Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 | Page 8

to the authorship of _Junius' Letters_, and thus introduced it--"I am indebted for it to the kindness of my old and excellent friend, Mr. Edward Dubois, _the ingenious author of 'Junius Identified'_" Mr. Dubois was then, and Mr. Taylor is now living, and both remained silent. Sir Fortunatus Dwarris, the intimate friend of Dubois, states that he was "a connection of Sir Philip Francis", and that the pamphlet is "said, I know not with what truth, to have been prepared under the eye of Sir Philip Francis, it may be, through the agency of Dubois." Dubois was certainly connected with, though not, I believe, related to Sir Philip; and at the time of the publication he was also connected with Mr. Taylor. I hope, under these circumstances, that Mr. Taylor will think it right to favour you with a statement of the facts, that future "Note"-makers may not perplex future editors with endless "Queries" on the subject.
R.J.
_Mildew in Books._--Can you, or any of your readers, suggest a preventive for mildew in books?
In a valuable public library in this town (Liverpool), much injury has been occasioned by mildew, the operations of which appear very capricious; in some cases attacking the printed part of an engraving, leaving the margin unaffected; in others attacking the inside of the backs _only_; and in a few instances it attacks all parts with the utmost impartiality.
Any hints as to cause or remedy will be most acceptable.
B.
_George Herbert's Burial-place._--Can any of your correspondents inform me where the venerable George Herbert, rector of Bemerton, co. Wilts., was buried, and whether there is any monument of him existing in any church?
J.R. Fox.
_The Earl of Essex, and "The Finding of the Rayned Deer."_--
"There is a boke printed at Franker in Friseland, in English, entitled _The Finding of the Rayned Deer_, but it bears title to be printed in Antwerp, it should say to be done by som prieste in defence of the late Essex's tumult."
The above is the postscript to a letter of the celebrated Father Parsons written "to one Eure, in England", April 30, 1601, a contemporary copy of which exists in the State Paper Office [Rome,] Whitehall. Can any of your readers tell me whether anything is known of this book?
SPES.
June 28. 1850.
_The Lass of Richmond Hill._--I should be much obliged by being informed who wrote the words of the above song, and when, if it was produced originally at some place of public entertainment. The Rev. Thomas Maurice, in his elegant poem on Richmond Hill, has considered it to have been written upon a Miss Crop, who committed suicide on that spot, April 23rd, 1782; but he was evidently misinformed, as it appeared some few years later, and had no reference to that event. I have heard it attributed to Leonard Mac Nally, a writer of some dramatic pieces, but on no certain grounds; and it may have been a Vauxhall song about the year 1788. The music was by James Hook, the father of Theodore Hook.
QU?RO.
_Curfew._--In what towns or villages in England is the old custom of ringing the curfew still retained?
NABOC.
_Alumni of Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester._--Are the alumni of the various colleges of Oxford, Cambridge, and Winchester, published from an early period, and the various preferments they held, similar to the one published at Eton.
J.R. Fox.
_St. Leger's Life of Archbishop Walsh._--In Doctor Oliver's _History of the Jesuits_, it is stated that William St. Leger, an Irish member of that Society, wrote the _Life of Thomas Walsh, Archbishop of Cashel_, in Ireland, published in 4to. at Antwerp in 1655. Can any of your numerous readers inform me if a copy of this work is to be found in the British Museum, or any other public library, and something of its contents?
J.W.H. {104}
_Query put to a Pope._--
"Sancte Pater! scire vellem Si Papatus mutat pellem?"
I have been told that these lines were addressed to one of the popes, whose life, before his elevation to the see of St. Peter, had been passed in excesses but little suited to the clerical profession.
They were addressed to him _orally_, by one of his former associates, who met and stopped him while on his way to or from some high festival of the Church, and who plucked aside, as he spoke, the gorgeous robes in which his quondam fellow-reveller was dressed.
The reply of the pope was prompt, and, like the question, in a rhyming Latin couplet. I wish, if possible, to discover, the name of the pope;--the terms of his reply;--the name of the bold man who "_put him to the question_;"--by what writer the anecdote is recorded, or on what authority it rests.
C. FORBES.
Temple.
_The Carpenter's Maggot._--I have in my possession a MS. tune called the "Carpenter's Maggot," which, until within the last few years, was played (I know for nearly a