Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853

and Queries, Number 189, June
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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of
Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Geneologists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 189.] Saturday, June 11, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition
5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Tom Moore's First! 565 Notes on several
Misunderstood Words, by the Rev. W. R. Arrowsmith 566 Verney
Papers: the Capuchin Friars, &c., by Thompson Cooper 568 Early
Satirical Poem 568 The Letters of Atticus, by William Cramp 569
MINOR NOTES:--Irish Bishops as English Suffragans-- Pope and
Buchanan--Scarce MSS. in the British Museum--The Royal Garden at
Holyrood Palace-- The Old Ship "Royal Escape" 569
QUERIES:-- "The Light of Brittaine" 570
MINOR QUERIES:--Thirteen an unlucky Number--
Quotations--"Other-some" and "Unneath"-- Newx, &c.--"A Joabi
Alloquio"--Illuminations-- Heraldic Queries--John's Spoils from

Peterborough and Crowland--"Elementa sex." &c.--Jack and Gill: Sir
Hubbard de Hoy--Humphrey Hawarden--"Populus vult
decipi"--Sheriffs of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire--Harris 571
REPLIES:-- Bishop Butler, by J. H. Markland, &c. 572 Mitigation of
Capital Punishment to Forgers 573 Mythe versus Myth, by Charles
Thiriold 575 "Inquiry into the State of the Union, by the Wednesday
Club in Friday Street," by James Crossley 576 Unpublished Epigram
by Sir Walter Scott, by William Williams, &c. 576 Church Catechism
577 Jacob Bobart, &c., by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 578 "Its," by W. B. Rye
578 Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by Henry T. Riley 579 Books of
Emblems, by J. B. Yates, &c. 579
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Pollock's Directions
for obtaining Positive Photographs upon albumenised Paper--Test for
Lenses--Washing Collodion Pictures 581
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Cremonas--James Chaloner --Irish
Convocation--St. Paul's Epistle to Seneca --Captain Ayloff--Plan of
London--Syriac Scriptures --Meaning of "Worth"--Khond
Fable--Collar of S3. --Chaucer's Knowledge of Italian--Pic Nic--Canker
or Brier Rose--Door-head Inscriptions--"Time and
I"--Lowbell--Overseers of Wills--Detached Belfry Towers--Vincent
Family, &c. 582
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Books and Odd Volumes wanted 586 Notices
to Correspondents 586 Advertisements 587
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Notes.
TOM MOORE'S FIRST!
It is now generally understood that the first poetic effusion of Thomas
Moore was entrusted to a publication entitled Anthologia Hibernica,
which held its monthly existence from Jan. 1793 to December 1794,
and is now a repertorium of the spirited efforts made in Ireland in that

day to establish periodical literature. The set is complete in four
volumes: and being anxious to see if I could trace the "fine Roman"
hand of him whom his noble poetic satirist, and after fast friend, Byron,
styled the "young Catullus of his day," I went to the volumes, and give
you the result.
No trace of Moore appears in the volume containing the first six
months of the publication; but in the "List of Subscribers" in the second,
we see "Master Thomas Moore;" and as we find this designation
changed in the fourth volume to "Mr. Thomas Moore, Trinity College,
Dublin!" (a boy with a black ribband in his collar, being as a collegian
an "ex officio man!"), we may take it for ascertained that we have
arrived at the well-spring of those effusions which have since flowed in
such sparkling volumes among the poetry of the day.
Moore's first contribution is easily identified; for it is prefaced by a
note, dated "Aungier Street, Sept. 11, 1793," which contains the usual
request of insertion for "the attempts of a youthful muse," &c., and is
signed in the semi-incognito style, "Th-m-s M--re;" the writer fearing,
doubtless, lest his fond mamma should fail to recognise in his own copy
of the periodical the performance of her little precocious Apollo.
This contribution consists of two pieces, of which we have room but
for the first: which is a striking exemplification (in subject at least) of
Wordsworth's aphorism, that "the child is father to the man." It is a
sonnet addressed to "Zelia," "On her charging the author with writing
too much on