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H. J. W.

do. and passenger

ALEXANDER BLAIR, skipper.
THOMAS GRAY, merchand.
WILLIAM HALLIBURTON, do.

WILLIAM CLAYHILLS,

GILBERT ANDERSON, mate.

ANDREW MYLNE, mariner.

JOHN HERBET,

do.

JAMES BAGGLIE, cook.

ROBERT PEDDIE, carpenter.

THOMAS OGILVIE, prentice to the skipper; and WILLIAM DUNCAN (writer hereof), in all eleven. "My Lord God has put it into my heart to leave on record how he has been so extraordinarily merciful & gracious to me by sea & land in many dangers, & from many perils did work my deliverance, & particularly in that miraculous one hereafter discribed. That my successors may think on it, & with God's assistance it may be a means to teach them to be humble & thankful to God for having so protected and preserved me, & made his fatherly love so many ways known to me.

NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK OF WILLIAM cutting up the seams we fastened them together with DUNCAN, OF SEASIDE.-The annexed is copy of a tran- Knaitles & ribbands of our clothes, the best way we could. script of the original MS. in the handwriting of William By God's providence there was a small rope in the boat which Duncan, in the possession of the Kirk Session of Dundee. served for a stay & shroud, & the boatstick for a yard for the William Duncan, of Seaside (afterwards of Lundie), was a sail, & the largest oar for a mast, & one of the others for a merchant of that town, and one of the progenitors of the rudder. We then made sail before the wind, which by the noble family of Camperdown. I am not aware that it has setting of the sun we knew to be W.S.W. After midnight ever been printed. Nisbet gives the armorial bearing of the weather was cloudy & rain, that we did not see sun, "Duncan of Seaside now of Lundie in Angus, gules, a moon, or stars, so long as we were at sea after. On friday chevron or, between two cinquefoils in chief, and a hunt- about noon, we saw three ships on our starboard side, ing horn in base, argent, garnished azure, crest, a ship steering to the southward under two laigh sails, about 5 or under sail; motto, Disce pati. The crest, "a ship under 6 miles from us, but they did not see our boat, & we durst sail" (why a ship under sail to denote a shipwreck I not lay her side to the sea to steer towards them, but were hardly perceive), with the motto DISCE PATI, are known obliged to steer before the wind & sea, which increased to refer to the events here described. The narrative is more & more, so that we were obliged to sit close together preceded by a list of the passengers and crew who accom-in the afterpart, & do our best to prevent the sea from panied William Duncan in the ill-fated vessel, and which breaking in & filling the boat,-Three of us casting out the Î here subjoin. The date is September 25, 1631. water as it came in, with three plates that by providence, we found in the boat. On saturday we got amongst currants, and the sea broke so over the boat that with great difficulty we kept her above water. At sunset the rain increased, & soon after it began to clear, & we saw land before us about two or three miles off which made us very glad. So we came in with the harbour called Sillerage, at the east end of the laigh land of yarden, & run our boat on shore on a sandy beach within the harbour. None of us did eat or drink the whole time except the skipper, who made his water in one of the plates, and drank it. When we came to land, we could hardly walk, & staggered as if we had been drunk. There was no house near but a fisher's little hut, & in it himself, wife, & a young child. He had a milk cow, & said after Michaelmas, all the winter time he lived farther up the country with his family. The fisherman received us very kindly into his hut, (which could hardly hold us all, & put on a fire of wood in the middle of the hut, there being an opening in the top to let out the smoke. He also told us that if any of us were able to go farther up the country he would shew them a house where they would be better lodged & get what else they needed. Halliburton one of the merchants, & Robt. Peddie our carpenter, abler than the rest, went with him, & soon after the fisherman returned with some Norway bread, made of bear meal, & some butter, which he offered us to eat, but we could not look on it nor taste it that night, for we had gotten no sleep since we left the ship. We lay down on the ground near the fire, & slept well till daylight, & then, being very hungry, the fisherman put a kettle on the fire with what milk he had, & warmed them altogether, which we ate heartily, & were much refreshed. Thereafter we went to a kirk about two miles distant, where it being the Lords day, many people were assembled, & there was several houses. The people entertained us with the best they had, while we remained there about eight days, for which we gave them our boat, as she came on shore. We then got strength & thinking on the best way to get home, we resolved to go to Strangar, seven leagues by land distant. I sewed together my long coat, which was part of our sail, & it being very cold, found much comfort from it. We set out on our journey for Strangar, the skipper, merchant, & I on horseback, the rest on foot. I had saved no more money than six rixdollars & an half. The half dollar I paid for horsehire. When we came to said Town we found one William Watson a Scotsman, one of the rulers of the town, who gave us lodging & we staid there about 8 days; & hearing that there were three Scotch ships lying at the sea mouth, in the harbour called the Kettle & Topness, we got a boat, & went to them, & found on conversing with the master, that they were the same three ships we had seen from our boat the day before we landed. One of them belonged to Anstruther, one to Eyemouth,-& the third to Ferry Port-onCraigs, called the Marten, James, & Willm. Paterson, masters. We divided ourselves in the ships to come home, but most of us were in the Marten, of whom I was one. We were wind bound fourteen days, when the wind coming

"In the year 1631 in Septr month, on wednesday at midnight, I think it was the 25th day of the said month, I being one of eleven merchants & company of a ship whereof Alex Blair, of Dundee, was master, coming from Christiana, most part loaded with Tar bound for Dundee, & being by our Account 150 miles W.S.W. from the Naze of Norway, on said day & time, (I being then 18 years & 3 months of age); a ship larger than ours coming before the wind, then at N.W., struck us on the starboard side, and broke our bark through, which immediately filled with water & fell on her broardside, but did not sink, owing to the lightness of her lading,-our boat lying on the overlays on the starboard side of the mast. We got all into the boat, & cut the seizings, so that she floated on the overlays; & finding three oars in her, we made haste & rowed after the ship that run us down, for she had braced up her sails with an intention, as we imagined, to take us up. But when we came near she filled her sails & run from us. It was then clear starlight and fair weather, & we continued rowing & calling till we could no longer see her. Being then at a loss what to do, having neither meat, drink, nor compass in the boat, some were for seeking our own ship, others for running towards Norway, expecting to meet with some other ship by the way, but most conclude to row for Scotland having as good a chance to meet with ships that way as the other, & so we directed our course, by the stars at night, and sun in the day time; & so rowing with three ars (one rather longer & stronger than the other two,) till Chursday at Sunset, when the wind came in at W.S.W. & lew hard, so that a small ship could only carry her laigh ils, & the sea was so great that we could not row any way. Ve concluded that the best way for longest life was to make sail, & steer before the wind & sea. We then took mine another long sea coat, with a pair of canvas breeches; &

James fyndlawson and Alexander Ramsay bailleis Bailleis of ye said burgh

of ye Burgh of Dundie containing the Annualrentis few
The Chairge or Rental of of the Maister of the hospitall
mailles and vtheris dewteis Croftis landis and tenementis
Quhilkis pertenit of auld to ye said hospitall as also of the
Gray Freiris Black freiris Grey sisteris Choristaris and haill
said hospitall Be oure Soverane Lord and His Hienes maist
Chaiplanreis of ye said Burgh of Dundie now dotit to ye
noble progenitouris faithfullie collectit Be the Baillies and
counsall of The said Burgh Be Vertew of evidentis de-
creittis and possessioun haid yairof
(1) Item in the furth of ye land of ye airis of vmqle
George hay Lyand on ye South syid of the mercatt gaitt
Betwix ye land of ye airis of vmqle Andro Barrie on ye east
and ye landis of ye airis of Richard gudlett Robert lowell
Petir forrester on ye west Partis zeirlie to ye choristaris
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N.W. we all three put to sea; & when off shore 10 or 12 leagues, we found much wind & a very great sea, which separated the Marten from the other ships. About midnight a great sea broke on board her, & carried our beer & water off our overtop, & tossed the ship so much above the water, that we were obliged to steer before the wind; & after three days any nights tossing to & fro on the sea, we returned to Norway, at Winifred, near the Kirk Stetherey; & hearing that there was a small Scotch vessel taking in her lading at the head of that harbour, Willm, Halliburton & I hired a boor to row us in his yawl to her. The masters name was Andw. Darnsie, & she belonged to Montrose, & was loaded two days after. She was about 20 lasts burden, & sailed the next day, the wind E.S.E.; & the fourth day we were landed, (being the Lords day,) in Fife by a boat, the vessel passing on to Leith. We came into a house, the Gudewife's name was Dyke, & we desired Lodgings, which she granted; & after supper, I told her I had no money but half a rixdollar, & desired that she would be pleased to hire horses for me to Dundee water side, & take the rest for my supper & bed, which she was content to do. Next morning before day Willm Halliburton & I set out for Dundee & came there about mid-day; and the first person that spoke to me was James Man my mother's father; he did not know me, but having heard that I was one of those in that ship, he asked me where I had left his oye. I answered that it was himself that he spake to. (It was no marvel he did not know me, being much altered in person & colour, it being then forty days since I left the ship, & all the time without shifting, except once, on a clear sunshining day, one of our party & I took off our shirts, & washed & cleaned them in a stripe of water, & put them on not quite dry.) After my Grandsire & I did speak, he & I did so weep that we be hoved to sunder. He went to my mother's & told her I was come to the Town, & I went to the house of William Roger, who was married to my mother's sister, which was near the place I met with my grandsire, for I thought shame to go through the street to my mother's house; & when my mother's sister saw me, neither did she know me till we did speak, & then she took me in her arms & kissed me, partly mourning & partly rejoicing. When my mother heard I was in her sister's house, she sent her servant to me with clean linen, & with a cloak, clothes, hat, shoes & (6) Item furth of Robert Lowellis land lyand on ye South stockings, which I had worn on the Lordsday before I went on that voyage to sea; & when they came, I went into a airis on ye cast and ye Land of Valter Ramsay on ye west syid of ye mercatt gaitt Betuix ye land of George Hayis room by myself & put them on which did much refresh me. partis zeirlie to ye choristaris I then went to my mother's house, who was very glad to Suma huius pagine xvi lib xix ss vid see me, & thanked my Lord God for my preservation, who (7) Item furth of Alex Carnegyis Land Lyand on ye north has ever since been very gracious to me,-Blessed be his name! & the praises which I give are due unto Him; de-syid of ye Kirk wynd Betuix ye land of William Drumond on ye east and ye Land of Alex' galloway on ye west pairtis zeirlie to ye hospitall

siring all those who shall succeed me not to be unmindful
or unthankful to God for his great mercies to me.
"This is all Truth & veritie in every particular, so far as
my memary doth serve me. In witness whereof I have
written & sbuscribed these presents at Dundee, the 4th day
of March 1671.

"WILLIAM DUNCAN."

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(3) Item furth of ye west end of ye Said tenement callit ye Auld Tolbwith now pertening to Thomas Ogilvie zeirlie to ye said hospitall fiftie ss and to the said chaiplanrie of

Sanct Katherines

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(9) Item furth of ye said Johne Kynlochis land haiffand on
ye west John Rayis Land To the said chaiplanrie of Sanct
Johne ye baptist zeirlie fyve markis and furth of ye samyn
land to Sanct Ninianis Chaiplanrie zeirlie
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west the sowth east Kirk styill and ye Kirk zaird to ye said
chaiplanrie of Sanct Johne ye baptiste zeirlie fyve markis
and furth of the samy to the chaiplanrie of Sanct Ninian
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(11) Item furth of ye land of James Scrymgeor alias franche
James now sett in few to James Ramesey Richard Cathrow
James Ker Johne Pattorsone and George Durward lyand on
ye east syid of Spaldingis Wynd zierlie to Sanct Androis
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THE accompanying pieces are taken from the fly-leaf of a copy of the sixth edition (1731) of a somewhat famous macaronic comedy, called Ignoramus, written about the commencement of the seventeenth century, by a witty Master of Arts, of the name of George Ruggle. I think I have seen somewhere that Ignoramus was performed before James VI., at Cambridge, in 1616, and afforded his pedantic majesty so much amusement as to call forth the honour of at least two "bespeaks" on subsequent occasions. To those who have not stumbled on this witty production it will be necessary to say that Ignoramus is a London attorney, and that Dulman and Pecus are two of his clerks.

T. J.

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When Terence show'd his manly pleasant strain,
Or Plautus touch'd you on the laughing vein ;
Time after time have they engag'd your ear:
But now for once an humble modern hear.
Ev'n his perhaps is no inferior flame;
True wit, like nature, will be still the same.
And since your Highness condescends to grace
Our concourse here, and dignify the place;
Since, sir, your smiles instruct our hearts to glow,
Our studies cheer, and bid our pastimes flow;
'Twas ours to chuse a play; 'twas ours to see,
It should be sprightly, hum'rous, just and free;
And what but Ignoramus could it be?
That fam'd burlesque of Latinizing law,
Your great forefather oft with pleasure saw.
That prince who first o'er Britain rais'd his throne,
And view'd her mighty empire all his own;
Or, more to make his worth and glory shine;
Who joyn'd the Brunswick to the British line.
From whence what blessings to our country sprung,
Be those the theme of every other tongue;
Enough for us to hail your rising ray,
And boast the honour we enjoy to-day.

Epilogue, by Dulman and Pecus.

D. O Pecus, O frater, non cor tibi pectore saltat?
Nunc erit in patriam nostra retorna brevis :
Proximus in tuta cernet nos terminus aula ;
Multus ibi bonus est clericus atque cliens.
Non geldatores currunt cum cornibus illic.
P. Nil ibi præter lex currere nempe potest
D. Non nos terrebit cacodoemone conjurator.
P. Conjuratorem nemo videbit ibi.

D. Quatuor in cymba: Templo properabimus, unus
Remex cum baggis nos rotulisque vehet.
Scilicet a Dominis venit experientia nobis,
Legistas, justo tempore, deska facit.
Crescimus hinc attornati bene qualificati,

Et nostr causæ sollicitantur ope.

Aureolique fluunt. P. Isthæc palmaria res est.

D. Isthæc pars legis practica semper erit.

Hinc delitescentes merito thrivamus honore,
Et dat, si volumus sumere, barra togam.

His gradibus tandem Dulman est Ignoramus.
P. Et Pecus ad pacem justiciarius est.

UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF LORD BROUGHAM.-The following is an exact transcript of a letter by the late Lord Brougham to his friend J. A. Murray, Esq., then Lord Advocate. The letter is merely signed "H. B.," but it is in the handwriting of his lordship (then Mr. Brougham), and was found among the papers of the late Lord Murray. It has reference evidently to the great West Riding of Yorkshire election about the year 1832.

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"Your plan is materially defective-for what security can I have of coming back here from York? The Dissoln may be resolved on-or even without it a canvas may be necessary-Therefore-I really thing [think] before York the surest plan and I dont despair of your meeting fifty here

Prologue to Ignoramus in 1730, when acted before His on Thursdy If Will cant think of York, & wont come

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Royal Highness the Duke.*

Ye judges, say if we can merit praise,

Who dare desert the works of ancient days.
Oft has our scene maintain'd the classick cause,

And Roman wit been stampt with your applause :

here to go back-perhaps he will take this later-when the canvassing may be over-but that is supposing no Diss" takes place. "Yours ever

"In haste

"H. B.

"A: Thomson goes direct to York-I shall write to him by next post to let him know particularly the House where

[William, Duke of Cumberland, in theatrical phrase, the "heavy we are and where everything will be in readiness on Satvillain" of some of the Scottish Jacobite Songs.-ED.]

tho' I shall not be there that day."

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"PRINCE OF WALES HERALDRY."-This is a term given by Mr. Joseph Bain, a correspondent of Notes and Queries, who writes under the pseudonym of ANGLO-SCOTUS, to a species of heraldry granted at the Lyon Office about the first quarter of the present century. The following coat may be taken as an example. This was granted to a wood merchant in Glasgow, named William Rodger, I think about the year 1825, namely, sable, a stag's head erased argent, attired with ten tynes, or holding in its mouth a mullet of the last, all within a border of the third charged with three escallops. Crest on a mount vert, a buck courant, proper, between two branches of laurel vert. Motto, Nos nostraque deo. First, the arms placed within the border are those assigned by Nisbet to the name of Roger, which is distinct from Rodger. Next, the crest and motto belong to a Devonshire baronet named Rogers, lately raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Blachford. This coat is recorded by Burke in his Landed Gentry as that of Rodger, of Hadlow Castle, Kent, the son of the original grantee. What the scallop shells can mean is more than I know. The grantee's wife's name is stated to have been Agnes Robertson.

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We have often wondered why no stone was ever placed to mark the site of Lady Dudley's tomb, for it has long been known that she was buried with great pomp "in the church of our Lady in the towne of Oxforde." The full account of the funeral ceremony is given in a very illegible manuscript among the Dugdale MSS. in the Bodleian, but it is unfortunately far too long to quote here. It contains numerous interesting passages as showing the great pomp and cere mony with which the body was brought from "Glocester College a lytell without the towne of Oxford" to St. Mary's Church, where "in the mydell eyle in the upper ende was made a hersse" with all due appurtenances. The procession to the church must have been on that Sunday morning, now over 300 years ago, a very imposing sight, for "after the pore men and women in gownes came the "Universittes, 2 and 2 together accordinge to the degres of the Colleges, and before every house ther officers with their staves," then "the quere in surplesses singenge and after them the minestar." After them followed the officials from the Heralds College all in their mourning habits, and "the corpes borne by 8 talle yeomen for the waye was farre," then the chief mourners and others,

and lastly "the Mayor of Oxford and his brethren." They entered in at the west door of the church and the body was placed on the hearse, and on "eche syde of the hersse stod 2 gentlemen holdinge the bannerroles and at the feet stood he that held the great banner," and then the service began, first "sarteyne prayers, then the 10 commandments, the quire answering in Peyke-songe, then the Pystle and the Gospell began, and after the Gospell the offeringe," and when this was finished "the sermon began, made by Dr. Babyngton, whose antheme was Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntnr." The more the death of Lady Amy Dudley is investigated, the clearer does it appear that the tra held with all due formalities immediately after the event, and ditional accounts are almost entirely wrong. An inquest was after a long inquiry a verdict of accidental death was returned. It is a source of great regret to all lovers of historical truth that Mickle's well-known ballad of "Cumnor Hall," and Sir Walter Scott's still more famous novel of Kenilworth" should serve to perpetuate historical fallacies long since proved to be false.

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CHRISTMAS: "BOAR'S HEAD."-The old custom of feasting upon a boar's head at Christmas tide, of which much has been written, is still carried out in its integrity at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell. It is well known that at the Christmas feast at Queen's College, Oxford, the "Bore's Heed" is carried into the banqueting hall, with due ceremony, but the same is duly observed in the more appropriate remnant of the Knight Hospitalers of St. John's every Christmas-tide, and the following carol is chanted. Garoll at the bryngyge in the Bores Heed.

Caput apri differo."

Reddens lando domino. The bores heed in hande bringe I, With garlens gay rosemary,

I praye you all synge merely. Qui estis in convivio. The bores heed, Tunderstande, Is the chefe servyce iu this lande, Loke wherever it be fande.

Servite cum cantico.

Be gladde, lordes, both more and lasse, For this hath ordeyned our stewarde, To chere you all this Chrystmasse, &c. This same carol is used at Oxford, and was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1521.

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The Yule Log is burned, and rushes are strewn on the floor of the old hall over St. John's Gateway. The Wassail is brought in during the banquet, and the "Lorde of Mysrewle" presides, and everything is carried out as in the olden time. I cannot refrain from quoting the lines of Mr. E. B. Tylor, whose learning is charming at all times. He says

"It is a remnant of old sacrificial rite, when the Swedes still bake at yule-tide a cake in the shape of a boar, representing the boar sacrificed of old to Freyr."+ The origin of Christmas is thus stated by the above "The Roman winter solstice festival, as mentioned writer. celebrated on December 25 (viii. Kal. Jan.), in connexion with instituted in the special form by Aurelian about A.D. 273, the worship of this Sun-god, Mithra, appears to have been and to this festival the day owes its apposite name of Birth. With full symbolic appropriateness, though not with historical 'Dies natalis solis invicti.' day of the Unconquered Sun. justification the day was adopted in the Western Church, where it appears to have been generally introduced by the 4th century, and whence in time it passed to the Eastern Church, as the solemn anniversary of the birth of Christ, the

Friars," pp. 73-76. *For reference to this official, see "The Chronicle of the Grey + "Primitive Culture," vol. ii. p. 370.

Christian Dies Natalis, Christmas Day. Attempts have been made to ratify this date as matter of history, but no valid nor even consistent early Christian tradition vouches for it. The real solar origin of the festival is clear from the writings of the fathers after its institution. In religious symbolism of the material and spiritual sun, Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa discourses on the glowing light and dwindling darkness that follow the natality, while Leo the Great, among whose people the earlier solar meaning of the festival evidently remained in strong remembrance, rebukes in a sermon the pestiferous persuasion, as he calls it, that this solemn day is to be honoured not for the birth of Christ, but for the rising, as they say, of the new sun. As for modern memory of the sun-rites of mid-winter, Europe recognises Christmas as a primitive solar festival, by bon-fires which our 'yule-log," the souche de Noël,' still keeps in mind; while the adaptation of ancient solar thought to Christian allegory is as plain as ever in the Christmas service chant 'Sol novus oritur.'*

Christmas does not appear to have been observed with such toleration as we are permitted to do; for Evelyn, in his "Diary," records that the observance of Christmas Day was prohibited in the following years, viz:

1652.

"No sermon anywhere, no church being permitted to be open."

1653. "No churches or public assembly." 1654. "No public offices in churches, but penalties on observers, so I was constrained to celebrate it [Christmas Day] at home."

1655. "There was no more notice taken of Christmas Day in churches."

1657. At this time Evelyn went to Exeter chapel to celebrate Christmas Day, when, as Mr. Gunning was giving the Holy Sacrement, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away. As we went up to receive the Sacrament, the miscreants held their muskets against us at the altar." t

J. JEREMIAH, Jun.

"Be

tine, as it were, suspended over my head, towards the latter
period of eleven years' captivity in France, misery was
almost forgotten in studying the writings of the matchless
Shakespeare, and in penetrating through obscurity to
dissipate the misty vapours which veiled many of his
greatest beauties, that thereby his unerring genius might be
justified." Z. Jackson being practically acquainted with the
art of printing, explains to his readers the cause for the
frequency of errors in typography; and for the better
elucidation of the subject, furnishes the plan of a pair of
letter cases, showing their internal arrangement, and the
close connection of certain types. Where possible, he
defines in his restorations what are clear and obvious
misprints, and very sensible are his arguments in support of
those parts corrected. Some three months prior to the
issue of the work under consideration, Jackson had pub-
lished a pamphlet, entitled, A Few Concise Examples of
Errors Corrected in Shakespeare's Plays. This publication
met with a rapid sale, and soon passed through two editions.
However, although he was flattered by these marks of
public approbation, yet, as he remarks, "the intemperate dart
of invidious jealousy was aimed at me.”
holding with jaundiced eye the full gale that was set to
waft my labours into public favour, a paper, called the
Literary Gazette, was employed as the vehicle to run down,
not only the EXAMPLES I had published of my Restorations
and Elucidations of Shakespeare, but also to condemn my
unpublished work" (the work here noticed). “Yea, to
condemn it even to the flames, that party prejudice, like
the tyrant of Rome, might rejoice during the conflagration!
But with the Gazette and its editor I have no farther
concern; they did their worst, the reprobation of impartial
judgment attended their temerity, and I believe the pro-
prietor will not again afford cause for the index of contempt
to be pointed at him." I infer from this that Jackson
prosecuted the editor of the Gazette for libel, and that the
action terminated in his favour. The humble author was
evidently persecuted to the utmost by would-be critics, but
thanks to the law, and the sympathy of a discerning public,
his detractors were made to smart for their malicious
acrimony. That the public were upon his side may be
gathered from his statement:-"That the law of reprisal
was necessary to be enforced on the occasion, a generous
public not only admitted but perceived its effects with
glowing satisfaction." The narrative of the various cir-
cumstances passed through by Z. Jackson during his
eventful career would doubtless prove extremely interesting.
Is there a biographical notice of this worthy extant?
Waltham Abbey.

J. PERRY.

SHAKESPEARE'S COMMENTATORS.-Z. Jackson was the author of Shakespeare's Genius Justified, &c. (London, J. Major, 1819); a work which in my opinion satisfactorily settled many points which had hitherto baffled the able and learned commentators, who had previous to this adorned and illustrated the pages of the immortal bard with their erudition and researches. Many passages throughout Shakespeare's dramatic works, through misprints, &c., which tended to mar their beauty, are, in this handy volume, restored according to rule, sound sense, and judg ment. The restorer explains in the preface, that "as a ODDS AND ENDS, SLANG SAYINGS, AND FOLK LORE. printer, I can say, what perhaps no person of that pro--There are many expressions, used by persons belonging to fession ever had or ever will have to say: At one period, the lower as well as the higher classes of the community, three different editions of SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS were which are extremely curious. I have jotted a few of them printing in my office: A part of Mr. Malone's, for the down. Although they may be called "slang" sayings, &c., Company of Booksellers: the plays of LEAR and CYMBE there was a time when they were not consigned to the LINE, each making a volume, with illustrations by Isaac category of despised and useless things. The few sayings Ambrose Eccles, Esq.; and a reprint of that edition, com- and expressions here appended are of apparently modern monly known as Stockdale's Shakespeare. If, then, in the origin; some of them, however, may be suggestive of others course of reading the proofs of these respective editions, more ancient : that I became early acquainted with our inimitable bard, it will appear less extraordinary that at a more advanced period i should become one of his commentators.' show that our author had well digested the subject of which he treats, we will quote further his own words: In gloomy obscurity, labouring at times under indisposition, the guillo

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Tylor, vol. ii. pp. 270-271; see also Brand, "Pop. Ant." vol. i. pp. 157, 467, &c., Volney's Ruins of Empires; "Kelly's Curiosities of India, Europe;" "Trad. and Folk-Lore," pp. 7, 192, 277, &c; The Percy Anecdotes, parts; Hospitality; Malet's "Northern Antiquities," pp. 110-112.

Evelyn, vol. i. pp. 297, 300, 322, 527, 341.

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To become insolvent.

1. To overrun the constable 2. To cop the brewer To get intoxicated. 3. Three sheets in the wind Not quite intoxicated. 4. Too much the monkey Impudent beyond endurance. 5. Working the dead horse: To draw wages in advance of the work.

6. To live upon cold pig been advanced.

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To get discharged from a situation. Out of situation.

7. To get the bullet
8. Out of collar
9. To be "fly
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To be artful, or "wide awake" to the

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