after which the mob threatened to swim dering them capable, in three lessons, if near Manchester, and which were delivered her, and used her in so rough a manner, ever so inactive, to make good their retreat. to the Duchy of Lancaster, being entitled that she apprehended her life was in danger.-1795. thereto under grants in royal charters. The day following, therefore, she com- An illiterate man, a private marine of plained to a neighbouring justice, who Chatham Barracks, calls himself the seventh LEICESTERSHIRE GLEANINGS. issued a warrant to apprehend Beard and son of the seventh son in the third genera- RICHARD III. AT LEICESTER.—In this town, Ladd's wife, her two principal assailants. tion, and pretends to be inspired, and to the house is still shown where Richard III. Both of them acknowledged the assault on have the power of curing all diseases, passed the night before the battle of BosMrs. Pritchers, assigning no reason for their making the deaf to hear, the dumb to worth; and there is a story of him still violence; but they made her ample satis- speak, the blind to see, and the lame to preserved in the corporation records, which faction. After a proper admonition to dis- walk. Many hundreds of people have illustrates the caution and darkness of his continue such an imposture, they were crowded to see him, in hopes of benefitting character. It was his custom to carry, dismissed; and the country has continued by his skill; the Barracks became inacces- among the baggage of his camp, a cumbervery quiet ever since.-Dec. 1762. sible to those belonging there. The man some wooden bed, which he pretended was A club is lately established at Maidstone, has been discharged, and now exhibits at the only bed he could sleep on. In this he called the "Jiggy Joggies," composed an alehouse in Sheerness, where, assisted had contrived a secret receptacle for his entirely of unmarried ladies, who meet by his favorite spirit or genius (Maidstone treasure, which lay concealed under a alternately at each other's houses, and gin) he is allowed by his votaries to perform weight of timber. After the fatal day on never admit either anything married or miracles.-1806. which Richard fell, the Earl of Richmond masculine into their society during club On Monday morning, between 10 and 11, entered Leicester with his victorious troops. hours, which are usually from five in the a part of the steeple, with the bell, belong- The friends of Richard were pillaged, but evening to eleven at night.-March, 1765. ing to Luddenham Church, Canterbury, fell the bed was neglected by the plunderers as Died, at Northfleet in Kent,- Page, Esq., down upon the middle of the church, and useless lumber. The owner of the house formerly an eminent dealer in lime-stones destroyed the pulpit, pews, &c., in that part afterwards discovered the hoard, became and gun-flints, by which, and the most penu- of the building; a bricklayer was at that suddenly rich, without any visible cause; rious way of living, he had accumulated a moment examining the steeple, and on he bought lands, and at length arrived at fortune of near £12,000. It is remarkable, removing some mortar observed the key- the dignity of being Mayor of Leicester. that he had lived alone in a large house at stone of the arch giving way, when he Many years afterwards his widow, who had the above place for several years, no one luckily effected his escape just in time to been left in great affluence, was murdered coming near him, but once a day an old save himself from being buried in the ruins. for her wealth by a servant maid, who had woman in the village, who was employed-Oct. 1807. been privy to the affair; and at the trial of to make his bed, &c. His death was occathis woman and her accomplices, the whole sioned by his running a knife into the palm transaction came to light.-London Chronicle, of his hand by his opening an oyster, which Jan. 27-30, 1787. inflamed, and at length mortified. He refused to see a surgeon; saying, all of that profession were rogues, and would make a job of his misfortune. Having died without a will, his money goes to a relation, who has long lived with her daughter in very embarrassed circumstances at Woolwich, and whom he would never see in the latter part of his life-time, or give the smallest assistance to. -March, 1772. A stone coffin of a vast size was lately dug up in a barn belonging to William Hickmott, at Beckenfield, in Kent, in which were several coins, impressed with the antient British characters.-Oct., 1772. Tuesday, died, at his house at Greenwich, aged 103 years, Charles Beresford, Esq., formerly an officer belonging to the Train of Artillery.-March, 1779. The parish clerk of Tunbridge Wells, who kept a lodging-house on the neighbouring-hill, intitled Mount Sion, always An Epitaph in Folkstone Churchyard. "An house he hath, 'tis made of such good fashion, The memorable Bow Bridge, which has long been visited by every curious stranger who has passed through Leicester, on account of its being the accidental monument Tombstone of a Sea Captain :- "His life was hard, his heart was soft, bones, fell on Saturday, Nov. 19, 1791, about eleven o'clock. Its foundation has been some time visibly decaying; and the late rains having swelled the waters which passed under it, probably took away its principal support on that end towards St. Austin's Well, which occasioned its destruction. AN ILLITERATE MAYOR.-We recollect a Mr. William Walker, Mayor of Leicester, being knighted by George IV., and the first document he signed afterwards was as follows: "Sir William Walker, Night Mare." -Shropshire Conservative. LANCASHIRE GLEANINGS. LANCASHIRE GOOSE.-In Lancashire every LINCOLNSHIRE GLEANINGS. gives out the Psalm at the commencement husbandman is entitled to a goose from his CROYLAND ABBEY.-It was an ancient custom of the season," Mount Sion is a pleasant landlord on the 16th Sunday after Pente- at this abbey, until the time of Edward IV., place!" Whenever he changes the psalm, cost. This donation was formerly called a to give little knives to all comers on St. the parishioners understand that his lodgings goose intentos, from the concluding words, Bartholomew's day, in allusion to the knife are occupied.-Sept., 1789. "præstet esse intentos," in the Latin service wherewith Bartholomew was flead. Many of that day, The Lancashire folks, however, have corrupted it into the goose with ten toes.-1791. On Tuesday night Mr. E. Fry, of Bow Street, Covent Garden, was stopped in a post-chaise near Dartford, by two highwaymen, who discharged a brace of pistols through the glasses of the chaise, and then robbed him of several guineas. About a quarter of an hour previous, two French gentlemen were stopped by the same fellows, and robbed of assignats to the amount of £300.-Dec., 1792. At Tinterden, in Kent, a dancing-master advertises to teach young gentlemen soldiers to walk quick time, with the addition of ren CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.-There lately died at Horridge, near Bolton-le-Moors, a man and his wife, aged upwards of sixty years, who were both born on the same day, christened the same day, married the same day, and buried the same day.-The Sun, Sept. 25, 1794. DISCOVERY OF OLD COINS.-On August 17, 1864, six thousand silver pennies of the reign of Henry III. were found at Eccles, of these knives of various sizes have been found in the ruins of the abbey and the river. A coat borne by the religious fraternity of the abbey, quarters three of them, with three whips of St. Guthlac, a scourge celebrated for the virtue of its flagellations. These are engraved in Gough's "History of Croyland Abbey," from drawings in the minute books of the Spalding Society, in whose drawers, he says, one was preserved, and these form a devise in a town piece, called the "Poore's Halfepeny of Croyland, 1670." GRANTHAM CROSs.-Some years ago, at to the very spot where one of those obelisks rosary of Our Lady of Loretto, £3 15s.; the Assizes for the County of Lincoln, there still remained, and with a spade and pick- 353, a table snuff box, made from the ship was tried by a Special Jury, an action be- axe he dug to the foundation of the column," Betsey," which brought over William the tween the Hon. James Manners, plaintiff, and there found a small earthen urn, con- Third, and having the inscription "Preand Mr. John Stanser, Alderman of the taining six pieces of gold and silver coin, all sented to his Royal Highness the Duke of Corporation of Grantham, defendant, for struck in the reign of William, surnamed Sussex, the patriot brother of a patriot pulling down the market-cross, which had the Bastard.-Creswell's Nottingham Jour- King," was purchased by Mr. Zimmerman stood beyond memory in the market-place nal, May 6, 1769. for £2 13s. Gainsborough's picture, "The at Grantham, and converting it to his own THE KIRMOND CRIPPLE.-Died, May 16, Duke of Portland driving four-in-hand use. Mr. Manners claimed it as a parcel 1798, aged 85, at Kirmond, Lincolnshire, through the large oak in Welby Park," of the manor of Grantham, and belonging where he was born of indigent parents, was purchased by Mr. Green for £30. to his markets, which his father, Lord Wil- Thomas Roberts, commonly called "The ST. MARY'S CHURCH, STAMFORD.-On Sunliam, had purchased of the Duke of Portland, Kirmond Cripple." He was perfect to his day evening last, the congregation were to whom it had descended, being the great elbows and knees, but without either arms greatly alarmed by a flash of lightning, grandson of Count Bentinck, Earl of Port- or legs; above one of his elbows was a followed by a loud peal of thunder; at the land, who was the grantee of King William short, bony substance, like the joint of a same moment the interior of the church was III. It appears that this manor, two markets, thumb, which had some muscular motion, lit up by what appeared to be a sheet of and two fairs, with the tolls, had been an- and was of considerable use to him. flame, which seemed to emit innumerable ciently in jointure to several queens of Eng-Though wanting limbs, he was blessed sparks, giving out a strong sulphurous odour. land, and was last in jointure to Charles the with a strong understanding, good health The people, after some hesitation, made Second's Queen, and the tolls had been and spirits. When Sir George Barlow, the towards the door, some screaming, while constantly leased by the Crown, and the last baronet of that ancient family, rented others had fainted; and the falling of maPortland family, to the Aldermen and Bur- of Edward Turner, Esq., the manor and sonry from the upper part of the building gesses of Grantham, and was let to them lordship of Kirmond, he kept a pack of greatly heightened the alarm, as it was at the time of pulling down the cross. The hare-hounds. Tom Roberts was for many supposed the spire was tumbling down. This defendant set up his right to take it down, years employed as his huntsman, and used caused those near the north door to push as being formerly granted to the corpora- to ride down the hills, which are remark- back, and a scene of great confusion ention, either by a grant of Charles I. or ably steep, with singular courage and sued. Viscount Cranborne and Sir Stafford Charles II., which gave them a market and dexterity. On leaving Sir George Barlow's Northcote (who were present at the service, three fairs, and having repaired it twelve service, he became a farrier of considerable having come down to prosecute a formal years ago. The cause lasted ten hours, reputation, and indulging in his propensity canvass of the borough), with other genand the jury, after a short deliberation, for liquor, seldom came home sober from tlemen, were active in their exertions to found a verdict for the plaintiff, and £40 the neighbouring markets; he, however, damages. required no other assistance from the parish (till he became infirm) than a habitation, and the keeping of a horse and cow. He married three wives. By the first wife, who was an elderly woman, he had no children; but by the second, he left two sons, who at the time of his death were in good situations as farmers' servants, and attended the funeral of their father, and buried him in a decent manner. ROMAN PAVEMENT.-In the parish of Denton, Lincolnshire, was discovered in 1727, a Roman tessellated pavement, eighteen inches under ground, measuring thirty feet square, forming a floor, and supposed to have been the site of a Roman villa. A KING'S PROTOTYPE-August 30, 1730, died of apoplexy, in Pall Mall, Mr. William Barker, of Lincolnshire, a gentleman well beloved for his facetious company and great integrity. In person he so greatly resembled the late brave King of Sweden, that a print of him, drawn by Faber, is sold as a print of the latter by most of the printsellers in London and Westminster. restore order and tranquillity. Some ladies fainted; but beyond the fright no personal injury was sustained. It was found that the spire and tower had been struck in two or three places by the electric fluid, much of the debris falling on the pavement on the opposite side of the road, striking the shop front of Mr. Bromhead, draper. The damage throughout the tower and spire was considerable, especially about one of the lights in the north-west face.-Leeds Mercury, July, 1865. STREWING A CHURCH WITH GRASS.-At Clew Church, the custom of strewing the interior In November, 1866, a labourer digging with grass, is still observed on Trinity Sun- at the back of a builder's house in St. day; a piece of land being left for that George's Square, Stamford, his spade struck purpose.-Tymms's "State of Lincolnshire," upon an earthen jar at a depth of only about 1835, 12mo., p. 54. a foot from the surface, and not more than TALLINGTON CHURCH.-August 13, 1762, at CURIOSITIES FORMERLY AT COLEBY HALL.-six inches from the foundation of the house. two in the morning, a dreadful storm of At the sale, in August, 1850, of the effects It contained 2,800 silver coins, chiefly Anglothunder and lightning happened at Tal- of Charles Mainwaring, Esq., who died an Gallic groats of Henry V., coined at Calais ; lington, near Stamford, Lincolnshire, which elderly bachelor, at Coleby Hall, six miles and English groats of Edward IV., of the beat down the church steeple, as low as the from Lincoln, under an order of the Court London Mint. There were also a few upper windows, and the lower part of it, as of Chancery, in the cause of " Langton versus groats of Edward III. The whole were in well as the body of the church, was greatly Burton," the following interesting articles a fine state of preservation. It is probable injured; the walls being separated so wide were sold:-Lot 320, an antique posey ring, that the site was formerly included in St. as to admit a person's arm. The leads and found at Riseholme, £2 2s. ; 321, an antique George's churchyard, and that the coins windows were also melted and shattered. ring, found near Lincoln West common, were buried when the Lancastrians invaded Farmer Addy had a shock of corn con- £2 2s.; 322, a gold ring, found at Newport, Stamford in the Wars of the Roses. sumed. £ 12s.; 324, a serpent-shaped emerald While a man was ploughing in a field MACES FOR THE CORPORATION OF GRANTHAM. and garnet decorated gold ring, found in near to the farm-house occupied by Mr. -Last week two large maces, silver gilt, the castle-dyke, Lincoln, £1 2s.; 328, a Gilchrist, about half a mile from Stamford, were sent to Grantham, Lincolnshire, being silver locket, with medallion of Charles the the ploughshare struck against a large a present to that corporation from Brown- First, &c., found at Grantham, £1 3s. ; 331, stone, some three or four inches only below low Cust, Esq., son of Sir John Cust, Bart., a curious gold ring, with the arms and the surface. It proved to be the lid of a Speaker of the House of Commons.-Aug. initials of Mary Queen of Scots, £4 12s. 6d. ; massive stone coffin, buried immediately 1766. 332, Napoleon's signet ring, purchased by under a footpath leading across the farm, CROYLAND ABBEY.-A gentleman having Mr. Greer for £36 4s. 6d. ; 333, Napoleon's from Stamford to the village of Tinwell. some time ago read the history of Croyland sword, purchased by Mr. Jewson for £5 5s.; With the assistance of a number of men Abbey, Lincolnshire, written by Ingulphus, 340, a very curious ring, worn by the ad- and two horses, the coffin, weighing about and observing that the boundaries of that herents of Charles I., containing his por- two tons, was removed, and its contents abbey were said to be marked by certain trait, in enamel, purchased by Mr. Atten-were examined by Dr. Newman, who found stones, or small obelisks, he went last week borough for £4 2s. 6d.; 352, an antique them to consist chiefly of human bones in a Hackett. A LETTER ON HAMLET, Addressed to the Hon. John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, by James Henry [IN February, 1839, the Hon. John Quincy Adams, of Boston, addressed an autograph Letter on Hamlet to James H. Hackett, then in New York. Mr. Hackett came to England, and in the following July printed in London a lithographic fac-simile (foolscap folio) of Mr. Adams's Letter, together with his own reply to it on a separate folio sheet. The latter I possess, and insert in this place; but I have never been able to meet with the lithograph of Mr. Adams's Letter.-JAMES H. FENNELL.] "I hoped thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife, I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid! And not have strew'd thy grave." fragmentary state, apparently those of a your sentence," he treats her with a revolting tion to "trust them" only as he would tall man and a woman. Some of the teeth mixture of ardent passion, of gross indelicacy, "adders that have fangs," for in his first were in a perfect state of preservation. and of rudeness little short of brutality," that interview on their arrival and before he One bone was identified as the leg-bone of from his previous conduct "when she was enquires whether they have not been "sent a large dog. It is conjectured that the hu- sewing in her chamber," he knows she for," he welcomes his old schoolfellows man remains were those of a Roman chief-esteems him mad, and will not feel wounded with "Excellent good friends!" and unretain and his wife, and that a favourite dog at anything he may say, for example, when servedly scouts their notions of his being had been buried with them. In addition to he is most censorious of her father, she ambitious because he esteems Denmark a the bones, fragments of a jar were found in prays, "Oh, help him, you sweet Heavens!" prison, and when they suggest "it is too the coffin, and also a small piece of glass, further extenuation may be found in another narrow for your mind," adds, "Oh, God! I which seemed to have formed part of a and not unreasonable supposition that at the could be bounded in a nutshell, and count lachrymatory, or tear vessel. During the time Hamlet had some lurking suspicion of myself a King of infinite space, but that I work of excavation some bones were dis- her unfair position, else, why change his have had bad dreams "-in fact, had he not covered belonging to a third body, which tone so suddenly from the incipient compli- had "bad dreams" concerning his father's had been buried in the ground on the north mentary supplication, "Nymph in thy orisons fate, I doubt if disappointed ambition had ever side of and close to the stone coffin.-Oct., be all my sins remembered," to such pointed caused him to express regret, much less 1868. rebuke? When asked, " Are you honest ?" urged him to any active measures about his she evades a categorical answer by, "My deferred succession to the throne of DenLord!" then he follows, "Are you fair?" mark. You continue,-"And although he and explains to her why if she is both, and has made many tenders of his affection to would preserve her honesty from the con- Ophelia, and hath importuned her with love in taminating influence of beauty, she should honourable fashion, yet he has made no pronot admit them to any discourse with each posal of marriage to her, he has promised her other, "because the power of beauty will nothing but love." sooner transform honesty from what it is To the consummation of his love by into a [corrupt] bawd, than the force of marriage, his queen-mother refers, when honesty will translate beauty into his [ho- scattering flowers during Ophelia's obsenesty's] likeness, now the time gives proof." quies: (As here is she herself, for instance, allowing the effect of her beauty upon him, to be used by her father for a sinister purpose and at the expense of her honesty) he "did love her once," but upon consideration "loved her not "-finding that she has inherited so much of her "old stock" (namely, her father's courtier-like insincerity) as to render her nature incapable of thorough honesty-" for virtue cannot so innoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it." "We Her brother's caution arose, not from a are arrant knaves all !"-the aptitude of his suspicion that Hamlet's ambitious pride of epigrammatic sentiments, whether from "birth and station" would hinder their accident or design, evidently embarrasses marriage, but that the "state" on which it and betrays her into an absolute falsehood, depended might not confirm his choice, and for when questioned, "Where is your fa- adds: Now I have always considered Filial piety, ther?" she answered, "At home "-know"Then weigh what loss your honor may sustain, in both Hamlet and Ophelia, the most ing Polonius to be a covert listener to them If with too credent ear you list his songs; preeminently developed trait of character, at that moment-and by the way be it reOr lose your heart; or your chaste` treasure open To his unmaster'd opportunity." a father's fate in both cases operates so membered of this scene, that the King who powerfully on their sensitive natures as witnessed it, and was a keen observer re- Her father's command as he afterwards finally to overthrow the seat of reason, their marks, "Love! his affections do not that confesses (sprung from his "fear that Hamlove for each other was quite secondary; way tend," and also of her when he says, let did but trifle and meant to wreck thee,”) in pursuance of his voluntary oath to the "This is the poison of deep grief-it springs therefore his "love in honourable fashion Ghost that "thy remembrance all alone shall all from her father's death;"-in short, and countenanced with all the holy vows of live, &c., unmix'd with baser matter," Ophelia never in her madness alludes to Heaven," Polonius calls "Springes to catch Hamlet's first scheme is to feign madness, Hamlet, nor does he but once, subsequently, woodcocks," and charges her "Do not beand he begins "to put an antic disposition refer to his love for her, and then only when lieve his vows," to which she replies "I shall on" in the presence of Ophelia for whom chance informed him of her death and had obey my Lord," and so she does,-making he was reported to entertain a tender affec- brought him to her burial, where in a fit it evident that both their loves were subsertion, in order, as it seems to me,-that she of temporary derangement, he lets the vient to filial duty; but the nicest search may (as she does) tell her father, and that bravery of Laertes's grief "put him into a cannot detect a line indicating that his heart Polonius' garrulity may advertize the whole towering passion," which he afterwards, by contained a scrupulous thought that Ophelia Court of his being mad for her love-a way of apology to him, proclaims was mad-was beneath his station, nor that the repulcause and effect calculated to mislead and ness. calm the apprehension of the guilty Usurper, and better enable Hamlet to scrutinize his unguarded behaviour thereafter. The elements of which that matchless character Shakespeare's Hamlet is compounded are generally as justly analyzed by you, as they are throughout beautifully described; but there are some causes you impute as contributing essentially to his madness, about which I beg leave to differ and quote here and there a sentence of yours, the better to refresh your memory. "Love disappointed and subdued." Permit me to quote you further:-" His love is first trammelled by the conflicting pride of his birth and station operating upon his ambition." The inference is, that the only reason for a truce to his love pursuit, was its interference with a paramount consideration, the performance of his vow to his father's unrevenged and perturbed spirit; but you say-" cautioned both by her brother and her father, she meets the advances of Hamlet with repulsion." sion of his letters, or denial of his access, or attempted return of his gifts, was a source of any serious disappointment to him, or as you think "of acute feeling under the insupHad Ophelia's love for Hamlet been portable pressure of despised love,"―inasmuch strong, she would naturally not have yielded As regards Hamlet's ambition, in the as he never subsequently refers to either so readily to become the medium of assist- course of what he stigmatizes to the cour-circumstance- -you also say, "instead of ing the espionage of her parasitical father, tiers "as their trade with him," he cer- attributing his repulsion to its true cause, he and the complotting King, when it is pro- tainly pretends to them his cause of mad-thinks she spurns his tenderness in his enumeposed, in her presence, to "let her loose to ness is "I lack advancement," but this he ration of the sufferings which stimulate to suicide Hamlet," whilst they watch them behind says after he has discovered the necessity he names the pangs of despised love." the arras; and here let me remark upon of having an eye of them and a determina- "The pangs of despised love," in my numerous critics-many of whom in at- four yards long, which surprised him the humble opinion, have no more immediate re- A marked characteristic from the outset in Hamlet is self-dissatisfaction "The time is out of joint,-O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right." I remain, Hon. Sir, Your Humble Servt. ever, ANTIQUARIAN NOTES. THE LONGEST LAW-SUIT ever heard of in A GREEN OLD AGE.-"There are some England, was between the heirs of Sir strong lusty old men, who have spent their Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, on the one younger days continently and moderately, part, and the heirs of Lord Berkeley on the who are fruitfull untill 70 years, and subsist other, respecting certain possessions not far He is a creature of impulse, he cannot take very manly in performing nuptial duties: from Wotton-under-edge, in the county of the life of the regicide when in his power-examples whereof there are sufficient in Bra-Gloucester. It commenced in the reign of his heart revolts at so cold-blooded a deed, bant, and amongst the Goths and Swedes: Edward IV. and was depending till the though just, he puts up his sword and tries so I heard a trusty pilate relate, that when reign of James I., when a compromise took to find an excuse to himself in the refined he traffiqued at Stockholm, when Gustavus, place, it having lasted about 120 years. notion that it would be "hire and salary, the father of the most invincible Ericus, who SMALL-POX.-A curious old custom still not revenge" to kill his uncle whilst "pray- now reigns, ruled the land, he was called lingers in some of the more secluded parts ing and purging his soul," who took his by the King to be at the marriage of a man of the country of placing a patient suffering father's unprepared "with all his crimes that was an hundred years old, who married from small-pox in a bed covered with red broad blown" without excitement his a bride of 30 years old, and he professed hangings. It would be interesting to know nature is prone to meditation, and all his sincerely, that the old man had many chil- the origin of this custom, and how long it philosophical reasoning upon his wrongs dren by her. For he was a man, as there has been in vogue. The tradition that red and their villainous causer - the player are many in that country, who was very is good for small-pox is at least five cenwhose whole function readily yielded to his green and fresh in his old age, that one turies and a half old, for we read that John, conceits-the equanimity of Horatio, in would hardly think him to be 50 years old. one of the sons of Edward II., was treated whose nature the "blood and judgment" Also amongst the Tungri and Campania in for the disease by being put into a bed are so enviably "commingled"-all con- Brabant, where the ayr is wonderful calm, surrounded by red hangings, covered with trasts serve but to paralyze his own energies and the nation is very temperate and frugall, red blankets and a red counterpane, his and almost blunt his very purpose instead it is no new thing, but almost common, that throat being gargled with red mulberry of arousing him to indignant action. Thus men of So years marry young maids, and wine, and the red juice of pomegranates "conscience makes a coward" of Hamlet, have children by them." ("A Discourse of being given him to suck. This was the who possesses the moral principle of a hero, Generation," 1664, p. 359.) boasted prescription of John Gaddesden, but is deficient in physical nerve requisite LONG TOMBS." As we travelled to the who took no small credit to himself for to avenge coolly and resolutely his father's South from Jagodna in Servia, I saw upon bringing his royal patient safely through murder, an attainment he seems to despair the side of a hill, a large Turkish tomb, the disease.-The Sanitary Record. of, after discovering his fatal mistake in about four yards long, and a square place GIFT OF INVISIBILITY.—It is not surprising killing Polonius, and it is after that event covered by it, which the Chiaus told me was that some three hundred years ago a good that the tumult created in his sensitive soul the tomb of one of their saints. If the deal of mystery was believed to surround reaches its climax, and the mind which gigantick saint that lay buried here, were the seeding of Ferns. It was superstitiously though hitherto predisposed has exhibited as long as his tomb, he was as formidable considered that these plants were propabut counterfeit phrenzy breaks forth at inter- a person as any of the Patagonian gyants gated by invisible seeds, although it was vals of subsequent excitement into paroxysms painted upon the southern part of divers thought that the 'black spots' which were of decided madness. Maps of America with long arrows in their found on the backs of their fronds had throats. I must confesse it seems strange something to do with their seeding capacito me that the stature of men should be ties. It was believed that these 'black extended to that height. Mr. Wood, an spots' fell suddenly upon the Ferns on Midingenious person who hath made very fair summer Eve, and that if they were then and accurate maps of the Streights of gathered under certain conditions, they Magellan, the Islands therein, and the coast would produce on the gatherer some very from the River of Plate to Baldivia, in the potent effects, the chief of which would be South Sea : told me that he had seen divers the ability to walk invisible. To get the graves in the southern parts of America near gift of invisibility, however, it was necessary But the only excuse I can offer to you for permitting my love of the subject to render me so diffuse is, that I, too, from boyhood, have been "enthusiastic" in relation to this character, and have habituated myself for years to ponder over its pointsas a miser would pore over his gold, collating the earliest editions of this play and searching the accumulated annotations of its H H reader of "Hamlet" can have ever doubted, 7. When was red-hot shot first used in 8. In a volume of Play Bills of Drury Lane "RIGHT AS NINEPENCE."-My lucubrations to proceed to 'catch' the Fern seed in the following way. Twelve pewter plates were to be taken at midnight of St. John's Eve, and placed under the 'black spotted' frond. The seed then in falling would pass through eleven of the plates, and rest on the twelfth. Fairies, however, were sometimes in attendance to snatch the seed away as it fell. But if the gatherer succeeded in his attempt, he would thereafter possess the much-coveted quality of invisibility." The Fern World." By Francis George Heath. AN APPEAL FOR A MONUMENT TO SHAKESPEARE, 1736.—Ralph, in his "Review of the Publick Buildings of London," (12mo, second edition, 1736, p. 56) describing the tombs and busts in Westminster Abbey, says, "I believe everybody that visits the repository of the illustrious dead, cannot help looking round, like me, for the divine Milton, and immortal Shakespeare; names which are the honour of their country, and yet have received no honour from it; names which every foreigner must inquire for, and miss with regret and uneasiness to himself, and censure and disesteem to us : that Milton indeed has been deny'd this privilege, I don't so much wonder, because he opposed the priesthood; an injury that the merit of half mankind united in one person can never atone for, and which the fraternity will resent as long as the name of the aggressor survives their malice and persecution. But this was not Shakespeare's it?"We will either kill or be kill'd, as courser faire doth sterve."-Booke of EmFeak sayd, most blasphemously of our Sa-blemes, by G. Whitney, 4to, 1585. viour, at Black-Friars (Aug. 8, 1653), in a 4. "When Christmas comes out of suppos'd colloquy betwixt Christ, the Devil, Wales."-Archeologia Attica, by Francis the Turk, and the People."-The Observator, Rous, 4to, 3rd edit., 1649, p. 12. March 24, 1682. QUERIES. 1. What is the meaning of the following old line?" Grombould groyny groutes and solemn sullen squires."-(The Castle of Courtesie, by James Yates, 1582, p. 4.) 2. Who was Feak in the following passage, and does it refer to some religious play or mystery; and if so, what was the name of case; a man whose works have been the OLD PROVERBS. 1. "It is as great a pity to see a woman weep as a goose to go barefoot."—A Hundred Mery Talys, Tale VIII. 2. "A proverbe olde, in Englande, here, The still sowe eates the draffe." Castle of Courtesye, by James Yates, 1582, p.7. 3. "While grasse doth growe, the 5. "He has eaten a viper." This is said of any old person who looks younger than usual, the flesh of vipers being anciently supposed to strengthen the body and clarify the eyesight. half-starved lad formerly came from Kellet 6. "There's worse at Kellet." Apoor, to be an apprentice at Lancaster, which is 4. I wish to know what works there are about six miles from the above village. containing information about Elmsley Castle, Whenever anything was complained of as frequently with their representations." In Pershore, Worcestershire. The Norman bad, his only answer was, "There's worse castle was built directly after the Conquest at Kellet," and hence this became a local 1741, five years after this reproach was published, a monument was erected to by one of the D'Abitots. From him it went proverb.-1793. Shakespeare's memory in Westminster Ab- to the Beauchamps, afterwards Earls of bey, by order of the Earl of Burlington, Dr. Warwick, and belonged lastly to Warwick, Mead, Mr. Martyn, and Alexander Pope. the King Maker. The present house is sup- POESIES, OR MOTTOES, FROM OLD The performers of each of the London posed to have been built by one of the family theatres gave a benefit towards defraying of Savage, about the time of Henry VIII. the expenses, and the dean and chapter of Westminster granted the ground, free of expense ! -C. D. WEDDING RINGS. Happy in thee, Hath God made me.—1677. 5. The following inscription occurs on a In thee my choice, I'll e're rejoyce.-1679. marble tablet against the north wall of St. In mind, though not in sight.-1680. Michael's Church, Cambridge:-" James Bones, surgeon of the Royal Navy, died, My heart is given this pledge doth shew, August 25, 1807, aged 31 years. This tes- A work in Heaven performed below.-1684. timony of affection is a small tribute to ex-God above preserve our Love.-1684. alted merit." Can any reader inform me God above increase our Love.—1685. in what Mr. Bones's exalted merit Hearts content, cannot repent.-May, 1688. sisted ?—X. Thy virtuous life, made thee my wife.-1711. God's Providence is our Inheritance.—1711. Break not thy vow to please thine eye; Continue constant till we die.-1720. God's intent, none can prevent.-1722. In constancy, I will live and die.-1725. con HAMLET'S FATHER.-Who can tell how much of the pathos of tragedy and fiction springs from the domestic sorrows of the writer? How many gifted poets or great novelists have laid those offerings of their genius on an imagined grave, which circumstances, or the sacred reserve befitting a recent and agonizing bereavement, for- 6. When did the employment of running bade their laying publicly on a real one! footmen cease? In a notice of the suicide of There are few things which the most a young man in the Prince of Wales's estadiligent study of Shakespeare's dramas blishment at Carlton House, July 1810, it is enables us to affirm with any certainty stated that about seven or eight years beabout their writer's own private feelings; fore that date "he lived with the Duke of but there is one thing which surely no Queensberry as a running footman." |