the Public Advertiser of February 22, 1762, under the title of—

"The Mystery Revealed, containing a Series of Transactions and Authentic Memorials respecting the Supposed Cock Lane Ghost. Printed for W. Bristow in St. Paul's Church Yard;"

but which Mr. Prior had not been able to meet with, might possibly be the pamphlet purchased by Newbery, as he had occasional connexion with Bristow, his neighbour.

I have a copy of the pamphlet in question which indeed, as far as I can find, is the only one published at the time which can at all answer to the description of the one sold by Newbery. On a careful examination I am disposed to attribute it to Goldsmith. It contains thirty-four pages, and gives a full narrative of this extraordinary imposture. The beginning and conclusion, though evidently written in haste, are not without marks of Goldsmith's serious and playful manner. The amount paid seems to agree with Newbery's general scale of remuneration to Goldsmith, the length of the pamphlet being considered; and the types employed appear to be similar to those used in some of Newbery's publications at the same period. On the whole I consider that in a new edition of Goldsmith's works this pamphlet, which is additionally interesting, as a record of a famous imposture, ought to find a place.

JAS. CROSSLY.

Minor Notes.

Traditions of remote Periods through few Links (Vol. iv., p. 484.).

—One evening, very soon after his accession, George IV. said that he had done that morning an extraordinary thing, namely given (to Lord Moira) a garter which had been but once disposed of since the reign of Charles II. This, considering that men (except in royal cases) never obtain the garter when under age, and seldom till they are somewhat advanced in life, seemed surprising; but his Majesty thus explained it. Charles II. gave the garter to the Duke of Somerset in 1684; the duke died at the end of 1748, and (Frederic, Prince of Wales, being alive) his son, afterwards George III., received, a few days after, the vacant garter as an ordinary knight, and though he subsequently became sovereign, he always dated his rank in the Order from 1749; and when George IV. succeeded as sovereign, his own stall, which was in fact that of George III., was filled by Lord Moira. Thus it is certainly true that two knights of the garter occupied the whole period between the reigns of Charles II. and George IV.

I may add on this same topic of tradition, that I had a grand-uncle born early in the reign of Queen Anne, who was intimate with Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot, from 1730 to their respective deaths; he used to tell me anecdotes of their society, about which I was, I dare say, at the age of sixteen or seventeen, old enough to propose Queries, but not to make Notes, which I much regret.

C.

Preservation of Life at Sea.

—On the road between Yarmouth and Gorleston is a small obelisk or monument, with a device of a ship in a storm, a rocket with a rope attached just passing over it. The inscription on it may interest some of your readers:

W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.

Epigram

—written in consequence of Queen Elizabeth having dined on board Sir Francis Drake's ship, on his return from circumnavigating the globe:

CLERICUS (D).

Queries.

Minor Queries.

Count Konigsmark.

—Horace Walpole, in his Reminiscences, says distinctly that Count Konigsmark, the admirer of the ill-fated Princess Sophia Dorothea of Zelle, was the same person as the instigator of Mr. Thynne's assassination. Sir E. Brydges, in his edition of Collins's Peerage, on the other hand, calls them brothers. Which of these writers is correct? The fact may not be important otherwise than as giving us an instance (if Walpole be correct) of the righteous judgment of heaven in visiting a murderer with such fearful retribution. I cannot find what became of Konigsmark, after the murder of Mr. Thynne, in 1681-2. It is said in the Harleian Miscellany, that he was taken by one of Monmouth's attendants, who seized him as he was going on ship-board. The three actual assassins were, we know, executed; but it is added, "by some foul play, Konigsmark, who had employed them, and came over to England expressly to see they executed their bloody commission, was acquitted." What was this foul play, and how came the greatest villain of the four to escape? I have not the State Trials to refer to: that work may give some explanation.

Walpole, who was familiar from childhood with the events of the courts of the first three Georges, is likely to have been accurate as to the identity of Konigsmark; but his occasional mistakes and misrepresentations, as we are aware, have been frequently exposed by Mr. Croker.

J. H. MARKLAND.

"O Leoline! be absolutely just."—

Who is the author of the above?

H. B. C.

Lyte Family.

—When did the Lyte family first settle at Lytes Carey, Somersetshire? On what occasion, and by whom, was the fleur de lis added to their crest? And when did a part of the family alter the spelling of the name from Lyte to Light?

The family is an ancient one, and in the reign of Elizabeth of considerable literary distinction.

J. L.

Sir Walter Raleigh's Snuff-box.

—What has become of Sir Walter Raleigh's snuff-box? It was a favourite box, in constant use by the late Duke of Sussex, and was knocked down at his sale for 6l. It is the box out of which Raleigh took a pinch of snuff on the scaffold.

L. H. L. T.

"Poets beware."

—Where are the following lines to be found: