Notes and Queries, Number 137, June 12, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 137, June 12, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_The Censure of a Loyall Subject_, which your correspondent (following
Herbert) attributes to Kempe, is well known to have been the production of
George Whetstone, whose initials are at the end of the Dedication. A copy
may be seen in the Library of Lambeth Palace.
The execution of the "fourteen most wicked traitors" (Ballard, Babbington,
Tichbourne, &c.) formed the subject of many ballads and tracts, a few of
which I am enabled to enumerate:
1. A Proper New Ballad to the Tune of 'Weep, Weep,' by Thomas Deloney,
beginning:
"Rejoice in hart, good people all,
Sing praise to God on hye,
Which hath preserved us by his power,
From traitors tyranny."
Reprinted in Mr. Collier's Old Ballads (Percy Society, No. 1.).
2. "A Ballad of Rejoycinge for the Revealinge of the Quenes Enemyes.
Licensed to Edward Alde, August 24, 1586-7."
3. "A Joyfull Songe made by a Citizen of London in the Behalfe of all
her Majesties Subjects, touching the Joye for the taking of the
Traitors. Licensed to R. Jones, August 27, 1586-7."
4. "A Short Discourse, expressing the Substance of all the late
intended Treasons against the Queenes Majestie and Estates of this
Realme by Sundrie Traytors, &c. Printed by G. Robinson for Edward
White."
This tract contains an interesting ballad by T. Nelson, whom Mr. Collier
calls "the ballad-writing bookseller." See _Extracts from the Stationers'
Registers_, vol. ii. p. 214. A copy is preserved in the library of Lambeth
Palace.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Seventh Son_ (Vol. iii. pp. 148. 149.; Vol. v., p. 412.).--Through the
information of a friend I awn able to add a curious "modern instance" to my
communication printed in the Number of "N. & Q." for May 1. In Saltash
Street, Plymouth, my friend copied, on the 10th Dec. 1851, the following
inscription on a board, indicating the profession and claims of the
inhabitant:--
"A. SHEPHERD,
THE THIRD SEVENTH DAUGHTER,
DOCTRESS."
H. G. T.
Weston-super-Mare.
"_Venit ad Euphratem_" (Vol. v., p. 512.).--The epigram referred to by your
correspondent H. M. runs thus:
"Venit ad Euphratem; rapidis perterritus undis,
Ut cito transivit, corripuit medium."
S. Q.
_Sneezing_ (Vol. v., pp. 364. 500.).--I have often seen, but where I cannot
now recollect, that the custom of saying "God bless you!" when any one
{573} sneezed, arose from the fact that in the great plague of Athens
sneezing was an unfailing proof of returning convalescence. Your classical
readers will remember the anecdote told in the _Anabasis_ of Xenophon (c.
ii. sect. i.-v.). I copy from Mitford, who has besides a note to the
purpose:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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