NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
* * * * *
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
* * * * * {193}
No. 43.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
* * * * *
CONTENTS.
NOTES:--
Notes and Queries. 193
Collar of SS. 194
Tenyson--Coleridge--Extract from Baker's MSS. on
Barth. Dodyngton, and William Jenkin, by J.E.B.
Mayor. 195
Parallel Passages. 196
Folk Lore:--Power of Prophecy--Bay Leaves at Funerals--Shoes
(old) thrown for Luck--Roasting Mice for Hooping-Cough--The
Story of Mr. Fox--Baptismal Superstition--Rushbearing. 196
QUERIES:--
Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.? by Samuel
Hickson. 198
Minor Queries:--The Abbé Strickland--Works on
Aerostation--Pilgrims' Road to Canterbury--"Ædricus
qui signa fundebat"--Osmund, the Waterman--Logic--Darbon
Gatherall--Damasked Linen--Flourish--Drax Abbey and Free
School--Ancient Catalogue of Books. 198
REPLIES:--
Shakspeare's Use of the Word "Delighted," by S.W.
Singer. 200
Family of Love. 201
Translation of the Philobiblon. 202
Etymological Queries, by S.W. Singer. 203
Replies to Minor Queries:--Lord Richard
Christophilus--Poker--Querela Cantabrigiensis--"One
Bell"--Fabulous Account of the Lion--Pomfret on the
Thames--Walrond Family--Armenian Language--Genealogical
Query--Richard Baxter's Descendants--Duresme and Dunelm. 204
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 207
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 207
Notices to Correspondents. 207
Advertisements. 207
* * * * *
NOTES
NOTES AND QUERIES
The history of books and periodicals of a similar character ought to be
the object of interest to the readers of this work. The number of works
in which answers have been given to proposed questions is not small. Not
to mention the _Spectator_ and its imitators, nor the class of almanacs
which give riddles and problems, nor mathematical periodicals of a more
extensive character,--though all these ought to be discussed in course
of time,--there yet remains a class of books in which general questions
proposed by the public are answered periodically, either by the public
or by the editors. Perhaps an account of one of these may bring out
others.
In 1736 and 1737 appeared the _Weekly Oracle; or, Universal Library.
Published by a Society of Gentlemen._ One folio sheet was published
weekly, usually ending in the middle of a sentence. (Query. What is the
technical name for this mode of publication? If none, what ought to be?)
I have one folio volume of seventy numbers, at the end of which notice
of suspension is given, with prospect of revival in another form
probably no more was published. The introduction is an account of the
editorial staff to wit, a learned divine who "hath entered with so much
discernment into the true spirit of the schoolmen, especially Thomas
Aquinas and Duns Scotus, that he is qualified to resolve, to a hair's
breadth, the nicest cases of conscience." A physician who "knows, to a
mathematical point, the just tone and harmony of the risings pulses...."
A lawyer who "what he this day has proved to be a contingent remainder,
to-morrow he will with equal learning show must operate as an executory
devise or as a springing use." A philosopher "able to give the true
reason of all things, from the composition of watches, to the raising of
minced pies ... and who, if he is closely questioned about the planner
of squaring the circle, or by what means the perpetual motion, or
longitude, may be discovered, we believe has honesty, and we are sure
that he has skill enough to say that he knows--nothing of the matter." A
moral philosopher who has "discovered a _perpetuum mobile_ of
government." An eminent virtuoso who understands "what is the best
pickle to preserve a rattle-snake or an Egyptian mummy, better than the
nature of the government he lives under, or the economy and welfare of
himself and family." Lastly, a _man of mode_. "Him the beaus and the
ladies may consult in the affairs of love, dress, and equipage."
There is a great deal of good answering to tolerably rational questions,
mixed with some attempts at humour, and other eccentricities, and
occasionally a freedom, both of question and answer, by which we might,
were it advisable, confirm the fact, that the decorums of 1736 and of
1850 are two different things.{194}
First, as an instance of a question and answer, which might do as well
(if the record be correct) for the present publication.
"Q. We read in our public papers of the Pope's Bull and the
Pope's Brief; pray, Gentlemen, what is the difference between
them?
"A. They differ much in the same manner as the Great Seal and
Privy Seal do here in England. The Bull being of the highest
authority where the papal power extends; the Brief is of less
authority. The Bull has a leaden seal upon silk affixed to the
foot of the instrument, as the wax under the Great Seal is to
our letters patent. The Brief has _sub annulo piscatoris_ upon
the side."
Query. Is this answer complete and correct?
Now for another specimen:
"Q. Wise Oracle show,
A good reason why,
When from tavern we _go_,
You're wel_come_ they cry.
"A. The reason is plain,
'Cause doubtful to know,
Till seeing their gain,
If you _came well_ or no."
The following is an example of unanswerable refutation. To show why a
man has not one rib less than a woman, it is stated that imperfections
are not hereditary; as in the case of
"One Mr. L----, an honest sailor not far from Stepney, who has
but one arm, and who cannot walk himself without the assistance
of a wooden leg, and yet has a son, born some years after the
amputation of is own limbs, whom he has bred both a fiddler and
a dancing master."
One more, not for the wretched play upon words, but because it may make
a new Query,--What does it all mean?
"Q. Gentlemen, in the preamble to the late Earl of Oxford's
patent, I observed, 'And whom they have congratulated upon his
escape from the rage of a flagitious parricide.' I desire to
know by whom, at what time, and in what manner, the said
parricide was to have been committed.
"A. Was to have been! He actually was committed--to Newgate."
So much for some of the "NOTES AND QUEERIES" (as the word ought to be
spelt) of a century ago.
M.
* * * * *
COLLAR OF SS.
"All the ensigns and marks of honour appertaining
to persons of highest distinction, are equestrian."--_Sabnasins_.
The interest which attaches to this very ancient and distinguished
ensign of chivalrous honour will excuse the introduction into your pages
of a fuller dissertation upon the subject than what appears in "NOTES
AND QUERIES," Nos. 39. and 41., in answer to the several questions put
by your correspondents B. and [Greek: Ph].
After referring to the papers on the Collar of SS., and other collars of
livery, published a few years ago in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, and his
intention to arrange them, and other additional collections on the same
subject, in the shape of a small volume, MR. J.G. NICHOLS proceeds to
say:
"As a direct answer to B.'s question, 'Is there any list of
persons who were honoured with that badge, (viz., the Collar of
SS.?)', I may reply, No. Persons were not, in fact, 'honoured
with the badge,' in the sense that persons are now decorated
with stars, crosses, or medals; but the livery collar was
_assumed_ by parties holding a certain position. So far as can
be ascertained, these were either knights attached to the royal
household or service, who wore gold or gilt collars, or esquires
in the like position who wore silver collars."
From the statute for the regulation of apparel, passed in the 2nd year
of the reign of Henry IV., it is ordained that--
"All the sons of the king, dukes, earls, barons, and baronettes,
might use the livery of our Lord the King of his collar as well
in his absence as in his presence; and that all other knights
and esquires should use it only in the presence of the king and
not in his absence."
The royal assent to this bill was accompanied with further regulations,
among which were:
"That the dukes, earls, barons, and baronettes of the realm
might use the said livery in their counties and elsewhere; and
that knights and esquires might use the said livery in going
from the hostel of the king and returning, to it, always
provided that they did not use it in the counties and countries
in which they resided or sojourned."
That the golden Collar of SS. was the undoubted badge or mark of a
knight (_chevalier, eques auratus seu ordo equestris_, for these words
respectively indicate the same grade or dignity of knighthood) all our
ancient heraldic writers allow. But, were it otherwise, the extract from
the statute above given shows that MR. NICHOLS is incorrect in stating,
1st. That there is no list of persons who were honoured with the collar
of SS.; 2nd. That persons were not honoured with the badge, in the sense
that persons are now decorated with stars, crosses, &c.; 3rd. That the
collar was _assumed_; and, 4th. That the assumers were, "so far as can
be ascertained, knights holding a certain position,--such as being
attached to the royal household or service."
It is important to point out these four inaccuracies of MR. NICHOLS'
reply to B., because it is desirable that his forthcoming volume should
not be a heterogeneous collection of notices relating to the Collar of
SS., mixed up with observations that will only serve the purpose of
darkening knowledge upon the subject of which he treats.
The Collar of SS. is found in great variety of {195} shapes, and at what
precise time it became an ensign of equestrian nobility no one can tell.
Collars were worn at least so far back as the days of Livy (i.e. the
commencement of the Christian era); for he recounts that Manlius having
pulled off the collar of a Gaul, took the name of _Torquatus_, and
afterwards always wore the collar. Such being the case, there is no room
for doubting that this ensign formed one of the ornaments of knighthood
from the period of that dignity's earliest introduction into England.
There is a notion, from the circumstance of "Soverayne" being the
favourite motto or impress of Henry IV., that the Collar of SS. takes
its name from the initial letter of that word; and the introduction of
the portcullis into the collar, which was the device of the House of
Lancaster, is also considered by some as proof that the collar
originated with that king. In the effigies, however, of Henry IV. and
his queen, Joan of Navarre, in the Chapel of St. Thomas Becket,
Canterbury Cathedral, the collar which appears round the neck of the
queen (there is none upon that of the king) has no portcullis. And as to
the derivations of the name of the collar from "Soverayne," from St.
Simplicius, from the martyrs of Soissons (viz. St. Crespin and St.
Crespinian, upon whose anniversary the battle of Agincourt was fought),
from the Countess of Salisbury, of Garter notoriety, from the word
"Souvenez" and, lastly, from Seneschallus or Steward (which latter is
MR. NICHOLS' notion)--they may all be regarded as mere monkish or
heraldic gossip.
Nicholas Upton, one of our earliest heraldic writers, who was present at
the siege of Orleans in 1428, states,--"Rex etiam scoeie dare solebat
pro signo vel titulo suo unum COLLARIUM de gormettis fremalibus equorum
de auro vel argento;" whilst, in a wood-cut engraving of the arms of a
German, Herr Florian Waldauff, of about the time of Albert Durer, are
three collars, one of the letters SS. linkings into each other,
terminating in front with portcullises. Put these notices together and
they may be considered sufficient to demolish the Lancastrian origin
theory of the collar, on the one hand, and to unfold the true source of
the collar's nomenclature on the other, viz. that it comes from the
S-shaped lever upon the bit of the bridle of the war steed.
To [Greek: Ph].'s question, "Who are the persons now privileged to wear
these collars?" MR. NICHOLS answers, "I believe the reply must be
confined to the judges, the Lord Mayor of London, the Lord Mayor of
Dublin, the kings and heralds of arms." The privilege of wearing a
Collar of SS., so far as the various persons enumerated are concerned,
is a mere official privilege, and can scarcely be cited in reply to
[Greek: Ph].'s interrogative, except upon the principle, "Exceptio
probat regulam." The persons now privileged to wear the ancient golden
Collar of SS. are the _equites aurati_, or knights (chevaliers) in the
British monarchy, a body which includes all the hereditary order of
baronets in England, Scotland, and Ireland, with such of their eldest
sons, being of age, as choose to claim inauguration as knights. It is
presumable too that the Collar of SS. is also an incident of the minor
degree of knight bachelor (bas-chevalier seu miles-bachillarus); whilst
the silver Collar of SS. belongs to every head of a family of ancient
esquirage quality, bearing arms. It is true, the fashion of wearing the
collar, whether gold or silver, may be said to have been in desuetude
for centuries. But rights of blood never prescribe; and there are strong
grounds to believe that there will again be a general revival of the use
of such distinctions.
There are various other points bearing upon the subject of the Collar of
SS., upon which I wish to offer some remarks, and with your permission I
will return to the subject. I cannot, however, conclude without
observing, that it would much add to the value of MR. NICHOLS'
compilation if he would extend it so as to embrace a description of the
floreal coronet of knighthood, the belt of honour, the helmet, scarf,
ring, spars, &c.,--all indeed, that the words "ad recipiendum a nobis
ARMA MILITARIA" implied in the ancient proclamations for taking the
order of knighthood. If MR. NICHOLS, in addition to this, will show also
wherein the knights of this equestrian quality differed from such
persons as were distrained "ad se milites faciendos," he will solve a
number of knotty difficulties in heraldic literature, and will enable
the public generally to understand that there are many more chivalrous
rights and privileges inherent in the subject than what is dreamt of in
the philosophy either of the court at St. James's, or the college on St.
Bennet's Hill.
ARMIGER.
* * * * *
TENYSON.--COLERIDGE.--EXTRACT FROM BAKER'S MSS. ON BARTH. DODYNGTON, AND
WILLIAM JENKYN.
The well-known lines in Tenyson's _Locksley Hall_,--
"This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is, remembering happier things."
appear to be taken from Dante (_Inferno_, canto v. Verse 121.),--
"nessun maggior dolore,
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria."
which is imitated by other writers, quoted by Mr. Cary. (Chaucer,
_Troilus and Creseide_, iii. 1626. Marino, _Adone_, c. xiv., st. 100.
Fortinguerra, _Riciardetto_, c. xi. st. 83.)
In Coleridge's second _Lay Sermon_ (ed. 1839, p. 365.) the passage--
{196}
"What are you," (a philosopher was once asked), "in consequence
of your admiration of these abstruse speculations?" He answered;
"What I am, it does not become me to say; but what thousands
are, who despise them, and even pride themselves on their
ignorance, I see, and tremble."
is a quotation from Schiller (_Werke_, vol. i., p. 414. 1838)
"AN DIE MUSE.
"Was ich ohne dich wäre, ich weiss es nicht; aber mir
grauet,
Seh'ich, was ohne dich Hundert und Tausende sind."
In Appendix (B.) to Coleridge's first _Lay Sermon_ (p. 276.), we read,--
"An age or nation may become free from certain prejudices,
beliefs, and superstitious practices, in two ways. It may have
really risen above them; or it may have fallen below them, and
become too bad for their continuance."
Though not given as a quotation, this passage is no doubt borrowed from
Baader, as quoted by Archdeacon Hare in a note to his _Sermons on the
Mission of the Comforter_,--
"Nations, like individuals, may get free and rid of certain
prejudices, beliefs, customs, abuses, &c., in two ways. They may
really have risen above them, or they may have fallen below them
and become too bad for them."
In a volume of tracts (Class mark Gg. 5. 27.) in St. John's College
Library, Cambridge, is a copy of Nicolas Carr's edition of the
Olynthiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes, (4to. London, Henry Denham
1571.). As Carr died before the work was published, his friends wrote a
number of commemorative pieces in Greek and Latin, prose and verse,
which are annexed to the volume. Amongst the rest, Barth. Dodyngton
wrote a copy of Greek elegiacs, and a Latin prose epistle. On Dodyngton,
Baker has written the following note:--
"Barthol. Dodyngtonus in Com. Middlesex. natus, admissus fuit
Discipulus Coll. Jo. pro Fundatrice an. 1548.--Idem admissus
Socius, Apr. 8, an. 1552.--Idem admissus Socius Senior, an.
1558.--Idem admissus Socius Major Coll. Trin. Oct. 29, an.
1580."
In the same volume is note on Cheke:--
"Joan. Cheke admissus Socius Coll. Jo. Cant., Mar. 26, an. 21.
Henrici 8'vi."
Another tract in the same volume is "Exodus, &c., a Sermon Preach't
Sept. 12, 1675. By occasion of the much lamented Death of that Learned
and Reverend Minister of Christ, Dr. Lazarus Seaman."--By William
Jenkyn. After Dr. Seaman's name Baker adds, "some time Master of Peter
House." Of Jenkyn he says: "Gul. Jenkin Coll. Jo. admissus in Matriculam
Academiæ (designatus Joannensis), Jul. 3, an. 1628."
J.E.B. Mayor.
St. John's College, Cambridge.
* * * * *
PARALLEL PASSAGES.
I believe the following have not been hitherto noticed in "NOTES AND
QUERIES."
"Nec mirum, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars
humana ædidicavit urbes."--Varro, R. R. iii. 1.
"God made the country and man made the town,
What wonder then," &c.--_The Task_, i.
* * * * *
"[Greek: O de Kritias ... ekaleito idiotaes men en philosophois,
philosuph s de en idiotais.]"--_Schol. in Timoeum. Platonis_.
"Sparsum memini hominem inter scholasticos insanum, inter sanos
scholasticum."--Seneca, _Controv_. i 7., _Excerpt. ex Controv._
ii.
"Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among
Wits."--_Johnsoniana_.
* * * * *
"[Greek: Ostis eim ego; Meton,
On oiden Hellas cho Kolonos.]"
Aristophanes, _The Birds_, 997.
"Under the Tropics is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath received our yoke."
_Martinus Scriblerus_, Ch. xi.
* * * * *
"Pandite, atque aperite propere januam hanc Orci,
obsecro:
Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco: quippe quo
memo advenit
Nisi quem spes reliquêre omnes."
Plautus, _Bacchis_, Act iii Sc. 1.
"Per me si va nella città dolente
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi che intrate."
Dante, _Inferno_, iii. 1-9.
W.B.D.
* * * * *
FOLK LORE.
_Power of Prophecy._--MR. AUG. GUEST (Vol. ii., p. 116.) will perhaps
accept--as a small tribute to his interesting communication on the
subject of that "power of prophecy" which I apprehend to be still
believed by many to exist during certain lucid intervals before death--a
reference to Sir Henry Halford's _Essay on the [Greek: Kausos] of
Aretæus_. (See Sir H. Halford's _Essays and Orations read and delivered
at the Royal College of Physicians_, Lond. 1831, pp. 93. et seq.)
J. Sansom.
_Bay Leaves at Funerals._--In some parts of Wales it is customary for
funerals to be preceded by a female carrying bays, the leaves of which
she sprinkles at intervals in the road which the corpse will traverse.
Query, Is this custom practised elsewhere; and what is the meaning and
origin of the use of the bay?
N.P.
_Shoes (old) thrown for luck._--Brand, in his _Popular Antiquities_,
observes, that it is accounted {197} lucky by the vulgar to throw an old
shoe after a person when they wish him to succeed in what he is going
about. This custom is very prevalent in Norfolk whenever servants are
going in search of new places; and especially when they are going to be
married, a shoe is thrown after them as they proceed to church.
C.P.R.M.
Some years ago, when the vessels engaged in the Greenland whale-fishery
left Whitby, in Yorkshire, I observed the wives and friends of the
sailors to throw old shoes at the ships as they passed the pier-head.
Query, What is the origin of this practice?
[Hebrew: T.A.]
_Roasting Mice for Hooping-cough_ is also very common in Norfolk; but I
am sorry to say that a more cruel superstitious practice is sometimes
inflicted on the little animal; for it is not many years since I
accidentally entered the kitchen in time to save a poor little mouse
from being hung up by the tail and roasted alive, as the means of
expelling the others of its race from the house. I trust that this
barbarous practice will soon be forgotten.
R.G.P.M.
_The Story of Mr. Fox._--Your correspondent F.L., who has related the
story of Sir Richard, surnamed Bloody, Baker, is, doubtless, aware of a
similar tale with which Mr. Blakeway furnished my late friend James
Boswell, and which the latter observed "is perhaps one of the most happy
illustrations of Shakspeare that has appeared."--(Malone's _Shakspeare_,
vol. vii. pp. 20. 163.)
The two narratives of Bloody Baker and Mr. Fox are substantially the
same. Variations will naturally creep in when a story is related by word
of mouth; for instance, the admonition over the chamber in Mr. Fox's
house--
"Be bold, be bold! but not too bold
Lest that your heart's blood should run cold."
is altogether of a more dignified character than the similar warning
given by the parrot, at p. 68. Each of these worthies, Baker and Fox, is
seen bringing into his house the corpse of a murdered lady, whose hand
falls into the lap of the concealed visitor; but in Fox's story the
ornament on the hand is a rich bracelet, in Baker's a ring. The
assassins are, in both stories, invited to the visitor's house, and upon
Fox _summary_ justice is inflicted.
It may be asked, if Baker was burned, how came he to have a tomb with
gloves, helmet, &c., suspended over it in Cranbrook Church? Such honour
was not paid to a man of higher rank in Salisbury Cathedral, a murderer
also, who was hung, viz., Lord Stourton. Dodsworth tells us that till
about 1775, no chivalrous emblems were suspended over the latter, but
only a twisted wire, with a noose, emblematic of the halter. Allow me to
ask, What instances have we of tombs or gravestones, as memorials of
individuals who have suffered at the _stake_, exclusive of those
monuments which in after times may have been raised in honour of
distinguished martyrs at the Reformation?
J.H.M.
Bath.
_Baptismal Superstition._--In the north of England, when several
children are brought to be baptized at the same time, great anxiety is
shown by the people lest the girls should take the precedence of the
boys; in which case it is believed the latter, when arrived at man's
estate, would be beardless.
E.H.A.
_Rushbearing_ (Vol. i., p 259.).--Wednesday, July 21, 1847, Grasmere
Church was decorated with ribbons, which had some reference to the
rushbearing which had taken place on the preceding Sunday.
It takes place at Ambleside one Sunday later.
_Extract from Black's "Guide to the Lakes," p. 43._
"An interesting ceremony takes place at Ambleside once every
year, which the stranger may think himself fortunate in seeing,
not so much for the mere sight itself, though that is pretty
enough, as for its being the vestige of a very ancient
observance. The ceremony alluded to is called Rushbearing. On
the eve of the last Sunday in July, the village girls walk in
procession to the chapel bearing garlands of flowers (formerly
rushes), which are there tastefully disposed. After service, the
day following, these are removed, and it is usual that a sermon,
in allusion to the event, be preached. This observance is
probably as remote as the age of Gregory IV., who is known to
have recommended to the early disseminators of Christianity in
this country, that on the anniversary of the dedication of
churches wrested from the Pagans, the converts should build
themselves huts of the boughs of trees about their churches, and
celebrate the solemnities with religious feasting. In former
times, the rushes were spread upon the floor of the sacred
edifice, and the garlands remained until withered. Possibly the
practice of covering the floors of buildings with rushes by way
of protection against the damp earth, may have had something to
do with keeping the custom in existence, long after the origin
of the institution had been forgotten. The ceremony of
Rushbearing has now fallen into complete disuse, except in a few
secluded hamlets in Westmoreland, and in one or two other places
in the kingdom; nor can that disuse be much regretted, since
what was founded as a religious act, every where degenerated
into an occasion for unseemly revelry, in fact, into a sort of
rustic saturnalia. And yet, when we look at this remain of the
olden time, as observed at Ambleside, we are tempted to say with
the poet,--
"'Many precious rites
And customs of our rural ancestry
Are gone or stealing from us: _this_, I hope
Will last for ever.'"
* * * * * {198}
QUERIES.
WHO WROTE SHAKSPEARE'S HENRY VIII.?
I had no sooner read the title of an essay in the current number of the
_Gentleman's Magazine_, "Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.?" than I
became aware that I had been anticipated in at least the publication of
a discovery I made three or four years ago, but for the making known of
which a favourable opportunity had not occurred. The fact is, that I was
anxious to arrive at a more satisfactory conclusion than has yet
presented itself to me, and a paper on the subject commenced more than
two years ago, I, with this feeling, laid aside. My present object is to
strengthen the argument of the writer in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, by
recording the fact that I, having no communication with him, or
knowledge of him, even of his name, should have arrived at exactly the
same conclusion as his own. That conclusion is (should any of your
readers not have seen the article referred to), that Fletcher has at
least an equal claim with Shakspeare to the authorship of _Henry VIII_.
In the unfinished paper to which I have alluded, having asked how it was
that, with so much to be learned personal to Shakspeare from his works,
our criticism was so limited, and having stated it to be my intention to
confine myself to the simple inquiry, "_What did Shakspeare really
write?_" I continued:
"To those who consider the text as having been settled 'by
authority,' this question may seem superfluous; but, not to
refer to plays of very early date, in connection with which we
could bring forward facts that, we doubt not, would be
considered sufficiently startling; we now state it as our belief
that a great portion of the play of _Henry VIII_.--nay, more
than half, was _not_ written by Shakspeare."
My intention now is not to enter into any argument in support of this
view, but to state the results, which will be shown in the following
extract from my note-book:
_Henry VIII._
Act I. Scene 1. Shakspeare.
" 2. Ditto.
" 3. Fletcher.
" 4. Ditto.