Notes and Queries, Number 58, December 7, 1850 | Page 8

I never could
find more than these four, and I have been unable to meet with, or hear
of, any others like them. From the costume and other circumstances, I
am inclined to think that they belong to the period of the Civil War, or
rather later; and I remember, some years ago, to have been shown
twenty or thirty cards of the latter end of the seventeenth century,
founded upon public events, one of them relating to the celebrated

"Virgins of Taunton Dean," another to the Death of Monmouth, &c. I
shall be personally obliged by any information respecting the cards I
have described; and, since a distinct Query may be desirable, I beg
leave to ask any of your readers, whether they know of the existence of
any other cards belonging to the same set?
THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.
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Minor Queries.
Pretended Reprint of Ancient Poetry.--In a bookseller's catalogue (J.
Taylor, Blackfriars-road, 1824), I find mention of a work entitled
Sundrie Pleasaunte Flowres of Poesie, newlie plucked from the Hill
Parnasse the hand of P. M., and verie goodlie to smelle. It is said to
have been "Imprynted in London, in the yeare of our Lorde 1576," and
"Reprinted by Davidson, 1823." The bookseller's note records the fact,
that "only TWO COPIES were reprinted from the original supposed to
be unique." I do not believe that any work with the above title came
from the press in the sixteenth century. Query, Who was the
enlightened individual who produced the two copies?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
The Jews' Spring Gardens.--In the newspaper called the Postman, Oct.
3. to 6. 1702, I read,
"At Milend the garden and house called the Jews' Spring Garden, is to
be let. Enquire at Capt. Bendal's at Milend."
Can any of your readers, acquainted with the neighbourhood of London,
afford me information regarding this place, which was probably one of
amusement and promenade much used by the Jews, many of the
wealthier of whom, at that time and long afterwards, resided in
Goodman's Fields?
Y. S.

Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility.--Sharon Turner (Eliz.,
book ii. chap. xxx. vol. iv. p. 348.) mentions that there is a copy of
Cardinal Allen's Admonition to the Nobility, &c., in the Jesuit's College
at Stoneyhurst, and but a few others in England.
I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me
where one is to be found. There is not one either in the Bodleian or the
British Museum.
JAMES BLISS.
"Clarum et venerabile nomen."--Can any of your correspondents
inform me in what author the following lines are to be found? They are
quoted by Burke in his speech on American taxation.
"Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus, et multum nostræ quod
proderat urbi?"
W. L.
Whipping by Women.--In the accounts of the constable of this parish for
the year 1644, there are the following items:
"Paid to two men for watching Ellen Shaw, she beinge accused for
felonie 0 3 0 "Paid to a woman for whippinge y^e said Ellen Shaw 0 0
4 "Paid for beare for her after she was whipped 0 0 3."
Was it the usual custom for women sentenced to whipping to be
consigned to the tender mercies of one of their own sex?
J. EASTWOOD.
Ecclesfield.
Lærig (Vol. i., p. 292.).--Have we not a relic of this word in the vulgar
leary, used of a tough customer, one not easily taken in?
J. W. H.

MS. History of Winchester School.--
"In the year 1715, proposals were published for an exact account of the
History and Antiquities of this College of St. Mary; and large
collections are made for that end, now dormant in a private
hand."--Rawlinson's English Topographer, p 63., London, 1720.
Can any of your readers tell me where this invaluable MS. (if existing)
may be found? and also what became of the late Rev. Peter Hall's
collections in manuscript?
MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
Benedicite.--When a priest saluted or was asked for his blessing,, he
said "Benedicite," Bless ye,--Domino, or, in worse Latin, nomen Dei.
understood. Can any one say why Benedicat or Benedicimini was not
used, as the use of Benedicite was intended {464} to convey or invoke
a blessing, not an exhortation to bless.
PETER CORONA.
The Church History Society.--As one who feels greatly interested in the
scheme for the establishment of THE CHURCH HISTORY SOCIETY,
given in your number for the 2nd November last, and which you
properly describe as "a proposal calculated to advance one of the most
important branches of historical learning," will you permit me to
inquire, through the medium of "NOTES AND QUERIES," whether
DR. MAITLAND's scheme has met with so much encouragement as to
justify the expectation, and I will add the hope, that it may ever be