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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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    Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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      Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. - Various Various

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      Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851

      A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,

      Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.

      Author: Various

      Editor: George Bell

      Release Date: October 1, 2011 [EBook #37593]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, JULY 19, 1851 ***

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      Vol. IV.—No. 90.

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

      FOR

      LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      VOL. IV.—No. 90.

      SATURDAY, JULY 19. 1851.

      Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.

      CONTENTS.

      NOTES:—

      A Caxton Memorial suggested, by Bolton Corney 33

      Supposed Witchcraft 35

      The late Sir John Graham Dalyell 35

      Appropriation of a Thought, by James Cornish 36

      The Eisell Controversy, by Samuel Hickson 36

      Minor Notes:—Miserrimus—The Dog and Duck, St. George's Fields—The Habit of profane Swearing by the English—Tennyson's Use of the Word Cycle—A Moiety 37

      QUERIES:—

      Etymology of Fontainebleau, by H. H. Breen 38

      Force of Conscience 38

      English Literature in the North, by George Stephens 38

      Minor Queries:—Painted Portraits of Overton—Fourth Fare—John Wood, Architect—Derivation of Spon—Dell, in what County—Bummaree or Bumaree—Thread the Needle—Proof of a Sword—Shelley's Children—Ackey Trade—Baskerville the Printer—Statue of Charles II.—La Mère Jeanne—Man Of War, why a Ship Of War so called—Secret Service Money of Charles II.—Hampton Court 39

      MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—De Rebus Hibernicis—Abridgment of the Assizes—Life Of Cromwell 41

      REPLIES:—

      Written Sermons and Extempore Preaching 41

      Fest Sittings 42

      Histoire des Sévérambes, by H. H. Breen 43

      Salting the Dead 43

      Replies to Minor Queries:—Bogatsky—Baronette—Rifles—Miss—Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest—English Sapphics—Welwood—Bellarmio's Monstrous Paradox—Jonah and the Whale—Book Plates 44

      MISCELLANEOUS:—

      Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 46

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted 46

      Notices to Correspondents 47

      Advertisements 47

      List of Notes & Queries volumes and pages

      Notes.

      A CAXTON MEMORIAL SUGGESTED.

      After Caxton had slept with his fathers for three centuries, remembered only by a few antiquaries, it was deemed fit that a public monument should record his merits.

      The Roxburghe club, much to the honour of its members, undertook to bear the cost of it, and to superintend its execution. With regard to its location, there was no question as to the paramount claims of Westminster. It was proposed, in the first instance, to place it in the collegiate church of St. Peter, within the precincts of which church Caxton had exercised his art. The want of a convenient space was rather an obstacle to that plan: a more serious obstacle was the amount of fees demanded on such occasions. It was then decided, and perhaps with more propriety, that it should be placed in the parish church of St. Margaret; and the execution of the monument, which was to be of the tablet form, was entrusted to the younger Westmacott.[1] An engraving of it has been published.[2] The inscription is

      "To the memory

      of William Caxton

      who first introduced into Great Britain

      the art of printing

      and who A.D. 1477 or earlier

      exercised that art

      in the abbey of Westminster.

      This tablet

      in remembrance of one

      to whom

      the literature of his country

      is so largely indebted

      was raised

      anno Domini MDCCCXX

      by the Roxburghe club

      earl Spencer, K.G. president."

      [1] T. F. Dibdin, Reminiscences of a literary life. London, 1836. 8vo. i. 386.

      [2] J. Martin, A catalogue of books privately printed. London, 1834. 8vo. p. 486.

      The monument, as a piece of sculpture, is simplicity itself, and therefore suitable to the place of its destination. To the inscription I venture to make some slight objections: 1. Whether Caxton introduced into Great Britain the art of printing admits of a doubt. There is no evidence to invalidate the colophon of the Exposicio S. Jeronimi in simbolo Apostolorum.[3] Dibdin fully believed in its authenticity.[4] 2. Caxton is very imperfectly designated. He was a well-informed writer, a most assiduous translator, and a very careful editor. As early as 1548, he was classed among the Illustres majoris Britanniæ scriptores[5] — but we are on the decline, it seems, in point of tact and intelligence. 3. The date of his decease, and the place of his burial, should have been stated. The facts are recorded in the accounts of the churchwardens of this very parish, and nowhere else.[6] 4. The inscription, as a composition, wants terseness: on this point, I content myself with giving a hint typographically.

      [3] S. W. Singer, Some account of the book printed at Oxford in 1468. London, 1812. 8vo. p. 44.

      [4] Typographical antiquities, by Joseph Ames, etc. London, 1810. 4to. Life of Caxton, p. 75.

      [5] Illvstrivm maíoris Britanniae scriptorvm summari[=u] avtore Ioanne Balaeo. Gippeswici, 1548. 4to. fol. 208.

      [6] John Nichols, Illustrations of the manners and expences of ancient times. London, 1797. 4to. p. 3.

      In 1847 a fresh attempt as made to revive the memory of Caxton. After due notice, a public meeting was held on the 12th of June to promote the erection of a monument to commemorate the introduction of printing into England, and in honour of William Caxton, the earliest English printer—the lord Morpeth in the chair. The meeting was extremely well attended. The form of monument proposed was, the combination of a fountain by day and a light by night—the poetical conception of the rev. H. H. Milman. Some excellent speeches were made—and I cannot but particularize

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