NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

CONTENTS.

NOTES:—	Page
Authorship of Henry VIII., by Samuel Hickson	33
The Cavalier's Farewell, by F.H.	34
Gray's Elegy, by Henry H. Breen	35
The "Nineveh" Monuments and Milton's Nativity Ode illustrated from Lucian	35
Minor Notes:—Gaudentia di Lucca—George Wither the Poet, a Printer—"Preached as a dying man to dying Men"—Authors of Anonymous Works—Umbrellas	36
QUERIES:—
Sonnet (query, by Milton) on the Library at Cambridge, by C. Howard Kenyon	37
Burying in Church Walls	37
Minor Queries:—Meaning of Venwell or Venville—Erasmus and Farel—Early Culture of the Imagination—Sir Thomas Bullen's Drinking Horn—Peter Sterry—"Words are Men's Daughters," &c.—Robert Henryson—Gawyn Douglas—Darby and Joan—William Chilcot—Benj. Wheeler's Theological Lectures—Sir Alexander Cumming—Cross between a Wolf and Hound—Landwade Church, and Moated Grange—Dr. Bolton, Archbishop of Cashel—Genealogy of the Talbots, &c. &c.	38
REPLIES:—
Dragons	40
Origin of the Family Name of Bacon, by ProBa ConScientia	41
Replies to Minor Queries:—Cockade—Form of Prayer for King's Evil—"Aver," Hogs not Pigs—Pilgarlic —Collar of Esses—Filthy Gingram—The Life and Death of Clancie—"Rab. Surdam"—"Fronte Capillatâ"—Taylor's Holy Living—Portrait of Bishop Henchman—Lines attributed to Charles Yorke—Rodolph Gualter—"Annoy" used as a Noun—Culprit, Origin of the Word—Passage in Bishop Butler—Wat the Hare—The Letter —Did Elizabeth visit Bacon in Twickenham Park—Mock-Beggar—Cardinal Chalmers—Binsey, God help me!—Midwives Licensed—Dr. Timothy Thristcross—History of the Bohemian persecution—"Earth has no Rage"—Couplet in De Foe—Private Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth—Abbot's House at Bucksden—Bab in the Bowster—Sir Cloudesley Shovel—Noli me tangere—Cad	42
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.	46
Notices to Correspondents	46
Advertisements	47

NOTES.

AUTHORSHIP OF HENRY VIII.

In my last communication on the subject of Henry VIII., I referred to certain characteristic tricks of Fletcher's style of frequent occurrence in that play, and I now beg leave to furnish you with a few instances. I wish it, however, to be understood, that I advance these merely as illustrative specimens selected at random; as there is scarcely a line of the portions of the play I assume to be Fletcher's but would furnish some evidence to a diligent student of this writer's style: and that, although I think each separate instance as strongly characteristic of Fletcher as it is unlike Shakspeare, it is only in their aggregate number that I insist upon their importance.

The first instance to which I call attention is the use of the substantive "one" in a manner which, though not very uncommon, is used by no writer so frequently as Fletcher. Take the following:—

and the title of the play, The False One.

Compare with these from Henry VIII.:—

Fletcher habitually uses "thousand" without the indefinite article, as in the following instances:

In Henry VIII. we have in the prologue:

The use of the word "else" is peculiar in its position in Fletcher:—