66 This work, published within a short time after the conclusion of the notorious Gordon riots, is certainly Holcroft's. Contemporary references are to be found in The Town and Country Magazine for July, 1780 (12: 351); Monthly Review for June, 1780 (62: 502); European Magazine for January, 1782 (1: 49); The Westminster Magazine for August, 1780 (8: 438), as well as in the 'Memoirs' (p. 99). Lecky (3: 522) refers to it as the best and most complete account brought out at the time. The Town and Country Magazine called it one of the best productions of this kind that has ever appeared in the form of a pamphlet "; and added, "Our last [June, 1780]....contains the substance of this narrative," but I do not think that this means that the magazine article referred to was done by Holcroft. In the account of the riots which appears in the Annual Register for 1780 Pp. 1-6 of this pamphlet are reprinted on pp. 254-6. In both cases is given the verbatim record of the Act itself, over which the agitation arose; and the short explanatory passages in the Annual Register correspond exactly to the explanations which accompany the reprint of the Act in this pamphlet. 6 In The Westminster Magazine for July, 1780, pp. 297 ff., is an account of the riots. The publishers of this magazine were the same as the publishers of the "William Vincent" pamphlet, Fielding & Walker. Pages 15 ff. and 298 ff., of the pamphlet and the magazine respectively, bear a remarkable similarity. In the magazine article the Parliamentary proceedings are given at greater length; certain other parts of the narrative are condensed; and, in an amazing number of cases, entire paragraphs, even pages, are transferred without alteration. And from this I shall assume that Holcroft or some other person rewrote or rearranged This pamphlet for the magazine: I cannot yet determine which. The magazine article is considerably better than the pamphlet: more orderly, and less burdened with details and extraneous matter. refers to the text, and the text to the Appendix, by lettered notes, (A), (B), (C), &c. These references in the text are usually inserted at the end of a paragraph, a convenient place after the type had all been set. On the several occasions where they are inserted in the middle of a line, the type of the line is so crowded-relatively to the set of the type in the lines preceding and following-that we cannot but assume that the parentheses and the letters (A), (B), (C), &c., were put in later: I should assume, between editions. A statement near the end of the Appendix that the author has not changed the text in accordance with a certain corrective letter which he prints (the original mistake is left as in the first edition) leads us to believe that the second edition was printed from the same stand of type. break the volume quite unequally into a Examination of the signatures would single leaf containing the title, four signatures of sixteen pages each, an eight-page signature at the end, and a single final leaf. (This is in the only volume which I have examined, in the Yale University Library.) The single leaf at the end contains the Advertisement, and is printed on one side from my of the paper only. I should suggest then, 66 examination of the second edition, corrected," only, that the first edition was paged : 2 (including title-page and of an Act passed, &c.) + 7-62 (including a blank page)+6 (including the Abstract the body of the 'Plain and Succinct Narrative,' &c.) + 2 (including Advertisement and a blank page). The signature division was, in my opinion, the same as in the "second edition, corrected," which I have examined. But it is obvious that the signatures came out evenly, four of sixteen pages each, with the title-page pasted on at the beginning. Since the above was written I have had time to make an examination of a copy of the first edition, and find nothing contradictory to the above. In the first edition (British Museum copy) the Appendix does not appear at all, Finis" coming on p. 62. But we can deduce very little from the absence of the " Advertisement," since in this copy the last three leaves have been very badly damaged, and repairing alone has prevented their loss altogether. In this copy pp. 1-6 have been lost (containing the Abstract, &c.), so that A Plain and Succinct Narrative,' &c. (p. 7), would follow directly after the title-page, had not some one inserted six pages from The Sunday Magazine of 11 Feb., 1781. It is interesting to remark that the "second edition, corrected," varies from the first edition, pp. 59–62, by two lines of type. This variation is caused by the insertion of a foot-note in the second edition on p. 59: "In justice to the author, it is mentioned that these anecdotes are by another person." It was evidently Holcroft who added in ink in the Museum copy, "And, in justice to myself, they by no means agree with my own private opinion of Lord George Gordon. T. H." In the same hand there is written the title-page The Anecdotes by I. Perry," after the word "Tower," and "Thomas Holcroft" beneath the printed pseudonym "William Vincent"; and on the last page of the Appendix the catchword "Adver" is crossed out, and there is filled in, still by the same hand, Finis. The Advertisement follows the Title-Page which indicates the fact of binding. on 66 66 1781. "The Trial of the Hon. George Gordon, Commonly called Lord George Gordon, for High-Treason, at the Bar of the Court of King's Bench, On Monday, the 5th of February, 1781. Before The Right Hon. Earl Mansfield, Chief Justice; Edward Willes, Esq. Sir William Henry Ashhurst, Knt. and Francis Buller, Esq. Containing, Not only the Evidence on both Sides but an Account of the Manner of conducting the Trial; the Arguments of Counsel; the contested Points in Law, &c. Also the speech of the Attorney-General; Mr. Kenyon, the Solicitor-General, and Mr. Erskine. Taken in short-hand By William Vincent, Esq; of Gray's-Inn. London: Printed for Fielding and Walker, No. 20, Pater-noster-row. MDCCLXXXI. [Price one shilling and six-pence.] [Entered at Stationers-Hall.]" Octavo, 4+381 pp. I may add that the printing of the corrective letter may possibly indicate a second issue of the second edition. If the type could be tampered with to such an extent as to insert (A), (B), (C), &c., as references to notes, between the printing of the first and second editions, why could not the simple I have not seen this item previously change have been made on p. 53 of the word attributed to Holcroft. At the present Thursday to Wednesday, as the "Volunteer time I have not seen a copy in any library in the London Military Association of Foot collection. The only notice of its publicasuggests? May we assume that the Adver- tion is a single line in the March, 1781, tisement originally followed the words London Magazine (50: 143). My own copy "total want of education" on this page of was secured by mere chance through a the Appendix, as it could easily have done, perusal of a second-hand bookseller's catain the second edition, and further assume logue-and for the charming price of 38. that the extra leaf at the end did not appear The Monthly Review editor, March, 1781 in the real second edition? May we assume (64: 234), speaks of several different publithat this letter from "A Volunteer," &c., cations," but has " seen only Mr. Gurney's.' was received after some, possibly all, of the The connexion between this pamphlet and "second edition was printed, and that it that which immediately precedes it in my was put in where it now stands in the Bibliography is perfectly obvious. I have second edition, corrected," and that the been able to learn of no other person writing Advertisement was then pushed further on under the pseudonym of William Vincent of to be added as a separate leaf? The Gray's Inn. The two pamphlets are issued placing of a single leaf at the beginning and by the same publishers, have the same the end would not be a usual proceeding, pseudonym, and concern the same events. Each of these single leaves is in the second The Advertisement' to this second one edition, corrected," each is printed on one contains a reference to, and a recomside only; and an argument that the pub-mendation of, Vincent's Plain and Succinct lisher would not have planned two single leaves attached in this way, and that they were later added as a corrective measure, may be hypothetically answered by saying that this very fact of being printed on one side only is an indication of forethought, and shows that this kind of make-up for the book was premeditated. Or may we 66 assume -as I should like to do, but think scarcely warrantable that there were a first Narrative of the late Riots.' In the to write a pamphlet, under the name of Wm. Holcroft's interest in the riots might easily have rendered him willing to perform another service to the booksellers. If he had attended the Old Bailey trials for one pamphlet, why should not he have attended the King's Bench trial for another? ELBRIDGE COLBY. Columbia University, New York City. (To be continued.) BERROW'S WORCESTER JOURNAL.' (See ante, p. 21.) up THE early history of this paper is bound with the story of its first two publishers, Stephen Bryan and H. Berrow. announced in the Journal on 23 June, 1748, No. 2031. The Victoria Library does not appear to possess a copy of this particular number. Two more titles complete the list in the Victoria Library : 4. The Worcester Journal, No. 2032, for 30 June, 1748, to No. 2305, for 4 Oct., 1753. 5. Berrow's Worcester Journal, No. 2306, for 11 Oct., 1753. Since this latter date the paper's heading has not varied. But, as I have shown, the numeration has altered very much-at first, I believe, accidentally, though I have not traced all the variations. It is quite possible that Berrow's Worcester Journal may But it is And the Stephen Bryan's apprenticeship inden- be able to claim the second place, with tures expired in London in the year 1706, regard to age, in the British newspaper press, and he appears to have migrated to Wor- and may rank next to The London Gazette cester in the year 1708. When he started his (the only original source of many items of Worcester Post-Man (not Postman) in June, news), though, with the history of the 1709, it was a small half-sheet printed in provincial press still waiting to be written, two columns on both sides, and did not it is not safe to assert even this. contain six pages (as Green asserted). There unfortunately only too true that its presentis (as in other cases) no evidence that any day numeration is inaccurate. charge was made for the paper at first, and Journal's claims to have been "Established it is tolerably certain that advertisements 1690, " and to be "The Oldest Newspaper were gratis. Probably, like Jos. Bliss's in Great Britain," are hardly worthy of a Exeter Post-Boy, it was a coffee-house properiodical with so long and honourable a duction. In principle it was so strongly J. B. WILLIAMS. so strongly history. Jacobite that it advertised the fact by professing to be collected "from Dyer's letter." An illustration in the pamphlet published by Berrow's Worcester Journal in 1890 shows this very clearly. The Victoria Public Library at Worcester contains a fine collection of the earlier issues of Bryan's paper; which, owing to its Jacobite principles, I suppose, changed its name no less than three times. But the numbering was consecutive throughout, and, as will be seen from the following list, accurate throughout. The present Librarian of the Victoria Library has very kindly furnished me with the actual numbers : BRYAN'S PERIODICALS AT WORCESTER. 1. The Worcester Post-Man, No. 185, for 2 Jan., 1712/13, to No. 641, for 6 Oct., 1721. 2. The Worcester Post; or, Western Journal, No. 746, for 4 Oct., 1723, to No. 756, for 20 Dec., 1723. 3. The Weekly Worcester Journal, No. 827, for 23 April, 1725, to No. 2007, for 1 Jan., 1748. According to Green, Bryan died on 18 June: 1748, and Berrow, who had printed the Journal for three months before his death, then succeeded him as printer and pub. lisher. Green states that these facts were A RECORD OF MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN HERTFORDSHIRE.-It is believed that Hertfordshire is the first county to have had its monumental inscriptions fully recorded and made accessible to students. It is, of course, probable that some small disused burial-grounds have escaped the notice of workers, but these will in course of time be discovered, and the lists inserted in the volumes to which they belong. To give an idea of the magnitude of the task, which has occupied over seven years, it may be stated that the transcripts fill thirteen large quarto volumes occupying a shelf-space of 6 ft. (Both lists and indexes are written out twice: first taken down on slips which permit of their being arranged in alphabetical order, and then transcribed on quarto sheets, which are bound in the volumes of the Hundreds to which they pertain.) The inscriptions occupy 5,582 pp., and the indexes of names 2,127 pp., the latter representing some 70,000 names, which do not include relationships, as these are not at present indexed. In many cases the more interesting epitaphs have been added, and in some instances also certain facts about the churchyards. Corre- "FELIX SUMMERLY" (SIR HENRY COLE, spondence of interest respecting the work C.B.). The pretty little handbooks by this has been inserted, and the volumes have author are an interesting item in the been very strongly bound, in order that bibliography of London. The following they may last with reasonable care for list is compiled from the author's own set:centuries to come. 'Dulwich Gallery,' 1842. It should be stated that all the foregoing may be freely consulted by appointment at the residence of the Hon. Secretary of the East Herts Archæological Society, Ivy Lodge, Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford; inquiries will be answered, if a stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Correspondents are asked, however, to allow a reasonable time for research and reply. W. B. GERISH. or LINES BY SIDNEY GODOLPHIN. -Saints- But you soe Crush those odors, soe dispense Pictures in the Soane Museum, Society of Arts, and British Museum,' 1842. City of Canterbury,' 1843. 'National Gallery,' 1843. Westminster Abbey,' 1843; French edition, 1843; abridged edition (1845?). The Athenæum of 1842. Excursions out of London' (1843?), reprinted from 1852. "PLACING" IN UNIVERSITIES. -- In the early days at Harvard College the members The "former work," which begins on f. 121, of the Freshman class were not arranged is a Paraphrase uppon ye songe of Solomon.' alphabetically, but were "placed" in accordIt was apparently addressed to Henrietta ance with the social position of their fathers; Maria, for it is preceded by a twelve-line and, next to expulsion, the highest punish66 was To ye Queene,' signed "G. S."; ment degradation," poem, or putting a but when Sandys printed it in 1641 he dedi- student below the place originally assigned cated it to the king. The criticism upon it him. This curious system, so alien from seems to be quite justified. present notions of equality, lasted for about a century and a third (1639–1772). The class that graduated in 1772 was placed " in June, 1769, or nearly a year after its entrance, and the members of that class retained the places assigned them throughout their college course. The class that graduated in 1773 was arranged alphabetically at entrance. Hence " placing disappeared at Harvard on Commencement Day, 1772. WILLIAM DINSMORE BRIGGS. 'ANENT."-This useful, but neglected word usually has a North British origin assigned to it, with a derivation which makes the t intrusive. I note, however, from the records of one of the Livery Gilds that it was in not unfrequent use in London in the Tudor period, and was then written anendes. The N.E.D.' refers to this variant of the word, and suggests the inference that the t (or d) is not intrusive, but a salient portion of it; and if so, the commonly accepted derivation may need revision. E. L. PONTIFEX. 66 Did this system of "placing" ever exist at Oxford or at Cambridge ? If it did, how late did it last at those universities? Where can information be found on this matter? Some of the university men who came to this country in the seventeenth century were the aide-de-camp, appear to have gowns over graduates of Oxford, but most of them were uniform. The rear is brought up by an graduates of Cambridge. Nathaniel Eaton, officer in a lancer's helmet. Can any one the first head of Harvard, matriculated at, give me the names of the persons SO but did not graduate from, Trinity, Cam-represented? Are they Sir Robert Peel's® bridge; and the Rev. Henry Dunster, the Ministry of 1834? Is the print rare? Why first President of Harvard, graduated from is the word “ Civil" underlined ? Magdalene, Cambridge: hence it is to Cambridge rather than to Oxford that one would look for customs introduced at Harvard. ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S. C. SWYNNERTON. - In ADULATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. the P.R.O., Transcripts from Rome,' First Series, vol. iii., is a transcript from the Borghese papers in the Vatican archives (BorCOTTERELL, COTERILL, AND VARIANTS.-Ighese, i. 448), the original of which is said am hoping shortly to found, with Capt. W. to have at the back, in the handwriting of Sandford Cottrill, S.A.M.C., of Johannesburg, Father Persons, S.J., "De Regina Angliæ.' "Cotterell Family Association" for the The transcript runs as follows:purpose of collecting together, indexing, and printing, if possible, pedigrees, genealogical data, historical facts, and other interesting details with reference to bearers of this name and its many variants throughout the world. a It would be a considerable help if the secretaries of other family associations already established would communicate with me, and, if willing, acquaint me with the methods of working their respective organi zations. I would also appeal to all bearers of the name to send me the fullest possible information with regard to their descent; however insignificant it may appear, it may prove the link which will unify the whole. Much spadework has already been done by Capt. Cottrill and myself, but much more remains to be done; and I would finally appeal to any brother genealogist who may happen to have any Cotterell notes to afford me facilities for taking copies thereof. HOWARD H. COTTERELL, 99 66 · De impia hæreticorum in Angliæ Reginam adulatione. Ex Anglia referunt eo tam processisse hæreticorum erga Reginam adulationem ut non tantum de ea canant poetæ, Diva potens divûm, virgo sanctissima, etc. verum etiam quod nuper altare quoddam ei in aula scenico more erexerint thusque adoleverint, præterea quod ad effigiem eius omni genere lenocinii adornatam hi versus subjungantur tipisque vulgentur, Pallas, Juno, Venus frondosæ in vallibus Idæ MEDALLIC LEGENDS. (See ante, p. 28.)— 31. Dum zephyri spirant adversas despicit undas. 32. Dum spiro, fero et spero. 33. Ea est fiducia gentis. 34. Ex libertate commercii ubertas r[eficitur ?] 38. Et adhuc spes durat avorum. 42. Frustra conatur impius. 41. Feliciter undis. Foden Road, Walsall. 43. Fluctuat nec mergitur. (Motto of City of 46. Hinc decus unde effundit. mostly military, the two foremost (of whom 51. Hostesque arcet dum ludit in hortis. one looks like Sir Robert Peel) having, however, black squash hats. All, excepting SLEUTH-HOUND. (To be continued.) |