Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Warton and Heinsius._--A late critic thinks he has discovered that Mr.
Thomas Warton, a contemporary of Mr. Wise, and fellow of the same
college, an antiquary and scholar of whom England may be proud, knew
little of Latin, and less of Greek, because, forsooth, he did not notice
Milton's false quantities, which Heinsius did! As well might it be
argued, that the critic is an immoral man, because he did not notice the
delinquencies of Heinsius in a moral point of view; the said Heinsius
being obliged to resign his secretaryship to the city of Amsterdam in
consequence of a prosecution by a young woman for breach of promise of
marriage, under the faith of which she had lived with him, and borne him
two children. The sentence of _misdaadigheyd_ was pronounced against
him, and confirmed, on appeal, by the supreme court of Holland, in 1662.
So much for the unpatriotic puff of the learned foreigner, to {286} the
disparagement of one of the greatest ornaments of English literature. As
one "note" naturally produces another, I hope your sense of justice, Mr.
Editor, will admit this, in order to counter-balance the effect of the
former one; appearing, as it did, in a periodical of considerable
circulation, which, I am glad to hear, is soon to be very much improved.
J.I.
_Queen's Bagnio_ (No. 13. p. 196.).--The Queen's Bagnio in Long Acre was
on the south side, nearly opposite to the door of Long Acre Chapel. The
Duke's bath I have always heard was in Old Belton Street, now Endell
Street; the fourth house from Castle Street on the west side. It has
been new fronted not long since; but at the time that I frequented the
baths there--the exterior had pilasters, and a handsome cornice in the
style of Inigo Jones,--all being built in dark red brick. Within there
was a large plunging bath, paved and lined with marble, the walls being
covered by small tiles of blue and white, in the Dutch fashion. The
supply of water was from a well on the premises.
There were several apartments for warm-bathing, having the baths and
pavements of marble, and to several of these were attached
dressing-rooms.
The house is now, I believe, occupied by a carpenter; but the baths
remained, though in a dilapidated condition, a short-time since, and
probably are there still.
T.W.
_A Flemish Account._--In illustration of a query in your first number on
the origin of the expression "a Flemish Account," unless you think it
too late for insertion, I send the following extract from an old volume
in the Cathedral Library at Salisbury. It is entitled, "The Accurate
Accomptant or London Merchant, &c.; by Thomas Brown, Accomptant:
composed for the Use and Benefit of the poor Blew-Coat children educated
in Christ's Hospital, &c. London, printed by William Godbid, sen. 1669.
fol."
The book consists almost entirely of examples of the best methods of
keeping accounts, from which I select the following instance:
"London, August 10th, 1668.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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