Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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All the accounts which I have read agree with Mr. Morley and the
_Spectator_. Are they or the cardinal right, supposing him to be correctly
reported?
H. B. C.
U. U. Club.
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Minor Queries.
_Polidus._--Can you tell me where the scene of the following play is laid,
and the names of the _dramatis personae_?--_Polidus, a Tragedy_, by Moses
Browne, 8vo. 1723. The author of this play, who was born in 1703, and died
in 1787, was for some time the curate of the Rev. James Harvey, author of
_Meditations_, and other works. Mr. Browne was afterwards presented to the
vicarage of Olney, in Bucks, where the Rev. John Newton was his curate for
several years.
A. Z.
Glasgow.
[Moses Browne was subsequently Chaplain of Morden College. The
piscatory brotherhood are indebted to him for having revived Walton's
_Complete Angler_, after it had lain dormant for upwards of eighty
years; and this task, he tells us, was undertaken at the request of Dr.
Samuel Johnson.--ED.]
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_St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca._--It has frequently been affirmed that
Seneca became, in the last year of his life, a convert to Christianity--his
canonisation by St. Jerome is undoubted and there was stated to be a MS. of
the above epistle in Merton College. May I ask any of your contributors
whether this MS. has ever been printed?
J. M. S.
Hull.
_Meaning of "folowed."_--Inside the cover of an old Bible and Prayer-Book,
bound in one quarto, Robert Barker, 1611, is the following inscription:
"July eight I was much folowed when I lay in bed alone att Mistris
Whitmore's house, wee haveing agreed too bee married nextt daye.
"God, even our own God, shal bless us. This incouriged mee too hope for
God's favour and blessing through Christ.
"Christopher Curwen and Hannah Whitmore was married att Lambe's Chapel,
near Criplegate, July ninth, 1712."
An entry of his marriage with his first wife, Elizabeth Sutton, 1704, is on
the cover at the beginning of the book.
Can any one of your correspondents enlighten me as to the meaning of the
word _folowed_? The letters are legibly written, and there can be no
mistake about any of them. Is it an expression derived from the Puritans?
H. C. K.
---- Rectory, Hereford.
_Roman Catholic Registers._--Can any of your correspondents inform me where
I can find the registers of births, marriages, and burials of Roman
Catholic families living in Berks and Oxon in the reigns of Charles I. and
II.?
A. PT.
_St. Alban's Day._--At p. 340. of the _Chronicles of London Bridge_, it is
stated that Cardinal Fisher was executed on St. Alban's day, June 22, 1535.
How is it that in our present calendar St. Alban's day is not June 22, but
June 17? On looking back I see SIR W. C. TREVELYAN, in our first volume,
inquired the reason of this change, but I do not find any reply to his
Query.
E. H. A.
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