Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 118, January 31, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 118, January 31, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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MR. BOLTON CORNEY has traced the "Waggoner" to Wagenaer's work
satisfactorily; but surely the _Quarter_ is merely _Quarto_. I believe
the term is not now used in the navy, and apparently was never
_officially_ recognised: at least it does not occur in the _Admiralty
Instructions for the Navy_ of 1747, 1790, or 1808. I may add a reference
to Falconer's _Marine Dictionary_, where "Waggoner" is explained to be a
"book of charts, describing the coasts, rocks, &c.," and to Dalrymple's
_Charts and Memoirs_ (1772), where a work called _The English Waggoner_
is mentioned.
_Log-book_ is so called because the rate of sailing of the ship, as
ascertained by heaving the _log_, is one of the most frequent and
important entries.
B. R. I.
_Cibber's Lives of the Poets_ (Vol. v., p. 25.).--I have not Croker's
_last_ edition of Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ to refer to, to see what
is there said respecting Cibber's title to the authorship of this book;
but I find the following MS. note on the fly-leaf of the first volume of
my copy of the _Lives of the Poets_:--
"Steevens says that not the smallest part of the work called
'Cibber's _Lives of the Poets_' was the compilation of Cibber;
being entirely written by Mr. Shiells, amanuensis to Dr. Johnson,
when his Dictionary was preparing for the press. T. Cibber was in
the King's Bench, and accepted of ten guineas from the booksellers
for leave to prefix his name to the work, and it was purposely so
prefixed as to leave the reader in doubt whether he or his father
was the person designed."
The American edition of the German _Conversations-Lexicon_, at vol. iii.
p. 190. makes the same statement, but without giving any authority. The
name of Robert Shiells, a Scotchman, is here given as the author of the
_Lives of the Poets_.
P. T.
_Shakspere and the English Press_ (Vol. iv., p. 344.).--The _Second part
of Henry the Sixt_, ascribed to Shakspere by Heminge and Condell, is
founded on a play entitled _The first part of the contention betwixt the
two famous houses of Yorke and Lancaster_, which was first printed
anonymously in 1594. It was reprinted anonymously in 1600; and, as the
work of Shakspere, about 1619. The amended play first appeared in the
folio of 1623. The passage in which Jack Cade reproaches lord Say with
having promoted education, stands thus in the editions of 1594 and 1623:
"Thou hast most traitorously erected a grammer schoole, to infect
the youth of the realme, and against the kings crowne and
dignitie, thou hast built vp a paper-mill."--1594. (J. O. H.)
"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in
erecting a grammar-school: and whereas, before, our forefathers
had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused
printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and
dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill."--1623. (J. P. C.)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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