Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 | Page 5

I.'s
reign.--Who was he? Spranger Barry, the actor of fifty years later, Sir
William Betham and myself have succeeded in connecting
satisfactorily, and legitimately, with the noble house of Barry, Lord
Santry; but I cannot as yet show that Mrs. E. Barry inherited her
theatrical talent from an identical source.
2. Of what family was Mr. Barry, the Secretary to the Equivalent
Company, who died about 1738? I possess immense collections on the
name of Barry, but I cannot identify any London will or administration
as this individual's.
3. Whether Sir Robert Walpole's Secret Government Lists of the
Pretender's adherents, agents, and emissaries in London (who were
supposed to be under the evil-eye of Jonathan Wild) still exist, and are
accessible?
WILLIAM D'OYLY BAYLEY.
Coatham, Yorkshire, Jan. 1849-50.
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NINE QUERIES.
1. _Book-plate._--Whose was the book-plate with the following
device:--An eagle or vulture feeding with a snake another bird nearly as
large as herself; a landscape, with the sea, &c. in the distance: very
meanly engraved, in an oval, compassed with the motto, "Pietas homini
tutissima virtus"?
2. _Addison's Books._--I have two or three volumes, bound apparently
at the beginning of {213} the last century, with a stamp on the cover,
consisting of J.A., in a cursive character, within a small circle. Was this
the book-stamp of Joseph Addison?
3. _Viridis Vallis._--Where was the monastery of "Viridis Vallis," and
what is its vernacular name?
4. _Cosmopoli._--Has Cosmopoli been ever appropriated to any known
locality? Archdeacon Cotton mentions it among the pseudonymes in
his Typographical Gazetteer. The work whose real locality I wish to
ascertain is, Sandii Paradox. iv. _Evang._ 1670. 1 vol. 8vo.
5. _Seriopoli._--The same information is wanting respecting "Seriopoli;
apud Entrapelios Impensis Catonis Uticensis:" which occurs in the
title-page of "Seria de Jocis," one of the tracts connected with the
Bollandist controversy.
6. _Early Edition of the Vulgate._--Where is there any critical notice of
a very beautiful edition of the Vultage, small 4to., entitled "Sacra Biblia,
cum studiis ac diligentia emendata;" in the colophon, "Venetiis, apud
Jolitos, 1588"? The preface is by "Johannes Jolitus de Ferrarüs." The
book is full of curious wood-cuts. This is not the book mentioned in
Masch's Le Long (part ii, p. 229), though that was also printed by the
Gioliti in 1588; as the title of the latter book is "Biblia ad vetustissima
Exemplaria castigata," and the preface is by Hentenius.
7. _Identity of Anonymous Annotators._--Can any of the
correspondents of "NOTES AND QUERIES" point out to a literary
Backwoodsman, like myself, any royal road towards assigning to the
proper authors the handwriting of anonymous annotations in fly-leaves
and margins? I have many of these, which I should be glad to ascertain.
8. _Complutensian Polyglot._--In what review or periodical did there
appear, some time ago, a notice of the supposed discovery (or of
conjectures as to the existence) of the MSS. from which the
"Complutensian Polyglot" was compiled, involving, of course, the

repudiation of the common story of the rocket maker of Alcala? Has
any further light been thrown on this subject?
9. _Blunder in Malone's Shakspeare._--Has any notice been taken of
the following odd blunder in Malone's _Shakspeare_, Dublin ed. 1794?
In vol. ii. p. 138, the editor, speaking of John Shakspeare's will (the
father of William), says "This extraordinary will consisted of fourteen
articles, _but the first leaf being unluckily wanting_, I am unable to
ascertain either its date, or the particular occasion on which it was
written." He then gives a copy of the will, beginning at the third article,
in the middle of a sentence, thus: "... at least spiritually." Now, in the
first vol. p. 154. is a document, professing to be William Shakspeare's
will. But of this the first three paragraphs belong to John Shakspeare's
will, his name being mentioned in each: and the third concludes with
the words "at least spiritually." The fourth paragraph, to the end,
belongs to William Shakspeare's will, as given in Johnson and
Stevens's editions. This is a palpable instance of editorial carelessness:
Mr. Malone had mixed the two documents, mislaid the first portion of
the transcript of William Shakspeare's will, and then neglected to
examine the postscript, or he must have found out his mistake.
Was this error acknowledged or corrected in any subsequent edition?
JOHN JEBB.
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MINOR QUERIES
_Mowbray Coheirs._--Collins in his Peerage (ed. Brydges, 1812), says,
at p. 18., speaking of Thomas Duke of Norfolk:--
"In 15 Henry VII, he made partition with Maurice, surviving brother of
William Marquiss of Berkeley (who died issueless), of the lands that
came to them by inheritance, by right of their descent, from the coheirs
of _Mowbray_, Duke of Norfolk;"
and quotes, as his authority, _Commun. de T. Pasch, 15 Henry VII.,
Rot._ 1.
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