of successive existences. The exuberance of imagination, which is so marked a characteristic of the natives of India, has led them likewise to describe in the most childish manner, and with the most ridiculous details, the physical beauty of the Buddha; thirty-two principal and eighty secondary marks constitute it, and if we may judge from the enumeration given by the Sutras, or canonical works of the natives, their beau idéal of outward attractions does not entirely concord with ours. After examining closely the ethical and metaphysical systems of Buddhism (part 1. chaps. iii. and iv.) M. Barthélemy Saint Hilaire states very completely what he thinks to be its favourable aspects, and then he points out the numerous errors of the system. These, he asserts, outweigh those, and, on the whole, to express ourselves in his own language, "l'école du Buddhism serait désastreuse pour nous. Malgré des apparences parfois spécieuses, il n'est qu'un long tissu de contradictions; et ce n'est pas le calomnier que de dire qu'à le bien regarder, c'est un spiritualisme sans âme, une vertu sans devoir, une morale sans liberté, une charité sans amour, un monde sans amour et sans Dieu." This is, no doubt, very strong language, but a study of the book we are now reviewing, or, better still, of the documents to which its pages constantly refer, will soon prove to the reader that M. Saint Hilaire's critique is in nowise excessive. We have already some time since (cf. "N. & Q." for March 17, 1860) given in one of our monthly feuilletons an account of the missionary journey undertaken about the year 630 of the Christian era by Hiouen-Thsang, for the purpose of bringing back to China the religion of the Buddha; this circumstance must be our apology for merely alluding to the second part of M. Saint Hilaire's volume, which supplies a full biographical memoir of Hiouen-Thsang, and a detailed narrative of his travels. We will only add here that the beautiful character of the Chinese missionary, as well as that of Gotâma-Buddha himself, show how often we find men better than the systems which they uphold, how often the true heroes of humanity are met where we least expected to discover them. The third and last part of the book, entitled Le Bouddhisme actuel de Ceylan, is properly a review of M. Spence Hardy's Eastern Monachism, and of M. George Turnour's edition of the Mahawanso. It gives us an insight into things as they are now, describing the respective positions of the Buddhist priests and the English government at Ceylon, and adding graphic and faithful sketches of the religious ceremonies which are still practised by the votaries of Buddha. M. 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CONTENTS. - No. 272. NOTES:- Choice Notes, by William Oldys, Norroy Kingat-Arms, 201-Oldysiana: Oldys's Diary and the "History of the Three Impostors"- Oldys's intended History of Music in England-Pamphlet by Milton (?), 204- Reliques of Lord Bolingbroke, 205-Farther and Further, 205 Whittington and his Cat, Ib. MINOR NOTES:- Lady Sarah Lennox - Parish RegistersSamuel Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications Books printed from Silver Type-Monument of Bishop Cart See what Tate in his Preface, and Dryden says of her, and Capt. Alexander Radcliff in my Life of her and Prior. About a dozen lines against wright-The Names of Places in Norway ending in -by, her in the Satire on Translators, first printed in 207. QUERIES:-The Green Woman of Carlisle Castle, 208 - Rawlins and Chamberlain Decoration of the Interior of St. Paul's-Colchester Castle - The Isle of Pines - Exodus of the IsraelitesQuotation Wanted - Day's Service Book, 212. Collino Custure me, 218-Scawen Family, 215 Ancient Seals of Grimsby, 216- Rev. George WatMr. William Prowting son Stephen Jerome John Shorter - Blowing up Houses with GunpowderEarl of Angus and Lord of Kyme-Wishell of Silver the State Poems [4to. 1689], then in R. Cross's Collection of Poems, p. 74. 8vo. 1747. Southerne's acknowledgments to her in his Life in the General Dictionary; and Burnet's character of her in the Vol. x. in the account of Mrs. Wharton. Lord Lansdowne has a poem on her. As to Mrs. Behn's character, it is allowed that she was of a capacity above most of her sex who have obliged the public. She had a ready command of pertinent expressions, and was of a fancy pregnant and fluent: whence it is that she wrote with a facility, spirit, and warmth, especially in amorous subjects, superior to every other poetess of the age, and many of the poets too; so that none among us may, perhaps, more Derivation of Reay-Badge of the Mac Raes-Eleanor justly be called the ENGLISH SAPPHO, equalling Cobham -Severe Frost-Widercombs, &c., 217. Notes on Books. Notes. CHOICE NOTES. BY WILLIAM OLDYS, NORROY KING-AT-ARMS. (Continued from p. 184.) ATKYNS'S GLOUCESTERSHIRE.-There was copy enough for two large volumes in folio, though we have but one. The original manuscript of the second volume, together with many printed copies of the first, being all accidentally burnt in the fire that happened at Mr. Bowyer's house [Jan. 29, 1712-13], in which the first volume was printed, and the second was at the press.1 BEHN. See my account of her Life in the parchment volume, 4to., also in the General Dictionary; and now by Parson Broughton, in Biog. Britannica, 1746. See several of her Posthumous Poems in the Muses' Mercury, or Monthly Miscellany, 4to. 1707, which have not been taken notice of in any account of her. her either for description, or perhaps experience, in the flames of love, and excelling in her personal temptation to it; being a graceful comely woman, with brown hair, and a piercing eye, as one picture represents her-whether the same painted by Mr. Riley I am not positive. I am told, moreover, by one who knew her, that she had a happy vein in determining any disputes or controversies that might arise in company; having such agreeable repartees at hand upon all occasions, and so much discretion in the timing of them, that she played them off like winning cards. Mrs. Behn was between forty and fifty years of age at the time of her death, which was hastened by an injudicious physician. John Downes, the prompter, in his Roscius Anglicanus, 8vo. 1708, says, Mrs. Behn wrote also The Jealous Bridegroom about 1672, a good play, which lasted six nights; and that Mr. Otway first tried to act on the stage the King's part in this play, but the great audience dashed him and spoiled him for an actor; and that Nat. Lee having the same fate in acting Duncan in Macbeth, Mrs. Behn translated one of the books of Cow-ruined him for a performer also, and from that time their genius set them upon poetry. ley's Latin poem on Plants. In this translation, 1 The plates of Atkyns's Gloucestershire, except two or three, having escaped the fire of Mr. Bowyer's printingoffice in White Friars, the work was republished in 1768 by Wm. Herbert, the editor of Ames's Typog. Antiquities; but by a singular fatality, a great part of this second edition was also destroyed by fire. Nichols's Lit. Anec. v. 266.) Old Mr. John Bowman, the player, told me that Mrs. Behn was the first person he ever knew or heard of, who made the liquor called Milk Punch. 2 Pope has the following couplet on her dramatic writings: "The stage how loosely does Astrea tread, Langbaine, in his notice of Mrs. Behn's tragicomedy Widow Ranter, or the History of Bacon in Virginia, 1690, remarks "For the story of Bacon I know no history that relates it; but his catastrophe is founded on the known story of Cassius, who perished by the hand of his freedman Dandorus, believing his friend Brutus vanquished." Oldys adds, "There was an insurrection in Virginia a little before, made by one Nathaniel Bacon, a great opposer of the royal party there, in conjunction with one Drummond a Scot, and among others.3 Bacon died there in 1675, as near as I can compute, or 1676, as others; and his accomplices being routed and subdued by the royal party, thirteen of them were hanged, some say eighteen.' There were two or three pamphlets published on the subject, one called Strange News from Virginia; being a relation of all occurrences in that Country since the Death of Nathaniel Bacon: with an Account of thirteen persons tried and executed for their Rebellion there, 4to. 1676.' The account in this pamphlet is extracted from a letter written by Sir John Burrey, the admiral who transported some soldiers thither. He arrived there on the 29th of January, and says that Bacon had been dead two months before. Query, if the Bacon before mentioned was not that Nat. Bacon of Gray's Inn, who in 1647 and 1651, published his two volumes, 4to. of The Historical Discourse on the Government of England, in which he was blackened. It has been twice reprinted in folio; and it is said Mr. Selden assisted him in it; but I think that. does not evidently appear. See Bishop Nicolson's descriptive character of this book [English Hist. Library, p. 193., ed. 1736.] Old Mr. Nathaniel Booth of Gray's Inn has assured me, that this Nathaniel Bacon did go over to Virginia; but he could not remember what he had heard he did there. See more in my Catalogue of English Lives, fol., in the notes, &c." 5 ELDERTON.-This Elderton was a famous comedian, who flourished about 1570; a facetious 3 The whole of the narrative connected with this affair of Bacon is preserved in one thick volume in Her Majesty's State Paper Office, London. There are besides, in the same office, a variety of scattered papers relative to the same subject. 4 Or his son, for the insurgent is called in The History of the American Plantations, 2 vols. 8vo., Nat. Bacon, jun. and Col. Bacon, a young sprightly man, who had been a lawyer too.-Oldys. For biographical notices of Mrs. Behn consult the History of her Life and Manners, written by One of the Fair Sex, prefixed to her Histories and Novels, 2 vols. 12mo. 1735; Kippis's Biog. Britannica; Langbaine's Account of Dramatic Poets, p. 17., ed. 1691; Cibber's Lives of the Poets, iii. 17; Freeman's Kentish Poets; Retrospective Rev., 1853, i. 1—18.; Nichols's Poems, i. 85.; Geneste's Hist. of the Stage, ii. 79.; and "N. & Q." 1" S. xi. 184.; 2nd S. viii. 265.; ix. 242. fuddling companion, who, having a great readiness at rhyming, composed abundance of sonnets and catches upon love and wine, which were then in great vogue among the light and merry part of the town; but he was not more notable for his drollery and his doggrel than he was for his drinking, insomuch that he was seldom remembered for his singular faculty in either of the former, but his thorough practice in the latter was joined to it. Wherefore we find him called the Bacchanalian Buffoon, the red-nosed ballad-maker, and such like. It seems by this excessive habit he indulged himself in, over his strong drink, that he fell a martyr to Sir John Barleycorn, as some of his contemporary writers have hinted. See the controversial writings of Dr. G. Harvey and Thomas Nash. We find he was dead before the year 1592, and Mr. Camden has preserved this epitaph on him: "Hic situs est sitiens, atque ebrius Eldertonus, Quid dico, hic situs est? hic potius sitis est." - Remains, p. 382, 4to. 1614. Which may be thus rendered or imitated :Dead drunk here Elderton doth lie; Dead as he is, he still is dry: So of him it may well be said, Here he, but not his thirst, is laid.6 FABIAN. - Fabian wrote a continuation of his Chronicle, probably to his own death, which was in the custody of John Stow, and unprinted in 1600.7 Out of this unprinted part, Hackluyt cites a note of Sebastian Cabot's discoveries, anno 13 Hen. VII.; but the first edition I have seen continues the History, as I remember, to 1509, and that was printed in 1533 [2 vols. fol.], and 8 6 Stow says (Survey, p. 217., 4to. 1599) that Elderton was an attorney of the sheriffs' court in the city of London about the year 1570, and quotes some verses which he wrote about that time, on the erection of the new portico with images at Guildhall. Warton thinks the following lines by Bishop Hall in his Satires were levelled at Elderton : "Some drunken rimer thinks his time well spent, If he can live to see his name in print; Who when he once is fleshed to the presse, And sees his handsell have such fair successe, Sung to the wheele, and sung unto the payle, He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale." For notices of Elderton, see Ritson's Bibliographica Poetica, p. 198., ed. 1802; Warton's History of English Poetry, iii. 431., ed. 1840; Hall's Satires, by Singer, p. 114.; Harleian Miscellany, by Park, x. 266-274.; and Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, i. 88, 89. 7 Stow, in the collections which he made for his Survey, speaks of a Continuation by Fabian himself, as low as the third year of Henry VIII., "which Boke (he adds) I have in writen hand." (MS. Harl. 538.) It is not improbable, as Sir Henry Ellis conjectures, that it might have gone from Stow's Collection to Sir Robert Cotton's. 8 The edition of 1533 was the second: the first edition was printed by Richarde Pynson in 1516. In the Grenville library are two copies of the third edition, 1559. One of the copies contains the following MS. note: "It Fabian died in 1512. Of Fabian, and the editions of his History, see Tyrrell's Preface; Hearne's Preface to Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, p. 32.; Strype in Abp. Parker's Life, p. 235.; and what I have said in my Fuller's Worthies. MILTON.-Remember my dates of all his works at the end of his Life by E. Philips; and what I have observed in Toland's Life of him, and Bayle's observation on his style. See one of Mist's Journals upon him [Toland] and his Amintas, and the Answer. See my pamphlet containing the castration of his [Milton's?] History. His own observations on himself. See my Universal Spectator on his Spirit of Liberty; and the pamphlet written against him, called No Blind Guides 10, &c., and the verses in MS. which I found at the end of another old pamphlet, where I have mentioned the Psalm which Milton, or his father, set to music. Peck's Life and Works, &c., 1740. Wm. Benson's erecting of his monument; settling 1000l. for translating his Paradise Lost into Latin on young Dobson- the interest while he was doing it, and the principal when done. Milton's cipher for secret communication, with others used by the republicans under Oliver, I had among the Royal Letters in Clarendon's collections which I redeemed from perdition, and presented to my late noble Lord of Oxford, and they are still preserved in the Harleian library: but God knows how soon that magnificent collection of Manuscripts may undergo the same dispersion as the printed books, which were sold to Tom Osborne my neighbour for less than 13,000l., though the binding only of the least part of them by his Lordship, cost him 18,000l. A Verbal Index to Milton's Paradise Lost was published by Mr. Coxeter in 12mo., 1741, printed for Innis and Brown. Lauder is now writing a book to prove Milton a plagiary. He begun in one of the Magazines. has not, as far as I know, been noticed, that two editions of this Chronicle were printed in the same year by Kyngston. The present copy contains matter respecting Queen Elizabeth at p. 566 to the end, which is not to be found in the copies of usual occurrence." The other copy [No. II.] appears to agree with the preceding to page 565. Pages 566 to the end of 571 differ in the relation of the death of Queen Mary, which in the first is stated to have taken place on the XVII. of December, 1558, and in this copy the XVII. of November is named. The former edition terminates with the coronation of Elizabeth on the 15th of January, and the printing of the book is stated to have been finished on the 26th of April, 1559. The last event mentioned in this copy is the Queen's riding to the Parliament on the 8th of May, though the titlepage mentions "Mense Aprilis," as in the former edition. 9A valuable bibliographical account of Fabian's Chro nicle is prefixed to the quarto edition of 1811, edited by Sir Henry Ellis. 10 By Sir Roger L'Estrange, published in 1660. See an answer in Mag. Feb. 1749, and Dr. Kirkpatrick in The Sea Piece, 8vo., 1750, Preface. See also a pamphlet published against Lauder, called Miltonomastix. See also, Furius: or a Modest Attempt towards an History of the Life and Surprising Exploits of the famous W. L., Critick and Thief-catcher, 8vo., 1748.1 SUCKLING. -The largest account of Sir John Suckling is in Lloyd's Memoirs, being near six pages in folio, and not a dozen lines of solid history. The whole beginning is a chain of hyperboles, and the whole life may serve to feed the eyes with a full meal of words, and leave the mind quite hungry for the subject matter. My account of him much more complete in the quarto volume of Lives, parchment cover. references in my Fuller's Worthies and Winstanley. He was patron to Thomas Nabbes, the dramatic poet, who dedicated his comedy, Covent Garden, to him, acted in 1632, printed in 4to. 1638. At Theobald's, 19th Dec. 1630, Sir John Suckling of Witham knighted. (Thos. Walkley's Cat. of Dukes, &c., 8vo. 1639.) See also the Recollect where I have set down the story my Lord Oxford told me he had from Dean Chetwood, who had it from Lord Roscommon, of Sir John Suckling's being robbed of a casket of jewels and gold when he was going to France by his valet, who I think poisoned him, and stuck the blade of a penknife in Sir John's boot to prevent his pursuit of him, and wounded him incurably in the heel besides. It is in one of my pocket-books, white vellum cover-the white journal that is not gilt. Remember the MS. account I have about Sir John Suckling's being beaten by Mr. Digby his rival. See the lampoon on him in the pamphlets tannicus. Query, if it is not in his tragedy The Sad on the Scots' expedition in Morgan's Phoenix BriOne, that I remarked a passage in ridicule of Ben Jonson. In The Tryal of Skill, or New Session of the Poets, fol. 1704, Suckling accuses Thomas Cheek with having murdered his goblins in every page. Sir John Suckling has verses before Coryat's Crudities, 4to., 1611. A Letter concerning a Married Life, subscribed John Suckling, London, Nov. 18, 1629, in the Ashmolean Library, Oxon. 1 Lauder was discovered to have forged most of his parallels, or to have taken them from Hog's Latin version of Milton's poem by Dr. Douglas, now [1764] Canon of Windsor.-Percy. Furius was written by Henderson, a bookseller. 2 Suckling was robbed by his valet-de-chambre, and putting on his boot in a passionate hurry to pursue the thief, a rusty nail concealed at the bottom of one of them pierced his heel, and brought on a mortification, of which he died. Warton on Pope, ii. 109. 5 For the particulars of this cudgelling, see the Strafforde Letters, 1739, i. 336. Sir John Suckling's Letter to Mr. Henry Germin, 1640, a manuscript among the Collection of Poems of Thomas Brotherton of Hey in Lan cashire. An Elegy upon the Death of the Renowned Sir John Sutlin, 4to., 1642, with another short poem "To Sir John Sutlin upon Aglaura." First a bloody tragedy, then by the said Sir John turned to a comedy. These poems are in one short 4to., but to the copy before me is written "Authore Gulielmo Norris." See Thomas Stanley's Poems, 8vo., 1651, on Sir John Suckling's Picture of Poems. On Sir John Suckling's Warlike Preparations for the Scottish War, in Sir John Mennis's Musarum Delicia. Also, in Anthony Hammond's Miscellany of Poems, 8vo., 1720. Another Poem, pretended to be writ from France by Sir John Suckling, 4to., 1641. The Conversion of Sir John Suckling from a Papist to a Protestant, 4to., 1641.4 many disputes have been moved by the bibliogra- OLDYS'S INTENDED HISTORY OF MUSIC IN ENGLAND. In the very interesting Diary of William Oldys, now in course of publication in "N. & Q.," the diarist has recorded, under date July 7, 1737, a visit to Dr. Pepusch, the eminent musical theorist, "to have farther talk about his rare old musical collections"; and under date, Sept. 23, an offer made him by the Doctor of 'any intelligence or assistance from his antient collections of music for a history of that art and its professors in England." Can any correspondent inform me whether Oldys made any collections for, or progress in, such a history ? And if so, what has become of them? A portion of Dr. Pepusch's extensive and valuable library became, on his death in 1752, divided between John Travers, organist of the King's chapel, and Ephraim Kelner, one of the band of Drury Lane Theatre. Kelner's share was, after his death, dispersed by auction by Paterson in Essex Street, on Saturday, 26th March, 1763; and Travers's moiety, after passing, on his demise, into other hands, also came to the hammer in 1766. Another portion of the Doctor's library was bequeathed by him to the Academy of Ancient Music, founded in 1710.* Oldys died 15th April, 1761. I shall be obliged by any information on the subject. W. H. HUSK. OLDYS'S DIARY AND THE "HISTORY OF THE THREE IMPOSTORS" (2nd S. xi. 143.) Evelyn's book, referred to in a note to this page, was clearly not the work to which Oldys's text has relation. He [If Oldys made any collections for a History of Music, evidently alludes to the Crux Bibliographica, the. they were most probably handed over to Sir John Haw. famous tract De Tribus Impostoribus, on the exist-kins. David Erskine Baker, Hawkins, and Oldys, were at this time the leading writers in The Universal Specence and author (styled by Sir Thomas Browne tator. Our musical knight appears to have been some“that villain and Secretary of Hell,”) of which so what reluctant in acknowledging his obligations to his friends. Oldys, writing to Sir John Hawkins, reminds him that "the few materials I, long since, with much search, gathered up concerning Izaak Walton, you have seen, and extracted, I hope, what you found necessary for the purpose I intended them." But on turning to Sir John's Life of Walton, the reader will find but a scant acknowledgment for only one statement made by him, respecting some letters of Walton in the Ashmolean Museum. This throws some light on a passage in Grose's Olio, p. 139., where he tells us, that "among Oldys's works is a Preface to Izaak Walton's Angling." The edition of Walton's Complete Angler, 1760, contains an interesting biography of Charles Cotton from the pen 4 The best account of Sir John Suckling is in the Life prefixed to Selections from his Works, by the Rev. Alfred Suckling, 8vo., 1836. The whole of Sir John Suckling's Works, containing his Poems, Letters, and Plays, were published several times by Tonson; and in two neat volumes by T. Davies, 1770. Besides the MS. in the Norfolcian library, Gough (British Topog., i. 387.) states that "in a catalogue of the famous Robert Smith's books, sold by auction 1682, No. 24., was a MS. entitled A Description of the City of Winchester, with an historical relation of divers memorable occurrences touching the same; and prefixed to it, a preamble of the original of Cities in general, by J. Trussel,' fol., which was purchased by a Mr. Rothwell." This MS., written by Trussel about 1620, was in the library of John Duthy, Esq., who permitted Dr. Milner to make extracts from it for his History and Antiquities of Winchester, 4to., 1801. * This institution must not be confounded with the Concerts of Ancient Music, which became extinct in 1848; and were entirely distinct, not having been established until some sixty years after the foundation of the Academy. |