Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853

Notes

"THAT SWINNEY."

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION IN PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL

FOLK LORE

SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE

Minor Notes

Queries

LITTLECOTT—SIR JOHN POPHAM

EARLY EDITION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

CRANMER AND CALVIN

BARNACLES

DIAL INSCRIPTIONS

THE "SALTPETER MAKER."

TSAR

"LAND OF GREEN GINGER."

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

ARCHÆOLOGICAL WORKS

JOHN YONGE AKERMAN,

FELLOW AND SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON

Отрывок из книги

Junius thus wrote to H. S. Woodfall in a private note, to which Dr. Good has affixed the date July 21st, 1769 (vol. i. p. 174.*)

This paragraph has given rise to a great deal of speculation, large inferences have been drawn from it, yet no one has satisfactorily answered the question, who was "that Swinney?"

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I would not have written conjecturally on this subject if I could have avoided it; but though Swinney was a F.A.S. F.R.S., and though the work is dedicated to the Fellows of those Societies, no copy of it is to be found in the libraries of either, or in the British Museum. I cannot, therefore, be sure that my own copy is perfect. What that copy contains is thus set forth in half a dozen lines of introduction:

It must be obvious, after this declaration, that the Tour set forth so conspicuously in the title-page, was not written by Swinney. Now the "Itinerary" which follows is advowedly "wrote by the author of the preceding account," and this brings the reader and the work itself to "The End!"

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