Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Old Satchells_ (Vol. vi., p. 160.; Vol. vii., p.209.).--Your correspondent
J. O. seems not to be aware that another and a fourth edition of _Old
Satchells' True History_ ("with copious additions, notes, and emendations,"
under the editorial superintendence of William Turnbull, Esq., F.S.A.) is
in course of preparation 'neath the fostering care of Mr. John Gray Bell,
the _pro amore_ publisher of so many historical and antiquarian tracts of
interest. Mr. Bell has already given to the world a _Pedigree of the
Ancient Family of Scott of Stokoe_, edited, with notes, by William Robson
Scott, Ph. D., of St. Leonard's, Exeter, from the original work compiled by
his grandfather, Dr. William Scott, of Stamfordham, Northumberland, then
(1783) representative of the family. The latter gentleman left behind him a
large and valuable collection of MSS. relative to the family, which, as I
learn from the prospectus, will be called into requisition in the
forthcoming reprint of the _Old Souldier of Satchell_. Possibly the
publishers of the second and third editions may have been assisted in their
labours by the learned doctor in question, whose already quoted _Pedigree
of the Scotts of Stokoe_ was issued only a few years prior to the
appearance of the Hawick edition of 1786, not 1784, as accidentally
misprinted in J. O.'s interesting communication.
T. HUGHES.
Chester.
_Curtseys and Bows_ (Vol. vii., p. 156).--In the interlude of _The Trial of
Treasure_, by Purfoote, 1567 (page 14. of reprint), Inclination says to
Gredy-gutte:
"Ise teach you to speake, I hold you a pounde!
Curchy, lob, curchy downe to the grounde.
_Gre._ Che can make curchy well enowe.
_Inc._ Lower, old knave, or yle make ye to bowe!"
For _rationale_ of bows and curtseys, see "N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 157.,
though I fancy the _bob_ curtseys are the ones referred to.
THOS. LAWRENCE.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
_The Rev. Joshua Marsden_ (Vol. vii., p. 181.).--This gentleman was born at
Warrington in the year 1777. In the year 1800 he offered himself, and was
accepted by the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, as a missionary to British
North America, where he laboured for several years. He removed thence to
Bermuda. In 1814 he returned to England with a constitution greatly
impaired, but continued to occupy regular stations under the direction of
the Conference until 1836, when, worn out by affliction, he became a
supernumerary, and resided in London, where he occasionally preached as his
health permitted. He died August 11, 1837, aged sixty.
JOHN I. DREDGE.
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