2. Has there appeared an English translation of the Journal of Alexander de Rhodes, the leader of the Siam, Tonquin, and Cochin China mission; or, if not, are the Paris editions of 1666 and 1682 easy of access? 3. There were various pamphlets published at Paris in the years 1666, 1674, 1681, &c. by the French missionaries, with whom the Jesuit fathers refused to co-operate; where will I find a detailed list of these? One of the series was, if I mistake not, published by Francis Pallu, Bishop of Heliopolis; but I am not acquainted with the exact title of it. I have been engaged in collecting notices of the missions of the Jesuit fathers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and will be greatly obliged by any notices or references that would be suggested by your readers. I feel sure that, in the memoirs of the period, there must be much curious information on the subject, with which we are but little acquainted, and possibly there may be, in the MSS. of the British Museum, some curious letters bearing on the subject. ENIVRI. [In the Index to the Additional Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, fol. 1849, p. 340., will be found notices of several MSS. concerning the early Jesuit missions.- ED.] Minor Querics. Hovellers or Uhvellers. - -While staying at Deal, Kent, this summer, I found that the name given to the boatmen who go out to ships in distress is hovellers, or rather uhvellers. Can any of your correspondents give me the etymology of this term? In some families the children are made to say in their prayers, "God bless father and mother, and send them a good uhvell to-night." Can it be from off-fall, what falls off and is in danger of being lost, or what is cast off, offal? R. B. B. Timepiece. I have a watch in my possession which is evidently of considerable antiquity; it has no date marked upon it, but I have no doubt some of the readers of "N. & Q." will be enabled to fix upon the period of its manufacture by the description I can give of it. The shape is oval; silver case with gold edges, opening on both sides, containing sun-dial and magnetic needle; the works are removable from the case, into which they are fixed by a pair of springs. The mainspring of the watch is wound up with cat-gut, the case and dial-plate beautifully engraved with martial emblems upon rich filagree work; maker's name, J. Barberet, à Paris. JOSEPH KNIGHT. "Quando tandem."- In the British Critic for January, 1828, there is an article entitled "Biblio theca Parriana," in which, vol. iii. p. 129. (after quoting a passage in which Dr. Parr professes his inability to account for the words Quando tandem in an epitaph upon Cassander), the reviewer states, somewhat irreverently, that they may be found "at the tail of the thirteenth chapter of Jeremiah." The Latin version which I possess has there: Usquequo adhuc." Jerome has the same reading. Castellio: "deinceps aliquandiu non pergaberis;" Tremel and Jun., "post quantum adhuc temporis;" Joan. Clerc, "quamdiu adhuc polluta eris;" Ver. Syr. Lat. Int., "quousq. tandem? convertêre ;" Ver. Arab. Lat. Int., 66 quousq. tandem;" with which words Cicero's first Catiline Oration commences. 66 Can you refer me to any Latin translation of Jeremiah xiii. which concludes with the words "Quando tandem;" or do you suppose that the reviewer's remark was ill-considered as well as irreverent ? QUANDO TANDEM. ticularly obliged to any one who will furnish we With the name of the author of a work entitled les causes secrètes qui ont déterminé la politique des Mémoires tirés des papiers d'un homme d'état, cabinets, dans les guerres de la Révolution. It was printed at Paris between 1830 and 1840. "Mémoires d'un Homme d'Etat."-I shall be par A. N. signed "Collins," although, according to received opinion, they were written by Steevens. Who was Collins, the professed commentator? Not a fictitious person certainly; for Steevens requested Garrick to speak in his favour to Mr. Townley. (Garr. Corr., vi. p. 511.) By some writers he is said to have been a poor parson; and this opinion is strengthened by what Steevens says in reference to an attack on the pruriency of the notes: do not "mention his profession to any one, as that circumstance alone might prove a fresh source of merriment." But the editor of the Garrick Correspondence says, "a worthy harmless apothecary." Was it the Rev. T. Collins, Second Master of Winchester College, Rector of Graff ham, to whose daughter, I presume, "Miss Collins of Graffham," Steevens bequeathed 500l. ? C. S. Sir Robert Ayrton, who was he?-Upwards of twenty years ago I copied the following verses, which I think very beautiful, from a volume of poems by various authors. They were there ascribed to Sir Robert Ayrton. Can any of your readers furnish any account of him? "I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, As worthy to be loved by none. "I do confess thee sweet, but find And since thou canst with more than one, Arm'd with her briers, doth sweetly smell, And leaves fall from her one by one. ambassador from Spain to the Diet at Frankfort, Admiral Vernon, and Sir Chaloner Ogle, are mentioned in it as living persons. The death at Exeter of Mrs. Gilbert, aunt to the Bishop of Llandaff, is announced; and a notice is given of Lord Sundon's falling down stairs going from the House of Commons. The last article in the paper is the following: It is a question which would puzzle an arithmetician, should you ask him, whether the Bible saves more souls in Westminster Abbey, or damns more in Westminster Hall." Biographical Queries.-I shall be obliged by answers to the following Queries: Is there any portrait of Dr. Richard Holdsworth, Dean of Worcester in the reign of Charles I.? Is anything known of his father, of the same name, who was vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1585 to 1594 ? At what school were educated Dr. John Arrowsmith, the Puritan master of St. John's College, Cambridge, author of Tactica Sacra, and Dr. Robert Clavering, Bishop of Peterborough, who died in 1747 ? E. H. A. the generality of such books, allusion is made, in the very extraordinary appendix, to "a curious and very rare tract," apparently in the possession of the publishers, entitled A Loyal Oration, &c., composed by James Parkinson, &c., chief master of the Free School in Birmingham, &c.: Birmingham, 1717. To some remarks upon this pamphlet the publishers add, "This tract is curious in another respect; it is the earliest printed document we have met with bearing the Birmingham imprint on the title-page." Now we all know that the rise of Birmingham has been unprecedently rapid, and that a century ago this great town was little more than an obscure hamlet; but I cannot help thinking that it must have possessed a printingpress before this late period, and that some of your readers may be able, through the medium of your pages, to furnish me with the title of some book or pamphlet antecedent to the year 1717. Stroud. J. P. L. “Whoe'er has travell'd Life's dull round."-In a life of Dr. A. Clarke, published about twelve or fourteen years ago, he has quoted at p. 332. these lines: "Whoe'er has run earth's various round, Through cold, through heat, through thick, through thin, May sigh to think he ever found Another version is the one most commonly repeated: "Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Whate'er (where'er) his wand'rings may have been, Allow me to ask, who was the author of these lines? or, if anonymous, in what book they may be found? Which of the above versions is most correct? J. H. M. Purdie Family. It would be conferring a favour if any reader of " N. & Q." could furnish me with some account of the Purdie family. The name is not uncommon in the south of Scotland, though the writer thinks it must be of foreign origin. Perhaps the name may be a corruption of some other. Is there a similar name in France or Germany? The origin of family names would be an interesting inquiry. FIDELITAS. Minar Queries Answered. Wilson's Sacra Privata.-Bishop Wilson's Sacra ·Privata always appears, now-a-days, "adapted to general use." Where can I procure a copy of the work in its original shape, as more especially A. A. D. designed for the clergy? [The first edition of Bishop Wilson's Sacra Privata was published after his death by Mr. Crutwell, but in great apparent haste, and the most unwarrantable liberty was taken with the Bishop's manuscript. The denunciations against covetousness and Erastianism were struck out; and all passages asserting the doctrine of Sacramental Grace were treated in the same way. We understand that an edition is printed, and will be published very shortly, by J. H. Parker of Oxford, which will be a transcript of the Bishop's manuscript, recently discovered in the dusty repositories of Sion College, where it had slumbered for a century undisturbed.] Who was Gurnall?-Can any of your corre spondents give me some information about Gurnall, the eminent divine? He was the author of a wellknown book, The Christian Armour. All I know of Gurnall is, that he was rector of Lavenham, in Suffolk. The lines, "Prayer moves the hand, which moves the universe," in Minor Queries (Vol. vi, p. 55.), are to be found in his writings. F. M. M. Gurnall has not been noticed in any Biographical Die[We are surprised to find that the Rev. William tionary. The following work is not in the British Museum, but occurs in the Catalogue of the Bodleian: An Inquiry into the Birth-place, Parentage, Life, and Writings of the Rev. William Gurnall; to which is added, a biographical sketch of the Rev. William Burkitt; also, an Appendix, containing two curious inscriptions at Lavenham. By H. M'Keon, 8vo.: Woodbridge, 1830.] "Ophiomaches, or Deism Revealed."-Who was author of a work in two volumes, published in 1749 by Millar of London, and called Ophiomaches, or Deism Revealed? It is very able, and must have been the production of some talented scholar. SCRUTATOR. Edinburgh. [This valuable work is by the Rev. Philip Skelton, who was at the time of its publication curate at Monaghan, in the diocese of Clogher. Just after Mr. Skelton had submitted the work to Millar, Mr. Hume accidentally entered his shop, and the manuscript was shown to him. Hume retired with it into an adjoining room, examined it here and there for about an hour, and then exclaimed to Andrew, "Print!" A few months after its publication, the Bishop of Clogher, Dr. Clayton, was asked by Bishop Sherlock if he knew the author. "O yes, he has been a curate in my diocese near these twenty years." "More shame for your lordship," answered Sherlock, "to let a man of his merit continue so long a curate in your diocese." In 1750, Skelton obtained the living of Pettigo. In 1759, he was preferred to the living of Devenish, near Enniskillen; whence he was removed to Fintona, in the county of Tyrone. He died in 1787.] Sydney Smith's Receipt for a Salad Mixture.A volume of Murray's Railway Reading, entitled The Art of Dining, has recently brought into public notice Sydney Smith's receipt for a salad mixture. After an enumeration of the requisite ingredients, the verses conclude thus: Eagle supporting Lecterns.-Origin of eagle as support to lecterns wanted. A. A. D. [An eagle is the attribute of St. John the Evangelist, "because," says Durandus, "he soareth to the Divinity of Christ, whilst the others walk with their Lord on ciently used in churches as lecterns in the choirs from earth." Eagles of brass appear to have been very anwhence the epistle and gospel were sung, and certain services of the dead read from the martyrology and necrology. Sometimes a brass eagle was suspended over the lectern.] [According to Grose, it is "a saying to express a very short time; originating from a very volatile gentleman of that appellation, who would call on his neighbours and be gone before his name could be announced."] Passage in "Religio Medici." -Can any of your learned readers assist me in the following passage? After saying that plants are not destroyed by fire, "but withdrawn into their incombustible part, where they lie secure from the action of that devouring element," the author continues: "This is made good by experience, which can from the ashes of a plant revive the plant, and from its cinders recall it into its stalke and leaves againe."-Rel. Med., i. sect. 38. I should like to know where Sir Thomas got his "experience." R. J. ALLEN. [If our Correspondent will refer to vol. ii. p. 396. "Then, though green turtle fail, though venison's of the excellent edition of Sir Thomas Browne's tough, And ham and turkey are not boil'd enough, Fate cannot harm me; I have dined to-day!" In a MS. version of the same receipt, I find a few variations. These are generally trifling; but the last four lines are quite different from those quoted above, and run thus: "Oh great and glorious! oh herbaceous treat! "Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat, Back to the world he'd turn his weary soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl." I am curious to know whether any of your readers can authenticate the latter version. I am unable to discover the channel through which I received it; but as I enjoyed the acquaintance of the lamented rector of Combe Florey, it seems likely to be genuine. C. Cook, Jun. [The excellent receipt, which is given in the Life of Barham prefixed to the Ingoldsby Legends (Third Series) as received by him from the writer, concludes with the four lines given in The Art of Dining.] Works, published by Bohn in his Antiquarian Library, he will find a very interesting note on this passage, which in the edition of 1642 runs "this I make good by experience," &c. From this note it will be sufficient to extract one short passage: "The following experiment by Sir Thomas Browne, preserved in his handwriting in the British Museum, will throw light on the real character of these supposed vegetable resurrections: "The water distilled out of the roote of Bryonia alba, mixed with sal nitri, will send forth handsome shootes. Butt the neatest draughts are made in the sand or scurvie grass water, if you make a thin solution therein of sal amoniac, and so lett it exhale; for at the bottom will remain woods and rowes of filicular-shaped plants in an exquisite and subtle way of draught, much answering the figures in the stones from the East Indies."-MSS. Sloan. 1847.] Sir Thomas Roe's MSS.-Many of your readers are probably acquainted with The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte from 1621 to 1628: printed in London in 1640, in one volume, folio. We are informed by the editors of the Biographia Britannica, in note L to the life of Sir Thomas Roe, that the publication "Was to be comprised in fire volumes. But the undertakers not meeting with sufficient encouragement, dropped this useful design. But only the volume mentioned above was published in 1740. But the most curious and interesting part of his papers still remains in manuscript." The original letters and documents from which the published volume was printed, and bound up in the order in which they stand in the printed volume, are in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. Can any of your correspondents furnish information respecting the unpublished MSS., whether they are still in existence; and if so, in whose possession? TYRO. Dublin. [The British Museum contains the following documents: Additional MSS., No. 6115., Journal of Sir Thomas Roe's Embassy to the Great Mogul, with Letters, Despatches, Accounts, &c., 1615, 1616. No. 6394. Letter to Sir T. Roe, from Sir W. Boswell, 1643. Nos. 6190, 6211. Letters, &c. of Thomas Carte and others, respecting the Publication of Sir T. Roe's Papers, 1737. No. 6190. Notice of a Volume of his Letters, belonging to the Earl of Oxford. No. 5238. Drawings by Sir T. Roe.-Lansdown MSS. No. 211. Sir T. Roe's Argument against Brass Money. 1054. A Political Letter from Sir T. Roe, Ambassador at Constantinople, Sept. 1624. See also the Index to the Harleian Collection.] Replies. THE BRITISH APOLLO. (Vol. vi., pp. 148. 230.) No. Three folio volumes were published, but it did not terminate with these. I have Nos. 1. to 20. of a fourth vol., and here it appears to have closed. The 20th No. is expressed to be from May 9th to May 11th, 1711. The first vol. was reprinted in a thick 8vo. for J. Mayo, 1711, with a Dedication to the Duke of Beaufort from the editor who signs himself "Marshal Smith," after which various commendatory verses follow. This reprint, which never went further than the first vol., appears contain all that is in the first vol., in folio, except the news and advertisements. In the Preface to the third vol. (folio), there is an amusing statement as to the manifold truths and perplexities under which the editors of the "Notes and Queries" of 1710 laboured : to "The truth is, the importunity of our querists, especially such as called themselves our subscribers, who therefore claimed a preference from us before others, having obliged us sometimes to answer ques tions that had been answered before, and often to insert such as far less deserved a place in our papers than thousands of others from all parts of England, which, for want of room, we have been forced wholly to suppress, we have been lately induced to alter our first design, and not to publish this paper any longer by subscription, but to let it try its fortune in the world as others do. The general encouragement it has already met with forbids us to doubt whether this alteration may not somewhat damp its success; but we rather have reason to expect still greater encourage ment, since we have this advantage by it, that we are now free from all temptations of partiality, and are at liberty to prefer those questions that we find most rational and ingenious; and rather to study how to entertain our curious reader, than how to silence the clamour of an importunate subscriber." The alteration of plan does not seem to have answered, judging by the shortness of the subse As the replies to the Query of E. H. Y. respect multitudinous collection of "questions and anquent career of The British Apollo. From its ing this curious periodical are not very accurate, swers," a very entertaining specimen of absurdiand as Mr. Thackeray has recently drawn attention to it by a humorous notice in his Lectures on supposed that the matter which it contains is ties might be produced, but it must not be Steele and Addison, it may be worth while again altogether worthless. On the contrary, it is on to revert to the subject. The British Apollo commenced on the 13th February, 1708. It was pub-proof that it is so I may refer to the "Opinion many accounts well worth examination, and as a lished in a folio size on Wednesdays and Fridays, on Charity Schools" (printed in a separate sheet in and the editors promise toadmired, and which on again recurring to it, I the first vol. folio), which I have always highly hesitate not to say, is, as a fine and eloquent com position, unsurpassed by any of the sermons, essays, and speeches which have been printed or delivered on the subject from that day to this. "Endeavour to answer all questions in divinity, philosophy, the mathematics, and other arts and sciences; also insert poems on various subjects and occasions, both serious and comical, composed now purposely for the paper which shall be delivered at all persons' houses within the bills of mortality who shall require it at two shillings a quarter, not to be paid till the end of the quarter, and to be relinquished at pleasure; and such as shall take it within the quarter, a proportionable deduction shall be made on the following quarter day. Advertisements will be taken at half-a-crown a piece (if of moderate length), those from quacks excepted, by W. Keble in Westminster Hall," &c. The reprint of the first vol., in 8vo., was afterwards republished in three vols., of which I have the fourth edition printed in 1740, which I think was the last. There has been no reprint of the second and third, and portion of the fourth vols. originally published in folio, which can only be met with in that form. J. CROSSLEY. |