Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 37,
July 13, 1850

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Title: Notes & Queries, No. 37. Saturday, July 13, 1850 A Medium Of
Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Genealogists, Etc.
Author: Various
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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. 37.] SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped
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CONTENTS
NOTES:-- The Author of the "Characteristics" by W.D. Christie. 97
Caxton's Printing office, by R.F. Rimbault. 99 Sanatory Laws in other
Days. 99 Folk Lore:--Midsummer Fires. 101 Minor Notes:--Borrowed
Thoughts--An Infant Prodigy in 1659--Allusion in Peter Martyr--Hogs
not Pigs. 101
QUERIES:-- A Query and Replies, by H. Walter. 102 Letters of Queen
Elizabeth and Philip II. of Spain. 102 Minor Queries:--The New
Temple--"Junius Identified"--Mildew in Books--George Herbert's
Burialplace--The Earl of Essex and "The Finding of the Rayned
Deer"--The Lass of Richmond Hill--Curfew--Alumni of Oxford,
Cambridge, and Winchester--St. Leger's Life of Archbishop
Walsh--Query put to a Pope--The Carpenter's Maggot--Lord
Delamere--Henry and the Nutbrown Maid. 103
REPLIES:-- French Poem by Malherbe, by S.W. Singer. 104 "Dies Iræ,
Dies Illa." 105 Dr. Samuel Ogden, by J.H. Markland. 105 Replies to
Minor Queries:--Porson's Imposition--The Three Dukes--Kant's
Sämmtliche Werke--Becket's Mother--"Imprest" and
"Debenture"--Derivation of "News"--Origin of Adur--Meaning of
Steyne--Sarum and Barum--Epigrams on the
Universities--Dulcarnon--Dr. Magian--America known to the
Ancients--Collar of SS.--Martello Towers--"A Frog he would a-wooing
go"--William of Wykeham--Execution of Charles I.--Swords--The Low
Window--Brasichelli's Expurgatory Index--Discursus
Modestus--Melancthon's Epigram. 106
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c.
111 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 111 Notices to Correspondents.
111 Advertisements. 112
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NOTES
THE AUTHOR OF THE "CHARACTERISTICS."
Lord Shaftesbury's _Letters to a young Man at the University_, on

which Mr. SINGER has addressed to you an interesting communication
(Vol. ii., p. 33.), were reprinted in 1746 in a collection of his letters,
"_Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, author of the Characteristicks,
collected into one volume_: printed MDCCXLVI." 18mo. This volume
contains also Lord Shaftesbury's letters to Lord Molesworth, originally
published by Toland, with an introduction which is not reprinted; a
"Letter sent from Italy, with the notion of the Judgment of Hercules,
&c., to my Lord ----"; and three letters reprinted from Lord
Shaftesbury's life in the _General Dicionary_, which was prepared by
Dr. Kippis, under the superintendence of Lord Shaftesbury's son, the
fourth earl.
In my copy of the original edition of the _Letters to a young Man at the
University_, two letters have been transcribed by an unknown previous
possessor. One is to Bishop Burnet, recommending young Ainsworth
when about to be ordained deacon:--
"To the Bishop of Sarum.
"Reigate, May 23. 1710.
"My Lord,--The young man who delivers this to your Lordship, is one
who for several years has been preparing himself for the ministry, and
in order to it has, I think, completed his time at the university. The
occasion of his applying this way was purely from his own inclination.
I took him a child from his poor parents, out of a numerous and
necessitous family, into my own, employing him in nothing servile; and
finding his ingenuity, put him abroad to the best schools to qualify him
for preferment in a peculiar way. But the serious temper of the lad
disposing him, as I found, to the ministry preferably to other
advantages, I could not be his hindrance; though till very lately I gave
him no prospect of any encouragement through my interest. But having
been at last convinced, by his sober and religious courage, his studious
inclination and meek behaviour, that 'twas real principle and not a
vanity or conceit that led him into these thoughts, I am resolved, in case
your lordship thinks him worthy of the ministry, to procure him a
benefice as soon as anything happens in my power, and in the mean
time design to keep him as my chaplain in my family.
"I am, my Lord, &c.,
"SHAFTESBURY."
The second letter inserted in my copy is to Ainsworth himself, dated

Reigate, 11th May, 1711, and written when he was about to apply for
priest's