Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Green's "Secret Plot."_--Can you inform me where the scene of the
following drama is laid, and the names of the _dramatis personae_? _The
Secret Plot_; a tragedy by Rupert Green, 12mo., 1777. The author of this
play, which was published when he was only in his ninth year, was the son
of Mr. Valentine Green, who wrote a history of Worcester.
A. Z.
"_The full Moon brings fine Weather._"--When did this saying originate, and
have we any proof of its correctness? The late Duke of Wellington is
reported to have said, that, as regarded the weather, it was "nonsense to
have any faith in the moon." (Vide Larpent's _Private Journal_, vol. ii. p.
283.)
W. W.
Malta.
_Nash the Artist._--In the year 1802, Mr. F. Nash made a water-colour
drawing of the Town Hall, churches, &c., in the High Street of the ancient
borough of Dorchester; a line engraving (now rather scarce) was shortly
afterwards published therefrom by Mr. J. Frampton, then a bookseller in the
town. Can any reader of the {80} "N. & Q." inform me what Mr. Nash this
was, and what became of him? Was he related to the _Castles and Abbeys_
Nash?
JOHN GARLAND.
Dorchester.
_Woodwork of St. Andrew's Priory Church, Barnwell._--The Cambridge
Architectural Society, which is now attempting the restoration of St.
Andrew's Priory Church, Barnwell, will feel deeply indebted to any of your
readers who can give them any information respecting the carved woodwork
removed from that church some forty years ago, to make way for the present
hideous arrangement of pews and pulpit. A man who lives on the spot speaks
of a fine wood screen, and highly decorated pulpit, some portions of which
were sold by auction; and the rest was in his possession for some time, and
portions of it were given away by him to all who applied for it.
THE TREASURER.
Trin. Coll. Camb.
"_The Mitre and the Crown._"--I find the following work, at first published
anonymously, reprinted as Dr. Atterbury's in Sir Walter Scott's edition of
the _Somers' Tracts_. No reason is assigned by the editor for ascribing it
to him, and I should be glad to know whether there is any satisfactory
evidence for doing so. The original tract appears as anonymous the Bodleian
Catalogue:
"The Mitre and the Crown, or a real Distinction between them: in a
Letter to a Reverend Member of the Convocation: Lond. 1711, 8vo."
[Greek: Halieus].
Dublin.
_Military Music._--Was military music ever played at night in the time of
King Charles I.?
MILITARIS.
Belfast.
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Minor Queries with Answers.
_Stoven Church._--Can you give me any information concerning the _original_
church of Stoven, Suffolk, which was of good Norman work throughout, as
lately ascertained by the vast number of Norman mouldings found in the
walls in restoring it?
L. (2)
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