Notes and Queries, Number 199, August 20, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 199, August 20, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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[The title-page of _A Fatal Mistake_ states that it was written by Jos.
Hayns; but according to the _Biog. Dramatica_, it is not certain that
Count Haines was the author. The _dramatis personæ_ are: _Men_, Duke,
Duke of Schawden's ambassador, Rodulphus, Baldwin, Eustace, Ladovick,
Albert, Godfrey, Arnulph, Frederick, Welpho, Conradine, Gozelo, Lewis,
Ferdinando. _Women_, Duchess Gertruedo, Lebassa, Clementia, Idana,
Thierrie, Maria, Lords and Ladies, Masquers, Soldiers.]
_Anonymous Plays._--
1. A Match for a Widow; or, the Frolics of Fancy. A Comic
Opera, in Three Acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal,
Dublin. London: C. Dilly, 1788. 8vo.
2. The Indians; a Tragedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal,
Richmond. London: C. Dilly, 1790. 8vo.
3. André; a Tragedy in Five Acts, as now performing at the
Theatre in New York. To which is added the Cow Chase; a
Satirical Poem, by Major André. With the Proceedings of the
Court Martial, and authentic Documents concerning him. London:
Ogilvy & Son, 1799. 8vo.
SERVIENS.
[_A Match for a Widow_ is by Joseph Atkinson, Treasurer of the Ordnance
in Ireland, the friend and associate of Curran, Moore, and the galaxy of
Irish genius. He died in 1818.
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2. _The Indians_ is by William Richardson, Professor of Humanity in the
University of Glasgow, who died in 1814.
3. _André_ is by William Dunlap, an American dramatist.]
_High Commission Court._--Can any of your readers refer me to works
bearing on the proceedings of the High Commission Court? The sort
of information of which I am in search is not so much on the great
constitutional questions involved in the history of this court, as in
the details of its mode of procedure; as shown either by actual books of
practice, or the history of particular cases brought before it.
J. F. M.
[Some account of the proceedings of the High Commission Court is given
in Reeves's _History of the English Law_, vol. v. pp. 215-218. The
Harleian MS. 7516. also contains Minutes of the Proceedings of the High
Commissioners at Whitehall, July 6, 1616, on the question of Commendums,
the king himself being present. It makes twenty-one leaves.]
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Replies.
ROSICRUCIANS.
(Vol. vii., p. 619.; Vol. viii., p. 106.)
We frequently see Queries made in these pages which could be
satisfactorily answered by turning to the commonest books of
reference, such as Brand, Fosbroke, Hone, the various dictionaries and
encyclopædias, and the standard works on the subjects queried. Now it
seems to me that "N. & Q." is not intended for going over old ground, and
thus becoming a literary treadmill; but its mission lies in supplying
information _not easily found_, and in perfecting, as far as possible,
our standard works and books of reference. MR. TAYLOR'S Query affords an
opportunity for this, as the ordinary sources of information are very
deficient as regards the Rosicrucians.
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