Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 | Page 8

have not been
reprinted, I shall be disposed to recur again to the subject, and to give
an extract from them, as, of all the attacks ever made upon Bolingbroke,
they seem to me the most pleasant, witty, and effective.
JAS. CROSSLEY.
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PALISSY AND CARDINAL WISEMAN.
On April 28, Cardinal Wiseman, at the Manchester Corn Exchange,
delivered a lecture "On the Relation of the Arts of Design to the Arts of
Production." It occupies thirteen columns of The Tablet of May 7,
which professes to give it "from The Manchester Examiner, with
corrections and additions." I have read it with pleasure, and shall
preserve it as one of the best discourses on Art ever delivered; but there
is a matter of fact, on which I am not so well satisfied. In noticing
Bernard Palissy, the cardinal is reported to have said:
"For sixteen years he persevered in this way; and then was crowned
with success, and produced the first specimens of coloured and
beautiful pottery, such as are to this day sought by the curious; and he
received a situation in the king's household, and ended his days in
comfort and respectability."
In the review of "Morley's Life of Palissy the Potter," Spectator, Oct. 9,
1852, it is said:
"The period of the great potter's birth is uncertain. Mr. Morley fixes it,
on probable data, at 1509; but with a latitude of six years on either side.
Palissy died in 1589 in the Bastile, where he had been confined four
years as a Hugenot; the king and his other friends could defer his trial,
but dared not grant him liberty."
All the accounts which I have read agree with Mr. Morley and the
Spectator. Are they or the cardinal right, supposing him to be correctly
reported?
H. B. C.
U. U. Club.
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Minor Queries.

Polidus.--Can you tell me where the scene of the following play is laid,
and the names of the dramatis personæ?--Polidus, a Tragedy, by
Moses Browne, 8vo. 1723. The author of this play, who was born in
1703, and died in 1787, was for some time the curate of the Rev. James
Harvey, author of Meditations, and other works. Mr. Browne was
afterwards presented to the vicarage of Olney, in Bucks, where the Rev.
John Newton was his curate for several years.
A. Z.
Glasgow.
[Moses Browne was subsequently Chaplain of Morden College. The
piscatory brotherhood are indebted to him for having revived Walton's
Complete Angler, after it had lain dormant for upwards of eighty years;
and this task, he tells us, was undertaken at the request of Dr. Samuel
Johnson.--ED.]
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St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca.--It has frequently been affirmed that
Seneca became, in the last year of his life, a convert to Christianity--his
canonisation by St. Jerome is undoubted and there was stated to be a
MS. of the above epistle in Merton College. May I ask any of your
contributors whether this MS. has ever been printed?
J. M. S.
Hull.
Meaning of "folowed."--Inside the cover of an old Bible and
Prayer-Book, bound in one quarto, Robert Barker, 1611, is the
following inscription:
"July eight I was much folowed when I lay in bed alone att Mistris
Whitmore's house, wee haveing agreed too bee married nextt daye.
"God, even our own God, shal bless us. This incouriged mee too hope

for God's favour and blessing through Christ.
"Christopher Curwen and Hannah Whitmore was married att Lambe's
Chapel, near Criplegate, July ninth, 1712."
An entry of his marriage with his first wife, Elizabeth Sutton, 1704, is
on the cover at the beginning of the book.
Can any one of your correspondents enlighten me as to the meaning of
the word folowed? The letters are legibly written, and there can be no
mistake about any of them. Is it an expression derived from the
Puritans?
H. C. K.
---- Rectory, Hereford.
Roman Catholic Registers.--Can any of your correspondents inform me
where I can find the registers of births, marriages, and burials of
Roman Catholic families living in Berks and Oxon in the reigns of
Charles I. and II.?
A. PT.
St. Alban's Day.--At p. 340. of the Chronicles of London Bridge, it is
stated that Cardinal Fisher was executed on St. Alban's day, June 22,
1535. How is it that in our present calendar St. Alban's day is not June
22, but June 17? On looking back I see SIR W. C. TREVELYAN, in
our first volume, inquired the reason of this change, but I do not find
any reply to his Query.
E. H. A.
Meigham, the London Printer.--J. A. S. is desirous of obtaining
information regarding a printer in London, of the name of Meigham,
about 1745-8, or to be directed where to search for such. Meigham