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NOTES:-The Diary of Lady Willoughby,' 241-The QUERIES:-Scrope Colquitt-'Wharton Hall: the Lady's NOTES ON BOOKS: - Calendar of Patent Rolls of Notes. "THE DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY.' THE full title-page of this book as issued in 1844 is as follows: "So much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her Domestic History and to the Eventful Period of the Reign of Charles t'e First. Imprinted for Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, over against Warwick 1844." Lane, in the City of London. The book is in post 4to, pp. iv+174, and was printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. The narrative ends with 30 March, 1648. A sequel was issued four years later, the title-page being :— "Some Further Portions of the Diary of Lady Willoughby which do relate to her Domestic History a d to the Stirring Events of the Latter Y ars of the Reign of King harles the First, the Protectorate and the Restoration. Imprinted for Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, over against Warwick Lane, in the City of London. 1848." The narrative ends with 29 Aug., 1663. The following notice appears at the com- "To the Reader. The Style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted, as will be inferred from the date on the Title-page, merely to be in accordance with the Character of the Work." At the commencement of the 1848 volume the following notice appears :- "Preface. The Style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted as they were in the First Part of the Diary, merely to be in accordance with the Design of the author, who in this work personates a lady of the Seventeenth Century." These two books were very successful, and were reprinted in one volume, crown 8vo, as lately as 1873, the original style The author was Hannah being followed. Mary Rathbone, 1798-1878. See 'D.N.B.,' vol. xlvii. p. 308. The following quotation is from the Grolier Club monograph 'The Charles Whittinghams,' issued in 1896 : "Longman, meanwhile, had engaged Whittingham to reprint The Diary of Lady Willoughby,' The first a novel of seventeenth-century life. edit on of the book had come from another printing Mr., afterhouse, and it had not been a success. wards Sir, Henry Cole....suggested to the Longmans the preparation of a new edition of the Willoughby, rewritten in old-style phrases, printed with old-face' type specially designed, and upon old-style paper, bound in the fashion He also urged the pubof two centuries before. lishers to give Whittingham a free hand in the production of the book. The suggestion was adopted in part only, but the new attempt was Whittingham used the sufficient for success. old-face great primer for the Willoughby. The paper, however, though good enough in quality, was a rather poor mechanical imitation of seventeenth-century hand-made stuff, and whatever effect its regular, horizontal rucks may or may not have had upon the sight of the generation of 1844, it is exceedingly distressing to eyes of later date. Whittingham was for having hand-made paper, and for imitating in the most artistic way the best work of the period to which the book But the publishers would not follow related. him so far as that, although they did permit his daughter Charlotte [afterwards Mrs. B. F. Stevens] to change the author's spelling and phrasing from the modern to the old style. In these circumstances the book made a success, and within the last fifty years it has been several times reprinted." I may note with reference to the above that the B.M. has no copy of any edition of the book previously to the issue of 1844, and there is no mention of any previous edition in any of the catalogues to which I have access. The 'D.N.B.' notice of Mrs. Rathbone does not mention any issue of the book before 1844, and altogether I am inclined to be very sceptical as to the details given by the Grolier Club writer. The whole point of the book lies in the style in which it is written, and though it is possible that Miss Whittingham may have given some advice, or contributed here and there, I very much doubt if she rewrote the book or was in any material way responsible for it. I should be glad of any information on the subject. WM. H. PEET. 'THE COMING K-,' &c. (See 9 S. viii. 344, 408.) Ir may not be inopportune to notice how remarkably a prophecy, or forecast, to be found in one of the above series of annuals, 'Edward the Seventh, a Play on the Past and Present Times with a View to the Future,' London, 1876, is now receiving fulfilment after nearly forty years. At p. 78 the scene begins: "SCENE VII. The harbour and quay of Kurrachee. Transports and ironclads filling the port; embarkation of troops is rapidly going on. Soldiers from all parts of India throng the land, and intense enthusiasm prevails everywhere.... Enter an Indian juggler, who plays on his tomtom as he sings: Our Shah Zadah came to us, Now who their Prince will follow Up rose the golden morning On mountain and on sea, It gilded all the temples Öf sea-laved Kurrachee; It shone where four-score thousand Were marching to their ships; It fell upon their lances, And turned to gold their tips. From every Indian city That boasts an old-time name, From every fighting district, That gallant army came ; From Agra's marble palaces, From where St. George's fortress From the burning southern cities, The cities of the Nizam Had furnished of their might; The Sikhs came from their mountains, And not a sturdy hill-tribe But sent horsemen to the plain; And twice five thousand Ghoorkas Thought the Prince's call not vain. All sects, all castes, united To follow him to death; And all the nations wondered, And the foe fell back appalled, To see how India answered When the Prince of India called. At the second reference given, a correspondent questioned an editorial note which suggested the author of this clever and somewhat daring series of annuals was 66 a young clerk in the War Office," stating that he could give the real name, but that the matter should be dropped for twenty years longer, "in order to excite no animosities and to wound no susceptibilities." As much more than half that time has now elapsed, and the personages dealt with have, almost without exception, passed away, may not the veil of anonymity now be withdrawn? The series created a furore upon publication, and copies were bought by tens of thousands, though now only remembered by contemporaries, and in some degree known to book-collectors. W. B. H. DANTEIANA: MICHAEL SCOT. 'INF.,' XX. 115-17. Quell' altro che ne' fianchi è così poco, Was it ignorance or bias that led Dante into the injustice of placing Michael Scot in Hell's fourth bolgia? I believe that he was culpable under both counts. He had no business to condemn Scot to the ludicrous punishment which he metes out to necromancers. Scot was no more a necromancerthan Roger Bacon, by whom Dante was. presumably led to pass his libellous judg. ment, and whose splenetic attitude to his great contemporary is matter of history. If Scot dabbled in alchemistic experiments, Bacon wrote his 'Speculum Alchymiæ,' and was condemned to confinement by a Chapter of his Order under his General, Jerome of Ascoli (afterwards Nicholas IV.), in 1278 propter quasdam novitates suspectas.' He, one would think, rather than Scot was deserving of the uncomfortable quarters allotted by the poet to fraudulent magicians. As to his petty envy, unworthy of a son of St. Francis, a signal instance is supplied by Dr. Æ. Mackay (D.N.B.') thus : "In another place (Compendium Studii ') Bacon observes, with a touch of the jealousy of a rival scholar, Michael Scot, like Herman,' a German bishop and scholar of the same period, ascribed to himself many translations. But it is certain that Andrew, a Jew, laboured more in them; on which account Herman reported that Michael knew neither sciences nor languages.' 66 I have no desire to belittle Bacon (least of all when Oxford has recently--10 June-honoured his memory by celebrating his seventh centenary); I recognize his linguistic attainments and scientific know ledge, and remember that he was regarded as the finest flower of Oxford culture." But I also recall Prof. Adamson's verdict ('D.N.B.') that at one time he was "in no special sense a brilliant light in the scholastic firmament," while Scot was long famed as mathematician, physician, and scholar. As we also know, a less desirable renown attached itself to his "clarum et venerabile nomen." "His great fame [observes Dr. Mackay again] and varied learning soon led to an accretion of legends round his name, which hid his real merits and transformed the man of science into a magician." Like the proverbial snowball, this accretion of legends" crescit eundo. Dante, himself a Franciscan Tertiary, and so afire with a fellow-feeling, suffered his uninformed judgment to be unfairly biased by the petty jealousy of his great co-religious, and set the ball rolling. Boccaccio gave it further impetus in the Ninth Tale of the Eighth Day of his 'Decameron' thus: "Dovete adunque sapere che egli non ha ancora guari che in questa città [Florence] fu un gran maestro in nigromanzia, il quale ebbe nome Michaele Scotto, perciò che di Scozia era," &c. And so it has wheeled on in perpetual motion through the intervening centuries to the days of our own great Wizard of the North (Michael's not unworthy namesake), who, in his Lay of the Last Minstrel' (Canto II. stanza xiii. 1. 2 seq.), wrote:In these far climes it was my lot To meet the wondrous Michael Scott; A wizard, of such dreaded fame, and explains (note O)* the reference so :— "Sir Michael Scott of Balwearie flourished during the 13th century, and was one of the ambassadors sent to bring the Maid of Norway to Scotland, upon the death of Alexander III. By a poetical anachronism, he is here placed in a later era [middle of sixteenth century]. He was a man of much learning, chiefly acquired in foreign countries. He wrote a commentary upon Aristotle, printed at Venice in 1496; and several treatises upon natural philosophy, from which he appears to have been addicted to the abstruse studies of judicial astrology, alchemy, physiognomy, and chiromancy. Hence he passed among his contemporaries for a skilful magician. Dante also mentions him as a renowned wizard, Inf.,' cant. xxmo. A personage, thus spoken of by biographers and historians, loses little of his mystical fame in vulgar tradition. Accordingly, the memory of Sir Michael Scott Scotland, any work of great labour and antiquity survives in many a legend; and in the south of is ascribed, either to the agency of Auld Michael, of Sir William Wallace, or of the devil. Tradition varies concerning the place of his burial; some contend for Home Coltrame, in Cumberland; others for Melrose Abbey. But all agree, that his books of magic were interred in his -- grave, or preserved in the convent where he died.' On this Dr. Mackay (loc. cit.) observes :Scots of Balwearie, near Kirkaldy in Fife. Sir "Michael Scot belonged to the family of the Walter Scott erred in identifying him with Sir Michael Scot of Balwearie, who, with Sir David Wemyss of Wemyss, was sent to fetch the Maid of Norway to Scotland in 1290." Scott's error of identification was obviously due to similarity of name and epoch and identity of family. But that both Cary and Plumptre should have tacitly accepted it as genuine history is almost incredible. Says Cary, after quoting Boccaccio's allusion : "I make no apology for adding the following curious particulars extracted from the notes to Mr. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel,' a poem in which a happy use is made of the superstitions relating to the subject of this note." |