Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Brompton.
_Nelson's Coat at Trafalgar_ (Vol. iv. p. 114.).--Besides the loss of
bullion from one of the epaulettes of Lord Nelson's coat occasioned by
the circumstance related by ÆGROTUS, there was a similar defacement
caused by the fatal bullet itself, which might render the identification
suggested by ÆGROTUS a little difficult. Sir W. Beatty says, in his
_Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson_, p. 70.:
"The ball struck the fore part of his lordship's epaulette, and
entered the left shoulder.... On removing the ball, a portion of
the gold lace and pad of the epaulette, together with a small
piece of his lordship's coat, was found firmly attached to it."
The ball, with the adhering gold lace, &c., was set in a crystal locket,
and worn by Sir W. Beatty. It is now, I believe, in the possession of
Prince Albert.
The intention of my note (Vol. iii., p. 517.) was to refute a common
impression, probably derived from Harrison's work, that Lord Nelson had
rashly adorned his admiral's uniform with extra insignia on the day of
the battle, and thereby rendered himself a conspicuous object for the
French riflemen.
ALFRED GATTY.
Queries.
JOHN KNOX.
In completing the proposed series of Knox's writings, I should feel
greatly indebted to DR. MAITLAND or any of your readers for answering
the following Queries:--
1. In the Catalogue of writers on the Old and New Testament, p. 107.:
London, 1663, a sermon on Ezechiel ix. 4., attributed to Knox, is said
to have been printed anno 1580. Where is there a copy of this sermon
preserved?
2. Bale, and Melchior Adam, copying Verheiden, include in the list of
Knox's writings, _In Genesim Conciones_. Is such a book known to exist?
3. Bishop Tanner also ascribes to him _Exposition on Daniel_: Malburg,
1529. This date is unquestionably erroneous, and probably the book also.
4. Knox's elaborate treatise _Against the Adversaries of God's
Predestination_ was first published at Geneva, 1560, by John Crespin.
Toby Cooke, in 1580, had a license to print Knoxes _Answere to the
Cauillations of ane Anabaptist_. (Herbert's _Ames_, p. 1263.) Is there
any evidence that the work was reprinted earlier than 1591?
5. The work itself professes to be in answer to a book entitled _The
Confutation of the Errors of the Careles by Necessitie_; "which book,"
it is added, "written in the English tongue, doeth contain as well the
lies and blasphemies imagined by Sebastian Castalio, ... as also the
vane reasons of Pighius, Sadoletus, and Georgius Siculus, pestilent
Papistes, and expressed enemies of God's free mercies." When was this
_Confutation_ printed, and where is there a copy to be seen?
DAVID LAING.
Edinburgh.
Minor Queries.
116. "_Foeda ministeria, atque minis absistite acerbis_" (Vol. iii., p.
494.).--Will any of your readers who may be metrical scholars, inform me
whether there is any classical example of such an accent and cæsura as
in this verse of Vida?
C. B.
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