Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Turner's View of Lambeth Palace._--In a newspaper memoir of the late Mr.
Turner, R.A., published shortly after his death, it was stated that the
first work exhibited by him at Somerset House was a "View of Lambeth
Palace," I believe in water colours. I should be glad to ascertain, through
your columns, if this picture be still in existence, and in what
collection.
L. E. X.
_Clarke's Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning._--Can any of
the readers of "N. & Q." assist me in obtaining a copy of this work? In the
same author's _Rationale of Circulating Numbers_ (Murray, London, 1778) it
is stated that the demonstrations of all the theorems and problems at the
end of the Rev. John Lawson's _Dissertation on the Geometrical Analysis of
the Ancients_ "will be given at the latter end of _An Essay on the
Usefulness of Mathematical Learning_, which will soon be published." In a
subsequent portion of the work, a sketch of the contents of the _Essay_ is
given, which include "a Treatise on Magic Squares, translated from the
French of Frenicle, as published in _Les Ouvrages de Mathématique par
Messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences_, with several Additions and
Remarks." And in a list of "Tracts and Translations _written and published_
by H. Clarke, LL.D.," which occurs at the end of my copy of the first
volume of Leybourn's _Mathematical Repository_ (London, 1805), the _Essay_
appears as No. 10, and is stated to have been published in 8vo. at six
shillings. None of my friends are acquainted with the work; but if the
preceding description will enable any reader to help me to a copy, I shall
esteem it a great favour.
T. T. WILKINSON.
Burnley, Lancashire.
"_The General Pardon._"--An imperfect copy of a small tract (measuring five
and a half inches by three and a half inches) has recently come into my
hands, of which I much desire to obtain the wanting parts. It is entitled:
"The general Pardon, geuen longe agone, and sythe newly confyrmed, by
our Almightie Father, with many large Priuileges, Grauntes, and Bulles
graunted for euer, as is to be seen hereafter: Drawne out of Frenche
into English. By Wyllyam Hayward. Imprinted at London, by Wyllyam How,
for Wyllyam Pickeringe."
There is no date, but it is believed to have been printed in or about 1571.
It is in black letter, and is an imitation of the Roman Catholic pardons.
It consists of twelve leaves. In my copy the last seven of these are torn
through their middle vertically.
I have not been able to meet with this tract in the catalogues of any of
the great libraries which I have consulted; _e.g._ The British Museum,
Bodleian, Cambridge University, Lambeth, and several of the college
libraries at Cambridge.
I want any information concerning it, or its original in French, which the
readers of "N. & Q." can give: also access to a copy from which to
transcribe the parts wanting in mine.
CHARLES C. BABINGTON.
St. John's Coll. Cambridge.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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