Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Replies to Minor Queries:--Arbor Lowe--Stanton
Moor--Ayre Family--The Duke of Monmouth's
Pocket-books--Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's
"Tov Taam"--Burke's "Mighty Boar of the Forest"--"Son
of the Morning"--"Perhaps it was right to
dissemble your love"--Anecdote of Curran--Sibi--Cassek
Gwenwyn--The Monumental Inscriptions of
the Bourchier Family, &c. 390
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 395
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 396
Notices to Correspondents 396
Advertisements 396
Notes.
PERKIN WARBECK.
In the _Minutes of Evidence_ taken by the Select Committee on the
British Museum, in May, 1836, p. 308., mention is made of "a paper
giving an account of the landing of Perkin Warbeck, signed by Sir Henry
Wentworth, and dated 16th [17th] Sept. 1497," as of historical value.
This "paper" was at that time in the possession of the late Mr. Upcott;
and when I drew up for the society of Antiquaries the article on "Perkin
Warbeck's History," printed in the _Archæologia_, vol. xxvii. pp.
153-210., I had no opportunity of seeing it, and therefore merely made a
brief reference to it in a foot-note. The document subsequently passed,
together with a large and valuable portion of Upcott's collection, into
the hands of M. Donnadieu, and at the recent sale of that gentleman's
collection of autographs was purchased for the British Museum. It is a
letter from Sir Harry Wentworth of Nettlested, co. Suffolk (ancestor of
the Barons Wentworth), addressed to Sir William Calverley, of Calverley
in Yorkshire, from whom descended the extinct baronets of that name. The
letter is not of great historical importance, yet, as furnishing some
notices of the measures taken by the king, on learning that Perkin had
landed in Cornwall, on the 7th of September (only ten days previous), it
will not be read without interest. The letter is written on a strip of
paper measuring eleven inches by four inches, and is signed only by Sir
Harry Wentworth.
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