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I would refer your correspondent, who seeks for information as to this most curious and interesting case, to the report of the trial (State Trials, 8vo. edit., vol. xiv. p. 1199.); the article on the Darien expedition, and the trial of Captain Green, in Mr. Burton's Criminal Trials in Scotland (1852, 8vo., vol. i. pp. 157-291.), which enters fully into the particulars, and to the varicus publications at the time, of which I have the following:

1. Remarks upon the Trial of Captain Thomas Green and his Crew: London, 1705, folio, p. 16.

2. The Last Speeches and Dying Words of Captain Thomas Green, Commander of the Ship Worcester, and of Captain John Madder, Chief Mate of the said Ship, who was executed near Leith, April 11, 1705, folio broadside.

3. Observations on the Tryal of Captain Green, and the Speech at his Death, folio, p. 2.: London, 1705.

4. The Innocency of Captain Green and his Crew vindicated from the Murder of Captain Drummond: London, 1705, folio broadside.

5. A Scot's Proclamation relating to the late Execution of Captain Green: London, 1705, folio broadside.

6. An English Ointment for the Scotch Mange, or a short Memorandum of the Scots' Cruelty to Captain Thomas Green, &c.: London, printed by B. Bragg, N.D., folio, p. 2.

7. An Elegy on the much-lamented Death of Captain Thomas Green: London, 1705, folio broadside.

The following epitaph is subjoined to the elegy:

"Reader! within this silent vault
An English Captain lies,
By whose sad exit we are taught
That man of wealth who trusts a Scot
Henceforth most surely dies.
A ship well freighted is a crime
Here punished at a high rate,
And store of pelf at any time
At anchor near this hungry clime,
Will make a saint a pirate."

8. A Trip to Scotland, with a True Character of the Country and People; to which are added, several Remarks on the late Barbarous Execution of Captain Green, Mr. Madder, Mr. Simpson, and several others, with an Elegy on their unmerited Deaths: London, printed and sold by Malthus, 1705, fol. p. 13.

Defoe, in his review (vol. ii. p. 90.), discusses the case with great moderation and good sense; and appears to have been the author of the Observations on the Tryal (No. 3.), as the same views are amplified and enforced in his peculiar style in that publication. JAS. CROSSLEY.

PHOTOGRAPHY APPLIED TO ARCHEOLOGY, ETC.

(Vol. vi., p. 373.)

DR. DIAMOND having now concluded his account of the collodion process, and intending, as I understand you, obligingly to follow it up with answers to such correspondents as may not have perfectly understood his descriptions, will you allow me to add to the few Queries I have already submitted to you, two or three others suggested by the paper of the 16th instant, so that the Doctor, if he would be kind enough so to do, might make

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clean breast of it at once?

1. After having produced an effective negative by the use of the bichloride of mercury and hyposulphite of soda, is the hyposulphite of soda to be washed off?

2. Is the silvered paper to be immersed in (plunged into) the iodide of potassium, or only floated upon it?

3. Does DR. DIAMOND "change the water and repeat the soaking," as he says some others recommend?

4. After the application of the aceto-nitrate, is the paper to be applied to the face of the collodion picture while still wet? Will it not destroy the negative, although varnished?

5. In the process of immersion in the solution of muriate of ammonia, may several sheets be placed in the same bath one upon the other?

6. When printing by the second or ammonionitrate process, there is no yellow iodide to guide the operator as to the time of immersion in the hypo. necessary to fix the picture; supposing the picture to have attained quickly in the hypo. the tint desired, is mere saturation of the paper sufficient to fix the picture permanently, or is there any other guide? This is a very important consideration. I. W.

REPLIES TO QUERIES.

1. Certainly, most thoroughly. 2. Some operators prefer the one mode, some the other. DR. DIAMOND, after having performed innumerable experiments on iodized papers, is of opinion that a more certain and more agreeable effect is produced by the double wash, and by the entire immersion of the paper in the solution of iodide of potassium.

It may be here observed that the solution of iodide of potassium may be preserved, filtered, and used again and again as long as any remains.

3. Iodized paper cannot well be over-soaked, but it is perfectly immaterial whether the water is often changed or not, so long as the paper is freed from the soluble salts.

4. The superfluous aceto-nitrate of silver should be well blotted off, but it is by no means necessary to make it perfectly dry, for the amber varnish will effectually preserve the negative.

5. Certainly.

6. The fact of the picture having been sufficiently saturated is determined by its showing itself clear and transparent when held up to the light. When it has not been immersed sufficiently long, blotches will appear, which require decom position by the hyposulphite of soda. A picture may always be overprinted, as it may be toned down by the hyposulphite.

Uniformity of Tint in Collodion Pictures. This object, which has so long been desired by all

who practise photography, may be obtained by developing with a mixture of fresh-made protonitrate of iron (made according to the formula given by DR. DIAMOND in "N. & Q.," No. 152., p. 295.) and pyrogallic acid, in the proportion of six drops of pyrogallic acid to one drachm of protonitrate of iron, which quantity will be found in most cases sufficient to develope an ordinarysized plate.

It may be added as another advantage from the use of these definite portions, that the tint produced is of a bright silvery grey, which is equally agreeable by candle-light as by daylight.

E. KATER.

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Authorship of "Bombastes Furioso" (Vol. vi., p. 286.). - Allow me to inform your correspondent NEMO that the farce of Bombastes Furioso was published in 1830 by the late Thomas Rodd, who was not likely to be in error when he (sanctioned by that gentleman) placed upon the title-page the name of William Barnes Rhodes as its author. A slight biographical sketch accompanies the work.. THOMAS H. LACY.

The Oak of Reformation (Vol. vi., p. 254.).In reply to TEE BEE'S question as to the existence of the "Oak of Reformation," I can assure him that it stands on the footpath of the turnpike road leading from Wymondham to Norwich; and though the stem is hardly more than a mere shell, it still throws out leaves every spring. Kett was a Wymondham man, and there is a tradition that on some occasion he hid himself from his pursuers in the branches of the "Old Oak," as it is always called by the Wymondham and Hethersett people. I believe that it is in this last-named parish that the tree stands.

EAST ANGLIA.

Chantry Chapels (Vol. vi., p. 223.). - There is at Swallowfield, near Reading, a sepulchral chantry chapel. It appears, from an extract from Rymer's Fædera, vol. i. part ii., that a bull was granted to John le Despencer, A. D. 1256, 40

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On the Word "raised," as used by the Americans (Vol. iv., p. 83.). - MR. JAMES CORNISH is mistaken in saying that "an American, in answer to an inquiry as to the place of his birth, says, 'I was raised in New York, " &c.

Some Americans use the word raised instead of brought up; none use it in the sense of born. The very example given by MR. CORNISH from Franklin's letter shows it is thus used. He says that more children are raised, owing to every mother's suckling her own children. Children are suckled nowhere before they are born..

Philadelphia.

UNEDA.

Waller's Handwriting (Vol. vi., pp. 292. 374.). -I send you herewith a tracing of the initials of Waller, as they appear in an exceedingly rare book in my collection, viz. the editio princeps of the Lusiad of Camoens, printed in 1572.

As Waller was a court poet in 1662, when Catharine of Braganza arrived in England, it is not improbable that he might owe the possession of this volume to the kindness of the queen.

For the volume the late Mr. Heber gave 25l., and after his sale it became mine at a sum of

about half that amount.

Newcastle on Tyne.

JOHN ADAMSON.

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piece on House-cleaning, sometimes ascribed to Franklin. His works, in three octavo volumes, were published forty or fifty years ago, and contain "The Salt Box." UNEDA.

Philadelphia.

Connecticut Halfpenny (Vol. iv., p. 424.).- The coin referred to by your correspondent J. N. C. is a Connecticut cent or penny. The head on the obverse is a fancy piece, bearing an olive crown, and having the breast and shoulders clothed in ancient armour. The inscription is, "Auctori: Connect."-the colon after the first word showing it to be a contraction probably for "Auctoritate,' by the authority of. No individual can be called the founder of Connecticut. The motto on the reverse is "Inde. et Lib.," meaning "Independence and Liberty." The dates of the two now before me are 1787. I do not believe that any were issued so early as 1781.

Philadelphia.

UNEDA.

Chadderton's Arms (Vol. vi., p. 273.). - There seems to be some mistake in the account of Chad

derton's arms given as above. The usual blazoning is-Gules, a cross potent crossed or, for Chadderton; argent, a chevron gules between three nuthooks sable (not z's) for Nuthurst. (See Corry's Lancashire, vol. ii. pp. 549, 550.600.; and Gregson's Fragments, p. 189.) If the inquirer have access to the Chetham Society's publications, he may see both coats, as quarterings of Chetham, stamped on the back of each volume.

P. P.

Taliesin's Mabinogi (Vol. vi., p. 370.). - Your correspondent I. J. H. H. refers H. T. H. to the story of Taliesin for some intimations about the salmon fisheries of Wales. He speaks of it as if it were authentic, and of the sixth century. As mistakes on these points must seriously impair the worth of such a reference, I beg to say that it is as well established as any fact can be, that the Mabinogi of Taliesin is a pure fiction; and it is ascribed to Thomas ab Einion, who flourished about A.D. 1260. He was perhaps the author of the finished story; but we can discern traces of it in the poems of the preceding hundred years, and that is undoubtedly the greatest antiquity that can be ascribed to the tale. Mr. Stephens has been careful to indicate the real character of the story in his excellent work on The Literature of the Kymry, to which your correspondent refers.

St. John's Wood.

B. B. WOODWARD.

Roman (or British) Road in Berkshire (Vol. vi., pp. 271. 328.).- If 28.). - If MR. HODGES were to inspect the continuation, near the White Horse, of the road he mentions, he would, I think, agree with me that it is a British, not a Roman road. It is much wider than Roman ways usually are; its direction is very curved, Roman ways being usually straight; and, finally, it has many British remains near it, as the Cromlech, called Wayland Smith's Cave, and several barrows: perhaps some of the camps near it are British. It is called by the country people the Ridgeway; but there is a Roman road about a mile and a half north of it (at the White Horse) called the Portway: the latter runs in the valley through Wantage to Wallingford, while the Ridgeway follows the curve of the summit of the chalk hills to Streatley. I doubt much if it have any connexion with Grymes Dyke or Grimsditch.

E. G. R.

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Have the modern phonographists ever owned their debt of gratitude to their predecessors in the phonetic art? HERMES.

Ancient Popular Stories (Vol. vi., p. 189.).- In the Gesta Romanorum is a tale about the Emperor Domitian very similar to the Cornish story told by MR. KING. The three maxims there given are, 1. "Never begin aught until you have calculated the end thereof:" 2. "Never leave a highway for a by-way:" 3. "Never sleep in the house where the master is old and the wife young." The translation and moral of the story may be found in Evenings with the old Story Tellers, published by Burns in 1845, in which work it is said to resemble the Turkish tale of "The King, the Sofi, and the Surgeon;" so that its origin is probably eastern. J. R. M., M.A.

The Bride's Seat in Church (Vol. vi., p. 246.). -In Surtees' History of Durham, vol. ii. p. 144., are extracts of a very curious kind from the parish books of Chester-le-Street. The following quotation, with Surtees' remarks, will answer K.'s Query: "1612, 27 May. The churchwardens meeting together for seekeing for workmen to mak a fitt seete in a convennent place for brydgrumes, bryds, and sike wyves to sit in

iis."

Surtees' Note." It is plain that at this period the privilege of a separate pew was confined to persons of the first rank. The rest sat promiscuously on forms in

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May I venture the Query: To what sermons do "the Bride's Bush" and "The Wedding Garment' beautified" refer? and where may they be met with? J. R. M., M.Α.

Man in the Moon (Vol. vi., p. 182.). -I extract the following note from a work on Northern Traditions and Folk Lore, published by Lumley of Holborn, in which a great variety of interesting matter on Scandinavian, German, and Low Country superstitions is collected:

"The Swedes see (in the moon) children carrying water in a bucket; others a man with a dog; some a man with a bundle of brushwood, for having stolen which on a Sunday, he was condemned to figure in the moon.”

The Man in the Moon is alluded to by Chaucer and Shakspeare :

"Her (lady Sinthia's) gite was gray and full of spottés blake,

And on her brest a chorl painted full even,
Bearing a bushe of thornés on his bake,

Which for his theft migt clime no ner ye heven.”
Chaucer, Test. of Cresseide, 260.

And also in Troilus, book i. stanza 147.:

"Quoth Pandarus, thou hast a full great care Lest the chorle may fall out of the moone!" Whence it seems to have been used in Chaucer's time as a proverb.

"Steph. I was the Man in the Moon, when time

was.

Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee; My mistress showed me thee, thy dog, and bush." Shaks. Tempest, Act II. Sc. 2.

And Quince:

"One must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern, and say, he comes to disfigure, or to present, the person of Moonshine." - Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III. Sc. 1.

In Ritson's Ancient Songs (ed. 1829, vol. i. p. 68.) there is one on the Man in the Moon, in the introduction to which he quotes the Book of Numbers xv. 32. et seq. as the origin of the tradition. For oriental and other traditions, see Grimm, D. M., p. 679. J. R. M., M.A.

Lady Day and Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Vol. vi., p. 350.). - Your correspondent P. A. F. is surely wrong in saying that the Visitation, Nativity, and Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary are yearly celebrated in the Protestant (English) Church. These days, indeed, are marked in the Calendar for the reasons given by Wheatly, On the Common Prayer, p. 54., Oxford edit. 1839. No day is appointed by the

English Church to be celebrated or kept holy, except those for which a special collect, epistle, and gospel is provided. W. H. G.

Rumoured discovery in Coll (Vol. vi., p. 221.).There is little doubt that this was a hoax, which was first published more than twenty years ago in some Edinburgh paper or magazine. W. C. TREVELYAN.

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Whipping of Women at Worcester (Vol. vi., pp. 174. 281. 327.). Men and women were whipped promiscuously at Worcester till the close of the last century, as may be seen by the corporation records. Male and female "rogues were whipped at a charge of 4d. each for the whip's-man. In 1680 there is a charge of 4d. "for whipping a wench;" in 1742, 1s. "for whipping John Williams, and exposing Joyce Powell." In 1759, "for whipping Eliz. Bradbury, 2s. 6d.," probably including the cost of the hire of the cart, which was usually charged 1s. 6d. separately. J. NOAKE.

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Earl of Winnal (Vol. vi., p. 314.). - F. L. is referred to an interesting paper by Mr. Planché on the monument in Winchester Cathedral, on which he seeks information, in the Journal of the Archæological Association, vol. i. p. 216. Probably he did not see the stone, once a part of this monument, but now attached to the eastern wall of the church in the Portland Chapel, on which the illustrious achievements of this unknown knight are displayed on a series of shields. W. H. G.

Robert Stanser, second Bishop of Nova Scotia (Vol. vi., p. 149.). - He obtained the degree of LL.B. from St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1789. He died at Hampton, Jan. 23, 1829, aged sixty-eight. See Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xcix.

part i. p. 272., for a short memorial of him.

Dublin.

TYRO.

" Caudam deme volat" (Vol. vi., p. 316.). - The lines "Caudam deme volat," &c., appeared in a miniature monthly periodical concocted by the boys of the Preston Grammar School, and called The Scholar. They were put into my hands as

original, and I have never had any reason to suspect them of being a plagiarism.

I send you herewith the number of that brilliant, but, alas! extinct publication, which contains the lines (p. 5.). THE QUONDAM EDITOR.

Bibere Papaliter (Vol. vi., p. 316.).- The ministers of religion in every country and age have been popularly accounted bon-vivants. Horace, for example, sings:

"Absumet hæres Cæcuba dignior
Servata centum clavibus; et mero
Tinget pavimentum superbo

Pontificum potiore cœnis."- Carm. 1. xiv.

And our own bishops are currently supposed to be at least as fat as aldermen. A. A. D.

Dutensiana (Vol. vi., p. 292.). - A short notice of Dutens will be found in Hodgson's History of Northumberland, Part II. vol. i. p. 89. Mr. Dutens held the rectory of Elsden in that county, 1765— 1812. W. C. TREVELYAN.

Possession is nine Points of the Law (Vol. iv., p. 23.). It is said that nine things are requisite to the man that goes to law: 1. A good deal of money. 2. A good deal of patience. 3. A good cause. 4. A good attorney. 5. Good counsel. 6. Good evidence. 7. A good jury. 8. A good judge. 9. Good luck.

Has this any connexion with the saying: "Possession is nine points of the law?"

St. Lucia.

HENRY H. BREEN.

Mémoires d'une Contemporaine (Vol. vi., p. 75.). - The authoress of this work was a German lady named Elzelina Van Aylde Jonche. She married Count Saint-Elme or Saint-Edme; became celebrated as a courtesan, by the name of Ida SaintElme; was employed by Napoleon as a spy, and died at Bruxelles, where she was buried as Ida Versfelt. Besides the well-known Mémoires, she was the authoress of several works on cotem

porary personages and events. (See Quérard's Supercheries Littéraires, vol. i. p. 276.)

St. Lucia.

HENRY H. BREEN.

Was William Penn ever a Slaveholder ? (Vol. vi., p. 160.). Yes, he was. James Logan, his secretary, in a letter written to Penn's widow, dated 11th of 3rd Month (May), 1721, tells her that Penn left a will with him, manumitting all his negroes. Logan mentions Sam, James, Chevalier, and Sue: the last named, he says, was claimed by Penn's daughter Lætitia as her own property.-(See Janney's Life of Penn, p. 424.: Philadelphia, 1852.)

Philadelphia.

UNEDA.

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