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1700. His will was proved on 20 February I quote from the folio of 1676 the words with of that year (registered in the Prerogative which Sarpi opens his history :Court of Canterbury, 25 Noel).

Sir Charles Ingleby, or Ingilby, who wore the ermine not longer than four months, was the third son of John Ingleby (died 28 November, 1648), of Lawkland Hall, Yorkshire, by his second wife Mary (died 19 November, 1667), daughter of Sir Thomas Lake, of Canons, Middlesex, Secretary of State to James I. He was born at Lawkland, 20 February, 1644, and was buried there 5 August, 1718. His seat was at Austwick Hall, Yorkshire. By his marriage to Alathea (died September, 1715), daughter and heiress of Richard Eyston, of Saxton, in the same county, he had issue a son, Thomas (born 1684, died 1729), Serjeant-at-Law, and four daughters: Dorothea (born 1681); Mary (born 1683), married William Hesketh, Esq.; Alathea (born 1685), a nun at the English monastery at Liège; and Anne (born 1688), married Mr. Fell, an apothecary in London. These facts will be found set forth in Mr. Joseph Foster's Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, a source of information unaccountably overlooked by the writer in the 'D.N.B.' GORDON GOODWIN.

FATHER PAUL SARPI IN EARLY
ENGLISH LITERATURE.

IN my communication on Bishop Hacket's "Life of Archbishop Williams' (9th S. x. 401, 423; xi. 103) I quoted from that very remark. able biography a number of appreciative passages relating to Father Paul. These, of course, need not be here repeated. Before, however, passing on to the immediate purpose of this note, I should like to record the opinion of one great modern writer, I mean Lord Macaulay. The following passages are taken from his 'Life and Letters' (2 vols., 1876):

"I have adopted an opinion about the Italian historians......I place Fra Paolo decidedly at the head of them."-Vol. i. p. 450.

"On my return home I took Fra Paolo into the garden. Admirable writer!"-Vol. ii. p. 282.

"I read part of the Life of Fra Paolo prefixed to his history. A wonderful man."-Vol. if. p. 283.

To have written the History of the Council of Trent, and the tracts on the Venetian Dispute with Rome, is enough for one man's fame."-Vol. ii. p. 284.

Fra Paolo is my favourite modern historian. His subject did not admit of vivid painting: but what he did, he did better than anybody."-Vol. ii. p. 284.

I am almost certain that our great historian took the key-note of his historical style from Father Paul. For the sake of comparison,

"My purpose is to write the History of the Council of Trent. For though many famous Historians of our Age have made mention in their Writings of some particular accidents that happened therein," &c.

The personal note throughout is characteristic of both writers.

And here I may be permitted to call attention to two splendid articles on Fra Paolo Sarpi by Mr. Andrew D. White, at one time American Ambassador to both Russia and Germany, in The Atlantic Monthly for January and February, 1904. The second concludes with these glowing and inspiring words :

"At last, under the new Italian monarchy, the patriotic movement became irresistible, and the Giordano Bruno on the Piazza dei Fiori at Rome, same impulse which erected the splendid statue to on the very spot where he was burned,—and which adorned it with the medallions of eight other martyrs to ecclesiastical hatred, erected in 1892, two hundred and seventy years after it had been decreed, a statue, hardly less imposing, to Paolo Sarpi, on the Piazza Santa Fosca at Venice, where he had been left for dead by the Vatican assassins. There it stands, noble and serene, a monument of patriotism and right reason, a worthy tribute to one who, among intellectual prostitutes and solemnly constituted impostors, stood forth as a true man, the greatest of his time,-one of the greatest of all times, an honor to Venice, to Italy, and to humanity.'

The first extract I shall give is from the pen of that curious writer Tom Coriat, of Odcombian fame ('Coryats Crudities,' 1611, p. 247):—

"In this street [called St Hieronimo] also doth famous Frier Paul dwell which is of the order of difference betwixt the Signiory of Venice and the Serui. I mention him because in the time of the Pope, he did in some sort oppose himselfe against the Pope, especially concerning his supremacy in ciuill matters, and as wel with his tongue as his pen inueighed not a little against him. So that for his bouldnesse with the Popes Holynesse he was like to be slaine by some of the Papists in Venice, whereof one did very dangerously wound him. It is thought that he doth dissent in many points from the Papisticall doctrine, and inclineth to the Protestants religion, by reason that some learned Protestants haue by their conuersation with him in his Conuent something diuerted him from Popery. Wherefore notice being taken by many great men of the City [Venice] that he beginneth to swarue from the Romish religion, he was lately restrained (as I heard in Venice) from all conference with Protestants."

has these passages (I quote from the text Walton, in his 'Life of Sir Henry Wotton,' printed in the 'Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,' 1685): advised with Father Paul, a Holy and Learned "Matters thus heightned, the State [of Venice] Frier (the Author of the History of the Council of Trent') whose advice was, Neither to provoke the

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Pope, nor lose their own Right': he declaring publickly in Print, in the name of the State, That the Pope was trusted to keep two Keys; one of Prudence, and the other of Power: And that if they were not both used together, Power alone is not effectual in an Excommunication."" "These Contests were the occasion of Padre Paulo's knowledge and interest with King James, for whose sake principally Padre Paulo compiled that eminent History of the remarkable Council of Trent; which History was, as fast as it was written, sent in several sheets in Letters by Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Bedel, and others, unto King James, and the then Bishop of Canterbury, into England, and there first made publick, both in English and in the universal Language.'

very notable feature in Sir Henry Wotton's 'Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,' 1685, is a letter dated 17 Jan., 1637, addressed "To the Right Worthy Provost and Professor Regius of Divinity [Collings] in Cambridge." From his long residence as British Ambassador to the State of Venice, Wotton became intimately acquainted with Father Paul, and the personal details he has preserved of that illustrious man are in the highest degree interesting. The letter is too long to quote entire, but the following extract is worth reproducing here :

And now, Sir, having a fit Messenger, and not long after the time when Love-tokens use to pass between Friends, let me be bold to send you for a New-Years-gift a certain Memorial, not altogether unworthy of some entertainment under your roof; namely, a true Picture of Padre Paolo the Servita, which was first taken by a Painter whom I sent unto him from my House then neighbouring his Monastery. I have newly added thereunto a Title of mine own Conception, Concilii Tridentini Eviscerator; and had sent the Frame withal, if it were portable, which is but of plain Deal, coloured Black like the Habit of his Order. You have a luminous Parlour, which I have good cause to remember, not only by delicate Fare and Freedom (the Prince of Dishes) but above all, by your own Learned Discourse; for to dine with you, is to dine with many good Authors: In that Room I beseech you to allow it a favourable place for my sake. Aud that you may have somewhat to tell of him more than a bare Image, if any shall ask, as in the Table of Cebes [a Greek quotation omitted]; I am desirous to characterize a little unto you such part of his Nature, Customs, and Abilities as I had occasion to know by sight or by enquiry. He was one of the humblest things that could be seen within the bounds of Humanity; the very Pattern of that Precept, Quanto doctior Tanto submissior. And enough alone to demonstrate, That Knowledge well-digested non inflat. Excel lent in Positive, excellent in Scholastical and Polemical Divinity. A rare Mathematician, even in the most abstruse parts thereof, as in Algebra and the Theoriques and yet withal so expert in the History of Plants, as if he had never perused any Book but Nature. Lastly, a great Canonist, which was the title of his ordinary service with the State: And certainly in the time of the Pope's Interdict, they had their principal light from him. When he was either reading or writing alone, his manner was to sit fenced with a Castle of Paper about his Chair,

and over head: for he was of our Lord of St. Al ban's opinion, That all Air is predatory; and espe cially hurtful when the spirits are most employed. You will find a Scar in his Face, that was from a Roman Assassinate, that would have killed him as he was turned to a wall near to his Covent: And if there were not a greater Providence about us, it might often have been easily done, especially upon such a weak and wearyish Body. He was of a quiet and settled Temper, which made him prompt in his Counsels and Answers; and the same in Consultation which Themistocles was in Action."

I should say that this letter was included, for the first time, in the edition of 1685 of the 'Reliquiæ.' Burnet prints it also in his Life of Bishop Bedell,' published in the same year (p. 253). A. S.

(To be continued.)

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THE LYCEUM THEATRE.-Now that, for the first time for a great number of years, there is no longer a Lyceum amongst the London playhouses, a few of its memories, so dear to all old lovers of the drama, may be worth recording in the pages of 'N. & Q. Few of our London theatres have had a more chequered career than the Lyceum, in spite of the many successes achieved on its boards. Built somewhere about 1765, it passed from theatre to picture gallery, lecture hall, panorama, and a host of other entertainments, and then back again to theatre, till its destruction by fire in 1829. It arose, however, phoenix-like, from its ashes five years afterwards, and was renamed "The English Opera-House." Beazley was the architect, and it was one of the costliest theatres erected in London up to that date. Its greatest successes were Weber's opera 'Der Freyschütz,' which was first given in English there, and a number of German operas which followed one another for some considerable time. From an opera-house it once more became a theatre, and then followed a long period when it served as a place of extremely miscellaneous entertainment, at one time even affording shelter to Madame Tussaud's waxworks. In 1840 it once again reverted to the drama, but its most interest

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ing legitimate period did not commence till 1844, when it came under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. Under them it soon became a favourite house for burlesque and comedy, and in a year or two was in the front rank of London theatres. Jack Sheppard,' which was one of Mrs. Keeley's greatest triumphs; 'Nicholas Nickleby, in which she took the part of Smike and in which Charles Dickens much admired her; 'Martin Chuzzlewit,' in which Mr. Keeley (who often played old women) as Mrs. Gamp was inimitable; and 'Mrs. Caudle,' were amongst their greatest successes. Charles Mathews followed the Keeleys, and though all his productions were not successful, yet under him the Lyceum kept up its reputation. Henry Irving first appeared there on 11 September, 1871, under the management of Bateman, the father of that very charming actress Miss Isabel Bateman, and with his management is very closely identified the rise of Irving to fame. I suppose most of us can remember that wonderful succession of popular plays, Shakesperian and others, which used to pack the Lyceum from floor to ceiling night after night, and evoked an enthusiasm almost equal to that which greeted Kean. Charles the First, "The Bells,' Hamlet,' 'The Lyons Mail,' and 'Faust' were amongst the greatest successes of that period, which those who witnessed them can never forget. Never before had such gorgeous settings of any plays been seen in London, and from that time dates the new era of scenic production. Like so many of our old London landmarks, the Lyceum has passed away, but old playgoers will always cherish kindly recollections of it, and of Sir Henry Irving, Miss Ellen Terry, and the many other charming actresses and actors who helped to make it one of our greatest

homes of the drama.

·

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. [We doubt whether some of the pieces mentioned above were first seen at the Lyceum, and counsel perusal of the account of that theatre by E. L. Blanchard in the Era Almanack of 1877]

AFTERWARDS

there), that she had heard on all hands the news of the loss which she had sustained of a husband whom she lamented as much as he deserved.

In an earlier letter, dated 2 January, 1686, she writes that she is beginning to form the resolution of ending her life in a monastery, insufficiency of this world's money apparently being the cause of this melancholy strain. In another letter, dated Paris, 14 October, 1687, the countess is again the gayest of the gay; she complains, however, that her coachman is sick in the hands of surgeons upon her charges, and that he had not been able to drive her except twice since she came to Paris, but she thanks God that her horses are well, and that she has enough money to serve her till the day of payment.

The countess was at Brussels in February and May, 1695. She died in Holland in October of that year. Her body was brought to Scotland, and her funeral took place at Kinnaird on 13 December. GORDON GOODWIN.

molean MSS. (No. 1729, 56, f. 104, a, b) GEORGE ROMNEY, 1610.-Among the Ashthere is a warrant from James I. to the Earl of Salisbury, dated 24 January, 1610, concerning one George Romney, of St. Clement's Danes, gent., who is described as one of the six recusants" whose goods were confiscated and bestowed upon the persons named in the warrant. It would be interesting to know if this George Romney was in any way connected with the famous artist who came up to London in 1762.

W. ROBERTS.

47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham.

"BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THERE GOES JOHN BRADFORD." (See ante, p. 20.)-The late Dean Farrar, whose sermons on 'Eternal Hope' were published in 1878, probably read this saying in the second volume of 'The Writings of John Bradford, M.A.,' Parker Society, Cambridge, 1853. In the 'Biographical Notice,' p. xiiii, we find what follows:

"The familiar story, that, on seeing evil-doers taken to the place of execution, he was wont to Bradford,' is a universal tradition, which has overexclaim, 'But for the grace of God there goes John come the lapse of time. And Venning, writing in 1653, desirous to show that, by the sight of others' sins, men may learn to bewail their own sinfulness Bradford, who, when he saw any drunk or heard and heart of corruption,' instances the case of any swear, etc., would railingly complain, Lord, I have a drunken head; Lord, I have a swearing heart.""

ANNA, LADY CARNEGIE, COUNTESS OF SOUTHESK.-When_editing the 'Memoirs' of Count Grammont I overlooked the most interesting account of this lady's last days given in Sir William Fraser's History of the Carnegies' (i. 153-9), A selection of eight letters written by this notorious beauty is printed, and wonderful compositions they are. At the time of her lord's death the countess was residing in Paris, The reference is to "Ralph Venning, The from which she wrote, on 9 March, 1688, to Heathen Improved, an Appendix to Canaan's Mr. Denis, of London (apparently her banker | Flowings, sect. 110, p. 222. Lond. 1653."

This volume was published nearly a century after Bradford's death, which occurred in 1555, in the reign of Queen Mary. As Foxe and Fuller are not mentioned by the learned editor of the above-quoted "Biographical Notice,' I conclude that the story is not found in their pages. JOHN T. CURRY.

EXTRAORDINARY TIDE IN THE THAMES.I hope you will find room in your valuable paper for the subjoined paragraph from The Times of 9 January, in which is recorded the phenomenal tide in the Thames on Saturday, the 7th inst. :

"An extraordinary tide was seen in the Thames on Saturday afternoon. It should not have been high water at Putney Bridge until about a quarter to four, but the river bed was full at midday. Moreover, although there was a partial ebb and flow twice, there was practically no diminution of the quantity of water up to the usual time for the ebb according to the tide table. This is an occurrence which has not previously happened in living memory above London Bridge, although there is a record of a multiple ebb and flow at Wapping Old Stairs. At half past one the tide was a foot higher than any spring tide in recent years. Shortly after this the water began to recede towards the sea, and flowed in that direction for about half an hour. Then the tide again turned, and it was feared that the water would overflow the banks of the river. The tide rose slightly higher, but at a quarter past three the ebb set in, and the water rapidly went eastward. Though at one time grave apprehension was felt lest the banks should be submerged, the water fortunately lowered about the usual hour, and no damage appears to have been done."

W. J. M.

ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.-At 9th S. xii. 364 I was allowed to insert a short note concerning Bloomfield's grave and certain portraits of the poet which were sold after his death. I am able now to report the erection of a memorial tablet on the house at Shefford, Bedfordshire, in which Bloomfield died. It was unveiled by the donor, Miss Constance Isherwood, daughter of the Rev. Richard Isherwood, rector of Meppershall, on 4 May, 1904, and a full account of the proceedings appeared in The Bedfordshire Times of 6 May. The tablet bears the following inscription:"Robert Bloomfield, Pastoral Poet, died here August 19, 1823. Erected by Constance Isherwood, Meppershall Rectory, 1904."

The tablet was placed on the house by permission of the present owner, Mr. A. Barker.

It appears that a contemporary portrait of Bloomfield is located at Shefford. From the descriptive report of the unveiling of the memorial tablet in The Bedfordshire Times I copy the following paragraph:

"Before the ceremony begins we have time to stroll about the wide clean street of this quaint yet

smart little town, and attention is soon arrested by a portrait of Bloomfield in the shop window of Mr. Alfred Thomas Inskip, the watchmaker. learn from him that his grandfather was on very Without more ado we wait upon Mr. Inskip, and friendly terms with the poet. Indeed, their intimacy continues, for they lie side by side in the churchyard. The portrait is a mezzotint, and on the back of it are these words, in the writing of Thomas Inskip the grandfather: 'Mr. Bloomfield him ever painted was done by Peele & Son to the himself told me that the most correct likeness of proprietor of The Mammoth. He painted it whilst resident in England and took it away with him to America, after promising it to the author. It is now hanging in the museum at Philadelphia.' Whether we are to infer that this mezzotint is a copy of the painting is an open question, but it has the appearance of being a good portrait."

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"GUTTA CAVAT LAPIDEM NON VI SED SÆPE CADENDO."-In 'Polydori Vergilii Adagiorum Opus,' Basilea, 1550, p. 369, No. 464, is the following:

Lapides excavant aquæ.

Job. cap. xiiii. proverbiali figura dicit, Lapides excavant aquæ. Res mira, ut durities lapidis emolliatur aqua: id tamen gutta facit, non bis, sed sæpe cadendo.

It would appear that Polydore Vergil had the proverb in his mind when he wrote the above; but "non bis" in place of "non vi❞ is interesting. It is, perhaps, only an accident that the words "durities" to "cadendo" read somewhat like a pentameter and a hexameter, although, if so taken, there would be several false quantities. Concerning the proverb see 5th S. viii. 513, where are early examples, illustrations, and many references to former notes. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MARVELL'S POEMS AND SATIRES.-A new edition of these has recently appeared, which is said to contain "some long passages and many important new readings from manuscripts acquired by the British Museum"; there is nothing whatever to indicate where in the volume these are to be found, though my object in writing this note is not to complain of this omission, but to protest against the perpetuation of a stupid emendation in the lines on 'Paradise Lost,' which is said to be due to Capel Lofft. Marvell, it will be remembered, has been decrying the allurements of "tinkling rhyme," and continues :I too, transported by the mode, offend, And while I meant to praise thee, must commend. One would have supposed that the meaning of those lines was sufficiently clear, but, for some inscrutable reason, Lofft, who has been followed by Mr. Aitken (in the first issue only of his volumes) and the editor of this

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must commend" would be an improve-
ment, and thus destroyed the point of the
couplet. The editor of Crashaw who intro-
duced us to the "follower of one Areopagus'
(N. & Q.,' 9th S. xii. 87) seemed likely to
hold the record as an annotator for some
time, but I am inclined to think that he will
have to yield to the new editor of Marvell.
The latter, finding in Mr. Aitken's edition
('Upon Appleton House,' 11. 443-4)

A levelled space, as smooth and plain,
As clothes for Lilly stretched to stain,

instead of printing "cloths" for "clothes,"
and telling those who might be ignorant of
the fact that "Lilly" was the common way
of spelling Sir Peter Lely's surname,
notates it (Lilly) thus: "A well-known dyer
of the age."
G. THORN DRURY.

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[Of some of these the songs only were printed.] CHARLES I. IN SPAIN.-Est-ce que quelque obligeant lecteur de 'N. & Q.' pourrait m'inpourrais trouver d'amples détails sur le voyage diquer quels sont les ouvrages anglais où je dramatique que fit Charles I. en 1623 en naître l'Infante Marie, sœur de Philippe IV.? Espagne, étant Prince de Galles, pour con

Dans les livres espagnols qui ont été à ma portée, je ne trouve que des relations trèslimitées, quoique les fêtes se succédèrent Prince à Madrid; et certes, ce ne fût pas la pendant les six mois que dura le séjour du moins originale la procession des moines de toutes les communautés religieuses, citée par Don Angel Fernandez de los Rios dans son 'Guide de Madrid,' lesquels avec grand recueillement; silencieux et en contemplation, portant des Christs dans les mains, les figures couvertes de cendre et les têtes couronnées d'épines ou d'herses, avec de grandes croix sur les épaules; les uns se frappant les poitrines avec de grosses pierres et les autres portant des os humains dans leurs bouches comme signe de mortification, défilèrent devant toute la cour le Vendredi saint de cette année.

Outre la correspondance particulière du Prince avec son père, il est probable que les ham ou de quelqu'autre personnage de la impressions personnelles du Duc de Buckingsuite aient été publiées, et là sans doute seront rapportées abondamment leurs relations sur les mœurs et coutumes de la cour d'Espagne à cette époque-là.

Je me fais un plaisir de croire qu'entre les érudits collaborateurs de 'N. & Q' il s'en fussent que par des simples références bibliotrouvera qui voudront bien me renseigner, ne graphiques, dont je les remercie d'avance, et que je lirais toujours avec plaisir.

FLORENCIO DE UHAGON.

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