Notes.

JOHN GOODWIN'S SIX BOOKSELLERS' PROCTOR NONSUITED.

The London booksellers of the present day (good harmless men!) are satisfied with endeavouring to put down heresies as to discounts. Their predecessors, in the year 1655, set to work in good earnest, associated to purify the faith by denouncing in an Index expurgatorius, under the alarming titles of A Beacon set on Fire, and A Second Beacon set on Fire, all publications of a blasphemous, heretical, or improper kind. Six booksellers, viz. Luke Fawne, Samuel Gellibrand, Joshua Kirton, John Rothwell, Thomas Underhill, and Nathaniel Webb, took the lead on the occasion; and the battle waxed hot and fierce between them and the apologists of the books condemned. Amongst the latter was the famous John Goodwin, whose part in the controversy Mr. Jackson, in his elaborate Life of him, has adverted to, and has noticed his pamphlet entitled The High Presbyterian Spirit, written in answer to the Second Beacon Fired. John Goodwin, however, published a second pamphlet in the same controversy, neither noticed by Mr. Jackson, nor any one else that I am aware of, in which he finishes up his first charge upon the unfortunate booksellers, and lays on them with a vigour and determination that it does one good to see so well bestowed, scattering their arguments and quotations to the winds, and sending them back to their proper occupation of printing and publishing, instead of clipping and suppressing. The title of this very rare pamphlet, which is to be found in vol. xviii. of a collection of tracts (between 1640 and 1660) in ninety-six vols. 4to., made by President Bradshaw, and containing many of his MS. notes and observations now in my possession, is as follows:

"Six Booksellers' Proctor Nonsuited, wherein the gross Falsifications and Untruths, together with the inconsiderate and weak Passages found in the Apologie for the said Booksellers, are briefly noted and evicted. And the said Booksellers proved so unworthy both in their Second Beacon Fired, and likewise in their Epistle written in Defence of it, that they are out of the Protection of any Christian or reasonable Apologie for either. By J. G., a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. London printed for H. Cripps and L. Lloyd, 1655, 4to., pages 23."

I might give an extract or two from this very interesting tract, but do not wish to trespass too much upon your space. Perhaps, next to Milton, there is no writer of the time of the Commonwealth equal to John Goodwin, in power and elevation of composition; and I am glad therefore to be able to add one more to the series of his pamphlets which his biographer has with so much industry and research enumerated at the close of the Life.

Jas. Crossley.

MR. COLLIER'S FOLIO SHAKSPEARE: A PASSAGE IN "AS YOU LIKE IT."

It appears to me so obvious that the degree of authority to be conceded to each particular correction or emendation in Mr. Collier's folio Shakspeare must depend in a great measure on the general character of the proposed alterations throughout the work, that I cannot help thinking it would be desirable to reserve all controversy on such points until after the appearance of the promised volume. Such a resolution I made for myself, and to it I shall religiously adhere. This much only I shall say, that, of the specimens given by Mr. Collier in the Athenæum,—sufficient at once to excite interest and to gratify curiosity,—some of the corrections appear to be of that nature that no conjecture could have supplied, while all are good enough to command a deferential consideration.

Your correspondent A. E. B. has attempted a defence of the original reading of two passages amended in Mr. Collier's folio. For the reason above given I shall neither answer your correspondent, nor even say whether I think him right or wrong; but it will not be overstepping the bounds I have prescribed myself, if I take up a collateral point he has raised in reference to one of these passages. To strengthen the case for the reading of the passage in Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 4., "Whose mother was her painting," he cites a passage from As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 5., in which he says, "mother is directly used as a sort of warranty of female beauty!" Here is the passage:

Shakspeare was, if I am not mistaken, one of those persons to whom a mother was, as some one expresses it, "the holiest thing alive." He concentrates this sentiment in the words of Troilus (Troilus and Cressida, Act V. Sc. 2.):

And again, in those of Palamon (which I have no doubt are Shakspeare's) in the Two Noble Kinsmen, Act V. Sc. 1.:

Now it seems to me that the same feeling is implied in Rosalind's reproof to Phebe; and that there is no ground whatever for saying that mother is used as a warranty for female beauty, but rather as one for feminine qualities. Rosalind in effect says, "who might your mother be that you should be so unfeeling?" And, as she tells her plainly she sees no beauty in her, it is clearly to be inferred that it must have been for some other quality that her mother was to be "warranty." Rosalind, in other words, might have said, "Had you a mother, a woman, that you can so discredit the character of womanhood as to exult, insult and all at once, over the wretched?"

It might however be contended, that Rosalind's question referred to the rank, condition, or personal appearance of the mother. The latter only bears upon this question; and with regard to that it may be said, that if beauty had been transmitted to the daughter (independently of the questioner having decided that it had not), the question was not needed. Rosalind, in short, seeks for a better cause for Phebe's pride or want of feeling than her own insufficient attractions, in the nature or quality of her mother. It will be observed that, in this view, I have conceded that who may be taken with something of the signification of what; but the answer to the question, taken strictly, must be the name of some individual who might be known to the Querist, and be in some measure a warranty for the disposition of the daughter, though for no personal beauty but her own.

Samuel Hickson.

NOTES ON BOOKS, NO. III.—LAURENCE HUMPHREY, PRESIDENT OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND DEAN OF WINCHESTER.

In the year 1558 a handsome volume was printed at Basle, in folio in Greek, by Jerome Frobenius and Nicholas Episcopius, with the following title:

"ΚΕΡΑΣ ΑΜΑΛΘΕΙΑΣ, Η ΩΚΕΑΝΟΣ. ΤΩΝ ΕΞΗΓΗΣΕΩΝ ΩΜΗΡΙΚΩΝ, ἐκ των του Ἐυσταθείου παρεκβολὼν συνηρμοσμένων—i.e. Copiæ Cornu sive Oceanus Enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii in eundem commentariis concinnatarum, Hadriano Junio autore."

To an Oxford man, independent of its merit as a compendium of the prolix comment of Eustathius, this volume should be especially interesting, on account of the prefatory dissertation "Ad Magdalinenses," entitled De Græcis Literis et Homeri Lectione et Imitatione, by Laurence Humphrey. This worthy was sometime Greek reader in the university, but went abroad on account of religion at the accession of Queen Mary, and did not return until happier times after her death. He seems to have been living at Basle with Frobenius and Episcopius in honestissimo loco, but he could not avoid often thinking of his native land,—of Newport-Pagnell in Bucks, where he was born,—of Cambridge, where he received the rudiments of Latin and Greek,—but more especially of Oxford, where he completed his education. His feeling panegyric of his Alma Mater, shows him to have been at least one of her grateful sons. The dissertation is highly creditable to him, considering the period at which it was written; and the passage in which he gives an account of the work is not devoid of interest.

"For the rest we give not Homer alone, but the Expositor Eustathius is subjoined. Yet not entire but reduced into a compendium by a man of untiring labour and noble learning—Hadrian Junius, not unknown to you,—for he lived some time in England, dedicated his Greek Lexicon to our royal Edward the Sixth, and has since published the Annals of Queen Mary, his Animadversiones, and Centuries Adagiorum, which issued from the press of Frobenius: he also effected this good work. Therefore although I had rather have the whole of Eustathius than the half, and to say the truth Epitomies never pleased me, yet because this author is prolix, and difficult to meet with, this perfect compendium of such an estimable work (which seems to me to be the best interpreter, poetical-elucidator, Greek lexicon, and onomasticon), will be useful to any one. I recommend, then, our Eustathio-Junian Homer to you."

In 1560 Laurence Humphrey seems to have been still at Basle; for in that year he printed at the press of Oporinus, in 12mo., a work which he dedicates to Queen Elizabeth, entitled Optimates, sive de Nobilitate, ejusque Antiqua Origine, Natura, Officiis, disciplina, et recta Christiana Institutione; at the end of which he printed the argument of Philo-Judæus, περὶ ευγενείας, with a Latin version. This found favour in the eyes of an English translator, and it was printed at London by Thomas Marshe in 1563, 16mo., under the following title:—

"The Nobles, or of Nobilitye. The original, duties, ryght, and Christian Institucion thereof, in three Bookes. Fyrste eloquentlye written in Latine by Laurence Humphrey, D. of Divinity and Presidente of Magdaleine College in Oxforde, lately Englished. Whereto, for the reader's commoditye and matters affinitye, is coupled the small treatyse of Philo a Jewe. By the same Author out of Greek Latined, now also Englished."

Antony à Wood gives a list of the writings of Laurence Humphrey, among which is a life of Bishop Jewell in Latin: he also speaks highly of his scholarship and proficiency in theology. After his return from abroad he became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and President of his college. In 1570 he was made Dean of Gloucester, and ten years afterward Dean of Winchester. His divinity was strongly tinctured with Calvinism, but he was a zealous and able defender of the Reformation. His death occurred in 1589-90.

S. W. Singer.

SCOTO-GALLICISMS.

The following list of Scottish words derived from the French language is chiefly taken from the pages of the Scottish Journal, a small weekly periodical, published at Edinburgh, which came to a conclusion, after rather less than a year's existence, in the summer of 1848. It is generally supposed that most of these words were introduced during the time of Queen Mary's minority, when French troops were sent to Scotland; but the first appearance of some of them may unquestionably be referred to an earlier period. Perhaps some of the readers of "N. & Q." may be able to communicate other examples, which, however, as a reference to Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary will show, are by no means very numerous.

Aschet. A large flat plate for meat. Fr. Assiette, a trencher plate.

Aumrie or Almerie. A cupboard; also, a place in churches and monasteries where the sacred vessels and alms were deposited. (Dunbar.) Fr. Armoire, aumonerie.

Braw or Bra'. Fine, handsome, gaily dressed. (Burns.) Fr. Brave.

Bonaillie. A parting glass with a friend going a journey. (Wallace.) Fr. Bon allez.

Butterie Bejan (or Bajan). A term applied to a "freshman," or student of the first year, at the Universities of St. Andrews and Aberdeen. Fr. Butor, a booby or clod; and Bejaune, a novice. (Lamont's Diary, p. 114., note.)

Certie, Certy—By my. By my troth. Fr. Certes, certainly.

Cummer or Kimmer. A gossip. (Kelly.) Fr. Commère.

Dour. Hard or obstinate. (Douglas.) Fr. Dur.

Fasheous. Troublesome. (Baillie.) Fr. Facheux, facheuse.

Flunkie. A livery servant. Old Fr. Flanchier; same signification as henchman (haunchman). (Quart. Rev., vol. lxxix. p. 344.)

Fracaw. Noise or uproar. Fr. Fracas.

Gardevine or Gurdyveen. A large bottle, and sometimes a celleret, for holding wine. Fr. Garde-vin.

Gardyloo. A cry formerly raised by servants in Edinburgh, when they threw dirty water, &c. from the windows after ten at night. (Smollett.) Fr. Garde de l'eau.

Goo. A particular taste or savour. Fr. Goût.

Grange. A granary, &c. (used also in English). Fr. Grange.

Grosert, Groser, or Groset. A gooseberry. (Burns.) Fr. Groseille.

Gud-brither. Brother-in-law. Fr. Bon-frère.

Haveril. A simpleton, or April-fool. (Burns.) Fr. Avril.

Jalouse—To. To suspect. (Antiquary.) Fr. Jalouse.

Jigot. The hip-joint of lamb or mutton (used also in English). Fr. Gigot.

Jupe. A woman's mantle or pelisse. Fr. Jupe, a long coat.

Kickshaws. A made-up dish. Fr. Quelque chose.

Multiplepoinding. An action in Scottish law, somewhat similar to the English bill of interpleader in Chancery. Fr. Multiplie-poindre.

Multure or Mouter. The fee for grinding grain. (Douglas.) Fr. Mouture.

Onding. A heavy fall of rain or snow. Fr. Ondée(?).

Petticoat tails. A species of cake baked with butter, sometimes called "short-bread." (Bride of Lammermoor.) Fr. Petits gatelles (more correctly, gateaux).

Ruckle or Rickle. A heap or collection. Fr. Recueil.

Servite or Servet. A table napkin. (Spalding.) Fr. Serviette.

Verity—Chair of. A pulpit. Fr. La chaire de vérité. (Croker's Boswell's Johnson, p. 513.)

Vizzie, Vizy, or Visie. A scrutinising view, aim, or sight at the muzzle of a gun. (Bride of Lammermoor.) Fr. Visée, aim.

Wallees or Valises. Saddlebags. (Godscroft.) Fr. Valise, a portmanteau.

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