Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_The Bradshaw Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 356.).--The president of the
pretended high court of justice, a Cheshire man, had no connexion with
Haigh Hall, in Lancashire. E.C.G. may satisfy himself by referring to
Mr. Ormerod's _History of Cheshire_ (vol. iii. p. 408.) for some
valuable information respecting the regicide and his family, and to
Wotton's _Baronetage_ (vol. iii. P. 2. p. 655.) for the descent of the
loyal race of Bradshaigh.
J.H.M.
Bath.
_Julin, the drowned City_ (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 282.).--I am sorry I did
not state more clearly the inquiry respecting the fate of _Julin_, which
DR. BELL has been so good as to notice. This is partly the printer's
fault. I spoke of the _drowned_, not the _doomed_ city.
The _drowning_ was what I desired some account of. "A flourishing
emporium of commerce", extant {380} in 1072, and now surviving only in
tradition, and in "records" of ships wrecked on its "submerged ruins,"
does not sink into the ocean without exciting wonder and pity. I knew of
the tradition, and presumed there was some probability of the existence
of a legend (_legendum_, something to be _read_) describing a
catastrophe that must have been widely heard of when it happened.
This I conjectured might be found in Adam of Bremen; to whose mention of
Julin DR. BELL referred. But it seems that in his time the city was
still existing, and flourishing ("urbs locuples").
The "excidium civitatis," if the _Veneta_ of Helmold were Julin, must
have taken place, therefore, between 1072 and 1184, when the latter
account was written. If Veneta was Julin, and "aquarum æstu absorpta,"
there must, I suppose, be some account of this great calamity: and as I
have seen in modern German works allusions to the drowning of the great
city, and to the ruins still visible at times under water, I hoped to
find out the _where_ of its site, and the _when_ of its destruction--as
great cities do not often sink into the waves, like exhalations, without
some report of their fate.
V.
Belgravia.
_Dodsley's Poems_ (Vol. ii., pp. 264. 343).--THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT is
informed that the first edition of Dodsley's _Collection of Poems, by
several Hands_, was published in 1748, 3 vols. 12mo. A fourth volume was
added in 1749, containing pieces by Collins, Garrick, Lyttelton, Pope,
Tickell, Thomson, &c. Those by Garrick and Lyttelton are anonymous. The
four volumes were reprinted uniformly in 1755. The fifth and sixth were
added in 1758.
AMICUS CURIÆ.
_Shunamitis Poema_ (Vol. ii., p. 326.).--The titlepage to the volume of
poems inquired after by E.D. is as follows:
"Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College,
Oxford.
'Nec lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.' HOR.
London: printed for L. Bathurst over against St. Dunstan's
Church, in Fleet Street, MDCCXLI."
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