Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 | Page 7

so affected him, that he fell back in the boat and died! Can any of your readers give a reference where the account is to be met with?
H.T.E.
_Sir Robert Long._--"ROSH." inquires the date of the death of _Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Long_, who founded, in 1760, a Free School at Burnt-Yates, in the Parish of Ripley, co. Yorks., and is said to have died in Wigmore Street, London, it is supposed some years after that period.
_Dr. Whichcot and Lord Shaftesbury._--It is stated in Mr. Martyn's Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury, that Dr. Whichcot was one of Shaftesbury's most constant companions, and preached most of his sermons before him; and that the third Earl of Shaftesbury, the author of the Characteristics, is said to have published a volume of Whichcot's sermons from a manuscript copy of the first Lord Shaftesbury's wife. Can any of your readers give any further information as to the intimacy between Whichcot and Shaftesbury, of which no mention is made in any memoir of Whichcot that I have seen?
C.
_Lines attributed to Henry Viscount Palmerston._--Permit me to inquire whether there is any better authority than the common conjecture that the beautiful verses, commencing,--
"Whoe'er, like me, with trembling anguish brings His heart's whole treasure to fair Bristol's springs,"
were written by Henry Viscount Palmerston, on the death of his lady at the Hot-wells, June 1 or 2, 1769. They first appeared p. 240. of the 47th vol. of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1777.
They also have been attributed to Dr. Hawkeworth, but his wife survived him. There is a mural tablet under the west window of Romsey Church, containing some lines to the memory of Lady Palmerston, but they are not the same. Perhaps some of your correspondents are competent to discover the truth.
INDAGATOR.
_Gray's Alcaic Ode_.--Can any of your readers say whether Gray's celebrated Latin ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande Chartreuse? A friend of mine informs me that he could not find it there on searching.
C.B.
_Abbey of St. Wandrille_.--Will "GASTROS" kindly allow me to ask him a question? Does the _Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Wandrille_, which he mentions (No. 21. p. 338.), include notices of any of the branches of that establishment which settled in England about the time of the Conquest; and one of which, the subject of my query, formed a colony at Ecclesfield, near Sheffield?
I feel an interest in this little colony, because my early predecessors in this vicarage were elected from its monks. Moreover, some remains of their convent, now incorporated into what is called "the hall," and forming an abutment which overlooks my garden, are affording an appropriate domicile to the curate of the parish.
ALFRED GATTY.
Ecclesfield, March 26. 1850.
_Queries as to "Lines on London Dissenting Ministers" of a former Day_.--Not having made Notes of the verses so entitled, I beg to submit the following _Queries_:--
1. Does there exist any printed or manuscript copy of lines of the above description, in the course of which Pope's "Modest Foster" is thus introduced and apostrophised:--
"But see the accomplish'd orator appear, Refined in judgment, and in language clear: Thou only, Foster, hast the pleasing art At once to charm the ear and mend the heart!"
Other conspicuous portraits are those of THOMAS BRADBURY, ISAAC WATTS, and SAMUEL CHANDLER. The date of the composition must be placed between 1704 and 1748, but I have to solicit information as to who was its author.
2. Has there been preserved, in print or manuscript, verses which circulated from about 1782-1784, on the same body of men, as characterised, severally, by productions of the vegetable world, and, in particular, by _flowers_? The bouquet is curious, nor ill-selected and arranged. One individual, for example, finds his emblem in a _sweet-briar_; another, in a _hollyhock_; and a third, in a tulip. RICHARD WINTER, JAMES JOUYCE, HUGH WASHINGTON, are parts of the fragrant, yet somewhat thorny and flaunting nosegay. These intimations of it may perhaps aid recollection, and lead to the wished-for disclosure. It came from the hand, and seemed to indicate at least the theological partialities of the lady[1] who culled and bound together the various portions of the wreath.
W.
[Footnote 1: A daughter of the late Joseph Shrimpton, Esq., of High Wycombe.]
Dutch Language.--"E. VEE" will be indebted to "ROTTERODAMUS," or any other correspondent, who can point out to him the best modern books for acquiring a knowledge of the Dutch language,--an Anglo-Dutch Grammar and Dictionary.
Horns.--1. Why is Moses represented in statues with horns? The idea is not, I think, taken from the Bible.
2. What is the reason for assigning horns to a river, as in the "Tauriformis Aufidus."
3. What is the origin of the expression "to give a man horns," for grossly dishonouring him? It is met with in late Greek.
L.C.
Cambridge, March 27.
Marylebone Gardens.--In what year did Marylebone Gardens finally close?
NASO.
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