Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"William de Gresely tenet manerium de Drakelow in Com. Derby in
Capite, et reddit unum arcum sine corda, et unum Pharetram de
Tutesbit, et duodecim Sagittas flectatas, et unum
buzonem."--Blount's _Tenures_.
H. N. E.
Bitton Vicarage, Oct. 1851.
242. _Inundation at Deptford._--In Lysons' _Environs of London_, vol.
iv. p. 359., it is stated that in the year 1671 a great inundation
happened at and near Deptford, which did much mischief, so that the
inhabitants were obliged to retire in boats to the upper town, and that
an account of it was extant in a small pamphlet published at the time.
If any of your correspondents could inform me where a copy of this is to
be met with, or give me any further particulars concerning the
occurrence, I should feel very much obliged.
W. H. HART.
New Cross.
243. _Butler's Sermons._--In the account of Bishop Butler, attached to
his works, mention is made of MS. sermons, from which those which have
been published were selected. Is it known if there are any writings of
his in existence, and where they are? His executor was Dr. Nathaniel
Foster.
L.
244. _Coleridge's Christabel._--Can any one familiar with the _Coleridge
Papers_ inform me whether the following is a veritable fragment of the
poet's own continuation of _Christabel_, or perhaps of one of those
conclusions (some serious, some jocose) which we owe to Tupper, Moir,
and Maginn?
"This was the lovely lady's cry--
'Holy One! who camest to die,
Camest, yea, to die for me
Who have despite done to Thee--
And didst feel the proud man's scorn,
And the woe of one forlorn--
Whose heavenly eyes were brimmed with tears
For the sorrows of human years;
Whose holy hands were pierced through,
Whose feet long toil and travel knew,
Who felt all grief, all wild despair,
That the race of man may ever bear.
O look down from thy placid sky,
Upon a maiden worn with woe,
Who in snowy chastity,
Has passed the years of life below!
O let no spirit of affright,
Visit me this ghastly night!'
"So she prayed: and listening,
Stood beside the magic spring,
But only heard the brookless plash,
And the berries fall from the mountain ash,
And the cry of birds in the woods away,
And the step of the roe over lichens gray."
MORTIMER COLLINS.
245. _Epigram ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots._--When the Queen visited
the library of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1849, she was shown an early
edition of Sallust, which had belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, and has
her autograph signature, and many MS. notes and a MS. Latin epigram,
_supposed_ to be her Majesty's composition. The volume is a small
quarto, title _Opera Sallustiana_, with the date 1523, and a colophon:
"Impressus per Antonium Blanchard anno domini M. quingentessimo
xxiii. pridie Kalend. Sextilis."
But on a page following the title there appears--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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