Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 | Page 7

in every age." And no one can read these effusions of deepfelt
virtuous affection without emotions of a happy tendency.
S.W. SINGER.
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ANNOTATED COPIES OF BISHOP ANDREWES' WORKS.
Acting on a suggestion given in previous number, I beg to state that I
shall be much obliged by the use of any annotated copies of the
following works of Bp. Andrewes, which I am engaged in taking
through the press:--_Tortura Torti; Responsio ad Apolog. Cordius
Bellarmini; Opuscula Posthuma; Two Answers to Cardinal Perron, &c.;
Preces Privitæ_.
JAMES BLISS.
Ogburne St. Andrew, near Marlborough.
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Minor Queries.
_Robert Innes, a Grub Street Poet._--Is there anything known
respecting a strange "madcap," one Robert Innes, who, according to a
printed broadside now before me, was a pauper in St. Peter's Hospital,
1787? He was in the habit of penning doggrel ballads and hawking

them about for sale. Some of them have a degree of humour, and are, to
a certain extent, valuable at the present time for their notices of passing
events. In one of these now rare effusions, he styles himself "R. Innes,
O.P.," and in explanation gives the following lines:--
"Some put unto their name A.M., And others put a D. and D., If 'tis no
harm to mimick them, I adds unto my name O.P.
"Master of Arts, sure I am not, No Doctor, no Divine I be But OAKUM
PICKING is my lot, Of the same clay are we all three."
The "works" of this "rogue and vagabond," now in my possession, were
given me by the late Mr. Catnach of Seven Dials.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_The Sicilian Vespers._--In what English work can a full and correct
narrative of this event be found?
C.H. COOPER.
Cambridge, July 29. 1850.
_One Bell._--Can any of your readers favour me with a reference to
some authority for the following, which may be found in Southey's
Book of the Church (vol. ii. p. 121.)?
"Somerset pretended that one bell in a steeple was sufficient for
summoning the people to prayer; and the country was thus in danger of
losing its best music."
What follows is so beautiful and appropriate, that I may perhaps be
excused for lengthening my quotation:
"--a music, hallowed by all circumstances, which, according equally
with social exultation and with solitary pensiveness, though it falls
upon many an unheeding ear, never fails to find some hearts which it
exhilarates, and some which it softens."

It is a curious fact, that in many towers there may be often found a
solitary _black-letter Bell_ (if I may so call it), evidently of
ante-Reformation date, making one of the peal.
H.T.E.
_Treasure Trove._--The prejudicial effect which the law of _Treasure
Trove_, as it now exists in this country, has been found to exercise
upon the preservation of objects of archaeological interest, especially if
such articles happen to be formed of either of the precious metals, is
just now exciting the attention of the antiquarian world. Any notes
upon the state of this law upon the Continent, any references to
instances of valuable "finds" which have been lost to archaeological
investigation through the operation of this law, or to cases in which the
decisions of the courts have been given upon questions of this law; in
short, any hints {167} or information upon any points connected with
the subject of Treasure Trove will be thankfully received by,
EFFESSA.
_Poeta Anglicus._--The gloss on the Prooemium to the _Constitutions
of Clement V._, col. iv. "Corp. Jur. Can." t. iii. Lugd. 1671, has the
following remark:--
"Et dicitur a _Papæ_, quod est, interjectio admirantis, et vere
admirabilis: quia vices Dei in terris gerit. Inde dixit ille Anglicus in
poetria nova: _Papa stupor mundi._ Et circa fin., _Qui maxima rerum,
nec Deus es nec homo, quasi neuter es inter utrumque_."
Who is the Anglicus Poeta? What is the name of his poem?
J.B.
_Hornbooks._--Can either of your numerous intelligent readers give me
an account of the hornbooks from which our ancestors learned their
letters? If so, I shall feel especially obliged for the information.
JOHN TIMBS.

_Ben Jonson, or Ben Johnson._--Among some papers I possess of the
Digby family, I have an autograph poem on _The Picture of the Minde
of the Lady Venetia Digby_, by Ben "Johnson." Is this the same as Ben
"Jonson?" and if so, how comes it the "h" has been dropped from his
name? Or was there some other Ben "Johnson," a poet of that period?
N.A.B.
_MS. Book of Prayers belonging to Queen Catherine Parr._--In vol. ix.
of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ is a description of a MS. book of
prayers, bound in silver, which probably belonged to Queen Catherine
Parr. Can you or any of your numerous readers inform me in whose
possession the volume is _now_?