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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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NOTES :-Lancelot Sharpe, Sir E. Phillips, and Coleridge, 341 Harvey and Marston, 343 May Day, 1660-80 Dr. Johnson, 345 " Goes" Historic Tree on Fire Marriage Sermon The Magi, 346.
QUERIES :-Reynolds Portrait GarfittB. Scutt Jones Ludlow Clerks Characters in Fiction "Anne of Swan- sea," 347 Dr. T. Rutledge : Rev. W. Smith Middlesex Families Antony Payne Goodwin "Hook it " " Copper," a Policeman Popular Myths "Wick " "Man of Destiny " Heighes and Kitchener Families, 348 Nicolini Carbonari Lacaux James More" Owl- light " Sir C. Napier Bell : Lindley : Perry " Oh ! good ale "Snakes and Horsehair, 349.
RKPLIES : Recusant Wykehamists, 350 Admiral Drew- Sir N. Rich-The Old Wife Keats : " Sloth "-Goths and Huns, 351 Black Canons at Great Missenden Bacon on Hercules John Carter Coachman's Epitaph Arthur O'Connor, 352 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' Duels of Clergymen " Whipping the cat" " Tandem "Auction by Inch of Candle, 353 General E. Mathew Phrase Wanted Seneschal Church Bells Brittany and its People, 354 "Embarras des richesses" Hoyarsabal of ^ubiburu " Cup -turning," 355 W. and R. Bent " Nether- Lochaber " : Seanuachie A. H. Hallam Bishop Godwin Vicissitudes of Language, 356 Castle Rushen " Mother of Free Parliaments "Maize, 357 Luck Money " Dognoper" Mary Seymour Hourglasses, 358.
NOTES ON BOOKS :-DobeH's ' Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne' 'Works of Charles Dickens '" The Fireside Dickens " ' Book of Matriculations and Degrees ' Staley's ' First Prayer Book of King Edward VI.' Crisp's ' Frag- menta Genealogica.'
C. W. Holgate.
Notices to Correspondents.
LANCELOT 8HARPE, SIR R. PHILLIPS,
AND S. T. COLERIDGE.
THERE is no notice of Lancelot Sharpe in the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' but he is included in the ' Modern English Bio- graphy ' of Mr. Frederic Boase (Truro, 1901), vol. iii. To this notice I propose to add some details of his early writings which appear to me to be noteworthy, especially one which is of Coleridgean interest.
The Rev. Lancelot Sharpe, M.A., F.S.A., died 26 October, 1851, and in the Gentleman's Magazine for January, 1852, there was an obituary notice filling a column and a quarter. From this it appears that he was the son of Mr. Thomas Scrafton Sharpe, a Mark Lane merchant, and was educated privately by his uncle Dr. Bowyer, of Christ's Hospital, until he proceeded to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1796, and M.A. in 1800. After some years' experience as a private tutor he was pre- sented by the Grocers' Company in 1802 to the living of All Hallows Staining. In 1807 he became fourth master of Merchant Taylors' School, but resigned in 1819 owing to his not being elected head master. From 1828 to 1845 he was master of St. Saviour's Grammar Lane, whence he " returned to the
rectory house, Mark Lane, where he enjoyed
the scholar's otium cum dignitate in a well-
stored library." He was a Prebendary of
St. Paul's, and chaplain to the Grocers' and
Salters' companies. He was elected F.S.A.
in November, 1813, and was also a member of
the Camden Society. Mr. Sharpe was twice
married and had " a very numerous family,
three of whom are in holy orders." From
the same memoir we learn that he was an
excellent Hebrew scholar, and that " some of
the most pungent papers of a journal long
extinct, called the Satirist, proceeded from
his pen." The only literary essay specifically
mentioned is his solitary contribution to
Archceologia, an interesting, but not specially
important letter to Thomas Amyot on
the 'Towneley Mysteries,' which appears
in vol. xxvii. p. 251. Mr. Sharpe edited an
edition of the Rowley poems printed at
Cambridge by Benjamin Flower. In the
preface, which has his initials appended, and
is dated from Pembroke College, 20 July,
1794, he cautiously avoids any verdict on the
then disputed question whether the well-
known poems were written by Thomas Rowley
in the fifteenth or Thomas Chatterton in the
eighteenth century. That there should have
been any doubt on the subject is now felt to
be an astonishing circumstance. The British
Museum Catalogue credits Mr. Sharpe with
a sermon on Heb. x. 25 in the Rev. A.
Watson's * Practical Sermons '(London, 1846),
vol. iii. He was the author of the following
books, only the first of which appears in the
British Museum Catalogue :
Nomenclator Poeticus ; or, the Quantities of all the Proper Names that occur in the Latin Classics, ascertained by Quotations. London, 1836.
Anaptyxis Biblica ; or, the Portions of Holy Scripture enjoined by the Church of England to be read in the course of her Daily, Occasional, and Annual Services. London, 1846.
The Gospel for Sinners and Saints, by one who is the Chief of Sinners. London, 1852.
He is said to have edited Hales's 'Chro- nology.' See Athenceum, No. 3135, 25 Nov., 1887, p. 711.
His brother, Richard Scrafton Sharpe, is believed to have written ' Dame Wiggins of Lee,' and was the author of several ^books for juveniles. See the same article in the Athenaeum.
Some time ago I became possessed of a curious volume lettered 'Miscellanies by L. S.,' and consisting of articles cut from different magazines. The writer's name did not appear, but an allusion to Pembroke College, where he had the rooms which had been Pitt's, enabled me to identify this book as Mr. Sharpe's own copy of his early contri-
