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“ Respecting in its identity and history, from its removal from the rebel duke's pocket down to its production at the Royal Irish Academy, Dr. Anster showed that after Monmouth was beheaded—which he was on Tower Hill, by the too-celebrated John Ketch, on the 15th July, 1685—the articles found on his person were given to the king. At James's deposition, three years afterwards, all his manuscripts, including those that had belonged to Monmouth, were carried into France, where they remained till the Revolution in that country a century afterwards. ”

“ Lacedaemonian Black Broth.—Your correspondent "W." in No. 11., is amusing as well as instructive; but it does not yet appear that we must reject the notion of coffee as an ingredient of the Lacedaemonian black broth upon the score of colour or taste.
That it was an ingredient has only as yet been mooted as a probability.
Pollux, to whom your correspondent refers us, says that [Greek: zomos melas] was a Lacedaemonian food; and that it was called [Greek: aimatia] , translated in Scott and Liddell's Lexicon, "blood-broth." ”

“ Pandoxare.—Having met with an old volume containing the entire household expenses, as well as in some degree a diary, kept by a country gentleman during the reigns of James II., William and Mary, and Anne, I observed that he has made use of a species of hieroglyphics, to facilitate his reference to his book, as it contained all the entries of all kinds, in chronological order. For instance, where mention is made of money spent on behalf of one person in his house, he puts at the side of the page a clay pipe, rudely drawn; an entry of the payment of wages to another servant has a jug of ale ”

“ Men that used iron money to prevent the accumulation of wealth, and, as youths, had volunteered to be scourged, scratched, beat about, and kicked about, to inure them to pain, were just the persons to affect a nauseous food to discipline the appetite.
R.O.
Lacedaemonian Black Broth.—I should be glad to know in what passages of ancient authors the Lacedaemonian black broth is mentioned, and whether it is alluded to in such terms as to indicate the nature of the food. ”

“ Five years before the execution, her mother observed that, despite the duke being a married man, her daughter had, while at court, attracted his admiration, and she hurried her away to Toddington. In 1683, after the failure of the Rye-House Plot, Monmouth was banished from the royal presence, and it was to Toddington he retired. ”

“ In further proof of identity, Dr. Anster pointed out several charms and recipes which the manuscript volume contains. The conjurations are in general for the purpose of learning the results of sickness in any particular case, and of determining whether friends will be in certain circumstances faithful. There are also incantations for the use of several maladies, and one to make gray hair grow black. ”

“ Anglo-Saxon "Lay of the Phoenix."—Has any edition of the Lay of the Phoenix been published, besides the English version in the Archaeologia, vol. 30, and that which bears the date, "Copenhagen, Grundtvig, 1840, 8vo"? Can any light be thrown on the doubts respecting the era of the author of this lay? And is there any published edition of the hexameter poem by Lactantius, which is said by Stephens to have suggested the first idea of this beautiful Anglo-Saxon poem? ”

“ Mr. Thorpe, in the 1st edition of his Analecta, says, "What is intended to be meant by this word [sprote] , as well as by salu [the correspondent word in the Latin] , I am at a loss to conjecture." In his second edition, Mr. Thorpe repeats, "I am unable to explain salu otherwise than by supposing it may be an error for salice. In his Glossary he has "spro't, ii. 2.? sprout, rod?" ”

“ A much more remarkable specimen of Logographic Printing than the number of the Times newspaper mentioned by NASO, No. 9., p. 136., is an edition of Anderson's History of Commerce, with a continuation, in 4 vols. 4to., printed by that method in 1787-1789, "at the Logographic Press, by J. Walter, Printing-House Square, Blackfriars." The work, which makes in all not much short of 4000 pages, is very well printed in all respects ”

“ No "charms against being wounded in battle," such are Sir John Reresby mentions, are to be found in the volume; but there are some prayers against violent death, which have the appearance of having been transcribed from some devotional book. There is evidently a mistake in supposing that this book contains any charm for breaking open prison doors, and it is likely that Sir John Reresby was misled in this way:—There is in p. 7. a charm in French to procure repose of body and mind, and deliverance from pains ”

“ They are sermons of a high and solid character, and are the production of a good Churchman. They are earnest and affectionate, and follow out of the Church's doctrine."—Theologian.
"Warm-hearted and thoughtful."—Guardian.
"When the first edition of theses Sermons appeared, we noticed them as a series of plain and practical, but close and scholarly discourses. The appearance of a second edition, in a short time, justifies our recommendation."—Spectator. ”

“ SERMONS for SCHOOLS and FAMILIES.
By the Rev. A.J. MACLEANE, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; Principal of Brighton College: Author of "The Unity of God's Moral Law, as revealed in the Old and New Testament."
"This volume of sermons is of a different stamp from the generality of those which come under our notice. There is a vigour of thought and language throughout, without the slightest extravagance or exaggeration. There is no far-fetched strain of reasoning, nor any attempt at fine writing in these discourses ”

“ I will not take up your space now with the parallel passages which I noted; but, should you wish it, and be able to make room for them, I will furnish you with a list. It is, of course, obvious that the one I have quoted proves nothing by itself; accumulated instances, in connection with the general question of style, alone become important. I will conclude, by giving a list which I have made out of Marlowe's plays, in favour of which I conceive there to be either internal or external evidence:—
"Locrine. ”

“ That the Latin word in the Colloquy should be Cassidilia is quite clear. Thus in an old MS. English Gloss on the Bible (penes me) , the passage in Tobit, viii. 2., "Protulit de Cassidili suo," is rendered, "brouzt forth of his Scrippe." Coverdale has it, "take out of his bagge," and Luther, "langte aus seinem Sücklein," which word is exchanged for büdel in the Saxon version. In two old Teutonic Glosses on the Bible published by Graff (Diutiska, ii. 178.) , we have the following variations:—
de cassidi burssa, de sacello t. ”

“ Probably there may be a copy in the Lambeth Library; there is none in the Bodleian, British Museum, or Sion College, and Placcius affords no reference. The author may never have been known.
N.
Defoe's Tour through Great Britain.—I am much obliged to your correspondent "D.S.Y" for the suggestion that the Tour through Great Britain, by a Gentleman, from which I sent you some extracts relating to the Ironworks of Sussex, is from the pen of Daniel Defoe. On referring to the list of his writings, given in vol. xx. of C. Talboy's edition of Defoe's Works, I find this idea is correct. ”

“ Did this glorious place give
(Or did us Toddington give)
That thus we happy live.'"
In Macaulay's history we find that the latest act of the duke on the scaffold, before submitting to the stroke of the executioner, was to call his servant, and put into the man's hand a toothpick-case, the last token of ill-starred love. "Give it," he said, "to that person!" After the description of Monmouth's burial occurs the following affecting passage:—
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"Yet a few months and the quiet village of Toddington, in Bedfordshire, witnessed a yet sadder funeral. ”

“ Heber was a volume of poems called Polyhymnia, apparently prepared for the press, and dedicated by William Basse to Lady Lindsey, which contained an "Elegie on a rare Singing Bull-finch," dated 19th June, 1648; so that he was still living nearly half a century after he had printed his earliest known performance.
The production that Izaac Walton refers to must be the ballad preserved in the Pepys Collection at Cambridge, under the heading "Maister {201} Basse his Careere, or the new Hunting of the Hare. To a new Court tune;" and beginning—
"Long ere the morne expects the returne." ”

“ Merser House is As foloweth 5 Coote of armse in 3 windowse in y' Kichen 2 Surkelor Coots of armse 6 Lians traveling 6 flours of Luse all Rede & a Holfe Surkel a top With 2 flours of luce y' Glass painted Rede Blew yoler & of a Green Shaye. ”

“ Walter cannot here omit suggesting to the Public a few observations on his improved mode of printing LOGOGRAPHICALLY. In all projects for the general benefit, the individual who conceives that the trade in which he is engaged diminishes in its emoluments from any improvement which another may produce in it, is too much disposed to become its enemy; and, perhaps, the interest of individuals never exerted itself with more inveteracy than has been experienced by Mr. ”

“ St. John's Wood, Jan. 12. 1850
[We trust our correspondent will favour us with the further communications he proposes on this very interesting point.]
BEETLE MYTHOLOGY.
Mr. Editor,—I never thought of asking my Low-Norman fellow-rustics whether the ladybird had a name and a legend in the best preserved of the northern Romance dialects: on the score of a long absence (eight-and-twenty years) , might not a veteran wanderer plead forgiveness? ”

“ Payde to John Rialle for his iij dayse work to take downe the Roode, Mary and John ijs. viijd. For clevying and sawyng of the Roode, Mary and John xijd. "1560. Rec'd for the beame the Roode stood on, for boords and other tymber parcell of the Roode loft xlijs. For the rest of the stuf belongying to the Roode lofte ixl. For the great clothe that hong before the Rode xxs. Item, paide to joyners and labowrers abowt the takying downe and new reformyng of the Roode Loft, &c. xxxvijl. xs. ijd. Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and other neccessaries belonging to the saide loft xiiijl. xiijs. ”

“ In all these entries he is only mentioned as Domingo; his surname, and the fact of his being a Lombard, we learn from Skelton's poem, mentioned above.
The following story, told of Domingo, occurs in Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Harington's Treatise on Playe, 1597, printed in the Nugae Antiquae, edit. Park, vol. i. p.222.:—
"The other tale I wold tell of a willinge and wise loss I have hearde dyversly tolde. ”

“ Item, paide to a carpynter for makyng of the Crucyfix and the beme He standeth upon xls. {196} Item, paide for kervying of Mary and John and the makyng newe xxxiijs. iiijd. Item, for gilding of the same Mary and John and the Crosse and iiij'or Evangelysts vjl. vjs. viijd. "1530. Item, payd to a labourer for helpying up the Roode Loft into the stepull viijd. "1534. Payd for a present for Mr. Alford and Mr. Herytage for ther good wyll for tymber for the newe Rode lofte ijs. ijd."
The fickle tyrant Henry VIII. dies; a more consistent reign happily ensues. ”

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