Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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(See Lord Dartmouth's note in _Burnet_, vol. i. p. 458. ed. 1823.) Let me
ask, through "NOTES AND QUERIES," Dr. Rimbault, Mr. Chappell, or any
readers, where are these verses to be found?
P. CUNNINGHAM.
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Minor Queries Answered.
_Who was the Author of "The Modest Enquiry, &c."?_--There is an anonymous
tract, entitled _A Modest Enquiry, &c._, (4to. London, 1687), on the
question of St. Peter's ever having been at Rome: proving, in so far as a
negative in the case can be proved, in the most logical, full, clear, and
satisfactory manner, that--_He never was at Rome_; and _never was, either
nominally or otherwise, Bishop_ _of the Church there_: and showing the
grounds for the contrary assertion to be altogether baseless and untrue;
being a tissue of self-contradicting forgeries and frauds, invented long
subsequently to the time, evidently for the sole purpose of justifying the
Papal pretensions of succession and derivation from the Apostle; as those,
and all its other claims, are founded alone upon that fact, and must stand
or fall with it.
The inquiry is conducted throughout with evidence of great acquaintance
with Scripture and much theological learning (though the writer states
himself to be a layman), without the least undue pretension, and with the
most perfect temperateness and impartiality. The work would seem now well
worth reprinting in a cheap and popular form.
Who was the author?
M.
[In Francis Peck's _Catalogue of Discourses in the Time of King James
II._, No. 226., the name of HENRY CARE is given as the author. A list
of his other works may be found in Watt's _Bibliotheca_.]
_William Penn's Family._--Can any of your correspondents inform me to whom
his eldest surviving son (William) was married, and also to whom the
children of the said son were married, as well as those of his daughter
Letitia (Mrs. Aubrey), if she had any? This son and daughter were William
Penn's children by his first marriage with Miss Springett.
A. U. C.
[William Penn, eldest son (of William Penn by Miss Springett), had two
children, Gulielma Maria, married to Charles Fell, and William Penn of
the Rocks in Sussex, who by his first wife, Christian Forbes, had a
daughter and heir, married to Peter Gaskell. Mrs. Aubrey was living in
1718. Our correspondent may also be referred to Mr. Hepworth Dixon's
recently published _William Penn, an Historical Biography_.]
_Deal, Dover, and Harwich._--Where do the following lines come from?
"Deal, Dover, and Harwich,
The devil gave with his daughter in marriage;
And, by a codicil to his will,
He added Helvoet and the Brill."
J. H. L.
[Francis Grose, in his _Collection of Proverbs_, speaks of them as "A
satirical squib thrown at the innkeepers of those places, in return for
the many impositions practised on travellers, as well natives as
strangers. Equally applicable to most other sea-ports."]
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