Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851

"Notes and Queries" in Holland

Notes

SIR JOHN DAVIES AND HIS BIOGRAPHERS

A NOTE ON QUEEN ANN'S FARTHINGS

FOLK LORE

NOTES ON JESSE'S "LONDON AND ITS CELEBRITIES."

Minor Notes

Queries

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES

Minor Queries

Replies

JOHN BUNYAN AND HIS PORTRAIT.—DID BUNYAN KNOW HOBBES?

THE MOTHER CHURCH OF THE SAXONS

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

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Sir John Davies, the "sweet poet" and "grave lawyer"—rather odd combinations by the bye,—according to Wood, was "born at Chisgrove, in the parish of Tysbury in Wiltshire, being the son of a wealthy tanner of that place!" This statement is repeated in Cooper's Muses' Library, p. 331.; Nichols's Select Poems, vol. i., p. 276.; Sir E. Brydges's edition of Philips's Theatrum Poetarum, 1800, p. 272.; Sir Harris Nicolas's edition of Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, vol. i. p. cii., &c. And Headley, in his Select Beauties of Poetry, ed. 1787, vol. i. p. xli., adds, "he was a man of low extraction!" Wood's assertion concerning Davies's parentage, was made, I believe, upon the authority of Fuller; but it is undoubtedly an error, as the books which record the admission of the younger Davies into the Society of the Middle Temple, say the father was "late of New Inn, gentleman."

Mr. Robert R. Pearce, in a recent work, entitled A History of the Inns of Court and Chancery, 8vo. 1848, p. 293., gives the following sketch of the leading facts in the life of our "poetical lawyer:"—

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May Cats (Vol. iii., p. 20.).—In Hampshire, to this day, we always kill May kittens.

Mottos on Warming-Pans and Garters.—It seems to have been much the custom, about two centuries ago, to engrave more or less elaborately the brass lids of warming-pans with different devices, such as armorial bearings, &c., in the centre, and with an inscription or a motto surrounding the device. A friend of the writer has in his possession three such lids of warming-pans, one of which has engraven on the centre a hart passant, and above his back a shield, bearing the arms of Devereux, the whole surrounded by this inscription:—

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