98
NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. x. A i, 1914.
Poetry,' and the verses to Pope referred to
at the above reference, all of them dated 1720,
when the authoress was only 18. The first-
mentioned contains 178 lines ; the latter is
clearly identical with MR. GRIFFITH'S MS.
copy, containing exactly 90 lines, and it is
said by Mr. Ashley Cowper to have been
written by her in her copy of Pope's works.
I have never seen a copy of William Pattison's poems. He was only 23 when he died, and Pope said that Curll killed him by starving him ; but it is stated in the ' D.X.B.' that he too wrote a letter from ' Abelard to Eloisa ' : indeed, Pope's ' Eloisa to Abelard ' must have appeared like a challenge to every minor poet of that period to essay a reply from Abelard.
Shortly after Mrs. Madan's death in 1781 somebody discovered her ' Progress of Poetry,' and published it as a new poem. The following extracts from The Gentleman's Magazine (1783), vol. liii. part i. p. 152, refer to this, and also contain some useful notes as to the publication of some of her other poems :
" ' The Progress of Poetry,' "by Mrs. Madan. 4to.
" The Editor of this ' master-piece ' (as he justly styles it) of this late ingenious lady cries
- ettpTjKa ' with much less reason than the sage of
Samos, by pretending ' to introduce to the public notice' a poem of which the public were in possession probably before he was corn ; it having been inserted in a collection called ' The Flower Piece ' as long ago as the year 1731, and since that date in the 'Poetical Calendar,' 1763, and other more recent publications. Instead, there- fore, of dwelling longer on this not new (however excellent) performance, we will add a short account of the admired writer and some verses de sa fa$on, much less known.
" Miss Judith Cowper was born in 1702. She was eldest daughter of Spencer Cowper, Esq. (one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the reign of King George I.) and niece to the Lord Chancellor of
that name Miss Cowper distinguished herself in
the literary world at the age of 18 by writing some Verses to the Memory of Mr. Hughes, in 1720, and others to Mr. Pope, which are prefixed to their Poems (Eng. Poets, vols. xxii. and xxxii.)and were justly admired. Her ' Epistle from Abelard to Eloisa ' is also well known, having been frequently published. Arid her ' Progress of Poetry ' (as has
been said) first appeared in 1731 Several smaller
pieces, by Mrs. Madan, have been handed about in manuscript," &c.
The portrait of Mrs. Madan to which MR. GRIFFITH refers is in coloured crayons, measuring thirty inches by eighteen. It was the work of Charles Jervas ('D.N.B.'), an intimate friend of Pope, whose portrait by him, as well as those of Queen Caroline, Martha Blount, and Dean Swift, are now in the National Portrait Gallery. It has always
been in the possession of some member of
the family, and is now the property of the
Rev. Nigel Madan of Bleasby Hall, near
Nottingham, and Hon. Canon of Soxithwell
Cathedral. ALAN STEWART.
SIGNS OF CADENCY (11 S. x. 50). Mr. John E. Cussans, in his ' Handbook of Heraldry ' (1882), p. 151, says :
"It was not until the fourteenth century that cadency, as the word is now understood, became
general, for although Edward I., before he was
King, assumed a Label to mark his position towards his father, then living, we find in the Roll of Caer- laverock (A.P. 1300) the two systems, one of changing charges, the other of adopting marks of cadency, it* vogue at one and the same time (Cott. MS. Calig.,. A. xviii., Brit. Mus.). Thus Englished by Thomas. Wright :
And the two brothers Basset likewise
Of whom the eldest bore thus :
Ermine, a red chief indented
Charged with three gold mullets,
The other with three shells.
And Maurice de Berkeley
Who was a partaker in this expedition
Had a banner red as blood
Crusilly with a white chevron
On which there was a blue label
Because his father was (fathers were ?) living."
A. R. BAYLEY.
ALEXANDER SMITH'S ' DREAMTHORP ' (II S. ix. 450, 493 ; x. 33, 58). 5. This passage can be traced in Carlyle's ' Cromwell,' Part V., after Letter CXXXII. When Cromwell was received in London. 31 May,. 1650, on returning from his campaign in Ireland, with " one wild tumult of saluta- tion," he
"said, or is reported to have said, when som& sycophantic person observed, ' What a crowd come out to see your Lordship's triumph ! ' ' Yes, but if it were to see me hanged, how many more would there be ! '"
Carlyle gives as authorities newspapers (in Kimber, p. 148) ; Whitlocke, p. 441.
DARTLAND.
"FELIX SU-MMERLY" (11 S. x. 47). I have
" Felix Summerly's Pleasure Excursions
Eastern Counties, South Eastern, Brighton and South Coast, South Western, and London and 1 North Western Railways.' London, published at
the 'Railway Chronicle' Offices 1847."
R. B R.
TRANSLATION OF THE LIFE OF M. DE RENTY (11 S. x. 49). The translator of this, whose initials are E. S., is not improbably Sir Edward Sherburne, himself a Catholic. He was not knighted until 1682.
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