Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 | Page 4

say the picture does to him belong, Kennett does Judas and the
painter wrong; False is the image, the resemblance faint, Judas,
compared to Kennett, was a saint."
One word more. The episcopal seal of the nonjuring bishops was a
shepherd with a sheep upon his shoulders. The crozier which had been
used by them, was, in 1839, in the possession of John Crossley Esq., of
Scaitcliffe, near Todmorden.
J. YEOWELL.
Hoxton.
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HOGARTH'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF HUDIBRAS.
"Butler's Hudibras, by Zach. Grey, LL.D. 2 vols. 8vo. Cambridge,
1744.
"Best edition. Copies in fine condition are in considerable request. The
cuts are beautifully engraved, and Hogarth is much indebted to the
designer of them; but who he was does not appear."
The above remarks in Lowndes's Bibliographical Manual having
caught my attention, they appeared to me somewhat obscure and
contradictory; and as they seemed rather disparaging to the fame of
Hogarth, of whose works and genius I am a warm admirer, I have taken
some pains to ascertain what may have been Mr. Lowndes's meaning.
On examining the plates in Dr. Grey's edition, they are all inscribed "W.
Hogarth inv^t, J. Mynde sc^t." {356} How, then, can Hogarth be said to
be much indebted to the designer of them, if we are to believe the words
on the plates themselves--"W. Hogarth inv^t"?
It is clear that Mr. Lowndes supposes the designer of these plates to
have been some person distinct from Hogarth; and he was right in his
conjecture; but he was ignorant of the name of the artist alluded to.

Whoever he was, he can have little claim to be regarded as the original
designer; he was rather employed as an expurgator; for these plates are
certainly copies of the two sets of plates invented and engraved by
Hogarth himself in 1726.
All that this second designer performed was, to revise the original
designs of Hogarth's, in order to remove some glaring indecencies; and
this, no doubt, is what Mr. Lowndes means, when he says that
"Hogarth is much indebted to the designer of them."
The following passage in a letter from Dr. Ducaral to Dr. Grey, dated
Inner Temple, May 10th, 1743, printed In Nichols's Illustrations, will
furnish us with the name of the artist in question:--
"I was at Mr. Isaac Wood's the painter, who showed me the twelve
sketches of Hudibras, which he designs for you. I think they are
extremely well adapted to the book, and that the designer shows how
much he was master of the subject."
In the preface to this edition, Dr. Grey expresses his obligations "to the
ingenious Mr. Wood, painter, of Bloomsbury-square."
In the fourth volume of Nichols's Illustrations of Literature are some
interesting letters from Thos. Potter, Esq., to Dr. Grey, which throw
much light on the subject of this edition of Hudibras.
I cannot conclude these observations without expressing my dissent
from the praise bestowed upon the engravings in this work. Mr.
Lowndes says "the cuts are beautifully engraved." With the exception
of the head of Butler by Vertue, the rest are very spiritless and
indifferent productions.
J. T. A.
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FOLK LORE.

Overyssel Superstition.--Stolen bees will not thrive; they pine away and
die.
JANUS DOUSA.
Death-bed Superstitions.--When a child is dying, people, in some parts
of Holland, are accustomed to shade it by the curtains from the parent's
gaze; the soul being supposed to linger in the body as long as a
compassionate eye is fixed upon it. Thus, in Germany, he who sheds
tears when leaning over an expiring friend, or, bending over the
patient's couch, does but wipe them off, enhances, they say, the
difficulty of death's last struggle. I believe the same poetical
superstition is recorded in Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life.
JANUS DOUSA.
Popular Rhyme.--The following lines very forcibly express the
condition of many a "country milkmaid," when influence or other
considerations render her incapable of giving a final decision upon the
claims of two opposing suitors. They are well known in this district,
and I have been induced to offer them for insertion, in the hope that if
any of your correspondents are possessed of any variations or
additional stanzas, they may be pleased to forward them to your
interesting publication.
"Heigh ho! my heart is low, My mind runs all on one; W for William
true, But T for my love Tom."
T. W.
Burnley, Lancashire
Death-bed Mystery.--It may, perhaps, interest MR. SANSOM to be
informed that the appearance described to him is mentioned as a known
fact in one of the works of the celebrated mystic, Jacob Behmen, The
Three Principles, chap. 19. "Of the going forth of the Soul." I extract
from J. Sparrow's translations., London, 1648.

"Seeing then that Man is so