Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
"The materials for a satisfactory history of newspapers, lie
scattered in facts known one to this person, and one to that. If
each London or provincial journalist, each reader, and each
critic, who has an anecdote and a date, would give it publicity,
some future volume might be prepared from the combined supply,
much more complete than any to be fairly expected from a
comparatively unaided writer who ventures upon an almost
untrodden ground."
The foregoing extract from the interesting volumes recently published by
Mr. Knight Hunt, under the unpretending title of _The Fourth Estate:
Contributions towards a History of Newspapers, and of the Liberty of the
Press_, has been very kindly recommended to our attention by _The
Examiner_. We gladly avail ourselves of the suggestion, and shall be
pleased to record in our columns any facts of the nature referred to by
Mr. Hunt.
_Steele's Burial-place._--Sir Richard Steele died in the house now the
"Ivy Bush" Inn, at Carmarthen, on the 1st of September, 1729.
Where was he buried?
Is there a monument or inscription to his memory in any church in or
near Carmarthen?
LLEWELLYN.
_Socinian Boast._--In an allocution recently held by Dr. Pusey, to the
London Church Union, in St. Martin's Hall, reported in _The Times_ of
Oct. 17, the following passage occurs:
"The Socinian boast might be a warning to us against such
declarations. The Socinian pictured Calvin as carrying on the
protest against Rome more vigorously than Luther, himself than
Calvin:
"Tota jacet Babylon; destruxit tecta Lutherus,
Calvinus muros, sed fundamenta Socinus."
Query, By what Socinian writer are these two hexameter verses used?
L.
_Descent of Edward IV._--Professor Millar, in his _Historical View of
the English Government_ (ii. 174.), in discussing the claim of Edward
IV. to the English throne, speaks of "a popular though probably a
groundless tradition, that by his mother he was descended from Henry
III. by an elder brother of Edward I., who, on account of his personal
deformity, had been excluded from the succession to the crown." Where
may I find this tradition? or where meet with any information on the
subject?
S.A.Y. {376}
_Viscount Castlecomer._--Sir Christopher Wanderforde, who succeeded poor
Strafford as Lord Deputy of Ireland, in April, 1640, was created,
between that date and his death, which occurred in December of the same
year, Baron Mowbray and Musters, and Viscount Castlecomer. I should be
glad to know the date of the patent of his creation, whether Sir
Christopher himself ever took up the title, and what became of the title
afterwards?
S.A.Y.
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