecialis.'" "Richmond Herald. - William Camden, that great restorer of the antiquities of this kingdom, had this title conferred upon him without any Letters Patent, being thus styled in the grant made to him of the office of Clarenceux, 41 Eliz. Lee was advanced to be Clarenceux 11 May, 1594, and died in September, 1597, during which time this office of Richmond continued vacant: and (as a MS. expresses it), On Saturday, 22 of Oct. 1597, was Camden made Richmond Herald by the Lord Burley and Earl of Nottingham, without any Bill made or signed by the Lords or the Queen's Majesty, as of custom and right it ought to be, and yet at the same present they made a Pursuivant, Richmond - so there were two Richmonds at one time. In an order for placing the Officers of Arms, dated the day following, it appears that Mr. Camden was then Clarenceux, so that the conferring this title of Richmond was only nominal. It being pro bably the notion of that age that in regard the usual oath of a provincial King of Arms refers to that formerly taken by him as a Herald, it was therefore necessary that he should be so denominated and sworn accordingly. By the same ord er likewise appears that the Pursuivant then created Richmond was John Raven, Rougedragon, who passed no Letters Patent for it in near six years afterwards, his signet bearing date August, 1603, and his patent on the 13th of that month §, 1 Jac. I." EDGAR ETHELING. Rapin de Thoryas, in his authentic and admirable History of England, during the annals of the year 1106, informs us that Edgar Adeling (who you are aware was the child and only son of Edward of Saresbury, better known as Edward the Exile, and grandson of Edmund II., surnamed Ironside), having been taken prisoner by William the Norman (being then in arms against the Conqueror, assisting Robert, Duke of Normandy, after their return from the first "Cruxayde in the Holy Land"), the death and burial in the reign of * Penes Du Chuml. Dering, Bart, L. 6. 1. p. 102. + Order of Lords Commissioners for placing the Officers of Arms. E libro Sigret apud Whitehall, Aug. 1603. The office of Richmond granted to John Raven, Rougedragon. § Pat. 1 Jac. I., p. 12., 13 Aug. Henry I. of the latter in Gloucester cathedral is a well-ascertained circumstance; but of Edgar's subsequent history all Rapin discloses is under the above year, in which he states that Edgar lived to an extreme old age, and died [in England?] Permit me therefore to inquire, through the medium of your very valuable columns, whether any of your numerous historical readers have ever met with any mention of the place of abode, time of death, or where rest the remains of this truly noble and illustrious warrior, the lineal representative of the last but one (Ethelred II.) of our Anglo-Saxon monarchs; and also whether the same respect was paid to his ashes as to those of one of his beloved and saintly sisters, Queen Margaret of Scotland; or yet bestowed upon those of his companion in arms, Duke Robert of Normandywhose dust (if undisturbed) still reposes in the aisle of Gloucester cathedral beneath what the last civil war has permitted to remain of his monumental tomb and effigies. The paternal estates of Edgar's father appear, from the Domesday Survey (pp. 69. 69 a.), to have been in the county of Wiltes; and it is not improbable that Edgar's remains were interred either in the cathedral of Old Sarum, and afterwards removed to the present Salisbury cathedral in the twelfth or thirteenth century, or else in the neighbouring Abbey of Wilton: as it appears from the proceedings of two councils (vide Wil kins' Concilia)-the one A.D. 1075, at Winton, and the other A.D. 1100, at Lambeth-that his niece Maud, daughter of Malcom, king of Scotland, had taken refuge in the latter abbey for the sake of protection only; as it was necessary that she should do this in order to her espousals with Henry I. (whose queen she afterwards became, and mother of the Empress Maud); in which year she was released from her monastic seclusion, not having taken the veil. Those of his father, the exile, were according to Rapin interred in St. Paul's, London. Should any farther trace of this truly noble and most distinguished and chivalrous Saxon Prince be known to any of your readers, beyond what is thus disclosed by De Thoryas, or the circumstance of his magnanimous refusal of the crown and kingdom of Jerusalem when offered to him by the Emperor of Constantinople after his victories over the Arabians and reconquest of the Holy Land from the grasp of the Saracenic invader, and who thus carried for the first time the prestige of our national Anglo-Saxon valour into the far East, be yet upon record, the renewal and remembrance of it in your pages may probably prove not altogether uninteresting at the present time to more than one of your readers. As the military reputation acquired for his countrymen by this distinguished and memorable Anglo-Saxon champion, has never since been surpassed by either of the Anglo-Norman monarchs, Rich. I. and Edw. I., who afterwards sought for glory upon the same illustrious fields; nor yet the lustre which his arms then reflected ever since eclipsed by any succeeding crusader in the Holy Land; although by subsequently joining in his companion's rash enterprise against the Conqueror, his prestige was afterwards unhappily destroyed; your insertion of this notice and inquiry after the relicta of him, who thus laid the foundation of our future renown for deeds of arms in the far East, will greatly oblige CHRISTOPHER LORD HATTON, THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK OF PSALMODY. Ψ. Hatton of Kirby, co. Northampton, in 1643, was This truly illustrious nobleman, created Baron the son of Sir Christopher Hatton (knighted at the coronation of King James I.), who succeeded, as nearest kinsman, to the estates of the celebrated chancellor of that name. He has been styled "the Mæcenas of learning," and acquired considerable note as an industrious collector of antiquities in the form of public records and charters, with other MSS. of historical interest. Among his collections was one highly valued and sedulously preserved, an original grant of William the Conqueror bestowing lands upon one of his ancestors at Hatton, co. Chester. This in the civil wars was preserved with great difficulty by his wife; and it is stated that "her lord patiently digested the plundering of his library and other rarities," when he received intelligence from Lady Hatton that this relic was in safety. Himself a zealous antiquary, he employed his wealth in patronising the "working bees" of literature, and preserving in troublous times for future generations the records of the past. The following unpublished letter, written by him to Sir William Le Neve, will be read with interest: "Worthy S.-These lines are to present you with my hearty thanks for your weekely good intelligence. I am not a little gladd to heare any good newes from Arundell house, therefore your newes of the Barony of Stafford was wellcome. I wish wee might have good newes out of the North, that wee might with quiett apply our selves to our studdies. I pray, Sr, if Cooper need worke, be pleased to supply him with some of your choyce deedes. I have receaved a bemoaning letter from Mr Freeman for want of worke; at this distance I know not, but if you please to assign him somwhat that in your judgment is worth my coppieing I will appoint him to attend you. I earnestly long for your good company, aseuring you no man is more your affectionate friend "to serve you, "CHR. HATTON. 'Kirby, 20 Sept. 1640. "Sr.-Mr Dugdale gives you many thanks for your care of his turne, and desires you will be pleased to continue itt. (Addressed) "To my noble frend Sr William Le Neve, Clarenceux King of Armes, att his lodging in the office of armes." Through the foresight of this learned peer at the outbreak of the disastrous civil struggles, some of our national monuments and biographical evidences have been preserved from oblivion. For at his own charge and expence the Mr. Dugdale above mentioned (afterwards the learned Sir William), together with a skilful arms-painter, were dispatched to the principal cathedrals, collegiate and other churches, there to copy as accurately as possible arms, epitaphs, and monuments, that at least some record of them might be handed down to better and less turbulent times. Dugdale was a great protegé of Lord Hatton, and through him received great promotion. We find him in 1648 escorting Lady Elizabeth Hatton to her husband in France, and travelling with them. Under date of 1659, Oct. 30, Lord Hatton was the medium of a very extraordinary communication addressed to Lord Chancellor Hyde. It was no less a proposal than to form a coalition between the Royalist and Parliamentary interests by a match between King Charles II. and the daughter of one of the leaders of the faction, Col. Lambert. He says, "... I have received from a very good hand a notion, which I am limited to declare only to yourself and Mr. secretary Nicholas, to be communicated only to the King, and humbly to beg the assurance from his Majesty upon the word of a King that he will impart it to no person else whomsoever. And if this secrecy be not assured from his May and you both unto me, then will my correspondent desist... It is therefore thought by the movers in this business, that no security can serve him who can settle the King in his three thrones, but such a bond as the established law of the nation cannot violate or break, and that is that the King should marry the Lord Lambert's daughter. The grounds of the motion are the great ease and speed of settling the King's business this way rather than any other. The many difficulties and very hard conditions which is believed are found in all other ways will be cut off, it being in this case the lady's fate and interest that it should be so. And it is believed no foreign aid will be so cheap, nor leave our master at so much liberty as this way. The race is a very good gentleman's family, and kings have condescended to gentlewomen and subjects. The lady is pretty, of an extraordinary sweetness of disposition, and very virtuously and ingenuously disposed. The father is a person, set aside his unhappy engagement, of very great parts and very noble inclinations, and certainly more capable of being passed by than the rest. I have delivered my message, and am next to desire you will speed away to me your two opinions whether you think fit to move it to our master or not, and have any hopes it may be listened unto. If you think it not fit, let me know, and let it die, and burn this letter. If you find cause to propose it, then put all the expedition to it that may be, and if our master approve it, then let that be drawn up into a letter," &c. &c. the above communication that the identical lady he was then negotiating for would become his own daughter-in-law. The lapse of a few years developed strange events. 1660, Oct. 21, is the date of a warrant for this very John Lambert to be committed close prisoner to Guernsey, of which island Lord Hatton was governor. Through influence doubtless some indulgence was granted to the prisoner, and licence was given to his wife and her three children to rejoin him. Lambert had two daughters, Frances and Mary. With the latter the governor's son fell in love and formed a clandestine marriage. Lord Hatton (in a document in the State Paper Office) states that some of the islanders have endeavoured to bring him into disgrace, as having connived at the connection of his son with the daughter of a rebel; but he excuses himself as ignorant of the fact, and that when it did come to his knowledge he discarded him entirely, turning him out of doors. With regard to this nobleman as an author, Walpole, in his Noble Authors, says, Christopher Lord Hatton published the Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm (8vo., Oxford, 1644). Wood mentions the work as "the compilation of Dr. Jeremy Taylor."* In the Bodleian copy is this note in MS., "For the use of the publique library of the famous university of Oxford, in testimony of the high esteem and affection towards her by Christ Hatton." Walpole adds, "A very long preface is likely, however, from its tenour to have proceeded from the pen of Taylor." If so it must have been dictated by Lord Hatton. Had it been an anonymous work of Taylor's own composition, he would hardly in the preface have written such passages as the following; they would rather point to the reputed noble author: "If any man's piety receives advantage by this intendment it is what I wish; but I desire that his charity might increase too, and that he would say a hearty prayer for me and my family, for I am more desirous my posterity should be pious than honourable . . . . for there is no honour so great as to serve God in a great capacitie, and tho' I wait not at the altar yet I will pay there such oblations of my time and industrie as I can redeem from the service of His Majestie and the impertinencies of my own life." Walpole, in continuation, records that, "In the decline of life Lord Hatton left his wife and family to starve, and amused himself with a company of players." Such a report, unless accounted for by the imbecility of age, does not accord with the entertained opinion of the pious and erudite nobleman, * Upon the authority of Kennett we have the asseveration of Captain Hatton, son of Lord Hatton, that though Mr. Royston published one edition under the name of Dr. Little did Lord Hatton imagine when he penned Taylor, it was in reality the production of his father. the collector of records, the patron of Dugdale, the friend of Jeremy Taylor, and the author of David's Psalmody. I cannot do better than quote the entire passage alluded to, as given in the Life of Dr. J. North: THE SOLENT, The Swale, anD SOLWAY FIRTH. -The Solent is that part of the straits dividing the Isle of Wight and Hants which stretches from the Southampton Water to the Needles. The Swale is the strait which divides the Isle of "And once at the instance of his mother he (Dr. Sheppey from Kent. And Solway Firth divides North) made a visit to the Lady Hutton, her sister, at England and Scotland on the western coast. All Kerby in Northamptonshire. He found his aunt there these possess a prominent feature in common, forsaken by her husband the old Lord Hatton. He lived having extensive sill or mud-banks throughout in Scotland Yard, and diverted himself with the company and discourse of players and such idle people that their course, and hence their names. Dr. Richardson has, "Sile, Silt," perhaps from A.-S. Syli-an, came to him, while his family lived in want at Kerby. to soil." From the same source come "soil" and He had committed the whole conduct there to a favourite daughter, who was not over kind to her mother. This "soiling," "sully" and "sulliage," the latter meannoble Lord had bright parts, and professed also to be re- ing "the soil, or an accumulation of soil." Halligious, for he published a Book of Psalms with a praver liwell in his Archaic words has the following, suitable to each framed by himself, which book is called Solwy, sullied, Hatton's Psalms, and may be found in the closets of evidently from the same source. divers devout persons. Such difference is often found defiled (A. N.)," and "Swelth, mud and filth between men's pretensions and actions. The famous (Nares)." From the same source a silted-up Nando M- -m used in his drink to curse him for writing pond, about three miles east of Lymington, in Psaumes (as he termed it) and not paying a debt due to Hants, is called "Sowley Pond." C. T. him. The good old lady gave her nephew (Dr. N.) as good an entertainment as she could; that is, took him into hugger mugger in her closet, where she usually had some good pye or plumb cake which her neighbours in compassion sent her in, for the housekeeping was very mean, and she had not the command of any thing when her Lord died. The care of her and the whole family, and the ruined estate of it, devolved upon that truly noble person her eldest son, who, by an unparalleled prudence and application, repaired the shattered estate, set his brother (the incomparable Charles Hatton) and his sister at ease. And his signal and pious care of his good mother is never to be forgot: for he took her, destitute of all jointure and provision, home to him, and entertained her with all the indulgence and comfort he could. And the lady was pleased to declare that the latter end of her age was the beginning of the true comfort of her life." CL. HOPPER. Minor Notes. WEB OF THE SPIDER A REMEDY FOR FEVER. In the Indian Lancet for 1st April is a communication from Dr. Donaldson, recommending the web of the common spider as an unfailing remedy for certain fevers. It is stated to be invaluable at times when quinine and other ante-periodics fail in effect or quantity, not only from its efficacy, but because it can be obtained anywhere without trouble and without price. This remedy, it was observed, was used a century back by the poor in the fens of Lincolnshire, and by Sir James M'Gregor in the West Indies. The Doctor now uses cobweb pills in all his worst cases, and is stated to have said that he has never, since he tried them, lost a patient from fever. Are there any records in Lincolnshire of the use of spiders' web with success in fever cases? WILLIAM BLOOD. Dublin. POLITICAL SATIRES.-The suggestion of your correspondent FITZHOPKINS (2nd S. ix. 452.) is a very valuable one, and one which I shall hope to see carried out in your pages; and I hope moreover that your correspondents will not limit themselves to the illustration of The Rolliad, The Probationary Odes, and The Political Miscellanies. Much as has been done in the columns of "N. & - Q." to identify the authorship of The Poetry of Queries. FITZ FITZ. THE GERMAN CHURCH IN LONDON. In the year 1550, as King Edward VI. has recorded in his Journal under the 29th June, "it was appointed that the Germaines should have the Austin Friars for their Church, to have their Lord Hatton died July, 1670, leaving two sons, Chris- service in, for avoiding of all sects of Anabaptists topher and Charles, and three daughters. and such like." This was done chiefly by the |