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yet get admittance, the Commissioners are so busie set-
ting Leases. The Bishop of Corke's Case, which you will
find in the Votes, and wherein the Parliament refused
him Redress, was this: Several of his Tenants owed him
arrears of Rent, the King seiz'd upon their Goods because
they were absent; be desires to be paid his Arrears out
of the Goods found on the Lands, which he desired leave
to Distrain on ; but he was told, he must Sue the Tenants
on the Covenants of their Leases, and recover his Rent as
he could. This is like to be a President, and no Creditor,
Landlord, or Mortgagee, whose Tenant is absent, is like
to get any thing, because the King has seiz'd the Goods
and Lands which were his Security. I hear likewise
where the Landlords are absent, Lessees are disturb'd
and left to seek Redress from their absent Landlords.
The Commons Quarrel to Judge Dally, for which they
impeached him, was, upon some private Discourse he had
with Sir Aliok Bourk, and some other Gentlemen, in
which he disapprov'd of the Commons Proceedings, and
said, they were a kind of Massanello's Assembly, and that
it could not be expected that men from whom the Kin
took Estates, would fight for him, or to this effect,
FINIS."
POPIANA.
Pope and Allan Ramsay. To the edition of Allan Ramsay's Poems, printed by Thomas Rud- ditnan, Edinburgh, 1721, there is prefixed a long list of the names of the principal nobility and gentry of Scotland subscribers, among whom are " Mr. Alexander Pope, Sir Richard Steele, Savage," &c. It would now be curious, if it could be ascertained what was the opinion of the great English poet, Mr. Pope, in respect of his Scottish brother Allan. The latter does him due honour by his quotations, but we never hear of the former in any shape repaying or acknowledging the compliment. G. N.
Passage in Pope (1 st S. xi. 65. ; 2 nd S. i. 41.)
I am obliged to G. R. S. for his kindness in at-
tempting to answer my Query, but his explana-
tion does not meet my object. In the first place,
the text does not, I think, warrant his version ;
and secondly, there is no difficulty as to the
general meaning which G. R. S. understands as
we all do ; but the puzzle is, how Ben Jonson and
Dennis could concur on the same affidavit, and
why " The Lord's Anointed" should be contrasted
with a " Russian bear" and why a " Russian bear,"
and what " Russian bear?" Pope, as far as I have
been able to trace his obscurities, never wrote at
random. It is evident that an antithesis between
Kings Charles and William and a Russian bear,
probably the Czar Peter, is meant, ; and between
royal dignity and royal taste, we all see that ; but
where have Ben and Dennis said anything about
it? and how could they, who wrote an hundred
years apart, have concurred in the same exclama-
tion given as a quotation, and as if ipsissimis
verb is 9
Popes Ode for*' Music. I agree with MR.
BOLTON CORNET, that the Ode ought to be inserted
in all editions of Pope's Works ; but not because
it is a distinct ode from that in honour of St.
Cecilia ; or because recomposed twenty years later,
and therefore exhibiting " the more mature taste of
the poet." It appears to me that the omissions and
alterations were made to suit the requirements
of the musical composer, and the time which only
could be allowed for performance : in the same
way that Hughes, in 1711, was asked by Steele to
alter " Alexander's Feast, " Alter this poem for
musick, preserving as many of Dryden's words as
you can" (Malone's Life of Dryden, p. 302.).
Such alterations and curtailments are, under like
circumstances, matters of course. Fortunately,
in 1730, Pope was living, and therefore altered
the poem himself; but that he considered it a
mere alteration to suit a special purpose is proved,
I think, by the fact that in 1736, when he pub-
lished his collected works, he neither substituted
it for the " Ode to St. Cecilia," nor published it at
all. P. O.
CurWs " Corinna." Having just met with a
passage in "N.&Q." (1 st S.xii. 277.431.), signed
W. M. T., in which an article in Chamberss
Edinburgh Journal, No. 131., New Series, for
July 4, 1846, is supposed to have had no other
source for its materials than a little book en-
titled Pylades and Corinna, and to have been
written without reference to any biographical
dictionary, I beg to state that the little book was
never seen by the writer of the article ; and also
that the twelfth volume, or Supplement to the
General Biographical Dictionary, was consulted
for some account of Mrs. Thomas ; some pages
from which may be found in Dodsley's Annual
Register for the year 1767. E.
LONGHOUGHTON REGISTERS.
" The short and simple Annals of the Poor."
The following extracts cannot be said to be historically interesting, except as they give some insight into the morals of the rural population in the place and at the period to which they relate ; but they are curious and singular. It is but just to remark that purity and simplicity of manners are generally characteristic of the present genera- tion of the inhabitants of the same parish.
J. MN.
" Extracts from the Register of Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials, in the Parish of Longhoughton, Northumber- land.
" 1699, Oct. 27. Jane, the wife of George Doncan (the Dr. of Mr. Brown, Dean Elect of Glasco), vie. of Long- houghton, buried.
