WEDNESDAY, January 15, and Following Day, at 1 o'clock, MI NOTES AND QUERIES.-The SUBSCRIPTION

THE CLIQUE: GAWTHORP & SONS,

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1915.

CONTENTS.-No. 262.

NOTES:-An Analogy to Sir Thomas Browne, 1-The
Literary Frauds of Henry Walker the Ironmonger, 2-
Holcroft Bibliography, 4-The Prologue to Eastward
Hoe,' 5-Printing at Pontypool-"From China to Peru,"
6-Poem attributed to Dr. Johnson-The Founder of the
Hulme Trust-"The Day"-" Cousamah," 7
QUERIES:-Name of Play Wanted, 7-William Thompson,
d. 1775-Botolph Lane-Nathaniel Cooke-Sir Everard
Digby's Letters-Saluting the Quarter-deck - Bishop
Douglas's Virgil: The Sibyl, 8 Oliver Cromwell of
Uxbridge Henry Crownfield Old Etonians - "The
Piræus mistaken for a man"-East Anglian Families:
Elizabeth Stainton-Newnham Family-Luke Robinson,

M.P.-Williamson of Annan, 9.

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Journal'-'Winter's Pie '-'The Cornhill.'
Notices to Correspondents.

Notes.

them a deposit-a "great lump of an heavy
crusty substance." This substance might
very probably be the remains of the body of
a buried person, which the action of the water
had changed into the form of crust.

Upon exploring further, it was found that
the square had three successive floors about
two feet below one another. Pots were dis-
covered in some of these floors corresponding
to the one described above, although some of
them were found to be entirely empty. Sir
Thomas Browne makes no conjecture as to
what race these pots belonged to, or in what
period they were placed in position. He
simply says that "what work this was
we must as yet reserve unto better con-
jecture."

REPLIES:-Lieut. Col. Thomas Carteret Hardy, 10-The
Kingdom of Fife-Beszant Family-Detectives in Fiction,
11-Fielding's 'Tom Jones: its Geography - Medallic
Legends-The Titled Nobility of Europe'-Heraldry of
Lichfield Cathedral - Fire and New-Birth, 12-Author
It is at this point that I bring in my
Wanted - Borstal-The Height of St. Paul's-Shake- peculiar coincidence. While on a visit to
speariana:
"Hallooing"-Alphabetical Nonsense, 13- New Orleans, Louisiana, some four years ago,
Holy Thursday "-Modern Advocate of Druidism-De
Tassis, the Spanish Ambassador temp. James I.-Regent the one custom that appeared to me very
Circus, 14-Scots Guards: Regimental Histories-Wild
Huntsman - Early Steam Engines, 15-George IV.'s Strange was the method of burial there
Natural Children-Timothy Skottowe, 16- Quotations practised. Instead of interring the dead
Wanted-Moyle Wills-"Thirmuthis," 17-O'Neill - below the surface of the ground, as has been
"Spiritual members"-"Sound as a roach"-"Madame the custom of the majority of Christian
Drury".
"-"We'll go to Kew in lilac time"- - Kentish
Tokens-Baptism of Clovis, 18.
peoples throughout modern times, they bury
NOTES ON BOOKS:-Whitaker's Almanack and Peerage their dead in a wall built around the outside
-Papers of the Hampshire Field Club- The Library of the cemetery. This wall is about six feet
in width, and, besides encompassing the
burial-ground, also crosses the cemetery
through the centre. It is divided into
sections, each section being about two feet
square at the mouth, and about as deep as
the wall itself. When a person dies they
place the corpse in a copper casket, tapering
at both ends, with a top that can be opened.
When the corpse is within, the casket is
hermetically sealed, and placed in the section
of the wall belonging to that particular
family, and then the mouth of the section is
cemented up. When another member of
that family dies the section is broken open,
the casket removed and opened, the bones
of the preceding corpse dumped out on the
floor of the section, and the second corpse
buried in precisely the same manner as was
the first. This continues for years, until
finally the section contains nothing but the
bones and dust of many a victim of death.
When the section is full it is closed up, never
to be opened, and another section is designed
for the use of that family.

AN ANALOGY TO SIR THOMAS
BROWNE.

For those attracted by the works of Sir
Thomas Browne the following coincidence
may prove of interest. In the essay which
forms a sort of supplement to his 'Urn Burial,'
Browne relates that while certain persons
were digging in the vicinity of Brampton,
England, they came upon a curious method
of burial. About three-quarters of a yard
below the surface of the ground was found
a square, about two yards and a half on each
side, surrounded by a brick wall. This wall
measured a foot through, and was coloured
red, although there was no masonry of any
kind visible. The square was of the same
substance as the wall; in fact the square and
wall evidently consisted of one solid piece,
which had been burnt into the correct shape.
On this wall there were thirty-two holes
about 2 in. in diameter, on two of which
were found pots, mouth downwards. In
these pots, however, nothing was discovered
beyond a quantity of water, and in one of

This is done because the Mississippi River
often overflows, as a result of the spring rains
and floods, and submerges the city with
several feet of water. Obviously, if people
were buried sub terra, the cemetery would
become a breeding-ground for diseases of all
kinds, and terrible results might ensue.

copy in the Grenville Library at the British
Museum :-

"A Conference about the next succession to the
Crowne of England. Divided into two partes.
Whereof the first conteineth the discourse of a
civil lawyer, how and in what manner pro-
pinquity of blood is to be preferred. And the
second the speech of a temporall lawyer, about
the particuler titles of all such as do or may
pretende within Inglande or withoute to the next

succession.

To my mind the walls discovered in Brampton correspond to the walls at present used in our own country, although I admit this holds true in only a rough way. Should I be assuming too much were I to say that these Brampton walls were once above ground, or at least in some cave or grotto? Their depth in the earth upon discovery might be due to gradual changes that had taken place in the topography and physio- 66 Whereunto is also added a new and perfect graphy of the neighbourhood. As to any arbor or genealogie of the descents of all the doubt that might arise concerning the kings and princes of England from the Conquest survival of the brick walls through so many down to this day, whereby each man's pretence centuries without wearing away and finally ourable the Earle of Essex, of her Majesties is made more plaine. Directed to the right disappearing, I might offer as an example privie councell & of the noble order of the Garter. the artificial mounds and walls lately Published by R. Doleman. Imprinted at N. brought to light in North America. These with License. MDXCIIII. were built during the Pleistocene Age. Or if the Brampton burial walls were constructed in a cave, they very probably were not submerged in earth until recent times, when the roof of the cave fell in.

Whether the walls were built in a cave or on the surface of the ground, the important fact is that their peculiar construction, in coincidence with the method of burial in New Orleans, brings forth the idea of the topographical changes that have occurred in England. Was the region around Brampton at one time in the vicinity of a large river, or did the sea approach close thereto, making the wall method of burial compulsory? It is for those best fitted in this line of research to determine. KENNETH M. LEWIS.

Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S.

PUBLISHED on 3 Feb., 1648, nearly a whole year before the King was beheaded, and professing (inferentially) to be a report of a conference between the Lords and the Co nmons about taking action against the King, this book is the most important fraud in English history. It is usually_catalogued to the Jesuit Father Robert Persons, or Parsons, who, or Verstegan, wrote the original book, of which this was a piracy. The original is a rare work, owing to the steps taken to suppress it when it was published. The following is the title of the

The origin and history of this book have been exhaustively treated by the Rev. J. H. Pollen, S.J., in a paper entitled 'The Question of Queen Elizabeth's Successor,' printed in The Month for May, 1903. Father Pollen seemed to incline to the view that its printer, Verstegan, poet and antiquary, was its author, rather than Father Persons, though I understand that he has since somewhat modified his opinion. The work is a learned one, but met, and still meets, with condemnation on all sides, both Catholic and Protestant. What is quite certain is that no controversial work ever had a stranger after-history. The full title of Walker's piracy deserves citation, if only to show how he succeeded in changing the original object of the book :

"Severall Speeches delivered at a Conference concerning the power of Parliament to proceed against their King for misgovernment.

"In which is stated :

"I. That government by blood is not by Law of Nature or divine, but only by human and positive laws of every particular Commonwealth, and may upon just causes be altered.

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II. The particular forme of monarchies and
kingdomes, and the different lawes whereby they
are to be obtained, holden and governed, in
divers countries, according as each Common-
wealth hath chosen and established.

kings, and yet how divers of them have been
"III. The great reverence and respect due to
lawfully chastised by their Parliaments and
Commonwealths for their misgovernment, and
of the good and prosperous successe that God
hath commonly given to the same.

"IV. The lawfulnesse of proceeding against
Princes; what interest Princes have in their
subject's goods or lives; how oathes do binde or
may be broken by subjects towards their Princes,
and, finally, the difference between a good King
and a tyrant.

admitting to their authority & the othes [sic]
which they doe make in the same, unto the Com-
monwealth, for their good government.

"V. The coronation of Princes and manner of

publisher a very weak man, and those that set him on the work none of the wisest in employing so simple an animal in a businesse of so great concernment; we shall instance but in one passage. "Old Dolman, or Parsons, had said in the year 1594 that many were then living who had seen the severall coronations of King Edw. the 6, Queen Mary, and Queen Eliz. and could witnesse, &c. Now our young Dolman, or Walker, for that is the wiseman's name, supposing that all these people were alive still that were old men 54 years agoe, like a true transcriber affirmeth confidently, without the variation of a letter, in pag 43 of his addition, that many are yet living in England that have seen the severall coronations of King Edw. the 6, Queen Mary and Queen Eliz., to which he also addeth King James and King Charls, because they were crowned since. And this, we confesse, is new in him.'

There is a great deal of comment on this book in Prynne's Speech' of 4 Dec., 1648, but I do not set it out because Prynne does not mention Walker's name. The Man in the Moon for 27 June-4 July, 1649, says that Cromwell

The motive of this and of his attempt to
stigmatize the Royalists as equally guilty
with Guy Fawkes is shown by Walker's
remark, made apropos of nothing at all,
and simply slipped in among his general
news in his Perfect Proceedings, No. 293,
for 3-10 May, 1655 (last page): "I think
we may beg his highnesse to take the
Crowne."

Finally, Father Persons's unlucky book
was reprinted in 1681, in order to support
the enemies of James, Duke of York, after-
wards James II. Never was there such an
unlucky book for the House of Stuart.
J. B. WILLIAMS.

(To be continued.)

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS

"hired that factotum of villainous impostur-
isme,'Walker, with 301., to reprint a book of one
Doleman's, a jesuit (that was formerly hang'd,
drawn and quarter'd for the same) to justifie that
unparallel'd and inhuman murder of butchering
the King. The said book is new dipped by our
blest reformers and entituled 'Severall Speeches,'
&c. [ut supra], and these coppies were cunningly
conveyed into the hands of Bradshaw and the
regicides as a catechism to instruct them in the (See
devil's horn book, written in bloody characters, of
the murdered Saints and servants of God.
the seeds of this crop of villainy was by perjur'd
Noll committed to the care of that saffron bearded
Judas, Walker, a villain sold to work mischief,
tell lyes and print and divulge their rogueries.
One that I am persuaded that for all parts in the
science of Schisme cannot be matched in the
three kingdomes. Nay not in Christendome, nor
in Europe."

10. (b) SEVERALL SPEECHES,' &c.

And

HOLCROFT.

11 S. x. 1, 43, 83, 122, 163, 205, 244,
284, 323, 362, 403, 442, 484.)

་ 'Indian Exiles.'

1798. [Never published.]
Under this title Holcroft projected, at-
tempted, and completed a translation of
Kotzebue's play Die Indianer in England
(1791). That Holcroft wrote such a play is
fairly certain from the evidence of the
'Memoirs,' where there are definite state-
ments concerning the work. On 12 Oct.,
1798 (p. 196), he wrote:-

Indian in England,' which has employed me five
"Finished translating the first act of Kotzebue's
or six days; and as I intend essentially to
alter the character of Samuel or Balaam, more
time will be employed in a revisal. This cha-
racter has keeping in the original, but not enough
of the vis comica.'